NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, December 5, 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, December 5, 1902 COURT PROCEEDINGS The regular term of December court met on Monday at 10 o'clock with Judge O'Connor on the bench: Frank S. Hyde, of Johnstown, was appointed foreman of the grand jury. The following cases on the criminal list were disposed of. Commonwealth vs. Mary McClain, surety. Defendant discharged on payment of half the costs. William Steliley, the prosecutor, to pay the other half. The following named defendants plead guilty: John Anderson, carrying concealed weapons; sentenced to pay the costs, $25 fine, and serve six months in jail. Steve Zima, assault and battery; pay the costs. John Anderson, carrying concealed weapons, costs $25 and serve thirty days. Lee Green, assault and battery; sentenced to pay the costs, further sentence being suspended. Oscar Holland, fornication and bas [word unfinished in article] Clara Veneiken, prosecutrix; usual sentence imposed. Martin Zoe, defrauding; pay the costs, $5 fine and ten days in jail. George Fisher, embezzlement and forgery; pay the costs, make restitution of the money, pay $5 fine, and serve nine months in jail. Andy Washko, malicious mischief; pay the costs, $20 fine, and serve four months in jail, to date from incarceration. Patrick Mullen, assault and battery; pay costs, $10 fine, and serve three months to date from incarceration. G. W. Wright and Preston Rinington, assault and battery; pay the costs, $20 fine, and serve ninety days in jail each, to date from incarceration. Edward Corcoran, surety; pay the costs and further sentence suspended. John A. Troxell, surety; pay the costs and further sentence suspended. Commonwealth vs. Mark Huber, assault and battery. Jury find defendant not guilty but that he pay one-third of the costs and William Bender, the prosecutor, two thirds. Commonwealth vs. Thomas T. Kane, false pretense. Jury find defendant not guilty and the prosecutor, Charles F. Pitt, pay the costs. Commonwealth vs. John Byer and Fred Saker, who had been convicted of a violation of the liquor laws at a previous term of court, were sentenced to pay the costs, $500 fine, and serve nine months in jail. D. W. Howard, an ex-alderman of Johnstown, who had been convicted of extortion at a pervious term of court and whose attorney made a motion for a new trial, which overruled, was sentenced to pay the costs. In the desertion case of Dorothy M. Rowe vs. Dr. D. I. Rowe, after hearing the evidence the court ordered the defendant to pay the costs and to pay $30 a month for the support of his wife. Commonwealth vs. George Betz; surety. Defendant was ordered to pay the costs and further sentence suspended. Commonwealth vs. James Luntz and Daniel Jordan, breaking and entering and larceny; four counts. Defendants plead guilty. Sentence to pay the costs, $5 fine each and serve terms in the Huntingdon reformatory. Commonwealth vs. John Dandree and Guiseppe Dapali, violation of the liquor laws. Defendants plead guilty and were sentenced to pay the costs, $500 fine, and further sentence suspended. Commonwealth vs. Mabel Gould, violation of the liquor laws, was continued on account of the illness of the defendant. Commonwealth vs. Andy Shudber, breaking and entering. Defendant was acquitted. Commonwealth vs. Amos Harper, assault and battery and malicious mischief. Jury find defendant not guilty and divide the costs between the defendant and the prosecutors, King Brickley and Minnie Brickley. LOCAL AND PERSONAL The apple crop is rotting rapidly this year. Two deaths from smallpox occurred in Johnstown on Monday. About four inches of snow fell on Sunday, but it is now gone. Miss Nellie Lloyd, of this place, visited friends in Johnstown this week. Rev. Father Deasy, of Gallitzin, visited friends in Ebensburg on Tuesday. E. R. Dunegan, Esq., of St. Augustine, spent several days in town this week. County Commissioner Sheehan intends to reside in Patton in the near future. Mr. P. E. Dillon, of Elder township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mr. John Rorabaugh, of Salix, this county, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Messrs. Andrew Storm and Thomas Callan, of Cresson, were in Ebensburg on Tuesday. A great many rabbits and pheasants have been bagged by hunters in this vicinity this season. Mr. Pius Anna, of Chest township, spent the past week in Ebensburg doing duty as a juror. Mr. Bat. Hobart, of Clearfield township, spent this week in town doing duty as a traverse juror. Mr. William Inman, Constable of Washington township, was a visitor to the FREEMAN office on Monday. Mr. Allen Barker spent several days in town with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Barker. Editor Gibson of the MOUNTAINEER HERALD attended the Blair county institute at Hollidaysburg this week. Barnesboro is said to have a greater number typhoid fever patients there than any other town in the county. Postmaster General Payne has issued an order forbidding the employment of married women in the post office department. Mr. C. P. Pannebaker, the clothier, is in eastern cities this week purchasing clothing and furnishings for the holiday trade. Farmers' institutes this winter will be held as follows: December 18 and 19 at Scalp Level and December 29 and 30 at Carrolltown. Mr. Frank Gates, who attends school at State College, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Gates of this place. Henry J. Easly, the well-known furniture dealer at Hastings, is lying at the home of his parents in Carrolltown, with a bad attack of typhoid fever. Mr. Harry Fredericks, of Lilly, a former resident of Ebensburg, will open up a restaurant on Centre street in the room formerly occupied by Shurber's fruit store. Mrs. Urban C. Luther, of Carrolltown, is ill at the residence of Mr. Clark Thomas, in that place, with typhoid fever. Her husband died recently of the same decease. The Ebensburg public schools will give a musical entertainment in the Opera House, Friday evening, Dec. 19th, for the benefit of the school library. Be sure to attend. While out hunting rabbits recently, Robert Jones of South Ebensburg, accidentally shot himself in the foot with a 25 caliber rifle. The ball passed through the foot without breaking any bones. The Patton borough council has decided to sell to the highest bidder bonds to the amount of $7,000 for the purpose of building bridges on Lang and Magee avenues and for other municipal improvements. Squire T. J. Stephens and Policeman James Lees, of Gallitzin, were pleasant callers at the FREEMAN office on Wednesday. Misses Tillie and Josie Stephens, daughters of T. J., were also visitors to Ebensburg during the week. Michael Dunn, aged 32 years, a laborer employed at the new Gallitzin tunnel, was taken to the Altoona hospital on Sunday with his left arm fractured. He was at work in the tunnel when he was struck by a heavy timber. Fran Kuzakosko, a miner aged thirty-eight years, and living at Cresson, was admitted to the Altoona hospital last Friday, suffering from a punctured wound of the left leg. The wounds were received while at work in the mine. The jury impaneled by Coroner Miller on Monday to investigate and place the responsibility for the explosion of the P. R. R. locomotive at Mineral Point last week which resulted in two deaths, were unable to discover the cause of the explosion. Dr. N. C. Schaeffer, state superintendent of public instruction, has notified the school directors of the several boroughs that he will impose upon them the penalty of the law if they do not compel the children of their respective districts between the ages of 6 and 16 to attend school. Mr. William A. Lantzy, of Spangler, has been awarded the contract for erecting the new Catholic church at Nantyglo. The wall is already built and the congregation expects the new edifice about the first of February. The church when completed and furnished will cost about $1,700. A few days ago, Claire, the youngest son of Samuel Kelly, of Clearfield township, was seriously injured in a gunning accident. He was standing on a log when his gun slipped from his hands and was discharged. The load tearing one of his arms badly. The boys' injuries are not regarded as dangerous. Frank Kuzakoska, age 38 years, a coal miner residing at Cresson, was taken to the Altoona hospital on Friday with both bones of his left leg fractured. While at work in a mine, he was struck and knocked down by a car. The accident happened at 9 o'clock Friday and the fracture was temporarily dressed until his arrival at the hospital. Atlas Cowan, of Altoona, a fireman on the Pittsburg division, was jolted from his engine in the Gallitzin tunnel at 6:30 Tuesday morning. His engineer saw the accident, had the man picked up and taken to the station at Gallitzin and from there to Altoona, where he was placed in bed. He received lacerations of the scalp and bruises of the body from the fall. Mr. Thomas Gettings, for many years a resident of Clearfield township, but since last spring has made his home with his son in Altoona, was at St. Augustine on Sunday bidding his friends good-bye before starting on a visit to his old home in Ireland where his mother still lives at the age of ninety years. Mr. Gettings expects to return to this country in April next. Under direction of the State Board of Health two herds of hogs have been confined to the stock yards at Butler while it is being determined whether the animals are infected with cholera. A peculiar intestinal disease developed among a great number and the two herds, comprising 75 heads were place in quarantine until the nature of the malady could be ascertained. Farmers who feed pumpkins to hogs should see that the seed has been extracted. At several points over the state hogs have been dying off on account of indigestion caused by pumpkin seeds, says an exchange. Cholera was supposed to have been the cause of the deaths, but a post mortem examination of several porkers, disclosed the fact that the stomach was packed with seeds. Harry McGuire of Loretto, who has charge of Chas. M. Schwab's dairy there, made a narrow escape with his life from the attack of a buck deer kept there Friday evening. Three does and the buck are confined in a wire enclosure and when McGuire caught it by the horns and managed to hold on until near the gate when he slipped out. He was badly strained and will be in bed for a while. By the explosion of a kerosene lamp at West Newton, Westmoreland county on Monday morning, Mrs. Mary Price, a widow, was so terribly burned that she cannot live. She was preparing breakfast when the accident occurred and she ran to the street enveloped in flames. Her face and arms were burned almost beyond recognition. The explosion set fire to the house and it partly burned. Joseph O'Neill was seriously injured Wednesday evening of last week by his wagon being struck and smashed by the evening train at the crossing near Kaylor Station on the Ebensburg branch, the victim who was returning from market, being but a short distance from his home when the accident occurred. Dr. Devereaux, of Cresson, was on the train and attended O'Neill, the latter being then removed to his home. Word from Paris says that the hotel proprietors, hot springs officials and tradesmen returning from Aix-les Bains tell wondrous stories of the munificence of Mr. Schwab who, before going to Cannes, kept the town open three weeks after the baths had officially closed to satisfy his whims, playing all the expenses of the administration and of the great hotel, whose 1,500 employees had nothing to do but to wait on the Pittsburg millionaire. A few days ago while Conductor A. J. Duncan was running between C and GB towers on the main line between Boliver and Johnstown, the distance between the two towers being twenty-three miles, he met and passed exactly forty-three east bound trains, the trains averaging about thirty eight cars to the train. This is believed to be a sight never before witnessed on the Pennsylvania railroad or any other road. No account was taken of the westbound trains, there being a considerable number of them on the same stretch of road. A careful computation makes the combined length of the forty three trains upwards of thirteen miles, allowing but ten miles for the gaps between the trains. Such a great number of trains on so limited a stretch of track and such close running of so many trains is believed to be without a parallel. No attempt was made on Monday by the Pennsylvania Railroad company to enforce its notice of June 1st to the Western Union Telegraph company, to remove its poles and wires from Pennsylvania right of way by December 1st. This was owing to an understanding reached between the two companies that the poles and wires should not be disturbed pending the settlement of the dispute in the courts. An unknown foreigner was killed shortly after 12 o'clock Monday afternoon at the stone bridge at Johnstown by Altoona accommodation while the train was backing down from Conemaugh to Sheridan station, where the train starts on the return trip to the Mountain City, as No. 32. The man was on his way down the railroad and stepped in front of the train while crossing the tracks at the west end of the bridge. His skull was fractured, the left leg badly torn below the knee, and the right arm broken at the wrist. The foreigner was about thirty-three years of age and well dressed. PORTAGE RAILROAD One hundred and fifty Greeks and fifty Greeks and Arabians joined the colony of laborers engaged in the reconstruction of the Portage railroad at the Foot of Eight on Saturday. The additions swell the number of men on the Portage payroll to 1,400. Superintendent McWilliams, in charge of the work, is exercising great pains to protect the source of Hollidaysburg's water supply from any possible contamination. Two water pipe lines are being run from the borough's intake for a distance of 200 feet above the culvert to where a temporary dam has been constructed across Blair's creek. With this protection to the water system, it is impossible for the water in the pipes to become polluted by reason of the building operations at the culvert.