The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-02-23


morning. With revolver he sent a bull
let into his body about an inch and a halt
pelow the left nipple. The ball lodged in
his back and was removed
"A Reading dispatch says: THE hard
! times are driving many people from the
| cities who are iocking to the country 20
become farmers. In some sections of this
country every farm could be rented ten
times over. Consequently the price of
farm land has taken a jump upward and
rentals have increased. Many of those
| who are returning to the farms formerly
went to the cities from the country
| Samuel Hildebrand, of Johnstown. en-
| ployed as Il laborer in the Gautier
| works in that place. was caught
between two cars that were showed togeth-
| er by shifting engine Just as he was pass
| ing between them, and crushed so badly
| that he died in hali an hour after. The
| deceased was the eldest son of Rev Stephen
! Hildebrand, of West TAYLOR township. aud
was about II years of age. He was un-
married.
General Greenland has furnished Gov
| ernor Pattison with the names of the dis
| tinguished eN-SoldierS who participated
| with the Pennsy lvania troops at the bat
| tie of Antietam. The governor will select
! from the list fifteen or twenty To serve as
a commission to act in conjunction with
/ Colonel j. L. StearuS and General III. Heth,
| the Antietam board at Washington, in To-
| eating the positions held by the troops
| from this state at the battle.
In the year 1894 there will be four
| e,lipSeS. two of the sun and two of the
moon. An annual eclipse of the sun will
occur April ,, and a total eclipse Septem
ber -, but both will be invisible in any
part Of America. y partial eclipse Of the
moon will occur March n, but will not be
generally visible in the United States.
Another partial eclipse of the moon will
take place on September IA aud l.. and
be viSiblein all parts of America.
The people of PuttStown were greatly
alarmed on Thursday of last when j. NJ.
| WarSing died there of smallpox. Several
days ago Warsing paid visit To Tyrone
ForgcS, where the disease i prevalent, and
while returning To his home at Hopewell
last wee took sick on the ears and was
taken To the res idence of his cousin, Lewis
Putt, at PuttstOwn, where he died at 4:3O
T. VI During his illness he was visited by
IA number Of friends. Bedford Gazette.
Mrs. Catharine O'Conror, widow of
Patrick O'Cpunor died in Altoona on
NJ onday, aged about is years. The de-
ceased was born in Cambria county. For
many years ste had been resident of Al
toona, her husband dying there on July l.,
1859. She was the mother of seven children,
two of whom. John and Maggie, have pre-
ceded her to the grave. The surviving
children are Bernard, William. Annie, and
Mrs. w. l.. Stevens, Of Altoona, and Mrs.
Bernard Myers, of Ashville, this county.
A house occupied by the family of
FredericE Ulrich in Altoona was burned
on Wednesday. Mrs. Ulrich was making
efforts 10 save some yaluableS and had
made her way through the smoke to the
third floor, with the whole top of the
building burning over her. Suddenly the
roof began to settle. A volunteer fireman
named Nal Valentine made his way to the
top floor. caught the woman in his arms
and Springing down the Stairwas, burst
ont Of the street door just aS the roof fell.
The loss is 8, 800.
EARLY on Sunday morning Mrs Adriel
Article. who lives with her husband and
eight children on a farm near Somerset.
arose to give a sick child a dose of medi-
cine. As she approached the child's bed
with the medicine in one hand and a krro-
Sene lamp in the other, she struck the
lamp against a sewing machine, shattering
il to pieces. In moment the room was
in flames and the frantic mother grasped
her sick child and He'd from the building
Her husband barely rescued the other
children. The building and all its contents
v-nrp
Justice" in the GosliRg thinks that
the cows should be done away with be-
cause pedestrians on Julian street have
had the luStrc OF many a polished shoe
sadly furnished while perambuIating the
side walks in the Immediate vicinity of
the residence OF the editor of the FREEMAN.
We confess that this i view OF the QueS-
tou that We have never considered. That
a polished shoe should remain untarni>hed
is of vastly more Importance 10 the people
of EbcnSburg than that some of her people
should have milk. Children may cry for
milk, but give Justice" his untarnished
shoes.
Rev. Father Kitteil Of LOretto, last
week purchased from the McMullen e>-
tate the small piece of land in Allegheny
township lying south OF the road from Lo-
retto To EbenSburg ard between the Me
Mullen school and the Cambria x Clear
field railroad. The object OF the purchase
is we understand, 10 utilize il for the con
venience Of those who wish To receive and
ship freight from that point, and the com
pauy will be asked To put up a small sta
tion house for the use Of passengers who
wish 10 take the trains at that point. Ii
will be- a great convenience to the people
of Loretto and vicinity.
In the case of Jat kel vS. Caldwell at Hol-
liday sburg last week the jury returned
verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the sum
of =, 500. which. with interest To the present
time amounts 10 Sl2.346. The case o! the
the plaintiff originates and was pressed for
the recovery of commissions amounting To
SG7. 800 which the plaintiff averred was due
him for developing aud projecting the sale
of 5000 acres of coal land along the Clear
field creek in this county. and also project
ing the Crcsson x Clearfield 4 New York
Short Route Railroad for the purpose of
bringing the coal from these lands into
market. The case has been tried three
times in the lower court and has been once
in the supreme court.
Last fall an article appeared i'm this
paper giving the age of six Flick brothers
as "A thing remarkable, which indeed tits.
We a. the same time remarked that they
were probably the six Oldest brothers liv-
ing in the state. Now, right from our own
comes a statement OF SIN
brothers beating them by an average of
about two years. These remarkable
men are the Huber brothers, and their
a,,as ara a. fnIIo,yS- Jacob -. Peter IS: