The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-08-06

| 1t is estimated that there will be a
weld of $4,000 bushels of wheat from the
s. : farms in Huntingdon county this
year.
At a meeting of the Ebensburg board
# school directors on Tuesday night the
blowing named teachers were selected :
tnom No. l, Allie Lloyd, salary. S34: room
No. ,. Annie Bpvnen, $50: room No. 2,
lula Connell, s32: room No 4. Maggie
Shenkle. So: room No. ;, Lester Larimer,
80: room No. g, Annie Jones, $40. The
sci oolS will open on the first Monday of
september for a term of eight months
While gathering whoItleberries on
scotch M9untain on Friday last Edward
Naffet. in company with two bows of Rev.
w. w. Dunmire, of this city. came face to
face with bear. supposed to weigh about
fwo' hundred pounds. Mr. Maffet was
within forty feet of the animal before he
discovered his bearship, who appeared to
scent the berry picker, and. rising him
self to full height, quickly took his de-
Uarture. MI. Mafiet was unarmed and
felt greatly relieved when the intruder
moved on. "-A ltOOnd Times
The county commissioners have re-
piovers of aliens under the new tax law.
and will supply all persons making requi-
>itinn for them. All persons, firms and
corporations employing two or more for
eign born male persons 2I years of age are
requested To keep a record and the number
of days such persons are employed and to
make quarterly report TO the commission
ers' office. A fine of not less than 500. or
I.,, =
all not complying with the act
William Davis, a miner employed in
the cOllierieS at Dunlo. Cambria county,
dropped dead at that place on Tuesday,
July -. from d cloJ of blood on the heart
Mr.. Davis had been working steadily I'M
I'll Monday, " hen he com planned of feeling
i'll aud did not work that day. Instead he
sent his tools To the black smith shop and
had them repaired, and Tuesday morning
sent them down into the mine few
minutes after he was taken Violently ill.,.
Several of his fellow workmen went To his
assistance after the severe spell came.
A dispatch from WilliamSport Friday
says: y tragedy occnrTed this morning at
the rifle range of the Twelfth regiment, \
IL p, when James G. Forman was instant
ly killed by bullet fired by one of the
guards men practicing at the range. For
man, with his nephew, was picking berries
about 200 yards beyond the target on a
direct line. He seemed TO know of the
danger a. he wal ned his nephew To lie low
aud beware of the bullets. The first iuti-
nation the guardsmen had of the fatility
was hen the boy came running up to
them and said his uncle. had been shot
They hurried 10 the spot and found For
man cold in death, the leaden missile hav
ing gone clear through his head. 1t is not
known W no fired the fatal shot
"A CORES pundent at Lilly says that
large number of men are being put TO
work in the CaSSandra cut on the Penn
SylvanId railroad. aud that it Is expected
within sixty days number of men equal
10 those employed at any time in the past
will be at work on the improvements be-
tween Lilly and Portage. All the mines
and have been for the past three weeks.
On the Pennsylvania railroad between
Bolivar and Alleg gheny some of the fast
freight trains which come in over the
Fort Wayne railroad are hauled by class
p express locomotives, and remarkably
fast time is made. The class engines
haul twenty four loads unasSiSted be
tween Allegheny and John>town, and
whip them over the road at the rate of
of the Allegheny mountains. from Cone
maugh east To GalliIZin, the passenger
engines need the assistance OF class Il.