The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-10-19

/ - IN tne Blair county court this week
Seorge pomer, one of the Altoona rioters
Iie'u guilty 10 all the counts of the indirt.
=, a.. o'i tuhui'ion that the maximum penal.
~ un.ter the act of 1877 would be imposed
wnleh was agreed to, and John Champenour
""o'her "i The accused, entered a like plea
I ~ $50 70 'ne sixth count, Constructing and in
rl'lua'ing railroad employees in the dis
charge OF their duty" whereupop a noJle
p'oseq"t was entered as to the other five
counts. James Stewart and James Mock
| nnuicted for the same offence, were tried ou
lntshay last, and found guilty on the fourth
l' vi the iitiictnient. Several other par
! Ties against whom similar indictments we're
pehuing failed to appear for trial
a oesoni of destruction, so to speak pass
eu over falrhe.d township, Westmoreland
county, last week. At least we judge SO
from the fact that grist mill owuei bv A.,
VIM. Graham WAS bnrne,, to the gronrJ -,
wednesday night, Involving a loss of 50 900
WIN no insurance, and this was followed on
tne night following by the bnrnine os John
,h. t',n,.., Smn,.n oarn. and on Friday night by
'he destruction Of Richard Suotl grass barn
amt Graham Snodgrass' dwelling house-all
ot winch we're worth about 50 900 more tb,
only insurance being 81 900 on the S, nod,
grass barn, The fires all occurred within
lnur miles of each brher, but how thev orig
ihateu we have failed to learn, although il
seeriIs evident enough that thew were tho
work of inceutiaries
AT the time that Kossuth and his partv
renamed over night III this place, in ,janu-
ary, 1862 while OH their tourney from Uar.
rishurg 10 Pittsburgh. Judge Gillis. then n
inemher OF the Legislature from Elk county
was one of the committee appointed by the
Legislature TO accompany the Hungarian
SHOW, and will no doubt re rempmbrpd nv
many OF our older citizens. He is still
uEihS at ;he ripe age of S6 years at Mt
Iieasant, Iowa. IL now on a visit TO h:s old
home, Ridgway, in Elk county, this State
and walks as nimbly as he did when he was
=
f"rty-two years ago he was triet in western
New \ ork on charge of having been con-
cerned in the murder of Wm Morgan. th.
alleged hetrayer of the secrets of Free Mason
ry, out hono:abiy acquitted. He is very
remarkable man aud has led a most event
full life.
The Tyrone Democrat says that on Tues
day afternoon of last week while the car
peniern were enRaged in removing the wood
work over which the stone arches of a new
bridge near Birmingham We're built the
entire trestle or false arch by some mishap.
frli into the river, carrying with It, several
of the workmen. Henry Fisher OF Harris
burg, and II. a. Long. of the vicinity Of
vi MillerstoWn, Perry county, both carpenters
were seriously injured by the falling tim
bers. Mr.. Fisher had a spike run into his
hip about three inches one of his ears almost
torn off, was injured internally and so se-
riously hurt on the head as TO cause concus-
sion OF the brain. Mr.. Long had an arm
broken, rib fractured and sustained severe
internal injuries, besides receiving scalp and
face wounds. They were standing on the
main stringer unt.er the arch. Both are in
a critical condition.
we announced in n portion Of onr edi-
tion lust week that young man named
Frank Eoughnour, uf Cnnemaugh borough,
had been captured about IL o'clock on Wed
ncsiHy night previous by Chief-of- Police
Harris with q bag on his bark containing
sixteen boxes of cigars and various other
articles, valued in al! n; abont SSG which he
had just stolen from the drug store of DIR. l..
Il. Beam, ia ,Iotus;rwn, After his arrest
The prisoner confessed that he alone had
committed all of tho recent burglaries ia
thar place, and n result no less than nite
informaiions have been made against him.
His mother, who was arrested Thursday
for receiving the gootts stolen Ivy her son,
promptly gave bail for her appearance at
December term to answer; but young
Goughnour, failing tn obtain the requisite
security, was brought to Jail here on Friday
last. Tie aggregate value of the goods ato-
len will probably reach 81 ,0oe. but it is gem
orally doubted, Notwithstanding his a~ser-
lion, that the hurglarcs were all committed
without one or more accompliccs.