The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-08-24
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

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The wife of j. G. Waters, a telegraph
operator at Warren. committed suicide on
Saturday by taking an overdose of NOR
pniue.
james S. Gribble, of Brownsville, was
caught under a table at Columbia Iron 81
Steel Works. UnIontown, on Saturday, and
killed.
Christian Hoehl and Willie Carey, aged
about twelve years, were drowned in the
Ohio Eiver at Rochester on Saturday while
bathing,
"A runaway horse in Norwich, Conn,
ran into an open doorway. up a steep fight
OF stairs. through long hall and down a
flight of back stairs before he was captured
The wife OF Breton peasant, for whom
the doctor had prescribed leeches. fried the
leeches and gave them to her injured hus-
band to eat. He was taken fatally i'll and
died before the physicians knew what allied
him.
"A man down in Tennessee, who is about
to marry the fourth time, is less than 40
years old, and fnancier suggests that if he
had only insured the life of each dear de-
parted be might now rank amoEg million
aires.
General Boulanger was elected to the
Chamber OF Deputies in the Department of
Somme Saturday. he also heads the polls
10 the Chareute ard Nord Department
The announcement of the figures caused
great excitement In Paris.
Great excitement was caused at the
SchuyIkIll Colliery, near Mahanoy City. on
Friday evening by the closing in of five men.
They were all rescued after several hours
confinement. Evan Thomas was one of the
party and the other four were Poles.
William Sutton, aged twelve years. OF
Williamsburg, while crossing the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad track at the City Farm, last
Friday afternoon, stepped in front of an
express train and was Instantly killed. The
Coroner's jury rendered a verdict of acci-
dental death.
by a premature explosion of powder In
a stone quarry at Pinch Run. Monday, Jacob
and William Mayhugh. brothers, were per-
haps fatally injured. The former had his
nose and part of his head blown of and his
eyes blown out, while the latter was burned
about the body and head.
Gen. Hoyey, the Republican candidate
and Col. Matson. the Democratic candidate
for Governor OF Indiana. talk of pairing of,
leaving the House OF Representatives, and
making red-hot Campaign. Campaign
Committees propose that Hovey and Matsor
SHALL make a joint canyass.
While John Snyder and Harry Lsne
| each thirteen years old, of Palmyra. Leban-
Z c.
mark. the former playfullY pointed his re-
Yolver at his comrade and fired, iDfiicting
wound that may prove fatal. Snyder say:
he did not intend to press the trigger.
Major Howes and family, of Boston,
with Indian guides. forming a party o.
| ten persons in three canoes, while passing
up the Tobique river. Sc miles from An
/ dover Me-. Sunday, were fired on by un
known persons, and Mrs. Howes was in.
\ stantly killed. n ciew to the murderer
Saturday morning fragments of a hu
man body-the largest pieces being a hanC
and an ear-were found scattered along tn.
/ Pittsburg 81 Erie railroad for half a mill
north OF Sharon. 1t is supposed that the
remains are those of John Knee, ageC
| twenty-four years, an employe at Kmber
/ ly's mill.
"A man. supposed to have be en- an Itai
ian named Vergolo, whose business was let
ting out Italians by contract, was shot anC
killed IN a saloon in New York on Monda,
BY young man whose name is unknown
aod who made his escape. The murder i
involved in mystery. which the detectives ar
endeaYoring to penetrate.
While being taken from jail at Lancas
/ ter, on Thursday of last week, TO New
/ Holland. for a hearing on a charge OF lar
ceny. Canstable Lowry was nearly killed b,
| Henry Watson, a coiored desperate, wh,
had induced the constable to take the hand
| cuffs from his wrists, using them as a weapon
/ TO beat the unfortunate officer.
While c. W. TowIe, of Riverside. Mass.
was taking a party to HaverhiIl, one da,
last week, the horse took fright and raj
away. Mr.. and Mrs. TOwIe their two chill
/ dren, and Mrs. W. W Hamm and chiit
were thrown from the carriage, all being in
/ jured- The horse fell upon Mrs. Hamm'
baby, four months old killing it.
"A baby out in Indiana came near dyin,
| in an odd fashion last week. The mothe
/ left IT safe in the cradle, while out in tn
yard was frolicsome puppy with a blocl
and chain. By some means, in her absence
the dog got in the house, and in playin,
with the child the chain was so wound abou
his throat that 1t was almost strangIed wher
tie mother got back.
/ JENNIE Woolver, a domestic employed
on farm near Woodland. Wis, was sho
aid killed by George Moore on Friday
After he shot her Moore rushed TO wher,
Jennie lay and kissed her. he then placed
/ the revolver to bis temple and blew hi
brains out. Moore had lately returned from
Colorado, and it is supposed be killed tn,
/ girl because she was soon 10 be married I,
! another man.
DIR. Campbell, of Versailles, KY, claims
to have made the astonishing discovery tina
/ the Garden of Eden was located in America
about where st. Louis now stands that IN,
! Mississippi is the Euphrates of Scripture
in which he finds proof of all his assertions
Now it is IN order for Chicago Journals T.
rise and explain that his discoveries, social
/ ed, are the result of subsidy and preiudic
from their rival city.
Among the startling requests that, wher
near deaths door is that OF Mrs. II. Taylor
of Peru, Ind, who is slowly nearing her en-,
from tumor in the stomach, and request
that, when dead, both hands and feet b
/ severed from the body, and also that tn
heart be removed and sent to France TO
burial. interment of the other portion of tn
I body to occur here. The strange reaues
will be complied with by her daughter.
Michael Murphy, of Rochester, abou
twenty-three years old. was killed Will
playing ball in that town Saturday afternoon
He was at the bat, and was struck over tn
jugular vein on the right side by a pitche