The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-12-21

ter with their daug hter, Mrs. John Byrne.
For failing u report the earnings of
MS hrm according TO law, Attorney Cen
! eral Hensel on Saturday entered iudg-
ment for Sl.OSl.2O against Anthony Nor
| row, member of a private banking firm
| of Blair county.
Landlord Craver. of the Blair House.
outchered two porkerS recently that
knock the Stuf1ing out of all the butchering
stories told here this season. One, 10
| months old, weighed 425 pounds, while the
other, Il months old. weighed 40 pounds.
| the avel age weight being 4471& pounds
On Saturday Evan Thomas. son of J.
o. Thomas, of Cambria township found
an explosive cap used for putting off dyna-
mite. He thoughte>sly held it close to the
fire, when it exploded and badly mangIed
the ends Of his thumb and two fingers. DR..
| Jones was called upon to dress the wounds.
Mrs. Lambert, of Warrensburg. had a
! felon on her finger. She stopped the raw
ages OF the felon by holding the finger in
| iye. then she estOpped the ravages of the I've
by holding her finger in a solution of car
holIc acid, and then stopped the rayages Of
the acid by having "a surgeon amputate the
| finger
| "A recent trial of Clearfield county coal
| and coal from the Pocahontas district i'm
| West Virginia showed that 344 tons of
| Cleartield coal produced as much steam as
375 ton of the PocahOntas grade Penn
| sylyania is superior in several things, the
least of which is not her coal CIeQrfeJd
Republican.
| The Robinson machine works at Bell
wood, Blair county, plant owned by
| Philadelphia capitalists, We're sold on Sat
| urday night at receivers sale 10 an Altoo-
ma syndicate. The works will be enlarged
and when put in operation will give en-
! ployment To a large force of men in the
manufacture of electric machinery.
| John Meyers. a former well known and
| esteemed citizen of BenScreek. died on Fri
! day at his home after lingering illness of
several weeks of typhoid fever The de-
| ceased was born and reared not far from
the place where ne died. Mrs. Meyers and
! five of her children are down with the
| dreaded disease, but all are on Il fair way
| to recover.
| The RGftsmGn'S (Clearfield) Journal
! declares that one of the cond uctOrS on the
| Buffalo. Rochester and PittSburg railroad
| was laid off fer ten days recently sor tax
| ing drink from bottle of Pane'S Celery
| Compound while on duty The informant
| evidently thought he was drinking some
| thing stronger and so reported. with the
| above result.
Henry Settlemyer. of CroyIe township.
while working in the woods and engaged
in Telling a tree on Tuesday. was struck by
a limb of the falling tree and his skull
crushed. Medical aid was summoned but
he died about > o'clock on Wednesday
without having recovered consciousness.
He was about 30 years of age and leaves
wife and four children.
Anton Meyer. gardener residing
near Altoona, committed suicide by hang
ing himself with a strap in d wash house
on his premises on Thursday evening a bout
five o'clock. He had been acting queerIy
for several days and it is supposed his
mind was unbalanced at the time of CON-
miuJing the rash act. He is survived by a
wife and eight children
About II O'Clock on Tuesday night
Fast Line east struck an unknown man
near South Fork a short distance below
the Argyle Coal Companys tippIe. Life
was extinct when the body was found by
Charles Parrish, the night watchman.
There W as nothing about the unfortunate
mans clothing to Indicate his identity |
The man was fairly dressed. about 80 |
years of age and weighed about 10 pounds |
Some time ago William Roof, Of near |
PIumville, and his hired man felled |
thrifty big white oak tree, TO split it into |
rails. In a solid part of the trunk a cavi-
" was found filled with the hulls of hick |
ory nuts. The growths of the tree were
counted and it is thought the hulls were
carried there by squirrels SIX hundred |
years ago, time covering and concealing
whatever opening there had been to the |
nest.-IudtdnG Gazette.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company |
will not issue excursion rates to its patrons |
during the approaching holiday season. !
For the past ten years d close record has |
been kept of the amount of travel during |
the holidays. and, in nearly all cases, the |
company found itself TO be none the richer. |
1t is with a view TO eventually do away |
with excursion rates entirely that there |
will be no decrease in the rates paid for |
transportation this year.
MIR. William Carney, residing in Wash |
ington township, one mile east Of Lilly, |
will offer for sale on Saturday, December !
18th. inst, at l o'clock =. NJ, the following |
personal property, to wit: Three fine |
horses one mule, two cows, one heifer, two |
pigs, two gooG road wagons, two pair of |
Sieds, four railroad carts, plowS, harTOwS, |
harness, lot of hay, straw, corn fodder, |
chains and many ether articles too numer- |
Gus TO numerous to mention.
-Governor Pattfson has issued his pr3e-
cipe to Judges Barker, of this county; |
Doty, of Westmoreland, and ReYburn, of |
Armstrong, to try the contested election |
f.tS in Indiana bpT .lufup |
White and ex-Judge Blair. The judges
Will meet at Indiana to-day FridayJ al |
1870 p. NJ. The judges will likely meet al
the time specified 10 hear any motion of |
either side and then adjourn for few days /
TO give time To subpoena witnesses.
"A dispatch from Harrisburg states |
that at meeting of the directors of the /
ClearfieId, Conemaugh and Western rail |
road il was determined that, owing TO the /
approach of winter and the general diff |
cultieS surrounding the construction of /
new railroad under the present depressed |
financial condition, it is deemed advisable |
TO withdraw the corps of engineers from /
the field and suspend further operations |
on the line until business conditions justi !
fy resumption.
During the trial Of an assault and bat /
terry case before Judge Wickham at Beav-
er on Thursday two of the commonwealth |
witnesses. John Heidinger and Reuben |
Jansen. failed to appear Attachments !