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

The grasShoppcr plague Is caHsing
great havoc in different ections Of Wes1-
mOreland county. In many locaIijirs the
oats crop has been totally DESTROYED. One
farmer reports thly his ten acre field OF
olts would not WELD fifty bushels
Mr.. FeliN Luda ig, of the East ward
i, about establishing butter. cream and
milk dairy for the purpose of supplying
the people of EbenSburg with these neccS-
saricS. Mr.. Ludwig viii take orders and
deliver these articles TO all parts of the
town.
The miners at the HOPPER. Wilson
Mines. on Trout Run. in Portage town
ship. are out on a strike. having some
difficulty with the manager of the mines
over the employment of Il check weigh
man. The miners want a check weigh
man while the manager does not.
-Incz KinportS. youngest daughter Of
Porter kinportS, of Cherrytree died at
Ronccverte, w. Va, last Thursday, of
peritonitis. aged II years and months.
The remains were brought to Cherrytree
and inferred in the cemetery at that place,
on Saturday evening at : o'clock.
The Pennsylvania and Northwestern
railroad will run another excursion to Nj
agara Falls on Tuesday, August 23rd, the
fare for the round trip being only $500.
The train will leave BclIwood at 5 \. NJ.
CoalpOrt at OH p. NJ. This will be rare
chance for a cheap trip to Niagara.
On Tuesday night burglars entered
the iewclry store of j. n. Covalt, AT SAX
ton, Bedford county, blew open the safe
and stole twenty eight watches belonging
10 customers. The ticket Of
flee on the Huntingdon and Broad Top
railroad at McConnellStown and Grafton
We're also burglarized.
On Friday evening a stranger called at
]. NJ. Osbornc'S livery stable at Latrobe To
hire a team to drive three miles into the
country. He was given Il cream cOlored
horse and an oak grained yellow buck
wagon. That was the last seen of him or
the team and Mr.. Osborne offers $50 re-
ward for the return of the hersc and wag-
on and the conviction of the thief
John Aiken, who lives in Roaring
Spring, Blair county, had kerosene lamp
burning on stand near his bed on Friday
night last and went to sleep while it was
burning. About II o'clock he awolle and
found that the lamp had exploded and the
bed was burning. He gave an alarm and
the fire was eXtinguiShed, but not until
the bedding was nearly all consumed.
Teachers institutes will be held as
follows in the central part of the state:
Blair county, Hollidaysburg, December
%: Bedford, Nov. 26; Centre, BelIcfonte,
December %: Clcarield, Clcarfield, Dec.
10: Franklin, ChambcrSburg, Nov. II:
Huntingdon, Huntingdon, Nov. II; Juni-
alta, N1ifflintown. Nov. p: Mifflin, Lew
iStown. Nov. Il; Perry, New Bloomfield
Dec. ;.
Thomas Ticrnan, of Altoona, was in
Stantly killed on Sunday evening, by being
run over by an engine. He was returning
from the mountain on a freight, and when
in the city yard h e jumped Off and landed
on the track Immediately in front of an
other engine. The engine passed over him
cutting his head off close to the, body. He
was married and leaves one child. He
was 26 years old.
Miss Kate Fettinger, ayoung lady for
merly of Altoona, but Low located in New
York. narrowly escaped drowning while in
bathing at Coney Island on Thursday of
last week \ huge wave submerged her
ed washed her from the ropes a cOnsidcra-
bic distance. Two men rescued her in an
unconscious condition and soon restored
her to her friends.
Monday evening the 12-year -old son Of
Mr.. Isaiah Sipe, of JohnstOwn, while
riding a bicycle on the street was run into
by horse and buggy. The driver, Mr..
George Osborn. did not see the young man
who is supposed TO nave rode in front of
the buggy. The boy received severe scalp
wound about two inches long. He was Ia
ken home where his injuries were attend
ed 10. His body was considerably bruised.
William Paine, aged -, was instantly
killed and William Griffith, aged 80, was
fatally injured by the explosion of a boiler
at Eaton Bros saw-mill at Trent, Somer-
set county, on Tuesday. The mill had been
running for several hours before the eX-
plosion occurred, and what caused it no
one appears TO know. Griffith's skull was
crushed by a flying sheet of boiler plate
and his recovery is impossible. Paine was
killed outright.
Samuel Reese, the oldest citizen in
WestmOreland, or perhaps in Pennsyl-
vania, died at his home in Bolivar, on
Wednesday, at the remarkable age Of 1Oi
years, month 10 days. The deceased was
born in England. June Il, 17sS, afterwards
went to Wales and came to this country
in 1892. He was an experienced iron work
or and built several iron works, having
walked at PhnniXville Apollo, Hunting
don. Bellefonte and PittsburG.
burglars entered the residence of Post
master II. A. Boyes, Of Junata, suburb
of Altoona. on Wednesday, and stole there
from SIOi.Cf worth of stamps and sjO.27 IN
cash, which was in registered letters.
silver watch was also stolen. The deed
was accomplished by chloroforming the
postmaster while he was asleep and taking
from his bedroom the above mentioned
articles which he had carried there for
safer keeping than in the pOstOliice build
ing.
-Stcphed Acor, of PittSburg, has en-
pIoycd NJ b. Stephens, Esq, ofJOhnStOwn
aS counsel to take steps TO recover the 500
reward for the arrest of Bruner, the muir
dcrcr OF Sam Reese. We would suggest To
the Commissioners that in Offering re-
ward for the next murderer in Cambria
county they make the offer as follow: for
the ARREST and conviction, unless par
doncd or sentence commuted." As at
present il is hardly worth Offering a re-
ward.
About two O'Clock on Monday morning
the building occupied by Mrs. John Leap
as a dwelling and storeroOm at Cassan-
dra was discovered to be on fire and was
soon burned to the ground, together with
its contents. consisting of a stock of gener-
al merchandise and household goods. The
loss is estimated at 5000, on which there
was an insurance OF s., 800. The fire is sup
posed to be the work Of incendiarics and il
il believed that the store was first robbed
and then set on fire.
Tho Morgan Envelope Company. Of
Springfield Mass. has the contract for ~
DpO,CpO double postal cards a device "hi2h
ha, long been considered by the pOSJoliicc