The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-09-07
NEWS AND OTHER Nor.N"s.

world is at Louisville. Nv.
Somerset borough'S new water works
will be ready for operation in a short time
CLANCY Matthews. a negro. 10 years
old died on the 31st ult. AT Little Rock
Ark.
Fire among the flower boats moored
in the river at Canton, China, destroyed
1000
Samuel Livermore. aged 30. a guest at
a New Castle, Pa, hotel, is dead. He blew
out the gas.
james Foley, of Philadelphia. in a
drunken frenzy. brnraily kicked his aged
mother TO death.
Frank Giles. of ConnellSville. is in jail
for attempting to cut his wife'S throat
with butcher knife.
While threshing at Adamstown, Bern
hart Lutz had a leg torn from its socket by
the thresher's cylinder
An unknown man tried to swim across
the East River at New York on Saturday
last and was drowned.
Frank Williams. who in February last
murdered Policeman John Adley at Jean
nette, has been captured.
Both of Thomas McNeilie' legs were
torn off at the Bethlehem Iron Works
His parents live in Philadelphia.
John Borland, constable of the Nine
teenth ward. PittSburg. committed sui
eide. He leaves Il wi:e and . children.
During a hammer-throwing contest at
Lancaster, Miss Mary Sterling was
struck by the hammer and seriously hurt.
Lawrence county poor directors have
asked the court to submit the question OF
building county almshouse To the voters.
Mrs. Milton Kline, of Blandon. Pa,
by the giving away of a platform. fell 10
the bottom of a l25 foot well and was in
stantly killed.
Fred. Farnham. in the woods near
Albany. y. Y. shot at a partridge and
killed Matte Cross. aged Il, and fatally in
iured her mother.
brewery Driver SchafTer fell from his
wagon in New York on Saturday last. and
the wheels passed over him, >evering his
head from his body.
japanese are reported to bc landing
troops north of Taku, preparatory TO max
ing campaign directly against Pekin.
the Chinese capital.
E. ID. McNitt, a leglesS. one-armcd
man, of Bonham. Texas. murdered Mrs.
Martin, with whom he was in love and
then committed suicide.
Rev. Christopher Lakenburg. an OF
tumwa, la, NJ. T. minister, aged -. has
been sued for breach of promise by Mrs.
Phoebe Irwin, widow, aged 30.
Joseph and John Ncllis, brothers.
while at work in trench near Erie. Pa.
were buried by quickSands. Joseph per
ished, and John, badly injured internally,
was rescued.
William +. PETER was convicted in the
Mitfiin court of assault on his l2-ycar-old
sisterin- law. Emma Fitzgerald, and sen
fenced to TWO years Imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
Near Lock Haven, Clinton county. Pa.
Andrew Winchester stabbed Joseph Moore
with a dirk knife. William Rceder inter
fered, and Winchester stabbed him to
death. Moore will recover.
Chaplain Henry V. PIummer. one of
the few negro officers in the army. is to be
tried by court martial at Fort Robinson.
Ncb.. for drunkenness. He i attached TO
the Ninth Cavalry. a negro regiment.
Thomas Mason, of New York. was
shot in an orchard at West Albany. on the
I'd inst, presumably because he intended
to steal apples, and the owner of the orch
ard, an octogenarian. is under arrest.
The reason given why birds do not fall
off their perch is because they cannot open
the foot when the leg i bent. Look at 4
hen walking. and you will see il close its
toes as it raises the foot and open them as
il touches the ground.
AT Buffalo a number of collins have
been found in Forest Lawn cemetery rifled
of .heir contents ard placed in a clump Of
undcrbruSh at some remote spot 1t j.
thought band of body-snatchers operated
regularly after intermentS.
Charles Meyer and Stanley Ryan, two
1s-year-o residents of Milton have been
lodged in the Bellefonte Jail to await trial
on :he charge of stealing a horse from
Michael StrOhm, of Centre Hill. There
is. unfortunately. no doubt of their guilt
Thomas Erwin. a Braddock painter.
stole SEQ and S12O worth of jewelry from
his boarding mistress, Mrs. William
Schultz, on Wednesday afternoon She
chased him three-quarterS of mile and
gave him battle, but he threw her off and
escaped.
A gang of railway car burglars were
arrested at Buffalo on Tuesday. who have
been literally living off the roads there.
Wagon loads of plumber was found in the
houses of several. which were fitted out
like palaces. The men are or have been
New York Switchmen
Mrs. William Thorp. OF Carnegie. near
PittSburg, was returning from a trip to
Europe and died while at sea. The body
was thrown overheard and adaughter who
witnessed the ceremony became insane.
and instead of the family welcoming home
the glad hearted girl and her mother.
there arrived alone demented girl ac-
cOmpanied by an employe of the steamship
company.
"A cleyer robbery was pcrpetraIed on
Sunday in New York. The thief. after
entering into conversation with a we'll
dressed stranger who he found on the
docks. wagered him that he could not
swim the East river. The bet was accent
ed, but no sooner was the man divested of
his clothes than the thief made him hand
over all his money before he would permit
him to dress again.
WI