Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, August 21, 1908 Volume 42, Number 32 The Death of Edward Griffith After Much Suffering Venerable Ebensburger Finally Succumbs Edward Griffith, one of the most highly respected citizens of this place, after weeks of suffering, died at his residence on High street on Sunday morning last in the sixty-ninth year of his age. Mr. Griffith was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Griffith and was born in Cambria Township. When about fifteen years of age he sustained an injury to his left leg by the bursting of a fly wheel of a horse-power wood-sawing machine he was helping to operate and for years, this hurt was the cause of much suffering until finally last fall he had Dr. F. C. Jones of this place amputate the leg near the knee. The operation was successful but as he had about recovered from the operation, he contracted a cold which settled on his lungs from which congestion followed and after weeks of suffering, his robust constitution at last succumbed to the ravages of the disease. Mr. Griffith was married about forty years ago to Miss Catharine Evans and followed the vocation of a farmer until about 1880 after which he moved to Ebensburg and carried on the grocery business until about three years ago when he retired. Besides his wife, Mr. Griffith is survived by one sister, Mrs. Sarah Davis of Wilkesbarre and his nieces, Mrs. Mattie Kerbey and Mrs. J. G. Lloyd of this place. The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon after services in the Congregational church in this place and an eloquent sermon by the pastor, Rev. J. Twyson Jones, eulogistic of the character of the deceased as a man, a neighbor, a husband and a Christian, after which interment was made in Lloyd’s cemetery, the large concourse of relatives and friends in attendance at the funeral being ample testimony of the esteem in which the deceased was held in the community. Mrs. Sarah Davis, a sister of the deceased and the only surviving member of the family and her son, Wallace, of Wilkes-Barre (sic) and Howard Evans, a nephew whom Mr. Griffith and his wife raised from childhood, who now resides in Pittsburg and his wife were also present at the funeral. Another Murder in Cambria County John Goloch was fatally stabbed by Andy Pastur, another Slav, in a free fight at Twin Rocks Saturday night last and died of the effects of his wounds in the Memorial Hospital, Johnstown, Wednesday morning last. Pastur escaped after the affray and has not as yet been apprehended. Is Corps (sic) that of Rosenbloom? Body Found in Trunk in New Jersey Swamp Supposed to be That of Windber Merchant Suspicion is rife in Windber that the body of a man found squeezed into a trunk partly covered with brush in a New Jersey Swamp is that of Solomon Rosenbloom whose disappearance from his home in Windber in November last, followed a few days thereafter by the continued absence from that town of his son, Alex Rosenbloom, created suspicion of foul play and extended searches for the body of the supposed victim came to naught and the search was finally abandoned. Solomon Rosenbloom was said to be addicted to the intemperate use of intoxicating liquor and this may have caused his son to do away with him. The whereabouts of Alex Roesenbloom are still unknown. Dead Man in Spangler Reservoir Body Found Floating in Water in Bad State of Decomposition Yesterday morning a lineman of the Northern Cambria Street Railway saw the body of a man floating in the reservoir which supplies the Borough of Spangler with water. That the body had been in the water a considerable length of time is indicated by the fact that it was in an advanced state of decomposition. The body was conveyed to the establishment of Undertaker Wyland where Doctors Dunsmore, Wheeler and Helfrick assisted Coroner McMillen in performing an autopsy from which it appeared that the victim was a man of about 35 years of age with a brown mustache and had evidently been in the water about six weeks. In his pockets was found $1.52 and a cheap watch. There were no indications of foul play on the body. Who the man was is not known. Death of George Simelsberger George Simelsberger, a Bavarian by birth, aged fifty-three years, a brother of Peter Simelsberger of Pensacola, Cambria Township, died at his home in Hastings on Monday night of cancer of the stomach. The deceased leaves a wife and four children – Jacob, Stephen, Joseph and Rose – all of Hastings. The funeral took place Wednesday morning after a requiem mass in St. Bernard’s Catholic church. Death of Alice Grew Miss Alice Grew, an aged resident of Wilmore, died at that place yesterday of cancer of the throat. She was aged about 78 years and was an aunt of James, Charles and Eliza Dougherty of this place. One brother – Edward Grew of Wilmore - survives her. The funeral will take place after a high mass of requiem in the Catholic church, Wilmore, tomorrow.