NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 10 May 1912; 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, 10 May 1912 Volume 45, Number 19 Personal Mention Miss Catherine Lynch of Altoona is visiting Ebensburg. Lester Larimer and wife are home from a trip of two weeks to New York. Attorney M. D. Kittell attended the superior court sessions in Pittsburg this week. Harry Owens of Pittsburg is visiting his mother, Mrs. Charles Owens of this place. Miss Flora Parrish is home from Pittsburg where she visited relatives and friends. Wallace Humphreys of Conemaugh is the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Humphreys. John Daniel Bradley of Gallitzin paid THE FREEMAN office a call while in town Wednesday on business. Mrs. Harvey Roland and daughter, Miss Olive, and Mrs. Charles Port, were among the Ebensburg visitors in Johnstown Saturday. Local News Notes Malcom Evans of this place has purchased a half interest in the Kredel drug stone, Main and Clinton streets, Johnstown. The new firm name is Kredel & Evans. Vintondale expects to have the best summer in its history. Orders have been received by the Vinton Colliery company which will insure work in the mines for several months. Large trees which had been growing on High street in front of the Metropolitan hotel for many years have been chopped down. They will be replaced with smaller trees. Ground was broken at Colver for the erection of 50 more homes. The town is growing rapidly. The 76th birthday anniversary of Mrs. Thomas Lewis of this place was observed on Monday. Mrs. Evelyn Fisher, mother of Mrs. Marshall Owens, entertained several days ago in honor of her 53rd birthday. The Hon. Edmund James left Albuquerque for Ebensburg May 6. Before coming home he will spend several days with relatives in Ohio and Indiana. Mr. James will remain here a couple of months at least. D. E. Park has arrived in Ebensburg to remain for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Philips will arrive here within a few days. From all indications the summer colony will be larger than for a number of years past. The pupils of Miss Gallagher's school at Hallesen place will give a recital Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Among those who will take part are Miss Chisholm, Helen Zeigler, Sue Dowler, Marie Kenney, Emma G. Patton, Dorothy Smith, Mary Pannebaker, Marty Bantly, John Miller, Ruth Geddes and Ruth Smith. The anniversary exercises of the school are to be held next Friday afternoon. Young Girl Beaten Miss Fern Davis of Woodvale, a daughter of Thomas Davis and a relative of a number of Ebensburg folks, was beaten into an unconscious condition Wednesday night by George Henderson who is now in jail. The young woman remained unconscious for 40 hours after she was struck by the inhuman brute who now claims that he loved her and doesn't know why he beat her. Henderson says that when he asked Miss Davis to elope with him she refused and that he then got a club and struck her. He was arrested some hours after his offence and was brought to jail here Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Stineman Improving W. I. Stineman has left for Albuquerque, N. M., where he will visit his family for the next two weeks. Mrs. Stineman and children have been in the New Mexican city for about two years, having gone there an on account of her health, but conditions having been greatly improved by the change of climate. Smallpox in Johnstown Smallpox was discovered Monday in the boarding house of Mrs. Hortens Hugney, 623 Maple avenue, Johnstown. Dr. George Hay and the members of the board of health promptly removed Charles Sowers, aged thirty-eight years, to the Municipal hospital. He is suffering from the loathsome disease and John Hipple has been removed to the same hospital with symptoms similar to those manifested by Sowers. Many Contagious Diseases The smallpox excitement tends to obscure the fact that just now Johnstown is passing through a series of minor contagions. Scarlet fever, chicken pox, measles, mumps and some diphtheria cases are on the quarantine list, much more than usual at this season and sore throats are everywhere. Physicians blame the damp weather. The health board quarantine workers are very busy as a result. Woman Causes Two Arrests Portage, May 8 On the allegation of Mrs. Annie Ripko that Mike Cheranik and his son, Mike, Jr., had secreted goods taken from a store that failed a few days ago in order to escape payment of their debts, the police authorities have placed the two men under arrest; the son having been taken from a wedding celebration in Bedford county. The father has posted bail of $300 for his appearance before Burgess Green. Titanic Funerals Fifty-Nine Victims of the Disaster Find Graves at Halifax Stone Marks Each Grave Catholics, Protestants and Jews Laid Away Military Band Plays "Nearer, My God, to Thee" at Burial Community Shows Sorrow Halifax, N. S., May 4 Fifty-nine unidentified bodies from the Titanic were buried during the same day in nameless graves within three Halifax cemeteries. All were buried according to rites they had professed in life. Men and women of every creed united in honoring the unknown. The Nova Scotia Legislature was p**** [word faded] and out of respect for the dead all the brilliant military formalities attending such an event were abandoned. Probably for the first time in this city there were no strains of martial music on the streets, such as has been the custom at the closing of the House in the past. Four bodies were buried in the Catholic cemetery, nine in the Jewish cemetery and forty-six in the Protestant cemetery. At the later (sic) cemetery, 100 sailors from the Canadian warship, Niobe, formed in line at the grave. Over each rises a simple slab bearing the name in case it was known, but in the great majority of cases, only the number by which the body was designated when it was recovered from the sea appears. Nine Hebrews were buried in the Jewish cemetery, the services being conducted with all the rites of the faith by the rabbi of the Jewish synagogue here. Memorial services in Catholic and Protestant churches testified to the sympathy and sorrow of Halifax over the Titanic accident. There was a special funeral for the two-year-old baby boy whose body was found floating by the crew of the Mackey Bennett. The officers and crew of the Mackay Bennett made the arrangements. Ninety-two bodies of Titanic dead are still at the Morgue here, but most of these have been identified. Several of these have been claimed by relatives and as soon as arrangements can be made the bodies will either be forwarded or interred at Halifax. Mrs. H. R. Rood of New York was at the morgue seeking the body of her husband, but found no clue. She placed a flower on all coffins containing unidentified victims. Mrs. Rood also sent flowers to all the churches holding services. Mrs. Rood is accompanied by Mr. Teeds, a New York undertaker. She will await the arrival of the steamer Minia in the hope that the body of her husband may have been recovered. Two representatives of the Guggenheim family have arrived to look for the body of Benjamin Guggenheim. They are Mark Condell and B. L. Knowles, officials of the International Steam Pump Company of which Mr. Guggenheim was president. They will await the arrival of the Minia. They will also claim, if identified, the bodies of Victor Giglio, secretary, and Rene Bemot, chauffeur for Mr. Guggenheim. Astor Wealth to Son Provision for Posthumous Heir but Few Public Bequests in Instrument New York, May 7 Following the tradition of his family, Colonel John Jacob Astor in his will, which was made public, guarded against any division of the estate. The bulk of his fortune estimated at from $100,000,000 to $125,000,000 goes to his minor son, William Vincent Astor, who since the Titanic disaster, is the head of the family in America. Not much more than $8,000,000 can in any event be directed from the main Astor line. He inherited practically everything. The entire estate will eventually revert to him, with the exception of $5,000,000 left to his sister, Muriel; $3,000,000 left to his stepmother's expected child and a few comparatively trifle bequests to friends and employees. Engagement Announced The engagement of Samuel Brett of Vintondale and Miss Rose Levine, daughter of H. E. Levine, an Altoona merchant, was announced at a reception held in the Levine home Sunday evening. A large number of guests were present and a delightful evening was spent. Mr. Brett is a businessman of Vintondale. Run Over by Four Trains Patton, May 6 Considerable comment has been caused in this place by the circumstances attending the death of John Litzinger who was killed on the tracks of the Cambria & Clearfield division between this place and Garway Junction. Litzinger had apparently sat down on the tracks and gone to sleep. He was run over by the evening passenger train northbound on Thursday and although it was a straight stretch of track and not yet dark, the train crew saw nothing of the accident. The body laid on the track all night and it is said that at least two coal trains must have passed over it during the night. It was again run over by the morning passenger train, southbound on Friday and then was discovered. Baby is Dead Barnesboro, May 7 The 3-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Pindo of Cymbria Mines, died in the Spangler Hospital this afternoon and the charge of felonious shooting lodged against Mike Berritt, a 17-year-old Italian lad in connection with the death of the infant will in all probability be changed to one of murder. Berritt has been out on $1500 bail for his appearance at court but it is the intention to bring the more serious charge against him at once. Wilson Evans Altoona Wilson Evans, aged 14, son of Jacob Evans of Bellwood, was stricken with lockjaw one week ago while at play. He was brought to the hospital here for treatment and died.