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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
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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
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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- :
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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
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{ Naviusl Sykes, |
1 Fa: Bell, Jr.,
hin McGowan, Hwwk Ren...
Smoke Run........ ... ..
A dy Houtadade...... 5...
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