The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-07-21

"A young son of Hugh Evans, of Hawkes.
bury, Canada, and daughter of Mrs Evans,
. Of Montreal, went bathing in the Little Ri
deau river on Tuesday last, and were carried
beyond their depth. The mother of the boy
seeing their danger, attempted To rescue
them, when all three were drowned.
The Cheyenne sun Dance is in progress
I'm the Indian Territory, with great trials Of
I physical endurance. Young bucks cut slits
down their backs and run sticks through
! ropes tied to a pony. The pony is driven of
and tears strips from the backs OF the IN
| dians. These strips Of flesh are thrown at
/ the foot Of pole in the centre Of the camp
I as an offering to the sun. The ceremonies
continue for three days.
/ Negroes at Musick's Ferry, near st.
Louis, having been scandalized because
Henry Francis, a German Ia borer, was living
unmarried with neCreSs, eSsayed to reCu-
/ late matters. Francis seeing the crowd angry
and the cOlOred men about his house at mid
night, showed his musket through a window
and fired. A preacher was killed and George
Z MOrrisibelieyed to be fatally wounded. Fran
/ els was afterward seized by the mob and
drowned.
frankie Knight, a nine-vear- old son of
/ Train Master Knight of the Troy and Green
/ held Railroad, was killed in a horrible man.
ner at North Adams, Mass, on Saturday.
( While driving cows to pasture be tied a rope
{ attached to one Of the animals around his
/ waist. The COW threw him down, became
1 frightened, ard ran of, dragging the lad half
a mile over rocks, railroad ties. and tracks.
/ OF, and his skull was fractured. He lived a
short time only.
! Edward Mckinley, Thomas King and
another man, employees of a circus company.
were riding from Minersburg to Lykens,
Dauphln county, on Sunday, seated i'm the
[ door OF box car with their legs hanging
+ out. In passing the siding near Lykens the
! legs OF Mckinley came in contact with a car,
/ ana ne was thrown with great force against
/ MS TWO companions, and all three were
Knocked from the train. King fell under
( the cars and was instantly killed. Mckinley
! had heel crushed, and the third man, whose
name could not be learned, was badly bruised
"A young man named Patrick hcDOn-
ough was drowned while bathing in the
! Allegheny, near the Point, Pittsburgh on
Sunday. His body was recovered shortly af
/ forwards and taken 10 Wards livery stable.
! An inquest was held and a verdict of ac-
/ cidentai drowning rendered. The deceased
/ IS one Of the eVicted Irish tenants who Al.
/ rived in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago he
! mas no relatives there, but two of his broth
! erS Stopped en- route in Canada. His body
was taken In charge by a committee of the
/ Land League, who betrayed the expenses Of
/ his burial
The SteeIton Reporter of Thursday rec.
ords terrible accident which occurred on
/ the Monday previous in a harvest field at
! HUmIneistown, Dauphin county. Edward
/ HoHer was engaged in operating a self-bind-
| ing harvester, when some disauaugement OF
I the machinery occurred which he atfprlptpd
I TO remedy, and in the act was struck on the
/ arm by an iron hook which gathers tie shpaf
/ with such violent force as TO break Il entirely
. OF, leaving the broken bone with the hand
/ attached hanging to shreds OF the skin. Mr.
/ Hotter Is the agent Of the machine and a
/ large dealer IN agricultural implements.
! John Van horn, middle-age6 well to-
. DO farmer living - Comforts Pond, -four
I miles from SusqueEahna, Pa, committed .u-
. icide on Friday by shooting himself with a
/ gun loaded with eighteen buclysh0t He
borrowed the gun OF neigh5or TO kill cats,
/ and, fastening it in a stone wall near his res,
! ldencet pushed the trigger with stick The
( charge entered his head. and caused instant
/ death. Some time ago be sold the old home.
stead Iarm, and regret is supposed to have
caused temporary insanity. He leaves wife
ana two grownup children. Mrs Green. g
farmer 5 wife, living two miles from Mont
rose SuSquehauna county, committed suicide
: ON the same day by shooting herself twice
near The breast with pistol while tempora
At 3 O'Clock Friday morning a frame
| store and dwelling in VicEshurg, Miss. Oc
cupled Dy German Iamed =. FarcaS was
7 found 10 be IN flames in every portion Far
cas- hlmSet was discovered tied fast and en-
yeIoped IN a sack on the rear gallery of the
I mouse His wife was found dead with he
skull fractured and her brains ooziur from
the wound. Her lower limbs up to the alb
domenr were burnt to a crisp. as was also her
left hand. Her husband states that ii,
masked men entered the house, accompaDief
by a negro woman, who demanded of aim
the keys Of the iron safe. He oDened fbe
safe himself, and counted out to the robbers
a sum OF 500 IN gold, silver and CreeDbaclys
They then bound him hand and foot coveraf
hIm over with a sack, and left him W here h,
was found when rescued from the burning
house. he says they bound his wife TO th5
bed, administered chloroform to her as ir
his case and proceeded to set the hotlse on
FIRE.