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

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, PA
Friday, 27 Aug 1909
Volume 43, Number 35


**[Paper mostly faded]


Personal and Local Mention

T. Stanton Davis who recently drove his big Stearns auto to 
Philadelphia arrived home Saturday evening. Mr. Davis left his auto in 
Philadelphia and will not bring it home until later.

Several friends of H. H. Myers, Esq., of Ebensburg, who is enjoying a 
three months tour of Europe, have received cards from him at Milan, 
Italy.  Mr. Myers is enjoying his tour very much and expects to spend 
the present week in Paris.  He will start for home early in September.

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Davison of Ebensburg are home from a visit to 
Ligonier, Westmoreland County, where they attended a happy reunion of 
the Davison families.

Miss Alice Maloney of this place on Saturday fractured her right 
shoulder as the result of a fall received at her home.

Marion, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Sharbaugh of 
Ebensburg, has been very ill for several days with tonsillitis.

Mrs. C. J. Blair and family of Ebensburg will move to Pittsburg October 
1st to make their home.

Schuyler C. Davis of Ebensburg, who has been ill for some time past, is 
able to be out again.

Mr. D. A. Irwin of the Metropolitan Hotel slipped the other day and 
sprained his knee.


Local Briefs 

Thomas Johns, who is in the Ebensburg jail for the murder of his wife 
and another woman, attacked Assistant Warden Christ Good with a weapon 
made of a piece of blanket and containing a stone Tuesday and nearly 
overcame him.  It is thought Johns was about making an attempt to 
escape.  The date for his execution have [words missing] received plans 
and specifications.  A stiletto was also found on Johns.


News of Patton Briefly Related

Patton, Aug. 26 -- Mrs. Garfield Watkins, who has been confined to her 
home with typhoid fever, is improving slowly.  Her husband has 
recovered from an attack of typhoid and is again able to look after his 
business interests.

Harry Lewis of Oklahoma is visiting friends in Patton.

Miss Mildred Lewis visited friends in Philipsburg last week.

Miss Grace Monteith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Monteith of 
Fifth Avenue, is attending the Old Home Week reunion at Punxsutawney.  
She will be the guest of friends while here.


Going on Western Trip

PRR agent and Mrs. William Davis of Conemaugh will start tomorrow night 
for Salt Lake City, Utah, on a visit to Mr. Davis' brother.  From there 
they will visit the William Gittings family at Pueblo before going to 
Kansas to spend a week or so with Mrs. Davis' aunt.  The Gittings 
family formerly resided in Ebensburg where William Gittings and William 
Davis spent their boyhood days. On their return Mr. and Mrs. Davis will 
stop off in Michigan, Mr. Davis to spend a week fishing. (Johnstown 
TRIBUNE, Monday)


Commission in Lunacy
To Investigate Mental Condition of Allegheny Township Man

A commission in lunacy was appointed Monday afternoon to inquire into 
the mental condition of William Moran of Allegheny Township  Mr. Moran, 
who is well known in that section of the county in which he lives, has 
been acting queerly of late and it is feared that he is becoming 
insane. The Court appointed Attorney P. J. Little of Ebensburg, Dr. H. 
Somerville of Chest Springs and Silas Gibbons of Allegheny Township to 
sit on the commission.


Barnesboro Woman Insane 

Mrs. John Emery, a Slavish woman, who was brought to the County Jail 
from Barnesboro Sunday, violently insane, was formally declared insane 
by a lunacy commission and has been taken to Dixmont.  She has a 
husband and several children in Barnesboro.


Will is Probated
Late Ebensburg Citizen Leaves Estate of Over $13,000

The will of the late Edward Humphreys was probated last week and the 
inventory of his estate shows that he leaves cash and securities 
amounting to $13,213.21.  After the payment of a bequest of $300 to a 
stepdaughter, Mrs. Amanda James, and another of $300 to the Calvinistic 
Methodist Church Home Missionary Society, the residue is to be equally 
divided among his three surviving children and the two children of a 
deceased daughter.  The three surviving children are:  Mrs. Winfield 
Reese and William S. Humphreys of Johnstown and John E. Humphreys of 
Ebensburg. The two grandchildren are Walter Apel of Pittsburg and 
Katharine Apel of Ebensburg, children of the late Mrs. Martha J. Apel.


Miscreant Threw Acid

Portage, Aug. 24 -- Mr. and Mrs. James J. Smay and their three children 
are recovering from the effects of the fumes of some drug which was 
thrown into their home at a late hour Saturday night.  It is thought 
that this person or persons who threw the stuff intended to overcome 
the family with the fumes and commit robbery.  Mrs. Smay was sitting in 
front of an open window when the drug was thrown in.  She was partially 
overcome but managed to call her husband who was in the upper part of 
the house.  He rushed down stairs to see an intruder at the window.  At 
the sight of an old revolver, this man disappeared and Mr. Smay managed 
to get to the open air where he revived readily. The three children, 
who were sleeping in the house, were also affected.


Berry Picker Killed
 
Gallitzin, Aug. 24 -- Henry Johnson, aged thirteen years, while 
returning home from the mountains where he had been picking berries 
yesterday afternoon, was run down by an engine a short distance east of 
here and fatally injured. He died in the Altoona hospital several hours 
later.