The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-11-19

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'nIs place about three years ago, has opened
out on his own account in the building ovpned
oy MIS-. j. Hutchinson. Lovers of the deli
clous bivalve will here fnd them SERVED nm
IN every style. Give MIN call.
John Hughes, who served on the man.
oI-"ar' Essex, dnring the war of 1912, died
recently, at Mapleton. Huntingdon county.
a' the advanced age of ninety one. So far
a. Is known, there is but one survivor left of
tnose VINO did service on the Essex-Maior
Hn'oVt' OF Lewistown. Elliott is the oldest
printer IN the State, and he recently ceIebra-
Ved DIS nlnetY-fourth birthday,
"A Jew peddler, named Oscar Wolkow-
SKI mas been arrested for shooting Hunga-
LIah' named John Lacsei, near Mt Pleasant.
Fa'' on the 18th of October last. Immedi.
aVeiy after the shooting, Wolkowski disap-
peared and his victim was taken to the HO-
meopathic Hospital at Pittsbure, where he
fingered until death came to his relief on the
oth Of the present month. Wolkowski claims
the shooting was accidental
Il ,. kirOy and Miss Lizzie PriugIe
ooth OF WilmOre, Cambria county, were
married on Saturday In the parIor of the
DIXON House. this place by the Rev. J. S.
Bracken, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church. After the ceremonies and partak-
ing or bounteous and palatable dinner with
thelr host, Mr. Dan. Monahan, the happv
couple took the afternoon train for their
mountain village home. Greensb1trg Press.
! Lewis Hammers, a book binder in
flttsburg, on Monday night stabbed and
instantly Killed William Heath, his brother.
in-iaW. After the mnrder Hammers dis
appeared. On Wednesday morning the
1 police IN Altoona arrested man supposed
TO be Hammers as he got off Fast Line from
the west. But it was afterwards ascertafned
that he was not the man. Hammers surren-
dered himself to the PIttsburg police on
| Wednesday.
| d. E. Motley has sold half interest
IN the coal right Of five hundred acres of the
Ranstead tract on the Cresson and CoaIport
railroad, with view to going into the coke
/ business. Work has already commenced
and it is the intention to have one hundred
coke ovens in operation next spring. Del.
Is booming business at Fallen Timber and
will make handsome sum of money out of
the famous tract of land that Ranstead
{ thought be was selling to "bOy"
Louis K!Igore, a young man who re-
sides st DravosourR, opposite McKeesport,
met with fearful acci lent at Braddock OH
Tuesday evening, by falling a distance
of forty feet from the roof of "a furnace of
Carnegie Bros. & Co., s, sustaining Injuries
that will in all probability cause his death.
| The injured man was in the employ of the
Keystone Bridge Company and is supposed
to have been overcome with gas and fallen
to the ground while trying to set down by
the aid of a rope.
Mr.. Robert Hughes, of Indiana, Pa,
died at his home in that place on Monday
last, aged about sxty-eiRht years. The
remains of the deceased were brought to
this place on Wednesday and inferred In the
old Congregational cemetery beside those of
his first wife, The deceased was a brother
of Mr.. John Hughes, of Cambria town
ship, was raised in this neigh borhood and a
number of years ago carried OF the tanning
business at the old tanDery opposite Shenk-
les Grist mill.
The JOhnstown Tribune Of Saturday last
says: The District Attorney states that
the report that one of the alleged CressOn &
CleaTfeId train wTeckers has made a con-
fessiOn OF the crime is not correct 1t is ex-
pected, however, that before court meets one
of them will tell what he knows about the
matter. Whether he does or not, however,
the District Attorney regards as practically
immaterial inasmuch as in his opinion there |
is sufficient evidence without such confession /
to convict all the members of the gang.
Mr. Griffith G. Owens died at his home I
in Johnstown, on Monday night about elev-
en- O'Clock, aged about sixty-one years. !
Mr.. Owens for a number Of years resided in /
this place and was engaged in merchan- !
dising but about eight years ago removed to /
JOhnstOwn. He leaves a wife and family |
of four children, one son and three daught- /
ers, the son and two daughters being !
married. The deceased was a brother of ,
Mr.. David g. Owens, of Cambria township, /
and of Mrs. II. A. McMullen, of Johnstown, /
and Mrs John StOlz, of Carrolltown.
On Tuesday last. at st. MarY's Abbey, |
Newark, n. j., Rev. Father Pfraengle Of /
ST. Vincont's Abbey, WestmOreland county, |
was elected abbott to succeed ABBOTT ZiiliOx. /
Father PfraengIe was born May 8, 1S43, |
and was ordained in 1866. He was for some |
years professor of theology in st. Vincent's !
Abbey, and is now director of the same /
institution. he will accept the honor, |
which it is said was wholly unexpected, as |
be did not know that his name was mention |
ed for the place until he received a telegram |
yesterday notifying him of his election.
The following is a statement of the |
comparative prices in this country sixty |
wears ago A bushel Of wheat would then |
buy two yards of calico, or domestic shirt
ing now it will buy fifteen or twenty yards |
of the same grade of goods. A bushel Of !
corn would then buy pound of nails now |
it will buy ten pounds. A pair of factory |
blankets would cost a COW In 1920 now the |
price of a common cow will buy five pairs of |
as good quality. A bushel Of salt then Ie-
Ouired twenty dozen of eggs to pay for it ;
that number of eggs will now buy ten bush |
els of salt.
Mr.. John Dougherty, Of Mount Union, |
Huntington county. known to some of our |
older readers as Forwarding" John Dough !
erty. died on Friday last at Pittsburgh, aged |
eIghty-three years. At the time of his death |
he was engaged in building boat intended |
for the Allegheny river, and which from some |
new principles and theories of Mr.. Dough- |
ertv's was intended by its builder to be much |
faster than the ordinary steamboats, of the |
preseot day. Mr.. Dou0herty was the inYen- |
tor of the section boats used on the Canal |
in the days of the Old Portage railroad, and |
during his long life had made and lost seve- |
raj fortunes.
Within the last six months a large |
Quantity of spurious money. principally ten |
and fifty-ceLt pieces, has been put IN cIrcu- |
Iation in Huntingdon and neighborlng coun-
ties. and so carefully were the coins finished |
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