The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-03-12

The JOhnstown Tribune says: Grass
hoppers, as rule, don't hop into notice in
this region until the warm days of summer
arrive, but for some uuaccountable reason
they are appearing earlier this year. Mr..
/ AIVar Akers' little boys have been chasing
them about their fathers garden in Upper
hooer towns ship for several days. and this
morning Louie brought a few of them n
/ town IN bottle to convince a few ioubters
] OF the actual arrival OF the critters.
I Mr.. j. W. Leech, Principal OF our Pub.
tic schools, will open a Normal School IN
I tne EbensburR Public School building. on
( Aprii 10, 1886. The school will be conduct
/ ed oy mT. Leech. He will be assisted nv an
/ aole and competent instructor. whose name
VIII appear next week. Certificates .cfll .5t
be granted to students at the eIos. NJ the
term Special attention will be given IN
'eaeners. A fun course OF book keeping
VIII be one OF the features. I.eok for aa
Tertisement next week.
Mr.. David Farber. OF Wilmore Is at tbs
point Of death. For years he has been q
sufferer from an ulcer OF the stomach which
has grown to such proportions AZ to repoer
respiration dificult. On SATURDAY. ne had a
severe attack, and his limbs became rioid
HIS wife, who was with him at the time. al
min1stered such relief as she could, without
which In all probability he vould have
died. At last accounts he was resting
somewhat easier. though bis death nav oe-
cur at any time
George Hagely, a younq man ahout
sixteen years of age. who resided with his
grandfather. Mr.. Jadoc KohIer In Cone
mauRh township. and who vss EMPLOYED at
the engine house of the Cambria Iron Com
pany's blast furnaces Nos and 6. made a
misstep on Saturday evening last, while
working at the engine. and fell into tire fiy
Wheel, and was carried around two OF three
revolutions before the engine could be sten
ped He was killed instantly and terribly
mutilated, his head being crushed and one
Of his feet torn or
Charley Prin0le, a sixteen-vear-old soo
OF Mr.. George ID. PrinRle. OF wIlmcrs. died
on Sunday morning last Some eight or ten
days previously he was wounded in one OF
his legs by table fork, thrown, we believe,
oY Younger brother, but nothing was
thought OF the matter, and the probability is
that it had nothing to DO with his death,
though it was at first thought to have been
the remote cause. On Thursday he had to
leave school, complaining OF feeling chilly.
and his limbs and head sweIIed m. and az
his physician states g. developed typhoid
symptoms. with the sad result above stated.
The remains were inferred in the L. B.
cemetery on Monday.
A harrible double murder and arobbery
we're committed on Monday last at the farm
house OF >. T. Evprhart, near LIckiasyiIle.
Ia the northern part OF Clarion couAty, and
nineteen miles from the town OF Clarion. A
boy 10 the family returning from school
found Mrs. EveHhart lyinQ on the floor with
her throat cut from ear TO ear, and her /
mother, Mrs. Gillian, IN a springhouse, al I
so with her throat cut, and life extinct.
The house had been Fansacked ard three
hundred dollars taken. JohG T. Everhart !
Is a wellto do farmer and was oveseer Of
the poor. BE was absent from home on
township business at the time There is
great excitement throughout the county
On Monday evening as the Branch train
was making its return trip, and when near
Barkers' planning mill, at the east end Of
town, it ran 10 Cd a siding for the purpose
Of taking out a car load or lumber While
backing in, from some cause not exactly
known, freight car and two passenger
cars Jumped the track, one Of the passenger
ears turning over on its side. As they were
running very slowly at the time OF the acci-
dent. the engine was stopped before any
great damage WAS done. One passenger,
Mr.. JOSEPH Kopp. of Chest township. an
Did gentleman about seventy years OF age,
was slightly cut about the head and had his
mi m oh 20
to his home the next day. The ac
,ident is supposed to have been caused by
he spreading OF the rails The crew of the
rain. assisted by the repair hands, worked
'everal hours that night before they got the
'ars on :he track. Judge Orvis, Of Belle
'onte, was amongthe passengers.
Elsewhere 10 our columns will be found
he announcement of the Ebensburg Nor
nal School. The school offers superior ad-
7antages to the teachers of the county to
prepare themselves for teaching. TIE
'choOl has been successfully conducted dur
ug former terms and promises we'll for the
coming term, Supt. StraYer will be assisted
Turing the present term by Thomas Itel,
. graduate OF the Indiana State Normal
school and a successful teacher OF the coun-
y. Already q mum Der OF teachers are en-
oiled, and those desiring further informa-
ion should write to the Cuu-ty Superin-
endent for a circular OF the school. The
Jounty Superintendent is endeayoring to
and build up the schools Of the
oUntY by assisting and encouraging our
eachers to qualify themselves for their
york. Last term teachers were enrolled
rom nearly every district in the county and
we're in attendance from Indiana, Blair and
VestmoIeIand counties. There is a grow
ng demand for better schools and more
qualified teachers. aud our edu-
atiOnal institutions were never so well sup
'orted as at the present time. The Ebens
,urg Normal School has now become a per.
Danent school for the teachers Of the coun
y and those preparing to teach. -