The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-03-19

call for a meeting of the county committee
| at the court room in Ebensburg on Mon
day March 10Th. at O'Clock, p. NJ for the
purpose of fixing the date for holding the
county convention.
Two boys who were digging in a nile
of debris in the rear of the gas works at
Altoona, on Tuesday morning, found the
remains of an infant that had been buried
there. Coroner Mccartney took charge of
the case, and will endeavor to ferret out
the preSumable child marderers.
Judge Greer. of Butler county, has de-
cided that shooting matches where turkeys
and chickens were put up to be shot for
were contests of skill and as such did not
come under the law prohibiting gambling
but IL money were bet on the result il
would be gambling and should be returned
to court.
FRIDAY morning the Pennsylvania rail-
road awarded the contract for building an
extension of the Dunlo branch from Low
EFT to Scalp Level, distance of ten miles
10 Brownwell Il McManus, of PhiIadel-
pEia. The road will tap the newly pur-
chased coal fields of the Berwin- White
company. Work will be commeLced at
once.
Miss Mary Kelly, of Stonvcreek town
ship, while milking a few davs ago was
kicked by the COW and sustained a severe
cash on her right eve. The injury has
been giving the yeung lady much trouble
since that time and ii is very doubtful If
she VIII ever recover the sight of the in
inred organ. She has been blind in the eye
ever since she received the injury.
The cantata Joseph was played to
crowded houses at the Opera House. in
this place, on Thursday and FRIDAY even
lngS OF last week by local talent. The
singing was of an exceptional high order
and the company deserve the thanks of the
community for the pains and labor expend-
ed in practtcing in order to give the people
first class entertainment.
Mis-. Annie E. wife of George Mardis,
died at her home in BelSano. on Saturday,
March l3, 1897, aged b years. Mrs. Mar
dis was daughter of The late Samuel L.,
and Ellen Reed. of Blacklick township,
and a sister of \. l.. Reed. ESQ, of Ebens-
burg. She is survived by her husband and
five children, as also by her mother, four
sisters, one brother and two half sisters.
"A correspondent says that the six sons
of the late James Maggie, who died recent
ly at his home in 81. Augustine, have per
formed "a sad duty not equalled by any
other six brothers in the United States
They have carried their grandfather. their
grand mother, their mother and their faith
TO their graves. Their names are, re-
Spectively, Henry, Thomas, John, Frank,
Simeon and Charles Nagle, all of North
Cambria county.
On Monday morning while Richard
Smith was driving from Irwin To Greens
burg, be discovered what he supposed to
be bun1le of clothing on the roadside.
He was aStoniShed at finding that the
clothing covered baby only few weeks
old. 1t was nicely dressed. The little one
was turned over to the Greensburg poor
authorities. Suspicion points to a Nc
X keeSport woman as the mother.
Mr.. Adam Rudolph, residing in Allie
gheny township, one fourth of mile north
of LoreIto, on the road leading To Chest
Springs, will sell at public sale OH Thurs
day, March 25th, 1897, at l O'Clock, p. NJ,
3 horses. milch cows, > Shoats, ! two
horse three seated covered spring wagon.
l two horse sled l road cart, dump cart
and harness, shovel plows, 10 bushels of
rye. Also a lot of household furniture and
ton.
The talk in railroad circles is the pro-
posed line to be built from South Fork,
this county. down through Somerset coun-
ty and connected with the Pennsylvania
Midland, thence to Mt Dallas and over
the most of the old survey of the South
Penn to Richmond, in Franklin county,
again connected with the Pennsylvania
near Harrisburg. This route will shorten
the distance between Pittsburg and Phila-
deIphia about 60 miles. A double track is
proposed.
While Mrs. Susan Birch, an aged wild
Ow, of Duncannon, was burning some
brush. Thursday of last week, her clothing
became ignited and she ran screaming to
where Henry and William Mccoy were
building fence. Having no other means
of eXtingushing the flames which envelOp-
ed her. one of the men quickly pushed her
into a post hole. and hastily Shoveled the
loose earth in about her, succeeding in saw
ing her life. The woman is badly burned,
but il is thought she will recover.
Fire Friday night destroyed the frame
building at Lilly used by Contractor Nc
Manus as commissary. The building
caught fire, it is believed, from a red hot
stove, and, no one being in the place al the
time. the flames got beyond cOtr0l The
loss will be about $500. on which there is
no insurance. The building was USED for
the storage of provisions for the men W no
were employed on the Pennsylvania rail-
road improvements at and near Lilly
for which MI. McManus had the contract.
Railroad Officers Sharrets and Snyder
on Tuesday arrested a Young man named
Harry Kyle, in JOhnstOwn, on the charge
of stea ling bicycle in Altoona. Kyle is
accused of running away with the wheel
after hiring il last summer. The bicycle,
which was valued at $50, was recovered by
Officer SharretS month after the robbery.
committed Kyle To the HOIlidaysburg jail
To- await trial. Previous to his arrest the
man was posing as humane officer in
JOhnstown.
Mrs. Henry Pope. of Wharton, Potter
county the wife of a rich lumberman,
on Monday drew 500 from the bank at
Galeton and then departed on a train for
WeIISbOrO. At AnsOnia, while waiting for
the arrival of the Fall Brook train connec-
ton, Mrs, Pope walked to the village
hotel, one fourth OF a mile from the sta
tIon. The road passes through the woods
at this point. a half hour later she was
found unconscious in the road. When re-
stored she stated that man had struck
b.- oy, ha head with ciub Her money