The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-11-24

rapid progress the flames had made before
being discovered. the building burned tC
the ground. Some of the bedding and fur
nitnre were saved. but the larger part oi
it was destroyed. The building was insur-
ed for 500.
Judge McPhe rson at Harrisburg last
week handed down an interesting opinion
i'm the case of the Hecla Coke company
He held that the coke company was
liable to taxation on so much of the capi-
tai stock as is invested in mining leases
and improvements on dwellings for en-
ployes. The capital invested in the prop
erty actually in use for manufacturing
purposes only is exempt. The company
under the opinion will have to pay about
81 800 in taxes held in contest.
If there were more push in the world
there would be fewer hungry, haIf-clothed,
homeless, suffering children. broken, dis
Sipated men and women :leSSneed of aims
! houses, houses of correction and homes for
the fr.endleSS. Push means a lift for a
. neighbor IL trouble. Push means a lift for
( yourself out of the slough of dependency
and shiftlessness: out of trouble, real or
fancied. Push never hurts anybody. The
harder the push is the better, if il is given
in just the right direction. Always push
up hill-few need a push down hill.
The HoIlldavsburg CORES pondent of
! the Altoona Tribune writes: Liveryman
Ira Barr traded horses with an EbenSburg
man few days ago. The trader was ar
( rested on Wednesday for stealing the
horse in Mr.. Barr's possession. While
/ Mr.. Barr was absent "a breakfast yeSter-
day morning. a Cambria county constable
went 10 his livery stable and without leave
or license decamped with the stolen ami
nal. Mr.. Barr has Instituted a vigorous
/ search for the over ofliciouS constable.
! John w. Barnhart, formerly a we'll
. known citizen of Lancaster. hut for some
years past resident Of Altoona Blair
county. on Tuesday pleaded guilty in the
Quarter Sessions at Lancaster to the I'm
beZZcment of several thousand dollars.
trust funds left by his father to his moth
er and sister. The latter were the prose-
cutorS. Sentence was suspended and
I Barnhart was given a chance to make res
titutiOn. The embezzler was formerly
( prominent in secret society circles at Lam
; caster.
/ Eight cases Of small pox were discov-
cred in Altoona on Tuesday by DR.. = NJ
" Il v.
/ and aS soon as he entered the house he dis
/ covered that eight out of nine of them
were suffering from small pox Dr. Ross
Immediately notified the board Of health.
and every effort will be made TO prevent
the spread Of the disease, but as the cx-
istence of the disease haG been wholly un-
suspected up to this time. and so many
cases were developing it. it is certain that
other cases will follow
John w. Warfel. of MorreIlvfHe. at
tempted to commit suicide at his home in
that place on Wednesday by placing the
muZZIe of a 3S-calibre revolver i'm his
mouth and pulling the trigger. The bull
let struck the left tonSil. passing through
and ont of the neck TO the left of the spi-
nal column. He was taken To the Memor-
iai hospital at Johnstown where the phys
icians in charge think he will recover
Warfel is about 3s years of age and al
legeS domestic trouble aS being the cause
of his wanting to shuttle off into another
world. His wife and five children were
in the house when he made She attempt.
The state superintendent Of public in
Struction announces that the teachers in
StitutcS throughout the state are pro-
crossing finely. 1t is probable that the
money received from the county treasurerS
to aid in the holding ofthe Institutes will
not fall short of fourteen thousand dollars.
while some twenty-three thousand dollars
may be expected from other sources. #
the attendance continues as heretofore
there will be over forty thousand spccta-
tors present. The cost Of instruction will
aggregate something like thirty-thrce
do nd i.r vii 1r.. Iar
expenses to the amount of sixteen thous-
and dollars. The members themselves in
dues, etc, Sgivc nearly twenty thousand
dollars.
One day this week a man from this
place was up at Spauglcr and while on his
way between Germantown and Barnes
boro, he met u certain Indiana man i'm
buck-bOar which was loaded down with
three immense jugs of whiskey. His con-
science seemed to be hurting him and he
stopped the Glen Campbell man. perhaps
because he saw he was from this place by
his dry look, and gave him sample of his
goods at the same time telling OF the hard
ships he had TO 90 through in sposingo of his
stuff in Indiana. but when he came TO tell
of his family he broke down entirely. The
man had on board about eighteen gallons
for retail trade Of Indiana and was pull
ing for that port. This is an example Of
how Indiana county gets her liquor
Glen Campbell Comet.
On Sunday evening Charles Dean
aged seventeen, of Tyrone, was accident
ally shot by his brother Edward Dean
aged eleven years. There were two re-
volyers in the house with which the boys
were ulaviuu One Of the Nyp1DpuS was
unloaded and the other was supposed 10
be, but unfortunately one chamber had
cartridge in il. Charles went up stairs
and on coming down his brother playfully
pointed the revolver at him saying III
shoot you" and pulled the trigger. There
was report and Charles fell the ball Strik
ing him fairly I'm the face, entering just To
the right of the tip of the nose and pene-
trating the tissues above the roof of the
mouth and below the floor Of the eye
orbit, finally lodging some whore in the
neck. The injured boy is badly hurt but
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