The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07

| One of the principal industries in this
! neighborhood at the present time is the
buying of brown sugar at cents pound
| and syrup at 40 cents per gallon and man
| ufucturing out of them pure maple sugar
and selling it at L. TO 10 cents per pound,
and maple syrup at sl.OO to 81 % per gallon
| The days for good old fashioned, honest
maple syrup and sugar seem TO be over.
-Messrs. James Wilkinson Il Son. the
wen-known marble dealers in this place
| have new advertisement in this week
| FREEMAN. The firm is so well known and
their reputation for fine work and low
prices so long established that IL is
! scarcely necessary TO tell our readers that
| if they have any work in their line, Messrs-
Wilkinson & Sons establishment Is the
place to go to. They always have large
amount of finished work on hand tolnspect
and choose from which is worth a visit
even if you do not want to purchase
Mrs. Susan Clark. wife of John H.
Clark. proprietor of the Callan House at
Cresson, died at the home OF her brother
in-law. Mr.. Thomas Clark, in Pittsburg,
on Friday morning. Mrs. Clark had been
i'll for some time past and about month
ago went TO Pittsburg in the hope that a
change would be beneficial. day or two
before her death il was believed she was
improving but sudden relapse on Friday.
ended her life. Mrs. Clark was dangh-
ter of the late Ex Sheriff Robert z. Lin
ton and was born in JohnStown tifty-three
years ago. She was sister of the late Col
John Il. Linton, William Linton, Peter
Linton and Mrs. Charles Moore, az OF
whom are deceased. She is survived by her
husband and one daughter, Miss Jessie
Mrs Clark had large circle OF acquaint-
ances in Cambria county all of whom Will
sincerely mourn her death. Her remains
were Inferred in Grand View cemetery, at
Johnstown on Monday.
Collision near Kitfanning Point.
rear-end collision by which one man
was killed, another painfully bruised, and
four locomotives and twenty nine ears
were wrecked occurred on the Pennsyl-
vana railroad Il short distance west OF
KitIanning Point, on the eastern slope of
the Allegheny mountains, at an early hour
on Sunday morning. Although the wreck
was "a large one the delay To passenger
travel was not great There was, how
ever. a general suspension of freight for
several hours. Three freight trains. two
empty engines. and a broken freight train
were mixed up in the accident.
broken freight train was standing at
that point, and had sent back a flagman. |
The first train, two empty engines, and |
another freight were stopped, but the third |
freight did not receive the signal in time |
to stop and it went crashing into the two |
freights and empty engines ahead. causing |
a terrific shock. All the engines We're /
wrecked the one belonging To the last |
freight train going oyer the bank. |
cars were also destroyed.
Brakeman Perry Il. Hull, of the second |
freight, was standing between the fourth |
and fifth cars on his train when the collis- |
ion occurred. He had no opportunity to |
escape. but was caught between the cars
and Instantly killed. His remains were
taken to the home of the deceased a New |
Florence. Mr. Hull was about u years OF |
age Conductor NJ. Mowery, of the same |
train. was badly bruised by falling from
his train while it was in motion. but for
escaped without any bones being |
broken. He was able To return To his |
home in Derry on one of the morning
trains. The other trainmen escaped by |