The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-14

The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph says that
during a tornado in Terrell county on Mon
day night OF last week Miss Talbot was In
bed in one Of the rooms Of the Mccarthy
dwelling when the storm struck il. She was
aware that the house was blown away and
that she was being whirled through the air
and was conscious when she struck the earth
but remembers nothing more until sheIheard
her sisters calls. It was Just sixty yards
from where the bed stood TO the hole where
she was found. The hole was made by the
uproOting Of n large oak which was blown
twenty yards away.
A gentleman who lives near Biacksburg
Va, called at the Office Of the Blscksburg
NelcS, on Monday Of last week, and gave an
interesting account OF a most wonderful lamb
born on his farm few days since. The
lamb. he SAYS, has its heart on the outside Of
its body, where il may be seen throbbing and
palpitatlng as normally as II It was In Its
proper place. The lamb apparently swOOn-
ed away upon his laying his hand upon its
heart, and when the hand was removed the
lamb recovered again. The gentleman who
tells this is John Brown, Jr., Of Roanoke,
reliable and truthful farmer
The steamer Bella Mack exploded her
boilers between La Crosse ana Brownsville,
Mimi, on Friday morning. Six of the ere -
were killed, two others mOrtaily wounded,
and three or four others more or less injured
The crew were in theiT berths when the ex-
plosiOn occurred. They were held .here by
the settling of the upper works, and were
taken out with difficulty. The Alfred Toll
arrived at La Crosse at 12Jk O'Clock the same
day with the dead and dying. They We're
mostly residents Of La Crosse. The Bella
Mack was worth about eight thousand dol
lars. The killed whose bodies are missing
are J. Mcintyre, Charles r. Martin, William
Mccormick, George Mechanism and John
Nolan. A body was found on the boat sup
posed TO be that Of an adopted son of Capt
Gordon. The boat is a total wreck.
Thirty years ago John Potts, a chldless
blacksmith, at Brooklyn, near Carbondaie,
adopted and educated a waif that came to
his house Her name was Emma Roper
and ten years later she went into the world
to earn her own living. TIE old man not
bearing from her 9tterward, mOurued her as
dead. Two weeks ago a strange lady called
upon him, and he recognized in her his
adopted daughter She paid OF a mortgage
on the old mans property, erected a tomb
over the grave Of his wife who had been
dead for several years, and took Potts to
PlttSburg TO share her luEuriOus home. Her
husband is said TO be James Rutledge a
millionaire Of the latter city. As the Pitts
burg papers have, however, failed to find the
aforesaid millionaire, It looks very much as
If the above story was gotten up for a sensa-
tiOn
AT an early hour on Friday morning JOS
+ eph Hess, German saloon keeper, Of Ale
gheny City, deliberately killed his wife and
then attempted suicide. The particulars are
as follows About , o'clock people living in
the vicinity of the Hess residence were
awakened by repUTtOf pistol followed in
. qulCh SUCCESSFUL oH lbut more SAotS. Inc
report came from the room occupied by Hess
his wife and their children. HurryinZ into
. the room the neghbOrs found the mother "
ing on the floor iuseusible with bleed gush-
ing from wounds in the head and breast
while the father stood over her with revol-
Yer in his hand, which was still smoking with
the shots which had been fired The chill
dren. Mortified, rushed from the house and
summoned the police who were already hur-
Tying towards the scene. The murderer was
found in the room holding the ui-tOI st his
head, evidently with the intention of com
mitting suicide. He was disaUned and taken
TO the lookup, where he refused TO assign auv
. reason for the crime. His daughter states
that he was very 5ealouS and frequently
threatened to kill her mother