The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-03-17
NEWS AND OTHER N0TINGS.


cination, has died of smallpox.
IF you have the chills take PEgUEA. II
you expect or fear them take PERUNA.
Mrs. Mary McElrOv, 1O6 years Of age,
was burned to death in GreeDsburg, Ind,
Saturday night.
An eve belonging to James Cochran, of
Salem township, Westmoreland county, re-
Gently dropped four well-developed lambs
"A farmer named COnnell and his wife
were shot in the legs at Teacle County
Glare, Ireland. 1t is expected they will die.
The Lock Haven Express says that a
niece of Benedict Arnold, Mrs Anna Rhone,
resides in that city. She is over so years old,
"A medicine Of real merit prescribed by
many leading physicians and universally
recommended by those who have used it, as
true tonic is, Browns Iron Bitters.
Frank KTass, workman, jumped from
the fifth story of building in Attorney street,
New York, on Sunday. in which FIRE had
broken out and was killed.
Archbishop McCabe, of Dublin, has is
sued pastoral letter denOuncing the recent
outrages in Ireland and stigmatizing secret
associations as encouraging murders.
"A three story building was dismantled
by the wind at Bolivar, y. Y, on Saturday.
The whole structure collapsed, burying four
men, two of whom were taken out dead
Smallpox has become epidemic in South
Bethlehem, this state. Seventy cases Of that
disease and also number of cases of pneu-
monia are reported. The schools have been
closed.
Mrs. James Foster, OF Thomson, SHsaue-
hanna county, who is &c years old, during
the past year wOve goo yards of cloth, and
took care of the milk and butter produced by
ten cows.
-Artie Armstrong, of Petrolia, Butler
county, committed suicide on Wednesday Of
last week by shooting He was only twelve
years of age, and no cause can be assigned
for the act
-Guiteau. it appears. has about resigned
hlmself to the inevitable. The mOney-mak-
a NFWr
continues 20 sell autographs and photo
graphs TO visitors
The London Engineer pronounces the
block system of railroad signals failure. If
so the pennsylvania railroad company, which
has the best managed line in the country
has not found it out.
"A lad named Mills, son of widow lady
residing in East Tyrone, Blair county, was
caught between two cars on Wednesday Of
last week and had one OF his legs so terribly
crushed that he died the same night
Miss Lizzie Burton, of Clinton, HI, a
highly-accomplishe and beautiful Young
belle of is, has just returned home after a
short visit to the Joliet Penitentiarv She
has stolen 76 horses in her short but eyentful
career.
The tortures of neuralgic pains, sick and
nervous headache, are instantly banished bv
theiuse of DR. Faust's German Cure for Mem
ralgia and Headache. Guaranteed to relieve
ASK druggists. For sale by f. James, Eb-
enSDnrg, IA. AL, Sic o.w.1y1
Finley McKenny, supposed to be very
poor, was dying at MOrgantown, Ky. With
his last breath he told his wife to break an
old jug that had long stood in the grim of the
smokehouse. She did so, and 81, 200 in gold
and silver rolled out
Services were disturbed by a drunken
man IN the Lutheran church at Black River,
WIS. The minister walked cOolV down from
the platform, seized the offender, threw him
outdoors, and resumed his sermon as though
nothing had happened.
Miller, the convict who escaped from the
western penItentiaTy by concealing himself
in a shoe box and fed to Canada, arrived at
PittsbIrgh in charge of officers at about mid
night on Saturday night. having been brought
back on extradition papers
1t is stated that caucus Of the Irish
Catholic members Of the Dominion Parlia-
ment will be held shortly to draft memorial
to the Queen, praying that the suspects be
released, and that Ireland he placed on the
same free footing as Canada.
A crowd surrounded a barn in Park
Place, near Scranton, on Sunday. with the
intention Of lynchiug Daniel Wagner, aged
hfty-ive years, who had assaulted an eight
year-old girl, and who was hiding there. He
was rescued by officers auG sent to Jail.
Mrs. Lydia Y. johnson, Of Paradise
township. Lancaster county, has sued Daniel
Espendale, of the same township, for s.. 600.
Mr.. ESpendale charged that while taking up
a collection in church recently The widow
abstracted twenty-five cents from the plate
hence the suit
One child has died and three persons are
sick of mysterious disease in one house in
Winchester Mass. A consultation of ply
slclans. held on Wednesday Of last week.
resulted iE tie decision that those now sick
have the cerebro- spinal meningitis, but no
conclusion was reached regarding the child.
ALFRED Belts married Mary O'Connor, a
mere child of but 10, at Erie Pa He NAL
treated her continually, ending in eiectine
her from the house during the night. Over
whelmea with despair and grief, the child
wife returned ina few DAYS and swallowed
a dose of arsenic in desperate effort at sui
eide.
"A dastardy attempt was made at New
Orleans, Saturday night, to cut the levee
within the city limits. Timely discovery
was made and the cut filled, the ove rflOw of
a large portion of the city being thereby pre-
vented. The perpetratOr has not yet been
discovered.
Mrs. W. C. Mills, who was badly scaId-
ed in the explosion of the steam pipe on the
steamer Sidney, near RavenswOOd, ". Va.
last Friday, died of her injuries at Belaire,
Ohio, on Monday evening Mrs. Mills
death swells the list of victims of this disas-
ter to nine,
"A girl at Pekin, ILL.,, was about to be
married to young sweetheart A man in
the neigbborhOod heard of 1t, and told her
mother that, as his wife was going to die
soon, he wOuld marry the girl himself, If she
would wait AS he was Tich the bargain
was made, and in three months the wedding
took place.
On Saturday, Isaac Kerdrick shot his
wife twice and killed her, at their home, two
miles east Of Grant station, northeast of In
dianapolis, Ind. He remained with the dead
woman all night. He was arrested on Sun
day morning. He is a brakeman of bad
reputation, and is said to have been jealous
of his wife.
Five labOrers started to cross the Ohio
river on Monday evening in a skiff at Nc
KEGS Rocks, Just below Pittsburg. The
boat capsized when nearing the Allegheny
shore and the men were thrown into the wa
ter Two named Murphy and Shields were
drowned The other three swan ashore
greatly exhausted.
On Saturday William +. Robins, aged
twelve wears, and his sister, Jennie, aged
ran away from the home Of their father. W
s. Robins of Wyoming The boy ran off
once before, when he was nine years old,
and remained away two years Their moth
er ran away from home several years ago,
and has not returned.
"A Denveran Rio Grande engine became
uncomfortable at Leadville on Saturday and
ran down a heavy grade at about fifty miles
feet from train crowded with passengers
and was dashed to pieces. No one was hurt,
the engineer and fireman of the runaway en-
CINE having escaped by jumping.
"A special dispatch to the Cincinnati
Commercial from BeileviIe w. Va, SAYS the
Ohio river steam packet Sidney burst her
steam pipe below the town of RayenswOod,
on Friday morning. killing three persons and
wOunding fifteen. The steamer Graham
went up the river from the scene of the dis
aster to get physicians and cOffins.
"A dog stole a piece of meat from Stran-
ahan's butcher shop at Holly, Michigan, and
no man ThrpNy knife at the thief vybrpb