The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-29


Scriptions, etc. During the week we ex-
pect to send out a number of bills and we
hope there will be a ready response. We
need money to keep the business moving
| and we have large amount of it scat
| tered out.
| AT the convention held at Altoona on
| Monday 1t was resolved to allow all opera :
| tors who will pay the compromise price
| t45 cents nett to resume operotions, this to
| include all concessions such as check
| weighmen. men to deal where they please
| and no discrimination To be MADE against
strikers. Bell, Lewis K Yates were noti-
fled of the acceptance of their offer.
| The CarrolltOwn NelCs says that on
| last SUNDAY, June Il. while the family
were at church. robbers broke into the
house of Mrs Erhart Farabaugh in AL
| legheny township and ranSacked it from
| top 10 bottom. breaking open trunks. etc.
ana carried away Severa! articles of value.
| such as clothing, and a few pieces of Jew
| eiry-keepSakeS of deceased members of
| the family.
| If the following from an exchange be
true we shouldn't think sweet peas a very
desirable boquet flower: "A bunch of
| sweet peas in each room, renewed every
| day, will kill every fl in the house They
VIII stop To suck the deadly sweet and
| topple over dead. They alight with their
usual buzz. stop momentariIy, quiver in
their legs, flap their wings weakly several
! times and give up the ghost"
The members of st. Bartholomew
| aIholic church, of Wilmore. will have An
old time picnic on July 4th, in Maple
Grove, at WilmOre station A first class
orchestra has been secured TO furnish
music for dancing and there will be various
kinds of amuSementS as well as d free
balloon ascension at 10 A NJ, under the
management of MIR =. NJ. Brown There
will be a grand display of fireworks in the
evening.
Vincent StOltZ'S hotel and restaurant
at Carroltown, was entered by burglars
Friday night or at an early hour on Sat
urday morning and the money drawer con
tanning about S33 was robbed. Some liquor
and cigars were also taken Entrance was
effected through rear window and so
quiet were the operations of the thieves
that the proprietor knew nothing of the
robbery until he entered the bar room ON
Saturday morning.
The Altoona Times says that large
quantities of petroleum have been found
on the farm of A. Il. Hicks, near DuncanS-
vile, and prospecting tour of adjoining
lands shows that they are also filled with
crude oil. The TimsS further says that
the find has caused a boom for DuncanS-
Vile, and that PittSburg and Johnstown
capitalists are reported having leased
farms in Allegheny and Freedom town
ships for boring purposes.
j. +. Kyler. who shot and killed Will
liam Butler, ON the 10Th of March last, in
North Woodbury. township. Blair county,
was tried last week at Holiday Sburg and
convicted of murder in the second degree
kylrr, at the time of the shooting was
visiting u Miss Acker, when Butler. who
was paying attention to the same lady,
stepped quietly up TO window and as
pecping in. Kyler drew his revolver and
fired, wounding Butler, " no died a few
days after
The convention of the Peoples party
called together at GallitZin on Tuesday,
consisted of twenty three delegates ont of
u possible one hundred and forty eight
The convention nominated the following
county ticket: Alex. Lang, of South
Fork. and James W. Kilduff, of Gailitzin,
for assembly; j. ). Wicks of South Fork.
Tor sheriff; Ira Bloom, of Cambria town
ship. for poOrhOuse director, and Jacob
Buck of Allegheny township, for jury
commissioner.
On Saturday Mrs. II. c. Ullery, of
West Taylor township, drove To Johns
town and stopped at the residence of her
sister. Mrs. John K. Reese While she
daughter clambered into the buggy, when
the horse started off. The child attempted
to guide the animal, and pulled on the
lines. causing il To back. In few min
utes the horse. carriage and little girl went
over the stone wall into the Conemaugh
river. The carriage was broken TO pieces
the little girl badly bruised. while the
horse escaped injury.
An alleged agent for a Michigan plow
company is said To be travelling over the
country selling Sulky plowS to farmers at
double prices and taking notes for the
| same on the understanding that one Lalf
the amount be boarded out at the rate of
one dollar a day, and if the farmer wishes
| To pay in ten DAYS he to have eight per cent.
| discount. The agent also offers To credit
| on the note one dollar and a half for every
| customer 10 whom the farmer may intro
duce him. When he gets the note the
| agent disappears and the note turns up in
| the hands of third parties who demand
| full settlement. Look out for these sharp
| ers.
| During the prevalence of the heavy
| thunder storm of Friday evening last a va
cant house at Portage was struck by
| lightning. AT WiImOre a tree in 'front.' of
| Mrs. Homer's house was struck, and much
| damage to crops was done in the same To-
| cality. In Adams township the storm was
| unusually severe, twelve trees having been
| shattered by lightning in the Immediate
vicinity of SaliX. AT Scalp Level the roof
| was torn off the barn of Charles FOuSt and
| the chimney on the house of Mrs. Bu-
| chanan was blow n down. This is the same
| storm that ragged so violently in Blair
| county striking houses in HOllidaySburg
aud Altoona.
| Hon. j. ID. Hicks, in his talk to the far
| merS at Wednesday evenings session of
| the institute, gave as the reason for the
the cornering of that necessary commodity
| by the wheat combines of Chicago, and
| their endeavOrs To exact of England an eX
| orbitant price therefor, had caused that
| country To turn to the Argentine COnfed
| Grafton and British India, from which
! countries she now imports about 6O,O6O,OOO
! bushels of wheat annually. thus decreas-
| ha han md h.