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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, April 1, 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 14 Contributed by Patty Millich NEWS Local and Personal M. F. Watts has sold his large farm near Gallitzin to R. C. Edelbute, the wholesale liquor man of the mountain town, for a consideration given as around $12,000. It is not known what disposition the new owner of the property will make of it, but Mr. Watts will move into Gallitzin to live. Fes Tibbott of this place left Saturday morning for Pittsburg where he will enter the West Penn Hospital for the purpose of undergoing an operation. He was accompanied by his sister, Miss Mary Tibbott. Dr. D. E. Fisher and son of Lilly were in this place Monday and Tuesday. Mr. Fisher was a witness in the Lilly murder case. Oscar Hofmann, one of our obliging barbers is visiting friends in McKeesport this week. James Warner of Blandburg who served on the jury of Billy Bell here last week was a pleasant caller at this office on Saturday. Mrs. D. E. Davis of the East Ward returned home after visiting her parents in Carrolltown and other relatives in the North of the county. A. P. Storm of Cresson was in Ebensburg on business Monday. John Barnett and Alexius Adams, two of Chest Spring’s citizens were in town Monday and while here were pleasant callers at this office. Flinton Notes John I. Meyers, of Reade township, one of the best known men of this part of the country, is critically ill. He has been sick for some time and as a result of a surgical operation performed by several physicians some time ago, it was found that every one of his vital organs is badly diseased and an enormous cancerous growth was found in his stomach. It is a case of much surprise to all physicians acquainted with it and it is very remarkable that the man is yet living, as he has taken less than a cup of nourishment in six weeks. Fire at Mountaindale On Tuesday the residence and general store building of John E. Kuhn of Mountaindale was burned down. The estimated loss is about $5,000, fully covered by insurance. Davis Confesses Crime Notwithstanding the fact that in court three months ago the negro, Frank Davis, swore before God and man that he was innocent of the murder of Laura Taylor on the Frankstown Road last fall, he on Wednesday, confessed to Warden Reynolds and County Commissioner W. S. Stutzman that he and he alone was responsible for the death of the woman. The colored man has acted for some time as if he had great load on his mind. When he was approached by the Messrs. Stutzman and Reynolds and asked if he had really murdered Laura Taylor, in reply he said that he had. According to the man he was at first sorry that the razor with which he committed the deed was not sharp enough kill him also but that since he had received sentence of death he was glad that he would have time to prepare to meet his maker. Davis said that there was no necessity of informing his mother and other relatives who live in Savannah, Ga., of his incarceration in jail and his approaching death on the gallows. His mother, he said, was a Christian and he wanted to meet her in Heaven when he died. Jealousy or spite had nothing to do with the murder of the Taylor woman, according to the murderer. It was the result of drink. Davis, in his confession Wednesday, did not dwell much on the terrible crime in Cocaine alley but instead attempted to give what might be called a dissertation on the uncertainty of life. He said that he had never imagined for a minute that he would ever be in a murderer’s cell. He told his listeners that he was getting prepared to die on the gallows. He stated with apparent sincerity that he would walk to the place of death happy. The condemned man was born in Savannah Sept. 23, 1874, and is therefore 30 years of age. He has a mother, six brothers and three sisters living in the Georgia city. Miners Dismayed Demands of Operators at Altoona Seem to be Excessive Altoona, Pa., March 30. – The Central Pennsylvania operators and miners’ joint scale committee met here again last night to adjust the wage scale, but deadlocked, the committee adjourned until today. Meantime the committee members will confer with the delegates in the miners’ convention regarding a compromise which national officers have advised to effect. It is with dismay the miners learned that the operators insist on a 55 cent ton for pick mining. They hoped concessions would be forthcoming last night, but they were not. They do not want a tie-up in the field but such a thing is not impossible unless the miners are willing to concede more than the 5.55 reduction they voted to accept. “Billy” Bell is Acquitted Jury Also Decides in Favor of Mrs. Gablotz of Lilly. Frank Davis receives his Sentence. Our criminal court grew interesting this last week. One man was sentenced to death; another who was on trial for his life was acquitted and a woman on trial for murder was forgiven. And only one of the three occurrences that seemed to please everyone was the forgiveness of the woman. The sentencing of Davis, the colored murderer and the acquittal of Bell occurred on Friday afternoon. The day was a remarkable one in the annals of the criminal court of Cambria county. When the Bell case closed and the jury filed from the room, Davis was brought before the court, standing erect, the court faced the criminal before the bar and slowly but solemnly pronounced the sentence of death upon him. Such was the setting for the acquittal of “Billy” Bell for the very moment that the words of the death sentence fell upon the ears of the colored man, a jury divided in sentiment was deciding whether or not Bell should stand before that same bar and hear the same words. The situation was one seldom paralleled. It was not to be wondered at that with the sudden breaking of the tremendous tension of those three days, the mother of the defendant broke into hysterical weeping at the reading of the verdict, and that Bell’s wife, with her children around her, sat with swimming eyes and voiceless lips, literally stunned by the news. It was no certain message for which she waited. When the jury filed into the room the defendant’s lips parched, face twitching, fingers clenched convulsively and eyes like those of an animal at bay, knew that his grounds for hope were fully equaled by his cause for fear. The case was a “close” one, so close that the strain upon the defendant, the attorneys and the jury was clearly apparent to those who watched the proceedings. From the beginning it was a fight. The prosecution patiently and persistently spread its net of evidence around Bell. Strand after strand was deftly severed by the defense. At the end of the trial came the question as to whether or not there was enough strands left to hold the prisoner. It was yes or no to the jury. At 2 o’clock the jury took the case and at 5 o’clock, they answered, “No.” The conduct of the case was in every way creditable. The prosecution left nothing undone that could in fairness be done. It was evident from the start that Attorney Frank P. Martin was making one of the fights of his life, and his handling of the case was a matter of general comment here. No point in the prosecution was left unattacked. The most unimportant incidents and circumstances, as well as details that seemed unimportant were all used to reinforce the salient points of his defense. His closing argument was dramatic and convincing. It was an uphill fight for the defense and a fight that a single error might have lost. It was a fight that makes the victory all the more of a credit. Jury Forgives Her Ending in a Case in which Blood on Baby’s Nose Figured This case in which the jury forgot the crime in pity for the offender – more credit to them – was one of a different character from the Bell mix up. The woman in the case was a native of Poland. Her name was Gablotz and she lived with her husband and her little baby at Lilly. About a year and half ago she came from Poland to join this Gablotz and the pair lived – after a fashion of their people – in a tiny shanty near the above named town. They differed from their neighbors only in this: Gablotz worked a little harder and drank less than his comrades and his wife was a little more reserved, a little less free spoken, a bit more thrifty, a little more liable to have her face shining with soap and her simple apparel cleaner than her associates. They were in no way remarkable. There is nothing, however, on the record to show that they were not happy. Sometime in January last the wife became a mother. The child was probably red-faced and ugly. Mrs. Gablotz however, contended that not even in Poland where the children were the handsomest in all the world was there such a baby. On the night of February 27th about 7 o’clock in the evening, while Mr. Gablotz was absent from home, one Andy Ivan staggered into the presence of Mrs. Gablotz, drunk and on mischief bent. The mother was sitting upon the bed that served for chairs in that house, nursing that wonderful baby. Ivan grabbed the mother. There was a short struggle. The baby fell to the floor. The man was pushed back into the middle of the room. Now the evidence would dictate that just at this juncture Mrs. Gablotz picked up her baby and discovered the fact that the end of its beautiful little nose was red with blood. It dawned upon Mrs. Gablotz that her wonderful baby had been injured by the brute with whom she had just been struggling. Quick as light her hand reached to an adjacent shelf, like a flash she struck at the drunken hulk before her. That was the beginning and the end of the tragedy – so simple is the passing of a life. It is not clear from the evidence that at the time she struck, Mrs. Gablotz was being attacked by Ivan. It was not clear that her person was in danger. It was not proven that she thought of anything but the blood on the baby’s nose when she struck, but she struck nevertheless. Good mother. It were better to have struck with a club – a real light club. It was unfortunate for Ivan that the knife was so near. But Mrs. Gablotz simply had to strike with something. What mother wouldn’t? The brute had caused the nose of her baby to bleed. Mother’s hearts were made before laws and if the laws don’t take account of them so much the worse for the law. Mrs. Gablotz obeyed an instinct. One cannot think of the statues of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania when some brute has made a baby’s nose bleed, as mothers and jurymen who have wives well know, - if learned judges don’t. Such was the case as it went to the jury. The district attorney quoted law to the twelve good men and true. Then the judge said wise things to them. Counsel Doerr for the defense smiled and looked in no way alarmed. Most of the men on the jury had a wife and babies at home. The case was safe – and so it was. It took the jury just 7 minutes to forgive Mrs. Gablotz – such was the happy termination of the case. No one had been harmed but Ivan. He was evidently a man whom a little killing did not hurt. The jury, Attorney Doerr, Mr. and Mrs. Gablotz and the baby all went home happy. The district attorney shed no tears at losing the case. The court had occasion to reflect upon the difficulty of regulating a woman’s conduct by law when some brute has not only attacked her but made the nose of her baby bleed. There are some things that puzzle courts and that, remarked the man, is the reason why we have juries. Saturday was Sentence Day Court convened at 9:15 Saturday morning and adjourned at 11:20, the entire session having been devoted to pronouncing sentences in the following cases: Eddie Rodgers, aged eleven, charged by Supervisor Aaron Stutzman of West Taylor Township, with being a nuisance, had been adjudged not guilty, but was ordered to pay the costs. John Sprock who appropriated funds belonging to Liquor Merchant Philip Bender was directed to pay a fine of $50 and serve six months in jail. Guncona Glo and Antoni Bou had been found guilty of stealing $104 from their roommate in a South Fork boarding house. For this Glo was sentenced to pay $25 fine and serve four months while Bou’s fine is fixed at $50 and the jail sentence of nine months. Mike Nightengale, who upon being released from jail last Tuesday immediately attempted to annex Constable Bradley’s overcoat was directed to pay the costs and further sentence suspended. For an assault committed upon Thos. McConnell of Tunnelhill, Charles Ward was sentenced to pay the costs, with further sentence suspended during his good behavior. Ward, whose besetting sin is drink, promised Judge O’Connor to sign the pledge. Because he allowed his wrath to carry him so far that he struck a man in the ribs with a penknife, John Rabel was recently convicted of aggravated assault and battery. Monday he was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and serve nine months in jail. The next case was that of Antonio Petkof of Cambria City, who had been convicted of surety of the peace. Petkof who has been in jail for some weeks, has been acting queerly of late, having developed an unnatural appetite for the heads of matches and other combustible articles. He was remanded to jail awaiting an investigation of his sanity. A fine of $30 and four months in jail was the sentence in a case in which August McGough of South Fork was convicted of aggravated assault and battery. George Motha and John Monthilowitch will serve eighteen and thirteen months, respectively in the Western Penitentiary. This is for breaking into one of the Kerbaugh Company’s tool houses and stealing tools to the amount of $30. Leo Costlow, aged eighteen, convicted of robbery came up for sentence. His mother, who was in the court, pleaded his youth as an extenuating circumstance and said that in case the boy were discharged he would enter the U. S. Navy. Judge O’Connor released him with the proviso that he enlist at once. William Maley convicted of desertion, was released on his own recognizance in the sum of $300 and ordered to pay his wife $5 a week. For larceny, E. Wohnnen paid the costs and had further sentence suspended during good behavior. J. W. Shirey and John Micha, both convicted of assault and battery got fines of $5 and $10 each and jail terms of one month and four months respectively. L. Mlinacher, accused of felonious assault and battery by Joseph Puhala, had a little jury trial Saturday. He was found not guilty but directed to pay one-third of the costs. Andy Gresco and Sam Puhala were found guilty of hitting another foreigner with a beer bottle. Gresco was fined $50 and ordered to jail for six months, while Puhala’s fine was $25 and his jail sentence four months. After Obadiah Reese had been appointed Supervisor in Cambria Township, on motion of J. W. Leech, court adjourned until the arrival of the afternoon train (Monday). Cambria G. O. P. Ticket For Congress – John M. Reynolds of Bedford. State Senator – Jacob C. Stineman, re-nominated, State Representative – Edward E. Hohmann, re-nominated; Edmund James of Ebensburg. Prothonotary – Charles E. Troxell, re-nominated. Register and Recorder – Arthur Griffith of Johnstown. District Attorney – J. W. Leech of Ebensburg. Poor Director – John Davis of Blacklick Township. County Surveyor - J. L. Elder of Ebensburg. Coroner - W. B. Prothero of Johnstown. MARRIAGES Flinton A very pleasant wedding took place here Tuesday of last week when Guy Bollinger of Hollidaysburg was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie Strayer of this place. The ceremony was performed at high noon by the Rev. E. A. Shaw of Coalport and the attendants were Walter Strayer and Miss Willa Campbell, brother and cousin, respectively, of the bride. The services were performed at the bride’s home in the presence of but a few invited guests. Miss Annie Gill played the wedding march. The newly married couple left in the afternoon on their wedding trip. Marriage Licenses Robert B. Madill and Mamie Conrad of Nant-y-Glo. Benjamin Bendo and Mary Galwa of Barnesboro. Samuel R. Field and Pearl Lohr of Johnstown. John E. Troxall and Bertha M. Weaver of Pittsburg. J. B. Carn of Juniata, Blair County and Cora Dively of Greenfield, Blair County. John T. Allmond of Johnstown and Essie M. Custer of Conemaugh. F. L. Brothers of Clearfield County and Verda Rummel of Carroll Township, Cambria County. William M. Yeager of Hastings and Margaret Naylor of Garrett. George Donohoe and Maud Mulligan of Hastings. Winfield J. Walker and Bertha C. Evans of Johnstown. William Maxwell of Houtzdale and Maggie Day of Benedict. William P. Boyd and Josephine Bash of Jeannette, Pa. Guy L. Bolsinger of Braddock and Elizabeth M. Strayer of White Township. Charles A. Falstick and Helen A. Livingston of Johnstown. Albert R. Wortz of South Fork and Grace J. Whitehead of Ehrenfeld. Jeff Merill of Martsteller, Pa., and Christine Laing of Spangler. David H. Wynn and Miss Lillie Elder of Hastings. Charles W. Shore of Altoona and Hattie M. Ferguson of New Paris. DEATHS Mrs. Catherine Tobin Mrs. Catherine Tobin, widow of David Tobin, died of a general breakdown at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. W. A. Munroe of 399 Market street, Johnstown, at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, aged 84 years. The funeral was held from St. Patrick’s Catholic church, Gallitzin, at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning with interment in the church cemetery. Mrs. Tobin is survived by two sons and three daughters as follows: Thomas Tobin of Coupon, this county; J. J. Tobin, of Pittsburg; Mrs. Mary Brawley of Allegheny; Mrs. Thomas Masterson of Altoona and Mrs. Annie Kelley of Johnstown. She was born in Ireland and for the last ten years had made her home off and on with Mrs. Munroe and Masterson, her daughters of Altoona. Mr. Tobin who was prominent in Democratic politics of his time, died about 17 years ago. Mrs. John M. Hughes Mrs. Mary Jane Hughes, wife of John M. Hughes of Cambria township, died at her home about two miles north of Ebensburg on the old Carrolltown road, on Saturday afternoon, aged about sixty years. Mrs. Hughes, with her husband, had lived in Cambria township all her life. About two or three years ago the deceased suffered a paralytic stroke from which she never entirely recovered. She had been confined to her home every since and rarely felt able to attend to her household duties. During the week previous to her death, Mrs. Hughes had been considerably worse and her relatives were summoned to her bedside. On Saturday she became unconscious and her death ensued shortly before noon. The deceased is survived by her husband, a prominent Cambria township farmer and one daughter, Jennie, wife of John Lewis of Cambria township. The funeral took place from the Hughes home, Monday afternoon, services being held at 1 o’clock by the Rev. J. Twyson Jones, pastor the First Congregational Church of Ebensburg. Interment was made in Lloyd’s Cemetery. Mrs. Sarah Jane Spiers Mrs. Sarah Jane Spires (sic), wife of Wesley Spires of Gallitzin, died at 9 o’clock last Thursday morning at her home on Church street, after a five weeks’ illness from paralysis. She was a daughter of the late John and Louise Spade of Summit and was born at Oakdale Forge, Dauphin county, July 31, 1831, being at the time of her death nearly 69 years of age. She was married in Johnstown to Wesley Spiers, October 23, 1853, and with her husband moved to Gallitzin in 1878. Fourteen children were born to this union, eight of whom died in infancy, five being buried in the old Union graveyard in Johnstown. The six children who survive are Henry of Columbus; Mrs. A. Rose of Minneapolis; Emory and F. A. of Gallitzin; Mrs. Lizzie Hewlings of Tyrone and Amos at home. She is also survived by 17 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Two sisters and four brothers also survive: Mrs. Harriet Campio of Johnstown and Miss Lizzie Spade of Summit; John, Henry and George of Ohio and William of Plane No. 6. Mrs. Spiers was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church and was highly esteemed by all who knew her. The funeral services were held at in the church at Gallitzin at 2 o’clock Sunday. Interment was in the Union Cemetery at Gallitzin. Among the relatives attending the funeral from Johnstown were Mrs. W. E. Keedy and Mrs. H. L. Schwing and son, Louis, of Conemaugh street, the former two nieces of the deceased.   Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, April 8, 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 15 Contributed by Patty Millich NEWS Local and Personal M. J. Stoltz of this place spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Harrisburg. Mr. Charles Hasson of this place was among the visitors who took in the sights at Harrisburg this week. Stewart Kinkead spent Sunday in Johnstown. H. H. Myers made a business trip to Indiana on Monday last. I. E. Carman of Lilly was a pleasant caller in this place Monday. W. C. Wolfe of Lilly transacted business in Johnstown on Saturday. Edward R. Hughes of Lilly was a caller to this place on Tuesday. Joseph Beiter of Johnstown was an Ebensburg visitor on Tuesday. W. A. Chaplin of Flinton was transacting business here on Tuesday. The mines at Barnesboro are reported to be running a littler better than of late. Edward Brown of this place was the guest of his parents at Lilly over Sunday. E. X. Bauman of Patton was here Friday as a member of the Assessment committee. Thomas Bishop of Patton was here Friday last and was a welcome visitor to this office. J. P. Wilson of South Fork was in Johnstown Saturday visiting friends and relatives [DEMOCRAT] Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Reese of the First Ward, Johnstown, were visiting friends in this place last week. J. E. Fitch, the well known coal operator of Flinton was transacting business in this place on Tuesday. Ronald Darragh returned to State College on Tuesday after having spent the Easter vacation at this home in this place. Among the Johnstown attorneys in attendance upon Argument Court were Messrs. Rose, O’Connor, McNeelis and Cresswell. Attorney James B. O’Connor and his eldest daughter of the First Ward, Johnstown, spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Little. New Florence is again on the “dry” list, the application of Wm. Stewart for that place have been refused on last Saturday by Judges A. D. McConnell and Doty. The many friends of Dr. F. A. Ferguson of Gallitzin will be pleased to learn that his little daughter, who has been hovering between life and death for some time as the result of an attack of pneumonia, is now much better. The annual convention of the Central Pennsylvania Methodist conference was held in Harrisburg last week when the pastors were assigned to charges for the coming year. Among the appointments in this vicinity are the following: Barnesboro, Jno. C. Young; Hastings, Richard H. Wharton; Patton, Morris E. Schwartz; Orhland, William Reilly. The many friends of James M. Shumaker will be interested to learn of his latest venture. Mr. Shumaker has decided to go into the show business, having associated himself with Auditor General E. B. Hardenberg, who is the head of a company with a capitalization of $200,000. The enterprise will be a typical exhibition of a Pennsylvania coal mine and breaker at the World’s Fair at St. Louis. A drift or slope into the earth, several hundred feet deep will be made and into this mine, cars will be run. The plan will be to show visitors exactly how coal is mined. Down at the bottom of the shaft there will be a large restaurant and café. Mr. Shumaker feels confident that the enterprise will prove a great financial success. After the fair closes at St. Louis the attraction will be taken to Atlantic City. Vinco Items The Rev. J. L. Bowman who for four years was pastor of the Vinco Brethren Church has moved to Berlin, Pa., where he has accepted the pastorate of the church at that place. The Rev. George Jones of Johnstown will accept the pulpit so recently vacated by the Rev. Mr. Bowman. Prof. Henry White of Conemaugh has organized a singing class at his place and it is largely attended by the young folks. Mr. White is a very able teacher, being a graduate of the Shenandoah music school. Mrs. J. A. Shoemaker who has been ill for some time is at this writing much worse and her recovery is doubtful. South Fork Notes Albert Stineman went to Philadelphia on Monday where he will be all week attending to business. Misses Annie and Emma Krentzberger spent Easter with their parents in Portage. Miss Gertrude Baker of Ehrenfeld is able to be around again after a slight attack of typhoid fever. Quite a number of South Forkers attended the winter picnic in Portage on Monday evening. Frances Shope and Miss Laura Younker of Windber were visiting at the home of the former’s brother, William Shope, on Sunday. There is a case of smallpox at the Sunshine, the victim being a fifteen-year-old girl, the name not being known. Miss Eva Dougherty is confined to the house with an attack of typhoid fever. Cloud Makes Improvements F. J. Cloud who recently opened a cigar store at Cresson is making his place one of the most up-to-date concerns of the kind in this part of the state. Mr. Cloud says that when he has his fixtures installed there will be nothing nicer than his place between Pittsburg and Philadelphia. Mr. Cloud intends branching out in the wholesale line in the near future. Democrats Hold Caucus The result of the Democratic county convention held in this place on Wednesday was the election as delegates to the state convention of the candidates, supported by the friends of Herman Baumer of Johnstown. Without exception the men nominated James P. Greene who led the Baumer fight were successful. The convention was called to order at 1:30 o’clock by Chairman J. B. Denny who appointed as his secretary Philip E. Caulffield of Johnstown. Following the call of the roll a motion was made by R. Cresswell to the effect that the ballot be written or printed and cast in secret. This motion Herman E. Baumer seconded. The tellers appointed were John McCormick of Spangler, John Bracken of Gallitzin and August Burggraf of Johnstown. The different nominees were placed before the convention by James P. Greene, as stated and Robert E. Cresswell. The votes resulted as follows: L. D. Woodruff, Johnstown, 48; James Gaffney, Johnstown, 48; Nelson Brown, Ebensburg, 47; Patrick Connelly, Johnstown, 48; Peter Shank, Salix, 57; John J. Hornick, Johnstown, 46; Isidore Campbell, Gallitzin, 48; E. F. Bearer, Spangler, 85. R. E. Cresswell, Johnstown, 41; J. M. Gallice, Patton, 48; Dennis Cronan, Johnstown, 40; Joseph Bengele, Gallitzin, 39; Patrick Campbell, Puritan, 30; Warren S. Krise, Johnstown, 37; Gust Sharabaugh Carrolltown, 40. Immediately upon the announcement of the vote, Chairman Denny declared the meeting adjoined. Ned Murphy Named At the Republican conference of the Nineteenth Congressional District to select candidates for Delegates and Elector, Cambria County Republicans were presented by E. Will Greene, of Patton, proxy for Jesse E. Dale, of that place; J. G. Lloyd of Ebensburg, proxy for John C. Ogden of Westmont; and P. C. Walters of Johnstown, proxy for H. W. Storey Esq., of that city. Blair: The Hon. J. D. Hicks, J. Lee Plummer and George Fox. Bedford: W. D. Cromer, L. J. McGregor and D. S. Keiper. Mr. Hicks was made President and Mr. Greene, Secretary. For Delegates to the National Republican Convention, the conference agreed upon Thomas E. Murphy, Esq., of Johnstown and A. G. Morris of Tyrone; alternates, Jesse E. Dale of Patton and John G. Anderson of Bedford. William Lauder of Bedford was the choice of the district for Presidential Elector. W. David Lloyd Esq., of Johnstown, one of Cambria’s Delegates was made an honorary Secretary of the Convention and William H. Sunshine of that city was a member of the Committee on Permanent Organization. Jesse Hartman of Blair County was made an Alternate Delegate at Large. Herman E. Speck of Johnstown was made a member of the State Central Committee from Cambria County. The conferees of the Twenty-third Congressional district agreed upon T. S. Crago of Greene County, and Frank Kuller of Fayette as delegates with N. B. Crutchfield and S. A. Kendall, both of Somerset as alternates. Isaiah Good of Somerset had been endorsed by his county for Delegate was made Elector from the district. Pomona Grange Meets A large attendance of Grangers was present at the opening meeting of the Cambria County Pomona Grange in Loretto on Monday. From all over the northern sections of the county members of the Patrons of Husbandry were present. The meeting was called to order by T. W. Hughes, Worthy Master J. J. Thomas not being able to attend on account of sickness. The forenoon was devoted to institute work. Queries were collected and answered. The Grange column in our local papers was fully discussed. W. F. Hill, Master of Pennsylvania State Grange, was present and took part in the discussion. During the afternoon Post Master Gooderham spoke on the rural mail delivery system. “Should Women Vote?” was fully discussed. The opinions of those present seemed to be about evenly divided. A letter from Dr. Martin to H. A. Krumenacher, County Institute Division of Farmers Institute was read, stating that no provision is made for paying Secretaries for reporting the proceedings of the Farmers’ Institute to the local papers. Bro. Hill gave an address on the prosperity of the Grange. He stated that seventeen Granges were organized during the past quarter, one with 103 members, one with 63 members, while he knew of several others about to be organized. The proceedings of the Sisters’ hour consisted of a solo by Lillie Bannan and a recitation by Lizzie Garret. Mrs. Joseph McMullen read an essay on “Women’s Work on the Farm.” The lecturer, Mrs. H. J. Bannon, read a paper full of valuable suggestions. After a song the Grange closed in 4th degree and the reminder of the evening was taken up with 5th degree work. The evening session was well attended. The program rendered was as follows: Duet by Lillie Bannon and Frank Kittell; opening remarks by H. M. Gooderham; “Sowing the Seed,” by the choir; address by Worthy Master Hill; vocal duet by Mr. and Mrs. Wyland; Dr. Sam Thomas gave an interesting talk on “Woman’s Suffrage;” song by choir, “There is No Time like the Present,” Father Kittell gave an interesting talk on “Woman’s Suffrage,” and “Good Roads,” which was followed by an instrumental duet by Mr. and Mrs. Wyland, recitation James Farabaugh and a closing song. The proceedings on Tuesday were opened by Bro. Hill, who explained the conditions of the series of picnics given by State Granges. An interesting discussion was given on rural telephones and a committee was appointed to ascertain the costs of poles, wires, etc. Organization of new granges was taken up and interesting talks were given by Master Hill, County Deputy Baver and others. A recess was taken during which Mr. and Mrs. Wyland of Nicktown rendered some excellent instrumental music. A legislative committee was appointed to interview the various candidates for the Legislature. Resolutions tendering the thanks of the Grange to Father Kittell for the use of the hall, to Mr. and Mrs. Wyland for the excelled music rendered, to the people of Loretto for their hospitality and to Cambria and Enterprise Granges for the hall decorations were adopted. The remainder of the session was devoted to institute work. Herman Dishart, Secretary. House and Barn Burns The house and barn of A. J. Baker, about one and one half miles north of Hastings, was totally destroyed by fire at an early hour Wednesday morning. The blaze was caused by the explosion of a lamp. There was only a small insurance on the building and it and the contents are a total loss. Mr. Baker had left home a short time before to attend the Democratic Committee meeting in this place and did not learn of his terrible misfortune until he reached Ebensburg. MARRIAGES Hasson-Seibert Announcement has been made of the marriage on April 5th of Thomas H. Hasson to Miss Amelia Seibert of Pittsburg. The young lady is known here, having visited here. Mr. Hasson was one of the rising young members of the Cambria bar. He enjoyed the reputation of being one of the ablest real estate attorneys in this part of the state. Some few weeks ago, Mr. Hasson removed permanently to Pittsburg. The FREEMAN extends its heartiest congratulations. Mr. and Mrs. Hasson will be at home after April 25th at 220 North Fairmount Avenue. Shives-Durand At the home of the bride’s parents on April 5th, 1904, Frank Shives of Gem, Fulton County, and Miss Nancy Durand, of Summerhill, were united in marriage by the Rev. C. C. Bingham, pastor of the United Brethren Church of Summerhill. Mr. and Mrs. Shives were greeted by about fifty guests from different parts of the country, who left behind them congratulations and handsome gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Shives will make their home in Summerhill where their house is already furnished. DEATHS Died, an infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kennedy of Mountaindale, on Sunday, March 27. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Leonard of Gallitzin died on last Friday. Mr. Leonard is proprietor of the Gallitzin House. Mrs. Mary Hildebrand who died very suddenly of heart disease about noon on Friday last at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Benn Crove of Summerhill, was aged 69 and was born in Westmoreland county. She was twice married; her fist husband, Louis Kemmerer having been killed in a boiler explosion about 1872. Woman Dies Suddenly Coroner Miller was notified on Sunday afternoon of the finding of the dead body of Mrs. Frank Lucas, 24 years old of Patton. An inquiry into the facts surrounding the case gave no evidence of foul play and no inquest was held. Mrs. Lucas was apparently as well as usual on Sunday morning, being able to prepare breakfast for her family. Mrs. Lucas was found lying dead on the floor of an upper part of the house shortly before 12 o’clock by her son, a child of four years. The little fellow told the neighbors and a doctor was summoned but the woman was past recovery. Dr. Shires reported the facts to Coroner Miller. It was the opinion of the doctor that the woman died of heart failure. Sad Death of a Child John Wasco, the 4-year-old son of Stephen and Elizabeth Wasco met death in an unusual way at his home near Benscreek Friday evening. The little fellow left his home about 4 o’clock Friday afternoon and went out to play. About 5 o’clock his mother went out to look for him and becoming alarmed at not finding him in any of his usual haunts, notified some of her neighbors who together with the boys’ parents instituted a thorough search for him. No trace was discovered until 6 o’clock Saturday morning when one of the neighbors found the dead boy about one hundred feet from the rear of the house, pinned down by an old railroad tie. The right arm was broken, a huge hole was torn in the right cheek and the neck broken, the latter injury being the cause of death. All the indications went to show that the little fellow in clambering up on a pile of old ties had loosened one of them which in falling had thrown him to the ground, inflicting the injuries mentioned. Mrs. William Jennings The above well known and respected lady died at her home in Adams Township recently, aged 76 years. Her death was due to advanced years. She is survived by her husband and three children. Mrs. Joseph Yoder of South Fork; William Jennings, Jr., and John Jennings of Adams Township. Interment was made in the Dunkard cemetery near Mineral Point. Mrs. George Dibble Mrs. George Dibble died Tuesday morning at 5 o’clock at her home in Susquehanna Township, near Barnesboro of pneumonia, aged about 45 years. She leaves a husband and five children. One boy is dead. Loss Dibble and Walter Dibble were married and are living at Greenwich and Harry Dibble, Cal Dibble and Marie Dibble are at home. Will Dibble died in the war and was buried at Lilly. The remains of Mrs. Dibble were buried in the North Barnesboro cemetery. South Fork Mrs. Charlesworth, who died last Friday with a stroke of paralysis, was buried on Monday afternoon. South Fork Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brown buried a little four-year-old son on Sunday who died of scarlet fever Friday last. This is the second child that has died of scarlet fever in that family in a short time. Vinco Mrs. Elizabeth Burge, a lifelong resident of Jackson Township, died at the county almshouse Friday morning and was buried at the Angus graveyard in East Taylor township Saturday.   Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, April 15, 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 16 Contributed by Patty Millich NEWS Local and Personal J. Bert Denny was in Johnstown last Friday. John Brown of Cresson spent last Friday in Johnstown. James McBreen of Nanty-Glo was in our midst recently. L. S. and L. J. Davis were Johnstown visitors on Saturday last. John Clement is erecting a new residence in the East Ward. Jim Peach moved his household goods to Altoona on Wednesday. Miss Hattie Wood of McKeesport is the guest at Jos. Brown’s this week. Fletcher C. George of Lilly was in town transacting business on Thursday last. E. H. Drumheller of Lilly was transacting business in Johnstown on Saturday. Col. S. W. Davis went down to the wicked city on last Friday to look ‘em over. Emanuel S. Gramling of South Fork paid a business visit to Blairsville on Friday last. Miss Cordelia Burns of this place was the guest of her parents at Nicktown last week. Frank J. Harman Esq., of this place was transacting business in Johnstown last Friday. E. Mailey and wife of Cresson were registered at the Merchants Hotel in Johnstown on Sunday. Albert Frazier of Portage who has been seriously ill with appendicitis is able to be around again. C. T. Roberts and his son, Dr. Roberts, of Pittsburg are spending a few days at Cambridge Springs. Attorney Herman H. Myers of this place was in the City of Johnstown transacting business on Friday last. The cellar is about completed and the erection of the walls for F. W. Barker’s fine new residence commenced. Herman Apel will shortly commence the erection of a handsome new house on the lot adjoining his present residence. Walter J. Myers, of Wilmerding, Allegheny Co., Pa., was the guest of friends and relatives in town a few days last week. Mrs. Jonathan D. Lewis of this place has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Alvin D. Davis of the Southside, Johnstown. Mrs. George Porch returned from Johnstown where she had been spending several days visiting friends and relatives on Monday evening. The borough exchequer was increased about $20 as the result of fines for drunks and disorders on Saturday evening last. Policeman Finn is a terror to evil doers. Adam Schettig a venerable and respected resident of Carrolltown is spending a few days with his son, Ambrose Schettig, the hardware dealer, in this place. Miss Mamie Thompson was the guest of Miss Sidney Kerr of Johnstown last week. Miss Thompson attended the “Pinafore” performance while in the Flood City. We regret to learn that Mark Frailey our clothing merchant who has gone to Mt. Clement for relief from rheumatism for which he has suffered several months is not gaining much benefit from the treatment. Miss Malinda Conrad of Chest Springs has had her right leg amputated recently. Dr. Somerville performed the operation successfully. Miss Conrad had been suffering from white swelling since she was a child and had been worse than usual the past few weeks. Miss LaRue Crum, who for the past 4 years has been the saleslady at M. K. Piper’s store at Lilly has recently resigned her position. Miss Crum intends visiting through Huntingdon county for a few months and then she will depart for Telluride, Colorado, where she will reside in the near future. A commission in lunacy appointed by Judge F. J. O’Connor has recommended that Andy Oshan and Thomas Lewis, both inmates of the county jail, be sent to the institution at Dixmont. The commission was composed of Dr. Thomas J. Davison, P. N. Shettig, James Reynolds and Detective Ed Knee. Mrs. A. V. Barker and daughter, Helen, of Ebensburg have returned home from their sojourn of a number of months in California and other western states. Judge Barker, who was also in the Golden Gate state, left his wife and daughter in Chicago and went from there to Boston, from which city he will accompany his daughter, Miss Lovell, a student at a music conservatory to this place. Postmaster Green of Patton was here on Tuesday last. Assessor Burk of Gallitzin was in town this week. Florentine H. Barker was a Johnstown visitor on Tuesday. Alvin Sherbine of Wilmore paid this place a visit one day this week. Celestine Luther of Carrolltown was seen upon our streets on Monday last. James Itell of Portage was transacting business in this place on Wednesday. M. L. Leary of Chest Springs was a business visitor in this place this week. Attorney George C. Kein was transacting business in this place on Wednesday. Bob Treese, one of our genial barbers, was in Altoona on business Friday last. Henry Campbell of Belsano was registered at the Hotel Bender on Monday. Emil Roth of Johnstown was greeting his many friends in this place Tuesday. Squire Mellon of Patton was in town greeting his many friends one day this week. John Thomas is making some decided improvements on his residence on Horner street. Henry Taylor of the C. & C. division, located at Cresson, spent Tuesday night last in town. M. M. Smith of this place was registered at the Crystal Hotel, Johnstown on Tuesday. John C. Davis, assistant solicitor of the Cambria Steel Company of Johnstown, spent Monday at the County Seat. Mrs. Jones, wife of County Commissioner Benjamin Jones who has been visiting relatives in Johnstown, returned home Tuesday. Frank O’Neill, the new proprietor of the Baker House at South Fork has changed the name of the place to the Arlington Hotel. Jacob Fronheiser of the 17th Ward, Johnstown, was in Ebensburg on Wednesday attending to business in connection with his coal properties. The Rev. J. Twyson Jones, pastor of the First Congregational church in this place was the guest of Mr. Robert Thomas in Johnstown the first of the week. The concert given at Mineral Point on Saturday evening is reported to have been one of the best ever given there. Prof. H. E. White and the chorus class have every reason to be proud of the affair. A. J. Baker of Hasting, who, it will be remembered, had his house and barn burned to the ground recently, was in this place on Wednesday on business connected with his insurance. Mr. Thomas Barnes and Mr. J. C. Slinger of Barnesboro were visitors to our town on Wednesday. Mr. Barnes is one of the largest and most successful coal operators in Cambria county. The graduating exercises of the Reade (township) High School are announced for Friday, April 15. The graduating class is composed of Misses Elossie Barmond, Sara Glasgow, Laura Lovell, Verginia Miller and Margaret Williams. **[These names spelled as they appeared in the newspaper] Martin Sanders of Cambria Township, regarded as a weather prophet to whom you can pin your faith is authority for the statement that we may expect cold disagreeable weather until the fifth of May. We may add that if Martin is right it will not be safe to set out little onions until that date. Among the out-of-town guests in attendance at the performance of “Pinafore” last night were J. Bert Denny of Ebensburg and his three daughters, the Misses Olive, Grace and Hilda Denny who stopped at the Hotel Crystal. H. H. Myers of Ebensburg was also at the Crystal last night. [Saturday’s DEMOCRAT] Local Nights Attended The $50,000 check which will be presented to the Catholic University at Washington, D. C., by Supreme Knight Edward L. Hearon on behalf of the members of the 600 Knights of Columbus Counsels is eight feet wide and has imprinted on it the names of each council from which contributions were received, including Cambria County’s two counsels. The following persons from this vicinity were in attendance: Wm. A. McGuire, Frank Sharbaugh, F. J. Hartman, A. J. Darragh, of this place and James Campbell and Samuel Dolin of South Fork. Will Move Here Mr. T. S. Davis, the real estate agent, disposed of a house and lot in the West Ward one day last week to Gidlon Mock of Susquehanna township. The consideration was $1300. Mr. Mock will move into the property in the course of a month. A Good Horse Market Ebensburg is fast becoming noted for its fine horses. Almost every day fine teams ranging in prices from $300 to $700 are disposed of and shipped abroad. A representative of the Standard Oil Co., was here on Saturday and purchased two heavy draught teams. Will Build Residence M. C. Westover has awarded a contract for the erection of a modern residence at the corner of North Fifteenth street and Crawford avenue, Spangler. The building will be 38 by 40 feet, a frame structure, finished throughout in oak and will cost when completed between $4,000 and $4,500. Will Erect Two Dwelling Houses Mrs. E. B. Cresswell will soon begin the erection of two dwelling houses on lots adjoining her residence. Residences are very much in demand in our town and command good rentals. A real estate agent said to us recently that he had applications from at least twenty renters who wish to locate in our midst. Blair to Try It Blair county directors of the poor have decided to erect buildings on the county farm for the maintenance of the county’s insane. $75,000 are to be spent for this purpose. This will do away with the mingling of the county’s poor and the insane charges. Wires Nearly Strung The Huntingdon & Clearfield Telephone Company has almost completed a through line to Clearfield and within a short time Patton can “hello” to that thriving district. The wires are strung as far as Cherrytree and with good weather it will be only a short time until they reach Patton. Celebrate Anniversary In honor of the 75th anniversary of the birth of William Kellar of Upper Yoder township, a most enjoyable affair was tendered him Saturday evening, when a large number of friends and relatives called at his home and helped him properly celebrate the occasion. Mr. Kellar was made the recipient of many useful and valuable gifts. A fine supper was served at 11:30 o’clock. Hard to Kill After lying at the point of death for over a week at Portage, Anthony Salwakeitas, a foreigner, who shot himself in the intestine Monday, April 4, is on the way to recovery. On the day mentioned Salwakeitas who went to Portage from Mountaindale, secured somewhere a quantity of bad nectar, which he proceeded to do away with. As a result he went on the warpath and for a time made things move rapidly in his vicinity. Finally after displaying conspicuously a .32-caliber revolver, the man put it in his pocket and sat down on it. The weapon was discharged and the ball penetrated his intestines, piercing them in two places. He was removed to the office of Dr. John F. Schofield, where that physician and Dr. J. A. Stricker operated upon him, stitching up the holes in his intestines. It was not expected that the man would recover but he has surprised everyone by picking up rapidly. Two Murder Trials Slated The criminal list for the coming June term of court has already inscribed upon it two murder cases. They are those in which Harvey Seaman of Wilmore is charged with the shooting of thirteen-year-old Foster Bauers at Wilmore on March 8th, and the one wherein George Pilet, the foreign miner of Portage, is held responsible for the death of Mike Keitis who died last Wednesday from the effects of a thrust in the eye with an umbrella. Two informations charging larceny were also made against Seaman before Alderman W. J. Lambert Saturday morning shortly after the murder charge had been preferred against him by County Detective Kline. The murder charge against Seaman who is only about sixteen years of age, comes as a surprise and was instituted as the result of an investigation in which the people of Wilmore have been insisting upon for some time. County Detective Knee was in Wilmore Friday evening but came back without making an arrest. He returned to the mountain town Saturday morning and brought the prisoner back to Johnstown with him. Home from the South Senator and Mrs. Jacob C. Stineman and George Stineman, the Senator’s brother, of South Fork returned Saturday night from Southern Pines, North Carolina, where Senator Stineman had been spending several weeks for his health. Saw Mill Destroyed George S. Kring’s saw mill situate near Salix was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning. The cause of the blaze is unknown. The employees living near the mill formed a bucket brigade but were unable to save the building. First Snake of the Season John Elder, the Civil Engineer, who was in Jackson township surveying a tract of land one day last week, came across an immense snake lying on a log basking in the warm sun. John is of the opinion that when the snake is full grown, it will measure about ten feet. Anybody else who has a snake story will please send it in early for publication. Good Men, True Drawn Jury Commissioners Select the Men Before Whom the Issues of the June Term Will be Treated The Jury Commissioners have drawn the following as jurors for the June term: Traverse Jurors: First Week B. J. Evans, farmer, Cambria twp. W. C. Foust, laborer, Scalp Level Boro. Joshua Auranault, merchant, Lilly. Adam Sherman, farmer, Jackson twp. Isadore Strittmatter, farmer, Carroll twp. H. J. Huether, foreman, Hastings Boro. John A. Dillon, farmer, Susquehanna twp. John Downey, engineer, Johnstown, 5th wd. Richard Davis, painter, Johnstown, 13th wd. George Aschom, laborer, Johnstown, 21st ward. John Hoyer, farmer, Croyle twp. Frank Markley, mill hand, Johnstown 11th wd. Jno. Glasser, hotel keeper, Carrolltown Boro. Louis Zang, clerk, Johnstown, 9th wd. J. Mulligan, teamster, Patton, 2d wd. J. D. McNulty, laborer, Barnesboro Boro. Charles Axmaker, miner, Johnstown, 18th wd. John S. Gaffney, mill hand, Johnstown, 16th wd. George Dimond, farmer, Summerhill twp. Edward Buck, farmer, Alleghany Twp. James Cooper, laborer, Clearfield twp. George Mulheiser, merchant, Johnstown, 1st wd. Thomas R. Bradley, miner, Gallitzin Boro. J. H. Veil, harness maker, Scalp Level Boro. D. B. Snow, foreman, Johnstown, 21st wd. F. C. Murphy, gentleman, South Fork, 2d wd. P. M. Lawrence, clerk, Johnstown, 1st wd. W. H. Brady, restaurateur, Lilly Boro. D. Boyer, jeweler, South Fork, 2d wd. Wm. Meyer, Johnstown, 16th wd. J. Cush, hotel keeper, Johnstown, 15th wd. J. L. Fleck, engineer, East Conemaugh. Thomas H. Wicks, miner, South Fork, 2d wd. J. T. Sweeny, laborer, Lilly Boro. Steve Forgacs, laborer, Johnstown, 15th wd. J. F. Gordan, mill hand, Johnstown, 1st wd. J. Rowland, farmer, Upper Yoder twp. B. Byers, farmer, Jackson Twp. C. Raymond, mill hand, Westmont Boro. L. W. Sweitzer, mason, Johnstown, 21st wd. F. J. Cloud, agent, Cresson twp. Francis Fox, merchant, Adams twp. C. W. Pringle, engineer, East Conemaugh. Walter J. Davis, farmer, Cambria Twp. H. Kelly, gentleman, Johnstown, 10th wd. J. Fardy, millman, Johnstown, 10th wd. Wm. Diveling, farmer, Croyle twp. L. D. Wissinger, carpenter, Dale Boro. J. O’Brien, laborer, Dean Twp. Charles McHugh, miner, Summerhill Boro. Jacob Haas, laborer, Lower Yoder Twp. Joseph Mock, carpenter, Johnstown, 2d wd. Wm. Auman, teamster, Johnstown, 17th wd. Simon Betts, laborer, Croyle twp. J. B. Goller, laborer, Johnstown, 9th wd. John Gillen, farmer, Jackson twp. R. W. Jones, clerk, Portage twp. Philip Anstead, farmer, Ebensburg, East ward. T. Broehm, bricklayer, Johnstown, 20th wd. A. J. Sill, farmer, Allegheny Twp. Grand Jury Akers, Alphonse, plumber, Johnstown, Eighth ward. Beiter, Casper, farmer, Portage township. Baker, Conrad, farmer, Lower Yoder township. Barnes, Thomas, plumber, Johnstown, Fifth Ward. Burgoon, A. L., farmer, White township. Eberly, Augustine, farmer, Munster township. Glass, Edward, carpenter, Patton, First Ward. Green, Charles H., laborer, Blacklick township. Kirby, David, laborer, Johnstown, Eighth ward. Lawrence, Luther, clerk, Barr township. Marcello, Mart, merchant, Cresson township. Moran, Peter, farmer, Allegheny township. Meyers, George A., hotel keeper, Ashville borough. McMullen, John, laborer, Adams twp. Nevell, J. H., miner, East Taylor twp. Nagle, Jesse, farmer, Clearfield twp. O’Hara, M. A., farmer, Munster twp. Pheister, N. laborer, Barr township. Pringle, David, farmer, Summerhill township. Rively, Abraham, farmer, Richland township. Reynolds, W. J., mill hand, Johnstown, Twentieth ward. Rourk, John, miner, South Fork, First Ward. Wess, Joseph A., engineer, Johnstown. Wissinger, Harry, farmer, Richland township. Pettit Jurors – Second Week Adams, Chas., clerk, Carrolltown Boro. Adams, Gerald, farmer, Clearfield twp. Apple, Theo., Sr., laborer, Reade twp. Amsler, Frank, clerk, Johnstown, 8th wd. Adams, E. J., clerk, Gallitzin twp. Albright, Adam, carpenter, Chest twp. Barnett, Jeremiah, wagon maker, Johnstown, 8th Ward. Blough, Ralph, paper hanger, Johnstown, 17th Wd. Bingham, Robt., machinist, Johnstown, 1st ward. Best, John, contractor, Johnstown, 6th Ward. Bantley, Christ, merchant, Scalp Level Borough. Bolvin, L. A., farmer, Summerhill twp. Bowman, Jacob, laborer, Reade twp. Carney, Jas., gatekeeper, Johnstown, 18th Ward. Clark, Peter, machinist, Johnstown, 16th Ward. Carroll, T. A., laborer, Johnstown, 5th Ward. Denny, J. B., gentleman, Ebensburg West Ward. Davis, E. A., engineer, Scalp Level Boro. Deitrich, J. J., farmer, Carroll twp. Dimond, Jesse H., farmer, Summerhill township. Dopp, Lewis, carpenter, Summerhill township. Dumm, Henry, farmer, Barr twp. Dale, J. E., clerk, Patton, 1st ward. Fearl, T. J., agent, Johnstown, 6th wd. Fisher, J., merchant, Johnstown, 3rd ward. Fitzsimmons, Ed., brakeman, Johnstown 10th ward. George, Adam, laborer, Washington twp. Gallagher, J., hotel keeper, Johnstown, 12th ward. Hertzog, P., gentleman, Carrolltown Boro. Hite, J. Ward, clerk, Johnstown, 2d ward. Hipp, M., laborer, Daisytown, 1st wd. Hughes, W., engineer, Johnstown, 1st wd. Hoy, A., carpenter, E. Conemaugh Boro. Highland, J., laborer, Johnstown 12th wd. Hunt, I. L., gentleman Johnstown, 8th ward. Krish, M. H., carpenter, Spangler Boro. Kibbler, T., miner, Elder township. Livingstown, F., carpenter, Johnstown, 8th ward. Marks, Joseph, painter, Patton Boro, 2d ward. Mattes, Geo., alderman, Johnstown 1st wd. Martin, Robt., mill hand, Johnstown 1st wd. McGuire, Thos., dyer, Johnstown, 5th wd. McIntosh, Saml., farmer, Portage twp. O’Brein, W. L., hotel keeper, Johnstown, 13th wd. Osborn, F., gardner, Johnstown, 8th wd. O’Dowd, Pat, grocer, Tunnelhill Boro. Paul, R. E., machinist, Johnstown, 17th ward. Parrish, B. W., farmer, Cambria twp. Reilly, Jas., laborer, Gallitzin twp. Rager, Jackson, farmer, Jackson twp. Stoltz, M. J., hotel keeper, Ebensburg. Stoltz, F., farmer, Clearfield twp. Stuver, W. H., butcher, Johnstown, 14th ward. Sheridan, J., wholesale, Portage Boro. Simelsberger, F., farmer, Adams twp. Topper, Frank, farmer, Adams twp. Van Scoyoc, David, miner, Reade twp. Winger, John, wholesaler, Barnesboro Boro. Wiss, Leo, farmer Croyle twp. Wasser, Wm., gentleman, Carroll twp. Gallagher Property Sold T. Stanton Davis concluded a deal by which he becomes the owner of a block in the West Ward, 264 feet square. The property was purchased from James Gallagher and is located on the south east corner of Julian and Ogle streets. The consideration in the deal was $3,500 and Mr. Gallagher is to be permitted to occupy the house in which he lives for a period of two years without being charged any rent. Mr. Davis stated that he will proceed to cut the square up into lots at once and place them on the market for sale. The residence now occupied by Joseph Link and family on Centre Street will be removed to the lower end of Mr. Davis’ new purchase as will also the building adjoining it on the same street. Boys in Difficulty A number of boys of this place owing to a little difficulty in realizing clearly the import of the “mine and thine” idea find themselves bound to court on Commonwealth charges. The lads amused themselves Sunday evening by destroying the property of the Rowena Boat Club, the directors felt impelled to push the matter with the result indicated. Smith Arrives Fred Smith, the trainer engaged by the local horseman, has arrived in town and has already started his work of trying out the speeders. Easter Tea A Success The Easter Tea given by the ladies of the Church of the Holy Name was in every way a success. The viands were all that could be deserved and all records in point of attendance were broken. The tables were in charge of Mrs. F. C. Sharbaugh, Mrs. M. J. Stoltz, Mrs. Collins, Mrs. Katie Blair, Mrs. A. W. Buck and Mrs. J. V. Scanlan, assisted by Misses Glais, Shoemaker, Henry and Darragh. A handsome sum was realized. Lincoln’s Friend Dead Charles Albert Beecher Gave Grant His Start toward Fame Cincinnati, April 13 – Word has been received here of the sudden death at Marysville, O., of Charles Albert Beecher of this city. Death was due to heart disease. Mr. Beecher, a close friend and confidential advisor of Abraham Lincoln, and was a delegate from Illinois to the national convention of which nominated Mr. Lincoln in 1860. From 1855 to 1868 he was a member of the Illinois Republican state committee. It was he, who in 1861, assisted in obtaining for Ulysses S. Grant, a commission as Captain in the Illinois volunteer service. In 1881 he removed to Cincinnati and was active in merging the Ohio and Mississippi railroad with the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern. He leaves a large fortune to nephew and nieces, having never married. Letters Issued Estate of Peter R. Mulvehill, late of Westmont Borough, will probated and Letters Testamentary issued to F. P. Martin. Estate of Wm. Behe, late of Washington township, deceased, Letters of Administration issued to F. C. George. Estate of James M. Shield, late of Johnstown, Letters of Administration issued to Jacob R. Hegie. Estate of Mary Hildebrand, late of Summerhill, will probated and Letters of Administration issued to Lucy J. Grove. Estate of Abraham Custer, late of Franklin Borough, Letters of Administration issued to William H. Pane. Estate of Wm. Motter, late of Johnstown, will probated and Letters Testamentary issued to Francis M. Motter. Weighmaster Removed The miners at No. 37 plant of the Berwind-White company near Scalp Level, several hundred in number, who had been out on strike for several days owing to a dispute over the honesty of the check weighmaster, Abram Jones, have returned to work. The difficulty was adjusted by the removal of Jones from his position. The miners, claiming that Jones did not give the correct weight of the coal they mined, it is claimed, stoned his shanty and made threats to lynch him, but officers Friday night prevented them from carrying out their threat. Nicktown Notes Miss Stella McDermott of Ebensburg spent Easter Sunday with her parents at this place. Frank Lieb who has been on a trip to Eastern cities has returned to his home here. The school of this place closed Friday of last week. Mr. Larry Westover and family have moved into the house vacated by I. Hammond. Mr. Hammond has moved to Spangler. George Lieb who is teaching school near Hastings spent Easter Sunday with his parents at this place. MARRIAGES Engagement Announced There will soon be few of them left – those genial young bachelors. John Bracken, the popular insurance man of Gallitzin, is the latest one to place himself in the power of the enemy. The Pittsburg DISPATCH of Sunday last contained the following among its society notes: Announcement is made of the engagement of Miss Elizabeth A. Paul, daughter of Mrs. Mary A. Paul and the late Joseph Paul, of Fifth avenue, Carnegie, to Mr. John P. Bracken of Gallitzin, Pa. The wedding will be an event of June. Nicktown The banns of marriage have been announced between Edward Krumenacker of this place and Mary Webber of Carrolltown. Marriage License A marriage license has been issued in Blair County to Howard C. Weaver and Essie Wolf, of Gallitzin. DEATHS J. J. Yoder, a prominent resident of South Fork, died suddenly Sunday afternoon of paralysis, aged about 80 years. He had been a resident of that place for many years and was the towns’ oldest citizen. Joseph Burke, the midget, died at the Globe Hotel, Barnesboro, on Good Friday night. The doctors were unable to determine his trouble. The funeral took place following Monday and interment was in the Catholic cemetery at Spangler. The deceased was 48 years old. Was Oldest Woman Mrs. Margaret Whalen, probably the oldest woman in Cambria county, died of old age Thursday night at her home at Gallitzin, aged 94 years. She was the widow of Martin Whalen and was born in Ireland. She lived at Loretto until twenty-five years ago when she located to Gallitzin. Joseph Van Ormer Died at Van Ormer, of paralysis, aged 79, Joseph Van Ormer. He was twice married. He is survived by his second wife, and five children of the first union among who is L. S. Van Ormer of Altoona. The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon. Interment being made in the Pleasant Hill cemetery at Glasgow. Mrs. Peter H. Rummel Sarah Jane, wife of Peter H. Rummel, died at 8 o’clock Monday morning at the Rummel homestead in West Taylor township, aged 68 years. The cause of her death was general debility. She is survived by her husband, four sons, six daughters and 60 grandchildren and great grandchildren. The funeral took place at 1 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, the services were conducted by the Rev. Daniel Rager, pastor of the Evangelical Church. Interment was made in Pleasant View Cemetery.   Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, April 22, 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 17 Contributed by Patty Millich NEWS Local and Personal Jim Young of Johnstown was in town looking up business on Wednesday. R. H. Nelson of Vintondale paid the place a visit on Monday. There was a regular blizzard on the 19th of April. In the morning the dark clouds in the western horizon portended some weathers and it came. It snowed terrifically for a few minutes and then the sun shown brightly. This sort of business was kept up during the entire day to the discomfiture of all who were compelled to be out doors. W. D. Boland of Cresson was in town last Friday. D. J. Sanders was a visitor in this town on Friday last. W. E. Glass was transacting business here on Tuesday. Frank Shiber of Cresson was in our midst on Friday last. Thos. Callan of Cresson was in Ebensburg on Monday last. A. L. Strittmatter of Hastings paid this place a call this week. Jacob L. Weymer of Carrolltown was in the county seat this week. M. J. Farabaugh of Carrolltown drove over to this place on Sunday. J. D. Bradley of Bradley Junction was doing business here Monday. L. T. Sanker of Cresson was in this place on Tuesday and Wednesday. W. E. Lantzy of Hastings was transacting business here on Wednesday. Attorney R. E. Cresswell was transacting business in this place on Monday. Frank J. Lieb of Nicktown was a visitor at the county seat on Saturday last. D. K. George of Belsano was greeting his friends in this place on Saturday last. L. J. Bearer of Hastings was registered at the Bender House on Friday last. Mrs. J. Bert Denny and son, John, of this place spent Saturday in Johnstown. Attorney P. J. Little was transacting business in Johnstown on Saturday last. Attorney Frank Hartman spent Saturday and Sunday in Patton and Hastings. Philip Huffman of near Nicktown made this office a business call yesterday. County Treasurer Heffley was among those who took in the convention in Harrisburg. Philip E. Caulfield, secretary of the county committee, was in Altoona on Friday last. M. L. Knight and wife of Nant-y-Glo were registered at the Mountain House on Saturday. Otto Thomas of Loretto was the guest of his brother, Dr. S. O. Thomas in this place on Monday. F. C. Thomas formerly of Carrolltown has moved to Bakerton and now conducts a first class livery at that place. Joseph Maxwell of Lilly who was injured recently in the W. H. Piper & Co.’s mines is able to be around again. Mrs. H. C. Hofmann who had been visiting her son, O. H. Hofmann in this place left for her home on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Taylor Conner of Cresson are rejoicing over the arrival in their home, April 16, of a daughter. Mrs. E. T. Bradley of Gallitzin is now convalescent. Mrs. Bradley has been suffering from a severe attack of pneumonia. Mrs. Elsie Yeckley of Gallitzin who has been teaching school at Lovett has closed her term and returned to her home. Harvey VanAsdlen formerly of this place but now clerk at the Commercial Hotel, Cresson, visited his family here Friday. Richard Treese, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Treese of South Fork was the guest of Johnstown relatives Friday and Saturday. Miss Daisy Miller of South Fork, the little girl who had her leg so badly crushed recently, that it had to be amputated, is rapidly improving. Mr. and Mrs. John Gittings have sold their farm about 6 miles west of town and recently came to Ebensburg and are new residents of the West Ward. The Lilly Fire Company held a festival and dance in Rainey’s Hall on Monday evening. The affair was a financial and social success. Thomas Burns, chief of the P. R. R. car inspectors at Gallitzin has been spending a 10 day’s vacation at Baltimore, Washington and other cities in the east. The ninth annual session of the Gallitzin Normal School will open in the public school building Monday, May 16, under the direction of Profs. R. H. Biter and A. F. Yeckley. Miss Nan Bender entertained about 50 young friends at the Bender House Friday night in honor of her 13th birthday. Refreshments played an important part in the festivities. William Campbell of Gallitzin who had charge of Fitzpatrick Bros. bottling department went to Cresson Monday where he will have charge of the bottling plant of the Cresson Springs Brewery. Nelson J. Brown of this place who has been at Patton for the past two weeks with his brother, Charles, who lately got his foot taken off, was with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Brown from Friday until Saturday of last week. He says that his brother is getting along as well as could be expected. Hon. A. V. Barker and daughter, Miss Lovell, arrived home Tuesday night. The Judge spent the winter with Mrs. Barker and their daughter, Miss Helen, in the Southwest and they returned home last week while he went on to Boston where Miss Lovell has been a student at the Conservatory of Music. W. H. Wendell of Salix of the firm, Wendell & Murphy, was in town Monday looking up business in this place. The above named firm are in the lightning rod business having put rods on the jail and Poor Farm buildings last summer. They are at present placing rods on Commissioner Jones’ house. Cresson Encampment, No. 210, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was established Saturday afternoon at Cresson by Grand High Priest of Pennsylvania, Cleon Giolos of Pittsburg, assisted by Patriarch Moore of Philadelphia; L. H. Andrews of Altoona and District Grand Patriarch, William F. Colliver, Joseph T. Reese and William Haberlien of William Packer Encampment of Johnstown. There are some fifty charter members in the Cresson Encampment roll. This is the second encampment to be established in Cambria county, the first one, William F. Packer Encampment having been instituted some thirty years ago. After the establishment of Cresson encampment Saturday, the Odd Fellows, about seventy five in number repaired to the Commercial Hotel where a sumptuous repast was served. A. H. Young of this place was in Johnstown on Monday. Harry Shaller of Ebensburg was visiting in Johnstown Friday. John McCormick of this place was spending from Saturday until Monday in Wilmore. The children of J. R. Cutter of South Fork who have been suffering from an attack of scarlet fever are recovering. Abe Reyhard of South Fork is still smiling. The stork presented his wife with a bouncing baby boy last week. Mrs. P. J. Little entertained a number of friends at her home on Wednesday evening in honor of Mrs. F. J. O’Connor. Coalport reports a victim of smallpox, John I. Gates, who is sick with the disease has been quarantined in his home and every precaution taken to insure against a spread of the disease. George Pearce & Sons of Portage have brought suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for $101,000 in the United States District Court in Philadelphia. They charge the company with discrimination in freight rates in favor of other shippers in violation of the Interstate Commerce law. Messrs. L. M. Scanlan, Carrolltown; E. F. Miller, Gallitzin; C. S. Jordon, Hastings; Chas. F. Lehman, Patton, T. M. Reig, Carrolltown, who came to this place on Thursday to attend the banquet given by the Knights of Columbus at the Mountain House paid the office a pleasant call. County Detective Ed Knee went to Garman’s Mills Friday where he arrested A. H. George, who runs the combined store and post office at that place, on a charge of selling liquor without a license. The arrest was made upon a bench warrant issued by Judge O’Connor at March term of court and after it had been served, George was brought to Ebensburg where he gave bail before Prothonotary Troxell in the sum of $500 for his appearance at next term. Bart Griffith of Garman’s Mills went on his bond. Hereafter the Maple Springs Hotel will be known as Ebensburg Inn, the name having been suggested by the new proprietor, Mr. D. E. Park. The scalp law relation to foxes having been declared unconstitutional, the Board of County Commissioners have declined to pay any further bounties and thus a considerable sum of money will be saved. A few days ago a hunter secured ten foxes in one hole. Engineer Zahm who handles the throttle on the passenger train between this place and Cresson is an ardent apostle of Ike Walton. The first day of the trout season he succeeded in catching three dozen of the speckled beauties. Dan says the best bait is to use is limburger cheese and sauerkraut. A gentleman who has in his possession an old diary recorded the following: April 20, 1853 sleighs ran between Ebensburg and Jefferson (Wilmore). The snow had fallen to depth of eighteen inches.” Later the same diary records the fact that spring work was very backward; however an abundant harvest of all kinds was gathered. Patton Notes Wm. C. Helmbold of Curwensville was a visitor in our “burg” on last Tuesday. Wm. J. Donnelley the “lumber king” has been elected a member of the Town Council to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Bishop. Hon. W. C. Lingle, Burgess Harper and James Gildice represented Patton Democrats at the State Convention held at Harrisburg. Landlord Mullen of the Palmer House has received the plans for the annex to his hotel. Work will begin as soon as the weather permits. Roy E. Decker the pungent and versatile editor of the Courier who has been so seriously ill with pneumonia is rapidly recovering and will soon be able to resume his duties. George S. Good, Esq., was so unfortunate as to have his leg broken at Denver, Col., a short time ago. He is now at his home in Lock Haven convalescing as rapidly as can be expected. The members of the Baptist congregation gave a credible entertainment to a crowded house on Tuesday evening. Under the administration of Rev. Neisser the membership of this church is rapidly increasing. Patton needs more homes, every place is chuck full and people are prevented from coming here on this account. Rents are high and there could be no better investment than building some comfortable homes. Trinity Episcopal congregation will soon commence operations on their new church building. It will be large, handsome and modern in every detail. Rev. Haughwout, the rector, hopes to have it finished early in the fall. The brains of Patton (we refer to our efficient corps of public school teachers) were taken on a trip to Johnstown last Wednesday by our big hearted and public spirited citizen, W. N. Denlinger. The object of the visit was to inspect the Johnstown schools. Dr. Bailey and “Dauby” Dinsmore returned on Tuesday evening from a fishing excursion to Potter county. They report fish in abundance but exceedingly timid and expensive. Their catch amounted to one-half pound, the cost of which was something over forty dollars. Hereafter they will remain at home and send a cheap boy to do their angling. Alexander McTeith, Robert L. McCullough, Dr. B. F. O’Shires and John Andy O’Gunn, prominent in Irish circles and popular citizens of this place, were initiated last Tuesday night into the mysteries and secrets of the Royal Areanum. They were so delighted with the ceremony that they invited the members to a banquet at the Windsor café where good cheer prevailed away into the “wee small hours.” Johnstown Man Lands The Congressional Conference for the Nineteenth District composed of Cambria, Bedford and Blair Counties, met at Harrisburg Monday evening and chose two candidates for the National Democratic Convention which meets in St. Louis this year. The caucus elected S. M. Hoyer of Altoona and Herman E. Baumer of Johnstown as National Delegates. L. D. Woodruff also of Johnstown was chosen as presidential elector. Cambria county had a large delegation at the State Capital. Among the more prominent of those besides the delegates were the following: Hon. W. C. Lingle, J. Bert Denny, James P. Greene, Hon. Michael Fitzharris, R. E. Cresswell, T. J. Wolfe, Thomas A. Osborn, Ed A. Mellon, D. J. Harper, J. M. Gailiece, John Bracken, Daniel Crowley, Dr. C. E. Hannan, Philip E. Caulfield, Sheriff Lenhart, Thomas Callan and others. At the convention Tuesday the following delegates at large were nominated. National Committeeman James M. Guffy; State Chairman, J. K. P. Hall; Hon. Robert E. Wright and Hon. Robert E. Pattison. Justice S. G. Thompson of Philadelphia was nominated for the place of the bench of the Supreme Court. The unit rule was endorsed and I. K. P. Hall was elected state chairman. Woman Shoots Herself While temporarily deranged, Elenor, wife of Andy Vraleal, a Slav, residing at a place called Rosemont, located on the hillside above the Haws brick works, shot herself back of the left ear with a .32-calibre revolver about 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon of last week. She was taken immediately to the Memorial Hospital, where it was said late last Thursday night that she would recover, the bullet not having entered the brain. Royal Areanum at Patton A council of the Royal Areanum has been instituted at Patton, twenty seven charter members having been initiated into the mysteries of the order, all of them well known and prominent men of the community. Officers were elected as follows: Past Regent, M. B. Cowher; Regent, Dr. H. A. Seitz; Vice Regent, Thomas Graham; Orator, George E. Prindible; Treasurer, Charles F. Pitt; Secretary, H. O. Winslow; Collector, W. I. Thompson; Guide, Arthur Dinsmore; Warden, William Prindible; Sentinel, H. Hunter; Trustees: H. C. Landsberry, H. W. Bailey and H. P. Gayler. Doctor Stricken Dr. J. A. Stricker of Portage was stricken with paralysis Sunday. He is being attended to by Dr. J. N. Wakefield of Johnstown. His condition is reported as being serious. His body is paralyzed from the waist down. Accepts another Position George Leahey, the accommodating clerk for L. M. Sanderson at Lilly will on the 25th of this month leave his present situation to accept a similar one with the Mountain Supply company at Gallitzin. Mr. Leahey is a brother of Edgar Leahey of this place and is well known here. Was Hazed at Patton Edward Dively a machinist of Altoona has brought suit against five young men of that place for $1,000 damages for injuries alleged to have been received at Patton, this county, on November 11th last. Dively says he accompanied the Altoona football team to Patton and that the men named as defendants in the suit seeking to have some fun with him, tied a rope around his legs and pulled him out of bed. He claims that they suspended him to the ceiling and tried to douse him head first into a tub of water. Dively claims the treatment made him ill and that he has lost much time from his work. Transfer of Patton Hotel Millard F. Tate has purchased the Windsor Hotel at Patton, taking charge of the property on Monday. Mr. Tate will continue to run the house in the same degree of excellence it has attained under the management of the late proprietor. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson will remain in Patton for the present. Riot at Garrett A riot occurred at Garrett, Somerset County, Saturday evening between the union and non-union miners. When some of the strike breakers who had been imported by the Garrett and Somerset Coal companies went to a store to purchase supplies for over Sunday, they were set upon by the strikers and in the fight which followed several of the non-union men were badly beaten. Sheriff Coleman was summoned from Somerset and went to Garrett with one Deputy, expecting to swear in others there if they were necessary. Everything was quiet when the Sheriff arrived and the leaders of the assault could not be found. About midnight, however, several dynamite cartridges were exploded near three houses occupied by the strike breakers and the dwellings were considerably damaged, though none of the men were hurt. The fight and explosions had the effect of thoroughly scaring the non-unionists and on Sunday most of them left Garrett. Somerset Ticket At the Democratic county convention held in the court house Saturday afternoon the following ticket was nominated: For Congress: Charles E. Uhl, Sr., of Somerset; assembly, Dr. J. W. Hawes of Windber and Hiram Hay of Brothersvalley; district attorney, C. W. Walker of Somerset; poor director, Geo W. Bausch of Quemahoning. Alexander B. Grof was re-elected chairman of the county committee and Joseph Levy of Somerset was chosen delegate to the state convention. A resolution was passed authorizing the county chairman to appoint a committee to fill vacancies that may be caused on the ticket by resignations. Maggie Drew [Note from transcriber: The top several paragraphs of this article are torn from the newspaper and this is what remains of the article.] ...the society officials have made quite a hunt for the girl but so far without success. It is believed by some people that Maggie Drew is now living somewhere in this vicinity. It is not known where she went after leaving the asylum mentioned above but has been stated that she has returned to Cambria county. In regard to the young lady, the sister superior at St. Paul’s asylum had the following to say: “We have a record that Margaret Drew and her brother, Dennis, were brought to the asylum Sept. 1, 1886. She remained in the house until May 5, 1892, when she was given into the care of a Cambria county family. In 1900, however, she was returned to the asylum on the grounds that she had given general dissatisfaction. “The children were admitted on the recommendation of the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society. I am glad to hear that the child has been left a fortune but I am surprised that she was here so long without some of her relatives coming after her before. Dennis left the home June 15, 1900. I do not know where he is at present.” New Church for Gallitzin In a few months the Polish Catholics of Gallitzin will be able to hold worship in their own church. Architects Boyd & Myton of Johnstown have been commissioned to draw plans for a handsome church and rectory which the Gallitzin congregation proposes to build. The church will be Gothic in architecture, brick cased and will have a seating capacity of 600. An ornamental bell tower will be one of the features. The parochial residence will also be brick cased and will contain eight rooms, besides bath and pantry. The two buildings will cost $13,000 or $14,000 and will add considerably to the town’s appearance. The Rev. Father Bryinski, pastor of the Polish congregation at Gallitzin, has been holding services in St. Patrick’s church. The new church will be known as St. Mary’s Polish Catholic Church. MARRIAGES Among the Pennsylvanians to receive marriage licenses at Cumberland recently were George Seaman and Mazie Sherbine of Wilmore. DEATHS A two-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. McConaughy of Ehrenfeld died of pneumonia on Sunday afternoon. Interment was made at Wilmore. Anthony Kohler of Puritan who has been an inmate of the almshouse since last February died at that institution Thursday morning. Six Perish in Fire Extermination of Miner’s Family Blamed on Italians Working in Mines Sheriff Arrives at Garrett Somerset Mining Town in Turmoil because of Incendiary Fire and Threatened Violence – Twenty-five Deputies Are Sent from Somerset. Somerset, Pa., April 20 – An outbreak even more disastrous than the riot at Boswell in last January has been hourly expected at the town of Garrett, the second of the mining operations of the Garrett Coal Company, the Somerset Coal company and other lesser operations. Trouble has been brewing there ever since the inauguration of the miners’ strike five months ago. A number of the striking miners at Garrett own homes there but recently the Garrett Coal Company erected a number of houses and the bringing in of new men to occupy these houses and take the places of the strikers in the mines has worked the latter up to a high state of excitement and resentment. The Garrett Coal company has made a formal demand upon Sheriff Coleman for protection. Heretofore, the sheriff has refused to exercise his authority in the matter until called upon to do so by the authorities of the town, but when he learned of the threatening aspect of affairs he organized a posse of 25 deputies. Three months ago the coal company secured through Judge Kooser an injunction, restraining the strikers and all other persons from interfering with the company employees. This injunction is still in force and the present condition of affairs at Garrett is open violation of it. It was to enforce the requirements of this injunction that Sheriff Coleman went to Garrett and he went to arrest every person violating it. A horror that may or may not be connected with the strike situation at Garrett was the burning to death of two women and four children in their homes at that place. The victims were Mrs. Rosanna Meyers, her two daughters, Lucinda and Annie, aged 30 and 8 years respectively, and her son, Richard, aged 5 years. The two other victims were young children of Lucinda who was unmarried. The house was a one and one half story log building and the women and children were sleeping in the upper story. Mr. Meyers and Jonas Sullivan, a boarder, were asleep on the first floor. They were awakened by the smoke and the noise made by the fire and had barely time to save their lives by rushing from the building. The victims in the upper story perished without help and their bodies were all reduced to ashes. The origin of the fire is unknown. Meyers, the head of the household, was a miner and until recently he worked for the Somerset Coal company. Lately he has not been working and it is said that he has been supported by the miners’ union. When Sheriff Coleman reached Garrett he arrested two Italians who were charged with setting fire to the Meyers house. The only evidence thus far against the two Italians was a statement made by Meyers in which he alleges that they called at his house several days ago to buy some butter and that when told that Meyers would not sell butter to scabs they left swearing vengeance. Annie Peden Annie, wife of James Peden, was found dead in her home at Ehrenfeld Monday at noon, having expired some time Saturday night or early Sunday morning with no one near to help or comfort her. Mrs. Peden had been living alone the past three or four weeks while her husband was a patient in the Memorial Hospital at Johnstown. Neighbors noticed her bustling about her house Saturday evening, though she had been complaining recently of being ill. When she did not appear Monday morning entrance was effected through a window and the woman was found dead, partially dressed, lying across the bed. Coroner Miller was summoned and found Mrs. Peden had died from natural causes, likely a complication of kidney and heart trouble and decided that no inquest was necessary. Mrs. Peden was about sixty-four years old. Mrs. Catharine McGlade Mrs. Catherine McGlade, relict of Edward McGlade and one of the best known residents of Wilmore, died very suddenly at her home Monday morning of heart failure, aged seventy-four years and sixteen days. The funeral was held at St. Bartholomew’s Catholic Church at Wilmore at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning. Interment being made in the church cemetery. The deceased was married twice and by her first husband had two children, Peter Cassidy of McKeesport and Miss Mary Cassidy at home. To Mr. and Mrs. McGlade the former of whom died some years ago, were born five children as follows: Miss Anna, a teacher in the public schools in the Sixteenth ward, Johnstown; Miss Susan and Vincent, at home; John of McKeesport and Mrs. Nellie Nelson of Zanesville, Wis. Mrs. McGlade was a kind neighbor and was much loved in her community. Her death was entirely unexpected. Victims of the Rail Two more victims of the rail met death Tuesday in a tragic manner on the P. R. R. tracks between South Fork and Wilmore, both being practically ground to pieces by being caught under trains. The two dead men are Edward Culligan, aged 52 years of Spangler, whose body was found at South Fork about 5 o’clock Tuesday morning and Philip Roman of Ehrenfeld who was killed at Wilmore about 6:30 o’clock Tuesday evening. Edward Culligan, an aged resident of Spangler, whose body was discovered about 5 o’clock at the tipple of the Argyle mines near South Fork was horribly mutilated. Just how the victim met his death is not known as no one saw the accident and the man had plainly been dead for some hours before the body was discovered. It is supposed that he met his death while walking along the tracks Monday night, being hit by a fast train. He had a son living in South Fork and was a miner by occupation but having been out of work for some time went down to South Fork Monday to try and secure work. He was engaged by the Argyle Coal company and was to have started work last Wednesday morning and it is supposed that he was walking down to the tipple to look over the grounds, as no other motive can be advanced which would have taken him to that neighborhood. The remains were prepared for burial and were shipped to Spangler.   Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, April 29, 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 18 Contributed by Patty Millich NEWS Local and Personal Samuel Brett of Vintondale was in this place Friday. C. T. Roberts returned from Cambridge Springs on Saturday. H. A. Hartman of Portage was a visitor here on Tuesday. Thomas O’Brien of Cassandra spent Saturday in Johnstown. F. J. Donoughe of Gallitzin was in Ebensburg on business Monday. Joseph Bengele of Gallitzin was transacting business here on Tuesday. Augustine Huber of Patton was a visitor in Ebensburg on Wednesday. Harry F. McGuire of Loretto was visiting friends in this place this week. Squire Anthony Anna of Hastings was a business visitor here on Wednesday. William Kass of Barnesboro was registered at the Mountain House on Friday last. Barnesboro is to have a temperance hotel. It will be conducted by Walton Park. Mrs. R. E. Jones returned last week from a trip to Philadelphia and New York. Joseph Brown and two children, Hattie and Walter of this place drove to Patton Sunday. J. L. Edwards of Belsano was transacting business in this place on Thursday last. J. M. Steice, A. C. Lovell and Mrs. Susan Myers of Glasgow were in town on Tuesday. Mr. Hogue of Cresson was visiting friends in town yesterday. [Altoona TIMES of Saturday] B. W. Litzinger and Vinton Edwards of Loretto paid Ebensburg a business call last Monday. L. T. Sanker and J. P. Conley of Cresson were registered at the Mountain House on Tuesday. Liveryman A. C. Schettig and Clothier E. J. Shields of Cresson were visitors here on Friday last. W. S. Confer and William Helsel of Portage were transacting business in this place on Friday last. Messrs. William Gill, Link Bell, Squire Mellon and W. T. Robinson of Patton were doing business here Monday. J. R. Fongheiser of Hastings was in town last Friday on business connected with the recent sale of his property in Hastings. Miss. Lizzie Flick, formerly of Altoona, has come here to act as saleslady in George Porch’s music establishment in the Barker Building. Mrs. F. P. Walters of Rockville near South Fork who has been confined to her home some time with a broken limb was taken to the Memorial Hospital at Johnstown on Tuesday. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the U. B. Church at Wilmore held a very successful bazaar and supper on Friday and Saturday evenings. It was very well patronized by the people of Wilmore, Portage and surrounding country. The ladies had quite a lot of fancy and useful articles in their bazaar which were disposed of before the closing hour Saturday night and netted them a nice sum of money. Harry Connell who had been spending several days with his parents in this place while recuperating from an attack of the grip left for Latrobe on Monday where he is employed by the Superior Coal Mining Company. Those in attendance report the pie social given by the ladies of the United Evangelical Church at South Fork on Saturday evening last as a grand success. Fifty new coke ovens were started in Hastings last week. The northern town seems to have a boom. Hastings will have a wrestling match on May 5th, when Jimmy Parr, the English neck twister, will take a fell out of Sammy Taylor, whom he has promised to throw in fifteen minutes or forfeit $25. There is some feeling in the neighborhood that Sammy might fool him. George Davis of this place has secured the contract for painting Immergrun, Charles M. Schwab’s summer home at Loretto. The colors will be pale yellow with green trimmings. Work is to be commenced by May 15th by which time weather permitting, Mrs. Schwab will take up her residence at Immergrun. M. J. Stoltz on Wednesday purchased a chestnut sorrel pacing horse with a trial record of 2.17 from John C. Pender of Johnstown. The first devotional meeting of the Barnesboro Y. M. C. A. was held in that place on Sunday last. Lilly Notes D. H. Brown has been suffering from rheumatism for several days. A dancing school has been opened in Rainey’s Hall recently with a good attendance. Misses Mary Hughes and Lizzie Carney of Gallitzin were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Leahey Sunday. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the M. E. church will hold a festival on Saturday and Monday, May 28 and 30, 1904. Miss Annie Carruthers, clerk in Ed J. Hughes’ store fell down the cellar steps recently and was seriously injured. Steve Bill left last week for Chicago to enter a hospital for treatment. He has been on the sick list for some weeks past. Antonio Ayello who conducts a store near the old plane on Lilly branch intends putting an addition to his store room. Miss Margaret Myers of Ebensburg who is a teacher in the Wilmore Borough schools was the guest of T. A. Bradley and wife a few days the latter part of last week. Cut Completed – The cut west of Lilly, work on which has been going on for some time, is now completed and the railroad company has already begun the laying of the fourth track. Pearl Dunlap the Assistant Freight Agent who has been off duty for the past eight months in this place on account of rheumatism returned to work on Wednesday. While Mr. Dunlap was off, Mr. P. F. Westover of Cherrytree was the Assistant agent. James Warner of Blandburg was transacting business in this place on Thursday. George Simmelsberger and his son-in-law, Mr. Hoover of St. Boniface, were in this place on Wednesday. Wm. Kimball of this place spent Wednesday in Johnstown. Attorney H. H. Myers was transacting business in Johnstown on Wednesday. The senior class of the Spangler High School holds it commencement exercises on Saturday evening. One of the attractions will be Byron W. King, well known in this community. Gallitzin has a new millinery establishment, Miss Kila Cox, of Altoona, having opened up a shop there last week. The ladies of the Aid Society of St. Mark’s Lutheran church at Lilly are making great preparations for their supper and bazaar to be held Saturday evening. The exhibits of fancy work promise to be unusually fine. Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Connell of Lilly will on Sunday celebrate the fourth anniversary of their marriage. A sumptuous dinner will be served in which the near relatives and friends will partake. Mr. Connell’s parents are residents of this place. Patton Notes There is considerable sickness in town, but fortunately no epidemic. Miss Rae Goldstein was a visitor at Portage the latter part of last week. J. R. Cordell has discarded his crutches and ambles around with the help of a cane. Scarcity of cars has prevented the miners from making as full time as might be desired. James H. Alport and Dr. Baldwin representing citizens of Hastings, were Patton visitors last Sunday. The name of the new post office clerk is William Rees, his former residence, Bellefonte, unmarried and up to date, has no enduring alliances. C. H. Hodgkins, the druggist, is making extensive improvements in his place of business, which, when finished, will present a very imposing appearance. The gradating class at the High School will consist of five young ladies, as follows: Anna Donnelly; Anna Cornelious; Enid Lewis; Mary Witman and Rona Sandford. Among the Sick Peter P. George has been upon the sick list. The condition of J. W. Drennen is constantly improving. John W. Pringle was off duty last week on account of illness. Philip, the youngest son of A. H. Brady, has been ill with scarlet fever. Mrs. Paul N. George who has been quite ill is now considerably improved. Mrs. J. H. Moyer who was seriously ill for sometime past is now convalescent. Nearly Finished The Blacklick extension of the Pennsylvania railroad, connecting the West Penn with the main line at the summit of the Alleghenies at Cresson will be taken from the bands of the contractors within two weeks. The route is about twenty miles shorter than that through the Conemaugh valley and will be used almost exclusively for the handling of freight. Cambrians Go West Mrs. Eliza Younkins and two sons, late of Gallitzin, left that place a few days ago for Thorp, Clark County, Wisconsin, where they will make their future home with Mrs. Younkins’ daughter, Mary, who has been a resident there for the past fifteen years. Mrs. Younkins is well known in and about Gallitzin. John Gantz, for many years a resident of Patton, has sold his home there and will remove with his family to Kansas. Commissions Received The commissions for the justices of the peace and alderman elected recently are now in the office of Register and Recorder Strauss. The first one lifted was that of Andrew J. Kirsch of Barr township. Those received are as follows: Paul Nelson, Washington township; R. Z. Replogle, Westmont Borough; Richard W. Davis, Alderman, 13th Ward, Johnstown; John W. Hubert, Spangler Borough; Joel A. Gates, White township; M. A. Livingston, Upper Yoder township; David Somerville, Susquehanna township; Pat McHugh, Reade township; John H. Viel, Scalp Level Borough; Jacob A. Cobaugh, Rosedale Borough; D. D. Stull, Richland township; P. H. Farren, Portage Borough; C. A. McGonigle, Lilly Borough; Jos. A. Lauffer, Portage Borough; J. C. Weakland, Jackson township; S. Hildebrand, Franklin Borough; E. B. Sensebaugh, East Taylor township; Joseph Shero, Carroll township; Albert Henize, Dale Borough; Harry Boskel, Carroll township; Ephraim Reighard, Conemaugh township; M. W. Jackson, Adams township. Big Merger is Planned It is leaned from authoritative sources that the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company will take one more gulp and swallow the holdings of the Beech Creek people. Negotiations looking to this end have been going on for months and have repeatedly been denied. It is true that unless something at present unforeseen happens that the Pennsylvania people will in the near future control the Beech Creek lands. The exact terms of the transaction which involves over 12,000 acres cannot be learned. It is indicated that there will be a merger, not a sale. That some sort of a deal just has been consummated, is true beyond a doubt. Gallitzin Youth Arrested Officers in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad company Saturday arrested a Gallitzin boy, Harry Nagle, aged 15 years, charged with throwing two switches on the Cresson & Coalport branch of the road, thereby endangering the lives of passengers and almost causing [the rest of the line is blotted out] company’s property. The offense makes him liable to a fine of not more than $40,000 and imprisonment for not more than 10 years. Nagle has confessed to throwing the switches. He committed the act the evening of Sunday, April 17. By throwing the affairs he opened the main track of the branch mentioned to a siding. Monday as the regular passenger train was passing it ran in on the siding and struck a car of lime standing there. Had it not been for the fact that the engine was moving slowly a serious accident would have occurred. Officers Hetrick, Snyder and Parrish took the boy to Johnstown Saturday and he was given a hearing by Alderman W. J. Lamberd. After telling a series of falsehoods which would have done credit to Ananias it is said the youth confessed and was held to answer the charge at the June term of court. Suit Over Patton Lot Monday afternoon the Chest Creek Land & Improvement Company, with offices at Patton, instituted an action of ejectment against Patrick Lynch of Patton, to recover the possession of a lot of ground in that place. Some years ago, Mr. Lynch purchased the lot from the plaintiff in this action on the installment plan, agreeing to pay therefore the sum of $150, $5 of which was paid in cash at the time of executing the agreement and the balance was to be paid in monthly payments of $10 each. The plaintiff company now complains that the agreement with Lynch was entered into on the 14th of April, 1898, and that Lynch ceased to make further payments on his lot after the agreement was made. The lot fronts on McGee avenue 50 feet and extends back 140 feet and is a valuable lot today. Miner Badly Injured A. J. Anderson who is employed in Pardee No. 5 Mine of the Beech Creek Coal & Coke Company at Patton and who resides about a mile up Chest Creek, was seriously injured the other day by a fall of rock. He was crushed about the chest and had three ribs broken, one of the broken ribs penetrating the right lung. The attending physicians say that if no complications set in Mr. Anderson will survive his injuries. Gallitzin Store Manager Resigns John Basal who has been manager of the Mountain Supply Company’s No. 2 store at Gallitzin for three years past has handed in his resignation to take effect May 1st. He will be succeeded by Geo. Leahey, a clerk who had been in the employ of L. M. Anderson at Lilly for some time. Mr. Leahey is at Gallitzin now, making himself acquainted with the business before taking charge. Routine of Last Court The following is a record of the motions and petitions presented, granted and refused at Argument Court last week: Petition of Stephen Stutzman, Emmanuel Rhoads and John Brehm for satisfaction of mortgage given by Stephen Stutzman to Charles Boxton, trustee of Louis Benshoff, deceased. Court made decree directing satisfaction to be entered. Petition of School Board of Chest Township for appointment of John H. Lenhart as sanitary agent. Court made appointment. In re Harbison-Walker Company vs. William J. Heeler et al, contempt of court. Defendant ordered discharged from jail upon payment of costs. In case of Anna Elizabeth Schroyer vs. Christian Schroyer, libel in divorce. Supoena awarded. In case of Commonwealth vs. Frank Cauley alias Joseph Birtell and Harry Birtell. Petition for writ of habeas corpus. Application to be heard at Johnstown in chambers at 1:30 p.m., April 27, 1904. Petition and bond of Frank Moseberger for transfer of liquor license granted to S. A. Lutz in Frugality. Bond approved and licenses transferred. Petition and bond of Thomas E. Kime for transfer of liquor license granted to John Griffith in Summerhill Borough, approved and license transferred. Petition of citizens of East Reade Township for the appointment of an assistant assessor. Court appointed M. L. Glasgow. Petition of qualified electors of Elder township for the appointment of a constable to fill vacancy caused by resignation of John Hahn. Court appointed Albert Yeager. Petition of Matthew Fabian, a native of Austria, for citizenship. Admitted to citizenship. Petition of citizens of Susquehanna Township for appointment of constable. Court appointed Daniel D. Miller. Bond of John Cunningham, a justice of the peace for Blacklick Township, presented to court. Bond approved. Bond of D. L. Owens as tax collector of Cambria Township, present and approved by the court. Letter from J. T. Evans, mine inspector stating that he was interested in the prosecution of case of Commonwealth vs. Oarl Smolink for violation of mine laws and that he believes the end of justice would be met if sentence of the Court in Smolink’s case be limited to costs of prosecution. In case of A. L. Beck vs. Annie M. Beck. Libel in Divorce. Subpena awarded. In case of Michael McAnulty vs. Sarah Jane McAnulty, libel in divorce. Answer of respondent filed. In case of Catherine Burns vs. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the Court handed down an opinion, overruling exceptions and refusing new trial. This is the case in which Mrs. Burns got a verdict for $12,000 against the railroad company for the death of her husband, William Burns at Brownstown crossing on the 9th of January 1903. Mr. Storey, representing the railroad company, took exceptions to the opinion of the Court and will appeal the case. Petition of James G. Hasson and Herman Williams, executors of last will and testament of Susan Williams, deceased, for discharge. Granted. Petition of Amos W. Roland, guardian of minor children of Harry B. Campbell, deceased, for an order to sell real estate for maintenance and support. Granted. Petition of Samuel B. Waters, guardian of Robert D. Felton, a minor child of Sarah J. Felton, deceased, to make private sale of real estate of said ward. Granted. In re petition of Anthony Anna executor of the last will and testament of Simon Niebauer, deceased, for rule on Michael Niebauer, to show cause why coal should not be sold to W. C. Lingle by Anthony Anna. Court directs sale of coal to W. L. Lingle. Petition of Hiram Orris, guardian of Mary Daly, deceased, for an allowance for support of his ward. Court orders $8 per month be applied for support of ward. Petition of executors of Catharine Mondy for discharge. Granted. Petition of Veni Haskins, guardian of Geo. M. Horn for allowance for support of her ward. Petition granted. Petition of Jack M. Baker, administrator of Eliza Gardner, deceased, for an order directing him to pay into court the sum of $8.74 due Eliza Gray, minor, and for his discharge. Granted. Petition of Eliza Jane Smith, widow of William S. Smith, deceased, for appointment of appraisers. Court appointed A. J. Stoy and J. W. Dougherty. Petition of Mrs. Mary Effinger for a writ of partition on real estate of Bernard Weise, late of Gallitzin, granted. In re partition proceedings in estate of Thomas Prescott, deceased. Recognizance of Mary Alice Graham filed. Approved by Court. Management Optimistic Ebensburg, the classic queen of north Cambria’s hills, is making great preparations of the coming summer assembly. The summer school idea has found a congenial atmosphere here and the entire population has come to have a genuine interest in the success of the project. The management has from the first been both optimistic and enthusiastic. Whatever misgivings may have existed at the first owing solely to the magnitude of the undertaking, have given away to a feeling of confidence. There is no doubt but that all comers will be cared for and that was the only difficulty found from the beginning. The Mountain Summer assembly as the school is titled, opens July 11 and continues until Aug. 6. The school is under the general direction of the department of public instruction and is one of the three conducted this season in different parts of the state. When State Superintendent Schaeffer determined to establish a new school he selected Ebensburg on account of the natural advantages of the place. The school, while open to the general public, is intended chiefly for teachers, not to prepare them for examinations but to give them at the expense of the state an opportunity to come into professional contact with strong men and women, to see and hear something from masters in the education field, to study a little, to relax and recreate some, to build up nervous energy for the next term and to be endowed with new inspiration and stronger personalities by contact with teachers of extraordinary ability. The faculty has been carefully selected and consists of specialists for each course. The course of study and the faculty are as follows: History and Civics – Dr. S. D. Fess of Chicago University and the Rev. A. A. Lambing of Pittsburg. German, Latin and Greek – Prof. W. F. Long of the Johnstown High School. Prof. Long is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, has taken a course in German at the University of Chicago and has taught that subject in the Johnstown High School for seven years. Elocution and Physical Culture – Miss Mary Brevard Roberts of Philadelphia. Mathematics – Instructor not yet secured. Primary Methods – Miss Lillian W. Pierce, principal of the model school of the West Chester State Normal. Geography – Mrs. Mary G. Noss of California State Normal School. Vocal Music – T. L. Gibson of Ebensburg. Pedagogy and Psychology – Dr. T. B. Noss of the California State Normal School. Elementary Science and Nature Study – Prof. William A. Buckhout, Dean of School of Agriculture, State College, Pa. Drawing, Painting and Blackboard Sketching – Prof. David Emmeret of Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa. Photography – Louis L. Emmeret of Juniata College. Literature - Prof. E. H. Green of West Chester Normal School. Besides the faculty a corps of special lectures has been secured and includes such names as Dr. Lightner Witmer; Dr. Isaac Sharpless; Dr. S. D. Fess; the Rev. T. C. Bilheemer; Prof. Leon Prince; Dr. Strafford and the Rev. Frank Dixon. Making Many Improvements Maple Park Springs, the well known summer resort here owned by D. E. Park, will open for the reception of guests June 3d and enough applications are already in to tax the capacity of the house. The name of the resort will be changed, it is understood, to the Ebensburg Inn. M. S. Butterworth, who is well and favorably known to Ebensburg people through his former connection with the Mountain House here, and who has been for some time conducting the Bolton House at Harrisburg will have charge of Mr. Park’s resort the coming season. He was in Ebensburg the other day looking over the place, which is undergoing extensive improvements. Among these betterments is the installation of an eighty horsepower boiler and ninety radiators to heat the hotel by steam; a new nurses’ dining room has been erected on the north side of the building and the whole house is being repainted. Among noticeable improvements is the cutting down in some places as much as three feet of Belmont Hill so as to lessen the grade going up to Maple Park, the roadbed to the top of Belmont Hill will be covered with limestone chips, the roadbed across the new stone bridge is about completed and altogether great changes have been made in the surroundings of Maple Park Springs which add considerably to its beauty. In all about thirty-five men are engaged in making improvements about Maple Park. Patton Brewery Nearly Ready Work on the new brewery at Patton is progressing rapidly and if nothing unforeseen occurs, brewing will commence in about two months. Competent judges who have inspected the plant pronounced it the most complete construction and with a capacity to partially supply the needs of the Patton people during the dry season. The machinery installed is of modern construction and the best that could be purchased. Almost Past Fixing The worst injured man in the world who lives to tell his story resides in Altoona. His name is Alfred Campbell and he supports a wife and four children. While at work in a mine, coal caved in on him, and the doctors diagnosed his disease thus: Back broken in three places, necessitating removal of sixteen pieces of the vertebra; skull crushed in, necessitating silver plate to protect brain; legs crushed and broken in three places; arms broken in three places; hands crushed, all ribs on left side broken; left shoulder blade broken in two places; feet mangled and internal organs injured. He makes a living selling trinkets along the street. Will Open Store Edward Glass of the famous Pine Grove Summer Resort will open an up- to-date shoe store in Cresson in the near future. The new store will be located in the new Scanlan Building near the post office. New Operations The Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Company commenced work on the new operations near Wildwood Springs in Allegheny township. A force of men has been put to work in laying a six mile water main to operate an air compressor which will be used in sinking a shaft near the Ansman residence on the Gallitzin road. The Himmelwright saw mill will be started for the purpose of cutting what timber remains on the property for use in construction work. Base Ball News The C. & C. base ball team of Cresson is rapidly getting in condition. The boys are putting new edges on their last year’s spikes and trouble is certain for the outsiders. Their grounds are also being put in condition and Groundkeeper Hunch expects to have everything ready for the opening game. One night recently the boys B. B. Team held an oyster supper in Brown’s Hall which was a success. The proceeds were taken to buy uniforms for the team. At the Congregational Meeting Rev. J. Twyson Jones was elected Moderator of the Pittsburg Association of Congregational churches at Johnstown last week. County Superintendent Herman T. Jones was elected as a member of the Executive Board and Rev. James Jenkins of North and South Ebensburg was admitted to membership. Other Ebensburgers present were: Misses Ada Jones, Jane Dinsmore, Lizzie Emma Jones, Elizabeth Reese; Messrs. Thomas Bumford, Abner Frances and Thomas W. Hughes and Mr. and Mrs. Evan Morgan. John Leonard to Enlarge His Hotel The Gallitzin Hotel which is owned and conducted by J. V. Leonard will be considerably enlarged and improved during the coming summer by the addition of another story. This will add thirteen sleeping rooms to the capacity of the hostelry and enable Mr. Leonard to accommodate a great number of people he has recently been compelled to turn away. Public Sale At the Lloyd House, Saturday, May 7, the following goods will be sold at auction: bedsteads, springs, mattresses, pillows, comforts, wash stands, rocking chairs, tables, dishes, lamps, churn, crock jugs, kitchen utensils, wheelbarrow, grindstone, cutting box, plow, iron soap kettle, log chains, sulky, two buggies, etc. etc. Reade Township High School Commencement The Reade Township High School held its commencement exercises in the opera house at Blandburg, Friday evening, April 15. There were five members in the graduating class – Flossie Barmond, Sara Glasgow, Laura Lovell, Margaret Williams and Virginia Miller. The commencement address was made by Prof. W. A. Price of Juniata College and proved very interesting and entertaining. County Superintendent H. T. Jones was present and gave a very instructive talk on the progress education has made in our State. The diplomas were presented with a timely talk by D. C. Tudor, Secretary of the School Board. Somerset Sheriff Arrests Strikers Sheriff Coleman of Somerset County went to Garrett Thursday night and arrested nine men, charged with contempt of court in violating Judge Kooser’s injunction against the strikers ordering them not to interfere with workers. All gave bail in the sum of $300 each for their appearance at Somerset Monday afternoon for a hearing. The men are: Isaac and George Baden, William Nehinski, Wesley Walder, Mark Smith, Edward Weaver, Ross Pritts, William Richards and James Zelinsk. All are strikers and several of them leaders in the miners’ union In addition to these, Sheriff Coleman served on some fourteen of the strikers rules to show cause why they should not be summoned to answer charges similar to the above. Odd Fellows Banquet Highland Lodge No. 428, I. O. O. F. of this place gave an informal banquet in their lodge room last night. In connection with the banquet which was served by Leo. F. McKenrick, an interesting program of speeches and literary selections were provided. Addresses were made by Wm. Davis, Dr. Richards, Edward Owens and others. Wm. Humphries read a poem and Squire Watters recited, “Hello.” Both banquet and programme were thoroughly enjoyed by all present. Jas. McClune is the Noble Grand of the local lodge. Starts New House Frank J. Cloud of Cresson has opened up as a manufacturer and jobber in fine cigars and tobacco. Mr. Cloud is a genial hustler who has made many friends in this section of the county and his new undertaking has the FREEMAN’S heartiest wishes for success. Mr. Cloud will be distributor in this section of the Wm. G. Suelke Cigar Co. of Quakertown, Pa. Y. M. C. A. at Glen Campbell As a result of the labors of Field Secretary C. E. Smith and a number of local citizens who are interested in Y. M. C. A. work, an association was organized in Glen Campbell Thursday of last week with twenty-four charter members. Mother Jones in Jail Indefatigable Friend of Miners Breaks Smallpox Quarantine. Price, Utah, April 27 - “Mother” Jones who has been in enforced quarantine after visiting a miner afflicted with smallpox again broke out of quarantine and accompanied by 15 or 20 Italian women and children drove into town. With two sympathizers, striking miners from Helper, she walked through the town to the implement shed, where 120 men arrested Sunday are being detained. Before reaching the shed she was arrested and placed in jail. Experiment Proves a Failure Altoona, Pa., April 27 – The system of running locomotives through in hauling freight between Philadelphia and Pittsburg on the Pennsylvania railroad has been discontinued. It was installed about four months ago upon orders issued by President Cassatt but the results as anticipated were not realized, besides the strain on the motive power was ruinously heavy. The company returned to the old method of changing crews and engines at divisional terminals. DEATHS Killed in Arizona James Callahan, superintendent of the South Fork Coal Mining Company’s operations has received word of the death of his son, Alexander, at Bisbee, Arizona, as the result of injuries received in an accident which is believed to have occurred in a mine. On Sunday morning, Mr. Callahan received a telegram from another son, John C., who is in Arizona, saying that Alexander had been very badly injured and in the evening there came another dispatch stating that he was dead. Mr. Callahan at once telegraphed back directions to do what was deemed best in the matter of burial and forward as soon as possible a letter giving details. Alexander Callahan was twenty-nine years old and was well known among the miners of Cambria County, he having been employed at Ehrenfeld and Gallitzin. Three years ago he went to Arizona, first finding employment in a warehouse but later going into one of the Greene Consolidated Copper Company mines at Bisbee. Alexander Callahan was one of a family of eight brothers and three sisters. One brother as noted is in Arizona, the remaining six living at South Fork. Of the three sisters, one is Sister Bonaventure of the Order of St. Joseph of Columbus, O., and another is married and lives at Ehrenfeld and the third is at South Fork. Young Man Found Dead James Williams of South Fork Meets with Fatal Accident. Lifeless Body Found Floating in the Conemaugh River While walking along the south fork of the Conemaugh at a point about a mile north of South Fork on Tuesday, William Brain discovered the dead body of a man lying face upward in the stream. Without waiting to investigate, Mr. Brain returned to South Fork and notified George Brothers, the undertakers, who had the remains removed to their establishment. Investigation revealed the fact that they were those of James Williams, aged twenty-four, a miner of South Fork. How he came to his strange end is still a mystery. Williams was last seen alive about 3:30 Monday afternoon. When found the body was lying near the bank of the stream, face upward and with nothing but the head and feet showing above the water. From all appearances it had floated some distance down stream before lodging between two large boulders which prevented its drifting further. All these circumstances would lead to the conclusion that the young man had come to his death by accidentally falling into the creek, if it were not that the situation was complicated by the existence of two large cuts on the back of his head. Judging by appearances these might have been caused either by some blunt instrument or by a backward fall upon the rocks which line the banks of South Fork. The dead man was a son of Constable James Williams of South Fork and made his home with his parents. He was unmarried. Hon. John Reilly Hon. John Reilly, formerly Democratic member of Congress from this district and well known to every Cambria Countian, died at his residence, 2015 Delancey Place, Philadelphia on Wednesday evening of last week in his seventy-sixth year of a complication of diseases. He was born at New Florence, Pa., in 1828, being the eldest son of Thomas Reilly one of the pioneer settlers of Western Pennsylvania. He entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company when a boy and was prominently identified with its progress and interests until his death. He reached the office of vice president of the company in 1886, from which he resigned to enter its consulting board, being considered a master in transportation problems and the founder of its present car record system. Mr. Reilly was also a large stockholder in almost all the industrial and mining concerns between Philadelphia and Pittsburg. He was married in 1876 to Miss Anna Lloyd of Hollidaysburg, who now survives him, together with three children: John, Garrett, and Marion who reside in Philadelphia. His only relatives in this vicinity at present being a nephew, T. S. Reilly of Westmont and Mrs. Mary Reilly, a sister-in-law of Wilmore. Mr. Reilly was an extremely popular and generous man, liberal to all charities and will be remembered as a man who never refused a political or official favor and who never forgot the least of those who served under him. His funeral took place in Philadelphia on Friday. Mary Jane Brawley Mrs. Mary Jane Brawley, widow of Thomas J. Brawley, late of Portage township, died at her home in Wilmore, Monday afternoon about 2 o’clock. Mrs. Brawley was stricken with pneumonia a few days since and she rapidly succumbed to its influence. She was aged about fifty-five years. A daughter of the late James Gallagher, of Portage township, she was born and raised in that vicinity and resided there from her marriage in 1872 until just a few months ago when she moved to Wilmore. She is survived by six children: John Buck of East Conemaugh; Michael T. and Edward H. of Braddock, Pa.; Walter T., James and George W., at home. Mr. Brawley died Oct. 21, 1903. Mrs. Brawley was a faithful member of St. Bartholomew’s Catholic Church of Wilmore. Francena Stutzman Francena Loreno, daughter of Albert C. and Orpha Stutzman died at the parental homestead in Upper Yoder township at 1:30 o’clock Sunday morning, aged 13 years, 3 months and 19 days. The cause of the child’s death was scarlet fever. The funeral services were held at 9 o’clock Monday morning at the Stutzman home, after which the remains were taken to Armagh, Indiana county, for interment. The trip was made overland. Harry Ritchie Harry, the nine-year-old son of Jacob and Louisa Ritchie of Mineral Point died after a two weeks’ illness from diphtheria last Thursday morning. The funeral took place at 10 o’clock Sunday morning in the chapel at Mineral Point, where services were conducted by the Rev. J. L. Bowman, following which interment was made in the adjoining cemetery. Killed at Lilly Charles A. Seibert, a Pennsylvania freight brakeman living in Altoona, was stuck and killed by the Cleveland and Cincinnati Express at Lilly Sunday morning. His train had been sidetracked to allow the flyer to pass and Seibert got down from his train and stepped directly in front of the flyer. He leaves a wife and one child. Callahan Claire, the four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Callahan of Ehrenfield died last Thursday of pneumonia. Deaths at the Almshouse Died at the Almshouse on Wednesday at 1:30 a.m. Barbara Weigle, aged 73 years, from bronchitis. She was admitted to the home in April, 1890, from Gallitzin. Died at the Almshouse Elizabeth Hoffman also died at the County Home at 4:30 Wednesday morning of pneumonia, aged 58 years. She was admitted in December 1902 from Nicktown where the remains will be buried today at 10:30. Suspicious Finding of an Infant’s Remains The remains of an infant were found in a shallow grave just outside of the cemetery at Barnesboro Saturday. No other particulars were ascertained by the Coroner’s jury, excepting that the burial had been made by a foreigner named Steve, but whose last name can not be learned. Steve was seen carrying the body and was accompanied by several other foreigners at the time. No effort at concealment was made by the party and it is possible that the child died a natural death. The fact that Steve cannot be found, however, adds to the suspicion in the case. Patton A poor Hungarian named Mike Pebrumick, but commonly called, “Starry,” committed suicide last Saturday evening by hanging. He went into one of the closets at the Palmer House and taking his belt make a noose around his neck, fastening the other end to the water pipe. He then stepped from the [word unclear] and strangled to death. No case for the rash act can be learned though it is evident he was determined to die as it was only by bending his legs that he could remain suspended. When discovered he was dead. His body was removed to an undertaking establishment and was buried on Monday.