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

went To play on the ice with lad Younger
than himself, aud this companion was
drowned. spectator at a consideIa able dis
tance says that Murley pushed the other
down through hole in the ice, thrustiag him
under water, anc pounding his hands TO
make him let 90 his hold
"A couple composed apparently OF a boy
Of 10 and a girl of IL presented themselves TO
married The Justice replied that he was
not in the habit of Joining children in wed
lock, and advised them to go right back 70
their parents. They asserted that they were
over twenty, and so they were, being dwarfs;
but they had to bring witnesses and the fam
lily record before the official would believe IL.
Intelligence reached Panama on Monday
of an appalling earthquake in Costa Rica.
Advices then received state that fonr towns
have been destrOyed-A Alaiuela San Ramon.
Greecia, and Herida In Alajuela alone
several thousand lives were lost Those left
alive there are homeless. Later accounts
say the loss of life has been something fear
ful. Thousands OF the inhabitants were
swallowed mp, and the destruction of proper-
ty is widespread
The Washington police had in charge the
other day a white lunatic calling himself
Winfield Scott Hancock and claiming To ne
President of the United States He arrived
few days ago exhausted by a long tramp
from North Carolina. Upon his arrival he
applied for admission to the Freedman's
Hospital, where, he said. he wished to recu-
was found for him at Police Headquarters.
he was to he shipped homeward
-Rev. Francis 4. Boyle, pastor of st
Matthew's Catholic church. WASHINGTON D.
g, died at the Providence Hospital on Mon
day while under the influence of ether ad-
ministered in a surgical operation He was
operated upon for stone i'm the bladder and
had been given ether bv his own desire His
death was the result sf apOplexy. superin-
duced 10y the shock of the oneTafiOn Father
rrin ne r,r Afn hr5rr
and most eloquent priests in the country.
The Harrisburg Patriot is right when it
says that it is impossible to travel on the
Pennsylvania railroad without feeling at once
that the employees of that line are as much
the servants of the public as if every passen-
ger were an influential StOcEh0lder At an
eastern station the other day one of the uni
FORMED attendants gavea rudelY curt answer
10 civil question. The words were over
heard by an official and in three seconds there
was vacancy in that department
The New Ork Sun says that gentle
man in RidgewOod. y. j.. witnessed an un-
usual spectacle on Friday morning. The sun
was Just rising in clear sky, while in the
west heavy banks of black wind clouds were
noatlng, pierced by the brighter hues Of a
spring rainbow. They were so interlocked
that they presented magnificent scene. On
one side OF the house a heavy shower of rain
was falling, while on the other,side there was
not moisture enough to wet the shoe
"A romantic story is told by the TuOlum-
ne (Cal-) D1iOH-DeBlOcrut Of daughter of
Jose COrderO, who was abducted from her
parents while little cbild. She always re-
tanned in her memory the appearance OF her
mother, the name of her father and the fact
that her home was in Santa Barbara. Re
Gently she married in Kentucky and induced
her husband to visit that city. She arrived
few days ago, ard : joyous meeting occur
red between the long lost daughter and her
mother.
Lawyer SeovfIe in conversation in Chi
fueFr %n@H saHHnH=
believed it was the best thing for the country
that Guiteau should hang, for then there
would be reyulsiOI iu public feeling, and
Gulteau would do the country the great ser
vice OF bringing about a revision Of the laws
70 protect the insane. He has however
asked President Arthur 10 have Guftpau sent
TO prison for life, and then, if he become n
raving maniac, IL would be easy TO have him
sent TO an asylum.
Charges OF terrible cruelty are made
against John Bennett, Johnstowu N. "
farmer. is alleged that he has mercilessly
beaten his four year-Old daughter after
stripping her throwing her naked into a
snow bank, piungiuC her into q cisteru and
conhnIng her without food IN a cold room.
Shortly after heI condition became known
she was provided with food, and ate 50 raw.
enouslv hat physician ordered that nothing
more be given her Bennett mas ffe1 HIS
neighbors threaten lynching.
Farmer johnson has lived at Berlin. On
taTlo about twenty years, and il that time
mas reared large family. accumulated much
property and become q highly respected
deacon. a few DAYS ago a Russian woman
and her son arrived in that town and claimed
johnson as husband and father. They said
That lac was a Russian named TresiuSEi that
ne emlgTated Tor the purpose Of finding a
new home for them, and that thev had traced
MIN unally by means OF neighhOr who re-
TURNED from a visit to America He con-
feSSeS that they tell the truth, and is desirous
Of buying up their claims.
IN Surrey county, \. G. q few davs
since, a negro woman named Jane Mabarrv
deserted two children, aged two and five
years, leaving them in the cabin unproyided
with food, NeiChbOrs, missing the woman
Went 70 the house and discovered the chill
dren IN terrible condition. starving 10 death
They had been without food for five davs.
They were extremely emaciated and had lost
the use Of their limbs. Kind peoule took
them away and provided them with food but
ignOrautly gave them OOmuch to eat They
ate so much that they died the next 5ay.
There is no trace of the inhuman mother and
much indignation against her is manifested
The house was IN rather a lOr.eIv Mace ana
had been locked by the mother before She
left
"A SPECIAL telegram to the Pittsburg Dis
patch from Steubenville, O., March u. SAYS
Last evening Frank Myers, of this civ. was
lun over and killed by a passenger train near
the depot at Toronto, on the c. and r. road.
At the time the accident took place he was
walking along the track toward the station
and when within few rods of il was struck
His wife was at the depot at the time and
witnessed the casualty which cost her hus-
band his life. His head was almost severed
from his body. AT the time two trains were
and 1t is supposed that his attention
was attracted by the one approaching MIN
from the direction from which he was walk
ing The scene which ensueG when the wife
reached the mangled remains Of her husband
was very affecting.
The financial affairs Of Mt St Mary's
College, near Emmittsburg Nd, having re-
Gently been satisfactorily adjusted, the Re-
ceiver, Captain James NcSherry, into whose
hands its management was committed one
year ago, filed his petition 20 the court asking
a,diScharge, and in accordance Herewith was
released of his trust This action restores to
the venerable schoOl-the alma mater of
Cardinal McClOskey and many others emf
nent in both Church and State-an OF its
rights and franchises, and opens to il. it IS
believed a greater career of usefulness and
success than ever before. This gratifying
of affairs is mainly the result Of the
and energetic labors Of its present
able president, the Very Rev. DR. Bvrue.
late Of the diocese of Boston. The institu-
ton has at this time an attendance of more
than one hundred pupils.
THE most wonderful curative remedies Of
the present day are those that come from