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, 12 Jan 1906 Volume 40, Number 1 Items Local and Personal J. Alvin McMullen, who for the past year or more has been employed as warden at the county jail, has resigned his position and will go to Nantyglo where he will enter the employ of Landlord Doss Kemerer. James Galliece, proprietor of the Miners Hotel at Patton, was in Ebensburg yesterday. We are informed it is the intention of Mr. Galliece to dispose of his hotel in the near future. Ross Lennan, whose parents live in Marsteller was operated upon at the Memorial Hospital in Johnstown Saturday for strangulated hernia. The lad is getting along nicely. Cambria county has 16,594 able bodied male citizens over 21 and under 45 years of age who are liable to military duty under the provisions of the Act of May 9, 1899. Mrs. C. C. Laubacher of Hollidaysburg who had been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Englehart, of this place during the holidays returned to her home last week. Michael Cronauer, a well known citizen of Gallitzin, was attending to business matters at the county seat on Thursday and paid THE FREEMAN a pleasant call. Leo Little, stenographer in the office of his brother, Attorney P. J. Little, has returned from Philadelphia where he had been for several days. Miss Martha Hughes, daughter of Steward Hughes of the Poor Farm, is spending the week in Johnstown visiting her sister. The venerable Squire Parrish while walking along Julian street Monday slipped on the ice and fell, cutting his head slightly. The Misses Dunegan of St. Augustine who have been visiting their sister, Mrs. A. E. Bender, returned home Wednesday. Dr. F. C. Jones departed Thursday morning for Philadelphia where he will remain a day or two on business. Patrick Toohey, the Irish sage of Marsteller, was in Ebensburg Monday and called at this office. The Misses Emma and Cecilia Lieb were visiting friends in Nicktown during the week. Mrs. W. Mitt Brown of Johnstown is visiting her sister, Mrs. Phil Fenlon of this place. Mr. and Mrs. John Schwab of Loretto drove to Ebensburg yesterday. Attorney H. H. Myers was in Johnstown Monday. News from Blandburg Daniel Johnson is laid up with a dangerous case of heart trouble. Mrs. Laura Noon, whose case had almost been given up, is improving and likely to recover. Philip G. Fenlon Improving Philip G. Fenlon of this place is in the University of Pennsylvania Hospital at Philadelphia where he was operated on last Saturday for gall stones, seven of which were taken from him. His condition was very serious for a time but his recovery is said to be practically now assured. Mr. Fenlon's health the past few years has not been good. Sometime ago he met with an accident which necessitated an operation and which gave him considerable trouble for sometime. His many friends in Ebensburg are anxious for his ultimate recovery. Wants $50,000 Damages Altoona, Jan. 10 William H. Goodfellow, a prominent hardware merchant of this city, was sued today for $50,000 for breach of promise of marriage by Miss Bertha A. Fagley, a pretty young Altoona woman at the very hour the defendant was being married to Miss London at Mifflintown. The plaintiff claims the engagement was made October 19th and that the defendant bought her presents of jewelry and her wedding trousseau. The suit has caused a sensation here. Murderers Sentenced! Monday afternoon in the office of the county jail, Sheriff Lenhart read to Stephen Fellows and Jacob Hauser, the two condemned wife murderers, the warrants to their execution which is to take place between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 o'clock p.m. February 15, 1906. Both men took the matter coolly. Hauser appeared a trifle nervous at first, but a short mirthless laugh from Fellows seemed to give him assurance and the two laughed and joked about their coming fate. "Why that's pancake day - Ash Wednesday!" said Hauser as he heard the day and date mentioned for the execution. "Our days are getting mighty short, Steve," he added to Fellows. "That's right" assented the latter. "But I wish th' governor had sent us a case of beer along with those documents." Fellows then asked the sheriff if he would not permit himself and Hauser to have a bottle of beer on the last day. "Anything within reason that you wish to eat," said the sheriff. "I will be glad to furnish you boys." Fellows laughed again. "They always begin to fatten hogs about a month or so before they want to kill them," he said grimly. "That's right," added Hauser. "They'll have to begin to feed us now if they want us to get heavy enough to break our necks." During the time the two condemned men were in the sheriff's office, Warden Harry Blair made a complete search of each man's cell before returning the prisoners to them. Nison Brown of this place, who was appointed to maintain the death watch over the two condemned men Monday afternoon, began his duties Monday evening.