The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-01-18
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGS.

Bill Cook, train robber and outlaw.
for whom a reward of $1,000 was offered.
has heen captured in New Mexico.
Because engineer Slate would not ag-
gree with him on question of baptism.
Rev. Mr.. Pcnrod, of New Light. Ky. shot
him dead.
By gasoline stove explosion Kala-
mazoo. Mich., Mrs. Mary Harkins and son
James. we're terribly burned, and the
house was destroyed.
Hayward Gresham chopped his wife to
bits with an axe at his home near Lucy.
Tenn, Saturday. The murderer fled. but
was captured and lodged in the Memphis
Jail.
Unknown men Saturday night rode up
to the door of II. y. VoSS. near Camden.
Ark. and ordered VoSs To throw up his
hands Mrs. NoSS and her son. who were
standing in the doorway. were riddled with
shot.
-GOvernOr Mckinley Saturday night
received telegram from the chairman OF
the relief committee at Nashville. Ohio.
stating that reports from about half the
mining districts. embracing three counties,
show from 200 TO 800 families in need of
assistance,
Frank Lockwood Smith. alias Red
Austin, the famous gold brick Swiudler.
succeeded in victimizing Mrs BENJAMIN
+. Dwelle. the wife of "a well known busi-
ness man at Sandusky. Ohio. to the exten:
of $1,000. Detectives arrested Smith at
Richmond. Va.
John a. Mckenzie. one of Duluth's well
known business men, tripped and fell from
the landing midway between the third and
fourth floors of the Spalding Hotel in that
city to the pavement, sixty feet below
striking on his head and fracturing his
skull. lie died instantly.
Daniel Ansbach, a brakeman on the
Pennsylvania railroad, was run over in
the Mt. Carbon yards, near POttSville. at
an early hour on Friday morning. He
was helping to make up Il freight train
and his foot caught in the frog of a switch
While in this position the train struck him
and cut off his head and both legs.
John Paxton and his wife. Ida. were
found in their sod house. near RaXton.
Neb., on Monday with their throatS cut
from ear To ear. A letter discovered near
the bodies stated that the couple were
driven to desperation through want. ill
ness and suffering, and tha5 death seemed
to be their only means of escape from the
torture.
"A greater portion of northwestern
Ohio was shaken at three o'clock on Sun
day morning by the explosion of $50 Quarts
of nitro glycerine in the Storehouse of the
Ohio and Indiana torpedo company at
Gibsonburg, a small oil station in Erie
county. The stock of the explosion WAS
distinctly felt 81 miles distant. So far as
known no lives were lost.
George Mccullough, German stone
mason of ArmOurdale, Mo, was placed
under arrest charged with poisoning his
wife and two months old baby. and for
threatening the lives of Mr. and Mrs. G.
Franks, his wife's parents. Mrs. McCuI-
Tough died suddenly October 26. and the
baby followed soon afterward Because
Of ill treatment on the part of Mccullough
the woman had applied for a divorce.
Masked robbers entered the house of
David Mcbride, near New Castle. Pa. on
Saturday night, tied the farmer and his
wife to chairs and tried whipping and
threats of torture to compel them to give
up their money. After rausackirg the
house, 81 and some valuables were So
cured. When the robbers left they tool,
Mcbride and his wife into an unused room
and locked them in. They were nearly
frozen to death when discovered by neigh
bors and released