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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-08-24

Bank examiner William Miller. who was
working on the accounts of the suspended
Second National Bank of Altoona ever
since tie flight of the cashier on Friday
last committed suicide AT / o'clock by
shooting himself through the head He
died instantly.
The examiner had just returned from
dinner. and. after talking Il minute with
J. p Levau. president of the bank. in the
private office. walked into the counting
room. y minute later shot was heard.
and when Mr.. Levan entered the room
Miller was lying on the floor with blood
and brains OoZing from 4 hole through his
head tie had just completed the eXamin-
alton of the affairs of the bank and sub
mittcG the result 70 Washington.
Examiner MilIer'S home was at Mercer.
Pa He as aged about forty-five years,
aud was appointed a bank examiner about
two years ago. succeeding Hugh y.
Young There i no way of accounting
for this rash act except on the theory that
he was worrying over his failure tsj detect
the crooked work of Cashier Gardner,
when he had previously examined the
bank some six months previous.
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L. P. MCDernlitt,
Cresson. Pa.

TRIAL LIST.
l List ui causes set down for trial AT a term of
court to tie held in EhenShurg beginning the End
Monday in SeIt.imber. 1884
BraWley ". Leahey-
SchOnuyer VS. Dean
TreNler estate Vs Cogan.
osborne Us t;onier ~.
Mcdonald Prusser ct al.
Louder W iihelm S McfiOniYle.
ShartZ WiIhel y Mcticnigle.
Snyder vs.. Cambria Iron 60.
Tunktn vs. Lamer.
Hugbs vs.. Johnson Co.
Page Outings.
Mcdonald HOffeckeT.
TAyiOr vs.. COldren.
HOrner Wilson.
Shirk n Sons Grouse.
Gore Suppes.
Murphy Yellow Run Coal TO.
Nelson - 40 Waltz
Vincent BarstOw n 60. vs.. rressweII.
StutZman vs.. Cooke; e al
Nelson n 60. Brarken.
Grsy vs. Penna. X. X. 10.
Scrabuc : Davis
Same Mo
HOsIer VS.. School Directors POrtOge Borough.
J. u DARSY.
August 10, 1891. Prothonotary.
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BELOW We QUOTE PRICES ON A FEW
OF our Many Big Bargains:

Cark WASH caI,coeS- per yard
Blue prints &c. per yard, former price 81
Crash h..........- .-...- a. nor v.rd
Dress ginghamS, all patterns ~ ~
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A TRAGEDY AT TUNNELHIL. .
MRS. SARAH MeAVOY KILLED BY
HER HUSBAND

Another tragedy was enacted at Tunnel
hill. on Saturday afternoon about four
O'Clock. the result of which is that Mrs
Sarah McAyoy is now ia her grave and her
husband. James McAvOy and his brother.
Joseph McAvOv. are now incarcerated in
the jail in this place.
James McAvoy. aged about twenty-Six
years and his wife about the same age, Oc-
cuped two-Story building on Sandusky
street in TuuneIhll. The house i a
frame structure and contains four rooms,
two down stairs and two up stairs.
On Saturday the two broIher> who are
employed aS drivers in Mitchell'S mines.
quit work about min" o'clock and went to
James home where il is said they began
drinking quite freely Nothing unusual
occurred Intil about 800 in the afternoon.
when the neighborS heard three shots in
close succession, but as McAyOv was in
the habit of frequently shooting mark in
t1e back wand, no attention was paid to
the shooting.
About four o'clock another shot was
heard. quickly followed by scream, and
Patrick BOyleS, who lives across the
street. started for the house and saw
Joseph McAvoy come ont and run up the
blood. He Immediately ran up stairs and
found Mrs McAvoy on the landing in
the thrpes of death and James McAvoy.
her husband, greatly excited bending over
her BoyIeS heard McAvOy say:
''TilIie. you are not going to die and
leave me. are yOu?"
The woman made no reply but gave a
gasp or two and expired
q.
fathers house, where he concealed the re-
voIver, washed his blood stained hand and
went for Dr. f. W. Ferguson. whom he
told that his brother, James. had shot his
wife and that her condition was serious.
DR. Ferguson at once went to the house
where he found the woman dead when he
arrived.
y post mOrtem examination was made
of the body by Drs. Ferguson and w +.
TroAell in the evening.
II was found that the ball entered the
body at the upper edge of the left clavicle
or collar bone, passed through the entire
upper lobe of the left lung cut off the
>ubclayian artery. passed on To the back
and lodged under the skin. DrS. T. \
TrUNell and f. Mcdonald were present
when the post mortem was held.
the floor of the back room at the top of
the stairs was found stained with blood in
several places and in the ceiling directly
over the bed were three bullet holes
TIL husband claims the shooting was
accidental. lie said he and his brother
were scuffiing Tor the possession Of the re-
vulv"r. y hen it was accidentally dis
charged, the bullet entering the breast of
his wife. who had Jricd to separate them
All three. he said, were in the front up
stairs room when the shooting occurred
Joseph McAvoy, however. claimed that
the woman was in the next room when the
fatal shot was fired.
The husband alleges that he carried his
wife to the head Of the stairs after she had
been shot.
The dead woman was a daughter of Mr..
Samuel Huey. a well known citizen of
TunurIhiIl. James ard Joseph McAvoy
We're brought To Jail on Sunday afternoon
To answer for the crime.
On Monday the father of the two Me
Avoy> was in town and engaged Frank
O'Connor. Esq. To defend them.
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vi il7-F-lA ~ SZ-OOs -
Su-e. Money Order. o. Es--
si-r-d Letter. We ssui o. aIg
part uf ta- L. = one pair uI
our I.saais-- Celebrated
bright bonEoia Xii
Esoot>-rslua o. the l-as- Sifs'
sht-e lu tire 9Hsid Beng or
own rsaks. 49, Euarauts~ T.
ss.ie. and ~-z- if uat sa-Isia 1-
r1--. EHTUEN W1ruI> II 8,
DAYS aud uHsr-N a..4 p r-
funded ur araH-hHr f1alr - e.
Euruu or 1llre- stT-Hrl tss N.ir.'-
mon sens Tee. plaIs Toe 10
pa.ru. flea-hsr Tlp. So :
y =. IN flaIf -5ras. MrLths- t,.
4. Ia. E-auH IL T. u-'lfrl1 =
sfua ezra. zsidfl. ard - r.
Lihe~s ~hs-s haze ~ hgGaL
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DR.. BUCK,
SURGEON and SPECIALIST.

Treatment OF all ChronI, AfhIctions. Diseases
of Women and troubles requiring Surgical Aid
Once hours up {. A. NJ. 20 and TO p. n.
l2s2 18TH AVENUE, AL1OONA, Pa.
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Washington and jefferson Colleee.

ms sept Il Fully equiTpei
he learned Laboratories
Atheletc Field ~ Dir.
nj 1854 Address. The PRF>IDFNT Washington. ia &
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-08-24

Y-FDU RTH YEAR opens
adapted tD prepare tor study # The
and Biology. New Observatory
Expenses very moderate A.u'uni
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-08-24

| 4. f. PITTO~- WM- III. sINDFORD,
| President. Cashier.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-01
Conkling'S Influence.

Senator Conkling always gave
days notice when he intended to
make a speech, and he was sure to be
greeted with packed galleries. At
five minutes to IL he would enter the
chamber by the door at the vice
presidents right and cross the cham
Der to his seat. His entrance was q
signal for applause from the galleries,
which was none the less appreciated
because it was unnoticed by the re-
cipient. Conkling had the same power
over an audience that great actor
has a power over the emotions rather
than over the intellect. To-day
those about the senate who remem-
Der him, shake their heads despairing-
~ and say, ':Ah, but Conkling was q
great ,nanH"-Washington's Letter.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-01
a TRAVELLING PLANT.
The Strange Sight Witnessed by a
Railroad Passenger.

Twas sitting in a passenger car, look
ing out over stretch ofprairie land in
the great Arkansas Valley. The day
was windy-indeed, ship captain who
sat next me said it was ''half gale"
though, judging from the way the wind
shrieked past us, I should not have
thought of using a fraction in describ-
ing it.
Suddenly a number of elegantly
shaped, slight built animals appeared
in the distance and rushed toward the
moving train. The wind, the antelopes
for such they proved to be-and the
train engaged in a race, in which the
antelopes for a short time held their
own. But what most astonished me
was that the antelopes were pursued
by great gray balls, some Of which
were from four to five feet in diameter.
No one Of our party could imagine
what these were, never having heard
OF anything Of the kind. We watched
the curious 8: ght until the locomotive
and the wind left the antelopes and
the pursuing balls far behind US.
TO increase our interest, however,
many more such balls could be seen
on the windward side OF the track, pll-
ed up against the wire fences and in
ravines and gullies along our onward
route.
afterward learned that what our
party saw were known to the plains
men as ''tumble-weeds," and to bot.
anists as the Cycloloma plalyphy)ium.
1t belongs to q genus Of plants that
grow into a thick, globeshaped mass
OF twigs and small branches, attached
to their roots each by a small stem,
which in the fall becomes dry and
brittle; and, as the autumn winds
sweeps over the prairie, these stems
bleak off, and the tumble-weeds 70
bounding away, scattering their seeds
as they go.
Antelopes and jack-rabbits, grouse
and prairie dogs are put to flight, cat
tie are stampeded and the road-beds
clogged by these flying masses of
brushwood.-St. Nicholas.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-01
BRIDGET AND THE AGENT

OF was sittin' won noight on the shteps av
Toired out wild work, an the childer an
ALL
Whin close by me soide, the ould woman
[me auntie)
shpake up in voice shtrong wild many a
brawl: ri. 40. t5s a.
"Faix, here comes a spa1peen ofan agent,
me honey,
An its its paRm aRsS, plumes wild him he car
Ord shwear be me sowl that Old shpent all
me money"
Och! said Oi, just the sight av the man
makes me mad. .,
For We see, all the summer twas agents and
drummers,
A-ringin' me bell whin so busy. wor,
An Ord raced up me shtairs till me legs
wOr as numb as -.4 .e 2
A top that had shpinned itself out on ths
floor, -.
An begorra. Old shworn whin me clanin'
was over " -
That divil varmint should enter me
gate,
With his this an his that an his one thing
an tother,
An his blarney mi1edin at q rollickio'
rate.
So, as this won shtopped near me said
It's no p$mP@s piumes' orll be wantin'
the day.
Poloite like, ye know; an he said, "That's
too bad, for,
To establish me trade Oh shall give these
Arrah, now, said OF, if it's given ye are
thin
Oi'll take jist boonch for me front par
lor shelf;
But he wiggled his hand loik fool or a
haythen,
sayin', No, We don't want thin, DIN
keep thin meself."
An it's now day by day Oh am watchin' an
For jist SIGH man to come up to me
door;
AN it's livery agent so kindly Dim train
Lest the angel should pass unaware, as il
WOr;
But it's only the man wild the samples O.
Wash-stutf
That iyer comes round wild a thing thai
is free;
1t may be that pampas spalpeen, wotI used
rough,
Has set all the agents to watchin' for me
Helen NJ. Boyd in Arkansaw Traveller.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-01
COMPANIONS.

When a good and respectable man
has been frivolous, it is no doubt a
comfort to him to find that some
worthy friend has beon frivolous also.
An English clergyman writes:
L was at Innsbruck with a friend,
and as we sauntered about one after
noon, not quite knowing what to do
with ourselves, we came upon a car
rousel, or merry-go-round. We walk
ed on, and then I said:
''Let us go back ank sec the XAVIER
ianum," a public collection OF paint
ings.
mo-" said my companion. "Idon't
feel inclined for the Xaverianum. I'll
go down by the river"
So we parted. Now I had not gone
far along my way to the Xaverianum
before | said to myself:
II don't want to see pictures either,
but as my friend is awav-upon my
word-I am unknow here! I'll-yes, I
will IN go and have a round on the
whirligigH'
So [ retraced my steps, and on
reaching the merry-go-round, what
should [ behold but my friend seated
on a piebald horse, with ashort sword
in his hand, aiming at the targets he
passed in his revolution. He was q
bald-headed man, with long gray
beard, and his face and head became
| a beat-root when he saw me-. It was
not long, however, before offered him
the consolation of companionship.
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His Resort.

Are you the celebrated Madame
Bomhaston?" lie asked, after he had
climbed four fights of stairs and was
admitted into mysterious apartment
YES" replied the bizarre looking per-
onage who had received him.
THE graf clairvoyant!'
Eyes"
And you foretell the future?''
Yes"
"And 1eed the mind?'
Yes
And unfold the rast?'
Yes, yes"
'"rhen," said tho visitor, as he took
4 roll of bills from his pocket eagerly,
tell me what it was my wife asked
me to bring home for her tonight"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-01
! AN ALMoND-EYED WIFE.
She Was Rather Mixed Up as to Her
-......-- Marital Relations.

The arrival of the Chinese steamer
Gaelic recently brought a handsome
Chinese girl apparently not much
over 10 years Of age. She had no
papers and was released on the usual
writ Of hab cas- corpus along with o
score of others. 49, A.
The writ was returned few DAYS
ago and with it the fair Pc Sing. She
claimed to be married, and said that
her husband lived in San Francisco.
Between herself and an assistant at
torney for the prosecution the fol-
lowing conversation ensued through
an interpreter:
slow old may you be?" commenced
the attorney.
"Nineteen years. was the prompt
reply.
"Are you married?"
eyes, SIR
wv here were you married."
I'm China, five years"
"HaYe you ever seen your husband?'
mo, sir he has always been in San
Francisco"
"Well, we'll! And is it the Gust ON in
China to marry a man without seeing
him?'
ayes, sir
"You havenever seen your husband,
then?'
"No, SIR
"Would it be too much to ask you
to tell the court how many children
you have?"
"Two."
This answer fairly paralyzed the
court, and the Acknowledged damsel
| was ordered to return to her children.
-Globe-Democrat
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-01
When They We're Young.

MARRIED when they We're Young.
Lucy Hooper gives some interesting
information regarding early marriages
among the crowned heads. Queen
Victoria was married when she was
not quite twenty-one, and the Prince
of Wales espoused the charming Prln-
cess Alexandria before he was twenty
two. The Emperor of Austria took
to vile the radiant Elizabeth of
Bavaria when he was not yet twenty
four. The present Car of Russia was
twentyone when he gave his hand to
Dagmar OF Denmark, who was two
years his junior. King Humbert of
Italy was twenty-four at the time of
his marriage to the fair Marguerite of
Savoy, then a girl of seventeen. The
present King and Queen of the Bel
gians were the one eighteen and the
latter seventeen at the time Of their
wedding. And the late King of Spain,
Alphonso XII, was very little older
when he formed his brief bright union
with his charming cousin Mercedes.
He was only twenty-five when he mar
rled his second wife, the present Queen
Regent. And it Was at the same age
that the present Emperor of Germany
was united to Augusta Victoria of
Schleswig- Ho]stein-Augustenburg.I The
unfortunate Prince Rudolph of Aus
tria Was twenty-three at the date of
his ill-starred union to the Princess
Stephanie of Belgium.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-01
The Silver Lining.

She was bright, light-hearted little
woman, and when her husband failed
in business, and they had to give up
their pretty house and go to boarding,
she tried to make the best Of it. For
hours after receiving the sad news
she sought some compensation for pow
crty, and all of sudden gave ch,lckle
OF delight.
"Oh, it isn't so bad bei1 poor, after
ALL" she laughed
Her husband looked at her inquiring-
~. "Why?" asked he, grimly.
BECAUSE announced the little wo-
man, confident that she had CHANGED
upon a shred of the silver lining to the
dark cloud-"bccause we won't have
any servants to bother about"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-01
He Wanted n Pass.

Tie "OnteG u faSS.
"S'Iosin' man had pass over this
here railroad" said Il man with a faded
ovcrcoat and tangled gray beard"
he cu'd ride fer nothin' hay?'
~ that's what he could" replied the
g3te tender at the Central Station, to
whom the query was addressed.
. Free gratis for nCthin' hay?'
''Ycs.''
Conductor wouldn't ask fer no
fare!'
"Certainly not"
wouldn't be no snap game about
it, hay? If had a pass Id use it just
like a ticket, hay?"
Yes. you blamed old fool, yes"
The old man was rather astOnished
by this outburst, and he retired to Il
bench to think things over After a
while he came up to the gate-tender
don't Wanter be intludin', pardner,'
ne said, hut I wisht ye'd tell ME one
thing"
What is it?''
They wouldn't be nc danger that a
man'd halter Pay if he had a pass,
would they?"
mo, not bit. What are you asking
me such fool questions for? Have you
got Il pass?'
mo, not yet?" replied the old man
edging away, hut 1 writ down for one
t'other day, and 1 kinder wanted t.
find out all bout them. Buffalo Tx
press.
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True Gentleman.

Old words are continually receiving
new definitions. Two negroes were
talking about their respective employ.
ers. -.@. .s.:5
"Well, now" said one, nobody
can't say but Mr.. Lotus is real
gentleman
"Oh no, answered the other, "he's
we'll enough. But he amt no such.
man as n; boss. My boss is always
jes' so. Why, see him step ona
bananer peel t'other day, an it didn't
Illustrate his dignity the ieastest bit.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-01
1.-THE Ruling Passion" Etc.

Two well-kn6wn mlllionaires, who
have retired from the wholesale cloth
ing business, and employ their elegant
leisure in collecting their rents, were
walking together one afternoon along
Fillmore street, between California
and Sacramento, discussing the reluct-
ance of tenants to pay up, and their
mania for demanding expensive re-
pairs, when one of the pair stopped
suddenly, stopped, and gazed fixedly
through the sunlit space between two
OF the planks OF the wooden sidewalk.
The other stopped also. The beams
of the god of day were illuminating
the glittering surface of coin. Both
were intensely excited.
us it a fiver?" one whispered breath.
lessly.
mo, it's only MCKEE"
"Well," said the first, I don't care
for the money; it's the principle of
the thing And he seized the end of
the plank at the curb: The other join
ed him. Their united strength ripped
up the board, and the diScoverer of
the nickle grabbed it. eff l WAS a
poor man." he remarked, turning the
coin over and over, "Td keep it be-
cause [ saw it first. But the money is
nothing to me. Let's go and have q
drink.
And entering a neighboring grocery,
the nickle was squandered on one
large glass of steam beer, which they
divided with the utmost Fairness
San Francisco News Letter
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Com nlerCiQl Item.

Nose SchaumburS-Mister Silver
stone, you has been drinking too much
again last night. Dot vas inchOOriOus
ter my biShneSs.
Silverstone-Ve I drinks after pish-
ness hours how does dot hurt bish-
ness?
Nose Schaumburg-De worst in ter
vurld. After you has been drinking
ter night before de next morning your
hand shakes like ter mischief
SilverstOne-How does dot hurt bish-
ness?
Nose STANDARDIZATION does dot
hurt bishness? Wy, ven you comes to
show ter customers does lovely bants
for a tollar and a haluf you shakes
all ter buttons off,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-01
Prepared for Hard Work.

He-Then if you are willing, we will
be married at once. But we will not
live in the close, crowded city; l will
purchase a little farm, and we will live
on it and be as happy as turtle doves.
She-And shall be a farmers wife ?
He-Yes, my darling.
She-HOw delightful! And what do
you think, John? You won't have to
buy a milking stool for me, for I've
got one already.
He lin surprise)-You have?
She (all animation)-Oh yes, the pref
test you ever saw-decorated with
handsome plush and cherry colored
ribbons. Christian Observer
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-01

McCommute-Say, Suburb, you ought
to try to control yourself. AS passed
your house on the way to the train,
heard you and your wife fighting like
eats and dogs
Mr.. Suburb-Oh, that's all right. We
don't mean anything. Just little trick
of ours.
''Trick!' -~ ...... 49,.
Eyes. You see 1t is impossible to
keep servants here, because they get
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-01
A Terrible Shock.

You wouldn't wear that primrose so
lightly if you knew what it was,' said
the professor to Charpie.
what is it?" asked Chappie.
'Why, in reality it is a corollaceous
dicotyledonous eXogen," said the pro-
fessor, whereupon Chappie went home,
aid would have had brain fever if he
had had anything to have it WITH
Harpers
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-01
PRETTY CHEAP RIDING.
That's What Man Thought After
Forty Years in the Country.

AhoI "t'd9 d wan IuOuSnC AIISF
Forty Years in the Country.
Funny people we run across in the
course of our lives,' remarked a Mar
ket street grlpman to a San Francis.
co Call reporter, as he tugged savagely
at the lever and tried to drive his car
into a couple of young men who were
crossing the street in q hurry.
"The queerest old 'bloke I've seen
for a long time boarded the dummy
at Main street. and began to ask
questions. could tell by his general
appearance that he was from one of
the way-back counties, and it didn't
take him long to tell me that he was
from lnyo and hadn't been in San
Francisco since '52. He had been
working for all these years in the
mines, and when it come to being or
to what was going on he wasn't in it.
Seemed kind OF funny, but he had new
er seen a street car before in his life,
and you'd have died laughing just to
see him sizing things up. Pretty soon
the conductor came along, and when
he asked for fares the old fellow shelled
; out four-bit piece, and nearly fell off
the car with surprise when he was
handed As cents in change.
"Made a mistake, didn't hep turn
ing to me.
Ono, that's right
"'Oh! I see; just collects I reckon
from one station to another
II nodded my head, and when the
conductor came out again I put him
| on.
"Well, sir, that old chap rode out
to the end and back down town, put
ting up his nickel whenever the car
stopped, and when he got downtown
his ride had cost him just $1.55.
"!'Pretty cheap ridin'' he said with
smile, as he stepped to the ground
| and disappeared in the darkness