NEWS:   Cambria Freeman; 1909; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 16 Jul 1909
Volume 43, Number 29


Local and Personal

Josiah Jones, an inmate of the County Home, is in a critical condition 
of dropsy.  Mr. Jones is 69 years of age. He was admitted to the 
Almshouse from Barr Township.

Mrs. J. O. Fetter, who had been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. 
D. Port in this place, left in company with her husband for Youngwood, 
Pa., where Mr. Fetter is now employed.

Frank Hettler of Altoona spent Sunday with his grandparent, Mr. and 
Mrs. John F. Tibbott, and other relatives in this place.

Mrs. Tompkins of Clearfield has been visiting her son, H. A. Tompkins 
and family and is accompanied by Miss Howell.

Mrs. Sarah Richards of Zanesville, Ohio, has been the guest of her son, 
Dr. T. M. Richards of Julian Street.

Mrs. Frank S. Gates of Wilmington, Del., is visiting her parents, Mr. 
and Mrs. A. V. Barker in this place.

Squire Chares McGonigle of Lilly and T. W. Letts of Cresson were in 
Ebensburg Tuesday.


Sheriff Baumer 65 

Ex-Sheriff Herman Baumer of Johnstown, during the last few days, 
observed his 65th anniversary of his birth.  The sheriff's many friends 
throughout the county will be glad to know that he is enjoying the best 
of health.


Mr. Wilkinson Disabled 

O. E. Wilkinson of Ebensburg, the well known monument and marble 
worker, had his left thumb badly crushed while at work Monday and has 
been unable to work since that time.  Mr. Wilkinson was moving a large 
shaft of granite and in some way got his thumb caught under a roller.  
Dr. Jones dressed the injury.


Fred Barker Will Become Floridan for Ten Months 
Well Known Attorney Goes to Southern State to Remain Through Winter
Judge is Also Going

Attorney Fred D. Barker of Ebensburg will leave the county seat July 21 
for Bradentown, Florida, where he will remain for the next ten months.  
His wife and family will join Mr. Barker in Florida in the fall and in 
November, former Judge A. V. Barker, with his family, will to go to 
Bradentown to remain during the winter months.

The Barkers will live in Bradentown but Attorney Fred Barker has 
purchased a section of land two miles from Bradentown on the Manatee 
River and there he will embark in celery raising on a large scale.

Bradentown is on the Florida west coast, only a few miles from the Gulf 
of Mexico and on the mile wide Manatee River.  It is about 70 miles 
southwest of Tampa in the heart of the best truck farming country in 
the South.  Manatee County is noted for its fine marl roads and these 
the Barkers expect to enjoy to the utmost as they are taking their 
White steamer 40 with them.

Attorney Fred Barker has been an amateur florist and gardener for years 
and his property on Horner Street, Ebensburg, is one of the show places 
of the county seat.  He has gained a most comprehensive knowledge of 
flower and truck gardening.  This latter he expects to employ to 
advantage on his Florida celery farm. The Florida property is now being 
fitted with the overhead irrigation system pipes through which water is 
carried, being erected over the entire property.  The overhead system 
is declared to be far superior to the surface system of irrigation in 
that one man in a short time can accomplish the work which it would 
require six men half a day to do.

Mr. Barker will sail from New York July 21 on a Mallory line steamship, 
arriving at Bradentown two and one half days later.


Judge Barker's Improvement

That Judge Barker's stay of two weeks in Pittsburg, where he was 
treated by an eminent physician, did him more good than the months he 
spent in Philadelphia and Atlantic City is evidenced by the fact that 
he is now able to be around as in the days before his illness.  The 
former judge made his appearance on the streets Saturday morning, 
walking without a cane and no sign of a limp.  He is seemingly 
altogether well.  When he returned home from Atlantic City a month or 
more ago he could not walk without crutches. 


Shoots at Man, But Kills Wife
Nightworker Goes Home Unexpectedly
Tragedy Follows

Altoona, Pa., July 15 -- Frank E. McMillen, aged thirty-one years, shot 
and instantly killed his wife, aged twenty-three, at their home in 
Greenwood, a suburb, with a shot directed at William E. McDowell.  
McDowell escaped uninjured.

McMillen, who has been employed at night, has long suspected his wife's 
infidelity and instead of going to work, remained in the neighborhood 
of his home.  Near midnight he went to the house and peering through a 
window saw McDowell and the woman in the parlor.  He fired through the 
window at McDowell as he claims and when the man ran, he fired again.  
The woman was hit by one of the bullets and was dead when McMillen 
entered the house.

The husband directed that the authorities be notified and remained at 
the home of his sister in the neighborhood until arrested.

  
Claim All Altoona

Laying claim practically to every inch of ground embraced in the 
corporate limits of Altoona and one or two adjoining suburbs, heirs of 
General James Galbraith, a Revolutionary warrior, are about to enter 
suit in the Blair County courts to gain possession of the property.  
The claim is advanced that the property was originally owned by 
Galbraith, who willed it to his heirs.  This will, it is alleged, has 
reposed in the archives of the Huntingdon county court, its existence 
only recently having been discovered.  Harry A. Folk of that place has 
induced a number of the Galbraith heirs to make the fight.  The 
property involved is worth $50,000,000.


Hastings Girl to Wed
 
Hastings, July 16 -- Miss Winnie Sullivan has returned to Pittsburg 
where she has been employed after visiting here with her parents, Mr. 
and Mrs. Michael Sullivan. While here she announced her engagement to 
Earl Ruft, a telegraph operator in Pittsburg.  They are to be married 
next September when Miss Sullivan becomes of age. Miss Sullivan was 
formerly an operator in the telephone exchange here.  Since leaving the 
office here about three years ago, she has been at New Castle, Warren, 
O.; Youngstown, Pittsburg and other cities. She is a sister of Miss 
Julia Sullivan, at present an operator in the local telephone office.


Killed by His Physician 

A telegram from Kankakee, Ill., on Monday says:

When J. B. Saylor, vice president of the First National Bank of 
Crescent, Ill., returned from a baseball game Sunday night and 
upbraided Dr. W. R. Miller for paying court to his wife, Dr. Miller 
drew an automatic revolver and fired four times at Saylor, one bullet 
piercing the heart, one passing through the right lung and two others 
taking effect in each arm. Saylor fell dead at his wife's feet.

Dr. Miller hurried home and went to bed where he was arrested later by 
the sheriff who placed the doctor in jail. The story of the shooting 
was made known Monday.

Dr. Miller sent his wife and family a few days previous to the shooting 
to Blairsville, where they are now visiting Mrs. Miller's parents, Mr. 
and Mrs. James Alters, and coincidentally, Mr. Saylor sent his 17-year-
old daughter on a visit. Dr. Miller practiced for some time in 
Blairsville where he met and married his wife.