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


Newton on Thursday of last week.
The Liberty Shoe Company. of -
Milk street. Boston Mass. have an ad.
in this issue Of the FREEMAN which those
in nceu of shoes will DO well to make a
note of. They have been selling shoes 10
Il number Of Ebensburg people and in all
cases the purchasers have been more than
satisfied. Send il trial order and Judge
for yourself.
The Clcarii"ld Monitor says: Tho
Clearfeld Lumber Company keeps right on
running big jobs and manufacturing lum-
Der. ThciI mill at LaJoSc is cutting an
average of io.0dO feet per day. They Will
be ready for market when the boom
comes. They have several million feet OF
logs 10 20 To the Kerrmuor mill when
spring comes
While Mary Stewart domestic in
the employ of Adam Bowman. of Greens
burg, was washing at f. j. Blanks on
Monday forenoon, her clothing took fire
from the stove and She was so badly burned
THAT She may not recover. She ran into
the street, and neigAborS, hearing her
screams, ran To her res ,ue or she would
have burned to death.
On Monday night the Ebensbure coun-
ell passed an ordinance prohibiting COWS
from running at large. Those who voted
tor the ordinance were McSsrS. +. IL. Bar
kcr. Thomas J. Davis and Thomas Evans,
of the East ward. and Fergus Lloyd. OF
the West ward Opposed 10 the ordinance
were Mcssr~. Hosea Evans and John l..
Slough. of the West ward.
The Democrats Of Carroll township
nominated the following ticket: Justice
of the peace, Z. J. White: judge ofelccuou,
ID. a. Luther: collector. Joseph Nj. Huber:
inspectors. .I"h@ i. Bender, William
Swi;Dlcr: school directors Valentine
DUNN ana d. a. Luther. 3 years, Daniel
NJ. DUNN, = years; supervisors, Frank
Earhart, Michael DiShart: auditor,
Thomas EIig: township clerk, {. y Mi
sci.
Samuel Z. Langdon. of Philadelphia,
receiver of the Altoona, CIcartcld X
Northern railroad. potitiuucd the courts
at Holiday ysburg on Monday for tn re-
mOval of his co-rccciver. Frank G. Pat
tcrsOn. The allegation iS that Patterson
is attempting, in violation of the rights
of Stockholders. to sell the railroad fran
chiSc To the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany The court held the matter under
advi>cment
Emerson Wilson. express and ticket
agent at SutcrvIllc, Wesmorcland county.
has y3ufcSScI TO stealing the Sl.5OO taken
from the pay sack of the Ellsworth Coal
Company ON Saturday. lie has been ar
rested and placed i'm Jail. The bag con
tainrd nearly 5000 and was ripped and
scwcd up again without breaking the seal
Wilson has heretofore borne a good rcpu-
tation. II i thought that financial Difficult
ties prompted him to do the deed.
The apple crop Of this county has be-
come one OF the most important and profit
able farm crops. The crop of 1888, though
not full one, was most important and
profitable one, and brought a large sum Of
money into the county at time when few
other farm crops could Toe sold for cash.
We were Informed by quite "a number Of
farmer, that their apple crops brought
them more actual money in cash than
all their grain crops ia lS93.-Bodf"rd IN
Ysucr.
ON Monday night at Haiutown, West
morclaud county, the 6-ycar- old daughter
of Mrs. Carmcck. whose husband commit
self. was killed by her brother. He had
brought a shot gun down stairs To shoot a
dog, when the trigger caught i'm his cloth
ing. djscharging the weapon and blowing
his sisters head oil. The mother aud sis
ter both fell at the same time and he
tainted three times from the shock. lie is
now in a critical condition.
The money TO pay the hands of the
Ellsworth Coal Company. Of SutrrvilIc.
Wcstmorelaud county. was stolen from the
express car or station ON Saturday. The
package when received 10y the express
company. was i'm good condition. but when
opened by them was found 10 hc nearly
81 500 short. The money had been taken
out and paper substituted. The money
was sent from Columbus O.. and was tam
pcrcd with while in the hands OF the
American Express Company.
Last summer when the COW ordinance
was brought mp in council. Councilman
s,lrIlcr thought it would bee better toleavc
in until they would hear from the people.
Under the impression that they would
have "a chance 70 vote for or against the
ordinance, thc people We're resting easy
until they acard ON Monday night that
council had taken snap Judgment and
passed the ordinance. After the Novem
hcr election Councilman Barker was not
uneasy about an expression from the pcu-
pie.
ON Saturday last Jas. Kirk, son Of
Thomas Kirk, OF Carroll township, met
with an accident that might have proved
serious He was riding horseback when
the horse stumbled and fell. throwing
Kirk aud falling on him. At tiISt il was
thought ne was fatally hurt. Or. Sloan
was summoned and after an examination
found that while his paricnt was badly
bruised and shocked. his injuries wer" not
serious. Late accounts report him getting
along as well as could be cNpccted.-Hds-
tjUgN Tribune.
On Sunday afternoon while reclining
on his bed between his youug wife and
their eleven months old child. George Nc
Crum. aged twenty five years, of Hunting
don drew a revolver from under his pillow
and sent "A bullet crashing through his
brain. killing himself instantly. For sew
cral weeks past McCrum has been out Of
work and becoming respondent in conse-
quencc he had on several occasions threat
ened TO take his life. Last week ne was
barely prevented from carrying out his
design with the use of razor.
An odd case. To test the legality of
bIackliSting customers, was tried at iiolli-
daysburg last week. The case was against
the Retail Merchants Commercial Agency,
a mercantile association having central
Offices in Philadelphia and local branches
throughout PENNSYLVANIA. The agency
publishes IA blacklist of debtors for the
use of Is members. The GraZier Brothers,