NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, October 2, 1903, Cambria County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright Aug 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, October 2, 1903 Wanted At Once A good tenant for my Farm in Allegheny Township. Will rent buildings, alone or farm outright. Parties must come well recommended. Inquire of: Louis E. Kaylor, Ebensburg, Pa. Boy Confessed Robbery Huntingdon, Pa., Sept. 29 - Emerson Bowman, 19 years old is in jail charged with running away with a satchel containing $738.94, the property of Dreese & Wagner, stove manufacturers of Hare's Valley. When arrested, Bowman had spent all the cash but $73 and made a full confession. Items from Nant-Y-Glo The home of Benjamin Fresh was burned to the ground recently says the Johnstown DEMOCRAT. It was on a small piece of ground lying about a mile and a half from Twin Rocks. Mr. Fresh and his family had gone to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Fresh, near Vinco Saturday morning and knew nothing of the fire until they were almost home Sunday evening, when they met some acquaintances who informed them of what had happened. The origin of the fire is unknown. Everything was burned. When the neighbors discovered the flames it was too late to get anything out of the house as the heat was so intense. The building was insured. Scarlet fever has been holding possession of the town for quite a while but is now abating as there have been no new cases reported lately. There have been a number of fatalities from the dread disease, also from diphtheria. The new houses of the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company are now nearly ready for occupancy. The mines have been running very slowly here lately. The only men in demand now are the carpenters as no matter which way you look new houses are visible. The Finlanders church is nearly completed. This make the third church built in Nant-y-Glo in the past year. Political Notes Mr. Lenhart's most sanguine friends are not being disappointed by the canvass he is making. He is a candidate calculated to appeal to all classes. His record is a clean and honorable one. He was one of the best city controllers Johnstown ever had and his services upon the Johnstown School board have been characterized by earnestness of purpose and eminent ability. He is moreover his "own" man. No one "owns" and he was not nominated by either a faction or a boss. It will be noted that "Mage" Stephens, one of the numerous secretaries of the Republican County Committee is in New York City busily working for the good of the party. There is considerable anxiety in some quarters owing to the fear that Col. S. W. Davis may decide to take possession of the court house. No one doubts Colonel's title. For 21 years he was notoriously, openly adversely, etc., in possession of the structure. His appearance in political circles as secretary of the county committee suggests that perhaps he imagines that the time has come for him to pack his trunk and move into the Temple of Justice. Local and Personal M. J. Stoltz took a business trip to Pittsburg this week. Fred D. Barker who has been ill is reported as being much better. Mrs. J. R. Blair of Loraine, O., is visiting relatives in Ebensburg. Noah Dishong of Jackson township was in town on Wednesday. R. J. Kaylor has sold his hotel property in Hastings to John Gresco. Mr. Joseph Bearer of Carroll township visited Ebensburg Wednesday. James C. Murray of Cresson township was an Ebensburg visitor on Thursday. Miss Laughlin of Pittsburg on Monday closed her summer cottage in this place. Senator J. C. Stineman of South Fork paid this office a pleasant visit on Tuesday. Miss Helen Barker left last week for Germantown where she is attending a seminary. Mr. Ambrose Schettig of this place spent several days in Pittsburg on business this week. It is reported that J. L. Mitchell will build a fine residence on his farm just north of town. Miss Lyda Davidson has returned from Lebanon county where she was visiting relatives. Mrs. Matthias Farabaugh of Munster township spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Monday. Miss Maggie O'Neill of this place left on Wednesday for a visit to relatives in Pittsburg. Rev. F. H. Fish of McKeesport is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Cyrus Jones of this place. Mrs. M. J. Binder of Hastings who spent the summer in Ebensburg returned home Tuesday. Lawrence Wyland and ex-Sheriff Joseph Gray of Spangler transacted business in this place this week. Messrs. J. G. Hasson and son, Thomas H. Hasson, spent a few hours in Carrolltown on Thursday. Mr. C. R. Jones of the New York Bargain Store in this place spent the past week in New York purchasing goods. Miss Mary Gallaway of Altoona is the guest of Miss Alberta Gates of this place. Miss Gallaway sang in the Catholic church here on Sunday. Mrs. Fes Lloyd of this place accompanied by her daughter, Miss Nellie, returned home Tuesday night from the Presbyterian hospital where the former recently underwent an operation. Word has been received by the commissioner's clerk that hereafter, until further notice, public visiting at the Dixmont hospital for the insane will be prohibited and those having friends or relatives in the institution will be allowed to see them only on Saturdays. The following ladies from South Fork visited this place on Wednesday: Mesdames E. Lewis, M. H. Lichliter, Isaac Schofield, John Barker, Amos Davis, Alice Joll, Isabella Gillespie, Agnes Plouse, Will Dunmire, John Miller, Thos. Jones, John Galbreath, James Topper, --- [sic] Frinback. A hale and hearty old gentleman is George L. Meyers, a well known resident of Gallitzin township, says the Johnstown DEMOCRAT. He is 84 years of age, but insists on doing a large share of the farm work. "I cannot be idle," he says, "My son recently plowed 80 rows of corn 40 rods long and thought he did a good day's work. The next day I plowed 84 rows. One day last spring I plowed two and a half acres of ground and hauled a load of coal." Raymond J. Kaylor, the former owner of the Cambria Tribune, has located in Johnstown in the Roberts property on Vine street. Mr. Kaylor has lived in Ebensburg for the last five years. Court Dates Announced Judge Francis J. O'Connor has announced that motion court will be held the first Tuesday of October; argument court, Oct. 27; election court the Thursday following the election and the next regular term of court on the first Monday of December. Railroad Officers Busy The gang of wire thieves that has been working in Central Pennsylvania is likely to be broken up as the result of the vigilance of local railroad police. Charles Hess, white, of Harrisburg, and John Randolph, colored, of Charleston, S. C., two men, it is believed, knew something of the recent wire robberies in Blair, Huntingdon and Cambria counties, were arraigned Friday in Alderman J. J. Irwin's court to answer the charge of trespassing on the railroad and vagrancy and were committed to jail for sixty days. The police during the imprisonment of the two men will endeavor to gather evidence against them to implicate them with the robbery of wire from the poles of the Postal and Western Union Telegraph companies and the Cambria Telephone company and to locate the stolen wire, which is believed to be hidden at some place in the mountains near Altoona. Mrs. Portia Butler Mrs. Portia Butler, wife of John Butler of Napoleon street, Johnstown, was taken to the poor house Saturday by Poor Director W. D. Miller, her eighteen-month-old daughter accompanying her. Mrs. Butler is about thirty years of age and is a native of Stroyestown, Somerset county. She and Mr. Butler have not been living together for some time and recently, it is said, she and her little daughter had been sleeping in outbuildings. The woman is in a delicate condition and some of the residents of the South Side appealed to the Poor authorities to look after the case. Court Cases Windup of Court Court Adjourned Here Last Saturday Continued from last week: A case taken up on the Tuesday preceding adjournment and finished the next day was that in which Anthony Gristina, alias Frank Madano, was shown to be a bad Italian and was sentenced to pay $200 fine and the costs and serve two years and nine months in the pen. He was charged by C. A. Parrish with carrying concealed weapons and by Thomas Philips with felonious assault and battery. It was shown that on August 1st, Gristina had hid Phillips' [sic] place in Gallitzin and shot at Phillips, one ball striking him on the leg, another ball entering the door of the house. The next morning Officer Parrish arrested Gristina and found a revolver and a bowie knife on his prisoner. Gristina went on the stand but he had no defense and was promptly convicted. Greave Cooney was acquitted of a charge of assault and battery, preferred by Jennie Hunter, the latter being taxed wit the costs. The larceny case to which Margaret Harris was the defendant and W. W. Dibert, the prosecutor, was settled on payment of the costs. A nol pros was entered in the case of Mary Galligan charged by F. A. Gill with larceny. John Mickey pleaded guilty to assault and battery; John Cervinsky, prosecutor. The defendant is a boy of about twelve years and ran a wagon into the prosecutor in the Fifteenth ward in Johnstown. The lad was sentenced to pay the costs, $1 fine and serve thirty days in jail. Guy Stanton and Samuel Walker, charged by Frank Campbell and Frank McTague with malicious mischief and riot, pleaded guilty and on the latter charge were directed to pay the costs, $50 fine, and serve six months in jail, sentence being suspended on the other charge on payment of costs. Arthur Simpson pleaded guilty to breaking and entering; S. M. Snyder, prosecutor, and was directed to pay the costs, further sentence being suspended. Wednesday was sentence day in court. The main offender of the session proved to be Lewis Casselman, a negro, who made a brutal assault on a Daisytown girl. He was sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiary. Other sentences imposed were as follows: Joseph Zimmerman, violating pure food laws, sentenced to pay the costs. Daniel R. Miller and George Nelson, burglary; Miller sentenced to pay costs; Nelson being sent to the Huntingdon reformatory. O. B. Barnett, desertion; sentenced to pay the costs. William McKenzie, carrying concealed weapons; sentenced to pay the costs after serving three months in jail. Val Meekin, desertion; sentenced to pay the costs. James Scott, assault and battery; fined $10 and costs. James Fesler, larceny; $25 and costs and 13 months in the penitentiary. Elmer Crocker, larceny; sentenced to pay the costs and further sentence suspended pending his good behavior. Frank Farl, carrying concealed deadly weapons and pointing fire arms; fined $10 and costs and three months in jail. Mart Roberts, carrying concealed deadly weapons and assault and battery; sent to the Huntingdon reformatory. Warren N. Kyper, forgery; sent to the Huntingdon reformatory. Thomas George, felonious assault and battery and wife beating, fined $50 and costs and sent to the Western penitentiary for one year and eight months. Nathan Blough, desertion; sentenced to pay the costs. Isadore Wolf, breaking and entering; fined $10 and costs and ordered to make restitution. John Vasbinder, forgery; sentenced to pay a fine of $10 and costs, the defendant having already served six months in the county jail. Thursday Court The case of Attorney J. F. McKenrick of Ebensburg, charged by J. F. Cox with forgery and false pretense occupied the entire day in court at Ebensburg Thursday. Cox testified that he had gone to McKenrick's office last January and retained the attorney to settle some cases brought before Justice Joseph Jenkins of West Taylor township by Mrs. Mary Hertzog on behalf of her daughter. Cox and McKenrick had paid $9 costs to in one case and $12.08 in the other, paying Mrs. Hertzog $100, but telling him it had cost $150 to satisfy the woman. The false pretense charge lies in the alleged misrepresentation of the amount paid and the forgery in the interlineations in Mrs. Hertzog's receipt of the money, making the amount read $159 instead of $109. Mrs. Hertzog testified that she had received $108.75 or $109, less 25 cents express charges and the express agent testified that he had delivered to her the amount. McKenrick's defense was that the $12.08 in one case the $9 in the other made the $21.08 costs charged. He contended that his fee was $100 instead of $50 as claimed by Cox. He said that he and Cox had settled matters before he sent the money to Mrs. Hertzog and that Cox had given him a check for $216.40 as covering the fees, costs and amount paid in settlement. Some weeks after everything was closed up Cox came back and demanded $50 back which McKenrick refused and Cox then brought the suit. The jury brought in a verdict clearing Mr. McKenrick.