The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-02-13
NEWS AND OTHER soTINes.

-OtatlSIlcS SNOW tbat both In Europe and
America scarlet fever is more destructive of
life than cholera.
The Connecticut Legislature is consider
Ing bill providing that women are to be
eligible to hold the Office of assistant town
clerk.
There are GIL convicts In the Kentucky
Penitentiary, and for three months they
have not done days work, except those in
the cook house.
There is nothing like DR.. Thomas Eclec-
tic Oil to quickly cure cold or relieve hoarse-
ness. Written by Mrs. NJ j. Fellows, Burr
Oak. ST. Joseph Co, Michigan.
Richard Short was formally arraigned in
the Tombs police court in New York on last
Tuesday for stabbIng Captain Phelan. The
examination took place on Wednesday.
Over brain work and excesses reduce
the vitality and cause nervous exhaustion,
etc. The Pastille treatment is radical cure
Harris remedy Co., St. Louis, Mo-, send free
trials.
William Thorpe, chairman of the town
board of the village of Thorpe, Wis, was
shot and killed on Thursday night by his
son for abusing his family. The son has
been locked up for trial.
John Smith, of Palmyra, n. Y, aged
sixty five years, who recently eloped with
the wife OF a prosperous farmer named
Highly, committed suicide on Friday by
hanging, and the woman now has a double
cause for penance.
"A fire on Sunday last destroyed the pork
packing establishment of G. Gassard &
Sons, in Baltimore. causing loss of so, 600
fully insured. The fire extended to Berg
mans livery stable, one floor of which fell,
injuring four fireLnen, but none of them Sc
riously. Bergman's loss is small.
Mrs. Mary Stubbs, widow, aged sixty.
FIVE years, of Philadelphia, left her boarding
house in apparently good health oD Sunday
morning last for the Olivet Presbyterian
church, that city, and died within five min
utes after reaching her seat. The death is
attributed to heart disease.
Twenty five disguised men broke down
the door of the Bland county (Va.) Jail
shortly after midnight Thursday took out
Jerry Jackson, a colored man, tied him to a
fence, and riddled him with bullets. Jack
son was only seventeen years old. He shot
and killed an inoffensive peddler the Friday
previous for the sake of plunder.
Tom Morris, a negro, twenty years
of age, arrested at Weimar, Texas Friday
was taken to Schulenburg, charged with as
saulting Josephine Sedlek, a white girl, thir-
teen years of age. About O'Clock Satur-
day morning Morris was taken from the
calabOose by a masked mob and hanged to a
tree. The mob came from the neighbor-
hood where the outrage was perpetrated.
Three boilers in the starchworks of the
Emerich Manufacturing Company, ILLINOIS,
exploded on Saturday evening" badly de-
molishng the building. The structure
caught fire and will probably be total loss
The boilers were blown distance of sever
al blocks. Two men, the fireman and
watchman, are missing, but it has been i'm
! possible as yet to make search for them.
John Starcher, an estimable young man
of Calhoun county. w. Va, startled his
friends on Sunday last by an unsuccessful
attempt. owing to the intervention of Friends,
to commit suicide. He was found by them
suspended from the limb of a tree in his
fathers orchard. They cut him down and
} after being vigorously treated for a time he
recovered sufficiently to upbraid them for in
= terferng, and vowed that he would yet de-
! stroy himself.
2 Superior Judge Moore, of Amador coun-
ty, Cal, was t'und dead in his house last
September. The family were all absent at
the time. The verdict was suicide Late
developments indicate that he was murder
, ed, and the Governor has offered a reward
OF $500, and the family additional sum of
. 81 800 for the arrest and conviction of his
murderer. Judge Moore was well known in
t Danville. KY, where he formerly lived
August Dill, a prominent and wealthy
! German farmer near Wahpeton, Minn has
been mysteriously missing since January %,
ssH
Sunday last, when his remains were found
under manure pile near his stables. His
: wife confessed to the crime. When con-
| fronted by the corpse. she said, 1--WE quar-
relied. and l borrowed a pistol from the
hired mau, Julius Ebel, and shot him twice.
Then l put him to bed, but he died, and
5 then the hired man and my son helped me
: to bury him." All are in Jail and narrowly
D escaped being lynched.
3 On Friday evening William Stewart, a
negro boy about II ytars of age, whose
. home is at Greeubrier White Sulphur
Springs, w. Va, attempted to kill his moth
er with a razor. Hearing the woman's s
screams for help. Charles Bowers, a clerk in
6 a store the woman's home. ran to her
!, assistance, when the negro turned upon him
, and succeeded in cutting him very severely
in the breast and about the face. and nearly
cutting one OF his ears off. AT present
, Bowers is lying in very dangerous condi-
7 ton and will very likely die Stewart was
arrested on Saturday and lodged in the
2 Lewisburg Jail.
"A dispatch from Vincennes, Ind, says
Henry Strouman, who has four children
: sick with typhoid fever, mas lately been very
: religiouslY inclined. Last Friday evening
he was praying over his sick children, when
, his wife told him that if he would build a
: fire he would do them more real service than
praying. This enraged Strotman, and seiz-
ing a heavy spade handle, he bTutally beat
his wife and badly cnbbed his father-in-
law, Christopher Ottesmeyer, sixty three
} years old, until he was dead. Strotman was
: finally oveTpOwered by the police. but not
until City Marshal Romer had been beaten.
: | Mrs. Strotman is fatally injured The muir
. derer was imprisoned. 1t is thought he is
: | insane.
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