The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13


1913 Eleventh avenue, Altoona. On.
"A new and dangerous counterfeit five
/ dollar gold piece is being circulated in diff.
! ferent parts os this state. To detect them
| from the good ones look closely at the word
| united" and if the ''u'' is upside down
! refuse it, as none but experts can detectIit
! any other way
| Mr.. F. j. BurgOon, who for the past
/ eight mon tbs has been night operator in the
Assistant TTain-master's Office at the West
End, this city, has accepted the position of
! Train Dispatcher on the Cresson & CIearfieId
Road, with headquarters at Cresson. Mr..
Burgoon is a well-doing, capable and court
eous gentleman, and the many friends whom
be made during his brief soiourn in this city
Will be rejoiced to learn that he has gone up
higher in the matter of emoluments, to say
nothing of the extra altitude he attains by
his return to his first love. Cambria county.
AtooRo Times
The drummer with the silver dollar
split in two and followed out is roaming
| around the country devourinp credulous
victims. His manner of procedure is as fol-
lows He throws his prepared dollar down
on the bar or counter and bets that it is
worth five dollars. He always finds some
one to bet with him, and when he gets most
OF the money in the crowd put up be deft-
~ opens his silver dollar and shows five
dollar gold piece reposing in the center.
The dollar is very ingenously constructed
the place of jOinture seems to be perfectly
concealed. and it requires dexteTous twist
to open mp the coin.
Mr.. Trout, a Jackson township farmer
left his twO-hOTse team and wagon standing
near the WOodvase tannery on Monday
morning About II O'Clock the Wildcat
engine on the Cambria Iron Company's rail-
way frightened the horses and they ran
behind the taDnery and dashed on the rail-
road bridge across the Conemaugh In the
rear Of the Gautier Works. The ties of the
bridge are Lot covered and the hors es' legs
dropped down between them. The wagon
was completely wrecked and the horses bad
iy skinned an6 bruised. About one hundred
men gathered on the bridge and succeeded
in rescuing the horses. The scene when
the horses plunged into the bridge is describ-
ed as peculiarly frightful.
The Hollidays5urg Standard Of this
week says A woman named Rebecca
Myers, daughter of Mr.. Anth ony Myers, of
Gallitzin township, Cambria county, was
brought to Altoona on Thursday of last
week in a manned condition. 1t seems that
she was of unsOund mind and Of a rowing
disposition, and was being brought by en-
officer to her home from Ardmore. When
near Miffiin. Juniata county, as the train
M mn iu of facf 70 ha
Gaping the officers attention for a moment,
raised a window sash and jumped headlong
through the window The train was stop
ped and when the woman was picked up she
was found 20 have been terribly injured by
the fall. Beth arms were broken at the
shoulders and her face horribly crushed
The nasal and Jaw bones were broken.
She was taken to the hospital where her
wounds we're dressed by the hospital ply
SiCians. Subsequently she was removed to
the almshOuse, and her friends notified to
come and see her by Poor Director LOuden.
She is about 40 years OF age and the chances
are that she will not recover.
james McCIain. tweuty-four years old
and native of DanviHe, New York, was
for some time past employed as weigher
headquarters at WallacetoD, CIearfield
county. There he met Ella Davis a beauti-
full young lady, and they became lovers.
Mccain was handsome, intelligent, and of
gentlemanly manners, and for time Miss
Davis seemed to be wrapped up in him.
Then GOODNESS came between them. and
recently Miss Davis sent the young man
word that she was about to he married to
another man. The trouble appears 20 have
been that he was a Protestant and she a
Catholic. McClain became insanely jeaI-
Gus. On Friday last be bought revolver
and drove to the young lady's home. She
received him in the parlor. He pressed his
suit. but was repulsed, Then be drew the
revolver and fired the bullet striking the
girl in the shoulder. She ran, and be fred
again, the bullet striking her in the back
and killing her instantly. He then put a
bullet in his own brain. letter found on
his person and addressed to Dear BIll''
tells OF bis trouble and of his intention to
kill the girl aud himself, The father of the
young man has arrived and taken charge Of
the body.