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CAMBRIA FREEMAN
EBENSBURG, PA
MARCH 1903
Friday, March 6, 1903
Contributed by Patty Millich
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Both Johnstown and Altoona will have a street fair next July.
Mr. Augustine Yost, of Carroll township, is seriously ill with pneumonia.
Mr. F. A. Westrich, of Elder township, was in town this week doing duty as a juror.
The entire stock of Mrs. R. E. Jones of Vintondale will be closed out. See regular ad.
Mr. Isaiah Gates, of White township, spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Monday.
Mr. Daniel Hanlin, of Gallitzin township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday.
Mr. William Tate of this place has been confined to his home during the past week by illness.
John Lutz, for many years editor of the Bedford INQUIRER, has been appointed postmaster of Bedford.
Miss Marguaret Levy, of Houtzdale, Pa., was the guest of Mrs. Maude Collins, of this place on Monday.
South Fork which has been free from smallpox since last November now has three cases of the disease in its limits.
The interior of Mr. Charles M. Schwab’s summer residence at Loretto is being beautifully decorated by a force of painters from New York.
The doctors report that smallpox has been entirely stamped out of Vintondale and Wehrum, the quarantine having been taken off all infected houses.
The bill before the State Legislature fixing the minimum salary of public school teachers at $35 per month passed the House on the final reading last Thursday.
Ex-Sheriff D. A. Luther and his son, B. M. Luther, both of Carroll township, spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Monday and were visitors to the FREEMAN office.
On Monday, the court appointed J. L. Elder, J. J. Evans and John L. Edwards viewers to lay out a road from Ebensburg to Vintondale through Nantyglo and Twin Rocks.
Mr. John L. Stough, of this place, will begin tearing down the residence in which he lives in a few days and will at once begin the erection of a fine case brick house on the same ground. The new house will have all modern conveniences.
The House of Representatives at Harrisburg on Tuesday passed finally the bill already passed by the Senate, making it a misdemeanor for a husband or father to desert and neglect to support his wife or children, prescribing a penalty therefore and making the wife a competent witness in such cases.
Smallpox has broken out in Spangler. Two cases are already reported but the board of health has promptly quarantined the residences of the victims and are taking all means to prevent the spread of the disease. The schools in the central part of the town are closed and will remain so for some time.
J. J. Godfrey, mine boss for the Savage Fire Brick company at the Gooseberry mines, Hyndman, Bedford county, purchased a large wildcat recently from Edward Shroyer and had it shipped to E. R. Dignan, proprietor of the West End Hotel at Gallitzin, this county. Mr. Shroyer caught the cat with the aid of a steel trap.
George Lazzor of Portage was brought to jail on Monday to answer to a charge of murder in causing the death of Steve Valastick by striking him with an axe some three weeks ago at Jamestown. Valastick died at the Memorial hospital at Johnston on Saturday and a Coroner’s inquest found that Lazzor was responsible for his death.
A dwelling house owned and occupied by Martin Flick near Loretto caught fire and burned to the ground one day last week, together with nearly all if its contents. The fire started from a defective flue, and before it was discovered, had gained such headway that it was only with great difficulty that Mr. Flick, who is a very old man and in feeble health was rescued. The loss will be about $1,000 and it is fully covered by insurance.
James Miller, aged 55, of Altoona, employed as a laborer in shops was admitted to the hospital Saturday morning as the result of being seriously injured while at work. A car load of steel tires for the 80-inch driving wheels of locomotives was being unloaded, Miller was assisting the work, and while one was being rolled to the main pile it fell, caught and pinioned him between it and the other tire. He was removed to the hospital where an examination showed he had sustained contusion of the shoulders and back and possibly internal injuries.
With a fearful crash a section of fully 75 feet of the north-west section of the Pennsylvania Railroad company’s Twelfth street round house at Altoona caved in at 2:20 on Tuesday afternoon. It was used by the middle division engines. Two locomotives were caught and completely covered with debris. Bricks and timbers were piled up in a big mass. At first it was thought that several workmen were buried in the ruins. Two workmen had been working on one of the engines but had gone away just a short while before the accident happened. The damage will amount to several thousand dollars.
Wednesday morning of last week by an explosion of dynamite in the new tunnel at Gallitzin, two men were seriously injured. They are: James Sheehan, aged 28 years, a foreman, and Patrick O’Connell, aged 28 years, a laborer. The men were engaged in blasting. One load had failed to go off. The men resumed the work of loading more holes when the dynamite in the other hole let go. It is believed that it was put off by the powder being ignited from the other blasts, and burning unnoticed until it eventually reached the blast. Sheehan was blown across the tunnel 25 feet. He was unconscious when picked up. O’Connell was standing near the blast and the flash burned him. A negro in the vicinity of the blast was also burned. Sheehan and O’Connell were removed to the Altoona hospital. At this writing it is feared that the former is fatally injured and that the eyesight of the latter is destroyed.
Hinder DeVolgin, an Austrian, attempted suicide at the Altoona hospital at 7:30 o’clock on Tuesday morning by throwing himself over the porch railing outside the convalescent ward to the brick walk, eighteen feet below. He landed on his head, sustaining a severe contusion of the brain and will likely die. William Bacon, an orderly, saw the man go onto the porch, also his attempt at self-destruction from the sun parlor, but was unable to do anything to prevent the act. DeVolgin was admitted January 8th from Gallitzin with both bones of his right arm broken and became despondent because he thought he would not recover from the injury. He arose as usual on Tuesday and ate his breakfast, after which he walked out on the porch. He stood there for a short time then threw himself over the railing. As soon as he struck the pavement Orderly Bacon gave the alarm. The man was carried into the dispensary where his injuries were dressed.
Blair county authorities were notified on Wednesday of last week of an aggravated case of smallpox at Tunnelhill, just inside the Blair county line. The victim is Mrs. Joseph P. Warner, who has been suffering with the disease for some time but little attention. A physician has been provided and the place properly quarantined. Besides the parents there are five children in the house.
The painters and paper hangers of Altoona went on strike Monday to enforce the payment of a new scale of wages calling for $2.25 for painting, $2.50 for paper hanging, $2.70 for frescoing and $5.00 per day for graining. They also ask a nine-hour day. The Master Painters’ Association has refused to pay the scale and 100 men are out. Three independent master painters have signed the scale.
Fred Martell, a Pittsburg division brakeman residing in Altoona, was seriously injured near Greensburg Saturday morning. He was walking along the top of the cars of the train and not noticed that the train had parted, walked off, falling to the track below, breaking one of his legs and badly spraining the other and sustaining body bruises. It was his first night on duty. He was taken to the Westmoreland hospital where he was given attention.
DEATHS
Sanford Marsh, son of B. F. Marsh, of Homestead, Pa., died at his home on Sunday, March 1st, 1903, aged 21 years, from paralysis. His remains were taken to Nantyglo and from there to Ebensburg and interred in Lloyd cemetery on Tuesday.
Mrs. Susanna Riffle, a sister of Mrs. M. E. Kaylor of Carrolltown, died at her home in Altoona on Tuesday of pneumonia, aged seventy-four years. She was the widow of George Riffle, an old-time engineer who died twenty years ago. The funeral took place in Altoona today (Thursday).
Andrew Colebow, a Polander, employed as a brakeman by the Glen White Coal and Lumber company, was killed at Glen White Saturday morning by being run down by a draft of cars. He was riding the cars and in putting on a brake, the brake rod broke and he was thrown off. Falling under the wheels he was ground to death.
OBITUARIES
John Jacob Hoover
John Jacob Hoover, who died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hoover, in Elder township, on Thursday, February 26, 1903, had suffered from paralysis for twenty-six years.
Deceased was forty-nine years old and besides his father and mother, he is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Andrew of Altoona; Michael of Baker’s Mines; George of Elder township; Mrs. Jacob Ashwald, Mrs. Wm. Armine and Mrs. Nicolas Kairns, of Altoona; Mrs. William Gray of Elder township; Mrs. Robert Burns of Susquehanna township; Mrs. John Vasbinder of Carrolltown; Mrs. Michael Trinkley and Mrs. Andrew Saltzgiver of Patton and Mrs. Peter Nagle, at home.
The funeral took place Saturday morning from St. Bernard’s church, Hastings, where a Requiem High Mass was celebrated after which the remains were conveyed to Carrolltown for interment.
Mrs. Margaret (Connery) Kaylor
Mrs. Margaret Kaylor, relict of William Kaylor, died at her home at Chest Springs on Tuesday, February 24, 1903. Death was due to diseases incident to old age.
Mrs. Kaylor, whose maiden name was Miss Margaret Connery, was born near Loretto, February 17, 1823. She was twice married, her first husband’s name being Scanlon. He died many years ago and she was then united in married with William Kaylor, who also has been dead a number of years. She was the mother of the late Rev. George Kaylor, who died a couple years since. She is survived by a large family.
The funeral took place on Thursday morning of last week in St. Michael’s church in Loretto, after which the remains were interred in the cemetery connected with the church.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following marriage licenses were issued by the Clerk of the Orphans’ court for the week ending Thursday, March 5, 1903:
John A. Leonard and Ellen Dalton, Ehrenfeld.
Austin Curry, Five Points, Clearfield county, Pa., and Ona C. Plummer, Portage.
Thomas W. Booth, Blacklick township, and Martha Perry, Jackson township.
COURT PROCEEDINGS
Court met on Monday at 10 o’clock with Judge O’Connor on the bench. The grand jury was called and sworn and they were at work finding bills which under the new order of proceedings will be tried next week.
The following civil cases were disposed of:
Harry Boyer vs. S. A. Weimer and A. L. Keagy, tenant ejectment; continued.
Mrs. Mariam Duncan et al. vs. James Altemus and N. D. Aletmus, ejectment; continued until third week of present term.
Kate McDonald vs. Patrick Tighe, appeal; continued.
Johnstown Supply House vs. Charles E. Leister, appeal; continued.
Katharine Bender vs. Dan Dannenbaum, appeal; settled.
Albert Waters vs. A. F. Wassburg, appeal; settled.
In the assumpsit suit of John Hertzog vs. Thomas T. Stiles, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $214.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Joseph P. Myers et ux to Hugh Quinn, Gallitzin township; consideration, $400.
Edwin Empfield et ux to Webster Coal & Coke company, Cresson township, $2,700.
Emanuel Wentz et ux to James L. Mitchell, Barr township, $600.
George B. Stineman et ux to Ida Hale, Croyle township, $65.
Henry Reynolds et ux to Morrison & Cass Paper company, Croyle township, $625.
Jacob Leap to Frank Leap, Washington township, $503.
D. H. Moore et ux to Altoona Coal & Coke company, Gallitzin township, $25,000.
Cambria Coal company by the treasurer of Cambria county, Susquehanna township.
Cambria county to John E. Evans, Susquehanna township.
John E. Evans et ux to Cambria Coal Company, Susquehanna.
John Hay, by treasurer of Cambria county, Gallitzin township, $2.
Cambria county to W. H. Seehler, Gallitzin township, $1.
W. H. Sechler to James L. Mitchell, Gallitzin township, $1.
F. P. Shibert to Edwin Empfield, Cresson, $2,700.
Woods Thomas et ux to L. Z. Bloom, Cambria township, $400.
William T. Moss et ux to James R. Doubt, Cambria county, $100.
H. C. Prutzman to Andrew Lantzy, Hastings, $3,500.
Philip Hartzog et ux to Aaron Kane, Carroll township, $4,600.
Benjamin M. Gemmill to A. M. Diehl, Cresson township, $2,300.
Patrick McCann et ux to J. A. Farren, Washington township, $600.
Walter S. Weaver et ux to William Bryan, Richland township, $50.
Joseph A. Gray, et ux et al to Sarah Bolvin, Susquehanna township, $50.
Rachel Wagner et al to United Mine Workers No. 1386, Jackson township, $65.
THE HOLLIDAYSBURG IMPROVEMENTS
The purpose of the Pennsylvania Railroad company in seeking to acquire by purchase about one-eighth of the land included within the limits of Hollidaysburg is made manifest by the announcement that the company has in contemplation the abandonment of the immense classification yards planned at South Fork, this county, and the establishing of the yards there, as a more central point. It is further stated that work has already stopped on the South Fork yards, the workmen have removed their shanties and tools. If the yards are built they will be the assembling point daily of 1,100 freight cars. Hollidaysburg’s superabundant supply of water may be a potent factor in compelling the change. The unused Roaring Run reservoir may be thrown into service at any time and the millions of gallons of water now running to waste may serve to make the wheels of industry go round.
LIQUOR LICENSES GRANTED
On Monday evening Judge O’Connor handed down his decisions in the matter of the applications for license to sell liquor. The number of licenses granted for this year is 290; the number refused, 95 and held over, 7. Below we give the list of those refused in the northern districts of the county:
Granted
Adams Twp.
Richard Bender, Dunlo Hotel
H. Burke and G. W. Hoyer, Beaverdale, wholesale
Edward Costlow, Lovett Hotel
Benjamin F. Craig, Beaverdale
Francis J. Fox, Dunlo, Merchants Hotel
William Good, Dunlo
Charles A. Kensinger, Beaver Hotel
James T. Moore, Dunlo
James T. Shank and F. C. Sensebaugh, Dunlo, wholesale
David Templeton, Lloydell
John B. Watkins, Dunlo
Ashville
Albert Gauntner
M. S. McAllister, Fountain House
George A. Myers, Ashville House
Barnesboro
Philip Bender, Crofford avenue, wholesale.
D. J. Baugher and E. J. Bearer, Carlisle street, wholesale
D. W. Hoover, Hotel Ritter
S. B. King, Commercial Hotel
M. C. Weakland, Philadelphia avenue
John D. Wengzen, Sheppard avenue, wholesale
James A. Wheeler, City Hotel
C. J. Wood, Barnesboro Inn
Barr Twp.
C. C. Adams, St. Nicholas Hotel
Blacklick Twp.
Doss Kemery, Home Hotel
Edward Kline and Philip Kline, Seldersville, wholesale
Thomas E. Morris, Hotel Morris
Joseph Shoemaker, Village Inn
Carrolltown
Jos. B. Wirtner, American Hotel
W. B. Schroth, Hohenzollern Hotel
James J. Henry, Main street
V. J. Stoltz
John Glasser, Star Hotel
Conrad C. Rieg and John W. Dumm, Main street, wholesale
M. C. Schroth, St. Lawrence Hotel
Henry M. Blum, Sun Brewery, wholesale
Adam Fees, Main street, wholesale
Carroll Twp.
Patrick Harrigan, Fairview Hotel
Charles C. McCombie, near Bakerton
Francis C. Thomas
William Paterson, American Hotel
George C. Divers, Bakerton Inn
Chest Springs
H. A. Pfiester, Porto Rico Hotel
Conemaugh Twp.
Lawrence Kost, Kost’s Brewery, wholesale
Croyle Twp.
E. F. Dimond, Ehrenfeld Hotel
Andrew Rhody, Hotel Rhody
Cresson Twp.
J. M. O’Donnell, O’Donnell House
R. J. McNally, Hotel Cresson
Conrad Wenderoth, Anderson House
Frank P. Shiber, First street
Thomas F. Callan, Ashcroft avenue, wholesale
Frank J. Powers, Summit Hotel
John Brown, Commercial Hotel
Dean Twp.
W. G. Snyder, Dysart House
William Cella, Arbutus Hotel
Charles E. Rutherford, Buckhorn Hotel
Ebensburg, East Ward
M. J. Stoltz, Mountain House
Ebensburg, West Ward
T. V. Hott, Blair House
A. E. Bender, Hotel Bender
W. M. Kimball, Metropolitan Hotel
J. E. Manion, Central Hotel
East Conemaugh Bor.
T. J. Crokley, wholesale
Joseph Frissenkorn, Central Hotel
William McVay, Eagle Hotel
Charles McGough, Main street
Lewis Ortliris, Bonair Hotel
Charles Speigelhalter, Belvedier Hotel
John F. Walkinshaw, Kenneth Hotel
Elder Twp.
George H. Bierlein, Boniface House
F. X. Ott, Union Hotel
Franklin Bor.
C. F. Beckley, Main street, wholesale
Anthony Hirschberger, Main street
Gallitzin Bor.
Charles H. Heist, Portage Hotel
Antonia Padula, St. Thomas street, wholesale
P. A. Logue, Maysville House
Fitzpatrick Bros., Chestnut street, wholesale
Lewis Speigelhalter
R. E. Dignan, West End Hotel
F. P. Gillen, Church street
Elmer Nelson, Portage street
F. N. Burk, National Hotel
John Becher, wholesale
Joseph Speigelhalter, Seymore House
Charles Quinn, Main street
J. V. Leonard, Gallitzin Hotel
R. C. Edelblute, Jackson street, wholesale
Oliver J. Deemer, Main street, wholesale
Gallitzin Twp.
Joseph Eichenlaub, Elstie
John A. McGuire, Delaney House
George Mazenko and John Elchick, Baker’s Mines
Hastings
D. J. Houck, American Hotel
Andrew Lantzy, Lafayette Hotel
T. F. Maher, Hastings Hotel
Grier Hile, New Central Hotel
M. H. Nagle, Susquehanna House
C. H. Cypher, Park House
Louis Mathaldi, Palmer House
Anton Klein Grove Hotel
R. F. Notley, wholesale
John Gresco, Commercial Hotel
Peter Furlie, Farmer’s Hotel
T. A. Delozier, Fourth avenue, wholesale
Jackson Twp.
Francis I. Farabaugh, Vintondale, wholesale
S. Dorsey Griffith, Vintondale Inn
George C. Eichensehr, Nantyglo
Lilly
Thomas J. Scanlan, Hotel Brant
Michael A. Eckenrode, Metzgar House
John Ryan, Union House
W. J. Mehan, Exchange Hotel
Adam Smith, Stiffler House
I. E. Carman, wholesale
Francis Bender, Main street, wholesale
Robert Smith, Lilly Hotel
Blair Short, George House
Patrick McCann, Washington House
Loretto
Frank S. O’Hara, Francis O’Friel property
C. F. O’Donnell, Highland House
Patton, First Ward
J. M. Galliece, Miner’s Rest
S. O. Daggett, Palmer House
Patton, Second Ward
Charles A. Langhein, Fifth avenue
Thomas Quinn and Daniel M. Harper, McGee avenue, wholesale
William Yeckley, Commercial Hotel
Ed A. Mellon, McGee avenue, wholesale
Albert Thomas and C. E. Walter, Central Hotel
William A. Mellon, Patton Hotel
Portage Bor.
James W. Sheridan and James Maloney, Main street, wholesale
Arthur Canavan, North Railroad street, wholesale
Thomas P. Cullen, Exchange Hotel
Hugh Canavan, Canavan House
John Doney, Union Hotel
McClellan Short, Keystone Hotel
George Yeckley, Portage House
Portage Twp.
Robert Fisher, Jamestown
John Enderlein, South Portage district
W. S. Confer, Old Portage Railroad
Jacob Navotti, Sonman House
Reade Twp.
W. A. Chaplin, Alpine House
S. A. Cooper, Fallen Timber
Joseph Franck, Half Way House
Elmer E. Kuhn, Blandburg
Samuel A. Lutz, Arlington Hotel
John A. Noel, Glasgow Hotel
Robert H. Richardson, Lloydsville Hotel
Joseph Wilt, Blandburg
Richland Twp.
Frederick Dietz, Geistown Hotel
Peter Vogel, Walsall House
Spangler
C. V. Flick, Central Hotel
A. J. Farabaugh and Richard Rinn, Bigler avenue, wholesale
A. R. Gray, Gray Hotel
Peter Stoltz, Franklin House
John J. Westover, Sullivan House
Patrick Whellen, Spangler Inn
South Fork, First Ward
George E. Gates, Railroad street, wholesale
George Horten, Crouse Hotel
John J. Kinney, Lake street, wholesale
Reuben H. Ott, Lake Hotel
John L. Sechler, Baker Hotel
Robert Tosh, Merchants hotel
S. W. Treece, Railroad street, wholesale
Jacob Waterson, Hotel Waterson
South Fork, Second Ward
John McGoldrick, Lake street
Edwin Wicks, Main street
Summerhill Bor.
James A. Burke
John Griffith, Griffith Hotel
Francis Kurtz, Carpenter House
William M. Leap, Main street, wholesale
Edward Smith, Summerhill House
Susquehanna Twp.
Frank Baker, Farmer’s Hotel, Garman’s Mills
Tunnelhill Bor.
Joseph A. Bertram, Emmett House
Daniel Quinn, Church street
Washington Twp.
John Broadwell, Cassandra House
John Kelly, Cassandra
Frank Leap, Leap House
Martin Leap, Cassandra
Thomas O’Brien, Cassandra, wholesale
Wilmore Bor.
Charles N. Crouse, Mountain House
N. J. Boyd, Main street
Friday, March 13, 1903
Contributed by Patty Millich
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Commissioners Clerk F. B. Jones, of this place, spent Sunday in Johnstown.
Mr. Michael Luther, of the West ward, is confined to his home with erysipelas.
There are a great many cases of grippe among the residents of Ebensburg.
Mr. Philip Huffman, of Blacklick township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday.
The maple syrup season is in but the absence of frosts just now is bad for business.
Mr. Henry Sproal, of Clearfield township, spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Thursday.
Mr. J. G. Lloyd, of this place, who has been ill for some time is able to be about his home again.
Joseph A. Bertram, a well known citizen of Gallitzin, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday.
Rev. Chester Sprague, of Bethany, W. Va., has been chosen pastor of the Christian Church, in this place.
Dr. Olin G. A. Barker, of Pittsburg, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Barker, of this place.
Mr. Harry Blair, of Johnstown, spent Sunday in Ebensburg with his parents, ex-Sheriff and Mrs. John A. Blair.
Edward Cassidy, of this place, has become a resident of Altoona, entering the employ of his uncle, Frank Cassidy, barber.
Mr. Harvey Williams, of this place, who is just recovering from an attack of typhoid fever, is suffering greatly from rheumatism.
Mr. Ira Bloom has purchased from John E. Thompson, the Rodgers property on High street, East ward, and will move thereto April 1st.
Smallpox has broken out in Scalp Level. One case, that of Frank Hagen, has been reported and it is believed that other cases exist in the locality.
The next meeting of the Cambria County Pomena Grange will be held at Carrolltown on April 6th and 7th. The programme will be announced later.
Mr. John Parrish and little daughter, of Pittsburg, spent a couple days this week in Ebensburg, visiting his parents, Squire J. D. Parrish and wife.
Eight hours will hereafter constitute a legal days’ work in the coal mines and collieries of Pennsylvania. If a bill which passed finally in the house last week becomes a law.
The work of setting up a new iron bridge across the Conemaugh at William Howells’ place in South Ebensburg is under way. When completed it will be a great improvement over the old bridge.
The strike at the Black Diamond mine, near Carrolltown, brought about by the discharge of one of the workmen, has been settled. The person in question was reinstated, whereupon the men returned to work.
The Pennsylvania plant of the American Tin Plate company at Arnold, Westmoreland county, was started up Monday morning, after being closed down since last June. Five hundred men are employed in the plant.
In the contest for the nomination for president judge at the Republican primaries in Blair county on Saturday last, Judge Martin Bell was successful over W. S. Hammond, the vote being 6,359 for Bell and 4,442 for Hammond.
Andrew Carnegie has promised to give a $2,000 pipe organ to the Laurel Avenue Presbyterian church, Johnstown, if the congregation will pay $1,000 for the amount. The Johnstown TRIBUNE says the proposition will likely be accepted.
Hudson C. Bracken, of Johnstown, has entered suit to recover $15,000 damages from the Pennsylvania Railroad company for the death of his 12- year-old son, Robert Bracken, who was killed November 22, 1902, at the Morrellville crossing.
William C. Gilligan, a compositor, of Meyersdale, Somerset county, who was quarantined in a home in which smallpox had been discovered, broke the quarantine and with a young lady of the town, went to Washington D. C., where they were married.
Mrs. Jacob King and Mrs. Albert Mauk, both of Summerhill, are being treated at the Memorial hospital, at Johnstown. The women are sisters and there are two other members of the same family suffering from the same disease, typhoid fever.
Among the bills introduced in the House of Representatives at Harrisburg on Monday was one making it unlawful for persons of either sex of pure Caucasian blood to be joined in marriage with persons of negro descent and declares all such marriages contracted after January 1, 1904, in violation of the proposed act.
James McAvoy of Patton and John O’Brien of Norristown fought at Patton Saturday night in the presence of a good-sized crowd, the latter being knocked out in the fifth round of what was to be a fifteen-round bout. Punch Legel, of South Fork, challenged the winner and Legel and McAvoy will fight at Patton in the near future.
The strike of the Altoona painters and paper hangers came to an end Thursday evening of last week when the Master Painters’ Association acceded to the demands of the strikers, which called for a nine-hour day, $2.25 a day for common painting, $2.50 for paper hanging, $2.70 for fresco work, $5 for graining and double time for Sundays.
On Saturday the Pennsylvania railroad authorities let to D. F. O’Rourke of Altoona, the contract for the stone work on the abutments of the overhead bridge at the Brownstown crossing which the railroad, the City of Johnstown and the Lower Yoder township authorities have agreed to join hands in building. The price of Mr. O’Rourke’s contract is not given. Work, it is understood is to commence as soon as possible, which means whenever the weather settles.
A dispatch from Paris, France, says Charles M. Schwab, who sailed from Cherbourg for New York on Wednesday on the Kronprinz Wilhelm, accompanied by his wife and his parents has greatly improved in health as a result of his extended sojourn in Europe and when seen looked the picture of health and was in good spirits. Mr. Schwab said he had made absolutely no business plans, having purposely avoided business affairs in order to get the full benefit from his vacation.
The Old Portage railroad, a pioneer railway line of America, abandoned half a century ago has been reconstructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and will be re-opened to public travel about May. This railroad traverses the wildest and most picturesque portion of the Allegheny Mountains, the reconstructed line extending from Hollidaysburg northwest, 17 miles to Gallitzin, this county, the point or union with the main line of the Pennsylvania system. Another Pennsylvania branch line extends from Hollidaysburg due east to Petersburg, Huntingdon county, where the main line is again tapped. With this cut off completed, passenger and freight traffic between Philadelphia and Pittsburg will have 17 less miles to travel which will be a great saving.
DEATHS
James S. McHugh, a pioneer in coke development and well known in Cambria county, is dead at his home in Pittsburg. He was at one time superintendent of the mines of the Kittanning Coal company at Gallitzin.
John Faith, aged about 10 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Faith, of Nantyglo, died at the Memorial hospital at Johnstown on Monday of meningitis of the brain. His funeral took place in Ebensburg on Wednesday, interment being made in Lloyd Cemetery. Deceased was a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. James McBreen of this place.
An abscess of the brain caused the death of John Sherry, a well-known citizen of Allegheny township at his home near Bradley Junction Sunday afternoon. The deceased was aged sixty years and leaves a wife and a large family of children. The funeral took place on Wednesday morning from St. Michael’s church, Loretto, with interment in the cemetery there.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following marriage licenses were issued by the Clerk of the Orphans’ Court for the week ending Thursday, March 13, 1903:
John H. Dunn, Glen Campbell, and Rebecca M. Noel, Reade township.
Walter Kuhn and Harriet Hullihen, Flinton.
NEW COMPANY FORMED
Murry B. Courtright, Charles V. Bergh, W. C. Shiffler, William M. Smith, B. F. Smith and William L. Scott, all old employees of James L. Mitchell, a Cambria county coal operator, have organized the Commercial Coal Mining company, for the mining and shipping of bituminous coal and manufacturing coke. M. B. Courtright is president; W. M. Smith will have charge of the mines, and Charles Bergh will be manager of the sales department. The main office is located in Philadelphia.
COURT PROCEEDINGS
The following cases were disposed of in court last week in addition to those already reported:
Henry L. Miller vs. the Borough of Hastings, appeal; Jury find for plaintiff $76.32.
Mrs. Catharine McCloskey vs. Mrs. Ellen Drass and Alex. Gallagher, tenant ejectment. Jury find for defendant.
The following entered pleases of guilty in the criminal court:
George Steckroth and George Schantz, breaking jail and escape, Edward Knee, prosecutor. Each man was sentenced to pay the costs and $25 fine and serve four months in jail to date from January 9th when their former sentence expired.
Lester Reed, defrauding a boarding housekeeper. He was sentenced to pay the costs, $5 fine, and serve twenty days to time from incarceration.
Harvey Analde, same charge; was ordered to pay the costs.
The following were retuned as not true bills:
Floyd Miller and Elmer McCracken, malicious mischief, Franklin Berkebile, prosecutor pay the costs, except $40. Milton McCreery, Robert Notley and John B. Clark, conspiracy. L. M. Day, prosecutor, pay the costs.
Lewis Levy, larceny; Charles Musantee, John Maloney, aggravated assault and battery, S. W. Stanley, county pay the costs. George Shaffer, larceny; Bessie Barclay, Frank Gillen, larceny; Benjamin Carter, Floyd Miller and Elmer McCracken, larceny. Mary Guise, county pay the costs. Robert F. Morton, larceny by bailee; F. O’Rourke, John Wolfe, malicious mischief to railroad; James Litzinger.
[this list is typed as found in the newspaper]
Jacob J. Weaver vs. Margaret J. Weaver, libel in divorce. Jury find a verdict for the respondent, Margaret J. Weaver.
S. M. Yocum vs. The Hastings B. & L. Association and P. L. Helfrich, agent, trespass. Jury find for plaintiff, $60.25.
Daniel Maines vs. The Harbison-Walker Brick company, trespass. Compulsory non suit directed by the court.
Second Week
Court met at 11 o’clock with Judge O’Connor on the bench. After the bar list had been called the following cases were disposed of:
James C. Herzog and William Maley, both desertion and non-support. Each man was sentenced to pay the costs and $3.50 per week for the support of their wives.
Commonwealth vs. John Naugle, fornication and bastardy. Defendant plead guilty and received the usual sentence.
Commonwealth vs. George Gehris, selling liquor on Sunday and violating gambling laws. On the former count he was ordered to pay the costs, $500 fine, and serve three months in jail. On the gambling charge he was ordered to pay the costs, further sentence being suspended.
These cases were settled:
Frank Mapston, surety, assault and battery; Elizabeth Neads, assault and battery; Frank Mapstone; John Gresgo, assault and battery.
Commonwealth vs. Hugh Meehan, aggravated assault and battery; Mrs. Jane Kelly, prosecutrix. Jury find defendant not guilty and the county pay the costs.
The following pleaded guilty:
Edward Wagner, charged by Constable Patrick Kelly, of Carrolltown, with selling liquor without licenses; two counts. Wagner testified that he was connected with a club and on one occasion had given liquor to a stranger, who had paid his share of the bill. On the first count the court suspended further sentence after ordering Wagner to pay the costs; on the second indictment Wagner was directed to pay the costs and $500 fine, and serve three months in jail.
Commonwealth vs. Arthur Horn, larceny. Defendant plead guilty. Sentenced to pay the costs, a fine of $10, and three months in jail.
Commonwealth vs. T. J. McCoy and Mrs. F. C. Laney, malicious mischief. Jury find defendants not guilty and that defendants pay two- thirds of the costs and George Makin, the prosecutor, one-third.
In the case of Mary Zahuski vs. John Zahuski, her husband, charging him with assault and battery, the jury returned a verdict of guilty and the court imposed the following sentence: Costs, $25 fine and thirty days in jail.
The case against Esther Manusehewitz, charged with surety by Ellen Rodgers was not pressed.
The case in which Charles Rhoads charged by J. C. Miller, on behalf of a young woman, with a serious offence was settled.
The similar case of Rebecca M. Noel vs. John H. Dunn, was settled, the parties having been married.
Cheat Wright pleaded guilty to two charges of selling liquor without license. On one charge he was sentenced to pay the costs, a fine of $500, and serve three months in jail; on the other charge, pay the costs.
Commonwealth vs. Frank Roberts and John Mountain, burglary and assault and battery, with intent. Jury found Roberts guilty on both charges and Mountain guilty of burglary. On the charge of assault and battery with intent, Roberts was sentenced to pay the costs, $500 fine, and four years and six months in the penitentiary. On the burglary charge he was sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and eight years in the penitentiary. Mountain was sentenced to pay a fine of $50, costs and two years and six months in the penitentiary.
Commonwealth vs. William Henderson, felonious shooting. Defendant plead guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine of $50, costs, and one year and two months in the penitentiary.
Commonwealth vs. same defendant, carrying concealed weapons; the defendant was ordered to pay the costs.
Commonwealth vs. Andy McDonald, attempted burglary. Defendant plead guilty. Sentenced to pay the costs, $10 fine, and six months in jail.
Commonwealth vs. Mary Clark, keeping bawdy house and violation of the liquor laws. Defendant plead guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine of $500, costs and three months in jail, further sentence being suspended.
Commonwealth vs. William Rager, assault and battery. Jury find defendant guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine of $10, costs and 30 days in jail.
Commonwealth vs. Edward McCartney, fornication and bastardy. Defendant plead guilty and received the usual sentence.
Commonwealth vs. William Jackson, carrying concealed weapons. Defendant plead guilty. Sentenced to pay the costs, $10 fine and four months in jail.
Commonwealth vs. Mike Kydinovich, aggravated assault and battery. Jury find defendant guilty. Sentenced to pay the costs, $50 fine, and one year and six months in the penitentiary.
Commonwealth vs. Tony Pinchton, carrying concealed weapons. Jury find defendant not guilty, but that he pay two-thirds of the costs and Cora Gree, the prosecutrix, the other third.
Friday, March 20, 1903
Contributed by Patty Millich
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
March thus far set an example that early days of April may well copy.
Dr. A. J. Miller of Loretto was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday.
Rev. Father Deasy, of Gallitzin, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday.
Mr. Augustine H. Nagle, of Patton, spent several hours in town on Wednesday.
Mr. A. Schrift, of Croyle township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday.
Mr. Peter Parrish, of Barr township, spent a few hours in town on Thursday.
Mr. John McGough of Allegheny township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday.
Mrs. A. J. Gutwald, of Gallitzin, visited relatives and friends in Ebensburg last week.
Mr. Albert J. Nagle of Clearfield township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday.
Mr. Geo. H. Roberts, who spent the winter in Philadelphia and New York has returned to Ebensburg.
Schettig Bros., the hardware firm of this place, purchased a fine horse from Mr. Ira Bloom on Tuesday.
Mr. Robert Ferguson of this place has taken up his residence on his farm in Croyle township near Summerhill.
A marriage license was issued in Hollidaysburg, last week, to Richard Garfield Davis of Ebensburg and Sarah M. McGregor of Altoona.
Mr. Philip J. Huber, of Carroll township, has sold the coal under his farm to Rembrant Peele of New York. It is understood that the purchase price was $80 per acre.
C. Anstead has resigned his potion with M. & E. Farabaugh at Carrolltown and moved his family and effects to the Anstead homestead in Barr township where he will engage in farming.
Amedia Wrend, an Italian laborer, 23 years old and working at Ebensburg, was admitted to the hospital Saturday for treatment of an injury to his right hand. While at work in a stone quarry at Amsbry he was hurt in blasting. [Altoona TIMES]
The annual readjustment of salaries of clerks in first and second class post offices throughout the country has been completed and will go into effect July 1st. By the new adjustment the clerks will receive a material advance over the old rate.
Thursday night of last week thieves entered the Pennsylvania railroad station at Glen Campbell, ransacked and broke the ticket case and succeeded in getting away with about $20 in cash. Suspicion attached to several strangers seen around the town the day before.
Messrs. John Springer and Joseph Dunman, of Barr township, who left about a month ago on a visit to the state of Oregon with the intention of locating if they liked the country, returned last week and have come to the conclusion that Pennsylvania is good enough for them.
On Monday night the baggage room at the depot in this place was entered by thieves and one trunk and several satchels were broken open and despoiled of their contents. Most of the plunder carried away consisted of clothing. The entrance was effected by prying off the hasp that secured the door.
The dwelling house of Theodore Neelan in Barr township was burned to ashes on Monday evening, March 9th, about 5 o’clock, together with most of the furniture and clothing of the family and a lot of potatoes and apples. The fire originated from a defective stove pipe. There is no insurance and the loss is a severe one.
Jules Walles, an Italian, of Wehrum, was arrested on Friday last and taken to jail at Indiana to answer to charges of assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons. Jules was courting a Miss Wolflensky of that place, and on Friday he gave the girl the choice of marrying him or being killed on the spot. Miss Wolfensky cried for help and a policeman arrested Walles as aforementioned.
On Saturday on an affidavit made by J. G. Lloyd and Joseph Davis of Ebensburg, and presented to the Court by S. L. Reed, Esq., a preliminary injunction was issued by the court restraining the officers of the Ebensburg Agricultural Society from leasing the property or otherwise encumbering the same. At a hearing in court on Monday, the injunction was dissolved and the bill dismissed.
Between one and two o’clock on Monday morning, Mr. William Makin, who is night watchman at Mr. Web Griffith’s saw mill at Beulah, was somewhat startled to behold a bear perambulating through the fog yard. Mr. Makin had a lantern with him and was quite close to Mr. Bear who did not seem to be much alarmed and marched off at a leisurely gait. It is supposed to be the same bear that was seen in that vicinity last fall.
John Swartzentruver, engineer at the Stineman mines at South Fork was waylaid by an unknown man near the brick works one night recently. Mr. Swartzentruber received a number of cuts on his forehead and nose but he beat off his assailant with a piece of lead pipe and the miscreant escaped.
The cases against Albert Itell, of Portage township, this county, Dr. Edwin S. Cooper and Mrs. Della Talbitzer, of New Castle, and Dr. J. R. Hahn, of Edenburg, charged with causing the death of Minnie Williams, of Conemaugh, were tried at New Castle last week. Albert Itell pleaded guilty and related all he know concerning the criminal charges, which relieved him from a formal trial. The case was given to the jury on Friday evening and after being out sixteen hours found a verdict acquitting Mrs. Talbitzer and finding Drs. Cooper and Hahn guilty. A motion has been made for a new trial.
John Shippen, a blacksmith employed at the Piper mines at Lilly, worked for several years during spare hours in an effort to invent a trolley for electric street and mine cars that would not leave wires. Fellow workmen laughed at him and said he would never gain the desired end. John only laughed back and “allowed” that some day he might strike it. Recently he had his device patented and he has refused an offer of $40,000 for his invention. Other firms on being shown the device have raised the bids, with the chances that Shippen will strike a good bargain for the sale of the patent in the near future.
Engineer Roy Spispler and Fireman E. D. Buckle, of Altoona, were injured in the wreck of an engine at Kittanning Point at midnight. While running along at a fairly good rate of speed the locomotive ran into another one, was thrown from the track and wrecked. Engineer Spispler was caught between the engine and tender and had his left foot crushed and sustained numerous body bruises. Considerable trouble was experienced in removing him. Fireman Buckle sustained lacerations of the head and contusions of the left hip by being thrown from the engine. Both men were taken to the hospital where it was found necessary to amputate Engineer Spispler’s foot.
DEATHS
Frank Griffith, the son of Eugene B. and Della Griffith, of West Taylor township, died at 8 o’clock on Monday morning at the Memorial Hospital in Johnstown from tetanus, due to a wound on the palm of the boy’s right hand, caused by wadding from a blank cartridge. According to those in a position to know, the Griffith boy was injured a week before lockjaw set in. The young lad was seized with tetanic spasms on Saturday evening and on Sunday the acute symptoms again appeared and the boy was taken to the hospital. Early on Monday morning the convulsions became again evident and lasted until death intervened.
Mrs. Eliza Cameron, died at the home of her son, Charles Cameron in Belsano on Saturday, March 7th, 1903, aged 77 years. Mrs. Cameron is survived by three sons and one daughter.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following marriage licenses were issued by the Clerk of the Orphans’ Court for the week ending Thursday, March 19, 1903:
Thomas Holdsworth and Annie Tanner, Bakerton.
Frank F. Mulhollen and Agnes Troxell, Glasgow.
John J. Farley, Puritan, and Ella B. Myers, Johnstown.
Matthew H. Cook, Ehrenfeld, and Martha F. Bowser, South Fork.
H. Albert Ripple and Barbara Yoder, South Fork.
John E. Salkeld, South Fork, and Sarah J. Yorty, Johnstown.
COURT PROCEEDINGS
The following cases were disposed of in court last week in addition to those already reported in the FREEMAN:
Commonwealth vs. Thomas Sweet and Mary Sweet, Jr., larceny and malicious mischief and Commonwealth vs. Mary Sweet, assault, were tried together. In the larceny and malicious mischief cases, the court directed verdicts of not guilty, but left the question of costs open for the jury who placed the costs on the defendants. In the assault case the jury acquitted Mrs. Sweet, but required her to pay the costs.
Commonwealth vs. Edward Smith, assault. Jury find defendant guilty.
Commonwealth vs. Al. Rummel, mayhem and assault and battery, E. D. Sprange, prosecutor, was settled.
Commonwealth vs. John Michaeloski, keeping a bawdy house. Jury find defendant not guilty but that he pay the costs.
Commonwealth vs. Julia Forgetta, larceny by bailee. Jury find defendant guilty. Sentenced to pay the costs, a fine of $25, return the money stolen and eleven months in the county jail.
Commonwealth vs. Charles Howard, larceny. Jury find defendant not guilty.
Commonwealth vs. Laura Myers, keeping a disorderly and bawdy house and violation of the liquor laws. Jury find defendant not guilty but that she pay the costs.
Commonwealth vs. James B. Clark and Jacob Cramer, conspiracy. Indicted quashed.
Commonwealth vs. Walter Dowling, false pretense. Jury find defendant not guilty and that the prosecutor, Elias Moses, pay two-thirds of the costs and the defendant one-third.
Commonwealth vs. James Hunt, robbery. Jury find defendant not guilty.
Commonwealth vs. Emma Guthridge, assault and battery. Jury find defendant guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine of $15 and costs.
The following entered pleas of guilty and were sentenced:
Sampson Smith, felonious assault and pointing firearm; James Leis, prosecutor. Smith is a colored man and fired over the head of another man in Gallitzin borough. Leis, who is a constable, making the information. Smith was sentenced to pay the costs and a $25 fine and serve eight months in jail.
C. B. Rose, aggravated assault and battery, was ordered to pay the costs, $50 fine, and serve two years and two months in the penitentiary.
David Shrader, who was charged by Susie Shaffer with a serious offense, was ordered to pay the costs, a $50 fine, $1 weekly for seven years. The $50 fine, which is addition to the usual sentence in such cases was imposed because Shrader had fled the county, when the indictment was first drawn up.
Commonwealth vs. Louis Held, assault and battery. Defendant plead guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine of $20 and costs.
Commonwealth vs. Frank Koontz, surety and carrying concealed weapons. Nolle pros entered.
Commonwealth vs. Joe Love and Charles Smith, carrying concealed weapons, assault, felonious assault and pointing fire arms. Jury find Love guilty and Smith not. Sentenced to pay the costs, $50 fine, and one year and one month in the penitentiary.
Commonwealth vs. Lewis Stroup, mayhem, Defendant plead guilty. Sentenced to pay the costs, further sentence being suspended.
Third Week
Court met on Monday morning at 11:30 with Judge O’Connor present and Judge Kooser, of Somerset, here to assist in disposing of the cases on the trial list.
S. J. Fitt & Co. vs. The Pennsylvania railroad company, trespass, was tried before Judge O’Connor. Jury find for plaintiff $493.94, which is $258.31 less than the amount claimed.
Matthew Dohavan by Rev. J. J. Deasy vs. The Prudential Insurance company, trespass, was tried before Judge Koozer. After hearing the evidence the court directed a verdict.
Hugh Jones vs. Owen J. Jones, trespass, was tried before Judge Kooser. After proceeding with the evidence the case was settled by both parties.
The case of Samuel Hammond vs. The Gardiner Shingle company, limited and A. M. McClain was continued.
Commonwealth vs. George Lazar, causing the death of Steve Valastick, by striking him with an axe on the evening of February 3, 1903. Valastick had come home from Johnstown on the evening he was hurt and stopped to quarrel with Lazar, who was working about his home in Portage township. The racket became general, Valastick’s son coming to the rescue of his parent, and the two making it so hot that Lazar was compelled to retreat. He grabbed a pole axe and undertook with it to scare Valastick away. The latter was a very large man and instead of being frightened at the demonstrations of his neighbor, he chased him and axe down the road. About 50 feet from Lazar’s gate he looked around and saw that the big Hun was about to overtake him and then he swung the axe.
It struck Valastick on the left side of the head and he fell like a log. After his body had lain in the road for some time it was picked up and taken to his house and later sent to the Johnstown hospital, where he died February 28th. The jury after being out for three hours on Wednesday afternoon brought in a verdict of not guilty.
Friday, March 27, 1903
Contributed by Patty Millich
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Mr. H. A. Bitters, of Barnesboro, paid Ebensburg a business visit on Tuesday.
Mr. Valentine Weakland, of Cambria Mines, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday.
Mr. E. C. Parrish exhibits a fine line of Easter cards in his store window on High street.
Mr. William Hopfer, of Carroll township, was in Ebensburg on business on Thursday.
A sixteen-year-old son of Mr. Ellsworth Rowland of Blacklick township is ill with smallpox.
Ex-Sheriff Joseph A. Gray, of Spangler, and Mr. Charles Adams, of Carrolltown, spent Tuesday in Pittsburg.
Herman F. Wentz, of St. Lawrence, this county, has been appointed a substitute letter carrier at the Altoona post office.
New porches will be added to the residences of M. D. Kittell, Esq. and Mr. Robert Scanlan, both of the West ward, this spring.
Mr. James M. Thompson of this place will put a handsome new front in his store building this spring and build an addition to the rear of the store.
Landlord Kimball of the Metropolitan Hotel of this place and District Attorney Stephens of Johnstown were spectators at Indiana county’s license court on Tuesday.
Because they failed to comply with the vaccination laws, a number of pupils have been expelled from the public schools in Altoona and an indignation meeting of parents has been called.
Mrs. Robert James has purchased a half lot fronting on Lloyd street, in the West ward of Ebensburg from Miss Annie J. Breese and will erect a residence thereon during the coming summer.
The tax rate for the coming year has been increased from 4 to 4½ mills for the coming year by the county commissioners in order to provide funds for the erection of a number of proposed new bridges.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Schwab and their daughter, Miss Gertrude, arrived at their home in Loretto on Thursday of last week, all in good health and glad to greet their old friends and neighbors after several months absence in Europe.
A Windber woman recently stowed currency amounting to about $200 in the kitchen stove for safe keeping during the night. Next morning without thinking she built a fire in the stove and the money was not thought of until it was consumed.
Editor W. R. Thompson, of this place, today (Thursday) sold his two lots of ground fronting on Horner street in the east ward, to Mr. Thomas G. Davis, of near Beulah, the consideration being $1,400. Mr. Thompson recently purchased the lots from the estate of Charles J. Owens.
The Grand Lenten Entertainment held at Vintondale on Thursday evening of last week and also at the Church of the Holy Name, in this place on Tuesday evening, was well patronized at both places and the amounts realized which was for the benefit of the respective churches amounted to quite a neat sum.
The station house at Carrolltown Roads was broken into on Sunday night and several trunks were broken open and rifled of their contents and two satchels were carried off. One of the trunks broken open belong to P. H. Grade, the well-known salesman of Pittsburg. Entrance was gained to the building by prying open the door.
The Cambria County Telegraph and Telephone company with headquarters at Cresson has decided to improve and extend its service. Its lines take in all the towns in central and northern Cambria county and about May 1st the work of building trunk lines between Cresson and Altoona, Patton and Ebensburg and Ebensburg and Johnstown. The new lines will bring this place in closer touch with many towns in the county.
On Monday Sheriff Elmer E. Davis and Deputy William Piper went to Pittsburg, the one taking to Dixmont Asylum one Tom Benson, the Hastings foreigner who cut this throat several months ago but was saved by the doctors and the other accompanying to the Polk Institute for Feeble-Minded, a young man named Frank Koontz. Koontz and Benson are each about 25 years old.
A large blast was put off a few days ago by workmen employed by D. F. Keenan, subcontractor on the construction of the extension of the P. R. R. from Dilltown to Blacklick. When the blast let go a large rock weighing 300 pounds was hurled clear across the creek, alighting upon the roof of the frame dwelling house of Thomas Dayton, crashing through both floors and embedding itself in the soft clay in the cellar. It made a large hole and it is a wonder it did not cause the total collapse of the house. There was in the house at the time a young lady and a boy about 14 years of age. They were not in the room through which the rock fell and escaped unhurt, though badly frightened. Mr. Dayton will ask damages.
The miners’ convention in Altoona finally came to an end last week after being in session almost two weeks. The sessions were long drawn out on account of the miners and operators being unable to reach an agreement on the wage scale. They finally got together with the result that the miners get an eight hour day and an increase in wages. It looked for a time as though the disagreement would result in an extensive strike, happily such an occurrence with its deplorable results have been avoided. Eight hours have been won at a heavy pecuniary sacrifice by the miners. To the persistence of the men the operators have yielded in the matter of hours, but to get this the men made a concession on wages which it is estimated would have been worth a million and a half dollars a year in the aggregate. The men have the right of all men everywhere to get as good a wage as they can, but it would have been much more sensible on their part to work nine hours a day and get the higher wage scale.
DEATHS
The dead body of an unknown man was found last Friday morning in the west bound tunnel at Gallitzin. Both of the man’s feet had been crushed off and it is thought that he had been jolted from a train on which he was riding.
The Rev. William Howe Lingenfelter of Philipsburg, Centre county, died Sunday morning, aged almost 70 years. He was a brother of Mrs. Ellen Hopper of Portage, this county, and father of Mrs. C. P. Pannebaker of Ebensburg.
William Clonan, aged twenty-five years, died at 7 o’clock Friday morning at the residence of his mother in Tunnelhill of smallpox. The young man came home from Altoona, where he had been working the week before, and was quarantined at his mother’s house. The funeral took place the same evening.
A large number of friends gathered at the home of Mrs. William Ream, an aged Somerset county lady Wednesday of last week to celebrate her 76th birthday anniversary, and while at the dinner table she was taken suddenly ill and died before a physician could be summoned.
A young Polander named George Scur, about 24 years of age, died in the Almshouse hospital on Saturday morning at 11 o’clock A.M. of tuberculosis. He was admitted to the institution from Johnstown only a few days prior to his death. Little or nothing is known of his family or connections. He was a member of a Johnstown relief society who sent a special messenger on Monday to take his remains to that city for interment.
Mr. David R. Reese, a resident of Pittsburg, but who for several years past has spent the most of his time in Ebensburg, died at the residence of Wm. H. Davis, in this place, on Monday morning, in the 68th years of his age. The deceased was born in Wales and had no near relatives in this country. His wife died in Ebensburg about a year ago. His funeral took place this (Thursday) afternoon, interment being made in Lloyd cemetery.
Frank Fox, a telegraph operator committed suicide in a room in the City Hotel Tyrone, last Saturday evening by shooting himself with a revolver. He was night operator at FR telegraph tower at Tyrone Forge. Fearing that he would be discharged from his position caused brooding on his part and finally despondency, which resulted in his making an end of it with a bullet. He had been an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as an operator for 20 years.
The 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Filmore Brantner, of Bennington bridge, Blair county, was accidentally drowned in the ditch near the parental home one day last week. The father was at work at the American Lime and Stone works close by. The mother was busily engaged in her household duties and only missed her son a few minutes. She summoned assistance from the works and a search was instituted and the little fellow was discovered in a ditch, cold in death.
The badly decomposed remains of Peter McGole, a foreigner, who disappeared from Barnesboro some time ago, were found on Monday by a couple boys who were playing in the vicinity of the West Branch mines, the body was laying an open place about 100 yards from the entrance in the mines. McGole, with his two dogs, started out hunting on December 4th last, and he had not been seen since. The two dogs returned in the evening but several searching parties failed to locate their master. It is believed that McGole accidentally shot himself in the left side of his body as this point was filled with shot and his heart badly shattered. His gun was found about twenty feet from where the body lay. A silver watch was found in his pockets. The deceased was about forty years of age and leaves a wife and four children. The funeral was held at Barnesboro on Tuesday afternoon. Coroner Miller viewed the body and held an inquest and the jury rendered a verdict of accidental shooting.
Anselm J. Bradley passed away at his home in Allegheny township, Monday morning, aged about 62 years. He is survived by his widow and six children. Mr. Bradley had lived nearly all his life in the vicinity where he died but had gone out in his country’s service during the Civil war and the late years had received a pension. The funeral took place on Wednesday morning after services in St. Michael’s Catholic church at Loretto, interment being made in the cemetery adjoining the church.
FATAL ACCIDENT
An accident in the Sunshine mines at South Fork last Thursday resulted in the killing of three men, the fatal injury of one and the serious injury of several others. The names of the killed are Anthony Border, Joseph Swank, and Frank McLain; fatally injured, John Coolbaugh. The accident occurred at the completion of the day’s labor when the men were leaving the mines. The men were in the habit of riding out of the mine on the mine cars, notwithstanding, it was expressly forbidden by the company. On Thursday evening the men mounted the cars as usual, there being 20 of them coupled together. Three hundred yards from the main entrance is a lift. Just as the cars were reaching the highest point in the main way, the coupling between the second and third car broke and the cars on the rear end dashed backward down into the dip 200 yards. At the first switch they were wrecked and caused a fearful mix-up. Border and Swank were dead when taken out. McLain died an hour later. Those who had been fortunate enough to jump from the runaway cars ran to the outside and told of the accident. Help was quickly rushed to the men buried beneath the immense pile of wreckage which filled the 6-foot heading for a distance of 20 yards. The first man found was Swank, who was horribly mutilated. Border and McLain were the next taken out, the former dead.
The Sunshine mine is owned by W. W. Haupt, of Philadelphia, the South Fork Coal company and others. About 350 men are employed in the mine and it has a capacity of 800 tons a day.
ATTACKED BY ROBBERS
Thomas Morris, James Barnes, and Charles Harris were lodged in jail on Tuesday afternoon, having been committed by Squire W. A. Donahey, of Barnesboro, to answer to a charge of assault and battery preferred by John G. C. Bearer of Spangler.
About 11 o’clock on Monday night Mr. Bearer who had been a member of the coroner’s jury holding an inquest on the body of Peter Magulick, returned to his home and at once went to his barn to attend to his horse for the night. There he found three men who requested the privilege of sleeping in the barn, to which Mr. Bearer consented providing they would light no matches. While Bearer was working around his horse, one of the men struck him without warning and shouted, “Hands up!” Although taken by surprise, Mr. Bearer succeeded in freeing himself from his assailants, getting out of the barn and was followed to the house, where, on reaching, he gave the alarm and his assailants disappeared. On Tuesday morning a warrant was issued and about noon Constable Yeager, assisted by several people, succeeded in capturing the three men who are believed to be professional tramps and they are now safely lodged in jail.
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