NEWS: Items from the Morning Tribune, November 24, 1879, Blair County, PA

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Items from the Morning Tribune, Altoona, Monday, November 24, 1879

STATE NOTES.

  Hon. Samuel Marshall, one of the Associate Judges of Butler county, has 
been taken to the insane asylum at Harrisburg for treatment.  His insanity 
is caused by a violent fall received about a year ago.
  Morrison Underwood, of Carlisle, has given $8,000 for an endowment fund of 
the high school department of the public schools of Greensburg, his native 
town, and $8,000 for the support of a library in the Westmoreland county 
home.
  The body of a man found dead in Cameron's woods, near Harrisburg, last 
Tuesday afternoon, has been recognized as that of a shoemaker named 
Kerichner, of Harrisburg, who had become despondent and committed suicide.  
He leaves a family.
  A little girl of Mr. Isaac Kurtz, in Douglass township, Montgomery county, 
was severely gored by a cow on her father's farm.  One of the horns of the 
animal penetrated the cheek of the little one badly lacerating her face and 
tearing out several teeth.
  Henry W. Bach, a lawyer of Philadelphia, was sent to jail in Bucks county 
on the charge of burglary, larceny and receiving stolen goods.  The offenses 
were committed in Sellersville, Bucks county.  He was sentenced to one year 
and four months in the penitentiary.
  The body of John Miller, with a revolver beside it and two bullet holes in 
the breast, was found in the woods near Gibbertsville, Montgomery county, 
Pa., last Wednesday afternoon.  Miller disappeared on election day and is 
supposed to have committed suicide while drunk.
  Silas Gray, who is now in the Western Penitentiary from Westmoreland 
county for horse stealing, when his term expires will be tried for the 
murder of Mary McCready, of Greensburg, in 1878.  She disappeared suddenly; 
and some time afterward what was supposed to be her skull was found, and 
that was the only portion of the body ever discovered.

CITY AND COUNTRY.
Journalistic.

  The West Chester Local News has entered its eighth volume.  It has had 
remarkably good success.  It started without subscribers or advertising 
patronage and by its excellence has won both in paying qualities.  It is one 
of our best inland dailies, and deserves the continued support and 
confidence of the people of Chester county.
  The Tyrone Democrat has entered a new volume.  Friend Stroop has had a 
hard road to travel, but he has managed to weather all sorts of storms and 
print a right good paper, for which he has deserved a more generous support 
than has been given him.  With improved times his journal appears to be 
gathering increased patronage.  We hope his success in the future may be 
much more abundant than in the past by his Democratic friends giving him 
that generous support which is his due.
  The Hollidaysburg Register has also seen a good many years and passed into 
a new volume several weeks ago.  It has a name and a fame among the 
Republicans of Blair county for its steadfast support of Republican 
principals from its first existence to the present, through weal and woe.  
Mr. Over is an old journalist with large experience and deserves a liberal 
reward for his labors and success for his party.  All of which we hope he 
may receive.

Thanksgiving Eve Ball of the Moulders.

  The "first grand reception" to be given by the moulders of Altoona will 
take place at the Opera House on Wednesday evening, November 26 
(Thanksgiving eve).  The moulders have been preparing for this event for 
quite a while back, and the affair will without doubt be one of the choice 
ones of the ball season.  The gentlemen who have the arrangement are well 
qualified to make the reception one to be remembered.  A large number of 
tickets have been sold and the list of dances is lengthy.  Captain Myers' 
orchestra will furnish the music.  The cards of admission are $1.

Swallowed His Artificial Teeth.

  Henry Eckard, of Roaring Spring, while eating his supper last Thursday 
evening accidentally swallowed the plate containing two artificial teeth.  
The plate extended across the front part of the mouth and must have passed 
down his throat endways.  He complains of pain in his stomach since, when he 
takes any exercise.  His right arm has been paralyzed from the effects of 
the lodgment of the plate in his stomach.  What will be the ultimate result 
of his misfortune time must determine.

FROM WILLIAMSBURG.

  C. D. Fay is at home.  He was visiting some of his friends at Wilmore.
  Captain Shinafelt, who has been at the Beaver dam a few days, is at home.
  While Mr. David Fay was chaining a cow in the stable she threw her head 
around and struck him above the eye, cutting it very badly and knocking him 
down.  He tells us he "saw stars."

CITY AND COUNTRY.
Things Briefly Told.

  Mr. W. S. Nicodemus has severed his connection with the Call as business 
manager and has taken a position in the car record office of the railroad 
company.
  Dr. M. J. Buck, of this city, has purchased at Sheriff's sale the 
"mountain tract," in Summerhill township, Cambria county, containing over 
four hundred acres and consisting of timber land.  The price paid was 
$1,500.
  D. S. Brumbaugh, Esq., of Roaring Springs, will be a candidate for the 
legislative nomination at the proper time on the Republican side.  Mr. 
Brumbaugh has the ability to make a faithful and able representative and is 
a steadfast Republican worker.
  Frank Stehley, son of Joseph Stehley, who resides on the East Side of the 
city, employed at the carriage manufactory of Palmer & Morse, had his left 
eye very badly burned on Thursday, while at work in the blacksmithing 
department of the factory, by a piece of hot steel striking him therein.
  Peter Fitzpatrick, of Cambria borough, Cambria county, a miner, was killed 
by a mass of rock resting upon a piece around which he was digging becoming 
loosened and falling on his head.  Death was instantaneous.  The deceased 
was 50 years of age and leaves a wife and several grown children.
  Jim Warfel, formerly of this city, is rising rapidaly in the estimation of 
the agency of the Singer Manufacturing Company at Meadville, whither he went 
for the purpose of soliciting and collecting.  In connection with another 
employe of the company Mr. Warfel visited Linesville, Crawford county, last 
week to straighten out the affairs of a defaulting agent named Gilson, who 
recently left for parts unknown with about $200 of the company's money.
  There are sixteen prisoners in the Cambria county jail, and several of 
them are set down as the worst wretches ever imprisoned in the institution.  
This week a blacksmith was employed to make a set of hobbles for the 
obstreperous Jake Hawker, who has been distinguishing himself lately for 
general "cussedness," but when he found out what was coming there was a 
sudden change in his demeanor and a solemn promise was made to the Sheriff 
that in the future he would conduct himself meek as a lamb.

Struck by an Engine and Instantly Killed.

  Near Larimer's station, on the western division of the Pennsylvania 
railroad, the engine of Philadelphia express on Saturday evening struck a 
man named David McMunn, who was walking on the railroad track, and he was 
almost instantly killed, the back of his head being crushed in and his neck 
supposed to be broken.  The victim when caught by the engine was thrown 
between the north and south tracks.  The length of the train passed before 
it was stopped, and when the trainmen returned to where McMunn lay he was 
found to be dead.  The deceased had endeavored to gain admittance to a hotel 
near by, and failing started to walk in the direction of Irwin station on 
the tracks.  He leaves a wife and four children.

The Company to Erect a New Wheel Foundry.

  It is altogether probable that the Pennsylvania Railroad company will 
erect - operations to commence as soon as the material which has been 
ordered arrives - a new wheel foundry on the vacant ground west of the 
present foundry near Sixteenth street.  The structure will be a temporary 
one, which will be used for about a year, when the expectation is to replace 
it with a permanent building.  The new foundry will be run independent of 
the one now in operation, and will be supplied with cupolas and cranes with 
a capacity for turning out one hundred and twenty-five wheels per day.

The Shooting March at Cresson on Saturday.

  The was a good attendance of marksmen at the shooting match at the Callan 
House at Cresson on Saturday.  The first prize was a 3-year-old mare valued 
at about $75, the property of Engineer "Billy" Brady.  There were beside 
second and third prizes of $10 and $6 in cash.  William Jackson, a "hostler" 
in the upper round house, who lives on Seventeenth street, between Ninth and 
Tenth avenues, won the colt with a string of three eighths of an inch.  The 
second prize of $10 was taken by George Attigg, a western division engineer, 
and Mr. James G. Flanigan, of this city, won the $6 prize.  The match passed 
off very pleasantly and the visitors were highly gratified with the 
treatment and "grub" dealt out by Mr. Clark, the Callan House proprietor.

Birthday Party.

  Miss Mary V. Potter, daughter of Mr. J. C. Potter, of the firm of Potter & 
Closson, celebrated her 12th birthday anniversary on Saturday.  A number of 
her schoolmates made her a birthday visit, each bringing with them a 
handsome present.  The young folks were having a delightful time when the 
Tribune reporter passed the house at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.  Miss 
Mary's parents served elegant refreshments for the assembled company, which 
were enjoyed by the guests.  May the young lady see many returns of her 
natal anniversary.