The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-03-10

William Walker, of PittsylvaniacOunty,
Va, was killed at Chatham at O'Clock or
Thursday morning by Lisles G.. Johnston,
merchants clerk, Walker, who slept with
Johnson, went out while the latter was
asleep, and returning swoke Johnson, who,
mistaking him for a rObber, shot him dead
with pistol.
On Friday evening Leon Miller, a mer-
chant of Union City. Erie county, went to
the woods, flung 4 noose over the limb Of
tree, fastened his legs and arms, and then
sprang off projection fifteen feet from the
ground, nearly pulling his head from the
trunk. He was sixty years old. No
cause can be ASSIGNED.
News reached Hancock, y. Y, on Thurs
day that Mrs. Gustavus Russ, crazy woman
living In that vicinity, had murdered an in
fant child by strangling il i'm blanket Mrs.
Russ six weeks before killed her eldest child
by cutting its throat with a butcher knife.
She was to be taken TO the hospital at once.
Her disease Is puerperal mania.
That the world Is more honest than some
would have US believe is again demonstrated.
A colorec boy was carryinga bag containing
50 600 in gold coin along Wall street the other
day and let It fafi, the yellow boys" rolling
in every direction among the promiscuOus
crowd, who promptly assisted in gathering
the cOin and when il was counted not dol
lar was missing.
"A member OF the Guiteau family retuTn-
ed to Boston fran New Y ork on Friday night.
1t is claimed that important evidence I'm re-
prisoner has been unearthed in New York
and that a motion will be filed for q new trial.
based upon this evidence. It Is also stated
that General Butler viii succeed Mr.. Scoville
as chief counsel.
Jack Mccarthy, the converted desperate
OF the oil regiOss. now under sentence of
death at RichhurE. y. Y, for the murder of
former Allegheny city man, has made
statement that before hfs execution (the 2kth
inSt.) he will disclose the names of PARTIES
VINO murdered a Young ladv at CORY Pa,
eight Years ago. The crime has been mys-
terry up 10 this day.
Nineteen recruits for the regular army
left Pittsburgh on Friday morning. Four Of
them are printers one has lately been work
Ing on the Dispatch, one on the Critic. one
was from Greensburg, and the fourth from
Altoona. One of the recruits is a graduate
of Oxford College, England. and speaks four
languages OF the nineteen there is only one
who has no trade or profession
"A farmer in the Neustead neiyhhorhoOd,
near HopkinsYille, XIV, left some gambrpled
swine hanging on pole Out Of doors. Dur
ing the night cOlOred man stole a shoat and
walked off with the pork on his shoulders.
In attempting to pitch the animal over a
fence half mile away, the gamhreL LStick
caught the thief's neck and the force of the
fail was so great that the neck was broken.
On the following day person riding hv saw
strange sight-on one side Of the fence a
dead thief and suspended on the other dead
porker.
The Reading Netos publishes the death
bed confession Of Mrs. George Metz who died
recently at that place. Her husband was
pronTietnr of large farm IN Berks county in
1852. and employed a young married man at
that time canned John Rauch Ranch sus-
nected Metz Of intimacy with his wife. and
during fight In the barn over the matter
Ranch was killed Metz set fire 10 the harm,
consuming the body of Rauch, and before his
death few years AGO confessed che deed to
ms wife. She, unwilling tn carry the secret
to the grave, communicated it to her friends
while on her death-hpd.
Two passenger and freight trains on the
Syracuse. ChenangO & New York railroad
cnllided Friday night three miles north of
Earlvilip. George Collins. engineer. and
John sullivan, fireman 0f the north bound
train. and John Blumenk krow fireman nf the
south bound train, were killed and Byron
Atwood. bagga % -m8s 8ster of the north bound
train, was injured severely. \ n tie killed
we're residents Of Syracuse. Both engines
were badly wrecked and the baggage cars
telescOPed into the passenger and freight
cars The accident was caused By miSntar-
preLed orders to bold the north abound train
at Earlville.
Three OF the family of David Erret. near
Madison. Westnoraland county, SAYS a tele-
gram to the PittShurg Dispatch, are sick with
the small pOX The neigh hborS have deserted
them, and. as the family is poor. thoir situq-
tiOn is terrible one The house i'm which
they lived tumhled in a few days ago. and
the family were compelled to move into r
spring house, where they now are, all hud-
died tOCRther three of them scOurCed with
that loathsome disease, and the resi- of the
family almost helpiess. Mrs Errett's mother
and sister are taxing turns in nursing the in
valiss, hut no other aid can he expected
The authorities should take some notice of
the case.
Alice Wright, nineteen years old, SOU
hTette Of HarriSon's "Photos' theatrical
troupe, jumped from fourth story window
of the StTihinger House. Cleveland, o.. on
SATURDAY., aud was Instantly killed. No
cause is assigned for the act but it is believed
she was demented, as. since an attack of ty-
phoid fever last fall she had occasions ilv
manifested symptoms of mental alteration.
She seemed to he in her usual health and
spirits that morning and acted her part at
the matinee, but after the performance she
went to tle hOtei and took the fatal Jump.
An orphan and native of England. her only
relative in America is an aunt in Providence.
The theatre closed on Saturday night and the
company left for Philadelphia Manager
Hanley remained to care for the remains
On Tuesday evening of last week. Mrs.
Thomas Gil en- wife OF a well-tO-dO farmer
at Bakers Corners, Macomb county, o., was
shot through the body and instantly killed by
her SON, Charles 3. Gillem seventeen wears
of age. Mrs. Gillem had been in i'll health
and very fretful for some time. She was once
taken tn the Pontiac Asylum to be treated for
insanity. At the time of the shooting she
was sitting up in bed and had been engaged
in a wOrdy dispute with her son, The latter
went into a closet got revolver, returned
to the bed aud deliberately fred at his mother,
the ball passing through her lungs. Young
Gilem. who was perfectly Self-cOmpOSed
throughout assisted in hitching up the horses
to notify friends of the murder, and vouuta-
rily surrendered 70 the officers, merely re-
marking in a quiet way "Now there will
be more peace in the house. "