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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22
Died Saving Two.

GreenpOrt, y. Y, February IS
Lillian McMuIlen, a 10 year old heroine,
employed by Joseph Fahy, at North
Haven. was drowned yesterday after
noon while crossing Peconic Bay on the
ice. Since the recent blizzard the peo
pie of north Haven, who go to Shelter
Island to do their trading, have been
obliged to walk over on the ice or re
main at home, as the ferry boats were
frozen up.
Yesterday Miss McMullen was maxi
ing the trip with two children, Z and 10
years of age, who are daughters of Su
periutendent Gordon, of Fahy;S farm
When half way over the ice Miss Me
Mullen stepped into an airhOle. She
sank out of sight.
When she arose the two girls hastened
to her assistance and the two fell into the
water. Miss McMullen grasped the
edges Of the ice and let the children
climb on her shoulders and thence onto
the ice, warming them not to come near
her again.
After she landed the children in safety
she struggled to pull herself out, but ex-
haustion soon overcame her, and she
sank out of sight.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22
BeSIPging Hastings.

Harrisburg, February 1S--The gov
ernor Is besieged with applications for
place in the department of agriculture,
created 10y the bill on the calendar for
second reading in the senate ChaiI-
man Moore, of the agricultural commits
tee, who had charge of the bill in the
house, Is formidable aspirant for dairy
and food commissioner in the proposed
new department. Other aspirants are
the incumbent Eastburn Reeder, of
Bucks; J. Oheston Morris, of Philadel-
phia; Captain Levi Wells, of Bradford,
and Jacob Sexton, superintendent of
William NJ. Singerly's Montgomery
county farm.
Commissioner Reeder is being urged
by Justice Fell and the leading dairy
men and farmers In eastern Pennsylvan-
ia, and is opposed by Chairman Gilke-
son, of the state Republican committee,
a neighbor. The grangers are urging
the appointment of Moore, who is a
member of the state Grange Legislative
committee. DIR. b. H Warren. of West
Chester, state ornithologist and author
of the famous "bird book" may be
economic zoOlogist.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

JUDGE CHARLES +. TAYLOR, under in
dictment for attempting to kill Deputy
Sheriff Shoemaker, will be impeacned if
the Nenango county lawyers can do it.
The Legislature will be petitioned to i'll
vestigate the judgment upon the charges
brought against him.
The committee of the Venango coun-
ty bar appointed to investigate the
charges against Judge Taylor on Satur-
day made their report at a meeting of
the Bar Association The testimony ta-
ken before the committee went to show
that judge. Taylor is and has been for
some time, incapacitated for the duties
of his office, and that his conduct has
been immoral, arbitrary, vindictive and
subyersiye of justice. 1t is also averred
that during the trial of cases Judge Tay-
lor had used vulgar and indecent lam
guage.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22
Uncle Sam's Big Lumber suit.


Duluth, Mimi, February 1S.-A suit
which promises sensational develop
ments has been begun in the district
court, resulting from the indictment at
Grand Rapids of George Lydick The
suit is the first of series involving a
theft of 2,3OO, 600 feet of timber sup
posed to have been stolen from govern
ment and reservation land in the last
two years. Lydick himself admits he
has trespassed on this land for year and
half The number of defendants is
not less than 800, but they almost with
out exception were working in the in
terests OF big numbering corporations.
The amount to be recovered is over 500.
600, and 1t is to be the largegt suit of
the kind ever undertaken by the federal
authorities.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22
We STILL BUILD SHIPS
Evidence That 1t Is Live
American Industry.
MANY TORPEDOBOAT BUILDERS.
Their Presence Caused "A Comment From
MIR. McAdoo-The Bids Very Complex
and Hard to Decide-Two Firms Make
Very Low Bids.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-.'American
shipbuilding is not dead" remarked
Assistant Secretary McAdoo, rs he took
his seat at the head of long table III
the office of the secretary of the navy to
witness the OpeningO of bids for building
the three torpedo boats. His utterance
was justified by the presence Ill the
room of at least two dozen representa-
tives of American shipbuilding works.
and a formidable pile of bids and de
signs upon the table before the judge
advocate general of the navy.
There were many faces familiar 10
the department people III the crowd and
some new ones too. The only notable
absentee was Mr.. Cramp, who it was
said had his eye on the battleships which
it is hoped congress will provide for and
consequently did not stooD To such little
crafts as torpedo boats. There was Mr..
Scott of the Union works, the blind
boatbuilder Herreschoff, Frank King.of
the New Sparrow Point works. near
Baltimore: Mr. Malster of the Colum-
bian iron works. Baltimore; Mr.. Ramsay
of Perth Amboy, y. J; one of the Dia-
logues of Camden, y. J.; Holland. the
designer of the submarine boat. and
representatives of the Dubuque iron
works, the builders of the Ericsson.
The bidding was very complex and 1t
will require much time and eGamlua-
tion by the department experts TO come
TO IA conclusion as to where the con
tracts will be bestowed. Under the de-
partment'S designs, Hugh Ramsay of
Perth Amboy. has the lowest bid at
S347 900 for the three boats. but he as
well as everybody else, l. underbid
when it comes TO original designs. by
the Columbia irouworks of Baltimore,
which submits an aggregate bid OF
1922 800 for the three boats. The fig
ureS are not sure indication of what
the department viii do in the matter,
for there are many considerations TO
take into account, such, for instance.
a. the additional cost of sending boat
around to the Pacific coast. where il i
Sorely needed, the eXpediency of using
bronze and aluminium instead Of ali
steel, and lastly, the..,,propriety Of tax
ing mp the offer of the Union works 10
build "A large 2S-knot boat like the most
spe, dy and modern of the British tor
ped boats. Mr.. ScOtt's last proposition
Is IL III conformity with the advertise
ment but if il l. possible To build this
boat and have enough money lett TO
construct two other smaller boats. II
may be that such an arrangement can
be made.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

SOME curious facts were brought to
light of the capabilities of men to labor
at high attitudes during the construction
OF the Peruvian Central railroad. This
line starts at Lima, and proceeding in
land reaches its highest point at the tun-
mel of Galeria, I5,645 feet above sea
level 1t Is stated that men were able
to do a fair ''sea level'' days work as
long as the altitude did not exceed 5000
TO 10000 feet above sea level; but beyond
this there was sudden falling off in the
work of one-fourth to one-third up to
heights of Il, 600 feet, and at still high
er elevations 100 men were required to
do work easily done by 90 at sea level.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22
A Bad shot.

Old Farmer Wells. who lives on Mau-
rice River Bay, \. j., had a horse that
had outlived his usefulness and which
the farmer wished to have put out of the
way The horse had been a pet and Mr.
Wells being tender hearted, offered
blizzard well~known character
about the oyster grounds, a quart of
whisky if he would take the animal from
its stall some night and shoot it. This
Blizzard" agreed to do, but, for some
reason, delayed the job few days. In
the meantime friend drove up to the
farmhouse with 5000 horse. The
farmers old horse was taken from its
stall to make room for the guests horse.
Blizzard decided that night to do the
killing job. He went to the stable, led
the horse he found there into the ada
cent woods and shot it. The farmers
guest discovered in the morning that
his horse had been killed.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22
NEWS AND OTHER NGTISGS.

Nashville is the first city in the world
for hardwood lumber, and the larg St mill
ing city of the South.
Mrs. Hayemeyer. wife of the sugar
king, employees sixty servants and pays
her chef $1,000 4 year.
Buffalo is called the Queen of the
Lakes from its commanding position on
these great interior sees
Providence, r. l.. is ore of the chief
cities of the world for the manufacture OF
jewelry and silver goods.
John =. Tomb ~ Son have stocked
their mill al Cedar run, Lycoming county.
with 3.oOO,OOO feet of pine and hemlock
logs.
"A travelling salesman, L. Il. Keller
lost a Satchel at Reading containing notes
and papers valued at several thousand
dollars.
Bert Colbert. a Pittsburg travelling
man, got into row with a Youngstown
tOD woman, and she threw carboIic acid in
his face. He was severely burned.
In 1854 nearly all the birds of Europe
were killed by the cold. Wolves entered
Vienna and other large cities. and driven
by hunger, attacked the people on the
streets.
The three women members of the Colo
rado legislature, Mrs. Carrie Clyde Holly.
Mrs. Francis klock and Mrs. Clara Crcss
ingham, are considerably above the aver
age of intelligence in the legislature.
-Four masked men secured 81 500 in
checks and 500 in money from the resi-
dence of \. W. Porter. New Pulaski. O..
teOuSly thanking their victims, drove off
Mrs. Ellen Krentz and her two sons.
l.. of FreepOrt, are in the Kittauning Jail
They are charged with assault aud bat
terry and robbery. John Shannon is the
prosecutor. He alleges that lille he was
in the Krentz house. Christmas eve. Mrs.
krentz knocked him senSeleSs with an iron
griddle and sat on him. The boys mean
meanwhile rifled his pockets
Oscar Fritchie. of North Jeanette.
employed at the GOndOa Tannin COM
pany'S works i'm East Jeanette. was in
Stantly killed last Sunday evening about
g o'clock. In some manner his clothing
caught In the set Screw of the shaft and
he was hurled around with lightning ra-
p'dity. His neck was broken and the back
of his skull was crushed in. Deceased
was aged probably - years and leaves a
wife and one child.
This is what Peter Cooper. who died
worth many millions, said of a newspaper:
In all towns where a newspaper i uub-
iShed every man should advertise in il if
nothing more than card stating his name
and the business he is engaged in. 1t does
not only pay the advertiser. but lets people
at distance know that the town in which
vou reside is a prosperous community of
business men. Never pull down your sign
while you expect to do business
The BrookviIe Republican thus notes
a legal fight in jefferson county: The
famous Warsaw township school furnf-
;ure case is ended at last. in favor OF the
school district. ltwas tried five times in
our county court and went as often to the
supreme court. The bill of costs paid by
the School Furniture company to the school
district amounted to over 81 200. The
costs, attorneys fees and expenses con-
nected with the case must have summed
up over 5000. The price of the imple-
ments, and furniture in controversy yas
about 500
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

The application of Judge Dunham to
the attorney general for a writ of quo
waranto to require the three judges con
ductiug the judicial contest between
SIttser and Durham in the Sullivan Wv
omlng district to show by what authority
they are holding the court of inquiry
was refused at Harrisburg on Wednes-
day. The attorney general was asked to
grant the writ on the ground that the
act Of 1874 authorizing the court is IN
constitutional.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22
ShOuli be Speedily Tried.

New York, February 1S-Mrs. Hele-
ma Spearling, 42 years of age, of Hobo
ken, y. j., was killed by her husband
this morning. Spearling had abused
and i'll treated his wife for some time
and she complained to the police, who
arrested him and he was sent to the
Snake Hill penitentiary. This morning
the couple had a quarrel in their bed
room and as Mrs. Spearling turned to
leave the room her husband seized her
and drew razor across her throat. sew
ering the wind pipe and nearly cutting
her head from the body After cutting
his wife's throat Spearling allowed her
body to drop to the floor of the bedroom.
He wiped his hands on the bed clothing
and then went into the kitchen. He
said to his mother N a calm tone:
Mother, | have killed her. When
the police arrived all they could do was
to notify the coroner. During the ex-
cItement the murderer made his escape.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22
A NEW YORK dispatch of Wednesday

New YORK dispatch of Wednesday
says: The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has taken the lead in a movement
to effect a combination of soft coal in
terests shipping to tidewater Each year
about this time, an effort of similar i'm
port is started. 1t has usually ended
with Indifferent results. The failure has
been attributed to the lack of interest
taken by the transporting companies, or
their refusal to cooperate
The plan proposed to govern the trade
of 1895 provides, among other things,
that each producing interest be allowed
an output equal to the average of the
past five years. Any excess shall be as
sessed 10 cents ton. The execution of
the plan is calculated to give producers
80 cents a ton at the mine The trade
in this city entertains many doubts as to
the ability of the companies to carry out
such a scheme
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22
Rat Stampedes WOrshipers.

Norristown, Pa, February ia
large congregation in Salvation Army
Hall last night, was stampeded in the
midst of prayer by an irreligious rat.
The woIshipers were kneeling when the
Inquisltive rodent meandered out to the
middle of the floor. Women who were
close enough to see the little beast Quick
ly jumped upon their seats while one
less devout maiden cried ''ratsr' That
started the stampede. The prayer end
ed abruptly, and instantly every skirted
person present mounted a seat in terror.
Ihe soldiers of the sterner sex began a
chase. The rat was too much for them
and escaped. During the remainder of
the service many of the gentler sex dis.
cretely sat upon the benches with their
feet tngged snugly beneath them.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

RAILROAD construction in 1894 indi-
Gates the low ebb of the transportation
business of the country The record is
the lowest in twenty years, and the only
exceptions in three decades were in
1873, 1866 and 1865. The top notch
year was 1887, when Is, 600 miles were
laid. This year ArIzOnia heads the list
with 1913 miles, Illinois comes next with
l4o and then Pennsylvania with l2S.
Only one mile was constructed in Ore
gon. The total mileage in all the states
was 1919; in Canada $40 and in Mexi-
co "A. OF course, these figures give no
narrative of the vast and rapidly increas-
ing mileage IN electric railways. which
now contest with the steam roads for su-
premacy. The two hundred miles of
the New York and New Haven road. for
instance, Is now paralleled in that way
Tor one hundred and fifty miles.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

NINE hundred of the electrical work
ers Of New York struck on Tuesday for
an elght-hOnr labor day. The board of
walking delegates of tine building trades
declare that if any firm employs an
electrician who is not a member of the
Electrical Workers union, they will or
der on strike every man in the building
trade, and as the board claims their
mandate will extend to every man at
work anywhere within a radius of 80
miles of the city, $4,000 men will go
out on strike when ordered.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

COUNTING pairs, says the Pittsburg
Post, the test vote in the senate for the
consideration of the free coinage bill on
Monday showed that the senate on
Of the pending bill and 10 against, there
being one vacancy. Possibly the major
ity will be larger when the question
comes up on the passage Of the bill. 1t
has been estimated as high as 10. For
free coinage. on full vote. it appears
there are % Democrats. IL Republicans
there are % Republicans and l. Demo
Gratis. Senator Cameron was the only
senator from a northern state east of
Indiana that voted for free coinage
The rest of the votes came from the
south and west. Senator Quay voted
against the silveriteS. Thus, on this
important question, the vote of Penn
sylvania was practically neutralized. 1t
can be said that Senator Cameron has
the courage of his convictions. as on
every vote on the question he sides with
the free coinage senator's, and a contin-
gency is possible by which his vote will
pass the bill in the senate. The debate
in the senat- is useless, for should the
house pass the bill, which is doubtful,
with the chances against it. the presi-
dent will assuredly veto it. Pressing the
bill at this time is to make capital for it
in the next congress and with the peo>
pie. But there is a reasonable certainty
that no free coinage bill can become a
law before the 4th of March, 1897. Mr.
Cleveland is pledged to interpose his We
to, and was elected with the clear under
standing he would do so, should the
emergency arise.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22
The Elbe Disaster.

Buffalo, \. Y, February 19.-An ac-
ton for damages against the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship company will be
brought by Siegmund Frank, the broth
er of Jacob Frank, the Buffalo ticket
broker, who was lost in the wreck of the
steamship Elbe. The damages specified
Will be S5O,O The first steps in the
proceedings were taken yesterday in ap-
plIcatlon to the Surrogate for limited let
ters OF administration. Slegmund
Frank gave bonds and qualified as ad-
mInistra:Or- Afiidavits have been OBJ
tanned from two of the survivors, Carl
Hoffman and John Vevera.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22
Carried The Feeble Queen.

Queen Victoria was so distressingly af-
hlcted with rheumatism of the ioint-
when she alighted from her railway car
rlage en-route from Osborne to Bucking-
ham Palace this morning, that she had
to L" assisted from the car down an in
Glued plane to the platform, where she
was placed in a chair and carried to her
carriage.
She was accompanied by her daughter,
the exEmpress Frederick, and to pre-
vent the pOpulace seeing how helpless
their sovereign was, trains of empty cars
were standing between her car and the
Victoria station. y large dinner party
was given at Buckingham this evening.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

Snow fell continuously and in quanti-
ties never before known in the southern
states on Thursday and Friday. The
storm ragged from Texas to North Caro-
lima. All the Gulf states are robed in
white. In Texas snow fell in every
county and varied from to II inches
in depth. There is u inches of snow in
New Orleans, something never before
known in the history of that city. At
Mobile, Ala, the depth is 5 inches; at
Atlanta, Ga, 10 inches; at Columbia,
S. c., 6 inches; at DariCn, Ga, on the
coast, 4 inches, snow having never be
fore been seen on the ground at that
place. Two inches of snow at Savan-
nah, Ga, was such a novel thing that
the schools were dismissed so that the
children could enjoy the rare sport of
snOwbal!ing. At Tallahassee and Jasper.
Fla, ? inches of snow astonished the
natives.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

THERE Is a marked contrast between
the poverty and calamity walls, on
which Governor Hastings made his cam
Paign, last fall, and the jobs that are be-
ing pushed through the legislature for
creating new offices and squandering the
public moneys When these bills come
before him for his signature, citizens
will be better able to see just what kind
of a reputation Governor Daniel is en-
titled to for sincerity and integrity.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

y srECIAL from Salineville, Ohio, saws
that every coal mine in that immediate
vicinity Is in full operation for the first
time in 10 years. These mines have a
capacity OF more than a hundred cars
per day and are now furnishing employ
ment to about 600. most of whom were
sorcly in need of some means of earning
living. Indications also point to
resumption Of work at the plant Of the
Salineville Furnace company, which has
been idle for the last six months.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

BECAUSE the councils of Scranton, Pa.
a few years ago attempted to coerce the
late Judge John Handiey in placing
asphalt paving on the avenues fronting
ms Wyoming House property, by pass
ing "A resolution establishing a COW and
hay market thereon, this city is left un-
remembered in the will of the dead jur-
ist, which was admitted to probate on
Monday. He had intended leaving 81
600, 600 for library, but Winchester.
W. Va, gets it instead.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

NOBODY, says the Harrisburg Patriot.
now expects financial legislation at this
session of congress. The time has pass
ed when any action can be taken upon
any bill for the relief of the treasury.
1t is insinuated that the loan proposed
by the president is in the nature of Job
by which a loaning syndicate will make
S25, 900, 900. This may or may not be
true. If it is, nobody imagines for an
instance that syndicate lends money
for diversion. If it is not true, ther the
administration has been maligned for
the simple purpose of defeating the bill
which would have saved S16, OOO, 600, IN
interest.
II the insinuation of jobbery is base
less it was none the less the imperative
duty of congress to put a stop to the
transaction. At any time during the
present session congress could have
passed financial bill but it lacked the
disposition to do so and evidenced, in
stead of an inclination to serve the best
interest of the country, simply deter
mination to defeat any and every meas
sure that might come from the admin
istratiOn.
The house Oh the idea that somebody
was to make SO, 900, 900 out of tne new
loan, defeated the proposed three per
cent. short term gold bonds. As a con-
sequence of this action the higher in
terest bonds will be issued and the S25,-
O0O.OO0 will be lost, together with SIG,
600, 900 more that could have been
saved.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

ALTaoUGH all the 354 members of the
Pennsylvania legislature take a solemn
oath that they will not use railroad pass
es during their term of service, for that
is what an oath to Support, obey and
defend" the constitution means. if it
means anything, yet it is stated only two
members of the present Legislature have
declined to accept the railroad courtesies.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

ITALY Is going to abate part of the
taxes Of the section recently injured by
earthquakes. When the present legis>
lature gets through Pennsylvania will
need an earthquake for the same pur>
purpose.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

II Northern Italy the wolves have
been 50 impoverished by the deep snow
that they have invaded the towns and
several persons have been killed and de-
vomred The authorities called ont the
troops TO slaughter the wolves.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

WITH the Populists holding the bal
ance Of power in the senate, the coun-
try may yet hc forced to admit that the
windmill Is still factor Of energy in
American craftsmanship.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

GOV. kNU1E NELSON mas been elected
United States Senator from Minnesota
tosucceed Washburn. Although a Re
publican, Governor Nelson is an open
and avOwed free trader While a mem
Der Of congress some years ago, he
delivered several speeches against the
monopoly tariff policy and voted for the
Mills ill
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-02-22

SANDY Hook. n J., Feb 10 Ere
mont Peck, first lieutenant Of the
ordnance corps, has been killed AT the
proving grounds by the bursting OF
breech OF rapid firing gun.