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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03
The River and HarbOT Bill.

WASHINGTON, June 1.-The friends of
the river and harbor bill are becoming
somewhat anxious as to its ultimate fate.
At present it stands upon the calendar
with the Senate amendments pending.
Should it again-as according 70 the
rules it must do-rUn the gauntlet Of
the committee Of the whole, the time Of
its final passage would be wholly prob
lematical, as every amendment would
be subject to further amendment and its
enemies could take advantage of the
present depleted condition of the House
to postpone its passage indefinitely.
Confronted with this condition the ad-
vocates of the measure have decided to
ask the House to suspend the rules on
Monday next, in order to non-concur in
the Senate amendments and to agree to
"A conference
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03
Killed by Electricity.

PITTsBURG, May 2S.-A sensational
accident occurred at the Edgar Thomson
Steel works at Braddock, about O'Clock
this morning, by which two men were
killed and several others rendered un-
conscious 10y a shock from the electric
light wire in the blacksmith shop.
1T the time mentioned a number of
men were working on a travelling crane
IN the blacksmith shop. The boom
came IN contact with the electric light
wire and cut through the insulation
In an instant the full force of the cur
rent was conducted among the iron
framework of the crane, and all the men
in contact were knocked insensible.
All but three of the men soon recov-
cred, but the others were carried outside
the shop and restoratives promptly adj
ministered.
Two died in few moments after they
had been removed. Their names were:
Anthony Lokel, twenty-four years, re-
siding at Knoxville; Joseph Zoleny,
aged twenty-three, unmarried, of Knox
vile.
The name of the third man, who is
still unconscious, has not yet been ascer-
tanned.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

THE Michigan road law, providing
that the users of wide wagon wheel tires
shall have a rebate of one-haf Of their
road tax, is an ingenious inducement
which works great advantage to the tax
payer, to the roads, and, by consequence
to the general public. According 10 a
writer on good roads, lit is estimated
that with broad tires on wagons, carriages
and buggics all public highways can be
kept in very much better condition than
Is now possible, at one-fourth the cost of
the present system In the matter of
road reform the first essential seems to
be the widening OF the tires Of the We
hicles. The general adoption of this
would be long step of itself in the di
rection of perfect roads. Without it
perfect roads are practically impossible"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

THERE is n tariff duty Of about 400
per cent. on imported pearl buttons; but
the girls who are employed in the pearl
button factory in Detroit have been
obliged to strike against a reduction of
wages. 1t would appear that an abso-
lutely prohibitive tariff rate is not sufli-
ciently persuasive to induce the main
tenance Of a moderate wage rate. In
the light of such facts the laborer can
see without eyes the hollowness Of the
pretense that high duties are guarantee
of high wages.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

MUCu valuable territory in the West
has been located by settlers through the
means of scrip issued to Indians in pay
ment for their lands, and afterward as
signed to other parties. Secretary Noble
of the Interior Department, now holds
that such assignments of scrip are invalid
and the ownership Of sections of the
public lands located 10y means of assigned
scrip is consequently open to question.
In the first case Of this sort brought to
Secretary Mobiles notice relating to lands
in Minnesota formerly owned by Chippe-
wa Indians, the contestant will obtain
possession if he can prove the regularity
of his application.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03
BuryiDg for Six Days.

LONDON, June Further mail ad-
vices from Mauritius says that the morn
ing after the hurricane every street in
Port Louis was filled with debris The
courses OF the storm was erratic. Mas
sive houses were overthrown while frail
houses near them were not injured in
any way. The burial of the 600 persons
killed in Port Louis alone occupied six
days.
out of the sixty two churches and
chapels i'll Port Louis fifty were ruined
The remaining twelve were badly dam
aged. Boats were stranded during the
hurricane at places 800 feet from the
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

y SOCIETY has been formed in London
under the title Of the Witnesses Protec-
ton society, The objects Of this associ-
alton are to protect witnesses from in
suit by counsel, to put the matter of con
tempt Of court into the hands of a jury,
and to raise a fund to indemnify con
tumacious witnesses from pecuniary loss,
provided always that the questions they
refuse to answer rcdectupon their honor,
and are at the same time irrevelant to
the issues of the case.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

The Pennsylvania state Senate is now
made up OF % Republicans and 20Dem-
ocrats, there being a vacancy in a Re-
publican district The odd-numbered
Senators retire this year, causing 20 of
the % Republican seats to be vacant and
only making four Democratic seats va
cant. In other words the Democrats
will have 1G hold-overs and the Repub-
hcans but nine.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

THE acquittol Of John c. Newton, the
millionaire president Of the Des Moines
and Kansas City railroad on Thursday of
last week N the Federal court, at Des
Moinos, Iowa, Of the charge Of having
padded the mails carried by his line,
was followed 10y banquet in the even
ing at the Sayery given to the jurors in
the case by the defendant. The next
morning Judge Woolston severely repri-
manded the jurors, Mr.. Newton and his
lawyer
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

NOTICE iS hereby given that the fol-
~ lowing accounts have been filed ln
the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria
county. Penua.. ANA will bc confirmed 10y
said Court un the first Monday ot June.
lS.r2. unless cause bc shown 10 the contrary: :
First and final account Of Stephen StutZ-
man. assignee Of John \. Hill ct rN.
First and final account of Hiram orrl~,
assignee of Archibald Johns 81 uN.
Second aud final account OF Henry
ShafIcr. assignee Of w. +. EnrgraH.
First and final account of Henry Allie
man. committee of Henry North. lunatIc.
First and final account of II. w. Slick.
assignee of Wm. VI. PetuS ct uN.
First and final account Of Frederick
Sauer. assignee of John Saucr
First and final account Of John \. Doyle.
assignee of Edward McGladc.
j. {. DARBY.
PrOthonOtary.
Prothonotary' office. May l3. lSg2
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

THE state secretary has estimated from
statistics at his command that last year 5
crops Of wheat, corn, oats, hay and pota-
toes were worth SIS, 600, GOO to the farm
ers of Pennsylvania. That is a good
showing, and by the very force of con
trast brings up the pitiful picture of fam
Inc stricken Russia.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03
Tornado in England.

LONDON, June IA most terrific tor
nodo passed over Blallney, in Glouces-
tershire, yesterday. The wind was ac-
cOmpanied by heavy thunder and light
ming and a remarkable downpour of rain.
The streets were flooded in an instant
and rushing torrents of water swept
through them, carrying of everything
that would float. The roofs OF houses
were blown off and the torrents Of rain
destroyed almost everything in them.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

At least eight European governments
have accepted the Presidents invitation
to anticipate in monetary conference,
and there is no longer any doubt of such
n meeting. The President will com
municate with Congress on the subject
in Il few days and will probably transmit
the correspondence.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

THE Treasury department IS almost
franticalIy calling upon its revenue
agents to hurry up the collection Of the
taxes before the close Of the fiscal year,
so that a deficit, right in the midst Of
the Presidential campaign, may not ap-
pear as q frightful illustration of the
effects Of Billion Dollar legislation.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

WIEN the suit of Esther Jacobs
against Henry B. Skies, for $4,000
damages for breach ofpromise was called
in court ut New York last week, Michael
Moran, one of the jurors, dropped in the
corridor and died in five minutes.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

EX-PREsIDENT JAMES X. PoLN's will
was declared null and void 10y Chancellor
Allison at Nashville. Tenn, last week,
and the estate given to the heirs at law.
1t is probably worth $500, 600.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

NOTICE. Oh APPLICATION FpR Bpk-
N OUCH CHARTER.
Notice is hereby given that an application will
be made 20 the Court OF Quarter Sessions OF Cam
bria county, Pennsylvania. on Monday June
6th- 1892. for "A borough charter for the village
OF Summerhtll- situate in the township OF CrOyle
county Of Cambria, bounded as follows, yiZ
beginning at the northeast corner of the bridge
on the township road leading to South Fork;
thence north degrees west - perches; thence
north 3s1. degrees west IS perches; thence north
30 perches TO stone; thence north 81 degrees east
92 perches 10 stones; thence north IS degrees
II perches TO the Isaac Paul branch OF Laurel
run; thence down said run toy its various courses
2. perches across the Ebensburg road: thence
south ij degrees east 100 percbes; thence south
81 degrees west l2 perches to the low wer end OF d.
A Sipes' tail race; thence down the north bank
of the tonemaugh river by its various courses lO7
perches TO the place of beginning; the style and
title of srid proposed borough 10 he the Borough
Of SHmmerhill. NJ. ID. kIrTELI..
May q, l5y2 Attorney Tor petitioners.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

AMONG the prominent Pittsburgers who
have recently come out strongly for
Cleveland is George \. McBeth, the glass
manufactures, who left the Republican
party on account of its high-tariff policy.
Mr.. McBeth says he will vote for Cleve-
land against any other man in the
United States.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

Rowland F. SMITH, of New Bedford,
Mass, on Monday broke the worlds
bycicle record for twenty-five miles. He
made the distance in , hours, Il min
utes, 10 seconds, breaking his own re-
cord of ,: -; Is.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

GEN. ErrA HUNToN has been appoint
ed a United States Senator from Virginia,
vice Barbour, deceased.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03
LIE GRANl,E.

IT
Il II J. SHErrlG. PRoPBIEToR.
Located at Dubois, Pa, near the u. X. 4.
Railway Depot. We always endeaYor TO fur
nlsh the best accommodations TO business men
pleasure seekers and bOarders. Persons in search
OF eom tort and quiet will ma IL desirable place
to stop. The Table Is unsurpassed and Is always
supplied with the best the market affords. and
all the delicacies of the season. The Bar Is sup
piled with the choicest of pure liquors and cigars
aid nothing but the best is sold. Special atten-
tiOn given to the care of horses.
H. SCHETTIG.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

FROM present indications it looks rs if
after Tuesday next, there will be nothing
left of Harrison but his hat.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

For Electors at Large
MORTIMER +. ELLIOTT, Tioga.
JNO. G. BULLITT, Philadelphia.
THOMAS Il. KENNEDY. Franklin.
DAVIDT. WILSON. Allegheny.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03
Democratic state Ticket.

For Congressman al Large.
GEORGE \. ALLEN. Erie.
THOMAS l.. MERRITT, BcrkS.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03
BOGGS&BUHL,
lis, LII, ll9 & III Federal St,
ALLEGHENY, PA.
ALL THE PRINCIPAL STEAMSHIP
LINES REPRESENTED BY Us.

Accounts of merchants. farmers and 9th
erS earnestly solicited. assuring our patrons
that all business entrusted 10 rs viii re-
ccjVc prompt and careful attention. and be
held strictly confidential. Customers viii
bc treated a. literally a. good banking
rules Will permit
LILLY BANKING Co,
fch5gO Lilly. Pcnua.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-03

For supreme Judge.
CHRISTOPHER HENDRICK. Ncuaugo.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-08-23
columbus Day proelamntIon

WHEREAS, The President of the
United States, by proclamation,
has appointed Friday, October 81,
1892, the -Four Hundredth ami
versary of the discovery Of Amer
lea by Columbus, as National
holiday, and has recommended its
observance in the following appro-
pirate methods
"On that day let the people, as
far as possible, devote themselves
to such exercises as may best ex-
press honor TO the discoverer and
their appreciation of the great
achievements of the four complet-
ed centuries of American life.
"Let the National flae foat
over every school house in the
country, and the exercises be such
as shall impress upon our youth
the patriotic duties of American
citizenship. In the churches and
other places of assembly of the
people, let there be expressions of
gratitute to Providence for the
devout faith of the discoverer, and
for the divine care and guidance
which have directed our history
and so abundantly blessed our peo-
ple." And
WHEREAS, The people of New
Mexico have a special interest in
this anniversary, because they,
more than those of any other por-
tion of the country, represent the
Kingdoms of CASTLE and Leon.
under whose auspices the voyage
of discovery was made; their soil
was trodden by the feet of chival-
rous and intrepid followers of
Columbus within half century of
his great achievement, and the
Oldest of their settlements date
back to the same era;
Therefore, L, l.. Bradford Prince,
Governor of New Mexico, do pro-
claim and recommend that Friday,
October 2lst, be observed as a
public holiday throughout this
Territory, and that its due celebra-
tion be conducted in accordance
with the above suggestions.
Witness my hand and the
great seal of the Territory
of New Mexico, at Santa Fe,
LIS. the capital, this 18th day of
August, in the year of our
Lord 1892.
l.. BRADFoRD PRINCE,
Gov. of New Mexico.
By the Governor:
b. NJ. Thomas,
Secretary of Territory.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-08-23

The factory in which postal
cards for this country are made is
a part of the Fort Orange Paper
Company, at Castleton, N. Y. The
postal card paper is put into a
combined printing press, cutter
and wrapper. This machine prints
from a number of engraved plates
on the surface Of a fast-revolving
cylinder it then cuts the cards
apart, wraps them up in packages
of twenty-five, with a band around
each, and delivers them by belt
conveyors to the packing tables,
where girls put them into paper
boxes, each holding 500, These
arc enclosed in wooden cases OF
various sizes and shipped to all
the pOst-ofices in the United
States. Our annual consumption
Of postal cardsis about 40O,O00,0O0.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-08-23

posed the heavy load Of Mckinley
ism upon the people, and made for
itself record as the most reckless
ly wasteful body in all the history
OF legislation. Our democratic
congress, despite countless obsta-
cles, has well begun the work of
righting the wrong. 1t may be
counted upon with confidence to
continue in the course marked out
by the friends of retrenchment and
tariff reform, when its sessions
shall be resumed next December.
Boston Globe.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-08-23

On the United States side of the
line at Nogales, A. T., eggs have
been rendered dear by the new tar
iif upon them, inasmuch as the
hens of that region are chiefly
owned on the Mexican side and
fed with cheap Mexican grain. A
shrewd Yankee recently arrived
there, and he was convinced that
his opportunity lay in the high
price of eggs, so he erected d large
henhouse exactly across the boun-
dary line. At the United States
end he provided nests, and at the
other end he fed his hens with low
priced Mexican grain. The hens
ate the grain in Mexico, and then
walked across the line into the
United States 10 lay their eggs.
The transaction was perfectly hon
est, for the Yankee smuggled nei-
ther grain nor eggs. lie is max
ing money fast.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-08-23

The first transaction with silver
as a medium of exchange was
Abraham's purchase of the Cave
of Machpelah for 400 pieces of sill
vor. The money in use in early
biblical times, first called pieces,
was afterward denominated shek-
els and half-shekels, the word
shekel meaning weight. The next
step in the manufacture of coinage
was the stamping of the image of
the ruling king on pieces of money.
The earliest coins mentioned in
the bible, called drachms, were in
circulation 538 b. @. In SOS B.
c., Cr@sus, king Of Lydia, issued
com money, and from that time
coinage spread rapidly. The
drachm Of Sybaris was issued 600
b. c.; the tetradrachm of Alexan-
der l., of Macedon, 500 B. @.
About 1856 B. @. coins had become
quite common. A shekel of the
time of Christ was worth about
33B cents.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-08-23
DId the PenaItr FIt the Crlme I

Caste means something in India
A young man Of Fyxabod recently
killed a calf by accident and had
to do penance and be an outcast
for six mounth. The Brahmins
told him that he could not have
committed a greater sin than caus-
ing the death of a COW, but taking
into consideration that he was an
uneducated man they would deal
very leniently with him. During
the period Of accommodation he
was ordered to lead life of
mendicancy, and with a rope
round his neck and a piece of the
calfs tail on his shoulder he was to
perform pilgrimages to different
Hindoo shrines. The members of
his family were forbidden to supply
him with either shelter or food
under a penalty of undergoing sim
liar accommodation. The Ahir
recently returned to his village
but until after the publication
ceremonies he must live in a tenn
porary grass thatched house which
has been Systematically defled.
He must then be plastered all over
with COW dung, soaked in sacred
stream till he is clean and put
through various other interesting
performances.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-08-23
Political Points.

The idea which governs the re-
publican party is Capitalization of
power and the creation of a strong
government at Washington. The
republican policy of establishing
a tremendous office-holding class
has increased the Blue Book from
a pamphlet to two large volumes.
The republican policy of absorb
ing power for the National govern
ment has increased the public ex-
penditures far beyond the necessi-
ties suggested by the growth of
the country. The republican party
was in full control during the life
of the fifty-first congress. It had
the President, the senate. the
house, the judiciary. And what a
record it made +! 1t found an over
flowing and bursting treasury, and
left 1T so dreadfully wrecked that
the public accounts had to be iuo-
gled to keep the government from
being bulletined to the world as
bankrupt. 1t squandered vast
sums on public buildings for the
accommodation of members who
wanted to do something toward re-
electing themselves. It increased
the pension list enormously, and
having emptied the treasury left
future congresses to struggle to
provide the money to pay it. 1t
created new Offices, and extended
the ramifications of the central
government. 1t multiplied the
United States court system vastly
and uselessly, aud at great expense.
1t took such tremendous strides in
the republican policy of paternal-
ism and Capitalization that the
assertion Of democratic simplicity
is more important than ever be-
fore. Mr.. Holman did not stand
alone. Many other democrats in
congress were abreast with him in
economy. Had they not been the
country would have been in a sorry
state now. All honor to them !
They were fighting the devil of
centralization, and they did well
when we remember how audacious-
ly His Satanic Majesty had been
by the fifty-frst con-
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-08-23

Some silk worms lay from 1000
to 1000 eggs, the wasp 5000, the
ant from 5000 to 5000. The num-
Der of eggs laid by the queen bee
has long been in dispute. Bur
meister says from 5000 to 5000,
but Spence and Kirby both 90
him several better, each declaring
that the queen bee of average fer
tility will lay no less than 10000,
and probably as high as $4,000 in
one season. Termes fatalis, the
white ant, is possessed of the most
extraordinary egg-laying propen-
sites Of any known creature; she
often produces 86,4OO eggs in a
single day. From the time when
the white ant begins to lay until
the egg-laying season is over-us-
ually reckoned by entomologists
as an exact lunar month-she pro-
duces 2,5OO,0OO eggs. In point of
fecundity the white ant exceeds
all other creatures.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-08-23

, From the commencement of the
season to the present time there
have heen shipped from Georgia
over 60N carloads of peaches to
Northern and Eastern markets.
The average price has been about
81 800 per carload, or over $780,
600 for the crop.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-08-23

tits estimated that Minnesota
and the Dakotas will raise l25, ,OOO,-
900 bushels Of wheat this year,
and favorable weather viii add TO-
100000 bushels.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-08-23
Bill Nre and A. p. Burbank.

The greatest duo of entertainers
that ever graced the American
platform is Bill Nye and A. P.
Burbank, whom we take pleasure
in announcing will make a tour of
this section of the country some
time this season, stopping at such
places EN- route as offer proper in
ducements. An evening with
these celebrated humourists is a
rare one and there is no doubt
they would draw a full house, and
the enterprising society or man
ager find it profitable undertake
ing to secure them for an enter
tainment in this city. Dates and
all information can be had by adj
dressing Mr.. H. b. Thearle, 524
Pullman Building, Chicago, Ill.