The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-03
NEWS AND OTHER EoT,yGs.


tally injury Joseph Hurd.
Two freight trains or the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad coliided at Baltimore,
badly injuring Engineer Minnick. Seve
cars and engines were wrecked.
Five children we're bitten by vicious
dog while returning from school near Fort
Recovery. Ohio. All the children have
since developed symptoms OF bydrophobla.
The special commission of Judges ap-
pointed to investigate charges made by the
LOrdOn Times against ParnelIite members
of the House of Commons haYe finished
their report, but it will not he published
before Parliament meets.
While sixteen girls were preparing a
Christmas cantata in a public school in De-
troit, Mich, their Costumes were ignited by
contact with a candle. Jennie Lancaster
was burned to death, and all the others we're
injured. four dangerously.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has ordered more freight locomotives, max
ing seventy-seven ordered in two months.
The road is doing the largest business in its
history. and is pushed TO its utmost capaci-
ty to provide rolling stock.
"A subscriber TO the Nyack On. Y
journal wrote asking the editor OF that pa
per to publish the ten commandments. The
editor refused the request. on the ground
that some reader might "a ke their insertion
as an Intended personal dig. and stop the
paper.
The express train south on the Pittsburg
and Lake Erie railroad ran down and
killed William AND John John Angel, Ger
man laboTers, on the trestie near Shouston,
Pa, on Tuesday afternoon. The men were
in the centre of the bridge when the
engine came along at full speed. Before it
could be stopped they were struck by the
engine and knocked off the trestle. falling
| distance of forty feet. When picked up
both were dead.
While returning from a Christmas eve
dance early on Wednesday morning Miss
| Mamie Campbell and her escort, Benjamin
| Logett. both of Williamsburg, were struck
by the Oyster Express on the Pennsy lyanis
Railroad, near Edgewood, PIttsburg. Miss
| Campbell received injuries that resulted in
| her death in a few hours. and Lovett was
| so badly huIt that his recovery is considered
| improbable. The bodies of both the young
people were terribly maRgled. Miss Camp
bell was Is years OF sge and Lovett a year
her senior.
| "A family named Cross, consisting of the
parents and eight children, with a visitor.
| were consumed in their burning dwelling at
/ HCrOEtOwn, Michigan, early on Tuesday
morning. Help came. but too late. and the
| spectators could only stand by and hear the
| asOniziDg cries OF the victims. After tue
| fire WAS out a searching party went over tue
ruins and discovered the charTed remains OF
the eleven bodies, disIinguIshable only by
the size OF the bones. The fire is alleged to
have been started by the parents, who re-
TUNED home Intoxicated from a dance.
| News has been received at Springfield,
Mo-. tnat desperate named jacob Gregory,
at dance in Mcdonald county, sosthwest
Of there. few nights since, became involved
In an alteration with Norman Hager, al
whom be fired shot in the darkness. The
bullet missed Hager and struck Adolphus
Griffith near the heart. Griffith, who was
a highly respected young man. spoke only a
few words before he died. Gregory mount
| ed q horse and made good his escape, and a;
last accounts was still al large. The mur-
der has created intense excitement In thi.
county.
Mrs. PinckDey Lowe, wife OF the boss
Of the Philadelphia & Reading roundhousJ
I in Allentown. This State. met sad death al
! noon on Christmas. She had roasted a tur
| Key and cut off small piece to see whether
| IL was done, when the meat stuck in hel
| throat. Her choking attracted the attention
Of her two daughters, who were in another
| part of the house and who ran to her aid
| Vigorous pounding on the back of the wO-
man dislodged the meat, but violent hemor.
rhages followed and she died in half al
hour. She leaves husband and severa
children.
"A very distressing sight was witnessed
at COnnellsyiIie on Christmas evening. A
family of eight persons, consisting OF moth,
er, father and SIX children. were discovered
in a starving condition near Moyer, anC
were sent to the county home. All tn,
family were in a dying condition. Th,
father and mother had been taken i'll frOu
fever, and As they lived in an Isolated place
the children could procure no aid. Tbei
condition was accidently discovered by ,
farmer who chSnced TO visit the house
The family had reached such a stage that /
was believed none could recoYer.
The Academy OF Music, IN course o
erection at St. Louis. fell In heap on Mon
day morning. Several workmen were miss
Ing after the crash and the fiIemen searched
the ruins. The searched revealed only on
wounded man, William LitfoId, who has .
rib broken and is somewhot bruised. No
body was Killed as was ar first reported
The building, which was being constructed
in part OF the old Cyclorama and was to b,
opened In March by Mr.. Jacobs, the Chica
20 manager. Is o mass of rubbish. Tn,
cause OF the accident is not yet known, bu
it Is thought there was a bed of O uicksant
under it.
"A double murder was committed q
Mount Sterling. Crawford county, Wis, OIL
Sunday mOrning. Jerrv ON ell and his wif,
were fatally shot while in bed. the forme
In the breast, and the latter In the stomach
by an unknown assailant. The victims wer
well-tO-do and inoffensIve. They wer,
about fifty years of age. The shots awoE,
two daughters, Who slept near the old folks
Their cries summoned the rest of the famI
ly, who were in the second story but tn,
murderer had escaped What the obiec
was Is not known, as nothing was stolen
There were eight members of the family il
the house at the time. most OF them ful
grown people.
George TAYLOR, twelve years old. wa
arrested at Lancaster. Pa. on Saturday OIL
complaint of his father. who alleges that b.
is incorrigble and beyond his control. Tn,
boy said he would die rather than 20 10 Jail
and shortly after being placed in a cell il
the station house tried to hang himself will