The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-22


"A farm house belonging to James
Winkleman in Burlington township Indiono
county caught fire from a stove nine op
Monday afternoon and was burned to the
ground with all his household furniture and
a'l the grain that he had raised this seasoo
which was kept in one room.
Thomas Reese, aged 73 years a resident
OF scott Haven, WestmOreIand county. kneIt
uehherately in front of an approaching train
st ConuelsVille. on last Friday, after having
oeeu twice removed by employees of the road.
ana was crushed to death, his body being
shocklnRly mangled. He leaves family of
grown up children.
We learn that the store of J. G.. Noel
oi fortage, was entered on Thursday night
Dy thieves who effected an entrance bv
breaking OIL the window shutters, and stole
IoI OF pants, boots and various other arti-
icIes TO the amount of over one hundred
ana thirty-hve dollars. No clue as to who
the daring thief was has yet been obtained.
My liver was so fearfulIy disordered
and felt SO feeble and languid that | took
little interest in anything. Tried all the So
called remedies without relief until used
forker's Tonic, which effected a permanent
cure. David Bash, Little Rock, Ark.
AT shooting match at COnemaugh on
Tuesday last, between JohnstowD team
and team from the north of the county,
near CarrOlltOwn, the match was won
by the JOhnstown team by a score Of 43S to
428, distance 200 yards Two of the Johns
town men shot with globe sights for which
an allowance OF 10 was allowed the Carroll
town team.
The Abbot of ST. Viucent's is about to
establish hOms for destitute an II IfriendIess
children at Carney's Station, about five
miles cas- Of Greensburg. For the present
the Home will be in the old house on the
farm owned by the Benedictine Order, but
in the spring large brick building will be
erected. The home will be in cnarge Of the
Sisters and priest
Rupture instantly relieved by the use
OF the celebrated Fry Truss, for sale at
Dayison's Drug Store.
One day last week as DIR. Murphy, Of
/ Gallitzin was driving on the road from
AshYille to GallitZin, two men threw rope
over him and pulled him out of his buggy,
/ it is supposed for the purpose of robbery
A revolver in the Doctors hands put the
/ villains to flight without accom- plishing
their purpose. There is no doubt gang of
! dangerous villains in that neighbOrhOod.
Pick pockets worked the crowd at the
/ Blaine meeting in GTeensburg on TUESDAY
night. State chairman Cooper lost his
( pocket book containing 500; Editor NJ P.
Handy lost pocket book Colonel Bowman,
of Philadelphia, lost a pOcket-bOok and a
gold watch Colonel j. ?. COburn, of
/ Chester county, lost a gold watch and q
| pocket book, and Colonel McAfee, of
[ Greensburg, lost a pOcket-boOk.
/ The predictions of weather prophets do
not always hold good but still they do not
! give up. If they fail in one prediction they
may hit it in another and so there is no use
| getting discouraged. There Can be no fall
/ ure however in the prediction that at John
/ Ovens store on High street, dry goods,
| dress goods, boots and shoes, aud groceries
and provisions can always be bought at bot
/ tom prices.
! For Burns, Scalds, Bruises and every
1 pain and soreness of the flesh, the grand
/ household remedy is DR.. Thomas Electric
( OIL
There appears to be no lack of aspirants
/ for the County Superintendency. Among
/ others are Lewis Strayer, the present incum-
I bent, j. w. Leech. principal of the Ebens-
burg schools, W. j. Cramer, son of JOS
/ Cramer of Allegheny township, and a
graduate of the Indiana State Normal
/ School of the class of 1886, and several from
the south of the county. Surely with such
material as the aboYe a. hand there need be
] -. ant
! to preside over our schools.
There were 215 teachers enrolled at the
/ Teachers Institute last week. This IS the
largest number ever enrolled at an Insti-
tute in this county. The weather was very
favorable and the Institute was the mos
successful ever held in this county. Before
the opening of the country schools IS the
best time for a meeting Of tea chers tnat they
may be enabled to apply the instruction re-
ceived at the opening of their schools. Ihe
full proceedings will be published and mail
ed to teachers and directors.
The advertising car of the Blaine circu'
for 1888 passed over the Pennsylvania rail-
/ road on Tuesday last, ahd stopped for about
an hour at ,Johnstown. General Beaver, tht
| RanubIican candidate for Governor was IL
| PbiIadeIpbia when the aggregation started
Z ard az re was travelling in the same dl-
rection they kindly gave him a lift a
number of our Republican friends went L
.Tohnstown on Tuesday to see the man iron
Maine and returned the same night, spe-
ciaI train having been run to CTesson I'
/ bring them back,
Mr. Andrew Gutwald, on "Wednesday
last turned his COW into his lot for the put
pose of letting her eat some corn IodueI
I In the lot was an old abandoned well, aoou
thirty feet deep, covered with platform
that had become rotten. In browsiEf
around through the lot the COW got upoI
the pIatform and fell through, going do"i
backwards until she rea ched cross piece
IN the we'll. about fifteen feet from the top
where she hung. A number Of neighoor'
gathered around with ropes,and after con
adorable difficulty drew her OUT Ou' sur
I.onlv lived a few minutes afterwsrd.
Patrick Shay, about twenty one year
of age. formerly resident OF Johnsto"L
where bis sister, Mrs. Daniel Crowley SUI
resides. waa killed by the cars at Greers
bnro on last Saturday evening Inc de
ceaeed along with his brother, Timothy haC
bsen working at Scottdsle and starVou u
90 IN .Johnstown. At Greensourg they 20
of the train and Patrick started across th'
track when be was struck by a freigh
train that escaped his notice. His neck an'
p Fg