The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-06
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

| "A Norristown man has lost fifty-siX hog.
within two weeks from cholera.
The Prohibitionists will meet in State
convention at Harrisburg on the 18th inst
twenty -four horses were burned up IL
a livery stable in Worcester, Mass, on Sat
urday.
Rev Father Sheehy, who came here
from Ireland in the interest Of the Land
League, is lying i'll at Hartford.
The hotelkeeDer at Bechtelsville Mont
gomeTy county, has adog that catches mess
OF FISH Tor the family every day.
{ George Valentine and wife, Of Toronto
returning home in a wagon on Thursday
were killed by a train at a railroad crossing
Edward A. DrySdale, an alleged Mis-
souri, murderer, was captured near Union.
town, Pa, and taken to Missouri on Satur-
day.
The boiler in saw mill near Winemac
Ind, exploded Friday, killing John Helm
and fatally injuring Daniel Drit and third
man.
A barn belonging to the Centre House.
Inlay City, Mich, burned Saturday, and
with 1t Blair's livery stable, in which were
II horses
Sidney Mana, foLrteen-year-oId boy
/ living near Athens, Ohio, looked into a pis-
tol when it was loaded. He only lived fif-
teen minutes
Judge Cox is certainly Ienient Judge
On Monday he permitted the notorious en-
bezzleT Howgate to leave the Jail and hold a
reception in his house, at Washington,
-IheTe were 3O6, remarks the Chicago
to circumstances over which re had no CON
/ troll, has gone to the penitentiary But Flan-
nigan is still at large.
/ Henry Wefel, and John Evans were in
stantly killed and John Wefel fatally lniur-
ed by the fall of a scaffold at Cincinnati on
} Thursday night
Thomas II. Henry, colored- has been ad-
n4itted to the Philadelphia bar. He is the
first cOlored man passed there. Another ne
gro practicing in that city brought his ceTti-
hc6te from Boston
"A train coupleFand two woTEB9en in the
machine shops of The Pennsylvania railroad
were crushed to death between the cars at
Jersey City on Thursday
Henry Hopper, cCiored of Sayra Brad
ford county, dug mp the clothing of a small
pox patient that cOntained a small amount
of money, took the disease and died.
Mrs. ellen Beckwelk- a helpless invalid
and her sister were bUgned to death in a
Philadelphia tenement house on Saturday
night. The sisters clothes were iguited vhile
kindling fFe.
The 12-year-old.son Of Dr. T p. Russell
OF Oshkosh, Wis, shot and killed the 6.year-
old son Of A. F, Turner Friday last Fhe
boys were playing with gun which they
supposed was BOt loaded.
-Wm. Alexander, died at Eastbrook ,a1-
renee county, on Thursday, from wounds m
hicted upon him by his son during a family
quarrel coupls of weeks previous The
son IS now in iail'Un charge Of murder,
"A Los Ange Ees Cal. dispatcb. states
geles county, gave birth on Friday last to
six perfectly formed female children. the
most remarkable instance of the kind ever
known in the State.
Francis Dermer, who was burned by an
explosion Of gas at Otto Gallery, P0ttsville,
Pa, nearly three weeks ago, died Sunday
night. He leaves a large family OF helpless
children, having buried his wife syYo davs
prior to the explosion.
"A lover undertook to commit sl-iei1e in
the presence OF a girl who rejected him az
Chattanooga, but she prevented him bv
force, first dashing a cBttle of poison from
his hands, and then, after hard struggle.
dis possessing him OF a razor.
Two woman called on a Maine dentist
simultaneously, one to lave all her teeth ex-
tracted and the other only three. The den
tist mistakably put the latter under tbs in
fiuence of ether, and ren 9ered her toothless.
jury will estimate the damage.
Having been troubled with a very. bad
cough for about two years. and having tried
every cough mixture that was ever maSe, 1
have found none that has given me such
great relief as DR.. Bulls Cough Svrup and
Benz. F. Duggau, i Park Place y. Y.
The Denver Republicans SfIverton sps-
c!al says that on Saturday last, Edward F
Ryan, Michael Ryan and Richard Adkins,
employed in the Paradise tunnel, were buried
one hundred feet deep in a snow slide. Par
ties left Siiyerton on Mondsy morning to re
cover the bodies.
Mr.. Gibbons, who was suspected of kill
ing his children and Miss TEDUas and setting
IRE TO his mousse. at Ashland, Ky, returned
home on MOn1ay last, and has brought such
overwhelming proof that he was elsewhere
on the night of the murder that he has not
even been arrested.
Willis Hockaday, a colored barber, has
been arrested at Louisa, KY for the murder
of the Gibbons children and Miss Thomas on
December %. The detectives, however have
settled upon the theory that Gibbons, the
father OF the children, was the murderer, and
~ NrgE FHrsFaHu~
River
There is in Keokuk, Iowa, considerable
excitement OF was a few days ago over the
fact that between thirty OF forty students
have been stricken with 2 disease that. has
been pronounced by the President of the
Board of Health and several prominent phy-
Sicians to be SIN allpoX. It appears that a
body received from Chicago was used in the
disseeting room of the medical college, and
that the subject had died of smallpox.
"A street car at the crossing of Virginia
avenue and the Union railroad tracks, India
napOiS, Ind, was run INTO by freight train
of the Wabash railroad on Monday morning.
Sister Mary Assumption Conway of St
MaTy's Catholic Academy, in attempting to
get out of the street car was thrown under
the freight train and instantly killed. One
other passenger in the, car had his foot
crushed
On Saturday George S Read, widower.
a clerk with MacOndTay & Co, san Francis
co, shot and killed Eis mother-;n law, Sarah,
a Smith wounded his eight-yeaT- old daugl-
ter Ella, probably fatally, then, killed him
self Reed has been. in state of nervous
excitement for several days, attributed to
close attention to blsiDeSs, andwas undODb0-
edly labOring undsT temporary insanity, as
his family relations were of a. pleasant Ia
ture.
At Bentonvi,ie,. Ark, Thursday night
Eson BOllin, agea fifty-five Sas~shOt through
the head while asleep, by his wife and kill
ed instantly. At the cOrOaeT's inquest the
woman confessed the crime and was arrest
ed. While i'm her cell nexS day she request
ed the loan of knife from the turnkey, saw
ing she desired to cut Que some clothes for
knife was handed to her, and while the
other part of the cell she cut her throat, ex-
piring in a sew minutes thereafter.
A few years AGO, Mary Craddock, lit
tie daughter of Mr.. James CraddOck, of Mys-
tic, Conn. lost her eyesighU during a pro-
successfully by local physicians. few
tar from the famous Chapel Of Knock, in
County Mayo ireland. The Cement was
dissolved in holy water, and the solution was
applied to the eyes of the blind girl, The
paten5 also drank at morning and night of
the remedy. Before week had passed the
girl began to see aimly, and before the end
of the second week she had fully reCained
her sight The cure has created much ex-
citement in Mystic, and many persons have
visited the Craddock family to see the child
"A terrible accident occurred on the 2. r.
r. week ago last night near Christiapa.
Lancaster county, caused by the engine OF a