NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, April 17, 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, April 17, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. Ira Bloom lost a valuable horse by death on Monday. Miss Nellie Lloyd entertained the whist club on Wednesday evening. Mr. Strang Henry of Homestead, Pa., is visiting friends in Ebensburg. Rev. J. J. Deasy of Gallitzin was a visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday. Rev. Thomas J. Hurton of Vintondale is visiting friends in Philadelphia. Mr. Jonathan Jones of Cambria township is seriously ill with pneumonia. Miss Florence Evans, of this place, entertained a party of friends on Friday evening. Mrs. E. M. Prosser of Barnesboro has been drawn as a juror for the May term of court. Miss Bird Roberts, who spent the winter in Lancaster, Pa., returned home a few days ago. Miss Margaret Nave, of Washington D. C., is the guest of Miss Florence Evans of this place. Julinnie, son of Michael Luther, the liveryman, is seriously ill with inflammatory rheumatism. Mr. and Mrs. O. Q. Phillips of Allegheny, Pa., are occupying their summer cottage in Ebensburg. Miss Mable Richards of Zanesville, Ohio is the guest of her uncle, Dr. T. M. Richards, of this place. Dr. Fitzgerald of South Fork came to Ebensburg on Wednesday to attend a meeting of the whist club. The Summit Lodge of Masons held a banquet at the Mountain House in this place on Wednesday evening. During the past week, E. James & Son, druggists, have had a handsome new iron ceiling hung in their store. Judge Barker and family have moved into the Presbyterian parsonage while their own residence is undergoing repairs. Mr. Leonce Shields of Pittsburg spent several days in Ebensburg last week visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Shields. Supt. H. T. Jones will attend the graduating exercises of the Read Township High School at Blandburg this Friday evening. The new Catholic church at Nantyglo will be dedicated on Sunday, June 21st, instead of the 17th, as stated in last week's FREEMAN. Mr. E. C. Parrish, one day last week, ran a nail into his left hand and has since been compelled to carry the injured member in a sling. The Pennsylvania railroad shops at Altoona and Juniata are now turning out an order of 150 new engines placed at the beginning of the year. A man who had squirting tobacco spit on Altoona store windows was arrested last week and the fine and costs imposed on him aggregated $17. Patton is to have a new brewery of which W. J. Stibich of the Goenner Brewing Company of Johnstown will be president. It will cost $60,000. Mr. John P. Lloyd the well-known Johnstown contractor is dangerously ill, the result of a fall received one day last week. Very little hopes are had for his recovery. Mrs. John Howell, of Johnstown, was in Ebensburg on Tuesday on her way to Cambria township to visit her brother, Mr. Jonathan Jones, who is ill with pneumonia. Messrs. Edward Owens and John Owens, of the West ward, were in Braddock, Pa., on Tuesday in attendance at the funeral of a grandchild of the former and a niece of the latter. Miss Leah Hughes, daughter of Steward Thomas J. Hughes, of the County Home, last week, went to Polk, Venango county, with Sarah Elliott, of Cambria township, who was placed in the State Institution for feeble- minded children. Prof. J. Harvey Brumbaugh, acting president of Juniata College, Huntingdon county, has been adjucated a bankrupt and Miss Cora A. Keim, of Elk Lick, who obtained a verdict of $9,250 in a breach of promise suit, later receiving a reduction to $5,000, will not receive anything. Messrs. R. Ferguson & Sons have opened out a wholesale and retail feed store at the railroad near the depot in the building formerly occupied by Mr. Sherman Tibbott, and are prepared to furnish all kinds of flour and feed on short notice and at reasonable prices. Goods will be delivered in the town. Give them a call. Dan Boccalie, a Slav, employed by Contractor Kerbaugh was stuck on the head in a fight in one of the shanties of the classification yard at Altoona on Saturday, his assailant using a shovel as a weapon. The man had several contusions and lacerations of the face and head and is in serious condition. There are three cases of smallpox at South Fork. The victims are Mrs. George Costello and two children in Charles Bunting's home, one a ten-year-old boy and the other a young man aged about twenty-two years. The Bunting cases were under observation several days, but it was not until Monday that the quarantine was put up. A reception in honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Schwab and daughter, Miss Gertrude, who recently returned from their six month's tour through Europe was held at the Central Hotel, Loretto, a few evenings ago in which a large number of guests participated. The evening was spent very pleasantly in playing cards and the rendition of a musical programme. Bishop E. A. Garvey of the Altoona Diocese of the Catholic Church has made public announcement of the contributions received throughout his see last year for the Episcopal residence at Altoona. There are in all about 10,000 names of person was gave $1 or over, many contributing much more than that, some as high as $100. The whole amount contributed is $16,615.36, Altoona leading the subscription with $6,318. Pictures of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Schwab of Loretto, parents of Charles M. Schwab, reproduced from oil paintings are given in the Pittsburg DISPATCH on Monday morning. The commission for the portraits was given last summer to Mrs. L. Hart Darragh, of Philadelphia, a former Ebensburg lady, and the sittings were at the Schwab cottage at Atlantic City. The paintings are three-quarter length, life size. They will be sent to Loretto within a few days. The remains of an unknown man, apparently a Hungarian, were found near the entrance to the south tunnel at Gallitzin on Saturday, the head having a hole in it, the left leg being cut off and his right leg crushed. The man had sandy hair, a slight growth of beard and a small moustache. In his pocket was found a smashed quart bottle of whiskey. He had apparently fallen off a freight train, explaining his death. At Lloydell Saturday two case of smallpox were discovered and Health Officer Holt of Dunlo, acting on the instructions given him by the school board of Adams township, immediately quarantined both places. One of the houses quarantined is occupied by foreigners and one of the occupants, John Kammiska, objecting, tried to escape. He attacked the guard, Patrick Nelson, with a pick and was shot by the guard and slightly wounded. Kammiska was taken to the Municipal hospital at Johnstown for treatment. Stanley Johnson of New Brunswick, N. J., appeared at police headquarters, Altoona, Wednesday morning of last week and told Chief Tillard he had been kidnapped by three tramps who enticed him into a box car Monday morning and had then shut him in, not allowing the door open until they reached Philadelphia, where they took him out, placed him in another car and started west with him. He had nothing to eat or drink, he said from Monday morning until Tuesday evening, when he attracted the attention of some trains men and they released him. He then found he was at Pittsburg. The trainmen furnished him with transportation to Altoona and later his mother sent money to pay his way home. A burly negro entered the office of the Vipond Construction Company on Seventeenth street, Altoona, about 8 o'clock Monday morning and demanded his pay envelope. Miss Ruth Clark, a bookkeeper, who was in charge told him there was no envelope for him and he walked out. The man returned a few minutes later, seized the young woman, and struck her over the head, rendering her unconscious, in which condition she remained for over an hour. The negro ransacked the office, but failed to secure any money. Miss Clark, after the first visit, hid $200 in the waste basket and the robber overlooked it.