The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13

waiter McAllister, Pennsylvania 4
Railroad brakeman. was found in his room |
in PHILADELPHIA Thursday morning of last |
week with hishead and face a mass of hor~ 1
ribie cuts. he was taken to the hospital /
where he died. Thomas Cole bis room |
mate. was arrested. Cole claimed that |
two men called to see McAllster and |
sent him for beer and when he returned the |
strangers were gone After remaining in \
prison one night. Cole confessed to being |
guilty.
"A dispatch from st. Louis says the
bodies OF five men, riddled with bullets |
from Winchester rifles, haYe been found in |
the wilds OF the Knishi mountains, Choc- |
taw nation. fifty miles from Denver. They |
were supposed to be hunters from Texas, as
their camps were still standing. Fifty
yards away was found another dead body,
supposed TO be one of the attacking party.
None Of the bodies have been identified. but
the general impression is that fight occur
red between the hunters and mountain
| neers.
What looks like another trunk murder
mystery cropped out at Philadelphia on
| Sunday. A policeman fshed out OF the
Schuylkill river an old, decayed. hair-cover-
| ed trunk OF German MAKE, which, upon be-
| ing opened, disclosed two becquilts, two
sheets, two handkerchiefs, a roller towel
and piece of muslin, all covered with
blood. A large rock mad been used to sink
| the trunk. There was nothing about the
| clothing to give q clew to the former own
er, but the trunk bore the name ''Gottlleb
/ Geshnein."
! w. West, son OF John West, who re-
sides near the line between Upshur and
Lewis counties, had been terribly annoyed
for some time with the destruction OF his
crops by ground hogs. TIE other morning,
while West was out canning for the pests,
he saw something moving in the tall
grass. Believing it to be a ground hog.
West fired at the object. When he went up
to 1t he found ne had killed boy named
Spangler, who, had been hunting for gin.
seng. West is nearly crazed with remorse
over the affair.
Three years ago Mary Hernden. a pref
ty German girl, came 70 America TO meet
her lover, who had sent for her and prom
| ised to marry her when she arrived. The
! lover proved false. and Mary, after waiting
| three years for him to keep his promise, de-
cided TO return to her home in Germany.
She went to the dock at Baltimore on Tues
day morning to take steamer and while
there commenced TO relate the story OF her
lovers perfidy. Suddenly she became a
raving maniac, and was taken TO an asylum,
where she has been declared hopelessly in g.
sane.
j. W. Brown, the alleged bigamIst, who
was recently arrested In Chicago and
brought TO Detroit was arraigned in the DO
lice court on Friday morning, charged spe-
cifcally with marrying Mary Benjamin
while having a lawful wife living. He
pleaded not guilty his bail was fixed at
81, 600 in default of which he was remAnded
to jail to await examination next Friday.
! 1t is now stated that Brown has been mar
ried no less than 81 times and wives from
New York, Pennsylvania, Canada, Chicago,
and several places in Michigan are expect>
ed to be present at the examination.
The case of Judge A. NJ. PulIiam, who on
Friday killed James A. Miller. q wealthy
farmer, at Hardinsburg, KY, came up BE.
fore the county magistrate on Monday al
: that place. Pullism waived an examina-
ton and went to jail without bail. 1t has
been discovered since the killing that when
Pull
Jams Office, Pulliam submitted to Miller
for signature statement that Miller had
been cIiminally Intimate with Mrs Puiliam,
, and that in consideration OF that fact be
would pay Puliiam 5000. The statement
2 was in INK, in Pulliam's writing. Below,
: in pencil and leaving space for the sigma
ture, were the words in the same hand 81
; will give you FIVE minutes to consider this
You may sign or die.'' This paper was
found under Miller's spectacles, on Pull
) Jams table, just after the shooting. The
feeling Is very bitter against PulIiam and
their is some talk OF violence. Bis past
S record is bad.
Mrs. T. j. Eby lives with her husband
on a small farm near Mahantango, Juniata
county. They have three months old baby,
and the youngster had terrible experience
the other night. Mrs. Eby had been in the
habit of putting the babe it Its carriage and
placing 1t under tree in the yard. The
child also sleeps in the coach at night One
night last week Mrs. Eby heard her baby
utteriDg half-suppressed cry. II was soou
, still, however, but later in the night the
, mother was again awakened. This time
the child continued to cry, and Mrs. Eby
took it to bed with her. The rext morning
the woman was about to put baby in the
carriage again, when she was surprised tc
find large black snake coled among the
blankets. She killed and burned the rep
, tile. The child's neck was marked with
red streaks, which indicate that the snake
had coiled around the child's throat Mrs.
Eoy thinks that the reptile tried to sucB
the milk out of the child's throat. The
little one has nearly recoYered, but was very
sick for few Gays.
-Boomville. Ind, is the home of james
. M. Crow, prominent merchant and worthy
citizen. he has just had strange exper-
ience that puzzles the medical fraternity
For five years he has been an invalid, but
could not tell the cause of his affliction
In time he wore down to a mere skeleton
and his friends became alarmed for him
His case was extreme, and his annoyance
TO be chiefly in his stomach. Acting on his
own Impulses the other day he took a DOW
erful emetic. He was induced to do this
because there was an unsual gnawing il
his stomach. The emetic brought up an
animal, or whatever it was, about six inch
es long nearly an inch In diameter in lts
thickest part and pinkish in color When
fresh from the sufferers stomach this curi
osity had one well developed eye, a pecu.
liar but perfect mouth, and what appeared
to be plump stomach. In the hope of pre-
serving the animal it was placed In alcohol
but soon ali traces of the thing were oblit-
, Grated. and.it was reduced to whitish pulp
No name can be found for it in any medical
work. Mr.. Crow says he often felt the
thing crawling about in his stomache, bui
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