The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-02-25
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| <IoOSA NlTY, < co. Is, 1911.
! FRIEND MAeI becomes my painful duty
/ to inform you Is week OF most melancholy
/ and fatal accipt which beieI an estimaLlc
! Young man., Grin McClelIand by name who
/ was emplOyeds clerk in tho Pa r. r. Y ard
| at this place fhe deceased while attending
! to cross the Tlroad tracks on Yesterday Wed
nesday) eveng, was caught in some way hv
| a passing eIine and drawn under a freight
! train. some itteen or twenty cars of which
passed over IN aud ma1gled him in a horrible
/ manner HEas picked up and carried home
/ after the acJent, and the best medical skill
called in, bt all to no purposei Tor be died
oOn after. )ne of his arms and both of his
legs were lirilly torn from his body but not
withstandins this, he retained consciousness
until Geaths slieved him OF his suffering Mr.
! McG. wass promising and highly respected
young aud was the idol OF fond and do
ting pare5 both Of whom have the sincere
sympathy oeur people in their afflic.ion. His
age WAS soswhere between s and 90 years.
Local nos other than she above Is scarce
as efficient chool Directors in this latitude
Our own 1ool Board, by the way, arc receiv-
/ ing greasdeai of public attention jest now
and it manot be amiss to tell the reason why.
| 1t has beh charged on them that they had u
nicely 1 up iob in The carving through of
which ey anticipated realizing handsomely
! Petitio! !were circulated industriously by them
amonghe knowing few, praying the Legsla-
ture to trant them the power to borrow Sl0O, -
G0J, ohlsibiy for school purposes, which bill
they hGal to have passed before tue people
would i've time TO smell "a mice" But
thanks o he foresight of the "Radical'' news
paper this city, the alarm was given and tho
peJBl. aroused, and the result was that the in
! ioHous scheme came to we'll merited grief in
tly short order. And just here let me say
kat the - Radical" has manifested a spirit Of
pluck and Independence far above and beyond
all OF its contemporaries, and on this particular
occasion it gave the Directors such a complete
scoring that they were forced to take refuge il
he protecting arms of 4 certain journal that
ms become notorious for its abiect support 0!
The powers that be under all circumstances 1t
need not be wondered at then that the journal
in question made u labored effort to defend. or
rather whiteWash, the School Board but the
" Radical, again came boldly up to the work.
and such drubbIrg as il administered to the
Tecreant journal for its duplcty ! have not
read for many day, After doing this pretty
CfectualIy, the Radical" went on 20 maintain
that the School BOARD had acted with rather
questionable honesty, TO say The least, in the
purchase of the ground upon which the new
school, building stands, in awarding the cOntrac,
tor the erection of said building to one ot their
own number, in the name Of his sor, 1t q price
several hundred dollars in excess of the sum
for which equally responsible and competent
parties proposed to do the work and in paying
exorbitant prices for gas and water fixtures,
heaters, etc. This is the bill Of Indictment
made out By the Radical" and if it be true
as am informed, that many Of our citizens
irrespective OF party, are l,ckiug TO its sup
Tort and thus endorsing the independent stand
!. has taken, that paper will have little trouble
Il Lighting il out on that line" And rs for
the School Board they have only themselves
to blame if their official acts have become a
5yword and reproach in the community.
7 ne Altoona Tribune seems to be. under the
IMPRESSION that every one who does not blini-
yacquiesce in the duiugs Of the present Boar.
IF Directors Is an opponent to OR common
chool system. IL opposing what 1 conceive
20 he fIaui, corruption, bgotry, intolerance
and set up jobs be opposition to the school sys.
TEN. then au l open TO The charge, and glory
in being I l. II.