NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 23 Mar 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, 23 Mar 1906 Volume 40, Number 11 Items Local and Personal Alton Tibbott who was formerly from Ebensburg but now located at Altoona visited relatives and friends in this place the latter part of last week. Alton is carrying his right arm in a sling. He had it broken about four weeks ago in a washing machine at an Altoona laundry where he was employed. Mr. and Mrs. George Harvey of Pittsburg are here visiting Mr. Harvey's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Harvey of the East ward. Mr. Harvey is suffering from a crippled leg, it being the result of an accident which occurred while at his work in Pittsburg sometime ago. Squire A. G. Neff of Hastings, it is announced, has petitioned the court for a transfer of the retail liquor license held by Roy E. Wheeler who conducts the New Central Hotel at Hastings and will take charge of the hostelry in the near future. Fred W. Hanburger, the well known civil and mining engineer with offices in the new Davis building, has leased from music dealer, George Porch, the unoccupied half of Mr. Porch's new house and will move into it shortly. It is rumored that Mrs. T. L. McNamara, formerly of this place, but now located at Kansas City, Mo., will shortly return and will bring with her the remains of her husband for interment here in Lloyd cemetery. City Engineer Lee Masterson of Johnstown was in Ebensburg several days this week attending court as a witness on the Burns vs. the Pennsylvania Railroad case. S. B. Postlethwait who had been visiting at his home in Dayton, Armstrong county, Pa., has returned to this place and resumed his duties with the livery firm of O'Hara & Luther. Attorney J. P. Dill who is associated with P. J. Little's law offices in the Metropolitan annex departed for Pittsburg Thursday to remain on business for several days. Mr. J. B. Ferguson and wife of this place accompanied by Robert Gillen, departed Sunday for South Dakota where they expect to make their future home. County Treasurer William H. Sunshine returned Tuesday morning from a stay of several days in New York City, stopping off in Ebensburg for a few days. Luke Durbin, one of White township's leading citizens, paid a visit to THE FREEMAN Thursday while in the county capital on business. Lee Brown, an employee in the car shops at Bellwood, Pa., spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Brown in this place. Peter W. Helfrich of Hastings paid us a pleasant call Monday while in town making his returns as collector of Hastings borough. Valentine T. Weakland of Cambria Mines was a business visitor in town Monday and paid THE FREEMAN office a pleasant call. James McClune, one of the clerks in the Commissioners office, spent Sunday with relatives at his former home in Johnstown. Judge Francis J. Kooser of Somerset was in town this week to assist Judge O'Connor in trying several cases. Miss Helen Barker, accompanied by a schoolmate, is home from Hollidaysburg Seminary to spend Sunday. Benjamin E. Evans of this place spent Tuesday and Wednesday of this week in Johnstown on business. Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Hayden of South Fork, formerly of this place, were among the visitors here Sunday. W. A. McGuire is spending several days with his parents in Allegheny township. Family Unconscious As a result of a defective furnace the entire family of John H. Williamson, Postmaster and Station Agent at Glen Osborne, Pa., on the Ft. Wayne Railroad were found unconscious from asphyxiation at about 8:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. The family consisted of the father, mother and five children and when found they were supposed to be in a moribund condition. The house was filled with fumes of gas. The physicians worked over the stricken family for two hours and finally succeed in restoring them to consciousness. Cholera in Cambria Cholera, that dread disease which creates such devastation when it becomes prevalent, is getting in its work in the north of the county at present. This week, Deputy Sheriff M. D. Bearer lost three valuable half-grown pigs by reason of its unceremonious debut into Ebensburg. Reports from other sections through the north state the disease is also becoming quite prevalent and with disastrous results in some places. Charged with Incendiarism! Morris Buterbaugh Arrested for Complicity in Arson Affair in Johnstown Several Years Ago Morris Buterbaugh, a merchant of Wehrum, Indiana county, was arrested in Johnstown Tuesday by Constable L. J. Harris on a charge of arson. He is accused before Squire A. J. Waters by County Detective Knee of complicity in the burning on the night of June 21, 1903, of a store at the corner of Coleman Avenue and Bond Street, Johnstown. Wm. H. Buterbaugh, the prisoner's brother, who conducted the store, Curt Sowers and a negro name Isaac Murphy are now serving penitentiary sentences for the same job. The story of the crime for which Morrison Buterbaugh is held is one of the most sensational in the annals of Cambria County. Circumstances surrounding the burning of the Johnstown store in June, 1903, led local police officials to suspect incendiarism and a quiet investigation made by them resulted in the arrest in December, three months after the alleged crime of W. H. Buterbaugh, Curt Sowers and negro Murphy. The colored man, who was taken into custody a day before the others, made a clean breast of the whole affair and it was later largely due to his testimony that the others were convicted. Murphy says that W. H. Buterbaugh, in sore financial straits, had offered Curt Sowers, an old acquaintance $50 to burn down the store in which a $400 stock was insured for $600. Sowers accepted the proposition but later lost his nerve and offered Murphy $25 to take over the contract. Twice Murphy said he wavered at the critical moment but on the fateful June night did apply the match. For turning State's evidence the negro was let down with a sentence of two years and six months in the Western Penitentiary while W. H. Buterbaugh and Sowers each got eleven and a half years. The exact nature of Morrison Buterbaugh's connection with all this has not been announced. It is possible, however, that it is the intention to connect him with some other suspicious fires. Hotel Man Arrested Constable R. D. Evans of this place went to Carrolltown Tuesday and placed under arrest William Carney, proprietor of the Cross Roads Hotel near Carrolltown, charged with selling liquor to minors. Carney entered bail for his appearance at the June term of court. Prisoners for the Pen Yesterday morning Sheriff Samuel Lenhart and County Detective E. H. Knee accompanied by O. W. Wilkinson and Harry Shoemaker, of this place, took to the Western Penitentiary the following prisoners who have been sentenced during the present term of court: Mila Bunda and Stephen Velomarovic, highway robbery, 10 years each; Charles Watkins, (colored), felonious shooting, 13 months; William White, robbery, 2 years and 6 months; Merle Wyncoop, robbery, 13 months; Peter Medulla, sodomy, 15 months; and Stella Rager, the 16-year-old girl charged with larceny was taken with the bunch and was escorted to Morganza. Hold-Ups in Custody Four Men Believed to Have Committed Portage Highway Robbery and Murder are Now Locked up in Johnstown In custody of the Cambria county authorities are four Italians who are believed to be among the principals of the notorious Portage hold-ups of almost two years ago when Charles Hays was killed and Superintendent P. F. Campbell of the Puritan Coal Mining Company, was wounded, almost to death. The men are Maria Immese, Guiseppe Constantino, Francesco Impala, Francesco Diconte. The information was made before Alderman E. E. Levergood in Johnstown last Wednesday following which the suspects were arrested by Constable J. C. Herzog of Johnstown. Immese and Constantino were arrested in Dale Borough. Diconte and Impala were arrested in South Fork. One of the men speaks good English. The information on which the men are held is very carefully drawn and accuses the men not only of having done the job at Portage but of having conspired together to do it. The arrest of the present quartet was accomplished very quietly, but now that it has leaked out, stories concerning the affair are many. It is told that the man who engineered the scheme and is mainly responsible for it has jumped the country with all or at least a very large portion of the spoils, purchased a property immediately upon his arrival in his native land, and is now under arrest in Italy. Another tale is to the effect that each one of the four men in custody now is a bad man and that only a short time ago a cousin of one of them did a murder. The Portage hold-up set the entire country agog with excitement. Posses of men scouted Cambria and adjoining counties in their efforts to capture the murderers. Their efforts were in vain. Mr. Campbell felt reasonably certain that the men who did the job were Italian and fully a score of them were arrested only to be discharged later because there was no evidence against them. A total reward of $2,500 was offered for their capture and conviction and still stands. Barber Davis to Move R. E. Davies, the well known tonsorial artist now occupying quarters in the Hutchinson block, will vacate his present establishment shortly and will occupy quarters in the basement of the new Davis building in the room formerly occupied by the Messrs. Shoemaker, James and Davis, stationers. Mr. Davies will fit up his new place with modern and up-to-date paraphernalia and will likely install a third chair. Moves to Cresson Mrs. Charlotte Scanlon, who has for a number of years conducted a restaurant in the block on Main street which was recently purchased from the Keer heirs by J. Bert Denny, this week will vacate her place of business and remove to Cresson, where she will engaged in the restaurant business. All of the tenants in the block referred to were notified some time ago by Mr. Denny to vacate on or before April 1st 1906, and rumor had it for a while that a modern brick business block, to include an opera house, was to be erected on the site. Not much is heard lately concerning the building of the new block and it is understood that the majority of the tenants occupying the building will remain at an increased rent, to go into effect April 1st. Home from the Navy Robert Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Young of Johnstown, arrived home Monday evening from Philadelphia where he was Monday discharged from the United States Navy in which he served five years, nine months and one week, over four years of his time having been spent as electrician on the battleship Illinois. "Bob" has four months time in which to decide to go back into the Navy to continue his work as electrician and it is altogether likely he will decide to continue to roam the seas. (Johnstown TRIBUNE) Sleigh and Trolley Ride A party of boys and girls from the Ebensburg High School doubled up on a most enjoyable sleigh and trolley ride Wednesday afternoon and evening of last week. They left the county seat about 4:20 in the afternoon, in a large sled drawn by four houses and in two three-seated sleighs. They had an excellent supper at Stoltz's Hotel at Carrolltown and later took the 7:20 car for Patton, returning to Ebensburg by way of Carrolltown late that night. Prof. Clark, principal of the high School, was along with the party as was Miss Catherine Stokes. The following members of the school attended: The Misses Edna Evans, Harriet Squires, Bertha Crook, Emma Tibbott, Emma Pruner, Alma James, Vera Eckenrode, Myrtle Eckenrode, Elsie Lloyd, Martha Jones, Marguerite Davis, Margueret Davis, Margaret Griffith, Verna Williams, Lola William, Dora Mahan, Charlotte Kimball, Elizabeth Davis, Lyda Davis and the Messrs. Harry Bolsinger, Paul Bearer, William Smith, Philip Bender, Warren O'Hara, Adolph Myers, Donald Connell, Charles Boney, Reardon Brown, Albert Meisal, Eldon Davis. Nanty-Glo and Vintondale Parties A party of pleasure seekers drove to Johnstown in a sled Monday from Nanty-Glo and registered at the Capital Hotel, where they took dinner and returned home in the afternoon. In the party were: Mrs. M. Davis, Mrs. E. Edwards; Mrs. W. Barr, Mrs. B. Madill and Mrs. E. Knight; the Misses M. Madill, R. Madill, A. Conrad, A. Harrison, H. Pierson and E. Davis. Another party went to Johnstown from Vintondale Sunday night and after spending some time there, started on the return trip home. Cresson Parties Bernard Gross, who conducts a large department store in Cresson, treated his corps of clerks to a merry sleigh ride Wednesday evening when they were driven to Ebensburg, where they put up at the Central Hotel for several hours before returning. The entire party enjoyed quite a pleasant little outing. Another party of Cressonites and others took advantage of the fine sleighing last Sunday evening and came to Ebensburg, where they took supper at the Cambria House, departing for their homes about 10 o'clock. The party was composed of the following: Mr. Washington, James Hall, G. A. Smith, Wm. Topper, Rose Bradley, Annie Beck, Lizzie Murray, Laura McManamy and Mollie Murray, all of Cresson; Charles Messenger of Barnesboro; Wm. O'Harrow, Irvona; Julias A. Ager Jr., Summit; Catharine Younkins, Gallitzin; Clara Bradley of Lilly. Two parties drove from Cresson Thursday evening and took supper at the Metropolitan Hotel in this place. The first arrived here about 7:15 and was made up of the following: Mrs. J. Wharton, Mrs. McAnnulty, Mrs. Pfeister, Mrs. R. McGuire, Mrs. H. A. Quartz, Miss Kathryn Quartz, Mrs. H. A. Burgoon, Mrs. L. Sanker, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Horton, Mrs. Topper, Mrs. Bowers, Mrs. McMann, Mrs. Glass, Miss Addie Quartz, Miss Conrad and Mr. Conrad. The party departed for home an hour or so after taking supper, while the other party which was composed chiefly of young ladies and gentlemen remained an hour or two longer, having reached here about 9:30. In the second party were the following: The Misses Bess O'Donnell, Gertrude Mower, Josephine Slattery, Caroline Eckenrode, Leona Knepper, Essie Mullen, Kathryn Lynch, Arline Powers, Mary O'Hara; the Messrs. Raymond O'Hara, George Long, Tom Slattery, Herbert Mower, Jack McConnell, Leo Long, Walter McDermott, Robert O'Hara, G. W. Dicke, Simon Fisher, A. C. Schettig and Paul Eckenrode. Conemaugh Party A merry party from Conemaugh drove to the county capital Wednesday, arriving here about noon. After taking dinner at the Metropolitan Hotel, the party visited the jail, court house and other places of interest, returning to Conemaugh about 5 p.m. In the party were the following: D. M. Leonard and wife; A. M. Binkey and wife; D. H. Bracken and wife; H. A. Billet and wife; J. D. Hoffman and wife; Mrs. F. E. Griggs of Peru, Ind.; J. C. Doloway and wife; J. F. Huntsberger and wife; and Mrs. W. H. Cramer. The party was driven by Liveryman J. L. Sell of Conemaugh. Letters Lately Issued Register Arthur Griffith has issued Letters of Administration in the following estates at Ebensburg since THE FREEMAN's last report. Estate of David Howard, late of Lower Yoder township. Will probated and letters issued to Levina Howard. Estate of Henry Dudtenhoefer, late of Johnstown. Will probated and letters issued to Lena Schumbert. Estate of Sophia Nagle, late of Johnstown. Will probated and letters issued to Mary R. Nagle. Estate of Carl Anderson, late of Barnesboro to John Hanson. Estate of John Huber, late of Elder township. Will probated and letters issued to Robert Byrne and James Jacob Westrick. Juror Sleeps in Box Take a Snooze While Testimony is being Heard in Famous Damage Case and Upsets Equilibrium of Court After testimony for over two days in the dragging testimony in the famous Burns vs. the Pennsylvania Railroad Company damage suit, James McDunn, one of the jurors who sat on the case, fell asleep and snoozed for several hours, during which he failed to hear some of the most important testimony. Attorney H. W. Storey, counsel for the defense, brought the matter to the attention of the court Wednesday and after some discussion the case was carried over until the June term. The case was on trial for the third time in the lower courts. The first time, the plaintiff, Mrs. Catherine Burns, who sued for $25,000 for the death of her husband who was killed on a crossing in Johnstown three years ago, was awarded $12,000. The second time, $12,500, the case having been carried to the higher courts where it was reversed and again entered for trial in the lower courts. E. T. McNeelis, Esq., represents the plaintiff. Murder in the First Degree Foreigner Charged with Killing Two Men in Cambria City, is Summarily Dealt with by Jury Marko Karamarkovic, the Croatian accused of killing John Homa and George Donleh in Cambria City by stabbing them to death several months ago, has been convicted of murder in the first degree. The case went to the jury last Friday evening after all the evidence had been gone over. The jury remained out two hours and returned with a verdict, finding the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree. The evidence was mainly circumstantial. Karamarkovic has broken down since the result of his trial has been made known to him. He is 25 years of age, has three brothers, Eli, George and Melosch, living in Cambria City. His father, Nicoli Karamarkovic, his mother and two sisters, one 8 years old and the other 15, live in Orolien, Austria, his native home.