The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-05-30

Two tank cars filed with oil were
burned near Wilmore on Tuesday evening,
and another car similarly ladened shared
a like fate at South Fork short time after
Several cars loaded with oil were also de
stroyed by fire near George Station on the
same night
( John Adamson, who was tried in
GTeensburg for the murder Of Alexander
Bcyeridge, was sentenced on Saturday af-
tcnoon, by Judge Logan, to eight years in
the Western Penilcntiary, to pay a fine of
twenty-five dollars to the Commonwealth
and costs of prosecution.
The JOhnstown Deaocrat announces
by authority the name of Nathaniel Horne.
Esq, of that place, as an aspirant for leg
lSlatiye honOrs at the hands Of the Cambria
Democracy subject TO the decision of Tie
county convention. Mr.. II. is an unflinch-
ing democrat, an honest. upright and com
petent gentleman, and having done veo-
mans service i'll the cause, he deserves wGll
of the party. We do not urge his nomina-
tIon-that is not our busiucSS-but if nou-
mated and elected he viii give a good ac
count Of himself.
One of the first men we saw on Tues
day morning last was Mr.. T. W. Shoema-
kcT, who had rife in his hands and was
Ona hunting Xpediti0n for couple of dogs
which had cut the thrOats of thirteen of
his sheep that morning, and then made
tracks for the homes Of their respective
owners in this place. One of the dogs
was found and shot to death. but the other
IS still in the land of the living and TO
doubt as much disposed as ever to '.lzill
any sheep that goes to bite him" Only
one of the sheep, so far rs we know, has
given up the ghost, but several of them
viii probably die.
At the meeting on Friday night last
the requisite committees were appointed
for securing flowers and making all other
necessary arrangements for the decoration
Of the graves Of deceased soldiers, and this
Fnday) afternoon the labOrof love viii be
performed with all the ceremonies appro-
pirate to the occasion. The orations will
he pronounced at the Court House and at
the respective cemeteries by 7. W. Dick
Il. L. Johnston, Geo. NJ. Reade and VIM
II. Sechlcr, Esqs. All persons wishing to
participate are invited to meet n the Court
House at one o'clock, from whence the
procession will move i'll the following oder:
Clcrgymen and orators. silver colnet band
decorating committee. soldiers. Dauntless
iirc company, pupils of Mt. Gallitzin Sem
IL airy, citizens and othcrS-ffrSt visiting the
Catholic and then the other cemeteries i'll
the order of their location.
On last Monday morning. William
Freeman, James Coy}e, Michael Dignan,
and John Bigler, sometimes called John
kChoC, were arrested ut GaiiitZin by Sheriff
Bonacl.er and others and brought to the
Jail il this place. They were arrested in
pursuance of an Information made against
them by William Dixon, in which he
charges them with having committed an
assault upon him. thereby putting him in
fear Of personal injury. 1t is not alleged
that any battery upon him was committed. /
Dixon is a foreman or boss under the con-
tractor with the Pennsylvania Rail Road
Company for arching the tunnel, and the
men arrested we're in the employ of Mr. /
Campbell who has the contract with the
same company for widening the bed of the
railroad west of Gallitzin for an additional
track. Al of the defendants except Dig
nan were discharged from prison on Mon
day afternoon by entering bail for their ap-
pcarance at Court on Monday next to al
swer the charge preferred.