The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-09-21

Lackawanna branch of the Jersey Central
railroad last Tuesday afternoon at Bethle-
hem. Pa, in wagon In charge Of Nathan
Greenzweig. q brother-in-l law of Mrs. Gross,
locomotive plunged into the wagon.
wrecking 1t and severely injuring the occu>
pants Mrs. Gross remained unconscious
for an hour, and is hurt internally.
Teller Marler, OF the ub-Treasury Of
fee, New York. says that "a certain way to
tell good paper money from bad is by means
OF two small blue silk threads, which run
through the good bill lengtbwise and which
may be plainly seen by holding the note to
the light. These are woven into the paper
by secret process and have never yet been
successfully counterfeited, the usual imita-
tion being by means OF a mark drawn across
the paper"
The collection OF postage stamps recent.
ly exhibited In Boston is said 20 be worth
nearly 100000. There were in the collec-
ton siHgle stamps valued at 800 each, and
several groups OF six placed al 81 900. That
the prices were not all fancy was shown by
the offer of $50 from dealer for a blue enve-
lope on which was small stamp marked
Bremen. one group. consisting Of four
lete. was appraised at S4O0.
John y. Wogan, aged about sixty, the
most notorious desperate In Southern Hi.
nois, who for 10 years has figured in the
criminal courts of Wabash county, was shot
and killed on Saturday night by Constable
Hall, OF Belmont Hall had arrested Wop-
an on charge OF attempting TO kill his own
son and daughter and was taking him TO
his boarding house to get his clothes In
dark place Wogan turned sharply and Hall
fearing violence drew his revolver and
fired
On Saturday Isaac Henderson,, a farm
er, 75 years Of age. while attending the
Berwick fair. was robbed of 5000 by bunco
men. They allowed him to win at first, but
demanded security for the prizes. He went
TO the bank and drew the amount. which
was all he had. On s pretext OF going into
back room to get the prizes for him, after
Hendershot had handed over his pile, the
men stepped out the back way and di.ap-
peared. Hendershot Is frantic with grief
and is dangerously prostrated.
The ruling passion, it seems, is as strong
In trance as in death. Julius Thomson, col
ored. near Waco, Tex. to all appearances
died. was shrouded, coffined and about 70
be buried, when a mule team ran away with
q wagon load of mourners. and the folk who
went te see the accident returned TO find
the corpse, too. at the window looking on
with lively interest. or course the funeral
was postponed indefinitely, it seems, as the
subject Is reported rs now able to pick 100
pounds of cotton every day.
j. W. Robinson. a prominent and veal
thy oil contractor or Lima, o., was shot
down and murdered IN cold blood last
Thursday night by Michael Rhinehart while
they were in friendly conversation Rhine
| hart was arrested and barely escaped being
| lYnched before the Sherif could get him To
| the jail The murdered man stood high In
society and leaves a widow and two chill
! dren. He has many friends who swear they
will avenge his death. One hundred men
are OF guard at the jail.
-Of Gen. r. 3. Ayres, Of the Artillery.
| 1t Is related that he was in command of
a detachment Of Union troops. who, during
the civil war, burned the house of q VIr-
ginis Confederate. The wife of the Vir-
gilman fled from the house with her baby in
her arms, and, seeking refuge in the negro
quarters was forced to fly again when the
\ torch was applied to it in turn. Seven
teen years afterward the Union officer
General Ayres. married the baby. who had
grown into charming young woman.
Mrs. Davis, one OF the oldest and best
known residents OF Hammonton, Y. j..
hung herself in her room, at the residence
OF her son-in-law, AloDzo Davis, a shoe
manufacturer, last Tuesday morning The
body when discovered, at o'clock, was
cold. The suicide had tied a BEDFORD to a
ladder leading to the attic and slowly
strangled to death, drawing her feet up to
! keep from resting her weight on the floor.
Since the death of her husband last winter
Mrs. Davis has shown symptoms of mental
| alteration
while William Vondeheren and a n um-
Der or assistants were at work on SATURDAY.
at Seymour, Ind. In the bottom OF q sewer
excavation nine feet deep. the quicksand
ave way and the sides OF the ditch cayed
In, buryinR Vondehren and one of his asS
sistants-Arthur OrreIl-under about eight
feet of sand and clay. Vondeheren was
extricated alive, but terribly injured inter
naily, and on his breast and shoulders, and
is dying. Orrell was sunocated before he
could be rescued. The others escaped with
slight injuries.
Two men, named Steele and MOckabee
| both drunk, boarded an eastbound train At
Mount Sterling. Kentucky. on Sunday after
noon and fought all the way to Stepstone.
where the conductor, for the safety of those
In his charge. put the men of the train anc
told them to fight it out. The men drew
their pistols and exchanged five shots each.
The fifth shot from Steele's pistol passed
| through Mockaoee's brain, killing him in
| stantly They were cousins. After the
killing Steele boarded the train and pro-
ceeded home, the train having waited until
the duel was over.
Howard Browning. son of James Brown
ing, or Hammonton, ". j., jumped fron an
express train on the Camden and Atlantic
road. near HaddonfieId, on Monday after
noon, and was instantly killed. Young
Browning was on his way from Hammon>
ton to Visit relatives in Haddonfeld and in
tended boarding a local train, but GOT ON
board the express. He noticed his error
when the train was flying thro ugh Haddon-
neid and jumped of. sustaining a fracture
! OF the skull which was instantly fatal.
Ills body is with the Coroner OF Camden
county awaiting removal.
"A young man down in Atlanta, Ca,
mas perfected an invention in Photographic
science which be fully believes is destined
TO revolutionize the railway business of the
whole civilized world. The process is in
tended for the purpose of Identification OF
parties who purchase railway tickets. The
Atlanta youth explains the priceless boon tc
the railway interests By showing that the
purchaser Of a railway ticket. once photo