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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15
A PrndigaI's Hurd Fate.

Chicago. March IA strange story
is developed by the pardon from the
Joliet State prison of Harry Steel, who
WAS serving a II year sentence for a rob
berry committed in 1888 The pardon
was the result of the efforts of j. W
DrouiIIard. prominen: Chicago attor>
ney, who was an old time friend ana
school chum of the prisoner.
Steel was the member of prominent
and wealthy family of Portsmouth, Q g,
and inherited $50, 900 fortune. He
held several government positions in
Ohio, but lost all his money on the
races, and came to Chicago in 1889 pen
niIess and desperate. Too proud to i'm
form his friends of his condition, he
finally reached the verge of starvation.
and one night stole pair of 90 cent
second hand shoes in Halstead street
shop, knocking down the proprietor in
his attempt To escape.
FoI the 6O-cent theft he was senten
ced to II years in Joliet. United States
Senator Foote, OF Vermont, who was a
relative OF his mother, and other promi
nent people tried to effect a pardon, but
unsucCessfully, and his existence had
been almost forgotten when attorney
DrOuilIard, on recent visit to the prison,
recognized his old time friend in the
broken, haggard convict, Steele.
The severity of the sentence and the
petty offense were placed before Govern
or Atgeld, the attorneys efforts finally
resulting in a pardon after the prisoner
had served six years for his so cent
theft, eXpiating his crime at the rate of
10 cents year.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15
GaTed The wrong Ox.

Ii was announced ia Harrisburg that
Captain French, Of Washington county.
would introduce in the legislature a bill
premIttIug religious societies to use
SchoolhouSeS IN townships The meas
ure makes It lawful for public school
houses IN townships To be used by any
religious societies for worship or reigi-
Gus instruction at the discretion of the
school board, providing that such use
shall not Interfere with school hours or
the management of the schools. 1t is
intended to counteract the effect Of the
smith Religious Garb bill, should ii be
come a law.
Under the decision of the supreme
court in the case against the nuns teach>
ing the public schools at Gallitzin,
schOoIhOuses cannot be used for relig-
Ious instruction even after school hours
Mr.. French has received "A letter from a
constituent at Cannonsburg stating that
the schools in that locality are being
used for this purpose by the Methodists
and other denominations without ob
lection from any quarter.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

Ok Tuesday the bill making it mis-
demeanOr for teacher in the public
schools of the state to wear any religious
garb was passed by the house by a vote
of 151 for the bill to % against it.
Both Messrs. Stineman and Patterson
from this county voted for the bill.
During the discussion on the merits of
the bill Representatives Spangler of Cum
berland county, made speech IN Its
favor in which he made the wild charge
that "Harrity had made a political deal
with three Catholic priests on the top of
the Allegheny Mountains wnen Rep
resentative O'MaIley, Republican from
Scranton, arose and demanded the
speakers authority for the statement
saying: II am a member of tina,
church and have never known Cath
olic priest to NEEDLE in politics. As the
gentleman has made the charge here, ]
think he should give Us his authority,
the names Of the priests and all the par
tIculars.' Il said had read that such
a thing had been done, was the way
spangler got out Of II.
Representative Seyfert, Of Lancaster.
made a vigorous protest against the
measure. As a representative Of the
majority party in the house" ne said.
Il ask can II be possible that We have
lost our heads, and here on the evening
of the Nineteenth century, stand up and
uphold such piece Of demagogism as
this He called attention to the fate
OF a similar bill in New Jersey and pre-
dicted that within decade every man
present would be ashamed of such a
measure. He declared that since his
last speech against the bill he had been
threatened, notes had been left at his
house and every possible effort made to
choke off his opposition. In conclusion
he dared any one there to get up and
make a square, honest argument in fav-
or of the bill.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15
Victory for the Miners.

PIttsburg, Pa, March 11.-Over 1000
clver coal miners in this city will start
to work tomorrow, the operators having
granted the SO cents per ton demanded
by the men. The operators claim, how
ever, that the advance is not permanent.
and that 1t would not have been granted
but for the reason of the favorable con
dltlon OF the river for shipping coal
The Railroad Coal Operators Assoc;-
alton held meeting to-day and decid
ed not to pay over 30 cents as long as
the Cleveland Gas Coal Company nav
their miners that price. The members
of the association who granted the go
cents demanded by the minars explained
that they did it so they could furnish
coal to their local retail trade, and thar
no coal was being dug for outside shin
ments.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINGS.

The Homestead steel works resumed In
full ou Monday, for the first time for some
weeks
The residence of Ahram Myers. near
Mt. Pleasant, Pa. was hurglarizcd Of
about 500 worth of silver aud jcwcIry.
Louisiana sugar planters. who have
been crushed by the sugar trust. have de-
cided to start an independent Sugarrrfiuery.
The Cortland, y. y, cart and carriage
works were DESTROYED by fire on Sunday.
Loss, $4,000. Sixty men were thrown out
of work.
The Connecticut legislature on Tues
day repealed the ancient Sunday law
against newspapers, barber shops ana
similar necessities.
David BloSSar, a blacksmith. of CreS-
ton. Ia, committed suicide Saturday when
an officer was about TO arrest him for for
geries aggregating $1,000.
The largest steel rail mill at BcthIe-
hem, Pa. resumed work on Monday on an
order of 1900 tons for a Georgia road.
giving employment to l.5OO men.
-Governor Mckinley and Mrs McKu-
ley have gone to Thomasville. Ca. where
they Will remain for some time for the
benefit of Mrs. McKinleyS health.
"A clergyman at west Superior. Wis.
has been relieved of his pasiorate because
he stole his sermons from Tamage and
IngerSoll without giving proper credit.
Mr.. Solomon offered resolution in
the Illinois senate charging gross immor-
tality in the great department stores of
Chicago and calling for an investigation.
Charles DiSbrow. of McKeeSport. ON
Monday accidently shot his Young brother.
Earl, with 42-caibre pistol. The bullet
passed through the child'S body. but he
will recover.
Two married men, William Wells and
Ernest Braunlich. of Harmon. w. Va.
engaged in a quarrel about woman.
Wells shot Braunlich twice, and the lat
ter will die.
Over 20 PERSONS have died of a strange
malady in Floyd county, Ky. which
starts in the stomach, rises to the throat
and chOkes the victim to death. 1t is con
tagious and many people are afflicted with
it.
George Hughes, 24 years old. a Iincman
tupAOSt ny iilt BdlliulOIt ~ ONO rail-
road. Saturday night shot and instantly
killed Joseph Diminis. an electric worker.
at st. Denis, Md. in drunken row.
Hughes has been arrested
William Ferns, who. about seven
years ago. mysteriousIy disappeared from
Blairsville Intersection. was found dead
on Tuesday night alongside the river bank
by Henry LivengOOd. Many believe he
was murdered and the coroner is fnvesti-
eating the case.
On Saturday evening Charles Kirby.
aged 2i years, seriously shot Frederick
Case, about the same age, and then shot
himself dead at Schuyler Falls, Ny.
Case was walking with Kirby'S sister
Kirby had previously borbidden Case from
paying attentions to the girl.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15
twenty-five Men EntOmbed.

Winnipeg, Mann, March 11.-The
shaft house at the famous Sultana gold
mine, fourteen miles from Rat Portage,
caught fire this afternoon and before the
flames were discovered they completely
envelOped the building.
The smoke and flames immediately
cut off the air supply to the mine,
in which were working twenty or twenty
five miners. A messenger. who arrived
at Rat Portage from the mine at )
O'Clock tonight, says that when he left
At o clock, only four men had been
brOdght up. \ number OF doctors were
working over these in the hope of resuS-
citating them, but with small chance Of
success. The other men were certainly
suffocated and practically given up for
lost.
The shafting and shaft machinery be
ing destroyed, hindered the work Of re-
cue. The families of the men live at
Rat Portage and there Il great excite
meut, a. their only communication
with the mine Is a circuitous aud som,
what dangerous wagon trail. No furth-
er particulars can be expected To night
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15
Pain IA Little Ahead.

Meadville. Pa, March Il Another
chapter in Editor a. J. Palms butterine
joke on the Pennsylvania state dairy
mems association came to light to dav
when Mr.. Palm submitted to the local
press an affidavit from the employees of
Armour & Co, of Chicago, that they
sent to Mr.. Palm, February 1. three
packages of bntterine made at the CONS
pany' 5 factory, Mr.. Palm also testified
that the three packages received from
Armour & CO., were entered as butter
for prizes at the dairymen's meeting and
received prizes as genuine dairy butter
John c McClintock, an ex president
for the dairymen's association, has
caused to be published statement that
the articles entered by Mr.. Palm were
genuine butter and that he was duned
by Armour x Co. AS the case no,c
stands, Palm appears to be several
lengths ahead
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15
Attack on GOyernOr Hastings.

Butler, Pa, March 1O-At a meeting
Of the independent oil producers last
night Governor Hastings was bitterly
denounced for having signed the Mar
shall bill, which repeals the act of 1883.
prohibiting the consolidation of com.
petlug pipe lines. o. NJ Walker pre-
sided, and speeches were made by Clar
ence Walker and ex Senator Lee. The
resolutions adopted condemn the Gov
ernor for signing the bill and say that
Through weakness or avarice he has
proven himself the servant, not of the
people, but of the corporate and money
power of the land" that ''he is no long
er entitled to the confidence and sun
port OF the people, but deserves the con
demnatlon of honest citizens eleryWbere
and for all time" and that I'VE call
upon all citizens to take time to think
that their homes and happiness and that
OF their children and grandchildren are
threatened by the legal assumptions of
corporations that they are the creators
of this commonwealth" +"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15
Drove a Family From TOWN.

Westville, Ind, March 11.-Last
night mob of 800 men congregated
AT the house of Ira Congden, and with
lighted torches escorted his entire family
outside the town limits During the
evening COngdeu became involved IN a
street brawl with Louis Fletcher, and as
sisted by his sons and daughter, serions-
~ stabbed Fletcher with a butcher knife
and crushed his skull with bricks. The
sight OF the wounded man writhing in
agony excited the people and a mob
sought to avenge the bloody deed.
When Congdon and his family had
been disposed of, the mob raided the
house of Emerson Poston and his mis-
tress, Mary Rogers, whose husband re-
Gently disappeared. were publicly hanged
In efiigy, and the mob was determined to
tar and feather the couple. Poston had
been warned and disappeared.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

Selling wooden in England, Says the
Philadelphia Times, is a new departure
for American manufacturers to engage
IN, and yet this is the story the Consul
at Bradford sends to the state Depart
ment, with the further information that
American wOOlens are disposed of there
at a profit and that, too, in the face of
the fact that Bradford is the central wool
en- market of Great Britain.
American wooden cloth at 90 and so
cents yard, which experts concede to
be from goods of a superior grade, is
just rs much a puzzle to the English
maker as it is to the American at home
accustomed to paying much higher fig
ures and to believing the tariff chaff so
generally thrown out to bolster up the
tariff tax bOunties. The new tariff dis
proves the argument of the high protec-
zionist very early in the game that re-
duction of the duty on woods would ruin
trade abroad and the mills at home.
Nothing Of the kind follows the ad-
mission Of free material, but to the cons
trary the mills are in possession of a
stimulus, the looms and spindles are
working up a new competition and
American woolen cloth is now in the
English markets in company with Amer
lean carpets, which were long months
ago.
The prediction that American manu-
facturers, with the advantage of free
wool, would have their goods in Brad
ford in SIX months after the new tariff
Dill had passed, has been more than re-
allied. Britain is beaten on its own
ground and the future is rich in prom
Use.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

TaE new anti>lottery law, passed at
the recent session of congress, prohibits
express companies or other common car
riers from carrying lottery letters, tick
cts, or advertising, under a maximum
penalty of two years Imprisonment and
1000 fine. 1t also empowers the post
master general to confiscate all mail
matter sent out by lottery companies,
whether under seal or not, and return
to the sender or the dead letter office.
mail addressed to lottery companies.
The law applies to companies in this and
foreign countries
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

BEAusTREEr's : for hast week SAYS The
general business situation shows much
improvement from several G. uters.
This Is declared due in part to the
Adjournment Of congress and to some
extent To better weather
Gains are shown in improved demand
for lumber and other building materials
and in receipt of.larger orders for struct-
ural iron and steel, together with the
absorption Of available stocks Of Besse-
mer pig iron.
In the South, Augusta cotton factories
have received a large number of orders,
many for future delivery, and in almost
all directions jobbers report increased
sales Of staple dry goods, hats, shoes,
millinery and hardware.
Fine foreign wooden goods continue to
attract the special attention heretofore
reported and are competing successfully
with corresponding American grades.
London wool sales report a moder-
ately higher and stronger market The
tendency of prices remains as heretofore
an advance being reported in shoes,
which has checked the volume of busi-
ness for fall delivery in cotton, due, as
alleged, to a spread of confidence in the
prospect for a reduced cotton acreage;
pork, lard, refined sugar, Indian corn,
live hogs and leather, the latter having
advanced sharply. Bessemer pigiron is
unchanged, despite the market being
cleared of available supplies, and lum-
her, while nominally unchanged, is
firm, with an upward tendency.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

WORTH. the famous dressmaker of
Paris Is dead Unemployed 200 peo>
pie and turned out 10000 dresses and
Cloaks per year. The Americans, he
once said, were his best customers
no doubt the easiest duped by the al
Iurement. Of bis swell establishment.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

GLADSTONE computes that the habituaI
speakers5of the English language have in
creased from $1,000, 600 to IO5. 600, 600
during the last 100 years, and that they
viii number 12O, 600, 600 by the end Of
the year 1900. At that rate of increase.
which Is seyen-fold each century, such
speakers viii include not less than $40
COO 600 Toy the end Of the year 2OOO
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

THE bill aholishing jury commission
cr> aud providing that the duties Of said
officers be performed 10y the county com
HI-sioners was defeated in the state leg
Isla;ure week The present legislature
l. in favor Of more offices instead of less.
There are not enough at present to go
around among the members OF the g. o.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

Pauline Cosy AUBREY, daughter of
Chief Justice Fuller, has applied for di
vDrce from her husband, James Mat
thew Aubrey. Jr-, with whom she eloped
some years ago The husband turned
unt worthless and has frequently been
arrested fIr forgery. His wife left him
some yaarS ago.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15
according to a tabulated statement of

According to a tabulated statement of
comparisons Of appropriations made by
the 53rd congress As compared with the
aggregate for the 51st and 52nd con
gresses, respectively, the following is Civ
en-: Total appropriations by the 51st
congress $9SS, III, IS:; by the 52nd con
gress $I,O27, ,1Of.647 and 10y the 53rd
congress $3.50, SIS, ,G91.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

IT has been determined that no more
patents for lands granted the subsidized
railroads shall be issued until there has
been settlement of the debt due the
government from these roads. That
the stuff
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

HARRY HAYWARD, convicted of the
murder of Catharine Cling, was on Mon
day sentenced ny Judge Smith to be
hanged three months hence, in Minnea-
polls. Hayward reiterated his protesta-
ton of innocence.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

THE state board of agriculture has sent
out circulars announcing that new
fruit pest called the san Jose Scale has
made its appearance on the western
slope and Will advance eastward. By
addressing Thomas :. Edge, secretary Of
the state hoard Of agriculture, at Harris
burg, full particulars regarding the best
means Of destroying it NAV he obtained.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

ATLANTA. March I3 Governor Nc.
K;nley was delayed lu Rome "
wreck on the East T-uue~~ae road near
that CITY He wa- entertained by I'd.
kepU bligans OF Rome and later came
to fll- f.lTy
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15
DefauItcr rnrInr Cancbt.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla March I3 -Ad-
wees received here via Tamua report
the arrest. IN Mexico. Of Taylor the eN-
South Dakota rrea- urer. who dpfaulred
for several hundred thousand dollars
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

WINSTON. y c., March l3-Parry
Cottey. who murdered ms brother in
Wilkes county last fall. killing him
with a stick, ha> been sentenced TO 20
years IN the peu:truuary
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

NOTICE is hereby given that the following ac
~ count a, been filed in the Court of Clsm-
mon fleas OF Cambria county. Pennsylvania and
viii be cnnnImed by the said Court on the .5t n
day Of March. 1895. unless cause be shown to the
First and final account OF q. Girard assignee OF
Rey ynOlds Bowen.
J. &. DARBY
Prothonc tary's Office. March /. 1895.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15
R!DDLED WITH |. I'D.
A Colorado Mob Attacks Nine
Italian MurdererS.
FOUR OF THEM ARE KILLED.

rhe Driver of the Wagon on Which They
Were Being Taken to IaiI Also Killed.
Race War ON Between Italians and
Americans.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

\ N,lIoNAL cat show will be held in
New York in May
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15
THE
First atiOnal Bank
OF PATTON.
PATTON. Cambria Co., Pa.
Capital, paid up, = $4,000.

Accounts OF Corporations Firms and individuals
received upon the most favorable terms
consistent with sale and cOnscrya-
tive Banking.
Steamship Tickets for sale by All the leading
Lines and Foreign Drafts payable in any
OF the principal cities OF the
OLD World.
All correspondence will have cur personal and
prompt attention.
cctI3q3
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

NOTlCE-My wife Franie having lett NV bed
~ and board without sufficient cause or rrovo
cation. hereby notify tn. put lie that l II not
be accountable for any debt she may contract
neither viii be accountable for any debt made
or contracted by nv children or any of them
See article OF separation recorded
SpangleT. March l. 1875 St
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-15

LONDON. March I3-The Earl of Bess-
borough Is dead.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-12-12

ate and profit by them, making them
the stepping stones by which they and
their fellow men advance III civiliZa-
tion, culture and intelligence. Man
kind has always greatly wasted its en-
ergies in repetition-the repetition of
errors. II it were possible for all men
to know the errors and mistakes Of those
who have lived before them, and if they
would profit by and avoid them, social
ism would no longer be called an i'm
possible dream, and the "brotherhood
of man" would seem to be a part of the
future. However, be our faults what
they may, the tendency of mankind is
to look up, to long for something better,
to strive for superiority, and though it
is grim fact of life that the rise of one
man implies-and in most cases. neces-
states, the fall of another, and though
the most Of the ills and sorrows and
griefs of life cluster around our ambi-
tions and effo is to rise though all of
this is true, the world is growing better
and civilization is advancing.-Plank-
intOn $50. Dak.) Mail.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-12-12
SEED THOUGHTS.

The essence Of true nobility is neglect
of self. Let the thought of self pass in,
and the beauty of great action is gone,
like the bloom from sOiled flower
Froude.
TO be desirous of good name and
careful to do everything that we limo
Gently may to obtain it, is so far from
being fault even in private persons,
that it is their great and Indispensable
duty-Atterbury.
Habit is the deepest law of human
nature 1t is our supreme strength, If
also, in certain circumstances, our most
miserable weakness. Habit is our primal
fundamental law, habit and imitation,
there is nothing more perennial in US
than these two. They are the source
of all working and all apprenticeship,
of all practice and all learning in the
world Carlyle.