The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-04-10
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twenty two years, whiie crazy from over
study. cut his mothers throat with a razor
and then cut his own, both dying almo-.
instantly.
"A HuffmaR, family residing near AEe-p-
po, Greene county, have all been III for
week. The attending physician pro-
nounccs the disease with which they are
afflicted trichinosis, and says they are not
likely To- recover.
The verdict In the ease of senator Eek
ley Il. Coke and other heirs, which has
hccn on trial during the past seventeen
weeks. was decided in favor of the Coke
heirs. This i their second victory. A new
trial has been applied for.
The large two-Srnry frame tenement
house, owned 10y Joseph SiStcck. of Irwin,
WeStmorrland county. Was destroyed by
fire on Saturday morning caused by an uv-
erheatcd gas stove. The building was
occupied by three families, who lost nearly
| all their household effects.
A german physician proposes that the
manufacturers of preserved meats should
! stamp their cans with a legiblc date mark
For year or so, he says, canned meats
| may remain perfectly wholesome, hut af
! that they deteriorate in a way dcfying
| alike precaution and explanation.
John w. Gunsaulis was killed in Il
| lonely spot in West Liberty borough, near
Pittsburg. about II O'Clock on Sunday
| night. y bullet from a revolver OF large
calibrr was fired into his brain, entering
over the right ear. Whether he took his
| own lif. or was murdered has not yet been
4 = Il. I II l. II
| murdered by a hIghwayman.
! C. SI- Rathbun, Superintendent of the
| Missouri Pacific railEoad. reports that the
, prospects uf a large yield in crops for the
coming year in Kansas are good, and in
! consequence railroad business will boom.
7, The wheat acreage il larger than ever
known in the West. The talk Of depreS-
sion in business is premature. and boom
| j. likely To occur in the near future
| Perry Beck "A young man of Pancoast
Jefferson county. was amusing his eight
y"ar-old brother last saturday. For some
, reason Ia. had his knife-hls,de open. and
Will" hi- attention WAS drawn 10 some
! thing else. his little brother ran 10 him un-
awarcs. In So doing he came in contact
with Ike knife blade. which pierced tho
boy To the heart, killing him instantly.
The Columbia Iron and Steel Company
of Uniontown, on Friday made an assign
ment for tho benefit of creditors. Liabili-
! tics. s>6D,O0; assets at present unknown
OF the capital stock of t+Do,Op. when Ia,
works were started, citizens of UniontowI
| subscribed $4,000. The Pennsylvania
| Construction Company. an adjunct, will al
u. Il,l L..
The Court at Galena. ILL.,. has appoint
I'D conservator for the estate of Ernes
| Frederick Hillet. who received notice dur
! ing his examination. and just previous {,
his commitment week ago To- the county
| almshouse a. a pauper that he had faller
heir To = large estate in Germany by tn,
! death Of an uncle, of whose existence h,
had been ignorant. EIill-t'S legacy vii
amount Ia more Than quarter Of million
| A sensational rumor was afloat in Lon
don on Monday in the House Of Common,
10 the effect that Parncll has been private,
ly married since the O'Shea divorce pro
| ccedings. and not To Mrs. O'Shea. PaTnel
ties who have Spok cn Oh the subject re-
fuse 10 discuss il. but they say that the
mystery of their leaders inner life Otter
referred as tending to clear his charactei
from the stain upon it. will shortly b. cx-
planned.
! Kate Roach. aged seventy, one OF thu
characters of the Fourth ward, New York
was found in her miserable hovel on Fri
day slowly dying OF starvation. She va.
. removed To the hospital, where the doctors
say she cannot recover. 4 search Wa,
made OF her apartments. and. amid In,
rags and squalor. the officers found oveI
TWO thousand dollars In gold and bills
and bank notes calling for nearly four
: thousand dollars more.
! The boiler OF the West End Gas Com
pany al Pitt>burg exploded on Saturday
night The boiler MAS an upright one and
/ IL went straight up through the roof Over
! Foley'- livery stable. which is three Storic-
high, and then over a row Of frame build
> ings in the rear of the stable, and up into
/ a lot on Steuben street, a distance of about
! FIVE hundred feet No one was in TN,
building when the explosion occurred anG
the cause i not known.
= William Artman, Young man en-
ployed at Carnegie, Phipps & Co.'S millS
committed suicide on Sunday afternoon
about 30 o'clock at Homestead. He wa.
ing house and then vent up stairs. Short
ly after a shot was heard. and the inmate:
rushed To his ROOM where he was found ly-
/ ing on the floor with bullet hole in hi
forehead. Deceased was to have been mar
ried 10 young society lady there shortly
The Supreme Court If Indiana has af
J frmed the decision Of the lower court in th'
| famous Dekalb county Uowal case. which
was tried at Goshen on chang
of Venue. = farmer brought suit agains
I the Lake Slore railroad 10 recover value
for cow killed by locomotive. Tn. iury
decided against him aHi gave the railroad
a verdict of s. and costs, il being ailegc,
that the Company's locomotive had beer
damaged that much by collision with tn
COW.
| Samuel Stone, n prominent figure in tn
| clubs and hotels, and son OF ex-Congr,ss
man Stone, in ST. L0uis, stole his beautiful
, three-year-o daughter from his wife on
street car on Monday Mrs. Stone and tn
I child boarded cable car for q ride to III
park. Several blocks from The house Ston
! sprang aboard the ear. threw open the doc
! and seized the child. amid the widest OK
element. dashed away and has not sine
been seen. Mr.. and Mrs. Stone had no
! lived together for some time.
Mrs. Sarah Henderson and Mrs. Till
Taylor, of Cereal Springs, Ill, were lodge
in Jail at Marion, Ill, on Monday, charges
with murder. On Friday afternoon tn
two-year-old blind child OF Mrs. Taylo
was taken suddenly i'll. On Saturday med
ical aid was summoned. but the child died
Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Henderson, who ar
sisters, and who were present at the child
death, began telling conflicting stories a
10 the cause of the ehild's Illness TIL
doctor in attendance expressed the opinion
that the child had died from some poison