NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 17 Nov 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, 17 Nov 1905 Volume 39, Number 45 Items Local and Personal Mr. Charles Evans was in Johnstown Tuesday. Messrs. Harvey Williams and Cetus Peach of this place spent Sunday in Johnstown. Uncle Bill McClarren, now of Possum Glory, spent Sunday with old friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hasson of Pittsburg are visiting Mr. Hasson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Hasson. Deputy Treasurer William M. McGuire of Ebensburg was registered at the Keystone Hotel, Johnstown. Gallitzin Christy of Gallitzin township attended to some business matters in the county seat on Wednesday Mr. Frank Buck of Carrolltown borough filed the assessment of that place with the commissioners on Wednesday. Attorney John W. Kephart departed Tuesday for York where he spent several days attending to business matters. Attorney James W. Walters of Johnstown was attending to some legal business at the county seat on Wednesday. Mrs. Taggart of Johnstown, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler Davis of the West ward, has returned home. Charles Bell of Munster township, Peter Campbell of Carrolltown and Thomas Ott of St. Boniface were Ebensburg visitors Wednesday. Mr. John C. Gates arrived home from Harrisburg Tuesday night and Wednesday went to Johnstown where he attended the regular meeting of the Elks after which he departed for Harrisburg. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Lutringer and son, Leo, Jr., who had been visiting for several days in Johnstown with Mr. Lutringer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. Lutringer, returned to their home in Harrisburg Monday. Constable Woods of Barnesboro brought to jail Wednesday Patrick McCarthy, a notorious character of that place, charged with wife beating. McCarthy has been in jail several times. Mr. Walter Port, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Port of this place, who for the past four years has been employed in the P. & L. E. depot, Pittsburg, departed Wednesday for Savannah, Ga., where he secured a more desirable position with the Southern of George Railroad company. Cresson Doings Miss Vera Aheart of Cresson was in Pittsburg on Tuesday. Father Kittell of Loretto passed through this place on Monday on his way to Altoona. Thomas Reilly of Gallitzin has assumed the management of the Cresson News company. George Fullmer, the genial clerk at the Commercial Hotel, returned from his home at Philadelphia Tuesday. The Adams Express company has abandoned its temporary office uptown and moved into the new building next to the depot. Miss Catherine Taylor of Tarentum, Pa., a last years' graduate of the Mt. Aloysius academy is visiting friends at that institution. B. C. Seeds, treasurer of the Cresson Supply Company, returned this week from Baltimore where he had gone to be operated upon for swelling in the throat. J. P. McWilliams, superintendent of the Cresson Springs Hotel, was in town Tuesday and made a thorough inspection of the Cresson Springs property. Mr. McWilliams, when asked as to what disposition would be made of the hotel, stated that he had no information to make public. Late News of County Gradly Peel, a bar clerk at the Mountain House, Dunlo, was arrested Thursday morning by Detective Dan Wingard and taken to Johnstown to answer a sensational charge of cruelty to animals preferred against him by Humane Agent, Charles H. Witt. Peel was accused of pouring kerosene on a cat and then lighting the animal's fur with a match. James Kane, the proprietor of the Summerhill Hotel, Summerhill, was severely injured, sustaining a number of bad bruises and contusions to his left side Friday morning. Mr. Kane does not know whether he was struck by a flyer and hurled some distance away or whether he fell on the tracks and rolled into the excavations alongside, where he was found afterwards. J. F. Lynch of Cresson attended the concert given by the Teachers' Institute at Ebensburg Tuesday night. News from Blandburg No. 5 mine is shipping about one hundred tons of coal per day. There is a case or two of membranous croup at the house of John Mills in Mountaindale. One night last week poultry thieves made a raid on Bridge street and stole all of Mr. and Mrs. Sample's chickens. Mrs. J. M. Allard, Osceola, is here visiting her father who was badly injured in a run-off as stated last week. J. A. Hollen has closed a contract for building thirty five additional coke ovens at the Treese plant. The contract price is $15,000. An epidemic of scarlet fever prevailed for some time in the Hollen district but the disease is now subsiding. There were twelve cases but no deaths. Local Items The Congregational Ladies' Aid society will meet Saturday at the home of Mrs. Tate. While riding a horse Saturday evening Sherry Jones of O'Hara & Luther's livery, in some manner, fell off and broke one of the bones in his shoulder. M. J. Stoltz has leased Fenwycke Hall for another year and will conduct the popular hostelry in the same style that has made it attractive in the past. At Leonard's Hotel, Gallitzin, at Gallitzin, Tuesday evening, Supervisor George Ehrenfeld gave a reception and banquet to his foreman and other PRR officials and employees on this stretch of the PRR. George Crook of this place went to Pittsburg Saturday where he will erect a residence for his son, William, who is employed in the Jones & Laughlin mills on the South Side. Mr. Crook expects to be absent several weeks. Newton Price of Cambria township closed a deal Thursday by which he becomes the owner of the Howell Square in the East ward. The price paid was over $2000. When Newt takes on another half we will be glad to welcome him and his to the sacred precincts of our beloved East ward. Mosscreek and Marstellar News All the coke ovens here are in full blast. Thomas Malee of Spangler spent Sunday in town. John Douglass of the Douglass Hotel has just awoke - since Nov. 9th. The Sunshine whisky (not moon shine) made many sore heads in old Moss Creek the day after the election. M. C. Weakland and John McCormick, two prominent Barnesboro and Spangler Hotel men, spent Monday in Barnesboro. Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Keck of the Hotel Moss Creek returned home Friday evening from a three-day hunting expedition. Frank McTague who had one of his feet smashed some time ago in the mines between the bumpers of bank cars is slowly improving. Frank Swim, one of the DuBois Brewing company's owners, was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Keck of the Moss Creek Hotel Thursday. J. E. Dailey, the popular Bartholomay (Rochester) Brewing company's agent of Dunlo, Pa., was circulating among his many friends here last week. Frank Farrell, who committed the wild west shooting at Barnesboro last Sunday night, seriously injuring officer Taylor, Joe Rodgers and his brother-in-law, Thomas Maloy, was well known in Marstellar as he had recently boarded at the Douglass Hotel while working on the Clearfield & Huntingdon Telephone line. His mother resides in Greenwich. Thieves Make Good Haul at Cresson Get Away with Almost $2000 Worth of Booty from Residences of Prominent Men Cresson, Nov. 16 Second-story men who made surreptitious visits to the homes of C. S. d'Invilliers, engineer of construction of the Pennsylvania railroad and Eli T. Conner, general superintendent of the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Company in this place, made a rather rich haul last Friday night and had it not been for the fact that they were frightened away from both mansions would undoubtedly have gotten away with still more booty. It was learned today that on the evening of Nov. 10, men climbed the porches of both the d'Invilliers and Conner residences. Once inside they took advantage of the fact that the families were dining and gathering up values. It is thought that they were frightened by servants who went to the second story for some purpose. However from the Conner home was stolen a $150 watch and a gold seal ring belonging to Miss Wright. The thief or thieves took a handsome Egyptian necklace of gold, which was secured in Cairo some time ago by Mr. and Mrs. d'Invilliers. Other articles of value were also taken but the necklace – worth $1000 – was the most valuable. Detectives are now working on the case. It is thought that the robbers are the same ones who have been operating in the vicinity of Hollidaysburg. Barnesboro Shooting Affray Officers are still searching for Frank Farrell who shot three men in true wild west style last Sunday evening at Barnesboro. Farrell, who had been drinking for several days, secured a .38-calibre revolver from his brother-in-law – Tom Malloy and fired through the door of a shanty about 9 o'clock Sunday evening. Old man Roberts, who was seated on the inside reading a newspaper was struck in the hand by the bullet. After the shooting the burgess of Barnesboro issued a warrant for Farrell's arrest and Policeman Samuel Taylor arrested Farrell at Malloy's house. After proceeding with the officer a short distance, Farrell suddenly drew a gun and fired, striking Malloy, his brother-in-law, in the right leg near the hip then turning, he fired the weapon full in the face of the officer. Taylor staggered to the opposite side of the street and fell. The bullet struck him in the right cheek, ploughed through the palate and lodged near the left temple. He was taken to the Philadelphia Hospital. Word received from that institution recently states that the bullet has been removed and that Taylor will recover. He is married and has a wife and five children living in Barnesboro. It is rumored that a certain Barnesboro hotel keeper aided Farrell to make his escape by lending a horse and buggy for that purpose. The landlord denies the rumor. Reports from Possum Glory say that Farrell was seen passing through that place and the officers are following up the information but as yet the criminal has not been apprehended. Major Kerbey's New Book "The Land of Tomorrow" Soon to be Issued by Philadelphia House Major J. Orton Kerbey, the well known former Cambria county boy who many years since wrote "The Boy Spy," a story of his own thrilling adventures in the Civil War, will soon have issued from the press in Philadelphia his latest work, "Manna, or the Land of Tomorrow," in which he gives an account of his extensive travels in Central and South America, including his experiences at Para Brazil, where he was United States consul for a number of years. Some advance pages received by the TRIBUNE indicate that the book will be very interesting and will contain much valuable information not hitherto published. Just at the present time Major Kerbey is confined to his room in Washington City where he has resided for some years. He is suffering from a threatened nervous breakdown, largely due to the work and worry of getting his book to press. Nevertheless, he is making arrangements to push his publication which is being issued by the John C. Winston Company, No. 1016 Arch street, Philadelphia. Major Kerbey, whose address is Station A, Washington, D. C., writes that he would like to make special arrangements for a live agent or two in his old home county of Cambria. (Johnstown TRIBUNE) Seriously Ill Mrs. Cyrus Howell of Johnstown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Tibbott, of this place, is critically ill at her home, threatened with appendicitis. Her parents were summoned to her bedside Wednesday. Later – word was received here that Mrs. Powell was greatly improved. Aged Northern Citizen Seriously Ill Word reached Ebensburg Tuesday morning that John A. Bearer, one of the oldest residents of Susquehanna township and the father of Deputy Sheriff M. D. Bearer, had suffered a stroke of paralysis at his home near Hastings at 2 o'clock Monday morning and that his condition is such as to leave little hope for his recovery. Mr. Bearer is 85 years of age. About 10 years ago he had one of his legs fractured so badly in a runaway accident that it had to be amputated above the knee and although he was 75 years of age at the time, he recovered completely. Mr. Bearer was one of the first settlers of Susquehanna township. Wm. H. Sechler Esq. Struck by Train Somewhat Bruised, But Not Seriously Injured Cresson, Pa., Nov. 12 Attorney William H. Sechler, of Ebensburg, had a narrow escape from being ground to death under the wheels of a rapidly moving freight at Cresson shortly after 5 o'clock Saturday evening. Mr. Sechler, who is a veteran of the Civil War and whose eyesight and hearing are beginning to fail him, was walking down the tracks toward the passenger depot and did not notice the approaching freight train until it struck him, hurling him to the ground. Detective Dan Wingard, who was on his way to Ebensburg with a prisoner, seeing Mr. Sechler's predicament, seized him and dragged him out of danger. Aside from a few painful bruises, Mr. Sechler was not injured. Mr. Wingard placed him aboard the Ebensburg train and saw him safely to his destination. Mr. Sechler is one of the best known attorneys in Cambria county. Several months ago he was severely injured by falling down a flight of stairs at Conemaugh. Hunting Party Killed Moose and Deer Dr. William Rauch of Johnstown returned Sunday night from his two weeks hunting trip to the North Bay region, Canada. His companions, Lee Rauch, of Jenners; Thomas Rager and F. J. Timmaney of Morrellville, returned Sunday morning. The party shot seven deer and two bull moose. One of the moose was shot by Dr. Rauch and weighed 650 pounds while the other weighed 500 pounds. The heaviest of the seven deer weighed 250 pounds and four of them have very pretty horns. The game was all brought home to Johnstown. Ebensburg Deer Hunters Off for Clearfield County Tuesday morning saw the exodus from Ebensburg of a party of five deer hunters who were bound for the Clearfield mountains. They were Dr. Clark Creery; W. N. Bolsinger; Elmer C. Davis; Enoch Miller and Nelson Brown. Along with them went Miss Ollie Stough, who will act as chief cookee. No doubt the boys will have a great time during their two weeks hunt and we hope to be favored with a choice cut of venison on their return. Last year they killed one deer and should do better this trip as they know the country better. Ebensburg's Assistant Principal The vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Cora Suter as assistant principal of the Ebensburg schools will be filled by Miss Martha Snedden who has resigned her position as a teacher in the public schools of Patton to accept the position. Miss Snedden comes highly recommended as a successful teacher, and the board of school controllers congratulate themselves on having been able to secure her. Miss Snedden will remain in Patton two weeks in order to give the Patton people a chance to secure another teacher to take her place. More "Doings" in the Yeckley Case The case of Commonwealth against Charles Yeckley of Carroll township again comes before the public. It will be remembered that at September Court, Yeckley was found guilty on a charge preferred by Miss Ella Miller, also of Carroll township. To that trial District Attorney J. W. Leech contributed a dramatic feature by suddenly holding up to the defendant's face that of his alleged son, giving the jury an opportunity to judge the two physiognomies. At the trial one of Yeckley's witnesses was his affianced, also named Miller, who testified that, on the evening the offense was alleged to have been committed, Yeckley was at her home until after 11 o'clock. Miss Miller's sister corroborated this statement. Following the conviction of Yeckley, his attorney, P. J. Little, Esq., announced that the case would be appealed to the State Superior Court on the grounds that the District Attorney used an undue agency to influence the jury by comparing the faces of father and son as he did during the trial. But Yeckley has now gone to jail. It is said that his affianced, to whom he is to be marred before spring, objected seriously to Yeckley paying Miss Ellen Miller any money to settle the case after it had been decided not to appeal. The payment of money would be construed as an admission of guilt, according to this style of logic, while serving a jail sentence is probably regarded as a form of martyrdom. Yeckley is a son of Jacob Yeckley, a prominent Carroll township farmer. In fact all three families are prominent in that region. At the expiration of three months, Yeckley can apply for his discharge from jail under the insolvency laws. ENGAGEMENTS Butts-d'Invillers What promises to be one of the leading social events in Cresson for some time will be the wedding on November 22d of George Whitefield Butts, a special apprentice in the service of the PRR and a native of New York, to Miss Annie d'Invillers, of Cresson. The ceremony will be solemnized at the home of the bride's parents and it is said that 1,000 invitations have been issued for the event. DEATHS Unknown Man An unknown man about 36 years old was killed by a train Saturday afternoon while walking along the tracks of the South Fork branch near South Fork. He had on his person a letter addressed to A. Paese, Crenshaw, Pa. Ulrick Keck Ulrick, the 12-year-old son of John Keck of Summerhill, died last Friday of hydrophobia. The agony of the little lad was terrible to witness. One day last August while playing in the yard of his home the youth was bitten by a dog. Nothing was thought of the matter at the time. A couple of days ago the boy said that his arm was hurting him. The member commenced to swell and by Thursday night had reach an abnormal size. Dr. A. F. Stotts of Ehrenfeld was called and did everything in his power to relieve the lad. Early Friday morning the last agonies seized the boy. It was impossible for his relatives to hold him in bed. His screams of pain could be heard for quite a distance. Seven men were required to hold him.