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

S->oS 49,
1t.
There was sleighIng In Marlboro, Mass,
on Saturday evening (June 30th). there be-
ing sufficient snow and hail to warrant
1t.
Divorces are even easier In Germany
than here. At FraDkfor t-on-the-Main last
week a married woman was pronounced the
person at fault and legally divorced because
she did know how to cook.
Herman Mserbold, an aged miser OF
New York, was found sitting dead. with
a pipe in his mouth, In a chair at his home
on Bond street, Elizabeth, Y. j., on Tues
night. He is supposed to have died of
starvation.
Henry Powell. or Cincinnati, saloon
passenger on the steamer Seryia, which ar
rived at New York on Monday, jumped
overheard on the morning of July 1st, while
temporarily insane. His daughter was with
him on the steamer.
The big Nova Scotia timber raft, whose
owners are not alarmed at the fate OF the
Lesry raft. will soon be launched and start
ed on its way for New York. 1t is made of
10000 sticks bound together, making a raft
700 feet in length. 1t will be towed, but
will also be manned and rugged to sail.
There have been 20 suicides from the
Clifton bridge in England in the "a years
since it was built. The Jump is 25s feet,
and death is presumably easy, which &C.
counts for the popularity OF the route. The
last person who went over it was a young
man who was to be married In a week.
John Roll. residing In Redmon, ILL.,. Is
the owner OF a horse that IL 20 hands high,
weighs $500 pounds. and is said to be the
largest horse in the world. 1t is years old,
never was of Rolls farm, never has been
broken, and has never been shod. The
blacksmith at Redmon is afraid to shoe the
horse.
William S. Pier. Esq, one of the lead
Ing lawyers or the Allegheny county bar,
well-kown as an Intelligent and conserya-
tive citizen, and lifelong adherent to the
Republican party, has declared himself in
favor of Cleveland and Thurman and the
principles laid down In the Democratic
nati0aaI platform.
Sarah johnson, a colored woman of
East Brooklyn. died to-day from the bite of
a mosquito. She was bitten about three
weeks ago on the neck, just below the left
ear. The part became infamed and finally
developed into a case OF acute blood poison
ing. SO far as known there is nc other case
OF the kind on record.
David Clark and wife were found hang
ing in corn-crib on A. Cages farm, near
Sandwich, ILL.,, on Sunday evening. They
left paper signed by each, saying that they
died for each other. Clark was thirty years
old and had been employed by Gage few
months. He came from Streator and had
been married two years.
Mrs Sarah NOrcross, who recently com
pleted so years OF continuous service with
the Boot cotton mills of Lowell, Mass, was
presented by the stockholders and corpor-
alton with a check for 500 and by the agent
| OF the corporation with gold watch and
chain. Though 76 years old, she still works
steadily at her drawing-in frame.
A crowd OF drunken roughs tried to
force an entrance to the saloon of Thomas
Tierney at Long Island City. Y. Y. at 2
O'Clock on Saturday morning last, for the
purpose OF getting liquor. Tirney appeared
on the scene, and in defense OF his property
fired into the crowd, killing Richard Owens
and fatally wounding Cornelius Walsh.
-Governor Hill, OF New York. has called
an extra session of the Legislature to COM
mence July 18th. The object is TO provide
an appropriation to prevent the prisoner
in the various State prisons remaining in
idleness after July 18th. wnen the appIo.
priatiOns now available for the purposes o
| .k.E-
Finley, a little sor of Archibald Taylor
OF Industry, Beaver county, was struck b,
train on the p. NICK. & r. Railroad, Sat
urday evening. and injured so seversly tha
| death resulted soon afterwards. The bo,
was playing with fire-crackers and did no
notice the approaching train. but steppet
directly in front of the engine when it wa
too late to draw back.
Thirty thousand dollars was voted b.
Congress the other day for firing mornin
and evening salutes 10 the fiag whic
brings out the curious fact that the pow
der left over from the war lasted Just .
years. The last barrel was used early las
spring, since when no salutes have bee
fired at any military posts except Yves
Point, Fort Monroe and Fort Riley.
"A wild girl. some IL or Ii years old. IA
been discovered in Cataboula parish, Louis
lana, and the people there are anxious {
capture without harmin9 her, and see il II /
not possible to ciyiiize her. She is though
TO be one of two children brought thither b,
gypsy tramp woman some years ago, AM
10 have been abandoned on account OF
club foot that prevented her walking fast.
Thirty years ago a manufacturing firm
in Manchester. Conn, made up an Immens
lot OF bandana handkerchefs for A. 7
Stewart and he refused to take them o.
account or some defect. They were store,
away until the other day when they wer
put on the market and sold readily. Th
same firm is now making /, 900 dozen ban
danas day, and can't supply the demand
Fred. A. Forsaith, manager of the
! Webster House, at Portsmouth. n. H.
, went TO his room about IL O'Clock on Tues
day night. undrsssed, tied one end of
strip OF cloth to his feet and the other to tn
trigger OF gun. placed the muzzle in hi:
mouth. and blew his brains out Having Il
vacate the Webster House and a recent sus
picious fire on the premises are supposed 4
be the cause.
John Carswell, a deacon OF the Scotcl
National church at Bloomsbury. England
was recently fined s. in a police court fo
assaulting the wife OF johnson, yiIlap
painter. In the church. The evidence wa:
that he struck her with the pedestal OF the
offertory box, ard pushed her so that sh
became i'll and had to leave the church
TIE assault was part of a row between
the church officials and the pastor, the Rev
j. Mackie.
The rain and th under storm which del