The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-06-18

| John, the 14year old son of Mr.. and
| Mrs. John McCTeaTy, of Derry, was struck
| 10y an engine on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road at Dornick Point. about mile below
Morrellyille, on Tuesday afternoon, and
died at $50 o'clock the same evening.
| Joseph Schwab, of the Carnegie Steel
| company, assistant superintendent of the
the Thirty third street mill, Pittsburg
has been appointed general superintendent
| o: the Duquesne works, to take the place
| of ii. A. Miller, who will take trim
| abroad. The new appointee is a brother
of c. M. Schwab, president of the COM
| pany, and u native o. Cambria county.
"A few nights ago the barn of ,Joseph
Strayer, in Bedford township. Bedford
county, was struck by lightning, causing
fire which entirely destroyed the build
ing. A COW in one of the stables. a lot of
hay and a threshing machine were de-
StrOyed. The loss sustained by Mr.. Straw
er, we understand, amounts to about $500
The policy of insurance had expired a
short time ago, and failing to renew il the
loss is total.
Key. A. Il. Erhard, pastor of the Luth-
eran congregation, at WilmOre. died sud
denly or Thursday evening of last week
about q O'Clock, of heart trouble. His wife
was away from home at the time visiting
married daughter, Mrs. Schrader in
Stonycreek township. He was about -
years of age and is survived by three
children. two single and at home and the
other. Mrs. Schrader residing in Stony
creek township.
Mrs. David Meter, of Strongstnwn, met
with a serious accident on Saturday of
last week. She had driven to Ebensburg
and was on her return home when her
her morse became frightened within a few
miles of StrongStown. The buggy. horse
and driver fell over steep bank.
While Mrs. Mentzer.s injuries will not
prove fatal she is suffering from some Sc
riouS bruises. The buggy was badly
wrecked and the horse slightly injured.
Mrs. Francis Moran. formerly of AlIe-
gheny township. died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Thomas Beck, at Cleye-
land. Ohio. on Saturday June 12th, 1897
aged about 20 years. She is survived by
her husband and seven children two sons.
Peter and William, both of Allegheny
township, and five daughters, Mrs. l.. Lit
Finger, of Ashville, Mrs A. Dodson. of
Dean township, and Mrs. Jane Beck.
Mrs. Hayes and Mrs. Maggie --, of
Cleveland, O.
William j. Rurk, who married Pur-
milla SnrbrOOk. South Side girl of Pitts
burg, without going through the formality
of getting divorce from a wife in Al
toona, was sentenced Saturday to serve
one year in the Allegheny county work.
fOnSe on charges of bigamy and perjury. |
Burk is the man who declared when in |
cOurt at Hollidaysburg that he wasn't the |
only railrOader running between Altoona |
and PittSburg who had a wife at each |
place. He IOld the judge who sentenced |
him in Pittsburg, however, that he |
thought when he married the second time |!
he had been divorced from his first wife.
having received letter to that effect and |
having seen the statement in the papers.
On Sunday afternoon about half past
two o'clock. lightning strack hay barn
on the farm belonging to the heirs of John |
j. Davis, deceased, in Cambria township.
setting il on fire. and in short time it was
burned to the ground. About five tons of |
stIaw were stored in the barn and the fire
started under The straw. For a time the
but had to abandon 1t. horse was
hitched to a set of ladders that was put
away in the barn for the purpose of draw
ing them out, but they got fast, and so
rapid was the progress of the flames that
it was with difficulty the horse was
saved, and then only after being badly
burned. The barn was new one built
last year.