NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 1907; 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, February 1, 1907 Volume 41, Number 5 Items Local and Personal Richard Russell, manager of the Cresson Foundry, Machine and Car Company, has tendered his resignation to the board of directors of that company and will shortly remove from the Gibson property on Horner street in this place to New York City where he has secured a position with a manufacturing concern. J. G. Lloyd of this place has been quite ill for several days past with violent cramps of the stomach. At this writing Mr. Lloyd is much improved and will doubtless be able to be out again in a few days. E. James & Son, the Ebensburg druggists, have added a handsome onyx soda water fountain to the already finely equipped store. Misses Margaret Myers and Maud Luther returned home Tuesday from a visit of a few days in Johnstown. The little one-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Evans of the west ward is critically ill with pneumonia. Mrs. H. W. Chester and children, of Carrolltown, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary Eckenrode of this place. Miss Ida Evans returned Saturday from a two weeks' visit with friends in Johnstown and Windber. Robert Evans, who has been suffering from Bright's disease, is reported to be slightly improved. Ned and George Bender are visiting their grandmother, Mrs. E. R. Dunegan of St. Augustine. Miss Bird Kinkead of Johnstown is the guest of the family of Fergus C. Lloyd in this place. Squire J. D. Parrish of the Centre ward is confined to his home with an attack of grip. Miss Grace Fenlon is visiting her sister, Mrs. George Bearer of Pittsburg. James Kirkpatrick of Carroll township was an Ebensburg visitor today. Mrs. Martha Jones of High Street is confined to her room with grip. Miss Elizabeth Smith of Cleveland is the guest of Miss Mabel Jones. George Thomas returned Saturday from a visit in Johnstown. Burgess Callan of Cresson was a visitor here Wednesday. A. E. Bender was in Patton on business Tuesday. Attorney P. J. Little was in Johnstown Tuesday. Late News of County Elmer Paul of Cresson who underwent an operation recently for appendicitis is improving slowly. Wednesday was the coldest day this year. At 7:30 a.m. the thermometer at the Anderson House at Cresson registered 19 degrees below zero. Jerome Flick moved his family from Westover to Cresson on last Thursday. He is residing in the house he built here some two years ago on upper Keystone avenue. One man knocked unconscious, another with his finger shot off and a half dozen others almost cut to pieces with knives was the result of the wedding activities of Frank Kobza and Anna Marko at Puritan, this county, Saturday night. A number of the parties are now confined in the county jail. Mother St. John Youngstown, O., Jan. 29 Mother St. John, the only surviving member of the quartet of noble women who came here from Cleveland in 1874 and laid the foundation of the present flourishing Ursuline community in West Rayen Avenue, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of her profession. Attempts Suicide! Karamarkovic, Condemned Murderer, Attempts to Kill Himself in His Cell Saturday Night The fear of death has transformed Marko Karamarkovic, the Cambria City foreigner under sentence of death for murder, into a madman. Terror has seized the convicted man and he is apparently seeking by any means at all to avoid that horrible trip to the gallows which he believes is inevitable. Saturday night he tried to commit suicide in his cell and would have undoubtedly succeeded had it not been for a man in the jail corridor. Since the death sentence was passed on him by Judge O'Connor, Karamarkovic has been in a frenzy. He shouts from time to time in his own language. At times he weeps and sobs and tears frantically at the cell door. He repeats constantly that he did nothing for which he should be hanged. Saturday night a man in the corridor happened to hear a series of dull thuds. He looked in Karamarkovic's cell. The foreigner was beating his head against the stone walls of the cell. He was endeavoring with all his might to kill himself. The other prisoners at once called the turnkey and the latter rushed into the cell and prevented the frenzied foreigner from doing further harm to himself. Since that time Karamarkovic has never been left alone. A man is with him in the cell day and night. Letters Lately Issued Estate of John C. McDermitt, late of Ashville. Renunciation of brother filed and letters issued to J. E. Litzinger. Estate of Adam Rudolph, late of Loretto. Renunciation of Christopher, one of the Executors, filed and letters granted to B. W. Litzinger. $13.37 for a Rabbit Moxham Man Killed Bunny Out of the Lawful Season Albert Gochnick, a Moxham foreigner, had rabbit for his Sunday dinner but it came high. While returning home from his work at the Valley Mine at Ferndale Saturday evening, he bowled over the bunny with a stone. A minute later Game Warden Robert Bowman happened along and arrested him. In Alderman Ephraim Wirik's court the dinner bill amounted to $10 fine and costs, $13.37 in all. [Johnstown TRIBUNE] Body Badly Mangled Grover Sanders, aged twenty-two years of Cassandra, was found along the railroad tracks between Benscreek and Jamestown early Tuesday. He had been killed by a train and his body was badly mangled. Fell Under Train Martin Closkey, aged fifteen years, who lived with his mother, Mrs. Estella Closkey, above Cresson, was fatally injured near his home Monday evening. He fell under a train and was badly mangled. He died while being taken to a Johnstown hospital. Powder Can Explodes Thomas Cartwright of Thomas' Mills was Thrown Fifteen Feet Daughter Fatally Burned, Died Sunday Thomas Cartwright, a miner, was thrown fifteen feet and miraculously escaped serious injury; his wife was painfully burned about the hands and head; a two-year-old daughter of the family was fatally burned and died at 3 o'clock Sunday morning; a six-months-old babe was badly burned; and several windows were blown out of the house when a quantity of powder exploded Friday afternoon in the Cartwright home at Thomas' Mills, about two miles east of Hastings. Thomas Cartwright is a miner and for some time past has been employed in the St. Boniface workings. Like most of his fellow workmen, Cartwright kept a can of powder at his home and each day took to the mines only what he thought would be sufficient for the blasting to be done that day. It was while filling a small can with some of the powder Friday afternoon last about 3 o'clock, preparatory to his going to work on the night shift that night, that Cartwright accidentally allowed a small amount of the explosive to drop on the cook stove near which he was sitting. The fire ignited the small can of powder which he was filling and the resultant explosion communicated to the large can of powder. The detonation which followed was terrific and was felt by neighbors living some distance from the house. It shook the Cartwright Hotel not far away and a number of men there at the time ran out to find smoke issuing from the miner's home and a great commotion among the occupants. Several of the downstairs windows in the house were blown entirely out by the concussion. Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright, a two-year-old girl, a six-month-old babe and small boy were in the kitchen when the explosion occurred. The father was thrown backward fifteen feet to the wall of the house. The mother, who was standing near the stove, was frightfully burned about the face and head by the explosion and one of her hands were burned to a crisp in her attempts to extinguish the flames which were literally eating up her two-year-old daughter. The child was terribly burned in spite of the brave efforts of the mother to prevent it. Its clothing was entirely burned off its body, which is practically roasted. The child also inhaled the flames. The six- months-old baby, which was lying in a cradle, was also terribly burned as a result of its clothing catching fire. The little boy was playing behind a door at the time and escaped uninjured. The burning powder set fire to the house, but the flames were extinguished by neighbors who had been attracted by the noise of the explosion and the screams of the unfortunate and frenzied victims. When the seriousness of the victims' burns was realized, hasty summonses went out for physicians. Drs. Rice and Hagey of Hastings and Dr. Murray of Patton, reached the scene of the explosion in a short time and were soon alleviating the excruciating pains of the mother and her children. Unknown Hungarian An unknown Hungarian was killed by a fall of rock Wednesday afternoon in the Brawley Mines, located in Carroll township, a short distance from Carrolltown. Undertaker Buck of Carrolltown took charge of the body. Resolution of Condolence: Ethel Jones Whereas, God in His Divine Wisdom has removed from among us our beloved friend and Sister Ethel Jones and Whereas, This bereavement has cast a deep gloom and sorrow upon our Sunday School and especially upon her own beloved family, Therefore be it Resolved, That we tender to the bereaved Father and Mother and their family our sincerest sympathies and condolences; And we pray our Heavenly Father who "gave and hath taken" to Himself this beautiful daughter and friend, will also heal the hearts that have been so deeply wounded and will verify to the afflicted "His Great and Precious Promises." She was a beautiful Christian Character, modest and retiring in disposition, kind and sympathetic in Spirit and in company, she was ever careful in the use of words that had any tendency to hurt another's feeling. She was an obedient child, a loving sister, a loyal friend and a kindly disposed acquaintance. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to her family and a copy to four of our county papers and that these resolutions be spread on the minutes of the School. By order of the School J. A. James Mrs. A. V. Caldwell Robert Clyde, Committee