NEWS: Cambria Freeman; 1907; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, 19 Apr 1907 Volume 41, Number 16 Late News of County Mrs. Joseph Yeager is resting well at her home in Hastings following an operation Tuesday of last week for a serious trouble. The operation was performed at the Yeager house by Dr. Beyea of the University Hospital of Philadelphia and Dr. Rice of Hastings, assisted by Dr. Hagey of Hastings; Dr. Jones of Ebensburg and Dr. Anderson of Barnesboro. The operation was a success and hopes are entertained for the recovery of the patient. Mrs. George Porch is visiting friends in Johnstown. A. Skelly departed for Indiana yesterday on business. Miss Agnes Byrne of Vintondale was in town Thursday. Mrs. Fred Barker of this place is visiting friends in Pittsburg. Miss Nellie Murphy of Loretto called on Ebensburg friends Tuesday. Mrs. Henry Beiter of Loretto made a business trip to Ebensburg Thursday. Mrs. John W. Kephart entertained the Five Hundred Club on Monday evening. Edward Cassidy left yesterday for Altoona where he has secured employment. The Friday Night Reading Club will meet this week at the home of Miss Floy Stiles. Mrs. H. A. Englehart and daughter, Gertrude, visited relatives in Altoona on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Byrne of Vintondale were among the Ebensburg visitors this week. Ex-Sheriff D. A. Luther of Carroll township was in town Tuesday transacting business. Misses Marie E. Jones and Nettie Luther are spending a few days in Johnstown. Deputy Prothonotary Stewart S. Kinkead was in Philadelphia the early part of the week. Cashier A. W. Buck is laying a new brick walk along his property on Highland avenue. Attorney Reuel Somerville of Patton was in Ebensburg yesterday attending to legal business. Miss Margaret Rhey, who has spent the winter in Hollidaysburg, is visiting Mrs. James Scanlan. Wm. McGuire of Ebensburg went to Cresson Wednesday to attend the funeral of James O'Hara. Miss Gertrude Ross of this place visited friends in Hollidaysburg and Cresson during the past week. William Flynn of Johnstown, representing the Remington Typewriter, was in town Wednesday. Joseph Skelly of the East ward, who was painfully injured several weeks ago, is again able to be about. Miss Blanche Henry returned home Tuesday from a visit of several weeks in Williamsport and Bellefonte. Workmen are busy putting up the new iron fence and laying a brick pavement around the Catholic cemetery. Peter Reffner and family of Spangler have taken up their residence on Tim O'Hara's farm in Cambria township. Mr. and Mrs. Will Bates (formerly Miss May Henry) of Williamsport will go to California next week to make their home. Grier Hile, the popular clerk at the Metropolitan Hotel, was in Curwensville Tuesday attending the funeral of a relative. Miss Mary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cassidy of Mary Ann Street, is again able to be about after several weeks' illness. Dr. Olin Barker of Johnstown spent several days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Barker of High street the early part of the week. Mrs. E. T. Cresswell of this place is having a brick pavement laid around her residence facing on Julian street and Highland avenue. Messrs. Harry Blair, Charles Hasson, Don Shoemaker and Marshall Owens attended the Kettering dance at Cresson on Tuesday evening. Mrs. J. W. Leech, Mrs. J. T. Jones, Mrs. Web Griffith and Mrs. F. C. Jones attended a meeting of the Y. W. C. A. in Juniata Tuesday. Mrs. J. B. Denny and daughter, Hilda, of Johnstown were in Ebensburg this week making preparations to spend the summer at Belmont. Frank Murphy, aged eighty years, is critically ill at his home on Mullen's Hill, Cambria township. He is suffering with dropsy and in view of his advanced age, his recovery is doubtful. D. R. Powell, Ebensburg's expert drum major and baton juggler, who is now employed at Emlenton, Pa., gave an exhibition of fancy baton juggling with a minstrel show at Foxburg, Pa., April 18th and 19th for the benefit of Free Library Association. Items of Interest Capt. Tom Davis who has been ill for some time is considerably improved, although the asthma from which he suffers is a considerable annoyance to him. Mrs. Cresswell Buys Shoemaker Property Mrs. E. B. Cresswell of Julian street has purchased from Mr. H. A. Shoemaker the piece of ground lying between his residence and the home of S. L. Clement on Julian street. Applies for Pardon At a meeting of the Pardon Board held in Harrisburg Tuesday, Charles C. Linton, of Johnstown, made an application for a pardon for William H. Buterbaugh, who was sent to the Western Penitentiary from Cambria County some three or four years ago on a charge of arson. It is stated that Buterbaugh is dying with consumption. The Board held the matter under advisement for the present. Big Fire at Beaverdale Fire, originating from the explosion of an oil lamp in a building occupied as a residence and store by Motto Vogini, about 4 o'clock Monday morning, at Beaverdale, resulted in the destruction of that building and a double structure owned by Alex Dray and rented by T. J. Brown. Both buildings were burned to the ground. Mr. Brown occupied one side of the double structure and Prof. J. A. Manner of Dunlo had removed all his household goods in the other side with the intention of making his home there. Mr. Manner succeeded in saving all his goods except a bed and a suit of clothing. The loss on both buildings and contents will probably amount to $3,000. The fact that the roofs of surrounding buildings were covered with a layer of snow is all that prevented a more disastrous blaze. A hose attached to a plug of the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Company and the efforts of a bucket brigade saved other buildings from destruction. Constable in Trouble Mary Maines, a foreign inmate of the County Home, appeared before Squire A. J. Waters, of this place, last Friday evening and accused Constable Thomas Stephenson of Barnesboro with adultery. She also accuses the Barnesboro officer of being the father of her unborn child. Stephenson was arrested Saturday by Constable R. D. Evans and gave bail for his appearance at June court. This case is an echo of one which caused a tremendous sensation at Barnesboro something less than a year ago. The Maines woman was arrested at that time by Constable Stephenson and confined by him in the borough lock up. Late one night, the woman alleged, the officer attempted to assault her in her cell and was prevented only by the unexpected arrival of borough officials. An information was brought but a settlement was arranged before the case came to trial. Since then the woman has been admitted to the County Home. Boxing Contest at Cresson The Cresson Athletic Club pulled off a successful smoker Saturday night with a big six-round bout between George Cole, of Philadelphia, and E. Smith of Baltimore. Both men were in good condition and put up a fast exhibition of the boxing game. Neither did much damage to the other and the bout was declared a draw. Kid Kohler and Kid Brown, both of Altoona, met in the preliminary and went six rounds to a draw. Taylor secured a victory in the third round of his bout with Adams in the semi-final. Both fighters were from Cresson. Miss Bearer Will Marry Soon The coming marriage of Miss Gertrude Bearer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Bearer of Hastings and Paul Smithbower of Patton has been announced in St. Bernard's Catholic Church. Kirkpatrick-Winning Eugene S. Kirkpatrick of Carrolltown and Christiana Winning of Hastings, were granted a marriage license at Cumberland Tuesday. A Murder at Hastings Foreigner Stabbed to Death by a Fellow Countryman During Progress of a Drunken Row During an altercation with several countrymen in Hastings at midnight Wednesday, Andrew Sagotta, a Polander, was stabled six times and died as a result of his injuries. One of the knife wounds pierced his lung and the others were desperate thrusts in the region of the chest and abdomen. The victim, as soon as the deed was discovered, was attended by Dr. D. S. Rice but died from his injuries at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. He identified his assailants and told the officers where they boarded and arrests were made yesterday morning. The tragedy occurred on the railroad between Hastings and the upper coke ovens near that town. Saraffa is the name of the man arrested, charged with murdering Sagotta, and four other foreigners have been held as witnesses. The murder marked a row which followed an evening at the Central Hotel in Hastings. Charles Dreshman Ashland, Pa., April 17 Charles Dreshman, aged 17, son of John Dreshman, an independent coal operator, accidentally shot and killed himself while examining a revolver. Alfred G. Draucker Dubois, Pa., April 17 Alfred G. Draucker, a flagman, was killed and Michael Crawford, a car inspector, was probably fatally injured in a rear-end collision on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railroad. A freight train and a pusher came together.