NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, September 11, 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, September 11, 1903 RETURNS A MANIAC After a tiring trip of two days and two nights, Sheriff A. F. Turner and Deputy Sheriff C. L. Van Alstine of Grand Forks county, N.D., arrived in Johnston Saturday night, having in charge Sloan Rarigh, a former Wehrum young man who was taken violently insane about a month ago after he had made his way west. He gave the officers considerable trouble on the way and it was necessary to keep him manacled all the time. Young Rarigh is about 25 years of age and is an athletic looking man. It is believed that his mental derangement is only temporary and that his disease will yield to treatment if he is sent to an institution. His people are well-to-do and they will look after his care. FATAL RAILROAD WRECK Altoona, Pa., Sept. 8 - Two men were killed and one fatally wounded in the wrecking of a train of small dump cars on the new Portage rail road west of Duncansville. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. William Brown, Jr., of Lilly, was among other visitors at the FREEMAN office this week. Governor Pennypacker appointed a man who had been dead three years to be one of Pennsylvania's representatives to the Farmers National Congress at Niagara Falls. And so far as the good they do the agricultural interests of the state, he might have picked the entire body from the cemetery. Miss Blanche Willison and her sister, Bessie, of Allegheny are visiting the family of A. J. Darraugh in this place. Wire thieves have been operating in the vicinity of Cresson and Gallitzin. On Saturday night about 3 miles of copper wire was stripped from the poles and carried away. Thomas George of Gallitzin was committed to the Ebensburg jail last Thursday in default of bail to answer at court a charge of wife beating. The allegations are that George became drunk and gave his wife an awful whipping while she was in a delicate condition and that the woman would have died but for the arrival of a physician in the nick of time. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. George Porch who recently removed from Johnstown to Altoona will regret to learn that while attending the Carrolltown fair last week, with her husband, Mrs. Porch was taken suddenly ill, her trouble developing into a severe attack of typhoid fever. Mr. and Mrs. Porch had been visiting in Ebensburg for a couple of weeks. It is not believed that her case has reached the critical stage. At New Castle on last Monday Judge Wallace handed down a decision refusing a new trial to Dr. Edwin S. Cooper of that city and Dr. J. R. Hann of Edinburg, who were convicted at the March term of criminal Court of conspiring with Albert Itell of Portage township, Cambria county, to perform a criminal operation upon Miss Mabel Williams of Conemaugh, which resulted in the death of that young woman in a boarding house at New Castle. The two physicians and Itell have been out on bail since the trial, but they have been ordered to appear in court at New Castle on Thursday to receive sentence motion for the suspension of which was refused by the Court at the same time he declined to hold another trial. It is not believed an appeal will be taken to a higher court. PATTON ITEMS John Thomas was in town Wednesday. Joseph Marks finished papering Mrs. Rook's house on Lang avenue. Reuben McPherson, bookkeeper for the Patton Clay Mfg. Co., visited his family in Clearfield on Labor Day. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Fisher of McGee avenue left on Thursday morning for Atlantic City, Washington D. C. and other points. Harry F. Barton drove to Ebensburg on Tuesday on business. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Taylor left for Atlantic City. Mr. Taylor is on his vacation. Some of the mines are not running full time and the men don't get full pay. T. J. Sheehan, county commissioner, was in Ebensburg this week on business. Fred Morey of Patton Supply company returned home on Thursday from a visit with friends in Loretto. Mrs. L. S. Bell and daughter, Florence, are visiting friends in DuBois this week.