The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-06-13

mars than improves his appearance, but
putting head on paper, especially if it
is such a neat head as the one donned this
week by the Altoona Morning Tribune,
adds muchly to its beauty, even when, as
: in this case, there seemed no room for i'm
! provement.
/ Samuel McCreary, a brakeman on the
: PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, residing in Frank
lin borough, this county, had one of his
arms crushed last Friday, near Derry, by
having it caught between two cars which
he was in the act of coupling The bone
was not broken, but the flesh was torn and
laceratcd severely.
The base of 4 cast-iron sand-bOx fell
from thetop of locomotive boiler, in the
Pa r. r. Co.'s machine shop, Altoona, on
Tuesday, and striking man named Rose
berry, crushed him TO the floor and lacer-
atcd his head, arms, legs, and two Of his
toes in shocking manner, so much so in
deed that his life is despaircd Of
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has issued for free distribution, valua-
bic illustrated guide book, which gives the
distances to various points, cost of travel,
and other information valuable to tourists,
relating to the regions traversed by its ex-
tensive aud picturesque lines. Ticket
agents will supply the books on applica-
tion.
We learn with pleasure that Hiss
Maggie Rhey, the accomplished and hand
some daughter of our townsman, John ,.
Rhev, Esq, was married in Chicago, May
27th. to Lieut. Col. Michael Sheridan,
brother of Gen. Phil. Sheridan. She has
the best wishes of her many friends i'll
Cambria county for long and happy
welded life.
Capt. VIM. Linton, ye popular land
lord of the Summit House, has spy glass
which it is said will fetch a common sized
porker, fully two miles away, so close 20
the instrument that he Che porker) can be
heard squealing very distinctly. The Cap
tain tried the machine on J. I. H., of the
Altoona Tribune, and that's the way the
thing was found out.
John II. IIite was almost instantly
killed at the saw-mill of Mr.. Louis Plack,
on the Allegheny Mountains five miles
west of Altoona, on Friday morning of
last week, by being caught by belt ana
drawn into a revolving wheel, which car
ried him around several times IN RAPID Sue
cession and injured him so terribly thai he
died soon after. He leaves a large family.
Here he comes. Mr.. George Heller
resident of Pennsylvania Furnace, Hunt
ingdon county, aged seventy-seven years,
cuts and ranks two and half cords Of
wood per day, which is not 50 slow for
gentleman of his age. The same man
missed the train and walked from Altoona
to Tyrone Forges a distance of some sew
eutecn miles, from nine o'clock till four,
a week or two since.
"A German named Michel was sitting
| on log in the vicinity Of the Johnstown
| depot on Saturday night last, waiting for
/ the Fast Line West, upon which he IN
tended taking passage, when two men ap-
preached, and knocking him down, robbed
him of $1GS. The name Of the person who
relieved him Of this amount is Joseph
Redgate, but his accessory is not known.
! So says the Tribune.
A German named John Early, resi-
! dent of Conemaugh borough, died very
! suddenly, on Saturday night last, under
circumstances which induced the belief
| that he had been poisoned, and that too
| bv his own wife. A cOrouer's inquest was
! held and the deceased stomach taken out
! and sent to Pittsburg for analysis, and III
| the meantime the suspected woman has
! been left to come and go as she plcases.
! A married man named William Huff,
| and ssgrass widow named Angeline Da-
Wis nee Haynes, eloped together from
| Johnstown, ON Wednesday night of last
week, the former leaving sickly wife
| and four children unprovided for, and the
! latter leaving many relatives and friends
| to blush for her infamous consuc'. The
| arrest of Huff in Cincinnati has been an
noIInced, but the report lacks contirma-
| ton.
John Boylan, the young man whose
arrest and subsequent trial and conviction
before the L. S. District Court at Pitts
burgh on the charge of cutting open a mail
| bag at Cresson has already been noted III
| these columns, was on Friday last sem
! fenced to one years imprisonment IN the
Western Penitentiay. Boylaa's age is a
little past sixteen years, which prevented
him from being sent to the House of Ref
uge instead of the Penitentiary.
! Geo. w. Lloyd, jr., and VIM Baum
of Susquehama township, found guilty
/ last week on two indictments for receiving
stolen goods, were sentenced, on Monday
evening last, to pay a fine SO and costs,
and undergo one years Imprisonment III the
| Western Penitentialy on each lndlctlhept;
and Martin Oaks, of same township, con-
victed of larceny, was sentenced to pay
! fine Of $40 and costs, and undergo two
years imprisonment in the same lhStiIu-
! ton.