The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-07-20

| stables and number of small outbuiIdings
| In Ludwtck- WeStmOreland county were
| DESTROYED by a fire which is supposed to
have been kindled by an incendiary.
Dan Border, of Holsopple. Somerset
| county. claims 10 have the champion tim
| Othy stalk of the season Mr. Border
/ found stalk that measured six feet two
| inches. He would like 20 hear from Others
| in Camtria, Somerset and adjoining coun-
ties if they can equal this.
"A game of base ball played on the
Ebensburg grounds on Saturday between
the regular nine and a picked nine resulted
in victory for the regulars by score of
26 TO 9. During :he game, Ossie Wflkin-
son. of the defeated nine. had the misfor-
tune 10 severely Sprain his ankle.
Over half the priests of the PittSburg
diocese went into their annual retreat al
81. Francis College. LOretto, on Monday,
and next week they will he succeeded by
the remaining section of the reverend
fathers. Rev. Father Casey, a Jesuit, pro-
fesSOr of ph ilOSOphy at FOrdham College,
is conducting the retreat.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania
has declared unconstitutional the act of
assembly approved June ). 1894. that the
right of Sub-cOntractor to file leans
should in no way be affected by any agree
ment made by the original contractor or
the owner. unless the same was agreed TO
in writing by the Sub-contractor.
--Edwa ard Gross, a newsb0y, employed
by the Union News Company died OF
typhoid fever, at the home of his parents
in Altoona on Tuesday morning, aged
mi TJ..,
and his excessive riding while in poor
health is said To have superinduced the
disease which caused his death.
"A little s!X-mOnths- old daughter of
Mrs. John Eckles. of McKeesport. Pa,
died in her mothers arms on Thursday of
last week on board of Day Express just af-
tel the train had passed through the tunnel
at GallitZin. Mrs. EckleS and child were
on their way To visit Mrs. Eckles' mother
at Alexandria, Huntingdon county.
Fire that swept through the centre of
Millhall borough, near Lock Haven, ON
Friday afternoon destroyed twenty houses
aud as many stables. The Wilt hotel
Brady'S hall and the Christian church are
among the buildings burned. Seventeen
families were homeless on Friday night.
The total loss Is estimated at $4,000.
d. W. Adams. aged "a, freight con-
ductor on the Pittsburg division, who re-
sides at Stewart station, was thrown from
a car about O'Clock on Monday morning
al LaUrobe. In the fall he struck against
L cabin and received painfully con-
fused wound in the right leg He was
taken To Altoona and had his injury treat
I'd Al the hospital.
1t i said that fifty carloads of rails
for the Blacklick railroad are now EN-
route and will be here ia a few days. The
com pletiuu of the road has been DELAYED
Oh account of the short supply of rails in
the country. and the tTackmen on the road
have been kept at work lately baIlasuing
that part of the road on which the rails
have already been laid.
The directors of the PennSylvania K
NOrthH eSteTn Railroad Company met al
Philadelphia on Thursday aud decided
that il would be- ineXpedient To- paw the
>emi-annual dividend upon 8. .2n5U.ODD of
capital stock The road runs from Bell
wood 10 HOratiO. a dis tance of 81 miles
through the bituminOuS coal region, and
the passing of the dividend is directly due
TO the miners strike.
Steel Works, at Harrisburg, named White,
went to PunXSutawney last week To take
a strikers place in the coal mines. He
was warned that his house would be blown
up if he went, bnt he paid no attention TO
the threats. AT early hour Sunday
morning dynamite cap with a
fuse attached was placed outside window
of his house and the place was wrecked
3
1t was reported here on Wednesday
that a riot was in progress at BeEScreek,
owing to the fact thata car load OF Italian
miners had been imported To that vicinity
10 take the places of the miners who were
o AZ on a strike. Sheriff Shumaker was
Ielegraphed To asking him to come down
and preserve the peace. Later advices
brought the news that the imported miners
had concluded To join the strikers, refu Sed
To go To work and that hoStiliJieS had
ceased.
A destructive forest fire ragged last EIi-
day in the 3.OoO- acre timber tract of Clark, g,
Kizer IL Kipp. a few miles north OF Punk
Sutawney. Large quantities of newly
peaied bark and much valuable timber
were destroyed. Hundreds of men fought
the fire desperately all day. The town of
Anita was Threatened and il required gai-
liant lighting To save the coal tippleS. One
dwelling house, all oil house and many
fences were burned, but the great loss is in
the timber
The Bellefonte Gazette states that on
Monday the little ; year old son of VIM.
Neff. of Centre Hall, was playing in the
yard " hen a blacksnake made its appear
ance and they both became friends. The
child called for its mother to come and
see the snake. When the mother came
she found the child playing with the vi
per which seemed TO have a strong at
not be gotten away until the snake was
killed by the father.
On Sunday night William Gardner
broke into the safe of his uncle, John ii.
Law. at Holiday burg, and stole several
hundred dollars He then fled with his
sweetheart, BERTHE Walter, but was over
taken on the outskirts of the town by her
big brother. who detained the girl and ad
ministered trOuncing to her lover.
Gardner was last seen aboard a urain with
Chicago as his destination. TIE chiefs OF
police of the Western cities have been no
tilted to arrest him.
The report of the Huntington Reform
atOTy for the past six months. filed with
the secretary Of state, shows that there are
534 inmates in the Institution. Seventy
three have been paroled, Is discharged
finally from parole and 32 discharged after
serving the minimum sentence. Three
have been sent to the penitentiaTy, three