NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 1909; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, 21 May 1909 Volume 43, Number 21 **[Newspaper faded] Local and Personal Ex-Judge A. V. Barker of Ebensburg has purchased a 40-horse White steamer car and A. L. Riggs, agent for the White in Cambria County, brought the machine to Ebensburg from Pittsburg this afternoon. The car is a very large machine, seating seven passengers and is the first of this size steamer brought to Cambria County. John Barnes has brought his Lozier tourabout to Ebensburg. This car, a long rakish looking craft, has 60-horsepower. It is yellow in color and has attracted a great deal of attention throughout the north of the county. W. E. Thomas of Leavenworth, Kan., stopped off in Ebensburg Tuesday with his sister, Mrs. M. D. Kittell, on his way home from a visit in Washington D. C. Warren O'Hara, a student at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, is home for his summer vacation. William Shultz, of Port Matilda, Pa., visited his relatives, W. D. Port and family in this place Thursday. Twin Rocks Scene of Fire Which Does $40,000 Damage – Extracts Broke out Early Monday Morning and Could Not be Stayed Local Fighters There Twin Rocks, May 20 The Big Bend Hotel, the jewelry store and dwelling of John Struzak, the general store and dwelling of E. Shaddon, the clothing house of Tenanuer & Beerman, the shooting gallery of Harry McHugh and the bowling alley and poolroom of Steve Balog were reduced to ashes Monday morning by a fire of unknown origin. The total loss is about $36,000 and the principal business section of Twin Rocks is wiped out. $1 for Marriage Licenses The register and recorder's office is now charging $1 for marriage licenses under the terms of a law signed recently by the governor. So far the authorities have not learned whether or not the law gives an increase to alderman or justices who procure licenses. There have been no complaints as yet over the license fee for the majority of applicants evidently being of the belief that they are cheap at any price. New Prisoners at the Jail W. A. Crossman of Ashville and his wife, Ida Crossman, were lodged in jail here Wednesday to await trial at court. Crossman is charged with extortion and his wife with adultery and conducting a bawdy house. John Churchnik of Ehrenfeld was placed in jail to await trial on a charge of fornication and threatening to kill. Looking for Murderer A man hunt in the woods around Sonman, a mining settlement near Lilly, has been in progress for the better part of this week and is still going on in the hope of catching Joseph Chapler, a Hungarian, who at 8 o'clock Sunday night wantonly murdered Albert Deering of Pittsburg by stabbing him in the jugular. Deering had come up from Pittsburg to spend the day with some friends at Shoemaker's mines and there is no evidence of his having clashed with Chapler at all. Chapler who seems to have been drinking met Deering as the latter was about to enter a home and stabbed him in the neck with a cruel stiletto. The wounded man simply bled to death where he fell. Chapler escaped but he has only twenty cents in this clothes and District Attorney Leech has had every official in the vicinity searching for the murderer. Boyle Had Break Down M. P. Boyle of Johnstown drove his big Stearns to Ebensburg Sunday. When he arrived here the car broke down, a journal on the front axle giving way. A mechanic came from the Johnstown Automobile Company's garage and repaired the break. With Mr. Boyle were his wife and family and John Dowling. An Auto's Plunge That Jacob Goenner of Johnstown and his three guests on an automobile ride over the Valley pike Saturday evening were not killed is probably to be ascribed to an act of Providence. That anyone escaped instant death when an automobile, going probably not less than 20 miles an hour, plunged down the hillside, would certainly seem miraculous. J. C. Herzog, one of the quartet is at the Memorial Hospital with his pelvic bone broken at the hip and numerous cuts and bruises. Mr. Goenner was driving the machine and with him were W. H. Haws, Samuel Meyers, and Officer Herzog. Mr. Goenner left the pike and started up the hill into Roxbury. About a third of the slope had been taken when the car's fight [sic] wheels either went directly over the bank or struck a stone and skidded. At least two of the party jumped. Herzog was flung out and thrown against a tree. The automobile rolled over three times and brought up against a tree 75 feet down whence employees of the Johnstown garage rescued it. Conveyances were summoned from Benscreek, in one of them, Mr. Haws driving Herzog to the hospital. "Jack" Hite New Clerk John Hite, formerly proprietor of the Hite House in Stoyestown, is the new clerk at the Metropolitan Hotel here. Mr. Hite has innumerable friends among the traveling men who "make" Ebensburg and is always warmly greeted by them all. Will Leave Cresson Cresson, May 18 -- Dr. F. A. Detrick, who has been located here for the past four years, expects to leave about the 1st of June for Meyersdale, where he has purchased the property and practice of Dr. J. R. Hemminger. Dr. Detrick was formerly assistant to Dr. A. F. Stotts, who moved from Ehrenfeld a year or more ago. Cresson Woman Injured Cresson, May 18 -- Mrs. Frank Cloud, wife of the well known salesman for the Cresson Springs Brewery, sustained a fracture of the right arm last night about 9 o'clock when she tripped at the top of a stairway and fell to the bottom. She is also painfully bruised. Dr. Detrick attended her. Father Kittell Improving The Rev. Father Ferdinand Kittell, rector of St. Michael's Catholic Church, Loretto, has been a patient in a Pittsburg hospital for the past few weeks, undergoing treatment for nervousness. He is reported as resting comfortably. The work of the parish is being looked after by the Franciscan Brothers of St. Francis College. Huber-Farabaugh Carrolltown, May 20 -- The coming marriage of Vincent Huber and Miss Augusta Farabaugh, both of Carroll Township, has been announced.