The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11

| hunting fell over an embankment forty
feet high and was killed.
John A. Canaan & Co., extensive lum-
! Der dealers in Altoona, failed on Tuesday
| and made an assignment. Executions
amounting to $4,000 were issued against
the firm which caused the failure. The
liabilities will aggregate $4,000.
Hunter x Baughman, lumber manu-
facturers, whose operations are about two
and one half miles east of Patton. have
shipped by rail from that place in twenty
four days during the month of August
thirty three car loads of lumber. beside
delivering to Patton about 100000 feet of
lumber as local orders
George Bittner, of Lincoln township.
Somerset county, met with a very serious
accident on Monday of last week He was
going down the hill on a traction engine
when the machinery broke and the engine
started down the hill at lively rate.
Bitner jumped, but was caught under the
wheels. His left leg was badly crushed
aud his right one was dislocated at the
knee.
Peter Gramlev, a farmer residing near
RoSecrans, Clinton county, lost two horses
very suddenly the other afternoon. He
the horses was suddenly taken sick and
laid down. He went to the house of a
neighbor for assistance and when he re-
turned to the field the other horse was
sick. The animals both died in a short
time.
-ONer in Clarion at the recent term of
court the constables were not paid for
making their returns. The officers held A
meeting and will have the superior court
rule on the constitutiOnaiity of the Act of
Assembly May. 1898. The constable is re-
quired by law To make a return 10 The
Court OF Quarter Sessions four times a
year, and he certainly is entitled TO some
compensation.
The tight between ]. D. Hicks aud
Joseph l.. Thropp tor the Bedford county
conferers. ia the Republican conference of
tbs Twentieth congressional district, will
be decided by State Chairman John +.
Elkin- BOIh men agreed To This on Salur-
day night at a two hours session at the
Logan Buuse. Altoona, attended by all
four candidates. The agreement was
made in writing and was signed by J. ID.
Hicks, +. j. KoO>er, Alvin Evans and
Joseph +. Thropp.
The PiItSburg Press of Tuesday saws:
The charges of in:idelity and higamy
against Adam w Arcutt of Wilkinshurg.
were ignored by the grand jury. He is
said To have two wives. The bill was ig-
nored because the off-nSe was committed
in Cambria county. Arcuit married a
daughter of Mike Flynn, of Wilkin>bure
six years ago The Secong wife was Stella
Douglass, of Ebensburg. He married her
three months ago. He has been ia Jail for
some time and was this morning discharg-
ed.
James Green, a maniac, whose home i
in Altoona, recently escaped from the Har
risburg asylum and made his way to his
home in that citv. Early on Sunday
morning he gained entrance To his wIfe'S
home and tried TO murder her aud hyr
child with an aX- Several Policemen were
hnrrledly sent To capture him, and upC q
their arrival they found that lac had lock
ed himself in rooH, the entrance 10 which
he guarded with revolver aud all AK.
Green kept the officers at bay 10 hours,
bat was finally Overpowered and taken and
Will be returned To- the asylum.
Mrs. Nina Cramer, wife of James Cra-
NOR, of Altoona. a fiagman on the Middle
division of the Pennsylvania railroad
quarrelled with her husband on Tuesday
evening and in attempting to throw boil
ing water on him, scaided her husband
slightly and also scalded herself on the
wrist. On Wednesday afternoon Mrs
Cramer went To the Altoona hospital =
have her wrist dressed and Just as the
physician was about to lance a blister, her
face became ashen and her body ridgid
Death from heart disease was the result of
the coroner's inquest after making an in
vestigation.
"A law passed by the legislature of this
state May 13, 1878. provides that no person
shall place or cause 10 be placed in any
public place or highway, nor OIL his own
lands outside his own buildings, any poi
son or poisonous mixture with intent that
the same shall be swallowed by any deg.
fowl or animal or bird, under penalty of
$50. which sum shall be paid into the
treasury of the commonwealth. A case
was etried at West Chester recently in
which a man was convicted for placing
poison on his premises which killed two of
his neighbors' chickens that got into the
truck patch. He was fined $40.
"A fiendish outrage occurred one night
recently near Liyermore, Westmoreland
county. Three masked robbers broke into
the residence OF John Crosby and demand
ed that he give up his money and other
yaluables. Upon his refusal to comply
with this abrupt demand the ruffians
bound Mr.. Crosby hand and foot and pro-
ceeded to torture him into confesSing
where his money was hidden by roasting
the SoleS of his feet and otherwise abusing
him. So outrageouSlY was Mr.. Crosby
handled that the flesh on one of his ankles
is burned through TO the bone, while the
SoleS of his feet are in frightfuIly Scorch
ed condition. Mr.. Crosby finally gave up
slO25. which was all the money he had in
the house when the miscreants departed.
The victim is an old man aged about 70
years.
Marriage Licenses.
The following marriage licenses were is
sued by the Clerk of the Orphans Court
for the week ending Thursday, Septem
Der 10. 1896: