The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-10-16

last week by Deputy Sheriff Davis and
Harvey Stineman-
| The late VIM. l.. Scott's estate is val
ued at between seo.ooo,OcO and S25.Oco.or
| and the annual income at 81 .3oo.ooo. Mat
| thew Taylor. son of the late Judge Taylor,
| Of Huntington. has been appointed 10
manage the estate at an annual salary of
! S5nGn.
-ThoS. II. Heist. Esq. proprietor of the
| Maple Park Hotel, has grown among other
crops on the Maple Park farms this season
1 a large and spledid crop of Irish potatoes
/ from impaired stock, some Of which weigh
as much as two and quarter pounds each.
Beat this II you can. yc farmers of Cam
/ bria.
! The PunXsutawney Nelcs says: n
woman living near town owns a pig that
] ought To make a good roast along about
/ the holidays. One night this summer it
| ate twenty-five young turkeys and one
! chicken at one meal and was up early next
morning Squealing loudly for its break
! fast.
| After investigating the fatal disease
! that has been killing scores of cattle in
! Huntingdon county, Dr. Bulge, of the
| State Board of Agriculture, pronounceS it
n brain malady, caused by worms lodging
| in the brains. There was nothing found
| to indicate that disease resulted from the
| importation of Texas splenic fever.
james T. Young. warden of the EbcnS-
| burg jail has been in the city for several
days. He intends to locate here, and is
looking for house in which to move.
Mr.. Young evidently sees the signs in
the air for the coming election and is pre-
pairing in time to vacate the position held
under the sheriff.-JohnstoICn Herald.
On Thursday morning OF last week the
barn Of Henry Allison, in East Taylor
township, caught fire In some unknown
manner and was burned TO the ground.
Fourteen tons of hay, two hundred and
fifty bushels of potatoes, lot of grain. farm
ing implements. harness, etc, were de-
Stroyed. The loss Is estimated at 81 so,
on which there was no insurance.
Harry NJ Crcsswell. who aided Teller
William Hamilton in robbing the Houtz-
dale. Clearfeld county bank of S3n.Ono a
few months ago,waS arrested al Toledo,
Ohio. On Monday and taken Ia Jail az
Clearheld for trial He was travelling un-
der an assumed name and a letter from a
young lady. lifted by another party of the
same name, gave the clue % hts identity.
An oId mau named George Anderson.
- B-u's Crrrk. Wa caught on the bridge
~ the Somerset a Cambria railrsad az
Johustowu on Saturday hy an approaching
tram. and % save himself from bring run
over by the cars, jumped "a the river
twenty-five f--t b-loN. lie rccciv-d In
iuri~s whirh proved fatal. a. h. aicd few
hours aft@rward Ia the JohnstoWn hospit-
al
Patrick Conuell. 81 Johnstown while
under the infiu-nrc of liquor on wednes-
day night. attempted 20 commit suicide by
drinking a glass of b-rr into which he had
emptied a quantity of rough on rats" \
young man standing near struck the glass
from his hand and saved his life COnnell
j. a widower. his wife having died lately.
and he j. deSpondent- lie L. siNty-iive
ycarf Of age.
Mrs. Mary Jane Burgoon, of Allegheny
township. viii sell AZ public sale at her
residence in that township on Saturday
October 3lSt. inst At one o'clock, +. NJ, the
following personal property To wit: Fod-
der cutter. corn sheller. copper kettle. iron
kettle, cook stove. heating stove. cupboard,
two sewing machines, tables, beds and bed
ding, two bureaus, chairs and many other
articles too numerous to mention.
According to a contemporary no jock
ey will be able 10 fool you If you paste this
in your hat: After horse is nine years
old wrinkle appears on the eye-lid, at the
upper corner of the lower lid. and every
year thereafter lie has one well defined
wrinkle for each year of his age over nine.
If. for instance. a horse has three wrinkles,
he is twelve. Add the number of wrink
les to nine and you will always get at it.
John Carnahan, the Sewickley town
ship (Westmoreland county, miSer, who
was robbed ofover =, 600 last August, was
fieeced out of several hundred more last
Saturday by couple OF New York green
goods men who exchanged their worthless
stuff for gold and silver which the old fell
low had buried in the cellar and which he
dug up while they were waiting. He did
not discover that he was duped until Mon
day.
On Monday morning a brakeman
named William Bagley, who boarded at
Derry, was the victim of fatal accident
at Latrobe. He was in the discharge of
his duties when in some manner he was
thrown from car aud under the wheels.
His death was instantaneous. He was
about twenty yfour years of age and his
home was in Morrellville, suburb of
Jehnstown, to which place his body was
taken for interment.
"A prominent Ebensburs Democrat and
a Seventh ward Republican, of this city,
wager their cows on the result of the
Linton's defeat the Ebensburg man agrees
to drive his COW from Ebcnsburg in person
and deliver it 10 the Seventh ward man,
and the Seventh ward man agrees, in case
of Mr.. Barker's defeat, 10 load his COW on
the cars and ship her To Ebensburg.-
JOhHstOlCn Democrat
On Friday night of last week the barn
of Hon John c. Gates, in White township,
was discovered TO be on fire and the progress
OF the flames was so advanced before the 4
discovery that it was found impossible to
rescue two horses that were kept in the
building and they were burned To death.
Two carriages, ten tons of hay, harness, I
etc. were also burned. The loss is estima-
ted at about 81 900 on which thrre was an
insurance of 500 in the Cambria Mutual
On Thursday night of last week two
horses were stolen from the barn of Henry
Helsel, at Blue Knob, in Blair county.
One was brown black horse years old,
right hind foot white, star on forehead, |
saddle mark on shoulder and white spot
on neck. The other bay mare years
old, slim built, right hind foot white, sad
pie mark on shoulder and white star on
forehead. A reward of $50 is offered for !
their recovery aud s25 for the arrest of the |
thief.