The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-01

aso ABOUT Two weeks ago, IN Tyrone, Blair
COUNTY "here he had been employed.
Ine Following named persons can zach
Ke' letter by calling at the Fbenshuro
postomce DR.. Fuller. A. G. FRY Jobr,
Williams, Jonn Runk. MI Fred CIevanoer
Mr. Lemuel Jones. G. Bruner, Mrs Rohert
IlilnY, Mrs. Phebe Jones and Miss Ana
da Weaken
our farmers are all busy now with their
iail "ork and have scarcely time To visit
'o"h ouU "hen they do come, they 90
a,ent 10 John Ovens store on High
street "nere dry goods, dress goods, boots
anu snoes, groceries and provisions are
always sold at bottom prices.
The United States letter suyeIope ia
ne" and unique device that is now being in
tfoduced into the principal postofices bv the
postmaster General. 1t is a combination of
letter sheet, envelope and new postaya
stamp OF the denomination of two cents
bearing the military portrait of Gen. II. s
| Grant. They are to be sold at the rate of
Sz5 per Thousand in any desired ouan titles
Ihey are especially handy for travellers.
"A reuuiou of the boatmen. trapspor,a-
uon men and Portage railroad men will ba
NED at Washington, on Thursday and Fri
| uay' October IA and 15th inst. Excursion
tickets Win be Issued by the railroad. The
| speakers Ramed for this occasion are Hon.
hIlam PGsce, of Washington, D. c.; Hon
II. l.. johnston, Of this place Rev. Thomp.
son Mitchell, d. D., of Wllliamsport, and
| W. ID. Schwartz, of the Altoona Tribune.
Mrs. Philip Flenuer of South Fork, on
SATURDAY last, was SO badly burned by an ex-
of nor hf,r, ,r~fIs
Sunday morning. Mrs. FIenner undertook to
hasten the FIRE in the kitchen stove by pour
| 'ng OIL on the wood and as a natural conse-
! queDce. an explosion followed, scattering the
| bofnrnR oil all over Ter clothes and setting
them on FIRE. She was horribly burned and
suffered In at agony until relieved by
4 abh
-Communications Intended for pubica
| tlou frequently arrive on Wednesday even
/ Ing, too late for publication. Sometimes
/ We can hnd room for matter received at
tnat'iate nour but as a general rule they
mast De left out, aud before the next pub-
| llcation day the news contained in them has
lost all its freshness and is old and pas,.
| AIIcommunicatiOns should be sent TO reach
/ the efice by Tuesday evenings mail or
4 Wednesday noon at the lstest.
While James Banks and James Barr,
/ two painters, were engaged in painting the
4 cOrDice of the Presbyterian church 10 Lewis
4 town, on last Saturday morning, the scat
/ folding on which they we're standing gave
\ way aud the men were precipitated to the
| gro ana below, a distance of fifty feet
4 Banks was instantly killed, his head strIk-
/ ing on large stoue, crushing in his skull.
I RAJ iufp
| pronounce fatal Banks was 80 years old
aud leaves a wife and three children.
Mrs. Grace Rodgers, relict of Murtaa
/ Rodgers, died at the residence of her daUgh-
ter Mrs. O'Donnen in MinersYilIe on Fri
| day last, aged one hundred and four years.
| MIS-. Rodgers was the mother of eleven
! children, seven Of whom survive as follows
| Sarah, the eldest, now past seventy-five
I years OF age, widow OF Anthony O'Donnell,
! W th whom Mrs. Rodgers made her home
Jshn, aged seventy-three, Of Prospect
/ Francis, OF Minersyille; Anthony, of Pros
4 pect; Catbarine, widow of Dennis Boyle, of
/ MiBersville Grace, widow Of James Moon
ey, of Prospect Michael, of Cambria, and
I Patrick, the youngest, of Millville.
| -On Wednesday night about half past
| ten crash was heard in front Of the jewel
ry store of Carl Rivlnius, and number of
! people who, we're still up, gathered there
/ and found a stranger, who gave bis name as
/ James Craven, standing there and one of
the side lights of plate glass in one Of the
| siaOVy windows broken. The man admitted
the breaking of the window and said he
wanted to be committed Whether II was
done for the purpose OF robbery or for the
ps pose of going to jail has been discussed
plo and con by all oCr citizens but cannot be
definitely settled. He was taken to jail and
a Jury at our next court will settle the ques-
tiUu.
On Saturday last, at PittsburR, j. H.
1 McCEeary, Esq, Of that citv, and Charles Z
Crosby, ESQ, OF New York, attorneys fol
William Van AKen, a resident Of Mes
York. filed a bill of complaint in the L. s
Circuit Court against the Cresson. Clear
deld County & New York Short Route
Railroad to recover ga 600 for work done
as suo contractor. Van AIKEN asks fo
the appOintment of Master TO take testt-
rnony andtix his compensation. The Cour
il also asked 20 declare null and void
mortgage of $3.50 90 made by defendant u
the American Loan & Trust Company,
New York, and require the latter corpora
tioD. as trustee nf the road, to cancel all o
the same Indebtedness now recorded In IN
Counties ofsOleaTfeld and CAMBRIA.
A gas we'll that is being drilled on tn
farm of William Black ourn. near Stewart
station, in WestmoreIand county, has deve
! oped a queer find that is puzz ing the scien
tis:s. The well had been drilled to depth g
/. 200 feet, and was working four inch oi
when it struck something soft. The ho'
: was reaaed out, when it was found that tt
bit had struck a log. Pieces OF wood owe
three inches in length we're taken out of To
. hole. Some of the pieces have been pre-
, sented to Mr. II. NJ. Lytle, Of Braddock =
? How many thousands of years the log he
. been there. or how it got down under l -
feet of earth and solid rock, is ptzzhr
ouestton. One solution gwen is that a. SON
distant time an earthquake had split the loc
> at that point, which after@ard closed. III
loo which Is two and a naE feetin diameCe
!, is in excellent condition.
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