NEWS: Items from The Cambria Freeman, November 11, 1904, 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, November 11, 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 44 Local and Personal James McClune paid a visit to Johnstown on Tuesday evening. John Reese of Pitcairn visited his mother in this place this week and while here called in to see us. Mrs. Emory H. Davis has been spending a week with her friend and schoolmate, Miss Findlay, in New York City. Lewis Burr of Pittsburg is visiting his brother, Richard Burr and family in this place. "Lew" was formerly a resident of this place where he has a large number of friends. Among the visitors in this place on Wednesday was Mr. G. L. McGuire, one of the sterling Democrats from Allegheny township. Mr. McGuire is the father of W. A. McGuire, Deputy Treasurer. There will be a meeting of the Memorial Hospital Auxiliary on Friday evening of this week at 7:30 o'clock at Mrs. John Lloyd's. All members and interested ones are requested to be present. Bright News from Patton Oscar Kinkead, Emory H. Davis, A. J. Waters and Thos. K. Estep, all of whom are prominent in Ebensburg Masonic circles attended the funeral of W. L. Nicholson last Sunday. George Prindible and J. J. Donnelly have returned home from the St. Louis Expo and are enthusiastic over the magnificence of the buildings and exhibits. They enjoyed every moment of the fair except when at their meals, which cost them at the rate of about one dollar a minute. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ritchie are in Patton for a few days this week packing up their earthly belongings, shipping them to Johnstown which place they expect to make their future home. Mrs. Jean Seal of Huntingdon spent Sunday as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Ritchie. Louis Doll was called to Bellefonte on Monday by the serious illness of his father who resides at that place. James Sheehan of Bucknell University spent several days at home this week. Misses Prindible, Lewis, Eisenhart and Wagner of the teachers' corps, spent Saturday at Altoona. Miss Sue Dougherty left last Monday for Clearfield to visit friends. W. H. Sandford and family spent Sunday at Philipsburg. Artist Perell has taken a fine picture of the "Asylum" with the inmates grouped in the foreground. He has printed them upon cards suitable for sending through the mail and is disposing of a great number as souvenirs. Lilly Scrap The second day's celebration of a Slavish wedding at Lilly broke up at an early hour Tuesday morning with a stabbing affray in which Andy Neiscklo was cut in the neck with a stiletto by George Trinto. Trinto escaped. The Oldest Voter According to the claims of his friends, Patrick Kerwin of Seward is the oldest voter in the State of Pennsylvania and in the United States. He was born in 1797 and is now almost, it is stated, 108 years of age. His first vote was cast in 1825. New Clerk in Gallitzin Office Mrs. Mary Morgan has been appointed a clerk in the Gallitzin Post office by Postmaster M. P. Frederick and has assumed her duties. Mrs. Morgan was clerk in the Gallitzin Post office where her father, the Hon. Michael Fitzharris, was Postmaster and is thoroughly conversant with the details of the office. Held for Court Coroner E. L. Miller went to Ehrenfeld last Thursday and conducted the inquest into the death of Mike Yosh, who it is alleged, came to his death some days ago as the result of a gun shot fired by Josh Elosh. The jury in the case found Elosh guilty of shooting Yosh and recommended that he be held for court. Right there is the puzzling proposition to the officials of the county, Elosh is not to be found. It had been thought that he would be in Durancevile by Thursday morning but such was not the case. One man, however, is under arrest. He is now in jail but his name is unknown. The fellow, a foreigner, is accused of sheltering the man Elosh. Get Salty Sentences On Thursday morning the Court before organizing to make the official count of the election returns, handed down several salty sentences. Sowers and Butterbaugh, convicted of arson, suffered the heaviest. Curt Sowers was given seven and one-half years, Butterbaugh, one-and one-half years and Isaac Murphy, colored, three and one-half years in the penitentiary. It will be remembered that this trio was convicted at a recent term of court of having burned a building in Moxham. Two foreigners who pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the last term were sentenced to two and one-half years in the penitentiary. These men were implicated in the assault upon Mike Nightengale, of Brownstown, which resulted in his death. Letters Issued Estate of Christina Hochstein, late of Johnstown to John Hochstein. Estate of William Young, late of Johnstown, will probated and no letters issued. Estate of Annie Thompson, late of Johnstown to Annie Peer. Estate of Alvin Adams, late of West Taylor Township to Amanda Adams. Estate of David B. Bower, late of Reade Township to R. L. Bower. Estate of Stephen Dimond, late of Summerhill Borough to Samuel Hess. Estate of Emily A. Lemmon, late of Ebensburg to Julia B. Lemmon. Estate of Michael Gapsky, late of Gallitzin to Susan Gapsky. Smallpox in North Spangler A case of smallpox has developed in an Italian family residing in house No. 2 in what is known as "Whisky Row," at North Spangler. The case is said to have come from South Fork. The property was promptly quarantined by the Spangler Board of Health but it is said the inmates of the house cut the ropes at night and allowed a number of Italians to go in and out of the infected house. The Spangler authorities placed a guard over the place Thursday of last week and have since kept a strict quarantine on the place. No More "Setting 'Em Up" A large number of members of the Cambric County Liquor Dealers' Association met in the Fisher Building, Johnstown, last Thursday. In all there were about 125 present, including a number from the north of the county. Considerable interest will be taken in the action of the association regarding presents to patrons at Christmas. It was decided to cut out this holiday feature entirely hereafter, commencing with the approaching holidays. The plan was tried last year and proved uniformly successful. According to the action taken Thursday display cards will be posted in prominent places at all bars, bearing the announcement that there will be no "setting 'em up," this coming Christmas. The object of the rule is to discourage the practice of indiscriminate drinking and rowdyism around the barrooms of the county. The great majority of the patrons of the saloons last year voted the rule a good thing as there was very little disorder and they had no difficulties in securing promptly such "wet goods" as they desired. The bartender's union has also adopted a rule similar to the above. Open Up Office The Western Union Telegraph Company has reopened an office at Gallitzin. The office, which was discontinued some weeks ago, is now located on the second floor of the First National Bank building and is in charge of John Skillen who was sent to Gallitzin from Beaver Falls. Contract for 150 Houses Rembrandt Peale, General Superintendent for Peale, Peacock & Co., has awarded a contract to A. H. Burkey for the erection of 150 tenement houses in South Spangler. The dwellings are necessary to accommodate the men who are employed at the Peale mines in that part of Spangler. Hotel Changes at Bakerton Dorsey Patterson, proprietor of the American Hotel at Bakerton, has sold his interests to Murphy Brothers of Johnstown. We are also informed that the Sterling Coal Company has purchased the McCombie Hotel at Bakerton. What disposition the coal company will make of it has not been made public. Electric Light for Barnesboro The engine for the Barnesboro electric plant, which is to supply Barnesboro with light for street and domestic purposes, arrived a few days ago and is being placed in position. It is a Ball & Wood engine and weighs 14,500 pounds. A track was constructed from the railroad siding to the power house and the heavy machine moved on trucks to the site it will occupy. The engine is the last of the machinery to arrive and it is expected the new plant will be in readiness for operation in four or five days. Roosevelt Landslide The Republican triumph grows. Missouri, Democracy's heretofore impregnable Gibraltar has fallen. Every northern State has been carried by Roosevelt and Fairbanks by a majority of 15,000 and a wedge has been driven into the solid South. Roosevelt had 343 votes in the Electoral College and Parker only 133. Later returns on the popular vote show the tremendous force of the Republican tidal wave in figures that almost daze the student of American political history. Nearly 2,000,000 more votes were cast for Roosevelt than for Parker. Parker's total pluralities confined to Southern States, aggregated only a little more than half a million votes. This aggregate is about wiped out by the Republican pluralities of 340,000 rolled up in the single Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Keystone State, with Ohio, its neighbor to the west, more than offsets the vote of the Southern tier of States. Parker, Bryan and Hearst are out in statements. The Democratic candidate renews his charges of an alliance between corporations and the Republican party. Bryan blames the so-called conservative wing of the party for the defeat. He issued a declaration of party principles, based on his former declarations and says Democracy must return to them. Hearst declares that there is no longer any room in Democratic ranks for what he calls the Wall Street element. Congress will support President Roosevelt's administration with a clear majority of 100 or more. New York's vote now gives a plurality of 174,691 to Roosevelt and 76,822 to Herrick. Among the election surprises is the election of Douglas, Democratic candidate as Governor of Massachusetts by 35,000 while Roosevelt carried the State by 86,279. Maryland is Republican by 2,000. Plan Boom for Cresson Rumors circulated in Pittsburg recently have been to the effect that Cresson is to be the seat of a large country hotel which will surpass anything in style in the State. James Ridley, owner of the Hotel Shenley, Pittsburg, will in the spring commence the erection of a palatial summer inn, which will be luxuriant and handsome, but not too altitudinous in prices. It is to be of mammoth size and surrounded by 1,000 acres of a park. It will be on the line of the railroad and also in a territory that offers attractions for riding and driving. The inn will cost 300,000 and the grounds will cost an immense sum additionally. One report has it that the hotel would be located at Cresson. Pennsylvania officials said it was news to them when told there was a movement to create a renaissance of Cresson as a summer resort and that some Pittsburgers intended to build fine summer homes there. They added, however, that they would be glad if it was true. The company owns the Mountain House, the big Hotel at Cresson but it has been closed for six years. Business fell off for the reason that the town is so far from Pittsburg, that too much time was spent by business men going and coming to see their families after business hours. As late as 15 years ago Cresson was a favorite resort with Pittsburgers and a decade before was frequented by many eastern people. Its springs were famous the country over and every summer saw the gathering there of the wealth and fashion of Eastern and Western Pennsylvania. Some noted people have stopped at the old Mountain House on the gentle sloping hill above the Pennsylvania railroad station. In 1889 the late President Benjamin Harrison was there with his family, including the then famous "Baby" McKee and the mistress of the White House, Mrs. McKee, the presidents' daughter. This was probably the last year of Cresson's social prominence and it has gradually declined ever since that time. There has been evidence, however, of late years of a drift back to Cresson by some of the older families of Pittsburg. And the building of summer homes in the vicinity of the mountain retreat has led some enthusiastic lovers of the spot to hope for a revival of its old time popularity. The distance however seems to be the chief deterrent for it is a four and a half hour run from Pittsburg to Cresson, too long by far for a twice a day run and even too far for busy men to make once a week, though some of them do contrive to run up Saturday night and remain until Monday morning. Nearly all of the cottages which Pittsburgers built or rented at Cresson in the past are now idle, though a few of them open for a brief spell in the summer. Recently, Mrs. William Thaw of Lyndhurst, Beechwood Boulevard, Pittsburg, built a fine summer home at Cresson and at Ebensburg, David E. Park has put up a commodious home. Ebensburg has taken some of Cresson's popularity as a summer resort and is frequented by Pittsburgers. Lieut. Gen. Samuel B. Clark Young, head of Uncle Sam's war college, spends a great deal of time at Ebensburg where he meets many of his old Pittsburg cronies. Bloodshed in Colorado, Cripple Creek, Col, Nov. 9: Three Men Shot and Killed During Election Day Quarrels Two Democratic election judges were killed in this district, a Peabody deputy was mortally wounded and a number of Democratic judges were beaten and thrown into jail. Ike Idlebolt and Chris Miller, judges at Goodfield, were shot down by one of Sheriff Bell's deputies. They had ordered the deputy out of the polling place. He refused to go and turning upon the judges, shot and killed them. At Midway, Ed Boyle a deputy sheriff assaulted Mrs. Kenny, a Democratic judge and in a struggle that ensued, tore her dress and slapped her. Ed O'Leary, a Democratic watcher interfered and shot Doyle, fatally wounding him. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 9: "Dock" Walton, a farmer and a Democrat, has been shot and killed at his home in Claiborne county. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 9: Three Louisville policemen, James Tierney, Thomas Connell and Daniel Sexon were arrested by United State Marshall Blades on warrants sworn out in the Federal court charging them with conspiracy to intimidate Negro voters. Killing in Election Row, Camden, N. J., Nov. 9: During an election row here last night, James Brown, aged 41 years, colored, was struck on the head with a club and died later in a hospital.