The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-03-06
VIEWS .yp orHER NoTINGs.


cratic administration.
Beware Of Frauds.-Be sure yod get the
genuine DR.. Thomas Eclectric OIL 1t
cures colds. Group, asthma, deafness and
Rheumatism.
Three Mexican herders employed by
Captain David Lowell in Dlmmitt county,
Texas, were murdered last week by five
Americans.
"A Wisconsin farmer recommends as a
sure cure for potato bugs to plant one OF two
fax seeds in each hill of potatoes. He saws
the bugs will shun il every time, and for ten
years he has been very successful in grow
ing potatoes.
The o.her night Philadelphia police
man was attracted by the actions of a team
of horses whose driver appeared TO be
asleep. The wagon was stopped by the off
Ger, who attempted to arouse the driver. A
closer examination showed the man was
dead.
On Monday morning at $50 O'Clock an
8year-old daughter of Professor Beamer, of
Manor, Pa, attempted to cross the track
after an eastern train had passed and was
/ struck by WalPs work train west and fatal
! ly injured. No hopes are entertained for
/ her recovery.
-Superintended Maxwell reported to the
Chamber of Commerce at Cincinnati, on
/ Monday, the result of the winters packing
in that city, which showed that the number
of hogs packed during the winter months of
1884 5 was 385, 435 against 365, 451 the previ-
Gus winter, and the increase this winter of
1898 over the packing of last winter.
"A two-year-child of James j, Anspach,
Heidelburg township, Berks county. was
attacked by rats and fatally injured on Sat
urday last. The little one lay in her cradle
and the rodents jumped up and bit it on the
nose, arms, and hands, which swelIed to
enormous proportions. The rats bad to be
driven off with club.
"A. L. Gresham on Monday morning met
and severely horsewhipped Albert Gihon,
son of Medical Director GhOn, of the navy
at Washington, D. e. The cause was the
card published on Sunday, in which Gihon
charges Gresham with having taken a lady
of questionable reputation to theatre party
given by Gihon. A duel is imminent
Ada Bartholomew, aged IL years, of III
tusville, Pa, went on Sunday night to a
neighbOr's for pail of milk. Reaching the
house she stepped on the ice and in falling
struck her head on the steps, breaking her
neck. An inmate of the residence had seen
her going to the gate, but noticing that the
young lady was not in the house, went to
the door and found her lifeless form.
"A dispatch from Wayne county states
that Silas Clapper aged ", living With his
son on the eastern border of that county, was
greatly annoyed by cats last week On Sat
urday he shut several of them i'm the kitchen.
and going among them with a club beat
some of them to death. When his excite
ment subsidized the old man was so Mortified
at the sight Of the blood-stained walls and
floor that he went to the barn and hanged
himself.
While crossing Tyronza river, Arkan-
sas, on a mule, the rider, a negro, fell of
and was drowned. The mu le came safely
to shore and was taken possession of by the
local justice. The river was dragged the
, negro's body found, and on il a pistol. He
had been dead three days, but the squire
fined him $50 and costs for carrying conceal
ed weapons, and coniscated mule and pisto
, 20 pay the same.
w. r. Lennon, aged % yelrs, a student
in the Missouri Medical College, committed
, suicide on Monday morning by sboutins
himself through the head, the cause beinl
.despoBdency resulting from his failure L
pass his graduating examination at the col
lege. On Sunday morning when the resnl
l of the examination was announced he feI
into fit OF melancholy, which lasted al
night and ended by his suicide the following
2 morning.
"A sad suicide by man apparently
crazed with GRIEF occurred in an outhoust
in Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday last. Henry
MacheI, an industrious mechanic, employed
? by the White Sewing Machine Company
lived with his wife and four children. Feb
. TuaTy 1S his daughter, aged Is years, died
/ His grief was severe and the next day ht
t disappeared suddenly. His body was fOunC
2 on Monday morning with bullet hole in III,
S head. A pistol was found near by.
-Advices from the Indian Territory piy,
2 the particulars of a bloody ira gedy in th,
Chickasaw Nation. An old man named
: Rainey and his son Lewis, who had removed
! ! quantity of mortgaged property from th,
States, were overtaken on Red river by OFF
Ger j. d. L. johnson and two deputies
, The officers proceeded to take possession o
the goods, when old man Rainey seized
2 Winchester rifle aud shot johnson through
? the head, killing him instantly. Both tn,
| Raineys then turned ON the deputy sheriff.
/ and shot one of them. The Raineys theI
crossed the river aud escaped.
[ Eli Foust died last week at the Warren
$ Asylum. The history of his career is re
: markabe Over thirty years ago, when
: young man, he was employed as a catt
. ! drOveT over the mountains of this State
One evening, after very severe days labor
he stopped at a spring, and, while in heat
t ed state Of body, drank copiously of the COO
= water and lay down to sleep. He aros
c Rext morning maniac, and from that hou
D.. did not know lucid interval. He wa
: kept chained in a strong building and care,
5 for by his relatives for many years as bes
: they could. Several years ago he was re
! moved to Warren.
3 Some thrty-slx years ago, by prema
ture explosion of gunpOwdeT. an iron ba
4 three and a half feet long and one inch AM
a-quarter in diameter, weighing 13lL pound
q was shot completely through mans heA,
4 and perforated his brain. This man walk
Y ed up fight of stairs after the accident
e and gave bis account of how it happened
1 Although his life was despared of for som
! time, he developed no paralysis, nor di
z marked impairment of his intellectual fac
= nlties follow cOnYRiescence. Eventually h
= recovered his health. Twelve years elapse,
a before his death. during which time h
3 worked as a labOrer on a farm.
Information has been received at Dallas