NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, November 21, 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 21, 1902 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Johnstown has a couple cases of diphtheria. Mr. Joseph Bengele, of Gallitzin, spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Tuesday. Fire destroyed about four panels of fence at the Ebensburg Fair grounds on Friday evening. Mrs. A. J. Darragh, of this place, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. P. J. Gallagher, at Youngstown, Ohio Mr. Chas. C. Brainard, of Curwensville, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday. Messrs. Joseph Griffin and Alex Parrish of Munster township, spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Wednesday. George Phillips, aged 22 of Altoona, took laudanum by mistake at an early hour Friday. Medial treatment saved his life. The Ebensburg Electric Light, Heat and Power company has purchased a lot adjoining the plant from William Kimball. Rev. Father Hurton, of Vintondale, was quite ill at the home of Father Luden, in this place, several days last week but is now improving. The Slavish Congregation at Barnesboro has purchased three lots adjoining the Baptist church property and will erect a handsome church in the near future. Mr. A. C. Flick, of Allegheny township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mr. Flick has accepted a position with the Lackawanna Coal company at Wehrum. The store of Constable Joseph Myers, of Gallitzin township, near Ashville, was entered on Monday night of last week and 25 pairs of men's shoes all size 3 1/2 were stolen. John Galligan, of Gallitzin, was admitted to the Altoona hospital Tuesday suffering with a fracture of both bones of the left leg. The injury was received while at work in that vicinity. Steward Thos. J. Hughes, of the county home, on Friday, sold his farm in South Ebensburg containing 80 acres, to Mr. John R. Jones, a prosperous Munster township farmer for $3,000. Al Young, the Morrellville liveryman, lost a horse and buggy Saturday evening when Fast Line west-bound struck the outfit at a grade crossing near Seward, killing the horse and smashing the rig. The damage is estimated at $125. Girls employed by the United States Cigar Company which recently started a factory in Altoona, are on a strike over the wage question. The strikers claim that they were told they could make $1 a day, when in fact they only make $3 a week. The factory employs 150 girls, but they are not all on strike. Dr. L. Ellis Glasgow, of Cresson, has resigned as assistant relief physician on the C. & C. division of the Pennsylvania railroad and accepted the position of senior resident position in Mercy hospital, Pittsburg. He left Cresson for the Smoky City on Thursday of last week and at once entered upon his duties. James McHugh and wife, of Johnstown, celebrated their golden wedding at St. Johns Catholic Church, in that city. Rev. Henry McHugh, of Soho, celebrated a mass in honor of the event. The McHughs are an old family of Munster township pioneers and patriots and many of their descendants are scattered over the county. The stable and slaughter house of C. L. Stoltz, at Carrolltown, were completely destroyed by fire Tuesday evening of last week. A quantity of hay, grain, straw, etc., in the stable was also consumed, entailing a loss of $1,000, with no insurance. All the livestock was saved, though a dog was cremated. The origin of the blaze is not known. Dr. Cadwaleder Biddle of Philadelphia, general agent and secretary of the State Board of Charities, accompanied by his clerk, made his annual visit to the county home of Cambria county, on Tuesday last and was highly gratified at the excellent sanitary condition in which he found that institution and the manner in which the establishment is conducted in all departments under present management. Attorney Charles C. Linton, of Johnstown, was shot in the face and breast by Owen Stahl, of the same city, on Wednesday evening of last week while hunting game in the vicinity of Stanton's Mills, in Somerset county. While scouring around a bush in search of pheasants, Stahl sent a load from a shotgun into the brush. Attorney Linton happened to be on the opposite side of the heap about forty feet away, and twenty- six of the pieces of lead found their way into the young attorney's face and breast. Luckily he was not seriously injured and was taken to Boswell where a physician removed the lead and he was then able to return home. The smallpox situation at Ehrenfeld steadily improves. Six patients have been discharged from the pesthouse. Nearly a score of cases are under treatment which is less than half the original number. A middle-aged foreigner was killed last Friday morning in the Loyalhanna Mines at Vintondale, this county, by a fall of slate crushing his skull. The body was taken to Johnstown for burial on Saturday DOCTOR WAS DRUNK Coroner McCartney, of Blair county, has decided not to hold an inquest in the case of Charles Good, the Flinton youth who died at the Altoona Hospital Tuesday of lockjaw. The Altoona MIRROR says Good's relatives had requested an inquest but since the person whom they wanted censured is a resident of Cambria county, that person being the doctor who attended the young man when he had his thigh broken and the neglect, if there was any, took place in Cambria, the Blair Coroner did not deem it right that Blair county should be held accountable for the costs in the case. It is alleged that the reason the young man was stricken with lock jaw is that the doctor made a poor job of reducing the fracture. According to the MIRROR, the boy's relatives even go so far as to say that he was drunk at the time. When young Good was taken to Altoona, the bone was protruding through the flesh. A charge of malpractice may be brought against the doctor. If Cambria county will bear the costs of the inquest, Coroner McCartney says he will hold one.