NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, October 31, 1902, Cambria County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright July 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, October 31, 1902 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Maple Park closed for this season on Monday. Prof. Herman T. Jones of this place visited Johnstown on Tuesday. Mr. Philip H. Jones, of Vintondale, was a visitor to Ebensburg Thursday. Mr. Francis Huber, of Hastings, was a Visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning snow covered the ground to a depth of two inches. Mr. Peter Long of Summerhill township spent a few hours in town on Thursday. Mr. Augustin Lieb and wife, of Carrolltown, visited friends in Ebensburg on Sunday. Mr. J. E. Hogue and wife, of Cresson, spent Sunday with relatives in Ebensburg. Reports from Altoona are to the effect that the smallpox situation is growing worse in that city. Miss Delrose Williams, of Cresson, visited the family of Mr. Thomas Peach, of this place on Sunday. Mr. John McCormick, of Summerhill township, spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Wednesday. A new bank note of $5 denomination has been issued, bearing the portrait of Benjamin Harrison. Dr. Olin G. A. Barker, of Pittsburg, spent Sunday in Ebensburg with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Barker. Mr. A. J. Darragh and daughter, Miss Rosalyn, of this place, left for Pittsburg on Tuesday, where they will visit for several days. Mr. Isaac N. Wissinger, the Democratic candidate for poor director, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Mr. Wissinger will poll a large vote. The approaching marriage of John T. Blair of Ebensburg and Miss Cecelia Mellon of Patton, was announced in the Catholic church here on Sunday. About four miles of track have already been laid at the Gallitzin end of the new Portage Railroad. A steam shovel is being operated at each end of the line. Mrs. Edward W. Humphrey of this place, has who has been confined to her home by illness since April last, is not improving and but little hope is entertained for her recovery. It has been reported there are 127 cases of typhoid fever in Spangler and also that scarlet fever has broken out in North Spangler. The schools were closed last week. [Carrolltown News] James Morris, of Loretto, was severely injured one day last week while out hunting by the explosion of his gun. His left hand was badly mangled and he was also cut about the face. Mr. and Mrs. Philip G. Fenlon spent several days here last week with their relatives. Mr. Fenlon has been suffering for some time past with an abscess on his foot and is compelled to use crutches. Mr. David Davis of Ebensburg, while picking apples at the home of his brother, Joseph Davis, in the West ward of this place, fell from a ladder and was severely injured, several of his ribs being fractured. Rev. J. Twyson Jones, pastor of the Congregational church, in this place, who has been absent on a European tour for several months is expected home in time for services in his church on Sunday next. William Edwards, a colored man, was brought to jail from Nantyglo the latter part of last week for doing some promiscuous shooting in Doss Kemera's bar room in that place, while under the influence of liquor. Luckily no one was hurt during the shooting. In the game of football played here on Saturday between the Patton Football club and the Ebensburg eleven: victory perched on the side of the latter by a score of 11 to 0. M. D. Kittell Esq. was time-keeper and E. H. Davis, Esq., referee. The Ebensburg team will play in South Fork Saturday. Last Saturday, Sheridan Bates, of Clearfield county, while hunting in Fulton county, had a part of his body accidentally filled with bird shot from his father's gun. He was not dangerously hurt. The farm house of Andrew Stoy, in Allegheny township, about two miles from Loretto, caught fire from a defective flue about noon on Wednesday of last week and was burned to ashes. Considerable household furniture was saved. The loss is estimated at $800. George S. King, Johnstown's oldest citizen and pioneer in the manufacture of iron, reached his 93d birthday on Tuesday. It was through the instrumentality of Mr. King that the immense iron plant now located there, was founded in that city. Steve Hurney of Patton and Steve Pensko, of Cresson, are demented foreigners in the Ebensburg jail for whom commissions in lunacy will be asked, perhaps at the December term of court. They are both harmless, which has made haste in sending them away to Dixmont unnecessary. On Monday, a youth, aged eighteen years, stole a mare from Bert Kerr who lives on the pike about a mile from Mundy's. The nag is of a buckskin color, with silver mane and tail and a glass eye. The youth's name was not known but it was said that he was driving toward Latrobe where he is supposed to have relatives. Mr. William Tierney, of this place has accepted the agency for the World's Book of Knowledge and Universal Educator which he is now selling. In addition to this work, he takes orders for many other popular books, family bibles, albums, etc. If you want to purchase anything in this line, Mr. Tierney can supply you at the lowest prices. Abraham Gates, of Reade township, while out hunting on Thursday of last week with his brother, Charles, was severely hurt by a gunning accident. Charles saw a pheasant and shot at it on the wing without noticing that Abraham was in range. A number of shot struck Abraham on the left arm and hand and a doctor from Coalport had to be summoned to take them out and dress his wounds. He is getting along very well. Charles D. Good, a lumberman, aged 29 years, of Coalport, was admitted to the Altoona hospital on Monday with his right thigh bone fractured. A month ago, while at work in a saw mill he was struck by a board flying from the saw. It hit his right leg and he sustained a compound fracture of the thigh bone. Since then he has had considerable trouble with the leg and decided to go to the hospital for treatment. Merrill Kneedler, aged twenty-two years, a flagman on the Pittsburg division residing at Cresson, was taken to the Altoona hospital on Fast Line Thursday night of last week. He was suffering from injuries received in an accident at Barnesboro late that evening. Kneedler slipped and fell off a box car and sustained a concussion of the brain, lacerations of the scalp and abrasions to his face. Friday's Johnstown Tribune says Frank and Elmer Meyer and Harry and Pearl Sheridan of this city, have returned from the vicinity of Ebensburg, where they spent a week in the woods, hunting for game. During their absence, they bagged fifty-two squirrels, thirty-one pheasants and a red fox, the latter being shot at night by Harry Sheridan. The young men had a jolly time and expect to go again before snow falls. Contractor Joseph Hubbard, who has the contract for building twenty- four homes at St. Boniface for the Beech Creek Coal & Coke company and Foreman Benjamin Wilt were on the roof of one of the dwellings the other day, when they fell to the ground. Mr. Hubbard was carried to his home at Patton on a stretcher considerably cut and bruised and badly shaken up, and Mr. Wilt was taken to Thomas' Mills, and thence to Patton. Both will be housed up for several weeks. The following transfers of liquor licenses in the north of the county were transferred at argument court, held on Tuesday: From John A. Parks for the Parks House, Hastings, to C. H. Cypher and from Louis Spiegelhalter for the Hohenzollern House, Carrolltown to W. B. Schroth. Rev. Father Hurton, who has been assistant pastor of the Church of the Holy Name in this place, for the past year, was, on Thursday of last week, appointed pastor of the Blacklick mission churches which were, by the decree of Bishop Garvey, formed into a separate parish. Father Hurton left on Tuesday morning to assume charge of the Blacklick parish and will make his headquarters at Vintondale. During his stay here, Father Hurton made many friends who regret to see him leave. Directors of the Poor of the State want a hospital for epileptics and have recommended that a site be purchased at Somerset. This was decided at the meeting of the State Board of Associated Charities which was held at Somerset week before last. It is proposed to purchase what is known as Highland Inn, at that resort. There is no hospital of this kind in the state and the directors say that one is badly needed. The patients are distributed in various charitable institutions, many being cared for at the Institution for the Feeble Minded at Polk. The desire is to get all the wards of the state of this class under one roof. The Coaldale Mining Company which recently obtained options of between 4,000 and 5,000 acres of valuable coal land in Chest and White townships, has two diamond drills at work testing the coal on these lands. One of the drills is working on the land of Joseph Hipps and the other on the Martin Dietrick estate, both in Chest township. If the coal proves to be satisfactory, which there is every reason to believe it will, there will be a large plant started there very soon. This will necessitate the building of a branch road up the Beaver Dam valley from near Flinton, on the Coalport & Cresson railroad. Fred Bewac, aged sixteen, who lives in Conemaugh township, about six miles out from Johnstown was taken to the Memorial hospital in a wagon about 4 o'clock Monday afternoon, fearfully torn and shattered as the result of a premature explosion of powder. The boy's skull is fractured at the base of the brain and his recovery is a matter of grave doubt. All indications point to young Bewac being a victim of anticipative enjoyment of Hallowe'en. He was in the act of punching powder into an old cannon at his home when the explosion occurred. One result was a lacerated wound of the left hand; the left side of his face was badly torn; the left jaw was fractured, and the skull was fractured at the base of the brain, as noted above.