The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-01-25

| ration on Tuesday pcrfecting arrange
mentS for large meeting of the Pomona
grange which will probably be held in this
| place about the first second of April
The Courier extends ii hearty welcome to
this enterprising Organization.-P Patton
| Courier
The Democrats of GaIlitzin have
| placed in nomination the following ticket.
f; Constable, John II. Wilt; council Felix
Beck and Augustine Speiglehater: school
| directors, DIR. j. L TrOxeIl and James q.
Bender: judge of election. Thomas Eagap;
| Inspector. John E. Burns; assessor. r. J.
Parrish; auditor, Il. j. Stephens.
Judge Lyon, of Juniata county. who
was assisting Judge Bell in the Blair
/ county courts, last week ruled that man
Who rode on a railroad pass could collect
! mileage The ruling grew out of the case
/ OF Special Policeman Dennis O'DonneII.
who charged the county of Blair SI5 mile
| age fees. although he travelled on "a pass.
| Mr. David Pryce and a couple of his
! grand children were poisoned on Sunday
| last from eating cheese. From the fact
| only those who parJoOk of the cheese were
! sick. their sudden illness was attributed
! 10 something wrong with the cheese DIR
I Jones was summoned and after admins
I terIng the proper remedies. ali recovered
John W. Cook, a well known citizen Of
HoIiIdav>burg, died at the hospital Al
l Harrisburg on Saturday last after an i'll
Hess oi about TWO months. The last TWO
weeks oI which were spent AT the hospital
where he had gone for treatment Mr..
Cook was married ia Isl. To Miss Matilda
f-ser- oi IarrolliOwH, who, with eight
children. survives him.
The miners OF Maryland paid over a
quarter Of a million dollars for the strike
ia which they engaged last summer. Ii
cost each man 50, and brought him back
nothing One OF the worst features was
that these miners had no special grievance
OF their own, but were induced to Quit
work solely for the purpose of showing
their sympathy with the strikers in the
West.
Henry Mizener. of Hadley. Mercer
county, prosperous farmer and a veteran
soldier. committed suicide last week in an
ingenious manner. He went to his Darn
and fastened his rifle To beam, gauging
it so as TO hit certain mark. He then
tied string to the trigger, and placing
himself in front of the mark, pulled the
string. The bail passed through his heart,
cauSi ng instant death.
Farmer Henry B. Shearer. of Man
helm, Lancaster county, claims to have
been buncoed by lightning rod agents He
signed Il contract for rod worth $50, but
later discovered that he had bound him
self to buy $50 worth of the material. He
compromised with the sharpers for 500
and was told by them that Il neigh boring
justice of the peace had later purchased
N.-Trl
warinesS.
Captain II. +. MnngeS. a wholesale
lumberman of Philadelphia. has iust
closed a deal With Heidrick Coleman, Os-
born 4 Co, of this place, for 100000 feet
of white pine lumber. The lumber will be
manufactured for the Philadelphia mar
ket, al the rate of 4.OJO,uD To 5.UuOODO feet
per year. This j. one Of the largest deals
IN white pine lumber made in this state
for years, and represents about S3Jn.unO.-
BrpDLrjllc. Pa. Republican,
-Eher l.. Edwards a we'll known bust
ness mau uf Juuu~tuwu. while standing
boo front 90 4 pdrgrave'> shoe store iu that
city un Tuesday of last week. became yio-
I-utIy insane. ON Friday az a hearing iu
this place. ur wa committed tU the Div
mont iu-au- asylum. Mr.. Ed0 arcs has a
uf Cambria township aud o. a brother ct
john =. Edward uf H'arkIics township.
Sho assisted Boo taAI ug bIm tu DiNmout.
The rolling mills of tLs Juuiata Iron
Company al Holiday -bufs. which hav,
u--u shut down fur Jhs past ,iN year.
started up au Monday morning under tLe
control uf q company 90 Harrisburg CAPT
tal-J>. When running fuIl-hauI-d the
mills There wI.i employ about three hun
drrd men. The same company has also
secured an option for rh" purchase of the
ore mines and furnace of the McKee's Gap
Iron Company. which will be- operated ia
connection with the rolling mills.
The bridgeport dam near Mt. Pleas
AIT, WrstmOrrlaud county, vas the sceHe
OF a sad accident. Sunday, when Katie,
the eight-year-Old daughter of Paul Ba-
ker, was drowned. She was on the dam
in company with three Faust girls, and
the latter were pushing and pulling Katie
on a sled when the ice broke, and all four
were thrown into the water. The mishap
was seen by spectators who succeeded in
rescung all but Katie, who was drowned.
Her body was recovered about six hours
later.
William Mack, aged twenty eight
years, son of Joseph Mack, a former resi-
dent of EbenSburg, who had been residing
IN PittSburg and working in Armstrong;
cork factory, was found unconscious at
the corner of Twenty-thiTd and Smallman
streets on Thursday morning of last week.
He was on his way TO york and was
stricken with a hemorrhage. He died ia
the patrol wagon while being taken TO the
West Penn hospital. His remains were
brought to this place on the Saturday
morning train and Inferred in the Catho-
lie cemetery.
Mrs. Abigail Simms, a native OF Car
roll township. this county, died at her
home in PiJtsburg on Friday. January Il,
1885, aged - years. The deceased was "a
daughter of Jacob YoSt, deceased, of Car
roll township, a sister of Augustin GOst, OF
that township. and of Mrs. Susan Will
Jams, of this place. The deceased, with
her husband, were od-time residents of
Summit in this county, but after the
abandonment of the Old Portage railroad
they removed to Blairsville, where her
husb nd died a number of years ago, after
which she removed TO PittSburg.
Mr. John Edwards and wife, of Shady
Side, were walking alongside the Pennsyl
vanfa railroad tracks on Friday evening
on their way to attend the big revival
meeting at Braddock, and when near
Copeland Mrs. Edwards slipped on the icy
walk and fell on the track, directly in
front OF a fast freight train, which passed