The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-07-24

respondent at Lloydsyille, this county
Mrs. Peterson. of Glasgow, near there,
placed thirty-sIx eggs under turkey hen.
The object was for the hen to hatch the
eggs, aud she did hatch thirty seven tur-
key chicks. One egg was double and that
accounts for the surplus turkey popua-
ton.
Mr.. William Kline recently killed
blackSnake few miles north of JennerS,
Somerset county, measuring eight and
half feet, and as thick as an ordinary
mans arm. This was evidently an old
fellow, for Kline saw him last year in the
same neighbOrEood. Kline is death to all
snakes. a few years ago he killed twenty
four rattlesnakeS in one day
Gabriel Wavrek and John Bordas were
working on the first floor at Cambria Iron
cOmpany's blast furnace No. l. on Mon
day morning, when an iron wheelbarrow
fell from the floor above. instantly killing
the former and injuring the latter so badly
that he died at the Cambria Hospital few
hours later. They were both foreigners
and leave families in the old country.
Tuesday Mrs. Jacob Shaffer, of GaIlit-
Zin, who Is visiting her sister. MIS-. Frank
kolbenscnlag, at Altoona, arose from the
dinner table and started for the sitting
room Not being conversant with the
house, she opened the door leading to the
cellar and fell down the stairs. fracturing
her left arm and sustaining couple of
dissertations of the head. Her condition is
serious, although no fatal result is antici-
patel. She is 20 years old.
The army worm in Montgomery coun-
yph hnI fafA -
in the time that the farmers could think
how TO prevent the destruction The best
preventive appears to be a trench eight or
ten inches deep outside of the field with
the perpendicular wall next to the crop.
with holes in the trench couple of feet
deep. The worms fall into the ditch and
crawl along il to the holes into which they
fall. where they can be destroyed by set
tILg fire to straw saturated with coal oil
This method is recommended by the Lam
caster Nel0 Era and is one which should
be generally known, as the army worm is
swift and thorough worker
John McCoOl, an employee of the
Cambria Works, at JohnStown, while on
his way to work on Saturday evening
about O'Clock. attempted to get on an
electric car which which was moving at a
rapid rate when he was thrown under the
wheels and received injuries from which
he died in a few moments without speak
ing. His lower limbs were mangled and
torn, one of them hanging by a shred of
flesh; one of his arms was torn nearly off
and his breast was mass of bruises and
cntS, while in the abdomen there was
gaping wound and his back bone pro-
truded through his coat. He was eighteen
IT.
mother aud three sisters.
John Garman, of Coles Summit. Hun
tingdon county, had contest with a nest
OF eight unusually large blacksnakes re-
Gently. He was out berrying and. stepping
On one, the other seven showed fight and
he being pugnaciOus man, undertook TO
kill them, when they coled themselves
| around his body and neck. The snakes
would have succeeded in choking him to
death if il had not been for his partner
MIR. Barney Long, who heard his cries for
help and went to his assistance. Seeing
his condition, he took his penknife and
commenced To rescue him from his uncom-
| forta bic position, but he did not succeed
| until he was chased away several times by
the reptiles. They finally got them killed
| and, measuring the largest one, found il to
smallest one five feet and nine inches
| Barn Rurned.
| On FRIDAY afternoon, between three and
| four O'Clock. the barn OF the farm belong
| ing to Miss Annie Glass, in Allegheny
| township, was burned to the ground to-
gether with lot of hay that had been
| harvested this year. The burned build
ing was situated close to the EbenSbarg &
| CresSnn branch, at what is known as the
big fill" and it is supposed that a spark
| from the locomotive hauling the Ebens-
| burg train that passed only few minutes
before the discovery of the fire, was the
cause of the cOnflagratiOn.
| There was no resident OH the far \ as the
house had been burned about a year ago.
The place is farmed by Joseph O'Neill,
who resides on another farm a short dis
tance away. Just before the fire Mrs
| O'Neil and boy drove over TO the farm
tied their horse under the shed, and were
picking some berries when, on looking up
the boy discovered fire on the roof. II
quickly burned through and dropped tC
the hay and in a moment the entire struc-
ture was a mass of flames. Mrs. O'Neil
had barely time to get her horse and buggy
out of the burning structure before il fel
il.