The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-02-16
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Johnstown.
Tuesday next will be pay day on the
HIacklick railroad.
Stephen Snyder represents the thriving
town of Dunlo in the county Jail.
ON Wednesday Andrew Eckenrode was
appointed postmaster at Carrolltown.
Pennsylvania last year mined e-half
the coal produced in the United States.
Mr.. Michael sherry, o: St Augustine,
suent few hours in town on Wednesday.
County Commissioner George NJ. Wertz
is IN at his home in Stonycreek township.
Philip Gradwell of Frugalty, died on
Tuesday of last week aged about AZ years
The man who don't believe in the
ground hog cannot call him liar any how.
Mr. Anthony Dietrich, of Chest town
ship. spent few hours in town ou Mon
day.
-Ex-Associa:e Judge John ID. Thomas,
OF Carroll township, was in town on We'd
ueSday
Thomas Stanley, of Johustown was
deposited in the county Jail on Saturday
for larceny.
Hon. A. V. Barker, of this place, is i'll
Judge Bell.
J. B. Denny. landlord of the Mountain
House in this place, went to Pittsburg on
Wednesday.
John NJ. Patterson, of Delaney, and
Philip Better, of Portage, were granted
pensions on Saturday.
Tie DauntleSs Fire Company will hold
meeting to elect officers on Wednesday
evening of next week.
On WaShiugton's birthday, February
22nd, our public schools will have special
exercises in honor of that event.
Charles HalIer and Milton ,Berringer,
who escaped from the Clearheld Jail on
Saturday, were both recaptured.
Two work horses were stolen from the
barn of Jacob Keister, WestmorelaEd
county farmer, on Saturday night.
Joseph Nickle, of Grant township, In
diana county, shipped car load of apples
from CheIrytree to Pittsburg last week.
A few evenings ago Edward Hartnett.
aged l. years, of Johnstown, fell on the
lev street, fracturing his right arm at the
elbow.
A sleighing party of ten persons drove
Thursday, aud stopped at the Central
Hotel.
Mike Dolley, an Italian laborer, was
seriously hurt one day last week at the big
cut on the Blucklick by a rock falling on
his back.
In our miscellaneous advertisements
MessrS. Mullen Il Smith, Of Lilly, nave an
al that will bee OF interest TO the people of
that vicinity.
David Coulter of Franklin, was in
town on Thursday of last week. David is
anxious To be the Republican candidate for
sheriff next fall.
The Somerset Standard has donned
new dress of type and It's appearance,
which was always good looking, is much
enhanced by the outlay.
Eugene sullivan. of Fourteenth ward
Johnstnwn, dropped dead while at work at
the Cambria Iron Company's steel works
on Wednesday morning.
On Friday of last week the Altoona
fire department bought a pair of horses
from James GomperS. of Indiana, paying
him 500 for the team.
On Monday the Bessimer steel works,
the blooming mill and the billet mill at
Juhnstown resumed operations, giving
employment to IA large number of men.
On Tuesday patent was issued from
the land Office at Harrisburg for a large
tract of land in SuSquehanna township To
Levi POuse, George X. Garman and
Thomas Barnes.
DR.. l.. f. WOrthlev, a physician well
known through Cambria and Clearfed
counties, has removed from Hastings TO
Altoona, where he will practice his pro-
feNSion in the future.
The Goa. and coke plant of the Chest
Creek Coal Il Coke Company at Hastings
has started up and il is expected that it
will not be long until it will DO operated
10 It's full capacity.
With the opening of spring the Spang
Ter Water Company will construct reser-
yoIr on the l.. j. Bearer farm which Will
have capacity equal TO supplying Il
town Of 1000 inhabitants.
ON account Of smallpox at Tyrone
forges the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has discontinued the sale of tickets
To that point and no passenger trains will
stop there until further advised.
on last Sunday morning the Lutheran
chufch at Cookport, Indiana county,
caught tire from an overheated stove and
burned To the ground. The organ and
some OF the seats were saved. No insur-
auce.
on Wednesday evening. February 2lst,
Roots cantata entitled David, the Shep-
herd Boy" will be- given in the Congrega-
uoual church by the choir, under the di-
rection Of Rev. sirhowy Jones. Admission,
SO cents.
Some time during Friday night MessrS
Levi and Noah II. kauffman's smoke
house in Upper Yoder township, was
robbed Of about 2UO pounds of meat and
Their granery was also broken open, but
nothing was taken.
Frank Mike, who shot and killed Voc
"a" Luckaytze near HoutZdale last No
Nrmber, was found guilty of murder in the
second degree in the Clearfield county
court on Wednesday. A motion for arrest
oI Judgment was made.
John McGnire, Il veteran, aged seventy
Years, dropped dead Friday at his home il
LIvermore, Pa, while CONVEX sing with hi
son lie served four years and two
months in the late war, and fought under
"eHeral Custer, at Gettysburg.
James Il. Scott well-known citizeI
oI Allegheny City, and who, after th'
'"hhNtown Flood, was by common con
sent placed in charge and was dictator Of
lhat community, died at his home in Al
IeRheny ON Tuesday, February 18th.
An exchange puts il in this way, ant
puts II correctly too: We wouldn't trus
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