The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-04-30

! pie turned cut en- maSSe and saved. after
| almost Superhuman eXertiOnS. a number
of residences and barns. The rain on
! Sunday, however, came to the relief of the
| fighters and stayed further progress of
! the flames.
John Woodring. a three-year old hoy of
/ James II. WOodring, Esq, a prominent
member of the Northampton County bar
! wandered from his home at Helertown
! Sunday evening 10 a trout stream a short
| distance away and vas drowned. Mr.
| WOOdring jumped into the water and
| carried his boy ashore. and doctors made
every effort to resuScitate him. but to no
avail.
Last fall when apples were not worth
gathering, Samuel Buckwalter. of Shen-
ango township, Mercer county, dug a
/ trench and lined the same with cUrnfOdder.
| He then placed into this receptacle 1,cOO
! bushels of apples, then covered the lot with
| cornfodder and ground as an experiment.
Last week he opened the pit and found
! the apples in an excellent state of preser
walton. He closed out the entire lot To
! PitJSburg dealer for - cents per bushei.
In Common council at Altoona on
| Monday evening member offered an or
| dinauce forbidding children under SiXtaen
/ years of age from being on the streets after
| 9:3O p. NJ, in summer and $50 T.. NJ, in
| the winter. unless accompanied by or with
| the permission of "A parent or guardian.
/ 1t was referred To the department OF the
| city solicitor. and council took a recess to
permit the committee to act on the Ordi-
| nance. On rea>Sembling IA favorable re-
port was made on the ordinance, which
was then referred to be printed.
The Mitchell Coal and Coke company,
of this place. will within the next few
weeks. tie cuIting coal by electricity. Two
electrical cutters and an electrical hauler
are already on the ground and will be put
To work Just as soon aS all the wires aud
appliances are gotten into shape. These
new improvements will place the Mitchell
mine at the very top of the column. The
party who is content to stay in the same
| old rut, with competition pressing him as
il does to-day, iS not in it, and consequent
ly must take aback seaL.-GGHuziH Times.
Forest fires are again doing havoc in
the timber lands on Muncv and NittanY
mountains, and in the foothills Of the Al
leghenieS in Clinton county. The fire
broke out late last week, ami has the ap-
pearance of being maliciOuSlY started.
Hundreds of acres have already been burn
ed over, aud the flames are rapidly getting
closer To the settlements. The woods are
very dry and with no adequate means To
check the fire there is fear of great de-
s;ructiou. In tract of 1,SOO acres of
woodland owned by L. y. Jamison, near
Lock Haven, standing timber valued at
5000 was destroyed.
Of
Pringle, former resident of SummerhiIl
township. died at the home of her son.
Mark at East Conemaugh. on Thursday,
April -. 1897, aged = years. Mrs. Pringle
was the mother of nine children, of whom
the surviving are as follows: Elizabeth,
wife of Sheriff ID. w Coulter. of EbenSburg;
w. ). Pringle, conductor on the z. II. Il, of
Conemaugh: Mrs. David Coulter, of Cone
maugh; also Mark, at whose home she
died. and Powell of Franklin Borough. AN
emplOye of the Cambria Iron company.
Her remains were inferred in Hcadrick'S
cemetery on SATURDAY. morning. the funer
al services being conducted by Rev. J. =.
Ire nal Of the United BreUhern church.
safe depnSite savings bank publishes
some well wordcd appeals To thrift. Here
is an extract from one of them: Money
savers, There are days when you can't
lay up a cent, but they are few and far be-
tween. good plan is to make it an in
variable rule To deposit something each
month. Having thus put the money aside
il should be considered out ofrsach and on
no account To be drawn upon except in
cases of sickness. loss of employment or
death. 1t is surprising how money will
pile up when such a system as this iS fol-
lowed. If every one who possesses any IN
come at all would adopt the practice and
stick to it, no matter how small the de-
posit might be, poverty would be well
nigh abolished
Henry Heffcrman. aged 40 years. track
foreman for the Pennsylvania Railroad
company at Juniata, drank two ounces of
laudanum on Sunday night with suicidal
intent. and died at noon on Monday. Hef
ferman was disappointed in not receiving
$50 prize offered by the company last fall
for the best section of track On his
way home on SUNDAY night he drank the
Iaudanum. when he entered the house he
told his wife what he had done, command
ing her not to send for u physician. He
became unconscious aud never rallied, al
though physician was in attendance all
bost- known citizens and prominent Odd
Fellow He leaves a wife and three
children.
Edward Weaver, a prominent farmer
of the extreme eastern point of Centre
county. on Thursday Of last week met
with one of the most horrible accidents on
record He was driving with a grain
drill to sow oats. The team of horses be
came frightened and ran away. Weaver
was thrown under the drill and dragged
quarter of a mile. Neighbore ran to the
scene and extrcated the unfortunate mao
from the drill. When taken ont it was
found that his clothing had been almost
entirely torn away, while his whole body
was aterribly lacerated. great chunks of
flesh being torn from his face and limbs,
and his arms entirely stripped to the bone,
though, strange it appears, not bone was
broken. Weaver still survives. but il may
be necessary to ampu;ate both arms. and
even if not, the man will be cripple all
his life.
William Williams. of Pine Flats, In-
diana county, is said to have recently dis
| covered the loss of a sum of money which
represented his savings for years The
| stolen money consisted of 81 800 in gold
| coin. mostly in so pieces. 1t was secreted
| in box, together with some bills Mr.
Williams kept the box in his bedroom and
| had not opened il for months until one day
| recently. when he made the discovery of
| his big loss. When the last deposit of
money was made in the box. the bills were