The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-08-14
NEWS AND OTHER NOIIN6s.

"A rattieSnake was recently killed in
Orange county, Cal, that measured 20
feet in length and six feet in circumfer-
ence. II had q rattles.
w. E Schmertz, the most extensive
shoe manufacturer In PittSburg and the
head of several financial and mercantile
institutions, failed on Friday. BE has,
confessed judgment. asgregating so23. .ooo.
Governor Pattison on Saturday re
spited John McManus, of Philadelphia,
sentenced 10 be hanged on August 3Oth, till
October .2oth, 10 enable the condemned
man 10 make plea: before the pardon
board for Communication of his sentence 10
life Imprisonment.
james Gordon, an employe of the La
trobe steel works, was perhaps fatally in
jured on Thursday of last week by a huge
tire, weighing eight hundred pounds fall
ing across his stomach, crushing him bad
ly, and perhaps injuring. him internally 10
such an extent as 10 cause his death.
Jack the. .Ripper's-' latest victim, the
thirteenth, in the Whitechapel district,
London, was a woman named Wolf, aged
20 years, who was murdered in the usual
atrocious manner on Thursday night. As
in all the other Whitechapel crimes, the
assassin has disappeared, leaving no trace
save his mutilated victim.
One year ago a gold watch and chain,
worth $50, were stolen from Joseph Die
bold, OF Jeanette. A few days ago two
of his daughters while visitiHg--at Rich
mond, Va, saw the watch on the person Of
a painter who had been working at the
house when the ticker disappeared. They
had the thief arrested and recovered the
watch.
While unpacking a box of pears at Seda-
LA. Mo, on Thursday, ). G. Williams was
bitten on the hand by a tarantula. In half
an hour from the time he was bitten Will
Jams began TO get delirious, and his pain
was SO great that il took three men to hold
him. Three doctors are in attendance,
but no hope is entertained of saving the
mans life.
John Geiss, Michigan blacksmith,
got his foot tangled in rope attached TO
a balloon al Wenonah Beach on Saginaw
Bay. He called TO the folks 10 hold him
when the balloon went mp, but they could
not. However, he got his feet untangled
before he had gone more than three or
four rods, and, falling in soft sand, he es-
capped injury.
AT Alanthus, Mo, last Sunday even
ing, Frank Coffey and several others quar-
relied over a pint of whisky free fight
took place, In which eleven shots were
fired. Homer Mccullough, son OF Hon. j.
L. Mccullough, was shot in the wrist.
Frank Coffey was killed and Robert Stan
ley was cut so badly that he will die.
Some half a dozen tough characters took
hand in the fight
The New York and Chicago Limited
express train was wrecked near East Pal
estine. Ohio. on Friday morning. Engin-
eer Ritchey and fireman Mccartney were
seriously injured. Elmer Clapper, Of
Pittsburg was instantly killed; the passen-
gers escaped with few bruises. The train
ran into an open switch and crashed into
freight train standing on side track.
The engine was completely wrecked, com
bination car turned over and the first sleep
er thrown from the track. Five freight
cars were demolished. After the accident
an unknown man was killed while work
ing about the wreck.
About o'clock on Friday night all af-
fair of love, disappointment and jealousy
terminated in the murder IN Cincinnati OF
Miss Ida Kipp, last September promised 10
marry Lewis Levi, but afterward rejected
him. Since then Levi has been infiamed
with rage and wounded pride. On Friday
night Levi saw Miss Kipp on the street
with all escort, and after following her
short distance, emptied three shots from
his revolver into the girls body, killing
her on the spot. Levi was arrested. He
ka.a- hoo l.. g.l, nl-s
railroad and was an applicant for appoint
ment on the police force.
What was at first supposed TO be
dense storm cloud hovered overed Eliza
beth N J., on Sunday night, but II proved
TO be a drove of mosquitoes which scatter
edland filed the air, driving worshipers
from church and drug clerks from their
stores. Bon-fres were built in several OF
the streets to drive the pests of, which
were particularly voracious. Cows, horses,
and pedestrians were frantic Telegraph
operators were forced TO engage the SER
vices OF boys to diligently use fans in or
der that they might manipulate the keys.
The recent heavy rains, il is said, sent the
insects from the lowlands and meadows
to more promising feeding ground.
News of a,quadruple lynching comes
from Henry county, Alabama, near Crosby.
Last Friday the residence OF w. r. Davis,
a prominent farmer, vas burned and the
family narrowly escaped with their lives.
On Sunday Ella Williams, colored, was ar
rested and confessed TO having saturated
the house with oil and set fire to il out OF
revenge. In her confession she implicated
Lizzie Lowe, Willis Lowe and Bill Williams.
Last Thursday the sheriff started from
Crosby to Abbeyville jail with the prison
ers, and that night he was overpowered by
mob and the prisoners taken from him
and shot TO death. Their bodies were
thrown into the river. The finding of two
of the bodies revealed the story.