The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-05-10
NEW AND OTHER NOTI NGs

The volcano OF Vesuvius is in an
aIaI Iming state Of eruption. Stream of
laYa are coursing down the mountain on
the Pompeil side.
james ReiDhart, aged eighteen, of
Philadelphia, has eloped with his
| sweetheart's mother. Mrs. Unit 5. Robbins.
| The girl is disconsolate and Mr.. ROBBINS
| swallc wed an ounce Of laudanum, but
was saved.
I Mrs. ketchum, wife Of the proprietor
/ of the Park Central, Hotel, at Hartfort. was
\ so frightened at :he time of the collapse
4 of the building that she lost her voice.
Last Saturday she suddenly met an old
/ friend. Her effort to speak was success
/ fdI and now she con talk as well as eyer. .
AT Mountain Home, near TObyhanna,
I Pa. Oh last Friday morning Jeffrey Har-
.Tison and Sophia EseTitt, each about eleven
I years OF age, got angry while playing to-
/ gether at the home OF the former. Sophia
ran into a room, locking the door. jeffrey
! got his fathe's shotgun. and bursting open
the door, fired at Sophia, killing her almost
! instantly.
A tramp entered the house OF man
other day, and with a drawn pisto. demand
ed his money. The negro went TO bis
trunk, apparently to get the money, but
got a pistol aud fired at the tramp. who
shot at the same time. The tramp feli
dead and the negro walled out the door
snd fell dead on the steps.
The State Institute sor the Feeble
Minded outside the city limits of FRANKFORT,
KY caught fire last Friday morning and
was barned to the ground There were in
the building at the time the ire broke out
16O feeble-miDded children and some fifteen
or twenty assistants, besides the family of
the superintendent, all OF whom escaped.
The loss te the State of Kentucky is $780,
600, with an insurance Of SS5. 900.
While James Donovan, a dy,r, was
last Friday an explosion took place, cover
ing him vita Games and setting fire 10 his
store. which was in a row of frame build
ings down town. Douevsn's arms and
chest are burned black, his hair is siuged
of and his sceip is one blister. His condi
! ton is very seriszs. Four buildings were
Quilted by the fire. including a sewing ma
chine. furniture and music stores. Loss.
S5, 900 insurance, 5000.
An old negro by the name OF Lindsey,
who was separated from his family during
| slavery times, has been travelling over the
! country for % years searching for them.
! A few years AGO he met his son Allen at
/ Paris. Tex, and an Affecting reunion re-
| suited. Through Allen he found Jim, q
porter on the Missouri and Texas railway.
| He then set out on foot to see his daughter
Amanda, who is living st DeDison. He is
now spending q few days with her. The
old man says he will deVote the rest Of his
life to finding his wife.
A ghastly accident was witnessed in
on one Of the principal streets of Indian
apolis last Friday whcn a team attached to
wagon loaded with cs9ins containing
corpses that were being transferred from an
old cemetery TO a new one became fright
ened and ran away. Willie dashlng down
the street at breskneck speed the wagon
tongue dropped aud plOughed into the
ground. The wagon was upset and its i'm
petus carried it forSard. landing 1t upon
! the backs OF the horses. CofhDs were scat
tered along the street. One burst wide
open. and the skull of a skeleton rolled on
the ground, while bones were thrown about
! promiscuously.
Mrs. Augustus Gehrinser, Of Grims-
vile, Pa, few days ago felt a tickling SEN
sation in her throat. followed by a sicken-
ing, suffOeatIng sensation. The woman
was almost strangled. and feH into a dead
faint. Upon recovering consciousness she
wrapped her apron around her thumb and
forehnger. and. forcing these members int
her throat, felt something moving, which
she quickly grasped and pulled out. Tt
her horror 1t proved to be a living snake
nine inches in length. She again swoOned
1t is believed she swallowed the reptile
while it was very small In drinking a cuI
! OF water from the we'll