The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-09-07

Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad bridge, at
Beaver Falls, Pa. woman was seen TO
throw bundle from the car window into
the river. Two men, who were hauling
stone near py, examined the bundle and
found that it contained the body a child.
The men left the child in the water and
went for the Coroner. but before the latter
arrived 1t had fioated away. The Coroner
is at present searching the riVier for the re-
mains.
"A horrible affair is reported from the
neIghborhood Of Guide Rock. small town
just over the Nebraska line. John Baker.
while feeding a threshing>machine on the
farm OF a man by the name of Weeks, was
accidentally cut on the hand by the band
cutter, boy. He grasped the boy and de-
lioerately fed him into the machine feet first.
The boys screams attracted the attention OF
the other hands. but before they could in>
terfeIe the boys body had half disappeared
In the machine. The enraged men seized
Baker and hung him to The strav>carrier.
William Miller. . trusted private watch
man OF Allegheny City, was murdered On
Irwin avenue, in that city, by Joe Demmie,
a colored cab>driver. early Tuesday morn,
ing. Demmie was returning from ball,
accompanied By z companion named John
Jones and two colored women. Miller
looked at them inquiringly, which Demmie
resented, and, after a few words, shot the
watchman through the body below the
heart. The murderer endeavored to escape,
but was captured and taken to the police
station in the same ambulance which con Vey-
ed his victim to the hospital. Miller died
shortly after arriving at the hospital.
No more dramatic scene can be Imag>
iDed than that witnessed in Newark, n. J.,
the other evening. A madman held his
wife by the heels hanging from a third
story window, and the woman, head DOWN
ward and expecting to be dropped to death
every instant clung desperately to an infant
in her arms and filled the air with shrieks.
Some men entered the house, anc by in
Simultaneous understanding two OF them
crept softly behind the unatic and seized
the woman's feet, while others struck down
and secured the man. The woman was
then carefully drawn back, still holding her
infant, and both lives were saved. But it
Is feared that the shock has unsettled the
poor woman's reason.
"A party which just arrived In Helena
fate OF sheepherder named Fitch. The
unfortunate man was herding sheep in an
Isolated part of the country. and on the day
OF the accident had been visited by the
owner of the herd, and a meeting planned
for the next day. The herder not appear
ing, and the sheep being found alone, search
was made for the mar, who was found three
days after, q shapeless mass at the end OF
q larIat attached to the horses saddle. 1t
is supposed the man went to sleep after
attaching the horse to himself, and the ani>
NAL becoming frightened, started to run,
knocking Fitch seDseless before he could
gain control.
Margaret Shea, Of West Chester Pa,
died some months ago. leaving in her will
3 beg uest OF 81, 900 for the keeping OF a
Newfoundland dog belonging to her, the
money to be invested and the interest TO
be applied to the taking care of the animal,
and at It's death be to be buried beside her
in the Great Valley Presbyterian church.
yard, and the 81 900 to be passed over TO
the use OF that church. On Friday last the
dog died. and his remains were handed over
70 the care of a funeral director, who neatly
placed them in q coffin and buried them he
side the dogs mistress in the grave desig-
mated. and on Monday the money was hand
ed over to the church In accordance with
the letter OF the will. The dog was four
teen years OF age.
-One Of the most peculiar attempts at
suicide ever recorded occurred at Wheeling
on Sunday morning. Mrs. Anne Lowrey,
an old lady OF 81 years, who lives with her
bachelor son John Just above the city, left
the house while the son was at market. and
going TO the river. 200 yards from the house,
deliberately waded out into the water till
she was in over her head. When she was
seen by neighbors she wss up to her neck,
and before they could get TO her she had
disappeared. Several minutes elapsed be-
fore her body was found. and she was then
apparently dead, but no effort was made to
resuscitste her. She revived about half
hour later, aud it is thought she will get
well. She said she was getting feeble and
feared she would become a burden to her
son, and had contemplated suicide for three
days and embraced the first opportunity.
"A special from Palorda, In the public
land strip to Kansas City. says that the
farmers and herdsmen OF that section. who
b ad lost many horses and cattle recently,
suspected a band OF campers who claimed
to be catching wild horses. and. finding evil
dence OF guilt, forty well-armed Yigilantes
surrounded the camp and sent in a commit
! tee of six men to demand the surrender of
the thieves. The reply of the desperadoes
was volley, which wounded one man and
two horses. This angered the vigilantes,
| and firing was at once began and the out
| laws shot down without mercy. They
fought desperately, and no quarter was
asked or given. In twelve minutes the fir
inc ceased, and seventeen outlaws were
found to>have been killed. The yigilantes
I had three men killed and nine wounded
Two horses were also killed and seven
wounded. Sixteen stolen horses were re-
covered. Not one outlaw escaped alive.
"A wholesale lynehiBg, such as was
never before recorded in the history of the
State. occurred Monday morning at Oxford,
n. q. AT about 8 O'Clock in the morning
three negros-Henry Tanner, his son John
Tanner, and Alenzo Sm:th-were taken
from jail by a masked mob and hanged to a
tree in the suburbs CT the town. The Tan
ners we're In Jail on a charge of numbering
negro some months ago, and Smith on a
charge of arson. The mob. which was well
organized, consisted of only about 80 men.
They came steafthily into town, secured the
prisoners, and took them to the suberbs be,
fore an alarm could be raised. The keys OF
the jail were taken from drawer In the
sheriff's once in the Court House, and the
jail which has street cells, was unlocked
There was only one man guarding the Jail
and he was overpowered, and a policeman
who was taken In charge by the lynchers
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town and hanged on one tree and on thu
same limb. All three died by strangulatioa