NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, May 29, 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, May 29, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Saturday is Memorial Day. Thirty-six cases of typhoid fever are reported at Ehrenfeld. Mr. Ed Kline of Hastings was in Ebensburg on Tuesday. Mr. William Kimball lost another horse one day last week. Mr. Harry Blair of Johnstown spent Thursday in Ebensburg. Mr. Philip Kline of Hastings was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. Richard Davis of Johnstown visited friends in Ebensburg this week. Mr. Thomas Peach of this place lost a valuable horse by death on Friday. Mr. W. A. Horan and family of Johnstown are visiting relatives in this place. Mr. Thomas Miller of Barr township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. C. R. Claghorn of Wehrum has introduced an automobile into that new town. Mr. James C. Murray of Washington township spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Tuesday. Dr. and Mrs. Walker of Philadelphia have opened their summer cottage on Centre street. Mr. Herman Williams and son, Charles, of Vandergrift spent a couple of days in Ebensburg this week. Thieves broke into the granary of Mr. J. H. Edwards in Cambria township and stole a quantity of oats. Mrs. P. F. Fogarty of Greensburg attended the funeral of Mrs. Mary Myers in this place on Thursday. Mr. Leonard Huntley and wife started on Wednesday afternoon on a visit to friends in Omaha, Nebraska. The June meeting of the Cambria county Pomona Grange will be held in the Parochial hall in Loretto on June 8th. High street, between Centre and Julian, is now in the hands of the Ikes, who are digging the ditch for the pipes of the Ebensburg Light, Heat and Power company. Sheep damages were awarded last week to Wm. Kimball, Farren Bros., John Tudor, Newton Pryce, John M. Hughes, Elsie Davis, David Griffith and Leighton Rowland. During the progress of a game of base ball at Johnstown on Saturday afternoon Miss Alice Wisegarver of that city was struck by a foul ball just below the heart and rendered insensible. She is recovering slowly. The wholesale liquor store of Quinn & Harper at Patton was destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon of last week together with all the fixtures and bottled goods. The loss foots up $2,600 with only $600 insurance. Miss Emily Philips, daughter of Mr. C. W. Philips, of Pittsburg, who has a summer home in this place, is seriously ill. Dr. Lawrence Flick of Philadelphia was called to Ebensburg on Sunday in consultation in regard to her treatment. Mr. John Manion, of the Central Hotel, in this place, now drives the prettiest team of black horses in the town. Mr. Manion takes great pride in owning and driving fine horses and it will take a couple fine specimens to equal Mr. Manion's blacks. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Roberts, Dr. and Mrs. F. C. Jones, S. S. Kinkead, Wm. Davis, Esq., and wife, and V. S. Barker, of this place, were in Philadelphia this week attending the semi-centennial of the Grand Commandery of the Pennsylvania Knights Templars. Jams McCleland, a special delivery messenger boy employed in the Johnstown post office was on Monday held in $500 bail for his appearance at court by United States Commissioner Craig, of Altoona, on a charge of embezzling three special delivery letters containing $81. Friday night lightening struck an elm tree on the farm of James Cain in Munster township and killed four horses that were standing sheltering under its branches. The tree stood in a pasture field and the loss is divided, the horses being owned, one each of James Cain, Demetrious Glass, John Murphy and John Latterner. John Boley, a railroad carpenter, aged forty years is a smallpox patient at Cresson, having developed the disease Thursday of last week when his home back of the Anderson House was placed under quarantine. Boley has a wife and four children, the youngest about a year old, and all are now shut up in the house under guard. Boley has not a severe case, according to Dr. Lynch. Andrew Palisni, an Italian about 30 years old, was taken to the Memorial hospital at Johnstown on Monday from Dilltown, Indiana county, where he had been employed on railroad construction work on a contract of McManamy & Sims. Thursday of last week the man was struck on the right side of the head by a guy rope and partial paralysis of the left side of this body, arms and legs, resulted. Michael Barnicle, aged 21 years, an assistant track foreman on the Cresson and Clearfield division at Patton met with a peculiar accident at that place at 11 o'clock Saturday morning. He was standing along the track when an engine ran over a railroad cap and a piece of it flying through air struck him on the left arm at the bicep muscle. It passed through his clothing and entered the flesh to the bone. He went to Altoona hospital Saturday evening where the piece of cap was removed. J. F. McKenrick, Esq., the well known attorney of Ebensburg, was arrested on Monday on a warrant charging him with forgery and obtaining money under false pretense, issued at the instance of John F. Cox of Vintondale. The case against the attorney grows out of the settlement of a prosecution which Mrs. Mary J. Herzog, of West Taylor township, had instituted against Cox in January last, charging him with adultery with her daughter, Miss Ella B. Uncapher. Mr. McKendrick appeared before Justice A. J. Waters and, waiving a hearing, entered bail in the sum of $500 with Thomas Peach, as surety for his appearance at court. On Tuesday night about 10 o'clock the large frame barn of Daniel Jones in Cambria township was destroyed by fire. The roof was about falling in when the fire was discovered by the family and it was with difficulty that two horses that were in the stables were gotten out. Seven calves were burned to death. One of the horses that was gotten out ran back into a shed and the boards had to be pried off to again rescue it, which was finally done. There had been no fire about the building, the fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. A lot of machinery and farming implements were also burned There is an insurance of $900 which will not near cover the loss of the barn as it was a new one. The corner stone for the new Catholic church at Summerhill was laid at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon by the Rev. Eugene A. Garvey, bishop of the Altoona diocese of the Catholic church, assisted by the Rev. Father Wolfgang of Johnstown, pastor of the German Catholic church at New Germany, and others. The services were largely attended, special music being rendered by a choir of mixed voices. The contractor and architect is John T. Long, who will push the work along as rapidly as possible. The building will have a frontage of 42 feet and a depth of 86 feet. Charles Highway, an Italian living near McGarvey's, received fatal injuries while cutting down poles in accordance with the instructions of the railroad company Friday. Highway and Lingi Atubatto were at work on a pole near Twenty-fourth street, Altoona, and when it fell were unable to get out of the way. Highway was struck on the head and knocked down over an embankment while Atubatto was struck in the back. Both men were removed to the Altoona hospital where the former was found to have a fractured skull and to be probably fatally injured. The latter received contusions of the back.