A y , VOL. 1—NO. 13. PATTON, CAMBRIA co, PA, THURSDAY, FEBRU ARY 15, tSys. $1.00 PER VEAR. ALT ROADS OF NORTHERN CAMBRIA LEAD TO PATTON. ad— T.F. ELLON; & CO, — NEAR LINGLE MINE, — GENERAL MERCH I, MINE and MINERS’ ‘SUPPLIES. {,- Our specialties are : FINE | GROCERIES, WHITE FAWN FLOUR ‘DUPONT POWDER, . DRILLS, PICKS, HANDLES, MINE AUGURS, OIL and POWDER, $1.50 per keg CANS, and MINERS OIL. Onur stock. of i Sp igeisseosen ) DAMAGING HORRIGARE 1 1 i The Gale Pricipally Through the West and South. "HARD ON PEDESTRIANS |. ported Being Wiped off the Earth. | Chicago was visited Monday by. ‘the widest hurricane ever exper- | ienced in that city. The wind was istrong all night, but along toward 4 o'clock it suddenly increased in force. | and an hour later a small cyclone was on the city. By 6 o’clock snow was | falling, and with snow and wind and a falling thermometor Chicago was treated to a wild blizeard. The force | of the wind as it rushed through the streéts was fearful One woman was caught by the storm and dashed against a water plug and ‘two of her ribs broken. { The lake was like a tsmpest at sea in a tempest. The gale from the north- west piled the water in tremendous ' waves on the shore. The billows beat over the breakwaters and piers. Along the south shore the spray was carried jnland hundreds of feet and fell in drenching showers on the Mlinois Central cars. At Lincoln Park the the sea wall was practically ander water. A tide was created in the river by the immense volnme of water , foreed into it from the rerong wast. ward current. Seventy men, with blankets strapped about them, were huddied together in the third story of the water works - erib off Sixty eighth street. Waves filled with ice dashed savagely against the structore and washed through the lower stories, whose windows were smashed Is complete. Call and see them. “We are selling a good “Roller Flour 5 For $1.00 a Sack. TRY IT. HOTEL BECK, H. Cc. Brick, Prop'r. amie Sonim One of the Largest Hotols in Notth- ‘ern Cambria: Corduc. zd in modern style. seerinarr cm. GY § vires Good Tables snd Bar Supplied with | ~ Choicest Brands of Liquor. The Popular Bouse of Patton. he ommercial, S. M. WILSON, Prop. A Modern Hotel. TWenty-four Sleeping rooms, All new furniture, Heated with steam tiironglic out, Hot and cold water on every | floor. Cooking and dining depart- i fete - ment in Skillful hands. + MAGEE AVE, NEARR. R. STATION. PATTON, PENNA. ‘long Island (in by the idem. : effort to reach the my by (ug Rosalie nearly resulted in thaw reek of the boat and the loss of re men. ‘Telephohe and telegraph wires auf- fered. Many wires were torn from A fraitieas © their fastenings and poles were blown down, while other wires wore reqvierad nseless by being crossed. In New York wave id of : rinds= was greatly impeded and the inconvenienes , to pedestrians was so great that none but those who were compelled {o vent- ured on the streets. The storm was the most severe one of the season. The theremometor dropped to 20 degrees and the wind blew from the northeast at the rate of 30 miles an honr. Railroad traffic was demoralized. All trains were benind time and the malls from the south and west were greatly delayed. Reports from all points Quroughont thie state indicate that the storm has Dispatal OR been general and setere. from New Je reey report a similar state ; of affairs. New Jersey and casts wus particularly were. A high north and the air | Was full of Yi Kno Mariners > the coast had 8 nerd night of £. The life savisg crews doubled an patrols 80 a8 to promptly answer signal ly-of di tress The storm alo ng the jes prevail - * A cyclone swept over Louksiana and Mississippi and left in its wake many ¢asualties and a vast amourt of de- struction. The most is from Newtown, which place is said ‘to have been wined off the face of the earth. : In Illinois the snow is 1. Inthen on the level and is badly drifting. - A passenger train on the Big Four tek in a snow drifYf near tremont. There ‘are drifts at Bloomington five feet i deep. . i. Throughout Kansas and Missouri the snow averages from a foot to two feet on the level. At some points in euts it iti 20 to 30 feet deep. List of | nelainmed Letters The following ietters remain in the postoifice at Patton for the week end- | ing Saturday, Febroary 10, 1894: alarming report Ed. Barger, Peter Ginld, Mrs. C. Leib- hart, Thos. Price, John Reffner 2 Charley Stigarts, Austin & ~ Persons will please say thev are advertised. “E. A. MeL oN, P.M La-a) Market Report. For the special benefit of the farmers in the vicinity of Patton the COURIER publishes the following local market report, revised each week: . . ear NIE per pound s doze i. bushel “ y tigarts, | Appi. HE um Ps... Oats... ; win. 3 to 5 cts, per head gts T7777 314 Ww $15 per ton, Was, oe or four rooms for light ouseleseping. Inquire at this | office.-3¢ alling for the above letters PRISONERS ESCAPED FROM CLEARFIELD. | Ome Captured at Kerrmoor and the Other Heading for Cambria. | Saturday evening Chas. Haller and | | Milton Berringer broke jail at Clearfield | by scaling the jail yard wall They VIEWERS J5SESS DAMAGES On the. Building of the Cam- baja and Clearfield. | succeeded in getting into the yard on- | ' noticed while the closets were being | scrubbed. Haller had been sentenced | to the penitentiary for a term of five | any Houses Blown Down.—A Town Re. years and. six months for having at- tempted to kill his wife at DuBois. He: resided at Punxsntawney. One day his wife left for DuBois without any particular business there and was fol- lowed by her hustand. Haller found ‘her at an opera with apother man. The following day he follo-‘ed her to the bouse where she had been stopping and: assanited her with a hatchet. With the blade of the hatchet he cut her head in three or four places and left her for dead. He was caught by Officer Blair the following day and the woman fig gularly recovered. At the tral Clearfield last week Haller HE guilty, upon the advice of his attorney. Sheriff Cardon, of Clearfield, offers $100 reward for the capture of the prisoners. and furnishes the following description: Charles Haller is an American, lat 2 of Punxsutawney, Pa; aged 35 years 5 feet 8 inches tall: a front tooth or two out; scar on cheek; thin, light hair, weighs abotit 160 pounds. Milton Ber- ‘ringer is an American, lived ai Burn- side, Pa.; aged about 38 years, 8 foet high, fittle stoop-shouldered, dark hair, “dark suit, pants a little short, weighs about 150 pounds. I will pay $100 reward for the arrest of Charles Haller, or any information that will lead to his arrest. Advise Fuen M. CARDON, Sherif, Clearfield, Pa. was lefdrned that the escap- started up the river, rowards Berringer's home. ard early Monday the sheriff received word teat Berringer Shad been captured, at Keo meer. i tiller was a stranger in had not yet an eae ped prisoner. Sunday it 3 3. Z » ef nrmsaners had that Soction aid the peopl By t ime hes y learned that fact he bod again gisappe ared, hended in this direction. / It wonid be well for offfeers of Cambria cannty fo keep a look out for him. / ; Hiller € aptared After tha above was received infor ond of the capture of Haller at New Miliport reached here. The COURIER was fiot able to learn anv partionlars, however. [te reported that Berringer and Haller were both suffering from injuries, not sericus, which they re ceived in their burried escape. They were following the line of the Beech ‘Creek road towards Cambria county New Pasiness Hons Mr A.M Thomagr, of Lock Haven, who has id in 3 nu Bd {i Ang piu iar town several months hh as decid ardwire aT Rr } ad to Open a ng estiblihment here and will cecupy the room oppo- : 1 > . : hotsl, now oom site the Commercial pied by Wolf & Thompeon, about the 1st of March. Mr. Thanias is a practi- eal plumber ard mample: of his wark .ean be seen Cin the Good building as wall ag elawhere in town. His store will be in charge of Wr. Baum, of Dn- Bois, who will move here. Mr. Bam is & young man win has had extensive experience inh the hardware business, having been with Messrs, Grier Bros. the la=t eight or ten vears. He is e pergetic, aecomodating an thoroagh- ly practical He will hecom= a good brains. man and a good eitizen of ration. » w Restanrant Building: I. R. Snyder, proprietor of the Fifth restaurant, opposite Hotel Beck, is erecting a new bujlding south of the one he now occupies which he avenge ‘will move into as poon as completed. The building will be 20x 30 feet, two stories high, with a kitchen attached to the rear 12 feet square, The first floor will he used for a restaurant and an oyster and ice cream parlor and the second floor for living purposes. The COURIER representative ezn say that Mr. and Mrs. Snyder well knows how to cater to the pubiic. They are agreeable and have everything in their restaarant up to modern times, - The CotrRIER man had the: ‘pleasure of sampling their oysters on the half shell. They were delicious. ‘A Painfal Xecldent. ¥. W. Bitner met with a painful ac days. Mr. Bitner is employed as .a contractor on the Good building and in trying to remove the fragmenta of a. ‘broken glass in the door he in some manner struck his right hand against a projecting piece of the glass cutting off ‘the leaders communicating with the first second and third fingers and the artery accompanying the same. The | patient is under the care of Dr. Worrell. Good overcoats for boys, nobby with | cape, $1, 50 at the Patton Clothibg! Store. .ensbinrg assisted by OC. 1. - vided by seven. id i ¥ : . } ered. Mr: a ™ Teietat ast whietb will ne- : re : - = TEN Oh PMCRY as n> ©" very lucky on procuring it so soon, cesuitate an enforced idleness of several MET AT THE PALMER to the To Adjust Diff renes Between Mr. Ott soit | the Railroad Company. On Thursday afternoon seven view-- ers met in the rotunda of the Palmer ¥ *=t extremity, Policeman Sam Jones | | A Hard Tassel, But Policeman Jones Got There. On last Wedneeday, a little past ! midnight, two men in front of the | Arlington hotel were engaged in a ter ile ft. One had thrown the other . ground snd was dealing out severe punishment to his antagonist ' . No person "bet shoat the time of the under one’s house ‘0 hear the testimony pro and: cise dlovg. Mr. Jones took hold of con in reference to the amount of ‘the vi-© "tious pagulist, and after pal damages dome to the estate of the plaintiff cansed by the building of the Little Chest Creek branch of the Cam- bria and Clearfield ralroad, which traverses Mr. Ott’s premises a distance of about three fourths of a mile. The viewers were taken over the road by an engine especially detailed for that purpose, hence the facilities afforded them in making up their judgement, after hearing the evidence, could not have been more complete. In fact - they were better prepared to make an impartial decision than a jury of twelve could be without looking over the ground. The viewers were an in- telligent body of men consisting of the following named gentlemen: Thomas Davie, F. C. Lloyd and Webb Griffith, of Ebenshurg: C. Hunt, of Conemaugh; Charles Yeaglev and James Kirkpat- rick, of Carroll township: James Mel of Patton Alvin Evans, Faq., a distingmished attorney, of Eb- Invilliers, of Philipebarg, repre. sented the company. and two other eminent inwyery; B.A KY, Fhensharer Aryl. lon, -Esq., civil engineer maker of and James nasley, of Carroltown, were for Mr. Ott. W. Searnth, Fag of Carroltown, was present and administers] the viewers, the oaths to The witnesses were sworn by James Mellon, Bag. The following named gentlemen, all residents of Carroll townshin, were called for the plaintif: Jacob A. Huber, John H. Huber, ‘ threatening, - Valentine Dumm, John Overberger and Willinm - P. Geroderhien. The testimony of all of these gentiemen, except that of Mr. Gepoderhen, were in the main. alike. Each hesit ated ta place a value npon the land occupied by the company, hot said, “If it was my case T wonld nat take a hundred dollars an acre for 1.9 The latzer gentlemen thought, at re- tail, it was warth $150 an acre. bat at whaoleasle it would not be worth ao mach. : rn John H. Asheroft, cond operator, af this place, and FE. Brown, superin. tendent of the Patfon Company, testi fled for the defense. Both of these - gentlemen were of the opinion that the valine of Mr. Ott’s farm had been en. chanaced by the building of the mad. Mr. Evans read from his book an act of the - Assembly stafing that in making up damages to an estate by the occupancy of a railroad, the enchanced . vaiue of the place on account of it should be taken into consideration; and Mr. Shoemaker remarked that “Mr, Evans did not read it all,” and con cluded by continuing the passage in whieh it was stated that the amount to be allowed should be what is othe proved. > The viwers were only in retirement a few minutes when they concluded to award Mr. Ott $440. They agreed to the plan of each one marking on a piece of paper and then the resuit should he the sum of ail the figures di-- The highest estimate was $900, and the lowest $150. It is undecided whether an appeal will be made or not. : : Diamond Lost and Found, H. C. Beck, proprietor of Hotel Beck, came very near losing a val- uahle diamond Saturday. He was washing his diamond pin, valned at 200 in the toilet room of the hotel, when suddenly it slipped from his fingers and dropped down the waste pipe. He at once put a guard over the stand while he sent a messenger for a plumber. When the pirmber arrived the diamond was soon found. It had fallen to the crook in the waste was in the cellar, and - by taking off the cap, placed on the pipe for taking cut dirt, etc., it was recov- Beck can count himself pipe which and with so little trouble. | Thanks Bro. Kaylor. The COURIER clips the following from the Hastings Tribune: ‘“The Tribune is under obligations to the Patton Cou- RIER for favors this week. Tha broad- guage ideas of the COURIER are exceed- ingly refreshing in comparsion with the | Rarrow ones we have been accustomed to find on the other side of us.” Oysters seived in every style at cept naturalised citizens. Ey Snyder's Fifth avenue restaurant.-1t Hng hi: - «way, he himsslf received a severe slow on the bark of the head ‘This astonished and exasperated the’ brave pohceman and he immediately “collared the fellow, and, although he’ fought snd kicked vigorously, landed him safery in the cooler. - During all this time the other fellow followed swearing and defying’ him. He also put him in the lockup ‘and they both remained in durance vile until the “wee sma’. hours o' the | mornin’. : -Moral--Don't imo with Police- man Jones. Special eis A special meeting of the borough council was held in the council -cham- ber: Thursday evening, February Sth, Burgess Jackson presiding. Coun- cilmen 8 W. Wi orrell, BE. C. Brown, P.* P. Young and EA. Mellon were present. On motion by E. 'C.. Brown, that the order ascepted and drawn by council on January 30th, 1884, in favor of R. D. Swope for $81.80, be re. considered. On motion by P. P. Young it was decided that the bill of Mr. Keith for grading an approach to the iron bridge be committee and all settlements hore. after with Mr. Keith be made with that committee: also orders will be granted Mr. Keith through a 1 request from street: committee On motion council adjourned tn meat - on the regular meeting night, Taesday. An OM © itizen and Winer Dies. John Lewis, died at the home of his Jueginer. Mrs. Peter Cameron Jr. on saturday afternoon, of miners asthma, ei a long ines Deceased was about 78 yeors of age and had heen a resident of Houtadale and vieinity for the past 20 vears He was a ative of Tredegar, Wales, and a consistent membar of the Welsh Baptist church, He was a practical miner, and was’ well and favorable known throughout this entize region. Funeral took place oun Monday, interment. at Brisbin. Houtzdale Advance. Canght at Last. a Last week Gen, J. Hoopes was ar- rested af Johnstown on the charge of robbing the sialions at Spangler, Car rolitown Roads, Bradley Junction and Kavior.. The station agnt at Kaylor; who was covered with a revolver at the time of the robbery, and. threaten. ad with death if be interfered, has fully - identified Hoopes, dnd he is now in jail at Ebensbury, The charges against him are larcency, burglary, and assault with intenf to k! 1 He is charged with any other robberies of postiffices and stores. : New Riacksmith Shop. Ancther aequsition to the new town of Patton and one which will be much appreciated will be the new black- smith shop now being erectad by Wm. Biller, of Carroll township, Mr. Biller has located next to \ stable and will erect a substantial one- story building, 25 x 35 feet. Black- smithing and repairing will be done in all its branches. * Mr. Biller is a skiiled mechanic and reliable workman the ('OURIER wishes him abundant SUCCESS. : More Water Ww orks, The question of water works for Big Run is being agitated at present. They . have no means of fighting fire and should one break out on a windy day, half the town would be ‘endangered by the flend. > The reservoir ¢ould be loe ated about four miles from the town on Clover Run. The cost of construction would not exceed $10,000. ‘Night Office Closed. The night telegraph office at this place has been closed indefinitely or until business picks up. The office was | closed on account of the general de-: pression and especially on the Beech Creek. The shipments of coal have. been very light the past few weeks ! ‘Thos. Higgins, the operator, has re- turned to his home at Altoona. A Good Meve. West Newtun, Pa., one of the moa$ ex- | tensive.in that region, has issued orders | w : for the discharge of all foreigners ex- ‘tors have taken similar sops, given to the street. Nagle's livery. The W. L: Scott Coal Company, of John pay 1 Thy mana. bi ameba sins iea enti co me a Wis Sli _ EVERY PERSIN INTERESTED In Securing Better Mail Service "FOR THIS SECTION. | Petitions Being Citwaiated Betweon Ore sibs : ; and Mahaffey. Some seks ago the COURIER was in- formed tht in the near - fiture Patton ‘and other places between Cresson snd. Mahaffey would be given as local mail from both north and south. Or, tomake Ft Sure JAAS, ib wiki Shak the fits office department had directed that mail .bags should be taken on and thrown of” the Cambris nad Clearfield trains at all stations between the points | ter service, but it seems re are not yet to be so favored. The present arrange- : ment is about as crude as could be con- ceived and unsatisfactory to all. Twice . a day the train going south takes on the mail ponches and carries them through to Cresson, when the conient are sort- Ted. If all trains are on time and the ‘nail is not unususily urge the post- _inaster at that place has immfficient time ‘to sort it properly, and forward ft However, it not infrequently occurs that trains are late. The main. line trains of the Pennsylvania road, mail from which must all be sorted by the postmaster at Cresson before being sent. out over the { road, often connects so tlosecly with the latter that there is vary little or no time to sort mail at Crevson. Henece it is necessary to hold mail over at Cres- son until the ‘oliowing day. This is unsatisfactory, as well as detrimental to the impuriant businiss interests ¢F this section, and sanld died. What the peaple at. Patton, Carrolitown, Spar ier, Hastings, West- over, La Jose, anc Cambria and Clearfield Mahiffey want isa he easily reme. through pouch for each place from the - wisin line, snd a postal clerk on the train to distribate local mails, of local “pouches so that mail muy be received from and sent cut on trains north and south. To secure this important need petitions are being numerously signed.. The through - pouches may be cured fur the places named without gxira eoit to the depart- ment. The clerk can be put onata nominal cost, and theré is no just nor equitable reason why bduth should not “be granted By this arrangement a large and prosperous section of the state would be given fir mail facilities apd taere wold tv no general objeo- tior, at least for a time, to the dilatory methed of carrying all. local mails to Cresson for distribation and then res tarning it w its destinadon along the same route several hours later on the ‘next train. z Cruel Boys. : On last Thorsday niorning several boys, who were accompanied by a pack of dogs more numerous than - themselves, dogs of different species = and sizes, from a pet poodle to a hound, stopped at the upper railroad bridge across Chest Creek and amused themselves by throwir gz first one and then another of them into the raging stream. - As fst ns ont would come to ‘the shore it wi immediately canght agai and - thrown into the icy water. One little fellow, the tinyest canine of “them. all finally swam down throu h the riffle and by hard work succeeded in making his escape from the cruel - boys. Another, a pretty hound, stood in the cold water afraid to plange into the turbid stream below, or to come ashore until the .boys had disversed, upon seeing the writer approach. them. The poor dog, although shivering with cold, could not be prevailed upon to come ashore, believing everybody to be his enemy, and he (did not come out until no man or boy wins within fiftean rods from where he was thrown in. New Mine Foren, Following are the names of the miners who passed the examination recently held in this place for mine- foreseen, with the perwer.age obtained by each: FIRST GRADE, A. B. Muir, Moran ; ‘Edward Dawson, Hawk Han... “Robert Cole, Philipsburg Thos, (iriffiths, Homie... Robwet Lees, Mader, SBCOWD © 1. ANS | Ex Davis, Mortisdnle. an masinin Dosaid Craig, 1 Morisdale._.. RR iC Wiliam Philips { ¢ ms, ry, Jue. H. Howard, i Menry Thomas, : Soba M. Baker, FEES a { Naviusl Sykes, | 1 Fa: Bell, Jr., hin McGowan, Hwwk Ren... Smoke Run........ ... .. A dy Houtadade...... 5... Lien a, Genrheartyvilie. | iE HE > Soma. | Did you {a va ii yesterday? 1 1 I circulated snd * Jusggensgsug easy #8 +r
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