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CAMBRIA FREEMAN
EBENSBURG, PA
October 1902
Friday, 10 Oct 1902
Contributed by Patty Millich
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
W. B. Duncan, of Blairsville, has purchased and taken charge of the Park hotel in Johnstown.
Mrs. E. R. Dunegan of St. Augustine is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. A. E. Bender, in Ebensburg.
Ebensburg's football eleven will play a game with the Patton team on Saturday next at Patton.
Andrew Strittmatter, Esq., a well-known citizen of Carroll township, fell from an apple tree last week and was severely hurt.
Mr. Andrew Duman and family, of Barr township, left on Monday for the West, intending to locate some place in the State of Oregon.
Mr. George H. Roberts and his sister, Miss Bird, arrived in Ebensburg on Wednesday evening after a six months visit at Minneapolis Minnesota.
Mr. Jerome Flick and his son, A. C., of Allegheny township, were welcome callers at this office on Tuesday. Mr. Flick is an old friend of the FREEMAN, having been a subscriber nearly a quarter of a century.
Orran W. Kennedy, superintendent of the H. C. Frick Coke company, at Uniontown, has formally accepted the Democratic nomination for congress in the Twenty-third district, composed of Fayette, Greene and Somerset counties.
Martin and Adam Haag, 16 and 10 years of age, sons of Lewis Haag, who resides near Lawshe, Clearfield county, were seriously injured by a powder explosion on Thursday afternoon of last week. The oldest boy, Martin, was very seriously burned about the arms and hands.
Harry Topper, a Gallitzin brakeman, fell from the new stone railroad bridge, east of South Fork, on Friday morning and was severely injured about the head and body. He suffered scalp and facial lacerations and had his left arm broken. He was taken to his home at Gallitzin.
Don O'Conner, youngest brother of Judge F. J. O'Connor and Attorney James H. O'Connor of Johnstown, lies seriously ill of blood poisoning in Harford, Connecticut, the result of an ugly bruise on his left hand. An operation has been performed to relieve the trouble.
Squire Luther of White township and D. E. Notley, of Barnesboro, have secured options on 20,000 acres in Chest and White townships, the price for the coal rights, averaging from $25 to $35 per acre. The Beech Creek railroad is believed to be interested in the operations going on in the territory now being leased.
Mrs. C. Foster of Chicago, and her son, George Foster, of Greensburg, were visitors to Ebensburg on Monday, the latter returning to Greensburg on Tuesday, while Mrs. Foster will remain for several days visiting friends. Mrs. Foster was for many years landlady of the old Cambria House in Ebensburg but left here about eighteen years ago.
Thomas Blake and his son, Thomas, the latter aged 16 years, were severely injured while at work near Barnesboro Thursday of last week by a fall of a large rock from the mine roof. Mr. Blake had his collar bone broken and was otherwise badly bruised and it is feared internal injuries have been inflicted. The son had his left leg so badly mashed that amputation may be necessary.
George Shantz, one of the three men who escaped from the jail in Ebensburg on Tuesday evening September 29th, was arrested in Altoona on Thursday evening of last week and was brought back to jail on Friday. Shantz's father resides in Altoona and the escaped prisoner was captured while visiting the paternal roof. On Saturday George Steckroth, another of the fugitives, was captured in Altoona and brought back to jail.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following marriage licenses were issued by the Clerk of the Orphans' Court for the week ending Thursday, October 9, 1902:
Samuel H. Latterner and Ida Farabaugh, Munster township.
Edward O. Smith and Margaret Clonan, Tunnelhill.
J. I. Brunno and Sarah A. Hobson, South Fork.
Harvey Boyd Dishong, Jackson township and Louisa G. Plowman, Indiana county.
Carl G. Hughes and Lottie V. Allen, Lilly.
P. W. Pringle and Della M. Myers, Summerhill.
MARRIAGES
John F. Witherow of Utahvile, Clearfield county, and Miss Jennie Nash of Blandburg, Cambria County were married at 2:30 Saturday afternoon at the Chestnut avenue Methodist Episcopal parsonage in Altoona by the pastor, the Rev. J. K. Lloyd. They will make their home in San Francisco, where the groom is engaged in business.
DEATH OF MARY LANTZY
Mary, wife of Joseph Lantzy, died at her home, Barr township, September 25, aged 78 years and one month. Deceased is survived by her aged husband, Joseph Lantzy, and the following children: William of Spangler; Susan, wife of Anthony Wyland of Spangler; John D. of Barr township; Simon P. of Garman's Mills; Michael of Barr township; Annie, wife of Valentine Weakland of Susquehanna township; Agnes, wife of Augustine Miller of St. Augustine, and a brother, William Bagley, aged
81 years. There are 65 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren left to mourn her death.
The funeral took place on the following Friday morning at 9 o'clock. A requiem high mass was celebrated over the remains in the church of the Holy Cross, Spangler, Pa., after which the remains were taken to Carrolltown for interment.
DEATHS
John Patton, an aged minor of Tunnelhill, was instantly killed in the soft coal mines at Bennington, Blair county, on Wednesday morning of last week. He was at work checking the number of the car that levels the top of the grade at the entrance of the mine, and halted one of the cars, probably to inspect it. He stepped in front of it and knelt down
in front of the wheels. Suddenly the car started. Patton was caught under the front wheels and his head and body crushed. The remains were taken to the man's home at Tunnelhill. Patton was seventy years old and is survived by his two daughters.
Mary M. Anderson, aged twenty, met a peculiar death Sunday at the residence of Charles Sharon, in Altoona, where she was employed as a domestic. She was standing on a chair fixing a blind and fell. She slighted across the chair on her abdomen, sustaining injuries which caused her death
Fast mail No. 25 on the Pennsylvania railroad on Wednesday night ran into a wagon containing a number of children from Johnstown, killing Joseph Lazas, aged 11, and fatally injuring Hugh Greenwood, the driver, aged 40, and Frank McCoy, aged 11 and Samuel Caldwell, aged 12.
Charles T. Lemon, court stenographer at Indiana for sixteen years and well known to many Cambria county attorneys and court house officials by reasons of having helped out at Ebensburg in the practice of his profession, is dead. He passed away at Indiana on Tuesday of last week of peritonitis, aged forty-one years. He was a native of Kittanning and went to Indian in 1886. He is survived by his widow. Mr. Lemon was a life-long member of the Episcopal church, a Mason of high standing and a member of the Shakespeare and Cosmopolitan clubs of Indiana.
Friday, 17 Oct 1902
Contribued by Patty Millich
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Dr. S. C. Gearhart, of Blandburg, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Zahm of Vintondale spent the past week in Philadelphia and Atlantic
City.
Misses Maude and Bessie Shoemaker returned home on Saturday from a visit to friends
in Pittsburg.
Mr. Newton J. Roberts of Johnstown, an old time Ebensburger, spent Monday and
Tuesday in town greeting old friends.
Mr. Robert Cassidy, the barber, fell from his haymow one day last week and although no
bones were broken, he was unable to work for several days.
Dr. J. Ellis Glasgow, of Altoona, has been appointed assistant medical examiner of the P.
R. R. relief department and will be stationed at Cresson.
Mayor Pendry of Johnstown, at the instance of Dr. A. M. Wakefield, acting president of
the board of health has decided to issue an order prohibiting further holding of dances
until the small pox wave has been controlled.
Peter Patterson, of Jordan township, Clearfield county, had his pocket picked between
$50 and $60 while in the crowd entering the opera house at Clearfield last Monday night,
on the occasion of the Patterson meeting at that place.
On Friday while he was cleaning the Todd reservoir, James Crouse killed a fine trout
with a rake which he was using. The "speckled beauty," was seventeen inches long, nine
inches in circumference and weighed a pound and ten ounces. [Bedford Gazette]
It is predicted that the new freight route over the Portage railroad from Gallitzin to
Hollidaysburg will be completed within six months. Contractors are making
arrangements for the building of shanties and the proper housing of their employees
during the progress of the work.
Frank Beckwith was sentenced by Judge Love at Bellefonte last week to $1 fine and nine
years' solitary confinement at hard labor in the Western Penitentiary. Beckwith was
convicted at the August term of murder in the second degree for the killing of his wife,
last February at Sandy Ridge.
George L. Strayer, of Altoona, attempted to commit suicide Thursday morning of last
week by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. It is not known why the man
attempted to take his life, but it is supposed because he is under indictment for
implication in the forging of orders on a beer company.
Michael Bobish or Kowitch, and Charles Namerish or Neemish, Hungarian miners, were
killed by a fall of slate in one of the Lackawanna Coal & Coke Company's mines at
Wehrum Sunday. Their remains were brought to Johnstown for burial. The remains
were badly mashed by the slate.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following marriage licenses were issued by the Clerk of the Orphans' Court for the week ending Thursday, October 16, 1902:
James A. Lynch, Cresson, and Mary Pauline Rattigan, Summit.
Lawrence Lantzy, Hastings, and Lucia H. Schrift, Summerhill.
Simon S. Robine and Margaret Quinn, South Fork.
Peter Perkins and Fannie Behe, Lilly.
Vincent Dishart and Mary Seymore, Carroll Township.
J. F. Hogue, Cresson and Ida May Wyland, Ebensburg.
Michael F. Doran and Theresa McCombie, Spangler.
Celestine Lantzy and May Yocum, Moss Creek.
Emery A. Woods, Blandburg, and Oliver M. Fry, Westover, Pa.
YOUNG MAN CREMATED
Fire at South Fork Monday night caused the burning of the scalehouse of the Argyle Coal company and the cremation of John Kline, a young man who was sleeping in the building. The monetary loss will hardly exceed $300 on which there is an insurance of $170.
The scalehouse was situated about 150 feet from the tipple of the Argyle Coal company, a quarter of a mile from the town of South Fork. Shortly after 11 o’clock Monday night the men who were working on the tipple discovered flames coming out of the roof of the scalehouse and hurried over to it. They endeavored to open the door of the building which was a frame structure, 16x24 feet in size and a story and a half high, but were driven back by the flames. They could do nothing but stand idly by while the shed burned down, the rain which descended in torrents shortly before, being the only thing which saved half a dozen other buildings. The origin of the fire is not known.
The fire had burned itself nearly out when it was learned that young Kline was missing and the men remembered he said he was going into the scalehouse to lie down a while before going to his home nearby. The men found the remains and removed them from the smoldering ruins. The body was charred beyond recognition, one hand and both feet were burned off, and the other arm was but a stump, leaving little more than the trunk, and head to show what a few hours before had been a young man in full life.
The dead youth was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kline, his father being a dairyman. He had worked for the Argyle company off and on for five years. He was 20 years of age.
DEATHS
John, the 4-year-old son of landlord Frank R. Kelly, of Johnstown, was struck by a street car on Friday afternoon and instantly killed.
Frank Lehmeier, a well-known citizen of Spangler, died at his home in that place on Thursday morning, October 2d, aged about thirty-eight years. His death was caused by typhoid fever and followed a long illness. He is survived by his wife and seven children and a large number of other relatives.
Michael Bobish or Kowitch, and Charles Namerish or Neemish, Hungarian miners, were killed by a fall of slate in one of the Lackawanna Coal & Coke Company’s mines at Wehrum Sunday. Their remains were brought to Johnstown for burial. The remains were badly mashed by the slate.
Jane, wife of William Foust, died suddenly at her home in Hastings on October 1st of neuralgia of the heart. She had been out calling on neighbors, and immediately on her return home was seized with the illness which resulted in her death. The deceased whose maiden name was Vaughn, was born near Tyrone and was about fifty-eight years old. A husband and several children survive.
Easton Lape, a farmer residing in Upper Turkeyfoot Township, Somerset county, while on a hunting expedition recently accidentally shot himself in the region of the heart, “bleeding to death.” His prolonged absence excited uneasiness among his friends and upon search being made his body was found and near it the double barreled shotgun he had with him, one barrel discharged.
MARRIAGES
Mr. James Kennedy, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Kennedy, former resident of Ebensburg, but now of Adrian, Minn., was married at Davenport, Washington, on Thursday evening of last week to Miss Cora B. Johns, of Davenport. THE FREEMAN extends its congratulations.
Friday, 24 Oct 1902
Contribued by Patty Millich
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Tibbott, of this place, visited Johnstown Sunday.
Joseph Anderson, of Cambria township, killed a 24-pund wild turkey on Friday.
Mrs. Dr. Richards, of this place, returned home on Tuesday from a visit to Pittsburg.
P. J. Sanders, of Munster township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday.
Mr. James White, of Summerhill township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday.
Mr. John Borabaugh, of Croyle township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday.
Mr. Jerome Flick, of Allegheny township, spent a few hours in Ebensburg on
Wednesday.
Liveryman Thomas Peach left on Tuesday morning for Philadelphia with a car load of
sheep.
Miss Ann McDonald, of this place, left on Thursday for Pittsburg, where she will spend
the winter.
Mrs. C. F. O'Donnell and her sister, Miss Mary Lacy, of Loretto, were visitors to
Ebensburg on Thursday.
Mrs. William Garman, of Clearfield, formerly of Ebensburg, spent several days here this
week visiting friends.
Harry Riblett, of Jackson township, recently while walking in the woods was severely
hurt by a limb of a tree falling upon him.
Mr. Willard Jones, of Pittsburg, after spending a few days vacation with his parents in
this place, returned to his duties on Wednesday.
Mr. John E. Thompson, of this place, has purchased the Jennie Roberts property on High
Street in the East ward, the consideration being $1,500.
Mr. John McBride, of Cambria township, has bought the residence now occupied by Mr.
Nelson Sipes in the West ward of Ebensburg, from Mrs. David Williams.
South Fork is to have a national bank. All of the stock will be subscribed by people of
that town, principally business men, and a meeting of the subscribers will be held soon to
elect a board of directors. N. A. George is at the head of the movement. Mrs. John L.
Stough, of this place, while out walking on Sunday afternoon, was taken suddenly ill near
the residence of Mr. George H. Boney, where she was taken in. She was afterwards
taken to her home in a conveyance and we are glad to state soon recovered.
Last week five new cases of smallpox were discovered at Barnesboro among the miners.
The houses are quarantined and guarded by men furnished by the Webster Coal & Coke
Company. The cases are said to be a mild form of the genuine smallpox but chicken pox
has been epidemic at Barnesboro since early in the spring.
An Altoona dispatch of Monday says: Workmen employed in reconstructing the Portage
road, in blasting to-day discovered a cave in which they found traces of habitation.
Among the contents was a whiskey barrel, marked "Snowberger, 1854," a brand well
known in these parts fifty years ago. The boys prepared for a feast, but when the
bung was drawn, they found nothing but a gelatin formation.
Pius Bott, aged 25 years, of Frugality, was taken to the Altoona hospital on mail express
on Tuesday evening to receive treatment for injuries received in a hunting accident on
Friday. He and a companion named Archibald Price were out gunning, and while
homeward bound, Price tripped and his gun was discharged, the contents carrying away
Bott's left heel. The wound is a serious one and will likely leave Bott a cripple.
Michael Hamm, of Duncansville, while out shooting for game with Ed Langham, near
Pomeroy, Saturday morning was seriously, if not fatally injured by the premature
discharge of the gun of the latter.
Thomas McCloskey, the seventeen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. McCloskey,
of Tunnelhill, in company with Jesse Donaldson, went to the woods Thursday of last
week and the two became separated. Donaldson noticed something moving in the bushes
and thinking it was some large game, fired without further investigation. McCloskey, ith
a cry of pain, came out of the bushes having received the contents of the shotgun in his
legs. Thirty five shots were found in one leg and five in the other. He will recover.
Fifteen cases of small pox are reported at Ehrenfeld, Cambria County, and the public and
parochial schools have been closed to prevent the spread of the disease. Some difficulty
has been experienced in securing nurses for the smallpox patients but in order that they
may secure suitable attention, Sisters Bertha, Ursula and Catharine of the convent of the
Sisters of Mercy at Cresson, have volunteered to minister to the stricken people. Their
aid was much needed and will be highly appreciated.
WRECK
Western express at 5:15 Wednesday morning, ran into a wreck one mile west of New Florence, badly damaging the engine and killing Fireman A. B. Corl, of Altoona, whose home is near Portage, this county.
The first wreck was caused by extra 275 running into the rear of extra 256, both eastbound on No. 2 track. The wreckage was tossed over in front of the passenger train. The dense fog prevented Engineer John Waters, who was hauling the passenger from seeing the wreckage or the signals of the freight crew and his locomotive plowed into the wreck.
Fireman Corl was caught by a car truck, stripping the engine and some of the passenger cars.
The engineer of No. 9 escaped. The engine was damaged and the passengers in the train were tossed around the cars, some being thrown from their berths by the collision. Some of them sustained injuries but all were able to continue their journey.
The body of Fireman Corl was taken to Derry to be prepared for burial and later taken to his home in Portage, on Philadelphia express.
A LITTLE BOY DROWNED
James Manes, a 13-year-old Altoona boy, was drowned in Chest creek at Thomas’ Mills about three miles from Patton, Wednesday of last week. Coroner Miller investigated the drowning and was told this story of the accident.
“Manes left the home of his uncle, Joseph C. Noles, in Clearfield township, Tuesday evening, for Thomas’ Mills where his mother was. The boy left Thomas’ Mills Wednesday morning on a fishing trip and was not seen alive again. His body, after a long search was found in the mill race, which is twenty feet deep. The hook on the fishing line was fastened under stone in the creek and an oak tie, which was floating nearby was thought by many to indicate that in trying to free the hook from the stone young Manes stepped out on the tie and fell into the water. The youngster’s parents have been separated for about a year.”
DEATHS
Typhoid fever prevails throughout the northern part of this county and is especially virulent at Barnesboro and Hastings. Among the recent deaths from this scourge are James Rafferty, of Hastings, aged 38 years, and Emma Stephens of Carroll township, aged 16 years.
Edward Wentz died at his home near Carrolltown, aged twenty-eight years, from typhoid fever. He leaves a wife and two children. His parents also survive. The funeral took place on Wednesday with interment in the Carrolltown Catholic cemetery after services in St. Benedict’s Church there.
Ralph Callen, the six-year-old son of Thomas F. and Annie Bauers Callen, died at the home of his parents in Cresson at 11:30 o’clock Saturday night and the funeral took place at 10 o’clock on Monday morning, services being held in St. Aloysius Catholic church at the Summit by Rev. Father Robert Kearnan, the pastor. Interment was made in the church cemetery.
A team of horses hauling a load of lumber took fright at a passing train near Amsbry at 2 o’clock on Friday afternoon and ran away. The driver, Harvey Mullen, was unable to guide them and the frightened animals ran into the fast moving train. The wagon was overturned and Mullen was thrown under the wheels and instantly killed. Both horses were badly injured and the wagon damaged.
Michael Platt, an old and respected citizen of Susquehanna township, died at his home near Hastings on Wednesday night of last week in the 92d year of his age. Mr. Platt had been a resident of Susquehanna township all his life and was an exemplary citizen and held in high esteem by all who knew him. His funeral took place at Carrolltown on Saturday, the remains being interred in St. Benedict’s cemetery.
About 3 o’clock Sunday morning, T. Edward Hammel, was instantly killed in No. 32 mine of the Windber Coal Mining company at Windber. He was employed as a “spragger” in the mine, his duty being to take the cars in and out. Electricity is used as a motive power and the unfortunate man was sitting on the moving motor when the accident occurred. He was in about 150 feet in the main headway and reached in his pocket to get a match. As he did so he leaned to one side and his head struck a post. He was knocked from the motor and in falling his head was fractured by striking the journal boxes on the axle. He was dead when picked up.
Andrew L. Rose, who owned and operated a machine shop in Ebensburg, died at his home in this place, on Tuesday morning at 2 o’clock from Bright’s disease, aged about 60 years. Mr. Rose was born in Sweden, and came to this county when a young man. Very little could be learned of his early life. Shortly before the Johnstown Flood Mr. Rose located there and for several years carried on a machine shop. About six years ago he removed his plant to Ebensburg where he carried on the business up to his death. He is survived by his second wife and several sons by his first marriage whose residences are unknown. The funeral took place this (Thursday) morning when, after services in the Church of the Holy Name, his remains were interred in the cemetery west of town.
Mr. William McCombie, died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Naylor, at Dysart, one day last week in the 91st year of his age. Mr. McCombie was born in Ireland and came to this county when a young man. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having served in the Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers. He resided for a number of years in Susquehanna township, this county. His wife died fifteen years ago and his nine children are scattered throughout the country. His remains were interred at St.
Benedict’s cemetery at Carrolltown.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following marriage licenses were issued by the Clerk of the Orphans' Court for the week ending Thursday, October 23, 1902:
William E. Langill and Florence A. Lander, Mountaindale.
Charles Conrad and Catharine Brand, Dean.
Robert C. Freidhoff, Summit and Catharine S. Luther, Cresson.
William P. Peach and Stella M. Gibson, Ebensburg.
William E. Dreher and Frances R. Davis, Portage.
Frank Solsby, Bakerton and Matilda Solsby, Clearfield county, Pa.
Walter D. Little and Mary Elizabeth Scott, Cresson.
Friday, 31 Oct 1902
Contribued by Patty Millich
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Maple Park closed for this season on Monday.
Prof. Herman T. Jones of this place visited Johnstown on Tuesday.
Mr. Philip H. Jones, of Vintondale, was a visitor to Ebensburg Thursday.
Mr. Francis Huber, of Hastings, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday.
On Wednesday morning snow covered the ground to a depth of two inches.
Mr. Peter Long of Summerhill township spent a few hours in town on Thursday.
Mr. Augustin Lieb and wife, of Carrolltown, visited friends in Ebensburg on Sunday.
Mr. J. E. Hogue and wife, of Cresson, spent Sunday with relatives in Ebensburg.
Reports from Altoona are to the effect that the smallpox situation is growing worse in
that city.
Miss Delrose Williams, of Cresson, visited the family of Mr. Thomas Peach, of this place
on Sunday.
Mr. John McCormick, of Summerhill township, spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Wednesday.
A new bank note of $5 denomination has been issued, bearing the portrait of Benjamin Harrison.
Dr. Olin G. A. Barker, of Pittsburg, spent Sunday in Ebensburg with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Barker.
Mr. A. J. Darragh and daughter, Miss Rosalyn, of this place, left for Pittsburg on Tuesday, where they will visit for several days.
Mr. Isaac N. Wissinger, the Democratic candidate for poor director, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Mr. Wissinger will poll a large vote.
The approaching marriage of John T. Blair of Ebensburg and Miss Cecelia Mellon of Patton, was announced in the Catholic church here on Sunday.
About four miles of track have already been laid at the Gallitzin end of the new Portage Railroad. A steam shovel is being operated at each end of the line.
Mrs. Edward W. Humphrey of this place, has who has been confined to her home by illness since April last, is not improving and but little hope is entertained for her
recovery.
It has been reported there are 127 cases of typhoid fever in Spangler and also that scarlet fever has broken out in North Spangler. The schools were closed last week. [Carrolltown
News]
James Morris, of Loretto, was severely injured one day last week while out hunting by the explosion of his gun. His left hand was badly mangled and he was also cut about the face.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip G. Fenlon spent several days here last week with their relatives. Mr. Fenlon has been suffering for some time past with an abscess on his foot and is compelled to use crutches.
Mr. David Davis of Ebensburg, while picking apples at the home of his brother, Joseph Davis, in the West ward of this place, fell from a ladder and was severely injured, several of his ribs being fractured.
Rev. J. Twyson Jones, pastor of the Congregational church, in this place, who has been absent on a European tour for several months is expected home in time for services in his church on Sunday next.
William Edwards, a colored man, was brought to jail from Nantyglo the latter part of last week for doing some promiscuous shooting in Doss Kemera's bar room in that place, while under the influence of liquor. Luckily no one was hurt during the shooting.
In the game of football played here on Saturday between the Patton Football club and the Ebensburg eleven: victory perched on the side of the latter by a score of 11 to 0. M. D. Kittell Esq. was time-keeper and E. H. Davis, Esq., referee. The Ebensburg team will play in South Fork Saturday.
Last Saturday, Sheridan Bates, of Clearfield county, while hunting in Fulton county, had a part of his body accidentally filled with bird shot from his father's gun. He was not dangerously hurt.
The farm house of Andrew Stoy, in Allegheny township, about two miles from Loretto, caught fire from a defective flue about noon on Wednesday of last week and was burned to ashes. Considerable household furniture was saved. The loss is estimated at $800.
George S. King, Johnstown's oldest citizen and pioneer in the manufacture of iron, reached his 93d birthday on Tuesday. It was through the instrumentality of Mr. King that the immense iron plant now located there, was founded in that city.
Steve Hurney of Patton and Steve Pensko, of Cresson, are demented foreigners in the Ebensburg jail for whom commissions in lunacy will be asked, perhaps at the December term of court. They are both harmless, which has made haste in sending them away to Dixmont unnecessary.
On Monday, a youth, aged eighteen years, stole a mare from Bert Kerr who lives on the pike about a mile from Mundy's. The nag is of a buckskin color, with silver mane and tail and a glass eye. The youth's name was not known but it was said that he was driving toward Latrobe where he is supposed to have relatives.
Mr. William Tierney, of this place has accepted the agency for the World's Book of Knowledge and Universal Educator which he is now selling. In addition to this work, he takes orders for many other popular books, family bibles, albums, etc. If you want to purchase anything in this line, Mr. Tierney can supply you at the lowest prices.
Abraham Gates, of Reade township, while out hunting on Thursday of last week with his brother, Charles, was severely hurt by a gunning accident. Charles saw a pheasant and shot at it on the wing without noticing that Abraham was in range. A number of shot struck Abraham on the left arm and hand and a doctor from Coalport had to be summoned to take them out and dress his wounds. He is getting along very well.
Charles D. Good, a lumberman, aged 29 years, of Coalport, was admitted to the Altoona hospital on Monday with his right thigh bone fractured. A month ago, while at work in a saw mill he was struck by a board flying from the saw. It hit his right leg and he sustained a compound fracture of the thigh bone. Since then he has had considerable trouble with the leg and decided to go to the hospital for treatment.
Merrill Kneedler, aged twenty-two years, a flagman on the Pittsburg division residing at Cresson, was taken to the Altoona hospital on Fast Line Thursday night of last week. He was suffering from injuries received in an accident at Barnesboro late that evening. Kneedler slipped and fell off a box car and sustained a concussion of the brain, lacerations of the scalp and abrasions to his face.
Friday's Johnstown Tribune says Frank and Elmer Meyer and Harry and Pearl Sheridan of this city, have returned from the vicinity of Ebensburg, where they spent a week in the woods, hunting for game. During their absence, they bagged fifty-two squirrels, thirty-one pheasants and a red fox, the latter being shot at night by Harry Sheridan. The young men had a jolly time and expect to go again before snow falls.
Contractor Joseph Hubbard, who has the contract for building twenty-four homes at St. Boniface for the Beech Creek Coal & Coke company and Foreman Benjamin Wilt were on the roof of one of the dwellings the other day, when they fell to the ground. Mr. Hubbard was carried to his home at Patton on a stretcher considerably cut and bruised and badly shaken up, and Mr. Wilt was taken to Thomas' Mills, and thence to Patton. Both will be housed up for several weeks.
The following transfers of liquor licenses in the north of the county were transferred at argument court, held on Tuesday: From John A. Parks for the Parks House, Hastings, to C. H. Cypher and from Louis Spiegelhalter for the Hohenzollern House, Carrolltown to W. B. Schroth.
Rev. Father Hurton, who has been assistant pastor of the Church of the Holy Name in this place, for the past year, was, on Thursday of last week, appointed pastor of the Blacklick mission churches which were, by the decree of Bishop Garvey, formed into a separate parish. Father Hurton left on Tuesday morning to assume charge of the Blacklick parish and will make his headquarters at Vintondale. During his stay here, Father Hurton made many friends who regret to see him leave.
Directors of the Poor of the State want a hospital for epileptics and have recommended that a site be purchased at Somerset. This was decided at the meeting of the State Board of Associated Charities which was held at Somerset week before last. It is proposed to purchase what is known as Highland Inn, at that resort. There is no hospital of this kind in the state and the directors say that one is badly needed. The patients are distributed in various charitable institutions, many being cared for at the Institution for the Feeble Minded at Polk. The desire is to get all the wards of the state of this class under one roof.
The Coaldale Mining Company which recently obtained options of between 4,000 and 5,000 acres of valuable coal land in Chest and White townships, has two diamond drills at work testing the coal on these lands. One of the drills is working on the land of Joseph Hipps and the other on the Martin Dietrick estate, both in Chest township. If the coal proves to be satisfactory, which there is every reason to believe it will, there will be a large plant started there very soon. This will necessitate the building of a branch road up the Beaver Dam valley from near Flinton, on the Coalport & Cresson railroad.
Fred Bewac, aged sixteen, who lives in Conemaugh township, about six miles out from Johnstown was taken to the Memorial hospital in a wagon about 4 o'clock Monday afternoon, fearfully torn and shattered as the result of a premature explosion of powder. The boy's skull is fractured at the base of the brain and his recovery is a matter of grave doubt. All indications point to young Bewac being a victim of anticipative enjoyment of Hallowe'en. He was in the act of punching powder into an old cannon at his home when the explosion occurred. One result was a lacerated wound of the left hand; the left side of his face was badly torn; the left jaw was fractured, and the skull was fractured at the base of the brain, as noted above.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following marriage licenses were issued by the Clerk of Orphans' Court, for the week ending Thursday, October 30, 1902:
Edward T. Brown and Mary Catharine Leap, Lilly.
Warren Lloyd, Susquehanna township and Elmira Platt, Hastings.
D. W. Wagner, Nantyglo and Emma Brown, Vinco.
James H. Baughman, Summerhill and Harriet McQuaid, Seward, Pa.
George H. Johnston, Dunlo and Matilda I. Neff, Beaverdale.
Harry F. Moore, Brooksvlle, Pa., and Minnie Wells, Belsano.
Peter Singley and Bessie Kasman, Barnesboro.
DEATHS
Michael J. Kutz, of Altoona, fell from a scaffold at his home Saturday, a distance of twenty feet, landing on his head. The fall fractured his skull. He was a native of Germany and is survived by his wife and seven children.
Charles M. Cunningham, son of John Cunningham, Esq., of Nantyglo, died at the home of his parents on Tuesday, October 28th, 1902, from typhoid fever, aged 19 years and 5 months. The funeral took place on Wednesday, the interment being made at Bethel.
At the home of her son, Mr. G. W. Barrick, at Chest Springs, at 6:10 o’clock on Tuesday evening, Mrs. Rebecca Barrick died of a complication of diseases incident to advancing years. She was aged 78 years, 9 months and 26 days. Interment at Huntingdon Thursday afternoon.
On Sunday, Miss Myra Piper died at her house in Gallitzin of dropsy, after an illness covering a period of several weeks. Deceased was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Piper, and was aged 25 years. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and was highly esteemed in a wide circle of friends. The remains were taken to Altoona Monday afternoon and interred in Oak Ridge cemetery.
Mrs. Jane Nightengale, aged sixty-nine years, a native of Cambria county, died at her home in Allegheny last week, as the result of a stroke of paralysis. She was born May 25, 1833 at Laurel Hill, this county, her maiden name being Eliza Jane Lambaugh. During the past forty-one years she was a resident of Allegheny. She is survived by four children and by one sister, Mrs. Mary Irwin of Cambria county.
At 10 o’clock Thursday morning October 23, Mrs. Margaret Hanna, wife of Thomas Hanna of near Lilly, Cambria county, passed peacefully to the great beyond, aged 63 years, 7 months and 1 day. The following children survive: Thomas of Juniata; George and Samuel of Lilly; David, at home; Mrs. Ezra Brown of Lilly; Mrs. John Stombaugh of Blue Knob; Mrs. D. C. Farren of Munster; Mrs. Samuel Harker of Scotch Valley, and Mrs. O. W. Shaw of Hollidaysburg.
Joseph Will, a 15-year-old resident of Shanksville, Somerset county, was the victim of an unfortunate accident by which he met his death. While climbing over a fence both barrels of his gun were discharged, the contents entering his breast and probably killing him instantly. A lad who was with him ran for assistance. Before it arrived the dead lad’s clothing took fire and exploded the shells carried in his belt, tearing his abdomen in a terrible manner.
The town of Lilly was the scene of a fatal accident about 8:45 o’clock on Tuesday morning. The victim was William Chambers, a brakeman on a freight train, who resided at Barnesboro and who leaves a wife to survive him. His train was waiting for Pacific express to pass and he got down and started across the tracks to get some bread. He evidently forgot all about the express as he was struck by its engine and instantly killed, his head being crushed. His remains were sent to Altoona where they were prepared for burial.
Cassius M. Johnson of Altoona, met an untimely death on the Pennsylvania railroad one-fourth of a mile west of Gallitzin on Tuesday evening. A track walker found his body about seven o’clock lying along the track. It was still warm and it is supposed that he was struck by Chicago limited, which passed there a short time previous. Both legs were broken and his skull was fractured. The body was taken to Cresson and from there sent to Altoona. The deceased was a carpenter by trade and is survived by his wife and six children.
A board thrown against a circular saw in a Clearfield factory was driven against the side of 19-year old Grover Neise, of that place, and caused fatal internal injuries. He died on Sunday.
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