The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-20

{ H'o4lIitu Willlln q rev YealS. As his business
was thaJ OF q travelling agent, be was for q
time able to conceal his bigany bv visiting
! each OF his homes in turn. Tse wives are
I young uniformly pretty, and belong to re-
specap!e famllies- They are united in their
0eSIe 70 punish him, now that they have
found him out, and he has been arrested. lust
IN time TO prevent his union with 3 giTI at
/ hiddletOwn.
/ One Of the stranEest incidents OF the
Vienna Theatre fire has come to Tuhs in the
rescue Of young artillery private suffering
he endeavOred to escape from the burning
ouudlng by stage door, but, owing to some
Ini5hap, fell through a broken trap into a
deep cellar. Here The poor fellow remained
for seyenty-twO hours without sleep OF food
and from the constant pOuTinEOf water into
Jne cellar from the engines came near being
drowned His cries were at last heard by an
inspecting fireman, who took him out of the
wafer which was UP around his chest.
"A diabolical attempt to spread small pox
through the mails was reported 90 the postal
authorities at Richmond, Ind, on Saturday
An undated and unsigned letter pOstuarked
/ Cincinnati, was received by a farmer at
/ Lynn, an ONCE fifty miles north Of Rich
! mond, IN which two smallpox scabs were
enclosed. The letter simply contained the
{ words, 81 have sent You the smallpox. 90
home and die" The letter was Immediately
[ burned and the only clue TO the perpetrstGr
| was thus destroyed, but the best detectives at
the command OF the department viii be set
to work on the case
The blame for the dreadful accident on
! the New York Central lies between the
/ brakeman OF the disabled train. which had
. stopped, and the engineer of the coming
. train, which ran into it. The bra akem8u tes-
. titled before the sUrOueT's jury that he went
{ back to signal the coming train. and did sig
. nal 10 correctly M fun time for it 70 stop be-
. fore il came around the curve. He insists
! that 10 heed was paid % his signal. NatUr-
{ ally enough, 10 such case as this each per
son viii Try to lay tie responsibility on the
. other, and nothing but rigid Investigation
T viii reveal the truth
/ "A great blast, which has been preparing
/ for nearly year at the limestone quarry Of
/ the Glend0n Iron Company. near East0u,
: Pa, was fired recently, and forty thousand
: tons Of rock we're dislOdCeG. Four tunnels
each fifty feet long, were run into the hill
side, and at their end two chambers we're
built at right angles, each eight feet long
Ten tons OF powder were used, and when
+ the electric current was sent along the wire
/ the face Of the rock, for distance Of 80
/ feet and a height Of % feet, was blown ont
like high wave, and the rock above this eE-
/ cavatiOn sank into the space with q roar.
/ The Toronto Globe says that a young
I man, farmer, living a short distance east of
/ Omemees was ID search of life partner. Tie
. went to church on Sunday, about six weeks
/ ago, and saw a Young lady that would appa-
Teutly comply with bis wishes. After church
be introduced himself, accompanied her
( home, got the license on Monday, and was
married on Tuesday. His matrimonial career
was Of short duration. for on Wednesday last
he returned after being absent foI a cav and
found she had elOped with the hired bow
( aged about 10, the latter taking a pair Of
. boots with him belonging to bis employer.
The New Albany, (Ind.,) Times Star
says that officers are on the lookout Tor Ellis
Thurman and his young grandmother who
; elOped from near Grand View. Spencer cOun-
. ty, John G. Thurman. aged near 90. mar
Tied young woman Of 90 His grandson.
Ellis Thurman, lived in the house with him,
and before the venerable CTaudfather's
. hOnevrOOn was half over. the a-rarpIpss
a1-T frr F-
all his might. He seems to have beaten the
old man from the start, and a few days ago
/ took his youthful grandmother and elOped
/ with her. The venerable grandfather isvery
{ dIscOuSOlate.
Among the horrors Of last weeks acct
dent on the New York Central railroad was
the death Of Mr.. and Mrs. Valentine Park
/ who were married in North Adams, Mass,
on Thursday evening. and in less than twen-
. ty-fOuT hours thereafter were m8nCled
. cOTpses. While death by accident is horri-
. ble enough under any circumstances, there
3 is au added elemeUt Of ghastiness IN such
sudden transition from the JOY and eladness
of the marriage service to the gloom OF
death. All such trauedjes are but sharp re-
miuders Of the uncertain tenure ry which
we hold our lives, and of the inevitable fate
which awaits Us all,
/ THE brutal murder of an unfortunate
girl named Emma Hamilton about two years
ago in Montreal, Canada, by four men mas
lust come to light q companion or the victim
4 named Catharine Hilliard having given in
formation to the police. The men m ques-
tiOn, whose names are Bernard and William
McEverne (bTOtheTs). William Liyernois and
/ another man now dead. vent 20 the house
where Hamilton and Hillard lived aud want
I ed the former to go for whiskey, which she
refused to do. They then knocked her down.
kicked her terribly and cut her. She died.
/ The McEverne brothers are confined at pres
ent in the Provincial penitentiary for high
way, robbery and Liyernois has been ar
rested.
a specfaI telegram to the Pittsburg Dis
patch from New Paris, o., Jan. 14th, says
. 4 most singular and remarkable case of the
f recovery OF eyeSghC after many years OF
blindness, has Just occurred at the little VII
. lage of Belle Centre. Mr.. John Lysle was
suddenly stricken blind about eight years
ago, and up to Thursday he for many years
has grOped his way in Egyptian darkness. +
+ No reason was assigned tO his sudden af-
Fiction, and it seems the doctors could give
no relief. On Thursday Mr. Lysie had q pc
. culiar sensation in his eyes, and his sight was
suddenly restored. His eyts now seem as
sound as ever. and his vision seems wholly
unimpaired. This sudden receiving of his
sight is considered almost miracle.
John Mcfarland. a boy pedder. was
noted throughout several PeInsy lvanis cOun-
ties for the cheapnesS anc variety OF his
wares. on one trip he wOul6 have dry goods
on the next fancy wares. ami so on, his ex-
planatiOn being that he bought Job lots at
auction sales of bankrupt stock. The truth
has now come out. When his wagon was
emptied, he would 90 10 the freight depot Of
the Reading railroad in Philadelphia and
watch the loading of the cars until he saw
what would Suit his purpose. Then he would
cOvertiy mark that particular car for identi-
hcatiOn, and hurry to a CeT-ain lonely point
on the line where the train would stop i'm the
night for the locomotive o. take in water
Provided with the requisite tools, he could
enter the car, remove The box of goods with
out detection. and thus fill tis wagon anew
In Baltimore on NOndiy last between
three and four o'clock Fatfcr Daneuhauer
rector Of ST James CathCIc church, and
Brothers Bernardine and Ecerhardt. while
sitting in room in the pastoral residence,
We're startled by hearing tie burglar alarm
attached to the poor box il the vestibule Of
the church ring. Brother Bcruardine ran
out and entering the churcb from the street.
found young man tampenng with tho box
lie seized him but the mar resisted When
Father Danenhaur and Bother Eberhardt
came in through the churCh he broke away
from Brother Bernardine, and running up
the gallery steps drCw a klife and threaten
ed anyone who mOlested Tim. Brother Fb-
erbhardt. who had provided himself with a
pistol, drew the weapon frpm the folds of his
cassock and compelled the man TO drop his
knife and held him st bay until the arrival
of the police