NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, April 24, 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 24, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. William Davis, of Altoona, spent Sunday in Ebensburg. Miss Flora Parrish entertained the whist club Monday evening. Mr. William McClarren of this place was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Ex-Sheriff Coulter of East Conemaugh was a visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday. Mr. James C. Murray, of Washington township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Constable Ellsworth Nevling of Blandburg was in Ebensburg on business on Wednesday. Mr. Charles Perry and wife of Chest Springs were visitors to Ebensburg on Wednesday. Editor W. R. Thompson and daughter, Miss Frances, spent several days in Pittsburg last week. Capt. Thomas Davis and son, T. Stanton, of this place were visitors to Johnstown on Monday. Drs. Robert Davison and E. B. Roberts, of Pittsburg, spent Sunday in Ebensburg with their parents. Mr. Charles Port, foreman of the MOUNTAINEER-HERALD, is in Pittsburg spending a ten-days' vacation Dr. Olin G. A. Barker, of Pittsburg, spent Sunday in Ebensburg with his parents, Mr. and Mr. F. H. Barker. Mr. C. R. Jones of the New York Bargain Store is in New York this week purchasing goods for his store. N. J. Boyer, landlord of the Cambria House in Wilmore, is dangerously ill with but little hope for his recovery. Messrs. D. S. Slattery, of Cresson, and Joseph M. Boland, of Gallitzin township, were visitors to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mr. John L. Sechler of South Fork and A. B. Clark of Hastings, have announced themselves as candidates for the Republican nomination for sheriff. Mr. Mark Frailey of Frailey Bros., the Ebensburg clothiers, returned from a trip to the Eastern cities on Saturday after laying in a stock of summer clothing. Mr. George Harf, of Smith's Mills, Clearfield county, was in Ebensburg on Friday, on his way to Nicktown to visit his mother, Mrs. A. Priser of that place. Misses Mable Richards and Margaret Nave, who spent the Easter vacation in Ebensburg, returned to Washington D. C., where they attend the National Park Seminary. While shoeing a horse on Monday, Mr. Thomas D. Evans, of the East ward, was thrown in such shape that one of his ankles was badly dislocated and Mr. Evans will be unable to work for some time. On Saturday, Mr. J. R. Myers, assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Ebensburg, purchased the property in which he lives on Ogle street, from Mr. Hosea Evans, the consideration being $2,400. Mr. Morgan Hughes, one of Ebensburg's oldest citizens, is seriously ill at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John L. Jones in Johnstown. Mr. Hughes is 85 years of age and about two weeks ago went to Johnstown on a visit and while there was attacked with bronchitis. The house occupied by the late Hon. A. A. Barker for many years and the old Barker store building adjoining this house on High street, are being torn down. Mr. F. H. Barker, of the firm of Barker Brothers, will erect a fine residence on the site of those old buildings. Among the pensions announced from Washington on Monday were the following: John A. Blair and Evan D. Evans, Ebensburg, each $12. Mr. Evans died here a few months ago. Both were Mexican soldiers and their pensions were increased from $8 to $12 per month. Mr. Harvey Williams, of the West ward, who has been confined to his home by illness for the past three months, is now able to sit up for a short time each day and his many friends hope he will soon be able to be out again. Weakness still prevents him from using his limbs. Paolo Sodora, an Italian laborer, living at Altoona, attempted to jump from a moving freight train in the yard Tuesday morning and his foot slipped on the step. He fell heavily, his right foot going under the wheels and being ground off at the ankle. He was taken to the hospital for treatment. Steward J. C. Deitz, of the Somerset poor farm, and Poor Director J. B. Mossholder of Somerset, last week took Mathias Cvenik, who arrived in this country last November from Havre, France and became insane at Arrow a few weeks ago, to New York. He was sent back to France at the expense of the steamship company which brought him across the Atlantic. The Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company have about concluded a contract with Jno. S. Dumm, of Spangler, for the erection of fifty double tenement houses to be erected at Moss Creek. The main building of each will be 16x46 feet with a double kitchen, 12x16. The houses will be weather boarded and plastered and when completed will be much superior to many mine tenements. [Barnesboro Sentinel] The hardware store of Joseph G. Buck, at Gallitzin, was entered by burglars at an early hour of Thursday morning of last week and a few small articles and about one dollar in change taken. A shot gun taken from the store was found near the Central Hotel by Dr. T. S. Troxell, who was attending to a sick call about two o'clock the same morning. Entrance was affected by the breaking of a window. Harry Lauders, aged 16 years, a caller in the Altoona yard about 2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon of last week, on his return after calling some crews was crossing the tracks when he was run down by an engine, the approach of which he had failed to notice. The engine struck him and threw him under the wheels, crushing his right leg above the knee and otherwise injured him. There is little hope for his recovery. While a number of Loretto boys were shooting at a target in that town on Monday, one of the boys, in shooting, missed the target and the bullet crashed through a window in the store of Mr. Ed. Shields and embedded itself in the wall. The bullet is said to have passed close to Mr. John A. Schwab, who was in the store at the time. Fortunately however, no one was hurt and the frightened boys will no doubt be more careful hereafter. A new sawmill is being put in on the John D. Ager tract near Vetera, in Barr township, to cut the timber there owned by Lantzy Brothers of Hastings. The capacity of the mill is 10,000 feet per day and there is estimated to be about 4,000,000 feet on the tract, which it is expected will be turned into lumber in about two years. Mr. Yahner of Hastings has the logging contract and Mr. Miller, of the same place, the cutting of the trees. While Samuel Rhodes and Frank Stiles were cutting logs in Barr township one day last week about a half mile west of Killen's Mill they discovered a big bear trap in the laurel that had evidently been there for many years. The trap measured three feet, four inches from one end of the spring to the other, and the jaws when open are fourteen inches across. The trap is an old-timer and had probably been dragged there by some large animal years ago. A band of Italian workmen who have been putting in a sliding on the Blacklick Extension in the neighborhood of Twin Rocks are mourning for one of their countrymen - perhaps not so much for their countryman as the thousand dollars or so he skipped with several days ago. The name of the missing man is Carl Talisero and there was due his men about $1,080. He received a check for the amount and went to Cresson to get it cashed but forgot to return, the result of which is as angry a band of Italians as is told found anywhere. They are vowing vengeance on Talisero and if he comes within range, there is likely to be a lynching.