NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 1906; 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, 5 Jan 1906 Volume 39, Number 52 Items Local and Personal Mr. Leo Little of this place is in Philadelphia where he will remain the balance of the week. Ex-Judge White of Indiana county was in Ebensburg Tuesday. Bert Boney and family of this place spent New Years with Mrs. Boney's sister, Mrs. Bender of Hastings. Nathanial Teeter and Philip H. Jones of Blacklick township were callers at THE FREEMAN office yesterday. Roland Darragh is at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A, J. Darragh, of this place, spending his holiday vacation. Attorney Philip N. Schettig returned last week from Philadelphia where he had been spending several days looking after a "case." Messrs. Bert Daughenbaugh of Vintondale and Charles Stiffler of Nantyglo, both constables of the Blacklick region, were callers of this office since last issue. William Kimball and Ira Bloom of the Ebensburg Horse Exchange departed yesterday for the west to purchase several car loads of horses for the Exchange. Barnesboro Clothing Merchant is taken to Dixmont A. W. Glosser, who for some time has conducted a gents' furnishing store in Barnesboro, has been adjudged insane by a commission in lunacy and has been taken to the inane asylum at Dixmont. The County has appointed Philip N. Schettig of Ebensburg as commissioner to look after his business interests upon petition of Mrs. Glosser. Glosser about 15 years ago had both legs amputated below the knees in a railroad accident on the B. and O. Railroad while employed in Johnstown as a clothing salesman. He came from Johnstown to Barnesboro where he engaged in business for himself. At times he is a raving maniac but has lucid intervals. Fell from Telephone Pole S. K. Snyder, who is manager of the Bell Telephone company for the Northern Cambria District, had a narrow and almost miraculous escape from death Wednesday morning by falling 50 feet to the pavement from a telephone pole on High street, a short distance below the Barker building. Mr. Snyder, during the past several weeks, has had a gang of men employed in Ebensburg making some extensive improvements for the company. Wednesday morning Mr. Snyder buckled on a pair of climbers and ascended a pole to assist with some work on the cables which extend into the central office in the Barker building. A heavy rain had been falling all morning, freezing as it came down. This made climbing dangerous and difficult. In some manner while at work near the cross arms at the top of the pole, Mr. Snyder's climbers became unfastened from the pole and he stated to fall. Realizing his predicament he tried to prevent himself from falling by holding fast to the pole with his hands. The ice, however, frozen along the entire length of the timber, prevented this and he dropped to the ground in a heap. In falling Mr. Snyder struck the stump of a telegraph pole which had been planted along side the pole he had mounted and which had been cut off near the ground. Fellow workmen hurried to Mr. Snyder's assistance and with their aid he managed to reach Dr. Jones' office where an examination by the physician proved that beyond several fractured ribs and some severe bruises he had sustained no further injuries. After receiving medical attention, Mr. Snyder was removed to the Metropolitan Hotel where he remained until that evening when he was taken to his home in Patton. His escape from instant death or more serious injuries than those sustained is regarded as being little short of miraculous. Bad Cutting Affray Isaac Mack, a foreigner, is locked up in the county jail on a charge of felonious assault and battery, having entered a plea of guilty before Justice A. J. Waters. Mack and Nicoli Hermerson, another foreigner, mixed up in a drunken fight at Nantyglo on Christmas eve. Mack is alleged to have cut his adversary's throat almost from ear to ear. Constable Bert Daughenbaugh and Charles Stiffler arrested Mack as he was about to leave his boarding house and brought him to Ebensburg for a hearing. Hermerson was removed to the Memorial Hospital at Johnstown. Three Men Killed Instantly Edward Berkebile, American, age 34 years; Charles Johnson, American, age 20 years and William Saveck, a Slav, aged 40 years, were instantly killed by the explosion of dynamite in D. B. Zimmerman's mines at Stoystown last Thursday evening about six o'clock. The disaster was due to a blown out shot of 14 sticks of dynamite, placed in the solid [word faded] of a wall of rock in the mine heading.