The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-09-23

| Monday afternoon to Squire Joseph Hum
| mel, of Dale borough
The c. = Barger's Grand Quincuplexal
Company, viii play. here tonight WED
neSday) at the opera house. 1t is a good
company and We have no doubt those who
attend will be highly pleased with the en-
! tcrtainmcnt.
-MeSsrs. c. A. Langbein & Son are the
owners of fine horse that arrived here ON
| the train on Tuesday evening, Ii is a
wooden one, but looks as natural as life
and IL is intended To display the harness
manufactured by that firm upon.
Mr.. George Clegg, who for some time
past has been at the Altoona recruiting
| station, United States army, has been in
formed that he has fallen heir to a large
sum OF money, the amount being consider
ably over half a million dollars.
The Pittsburg Dispatch of SUNDAY pub
! fishes death notice of Clara Leona.
daughter of Charles V. and Ida f. Nc
! Dermttt, of Allegheny, Pa, aged one year
and eight months, with the request that
Altoona aud Ebensburg papers copy it.
Mr.. ChaSles O'Hagan one of Gallitzin's
/ oldest and best citizens, died at the home
OF Il. @ Hagan, secretary of the Cresson Il
! Clearhela Coai and Coke Company, on Fri
day last, aged about ~ years. His remains
were laid 10 rest in the Catholic cemetery
| at GulitZin on Sunday
"A cable dispatch from Carlsbad.
/ France, announces thedeath in that place,
/ on Friday of cholera of Mrs Clara Evans,
niece of Hon. James Miliken and the
Valentines. of BellefOnte. Mrs Evans
| was in Rcllefonte only few weeks ago,
and had gone to Carlsbad for her health.
| -Clcariield county towns are to be con-
| n"cted 10y electric street railways. Char
| terS have recently been granted by the
| state department TO the Clearfield and
/ wenSVille Passenger Railway Compa-
/ ny, ana 10 the PhilipsbuTg and HoutzdaIe
! Company. The capital stock of each com
| pauy is 100000.
"A gentleman representing the mer-
! charitable firm of Ballzell Bros, of Altoo-
na. whose name we failed to learn was
! knocked down on the fair grounds by Oh e
! Of the many hacks that run between this
| place and the fair grounds and was run
! over. He received an ugly cut on the
! face but was not seriously injured,
The funeral of William Duncan. who
! died in Denver, Colorado on September IA.
nesday, the funeral services being conduct
ed by Rev. B. ii. Fish. He was raised in
| this county. but went TO Colorado about
| twenty years ago. He was forty years OF
| age. His remains were Inferred in Lloyd'S
| cemetery.
E-The little Vernon Brothers will give
one Of their musical entertainments at the
opera house on Thursday night. The little
Vernon Brothers have been here before
and all who heard them were delighted
with them. They are skillful performers
on the violin, picolo. and violincello and
we have no doubt they will be greeted with
a full house.
Sadie f. Swank, daughter of Mr.. James
NJ. Swank. president of the Iron and Steel
Association and a brother of Mr.. George
Swank. editor of the JohnStown Tribune,
died At Carnegie cottage, CreSson, on Sat
mday night aged about ~ years. ForSOm
time past she has been sufferer from that
most inSiduous disease, pulmonary con-
sumption, and her death had not been un-
expected.
Prof. A. L. Smith, of the Washington
Observatory. and w. c. Powell, an engin-
ecr of the United States Geodetic Survey,
are making a tour of Pennsylvania noun
tain tops 70 select site for Ma
tiOnal Observatory for meteorological and
astronomical purposes. Among places Wis
ited so far are Lloydsville, Cambria coun
": Pen-Mar, Franklin county: Broad
Top. Bedford county; Pine Hill, Somerset
county, and Brush Mountain.
Mr.. Joseph James, an old resident of
this place. died on Friday of last week,
aged about - years. In the days when
the old stage lines were the only common
carriers carrying passengers between
Philadelphia aud Pittsburg. Mr. James
was a stage driver. and with his death has
passed away the last Of the oldtime driv-
ers that resided in Ebensburg, He is sur
vived by widow and two sons, Robert and
Thomas. both residents of this place.
On Saturday Nancy Barger, OF Roland,
Center county. celebrated her Tooth birth
day. Mrs. Barger can remember OF Wash
ington'S death and has good recollection
of every presidential contest since 1901.
| She was present at the first executions in
! Centre county. those of Negro Dan" and
| the famous "MouIs'" Notwithstanding
| her having reached the centenariOn mark
| she is as spry a. most women at fifty, man
/ aging her farm and doing most Of her own
! housework Her youngest child il IS years
| Of age.
C. II. Morse, of Blair county, and ID. e.
| Myers. Of Cambria county, two Of the Re-
! publican conferees in this congressional
| district in company with Hon. j. ID. Hicks,
! Of Altoona. the Republican nominee for
| congress- on Monday evening filed with
! the secretary of the commonwealth Mr..
! Hicks nomination papers, which contain
nearly > 900 names of Republican voters OF
| the district OF the names filed 800 are
from Cambria county, $50 from Bedford,
] 25O from Somerset. and the remainder from
| Blair Mr.. Hicks claims that the filing OF
! these papers places his name on the official
| ballot beyond question.
! The county line case, which has at
| racted the attention of Mifllin county
! citizens for several years, particularly
! those of the KisEacoquilla valley, came 10
| "A elimination so far as the United States
| district court is concerned, during the past
! ten days. At the session of court at VIII
| Transport the case had been on trial ioI
| several davS. and on Tuesday last Justice
Ru0ington charged the jury. taking strong
| ground that the Niiflin county line should
be seven miles west Of where Huntingdon
county people have been locating 1t. Ihe
iury took one ballot and then rendered a
verdict in accordance with the judge
| opinion.
The mutiated body Of Dorsey Smith
a former resident Of Johnstown, but foi
the past nine years a resident OF Bolivar
was found on the railroad track near the
stone bridge In Johnstown, about O'Clock
on Saturday evening. The body was Gu,
up i'm a horrible manner. Both legs and
arms were ground off, the upper part oi
the head was crushed, and the intestlnes
protrudcd. presenting a Sickening appear
ance. Both arms were of at the elbows
and the legs at the knees. No person Wit
messed the accident but 1t is thought that