The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-05-13
Miss Julia DeaSy, of this place. was
visiting friends in PittSburg this week.

burg.
DIR. Porthero. of Johnstown. viii have
charge of the race track Of the Ehenshurg
Agricultural Society during the coming
summer and will commence training a
number Of fine horses next week.
Mrs Mary Jane NcNorriS will offer q
public sale = very desirable hotel stand in
Tuun"lhilI borough on Wednesday. Nav
- 1892: also a house containing six rooms.
See advertisement in another column.
Clinton county has an sO-vear-old citi-
zen. one Jacob Deise who recently cut
SiNtv-thrce mine props twenty-eight
| inches At the ton. peeled one. and one-half
tons of bark in three weeks. walking a dis
tance Of three miles every day
Mr.. Joseph Horner. who for number Of
wears kept hotel i'm Wilmore. died on Fri
day last, aged about 20 years. He leaves
wife and several grown-up children.
| His remains were inferred i'm St BarthOlo-
news cemetery AT Wilmore on Sunday.
j c. Hassaft of baltimore. while en-
| gagged i'm experimenting the construction
| of tunnel on the Beech Creek railroad.
| near Kcrmoor. Clca rfcld county. was
! struck in the back by falling stone which
! fractured the spinal column. He was re-
moved 10 his home.
Good roads cannot he built for nothing:
| they cannot be maintained without intel
! ligent supervision. But wherever they
! have been constructed they soon pay for
| themselves twice over. putting two or
| three dollars in the farmers pocket for
everyone they take out.
Samuel Miller. of Adams township.
| jumped flom a moving train at South
| Fork on Wednesday morning, and falling
on his face was badly scratched. Mr..
| Miller is an old man hut young enough 10
| learn that jumping of moving train is a
| very dangerous proceeding
The break in the arch AT Dishart's fill
| on the Cambria Il Clcarficld railroad. re-
| ported i'm last weeks FREEMAN was much
more scriouS than we supposed. Instead
OF taking two or three DAYS 10 repair the
| damage. it will likely take several weeks
| and cost from 5000 10 $4,000
| Quite a number Of our citizens have re-
| "eived letters within the past few days
| from New York containing green goods
| circulars. People who read the papers
never get caught on bats of that kind. but
| occasionally some one too stingy 10 take
! and pay for paper sees the rare chance
! 10 make fortune and gets left.
A Hungarian who was standing
watching the lahorers at the new bridge at
the east end of the tunnel near Benning-
| ton. or Saturday was struck by the der
rick falling and received injuries which
! caused his death few hours aftcrward
He was buried in the AmShouse cemetery
in Blair county on Monday.
| Henry Sell. Administrator of Jeremiah
| Pergin. will sell at public sale on the farm
of the deceased i'm Jackson township. one
| mile from Munday's. on Saturday
May 18th. al O'Clock p. NJ. one bav horse.
l good set Of harness. l set buggy harness.
! one-hOrSe spring wagon. pole and neck
yoke. lot OF hay. bcdstead, corner cupboard.
sleigh old iron, etc.
some farmers in northern Berks coun-
" who refused sixty 70 eighty cents n
bushel for their potatoes last fall. in eX-
pectation Of obtaining still higher prices.
| are now selling them al sixteen 10 nineteen
cents. while others are giving them away
| If parties are only willing 10 take them. In
other cases farmers are hauling them on
their fields to rot. Some have several
| hundred bushels on hand
| On Sunday a fight occurred i'm an ItaI-
| ian tenement house i'm Altoona i'm which a
! rough named Pinkcv Marks figured as one
of the principals. Knives and clubs were
! feely used and Joe Patrc who figured in
| The capacity of peaccmaker. was struck
| on the neck by brick and instantly killed.
/ No one can be found Who saw the fatal
| missile thrown. Investigation showed
| that Patre'S neck was broken.
| Two men giving their names as II. w.
! Keith and J. II. Devorc and residence az
! Altoona. were arrested in BriSbin Clear
! field county. on Friday night. for passing
! counterfeit money. Among their belong
! ings were found thirtv-one counterfeit -
! bills. in addition 10 a half dozen or more of
] the same denomination that they succeed
| ed in getting changed at as many bar
| rooms in the course Of the evening. They
were lodged in the Clarified jail the same
evening.
! Another Illicit still was captured bv
| revenue officers. near Somerset. on We'd
neSday. The still was discovered several
/ days ago by an officer while searching the
mountains back of Trent for the murderer
| Pritts. 1t had been dismantIed and was
| concealed i'm a clump Of bushes about a
half mile from PrittS'S home. Officer
SchloSScr says that the capacity of the
| captured Still i not less than $50 gallons.
and he believes il 10 be the largest unrcg-
| iStered still ever captured in the United
| States
1t Is said that trains will be running
on the Cambria and ClearfieId railroad
| about the middle Of June. What would
| be the matter with getting up an eXcur-
| sien trip from EbenSburg TO Hastings. say
about Saturday the 25th of June. for the
| purpose Of seeing the country along the
! Chest Creek. We could leave in the morn
/ ing, take dinner al Hastings and return i'm
! the evening. Editor Kaylor. Of the Hast
| ingS Tribune and Squire Anna. would each
! look little after the party and see that III
| were safely loaded on the cars for the re-
! turn trip. Talk II over with your wives
| and Sweethearts and let us make il go.
/ The United States Grand Jury in
! PittSburg on Friday found true bills
/ against the Rev. VIM. II. Dill. the Clear
| field bank president, for embezzlement;
! Theodore Myler, the ex-aSSistant post
master Of Allegheny. same charge. and
/ James kinley. for making cognterfeit coin.
! Mr.. DillS OffenSes consist i'm the alleged
! embczzlcment OF two cashiers due bills on
! June 9th, 1891. amounting 90 S5,625.O7 and
( s3o"orespoctively: note made by Putnam
x Crockett on June Goth of 81 500: one by
| the same m akers on August 22nd of 81 600:
one made made by the Caledonia Lumber
! Company on July 22nd, amounting "a
/ $500, and one made by Putnam Il Crock
/ EFT on September 2sth. of 81 900. There are
/ two charges against Mr.. Dill-one for en-
/ bezZlement and one for falsely certifying "a
| checks and notes. The case arises out
of the failure of the Clearfield aud uoutz-
dale banks.
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