The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-06
NEWS AND OTHER NoTISGs

riic COuEt1s O-s Whs married. Tue OtbeI uhS
to his sisters granddaughter. The groom
Is 65 and the bride "a
Prof. Lolsette's Memory System is
creating greater interest than ever In all
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column. nov29 4t.
William Arendt and Mrs Susan Iseley
were married the other day in the DIckin-
son county, Kan, poor house. The groom
Is 20 and the bride 67 years old. 1t is
comforting to hear OF a wedding occasionally
to which no suspicion of mercenary mo-
tives attaches.
The Minnesota man who says that be
went on. the other morning and chopped
OF with corn knife the heads OF I34 wild
ducks which had got their feet frozen fast
in the Ice has been hired to make high-tar-
III speeches in that State during the next
political campaign.
The people of California must ee ex-
tIemely anxious to see q prize fight, in
view OF the fact that one of athletic clubs
Of San Francisco is willing to give $50, 900
for battle to finish between Sullivan
and Jackson The love for puRiism doesn't
seem to be on the wsne on the Pacific coast
By any means.
Mrs. Ella Mckenzie, OF Traverse City,
who was shot by her husband at Grand
Rapids. Mich, at the residence of Mrs
Freeman. on Monday. died. Mckenzie.
when Informed OF her death, seemed utter
ly careless and continued to read his paper
In the corridor Of the jail. He afterwards
ate hearty dinner and played cards with
other riisoners all afternoon.
A cruel and malicious attempt was
made Friday night to c-emate the family of
Lewis Kerner, who lives JUS. outside the
limits of Erie. The family of father and
mother and three children woke up to find
themselves surrounded by ere. They had
a narrow escape. The iDcspdiary bad
stabbed the watchdog to death and then cut
shayings with q draw knife for the intended
funeral pyre.
WIN. ID. Sartelle, OF Worcester, per.
former in a dime museum at Lynn, Mass.
was shot dead on last Friday night. He
was performing trick with q rife which
be apparently loads with leaden bullet
and then requests some one to shoot Mt
him, appearing to catch the bullet in his
mouth. This time he failed to substitute q
paste board bullet, and VIM. Flanagan, who
fred the gun, shot Ssrtelle dead.
Considerable excitement was caused
on last Friday evening at Burlington. Iowa,
by a "crapk" who started TO run through
the business portion OF the city swinging a
hugh sledge hammer and smashing every
plstegiass front that ne passed. He was
eoIIaIed in short order, but not till he had
succeeded in completely running the show
windows Of a dczsn different stores The
man was placed In jail iu default of q, 600
bonds.
In Au Sable. Mich, last spring. q
horse that was sick was taken to an infirm-
arY barn for treatment He was cured and
has not siaee been near the infrmary until q
few days ago, wien he was again taken
sick. Some remedies was applied but did
not bring immediate relief. The horse
getting loose. made hIs usy to the infirn
ary, walked in and lay down on the floor
lie was examined. given a dose OF medicine
and soonIcured OF his trouble.
AT Pottstown on Saturday morning the
Corener's Jury in the caseiof John Chana
said 10 have become g helpless psraiytic. q
result OF blasphemy. and who was found
on Thursday morning In his room hanging
by a rope fastened TO bedpost, returned q
verdict that death resulted from stranguIa,
tion ct the lands of his Wife's lover, John
kindarosch, and that Mrs Chana was ac-
eessory % the crime. Kindarnseh and Mrs
Cbans were committed to prison Saturday
morning 20 answer the charge OF murder
The bakery of GustAve Gross. in Phus
pelphia. who lived with his family In the
bulldog. and the third story OF which was
occupied by a family named BItler, was
totally destroyed by fire On Monday morn.
ing. The building was tInder box and
the flames burned 50 6ercely they could dc
but little toward checking the IRE. They
however. managed to rescue four children
OF tie Bitner family and two OF the Gross
family uniniured. Five others were burned
OF smothered to death and five seriousIy
burned and removed to the hospital.
Archbishop Ryan has purchased, from
| the estate OF j. q. Bernadon, the three
story dwelling No. 732 Pine street, Phns-
delphia, for revsboys' noms. The home
/ will be non-sectariau, and lie intended as 8
shelter and instruction for newsboys, poot.
blacks. and stree urchins generally, whC
are engaged in any honest way OF earning 8
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| long had in mind the establi.hm ent of such
an institution, and am deeply impress ed
With the condition Of the poor little street
| waits"
| A "coai palace. ;" 150x3Oo feet and three
stories thigh. is to be erected In East ST
| Louis. This palace Will be decicedl,
1 novel structure. The coal companies viii
| furnish the material for the superstructur,
black coal OF every kind, and wrought on
! by saw. pason's hammer, aud into artist,
forms By the carver's chIsel. The FRS
| floor will be polished coal. and pillars OF
coal will support the foor-coal. coal every
where. The purpose Of the building vii
be to continually exhibit the agriculture
and mineral products Of Southern Illinois.
| The central and eastern parts of Trum
bull county, Ohio, are suffering from ,
plague of rats. Corn, cabbages. beets, to-
matOes and grapes were destroyed In th,
| fields, and then the rats swarmsd {,
barns and houses. A competitive rat hun
of several weeks In Mecca township wa
ended Thanksgiving Day, when the win
ming side produced 2.O73 rat tails, while tb,
losers had 1913. One hunter brought IL
$50 tails. The army Of rats seems to b.
moving on Warren. and the living floors o
houses are badly infested.
! AT the Merrimac county farm, in Nortl
Boscaween, last Friday, during the temper
RTy absence of the mstron from the build
ing, woman named Bennett, who wa
committed from LUudon \. H.. suddsnI,
| attacked slight, delicate woman from
| Chester, named Sarah Wood. Selling he
a.
room and threw her into the tub. She heI,
/ ha- With har fact tu-oir1 . n,