The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-08-12

"A fire broke out in W. l. Woodcock' :
stable in Hollidaysburg on Friday noon
and before the flames We're got under con
trol six other stables belonging to Benz.
Hewitt, \. :. Lands, Mrs. Buoy. Thomas
kenna, were destroyed. The Lutherau
church was damaged.
To poarh eggs in ball is a knacl,
, known to clever cooks. The water j.
heated 10 boiling, and then rapidly stirred
till Il small whirlpool is produced, in the
hollow heart Of which maelStrom the egg
is cleverly dropped. The motion Of the
water sets the white Instantly into cir
cuiar covering for the unbroken yok.
In anoth er column will be found the
card of J. +. Me kenrick, attorney a law,
who this week opens mp Il law Office in the
RCaGe building on Centre street. opposite
the Mountain House. Mr.. McKenrick
comes from Clearfeld. Pa, where he has
been a member OF the bar for fourteen years
aud has served two terms as District At
torney of Clcariicld county. He has also
been practicing before the supreme court
for the past eleven years and as a member
of the bar stands in the front rank OF the
profession. We welcome him aS a citizen
to our town and hope his professional ca
rccr may be pleasant and profitable.
A gentleman from the north of the
county who was in the city to-day says
that the explosion of powder near Chest
Springs last week was caused altogether by
carclcSSncSS. He says that foolhardy young
men have been making practice of tam
pering with the powdcr-h houses situated at
different points in that section. Near Car
rollrown more than dozen rife balls have
been fired into one of the StorehouSeS. and
nearly all of them have been damaged by
having the plaukS torn of. The boards
had been broken from this one at LOretto
several weeks before the explosion, and al
the time the accident happened one of the
boys had cautioned the Others that they
were in great danger.-JohHSt0Irh Herald.
A prisoner named Trainor. alias G.. w.
Miller, escaped from the Indiana county
Jail Saturday morning ana has not yet
been recaptured. He was taken from
Clearficld county little over a week ago.
He was arrested for horse stealing in In
diana county. While in Cleartield Jail he
was detected in the act of saving off the
haSp of big paddock. He confessed TO be-
ing the instIgator in a big Jail delivery.
terry. Not a bar is bent nor lock tam
pcred with, 50 far as can be found. Sheriff
Lewis thinks some outside party had a
key To the Jail. Another solution is that
when the SEeriff's little girl took some pa
pcrS into Jail. Trainor, who escaped into
the outer hall. slipped past her.
Joseph II. McPike son of Henry \
McPike, of Altoona, formerly of EbenS-
burg. where for eighteen years he
was editor and proprietor Of this paper,
died at the home of his father in Altoona
at 9:2O on Tuesday evening, after "A short
illness. The deceased was in good health
until Saturday when he played in a game
of ball and il is supposed that the cXertiou
in the heat was too much of a tax on his
strength. He complained of feeling I'D in
the evening and on Sunday morning
physician pronounced it a case of typhoid
fever, from which he continued sinking
until he breathed his last at the time above
stated. He was born in EbenSburg. Janu
airy = 1874, and was Is years and : months
old. He grew mp printer, having work
ed with his father on the FREEMAN and on
the Times in Altoona. and was a bright.
intelligent member of the craft. He was
of cheerful disposition, and only Il month
ago, accompanied by his Step-mother was
along with the Pennsylvania State Edi-
torial Association on its excursion to
Scranton and Albany, where we last saw
him, and his life then was full of promise
for the future. But there is a Providence
that shapes our ends, and we must all bow
to its decree. His father and family have
our heartfelt sympathy in their beIeave
ment. The iuterment took place in Eb-
ensburg to-day Thursday Immediately
after the arrival of the 1920 \. NJ train.