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CAMBRIA FREEMAN
EBENSBURG, PA
FEBRUARY 1903
Friday, February 6, 1903
Contributed by Patty Millich
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Mr. Ira Bloom, of this place, spent Monday in Johnstown.
Mr. and Mrs. Fergus Lloyd and son, Fergus, are visiting relatives in Renova, Pa.
Messrs. W. R. And W. L. McGough, of Lilly, were visitors to Ebensburg on Saturday.
Henry L. Cooper, of Clearfield township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday.
The ground hog saw his shadow on Tuesday and as a result the weather has been on the rampage ever since.
A little three-year-old son of Harry Jones, of Cambria township, fell off a chair a few days ago and broke his right arm.
Mr. Harry Owens, of this place, is to be married in Pittsburg on February 12th, but the name of the lady has not been learned by us.
Frank Roberts and John Mountain, both colored of Johnstown, were brought to jail today (Thursday) to a charge of housebreaking.
Landlord Kimball of the Metropolitan Hotel, in this place, is having stone hauled for the foundation of what rumor says is to be an office building.
The Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company has moved its large saw mill from Vintondale to Clyde, in Indiana county, further down on the Blacklick.
Rumor has it that Barker Bros., of this place, will erect an addition to their store building on Centre street the coming summer to be used for office purposes.
Miss Flora Weakland, of Ebensburg, has resigned her position as teacher of the Killen school, in Barr township, on account of the protracted illness of her mother.
A new apportionment bill has been offered in the House of Representatives and among other changes, gives Cambria County an additional representative, three instead of two.
Mr. Harvey Williams, who had been conducting a restaurant at Tarentum, Pa., returned home a couple of weeks ago and is laid up with typhoid fever. He is at present getting along very well.
The Ebensburg band, one of the finest musical organizations in this part of the state, will give a grand concert in the Opera House here Tuesday evening, February 25th, which, it is hoped will be well patronized.
Mrs. Evan J. Bennett, of Cambria township, while going down the steps from the door of her home on Thursday of last week, fell and was seriously injured. No bones were broken but it is feared she is injured internally.
Mrs. W. Horace Rose and daughter, Mrs. Samuel J. McClune, and the latter’s daughter, of Main street, went up to Ebensburg last evening to visit the McNamara family for several days. [Monday’s Johnstown TRIBUNE]
Miss Lydia F. Knapp of Taylorstown, Washington county, having passed a satisfactory examination, has been appointed a rural free delivery mail carrier. The route over which she will make daily trips covers a distance of ten miles.
Mr. John E. Yost, of Donora, Westmoreland county, son of Mr. Jacob Yost, of Cambria township, who had been home to attend the funeral of his brother whose death is mentioned elsewhere in this paper, returned to Donora on Friday.
Mrs. Eva McKim, who resides three miles east of Ebensburg in Munster township, fell on the ice on Monday and suffered a compound fracture of one of her limbs. Mrs. McKim is about 80 years old and on account of her age, her recovery is doubtful.
A new office has been created on the Cambria and Clearfield division known as the chief train dispatcher, which is filled by J. S. Willis. His assistant in John Wagner. Part of Willis’ duties will be the distribution of cars over the division.
Summerhill township, is now, it is said, furnishing provisions for thirty persons quarantined on account of smallpox at and near the mining town of Beaverdale, in the south of the township. W. K. Burtnett is the Health Officer of the township.
Five cars loaded with coke and steel cars containing coal on the east borough freight trains were wrecked at Allegrippus on Sunday morning. No one was injured but the tracks were blocked for some time. The Gallitzin wreck crew cleared away the wreck.
The entire plant of the Osterburg NEWS, of Osterburg, Bedford county, was destroyed by fire Wednesday night of last week. The whole building was enveloped in flames when the fire was discovered and nothing was saved. The loss is partially covered by insurance. This is the second time this paper has been burned out.
Dr. J. W. Stine, who has been the assistant relief physician on the Cambria and Clearfield division for the past several months, has resigned his position and left on Monday for Philadelphia, where he will begin a practice of his own. His successor has not yet been named.
A dispatch from Rome on Monday says that Monsignor Kennedy, rector of the American college in Rome, yesterday presented to Pope Leo in private audience, Mr. and Mrs. John Schwab, of Loretto, parents of Charles M. Schwab, and their daughter. The Pontiff gave the trio of Cambrians the apostolic benediction.
Telephone exchange has been established in the Cambria and Clearfield offices at Cresson. Miss Emma Quartz, who has been in the office of the Cambria County Telephone and Telegraph company for several years, is one of the operators. A telephone has been placed at the Munster siding for the convenience of train men.
The West Penn officials have decided not to cut and store a supply of ice this winter for summer consumption. Manufactured ice will be used, as it can be furnished now at much less cost. Consequently the old historic ice pond at Blacklick on the Indiana branch which years ago supplied the Pittsburgh division and West Penn with a full supply of ice will be abandoned. [Indiana Democrat]
On account of the increasing demand for material several departments of the Juniata shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona did not observe the usual weekly half holiday Saturday. It is rumored that work in all departments will be resumed on Saturdays hereafter. In some of the shops at Fourth street, Altoona, the men have received orders to work three hours overtime three nights of each week.
Little Annie Herlinger, daughter of Frank Herlinger, of Brushvalley township, Indiana county, was on her way to school on Thursday of last week with some companions when they encountered a bull dog belonging to John W. Evans. The dog ran after Annie and she got up a bush but fell off when the dog attacked her and bit her ear off. Assistance was summoned and the dog was driven off and shot, but the girl will be maimed forever.
The farm house of Louis Stull along the Wopsy road a short distance north of Altoona was entered by a robber on Thursday morning of last week and robbed of $110. Mr. Stull and his housekeeper were shopping in the city when the robbery was committed. An entrance was gained by breaking open a door with a hatchet. The police were notified and an effort is being made to apprehend the thief, who is supposed to be a negro, as one was seen in the vicinity of the house about the time the robbery was committed.
The South Fork Coal Mining company has recently added 735 acres of coal land in Croyle township by lease to their possessions.
Miss Anna Thomas, daughter of Mr. Joseph O. Thomas, who teaches at the Pensacola school a couple of miles from her home met with an accident Monday evening from which it is hoped she will soon recover. Miss Thomas rides on horseback to and from her home to the school house and on Monday evening after dismissing school mounted her horse and started to return home. On the road near the residence of Mrs. Martha Jones, the saddle turned and Miss Thomas was thrown to the road where she was found a short time after by Miss Edith Jones, unconscious. She was taken to her home and a physician summoned and it is believed that with the exception of a severe shock, Miss Thomas is not seriously hurt.
DEATHS
Mike John, a Slavish miner, whose home was at Carrolltown, was instantly killed in the Snyder mine near that place on Thursday afternoon of last week.
On Thursday of last week, Mr. Frank Peters died at his home in Spangler, aged 80 years, 7 months and 20 days. Mr. Peters had been a resident of Barr township for many years.
Richard, the eight-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Lingle, of Patton, died Sunday after an illness of several weeks. The funeral was held Tuesday at the home on Palmer avenue after which interment was made in the Catholic cemetery.
John Bruce, a railroad engineer, who formerly lived in Altoona was killed in the Southern Pacific wreck at Tucson, Ariz., on Jan. 28. He was a son of William Bruce, an old time Pennsylvania railroad engineer, who, in his day, was well known by the older residents of Ebensburg.
John Kunsman, a well-known citizen of Altoona, died at his home in that city on Sunday morning, aged 74 years, 2 months and 4 days. The deceased had been a resident of Altoona for about thirty years, being employed by the Pennsylvania railroad as a teamster. Previous to taking up his residence in Altoona, Mr. Kunsman had been a resident of Susquehanna township, this county, having been engaged in farming.
Samuel Sprankle, a farmer of Warriorsmark, while fording the river with two horses at Schoenberger’s Ford on Friday afternoon was drowned with both horses. Mr. Sprankle had been to Tyrone, using his sled and on his way home thought he would ford the river at the Schoenberg ford, although this was not necessary. The river had risen considerably on account of the recent rains and he evidently had not calculated its depth.
John Zane, an employee of the Latrobe coal company was found dead in his home at Latrobe on Monday with his wife standing over him holding a smoking revolver. Saturday was pay day and Zane purchased a quantity of whiskey and beer, which the couple drank and become involved in a series of quarrels. It is said Zane charged his wife with being unfaithful. She retaliated by taking a revolver from the cupboard and shooting him four times, killing him instantly. When the neighbors broke into the house, Mrs. Zane dropped the revolver and fled, but was shortly afterward arrested.
Thursday evening of last week, Mrs. Sadie Wiley, an Altoona woman, committed suicide in a Johnstown resort by taking laudanum. She had been an inmate of the resort for about two weeks. It is said she had been badly treated by her husband for some time and driven at last by his cruelty to desperation, she entered the resort. She had heard nothing from her husband since going to Johnstown, and it is the opinion of the other inmates of the house that she determined to do away with herself on this account. The deceased was a daughter of S. B. and Susan Tipton, of Altoona, and was 29 years of age.
Henry Harman Yost, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Yost, of Cambria township, died at the home of his parents on Tuesday, January 27th, 1903, aged 20 years, from paralysis. The deceased was an exemplary young man, and was respected and esteemed by all who knew him and who feel sorry at his early demise. Besides his parents, he is survived by five brothers, Mr. John E. Yost, of Donora, Washington county, Pa.; Joseph, Jacob, Gilbert and Florence, at home, and one sister, Mrs. Annie Ager, of Philadelphia. His funeral took place on Thursday morning of last week at Carrolltown where after a High Mass of Requiem in St. Benedict’s church, the remains were interred in St. Benedict’s cemetery.
McClellan Lyons, a young man aged 23 years, was the victim of a most distressing accident at the quarry of the American Lime and Stone company near Bellefonte, Centre county. Lyons had been in the employ of the company about four months. On Saturday he, in some manner or other, was caught in the cog wheels of the stone crushing machine and ground to death. The other men who were at work at the crusher think Lyons’ clothing was caught in the machinery and that he was drawn into the cog wheels in that way. His body was badly crushed and mangled before the engine and machinery could be stopped. His arms and legs were ground to a pulp and he died a few minutes after the accident occurred. The young man was married only a few months ago.
FATAL WRECK
A disastrous and fatal wreck was caused by a runaway freight train on the Scalp Level railroad at Summit at 5 o’clock Friday morning. An engine and eighteen cars went over the embankment and one man was killed and four men were injured. The train was coming toward South Fork, and in coming down the steep mountain grade, it got beyond the control of the crew. Running almost a mile a minute it struck a curve at Summit and the engine and eighteen cars went over the embankment, piling up in an almost inextricable mass of wreckage. The train‘s crew was carried over with it and it is a miracle that any of them escaped alive. Brakeman L. White was killed and his body was not recovered until four o’clock in the afternoon. Engineer F. White was scaled about the body before he succeeded in extricating himself. E. M. Walker, conductor and in charge of the train, was so badly injured that he died on Friday evening at 5:30 o’clock at the Cambria hospital in Johnston, where he had been taken during the day. Flagman W. A. Miller and Brakeman D. B. Boyles escaped with a shaking up and badly bruised. The dead brakeman and injured trainmen were all residents of South Fork. Conductor Walker was twenty-four years old and is survived by his widow and two children.
MARRIAGES
The Altoona TIMES of Monday says Harry Humphreys and Miss Rebecca J. Dill, of this city, were married on Thursday evening at the bride’s home, No. 415 Twenty-fourth street, by the Rev. M. I. Jamison.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following marriage licenses were issued by the Clerk of the Orphans’ court for the week ending Thursday, February 5, 1903:
Dennis Weakland and Felissa Wasser, Carrolltown.
Frederick L. Mans, South Fork, and Ella M. Hice, Croyle township.
George Weston and Amelia Glasser, Hastings.
John Murphy, Dunlo, and Katie McClusky, Puritan.
Thomas Harwood and Annie Simindinger, Carroll township.
Harry Hall and Maggie Dugan, Portage township.
Clyde Lucas and Esther Anderson, Patton.
William. L. Schroyer, Westmoreland county, Pa., and Annie E. Pugh, Amsbry.
J. J. Straushugh, Johnstown, and Florence Stephens, Belsano.
Joseph A. Krise, White township, and Frances Nedimyer, Chest twp.
ANOTHER CASE OF SMALLPOX
The Altoona TRIBUNE of Monday says: Between 4 and 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon a young man called at the office of Dr. R. F. Baoks and stated he desired some medicine for a breaking out on his face. The doctor took in the situation at a glance and quickly diagnosed the trouble as smallpox. He took the fellow to city hall where Health Officer Miller was summoned, who removed him to the contagious disease hospital on the county farm. The disease was not at the stage wherein it is regarded as contagious, but the indications are that in a few days more it will develop into one of the more than ordinary severity.
The story told by Kingston is that he is 19-years-old, an orphan and came from Patton, Cambria county on Saturday last. He had been in the city ever since but could not tell where he boarded, although he said he had a boarding house. He further started that in Patton he lived with a man named S. J. Luther. He has an aunt in Patton, another one in Bellwood and a brother in Tyrone. Where he contracted the disease is not known. He says he was vaccinated about six years ago but that it did not leave a mark. In other words it was not a success.
WILL USE OLD TRACK
At a point above Wilmore, Pennsylvania railroad forces have begun work connecting the shorter line put in by H. S. Kerbaugh last year with the old track between Wilmore and Summerhill. By this connection cars containing lime, etc., can be taken to the old Wilmore station, leaving the main tracks open for through freight. The run eastward from Summerhill is easy, while westward there is a steep grade. The new tracks are about twenty-five feet higher than the old ones, which, until now, had been abandoned following the completion of the Kerbaugh operations. In putting in the new tracks, the old line had been moved over until it ended up against a bluff. The work in progress now will cut away enough of the bluff and make a fill-in so as to permit the connecting of the old line and the new line. The latter is almost a straight line between Wilmore and Summerhill, while the old track is more roundabout. For 1,584 feet westward from a point above Wilmore, the new track is a dead level and then follows a grade of seven feet, gradually increasing to one of fifteen feet. On the old line there is a stiff grade near the deep cut, trains being frequently stalled there, but with the locals, which will switch in, no trouble is expected.
[This last sentence makes no sense but that is how it is written in the newspaper]
Friday, February 13, 1903
Contributed by Patty Millich
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Saturday is Valentine day.
Mr. Thomas Seymore, of Allegheny township, is confined to his home with smallpox.
Mr. William G. Wilson, of Blacklick township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Tuesday.
Mrs. John Bowman, of Carroll township, who had been quite ill, is able to be about again.
Dr. Olin G. A. Barker, of Pittsburg, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Barker, in this place.
Messrs. John Barnett and Vincent Malloy, of Allegheny township, were visitors to Ebensburg on Tuesday.
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday which occurs this year on February 25th and lasts for a period of forty days.
Philip N. Shettig, Esq., of this place, attended a session of the Clearfield county court at Clearfield, Pa. this week.
Fire on Wednesday afternoon of last week damaged a coal crusher of the Cambria Steel company, near Johnstown, to the amount of $25,000.
Mr. Thomas A. Bradley, of Lilly, deputy factory inspector for this district, made his tour of inspections through Ebensburg on Monday.
There will be a convention of coal miners of central Pennsylvania in Altoona on the second Tuesday of March. A new scale of wages is to be considered.
A new machine for planing engine frames was placed in the Altoona shops last week. It will plane two engine frames at one time, and is said to be the biggest planer in the world.
Ex-County treasurer, Samuel J. McClune, has purchased the real estate and insurance agency of Edgar O. Eisher of Johnstown and will continue the same business in that city.
Solomon Suter, a wealthy farmer of Mt. Pleasant township in Westmoreland county, was held up by an unknown negro near Mt. Pleasant on Monday morning and relieved of his pocket book containing $25 in money and a check calling for $600.
Mr. T. Stanton Davis purchased for himself, John L. Elder and B. F. James, the farm one mile west of Ebensburg belonging to J. L. and T. W. Jones, heirs of the late David Jones. The farm contains 141 acres and the consideration was $4,030 cash.
Thursday morning of last week the Cherrytree accommodation encountered a landslide above Carrolltown. The engine and two cars were sideswiped and ruined and the passengers violently shaken up. The engineer and fireman jumped, probably saving their lives.
Thomas T. Domley, of Cresson, a brakeman on the Cresson and Clearfield division was jolted from a car at Cresson on Friday and sustained an abrasion of the right shoulder and elbow and lacerations of the right hand. He was taken to the Altoona hospital were the injuries were dressed.
An engine slipped from a crane in No. 2 erecting shop in Altoona on Saturday morning and went crashing to the floor, sustaining considerable damage. Several of the men who were working about the locomotive narrowly escaped being killed, fortunately receiving but slight injuries.
Barney McClement, employed by the Vintondale Lumber Company at Vintondale, narrowly escaped death on Monday morning. He was riding a car of logs, when they started to roll. He was caught under one of them and sustained internal injuries. He was taken to the hospital at Altoona.
Wednesday evening of last week the high winds blew a telephone pole across the tracks at Glen Campbell. The Glen Campbell accommodation coming along shortly afterward was thrown from the track and slightly injured. The passengers received a serve shaking up and the engine is ruined.
Attachments for the arrest of the president, treasurer and officers of the Pittsburg, Johnstown, Ebensburg & Eastern Railroad company were issued out of the Blair county court Monday in contempt proceedings for failure to obey a decree of the State Supreme court. The officers of the corporations reside in Philadelphia.
A cutting affray occurred at the east end of the Gallitzin tunnel on Sunday afternoon, in the same shanty in which Charles Irvin shot another colored man and for which he was sentenced to the penitentiary. One negro was cut in the side in the affray. Four negroes were arrested for the affair and were taken to jail on Tuesday.
A call has been issued for a convention of sub-district No. 3, of district No. 2, United Mine Workers of America to be held in Benscreek on March 6th. The officers to be elected for the sub-district are a president, vice-president, secretary-treasurer, one member of the district board, six members of the executive board and two auditors.
Mr. T. Stanton Davis, of the real estate firm of Larimer & Davis sold the timber off a tract of land in Jackson township, belonging to Captain Thomas Davis Lester. Larimer and T. Stanton Davis to Kuhn & Kough, of Winder to take possession immediately. The tract contains over 2,000,000 feet, three-fourths of which is hemlock, consideration $6,000.
Three or four white men disguised as negroes broke into the home of Mrs. Sweitzer, living near Dumas, Somerset county, the other night. They bound the woman in a chair on the porch and threw a bed quilt over her head, after which they ransacked the house securing $2. Mrs. Switzer, who had been an invalid for years, was nearly frozen when discovered by her children upon their return from church.
A bear’s fur is worth from $20 to $50. To bring this price the animal must be killed between September and March. The deer skin has small value as a fur. If tanned it will bring from $1 to $5 for a rug. An otter’s hid is worth from $10 to $15. A pelt of the unsavory skunk is worth 50 cents to $2 and the rat skins will bring from 5 to 20 cents each. The passing of the beaver hats left the rabbit’s fur without value.
To facilitate the handling of the ore cars, the Cambria Steel company at Johnstown, will install an automatic car dumper, which, it is said, will perform three times the amount of work which can be accomplished under the present plan. The machinery will be placed in such position along the tracks that as the cars arrive they will be lifted up, turned upside down and the contents deposited in special self unloading cars, which travel to the furnaces. The cars, when empty, will be classified at once and returned to the Pennsylvania tracks, thus preventing congestion.
Suits in which damages in the sum of $800,000 are claimed against the Pennsylvania Railroad company were entered in the Huntingdon county court last week by J. R. and W. H. Simpson, administrator of the estate of Robert E. Brown, a Broad Top coal operator and the Delta Coal Mining company, of Cambria county. The plaintiff’s claim that they were the victims of unjust freight discrimination in the transportation of coal from 1893 to 1900, inasmuch as a few favorite shippers were allowed a rebate of 60 cents per ton of coal, as against 30 cents the rebate which obtains generally. It is further claimed that because of this discrimination Robert E. Brown was forced to make an assignment, while the Delta company went into bankruptcy.
An entertainment for the benefit of the Catholic Church at Vintondale will be given in the church at that place on Thursday evening, March 19th, 1903, under the direction of Rev. Father Hurton, by the New York Entertainment company. The entertainment will be accompanied by a lecture explaining Catholic doctrines, by Prof. Starkweather of Boston. Also by five vocal solos by Prof. George Trewella Martin, of Boston and New York. Also by the history of Joan of Arc in moving pictures, and a series of beautiful moving pictures illustrating the songs. The entertainment will close with a magnificent spectacle, the eruption of Mt. Pelee and the destruction of St. Pierre. Admission 50 cents. Do not fail to attend as the entertainment is of a high class and the opportunity of witnessing it may not again occur.
DEATHS
Gerrard [as spelled in newspaper] Welsby, a resident of Barnesboro, was instantly killed by a passenger train at South Fork on Wednesday afternoon. Welsby, in attempting to board the train after it had started from the depot, fell beneath the wheels and was horrible mangled. He leaves a wife and family.
Frank Williams, a miner employed near Hastings, was killed by a fall of rock Saturday. The deceased was about thirty-five years of age and leaves a wife and four children.
William R. Ehrenfeld, who met death in a peculiar manner Saturday at his rooms in Allegheny, was buried from the residence of his brother, Henry Ehrenfeld, in Lilly, on Tuesday. It is not known whether the deceased committed suicide or shot himself accidentally. Ehrenfeld was a brakeman on the West Penn railroad and was 35 years of age. He had been in ill health for some time and unable to work. On the morning of his death he had been with his brother, John, until noon when the two parted, the former entering his boarding house. A few seconds later his body came rolling down the stairs. He was shot through the left breast and died almost instantly. His revolver was found on the stairs. His brother, John Ehrenfeld of Allegheny, insists that the affair was accidental.
Charles Henry, of Indiana, aged twenty-two years, received injuries on the railroad at Latrobe on Tuesday which resulted in his death. Henry was a fireman on the road and in attempting to board a moving train missed his footing and was dragged a long distance. When picked up he was unconscious and died on the way to the hospital. His parents live in Indiana where the body was taken.
MARRIAGES
Thomas F. Martin, a wealthy contractor of Altoona and a veteran of the Civil War was married at St. Mark’s church in that city on Friday morning to Miss Roberta M. Rhoddy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Rhoddy of Gallitzin. The bride groom is 65 years old and his bride is but 25.
Married---On Wednesday evening, February 11, 1903, at 6:30 o’clock, Dr. Clark L. Creery and Miss Cora Davis, the ceremony having been performed by the Rev. J. Twyson Jones, of Ebensburg, at the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. Nellie Thomas at No. 715 Franklin street, Johnstown. The FREEMAN extends its congratulations.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following marriage licenses were issued by the Clerk of the Orphans’ court for the week ending Thursday, February 12, 1903:
James Keith and Sadie Gallagher, Garman’s Mills.
Albert White and Mamie Bunton, South Fork.
John Young and Helena Brown, Jackson township.
Frank Glass, Cresson, and Amelia Powers, Wilmore.
Joseph Pyntak and Annie Figel, Patton.
Clark J. Creery and Cora M. Davis, Ebensburg.
Francis Slavin, Hastings, and Margaret Entler, Elder township.
George E. Simpson and Stella Pope, Blandburg.
Edward Bail and Elizabeth Chirdon, Coupon.
Frank Troxell, Blandburg, and Mary Ginter, Williamsburg, Blair county, Pa.
Robert Stevens and Susanna McDermitt, Cresson.
AN EQUITY HEARING
An equity case was heard in the court house on Tuesday afternoon before Judge O’Connor. The case is that of Porter Kinports vs. Charles Farabaugh, of Blacklick township, and involves the title to a tract of coal land belonging to Mr. Farabaugh. It seems from the testimony that E. E. Brillhart took an option from Mr. Farabaugh for his land on the 27th day of June, 1899, for the consideration of $4,000, and agreed that if the purchase money was not paid within thirty days from the date of the option, the option would be null and void. Brillhart then disposed of his option to Mr. Kinports. The purchase money was not paid or tendered to Mr. Farabaugh within the thirty days agreed upon but at a later date, and Mr. Farabaugh declined to receive the money. When the option turned up in the hands of Mr. Kinports, the date appearing herein for its expiration was August 4th, 1899--a period of two weeks later than the parties agreed upon. According to Farabaugh’s witnesses, Brillhart read the agreement to him, and that as read, it was to expire on the 27th day of July, 1899. He thereupon signed the option. Brillhart testified that the option was to expire on the 10 August, 1899, and that he read it so to Farabaugh. Mr. Farabaugh declined to receive the money and execute a deed, a bill in equity was filed to compel him to specifically perform his contract.
BOARDING HOUSE BLOWS UP
A dastardly attempt to hide robbery and murder resulted in the wrecking by dynamite of an Italian boarding house at Portage early Monday morning. Two persons are dead, two are injured and a score of others had miraculous escapes from death when the explosion let go. The concussion broke the windows in all the buildings for nearly a square and did some other damage.
The dead are Tony Grillo, aged 44 years, and Mrs. Tony Grillo, aged 40 years. The injured are Ralph Tellilido, a shoemaker, thumb pierced by a splinter; Joe Deslavo, injured about the shoulder.
The scene of the affair was the boarding house of Tony Grillo and his wife on Railroad street, not far from the old Pennsylvania railroad station, in a store building owned by the Doran brothers of Wilmore. In this building which is a large frame structure, two stories high, they kept a score of boarders, the latter for the most part sleeping in the store room and the room back of it, which had been fitted up with cots.
Grillo, his wife and three daughters—-Lucy, aged 9; Mary. Aged 7 and Rosie, aged 5-—occupied the ground floor adjoining the store room part of the building. Immediately over this room was another in which Tellilido and Charlie Grillo, aged 13 slept. Michael Grillo, the oldest of the five children, slept with some of the boarders in the other part of the house.
When the frightened people of Portage reached the scene they found the Grillo building badly wrecked, the walls bulging and parts of the joists and timbers lying out in the street. They also found that some of the inmates of the house were in the cellar, under piles of debris. The boarders in their night clothes, rushed out of their sleeping quarters in affright.
Patrolman Henry Plummer took charge of affairs. Under his direction a search of the ruins began, groans being heard from the cellar. The first and second floors had been torn loose, the plaster, lath and flooring lying in a pile in the cellar and under this heavy mass came cries for help. Willing hands soon pulled the stuff away and the body of Mrs. Grillo, clad in her night clothes and with a cut on her neck was found. She was dead and as soon as this fact was established, she was laid to one side and the work of rescuing the living went on.
Soon the workers found little Rosie and strange to say, she was not injured, as far as they could se. Shortly afterward more workmen brought to the outer air, Mary and Lucy Grillo, neither of whom seemed to be hurt, except for a few scratches. They were in their nightgowns and were covered with the dust from plaster. When taken out they were carried into the Union Hotel near by and given attention.
Satisfying themselves that no more were alive under the mass the searchers soon had Mrs. Grillo’s body and that of her husband lying side by side. The latter had a gash on the head but whether the wounds were received through the explosion and subsequent fall into the cellar and the awful mass of debris no one knew. Many were of the opinion that murder had been done and the explosion was to hide the crime.
The house is a wreck. The first and second floors in the part where Grillo and his wife lived were torn loose and hurled upward, then falling into the cellar, the debris of the second floor falling on top of the occupants of the first floor and covering them up. The roof of the house was left on and the walls were standing somewhat bulged. Quite a lot of stuff was thrown into the streets by the force of the explosion.
Of the men injured Deslavo was hurt by the explosion forcing a partition with great force against the cot upon which he was sleeping, but his injuries are not serious. Tellilido and young Charles Grillo were thrown from their beds in the second story against the ceiling of the room and the marks where their bodies dented the plastering can be plainly seen.
The boarders are all Italians employed about the railroad at Portage. They had no occasion to use dynamite and none of the explosive was known to be in the house, yet persons familiar with its use say that at least twenty-five pounds must have been put off under the room where Grillo and his three little girls slept. It was stated that Grillo had between $600 and $700 and his wife $200 more in the house, but none of the money has yet been found and the theory is that it was stolen by some one who killed the couple and then exploded the dynamite to cover the crime and who did not scruple to place in jeopardy the lives of nearly a score and a half of people, including five children.
Dr. Miller’s examination of Grillo’s body showed him that his head was crushed in as if by some heavy instrument and his ribs were all caved in. Mrs. Grillo, according to Dr. Miller, was suffocated, as the injuries she sustained would not be sufficient to cause death.
Grillo had been a resident of Portage for twelve years. He conducted a fruit store in a room in the Exchange Hotel building, where he did a thriving business. He and his wife were hard working people and were well thought of in Portage.
Friday, February 20, 1903
Contributed by Patty Millich
LOCAL AND PESONAL
Next Sunday, February 22d, is Washington’s birthday.
Rev. Father Deasy, of Gallitzin, visited Ebensburg on Thursday.
Mr. Matthew Zahm, of Johnstown, visited friends in Ebensburg on Tuesday.
Mr. John Nidemyer, of Chest township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday.
Mr. J. G. Lloyd, of the Ease ward, is confined to his home by illness. We hope he may soon recover.
An eight-year-old daughter of Mr. Oliver Evans, of the West ward, is very ill as the result of a bad cold.
Mrs. C. T. Roberts, of this place, left on Monday evening for Pittsburg to visit her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Siviter.
Charles Grother, condemned to death in Monroe county, has asked permission to help build his own scaffold.
Mr. John A. Schwab and family, of Loretto, who are now in Europe, are expected home about the middle of next week.
Wednesday night was the coldest night this winter, the mercury getting down as low as 12 degrees below zero early Thursday morning.
Ex-Associate Judge Thomas, of Cambria county, is the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Bertram, Sixth Avenue and Twenty-third street. [Altoona Mirror]
At a meeting of the School Board, held Monday evening, it was decided that all pupils be required to produce a certificate of successful vaccination before March 1, 1903.
Mr. Harry Owens, formerly of this place, who was married in Pittsburg on Wednesday morning, arrived here on Wednesday evening with his bride for a brief visit among friends.
With a capital of $400,000,000 the Pennsylvania railroad can be counted as one of the greatest and richest organizations in the world. It is a remarkable example of success attained by good management.
Mr. Anthony Sill, a well known citizen of Allegheny township, was severely injured one day last week by being thrown from his wagon near Wildwood Springs, while returning from Gallitzin.
A freight wreck near Wilmore early on Monday morning blocked the tracks and delayed trains. Robert S. Stalnecker of Macungie, Lehigh county, aged about twenty-five years was injured in the collision, receiving a compound fracture of the left leg. He was taken to the Memorial Hospital at Johnstown for treatment.
The meeting of the county auditor’s to have been held at the Court House today (Thursday) for the purpose of examining into a supposed error in the auditor’s report has been continued until Monday next on account of illness in the family of Auditor Gittings and the death of a brother of Auditor Farabaugh, the particulars of which we failed to learn.
Dr. J. T. Fuller, who some eighteen years ago was a practicing physician in Ebensburg, but since that time has been traveling largely over the world in various pursuits, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Among other places visited by Dr. Fuller was South Africa, being there during the Boer war as a correspondent of the New York WORLD. His present residence is in Pittsburg.
Deeds were filed at Indiana last week in favor of J. L. Mitchell for twenty-six tracts of land, purchased in the eastern part of the county. All the tracts are located in Cherryhill township except two and they are in Pine township. The purchase includes over 2,800 acres and will mean the distribution of over $56,000 to the landlords, who receive $25 per acre for the coal alone.
Col. William Jennings Bryan delivered a lecture in Altoona on Friday night on the subject, “The Value of an Ideal.” In it he advocated among other things the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. A reception was tendered to Col. Bryan later at the Eagles’ eerie. He refused to discuss Judge Parker of New York as a presidential possibility.
Judge Martin Bell, of Blair county, specially presiding on Monday in a Clearfield county case, granted an injunction restraining the firm of Wertz & Kephart, coal operators, from running under the town of Houtzdale, Clearfield county. It was alleged by the municipal authorities that the foundations of the town were being weakened and the personal safety of the inhabitants endangered by the mining operations.
A carload of insane soldiers from the Philippines passed over the Pennsylvania railroad en route to Ft. Myer, near Washington, where they will be given treatment.
Dr. H. H. Brotherlin, assisted by Dr. Findley, at Hollidaysburg, on Saturday, extracted a bullet from a wound in the head of Lundro Francisco, an Italian prisoner, confined in the jail on a charge of attempting to rob the post office at Gallitzin in the latter part of January. Francisco was detected in the nefarious work and before being taken he attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head.
Edgar M. Claybaugh, whose wife committed suicide at McKeesport two months ago, Sunday night attempted to take his own life in Altoona by swallowing poison. He was removed to the hospital and is expected to recover. He was at one time a prosperous druggist of Altoona, but suffered business reverses. He then went to McKeesport where he conducted a drug store until his wife took her life when he returned to the Mountain City.
Mrs. Kate Begley was arrested Monday at the home of her mother, Mrs. Dias, in Ferndale, charged with stealing silverware from the Mountain House of this place. Six silver spoons bearing the name of M. J. Stoltz, proprietor of the Mountain House are said to have been found in the Dias home, and Mrs. Bagley was locked up. Mrs. Bagley was employed at the Mountain House. Her husband was some time ago brought to the Ebensburg jail to serve a term for trying to kill his wife and mother-in-law.
Nothing has been learned of the whereabouts of Mrs. Mary Thompson, wife of William Thompson, who disappeared from her home in East Latrobe at an early hour Friday morning. It is said she rose at 5 o’clock and putting on a wrapper and slippers went out, leaving her husband and child sleeping. Mr. Thompson was awakened by the sound of the door being closed and got up. Mrs. Thompson is 26 years old. The couple have been married about six years and have had two children, one of whom died last summer.
The school building located near St. Benedict, Carroll township, was destroyed by fire about 1 o’clock on Tuesday morning of last week. The origin of the fire is not known as the flames had gained considerable headway before being discovered. The building was a new one, consisting of two rooms. There was no insurance. The school board met and decided to continue school next Monday. The old building will be used for one room and a house in St. Benedict has been rented and fitted out to finish this term.
Jesse Eckenrode, aged 22 years and a brakeman on the Cambria and Clearfield division of the Pennsylvania railroad, narrowly escaped death in a wreck at Gallitzin at 5:40 o’clock on Monday morning. He is at the Altoona hospital, with a crushed pelvis, and though his injury is serious, it is not necessarily fatal. He was a member of a crew taking a train of loaded coal cars off the Cambria and Clearfield division to Altoona. At Gallitzin the two engines hauling the train cut off and ran ahead for water. The weight of the train was too heavy for the helper to hold and it started down the grade toward Cresson and collided with a train following. Two engines and four cars of the first train were wrecked. Eckenrode was breaking on the wrecked cars and was caught and squeezed between two of them. He was speedily removed and taken to the hospital.
There was a slight wreck on the branch at Cresson Wednesday night. The late train for Vintondale ran into a freight train disabling the locomotive. No person was hurt.
On account of the prevalence of that dread disease, cerebro spinal meningitis, the public schools at Blairsville Intersection were recently closed and will remain so until all danger is at an end.
Large gangs of men are reported at work from Gallitzin to Petersburg, along the Pennsylvania new doubletrack route, and the line is progressing rapidly. It is expected that freight trains will be moved east over this line by May 1st and perhaps earlier. Plans are also being perfected for handling freight extensively in the new yards at Hollidaysburg.
DEATHS
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. John Griffith, of North Ebensburg, died Tuesday of pneumonia, the funeral being held this (Thursday) afternoon. The mother, who was seriously ill, is much improved.
Bernard O’Donnell, of Cresson, a Singer sewing machine agent, aged about 40 years, was found dead along the railroad near Fallen Timber Thursday of last week. What caused his death is not known.
Roy Womer, of Barnesboro, aged twenty-two years, died of typhoid fever at the Memorial Hospital at 11 o’clock Tuesday night. He was taken to the hospital one week ago when in the third week of his illness and had a hemorrhage shortly after being received, growing rapidly weaker to the end.
Nicholas Richie, a well-known resident of Carroll township, died Tuesday, February 10, from pneumonia, aged 69 years. The deceased was a native of Germany but came to America in 1862, settling in Carroll township, in 1864 and has since resided in that section. He is survived by his wife and three children. The funeral took place from St. Benedict’s church, Carrolltown, Thursday morning.
A DOUBLE TRAGEDY
Ollie Nichols shot and killed Mrs. Ira Shaffer in the public road near Edie post office, eight miles from Somerset, Somerset county at 8 o’clock on Monday morning.
The murderer then turned the shotgun on himself and blew off the top of his head.
Mrs. Shaffer was 22 years old, but was not living with her husband. With Maggie and Cora Miller she was returning on Monday morning from a relative’s where they had spent the night, after attending religious services at the Bethany church, three miles from their home. When passing through a strip of woods they were confronted by Nichols, who had been hiding behind a tree. He was armed with a shotgun and commanded the Miller girls to stand aside when he leveled the weapon at Mrs. Shaffer and shot her in the breast.
Nichols looked at the body of his victim for a moment to make sure that she was dead, and then walked away four or five rods, when he took the gun and placing the muzzle to his jaw, shot himself.
The Miller girls ran to Eddie and told of the tragedy.
Mrs. Shaffer had two children, but some time ago, quarreled with her husband who left her. It is presumed that Nichols was prompted to kill her and take his own life through jealousy. Nichols was the son of a wood chopper and went from Lestie to Edie about nine months ago.
A RUNAWAY TRAIN
An east-bound freight train got beyond the control of the crew on the eastern slope of the mountain on Sunday morning and ran away. As it ran over the icy rails it gained speed and at 6:50 o’clock, one mile east of Allegrippus, it crashed into another freight train. Two trainmen were injured and an engine and eighteen loaded cars were piled up over the four tracks, blocking all traffic for several hours. Wreck crews were called to the scene and they immediately set to work to clear the tracks. The first was cleared at noon and the others were cleared and open for traffic at 5 o’clock in the afternoon.
The trainmen inured were Conductor P. W. Rattigan and Brakeman Charles A. Smith. The former resides at Conemaugh and the latter at Johnstown. Both men jumped on seeing a collision was inevitable and both were fortunate as to the extent of injuries sustained. Rattigan when he jumped went over the bank and sustained a contusion and sprain of the right ankle and body bruises. Both were taken to Altoona and admitted to the hospital.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following marriage licenses were issued by the Clerk of the Orphans’ Court for the week ending Thursday, February 19, 1903:
J. L. Thomas and M. May Leighty, Ebensburg.
John Lowes and Sarah Bailey, Patton.
Miles E. Walker, Philipsburg, Pa., and Maggie M. Noel, Ashville.
John G. Stadler and Mary C. Neads, South Fork.
Allison A. Pringle and Lemma W. Hazard, South Fork.
William H. Willis and Catharine Hale, South Fork.
Lemuel Plummer and Susie McGough, Portage.
Frank Vauhedegem and Mrs. Ida Courty, Portage.
George Ruhn and Mary A. Young, Bakerton.
George Cristoff and Annie Kocsis, Patton.
William H. Moore and Annie George, South Fork.
Joseph F. Bowers, Ehrenfeld and Agnes Crum, Portage.
NEW BITUMINOUS WAGE SCALE
The bituminous wage scale for the year beginning April 1st, 1903, was signed for the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and western Pennsylvania by representatives of the operators and the United Mine Workers of America at Indianapolis last Saturday afternoon.
The miners, numbering 300,000 will get advances ranging from 12½ to 22 per cent. President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers says the average is 15 per cent. The operators say that it will add from twenty to thirty cents a ton to the cost of mining coal, and on an average of twenty-two cents, will add $19,000,000 to the cost of production in the four states. The scale signed in Indianapolis will be the basis in fixing the scale for the twenty mining states. The district conferences, at which the district operators and the miners sign the scales, will be held before April 1st.
A HALT ON THE NEW COUNTY
A meeting of the citizens of Ebensburg and vicinity for the purpose of taking steps to oppose the dismembering of Cambria, Somerset, Westmoreland and Indiana counties, in order to create a new county to be called Conemaugh, with Johnstown as the county seat, was held at the court house in this place on Tuesday night. Although there was very little public notice of the meeting it was largely attended and the people of this vicinity are unanimous in their opposition to the project.
Following are the minutes of the meeting:
On motion of T. L. Gibson, S. L. Reed, Esq., was nominated and elected President of the meeting. T. H. Hasson, Esq., and W. R. Thompson were elected secretaries.
A Committee of five including President, was appointed by the Chair to communicate with Assemblyman Thomas Davis on the subject, draft a protest and to put copies of the same in circulation over the county for signers. The Committee named are: Wm. Davis, Esq., T. L. Gibson, W. R. Thompson, T. H. Hasson, Esq. A Financial Committee of two, Messrs. A. W. Buck and Webster Griffith, was appointed by the chair. Committee of Five was given authority to make all arrangements.
Adjourned.
After drafting a protest, which has been printed and is being put in circulation for signatures, the Committee of Five selected a committee consisting of Col. S. W. Davis, J. W. Leech, Esq., Webster Griffith, S. L. Reed, Esq., T. H. Hasson, Esq., J. F. McKenrick, Esq., T. L. Gibson and others who went to Harrisburg on Thursday morning to appear before the House committee and oppose the passage of the New County bill.
The measure which is simply a scheme to create a new lot of offices at the expense of the people is almost unanimously opposed by the taxpayers of the county residing outside of the limits of Johnstown, while a large proportion of the people of that city are opposed to the scheme as being useless and unnecessary and recoil from the idea of being taxed in addition to their present high rate for the purpose of providing public buildings for a new county which will only benefit a few attorneys and officeholders.
Friday, February 27, 1903
Contributed by Patty Millich
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Mrs. Jacob Burkey, of this place, is visiting friends in Altoona.
For the first time in many months Altoona is free from smallpox.
H. H. Myers, Esq., of this place, was in Johnstown on Tuesday.
P. F. Dillon, of Elder township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Saturday.
Mr. Francis Illig, of Carroll township, spent a few hours in town on Monday.
Mr. Michael Bopp, of Croyle township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday.
During the past week Bloom & Skelly slaughtered a beef which dressed 1,000 pounds.
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Mrs. Frank Jervis is very ill at the home of her mother, Mrs. Charles J. Owens, in this place.
Mr. Phillip Shoemaker, of Wilmerding, spent the past week in Ebensburg visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Shoemaker.
Mr. Leonce Shields of Pittsburgh spent a few days in Ebensburg this week visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Shields.
On account of a freight wreck at Winterset on Saturday night passengers were delayed until near midnight to reaching Ebensburg.
Monday was observed as a legal holiday in honor of the anniversary of Washington’s birthday although the date proper came Sunday.
Mrs. Margaret Bock, of Morrellville, having been adjudged insane by a commission in lunacy, was on Friday, taken to Dixmont by Sheriff Davis.
Mrs. Ellen Williams and daughter, Miss Ella, of Carrolltown, were in Ebensburg on Tuesday in attendance at the funeral of Mrs. Susan Williams.
Mr. C. J. Hogue and wife, of Cresson, and Mr. Felix Yost, of Carroll township, attended the funeral of Mrs. Susan Williams in this place, on Tuesday.
Mr. Herman Williams and wife, of Vandergrift, Pa., spent several days in town this week, being called here by the death of the former’s mother, Mrs. Susan Williams.
Mr. H. B. Kelly, agent at the P. R. R. Station in this place, has handed in his resignation to take effect March 1st, and return to his home in Mifflin to accept another position.
The school directors of Altoona have decided to add manual training and kindergartens to the public schools of the city, both systems to be put in operation at the beginning of the next school term.
James Brussel, aged 21 years, and a brakeman in the yard at Altoona, while riding on top of a box car at midnight Sunday night was struck by the Fourth street bridge and suffered a laceration of the scalp. He had his wound dressed at the hospital.
M. D. Kittell, Esq., Mrs. Maude Collins and Miss Blanche Henry, all of this place, went down to Pittsburg on Monday for the purpose of attending the ceremonies incident to the consecration of Rev. Regis Canevan, as coadjutor bishop of the Pittsburg diocese.
The Ebensburg Cornet band gave an enjoyable concert in the opera house on Tuesday night to a good sized audience. The band rendered a very fine program and cleared about $75 by the concert. Besides the band music there were solos by Miss Louis McNamara, Elmer Davis, H. H. Myers and Harvey Tibbott.
Thomas Phillips shot and fatally wounded Frank Berringer, another Italian at a boarding house at Wehrum on Saturday. The men had quarreled and Phillips shot the other man in the back. The shooter was arrested and turned over to the Sheriff of Indiana county, who lodged him in jail. This was the second shooting at Wehrum in a week.
By a decision of the United States Supreme court in Washington Monday, the Carnegie Steel company scored a final victory over the Cambria Steel company in the celebrated “mixer” case. The decision has no bearing upon the validity of the patent held by the Pittsburg concern, but merely a question as to which of the litigants shall pay the costs. They amount to $2,700.
William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, will be in Johnstown Monday evening next, March 2d, and will deliver a public lecture in the Johnstown Opera House under the auspices of the Johnstown Economic circle. The evening promises to be notable and the many admirers of Mr. Bryan should not fail of the opportunity to hear him.
Hon. Alvin Evans, Col. S. W. Davis, Lemon Reed, Esq., Messrs. Web. Griffith, T. L. Gibson and others of our citizens went down to Harrisburg this Thursday morning for the purpose of appearing before the Legislative Committee on counties and townships. It is needless to remark that they are solidly against the taking of any territory off Cambria for the purpose of making a new county.
While Lin. Lloyd, the eldest son of Postmaster Lloyd, was dancing on a small box on Saturday afternoon at his home, in this place, the box took a tumble and as a result, Master Lin., is now nursing a broken arm. A small bone of the right arm was fractured and the elbow out of place, but we are glad to state that after Dr. Davison got through with him the fracture was reduced, the elbow back in place and no serious results expected.
A special train will run from Cresson to Vintondale and return stopping at all stations on Thursday evening, March 19th for the purpose of conveying passengers to the Grand Lenten Entertainment to take place in the Catholic church at the latter place by the New York Entertainment company. It is expected that a great many people along the line will attend the entertainment. A further notice of the schedule for the train will appear hereafter.
About ten days ago. Sterling Aiken shot and wounded a Wehrum bookkeeper, Welton Thomas. Reports say that Aiken shot first at Aiken,[as written in the newspaper] who is a negro. Aiken escaped, but the Wehram residents ordered all the negroes in the town, about 20, to leave the neighborhood. After several refusals the white residents took ropes and poles and attacked the negroes’ shack. After an hours’ work it was pulled down and the negroes, seeing their position, gave up the fight and boarded a freight train and left.
Messrs. John Gittings, L. W. Kauffman and F. E. Farabaugh, county auditors, met on Monday and after going over their work of the auditors settlement, discovered that they had made an error in balancing the accounts in favor of Treasurer S. J. McClune, amounting to $7,029.87. Ex-Treasurer McClune immediately stated that he would make good whatever amount the auditors found to be correctly due.
DEATHS
Mr. Simon Fisher, an old and respected citizen of Allegheny township, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Silas Nagle, of Loretto, Monday, aged about 80 years.
Charles Parfin, employed in the mines of the Claridge Gas Coal company at Claridge, Westmoreland county, was caught by a heavy fall of coal Friday afternoon and instantly killed. He was twenty years old.
OBITUARIES
Mrs. Susan Williams
Mrs. Susan Williams, relict of the late Thomas J. Williams, of Ebensburg, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James G. Hasson, wife of the editor of this paper on Sunday morning, February 22, 1903 at 10:40 o’clock, aged 77 years.
The deceased was born in Carroll township, this county, and was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Yost, early settlers of that locality. She was a lifelong member of the Catholic church having been baptized by the saintly Dr. [yes, it says Dr.???] Gallitzin at a neighbor’s house in his travels over his then sparsely settled parish, and in her youth frequently attended mass on Sundays at Loretto, traveling thither on foot or on horseback. She was married in 1850 to Thomas J. Williams, and immediately thereafter they took up their residence in Ebensburg where they resided until death, he dying July 9th, 1892. She was the mother of eight children, five of whom are dead; the surviving children being Clemenza, wife of James G. Hasson, mentioned above; Robert J., of Denver, Colorado, and Herman of Vandergrift, Pa. She is also survived by one brother, Augustin Yost of Carroll township.
She had been blessed with a robust constitution and until the latter years enjoyed excellent health, taking great pleasure in working her little garden which in summer time was adorned with vegetables and flowers. Since the death of her husband she made her home in winter with her daughter, and lately had been troubled with bronchitis which brought on heart failure on Saturday and which resulted in her death the following day.
Her funeral took place on Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock when, after a High Mass of Requiem, in the Church of the Holy Name, her remains were laid to rest in the cemetery adjoining.
Mrs. Jemina Hutchinson
Jemina, widow of Edward Hutchinson, a well-known attorney and former district attorney of Cambria county, who died in the 60s, passed away Monday morning at 2:50 o’clock at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Attorney and Mrs. E. G. Kerr, in Johnstown. Deceased was in her 88th years and her death was caused by diseases incident to her advanced age.
Mrs. Hutchinson was born near Indiana, November 7, 1814, and was a daughter of James Todd, who was a member of the Constitutional Convention called to revise the Constitution of Pennsylvania in 1834, and who lived to the age of 82 years. She was the mother of J. Todd Hutchinson, who, at one time, was editor of the ALLEGHANIAN of Ebensburg. Shortly after her marriage, Mrs. Hutchinson moved to Ebensburg and resided here continuously from about 1845 until 1890, when she went to Johnstown and made her home with her daughter from that time on. She is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth, wife of Dr. Campbell Sheridan, of Sheridan Station and Minnie, wife of E. G. Kerr.
After funeral services at the Kerr residence Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock, the remains were brought to Ebensburg Wednesday morning and interred in Lloyd cemetery.
Herman J. Farabaugh
Herman J. Farabaugh, of Carrolltown, died at the home of his brother- in-law, Joseph Wildebrand in Cambria township on Wednesday, February 17, 1903. Death was due to pulmonary trouble, but he had been suffering with paralysis and a complication of diseases.
Herman Farabaugh was born in Allegheny township about thirty-two years ago, being a son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Farabaugh. His father moved to Carrolltown a number of years ago and the young man had made his home with him. His mother is dead. He is survived by his father and the following brothers and sisters: Celestine A., of Carrolltown; Francis of Patton; Isadore of Duquesne; Ambrose of Derry; Mrs. Joseph Wildebrand, of Cambria township; Mrs. Henry Swope of near Patton; Mrs. Celestine Strittmatter, of Carrolltown; Mrs. William Wetzell of Spangler and Mrs. George Langbein, of Patton.
His funeral took place at Carrolltown Thursday and after a High Mass of Requiem in the Catholic church at that place.
Rev. Daniel Strayer
Rev. Daniel Strayer, a well known citizen of White township, died at his home in that township on Saturday, February 21st, 1903, aged 73 years, from Bright’s disease. He is survived by his wife, who is a sister of Mrs. John C. Gates of Ebensburg, and several children. The funeral took place on Monday. Services were conducted at his home and afterwards in the Beaver Valley U. B. Church, after which the remains were interred in the Beaver Valley cemetery.
ANOTHER BAD WRECK
A disastrous freight wreck was caused on the Pittsburg division, a short distance west of Kittanning Point, as 12:30 o’clock Tuesday morning by a runaway freight train ahead. A number of cars were piled up and damaged and traffic blocked. Several of the trainmen were injured.
The runaway train was No. 296, eastbound and it got beyond control of the crew going down the eastern slope of the mountain. A short distance east of AG tower it crashed into the rear of No. 1602. Twenty cars were derailed and piled up over the tracks. Second section of Fast Line and second section of the Pittsburg Flyer were caught behind the wreckage. The Altoona wreck crew was ordered out to clear the tracks.
One trainman, the flagman, was killed; the engineer seriously hurt and three others injured. The injured are R. E. Cooney, engineer; fatally injured: H. M. Storey, fireman, had head and left side injuries; C. W. Leech, conductor, injured about the head.
They were all from Conemaugh and were taken to the Altoona hospital for treatment.
MARRIAGES
Mr. Richard Bender, of Dunlo, this county, and Miss Minnie Zellner of Altoona were united in marriage at 7:30 o’clock Monday evening at St. Mary’s Catholic church by Rev. Father Zwickerk.
Mr. Theodore Burns, of Hastings, and Miss Mary Kirkpatrick, of Ebensburg were married at St. Peter’s church, Allegheny, on February 18th. After a very pleasant evening Mr. and Mrs. Burns went east on a six-week trip after which they will make their home in Ebensburg.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following marriage licenses were issued by the Clerk of the Orphans’ Court for the week ending Thursday, February 26, 1903:
Bert Shich and Emma Kinter, Wehrum.
William Dumm, Spangler, and Margaret Peters, Barr township.
Charles Lender, Utahville, and Stella Grove, Glasgow.
Martin Bricker, Glasgow, and Roble Wilt, Reade township.
Ronald Lauffer and Bessie Emigh, Portage.
Carl Otto Hartfiel, Brownstown, and Jane Alice Dishong, Jackson township.
Earl Sebring, Burnside township, Clearfield county, Pa., and Minnie Stiffler, Susquehanna township.
Alex Wright, Portage township, and Eva Levally, Wilmore.
Levi Beers and Maud B. Rickard, Glasgow.
GALLITZIN GIRL IN TROUBLE
Tuesday morning’s Pittsburg PRESS contains the following item referring to a Cambria county girl who seems to have gotten into trouble in the Smoky city.
“Detectives Kelly and Riley yesterday arrested a young woman, Lulu Yingling, of Gallitzin, in a Smithfield street store for shoplifting. She was apprehended while coolly packing stolen goods in a suit case before a room full of clerks. At her room in Brighton road, Allegheny, a lot of alleged stolen goods were found.”
CRIMINAL LIST FOR MARCH COURT
Following is the list of cases set for trial in criminal court commencing Monday, March 9th:
FOR TRIAL MONDAY, MARCH 9th:
Commonwealth vs. Tony Ponchton, surety; prosecutrix, Cora Green.
Esther Manushewitz, surety; Ellen Rodgers.
Charles Smith, fornication and bastardy; Stella Herdman.
Charles Cramer, same; Margaret Ann Holmes.
Christ Varner, same; Alice Munn.
Jos. Christoff, same; Isabella Rumil.
Edwin McCartney, same; Sarah Goodwin.
Samuel Irwin, same; Annie Gates.
Richard Allen, same; D. P. Thompson.
Wm. Lindbloom, same; Annie Wilson.
Clair Shope, same; Ada Stevens.
Charles Rhoads, same; J. C. Miller.
Bert Egolf, same; Mary Bittner.
John Nagle, same; Louisa Noel.
John Zahuski, assault and battery; Mary Zahuski.
John Gresco, assault and battery; Wm. Gill.
Adam Yanovivic, adultery; Mike Domasic.
Mary Komara, adultery; Mike Domasic.
Anna Dunko, assault and battery; George Danko.
Tony Ponchton, concealed weapons; Cora Green.
Tony Ponchton, assault and battery; Cora Green.
Mike Cline, assault and battery; Barbara Evanchak.
George Kurtz, surety; Lottie Kurtz.
Hugh Meehan, assault and battery; Jane Kelly.
FOR TRIAL TUESDAY, MARCH 10TH:
Commonwealth vs. Lenra Myers, disorderly house; prosecutor, Barney McClements.
Laura Myers, liquor laws; Barney McClements.
Joseph Kuhn, perjury; Julia Holizack.
Sophia Kuhn, perjury; Julia Holizacik.
Mary Clark, liquor laws; W. H. Northcraft.
John E. Kennedy, aggravated assault and battery; Edward Burns.
Mike Radonorich, felonious assault and battery; Mike Yahosz.
Arthur Horn, horse stealing; Marie Bolwin.
Lewis Levy, larceny; Charles Musante.
C. B. Ross, felonious assault and battery; George Smith.
Mrs. T. J. Coy, et al., malicious mischief; George Makin.
Milt Langham, aggravated assault and battery; John N. Stone.
Frank Roberts, et al., burglary; John H. Walters.
Frank Roberts, assault and battery with intent; George W. Moses.
Julia Forgetta, larceny by bailee; Annie Cutnox.
FOR TRIAL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11th:
Commonwealth vs. Frank Gillen, larceny by bailee; prosecutor, Benjamin Carter.
Floyd Miller et al., breaking and entering; Mrs. C. H. Guist.
Floyd Miller et al; malicious mischief; Franklin Berkebile.
Floyd Miller et al., larceny; Mrs. C. E. Guist.
Charles Howard, larceny; J. R. Downs.
Andy McDonald, malicious mischief; James McGarvey.
Al Rummel, mayhem; F. D. Sprague.
John Dubroski, embezzlement; William Rhode.
Thomas Sweet et al., larceny; William Inman.
John Wolfe, obstructions; John Litsinger.
H. Scott et al., conspiracy; Milton McCreery.
George Shaffer, larceny; Bessie Barclay.
James Hunt et al., robbery; William Lockman.
Robert Notley et al., conspiracy; L. M Day.
Frank Koontz, concealed weapons; Frank E. Rager.
Frank Koontz, surety; Frank E. Rager.
Angela Ferri, forgery; Albert Maneval.
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