The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-05-12

day that an advanced step in TailrOadng has
been discovered which viii TevOlutOniZe that
business aud put it fifty years ahead OF the
age. 1t says the officials OF six of the largest
and most enterpTising roads i'm the Mississippi
Valley were for two davs discussing the new
Improvement, the nature of which will be
announced in a few days.
Marie Konig. a German woman, aged 90
years, murdered her son Auguste 3 wears
old, in Boston, on last Tuesday morning by
cutting his throat with a case knife. She
then cut the throat Of her daughter Mary
aged / 3 but not fatally. Her son Alfred
was cut in a dozen places and boy OF II
was wounded. neither Of them fatally. Mrs.
KOnig then attempted to commit suicide by
cutting her left leg below the knee.
Wednesday afternoon of last week man
named John ChariebOis, accompanied by two
I of his children, attempted to cross lake in
the Gatineau lumber district, near Ottawa,
! Ont. The ice being in bad condition, the
man went through. The children, aged Z
/ and II years bravelv went to his rescue and
/ made desperate effort 10 save him. In this
/ they were unsuccessful, and, the ice giving
/ way beneath them, all three perished
An Omaha man, in danger Of losing his
I house by the foreclosure Of mortgage, sold
/ his wife to her admiTer for the $500 needed
I to satisfy the claim. That was two years
/ ago, at which time the proceeding caused
considerable comment. The new couple
I lived amicably together until lately when
! the original husband, having prOSpered dur
I inP his period OF bachelorhood, bought back
I the woman at an advance of $50.
On Sunday evening two boys, named
! Newton Metz and Julius Kendall, aged IS,
I got into a quarrel at GlOrin Gap, W. Va
/ over dog belonging 20 one Of them, which
/ the other charged with killing his fathers
4 sheep From words they came to blows.
/ when Kendall stabbed Metz In the left breast,
1 the blade penetrating the lower lobe of the
/ lungs and in the stomach, inflctinga wound
| through which the bowels prOtruded. Metz
/ will die, if not already dead. Kendall was
! arrested.
The staging on which ten Boston riveters
/ employed in building bridge over the Con-
necticut River railroad at CheapSide fell on
/ Friday, precipitating eight men a distance OF
| siXty-five feet to the ground. iniuring all of
! them and two fatally. Hugh WaInock and
/ Enman Wistner are the two most seriously
injured. They will not live. The others are
/ severely injured about the spine and two will
suffer from paralysis, John O'Brien and
Thomas F!avin. while two others, Joseph II.
Nichols and Michael Crawley, are in pre-
cariOus condition.
An old German farmer, named Robert
Bechter, and his wife, living near Leona,
Kansas, had led very unhappy lives during
the past few years, and for upwards Of six
wears quauels had occurred almost daily.
| Their son on Saturday went to town and
upon returning found his father dead and his
mother dying from bullet wounds from re-
vOver. The woman left letter saving that
she had shot her husband because he intend
eu 10 OlSlnnerlE Lne son, ana she preferred
that both should die, that the son might en-
JOY the property undisturbed. The act was
deliberately planned and skilfully executed.
L. IL. Newton, an engineer on the L. and
N. r. r., returned to his home in Louisville.
KY, on Thursday morning and found his
wife in bed unconscious, and at her side a
four r-Year-Old adopted child, dead A note
on the table written by Mrs. Newton was to
the effect that she had given morphine to the
child and taken dose herself for the pur-
HpSfrOvinn ha NP hn
father OF the boy, Mr.. Stusser, husband of
Mrs. NewtOn's deceased sister, was to be
married that day and she was apprehensive
that the father would take the child from
her, and this prompted the act for the de-
stTuction of both lives. Mrs. Newton, It Is
thought, will get well.
Margaret Bethel was for twenty wears a
pensioner on the charity of St Marks Epis-
cOpal church, Philadelphia. She had a niti-
full aspect, lived in very humble apartments.
and was persistent beggar, her complaint
always being that she was on the verge of
starvation. She died a few days ago, and
some of her benefactOrs opened their eyes in
surprise when they saw her remains carried
in 5000 coffin to a $500 vault The next
revelation was made when her daughter fur
nished house in an expensive manner, took
daily carriage rides in the park, ana dressed
in fashionable clothes. Investigation has
shown that Margaret had, bv begging, accH-
mulated fortune of $40, COO.
The trial of James Quinn accused Of
criminal assault. ended in an unusual man
ner at Sunburv, on Wednesday Of last week.
When Sarah HeatOn the victim Of the as
sault, aged fourteen years, was called, she
refused to testify. The entreaties of her
father. mother and friends availed nothing
and when informed by the Judge that she
would have to 90 to jail If she persisted in the
refusal to testify, she said she preferred that
to sending the prisoner to the penitentiarv.
The prisoner thereupon spraug forward and
proposed marriage to the girl. Business was
suspended, a Justice was called in, and the
couple we're united in wedlock. The Judge
then Instructed the jury to bring in verdict
of not guilty.
Shortly after noon on Sunday last smoke
was seen issuing from the interior of the
massive stone Court House. ir Pittsburgh,
and by 1 O'Clock the stone walls only remain
ed. The fire created intense excitement, and
on account of the jail being attached to the
burning building fears were entertained that
the prisoners would escape. There was no
occasion for alarm, however, as the iail was
not in danger. and a close guard was kept
over the inmates, who were not aware that
fire was in progress near them. AZ sOOD as
the fire was discovered a number of officials
and others forced their way into the burning
building and succeeded in saving nearly all
of the records and law library. While en-
0eaYOTine to save the records in the jury
Commissioners Office, Harry McDermOtt,
grandson of jury Commissioner Hogan, was
killed by falling glass. Several firemen mar
rowly escaped death by burning, and num-
Der were more or less injured bv the falling
debris but the accident to McDermOtt is be-
lieved to be the only one resulting fatally.
The building destroyed was of stone, and
originally cost about 5000, 900, and many
thousands have been expended in improve
ments The insurance on the burned portion
is $50, 900.