The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-02-10
NEWS AND OTHER NoIISGs.


james Phillips. aged IA, shot himself to
death at COrwin, o, on Friday. He was an
excessive reader Of yellOw-backed novels.
"A runaway team collided with funeral
procession at Pittston on Tuesdsy, and Mrs.
Evans and Mrs. Lloyd were badly injured.
Mai VIM 2. Elliott, of Eewistowu, who
Is probably the oldest printer in the state,
attained his eighty-ninth birthday few days
Ten barrels Of apples were handed ont
in the streets of Cleveland the other day. On
each apple was stenciled the advertisement
of a show.
Barry county, Michigan, broke through the
ice on Crooked Lake, on Wednesday, and
were drowned.
Anthony Perrung, q young timer, fell
from the roof OF a building in Columbus, o,
on Friday, and was dashed to pieces on the
pavement below.
Mr.. Lappington, his sister and little girl,
while going to church in Union county, Miss,
on Sunday, drove into swollen stream and
all three were drowned.
Michael Cuddy, of Wnkesbarre was
found dead in the bottom of a well on Fri
day. It is not known whether he committed
suicide or was murdered.
Six sailors were drowned on Saturday
by collision between the steamship h. y.
Ward. Jr., and the Swedish bark hendricks,
near Cape Antonio, Texas.
james McIain has been arrested at Pitts
burgh for beating his invalid child with a
club. The child's mother tried to protect 1t
I and received a terrible beating.
N. p. Boyer, Of COatesville, has been ap-
pOinted-tO an Office in the Agriculture De
partment Of the japanese Government at a
salary Of S., 600 per annum and expenses.
Michael Hopkins, 35 years of age, and
unmarried, was found frozen 10 death at Sc
bastopOl, near Pittston, Pa, on Sunday.
/ When last seen he was under the influence
of liquor.
"A youth at Portland, Ne, made 1000
on a land speculation. The success turned
his head, and he has been sent to an insane
asylum, absorbed in fancy negotiations for
all the towns in the State.
Rosa Roscoe, aged fourteen years, while
endeavoring to kindle fire in Jacob Yet
ter'S house at Turner's Falls, Mass on FRI
day, was fatally burned, together with Yet
ters wife and infant.
Lives of great men always remind US
that we are all subject to die" says an eX-
change, but never cough yourself away as
long as you can raise p cents for bottie OF
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
"A store was destroyed by fire at Union
I dale, Luzerne county, on Saturday, and the
| owner was said to have been burned alive
The building was fired by tramps, with
/ whom that part Of tue State is infested.
Luke Gray, q colOred man residing In
/ Jackson Mich, accidentally shot and killed
William Simmons, white man, while both
/ were hunting near Newton, on Friday morn
/ ing. Gray has become insane over the oc-
cuTTenCe.
/ Cincinnati is getting quite too utterly
/ too too. 1t is proposed to have President
/ Arthur visit the city in April, and then with
/ his own hands plant in Eden park twenty
/ one trees-One for each President in the IN
/ tied States
Louis Bolz, aged SO. a socket gauger in
E the pipe mill Of the Reading Iron Works,
/ Reading Pa, had his skull crushed to Jelly
( late Friday evening by a large cone pulley,
which fell from its fastening and struck him
OF the head.
Changes in Vermont are not always pro-
. CresSiVe. Newfane Centre was a county
/ seat in 1910, with court house, Jail, school
. houses, churches, several stores, and a con-
/ siderable population. Not vestige Of the
. village remains.
The Healdsbure (Cal) Flag says that
. Hiram BoOtZ, Of Cobb Mountain, killed at
/ one shot, and with a single bullet, last Sun
day, q wild cat, 4 fox and p deer, which hap
cat when he fired.
Joseph Metgar, aged so years, OF No.
272 Elizabeth street, New York, was hoist
j ing 2 coal box to the fourth story Of No. l51
Crosby street, on Friday last, when the box
slipped from its fastenincs and fell on his
head, killing him
John Walsh a saloon keeper Of Little
Fails y. Y, kicked his wife 10 death on
Sunday afternoon, in the preseDCe of his fOUI
children. Walsh is supposed to be an ex-
convict from Australia, and to have drowned
his first wife He is now locked up.
In small grove near Cincinnati an army
of crows take shelter every night. They as
semble by thousands an hour before dark
and an old man living near the place says
that TO his personal knowledge the same
grove has been their dOTmit0ry for 50 years
An infants body. naked. vet warm, was
found in Iowa City, Iowa on Monday morn.
ing near the cemetary, horribly mangled by
dogs. The flesh had been torn from one leg
and completely eaten OF from the head and
face. The child was born the night before.
I "A young girl names Angelina NcSween-
ey, who had been committed to the House
Of the Good Shepherd at East New York
lost her sfe on Saturday in attempting to es-
cape from the building, two stories in height
and sustained injuries from which she died
in an hour.
The Scranton Repl5Eicau thinks Cover
nor HOyt is entirely in his element when ne
"haS deserted his duties at the State Capital
to become the errand boy OF q Wilkes Barre
faction" " The Republican seems to be find
ing out more about his eXcellency than it ever
knew before.
King, a st, Louis murderer, has had four
trials during seven years, and Is now at last
to be hanged. He was once convicted of
murder in the second degree and sentenced
to twenty-five years Imprisonment, but he
thought he could do better than that and OBJ
tanned q now trial
The Titusville Herald says that Mr.. A.
K. Williams, Of Minneapolis, Mimi, IS i'm
this city looking after machinery that will
give q current Of air moving from 70 10 100
miles an hour. Mr. Williams has invented
pipes which he proposes TO move grain from
the West to the seaboard.
William Neal was sentenced on Monday
last at Catlettsburg, KY, to be hanged on
April 14th fOT,the murder OF Fannie Gibbons
at Ashland, Ky. Neal made a little speech
protesting his innocence. Elias Craft, con-
viCted on Saturday, was sentenced on Tues
dav to be executed on the same day.
Joseph Willis, employed in the Victoria
Mills in SchuVlerville. y. Y. was caught in
the shaftinG on Thursday. His right arm
was torn off and remained in the shafting,
which makes seveuty-fve revolutions min
ute, and he was thrown to the floor, dis
tance of thirteen feet. BE died on Friday.
Mrs. John Robinett, of COrnersYille,
Ind, mourned her long absent husband for a
time and then married Mr.. MuZZy. This was
seventeen years ago. The other day Robi-
nett came bObbing around EnOch Arden
I like he took sensible view of things, spent
some days with the huZZys and went his
! way.
While John Cenish, John Mashka and
( Joseph Bachka, were engaged in pushing a
/ carload of coal on q trestle-wOTk at locust
Point, the tTestlewOrk gave way and the
men and car were thrOwntO the pier beneath,
a distance of twenty-five feet Cenish and
Mashka were killed, and Bachka was taken
I to the hospital in a dying condition.
At PhilipspOTt, Sullivan county, \. Y,
/ on Tuesday afternoon, Frederick Mesner, of
/ ElienviIIe, shot himself in the presence Of a
young lady named OrviIle David because
she refused to marry him, and died shortly
afterwards. The lady had asked h i'm 60 dis
continue his attentions on account OF intem-
peTance. Both parties were respectfully con-
nected.
A special from Crisfeld, Nd, dated Mon
day, says Henry \. Wise, son of Nir. John
r. Wise, belonging to q family of good stan
ding went to his room, stripped himself aud
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