Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, January 3, 1908 Volume 42, Number 1 Bakerton Man Killed While sitting sleeping on the overhead bridge of the C. & C. Division at Bakerton about 11 o’clock Tuesday night of last week, Patrick Campbell, aged about 35 years, was hit by an empty engine and instantly killed. There were no marks on his body other than a slight bruise on the head. It is thought death resulted from a fractured skull. Patrick Campbell was a miner employed in Nantyglo No. 2 mine at Bakerton. He was a married man and is survived by his wife, three children and a number of brothers and sisters. Interment was made in Spangler. Died in Pittsburg Hospital Miss Mary McGough, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. McGough of St. Augustine, died Thursday, Dec. 26, of typhoid fever at the Pittsburg Hospital. Miss McGough entered the training school for nurses Oct. 1, 1907. About five weeks ago she was taken ill with typhoid fever. She is survived by her parents and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. J. W. Kane of Altoona; Albert and Robert of Wilmerding; George of Seattle, Wash.; Catherine of Greensburg; Margaret of Pittsburg; James of Altoona; Joseph, Raymond, Edgar and Irene, at home. The funeral occurred Saturday morning last in the St. Augustine Catholic church and interment was made in the cemetery at that place. Suicide at Hastings! Frank Amos, After Breaking Pledge, is Filled with Remorse and Sends A Bullet Through His Head “Dear Frank, behave yourself and I will bring the children home to spend Christmas with you.” The above is a brief extract of a letter written by Mrs. Frank Amos to her husband in Hastings. Mrs. Amos had been visiting with her parents in Houtzdale, Clearfield County. Those words and the Christmas presents from his two little children was more than Mr. Amos could bear after thinking over what he had done wrong the past week or more and he sent a bullet through his head. Instead of bringing her children home to spend Christmas with the husband and father, Mrs. Amos arrived at Hastings in company with her father, Thomas Martin, only to gaze on the cold face of the dead man. Mrs. Amos did not bring along her two babies, one two-year-old and the other only one year. Frank Amos was a suicide. The finding of his dead body took place Christmas morning about 8 o’clock. The man had been missed on the streets by residents of the town and relatives inquired at the Martin household in Houtzdale if he was there. He was not. An investigation followed, resulting in the discovery of his dead body. Amos was last seen on Sunday and it is believed he killed himself that night. Some one looked in the window on the first floor of his home Wednesday morning, saw his body lying in blood soaked bed clothing, the revolver in one hand, the empty bottles lying around him. He had not undressed, but had pulled some of the bed clothing over his body. Mr. Amos, who was a Frenchman, and about twenty-two years old, worked as a coal miner and a bar clerk. He drank heavily for a time but two months ago took the pledge for six months. He broke his pledge, received the loving letter from his wife, his heart was filled with remorse and in this condition, he killed himself. Murder at Frugality! Foreigner Uses Penknife on His Fellow Countryman and Nearly Disembowels Him The refusal of one man to get another a bottle of wine resulting in a quarrel terminated in a murder at Frugality, this county, Christmas night, when Ivan Sestrick took a penknife from his pocket and swept it across the abdomen of Mike Skonier, almost disemboweling him. The fight occurred in a room where probably a dozen other men were drinking in celebration of the holiday. Some of the men were sober enough to realize the situation, quickly overpowering Sestrick after he had fatally yielded the knife. Constable Gibbons then came along and applied the handcuffs, taking his prisoner to Ashville over night. Both men worked at No. 10 Mine of the Cresson & Clearfield Coal company. The dead man was not married. He has a brother living at Lloydell and an uncle at Smoke Run, Clearfield County. Sestrick was brought to Ebensburg Thursday and placed in jail to await trial. Summit Resident Dead John Dunlap Expired Christmas Afternoon after Long Illness John Dunlap died of vascular disease of the heart and Bright’s disease Christmas afternoon at 3 o’clock at his home at the Summit. He had been sick for some weeks and his death was expected. Mr. D. came to the Summit from Amsbry one month ago. He was thirty-eight years old. His wife, who was a Bolsinger, survives with three children. The remains were taken to Ashville for burial. Drinks Out Year and Dies Foreigner’s Farewell to 1907 Proves Also Adieu to Life While taking a farewell drink to the old year, George Nicodemus, aged forty, a florist living in Astoria, dropped dead in a saloon last night. Nicodemus had visited the others in the place to join him in a farewell glass. “Good-bye to the old, success to the new,” he exclaimed, raising his glass from the bar. His friends clinked their glasses together and raised them in unison when Nicodemus faltered, his face turned white, he staggered and fell dead.