NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 28 Sep 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, 28 Sep 1906 Volume 40, Number 38 Items Local and Personal Mrs. Mollie Kinports of Kentucky, who had been visiting her sister, Mrs. Jesse Bolsinger, returned home Thursday. Miss Ruth Kinkead gave a party to a number of her little friends Saturday in celebration of her ninth birthday. Miss Mann of Chester who has been with Miss Julia Lemon the past two months, returned home Tuesday. Hon. Ed James of this place has been confined to his room the past few days with an attack of grip. Mrs. Will Smith of Aspinwall is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Huntley. Mrs. R. M. Brooks spent Saturday and Sunday with her sister, Mrs. A. E. Bender. Mrs. Pannebaker and family returned Monday from a visit to Philadelphia. Miss Ethel Shields spent the past week with relatives in Pittsburg. Miss Blanche Henry returned Saturday from a trip to Philadelphia. Herbert Wagenhals left Saturday for Yale where he is a senior. S. S. Kinkead spent Monday and Tuesday in Johnstown. Philip Bender is attending school at the college in Loretto. Miss Lulu McKenrick is visiting friends in Clearfield. Miss Edna Thomas of Hollidaysburg is visiting friends here. E. J. Humphreys of Ebensburg was in Johnstown last week at the fair. Mr. Ralph Tibbott of Pittsburg has been visiting his old home here the past few days. Mrs. James S. Dick of Baltimore and two children are visiting at the home of John B. Dick near Vintondale. Mr. William Muhlenberg of Kimball's meat market and Miss Ada M. Davis of this pace are taking in the Meyersdale Fair this week. Miss Annie Shields is home for a visit from the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia where she is employed as a professional nurse. Rev. S. G. Craig of the Ebensburg Presbyterian church departed Tuesday morning to attend the meeting of the Presbytery at Ligonier. Mrs. Leopard Huntley and her sister, Mrs. Moore of Omaha, Neb., are spending a few days with their brother, Robt. Jones and family of Portage. The merry-go-round will be taken to Bedford this week for the fair by Rinard Bros., the owners. The children have had a high old time during its stay here. Conductor Ed Mower and wife of Cresson are enjoying a vacation at Atlantic City and other points and Joseph Piper has been holding down Ed's position as conductor on the branch. Her many friends will be glad to learn that Mrs. Fergus C. Lloyd of this place has been recovering very nicely from the operation she underwent in Philadelphia last week. Deputy Warden Nelson Brown last week took three young men from the county jail to the Huntingdon Reformatory. The boys were convicted of various offenses at the last session of court. Miss Hilda Denny, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Bert Denny of Ebensburg was in Johnstown Saturday and Sunday with Miss Mary Heslop, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alf Heslop of Vine street. George L. McGuire of Allegheny township, one of our esteemed friends who called at THE FREEMAN office this week. He is the father of W. A. McGuire of this place. At Friday's adjourned session of Naturalization Court in Ebensburg, 228 persons were naturalized and 56 took out their first papers. Quite a number of attorneys were there, most of them having large numbers of applications. A mild case of smallpox has given Bakerton a scare. The case was reported to Dr. W. E. Matthews of the State Board of Health who sent Dr. Born to Bakerton to investigate. Every precaution has been taken against the disease. Miss Kathryn Hagan of Altoona who has spent the last month visiting relatives and friends in the north of this county spent Thursday with friends in Ebensburg. A number of the comrades of Co. F, 133 Regt. P. V. of this place and vicinity will go to the reunion of their regiment at Gettysburg next Wednesday and they with a lot of other Cambrians will take in the Capitol dedication at Harrisburg on Thursday. Rev. J. A. James of Mount Vernon, Ohio, has accepted a call to the Baptist church at Vintondale and will begin his ministry on the first Sunday in October. Mr. James has many friends in our town and they are glad to learn that he is about to settle at Vintondale as our neighbor. Harry Crawford, who is with a theatrical company, stopped off Monday on his way from Philadelphia to Pittsburg to visit his mother, Mrs. Harriet Crawford. The company he is with has a two weeks' engagement at the Nixon in Pittsburg in "Popularity." Late News of County Nantyglo is having a siege of typhoid fever with some cases of diphtheria. H. R. Miller of the Brandon Spangler left last week for a hunting and fishing excursion through the wilds of Michigan. David Somerville, of the dairy firm of Griffith, Somerville & Griffith, of Cambria township, is quite seriously ill at his home. A cow was struck by a trolley car on Bigler avenue in Spangler one day last week. Result: the tender of the car was considerably damaged. Lucinda, the little ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Scanlan of Lilly, fell the other day while playing and broke both bones in her left arm. Dr. Kress reduced the fracture. Contractor W. H. Kerr & Co., are making rapid progress in paving Bigler avenue, Spangler. About three squares are already completed and work is being rapidly pushed forward on the rest of the job. Mr. and Mrs. Will Beck of Ehrenfeld are having the old Beck home on Portage street, Lilly, remodeled. A new cellar and renovations throughout will be made to complete the building. It is one of the oldest homes in Lilly. Henry Mills is mourning the loss of one of his $2,725 dogs. From some cause it took a fit (not the Dinsmore variety) and for fear it might develop into hydrophobia, some tender hearted individual put a bullet through its head. (Patton COR.) The Burgess of Barnesboro has sent notices to a number of property owners with the request that they repair their sidewalks. Unless prompt repairs are made the Street Commissioner will do the work at the expense of the property holder. While getting on a train at Gallitzin recently John Myers of Barnesboro had a very narrow escape from death, being thrown and dragged some distance; his face and limbs being badly lacerated. He came very near being thrown under the wheels. Three wild turkeys were seen in the woods about here by an Ebensburger who was taking a walk recently. The wary birds have been very scarce here the past two or three years, although having been plentiful before the deep snows of 1903-1904. Fred Lytle, while preparing a powder shot in the mines near Lilly last week, was severely burned about the face and hands by an explosion of the powder. While removing his light in a place of safety, a spark from it fell upon the powder, causing the explosion. A number of Lilly people drove to Loretto the other evening and had a very enjoyable time. In the party were Mrs. R. E. George, Mrs. Nix Shalles, Mrs. Sherman Allen and Mrs. George Thornton; the Misses Marie Stahley and Hattie Kemstine and the Messrs. George Veigle, Herman Seese and Samuel Allen. Louies (sic) E. Love of Pittsburg who formerly owned the Fes Tibbott place in Cambria township was in Ebensburg last week and while here purchased the piece of ground lying between the Wilmore Plank road and the Pittsburg Pike at the west end of the town from Mrs. Kate Davis for $1,000. Last Saturday afternoon General Harry White of Indiana was the central figure in a runaway accident. He was driving up one of the streets of the town when his horse frightened and ran away. After an exciting time, during which the horse succeeded in colliding with several buggies, it was stopped and it was found that both the General and the animal had escaped. Mrs. Alfred Sigmund who, with her daughter, Josephine, lived in a small house on Hemlock Street, Gallitzin, met with a painful accident the other day. The old lady while going from her bedroom to the kitchen for a drink of water, fell and fractured her right hip. The unfortunate lady and her daughter, who is an invalid, were later removed to the county poorhouse. Breaks Out of Jail! Prisoner Confined in Indiana Bastile Pries Bars and Escapes Chester M. Fry, convicted of assault and battery and sentenced by the Court to pay a fine of $50 and serve a term of one year in the Western Penitentiary, escaped from the jail at Indiana Sunday night by prying off an iron bar and letting himself down to the ground with a rope which is said to have been furnished by his parents. He has not yet been captured. Gasoline Accident Mr. George Adams and Sister are Seriously Burnt While preparing breakfast over a gasoline stove at their home in the East ward of Ebensburg Tuesday morning at an early hour, Mr. George Adams, proprietor of the Ebensburg Steam Laundry and his sister were quite severely burnt as the result of an explosion which took place. It is thought that the gasoline leaked out in sufficient quantity to cause the trouble during the night. Hotel Closed by Sheriff The St. Boniface Hotel at St. Boniface, conducted by George Bierlein, was closed by Sheriff Samuel Lenhart Saturday on a writ issued on a judgment note for $1,500 to Andrew Lantzy, the wholesale liquor dealer at Hastings. Line Broke, Horse Ran Off Barnesboro Brothers Seriously Injured in Accident Dominik Rogde of Barnesboro was taken to the Memorial Hospital at Johnstown Monday morning. He has a simple fracture of both bones of the right leg, sustained in a runaway accident Saturday in Barnesboro. He and his brother were delivering some beer to a place near Barnesboro and the lines attached to the horse broke, causing the animal to run off. The wagon upset, throwing out both men and injuring Dominik in the extent mentioned above. His brother had both wrists broken and one of the barrels fell on him, injuring his back. He is at home. More Black Hand Letters Several Men, Intimidated by Mafia, Have Left the Region Posthaste The Black Hand society is again busy in Cambria county and several victims have been scared into leaving the country. The operations of the Society in this vicinity are confined principally to the district at Emigh's Run, a mining settlement about two and one-half miles from Garmantown. Joe Masille, an Italian, after receiving letters purporting to have come from the dreaded society and warning him to get out of the country or forfeit his life, has fled to parts unknown. Joe Reach, another Italian, who lives at Emigh's Run and who is known to have considerable money, received a letter a couple of days ago advising him to leave $200 at a certain spot in the vicinity of the Kimport sawmill or suffer death within five days. Reach is still living although he has not paid the stipulated $200 for a new lease on life. He carries a couple of guns, however, and is ready to shoot at the first sign of any Black Hand assassins. About a year ago another Italian at the Greenwich mines near here, received a similar letter warning him to deposit $500 at a certain place. The Italian, instead of depositing the money, hid himself at the place designated and when the Black Hand artist came to look for the money the man in hiding pumped a couple of bullets into his anatomy. The fellow managed to get away but died afterwards it has been learned. Several other people in the vicinity of Emigh's Run and Greenwich are said to have received letters of this kind lately. District Attorney Leech has received word from the authorities in the province of Roma, Italy, that Eugeniu Busiliano has been placed under arrest there and is being held on charges of shooting one of his countrymen, Micalo Sabelli at Mosscreek, this county, in April, 1905. Sabelli was shot several times in the back as he was eating supper in his shanty one evening but survived. He has since been following the trail of Busiliano, who, he believes, did the shooting. The district attorney will forward the evidence in the case to the authorities in Roma, Italy, and the defendant will be given a trial in his own country. Schwab's Auto in a Wreck Cincinnati, Sept. 20 In the wreck of Charles M. Schwab's automobile at St. Martin de Croix, France, J. G. Schmidtapp, president of the United Savings and Trust Company in this city, was injured and his daughter, Charlotte, killed. The news came in a cable dispatch received in Cincinnati today. Ephraim Dunmire Ephraim Dunmire, aged 58 years, died of a complication of diseases at his home in Geesey town, Blair county, Sunday morning. Mrs. Mary Griffith of Carrolltown is a daughter of the deceased.