NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, May 1, 1903, Cambria County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Friday, May 1, 1903 CRESSON HOTEL FOR SALE The Pittsburg POST is authority for the statement that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, having recently disposed at auction of the furnishings of the Mountain House and cottages at Cresson, is now seeking a purchaser for the buildings themselves with the handsome grounds adjoining. In noting this fact the POST does a little reminiscing as follow: "With the passing of the Mountain House disappears from the list of resorts one that in the hey-dey of its success was among the famous of the mountain resorts in this county and which was the summer home of many prominent of the world of business, finance and politics. President Harrison made it his summer house for two season and until the death of his mother, Andrew Carnegie regularly spent his summers there." HAD A NARROW ESCAPE On Wednesday of last week while Mr. Joseph White was working on his sawmill in Barr township his clothing caught in the set screw in the line shaft and by miracle alone was Mr. White saved from a horrible death. While the mill was in operation Mr. White went under it to soap a belt that was coming loosely when his coat was caught by the set screw. He felt his coat being wound about the shaft and by grasping the timbers of the floor above was able to save himself from being wound around the shaft. As it was, every particle of his clothing with the exception of his shoes and stockings was torn into shreds and his left leg and hip badly braised and bruised. It will be several weeks before Mr. White will be able to return to work. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Walter L. Main's circus will be in Johnstown May 8th. Conemaugh is to have a national bank in the near future. The Ebensburg public schools closed for this term on Wednesday. Addie Pryce of Cambria township lost a cow by death last week. Mr. Ed. Shields of Loretto spent several hours in town on Wednesday. Mr. Adam Schettig of Carrolltown was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday. Messrs. Bloom & Skelly lost a fine gray draft horse by death on Thursday. Mr. I. N Wissinger of Blacklick township spent a few hours in town on Monday. Squire Andrew Strittmatter of Carroll township, was in Ebensburg on Monday. Dr. T. M. Richards of this place left on Saturday for Zanesville, Ohio, on a business trip. Mr. Joseph Bearer and son, Walter, of Carroll township, were visitors to Ebensburg on Monday. The supper at the Congregational church on Wednesday evening was largely attended and was a financial success. Dr. Davison's soda water fountain will be started up on Saturday evening for the summer season. Don't fail to try Davison's delicious soda water. Mr. M. J. Ryan of Clearfield has taken charge of the Thomas D. Evans blacksmith shop in the East ward while Mr. Evans is recovering from his recent injury. Mr. William J. Dutton's household goods have been shipped to Clearfield, Pa., where the family will follow in a few days where they intend to make their future home. Mr. Julius Rager, a former well-known citizen of Carrolltown but for a year or more has been a resident of Oklahoma, is on a visit to Cambria county, and spent a few days in Ebensburg this week. J. R. K. Shook, formerly landlord of the Metropolitan Hotel in this place but for a year or more has been running a hotel at Lock Haven, passed through here one day last week on his way to Winber. Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Schwab, accompanied by Mr. Schwab's private secretary, arrived at Cresson on Sunday evening, where they were met by the Schwab coachman and driven to the Schwab summer home in Loretto. Brigadier General Wiley has decided that the Second Brigade of the National Guard of Pennsylvania shall encamp at Somerset this year. This camp will begin July 25 and the parade ground is said to be the finest in the state. Mr. Peter Delozier and his son, Ed, of Gallitzin township, were visitors to Ebensburg on Thursday. Mr. Delozier is an old and prompt paying subscriber to the FREEMAN and as a consequence one of the kind always welcomed in a newspaper office. Mr. Morgan Hughes of this place who has been seriously ill at Johnstown for the past two weeks is reported to be improving. Mr. Hughes is in his 86th year, but notwithstanding his age, there appears to be a reasonable prospect of his recovery. Word reached here today (Thursday) that Wesley Beynon, a native of Ebensburg, where two sisters, Misses Clara and Annie still reside, was badly injured in a railroad accident at Bolivar. Mr. Beynon has been an engineer on the P. R. R. for several years. No particulars could be learned up to the time of going to press. Congressman Alvin Evans has nominated J. Simpson Evans, son of Nicolas Evans, of Lilly, to be a midshipman at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Besides the principal, Mr. Evans has named the following three alternates: Wallace W. Smith, of Bedford county; Charles O. Huston, of Blair county; and Henry Monroe of Chest Springs, this county. G. W. Kough, of Tipton, Blair county, was given a hearing before a Justice in Tyrone Saturday night and was fined $50 for catching five trout out of season and from Tipton Run, a steam stocked last year. This is the fourth prosecution and conviction by the Blair County Branch of the League of American Sportsmen. Fire is raging in the woods near Beulah and this Thursday afternoon a large number of men went down from Ebensburg to assist in protecting the lumber and mill of Mr. Webster Griffith of Ebensburg. Mr. Griffith has a large amount of sawed lumber piled up near Beulah and also an immense pile of logs. The high wind scatters the fire very fast in the woods which is full of dry brush. Joe Fargo, an Italian, aged 19 years, and employed by the Kerbaugh company on the New Portage railroad, was painfully and perhaps seriously injured Monday afternoon. He was standing on a dump car near one of the big shovels when a rock fell from the shovel and hit him in the stomach. He was knocked down, bruised about the abdomen and perhaps injured internally. He was taken to the Altoona hospital for treatment. Lundro Francisco, the Italian who tried a few months ago to rob the Gallitzin post office and when discovered, turned a weapon upon himself, inflicting a wound, was on Saturday placed in jail at Pittsburg, where he will await trial at the May term of the United States District court in the Smoky City. In his effort at self- destruction Francisco succeeded in inflicting a pretty good wound upon himself which was treated at the hospital in Altoona. Later, on partially recovering he was removed to jail at Hollidaysburg and thence taken to Pittsburg. Michael Gendilli, an Italian, 51 yeas old, employed as a track hand by the Pennsylvania Railroad company, was run down by an engine in the Altoona yard on Saturday morning and his right arm was so horribly mangled that it was necessary to amputate that member at the shoulder at the hospital, to which institution he was afterwards taken. He was working on the tracks when the engine came along. He did not notice its approach until it was too late. He tried to thrown himself out of the way, but was struck, the wheels passing over his arm above the elbow. Two young men claiming to be from Cambria county, who gave their names as William Burke and George Bell, fell into the net of special officers of the Blair county Branch of the League of American Sportsmen on Sunday the 19th inst., when they were arrested above Duncansville by Officers H. E. Brown and George Myers, after a long chase on the charge of catching brook trout under the prescribed legal size of six inches. In their possession were found six brook trout from three to four inches long. Both culprits, after a night's lodging in the county jail were arraigned before Squire Shoenfelt at Duncansville and plead guilty to the charge. They were sentenced to pay a fine of $30 a piece and costs, aggregating $70 for their days' sport. The league has its eyes open so it would be well for everybody to keep within the bounds of the law. [Hollidaysburg Standard] Edmund Shaw, Esq., attorney for Millard F. Blake, of Martinsburg, several weeks ago brought a trespass suit in the county court against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to recover $282,875 royalties on a patent device for dumping freight cars. Wednesday judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiff for the full amount of his claim, the defendant having failed to file an answer or affidavit of defense within the time prescribed by law and rules of court.