NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 3 Feb 1905; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, 3 Feb 1905 Volume 39, Number 4 Items Local and Personal George Ahles of Hotel Bender fell down a flight of stairs in the hotel Wednesday evening but fortunately escaped with a few slight bruises, although he was paralyzed for a short time. Dr. F. C. Jones was summoned and he was restored to consciousness. Miss Nannie Bender, who has been seriously ill with typhoid fever at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mr. F. R. Dunegan of St. Augustine, is improving. James Blair of Gallitzin and Theodore Flemming of South Fork, well- known employees of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, were in Johnstown Wednesday. Miss Rice of Wooster, Mass., and Miss Smith of Harrisburg are the houseguests of Mrs. John W. Kephart. On account of illness Father Fox was unable to celebrate mass on Thursday morning, it being Candlemas. Mrs. Berkey, wife of Supt. Berkey, of Johnstown, spent Sunday with Prof. Ott and family in this place. Rev. Mon. Hughes, of Rome, N. Y., has accepted a call from the C. M. Church in this place. Mrs. George Porch returned home Saturday from a visit with friends in Johnstown. Miss Elizabeth Jones is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jones of Seward, Pa. Mrs. Lewis Hummell is visiting her sister, Miss Hertzler of Pittsburg. E. C. Platt of Gallitzin was a business visitor in this place Tuesday. Mrs. Bart McCabe is seriously ill at her home in this place. Mrs. Charles Smathers of Big Bend was taken to the Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, Monday, to receive treatment for stomach trouble. Mrs. Smathers was accompanied to the Quaker City by Dr. Mitchell of Big Bend. The patient's maiden name was Conway and she and Mr. Smathers who is a traveling representative of the Johnstown Harvester Company in Cambria County were united in marriage Dec. 21, 1903. Mr. Smathers and a sister of Mrs. Smathers accompanied Mrs. Smathers to Cresson. Mrs. Bunker, formerly Miss Mary McCabe, accompanied by her infant daughter, arrived in this place Monday evening, having been called to the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Bart McCabe, who was dangerously ill of pneumonia. Squire Hildebrand of South Fork, who is seventy years of age and has served as Justice of the Peace for over thirty years, has been quite ill at his home, but is now reported as being on a fair way to recovery. Several of the family of Harry Pryce of Cambria Township are suffering from a very severe attack of scarlet fever. They are being attended by Dr. Jones of this place. The many friends of Miss Margaret Rhey will be pleased to learn that she is improving at the Mercy Hospital where she was recently taken for treatment. Capt. Johnston of Johnstown District, Deputy of A. O. H., was here Friday evening to assist in the installation of officers of Ebensburg Conclave. It is said that there is a case of smallpox in the home of Mrs. Michael Eckenrode of Wildwood Springs. The case came from Portage. Ed Cassidy who is now employed with his uncle, Frank Cassidy in Altoona, visited his parents in this place. Mr. V. S. Barker who has been confined to the house for the past couple of weeks from the effects of a carbuncle is improving. Wm. A. Jones, of this place, who has been ill for the past two weeks with an attack of rheumatism, is still confined to his room. Mr. D. H. Zahm, engineer of the Ebensburg and Cresson branch, is off duty for repairs, as a result of a recent blizzard. Miss Goldie Tibbott of this place will leave Saturday to spend a ten days visit with friends and relatives in Pittsburg. Miss Emma Whitehead of Barnesboro, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Fes Tibbott, returned home Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Peach of this place attended the funeral of Mrs. L. A. Sharbaugh in Carrolltown on Monday. Mr. W. R. Jones and family of this place spent Sunday with friends and relatives at Wilmore. Mrs. Robert Jones returned home on Friday from a visit to her daughter in Turtle Creek. M. C. Westover of Spangler was transacting business in this place one day this week. Mrs. E. P. Shoemaker and Miss Gertrude Lynn are visiting friends in this place. Miss Blanche Henry is confined to her room by an attack of rheumatism. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Adams, of this place, left last week for Scalp Level. S. W. Davis, who has been ill for some time, is still in critical condition. Mrs. W. L. Stineman spent Tuesday in Altoona with Mrs. Green and Mrs. Miller. On Hands and Knees in Snow Portage, Feb. 1 John Troxell, aged fifty-five years, is suffering from a broken leg and ten frostbitten fingers as the result of a fall he sustained about 2 o'clock Monday morning. To use quoted words, "he was out where he shouldn't have been and in a condition not to be talked about." He fell and fractured the tibia of the right leg at a point of a couple of inches above the ankle joint. He was unable to walk and with the temperature down near zero and about a foot of snow on the ground he crawled on his hands and knees a distance of more than 100 yards before he secured assistance. Dr. A. J. Miller set the broken leg and has been doing what he can for the frostbitten fingers. The advanced age of Mr. Troxell is likely to make his recovery slow. Has Black Diphtheria Harry, an adult son of Andrew Kittell of Loretto, was brought home from Cresson this week suffering from a well-developed case of black diphtheria. The young man is a carpenter by trade and has been working for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Breaks Her Shoulder Blade Mrs. Albert Seaman of Wilmore, mother of Merchant E. T. Seaman, fell in her kitchen on Wednesday and broke her shoulder blade. Mrs. Seaman, who is 60 years of age, is reported to be resting easily. Loretto Man Insane Judge O'Connor, sitting in chambers in Johnstown Tuesday, appointed the following commission to inquire into the sanity of Joseph Marcellino, twenty-six year old, who has been employed for a number of years at odd jobs about St. Francis' College at Loretto: Dr. John Murphy and C. F. O'Donnell of Loretto and E. T. McNeelis, Esq., of Johnstown. The commission examined the young man Wednesday morning and reported him dangerously violent. On Thursday County Detective E. H. Knee removed him to the Western Pennsylvania Hospital for the insane at Dixmont. Smallpox at Portage Health Officer E. T. Edwards of Johnstown, who is a deputy inspector of the State Board of Health, was at Portage Saturday investigating the smallpox epidemic there. He found five cases in the borough, nineteen more within a radius of a half-mile from the center of the town and one case two miles out. Mr. Edwards made the visit upon the advice of President John Fulton of the Johnstown Board of Health who desired to ascertain if unusual precautions should be taken in Johnstown. The deputy inspector found that several of the Portage cases are of the confluent variety, which next to the hemorrhagic, is the worst form of the disease. Dr. A. J. Miller of Portage, who is attending the cases, says that of the twenty- five cases, but one of the victims has been vaccinated. The vaccinated patient suffers from a very light attack. The Portage schools have been closed within the past few days and all public gatherings have been prohibited by the Portage health officials while all infected houses have been quarantined and guards placed to prevent violation of the stringent rules. It is thus hoped to stamp out the epidemic. Caught at Last A. Yeager of Mineral Point, who has been wanted for some time on a charge of larceny, has been arrested and is now in the county jail. He was taken into custody by PRR Officer Parrish and Constable Howard, acting on a court process. Dr. O. G. A. Barker to Locate in Johnstown Dr. Olin G. A. Barker of Pittsburg, son of ex-County Treasurer F. H. Barker of Ebensburg, expects shortly to locate in Johnstown. He will have his offices in the Lincoln building and will confine his practice entirely to diseases of eyes and fitting glasses. Dr. Barker has been practicing in Pittsburg for several years where he has made a specialty of diseases of the eyes and previous to that spent some time in special studies in Europe after completing his course in this country. Suspect Murder In a quarrel of unknown origin in the foreign boarding house known as No. 15, at Lianfair, near Dunlo, this county, John Hoskey and his wife, who conducted the place, were wounded at 3:15 o'clock Monday afternoon by John Cabbage, a boarder, who attacked them with a miner's pick and a beer bottle. The woman, who was hit with the bottle on the right side of the head, is believed to be in a dying condition, while her husband, who suffers from a similarly located wound inflicted with the pick, is also considered fatally hurt. After the assault the alleged assassin ran hatless and coatless out of the house and got as far as Dunlo where he is said to have been apprehended. The three persons mentioned were the only ones in the house at the time and no cause for the murderous attack has yet been assigned. Dr. W. W. Livingston is attending the wounded man and woman. Both Cabbage and Hoskey were employed at the Henrietta Coal Company's No. 1 Mine of Lianfair. Has Lived a Full Century By Charles Hasson It was Victor Hugo who said, "forty is the old age of youth and fifty the youth of old age," and doubtless, if this be true, "one hundred years is the night time of old age." There are few among us who live to pass one hundred milestones on the great highroad of our mortal journey. It has been said that it is only one little step from yesterday to today, from this year to the next year, from time to eternity, each marked by invisible lines called days, months and years. But though this may be true, in most cases, frail humanity finds life's burden too heavy to be borne along before a century has passed by and the weary traveler, seeking rest, lays down his burden by the wayside to take it up no more. But Ebensburg has an old citizen who has withstood the test of time and whose proud distinction it is to have reached the century mark in years. To his many friends who called upon him Thursday to congratulate him, the venerable James Gallagher, Ebensburg's oldest citizen, informed them that he was 100 years old and that it was his birthday, he having been born in Donglow in County Donegal, Ireland, on February 2, 1805. [This next section of the article have been torn from the newspaper] Mr. Gallagher, considering his great age, is a remarkably well preserved man and to those who saw him Thursday, he had more the appearance of being "100 years young" than old. Mr. Gallagher says he is not as strong as he used to be but aside from a little weakness his general health is good. He eats heartily [paper torn] well and is contented. His [paper torn] are light and the road smooth. He [paper torn] troubles or cares to annoy him [paper torn] enjoys chattering to his old friends [paper torn] as ever. [Paper torn] of eighteen [paper torn] from a good sturdy [paper torn] of whom [paper torn] the vast majority. He [paper torn] fifty five years ago [paper torn] where he landed [paper torn] to Beaver Meadow [paper torn] where he remained two [paper torn] railroad construction [paper torn] and he next moved to Blairsville to work on the Indiana branch while it was being built. From Blairsville he went to Johnstown where he remained until the Ebensburg branch was built in 1860-61 at which time he came to Ebensburg where he has lived ever since. Mr. Gallagher worked for Collins Bros., during their palmy days as railroad contractors and Peter Collins, the only survivor of the Collins boys, while on a visit to Ebensburg recently, told Mr. Gallagher that they were the only two survivors of the vast army of "old timers" who worked on the Collins Railroad contracts years ago. Mr. Gallagher was married in Dunglow, Ireland, just 57 years ago to Miss Alice O'Donnell. She died 29 years ago at the age of 69 years, leaving her husband and one daughter, Mrs. Mary Maloney, who now keeps home for her father in Ebensburg. About 23 years ago, Mr. Gallagher, while chopping wood, met with an accident from which he almost lost his sight. When the axe was brought down, one of the sticks glanced up and struck him in the eye. After years of doctoring the sight has been partially restored. For a man of his years, Mr. Gallagher [paper torn] wonderful vitality and is very much interested in things about him. One of his undertakings for next summer is the erection of a new brick house where he expects to spend "his declining years." On Monday he sent to Contractor Sherman Clement of this place [paper torn] with him went carefully over the design of his proposed new home. Mr. Gallagher is a member of the Catholic Church and during the summer months, when the weather is good, [paper torn] services on Sundays. As may well be expected the old gentleman notes many changes in the [paper torn] the days when he was on the [paper torn] more frequently. His old friends have nearly all answered the last call and Mr. Gallagher says he is only waiting [paper torn] day and hour when he too shall be called from life's stage to give place to a younger and less wearied actor. Harry Lambuski Harry Lambuski of Johnstown, a conductor for the Cambria Steel Company, was run down by a shifter at the Morrellville Crossing Sunday morning and instantly killed.