NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, June 5, 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, June 5, 1903 COURT PROCEEDINGS Court met on Monday morning at 11 o'clock with Judge O'Connor on the bench. The following cases on the civil list were disposed of: Asa Knepper vs. the Pennsylvania Railroad company, trespass. When the case was reached for trial counsel announced that a settlement had been made. Use of John R. Thomas vs. Silas W. Long, Constable of Washington township, assumpsit. Jury find for defendant. Mrs. Miriam Duncan et al vs. James and N. D. Altimus, ejectment for land in Blacklick township. Jury find for defendant. F. A. Cresswell vs. A. P. Ellis, settled. Oscar Schultz vs. David G. Knepper, settled. The following cases were continued: Joseph J. Kowicz vs. Teutonia and Orient Insurance companies, actions in assumpsit; use Cambria county vs. Nunzio Battaglio and Philip O Connor to recover bond; Johnstown Supply House vs. Charles E. Leister, appeal. Thomas Kennan, Jr. vs. Neal Sharkey, assumpsits. Jury find for plaintiff. Mary A. Byrne et al vs. E. W. Lantzy et al, ejectment. Plaintiff becomes non suit. Hugh F. Murphy vs. Thomas Keenan Jr., settled by the parties. LOCALS AND PERSONALS Miss Annie O'Neill of Pittsburg is visiting relatives in Ebensburg. Mr. Andrew Storm of Cresson was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. A. Strittmatter of Carroll township was in Ebensburg on Thursday. Mr. James Itel of Portage township spent a few hours in town on Monday. Mr. John McTamany of Lilly made a business trip to Ebensburg on Tuesday. [John McTamany is the son of Nancy Ann Cassidy and Timothy McAtamney of Washington twp. - Patty Millich] Mrs. Michael Binder of Hastings is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Bert Boney, of this place. Mr. Vincent Melloy of Clearfield township spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Tuesday. Drs. O. G. A. Barker and F. B. Roberts of Pittsburg spent Sunday in Ebensburg with their parents. Mr. Earl Jones of Altoona is home on a vacation visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. Jones of the East ward. The Kress-Denny hearing in the Merchants Hotel lease to Johnstown has again been postponed; this time until July. Mr. William Barkey and his wife, of Altoona, visited the formers' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Barkey in Ebensburg this week. Mrs. T. M. Richards and daughter, Lottie, returned home on Monday evening after a three weeks' visit to Zanesville, Ohio. Frank McTague of Altoona and F. M. Campbell, of Cresson, have purchased the Shiber hotel at Cresson and will conduct it in the future. One day last week, Daniel Sweeny, a Johnstown man was found dead drunk by the police lying along the railroad track with $1,000 in cash in his pocket. One day last week Richard Vaughn Pryce, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pryce, of Cambria township, was so unfortunate as to fall from an apple tree and break his arms. A saw mill will be set up by Messrs. Isaiah Brown and son, William, of Barr township, on the Lehmire tract near Bakerton, where they will cut probably from 400,000 to 600,000 feet of hemlock and hardwood. A bad wreck occurred on Friday evening of last week near Clearfield on the Pennsylvania railroad. Ten loaded cars were wrecked and John Ellinger of Luthersburg, who was riding on the train, had one of his legs broken. A surprise party of their friends and neighbors visited Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Noel, in Cambria township today (Thursday). From the well known hospitality of the host and hostess we know the visitors were royally entertained. W. H. Weston, the Gallitzin merchant, has purchased a lot and begun the erection of a fine store building on Main street, near his present location. The site was bought from Squire T. J. Stevens, the veteran Gallitzin jeweler. W. B. Litzinger, the Loretto merchant who was recently burned out, has begun work on a fine residence. His won, Walter F. Litzinger, whose harness shop was destroyed will start business again, the work of erecting a new harness shop having been begun. A deal has just been consummated by Mr. T. Stanton Davis whereby he has come into possession of 672 acres of coal right in Jackson township, embracing the lands of David Rose, Al. Long, John Gray, John Gittings and Dan Burkett. The consideration amounts to $43,000. Cards are out for the marriage of Mr. George F. Wildeman of Barnesboro and Miss Della, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bearer of Carroll township. The ceremony will take place in St. Benedict's church in Carrolltown on Wednesday morning, June 19th, at 9 o'clock. Cards are out announcing the coming marriage of Mr. Benjamin Franklin James and Miss Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. S. W. Davis, both of Ebensburg. The marriage will take place at the First Congregational Church on Wednesday evening, June 7th, at half past seven o'clock. David T. Watson, Esq., a distinguished member of the Pittsburg bar, with his family, is occupying the Baker cottage on Centre street, in this place. Mr. Watson is counsel for the United States Government in the Alaskan boundary dispute and he came to Ebensburg to prepare his brief and argument in the case. Samuel Bennet, of Hyndman, was taken to the asylum at Harrisburg having suddenly become insane. He has a horror of gray hair and for the last ten years, kept his hair and whiskers dyed a deep black. The physician who attended Bennet says the dye went to the brain. The man is of splendid physique. It has developed that William Young, of Spangler, foreman of the Delta Mine, who it was announced recently was suffering from typhoid fever, has the small pox. His home has been quarantined and other measures taken to prevent a spread of the disease. It is not known where Mr. Young, who has been sick about ten days, contracted the dread malady. A Hollidaysburg dispatch states that George Pearce & Co., coal shippers of Puritan, this county, have entered suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad company to recover $150,000 damages. The plaintiffs allege that they have been injured in their business to this extent by reason of illegal freight rebates having been granted by the company to their business competitors. The Ebensburg School Board met Monday evening, June 1st and organized, electing S. W. Davis, president; F. W. Dick, secretary and John F. Tibbott, treasurer and after swearing in the new members, elect, S. L. Reed, Esq., and Mr. S. S. Kinkead, proceeded to elect teachers as follows: Principal Prof. E. B. Ott; assistant principal, Miss Pearl Bash. The remainder of the teachers will be elected Monday evening, June 15th. The card of Mr. Thomas Peach, the well-known liveryman of Ebensburg, appears in this issue of the FREEMAN as a candidate for sheriff, subject to the decision of the Democratic county convention. Mr. Peach is well known through the county as an active Democrat and energetic party worker and if nominated and elected has the ability to perform the duties of the office in a manner that will be a credit to the Democracy. The residence of Mr. Frank at Utahville was struck by lightning on Wednesday of last week, and although the family all escaped injury, it is almost a miracle that two of the children were not killed. One flue is badly damaged and plastering is knocked off in several rooms. Fire was started in the carpet and quite a blaze was going when Mr. Flick [sic] got down stairs. The family is thankful that their lives were all spared. J. H. Rhinehart, a Homestead man, was on his way east on Friday night when he met with a peculiar accident that landed him in the Memorial Hospital. About Derry, the car in which he as riding gave a sudden lurch and his left foot, which he had propped up against the window went through it and was struck by a passing freight, the leg being broken at the ankle. The man was taken off the train at Johnstown and sent to the Memorial Hospital. The Cambria County Bar Association held a meeting at the court house on Monday evening. The old officers were re-elected as follows: President, W. Horace Rose; vice president, Alvin Evans; Secretary, H. H. Myers; treasurer, Mathiot Reade. The president and secretary of the association and the Messrs. M. D. Rittell, R. S. Murphy and T. J. Itell were chosen as the board of directors. The grievance committee is as follows: H. W. Storey, S. L. Reed; John M. Rose; F. P. Martin and William Davis. The Keystone Hotel Company, owners of the Cresson Springs Hotel at Cresson, are said to be anxious to dispose of the nine cottages belonging in the company, on their grounds at Cresson. It is said that the cottages will be offered for sale with the understanding that purchasers remove them off the grounds. There are also a number of very fine cottages on the same grounds which were built and are owned by private parties, the finest of which is the one owned by the late B. F. Jones, who died at his home in Pittsburg last week and who devised the same to his wife.