The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-08-19

| cars ran over his left leg. crushing L horri
| bly,. He Wa, taken Ia the West Penn hos
pital. E.'.- Err Is resident of PirtSburC.
On Saturday. August 2Gth. a picnic
will be held in the grove between Chest
| Springs and st. Augustine, to which every
| lover of fun, feaSting and dancing is cor
daily invited. The proceeds are for the
benefit of the Catholic church mt ST. Aug
| uStinc and those who attend will not ONLY
hayc the satisfaction of enjoying them
selves hut will aid a good cause at the
| same time
| "A six foot vein of coal known as the Il.
or Miller seam, was struck at Il depth of
! $50 feet on lands owned by the Cambria
| Iron Co., and Morrison and Stevens near
| )ySart on the Cresson * COalpOrt road.
| Geo. Bell. the superintendent thinks il
| VIII show up -four feet six inches clean
coal. An air shaft has been commenced
and at an early date the full worth of the
coal will be known.
! The school board of Gallitzin borough
| on saturday awarded the contract for n
new school house to NJ. Brackcn & Co.
The building is to be of brick three stories
high and will contain eight rooms. p. p.
| Little. ~ PittSburg. is the architect. and
! the plans call for a firSt-clasS structure.
| furnished with all modern conveniences
| and improvements in ventilation light.
| hre-eScapeS, etc. Work to be commenced
at once.
| Last Saturday evening about seven
| O'Clock, while Mrs. Cuckoo. of near
| Pleasant Unity. WcStmorcland county.
was preparing supper for her husband
| who had gone TO Latrobe with a load of
wheat, she discovered "A gun on the table
and told Rudolph Boyd. a relative who
was visiting the Cuckoo family to take il
up stairs. While in the act of doing so it
| was discharged. the load taking effect in
her abdomen, causing death in three
| hours.
AT the Somerset county Democratic
| county convention held at Somerset on
| Monday. a. +. Johns. of Meycrsdale was
| reelected chairman of the county COM
| mittee; \. G.. Hay, IF Somerset and Irwin
| q. Hoover. of HooverSville. for Assembly:
| John o. Kimmell of Somerset. District
| Attorney: y. Il. POorbaugh. of North
| ampton, for poor director: Captain c. w.
Hefley. of Berlin. Abram Wilson. of
SharpSville, and Jonas Nc. .Clintock, of
Addison. congressional confcrces without
instructions.
Mr.. c. Campbell was in town Thurs
| day. and talking over railroad matters
with him he expressed the opinion that this
place. according to present indications.
will be the final terminus of the line now
being extended from La Jose to the CuSh
creek branch. and th9t Cherrytrce would
be the terminus of the line now being built
from CresSon until the company extends
the line on over the summit, and either go
by way of Indiana or Homer City to con-
meet with their other line at either of these
places. The Indiana route is preferred if
| a reasonable grade can be sccured.-GIen
Campbell Comet.
Thomas f. Howe. exc county treasurer.
| died suddenly at his home in JohnStown
| on last Thursday night. Mr.. Howe had
| been on the street during the after Oon,
! apparently in his usual health, and went
| home about & o'clock, and taking a paper,
| laid down To- read. He fell asleep and when
| supper was ready the family did, not dis
| turb him. About II o'clock his sister dis
| covered that he was dead. He was born
| in Cambria City in 1859 and lived all his
| life in JohnStown. In June. 1890, Mr..
Howe was married TO Miss Catharine
Hughes. of Omaha. Neb.. and at the time
of his death his wife and one of his sisters
were in Omaha visiting relatives. The flu
neral was deferred until Tuesday, after
the return of his wife and sister. Heart
failure was supposed to be the cause of
his death.
On Wednesday night of last week
fight occurred between some native toughs
and some Italian railroad labOrerS at
Spangler. In the melee stones and pistols
were freely used and stray shot struck
Mr. Luke Noel. of lrYona, an Innocent
spectator Mr.. Noel was standing on the
Bearer hotel porch and had just returned
from escorting some ladies inside of the
house. after advising them to remain in
side on account of the danger from flying
missiles. lie had scarcely returned when
he was struck by pistol ball, the bullet
striking him on the right shoulder below
the collar bone, and downward through
the upper part of the lung. Mr.. Noel Is
seriously injured but will recover. War
rants are out for number of men who
participated in the riot. but it is not known
who fired the shot that struck Mr.. Noel.
C. l.. KeIIen. of Dedham, Mass. was
arrested in Pittsburg. on Monday last, as
| a descrter from the Regular Army, he
! having enlisted in July 1891, and short
| time ago deserted and went to PittSburg
! where he secured employment as tclc-
| graph operator. On Thursday. Recruit
| ing Sergeant Melvin. started with him
| over the Pennsylvania railroad for New
! York. short distance east of Kittanning
| Point. Kellen under the pretenSe of get
J ting a drink left the sergeant, went to the
| water cooler and theL hurried TO the plat
form and jumped off. The train was
! stopped and the crew made search Tor
him but he could not be found. On Friday
morning he was captured on his entrance
! into Altoona, his only injury being gas h
| over his right eye. His injury was
dressed al the A Altoona hospital when the
Sergeant again started with him for Gov
| ernOr'S Island.
| -'Si Perkins" a familiar character to
the amusement seekers for many years,
| and one created by Frank Jones, a comedi-
an with original and exceedingly pleasing
| methods, has an entirely new and more eX-
tcnsive field in play entitled 'Our Coun-
| try Cousin written by Charles II. flem-
| ming. Esq. The play, while it contains a
| dramatic story OF anusnal interest, Is re-
| pletc with rustic simplicity arDertaining
to West Virginia life, and is infused with
delightful comedy, besides affording op-
! pOrtunities for the display OF novel ana
| effective scenery: the railroad scene, III
the third act. being one of exceptional ef-
fectiveness, and unlike the established
efforts 10 produce realism on the stage
| Frank Jones, as Jason Wheatly, ADDS
! greatly to the force of his well known ar
! lists. Mr.. Jones will be at the Opera
House on Saturday night, August 10Th
Tickets for sale at James drug store.
Drowned I'm the ConemauSh.
| John Suitani and John MeSai, two nun
garians. who boarded at zimmerman :
Hungarian boarding house, No. 30 Walnut
street. Sixteenth ward, We're drowned on
Wednesday night. 1t appears that Ilm-