The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-29

-JhuieS L. barr. eQlLOr or the I-itTSDuTgh
Post, having attended the Commonwealth
Club reception, gives his impression in a long
editorial letter to his paper The veteran
politician and journalist coufesses to an
agreeable surprise In the large calbre of
candidate PattisOn, and INDUCES in charm
ing eulogy and hopeful predictions to the
extent of a column.
Mrs. James Benson, of Buffalo, who had
been suffering from a fever for some time
past got out of bed Thursday night, while
delirlouS, taking her youngest child, boy of
TWO years, with her, and went to the cistern
and jumped in. Both Of their bodies were
discovered by the family early next morning
MIS-. Benson leaves ahuSband and Sc everal
children. The family are frantic with grief
"A cripple named Divine, living az Mont
gomery, Orange county, New York, met with
a singular death Saturday night. He was
STOPPING over fence to gather some catnip
growing on the other side when his crutchas
slipped from under him and he fell with his
neck wedged between two pickets on the
renee. He chOked to death, being unable to
eXtTicate himself. and his lifelesS BODY was
round hanging on the fence the next day
The Pittsburgh Post says that Il does not
go TOO far when it asserts that Mr. Pattis0u's
speech is one of 1.-THE gTandest expOsitiOns Of
state policy, so far as il concerns the powers
and duties Of the Executive ever pronounced
IN nPennsylvania. II implies the turning over
new leaf at Harrisburg, and the courageous
application there of the methods that have
redeemed Philadelphia from ruinOus eXtrav-
tiOns
Harvey Robinson, OF Greeavine. Ohio.
uled from the effects of melanOsis from
Which ne suffered since last spring turning
perfectly black. He was born Of white pa
rents His case Is one OF the most rpruarl-a-
Die on record, but one other being known
ana that was in England. DR. Fall. OF Gin
cinnati, was telegraphed for, and he aud DR.
Lanedon, the pathologist of a Cincinnati
hospital and other physicians, held post
mortem examination.
"A most determined attempt at suicide.
Mhlch may result in success, was made on
wednesday by Henry Weiner n grocer at
CarOndelet, Missouri. He stabbed himself
thlrty times just below the heart, severed the
main artery in each arm, made twelve sIa sb-
es behind the right ear, cut cash of an inch
on toe crown of his head. and wounded him
self in the right wrist When the physicians
had sufficiently revived him. he drank the
contents Of a coal oil lamp.
jay Gould having bought every other
sort OF corporation has been making a big
effort to buy up the New York Associated
Press. IL Is said to be Mr. Gould's ambition
70 control the news service Of the country
Ihe Harrisburg Patriot thinks it a wonder
that GOnld did not try long ago to 5uv the
capitol buildings at Washington. But per
maps ne did not care for them, as be has
SHOWN on several occasions that he owned
those who assembled therein
"A woman in Hartford, Conn, became
the mother OF child which died last week
at the age of five DAYS, and which weighed
alive p pounds. II was a well formed but
gigantic child. The mother, not long after
us DIrth, asked the attendants to let her see
her baby. They held up the big child. all
dressed. mo" the mother said "I don't
mean that great child [ want to see nv
pa0y. When assured that that was her
child her astonishment was uubounded
A collision between two trains one Of
the New Haven Railroad and one of the
RAPID Transit Iine-the former having been
switched over to the Rapid Transit track
occurred on FRIDAY in the Fourth avenue
tunnel, near eightv-sixth street New York.
A car of the New Haven train was wrecked
ana Nine. Marie Aubert was instantly killed
ABOUT twenty persons were injured, one of
whom Mr. VIM. Howe, bookkeeper for 5.
w. Boocock 81 Co, of New York, died soon
afterwards in the Grand Union Depot.
The Jacksonville Union says Strange
freaks were played by the tornado here i'm
Florida. Parts Of the same building were
carried in one direction, while other portions
were hurled in another. Those who had an
opportunity OF seeing the dread messenger
describe It As spear shaped. or resembling a
funnel, and say that ii diffused a reddish or
yeilowish light Like some huge bird OF
prey IL would SwOOp down upon the earth to
pursue Tor few moments its mission of ruin
and would then dart of into space with
rum0ling, roaring sound that struck ali hearts
with terror.
The Huntsville Herald says that a cor
respondent visited, the other dav. near Col
leGe Mound Macon county. Mo. Mr.. Robert
Gibson, perhaps the oldest man in the United
states. Mr.. Gibson Is now 116 years old. has
had twelve children, ten OF whom are now
living, and his grandchildren, great grand
children and great gTeat-Erandchidren num-
Der about 200. He is getting deaf and his
eyesight is getting dim, hut on Sunday pre-
vious to the visit (July 25) he rode i'm \ spring
wagon eight miles to church He was ex-
cuSed from service In the war of 1912 by rea-
son OF MS being too old for military duty.
At COvingtCn, XIV, Thomas DOdd was
shot dead at II O'Clock Sunday night, while
standing in the doorway OF his own residence
with his young wife, whom he had married
only the sunday previous. Two shots were
fired at him by a man who was standing with
woman companion on the sidewalk. The
evidence points to Edward Welsh as the par
petrator of the murder Welsh is the father
OF girl with whom DOCd's relations had
been such that his parents desired him to
marry her. Mrs. Welsh has been arrested
and admits that her husband fired the fatal
shots. The officers in CovingtOD are conf
de2t that they viii soon have Welsh in Gus
tody,