The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-25

"A woman named TiIhe Richardson. dis
guised a man. attempted TO kill former
lover, T. j. BoIandeI, on the streets in Chi
cago oo Monday.
Wish 81. 900 In his pocket, raised on a
check to which he had forged his mothers
name and which was cashed by the PenDsyl-
vania Company for Insurance on Lives and
Granting Annuities. John K. Miles. Mana
ger of the Shoe Leather Reporters Office,
has left Philadelphia, supposedly for Cana
da, taking as his companion Miss Jennie
Corson, the pretty daughter of ). F. Cor
son. a Walnut street Insurance man.
Young Miles is only a little past his twenty
first birthday. and belongs 10 a respectable
Philadelphia family.
"A tragedy growing out of religious
difference between Edward WilIman and
his wife occurred near St Charles, Mich, on
Sunday afternoon. A desire by Mrs. Will
man sometime ago to unite with the Advent
Church me: with strong opposition from
her husband and she finally left him and
returned to her fathers house. Monday af-
ternoon Whitman drove up to the house and
volver he shot his wife through the breas t
and an instant later shot imseH through
the heart. Mrs. Whitman will die.
Simon Hamburg was convicted at San
Francisco recently of swIndlipg an Oregon
farmer named Parker out OF $500 in
money and property valued at $1,000
On Monday he was sentenced TO imprison-
ment In the county jail for one year and to
pay a fine equal to double the amount OF
money he fraudulently obtained from Par
ker, namely. SIS. 900. and that, in default of
payment of the fine. he be further impris-
oned at the rate of one day for each dollar.
II the fine is not paid, Hamburg will there
fore have to serve altogether SO years and
20 days.
On Monday morning FIRE broke out in a
barn on West Monroe street. Chicago. Sev-
enty horses were suffocated Two families
lived over the barn. John Ferron and his
wife, with five children. were nearly sufro-
Gated, and one child will die. Sampson
Stafford, wife, and one child were rescued
by the flremen in an unconscious condition
The barn belonged to a. NJ Forbes. Mt
Forbes thinks the fire was incendiary. The
seventy horses are estimated to have been
worth S275. eact; insured for 5000 each
The harness was damaged 81 500 and the
building $500.
Among the applications for liquor H.
cense heard by the Daupbin county court
st Harrisburg. this year. was one from the
Keystone hotel company, which conducts
the hotel IN the new Pennsylvania railroad
station there. Opposition was made to the
-,
ground tba. the charter of the keystone
hotel company granted by the legislature a
number OF years ago expressly stipulares
that it shall net sell liquor in any hotel II
owns or leases. Judge Smonton on Setur-
day filed the application witt the endorse
ment: "Refus ed for want of authority 10
grant"
"A syndicate has been formed to tunnel
the river at Detroit. Mich. Thomas Baker,
of England, the engineer OF the immense
Firth brisge. iB Scotland, and James Ross
OF Quebec, one of the contractors of the
Canadian Pacific railroad, were in that city
a few days ago. and after thorough inves-
tigation, announced that the building of the
tunnel can be accomplished with compare
tivs ease. A gigantic syndicate, known as
)
and representing more than SS. 600 900 OF
capital, has just been legally formed in Can
ada. and will be properly qualified foI
transacting business under the MichigaH
laws at once.
Several days ago Lee Mackey was plow-
ing on the farm Of c. S. Maxwell, neal
Bnffalo Village. Pa, when he stopped tC
dig away the sod about stump. AS be
pulled back the first flap of grass he was
surprised TO find underneath it fat stone
which evidently hadn't got there by acci-
dent. Mackey proceeded to investigate
and was still more astonisheo to find tha
under the stone was pot of shining gold
coin TO the value of nearly So, eco. Mackey
resigned his job the next day and left fol
his home in Greene county To enjoy the
fruits of his good fortune. The money is
supposed to have been hidden by Robert
Dryden. who many wears ago occupied &
cabin near by and was somewhat of a miSer
There is said to be a farmer in Bridge
port, Conn.,, who has not spoken to hi:
wife for thirteen years. nor has she spokeI
to him, although the two are on good
terms. 1t appears that one morning in
June, 1875, he came into the house anC
asked his wife to hurry up breakfast. Iu
her hurry she dropped plate aud spilled
some hot coffee on MIN. A row was the
result and it ended in her saying that sht
would never speak to him as long as she
lived and he swore that he would never
/ speak to her. Since that time they have
never exchanged a word. Their children
| do all the talking for them. and each one 4
waiting for the other to give in first. Ii /
bound to come in time and then one ma
we'll imagine that their talk will be an in
| teresting one.