NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 30 Nov 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, 30 Nov 1906 Volume 40, Number 48 **[This edition of the newspaper badly faded] Items Local and Personal James Scanlan, the traveling salesman of this place, on Saturday, won the watch chanced off by William Lewis of the East ward who has been in ill heath for some time. Mr. Scanlan upon receiving the watch immediately returned it to Mr. Lewis with his compliments. Mr. F. J. Burns and his brother, Luke A. Burns, and sisters, Mrs. Anastasia Lantzy and Mrs. Mary Nagle, all of Susquehanna township, attended the funeral of their uncle, Henry Byrne in Ebensburg last Saturday. The condition of Miss Ann McDonald of this place who has been seriously ill for some time past still remains critical and it is the belief of her friends that she cannot survive more than a few days at most. Mrs. Ben Jones returned home on Saturday from a visit of several weeks with relative in Johnstown, Pittsburg and Elyria, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. George Evans of Altoona spent Thanksgiving with Mr. Evan's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Evans. Fred Nachman, the Washington street wholesale liquor dealer of Johnstown, was in town this week on business. The Hon. Edmund James returned Saturday from a trip to Ohio where he had been visiting his brothers and sisters. John Huston, superintendent of the Lincoln Coal Company at Nantyglo, was an Ebensburg visitor Tuesday. Mrs. Grier Hile of this place has returned home after spending several weeks with friends in Johnstown. Caroline, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Gibson of Baltimore, is reported seriously ill. John McBride of the West ward who has been ill for sometime past is somewhat improved. George Porch and Mark Frailey went hunting Friday to finish up the season. Late News of County While walking along Palmer avenue Tuesday evening Mrs. J. L. Van Wert tripped on a sidewalk and was considerably injured. It is about time the authorities give some attention to the side walk question or the borough will go bankrupt paying claims for damages. (Patton COR., Barnesboro STAR) William Lantzy of Barnesboro and a corps of workmen moved the building occupied of H. G. Lampman from its old location to a position between his dwelling and the Arcade. This was done in order to increase the size of the new Barnesboro rink. Mr. Lampman has in view some further improvements to his property on Caroline street. Town of Gallitzin Almost Wiped Out by Fire Fiend! Blaze Starting from Defective Flue Rages Unchecked for More Than One Hour and Damage in the Extent of $150,000 is Done Wind Proves Town's Only Salvation Gallitzin was visited by one of the most destructive fires Wednesday night ever known in the history of the north of Cambria county. It is indeed fortunate that any portion of the town is still left standing, considering all the unfavorable circumstances usually surrounding small towns of this kind in cases of fire. As it is, three of Gallitzin's largest business places and its opera house are in ashes, seven families are homeless and property has been destroyed to the value of about $150,000. The great disaster may be attributed directly to the lack of enough water to cope successfully with the blaze when it first started. The pressure being low, the flames otherwise might have been confined to the opera house and the Geus properties, spread rapidly and soon leaped beyond the control of those who were endeavoring to vanish them. After putting up a valiant fight, the people who were endeavoring to prevent the spread of the fire were discouraged to find that the flow of water from the mains of the company which supplies the town, had stopped altogether and for over an hour the fire raged unchecked. The direction of the wind was the only thing that saved the entire town from destruction. The Losses Following is a list of the individual losses together with the amount of insurance carried: Joseph Bengele, general store, residence and stables. Loss: $60,000; insurance, $13,000. Mountain Supply Company general store. Loss: $30,000, fully covered by insurance. Schilling & Dawson hardware store. Loss: $25,000; insurance $8,000. Gallitzin Building and Loan Association, owners of the opera house. Loss: $10,000, insurance $5000. George I. Geus, loss of stable and damage to bakery and residence. Loss: $5000, no insurance. Pennsylvania Railroad Company, three dwelling houses. Loss: $6,300, fully insured. Miss Mary McKenna, double house destroyed. Loss $2000, partly insured John L. Wissinger, household goods. Loss: $700, insurance $500. J. R. Garman, household goods. Loss: $300, no insurance. A. J. Follette, household goods. Loss: $300, no insurance. J. P. Harkins, household goods. Loss: $300, no insurance. Daniel Deegan, household goods. Loss: $700, no insurance. Harry Staley, household goods. Loss: $500, no insurance. Thomas McCloskey Post 314 G. A. R.; Women's Relief Corps; St. Joseph's Beneficial Society and Ladies' Catholic Beneficial Association, with a common meeting room on the second floor of the opera house building lost furniture and paraphernalia worth $1,000; partly covered by insurance. St. Patrick's Catholic congregation, decorations and festival supplies in opera house. Loss: $300. Altogether a number of fireman are said to have received painful burns, the only considerable injury to a person reported is that of Miss Emma Wissinger. She fell down stairs while escaping from her father's burning house and is now suffering from a bad case of shock. In starting down stairs in her flight from the house she tripped and fell the entire flight. She was unconscious when picked up but was reported in no danger the next afternoon, the physician stating that she was suffering principally from fright. After Miss Wissinger was hurt no effort was made to save anything from her father's house, making the loss on household goods there total. Much was saved from the Follette, Harkins and Gorman house although the losses in each case will amount to about $300. In other places the salvage amounts to practically nothing. [Remainder of article too faded to transcribe] The Work of Fiends Vandals Get into Barn of William Davis, Esq., and Inflict Painful Injuries Upon Harmless Nag [only headline readable; entire article unreadable] McCarthy's Great Find Ebensburger Has Copy of Cambria County Paper Over Half Century Old Casper McCarthy, resident of Ebensburg, while rummaging through an old scrap pile the other day came across a copy of THE CRUSADER, a newspaper published many years ago at Summitville (now known as The Summit) Cambria County, dated March 3, 1853. The copy is well worn and yellow with age and many are the requests Mr. McCarthy is receiving for permission to read the interesting relic of pioneer times in this section. Among the things which appear in its columns is the announcement of a public meeting to have been held at the house of Col. P. Shields in the borough of Loretto, Saturday evening, March 5, to adopt measures for the construction of a turnpike or plank road from Loretto to The Summit. The committee to have looked after this project was composed of Col. P. Shields, P. J. Little, Patrick Branif, August Little and Daniel Gallagher. Mr. McCarthy prizes the sheet very highly and has deposited it in the safe at the Metropolitan Hotel for safe keeping. The paper was published by Henry McPike. Buys Fenwycke Hall T. Stanton Davis, the Ebensburg real estate dealer has purchased from his father, Capt. Tom Davis, the Fenwycke Hall property in the West ward and will make some extensive improvements in the place shortly. It is his intention to transform the southwest wing of the building and make several other important changes in the structure. Home from Hunting Trip Ex-County Commissioner T. M. Sheehan of Patton returned home from his hunting trip to Clinton County in time to spend Thanksgiving with his family at Patton. He reports having secured one deer himself and Charley Walters, one also. The people of Patton however have not yet seen the deers. Taken to Dixmont William James of Cambria Township Has Peculiar Delusion William James, a prominent farmer of Cambria Township, was taken to the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane at Dixmont Wednesday. Mr. James is laboring under a delusion that he is to be arrested and hanged on a charge of arson preferred against him by a well known Ebensburger. He had been to the Dixmont Institution once before and it is thought that with the proper treatment, his mental aberration will disappear. The James family resides at Johnstown on the Leesburg pike, a few miles from this place. Taken to Philadelphia Hospital Miles Clymans of this place, Thursday departed for Philadelphia in company with Mrs. Clymans, where the latter will enter a hospital to undergo a special course of treatment for nervous prostration from which she has been suffering for some time. Her many friends have hopes for her speedy recovery. May Lose His Hand Frank Devereaux of Cambria Township Painfully Injured Wednesday Frank Devereaux of Cambria Township met with an accident Thursday that will likely cost him his right hand or at least several fingers upon that member. While operating a corn husking machine Wednesday, Mr. Devereaux had his right hand caught to the mechanism of the instrument and so badly lacerated that amputation of several fingers will likely be necessary. He is now at the Altoona Hospital. Still Unimproved Bertha, the young daughter of William C. Hubbard of Patton, who has been seriously ill for the past few weeks, is still in a critical condition and her recovery is extremely doubtful. Will Open Wall Paper Store Harry Pruner will within the near future open an up-to-date wall paper store in the rooms adjoining Clothier C. P. Pannebaker, and will equip his establishment with a full line of up-to-date goods. His daughter, Miss Mae Pruner, who until recently was employed in the Tribune Book Store, will have charge of the establishment.