The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-05-28

| About 200 miners at Grove City and
| PaTdoe, Pa, have been otified of reduc-
| ton OF wages. 1t is thought they will Of
! fer no resistance.
On Wednesday of last week the hard
ware store of Herman Bantlev. in Johns
town, was closed by Deputy Sheriff Elmer
| Davis on oclaims held by the Altoona
Building Il Loan association for 81 .25u
and 800 respectively. The liabilities will
amount to over 900 while the assets
will hardly reach that amount. Mr.
Bantley's establishment is the oldest hard
ware store in that city and his failure is
attributed to the failure of parties for
| whom he had endorsed. to meetstheir obli-
cations.
! The OdOr of the sweet pea is said to
be so offensive to flies that it will drive
them out of the sick room, though it is not
! usually in the slightest degree disagreeable
| TO the patient. 1t Is therefore recommend
that sweet peas be placed in the sick roorl
| during fv time. Now is the proper time
| to plant Speet peas that they may be util-
| lzed In driving out the pesky flies when
they invade the home This will be a
novel way of keeping bed rooms in con-
dition to render sleeping comfortable dur
! ing hot summer nights.
/ "A serious freight wreck occurred at
| warriors Ridge, two miles east of Peters
burg, Huntington county, on Sunday af-
ternOOn about O'Clock. Extra No. 552
ran into the rear of extra No. 1919, piling
| up nine cars and scattering their contents
! OF merchandise over the tracks. The
! tracks were torn up for some distance.
| Engine No. 552 was badly damaged. The
engineer and fireman jumped to save
| themselves. All the tranmen escaped. a
| tramp named William E. Dixon on the first
train was slightly injured. Bo:h trains
were going east when the accident occur
| red. Wreck crews were ordered out and
worked until evening clearing the debris.
Word from Indiana says that Clarence
HarSherger. aged ~ wears. was placed in
jail at that place on Sunday, charged with
attempting TO criminallv assault Vorgil
JOnstOn. the twelve Year-Old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Jonston. 1t is al
legged that Harshberger, coming upon the
little girl and several companions in the
woods gathering flowers, dragged her to a
clump of bushes, where, in fighting off her
assailant, her clothing was. nearly all torn
from her body, but she escaped unnjured.
what was going on and Mr. Jonston and
another man captured Harshberger. and.
after giving him terrible beating, turned
him over to Il constable.
Governor Hastings has disapproved the
following bills: Enlarging the COM
potency of the wife TO testify against her
husband; authorizing the publication of
10000 copies of the report of the Indian
corporation of companies to carry on the
business of pawn broker and the lending
of money ON the security of personal and
real property at the rate of one per cent.
interest monthly. The governor also dis
approved the concurrent resolution author
izing the publication of 10000 copies of the
LeXOw report. He states that to approve
the resolution would be to pledge himself
ia advance to approve the appropriation
asked by the committee on account of the
expense incurred by the committee.