NEWS: Cambria Freeman; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA; Jul 1908 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2011. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, 17 Jul 1908 Volume 42, Number 28 Local and Personal Squire Campbell and P. M. Kinney of Hastings were in Ebensburg last evening attending the monthly meeting of the Knights of Columbus. Of course they called on THE FREEMAN people who are always glad to see them. Henry Lance, an energetic young farmer, now living on the McCormick farm in Summerhill Township, accompanied by his wife and son – master Roy – paid Ebensburg a visit on Monday and while here visited THE FREEMAN office and paid his subscription to July 1909. Mr. Lance is the kind of visitor that does a printer's heart good to see. Come again. H. M. Gooderham of near Patton is suffering from an attack of appendicitis. Dr. Thomas of Carrolltown is attending him and an operation will it is said not be necessary and his recovery in a short time is confidently looked for. Mr. Gooderham is one of the best known Grangers of Northern Cambria. David Dougherty, wanted for larceny by bailee in Blair County, was arrested by County Detective Berkebile at the home of Frank Sanders in Cambria Township on Wednesday. Constable Roe of Altoona took him to Blair County. Mrs. John Veith of Cambria Township near the PRR depot in this place is seriously ill. She has been confined to her bed for some time past and hopes of her recovery are doubtful. During the progress of a thunderstorm on Sunday afternoon last a house in Ashville owned by Albert Gauntner and occupied by foreigners was struck by lightning but fortunately no one was injured. Ebensburg has a merry-go-round; and a Ferris wheel is in course of erection on the Ann McDonald square north of the county jail and of course, the young folks of the town are happy. Walter Lenhart, son of ex-Sheriff Samuel Lenhart of Johnstown, was in Ebensburg on Wednesday and yesterday and did not forget to call on ye Editor. Come again, Walter. Dr. M. J. Buck and wife of Pittsburg were in Ebensburg Sunday night, stopping with their brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. James Scanlan on Ogle Street. Judge Barker, his wife and daughter, Helen and Mrs. Fred D. Barker, have returned from Bedford County where they have been visiting for several days. Jack Davis has finished a splendid buff brick sidewalk for landlord, T. V. Hott, of the Blair House, on High and Julian Streets. Attorney W. A. McGuire has returned from his trip to Denver and other points in the West, in the best of health and spirits. William Lingafelt was sent up from Patton on a charge of assault and battery upon Mike Balko by Squire Boone. Mrs. J. G. Lloyd returned home from Atlantic City in the early part of the week. Miss Jane Martin of East End, Pittsburg, is a summer visitor in Ebensburg. Local Happenings William J. Buck, of Buck's Mills, was in Ebensburg on Monday. Rev. Father Walter O'Hara is spending a week with his mother, Mrs. Rose O'Hara on Julian street, after which he will go to Sharpsburg, Allegheny County, as assistant to his uncle, Father Thomas Rosensteel. District Attorney J. W. Leech and Rev. J. Twyson Jones yesterday delivered each a lecture to the students of the Salix Academy. Assaulted near Beulah Mrs. Jere Lloyd While Picking Berries Successfully Resists Attack of Drunken Foreigner On Wednesday evening last Jere Lloyd, whose occupation is getting out paper wood near Beulah, telephoned to District Attorney Leech that his wife and little daughter were missing from his home and from indications of a struggle on the road near his home, he believed that they had been attacked and carried off by foreigners and County Detective Berkebile, Constable Richard Evans and T. A. Osborn started for the place in a two horse rig, but when they arrived at the Lloyd home, they found that Mrs. Lloyd had returned and the following appears to be about the facts of the case: On Wednesday afternoon about 3 o'clock while she was picking berries on the road side near her house, she was attacked by a foreigner – Angelo Romangino - who was apparently intoxicated at the time, drew a razor to slash her with it, but in the attempt, it slipped from one hand into the other, when she fortunately striking his hand knocked the weapon from him into the bushes at the side of the road, where it was afterwards found. She then with a stone knocked her assailant down and seizing up her child ran to the house, leaving much of her clothing which had been torn from her person in the encounter and the berries she picked, scattered over the road. After putting on other clothes, she went to the barn, harnessed a horse, put him in the buggy intending to go to Nant-y-Glo at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Simmons, thinking her husband was at that place; and at this juncture, the frenzied man returned to the attack, but she beat him off with a poker which she had taken the precaution to take with her from the house; and getting into the buggy hastened toward Nant-y-Glo but meeting a neighbor on the way turned back. In the mean time her husband had been to the house and missing his wife and child went to John Evans (Ridge) and telephoned the District Attorney at Ebensburg and immediately went in search of his family who soon returned. Romamgimo (sic) was located at Nant-y-Glo by Detective Berkebile and was arrested yesterday by Constable Richard Evans and brought to jail here. He is a young Italian, about 19 years of age, not a vicious looking person and physically strong enough had he not been intoxicated to have killed Mrs. L.; for attempt to kill and for that alone, that lady charges him on the information made against him. It is said that Mr. Lloyd some time ago made information against a brother of Angelo for killing song birds and resentment for which it is thought was a motive of the desperate attack on Mrs. Lloyd. Typhoid Fever in Hastings State Authorities to Control the Situation There is at present according to reliable reports twenty four cases of typhoid fever in Hastings and Drs. Haney and Rice are kept busy night and day, recently the strain on the physicians has become too great and the State Board of Health has directed Dr. W. E. Matthews of Johnstown to visit the town and render all necessary aid. The epidemic is supposed to have been caused by impure water and samples of the supply of the town have been sent to the State chemist for examination. With the aid of the State authorities it is hoped to successfully combat the spread of this dread disease in Hastings. The Jail Filling Up Once More Many Persons Being Incarcerated on Serious Charges In the past ten days several person have been sent to jail on charges ranging from assault and battery to horse stealing and bigamy. Squire Boone sent John Diston and Henry Nothnagle for assault and battery on Henry Lacombe. Yonko Gorich and Mike Ribish were committed by Squire W. H. Crum of Conemaugh in default of $500 bail for a mix up in which Ella White (colored) who escaped conviction on a charge of larceny at March court was also incriminated and was likewise sent up. The trio, it is stated, attacked and pretty badly used up a foreigner in East Conemaugh. Peter Hughes and Mrs. Dolly Olcott were committed from South Fork on a charge of bigamy preferred by the wife of Hughes. Annie Riffle, Charles Brooks and Charles Watkins, the latter two colored gentlemen were sent up by Squire Crum for misdeeds and Charles Graham and Joseph Hanley and John Craig were held as witnesses. Philip Hucher charged with appropriating a keg of bear is in hoc. Garfield Ream was sent up by Squire J. H. Veil of Scalp Level on a charge of horse stealing. Thomas McGoldrick of Johnstown was charged with appropriating shoes not his own, is also in jail awaiting trial. To Change Proprietors A petition for the transfer of the retail liquor license now held by Mrs. Gertrude Kimball of the Metropolitan Hotel is now on file in the office of the Prothonotary in this place. The transfer will probably be made on Motion Day court, Tuesday, August 4th. Barn Raising Extraordinary W. R. Brallier with a Force of 54 Men Raises Large Barn for Timothy O'Hara On Tuesday last, W. R. Brallier with a force of 54 men without the use of blocks and tackles or other contrivance more formidable than pike poles successfully raised on the Marsh farm now owned by Mr. O'Hara the frame of a barn 50 x 80 feet of six bents, under frame and all. This was an extraordinary feat to be performed in one day and Mr. O'Hara as well as Mr. Brallier is quite grateful to his friends and neighbors of Ebensburg and vicinity who assisted in the work. The building will be roofed with slate and water boarded with poplar weather boarding and when finished, will be one of the best barns in the county. Pleasant Card Party Mrs. Fred Tate of Horner Street Entertains in the Honor of the Misses Tate and Godfrey Mrs. Fred Tate of Horner Street on Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock pleasantly entertained a number of her lady friends at cards in honor of the Misses Tate – sisters of Mr. Tate - and Miss Godfrey of Allegheny City. Amongst the guests from out of town were Mrs. Clark and Miss Richards – guests of Mrs. H. A. Tomkins of Horner Street. Carrolltown Ladies Entertain Ebensburg Friends Mrs. Donahue and Mrs. Chester, at the home of the latter in Carrolltown on Wednesday afternoon, entertained a party of ladies among whom were the Mesdames Pennebaker, F. C. Sharbaugh, M. J. Stoltz, T. A. Osborn, Mary Eckenrode and Oscar Kinkead, all of Ebensburg. Former Editor as an Agriculturist Fes Lloyd, Formerly Editor of the Cambria HERALD, Enjoying Plenty on His Farm Festus Lloyd, formerly editor and proprietor of the Cambria HERALD, but more recently postmaster of Ebensburg is now living a retired life on his farm adjoining town on the south west, but he is far from being an idle man, for he directs operations on his farm, a part of which he has turned into a vegetable garden and a poultry farm, having several thousand cabbage plants, besides many tomato plants, cucumbers, squashes, etc., and has also raised several hundred chickens this spring, and appears to enjoy life, just as we hope to do when we have made enough money in running THE FREEMAN to justify our retiring to a farm to spend the remainder of our days in peace and plenty, as Mr. Lloyd is now doing. Wreck of Windber Street Car Ran into Bark Train, then Ran Back and Jumped the Track One Killed Forty Injured A terrible accident resulting in the death of Ernest Gianetta, a French chef in the Saratoga lunchroom on Clinton Street, Johnstown, conducted by Fred A. Vivis and the injured - some seriously – of about forty persons. The catastrophe was the culmination of two wrecks, the first of which was caused by car No. 104 running into a bark train, hauled by a traction engine, crossing the street car line, without lights at a sharp curve on Central avenue, Ferndale, near the Hogback tunnel, where the lights of the car did not illuminate the track far ahead and the motorman - Irvin Hoover - could not see the bark train until within a short distance when he reversed his car on the four motors notwithstanding, it struck the first of the three bark wagons with terrific force, shoving in the front of the car which instantly turned backwards and there being no break levers on the hind end of the car, Conductor Edward Deitz had no means to stop it and the trolley having jumped off the wire, the car was in darkness until it struck the curve where the tracks turn off the Valley Pike in Ferndale to cross the B. & O. tracks into Moxham, when, turning, running at terrific speed, it jumped the track and turned on its side. Relief was promptly at hand and after the passengers were gotten out it was found that Ernest Gianetta was so seriously injured about the head and neck that he died in a few minutes. The wounded were taken to the hospital and cared for and Coroner McMillan of Barnesboro notified of the accident that an inquest might be held. Gianetta who was a young man came to this country six years ago and worked in various saloons as chef, accumulating, it is said, by this means about $12,000. Besides this, by the death of his parents in France, he recently fell heir to property valued at $100,000 – $50,000 of which is cash. He had intended to return to France in about a year and settle up the estate and live a retired life. He has two brothers in this country and a sister and brother in France. Letters Lately Issued Estate of Mary Blanche Sauter, late of Patton. Will probated and letters testamentary to John T. Sauter. Estate of John L. Stough, late of Ebensburg. Renunciation of widow and heirs filed. Letters of administration issued to Joseph G. Sechler.