NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, November 14, 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, November 14, 1902 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. John Maloney, of this place, is seriously ill with diabetes. Mr. Peter Long, of Summerhill township, was in town on Thursday. Mr. Thomas Doran, of Wilmore, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. William Behe, of Lilly, drove up to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mr. George Evans, of Altoona, spent Sunday in Ebensburg with his parents. Mr. John Nidemyer, of Chest township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Miss Mollie Schryock, of Pittsburg, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Fes Lloyd of this place. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Barker, of this place, were visitors to Pittsburg on Tuesday. Mr. John Manion and wife, of this place, visited friends in Hastings on Thursday. The Western Union Telegraph company is now engaged in building a trunk line between Philadelphia and Pittsburg. Dr. F. J. Davison, of this place, returned on Tuesday evening from a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Otto Wagner, at Buckhannon, West Virginia. M. D. Kittell, Esq., of this place, shouldered his gun on Saturday for a day's vacation and returned in the evening with a wild turkey as a trophy to his marksmanship. Harvey Long, of Summerhill, a freight conductor, was at the Altoona hospital on Tuesday for treatment. A lump of coal fell off a car and struck him on the head, causing the injury. Clint Cunningham, of Bolivar, while hunting in Washington township, Indiana county last week, shot a rare white squirrel. The hair was very coarse and the animal was slightly smaller than the average gray squirrel. He refused to sell it. Matthew Sanderson, aged twenty years, a miner employed at No. 19 mine at Frugality, received a compound fracture of the leg on Tuesday morning by being caught by a fall of roof while he was at work. He lives in the immediate neighborhood of the mine and his injuries were dressed by a nearby physician. Mr. L. P. Fagan, manger of the Altoona High School Football team, was here on Thursday making arrangements for a game on Saturday with the Ebensburg Football club, which is under the management of ex-Register- and-Recorder, F. P. Jones. The game will take place at the Belmont grounds on Saturday afternoon at 3:30. Samuel McPherran, a 16-year-old boy of Alexandria, Huntingdon county, who met with a shooting accident while out hunting on Monday, by having his left arm almost blown off by the explosion of his gun, had the arm amputated at the Altoona hospital on Tuesday morning. He rallied from the shock of the operation and is resting well and will recover. A young son of Harry Cochran, who lives at Mt. Zion, had one of his eyes blown out by an explosion of dynamite Tuesday. He and another boy found several sticks of dynamite in a barn and while playing with them one exploded, striking young Cochran in the eye, destroying that organ entirely. He is also otherwise injured and may recover. [Clearfield Republican] Mr. John Schwab, of Loretto, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday and while here paid the FREEMAN a pleasant visit. Mr. Schwab and his wife will spend the winter in Europe with their son, Charles M. Schwab, who is at present cruising in the Mediterranean. Mr. and Mrs. Schwab will sail from New York on Tuesday, the 18th, on the Kroupfinz Wilhelm for Bremen. We wish them a pleasant voyage and a safe return. Messrs. M. L. and W. F. Murphy, of Cambria township, finished up digging their potato crop last week and when done found they had 1048 1/2 bushels. They had 5 1/2 acres planted and the turn out is considered a pretty good one. Ambrose P. and Frank J. McCall, two young men who formerly fired on the South Fork branch and at Conemaugh, have been promoted to the position of locomotive engineers on the Pittsburgh division of the P. R. R. Frank will run on the South Fork branch and Ambrose at Conemaugh. Lee Green, the colored handy man about the home of Judge A. V Barker, in this place, was committed to jail by Squire A. J. Wateers, to be held for court on charges of assault and battery, and surety of the peace. Green while intoxicated on Saturday, tried to shoot Policeman John Finn in the Metropolitan Hotel. Ever since Green's recent escapade, when he tried to terrorize the Barker homestead and was arrested by Finn, the negro has sworn he would kill Finn on first opportunity. On Saturday Green made several attempts to shoot Finn, but was prevented by the liberal use of a blackjack in Finn's hands, the policeman being aided by one or two spectators. P. H. Wells, the well-known coal operator, formerly of Frugality but now located in Philadelphia, was the victim of a shooting accident Tuesday morn at Altoona. He was in the city on business and at 11 o'clock went into Ganoe & Alberts barber shop on Eleventh avenue to get shaved. He was sitting in the rear of the shop talking with W. C. Leet when a bullet came through the wall from the shooting gallery next door and ploughed a furrow, skin deep, along the life side of his face. Had it been closer and half an inch lower it might have severed the jugular vein and caused death. The accident was evidently the result of careless shooting in the gallery next door. An effort was made to ascertain how the shot happened to be sent through the wall, but no one in the gallery seemed to know anything about it. SHERIFF'S SALES Sheriff Elmer E. Davis has advertised the following properties for sale at the court house in Ebensburg on Monday, December 1st, 1902, at 1 o'clock P.M.: The interest of George S. Jenkins in a piece or parcel of land situated in the village of Blandburg in Reade township, having thereon a frame house, stable and outbuildings. The interest of F. L. Flemming, in one hundred acres, more or less in Cambria township, (timber, and coal reserved), having thereon a one-and one-half story frame dwelling house, barn and outbuildings. The interest of Aaren Youngkin in 39 acres and fifty perches of land in Reade township, having thereon a two-story plank house. The interest of Domer McCartney in a certain vein or seam of cal lying in or under 30 acres of land in Reade township, also the same vein or seam of coal in 8 acres more or less in the same township. The interest of Irene McCartney and M. L. McCartney to 24 acres and 116 perches of land in Dean township. The interest of F. A. Shoemaker in all the coal in 80 acres of land, more or less in Susquehanna township; also in 20 acres and 86 perches in the same township; also the surface in 40 acres and 60 perches of land in Susquehanna township.