The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-09-14

hospital building at the Soldiers Home, at
Dayton, Ohio. on Tuesday. a wall toppIed
over. burying them uncer the DEBRIS. Two
men were killed and several were severely
injured.
The mysterious disappearance OF Isable
Patterson, 16-year-oid girl, at AcKees-
port, is creating much excitement In that
city. The girl took up her books It school
Monday evening and left for bone. and
nothing has been heard sfher since. Every
effort has been put fourth to find her. but of
no avail. The case is shrsuded in tie deep
.st mystery.
Ar y ew Lisbon. OhIs, Mrs. Thompson
gave birth to a child seYe7ai daye age, and
her husbahd, then absent. was telegrsphed
fof- he returned on Wednesday night bat
instead OF going home, went TO a saloon. and
got drunk. His conduct 30 affected his
wife that on Thursday moraing she left the
horse and drowned herself and her infant
in small stream near by.
-Asrtin WIles, bathing master of the
Mohtcan House, Lake George. while digesag
the Other day under the roots Of big cedar
NOT fer from the beach. found sa-ouantity of
Indian weapons. evidently OF great antiqDf-
ty, and portions OF a human skeleton which
crumbled into dust as soon as exposed to
the ah. The weapons were arrow heads
and sto1s hatchets of curious design.
Joseph Hall. coIored. entering the house
of Henry Ward, also colored, at Lemont
Furnace. Fayette county. Pa, about mid
night Saturday night and shot Ward, the
ball entered his mouth and coming out in
bis neck, narrowly escaping vital parts.
Ward was asleep when shot, but knew his
assailant whom he had an old grudge
against. Eall escaped and has not been
captured.
A letter containing valuable 1ace-s was
mailed from jacksonville. Fla. last week to
parties in New York. The other day il was
returned with a letter explaining that "for
reasons you, will readily see. the IncIoseG
papers ale utterly worthless. having been
ruined is The fumigating station through
which all mail from your city passes" The
papers In question, which were exhibited,
where literally filed with jagged holes,
and were aiso ent In several places.
Bees and boming pigeons recently raced
between Ramm and Rhynern. Belgium.
The towns are an hour apart, and the bet
WAS that twelve bees would beat twelve
pigeons in making the distance. -Four
drones and eight working bees were well
powdered with -four and released at the
same instant with the pigeons at Rhynern.
A drone reached home four seconds n ad-
vance of tse irst pigeon the three other.
drones and one pigeon came in neck and
neck, and the eight working bees came In
Just trifie. sboat length, ahead Of the
ten pigeons
There ees big wreck on the Lehigh
Valley railroad. near Glen Summit, Sunday
evening. The axle OF a car attached 10 a
freight trAin moving at the rate OF eighteen
miles an hour, broke. and the cars,su Jumped
the track The cars behind followed suit.
| and about ffteen of them were piled ND
promise solsly- One was ap oil car, which
caught Ere, and sOoD the whole wreck was
ablaze. While the debris was being cleared
up trains on the Lehi9h Valley railroad
were run over the New Jersey Central rails
road Bhe. loss to the railroad COMPANY
will reach $4,000
Burglars attacked the house OF j. E.
Wood, of Cincinnati. on Tuesday night,
and met with q warm reception. They
tried to burst In the front door, But falling
il this they went to the rear door. Mr
Il ~
| seiz.ng his revolver, crept silently out of
the font door and around the house. where
| he found one of them about to enter the
houss. he fred, striking the b1gglar about
the hips. The burglsr uttered 3 deep groan
and started to run, calling his pal, who
caus to his rescue, and they made their ee-
cape to parts unknown.
| "A passenger traiu on tho New Yo.k,
Pennsylvania * Ohio Railroad, carving
tns veterans-and their fsmiliosirom Youngs-
town, Ohie,- and vicinity to the National
Fncampmsnt at Columbus, was wreckees Oh
Monday afternoon three miles west OF
Tadsworth, Ohio, by a freight tram crash
! ing into isiwh lie IL was at q standst till for
some repairs to the locomotive. The eZcur-
s;onists bad notice of the ilApending danger,
and all succeeded in getting out of the cars
before the crash came. but as they knrried
down tseembankment, the wrecked coach
es rolles'down upon them, killing four per
sons ostright and inisring twenty-five
others more or less seriously.
Monday night Mrs. John S. Hsoyer, 9
lady residing at Brand S-station, a few raile:
from Carlisle, Pa, was, aroused .-om hel
sleep by faint rap at she front door of hel
residence. Upon opeoing ir she discovered
the wife OF a neighbo2 lying in a nnde con-
ditior, and chilled so by the pslting raIr
that she could barely speak The unfortu-
nate woman was placed in a bee and some
what revived, but at last accounts was
dying. She is a religious fanatic, and or
Monday afternoon conceived the idea thai
shs had lived the time allotsd to woman
and began making preparations for hel
death, which was to occur at midnight
She would repeat NAKED came | into tn,
world. and naked / must PC, cut of it." ana
would then teaz the clothing from her per-
son. She escaped from her bone and VISA,
dered baked to the Hoover house MIS-
hoover Is q nervous woman, and ID 81
shocked by the half-crazea fanatic that sh,
Is also lying In a precarioas condition.
"A curieas story is told at Oshkosh.
Wis, OF the miraculous recovery of Mis-.
Emma Bennett. young lady who resides
with her brother. William Bennett, farm.
er, neal the above place. For min,
years past Miss Emna, who is Cow 80 year
old. has been bed-ridden invalid. He
disease was called consumption Of th
blood During her nine years eonfnemen
she has not uttered loud word. Part O
TINS time she was able TO lisp in a fain
Whisper. Frequently she was thought to b
dead. For upward of three years one Sid
OF her body was paraiyzed. rendering be
stlil more helpless. Sunday noon the fam
lay was at dinner, when suddenly from III
SICK room care the sound Of full roun
voice singing strongly and sweetly tn
words HE Rose. he Rose, He Rose fror
the Dead" The startled family rushed In
to the bedroom. and there was the sick cI,