The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-06-29

The click OF the mower and the rattle
OF the binder will soon be making pleasant
music for the farmer. The music will be
pleasant because the crops are excellent.
Felix McCue, OF Upper Prospect, was
brought 10 this place On Wednesday and
lodged In jail to answer a charge OF surety
of the peace preferred by his wife. Mrs.
McCue alleges that her husband threw
stones and pointed a revolver at her and
threatened to kill her.
An entertainment will be given In the
Opera House this (Friday) evening by the
Normal School OF this place. The Pro-
gramme OF exercises will be sufficiently
varied to suit ali persons OF good literary
taste, consisting Of recitatIons, songs, duets.
choruses, short dramas, a ghost scene, class
history and the EbensbuIg Comet" An
admission fee will be charged for the pur-
pose Of defraying hall rent and other out
side expenses incident to furnishing the
people Of the town free literary entertain
ment once a week during the Normal term
OF school. Reserved seats 25 cents. Gener-
al admission 10 cents.
Shortly before the picnic train started
on its return trip from Roaring Spring.
Blair county, or Saturday, two boys be-
came engaged in a difficulty with three men.
O3e man knocked one OF the boys down
and another buried large stone at him.
The missile struck him on the nose. break
ing that organ and backing both his eyes.
The boys companion then picked up a
stone and threw it at the men, striking one
on the head. when the other two men made
a rush for the boy. He picked up another
stone and fired 1t at them, but his aim was
bad, and boy who was watching the fight
received il In the face.
1t is believed that one Of the guests of
the Commercial Hotel, Dubois, perished in
the flames during the late conflagration.
He was in room in No. Is, and the proprie.
tor knowing that be had gone thither to take
| a nap, went up to waken him. He found
him either overcome by smoke or sleeping
so soundly that he could not be wakened,
and the proprietor barely succeed in escaping
with his own life. 1t is also supposed that
a man perished in the Baker House. as .
man without legs who was selling songs on
the street was stopping there at the time oi
I the fire and has not been seen since.
"A destructive freight wreck occurred or
/ the Pennsylvania railroad, Just above Col
umbis, Pa, on Thursday evening. One
/ train ran into another and FIVE car loads OF
/ oil caught fire. These, with a number Of
/ car loads of lumber and merchandise, were
/ destroyed. The ERE spread rapidly, and
several tenement houses and some outbUild-
I ings, belonging to Grubb & Sons furnace
/ were burned. The Columbia fire depart
\ ment was soon on the ground. but had not
/ sufficient number of engines to subdue the
! flames. Fire apparatus and men were SEN
I up from Lancaster and the fire was soor
under control. The loss will be consider
able, and TIE railroad company will De thi
heaviest loser.
/ Postmaster General Dickinson. in an
nouLcing to Postmasters the approval b,
the President OF the act OF Congress rela
tive to writing upon the outside of euyel
opes or wrappers, states that such matte
will be treated precisely as obscence matte
is treated under ;he provisions of Section
$50, postal laws and regulations. Any pos
tai card or any matter upon the envelope o
outside wrapper OF which appears anything
l which reflects iniuriOusly upon the persul
addressed, or any one else, or upon his char
acter or conduct. or is plainly calculated AM
Intended TO injure his feelings or reputation
or bring him TO discreidt. or which threat
ems him, will be excluded. Anything in tn
nature OF an offensive or threatening dul
apparent upon an envelope, outside cove
or postal card or conveying the suggestion
that such dun is enclosed. will be excludes
as non maileble under this act.