The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-02-12

right thigh and coLtusions of the body.
Here is a straight tip from the news
paper called Bruins: There's only one
right way to advertise and that is TO ham
mer your name. your location, and your
business so constantly, so insiStently and
so thoroughly into the peoples heads that
if they walk in their sleep they will in
stinctively turn their steps toward your
store
AT Dubois, Wednesday, while Mrs.
William III lines was washing, her 6-vear-
old daughter made sudden attempt TO
get out of her road, when she fell back
ward into a boiler of boiling water The
nOtner Snatched the child as quickly as
she could, but the hot water had done its
fatal work. The flesh was so thoroughly
cooked that chunks of it fell from the
child'S arms.
Centre county grand juries arO not to
be triled with. AT the last court, in three
cases returned, the grand jury directed
that in one the costs be Sdddled upon the
justice of the peace before whom the pre-
liminaTy hearing was conducted; in an
other, that the district attorney be respon-
Sble for the costs, ard i'll the third that
the costs be paid by the prosecutor. The
one with reference TO the district attorney
will not stand, 50 lawyers say
The Scientific american prints this
cure for diphJheria: AT the first fndica-
lions of diphtheria in the throat of a child
make the room close. then take a tin cup
and pour into it an equal quantity of tar
and turDentine: tnen hold the cup over
fire so a. to fill the room with the fumes
The patient on inhaling the fumes will
spit up the membraneous matter and the
diDhtheria will pass off. The fumes of the
tar and turpentine loosen the film in throat
and afford relief"
Some miScreant forced an entrance
into the court house at BeIIefonte at an
early hour on Monday mUrning, and after
SatuTating the doors leading to the court
room above with kerosene, set fire To them
The flames were discovered by the time
they had burned hole in the corner of the
room. and were put out. The building is
but slightly damaged. 1t is generally be
lieved that the act was that of some one
deSirOuS of destroying the ballots stored in
the vaults, so as to stop the contest for
sheriff now under way in the county.
Charles Willis a colured laborer. was
knocked into blazing coal fire and pin
ioned beneath several tons of earth until
roasted to death by the caving in of a dug
out used as a temporary habitation by
railroad construction men at CnlmervilIe
on the Butler and PittSburg railroad Sat
urday night. Bennett, who was also
caught under the roof. escaped with a
broken leg. Willis lived in Virginia, but
had been employed on the wharves and
river boats about Pittsburg for over year
He has sister residing in Fairchance
-LockpOrt correspondent LewfStown
Gazette: We are Informed by good reSpon-
Sble parties that Miss LIbbie Aurand of
Spring Run. has this fall and winter cut
twenty TWO cords of wood, cutting II e
timber down in the wOOkS and croSS-cut-
ting it into cord wood length, and has also
dug a we'll thirteen feet two and one half
inches deep. This she did all herself. ex-
ceDt the cost of twenty five cents for a man
to hoist mp some dirt from the bottom of
well. She has also, with the aid of her
father and mother, huSked fifteen hundred
bushels of corn ears.
Joseph Ai-IIo. the Italian sentenced to
death for the murder of Devils ScalzO. at
Walston Mines, Christmas Day, 1885, eS-
capped from the BrOokvilIe, jefferson conn
", jail on Friday night. He placed a we'll
made dummy in bed, went into the bath
room aud went over the top. through the
attic down stairs and out. He was cap
tnred on Sunday night at the farm house
of William McCracken. about three miles
from there. He had been hiding in the
barn and went into the house almost ex-
hausted. He asserts he will never hang.
IL. ~. # Da1H l.
ship. Clinton county, few days ago was
tramping over the mountain in the Scook
tack region in quest of game when he saw
a bear under rock. The brave hunter
approached in close quarters to the
animal, so close indeed that Mr. Bruin
came out and swiped the man with his
paw. a scuffie enSued, but Mr.. Genthner
finally broke loose and. stepping back
a few PAGES. up with his gun and
,ent swo shots into the bears heaf,
which killed him. The bear i seven and
a half feet long and weighs 5OD pounds
The Pennsylvania railroad company
has recently adopted a new design of water
scoop. known as a balanced scoop. by
which it i possible to take water while the
train Is running at the rate of 80 or -
miles an hour. Since 1894 all new paS>en-
ger locomotives and fast freight engines
have been designed to include water
scoops. but with the old form of scoop it
was necessary to slow down while taking
water, while with the improved design no
time Is thus lost and more water is taken
per hundred feet of trough, At 20 miles
an hour i: is now possible To fill a 300 gal
Ion tender in nine seconds.
John Syak, the Hungarian coke
worker of Hecla, who on January 25d
| walked two miles in the snow to win a
| wager of s. and a keg of beer. and who has
| been con fined in the WeStmoreland county
| hospital since with badly frozen feet
escaped from that insIitation Saturday
morning by jumping from the SecoEd story
window. He was clad only in trousers and
! a thin shirt. He ran wildly through the
| streets of Greensburg for an hour before
| being captured. He heard the physicians
| were going to ampItate his feet is given
! as .he reason he tried to get away. His
| feet were again frozen and he will likely
| die.
| "A remarkable story in connection with
the death of David BastresS, of Findley
township, Mercer county, has come tt
| light. Bastress was a leading jeweler o
| Mercer and was in business in that town
| in former days. He was very distrustfu
| OF banks and the government and secretly
| converted all his earnings into gold. which
| he carefully secreted. Shortly before hi
death he confided the secret Of the hidnl
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