The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-11-10

In Indiana county the Republican
state ticket has about 1000 majority. The
hot contest there was over sheriff The
! candidates We're Mack, Republican: Pat
terson, Democrat, and Books. Independent
! Republican. and defeated candidate for the
! nomination Mack will have a majority
of 1000 over Patterson and 1900 over
/ Books.
The change made in the marriage IL
| cense law does not go into effect until Oc-
| tobei' 1898, after which time one or both
OF the applicants are TO be identified To the
| satisfaction of the clerk of the courts, and
then the license will be good in any coun-
| ty of the state. 1t was the intention to
have the law go into effect October l, 1893.
| but in transcrbing the bill it was made Iso5
and stands as the law al the latter figures
An unknown man on Saturday entered
| the house of Mrs. III. +. McHugh. Johns
| town, and stole So from trunk belonging
/ 10 one of the boarders. Miss Bessie Nc
/ Hugh, daughter of the landlady. entered
! the room while the thief was there and he
! pulled revolver. pointed it at her head.
aud catching her by the throat, told her to
| keep quiet or he would blow her brains out
| He then made his escape.
! Ellis McCracken who lives near Clear
! field tells of pine tree cut by his men in
! Jordan township that contained 1905 feet
| The tree measured $50 feet and was cut in
| ten logs, seven -siXteens, one fourteen and
! two twelvcs. 1t required two men four
hours 10 cut it down and saw it up, and
two men four hours to peel it, This is
| quite tree for Cleariield county, consider
sng the best timber has long since been
cut.
James Knabb, Steele Darr and James
Gibson, the poor Overscers of Cherryhill
township, Indiana county, are under arrest.
| The charge is aggravated assault and bat
terry, the information being preferred by
Mrs. Lavina Boring. Mrs. Boring says
they took her 10 the Cambria county poor
farm, but She was expelled. being an Illegal
charge. on the road she was roughly
treated, and was bound hand and foot until
the cords Gus into her flesh.
ON Thursday morning of last week
some thief gained an entrance to the house
occupied by Ii. w. Staley, ut Ninevah. and
took from pockethouk in his coat pocket
about $liO. Mr.. Staley drew $50 from
the bank in Johnstown the evening before
and put all but SO of it in his coat pocket
Coming home he hung his coat on a nail
i'm "a room ON the second floor. During the
night some one put ladder up to a win
dow in that room and raised it and took
the money.
Returns from Clearleld county indicate
the election of Cyrus Gordon, Republicans
for judge of that district 10y a majority of
at least 500 over Judge David l.. krebS,
the Democratic candidate. The returns
thus far received do nos give any vote on
the state ticket. but indications are that
the Democratic majority will be about 500.
The Democratic county ticket, with the
exception of Judge, is elected by about 500.
The fight has been hot one ever since the
primaries in June.
OF late there has been much stealing
from cars in the yards at Bolivar. The
other night the Pennsylvania Railroad
company sent ont detective to look after
the persons engaged in the business. He
wore good suit of clothes and thought TO
disguise himself by putting on a suit that
would make him look like an every day
tramp. lie left his good suit in the signal
tower and when he came to look for them
discovered that some energetic tramp had
been there during his absence aud stolen
his whole outfit,
Judge John II. Orvis. one of the best
known criminal and land lawyers in this
| state, died suddenly at his home in Belle
iontc on Monday afternoon. The judge
returned last Friday from a ten days
hunting trip apparently as well in health
| as eyer. Saturday he spent the day at his
Office and on SUNDAY he was stricken with
hemurrhugc Of the bowels continually
growing worse until the end came on Mon
day. lie was twice elected judge oi Cen
| tire county, but for the last fifteen years
| had given his whole attention to the prac-
tice of his profession. He leaves AN estate
worth 100000.
THURSDAY night Elias Silvis. who lives
about TWO miles from Greensburg. on the
Harrison city road, heard something a his
| chickens. Hastily dressing himself he got
| the shotgun and started out to inveS tigate,
! when he discovered a man walking away,
| carving several Of his fowls in his hands.
He took deliberate aim, but unfortunately
missed the man and hit one of the turkeys
/ the thief was carrying. killing il. The nm
| known ,hief dropped the dead turkey and
| hastened of. carrying the other turkey and
| chickens he had plucked from the rooSt
| without Mr.. Silyis getting 10 know who
/ his nocturnal visitor was
On the 4th instant Elmer Brannon,
| who had been boarding with Joseph Gut
waId. at Cresson, after eating his dinner
! left the house stating he was going to the
| barber shop. Some time after his depar-
turturc il was discovered that John Cat
wald's pocket had been picked of a consid-
cradle sum of money and as Brannon failed
TO turn up again the theft of the money is
! attributed to him. He is about five feet
nine inches in height, black hair, black
| eyes. black mustache, and wore when he
left a brown necktie drab hat, black coat
and vest and dark blue pants. He had a
piece Oft the front finger of the right hand.
Here Is "a list Of vegetables raised by
| Josiah II. MacFarland upon a piece of
ground ~ feet square ia Middletown, Del
aware county: 375 heads of cabbage.
baskets Of string beans, Is quarts OF lima
beans, baskets of peas, Il baskets of TO-
matoes. 10 bushels OF potatoes, 200 heads
of lettuce. lI2 lunches of onions, one-hali
a bushcl OF onion sets, 300 bushels of rad
isheS 30 dozen ears of corn, 3 dozen Gu
cumbcrs, dozen peppers, II bunches OF
b.ets. .. 800 celery stalks. These were sold
for SlOo.sg, and Mr.. MacFarland estimates
that If he had bought the same in regu
lar market they would have cost him 500
William Dom, son Of Philip Dom, OF
Canoe township, Jefferson county, was the
victim of a serious accident last Saturday
10 was at "A shooting gmatch and young
Dom was Keeping tally. young man
named johnson was preparing 10 shoot
and was about 20 yards distant when his
gun was accidentally discharged. the bal
passing through Dom's neck just back o.
the spine Dr. Boyer, who attended 20 The
young mans injuries, says the ball coulC
not possibly have selected more favora-
BILE spot to pass through, as the jugulal