The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-10-20

the baiahce OF the Uock made their ESCAPE
The contract for the binding OF
bridge across Chest creek at Patton la
been awarded by the county commission
] ers. The structure Is to be Quilt of lroI
| and the Masilion Bridge Company. o
! MaSillion Ohio, was the successful bidder
the contract price being over 81, 400. F. A
| Lyte represented the company at the let,
! ting.
| Jos. LascO, Polander, was arrested al
| Kittanning Point on Monday evening Oh
/ the charge of outraging n four year-old
! child at Adrian, near PunXsutawney, re-
Gently. His friends declare they can prove
an aljbi. In the meantime LaSco is held
TO await the arrival of the jefferson coun-
" officers, at whose instance the arrest
was made.
Henry Dauhhenburg. confined in the
Holldayshurg Jail awaiting transporta-
tion TO the Western Peuitentiary TO serve
a three years sentence for attempted MUIR
der. tried to commit suicide on Monday
night by eating pulvcrized glass His
rash act was soon discovered and II physi-
clan summoned. but his condition is pre-
cariouS and he may die.
Martin Howell. Hugh McCloSkcy and
Samuel Berkey were brought to jail from
GalltZiu on Tuesday to answer Il charge
of larceny. On the night of October sth
the wholesale liquor store of Allen H.
Heist, of Gallitzin, was robbed of guam
tity of liquor. and evidence has been Sc
cured that warrants their being held for
trial to answer for the crime.
The Beech Creek Railroad Company is
having made ut the Lebanon shops 500 new
cars for the Cleariied coal trade, fifty of
which have been delivered. The style is
known as the rappcr coal car. They are
equipped with air brakes similar to the
cars ia use by the New York Central road.
The company is getting nine new engines
from the works at Schenectady. y. y.
Robert MahaTey. Of Bell town
ship, Clcarfcld county, has received a
verdict from the county court giving him
-. zoo from the Beech Creek Railroad Com
pany as damages. They ran their road
through his farm at the time the road was
extended from Kermoor to Mahaffey.
The plaintiff thinks that his farm was
damaged to the amount ef at least $1,000
Fairly on Sund.y forenoon John r.
Wilson, Esq, a prominent Democratic
politician and lawyer. of Indiana, Pa.
dropped dead from heart disease in his
room while making his toilet. He was
sou-iu-law of OK Congressman Patton and
was - years of age. lie was 10 have been
the Democratic candidate for judge At the
next election.
Great distress is reported among the
miners in the HoutZdalc district. Mines
No. ., 5 and o have been closed for a long
time and the Others are only working half
time. Mine Agent James White called a
meeting OF the employed and unemployed,
and il was agreed by the former to divide
mp the time equally among all the miners.
This magnanimouS action means but a
scanty living for all.
Rev. Father Sulbert, monk from ST.
monastery at Latrobe, was IA
tally injured at Beatty on Wednesday,
by huge stone falling upon him.
He was assisting in removing stone 70 be
used i'm the erection of Il new church when
the accident occurred. His head was
rushed and his face horribly cut. He was
removed TO the monastery. He was one
1f the most popular fathers OF the inStitu-
ion.
superintendent of Public Instruction
having been asked frequently /.
or an opinion as TO whether schools should /
lose on days designated for holding gen
,ral elections. says he is clearly of the |
opinion that the acts which provide for the |
losing of schools on legal holidays do not /
lpply TO election days and urges them to |
leep the schools in session on these DAYS |
or the purpose of preventing too many /
calS in the regular school year.
Harry McCombie. of Susquehanna |
ownship. met with serious accident |
While cunning last Friday, which will cost |
lin the thumb and two fingers of his left |
Iaud He had been shooting with car
ridges he had loaded himself when he /
,laced i'm the gun a factory loaded car
ridge. and on firing it the barrel of the gun I
Xplod, tearing away half Of his hand. !
I is fe arcd that his entire hand will have
o be amputated.- -CdTTolitolC1l NcicS
While engaged i'm making up a train in
Altoona on Sunday evening preparatory to
tarting on his homeward run, Levi Zinn,
freight conductor Of Harrisburg stepped |
n front Of a locomotive and was struck
ma fatally injured. The wheels passed
yer his right thigh close to the body, the
light arm at and above the elbow. and also
vcr three fingers Of his left hand. These
after were cut of clean, while the right
high and arm were most horribly crushed.
Ic was TAX en- 10 the hospital. where died
n Monday.
"A writer on gypsies; Gypsies have no
rligiou, and some of them have such an
version to churches that they never pass
" one of them without a muttered curse.
n European countries they never suffer
themselves 70 be buried in church-yard,
mt whenever allowed they bury their
end in out of-the-way places. This anti
athv 20 churches and religions forms is
opposed by some persons to have origi-
atcd from their persecution by the priest
God in the middle ages, but, whatever its
rigin. il is a fixed fact.
Robert II. Coleman. of Lebanon. is the
he defendant in "A suit brought against
i'm by Christopher Lewis. of Columbia,
, recover S3l5.OOO. Lewis claims that he
al a contract with Coleman 10 convert,
v n private process, all the Stag and
,astc materials around the Coleman fur
a ,es into pig iron. After the mill 10 do
his work was completed. Coleman put
mother man i'm charge Of IL and reaped
irge profits Lewis bill is for 1000 tons
{ iron per year for nine years, and he asks
: per ton for making it, making the ag-
regate claim $4,000.
On Saturday afternoon as Milton Kri-
cr of Brady township, Clearfield county,
ccompanied by his wife and child, were
riying 10 Bois, while crossing a bridge
yer the Buffalo, Rochester x Pittsburg
abroad twenty-eight feet above the
rack. the team got frightened at a pass
lg engine and jumped over the railing Of
hc bridge. taking the vehicle and the oc-
upants along with them to the track be-
wv. Mrs. Kriner was seriously injured
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