The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-02-19

The road agitation that has been go
| ing on all over the state for several years
| is beginning to bear fruit in this county.
| During the past year the supervisors of
| several townships were prosecuted for
neglect of duty, and now the supervisors
| OF Addison are reported to be under indict-
ment on a similar charge. Secretary
| Edge, of the State Board of Agriculture
| says the best and quickest way TO secure
| good roads Is 10 enforce the road law
Somerset Herald
Some days since an advertisement ap-
peared in the Tribune. stating that labor
| erS who worked under the late Hon.
| Thomas Scott, on the p K. R. around
JOhnsUOwn from 1850 10 lSGO. or their de-
ScendautS, could hear of something to
their advantage by addressing John Felix,
LOretto, Pa. Mr. Joseph NJ. Flemming of
the Fifth ward, one of the employees in
quIred for, responded To the advertisement.
and to-day received a check of 50 as a me
| meuto OF his old employer JOIi1lstOICH
Tribune.
About noon on Friday Cashier J. a.
klingenSmith, of the First National bank.
at Salisbury, Indiana county, was held up
| by cOIOred man and forced to hand over
i
no one but MIR. KIingensmith was present,
and asked for some change. When the
cashier looked up the black mar held a re-
| volver to his head and ordered him 10 hand
! over the cash. MIR. KlingenSmith handed
! out package containing 500. As soon
as the robOer left the cashier gave the
alarm, and Il crowd was soon in pursuit.
J After a hot chase of "a mile or two the man
was captured and the money recovered.
| The prisoner would give no name. He
was taken TO Jail at Indiana.
| "A warrant was issued at Ridgway,
| Pa, Thursday of last week, for the arreSJ I
| of Frederick Rockwell, who lives just
| across the Elk county line, in Forest coun-
! ty, on a charge of murder. 1t Is alleged
| that Rockwell ana Mrs. Annie HaineS CON
/ nivei To and that Rockwell! did Kill the
wUman's husband 10y knocking him on the
! head and burning him up. Rockwell i
now confined in the Forest county Jail. at
/ TiJneSta, on a charge of burglary, but he
Will be taken TO Ridgway and tried for
! murder, as the crime was committed in
| Elk county. HaineS was about fifty years
| old, while his wife who is very pretty, is
about twenty five, the same age of Rock
| well, and the pair are said To be intimate
Mrs. HaineS is alleged To have made IA
! partial confession.
! "A LloyGsvilIe man writes thus to an
| Altoona paper: "A short distance below
this town, just beside the public road,
there is gram spring flowing from the
| mountain rocks. 1t happens that the line
| between Blair and Cambria IunS through,
or right oyer the spring, dividing it eqIal-
ly, Tor which reason ii is known far and
near as the County Line Spring. MIR.
! Harris, who is u, present ZerOIng up here
in the mountains, suggests that il would
| be eminentiy proper for the commission
of the TWO counties To jointly appropriate
sufficient funds to dig out and wall up this
| famous old fountain. small pavilion
over it would also be decidedly necessary
Improvement. This grand old watering
place deserves To be better cared for, not
only for the good it has done in the past,
but for the benefit it may afford the pres
ent and future generations of the genus
homO-aud the noble horse