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CAMBRIA FREEMAN EBENSBURG, PA FEBRUARY 1904   Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, February 5, 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 6 Contributed by Patty Millich   NEWS Local and Personal Joseph Skelly, a well known farmer of Cambria Township, is lying critically ill of heart and stomach trouble at his home and is not expected to recover. He was taken ill about 2 o’clock Saturday morning and got out of bed only to fall into a chair in a faint. Since that time, he has been threatened with pneumonia and though the danger of that disease is about past, it is thought that the patient who is about sixty-seven years of age, cannot recover. Mr. Skelly is a member of John M. Jones Post 556, G. A. R. Attorney H. H. Myers had business in South Fork Monday. Miss Ella Evans of Patton is the guest of Mrs. M. J. Stoltz. T. F. Callan, the wholesale liquor man of Cresson, was in the County Seat Monday. Alex Strittmatter, a prosperous farmer of near Bradley Junction, was doing business here Saturday. On Tuesday, Charles M. Moses of Johnstown was admitted to the Cambria county bar. Senator Stineman of South Fork and J. W. Leech and McCourtright of this place were guests at the Penrose dinner in Philadelphia. Mrs. W. R. Hughes is visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William Rowland of North Ebensburg this week. James Spangler of Spangler has purchased the large clubhouse at Hastings. Mr. Spangler will raze the structure and use the material to construct tenement houses at Benedict. C. C. Holter, for the past eight years yard master for the New York Central at Patton, left that place on Monday to accept a similar position on the Rositer branch of the same road. The last will and testament of Mrs. Margaret McGough, late of Summerhill borough has been filed. By the terms of the will Paredes J. McGough, husband of the decedent, is given a life estate in all her property, both personal and real. Howard McGough, a son, is named executor. John Vingler, a Gallitzin Hebrew, was arrested recently for threatening to burn the store of Mr. Gelman, a merchant of the town of tunnels. At the hearing before Justice Stephens the men got together and amicably settled their case. The trouble arose over the settlement of a bill of $15. While Mrs. Ed Stevens of Maysville, a Gallitzin suburb, was going up stairs on Tuesday evening, the lamp she carried exploded. The woman had a baby in her arms at the time. After putting the infant in a place of safety she succeeded in smothering out the fire caused by the blazing oil. Luckily Mrs. Stevens and the baby escaped burns and the fire caused but slight damage to the house. John Schwab of Gallitzin has returned home from Pittsburg where he had been for ten days with his son, Leo, aged about thirteen years at Mercy Hospital. The boy fell two years ago and was badly injured about the spine, being subject to spasms ever since. Mr. Schwab took the lad to Pittsburg to see if he could get relief for him but the physicians there decided that nothing could be done. The Vintondale Lumber Company Limited of Vintondale is defendant in a suit for $7,300 brought by J. L. Edwards and J. P. Davis, committee for Ebenezer L. Edwards. The plaintiffs own over 600 acres of land in Blacklick township, through which the lumber company has been granted permission to lay tracks connecting its mill with a branch of the P. R. R. The track was of the standard gauge and a standard size locomotive was operated upon it. There was no spark arrester in the track, it is said, and as a result of fire falling to the ground, timber to the value of $7,300 was destroyed. The plaintiffs will be represented by Attorneys William Williams, P. J. little and S. L. Reed. The original South Fork Dramatic company presented for the first time in this part of the state, at the Portage Opera House on Thursday evening, the drama in four acts, “Crawford’s Claim or Nugget Nell.” The cast is made up of well known people of South Fork: the Misses Dora Myers, Tillie Kallet, Martha Peel and the Messrs. J. William Peel, Fred George, R. D. Peel, J. Ford, William Ganley, Frank Myers, J. Stroud, James Cooney and Thomas Gangley. Singing and dancing specialties were introduced and the performance was voted an unusually clever one for amateurs. Winfield Reese of Johnstown spent Sunday with relatives in Ebensburg. David James of the East Ward sustained an ugly accident at Griffith’s saw mill where he was employed Saturday. In some way he was caught between the carriage and a log and had both bones of an ankle fractured. A. J. Darragh took a business trip to the east last week. Miss Theodore Pollock of Somerset who has been engaged as a stenographer by Evans, Leech and Evans has taken up her residence in this place. Barnesboro Work about the mines is very dull. John Burns has joined Mort Cline’s one-piece orchestra. Barnesboro has 62 business places including all the different commercial enterprises. Herbert Goodrum’s restaurant has been robbed again. This makes the third time Herbert has been robbed in six weeks. It looks like Herbert is easy. The Barnesboro bowling team went over to Gallitzin on the 20th to roll a few games and the boys of Gallitzin gave the Barnesboro boys the bumps in proper style. J. M. Weakland of Chest Springs is visiting his brother of the Globe Hotel and is telling the boys the latest Chest Spring Ghost stories and what terrible snowdrifts they have in the county. Barnesboro, Jan. 29: John Hubert, the well known Globe Hotel bartender resigned recently and is now doing bar duty at Hastings. Henry Mannon succeeded Mr. Hubert at the Globe. Charles Luther has parted with his whiskers. This saves M. C. Weakland the price of a tailor made suit of clothes as Mr. Weakland had agreed to get Charley the suit should he let this whiskers rush till spring. Charley claims it’s his girls’ fault. Phil Bender’s educated poll parrot made its escape from its cage one morning recently and was found in a clump of thick woods near Keith hollow by Zeek Weakland and Jim Wheeler. Before they saw the parrot they could hear it yelling, “One at a time, gentleman! Fair play! Fair play!” To Weakland’s and Wheeler’s surprise they found three big crows picking the life out of the poor poll. The crows made their escape but Bender is happy. The following are persons nominated for offices in South district, Susquehanna township: Judge of election, G. V. Byrne Inspector, J. T. Miller Justice of the peace, J. C. Williams Auditor, J. A. Bearer Supervisors, E. M. Davis and Charles Miller Assessor, W. E. Lantzy School directors, L. J. Bearer and Mike Cline Township clerk, C. J. Williams Register assessor, F. J. Byrne Thomas Stevens, constable of Barnesboro arrested young Port Shaddel recently for stealing a watch from **[first name unclear] Keith. Before taking his prisoner by train for Ebensburg he brought him a pair of shoes, stockings, tobacco and also gave him a dollar. When they changed cars at Bradley Junction, the prisoner gave the constable the slip and has not been heard from since. Thomas says the next prisoner he takes to Ebensburg, he will put the handcuffs on him, should the prisoner be only five years old. Pineton Notes Mr. and Mrs. Ferman Edmiston of Pineton visited Spangler friends on Sunday. John Hoffman and sister, Miss Susie, of Pineton, spent Sunday with their sister, Mrs. A. Soisson of Nicktown. John Farabaugh, Merle Roser and Steve Monoski of Spangler spent Sunday with C. G. Farabaugh and while going home had the misfortune to upset and break the sleigh. After this they would better hire a driver. Miss Goldie Miller of Pineton has been sick for the past two weeks but is improving now. James Sloey spent Sunday last with C. G. Farabaugh. Brother Sues Brother Joseph Frazer of Portage township has brought suit against his brother, Andrew, to recover the sum of $700 with interest from the 28th day of December, 1896. The suit is an action to assumpsit and by the plaintiff’s statement it appears that on the 28th of December, 1896, Joseph Frazer sold to his brother certain houses and lots of ground situate in Portage township, near the village of Jamestown; that Joseph Frazer and his wife executed good deeds for the property and the defendant took possession; received the rent and the advantages accruing from them but has never paid his brother all the purchase money and still refuses to pay the same. F. P. Martin of Johnstown appears as counsel for the plaintiff. Nant-Y-Glo Man Held Must Face Serious Charge at the Coming March Term of Court David Hammond of the Ninth ward, Johnstown, accused by Doss Kemery of Nanty-Glo of harboring a minor child was given a hearing before Alderman John Rutledge Saturday afternoon and was held to answer the charge at the next term of court. He was also held on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, preferred by Constable W. J. Griffith, who served the warrant and found a loaded revolver on the man’s person when he was taken into custody. It developed that the child in question was a daughter of the divorced wife of the defendant and that she is fourteen years old. It seems David Hammond wedded the present Mrs. Kemery, who though unmarried, had a two year old daughter which Hammond at the hearing Saturday claims as his offspring. Mrs. Kemery denies that her former husband was the father of the child and claims that he is too fond of her and lured her from her home at Nanty-Glo to keep house for him in Johnstown. Hammond claims the girl wrote to him that she was dissatisfied with her home with her mother and step-father at Nanty-Glo and that she wished to go to Johnstown. The defendant claims he wrote her that he would provide for her if she came to Johnstown. The result was that she was met at Cresson by Hammond who took her to Johnstown. F. P. Martin, Esq., appeared for the prosecution and E. G. Kerr for the defendant. Hammond could not furnish bail and was locked up in default. New Mine Inspectors Mine Inspectors Joseph T. Eckenrode Monday forwarded to the State Department of Mines orders for sealed certificates for thirty-four new mine inspectors and fire bosses. The names of the successful Cambria county applicants follow: Mine Inspector, first class: Alfred Taylor, Scalp Level Rees Johns, Johnstown A. B. May, Johnstown William B. Jones, Johnstown James Finnigan, Johnstown David T. Davis, Johnstown David D. Clemence, Johnstown William Gray, Martsteller James Glancy, Ehrenfeld Robert Barker, Ehrenfeld Edward Joyce, Ehrenfeld Mine Inspectors, second class: Chas. W. Large, Scalp Level James B. Dunmyer, South Fork Thomas D. Williams, Johnstown Frank Roberts, Scalp Level Fire Bosses: Charles Evans, Johnstown George Alberter, Johnstown James O. Farrell, East Conemaugh James Dumire, Ehrenfeld Joseph L. Jones, Johnstown E. T. Jones, Meyersdale A. Alexander, Ehrenfeld Girl Murdered Post Office Clerk at Boswell Shot Dead by Negress Somerset Pa., Feb. 2 -- Miss Minnie Frickline, aged 23 years, clerk in the post office at Boswell since April 1, was shot and instantly killed while on her way to work by a negress, Mrs. Frank Simpson, wife of a Boswell barber. Miss Frickline was hurrying rapidly along when the colored woman pounced upon her and drawing a revolver from under her shawl fired a bullet into the girl’s brain. Mrs. Frickline dropped dead in her tracks. Mrs. Simpson was placed under arrest immediately and taken before Justice of the Peace Ackey who committed her to jail. The murdered woman is a daughter of Isaac Frickline who conducts a furniture store and undertaker’s establishment at Boswell. She was bright and intelligent and before accepting a position at the post office had charge of the Somerset Telephone company’s exchange at Boswell. MARRIAGES Harry Crompton of Ehrenfeld and Miss Nellie Lowes, daughter of Mr. John Lowes of Patton were married at the bride’s home on Thursday of last week. They left the same afternoon for Ehrenfeld, where Mr. Crompton is employed and where they will live. Bunker-McCabe Miss Mary McCabe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bart McCabe of Ebensburg who has been employed in Philadelphia as a stenographer for some time and George. H. Bunker, a naval engineer, were united in marriage in the Quaker City last Tuesday afternoon. The couple will make their home in Philadelphia. Marriage License Record Joseph Donahue and Margaret Hutzler of Johnstown. Isadore Burgoon of St. Augustine and Eva Warner of St. Lawrence. John Malinky and Anna Gresko of Dunlo. Michael Laza and Mary Kevaly of Johnstown. Steve Kovocs of Johnstown and Julia Bachochin of Conemaugh. Jeff Leizier and Clara Green of Bakerton. DEATHS William M. Burgoon William M. Burgoon, one of the pioneer residents of the county, died at his home in White township at 10 o’clock Saturday morning, death being due to the diseases incident to old age. Mr. Burgoon was born at Hart’s Sleeping Place in Carroll township, seventy-seven years ago. At the age of four he moved to the house in White township, where he had since lived. In 1848 he was united in marriage with Julia Adams, of Loretto, who although four years his senior, survives him. The Burgoons are a very old American family, the father of the deceased who came originally from France, having fought both in the Revolution and the war of 1812. Like his father the subject of this sketch was a stanch American and answered the call for volunteers in 1861, serving with credit through three years of the war. Besides his wife, the deceased is survived by the following sons and daughters: John A. of Alleghany township; Francis D. of Hastings; Lawrence A. and Charles, at home; Alice, wife of Charles Prescott of Patton and Mary, wife of F. C. O’Conner of Hastings. There are also thirty-six grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral services were held in the Catholic church at St. Augustine at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning, with interment in St. Augustine cemetery. Clark Cowher Clark Cowher, aged fourteen years, a son of E. W. Cowher of Patton, died at the Altoona hospital on Sunday at 8 p.m. His death was caused by diabetes, from which he had been ill for some time. He was taken to the hospital about ten days before his death for special treatment which was, however, unavailing. Howard Waple Howard Waple, a brakeman employed on the Beech Creek Railroad and having a run between Patton and Clearfield, fell under the train near Kermoor and was instantly killed. He was well known and had many friends who were shocked at his untimely end. It is not known how the accident happened as no one saw him fall, but his dead body was found along the tracks. Thomas Ratchford Thomas Ratchford, one of the oldest residents of Gallitzin, died at his home in that place Tuesday morning at 4:30 from diseases incident to old age. Mr. Ratchford was a native of Ireland, having been born in County Westmeath in 1822. He came to America in 1849 and went to work on the Old Portage railroad and assisted in the construction of the Gallitzin tunnel for the Pennsylvania Railroad when it succeeded to Portage. His wife preceded him to the grave about seven years ago. He is survived by three children: William Ratchford, Mrs. Thomas Stanley and Mrs. Mary McKinney, all of Gallitzin. He was known everywhere as a good, honest man who believed in principle and followed it. The funeral took place Thursday morning at 10 o’clock, with a solemn requiem high mass in St. Patrick’s church and interment following in St. Patrick’s cemetery. Emma Craver Emma Craver, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Louis Craver of the Blair House at Ebensburg, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Richard Burr at Loyel Park, Cambria township, Tuesday afternoon at 3:35 o’clock. Tuberculosis caused Miss Craver’s death. The deceased had been ill for quite a long time and came back to the Burr home about six weeks ago from a Philadelphia hospital where she had been undergoing treatment for the malady which caused her death. Miss Craver is survived by three sisters and two brothers: Mrs. Richard Burr of Cambria township; Mrs. John Ryan and Mrs. Matthew J. Ryan of Clearfield township; Edward and William Craver of this place. Both Mr. and Mrs. Louis Craver, the father and mother of the deceased preceded her to the grave. Interment was made Thursday morning at 9 o’clock in the cemetery connected with the Church of the Holy Name where the funeral services were held. James C. Null James C. Null, Esq. of Carrolltown one of the best known attorneys in this county died at his home Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock of lung trouble. The deceased was admitted to the bar of Cambria County many years ago. He studied law under the late Frank Tierney and was afterward the junior member of the law firm of Tierney & Null. For the past thirty years he had been a resident of Carrolltown. The funeral will take place at 9 o’clock Saturday morning. Herman Joseph Berkey Herman Joseph, son of Wm. A. and Ada Berkey, died at the home of his parents in Altoona on Saturday, January 30, 1904, of pneumonia, aged one year. He was Mr. and Mrs. Berkey’s only child. The funeral was held on Monday, interment being made in the Altoona cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Berkey, of this place, grandparents of the deceased, attended the funeral. David D. Evans David D. Evans, aged 75 years, died at 11 o’clock Friday morning at his home in Cambria township, about two miles south of this place. The cause of his death was pneumonia, which had developed from a severe cold that he contracted about a week before his death. He was a native of Wales and was brought to this country when he was only two years old. He is survived by his wife and three children: Oscar Evans of Cambria township; John Evans, at home; and Mrs. Elba Pugh of Gomer, O. James A. Davis James A. Davis, aged nineteen years, died at 5:15 o’clock Tuesday morning at the Memorial Hospital, having been brought to Johnstown the night before from Portage by his father, James H. Davis. The young man had been sick for three weeks. The cause of his death was peritonitis. He was a miner at Puritan, near Portage. The remains were taken to Portage Tuesday afternoon for burial. Engineer Killed Patrick F. Hughes of Altoona, one of the best known engineers in the service of the Pennsylvania railroad and the last of a family of railroaders met his death while in the performance of his duty at 12:05 Sunday afternoon near the Fourth street bridge. Mr. Hughes who was a yard engineer was taking his engine, No. 1,507, down through the yard at the time mentioned and had a clear track when he passed the last signal. Just after he passed the Fourth street bridge, his engine collided with a car that had been shifted off the siding for the Hoster Brewing company, and which had not entirely cleared the main track on which his engine was running. The top of the car struck the cab of the engine and tore it from the boiler and dropped it against the tank. Mr. Hughes was caught under the cab and made an effort to shut his engine off. While he was thus engaged, the wrecked cab caught on a signal pole and was stripped off the engine and Mr. Hughes was thrown head first on a picket fence, his skull being fractured by the fall. He only lived a few minutes after the accident and never regained consciousness.   Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, February 12, 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 7 Contributed by Patty Millich NEWS Local and Personal Caron Leahey of Lilly spent Saturday in Altoona. Ex-Commissioner “Bob” Lloyd spent Sunday in Johnstown. P. H. Cosgrove of Hastings transacted business in Altoona on Monday. Samuel Clements of this place was a Johnstown visitor on Monday. George Porch and Nelson Brown of this place spent Monday in Altoona. On account of the appearance of smallpox the schools in Black Township have been closed. Mrs. George Porch of this place who had been visiting friends in Johnstown returned home Saturday. Ex-Sheriff Joseph Gray of Spangler and Charles McAuliff of Carrolltown were in Johnstown over Sunday. Bert Storms of Altoona who has accepted a position at Spangler took up his residence in that place on Saturday. The members of St. Thomas Catholic congregation at Ashville have purchased four lots in that town upon which an addition to the church will be constructed. A parsonage is also one of the possibilities of the near future. The Ashville Coal and Coke company and the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company are now making new openings at Ashville, several hundred men being employed in the work. The town is one of the busiest in this line of development in the county. The school boards in these districts have been organized into health boards, and they are now looking into the sanitary conditions of the districts. The dread disease has gained a foothold in Blacklick township, three families being afflicted. Smallpox has gained a foothold in Indiana county and reports of new cases are coming in every day. Dr. N. F. Ehrenfeld was sent by the State Board of Health to visit the afflicted districts in the northern part of the county. Smallpox was found at East Run and no sanitary precautions had been taken to prevent the spread of the disease. Cora, the 12-year-old daughter of Mrs. Harriet Osman of Portage is slowly recovering the use of her eyes. After she had an attack of smallpox last fall her eyes became sore and it developed into iritis and cornetis and the child soon lost all sight. She still has what appears to be a solid piece of skin over the eyeballs, but is improving all the time and Dr. O. W. Sadler of Johnstown, who recently took the case in charge, says the girl will be entirely cured in a few months. The heirs of John Burns of Pine township, Indiana county, have sold the coal under a tract of land of 150 acres to Thomas Barnes, the wealthy Barnesboro operator for $45,000 cash. The tract is a most desirable one, being located centrally in the field where hundreds of options have been lifted recently. It forms a key to several valuable situations. D. S. Slattery, the obliging dairy man of Cresson was doing business here Saturday. Miss Ada Lloyd and Margaret Richards of this place visited Mrs. Clyde Fitzgerald of South Fork last week. William Woods of Scalp Level, charged with the larceny of $20, was brought to jail on Monday. In default of bail, Woods will await trial at the next term of court. Misses Edith Cole of Woodlawn, Pa., Maude Kimple of Gettysburg and Mary McKenrick of Altoona are visiting their cousin, Miss Elsie McKenrick of Julian street. Augustine Adams of St. Augustine called at the FREEMAN office to have the address of the FREEMAN changed to the rural free delivery route running out of Patton. Mrs. Annie Robb of Hastings was taken to the Dixmont Hospital for the Insane last Wednesday morning by Detective Edward Knee and Warden James Reynolds. J. D. Bradley of Chest Springs was a welcome caller at the FREEMAN office this week. Mr. Bradley recently disposed of a property in Chest Springs to J. D. Noel of that place for $800. Only one applicant out of the ten examined in Patton for mine foreman passed the examination and secured a certificate. The successful candidate was John Garrity of St. Boniface. The Whist Club met Wednesday night at the Mountain House. Miss Irene Glass won the ladies’ prize and Bert Davis, Esq., the gentlemen’s. Thirty eight members were present. Among the guests at the Germania Club smoker held in Johnstown on Tuesday evening were M. J. Stoltz of this pace and Jacob Murphy, J. M. Stineman, S. W. Treece, F. T. Price, C. P. Madara of South Fork. Miss Edna Ott, a popular young lady of South Fork entertained quite a large number of her friends at her home Tuesday. The evening was pleasantly spent with music, cards, and dancing and at a late hour refreshments were served. The Webster club of Cresson composed of office clerks in the employ of the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company at that place has issued invitations for a smoker to be held up the mountain Thursday evening, Feb. 18. An Arabian storekeeper of Patton was arrested recently on the charge of selling cigarettes to boys under the legal age and was fined $100 and costs by the local justice. Prof. Myers, principal of the schools at the North Star city, is determined to stop the boys in school from smoking cigarettes and is backed by the school board. While hunting in the woods near Fallen Timber recently Martin Rickert and his brother, George, suddenly came upon a large she bear and three cubs. Although considerably startled the hunters still had the presence of mind enough to let fly and after six shots succeeded in killing the bear and capturing the cubs. The dead bear weighed 300 pounds. One of the cubs which was presented by its captors to Clyde McManamy of Van Ormer has been adopted by the mother of a litter of pups and is getting along famously, neither the foster mother nor the little bruin being apparently aware of the deception. New Mining Place The Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company has purchased the Doran farm near Wilmore, the key to a valuable mining location and in the early spring will begin the construction of 40 houses for miners who will be employed in operating a new drift. John Waltz, who has been foreman of carpenters at Cresson for the company, has been transferred to Wilmore in the capacity of superintendent of the contemplated building operation. He has been authorized to employ a large force of workmen who will begin the construction of the buildings as soon as the weather will permit. Couple Jailed Joseph Sherwood of Barnesboro and Harriet Graham of Patton are now in the county jail awaiting trial on serious charges preferred by Mrs. Graham’s husband, Thomas Graham. Mr. Graham has had suspicions for some time of the improper relations of his wife with Sherwood. Several days ago the couple took a little tour together and when Graham found his wife missing he went before Squire George Boone of Patton and preferred the charges. Officer Finn of this place located the couple at Twin Rocks where they are said to have been passing off as man and wife. The woman is now repentant but Mr. Graham has not relented yet. $500 Reward The County Commissioners of Cambria County will pay $500 for the detection and apprehension together with the conviction of the person or persons who blew open the vault and destroyed the safe in the County Treasurer’s office on the morning of February 10, 1904. Benj. Jones W. S. Stutzman T. M. Sheehan Commissioners of Cambria County Attest: F. B. Jones, Clerk Motions and Petitions Heard During the session of court last week the following routine matters of interest were disposed of as indicated: Judge Francis J. Koozer of Somerset filed an opinion in the case of the Standard Underground Cable Company vs. Johnstown Telephone Company. In the opinion of Judge Kooser (sic) dismissed the rule to show cause why judgment should not be entered for lack of sufficient affidavit of defense and ordered the plaintiff to pay the costs. Petition of residents of Summerhill and Croyle townships for appointment of the Commissioners to ascertain and establish the location of the line dividing said townships. The Court appointed Samuel G. Fetterman, William R. George and Joseph A. Gray. Six printed notices are to be posted in each of the townships above named, setting forth the date of meeting of said Commissioners. Petition of citizens of Summerhill township for the appointment of a constable. Court appointed John McGinley. Petition of inhabitants of Barr township and Spangler borough for appointment of Viewers for a bridge across Susquehanna River on the public road leading from Indiana county by way of Moss creek into Spangler borough. Alfred M. Shoemaker, Celestine Luther and James T. Miller appointed by the Court as Viewers. A subpoena was awarded by the Court in the divorce case of Fila Wilson vs. Howard M. Wilson. Same in the case of Isabella Ickes vs. Harry Ickes. Petition of the citizens of Croyle township No. 2 for the appointment of Judge of Elections. Court appointed Angus Gill to fill vacancy. Petition of George Boone, Administrator of Thomas Prescott, late of Patton boro, deceased, for discharge on completion of trust. Granted. Petition of Howard, William, Martha and Mary Crum, minor children of the late John Crum of Portage for the appointment of a guardian. The children selected Samuel Emigh and the Court made the appointment. Petition of John L. White, Guardian of the minor children of Jemina White, late of Johnstown, deceased, for discharge. Petition of Harry Roth and Paul Roth, deceased, late of Johnstown for appointment of guardian. Herman E. Baumer appointed. Count Helped Himself Alleged Italian Nobleman Took Cash Register from a Wreck Altoona, Pa., Feb. 9. Dominick Testa, the man who was arrested for stealing a cash register from a wreck in the yard here, turns out to be an Italian count. He was released on bail. The Italian minister at Washington has been asked to use his influence to have the suit dropped. Testa saw others carrying away articles from the wreck and mistaking the cash register for a music box he picked it up not knowing he was violating a law. Widow’s Appraisement Notice is hereby given that the following named appraisements of property appraised and set apart for widows of decedents under the Act of Assembly of the 4th of April, A. D., 1851, have been filed in the Register’s Office in and for the county of Cambria and will be presented to the Orphans’ Court of said county for confirmation and allowance on Wednesday, March 9th A.D., 1904. 1. Inventory and appraisement of real estate appraised and set apart to Elizabeth A. Fraunk, widow of John Fraunk, late of Spangler borough, deceased. $300. 2. Inventory and appraisement of real estate appraised and set apart to Tillie Keith, widow of John A. Keith, late of Barr township, deceased. $300. 3. Inventory and appraisement of personal property appraised and set apart to Margaret Patterson, widow of William Patterson, late of Carroll township, deceased. $300. 4. Inventory and appraisement of personal property appraised and set apart to Eliza B. Gochnour, widow of Andrew Gochnour, late of Conemaugh township, deceased. $300. 5. Inventory and appraisement of personal property appraised and set apart to Cora Fry, widow of C. G. Fry, late of East Conemaugh borough, deceased. $242.90. 6. Inventory and appraisement of personal property appraised and set apart to Caroline Goldstine, widow of Henry Goldstine, late of Johnstown, deceased. $300. 7. Inventory and appraisement of personal property appraised and set apart to Mary G. Wentz, widow of Emanuel Wents, late of Carroll township, deceased. $300. 8. Inventory and appraisement of personal property appraised and set apart to Anna M. Parrish, widow of Thomas L. Parrish, late of Allegheny township, deceased. $300. 9. Inventory and appraisement of personal property and real estate appraised and set apart to Margaret Leap, widow of Anthony Leap, late of Tunnelhill borough, deceased. Personal property, $40.90; real estate, $175. Total $215.90. 10. Inventory and appraisement of real estate appraised and set apart to Malinda C. Diamond, widow of Charles A. Diamond, late of Summerhill borough, deceased. $200. 11. Inventory and appraisement of personal property appraised and set apart to Mary J. Brawley, widow of Thomas J. Brawley, late of Portage township, deceased. $300. William H. Strauss, Register, Register’s Office, Ebensburg, Pa., February 8, 1904. Advertisement The “City Store on the Mountain” Wants your business for 1904. With our new four-floor Brick Department Store we bring the markets of the world to your door. We sell Clothing, Hats, Shoes, Furniture, Carpets, Groceries and Merchandise generally at lower prices than city stores and save you time and expense. We can make it to your advantage to buy Flour, Feed, Field Seeds, Salt and Groceries from us. If you buy Coffee, etc., in case lots or Syrup by barrel or keg, get our prices: Weston’s Stores, Gallitzin, Pa. South Fork Notes Mrs. Thomas Lewis has been upon the sick list. Miss Sharpless has returned home from her visit among Portage friends. Miss Gertrude Baker of Ehrenfeld who has been ill with tonsillitis is able to be around again. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard of Rockville, who has been ill for some time is now convalescent. Had An Arm Injured Edward Zerber of Cresson, employed as a car inspector in the Cambria & Clearfield roundhouse at Cresson, while at work putting a center pin in the tank of an engine Saturday afternoon, had his right arm crushed by the jack slipping. The injured man was admitted to the Altoona hospital where it was deemed advisable by the authorities to amputate the arm at the elbow. Zerber objected but there seems to be no hopes of saving the arm. Humphreys Turns Sleuth E. J. Humphreys, janitor of the Court House, has taken to raiding poker games and County Detective Ed Knee had better look to his laurels. On Sunday afternoon a crowd of boys gathered on the steps in the rear of the Court House and proceeded to woo fickle fortune. Just as interest centered in a big jack pot, Humphreys hove upon the scene. The boys took an abrupt departure without even asking the janitor to take a hand. Humphreys called the boys but they refused to show so he gathered in the money, feeling that it was rightfully his as he had given the boys a run for everything in sight. Convention Called The Lilly SIGNAL contains the following convention call. To the Local Unions and Mine Workers of Sub-District 3 of District No. 2, U. M. W. of A. Greetings - You are hereby notified that the Third Annual Convention of Sub-District No. 3 will be held in the White Hall, Lilly, Thursday, Feb. 18, 1904, convening at 10 a.m. Officers elected for the ensuing term will be announced in the convention. Delegates will be elected to represent the mines and will have one vote for every fifty mine workers represented or a majority fraction thereof, but no delegate will have more than five votes in the convention. Where it is considered advisable one delegate may represent two or more mines proved they have no more than the required number of votes. Delegates’ credentials should be signed by the mine committee or the President and Secretary of Local Union and have seal attached. William Currie, President William Young, Vice President Timothy Pitchford, Sec’y-Treas. Gibson’s Important Post Ex-County Superintendent Thomas L. Gibson will start for St. Louis very shortly where he will have charge of a display to be made it the Pennsylvania Building by the schools of this state at the great Exposition. Mr. Gibson expects to remain in St. Louis for a month or six weeks, arranging for the exhibits. It is expected that the Cambria county schools will be well represented at the exposition and work calculated to show the advance made by the schools in the last decade will be prominent among the display. MARRIAGES A pretty double wedding took place in St. John’s Pro-Cathedral, Altoona, at 8 o’clock Thursday morning of last week when Rev. Morgan Sheedy united in marriage Miss Eva Wagner of St. Lawrence and Isadore Burgoon of Altoona and Miss Mary Manion of Chest Springs and Jos. Burgoon of St. Augustine. The attendants were James Burgoon and Miss Zella Burgoon of Altoona. South Fork: The marriage of Miss Mary Snowball to Nenton Myers of Summerhill was solemnized in this place on Thursday evening. DEATHS Bernard Little Bernard Little, a well known citizen of Portage, died at his home in that place, aged about seventy years. His father who was George Little of Allegheny township has been dead for a number of years. He is survived by his second wife, who was Susan Longstreth and several children. The funeral took place Tuesday forenoon at Wilmore from St. Bartholomew Catholic church. Miss Jane Keating Miss Jane Keating whose illness has been referred to in this paper, died Saturday at her home in Wilmore and the funeral took place Monday morning with a high mass of requiem by the Rev. Father Egan and a sermon by the Rev. Father Smith, interment being made in the cemetery adjoining St. Bartholomew Church. The deceased was about sixty years old and was born in Summerhill township. Her surviving brothers are Peter, James and Robert of Wilmore, and John of Clearfield county. Mrs. Mary A. Smay of Summerhill township, is a sister. Joseph Lynn Joseph Lynn, a young miner well-known in the north of the county, having been secretary of the union at Nant-y-Glo died at that place Thursday morning of last week after a brief illness from brain fever. He had been working at Barnesboro for some time and went to Nant-y- Glo, it is said, to call upon a young lady to whom he was to have been married it the spring. The body was taken to Loretto where services were held after which interment was made at Tunnelhill. Matthew Addlesberger Matthew Addlesberger died at his residence in Summit at 10:20 Wednesday night of last week of cancer of the stomach, aged 75 years. He had been a resident of Summit for 50 years but had worked in Altoona as a bricklayer for some time back. He was a member of St. Aloysius church, Summit. His wife died some years ago but he is survived by the following children: Mrs. John Hall of Cresson; Mrs. Susan Boland, Mrs. Effie Ansman, Mrs. Annie Condon, Frank, Margaret, Catharine and Oscar, all of Summit. The funeral was held at St. Aloysius church at Summit at 9 o’clock Saturday morning and interment was made in the church cemetery. Mrs. William Murray Relatives in this place have received notice of the death of Ellen Murray who lived at the county seat over 30 years ago. She died at her home in Wyoming last Saturday and the remains were interred in Salt Lake City Tuesday. F. A. and H. A. Shoemaker of this place are brothers of the deceased. George H. Miller George H. Miller of Carroll township, died on Sunday, February 7th, aged eighty years. He was one of the best citizens of the county and had a wide circle of friends. He was a member of the G. A. R. The funeral took place at Carrolltown Tuesday morning with a solemn high mass of requiem at the Catholic church of which he was a devoted member. Interment was made in St. Benedict’s cemetery. Mrs. Maria Costello Mrs. Maria Costello, aged 65 years, was buried in the Catholic cemetery at Patton on Sunday afternoon. She was born in Ireland and leaves a family of four children: Martin, Michael and Esther, single, and Mrs. Francis Campbell, all of Patton. Waltz A 15-year-old daughter of John Waltz, who moved from Cresson to Wilmore recently, died last Saturday night of scarlet fever and the remains were interred in the Catholic cemetery at that place on Sunday evening. Two other children of the same family are critically ill of the same disease. Mrs. David Powell Mrs. David Powell died at her home four miles north of Ebensburg on Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock, aged 84 years. Her death was caused by no particular disease but followed the infirmities natural to her great age. The funeral took place on Thursday at 2 o’clock, interment being made in the Powell cemetery which adjoins the farm on which she lived and died.   Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, February 19, 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 8 Contributed by Patty Millich NEWS Local and Personal The case which Principal B. Myers of the Patton Public School instituted against Samuel Solomon, Arabian merchant of that town, selling cigarettes to boys under sixteen, has been settled. Solomon paid the school board $100 to be devoted to purchasing books for the school library and also paid all the costs of the case. The Directors are determined to stop the illegal selling of cigarettes in Patton and will prosecute any one guilty of the practice. Jno. C. Gates spent Sunday in this place. Charles Evans broke a bone in his ankle last Saturday. John Sechler of South Fork spent Tuesday in this place. John Thomas, of this place, is confined to his home with the grippe. David Pfeister, real estate agent of Cresson, had business in town Monday. Miss Bird Gates of this place has as her guest, Miss Aura Ferguson of Clearfield. Miss Louis McNamara was the guest of Mrs. W. Horace Rose in Johnstown last week. Misses Martha and Marion Jones and Luella Lloyd of this place spent Friday in Johnstown. Charles Brown of Lilly received a fracture of one of his limbs while at work in the Gallitzin tunnel on Tuesday. Miss Maggie Fitzpatrick of Gallitzin was the guest of Miss Mary Englehart last week, returning to her home on Monday. Mrs. Eleanor Mary Sexton, the efficient book-keeper in Shoemaker’s hardware store is visiting her sisters in Johnstown, Pa. Col. S. W. Davis of Ebensburg was in attendance last week at the State School Directors’ Convention in Harrisburg, being the only representative present from this county. Sherman Criste, formerly of Lilly but a resident of Pittsburg for the past two years, will return to a farm near Lilly and establish an ice cream manufactory. Among those who attended the banquet of the Ann Arbor Alumni Association in Pittsburg last Thursday evening were William Davis and Attorney H. H. Myers. On Saturday afternoon after a hearing, Judge O’Connor made permanent the injunction granted against Caron Leahy of Lilly restraining the latter from trespassing on property owned by John W. Kephart. Charles Farabaugh and Squire Rodkey of Spangler were transacting business in this place on Thursday. Mr. Farabaugh says that the small pox situation in Spangler and in Blacklick township is much improved, there being only four cases in Spangler at the present time. The quarantine upon the home of Ed Flick was lifted recently but two of his children came down with the disease later and the quarantine was again enforced. The wholesale liquor dealers of Gallitzin have organized what is to be known as the Gallitzin Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ League. O. J. Deemer is president and J. P. Fitzpatrick, secretary-treasurer. All the wholesalers of the town signed a resolution setting forth that on and after March 1, the selling price of keg beer will be at the rate of $100 per barrel; that credit will be refused; that no presents will be given; that jugs and bottles will be charged for and that they will not accept orders from hotels to be delivered in private trade unless paid for at the regular private trade rates. A dozen foreigners who took part in a fight at the Hughes mine near Lilly several nights ago have been arrested on commonwealth charges and warrants are out for the apprehension of a number of others. The men used clubs, billies and knives and a number of them emerged from the melee carrying painful cuts and bruises. Edward Fitzharris, son of the Hon. and Mrs. Michael Fitzharris of Gallitzin who has been in ill health for several years has returned home from Saranac Lake, N. Y., where he had been for several months under treatment. Mr. Fitzharris is still in a serious condition. He has traveled considerably with the hope of getting relief, spending some time the past year in the West and at the White Haven Sanitarium in the eastern part of the state. The Congregational Ladies’ Aid Society will meet Saturday at the home of Mrs. W. H. Davis. Contractor Oliver Evans has been night watchman at the Court House since the robbery last week. Mrs. T. B. O’Hara entertained a number of friends at euchre Tuesday evening. Music and a fine supper added to the entertainment of the guests. Mrs. Wm. Davis won the ladies first prize and S. I. Reed, Esq., the gentleman’s. Mrs. Kate Griffith, of S. Dorsey Griffith, proprietor of the Vintondale Inn, is recovering rapidly from the light attack of smallpox from which she has been suffering for the past week. She is not at the hotel, but is in the neighboring house and every precaution has been taken at the Inn to prevent contagion. John Peters, of Spangler, a carpenter, employed by the firm of Bollinger Bros., of Pittsburg in the erection of the brewery at Spangler was seriously injured on Tuesday as the result of a scaffold breaking. Both arms and legs were broken. With two other men, he was working 60 feet above the ground when the scaffolding fell. Mr. Peters was the only one seriously injured and his condition is thought to be critical. On Saturday Judge O’Connor after having been presented with a petition from the citizens of Summerhill Township (south) asking for the appointment of a Constable, named D. A. Miller to fill the vacancy. Mr. Miller’s commission will date from the day upon which he files a bond and the same is approved. Patton Notes What might have been a disastrous fire started Tuesday morning in the home of Mr. Maud, manager of the cooperative store **[two sentences missing from this story] but their services were not needed, an energetic bucket brigade having done the work. The fire was caused by Mrs. Maud removing to the couch a cover which had been hanging near a stove and which was afire although she did not know it. The house is in a solid block in the centre of town and if the fire had gained headway it would have been a serious matter as the wind was blowing thirty miles an hour at the time. Quite of number of Patton’s young people attended the Hope Fire Company’s masquerade ball at Barnesboro Monday night. Another case of smallpox developed here. It is in a house in the East End and the Board of Health has taken prompt and effective measures. A guard is stationed at the house which is occupied by foreigners. James McCann the mercantile appraiser was looking after his official duties in Patton this week. Young Man Sues Borough Harvey Williams Files a Suit Claiming $10,000 Damages as the Result of a Fall The borough of Ebensburg has a $10,000 damage suit on its hands. On Thursday morning, S. Lemon Reed, attorney for Harvey Williams of this place filed a suit against the borough claiming damages to that amount. It appears that on July 3, 1903, Williams was tripped by a wire fastened to a telephone pole on Julian street and as a result of his fall, broke his arm and received other injuries for which he seeks to hold the borough accountable. Gone to Philipsburg James Mitchell, of Patton, an experienced man in the co-operative store business has accepted the position of Manager of the Phillipsburg Co-operative Company and has entered upon his duties. He left Patton a few days ago. Lively Time in the West Ward Thomas Peach and O. C. Wilkinson Make a Winning Race and win by a Handsome Vote The lively fight in the West Ward for council and assessor was the feature of election day in this place. Thos. Peach and his friends went into win and they won. The result being purely a personal victory for Peach. Wilkinson’s victory over Davis was brought about by the popularity, the energy of Peach’s campaign and the existence of some dissatisfaction with returns made by the West Ward assessor. In the East Ward all the Republican candidates won by the usual majority. The borough returns are as follows: Ebensburg, West Ward Auditor: Hersehall Davis, R, 129 F. J. Hartman, D, 89 Council: George A. Davis, R, 101 Thomas Peach, D, 120 School Director: Sherman Tibbott, R, 139 H. H. Myers, D, 83 Assessor: D. J. Davis, R, 106 D. R. Wilkinson, D, 115 Judge of Election: Hosea Evans, R, 118 Walter N. Bolsinger, D, 100 Inspector: Milton Isenberg, R, 110 Thomas James, D, 107 East Ward Auditor: Hersall (sic) Davis, R, 72 F. J. Hartman, D, 18 Council: Thomas D. Evans, R, 72 R. L. McBreen, D, 18 School Director: S. W. Davis, R., 69 John Lloyd, D, 23 Assessor: R. R. Davis, R, 70 Judge of Election: Jno. A. Piercy, R, 64 William Tierney, D, 19 Inspector of Election: Daniel W. James, R, 59 Joseph A. Brown, D, 20 Jno. J. Evans, P, 9 William Gray, I, 1 Mrs. Bender Entertains On Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bender of this place entertained a party of young people. The party was given in honor of the Misses Stella, Josephine and Hortense Dunnegan. Progressive euchre occupied the early part of the evening and at 10 o’clock the party was ushered into the dining hall where the guests danced until 11:30 when refreshments were served. Following are the names of those present: Misses Bessie Darragh, Mary Connel, Julia Brown, Mary Thompson, Lydia Davison, June Davis, Mary Roberts, Katharine Stokes, Anita Evans, Lula Davis, Mary Evans, Ada Jones, Mrs. Edgar Leahey and Mrs. Leo McKenrick; Messrs. Clifford Jones, John Elder, D. B. Shoemaker, Robert Bolsinger, Leo McKenrick, Edgar Leahey, Ray Bolsinger, Harvey William, T. H. Hasson, Walter Jones, Alfred Shoemaker and Charles Hasson. The lady’s prize was awarded to Miss Ada Jones after “cutting” with Misses June Davis and Julia Brown who tied the score. T. H. Hasson captured the gentleman’s prize, a set of military brushes. Wilmore Notes W. S. Skelly who has been ill for some time is improving. James Costlow is recovering from a three months illness. The Gilt Edge Club gave a grand and successful masquerade ball on Monday evening in Crouse’s Hall which proved one of the most enjoyable affairs ever held in the little town. About seventy-five people attended and by 9:30 o’clock the ball was a perfect kaleidoscope of pretty and grotesquely dressed people. Boland & Fisher’s orchestra rendered a fine program of music until 12 o’clock, when all unmasked and enjoyed a very dainty and tempting lunch which was served by Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Crouse. The party then returned to the ball and danced on until 3 a.m. The following were masked; Miss Emma Davis, Mrs. G. E. Blaisdell, Mrs. J. W. Pettigrew, Miss Nellie Blaisdell, Miss Nellie McMullen, Misses Myrtle and Eva Jeffries, Miss Gertrude McMullen, Miss Mary Allen, Miss Sadie Skiles, Miss Grace Horner, Miss Mary Crouse, Miss Margaret Myers of Ebensburg; Miss Mamie Farber of Tyrone; G. E. Blaisdell, Philip Lynch. T. P. Wenderoth, Harry Frazer, George Awl, John Hoover, Clarence Fraser, Edward Schryock, C. N. Crouse, S. Skiles, Homer Schryock, William Cullon, Charles Crum, Edward Hoover, Harry Smay, Mr. Johnson, Nelson Brown of Ebensburg. Johnstown Attorney Mentioned Influential friends, says the Johnstown DEMOCRAT of J. Wallace Paul, a well known young attorney, from different sections of the county have been importuning him within the last few weeks to become a candidate for the nomination for district attorney on the Democratic ticket and it is reported that he is considering the matter and may agree to make the run. It is understood that he has given no definite answer but that he has agreed to seriously weigh the matter and to give his answer within the next few days. It is learned from a source that is authoritative that Mr. Paul may accept the nomination in the event that it is extended to him gratuitously and he is not compelled to make a canvass of the endorsement by the Democrats of the county. Mr. Paul was quite active in the campaigns that resulted in the election of Judge O’Conner, Register and Recorder William H. Strauss, county Treasurer Heffley and Sheriff Lenhart. He is a native of Cambria county, a graduate of the University of Michigan and one of the earnest younger members of the Cambria county bar. Ebensburg Exchange Opens On Thursday, F. A. Cresswell of the Johnstown Board of Exchange opened up a branch office in this place in the quarters occupied by eclipsed Baxter concern. Mr. J. W. Burns of Johnstown is in charge of the office here. F. A. Cresswell has been in the business many years and the fact that still remains while others fade away is an eloquent testimonial in carefulness of his methods. The new concern represents and receives its quotations from Richmond & Company of Pittsburg. No interest will be charged. The margins required are one point on grain and two on stocks. Mr. Burns, the man in charge, is an experienced operator. Another Robbery at Cresson A gang of burglars thought to be the same that attempted to rob the post office Friday night, broke into the Union News Company’s stand at the Cresson railway station half a mile from the village Sunday night and made a general cleaning up of the place. Watches, jewelry, tobacco and much other booty was secured. Amount of the loss has not yet been given out. The thieves did the bold job without being interfered with and had made good their escape before the robbery was discovered. Will Pass Out of History The South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club, owners of the Conemaugh Reservoir at the time of the Great Flood, will soon pass out of history as an organization with the sale of all its personal effects remaining in the clubhouse at the reservoir site. Auctioneer George Harshberger has announced that the sale will take place on Thursday, the 25th inst., at the clubhouse, when the entire furnishings will be disposed of at auction. In the list to be disposed of are fifty bedroom suites, many yards of carpet, silverware and table ware with the club monogram engraved thereon and many odd pieces of furniture and bric-a-brac. At the time of the Great Flood the club house was handsomely furnished and was fully equipped to care for at least 200 guests. During the summer of 1889 the clubhouse remained open but has since been occupied only by a caretaker. MARRIAGES Wedded in Cumberland Alexander Wilson, a clerk in the office of Register and Recorder W. H. Strauss, and Miss Ora Slick, a saleslady in Foster’s store, Johnstown, were married at the Lutheran Church Parsonage in Cumberland, Md., Monday morning by the Rev. Dr. Young and came to Johnstown over the Somerset & Cambria branch Monday evening having left over the same road Sunday morning. They are now with Mr. and Mrs. William Oldham of No. 134 Peter Street, Ninth ward, the bride’s uncle and aunt. The young pair will make their home in this place. Marriage License Record Jeff Luzier and Clara Green of Bakerton. Mike Schrupen and Tronie Lukezic of Frugality. Maczyi Kylecki and Maryanna Goclan of Johnstown. David S. Gates of Lower Yoder Township and Rosanna Taylor of Ligonier Township, Westmoreland County. James F. Flower and Ella S. Vest of Johnstown. Henry Yeager and Lena J. Gerin of Hastings. David H. Reyhard and Lida A. Morris of Johnstown. Joseph Mulvaski and Stella Stunak of Carroll Township. James P. Greene and Rosemary Quinn of Johnstown. Oliver Newton Myers of Summerhill and Mary Snowball of South Fork. Jacob Brunet of Odenthal and Louisa Reiddler of Lovett. J. F. Conrad of Vintondale and Theresa Campbell of Barnesboro. Andrew Socho of Carrolltown and Annie Labian of Carroll Township. George Sukas of Carrolltown and Annie Socho of Carroll Township. John Marko and Annie Mikulo of Onnalinda. B. F. DeReemer and Elenora Trueman of Patton. John Furman and Kate Zyko of Johnstown. Andrew Fznko and Mary Lehan of Johnstown. DEATHS Elva Walters Elva, the little child of Mr. and Mrs. E. Walters of South Fork died of scarlet fever on Saturday. Boast The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. John Boast of Lilly was buried in the St. Bridget Catholic Cemetery on Tuesday. Schell The eighteen-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Schell of Lilly died Saturday of pneumonia. Funeral took place Sunday in the Catholic cemetery. Dougherty Mrs. Annie Dougherty, aged about sixty-three years died at her residence at Portage, Saturday. Cancer of the **[sentence ends here]. Held on Tuesday morning at St. Bridget’s Catholic Cemetery. Leap John, the five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Leap of Lilly, died suddenly on Saturday from the effects of injuries received while coasting some time ago. Mention was made in these columns. The funeral took place Sunday afternoon in the Catholic Cemetery. Died at County Home John Cair, aged forty-three, died at the County Home near Ebensburg at 3:30 Sunday afternoon, rheumatism being the cause of death. The deceased who was an Italian was admitted to the institution from Cambria township on January 16, 1899. Jane Devereaux Jane Devereaux, aged eighty-four, died at 7:40 o’clock Sunday evening at her home here, death being due to the diseases incident to old age. The deceased was the widow of Thomas Devereaux, who died about twenty years ago. For many years Mrs. Devereaux lived alone in Cambria township, but moved about eight years ago to this place where she died. Funeral services were conducted in the Herman Congregational church, North Ebensburg on Tuesday afternoon and interment being made in the cemetery adjoining the church. William Killin William Killin died suddenly while seated in a chair in the office of the Horner House at Wilmore about 6 o’clock on Saturday evening. He had been in ill health for some time and it is said, had been drinking quite heavily. Coroner Miller was notified and went to Wilmore on Sunday afternoon where he impaneled the following jury and held an inquest: Tobias Ash, W. L. Emigh, Bernard Connelly, Harvey Smay, W. H. Collen, Louis Schultz. Three witnesses were examined: Jacob Horner and Chas. Crouse related the circumstances as above related and Dr. I. C. Blaisdell testified that there was no evidence that the man had been a victim of foul play. The jury then rendered a verdict stating that he had come to his death “from natural causes, superinduced by drink,” and that there was no evidence of foul play. Killin was single and had only one relative living so far as known. This is a sister, Mrs. Louis Schultz. He had been unable to work for some time. It was believed that he had consumption. The funeral took place on Monday where he was buried at Wilmore. - - - - - Statistics of Poor and House of Employment, Thomas J. Hughes, steward for 1903: Names of Deceased Who Died In the Poor House Betsy Brown Amos Goughenour Andrew Mummaugh Gertrude Gohenour James McCright John Weakland Christian Grumley Jeremiah Oleary Anna Dyneda Elizabeth James John Shountz Victoria Rager George Scurr Mollie Fitch Sophia Shaffer John Lernak Toney Stevorick John Bayoes   Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, February 26, 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 9 Contributed by Patty Millich NEWS Local and Personal Clifford Jones spent several days in Johnstown last week. Mrs. John Sharpters of South Fork has been confined to her home by a severe attack of the grippe. On Monday, Mrs. Murphy, wife of Dr. John Murphy of Loretto, fell upon the ice and sustained a fracture of the thigh. A portion of the roof flew off the convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph in this place on Monday afternoon. The damage will amount to about $100. On Thursday of last week, F. E. Farabaugh paid a visit to Brighton Roads where he found his brother, Isadore, suffering from a severe attack of pneumonia. The sick man is now much better. The views appointed by the court to run the line between the townships of Summerhill and Croyle will carry out the duties of their appointment on Monday, February 29th. The revival which as been going on in the Lilly M. E. Church for the past seven weeks had added fifty-five new members to the congregation. The Rev. E. Frycklin, the pastor, is an efficient worker and has been a power for good in the community. Dr. E. F. Arble of Carrolltown has been arrested for selling liquor on Sunday, selling liquor without a license and running a pharmacy without a qualified pharmacist. The prosecutor is J. J. McGonegal and the information was made before Squire W. C. Schroth of Carrolltown. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Lutheran Church at Lilly gave a Washington’s birthday chicken and waffle supper in the Black Cross hall Tuesday evening for the benefit of the Lilly Social Cornet Band. It was a decided social and financial success. The range in the home of D. A. Luther Jr., of Carrolltown exploded after a fire had been started, the water in the pipes leading to the boiler having frozen during the night. No one was hurt though the fragments of the broken range were thrown in all directions, tearing out a panel of the door leading to the kitchen and shattering the glass in the windows. By the terms of the last will and testament of the late Mrs. Jane Devereaux who died at her home here last week, William R. Rowland, a nephew of the deceased comes into possession of all her property, real, personal and mixed. The decedent owned a house and lot on Sample street. The trip of the teachers of Patton to visit the Johnstown schools was scheduled for today. During their trip to Johnstown the Patton teachers will be the guests of W. H. Denlinger, president of Patton School board, who generously pays all the expenses of the trip. Last year the Patton teachers and directors visited the Clearfield schools through the generosity of Mr. Denlinger. There are twelve teachers in Patton. South Fork Assembly, No. 37, Degree of Naomi, Daughters of Ruth, of the A. O. K. of the M. C., held their sixth annual banquet in Stineman’s hall on Friday evening last. Quite a number attended and were highly entertained. George Bassett made the opening address. The entertainers were as follows: Solo, Mrs. Binett; recitation, Miss Hardy; solo, Miss Gregory; recitation, Mrs. Mock; song, Peck Thomas, duet, Miss Elsie Topper and Miss Glasby; recitation, Mrs. Hudson; solo, Miss Bertha Mock; recitation, Mrs. Spence; quartet, Misses Lizzie Glasby, Miss Elsie Topper, Miss Hardy and Mrs. Winters. Gabriel Beauband, a Frenchman who cannot speak English and who is of no sound mind left his home in Patton in September last and his family are anxious to know of his whereabouts. When last heard of he was an inmate of the Blair County Almshouse at Hollidaysburg from which place he left without warning. Anyone seeing him or knowing anything concerning him will confer a favor by communicating with Mrs. Frank Pollechila, Patton, Pa. Beauband is about eighty years of age. P. J. Hartman who has for some time been conducting the old Nees Hotel at Geistown, which has been closed for debt, has withdrawn his application for its license for a hotel that he proposed to establish at Elton in case the license was granted. It will be remembered that the people in the neighborhood of Elton registered a strong kick against Mr. Hartmann (sic), claiming the hotel was not necessary and this doubtless influenced his action. Lilly Branch, No. 193, C. M. B. A., held their regular meeting in the parochial school hall Monday, Feb. 22d when the following officers were installed for the ensuing year: John McCabe, President; H. A. Schell, First Vice President; J. H. Connell, Second Vice President; R. J. Felker, Financial Secretary; O. J. Connell, Recording Secretary; F. W. Ryan, Marshal; T. J. Moyer, Guard; Blair Short, Chancellor; J. H. Connell, T. A. Bradley, T. W. Ryan, Blair Short and C. W. Brown, Trustees. Wills Probated Estate of Anthony Gill, late of Chest Township. Will probated but no letters issued. Estate of Jane Devereaux, late of the borough of Ebensburg. Will probated and letters issued to William R. Rowland. Estate of Joseph Lynn, late of Blacklick Township. Letters issued to B. W. Litzinger. An Inquisition Held An inquisition was held last week to inquire into the mental condition of Joseph P. Pfiester of Allegheny Township, and has declared him insane. Mr. Pfiester is aged about twenty-two years and owns property. He was employed on the Pennsylvania Railroad as a brakeman and on January 24, 1903, was the victim of a bad wreck. He was caught between the bumpers of two cars and had his jawbone broken on both sides, he was also badly cut and squeezed from the forehead backward and had his shoulder blade broken. Notwithstanding these terrible injuries, Pfiester recovered sufficiently to return to work, but he never felt well. In August he was again placed on the sick list and later entered the West Penn Hospital at Pittsburg were he soon exhibited evidence of insanity and was sent to the Allegheny Hospital for the Insane where he has been since. The proceedings were instituted by a sister of the afflicted man, Mrs. Patrick Crilley of Allegheny township and was done in order that the patient’s property may be used for his support and maintenance. Judge O’Conner has appointed P. J. Little, Esq., a commissioner to hear the case and report to Court. Wants $30,000 Damages Mrs. Mary Ann Coy of Belsano, Blacklick Township, has brought an action of trespass against the Commercial Coal Mining Company, a concern organized about a year ago and which is putting in an immense operation at Big Bend along the Ebensburg & Blacklick Railroad. The suit is brought to recover damages in the sum of $30,000 as a partial recompense for the killing of Thomas J. Coy, while he was in the employ of the above named company. It is alleged that on Oct. 1, 1903, Mr. Coy with a number of fellow workmen was engaged in erecting a large smokestack over one of the company’s boilers at Big Bend when a chain broke and the stack fell, crushing Coy to death. The company is charged with supplying a defective chain. Mrs. Coy is left with a two- year-old son and damages are asked for herself and the child. S. L. Reed, Esq., of Ebensburg is Mrs. Coy’s attorney. J. L. Mitchell of this place is said to be one of the heaviest stockholders of the company. Royal Areanum for Patton A council of the Royal Areanum is being organized at Patton. A preliminary meeting was held recently when an application for a charter was signed by a number of men interested and the following officers were nominated: Past Regent: M. B. Cowher Regent: H. A. Seitz Vice Regent: Thomas J. Graham Orator: Robert McCullough Secretary: J. E. Dale Collector: E. Will Greene Treasurer: Charles F. Pitt Chaplain: George O. Brady Guide: Alex Monteith Warden: William C. Prindible Sentry: A. E. Rumberger Trustees: W. L. Thompson, H. C. Lansberry, Dr. H. W. Bailey, A. Monteith, H. S. Lingle, J. E. Parnell and J. J. Donnelly. This new organization will be known as Patton Council, Royal Areanum. New Cresson Store J. F. Cloud for several years a traveling salesman is opening an up- to-date cigar store in Cresson in the building recently constructed by Wm. Scanlan. Mr. Cloud is a man of experience and has a general personality. His venture will undoubtedly be successful. Made A Hit The comedy-drama entitled, “Borderland,” which was presented at Ehrenfeld last week by a number of South Fork young people was a great success. Chas. Singer as the Irishman, made a great bit with his comic ways. The cast was as follows: Jack Ralston, a guide and scout: Jack Finan Joe Dempsel, alias Baron Hereford, alias “Old Ben,”: W. McGinnis Hon. Patrick McFaddle, a New York politician: Charles Singer Mr. Lester, a banker: Edward McCabe Cyrus, his servant: Joseph McQuillan Kidder, Dempsay’s pal: Charles Finan Charley, a young terror: John McConeghy Mary Eester, A New York belle: Nora Madigan Polly, her sister: Regina Carroll Miss Spriggins: Rose Carroll Winona, an Indian girl: Ester Finan Famous Big Pine The celebrated “Big Pine” on the McManamy tract between Cresson and Loretto was cut done within the last few days and sawed up in lengths suitable for cutting into lumber and with it goes not only one of the chief curiosities of the locality but of the most magnificent tree in the state. This tree, which was in fact a combination of three trunks since it divided into three separate branches a short distance above the ground, was twenty-seven feet in circumference at the roots. The trunks were about half that size and were very lofty. When cut into logs the monster yielded sixty separate logs of good size. The tree stood in a grove a short distance from the road and was visited each summer by hundreds of people. It must have been very old although no effort seems to have been made as yet to determine its age. From it enormous size, however, it seems certain that the tree was standing when this continent was discovered. Much regret is felt that no steps were taken to preserve it. The McManamy tract is one of the few pieces of good pine left in Cambria County. A dam is being constructed and it will soon be cut out by the aid of an up-to-date mill. Smallpox at Belsano A case of smallpox has recently been discovered at Belsano. The victim of the malady is Mrs. Cassie Adams, aged forty-five years. All necessary steps to prevent the spread of the disease have been taken. Mrs. Adams is employed as a housekeeper in the home of Joseph Vasbinder, whose wife died some time ago and left him with a child about six years old. The patient has been ill but a few days and it was discovered two days ago that she was suffering from smallpox. Smallpox Near Dean The family of Conrad Jacobs of Clearfield township, near Dean, have been suffering from smallpox. Mr. Jacobs and four of the children being afflicted, but the disease was not of a virulent form. A girl of the Jacobs family had been living in Vintondale and it is thought she then contracted the disease and it developed among the Jacobs family It has been reported that there was a number of cases of smallpox in the town of Dean, which is a little village on the Cresson-Irvona branch of the Cambria & Clearfield division, but this is not true, as the only cases in the neighborhood are those in the Jacobs family. Reade Schoolhouse Burned The New Holland Schoolhouse, in Reade township, was totally destroyed by fire Wednesday afternoon of last week, the whole roof being in flames when the blaze was discovered. The pupils were badly frightened but the teacher, Perry Glass, got them all out without injury. The fire originated from a defective flue. The Directors will try to secure temporary quarters for the school while the house is being rebuilt. Bad Man Captured The county jail now has a guest. one Thomas Philips, who about six months ago, it is alleged, used a gun to fire on a resident of Ashville and was arrested and held for court under bail. He concluded to quit this section for the state and jumped his bond. Until Monday Philips was supposed be out of the reach of the law. As County Detective Knee was going down from Ebensburg on a train he saw and immediately recognized the much sought bail jumper. Before any resistance could be opposed, Mr. Knee had the bracelets on him and Philips accompanied the detective to Johnstown. A process had been issued by the court after Philip’s escape and when Elmer E. Davis gave away to Sheriff Lenhart the process was also handed over. On his arrival in Johnstown the prisoner was put in Sheriff Lenhart’s care and then jugged at the central police station for a few hours. In the evening the man was brought up here. Philips was evidently anticipating trouble as he had a mammoth revolver in his pocket when arrested. Twenty-Four Cases Listed Court Calendar for Coming Term has many interesting and important contentions. For Trial on Monday, March 7th: Dorsey Wolford and Mike Popovitch vs. August G. Myers, Jr., trespass. S. C. Gearhart and S. S. McCartney vs. Luther Gwinn, Thomas Gwinn, ejectment. Johnstown Supply House vs. Chas. E. Leister, appeal. Hudson C. Bracken vs. Pennsylvania R. R. Co., trespass. Mrs. Louisa Zimmerman vs. Charles Burgraff, et al., ejectment. Mrs. Robert Pearce vs. W. L. Hughes, M. A. Hughes, appeal. George E. Makin vs. John L. Edwards, trespass. Mary E. Brown, Administrator of Estate of James McCloskey, dec’d. vs. Charles E. Quinn, Administrator of Estate of James Quinn, dec’d., appeal. For Trial on Tuesday, March 8th: Gale Heslop vs. Rev. F. D. Shultz, et al, ejectment. Borough of Franklin vs. The Franklin Land and Improvement Co., et al, trespass. Laura Griffith vs. Solomon B. Martin, Francis Martin, trespass. Frank and Gable vs. Joseph Orris, assumpsit. Gallitzin Building and Loan Association vs. Louis M. Stigers, ejectment. Use School District of the Borough of Barnesboro vs. Thomas Prosser et al, assumpsit. Use School District of the Borough of Barnesboro vs. Thomas Prosser et al, assumpsit. For Trial on Wednesday, March 9th: Sarah Ann Lewis vs. George H. Lewis, divorce. Salix Telephone Company vs. Joseph S. Yoder, assumpsit. Use James Gardner, executor of Hester Gardner, dec’d. vs. A. A. Stevens, Alias Scire Facias. Wm. T. Thomas vs. S. E. Hammond, Scire Facias sur. Mech. Lien. Daniel S. Slattery vs. Allegheny Mountain Water Co., trespass. For Trial on Thursday, March 10th: Ridgeway Dynamo and Engine Co. vs. Consumers’ Light Heat and Power Co., assumpsit. Charles Slacker vs. Herman Heider, appeal. Smith & Barnes Piano Co., vs. J. M. Bunnell, assumpsit. Owen E. Terrill, vs. Joseph A. Gray, assumpsit. Want $6,000 Damages A suit was filed on Monday by Stephen and Barbara Diamond of Summerhill against Summerhill borough. The former asks for $2,000 and the latter, $4,000. February 21 of last year as Mr. and Mrs. Diamond were returning from a social, Mrs. Diamond fell into a ditch and fractured her ankle. She desires the $4,000 for the pain and expenses. Her husband asks damages for the loss of his wife’s help and assistance and for doctor’s bills. They claim there was no protection near the ditch and that the borough should settle for this alleged negligence. Large Sum Asked For Directors of the Poor Want $50,000 to Build an Asylum for the Insane The Poor Directors have taken a definite step in the direction of a county asylum. A petition from them has been filed in the commissioners’ office asking for $50,000 with which to build such an institution. The proposed step is a very brave one indeed. A large amount of money is involved and the taxpayer is likely to be very much interested in the venture. No immediate action upon the part of the commissioners is anticipated in the matter. World’s Fair at St. Louis Via Pennsylvania Railroad, May 10th The Louisiana Purchase Exposition will open at St. Louis April 30 and will be in perfect condition on that date. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will run the first low-rate coach excursion from the East to the World’s Fair on May 10, affording residents of the eastern sections an opportunity to see the great Exposition in all the glory of its pristine freshness. Tickets will be sold from all principal stations on the Pennsylvania Railroad System. The fare from New York will be $20; from Philadelphia, $18.50, with proportionate rates approximating one cent per mile from other points. These tickets will be good going only on special coach trains to be run on May 10, and returning on coaches of regular trains leaving St. Louis not later than May 19. 116th Death at Butler Butler, Pa., Feb. 24 – Catherine Campbell, a negress, is dead of typhoid fever. The total number of deaths from fever is now 116. MARRIAGES J. Cavanaugh of Baltimore and Miss Ella Stephens of Lilly were married in Pittsburg recently and have gone to Baltimore where they will make their future home. Mr. Cavanaugh is employed by one of the large banking institutions of the Monumental City. Marriage License Record George M. Spencer and Jane Burkhart of Elmora. James C. McHugh and Edna V. Ross of Johnstown. John Frazer of Barnesboro and Mary E. Hibbard of Benedict. John Kustora and Mary Zahnrak of Johnstown. Howard T. Penrod of Pittsburg and May G. Berriman of Johnstown. George Bowen and Annie Howmiller of Puritan. William J. Thomas Jr. and Maud Hess of Johnstown. William F. Reap and Emma Diehl of Johnstown. Joseph Head and Josephine Bender of Johnstown. Edward J. Harkins and Jennie E. Head of Johnstown. Alfred J. Lane and Jennie Lewis of South Fork. John A. Presk and Ellen J. Best of Johnstown. Andrew J. Seymour and Carrie Buchanan of Carrolltown. Ralph E. Wilder and Bertha A. Miller of Johnstown. DEATHS John Teeter Sr. John Teeter, Sr., one of the oldest and best known residents of West Taylor Township, died at 11:30 o’clock last Friday night of a complication of diseases incident to advanced age. He had been in failing health for several years and bedfast the past four weeks. Deceased was aged eighty years old and eighteen days, says the Johnstown TRIBUNE. Mr. Teeter was born in Bedford county and came to Cambria county in his youth, passing the balance of his long life in Jackson and West Taylor townships as a farmer. On January 26, 1847, he was united in marriage with Rachel Benshoff, a daughter of Eli and Elizabeth Benshoff, deceased of West Taylor Township and this union was blessed with ten children, nine of whom survive as follows: Elizabeth, wife of John Stoner of the Twenty-first Ward; David, Benjamin and John Teeter, all of West Taylor Township; Susan, wife of W. W. Slicks of Pittsburg; Eli Teeter of No. 716 Kennedy avenue; Mary, wife of Louis Krone of 17th street; Rachel wife of Ephriam Shafer of Rosedale and Daniel Teeter, single and at home. Sarah, who was the wife of William Stutzman of Defiance O, was the twin sister of Susan and died at her home in the Fourteenth Ward of Johnstown some years ago. Mrs. Teeter, wife of the subject of this sketch, died in March, 1883. Mr. Teeter was a member of the German Baptist Church all his adult life. The funeral took place Sunday afternoon, the cortege leaving the house for the Benshoff German Baptist Church at 8:30 o’clock, the Rev. Abram Fyock conducting the services. Interment was in the Benshoff cemetery in West Taylor Township. “Wes” Skelly Sylvester Skelly, better known as “Wes,” whose illness has been several times noted in these columns, died at his home in Wilmore on Saturday morning last after a long illness of pulmonary trouble. He was a son of the late John Skelly, was born in Summerhill Township about fifty years ago and had resided in the vicinity of Wilmore most of his lifetime. He is survived by his sisters, Annie Skelly of Wilmore and Millie Skelly of Altoona; four brothers, Terrance, Mark, John S. and Patrick, having preceded him to the grave. The funeral took place Monday morning after a high mass of requiem in St. Bartholomew Church, Wilmore, interment being made in the cemetery near by. Mrs. Thomas Wilt Mrs. Thomas Wilt of Ashville died at her residence at 2 o’clock last Saturday afternoon of paralysis, aged about eighty-one years. She leaves three daughters: Mrs. Allie McGough of St. Augustine; Miss Ella of Greensburg and Mrs. Silas McGough of Altoona, and one son, James Wharton of St. Augustine. Deceased was a member of St. Augustine Catholic church. The funeral services were held at St. Augustine church on Tuesday morning. Aged Resident Passes Away By the death of Abel Lloyd who died at home in this place on Monday, Ebensburg loses one of its best and most respected citizens. Mr. Lloyd was almost eighty years old, but until a short time ago was one of the most active of the elderly people in this town. He was of the second generation of the Lloyd family in this country, his father having been the earliest settler at Ebensburg and most of his life had been spent here although he had traveled considerably and had a wide acquaintance. Mr. Lloyd had he lived until the 22nd of next June would have been eighty years old, having been born in 1824. He was a brother of John Lloyd, Ebensburg’s veteran merchant who has conducted a store here since 1852. When a young man, the deceased left Ebensburg, the place of his birth, to work for the iron firm of Fray, Matthews & Co., in Pittsburg. It was while here that he met Miss Annie Gardner, the young lady, English born, who afterwards became his wife. During the founding of the Cambria Iron company in Johnstown and shortly after his marriage in Pittsburg, Mr. Lloyd left his position in the Smoky City and went to work as a clerk for the new iron works. He was called from his labors to the office of county commissioner after the celebrated contest of 1858. He was an originator of the summer hotel business at Ebensburg, having erected the Lloyd Springs Hotel and conducted it successfully until his age led him to close it up and retire from business. He was also largely interested in other property here and was quite wealthy. Besides his wife, who is at present quite ill, the following children survive him: J. G. Lloyd of this place; Jennie, wife of Carl Rivinus, the local jeweler; Margaret, wife of Fred Spiller of Fitzgerald, Ga.; Annie, wife of Mathiot Reade Esq., of this place; and the Misses Bell and Martha, at home. The funeral service will be conducted by the Oriental Commandery No. 61 Knight Templar of Johnstown. Full Knights Templar’ ceremonies will be carried out at the home of the deceased and at the grave in Lloyd’s Cemetery, donated long ago to the county seat by the grandfather of the deceased. James Douglass James Douglass died at Ashville, Cambria County, Wednesday morning at 2 o’clock after an illness of about one week with pneumonia. Deceased was born November 29, 1821. He was married to Mary Noel, January 14, 1848, and is survived by the following children: William of Altoona; Mrs. Jacob Stoltz and Milton of Chest Springs; Mrs. Augustine Daugherty of Ashville and James, at home. He is also survived by the following brothers and sisters: John H. Douglass of Altoona; Mrs. Jane Green and Mrs. Peter McKenzie of Chest Springs and Thomas of Cheyenne, Wyoming. The deceased was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Engine Let Go Works Death Three men killed and several injured by an Explosion at Ehrenfeld The explosion of the boiler of P. R. R. freight engine No. 2080 at Ehrenfeld about 10 o’clock Monday night caused the deaths of three men and the probable fatal injury of two others, all of them employees of the railroad The dead: John Gontz, conductor of the train that the ill-fated engine was hauling. Henry Tyson, engineer in the cab at the time. George Bickner, track walker, who got on the engine at South Fork about a mile from the place where the explosion occurred. The injured: Robert Renwick, fireman, one leg blown completely off and the other badly crushed and broken, probably fatally hurt. Elmer Furl, a brakeman, hip broken and legs crushed, probably fatally hurt. The cause of the accident which took place within 50 feet of the station is not known and will probably never be determined. The freight left the Derry Yards at 6:45 in the evening and proceeded as usual to Conemaugh with the engine that blew up in the lead. The pull up the mountain east of Conemaugh is one that is well known to all the P. R. R. rail men and at the later place the freight was supplied with a “pusher” or an engine that is coupled on the rear of the train to aid in making the up-hill trip. After the addition of the pusher the freight continued up the mountains but only got as far as Ehrenfeld when the accident occurred. The escape of the fireman and the brakeman from death is doubtless due to the fact that they were on the tender of the engine. The engineer and the conductor were both in the cab as was Bickner, the trackwalker, who had a message for the railroaders at Summerhill and had boarded the engine at South Fork. All of the men with the exception of the trackwalker were residents of Derry and the latter lives at New Germany, a small town just back of Summerhill. A remarkable escape was that of E. F. Tierst of Indiana, an extra brakeman, who had been riding on the engine and had left it only two or three minutes before the explosion. The track flagman, Tuly, of Derry, a member of the train crew, also had a very narrow escape.