The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-08-10

Policeman 5. ID. Hasson, at Franklin, on
Monday night, while resisting arrest.
An incendiary tried to burn down the
town of Hampton, Va, on last Tuesday.
He set FIRE to one building. which burned
down. along with several others. 1t was
the third attempt on the same building.
During recent heavy thunderstorm at
Wolverhampton, Eng, a collier. named
Bates, who had lost his sight through an &C
cident, was being led home, when fash of
lightning was reflected on the spectacles be
wore to conceal bis Disagreement. After
the peal OF thunder which followed he COM
planned OF pain in dls head. The next mos
ment to his surprise he found that he had
regained possession of his eyesight.
John Robinson. the veteran Snowman,
died at Cincinnati on Sunday morning He |
had been for some weeks in a critical con-
dition. Mr. Robinson was more than eighty |
years of age, yet until within very short |
time he maintained a remarkable degree OF |
vigor, He spent the greater portion of his |
life in the management of eIrcuses, being |
succeeded by his sons within the past few
years. He had amassed an immense for
tune.
Miss Mary Irene Hoyt, OF New York,
the insane heiress to Jesse Hoyt's millions,
is at Montreal in charge of physician. nurse,
and one of Gen. B. F. Buffers law partners.
They keep her locked In a room in big
hotel. She is to be spirited away to Europe
to escape proceedings about to be instituted
in New York to place her in an insane
asylum. Her fortune is estimated at SIO,-
oo0,00e. She owns nearly all of Saginaw
county. Michigan.
The Rev. Thomas MeEwen, who, IN the
absense of the regular pastor. had charge of
the pulpit of st. Paul's Episcopal church of
Evansville, Ind, was arrested last Friday
night for insulting Mrs. McCallan, wife Of a
prominent railroad official there In the
Police Court Saturday morning the minister
was fined s25 and costs, which, falling to
pay, he will go to the WoIkhouse for six
weeks The affair created a great sensa-
tion in the best society circles of that city
William Myers. a young merchant OF
Way nesburg, Ohio. proposed marriage to
Miss Eta Metz, at that place. on Thursday
night, and received a negative answer.
This so excited him that he walked to the
door and shot himself in the head with a re-
volver. he died in a few MINUTES in the
arms of the girl, who said she had refused TO
marry him to see how he would take it
They had been keeping conf pany for about
year. Miss Metz Is almost distracted with
gr!et
The other day DR.. Mary Walker, who
| continues to be one OF the curioslties OF
/ Washington, asked the President for an
| interview, but did not get it. On her way
| over TO the White House the doctor stopped
at the Treasury Department and rode up
! stairs in an elevator. One of her fellow
! passengers carried a lighted cigar in his
hand, and she demanded that be extinguisn
1t in her presence. 'When you take of
/ trousers and put on petticoats / will put out
my cigar" said the mar.
Samuel Shilling, of ShiIllngton, Berks
county, Pa, was born on the 22d Of Feb
1 ruary. He married his wife on the 22d OF
February. and her birthday was on the 22d
of February. Their first child-a boy
was born on the 22d of February, exactly
one year after their marriage Two wears
thereafter, on the 22d of February, twins
boy and a girl-were born. Two wears
after, on the 22d of February girl was
born. This is as far as they have got.
sons were burned to death in SKIS story
tenement in New York ; and a number of
others were badly burned, several of them.
it is thought fatally. Some of the details of
the catastrophe are sickening. An effort
was made to save a woman, bu. as she
could not save her two children, she pre-
ferred to remain in the building and die
her bones. with those OF her children
clasped in her skeleton arms, were after
wards found in the building.
A four-year old daughter of John Nc
Guigan, Of Mcdonald Station, on the Pan
handle Railroad. was struck by train on
Wednesday night OF last week and instantly
killed. She was playing on the track unN
mindful OF danger. An express train run
ming az the rate of forty miles an hour
rounded the curve. The engineer saw the
little girl sitting upon the track looking at
the approaching train. 1t was useless to
attempt 20 stop. He simply turned his head
while the little innocent one met her death.
For some time Mrs. Harry Clark, of
UhrichsVilie, Ohio, had been troubled with
what she supposed was rheumatism. At
times she experienced sharp pain in her
leg. and finally a good-sized lump appeared
below the knee, which was very sensitive to
the touch. Upon examination BE- a physi-
clan, he, with the aid of pair of tweezers.
removed a needle, bent at one end and
turned black. Mrs. Clark says she has nc
recollection of ever swallowing a needle,
but the physician says this may have occur
red when she was a child.
Mrs. William Milligan. of Monticello
Fla MT
large bull snake four feet long era9Ied into
one OF them. The pillow was placed on the
bed and the woman slept all night with this
horrid monster under her head. At times
during the night she felt the body of the
snake touch her shoulders and arms. bat
supposed it to be the arm OF the child thai
was sleeping with her. When she went to
the bed to make it up she raised the pillow
and saw the large snake Surled up under it.
The snake was killed. The breath of these
snakes is said TO be deadly poison. and Mrs
Miligan had a narrow escape.
AS the West Newton train, duel In Pitts
burgh at $50 on Monday morning, wa.
rdnning into Coultersville, a 3 yearoId box
named Mitchell was seen by TIE engineer
directly on the track not 80 yards distant
The brakes were applied and the engin,
reversed, but 1t eond not be stopped. Th,
child saw the engine coming and stoo,
facing II smiling, with arms outstretche,
toward Is. The train struck it and passe,
over the place where the child had stood
and when the train was finally stopped an,
backed to the place where the little fellow
stood he could not be found, either upon tn
track or upon the embankment fiankin
The track. He was finally found lying O