The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-10-30
This time next week there will be some

/ Bears are said To be plentiful in the
vicinity of Keating. Clinton ccnnty. They
are being caught in pens and traps.
| Tell your Democratic neighbor abou I
the Importance OF the election on Tuesday
next and see that he goes and votes.
! H. II. Myers, Esq, and Philip G. Fen
| Ion were in Johnstown on Wednesday as
! guests at the wedding of District Attorney
! O'Connor.
Nothing gives greater peace of mind TO
man than good deed we'll done. Vote
| for Linton, Gray and the whole Demo-
| cratic ticket.
! On Wednesday of last week Bishop
/ Phelan, OF Pittsburg. confirmed one hum
dred and twenty children in the Catholic
church at Wilmore.
| Gertrude, a child Of Mr.. Frank Cassl-
! dy, formerly of this place, died In Altoona
oil Monday last, of malarial fever aged one
! year and six months.
Cards are out for the marriage of Mr..
! Rernard Farley. and Miss Mary, daughter
of Hon. Midhael Fitzharris, both of Gal
lltzn on Wednesday, November 11th.
Did you ever notice that the man who
is fondest Of playing practical jokes on his
when the tables are turned and the joke is
on him.
On Monday last, Mrs. Louisa Ray, of
Payne township, Indiana county, while
laboring under fit of melancholia hung
herself by the neck with a woolen scarf TO
the top of door in her residence, and
when found was dead. She was about ~
years of age and leaves husband, one son
and one daughter.
Conductor William Pringle, of Cone
maugh, was hurt at Cresson, on Friday
night, by the breaking of a rope while as
Sisting 10 clear the track of the wreckage
mentioned in another item. He was work
ing with a block and tackle when the rope
broke, striking him on the hip and side
injuring him severely. He was taken TO
his home at Conemaugh.
Mr.. Gilbert kirkpatrick, promising
yonng man of Carroll township, died on
Saturday, October oath. from typhoid fever
in the twenty first year of his age. His
father. Mr.. James Kirkpatrick, has been
lying very low with the same disease, but
we understand his condition has lately as
sumed more favorable aspect, and hopes
are now had that he will recover.
The bern OF John w. Miller in Carroll
township was struck by lightning about
seven o'clock on Monday evening and to-
gether with its contents consisting of hay,
grain, etc, was burned TO the ground.
the live stock and some farm machinery
were gotten out and saved, The loss is
estimated at 81 600 on which there is an
insurance of 1894 in the Cambria Mutual.
-Johnstown Tribune October IS:
MnSSrS Sfah q 4 no
overhead bridge at Conemaugh, yester-
day found two flood relics. An ivory bill
lard ball was unearthed in the river. near
where the excavation for the pier is being
made, and a silver match box was dug up
on the Conemaugh side, near the foot of
Main street, where the Central hotel used
70 stand,
Thomas Brown. resident OF Portage,
and a miner by occupation, was cut in two
by the cars at South Fork on Monday af-
ternoon. Brown was in South Fork and
Intended going home on q freight train,
and in attempting 10 get on the moving
train, missed his hold and fell, with the
above result. He was about thirty years
of age and leaves a wife and child to
mourn his untimely end.
ison, Westmoreland county, last Friday,
John Wagner, farmer, shouldered a shot
gun and started to a field TO shoot a chick
en- hawk. which had been killing his poul-
try. His little son, aged five years, follow
ed a. his heels. Bringing the weapon TO
his shoulder, the hammer caught in the
lining of his coat and the gun was dis
charged, the entire load entering the
breast of the boy. The little fellow suf-
fered awful agony until evening, when he
died.
Mr.. John T. Long. the well-known
builder and contractor, of Summerhill, has
about completed the Catholic parsonage in
this place. The house l. model in con-
venience and design. while the workman
ship and material is OF the finest and best.
Mr.. Long has reputation for doing good
work and the parsonage building is only
another witness in his behalf. Parties de-
string TO erect buildings will do well to con-
suit Mr.. Long, as his contracts are always
completed according 10 the terms OF the
specifications.
In the United States district court at
Pittsburg on Wednesday the grand jury
found a true bill in the second Indictment
u
National bank of Clearfeld, charging him
with misapproprlating funds. The counts
number one To twenty eight, inclusive, ac-
cusing him as an officer of the bank of EN-
bezzling funds; twenty mine to thirty-one,
of misapplylng funds. The thirty second
charges him with abstracting funds. 1t is
thought that the total amount of his short
age will reach nearly 100000.
Counterfeit silver dollars of the issue
Of 1890, of which glass is the principal COM
ponent, have been discovered at the United
States sub-treasury in Philadelphia.
Nearly all the bogus dollars came from
the banks, where the receiving tellers had
taken them for genuine. The touch and
ring are perfect, but they are lighter in
weight and thicker than the genuine dol
lar. They do not have spurious look,
even after short use, but retain the finish
and lustre of the genuine coin. Some of
the coins are of 1888 and 1889 date.
One Of our leaders says that Candidate
Barker called on a number of the members
of the Independent Republican Club In the
Thirteenth Ward yesterday evening to
solicit THAR votes. He says that, even II
his brother was member of the ring
whose methods they opposed, he hoped
they would not slaughter him on that ac-
count. The gentleman quoted says that
nothing the politicians may have to say
will influence the members of this club,
they have fully made up their minds as TO
what they intend to do.-JohnstOtcn
Herald.
Michael Rauft, who resides near Mead
owvale, suburb of Johnstown, while re-
turning from work on Tuesday night,
started across a small tresiie bridge across
Solomon's run, on the track Of the Johns