The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-06-01
NEWS AND OTHER yOTINGs.


: several hives OF bees last saturday.
Henry Black. a brother Of ex-Lieu.
tenant Governor ChauDceyF. Black. died Al
Brockie near York. Pa. on Sunday.
-Thsra were 81 divorce cases on fhs
corrt calendar in Boston the other day IN:
It Is explained that 326 of the parties were
from Chicago
Mrs. Walsh. OF Scranton. caught John
C. KAegan on Monday after ne had shot
Mrs Barrett twice. and she held him Till
an officer arrived.
Major John Brua. Il Brother-in-Iaw of
Gen. Simon Cameron. died ot Cressona.
Srhuvlkill county. Saturday HE estate is
valued at 500 600.
Mary MILESTONE domestic in the
family Of Theodore Parkar. or Reeders>
town. disappeared on Friday last. taking
with her s1200 in cash and iaweIry
There Is couple In WILKES county
Georgia. who havH been married about 40
years. and during that time the wife has
never asked the husband for any money ex-
cept 10 cents.
| On April g. while drunk a young man
NAMED Thos. Carey, for amusement shot
and killed a Chinaman in Chicago. On
the 24th of Nav he received sentence-50
years imprisonment
"A terrible electric storm burst over Dav-
ton. O.. on Sunday morning Three houses
were struck bv lightning and one Of them
burned. SUNDAY school was stampeded and
the city was deIuged.
Joseph Scherer. Of AIhanv Y Y. VINO
was insaneIy jealous Of Lizzie Mccarthy
went tn the room occupied by the girl and
shot her dead. He then shot himself, in
fiicting wound from which he died few
hours hater.
| "A Bridgeport. Conn. man became i'm
patient at his dog when he besitated to go
down stairs. The man In giving the dog a
kick lost his balance. fell headIong and
broke his neck. Probably 1t is just as we'll
the dogs life was saved.
| Arthur Myers. the four year-old son OF
Hugh Myers. of No. A. Chestnut street, Al
leRery. had both legs crushed nv a freight
train at the railroad crossing on Chestnut
street on Saturday afternoon His father
WAS engineer of the train.
| Mrs Myers. Of Shrewsbury township
near jamestown. York county. died Satur-
day from injuries received at the burning of
her husbands barn. few days previous.
which it is alleged. she herself set fire to In
a fit Of nomentary Insanity.
"A tooth which measured 10 inches in
/ length, - inches In circumference and
weighed 10 pounds. was taken from the
bed of the Withlacoochee river In Citrus
county, Florida. last week by William
Bertine. he also found some leg bones.
While digging under the ruins Of the
old Sands Street church. Brooklyn, works
men discovered a water>cofor painting OF
the original church structure that was
burned many years ago. The painting
measured Is by Is and was IN a good
state Of preservation.
Prince Henry. the second son OF En-
peror friedrich, of Germany. and Princess
Irene. the third daughter OF Grand Duke
Ludwig. of Hesse, were married OF
May zach. The bride and bridegroom are
first cousins. and grand children OF Queen
Victoria, of England.
Albert Muth. aged Il years. son OF a
wealthy farmer near Stochsburg, Penna.,
on Wednesday evening threw a stone.
which struck one of his fathers cows on
the leg and broke II. Fearing a whipping.
the boy went home and blew the top of
his head off with pistol.
! During divine service at Mt Zion church
near Sycamore. Wyandott county, Ohio, on
Sunday. lightning struck the building,
knocking the preacher down and out OF the
pulpit. and severely iniuring a num-
ber of the congregation. Several horses
hitched outside were killed.
Peter Burke's wife and daughter, of
Erie. on Saturday were poisoned and are ly.
ing at the point of death by eating cabbage
In the form of cold slaw. The paris green
had been put on the cabbage by the grower
of It to preserve it. and the consumer got
the benefit of the deadly drug.
In the public school at Bloomfield, Es-
sex county. New Jersey. on Frioay, the
ceiling in one OF The rooms fell. A panic
ensued and a number of children were in
; iured. Lizzie Murphy and Annie Andrews
} aged years. were badly injured about the
head and are in a critical condition.
Barclay w. Peak who has stoutly main
tained from the first that he was Innocent o
, the murder of Kate Anderson, at Mt. Holly
n. } ., on Saturday created quite a sansa-
} ton In court by pleading guilty. This Il
= the second trial for the crime. and, but fol-
t himself. it Is thought he would not have
been convicted
William 81. Gore who so nesrly dieC
from a rattlesnake bite received at Alpine
v. J.. on May IL, is warm In his praise o.
the whiskey used at the Manhattan Hos
pit.l. The doctors kept him intoxicated
r for a number of days. Says Gore: 81 have
been on as long drunk before. but never
Z on such good whiskey."
: Weather prophets will be interested il
} learning that one of the exhibits at the Ju-
e bilse Flower Show in Vienna was 4 tropics
D plant beloD ginR to the order OF Mimosa. th'
owner OF which claims to be able TO foretel
!. storms and earthquakes 48 hours in advanc'
/, by observing the appearance and position o
Z the most sensitive leaves OF the plant.
o An interesting report of the death of
native was recently made by a Coroner
jury in India. The native had had the mis-
fortune TO meet tiger ana the report says
''Pandu died of the tiger eating him. Their
q was no other cause of death. Nothing wa
: left of Pandu save some fingers. whicl
) probably belonged either 20 the right or lef
hand"
I Judge Elwell OF Rioomsbnrg, COLUMBIA
3 county, has sent in his resignation to tn
: Governor, to take effect July 3lst. He ha
J. bsen President Judge of the Twenty -sixt
y District since January. 1868. and is IN tn
a middle OF the third term. His defectiv
Y hearing is the cause OF his resignation. II
I VI. Hinckley, of Dsnvile, in his probabl
successor by appointment.
!. The dead body of Edward Burbank
q night depot -switchman on the New York
o Pennsylvania Il OHIO Railroad at Meedville
was found ON the main track In the depo
Z on Saturday night. He had been struck b.
n a backing engine and was mangled beyon
= recognition. Portions Of the remains wer