NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, June 12, 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, June 12, 1903 COURT PROCEEDINGS The following cases on the civil list were disposed of last week, in addition to those already reported: Mrs. Mary Gates vs. The Johnstown Passenger Railroad company, trespass. Jury find for plaintiff $668. Mrs. Clara Hildenbrandt vs. The Johnstown Passenger Railway company, trespass. After the evidence had been proceeded with a compulsory non suit was entered. James Keenan Jr. vs. Neil Sharkey assumpsit. Jury find for plaintiff, $1,445.62. Commonwealth vs. Clement Shorty, fornication and bastardy. Defendant plead guilty and received the usual sentence. Commonwealth vs. George Keverknight, aggravated assault and battery. Grand jury ignored the bill and the prosecutor, George Kegg, to pay the costs. Commonwealth vs. Richard Plunkett, felonious assault and battery. Defendant plead guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine of $50, and costs, further sentence suspended. Commonwealth vs. Charles Wicks, Herman Lucas, Henry Meredith, David Strasser, Alex Nelson, William Malin and Charles Robinson, breaking and entering and larceny and receiving. Sentenced to pay the costs and for the stolen property, further sentence being suspended. John Andrews vs. John J. Reddinger, trespass. Jury find for plaintiff, $73.22. Commonwealth vs. Annie Cushman now Miller, violating the liquor laws, seven charges and one charge of aggravated assault and battery. Defendant plead guilty and was sentenced to pay the costs and fines aggregating $2,900, further sentence suspended. Commonwealth vs. Lilian Shugart, violation of the liquor laws, two charges. Defendant plead guilty. Sentenced to pay the costs and $50 fine in one case and $500 fine for the other. Commonwealth vs. Frank Douglass, colored, carrying concealed weapons. Defendant plead guilty. Sentenced to pay the costs, $20 fine, and three months in jail. Commonwealth vs. Robert Howard, colored, carrying concealed weapons. Defendant plead guilty. Sentenced to pay the costs, $20 fine and three months in jail. Commonwealth vs. Thomas Morris, aggravated assault and battery, with intent to rob. Defendant plead guilty. Sentenced to pay the costs, $60 fine, and one year in the penitentiary. Commonwealth vs. Dick Wells, colored, selling liquor without license and on Sunday. Defendant plead guilty. Sentenced to pay the costs, $500 fine, and three months in jail. Commonwealth vs. Thomas Kennedy, breaking and entering, larceny and receiving. Defendant plead guilty, sentenced to pay the costs, $10 fine and four months in jail. Commonwealth vs. John McCull, malicious mischief. Defendant plead guilty. Sentenced to pay the costs, $10 fine, and two months in jail. David D. Blough vs. James W. Dick, trespass. Jury find for plaintiff $8. Henry Campbell vs. The Vinton Lumber company, trespass. Continued. Patton Supply company vs. Frank W. Ruskauff, H. Murphy and W. H. Heininger, trading as the Ruskauff Lumber company, trespass. Jury find for plaintiff, $288.06, with interest and costs. Second Week Court met on Monday morning at 11:30 with Judge O'Connor on the bench. The following cases on the criminal calendar were disposed of: Commonwealth vs. William T. Adams, surety of the peace, his wife, Elizabeth Adams, being the prosecutrix. Ordered to pay the costs, further sentence suspended. Commonwealth vs. Edward Scott, fornication and bastardy. Jury find defendant guilty of the first charge and not guilty of the latter. Defendant sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and costs. Commonwealth vs. Ed. Reed, James Burns, and John Sutchall, fornication. Defendants plead guilty. Sentenced each to pay a fine of $50 and costs. Commonwealth vs. James, Peter and Joe Polaski, assault and battery and breaking the quarantine laws. Jury find all three guilty of violating the quarantine laws and each was fined $100 and costs and given three months in the county jail. Peter was found guilty of assault and fined $25, while James was found guilty of aggravated assault and battery and fined $100 and costs and serve six months in jail. Commonwealth vs. John Stibick, malicious mischief. Defendant acquitted, the county to pay the costs. Commonwealth vs. George Galitz and William Shinskey, aggravated assault and battery. Jury find defendants guilty. Shinskey was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and costs and six months in jail to date from time of the his incarceration, with Galitz was fined $50 and costs and six months in jail to date from day of sentence. Commonwealth vs. Michael Covalitz, surety of the peace. Defendant ordered to pay the costs and to enter into his own recognizance the sum of $300 to keep the peace. Commonwealth vs. John Bentley assault and battery. Jury find defendant not guilty but that he pay the costs. Commonwealth vs. George Igon, assault and battery and carrying concealed weapons. Jury find defendant guilty of the first charge and not guilty of the latter, the costs on the latter charge being placed on the prosecutor, Harvey C. Smail. On the assault and battery charge Igon was sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs. Commonwealth vs. Joseph and Mary Bennett, sending threatening letters. Jury find Joseph Bennett guilty and Mrs. Bennett not guilty. Commonwealth vs. Charles Moore, battery and perjury. Jury find defendant guilty. On the charge of battery, the defendant was sentenced to pay the costs, a fine of $50 and six months in jail and on the perjury charge he was sentenced to pay the costs, $100 fine and one year and one month in the penitentiary. Commonwealth vs. W. R. Evans, desertion. Jury find defendant not guilty but that he pay the costs. Commonwealth vs. Annie McGuire, adultery. Jury find defendant not guilty and the prosecutrix, Annie Miller, to pay the costs. Commonwealth vs. Patrick Greeley, malicious mischief. Jury find defendant guilty. Sentenced to pay the costs, $25 fine and three months in jail. Commonwealth vs. Frank Coleman, desertion. Jury find defendant not guilty and divide the costs between defendant and the prosecutrix, Emma Coleman. Commonwealth vs. James Shields, violation of the liquor laws. Jury find defendant not guilty and the county pay the costs. Commonwealth vs. Stephen Mindik, larceny. Jury find the defendant guilty. Sentenced to pay the costs, $50 fine and one year and one month in penitentiary. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Bloom & Skelly lost another valuable horse by death on Friday. Mr. W. J. Buck of Allegheny township spent a few hours in town on Thursday. Landlord John Manion and wife, of the Central Hotel, in this place spent Sunday with relatives in Cherrytree. The Johnstown school directors have raised the salaries of the seventy-two teachers employed in the schools of that city, $5 per month. Mr. C. M. Parrish and wife of Bellefonte, Pa., spent Sunday in Ebensburg with the formers' parents, Squire J. D. Parrish and wife. Misses Gertrude and Ethel Plank, who are spending the summer in Ebensburg, left on Tuesday for a two weeks visit to friends in Pittsburg. Squire John T. Long of Summerhill was in town on Monday, having been summoned here as a juror but excused by the court on account of ill heath. Miss Nellie Lloyd of this place left on Tuesday morning for Wooster, O., to attend the commencement exercise of Wooster College, after which she will visit friends in Polo, Ill. Demetrio Jonnella, of Amsbry, while dumping coal on a tipple at that place Saturday was caught between two mine cars and his left leg was fractured. He was taken to Altoona and admitted to the hospital. Andrew Oschak was taken to the Memorial hospital at Johnstown on Saturday morning from Garman's Mills, suffering from a broken back, the injury having been sustained in the Greenwich Mines there. He is thirty-six years old, married and is in a serious condition. A letter received by Mr. Ambrose Schettig of this place from his brother, Anselm, who at present is in the northern part of California states that the latter is seriously ill with consumption, with very little hope for his recovery. Anselm Schettig is well known in Ebensburg where he formerly worked at the blacksmith trade for E. J. Luther. J. S. Eeisenring, Esq., a well-known Republican lawyer of Altoona has announced himself as an independent candidate for president judge of that county. Judge Bell, the present judge, is the regular Republican nominee for re-election and A. V. Dively is the Democratic nominee. If the three corner fight continues the chances will be in favor of Mr. Dively. Wesley Horner, of Jenners, Somerset county, is a sufferer from a peculiar accident the other of the other day, as a result of which he will lose the sight of his right eye. He was hammering a nail into a piece of hard wood in a buggy when the nail rebounded from the wood and flew back into his eye, where it punctured the ball. It is thought it will not be necessary to remove the eye, but the sight is gone. Friday last the surviving members of the Fifty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers and their friends and relatives held a reunion at Lakemont. The regiment was made up of men from the counties of Cambria, Clearfield, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin and Blair. Among the principal speakers of the day were Major General John R. Brooke, formerly colonel of the regiment and ex-Governor James A. Beaver. John Flitz was a stationary engineer at the Allport mines, living at Barnesboro. Tuesday evening, June 2, after he had finished his day's work, he disappeared and his whereabouts was unknown until Mrs. Flitz received a letter from him Saturday. In the letter he told his wife to sell the household goods and shift for herself as he was joining the United States navy. Mrs. Flitz says that her husband took with him $400 which he had in the Barnesboro National bank. The card of Mr. Samuel Lenhart, a well-known Democratic citizen of the 3rd ward, Johnstown, appears among the political announcements this week as a candidate for sheriff. Mr. Lenhart is known to the Democracy of Cambria county as one of the working Democrats of the Flood City, who at all times has been in the front in advancing the cause of Democracy. Should he receive the nomination the Democracy of Cambria county will have a standard bearer worthy of the united efforts of the party. Mayor Pendry, of Johnstown, on Monday entered suit on behalf of the city against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company for $50,000 for encroachment on the Stony Creek river. The mayor's affidavit was filed with the prothonotary and sets forth the damage done the city in the matter of filling up the river and rendering it narrower than it should be. The action was rendered necessary by the refusal of the attorney general of the state to permit the suit to be brought in the name of the commonwealth.