The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-10-19

| through the efforts or y. f. Patton. where
| by the long distance telephone service is
| 10 be extended from Altoona to Patton.
| The line will also be extended on To Hast
/ ingS and Spangler from Patton. connect
| ing these towns with the general system
! of the American Telephone and Telegraph
! company. aud the people of those towns
/ put IN communication with the east and
| West.
The Republicans of this county are
! holding meetings along the line of the
| railroad and in the south of the county al
most every night. Things are not so rosy
! hued as they looked some time ago for
! their candidates for assembly and sheriff
! and they are making desperate efforts to
! bring the voters into line. The calamity
| howl don't appear to work "a well as it
/ did and il now seems as If they cannot
/ make it wear until election day.
| Assistant Secretary Reynolds of the
| interior department, in decision holds
! that section Ais of the revised statutes
| relative To the payment of nccrued pen
| Sions, is applicable TO pensions under the
/ act of July -, 1892, granting pensions TO
! the survivors of certain Indian wars and
| authorizing the widows of such deceased
! soldier to prosecute his pending claim un-
I der that act, and receive the occurred pen
/ sion TO the date of the soldiers death.
Saturday morning last the dead body
! of +. ID. Hartley. of Bellwood, Il tailor by
| occupation. was found in his room. Hart
| ley had not been seen for a week previous
10 the finding of his body. The supposi-
tion Is that he committed suicide, as an
! empty laudanum bottle was found on
trunk hear the cot on which the body,
which was badly decompoSed, lay. a sec
| ond bottle of laudanum was also found
under his pillow with part of the contents
gone.
-EN- Governor Andrew c. Curtin's will
has been entered for probate. 1t is dated
September I. 1894. is written on one side of
a sheet of legal cap, and bequeathS every
thing to his beloved wife. her heirs and
assigns forever. There is no knowing how
much of an estate the governor left, but
conservative estimates place it at Lear
81 ,Coo.OcO. lie held the controlling amount
OF stock in three banks. In addition, he
had considerable real estate and other
valuable securities.
ON Monday afternoon the corner stone
of the new NJ. f. church IN this place, was
laid with the usual ceremonies. the stone
being a handsome piece of marble with the
date 1874 cut on the face and i'll Il recepta-
Gle cut in the stone was placed bi BILE,
hymn book and copy Of each of the EbenS-
burg papers of last weeks issue. Rev. l..
McCiuire. of CuoDer>daie. delivered a SER
mon appropriate TO the occasion after
which u collection was taken up which
amounted to over $50.
The souvenir edition of the Johnstown
Dcmoc"rt Is on our table, and Il speci
men of topographic art and enterprise in
new>papcrdOm. is a credit % the eStab-
lishment from which il was issued and TO
the city that SuStainS it. Its pictures of
leading citizens. business houses and man
ufacturing establishments are not eNcelled
in any work of the same kind that has
come 10 our >anctum from the large cities,
and the people OF JohuStown should be
proud Of the Democrat.
John Leighty died 1T his home in Eb-
cnSburE at = o'clock on Monday afternoon
from typhoid fever. aged about - years.
The deceased was 4 popular young man.
strong and athletic. and in the pride of
manhood when on Thursday of last week
ne was stricken with that dread disease
which caused his death in less than
week lie was IA son OF the late William
Leighty aud i survived by his mother and
several brothers and sisters. His funeral
took place on Wednesday afternoon, his
remains being Inferred in LIOyd'S cemetery.
During several weeks past unknown
! enemies of John Hoover, a wealthy resi-
dent of Allegheny township, Blair county,
have been killing his live stock and steal
ing his turkeys. geese. etc. at a rate that
. Il.
cattle and numbers of fine sheep have been
slaughtered, night after night, and the
utmost vigilance OF the local authorities
have failed to connect anybody with the
depredatfous The other night a heavy
charge of shot was fired at him. but aside
from cutting his clothing, the shot did him
little injury.
Miss Hannah Massey. aged "a.
daughter of G.. B. Massey. general SOiici-
tor of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore railroad, died on the Limited
EXPRESS just aS the train was passing
Joan>town on Monday morning. Her
death was caused bv consumption. In
company with her father and mother she
was returning from Colorado Springs,
where she had been Sojourning for some
time, hoping that the climate would bene-
fit her falling healrh. The remains were
taken through to Philadelphia on the
train on which she died.
A team that was about being hitched
up at the livery stable of O'Hara, Luther
| Il Davis on Thursday morning started on
a run with the swingletreeS and double
tree attached. They ran on to the pave
mcnt in front of the Mountain House pool
/ room and then turned. when each horse
! taking opposite sides of one OF the large
shade trees on the curb. separated the
I team and one horse was thrown and then
! captured The other ran to the Jail where
/ il ran against the iron fence, breaking OIL
/ one post and breaking down panel Of the
/ fence. One Of the horses was severely
| hurt while the other escaped injury.
Things looked brisk down at the mouth
/ of Cush Creek on Monday, when over 100
! men on a work train pulled in at Dowler
{ and at once proceeded to build bridge
/ over Cush Creek lay ties and rails and
/ build things up in general. One thousand
/ feet OF railroad was made this one day up
| the river toward burnside. 1t is nothing
/ but bluff on the part OF the Pennsyl-
[ vanfa railroad To check the Beech Creek
J from crossing a, this point The PennSyl-
/ yania people are silently going ahead com
/ pIeting the necessary work, and appear to
I act a. if everything was O. X. a corps OF
] them are a work between here and HIS
| dale and another between Mahatfey and
/ hrre.-GICl Campbell Comet.
On Friday night OF last week an effort