The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-01-18
NEWS AND OTHER soTrsGs,

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"A singular accident happened at AL
bany recently. a horse being ridden was
suddenly paralyzed aud its boots gave way,
turning up to iis fetiecks. while the horse
came down On its ankle bones.
Mrs. Jay Gould died at 9 O'Clock on
/ Sunday night in New York from She effects
of paralysis. from which she had been suf-
fefing for four months. Her end was pain
less and she was conscious to the last. All
the members of tire family were present.
John Tahany, miner at SchuyI Ikin
Colliery. Uear Mshauoy City. was very SER
iously injured by the premature explosion
OF olas' on Saturday. He was a member
OF the last Legislature aud author of the
Anii-Store-Order bill vetoed by Governor
Beaver.
Oscar Williams was blown from the
suspension bridge at Easton on "Wednesday
night of last week to the canal below, a
distance OF eighty feet He swan to the
shore and escaped. Two other men caught
tie railing while going down and held on
till the storm passed.
john ii. Crate. of Allentown. was ar
rested at Reading recently on the charge of
practcipg necromancy and selling charms.
lie had been selling pieces OF paper covered
with curious hieroRIyphics, assuring his VIC
tins that when attached to a ribbon and
NO aext to the skin ttey would cure aches
and pains.
Henry NJ. Strohm. son of Abraham
Strohm. of New Paris. Indiana, who was
last year captured and beId prisoner by can
Dioals on the Island OF Gaup, has been
heard from. TIE young man Is now on his
way home, and when he reaches this sec
tion hs WILL have completed the circuit of
the globe.
-Aiss Gale. passenger on the steamer
City OF Berlin. which arrived at Queens
town on Monday from New York, commit
TED suicide the day after the steamer left
New York by taxing dose of rat poison.
she confessed that she had cnarreled with
her friends and said she wanted to die
On the following day a. BIonden, a pas
senger, died from delirium tremens. Both
bodies were buried at sea-
William r. Foster, the father o, the
william X Foster, Jr., who recently robbed
the Produce Exchange grstuity fund in New
York OF $3.50 and then decamped. sent
Monday check for $50 900 for the benefit
encl0SP6
the old man said that be had Intended to
divide his fortune among his children. but
had concluded to give his sons share to the
sratuity fund as partial payment OF his
boys stealings.
Peter Bsranovski, the murderer OF
Alice Katcb and Mrs. PutIayItch. of Bushv
Tract, Schuyikill county, who 7ass tried
and convicted at PO:tsyille last week fer
murder in the first degree wassentenced %
death by Judge PersAing on SATURDAY. morn.
ing. When info.med through a Polish In
terpreter OF the fate that awaited him the
condemned man shook his head approyins-
s5, and when the last word was pronounced.
he merely smiled and looked op TO heaven
Sheriff Hobensaek, of Union county.
Ohio, who lives near Mount Hickory, had a
terrible experience with two robbers on Sat-
arday night Hearing a noise in his barn
he went out 10 investigate. The two men
set upon hin, shooting him twice and in-
sactiEg seven wounds with knife. They
threw the wounded man into. a manger aad
set fire TO the barn, which was DESTROYED
after Hobensack had been rescued by me-n~-
oers Of his family. The Injured man will
probably ole. Suspicion rests upon szFo
coiored men.
-Vbile excavatiug q cut beyond KtncAa-
foonee creek, near Buera-. Vista, Ga the
railroad lands took out a waeonIoa d of
bones and among them was a skull with a
bullet hole in the hack of sbe head. Along
with these bones was a crude earthern pot
made Of some kind of material which les K
ed Ike mari. The presence OF the pot leaves
tho i-nnression that they we're Indian bones,
as 10 was a csstom with ne req mau ~ bury
some kind OF trophy with dead. It was
no aonb: a graveyard made when the creek
was lined with redskins.,
DR. Myers, a weIl-kRown physician, and
United States Examiner OF Pensions at
Stephens Point. Wis, was shot dead in the
streets at that place CO last Friday By his
his aged father-In-las, Patrick Gsnihs
The victim and his brother-in Law, VIII
erifiths, had quarrelas a few minutes be-
fere. aad were walking side by side wheel
| the tradeay occurred DIR. Myers wife was
shot dead in her 5ecsoom n month ago, and
| Grtfhth suspected Myers Of the murder
When he shot Myers, he exclaimed BLOOD
for blood" The father and son were ar
| rested.
/ Miss Emma Hester. aged 1s years, who
was killed in the Reading silk MIL disaster
on Wednesday last. left the farm Of her
father. Daniel Hester. near New aingeold,
| Schuvlkill county. on account Of psrenta
| opposition 10 her suitOr. who was second
cousin. On these ties OF consanguiuity the
4 father based his opposition, ana in order 10
escape what seemed 10 her persecution, Miss
/ Nester went TO Res ding to seek employ
ment. With sle sad result already stated.
Her father IS a wealthy farmer and her
uncle is a Millionaire mslster. Samuel Mes
| ter. OF Geneva, n. Y.
| George w. Rodgerson, OF Beaver, q
brother OF Contractor John Z. Rodgerson
who was killed in the horror Of w ednesday
says thai his brother is the eighth member
OF the family killed by accident The fathel
was killed by falling from a derrick. the
mothes by being struck by the tall of
chimney. One brother was killed In
foundry. another in a quarry, another fel
In well. another was vbirled to death
aroend a sbafting, and another was killed
on 8 railroad G- w. Is the oniy survivin,
msmber Of the family. and says he desiie
, - die IN a similar manner.
John Kelly, a contractor and builder o
Beaver Falls. was shot by an assassin Satur
: day night as he was entering the gate at hi
residence on Sixth avanue. and, 1t it is fear
ed. mortslly wounded, He and his brothe
Mont" had been up street, and at I
O'Clock were enteTIag the gate at home
when two shots In. quick successian weI
: heard. Kelly instantly threw up his arm
and fell backward. his brother carrie
him into the hOuse and physicians wer
sent He was shot through the rset
! breast and the bullet Is still In him. Tw
men, one bareheadad ware saen tn rn