The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-06-26
NEWS AND OTHER NOTLNGS.

Just ABOVE the heart iDhictinR q WOubo
which will. prove fatal. The brothers have
been arrested.
1t appears that the death sentence 10
Kansas does bot byany means doom mur-
derer to death. The warrant must be signed
by the Governor, and as yet no Kansas Gov
ernor has ever signed q death warrant As
a consequence, there are now 80 death seD-
fenced prisoners in the penitentisry.
The gang of swindlers who have been
operating in Erie, Crawford and Mercer
counties. Pennsylvania and Ohio, with the
Bohemian oats racket have come 10 grief.
Henry A. Bacon, the leading spirit OF the
scheme, was arrested at Erie on Friday and
taken to Ohio upon requisition to answer
charge OF swindIiDg at Akron.
AT Venice, Illinois, on Sunday last
Daniel Pryce, fish dealer. was stabbed in
the left side by an unknown FreDchman.
After the sffray the assassin ran to bis boat
and jumping overheard. hung by one hand
while his wife pulled out into the Mssissip-
pi and went below. defyiDg the town mar
shall and Drawing a volley Of bullets.
Thomas O'Day, aged 4S years, was shot
and killed by his son John, aged 81, at Sha-
ron, Pa, on Friday evening last about six
and. returning home with a shotgun, killed
the family cat. His father reprImanded
him, when he picked up the gun and shot
him in the abdomen. Death was almost in
stantaneous John was arrested and lodged
in tail. When he realized what be had done
he tried to commit suicide, but was frustra-
ted in the attempt by his brother.
In America a depth of 1 900 feet Is
thought nothing of in boringfor oil; a man
is not particularly discouraged If he pene
trates as far without discovering petroleum.
In Baku, however. an engineer begins to
look for it at a 100 feet, and no we'll has vet
got lower than 1926. In 1888 two flowing
wells in less than a month upheaved nearly
80 600, 900 gallons Of oil apiece from a depth
of 700 feet. In America there are a number
of wells in the Bradford region 1000 to
3 900 feet deep. and one In West Virginia
which will soon be 5000.
King Alfonso, having determined to
visit the cholera infected district, although
the ministry threatened to resign, immense
crowds gathered on the streets at Madrid on
Saturday and made a demonstration in
favor of the king and queen and against the
ministry. The crowd becoming riotous
/ the civil guard was called ont and fred upor
the mob. who thereupon stoned the soldiers.
/ Disorder continued throughout the night.
/ The police admit three civilians were killed.
| but seven were really killed and sixteen
soldiers we're injured.
! AT O'Clock on Saturday morning, at
! Thomas Store, Campbell county, near
! Lynchburg, Va. when leaving a church
fair which had been in progress all night,
/ William Atkinson and Peter Gillian
| quarreled ss to which should accompany
/ home girl to whom both were paying at
tentiOn. Finally Gillian called his rival a
dog, and Atkinson, without reply. pulled a
large butcher Knife from his coat and killed
Gillian. by cutting his throat until his head
was nearly severed from his body. The
murderer was arrested. Ali the parties are
I colOred.
/ According to an old law in England,
which remained in force for 60 years, the
poor man might not change his master at
his will or wander from place to place. If
out OF employment, preferrIng to ne idle, he
might be demanded for work by any master
OF the craft to which he belonged, and
compelled to work whether he would OF not
If caught begging once, being neither aged
nor iDfrm, he was whipped at the carts
tail. II caught a second time his ear was
slit or bored through with a hot iron II
caught a third time. being thereby proved
to be of no use upon this earth. but to live
upon it only to his own hurt and to that of
others, he suffered death as feIon
"A special from Camas, Ind, says: Four
Indians were killed on Friday at Ross Fork
Age ncv, Idaho The trouble was occa.
stoned by couple of Bannocks who had
been depredatine on the agency stock.
Learning that they were abou. to be ar.
rested for their theft they drew the Indian
police from the agency this morning, open
L ing fire on them, They killed two and
wounded third. the other escaping Later
In the day about 400 police surrounded the
thieves near the agency, and riddied them
with bullets. Returning to the agency the
police appeared crazed with excitement.
I For time general outbreak seemed i'm
mInent, as all the Indians killed had rela-
tives and friends at the agency. The agent
finally succeeded in reducing them to quiet
About 10 O'Clock Saturday a one-armed
tramp named Michael Hanlan and a woman
that he claimed as his wife had a difficulty
on the canal bank near Port ROYAL. The
woman says that her husband wanted her
to bny liquor. She refused, and he Knocked
her down with his fist and Kicked her Han.
Ian has been lodged in jail to wait the re-
suit of his wife $ injuries.
Charles A. Buddensick the builder
whose row of buildings on West Sixty. sec.
ond street, New York city fell in heap on
April 13 and caused the death of Louis
| Walters. fTRmer at work on tbs buildings.
and who was recently convicted of man
slaughter in the second degree, was on
Tuesday sentenced by Recorder Smyth to
ten years imprisonment aud to pay fine of
$500 h8sf =
"A disease supposed to be gIandere has
broken out among horses and other animals
at Knoxville. a suburb of Pittsburg has al.
ready become epidemic. Twelve horses
have died since Saturday, and the disease
has been taken by eats and dogs. The
/ owners of animals are becoming thorougbIv
/ alarmed.
! "A through express train coming East
on the Pan Handle railroad came into COL
lision with an eRpty accommodation train
! at BurRett's Town, Pa, twenty seven miles
/ from Pittsb urg about O'Clock on Tuesday
morning. Both engines were thrown
/ from the tracks and wrecked. The enei.
neer, James Conboy. and the fireman.
Charles Downing, of the accom- modation
train were cut and bruised, but not seri-
Ously hurt. -I-E ......
George w. Dent, brother in-Iaw of
General Grant. on Tuesday receive1 a let