The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-05-15

| la the morning, arrive in Altoona about
3:3O in the afternoon and Pittsburg at Z: 80
| A pullman buffet parIor car and coaches
| will be run on this trsin.
The division encampment of the Ma
tional guard Of this state will be held at
Lewistown. July Is TO %. The time was
liked several week ago, and the place on
Thursday evening, by Adjutant General
Stewart. General orders were issued on
F.iday from the headquarters of the guard
IN Harrisburg announcing the time and
place of the encampment.
During the progress of a prolonged
spree, Fred Leitenbe berger ended his life at
his home on Power street, Johnstown, at
Ii o'clock Saturday night by cutting his
throat and his left wrist with a razor He
had been abusing his wife. and she ran for
police assistance. On returning TO the
house with an officer, she found her drink
crazed husband dying from lfinfiicted
wounds.
James Fertenberger. of Altoona, wants
to sue his wife for bigamy. He appeared
at the mayors office in that city on Mon
day for the purpose. Mrs. Ferteuberger
her husband alleges, eloped Saturday with
one armed Italian named Joe Allen and
was married at Gallitzin. The couple
have family of five children The hus-
band advised to go te an alderman
and make information.
Robert Mitchell and Joseph FIude, of
this place, are the owners of 400 acre
tract of land on the mountains in Cambria
county on which hundreds of sugar trees
are growing. Sam Kerr, of Armstrong
township, wants TO take his sugar- making
outfit over there next spring and tap a few
hundred of the NAPLES. No fellow in the
state understands the business any better
than Mr.. kerr.-Inddnd Messenger
The barn of Harrison Z. Wilson, at
Fosterville, Westmoreland county, was,
with its contents, destroyed by fire one
night last week. Between 10 and IL
o'clock that night Mr.. Wilson was awak-
ened by the blaze, and Fastening to the
barn. only succeeded in saving a bride,
and in that effort had the hair on his head
badly Snged. The origin is attributed TO
an incendiary. The loss will be about
81 200.
The bodies of woman and child were
taken from the MonongaheIa river, near
West Elizabeth, Thursday afternoon.
The child was held tightly in the woman's
arms 1t is supposed to have been suicide
on the part of the woman. The bodies
had evidently been in the water for weeks,
and Identification will be difficult, A wo
man disappeared from West Elizabeth
several weeks ago, but her name was not
learned
The wife of a brakeman named Miller,
living in Altoona, while suffering from in
sanity, jumped from the second story win
dow Of her home at an early hour last
Thursday morning. She ran TO the rail-
road and climbed to the top of lofty
signal pole. She was taken back home
by the police and given in charge OF her
husband. She has been out of her mind
for some time and talks necessarily and
unintelligibly on religion.
The people living in close proximity
to the new Radebaugh tunnel, who con-
contemplate raising chickens. are thinking
seriously about bringing suit against the
contractors for damages, owing To the tact
that not a chicken can be hatched as long
as blasting Is done there. The concussion
has the same effect on the eggs while in
the state of incubation that the clap of
thunder has, and everybody knows that
that kills the chicken in the egg.-Ddiry
Signdt
Sheriff COulter's residence in the East
ward. was entered sometime on Saturday
night or Sunday morning by thieves. who
effected an entrance through a window.
With the exception of some cigars that
they found in valise and a pocket book
containing fifty cents belonging to a girl.
the expedition was without any reward.
1t is supposed that they were scared off in
some manner as a suit of clathes and an
overcOat that had been laid out were left
behind
While playing on the railroad track at
Valentines furnace, near BellefOnte, the
other day, 6-year- old Frank Kirk was run
over by an engine. He jumped in front of
the moving engine and was knocked down
and fell lengthwise on the track between
the rails, with his feet toward the engine.
The engine passed over him and IN an in
Stant he was on his feet without a scratch.
The seat of his trousers was torn off. and
the heel of his left shoe was ground to
pO Hder by the wheels.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has laid of a large number of men, par
ticulary section laborers, on nearly al
divisions. The suspensions are only tenn
poraTy, and the men will be recalled as
soon as the freight business begins to pick
up sufficiently to justify the increase in
expenses On the middle division the saw
ing in expenses ty laying off section men
alone amounts To over 5000 per day. On
all divisions "a saving of at least S7.CoJ
a ddy. or $4,000 a month can be effected
in this manner.
Congressman Hicks introduced in the
house on Thursday of last week bill to
correct the military record of Samuel
Bequeath of Bedford, and to remove the
charge of desertion therefrOm;" and bill
| to correct the military record of Henry
| Cameron, of Martinsburg, and to remove
| the charge of desertion therefrom." Re-
| cords are corrected in congress without
| the scrutiny they would receive in the
| War Department, and pensions, the great
| promoter of patriotism in time of peace
| will likely follow the corrected" records
"A neat swindle is being worked wit
| much success in many towns. woman
| book agent appears in town and goes from
| bouse to house leaving books for exami
| nation. Next day man calls to see i
| they are wanted and ~ not he takes then
| away with him. Usually they ore no
wanted. A few days later the womaI
| agent appears again and on being told tina
| the man has taken away the book weep
| copiousIy, says the villain has been col
| tecting her books all over town, plead
| ooverty and accepts the protfered com
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