The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-07-03

The heaviest rain storm for fourteen
years visited Baltimore on Sunday morning.
The storm broke over the city at half-psst
4 O'Clock, and continued for two hours. The
rainfall was AZ and the destruction was
very considerable, upward of two hundred
Easements and cellars being flooded on the
line OF Jones Falls, and in ell depressed
portions of the city. The streets were also
flooded, the sewers not having sufficient ca
paeity to carry the water on. On the line
of the Western MARYLAND Railroad there
were several wsshOuts, OBTAINING the early
trains fully four hours. The damage will
reach $50 900. Several families barely es-
capped with their lives.
A courier lust arrived at Fort Bowie on
Sunday from the troops in the field, and
brings dispatches from Captain Crawford.
in the mountains southeast of OpulO. On
June % the scouts and troops struck camp
OF Chiricahuas. killed one buck, captured
Is women and children, five horses and a
quantity of supplies. The squaws and
children are en- route to Fort Bowie, and
will reach San Bernardo ranch to morrow.
This is the band of renPgades who attacked
Captain Lawton's supply train in Guada-
canon and killed three soldiers. Captain
Crawford is following the trail Of another
band, leading into the Sierra Madre noun
tains.
Miss Shaffer, seventeen years old,
school teacher at CIarksviIle, Iowa, recently
incurred the enmity of family named For
ney. On Thursday evening, while return
ing from school. she was met by Mrs. For
ney and daughter. The mother caught Miss
Sbaffer and held her while the daughter beat
her over the back and shoulders with raw
hide. The assailant continued the beating
until tired, and after resting began it again.
| Finally Miss Sbaffer escaped and made her
wav home, with the blood running over her
/ clio hes from the wounds made by the whip.
Mrs. Forney and daughter have been ar
rested. A physician who examined Miss
/ Shaffer pronounces her breast and back in a
/ fearful condition. He says she is suffering
! from nervous prostratiou.
The little town of Montour, on the line
| OF the PIttsburg and and Lake Erie railroad
| ten miles west of Pittsburg, is IN a ferment
of excitement over the discovery OF what
experts claim is genuine silver bearing
! quartz. The quartz was found by Superin-
tendent Kelly, OF the Imperial Coke COmpa.
nv, on the property of the company. BE
bad it asssyed by Professor Hugo Blank
a prominent chemist there, who states that
it has 81 so of silver to the ton. OF course
1t was only the surface groupings, and it is
| expected to be much more valuable when i
| is mined. The lode is located a bout three
miles from Montour, in a ravine at right
angles from the river. Those who ought q
know say the indications are that the
| strike Is genuine.
! The trouble in Rowan county, Ken
| tucky is on again. Humphreys, the alleged
Sheriff of the county, on Sunday shot Grail
Tolliver. Marshal of Morehead and leader o
the opposite faction, who attempted to ar
rest bim on a charge of confederating 70
his (TOliiveT's) murder. Tolliver was sbO
with b1ckshOt, one shot penetrating tn
breast, and his hand being shattered anC
bis cheek graZed He returned the fir
without effect. A posse is forming for tn
arrest OF Humphreys and his confederate
who are barTicaded in the house of one o.
the parties. 1t is almost a certainty tba
the war will open up in earnest again. Tol
liver is not seriously hurt. This Afternoon
the posse attempted to arrest Humphreys
when he and his confederate, Rayburu
rushed out of the house and ran firing. Th
posse returned the fire, killing Rayburn an
mOrtally wouofing Humphreys.