NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 1 Dec 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, 1 Dec 1905 Volume 39, Number 47 Items Local and Personal Elmer Davis, who had been with a party of Ebensburg hunters who had gone into camp in Clearfield county, has returned home. Elmer says they did not bag any big game as was stated by some of the party with the exception of a fox and a few other small species. Attorney Herman H. Myers returned home from New York last Friday. During his visit he was shown through the new residence of Mr. Charles M. Schwab in course of construction and from the description given by Mr. Myers the interior decorations are magnificent. Mrs. A. V. Barker, Mr. and Mrs. Webster Griffith, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Zahm and Mrs. F. H. Barker of this place attended the funeral of Ezekiel Wherry which took place in Altoona on Tuesday. The condition of Mrs. C. C. Laubacher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Englehart who has been lying seriously ill at her home in Altoona, is reported considerably improved. P. H. Mahaffey of the Cambria Plumbing and Heating company of Johnstown was in town Friday. His firm is putting in the fixtures for steam heat at the Blair House. Mrs. Robert James of the West ward and Mrs. William James of Cambria township visited friends and relatives in Altoona and Hollidaysburg Sunday. Miss Elizabeth Ryan, the Western Union telegraph operator, was in Pittsburg this week, where she took part in the civil service examinations. John Griffith of Allegheny, who has been staying with his uncles, the Davis Brothers of North Ebensburg, departed for home Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Herch, of Pittsburg, who have been staying at the Fenywick for some time will spend the winter in Georgia. The young daughter of Mrs. Gertrude Wilson who has been ill with scarlet fever is reported to be rapidly recovering. Mr. and Mrs. Ward Hile of Spangler were in Ebensburg Tuesday visiting Mr. Hile's father at the Metropolitan Hotel. Dayton Rowland, son of William Rowland of North Ebensburg, who has been ill for some time, is convalescent. David G. Griffith of the East Ward has been housed with a disabled leg, probably the effect of an old sprain. Miss Justina Marstellar has been confined to her rooms at the Fenywick with a severe cold the past week. Mr. C. M. Reininger of Gallitzin paid THE FREEMAN a pleasant call while in town Wednesday on business. Mrs. Alexander Jones of Renova has been visiting at the home of Fergus Lloyd in the Centre ward. Miss Ella Cresswell of Johnstown is visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. E. B. Cresswell of Julian street. Dr. Clark Creery is in bed with sciatic rheumatism but is some better than last week. George Porch, our music dealer, visited his brothers in Johnstown one day this week. Miss Helen Barker was home from Hollidaysburg Seminary over Thanksgiving. The Misses Julia and Hattie Brown were in Pittsburg several days this week. Captain Thomas Davis is confined to his home with an attack of indigestion. O. A. Gardner of Hollidaysburg was an Ebensburg visitor Tuesday. News from Blandburg Samuel G. Dixon, health commissioner, has established several stations in this county for the distribution of diphtheria antitoxin to persons not able to pay for it. The remedy is a curative and immunizer and will be furnished to attending physicians. About the nearest free station for this end of the county is in Patton with John A. Dunn. Thursday last week Parker Scott was accidentally hurt in Bland's mine and had to lay off several days. Johnny Cann who returned from a Philadelphia hospital some time ago has given up all hope of recovery and is quietly awaiting the end. The trouble for which he sought relief developed a cancerous growth. There is one important matter that the governor omitted in his call for an extra session of the legislature. He forgot to suggest the enactment of a law for the better protection of life and limb in the mines. Life in the mines is a cheap factor in the production of coal and other minerals which is a fact well known to the people of this town and vicinity and sadly attested by vacant places in the family household. A 14-year-old son of Blair Myers has been sick three or four weeks, suffering from whooping cough and pneumonia. The case is considered hopeless. That old terror, Woodle, recently bailed out of jail, got on a wild west racket Monday night and raised hail in general and raced his wife and daughter over town at a late hour, threatening to kill them. He has a case pending for a similar offense and Judge O'Connor will likely talk to him like a Dutch uncle to a sick pig. Dozens of people can testify to all this and much more. Marsteller and Moss Creek Peter McAvoy has been celebrating his 21st anniversary this week. Harry Nolan has been confined to his home as the result of stepping on a rusty nail. Tally Coady of this place captured a large owl last Monday for which he has refused five dollars. Albert Wrigley was the lucky winner of two turkeys at the shooting match on Tuesday. Albert hied himself home with the birds and securely locked them up for the night in his own chicken coop. By a peculiar method of circumstances the turkeys disappeared and were afterwards found in the possession of another party. Mr. Ollie Marstellar, superintendent of this place, met with a painful accident recently. He was walking under the coal tipple and was struck by a piece of "boney," inflicting a wound on the head which required several stitches. Local Items Barber Cassidy has erected a new sign in front of his barber shop. Capt. Tom Davis was stricken on Sunday night with his old stomach trouble. We hope for his speedy recovery. Chas. Kessler, G. D. MacBain and Harry T. Jones of this place won the three turkeys in the Raffling match at Harry Black's Saturday night. Alf Davis, a son of John S. Davis of Cambria township, has passed preliminary examinations in architecture at the Carnegie schools in Pittsburg. Oscar Lloyd of the plastering firm of Lloyd Bros. & James is overseeing the plastering of P. J. Little's fine new stone house in the Centre ward. Abner Lloyd and John James, belonging to the same firm, are doing some plastering in Williamsburg. The young daughter of Mrs. Gertrude Wilson, teacher of room No. 2 at the Ebensburg public schools is confined to her home with an attack of scarlet fever. Miss Mary Lloyd, daughter of J. G. Lloyd will assume Mrs. Wilson's school duties until the child has fully recovered. J. Stewart, manager of a company store at Gallitzin, fell upon the snow- covered pavement on Eleventh avenue, Altoona, yesterday morning and sustained a serious gash in the back of his head, which came in contact with the curbstone. Home for Thanksgiving The Messrs. Harry Tibbott and "Puck" Davison, who are attending a pharmacy school in Pittsburg came home Wednesday evening to spend Thanksgiving in old Ebensburg. Their many friends are glad to welcome their return. They will remain over Sunday. Went to South Dakota John Ferguson of this place left Monday morning for Canton, South Dakota. Mr. Ferguson goes to South Dakota on business and expects to spend the winter there. George Thomas was to have accompanied Mr. Ferguson but had to postpone the trip on account of the illness of his mother. Mr. Thomas expects to leave this week and will join Mr. Ferguson in South Dakota. $750 Reward for Murderer Barnesboro Council and County Commissioners Offer Handsome Sum for Arrest of Frank Farrell who Shot and Killed Policeman Samuel Taylor Policeman Samuel Taylor who was fatally wounded by Frank Farrell while the officer was conducting the latter to the Barnesboro lockup Sunday evening, November 12, after Farrell had done a wild west stunt of shooting through the panels of a door, died at the University Hospital in Philadelphia Monday evening at 8:45 o'clock, cerebro-spinal meningitis having developed from the wound inflicted. The members of Barnesboro council met in special session Monday evening and adopted resolutions of regret at the officer's death. Council also decided to go to Altoona where they met the body which was shipped from Philadelphia Tuesday night after a post mortem examination had been conducted. The funeral of the dead man took place at Barnesboro Thursday. He is survived by his wife, six children and several brothers and sisters. County Detective E. H. Knee appeared before Justice A. J. Waters Tuesday morning and swore out a warrant for Farrell who is still at large; a reward of $750 has been offered for his arrest; $250 of which the Barnesboro council offered and $500 offered by the county commissioners. Typhoid at Armagh Armagh is threatened with a typhoid fever epidemic. There are at present eight cases of it in the village. Two of the patients are in a very critical condition. The water is supposed to be the cause of the disease. The stricken ones are Mrs. Agnes Patchin, her two daughters and her son and Mrs. Hugh Tomb and her three children. Fear for Miner Has Been Missing from Portage Home Since Wednesday Grave anxiety exists as to the whereabouts of George Harris, a well known resident of South Fork. He has not been seen at his home since Wednesday afternoon. The last seen of Harris was when he left the West End Hotel about 2 o'clock Wednesday for his home, a short distance out of town. Harris usually traveled along the railroad when going to and from his home and it is feared that he was hit by a passing train and that his body was knocked into the flyer. The missing man is a coal miner about 45 years of age and a wife and five children. Back to Andersonville Two Old Veterans Journey Back to Georgia to Live Over Again in Memory, Scenes of the Famed Southern Prison Ebensburg will have at least two representatives among the gathering of "Old Vets" who will assemble at Andersonville, Ga., beginning next week to review the place where they once spent days of such anguish and suffering as we hope they will never again experience. Jacob Berkey of this place will be one of them. Mr. Berkey will depart Monday for Andersonville accompanied by A. D. Hamilton, who is another survivor of the famed Andersonville prison. Several days ago these men received gratuitous transportation to and from Andersonville that they might go back once more and have a look at the site that once moved with scenes that made the stoutest hearts quall. Mr. Berkey spent nine and one-half months in the dreaded prison and his visit to the place under the present circumstances, we venture to say, will be attended with far more pleasure than was ever experienced during any of the days of the period when he was cast within the gloomy walls to die of hunger. We wish these time-honored heroes God speed and a safe and pleasant journey. We should feel honored to have such men living in our midst for they are heroes, not of the gaudy, tinseled type but men who have passed through the most trying ordeals and who yet live to relate that which has happened to them. May the 20 days which have been allotted them on the face of their orders for gratuitous transportation be days full of pleasure, mingled with the association of old comrades who have shared their hard and undesirable lots. President Favors Locks Agrees with Americans Who Signed Minority Report Washington, Nov. 29 President Roosevelt has decided in favor of the construction of a lock canal at Panama at a level of 30 feet. This is the type of canal recommended by the five American engineers who signed the minority report of the board of consulting engineers. They rejected all plans for higher levels because they involved too many locks and therefore too much delay in the passage of ships. They calculated that the canal on the 30 foot level can be completed in 10 years at a cost of about $165,000,000. In reaching this determination, President Roosevelt has been largely influenced by the fact that the views of the minority members of the consulting board are endorsed by all the members of the Panama canal commission of Chief Engineer Stevens and by Secretary of War, Taft. Argument Court News – Extract District Attorney J. W. Leech is preparing for trial the case of the county vs. Mike Markovics, the defendant being charged with murder. Mr. Leech is making an effort to have the case tried at the present term of court. Judge O'Connor has appointed M. B. Stephens and Walter Jones to defend Markovics. It will be remembered he is accused of having stabbed John Homa and George Donic, both of whom died. DEATHS Killed on Track Two middle-aged foreigners whose names could not be learned were struck by an east bound stock train between Johnstown and Lilly at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. One was instantly killed, the other's left leg was cut off below the knee. Unknown Killed An unknown man was killed on the railroad tracks near Portage Wednesday. The victim could not be identified. George Brothers, the South Fork undertakers, were given charge of the remains and will bury them. Killed at Cresson Wednesday Clemence Brawley of Cresson, a young man aged about 21 years, was struck by a train at Cresson Wednesday morning and so badly injured that he died at 3:45 o'clock in the Altoona hospital. While standing on the platform at the Cresson station waiting for a train, No. 60 swept down and struck a truck against which Brawley was leaning. The cylinder head of the locomotive struck him and fractured his skull. The train was stopped and he was sent to the hospital in Altoona. He died at the hour mentioned. Young Brawley was very well known in Cresson. He was in the employ of the Adams Express Company. Chief of Police Dies from Wounds Altoona, Pa., Nov. 29 Samuel Taylor, chief of police of Barnsboro (sic), who was shot while arresting Frank Farrell, aged 24, Nov. 24, died in a Philadelphia hospital where he had been taken for treatment. Farrell is still at large.