The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-08-21


kitchen. Not a roach or water bug can be
found in the house, and the toadS are so
cleanly and inOflensiYe that there is no OBJ
lection to their presence.
Robert Brown, of Nantyglo, was on a
rain at Bradley Junction, on Saturday.
aud after it started jumped of landing on
his head. He was picked up unconscious,
| and taken on the train to Cresson, where
he showed some signs of life and was sent
the Altoona hospital where he is rapidly
| recovering and his condition is not regard
! ed as serious. lie is about fifteen years of
age.
Thursday, September Bird, will be the
last day for the registration of citizens
who desire the legal righI TO vote at the
November election of this year. This ap-
plies TO residence in the state of one wear
| and sixty days in a ward or township.
The lists are to be seen at all voting places
within the state: where citizens can refer
to them to ascertain whether or not they
are registered.
On Saturday evening Nancy Hill. aged
| 90 years, living about two miles from
Irwin. Westmoreand county. was
Strangled almost to death with rope and
robbed of 800. The robbers effected an
entrance through II rear window and tied
the old lady To the floor while they ram
sacked the house. The woman is in a very
precarious condition. The deed was done
by tramps who infest that vicinity.
Although not generally known. it is a
fact that during summer weather the
amount of food consumed by persons is
much smaller than during the cooler sea-
sons of the year. butchers, bakers and
storekrepers notice the falling off as soon
aS hot weather appears. The warmer the
weather the less the people eat. During
the summer the BODY is not in as active
condition as when the weather is cooler.
Mr.. Harvey Stah', whose farm is one
and half miles northwest of JennerS,
Somerset county. got up Tuesday morning
of last week and, after making fire in the
kitchen stove, went to feed his horses. On
returning TO the house he found it To be on
fire. The members of the family were
aroused and all the furniture was gotten
out, but the house was entirely destroyed.
The loss Is said 10 be covered by insurance.
A new rule affecting pension appli
cantS has been promulgated by the De-
paTtmenu of Internal fairs, and goes into
effect October 1St. 1t iS that all members
of the Board of Examining Surgeons must
be present at the examination of an APP
plcaut for pension unless the applicant
shall consent to examination by those who
may 5e present. If a full board Is not
pteSenJ the applicant may refuse to be eX-
amined.
James Farrell. awaiting the death pen
atty in the Blair county jail for the mur-
der of Henry BOHnecka, the aged Altoona
miser, asked the court on Tuesday for a
new trial. He alleges that John Hide
brand, an inmate of the Maryland peui-
teutiary, after confeSSing that he was the
real author OF the crime. committed sui
eide through TemOrsc. The court viii hear
the after discovered evidence IN August
II.
An exchange remarks that the man
who gets the fcweSt letters complains the
most of the postufiice: the mau no com
plains of the preacher pays the preacher
the least: the man who complains the
most of his neig Oors is the meaneSt
neighbor. ana she man who has the least
sense Is the most conceited. 1t may also
be added that the man who borrows his
neighbOr's paper has the most fault To find
with the way il i run.
Mr.. Dennis Downey was blown to atoms
one. ud4 idSl week WDlit udulll1 BlNttItHc
near Tioncsta, Forest comfy. He started
with a two horse wagon and that was all
that was ever seen of him. y terrible eX
plosion was heard at TioneSta and IL was
found few miles out that a barn was
blown To pieces and a house partially de-
Stroyed and about half horse near by. a
bit of soap on tree was all the trace
could be found of MIR. Downey.
VIM. Guest. Of Salisbury, Indiana
county. started for Canada one day last
week. and il was not until his arrival It
Buffalo that the discovery was made that
his little yearold son was enjoying a trip
in an adjoining car. The little fellow had
followed his father, unObServed, To the
station. but was wise enough to occupy
another car until sufficiently far away
from home 10 guard against a possibility
of his being sent back. The lads mother
was almost frantic until she learned. by Il
telegram from her husband, upon his ar
rival in Buffalo, that the kid was o. X.
There is a township in Dauphin conn
ty where there are Two hundred and fifty
four Inhabitants. according to the last cen
suS aud fifty voters. THERE'S no minister,
no church, no Sunday school, no lawyer,
no justice of the peace, no industrial work
of any kind, and no place where liquor is
sold. There are three grocery stores and
one school house. When people want to
attend church they have to cross the river
into Perry county and walk to Duncannon.
The township is Reed. There has been
but one case in the criminal court from
that township for the past twenty five
years.
-Workmen on the large timber tract Of
Clark. KiZer Il Kipp cut a large oak tree
the other day. 1t was over two feet in di-
ameter and perhaps a hundred feet high.
Almost on the tOpmost bough was a steel
trap of the size used for foxes and wild
cats. 4 chain attached 10 it was wound
around a large limb. and was almost buried
in the wood which had grown over it.
This trap had evidently been set by one of
our pioneer hunters, and dragged TO the
top of this tree by wild cat or some
other animal that had been caught in it,
hundred years ago.-PunrslttdtCney
Spirit
mountains near Cross Forks. Clinton coun-
". Thursday David Thompson, con-
tractor, had promised to pay his men, who
are working in the woods, their wages in
the morning Failing to do so, the men in
their aLger captured their employer md
carried him into the woods where rope
was frightened about his neck and he was