The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-13
NEWS AND OTHER NOrMGs.

a disease of the ear has broken out il
NoTrlstown and is assuming the dimension!
OF an epidemic
John NJ. Starin, Of New York, who nov
selling horse linament
Malignant diphtheria RACES in Norfolk
st. Lawrence county, n. 7. In one family
seven children were stricken. three fatally.
Two murderers, Joseph Michael Katoo
sky and Charles Ellis the latter colored. were
hanged on Friday last in the jail at ST. Louis
Peter Markins died at his home in Wash
ington county, AK, on Tuesday last, aged
III. He was born in Georgetown, D. C. in
"A fire-damp explosion occurred at Lans
ford, Pa, on Saturday afternoon, killing one
fatally.
A little child of Alfred Isenberp. Of
HoutZdaie, Clearield county, was fatally
burned by the explosion of a coal OIL lamp, a
few days ago
Mitchell Brown, Of Sherman. Wis, while
endeavoring TO remove a team of horses from
a burning barn on Thursday, was himself
Two boys named Mckenzie and Sharkey
and one whose name is unknown were drown
ed while playing on the ice at Charlestown,
Mass, on SATURDAY.
A colored man known as Judge Hall
was burned in his shanty at Lodus Point N
y, on Friday night. It is beliea-d that he
was murdered and robbed.
Thomas Proctor was instantly killed and
Benjamin Nedd dangerously injured BY the
fall OF an elevator in SchOfield's mill, Mana
yunk, Philadelphia, on Saturday.
MI John Wanamaker on Friday night
last gave his fourth annual dinner 10 the en-
p!oyes Of bis Grand Depot, at Thirteenth
and Market streets, Philadelphia.
MIR. James G. Flood distributed SC, 600
among several benevolent associations in San
Francisco Christmas morning. PrOtestants
ana Catholics being treated impartiaIly.
"A prisoner set fire to the Jail at Green
Vllle, Tenn, Monday night. The building
was consumed and the Court House dam
aged, but the prisoners were all rescued.
"A boy dropped a live coal down the back
OF a schoofellow for fun at Ware, Mass,
and the burned vouth's father thinks the To-
kerr father ought to pay 81, 600 damages,
Mrs. John Garman, of New Buffalo.
Perry county, was accidentally burned to
death few davs ago, her clothes taking fire
from the sparks Of a pipe she was smoking.
Three paupers lost their lives by the
burning OF the pOorhOuse of Macon county,
Illinois, on "Wednesday night of last week.
Isaac Franklin, Martin Casey and Franklin
Fletcher.
Nellie and Eddie Goosey, of Brookfeld,
and GeOrgiana Parl. each about sixteen years
old, broke through the ice on the river at
Springfield, Mass, on Sunday and all were
drowned
George H.-Hoover, a boy who shot and
Killed his sister, near Sunbury, Northumber-
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was recently sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary.
No man knows what miniStering angel
MS vile Il until he comes home some day suf-
tering with dreadful cold and she happens
TO have bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
in the house
jacob Courtwright and Luban Saunders
Iell while wrestling on Saturday i'm JonnSOn's
saW-mlll, at Muncie, Ind. and were both
caught In the machinery of the engine and
crushed to death
Prompted by jealousy, Edith Gray, alias
julia Stanley, on Friday, while I'm a crowd
ed th0roughfare at Council Bluffs, Iowa
hred tour harmless shots at a young man
named HendershOt.
Representative MOssgrOve has introduced
q biii III Congress granting 100 acres of land
20 every volunteer officer musician and pri-
vate who served three years in the Union ar
my in the late rebellion
The Baltimore Times has reason to be-
!ieVe that "a great many people who are
theoretically opposed to capital punishment
md themselves somewhat staggered by the
case of such criminal as Guiteau"
samuel McCiain, implicated in the mur-
Ger or SAMMY Hunter at Braddocks and in
whose behalf the Supreme Court refused a
lew days ago to Interfere, was on Friday
sentenced TO ten years in the peuitentiary.
Thomas @. Boyd, Mayor OF the town,
was Killed on Friday night at Sweetwater.
Ienn.s by his nephew, Joe BOyd of Allan
Ia, on account Of a lawsuit between tie de-
ceased and brotheT-in-law Of the murderer.
Many of the people Of Salisbury town
SNIP Lehgh county, are possessed of the
idea that very pretty young girl in their
midst Is witch, and they are mailing up
horseshoes TO protect themselves from her
wiles.
REV. Father McPhilemy, Assistant Rec
tor Of st Beruard's Catholic church. of
Bradford, died suddenly on Friday last Of
apopieXy. The large congregation attended
( f1EatH a EaraH ssrf - -F..r
peace.
james II. Hfdebrand. ieweIer. of Nrer-
Ger, Pa, is reported to have disappeared
several days ago with $1,000 worth of goods
leaving debts TO firms in Chicago New YORK,
Pittsburgh and Buffalo, to the amount of
S15, 600
M. NJ. Adams. weII-to-do farmer. living
at Brush Island, Mineral township about ten
miles northeast of Little Rock Ark, was
assassiuated shortly after dark on Saturday
last, and bis wife dangerously Injured bv mn
known parties.
Intelligence from Accra confirms the
report from Cape Coast Castle in November
last OF the massacre NJ 200 young girls by or
der Of the King Of Ashantee. The girls were
purpOsely captured for massacre in raids on
neighbooing towns.
The national board Of health at Wash
ingtOn reports twelve deaths from smalI-pox
III New York during the week ending Tues
day last, twenty three deaths in Philadel-
phis, one new case in Erie, Pa. and six now
cases in Moline. Ill
Edward Green, retired mine boss at
Ashley, IA, was gOTed to death b. a cow on
FRIDAY. lie was the father of the Green
brothers who were entombed i'm the Sugar
Notch mines two years ago, and who lived
upon mule meat for five days,
AT Westheid, Y. j., on Saturday night
Edward Hoppe, German, aged so wears,
climbed into a hay NOW to sleep and fell
down a narrowing shute. He was caught
by the shoulders and was unable to eXtricate
himself and was choked To death.
John II. Smtdley, a member Of the oil
firm of Smedley & Brothers. of Bradford.
Pa, blew his head of with a shotgun after
getting out of bed on Saturday morning He
was JhlrtN-one years of age, unmarried and
in gnod circumstances. No cause is known
for the act.
There IS Charley Ross case at Ocontn.
Wis, the kidnapperS secreting a little son
OF capt. Dickinson, and demanding 81 900.
search was at last accounts being made
lor the boy The father, though wealthy
aRd not penuriOus, positively refused to pay
the blackmail.
The Xenargo Spectator tries to pass this
on as q Joke: The Philadelphia Record
thinks that General Beaver is too much of a
temperance man to make an available caadi-
date for large portion of the Republican
party. But the Record fOTgets that it Is natu.
-al for beaver to take to water
-Tarrence -Achille and Sterling Ben, both
eolored were hanged on Friday at Franklin
La, for the murder of D. Lamand, a wealthy
citizen OF St. Martin parish, in August last
Humphrey and Ben Beaslpy. also coIored
and brothers, who were implicated in the
same murder, are in prison for life
-ChaTies II. Van Horn, defeated Demo
cratic candidate for Auditor of DaEphin cOun
ty, residing near Harrisburg committed sui
eide on Friday morning by shooting himself
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