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

. OHlteu states, dled on saturday, aged 1O4
years.
Three boys were instantly killed in
Brooklyn Saturday afternoon by the fall OF
an unoecupied house in which they were
playing.
Mr.. ScovfIle, Guiteau's counsel. has he.
gun libel suit against a Chicago newspaper
which charged him with fraud in going into
! bankruptcy.
Mrs. Augusta Holt, of Sweden, Potter
county, middle-aged woman, with two
husbands living, recently eloped with bov
fourteen years old.
i The evidence in the trial at Cettellsburp
KY, of the murder of the Gibbons family
thus far confirms the statements in the con-
f9ssion made by Ellis.
"A horse owned by William p, Riley,
WllliamspoTt, IS so fond of tobacco that he
I seems willing at any time to trade half peck
Of oats for one good chew of the weed
Snow has fallen in the southern counties
OF Californian almost unprecedented oc-
currence. The prospects in that section of
the State are bad unless rain follows
Convicted murdeTerS were hanged ON
Friday as follows: At St. Louis, Thaddeus
Baber and William Ward colOred; at Rimon-
ski, Ontario, wlfe-murderer named MOTeau,
David Smith, farmer living near Ha-
gerstown. Ind, was on Saturday found in a
well with five wounds in his head. Smiths
sons had threatened his life and they are
susbected.
Henry 9. Spaulding, whose name was
made familiar in connection with glue, but
was lately arrested at New Albany. Ind, for
drunkenness.
A divorce suit is pending in Madison,
Indiana, between Benjamin Rinbale, 50
years of age, and his 23-year-old wife. The
suit is brought by the husband on the ground
of desertiOn.
Three children Of Mr.. Schalzmar, of East
Liberty, died within a few hours of each 9th
er on Sunday last Of smallpox. The mother
and another child are or were then very sick
with the same disease.
Harvey Hughes, charged with killing
Doc DeYail, in Greene county, has been
convicted of murder in the second degree.
aud sentenced to the penitentiary for two
years. Why such lenency?
At Washington, Washington county, on
saturday, the trial of Jonas Haywood, for
the murder of Thomas FOrsythe last April.
was concluded by the jury returning a YER
dict Of murder in the first degree.
"A klttaunlng undertaken reports that
the last corpse buried by him last year was
OF person only enc hour old and the first
one this year was 1O7 years OF age. That is
turning over new leaf in n curious wav.
The Sacramento Bee says there is in that
city tame deer which not only chews to-
bacco like a man" but goes the human
beast several points better-he eats all the
weed thar is given him, and begs for more.
A dispatch from Richmond, Indiana
says that Mrs Smith, widow of the man
whose murdered body was found in a well
there, has confessed that she and her sons
planned the deed, and that her son Daniel
put it into execution,
-Fifty-eight million dollars is the estfma-
ted value OF finger rings of this country actu-
ally worn, and still there are people mean
enough to 60 hacking and coughing because
they 90 not want to invest % cents for bot
tie Of Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup.
An insane man named Walsh shot him.
sell IN the shead on Friday in the NOrtre
Dame cathedral, Ottawa, Canada, while ser
vices were in progress. The congregation.
composed principally of ladies, was panic
stricken, ana several persons tainted
Sister Mary Joseph, the head of the Sis.
ters Of Providence, an Indiana Catholic or
der, who died lately was a sister by birth Of
lrma de ia Motto, who renOuuced rank and
fortune IN Brittany to mbrace a life Of pri-
Vau0n in the southern swamps of Indiana
-1He house OF a negro named Geo. White
was discovered to be in flames on Thursday
at Alton, Ill, and lying on a be0 in the house
with her throat cut from ear to ear. was
found the body of Mrs, Garrett, white wO-
man, who kept house for white It is thought
The woman had been murdered
The postmaster at Wilmington Ohio
writes to the Post Ofice Department that a
child died at that place few days ago from
what was supposed at the time to be chick
en-pOX. The funeral was largely attended
and, as a consequence, there are over fifty
cases of virulent smallpox in the town.
Madison county. Ind, has a citizen who
has attained the remarkable age of 1872
years. His name is Solomon Shppts reSid-
east OF Alexandra. He is in possession of
all his mental faculties, while physically he
" at 50.
Mrs. Smith and her two sons, the wife
and children respectively of David Smith,
whose dead body was found in a well near
iiagerstoWn, Ind, the other dav, were ar
rested on Monday. On the way TO the iaIl
Daniel smith confessed that he committed
the murder alone during quarrel about the
Saie of a horse.
Martin Hughes died at Hawley, Pa:
January Sth, aged "a years. He had been an
invalid tor more than q yeaI. 1t is reported
that over SlO0, 600 in insurance was held on
his life in Pennsylvania graveyard insurance
companies by residence of Wayne county
Pennsylvania. Most of the policies were is
sued subsequent TO last August
Dan Edison, of Warrensburg. Pa was
terrible blasphemer, A horse kicked Tim IN
q Darn the other day, and his calculations
were uncOmmOniy prolonged and violent
iheu flames broke out among the hav and
the building was destroyed. There is no
convincing the neighbors that Dams sulphur
Gus language did not kindle the fire.
On the 18th of December, at AIiddletOwn.
Conn, two orphan boys, Albert S. and Os-
borne NJ. Atkins, aged respectively 13 and 10
years, were accidentally drowned. On the
very day of their death a suit in their favor
was decided in New York, by which they
were 10 receive $50, 600, which now reverts
TO their fathers brother Thomas j. Atkins.
"A remarkable use is being made Of pota-
toes. Ihe clean peeled tuber is maceTated
IN a solution OF sUlphuTiC acid. The result
IS dried between sheets of blottiup pal1pr.
and then pressed. OF this all manner of
small articles are made, from combs to col
lars, and even billiard balls for which the
hard, brilliantly white material is well fitted.
by the disaster on the Hudson River
railroad at Spuyten Duyyi eight persons
were Killed and nineteen injured. The kill
ed We're Mrs Mary l., Brown, aged % wears:
rev Ffancls y. Mareehal, aged 56 Oliver
b. heeley, aged 40 Darwin l.. Ransom,
aged 80 j. Albert Richards, aged %: Val
ehtlne Park, aged d, and his bride Mary
Louise, aged 10, and Webster Wagner, State
Senator, aged IS.
The greatest alarm is manifested bv the
people IN ana about Brownsville, Texas,
over the appearance of a horribia disassa'
hitherto unknown by physicians. among the
uWelieTS on ranches. The naladv first
SHOWS itself IN the form of eruptions on the
lace. IAe head soon swells and death en-
sues IN short time. All remedies applied
ing terrOr-s tricken.
The Scottdale Record says q Hungarian
chlio at tne Mcclure works died few davs
ago, and Its father unfeeling dug ashole close
20 the mousse dumped the cor pse therein and
WtHI on 90 Work, leaving q little girl about
seven years old to fll the rude grave. Some
OF the miners and drawers complained about
this mode of burial when the superintendent
mace the iuhuman father exhune the child
and bury 1t near NorewoOd
.GeoTge and Edmund Gravely, who reside
IN Henry county, Va. are probably the old
est twins living in the country. Tbev cele-
Drated their 93d birthday on the 1st of De-
eemOeT last. They are still eniOyiug good
health and live within five miles of each other.
ana WITHIN three miles of where they were
porn. Iney belong to a long lived family,
Ihelr mother living to be over 100 and their
1atDer dying at the age of 90