The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-10-16
NEWS AND srH.R NoI,NGs.

Judge Johnston of the circuit court of
Topeka, kas., has decided that an arrest
made on a letter or telegram is not due
process of law. The ease came OPP on a
man arrested or a telegram fol- murder.
While one thief covered Cashier
Holmes of the National bank of Enter
prise, Walla Walla county, Ore, with
revolver a confederate swept $500 from
the counter into a sack and then escaped
TO the mountains
Frank Rowland, young man convict
ed of forgery at Kansas City Wednesday,
upon hearing his sentence of 10 years TO
the penitentiary, drew pistol. put il 10
his left side and fired. There is only
slight chance for his recovery.
Joe Coe. a negro, was taken from the
Jail at Omaha few days ago by mob.
kicked TO death and his body hanged TO an
electric light pole. Coe had assaulted Liz
zie Yates, white girl aged five years,
from the effects of which she died.
james q. Blaine Jr.. has filed an an
swer To his wife's application for a divorce
He denies the charge of desertion and
pleads poverty as a reason of not support
ing her. The Blaines will make a hard
1t is greatly feared that during the
coming winter Montreal will suffer rep
etition of the smallpox epidemic of lss5.
Already forty cases have been reported
from various parts of the province, anG it
is felt that only extreme care can save the
city.
I'm a butchering contest at Pittsburg
recently for $500 a side. Herman Doern-
berger killed and dressed two calves in
minutes and 25 seconds. This beats the
record. About 6.OOOchanged hands on the
result. John A. Born was Doernbergers
opponent, and his time was minutes and
21z seconds.
DIR. Joseph Benson, confined in the
county Jail at Casper, Wyo., set fire To the
building Monday night and burned himself
to death. Benson claimed, when intoNi-
Gated. that he had killed a man in Farm
ington, Mass, and escaped from prison
through aid of friends.
One section of the historical collection
at Dresden, Germany, is literally a muse
um of boots ana shoes. being, il is believed,
unequaled in the world a repository of
the footwear of celebrities. Among the
! things of interest shown are a pair of shoes
| worn by Martin Luther at the diet OF
i, Worms, and the toilet slippers of tae great
Maria Theresa.
AT North birmingham last Friday
night, some boys saturated a eat with coal
oil. set fire TO it and turned it loose. The
cat ran into the residence of a man named
Lindsay, set fire to the house, burning il TO
the ground. The house of A. NJ. Rydell
also caught fire and was burned. Loss,
between 5000 and 5000.
President Cleveland stated one day
last week in answer to an inquiry regard
ing the name of the newcomer in his
house: I'VE have settled on a name and
il is Ruth. This was the name of Mrs.
Cleveland's grandmother, and he's always
been especially liked by her.
Twenty years ago the sth of this month
fire in Chicago burned over ?. 100 acres. de-
stroying IL, 40 buildings valued, with their
contents. at $50 Ooo. 900, and rendering 9s,
500 people homeless. The insurance COM
panies were liable for $40, ,533, ,72l in dam
ages. OF which about one half was paid and
81 companies failed in consequence.
The process of whitening sugar was
never known until a hen walked through
a clay puddle. and then strayed into a su-
gar house. Her tracks were. of course. left
in the piles Of sugar, and when il was no
| ticed that the spots where she had stepped
were whittier than the rest, the process of
bleaching sugar with clay was adopted.
| The Lebanon postoffice was entered on
Monday night by burglars, who broke
open the office safe and stole about one
hundred dollars worth of stamps, small
1 i'm ri
lars and twenty registered letters. the val
of which has not been ascertained- 1t ap-
pears TO haue been the work of Inexperienced
cracksmen.
| The New Orleans mint will have to
stop coming dimes with the dies now in
use. Henry JoSt was arrested at St Louis
on a charge of passing counterfeit dimes,
/ but was released on the evidence of Money
Expert Mccullough, who pronounced the
dimes of legal issue, bat cast with imper-
feet dies. The suspicious point abou. the
coin is the rough rim that remained on the
edge.
| On Tuesday evening Frank Castle was
killed by Elmer Downs at Lima, Ohio.
! Both men were engineers employed at the
same place, each working twelve hours
| and relieving the other. Castle was late in
getting around, and Downs was not in a
good humor when he appeared, and, after a
few words, they engaged in a fight, in
which Castles skull was crushed by blow
with a hammer in Downs hands. Castle
died almost instantly.
Edmund ID. Landers. an aged, wealthy
and retired merchant of Brockton, Mass,
| was found I'm a senseless condition on the
u IL IL
died forty years ago He will probably
die before long He rallied suf-
ficiently to state that while he was visiting
the grave on Sunday afternoon he was
strangled by a highwayman, and relieved
of his money and valuables. There is no
clue to the perpetrators of the deed.
| On Thursday night of last week three
! hostlers at the Fayette fair grounds found
a bottle of liquor which had been secreted
near one of the buildings by some unknown
party. The three men almost drained the
bottle OF its contents, with the result that
| Alex. Chapple took commissions and died
in two hours, and the others are at the point
| of death. An analysis Of the liquor re-
manning in the bottle showed equal parts
of strychnine, whiskey and alcohol
| The Legislative committee, which has
charge of the investigation of the affairs
OF the Soldiers Orphan Schools of the
state, held a session at Harrisburg on Mon
day night. The most important incident
of the meeting lives the refusal
of X. R. Wright, superintendent of the
| Msrcer school and treasurer of the Or
phans' School Syndicate to give the COM
mite the information IL desired. He de-
clined to produce any books, to state prof
| its of the syndicate or his salary.
John Harper, a queer recluse of Tar