NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, January 23, 1903, 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, January 23, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Miss Florence Evans, of this place, is home from a visit to Cuba. Mr. A. Strittmatter, of Carroll township, spent a few hours in town on Monday. Mr. Joseph Huffman, of Blacklick township, spent a few hours in town on Saturday. Mr. Hugh Bannan, of Loretto, was granted a pension of $30 per month on Saturday. Mr. William Springer, of Carroll township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. Joseph Bearer, of Carroll township, spent a few hours in town on Wednesday. Judge F. J. Kooser, of Somerset, was here on Tuesday disposing of some cases in which Judge O'Connor was interested. Mr. Owen Rowland, who has been visiting relatives in Iowa City, Iowa for some time past, returned home on Saturday. Johnstown's new shirt factory started operations on Monday. The factory will employ about 1,000 girls when running full. Mrs. Lester Larimer, of this place, was has been seriously ill during the past week, is much improved and it is hoped she will soon be able to be about again. Mr. Thomas Peach, a leading liveryman of Ebensburg and candidate of the Democratic nomination for sheriff, was a visitor in the city yesterday. [Tuesday's Altoona Times] It is reported that Judge F. J. O'Connor, who now lives in Johnstown, will in the near future remove his family to Ebensburg where he will reside during his term on the bench. W. R. Thompson, former editor and owner of the MOUNTAINEER HERALD, of this place, on Monday, purchased a half interest in the establishment from T. L. Gibson. We congratulate Brother Thompson on getting back among the elect and Brother Gibson in having a partner to share his joys and sorrows. The convening of the legislature has given the Republican plum tree the customary shake and David D. Pryce, of Ebensburg, succeeded in picking up the position of janitor in the coat room of the house. Our old time fellow townsman, Lemuel Davis, of McKean county, was appointed as one of the transcribing clerks in the house. Michael Dunn, of Gallitzin, was discharged from the Altoona hospital on Friday morning, where he had received treatment for a fracture of the left arm above the elbow. Dunn remained in the city and on Friday evening was again admitted to the hospital, he having again broken the arm by falling on Eleventh avenue. At argument court held here on Tuesday Judge O'Connor made it known that he wanted applicants for liquor licenses to be present at license court in order that he could see whether they were fit persons to conduct a licensed house. Also that he wanted photographs of houses for which new applications were filed. Summerhill borough has been officially declared free from smallpox, the last case of the disease having been last Monday decided by a physician to be cured. Since the outbreak of the epidemic in December, eight cases in all have been treated in the town. Squire E. W. Hull, who acted as Health Officer, reports the place to be in good sanitary condition. Albert Itell, formerly of Johnstown, Dr. Edwin S. Cooper and Mrs. Delia Talbitzer, of New Castle, Pa., and Dr. J. R. Hahn of Edinboro, Pa., have been arrested, charged with being connected with a criminal operation upon Miss Mable Williams, of Conemaugh, causing her death at New Castle on September 16th last and will be given a preliminary hearing at New Castle on Friday. Mr. Augustine Yost, of Carroll township, has sold his farm to Mr. John Lantzy,of Elder township, the consideration being $9,000. Mr. Yost will remove to Carrolltown. Theodore Lythe, death watch over Jacob Gearhart, who will hang for the murder of his wife, robbed the murderer of $25 on Monday in the Sunbury jail and disappeared. Lythe also got money from politicians on the fictions plea of his wife's death. One of them sent a wreath to his home. William R. Douglass, a farmer who resides a short distance west of Altoona along the Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania railroad, occupies a bed at the Altoona hospital as a result of an accident which befell him about 6:30 o'clock on Monday evening. In getting off an engine he slipped and fell, striking his head against a tile or stone, causing a laceration of the scalp, concussion of the brain and probably fracture of the skull. His condition is serious and he may not recover. Rembrandt Peale, owner of the Brawley and Snyder mines, has made the residents of Carrolltown one of the most liberal propositions that will ever be their good fortune to receive, says the Carrolltown NEWS. Mr. Peale is erecting a large electric plant at his mines to haul the cars and on being consulted, agreed to furnish the citizens of the town with electric light, providing that enough subscribers can be secured to pay the actual expense of the same. Mr. Peale would have to hire an extra man at the power plant, and the cost of stringing wires would also figure largely in the expense. Mr. Peale says he desires no profit from the transaction and wants nothing more out of it than actual expense. On Wednesday evening of last week there was a disastrous fire in Davistown, a small country village about a mile south of Portage, which destroyed the house and furniture of a man name Richardson. Mr. Richardson and family were at supper at the time, about 6:30 o'clock, he having previously fixed the fire in the parlor stove, opening the draft. Shortly after hearing a cracking noise, he went to the parlor door to find the interior a mass of flames. The wind was high at the time and the house and contents were quickly consumed. Mr. Richardson had recently built an addition to his house, on which it is said there was no insurance. The loss is therefore heavy and as the family lost nearly all their worldly goods, the kind people of Portage are raising a fund to assist them in their distress. Ice seventeen inches thick, is now being cut and hauled to town from the borough dam north of town. Annie Unko, a Slavish woman in jail, who is demented, attempted to kill her four-month-old babe by strangling it Friday.