Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, March 20, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL March thus far set an example that early days of April may well copy. Dr. A. J. Miller of Loretto was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Rev. Father Deasy, of Gallitzin, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. Augustine H. Nagle, of Patton, spent several hours in town on Wednesday. Mr. A. Schrift, of Croyle township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday. Mr. Peter Parrish, of Barr township, spent a few hours in town on Thursday. Mr. John McGough of Allegheny township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Mrs. A. J. Gutwald, of Gallitzin, visited relatives and friends in Ebensburg last week. Mr. Albert J. Nagle of Clearfield township was a visitor to Ebensburg on Wednesday. Mr. Geo. H. Roberts, who spent the winter in Philadelphia and New York has returned to Ebensburg. Schettig Bros., the hardware firm of this place, purchased a fine horse from Mr. Ira Bloom on Tuesday. Mr. Robert Ferguson of this place has taken up his residence on his farm in Croyle township near Summerhill. A marriage license was issued in Hollidaysburg, last week, to Richard Garfield Davis of Ebensburg and Sarah M. McGregor of Altoona. Mr. Philip J. Huber, of Carroll township, has sold the coal under his farm to Rembrant Peele of New York. It is understood that the purchase price was $80 per acre. C. Anstead has resigned his potion with M. & E. Farabaugh at Carrolltown and moved his family and effects to the Anstead homestead in Barr township where he will engage in farming. Amedia Wrend, an Italian laborer, 23 years old and working at Ebensburg, was admitted to the hospital Saturday for treatment of an injury to his right hand. While at work in a stone quarry at Amsbry he was hurt in blasting. [Altoona TIMES] The annual readjustment of salaries of clerks in first and second class post offices throughout the country has been completed and will go into effect July 1st. By the new adjustment the clerks will receive a material advance over the old rate. Thursday night of last week thieves entered the Pennsylvania railroad station at Glen Campbell, ransacked and broke the ticket case and succeeded in getting away with about $20 in cash. Suspicion attached to several strangers seen around the town the day before. Messrs. John Springer and Joseph Dunman, of Barr township, who left about a month ago on a visit to the state of Oregon with the intention of locating if they liked the country, returned last week and have come to the conclusion that Pennsylvania is good enough for them. On Monday night the baggage room at the depot in this place was entered by thieves and one trunk and several satchels were broken open and despoiled of their contents. Most of the plunder carried away consisted of clothing. The entrance was effected by prying off the hasp that secured the door. The dwelling house of Theodore Neelan in Barr township was burned to ashes on Monday evening, March 9th, about 5 o’clock, together with most of the furniture and clothing of the family and a lot of potatoes and apples. The fire originated from a defective stove pipe. There is no insurance and the loss is a severe one. Jules Walles, an Italian, of Wehrum, was arrested on Friday last and taken to jail at Indiana to answer to charges of assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons. Jules was courting a Miss Wolflensky of that place, and on Friday he gave the girl the choice of marrying him or being killed on the spot. Miss Wolfensky cried for help and a policeman arrested Walles as aforementioned. On Saturday on an affidavit made by J. G. Lloyd and Joseph Davis of Ebensburg, and presented to the Court by S. L. Reed, Esq., a preliminary injunction was issued by the court restraining the officers of the Ebensburg Agricultural Society from leasing the property or otherwise encumbering the same. At a hearing in court on Monday, the injunction was dissolved and the bill dismissed. Between one and two o’clock on Monday morning, Mr. William Makin, who is night watchman at Mr. Web Griffith’s saw mill at Beulah, was somewhat startled to behold a bear perambulating through the fog yard. Mr. Makin had a lantern with him and was quite close to Mr. Bear who did not seem to be much alarmed and marched off at a leisurely gait. It is supposed to be the same bear that was seen in that vicinity last fall. John Swartzentruver, engineer at the Stineman mines at South Fork was waylaid by an unknown man near the brick works one night recently. Mr. Swartzentruber received a number of cuts on his forehead and nose but he beat off his assailant with a piece of lead pipe and the miscreant escaped. The cases against Albert Itell, of Portage township, this county, Dr. Edwin S. Cooper and Mrs. Della Talbitzer, of New Castle, and Dr. J. R. Hahn, of Edenburg, charged with causing the death of Minnie Williams, of Conemaugh, were tried at New Castle last week. Albert Itell pleaded guilty and related all he know concerning the criminal charges, which relieved him from a formal trial. The case was given to the jury on Friday evening and after being out sixteen hours found a verdict acquitting Mrs. Talbitzer and finding Drs. Cooper and Hahn guilty. A motion has been made for a new trial. John Shippen, a blacksmith employed at the Piper mines at Lilly, worked for several years during spare hours in an effort to invent a trolley for electric street and mine cars that would not leave wires. Fellow workmen laughed at him and said he would never gain the desired end. John only laughed back and “allowed” that some day he might strike it. Recently he had his device patented and he has refused an offer of $40,000 for his invention. Other firms on being shown the device have raised the bids, with the chances that Shippen will strike a good bargain for the sale of the patent in the near future. Engineer Roy Spispler and Fireman E. D. Buckle, of Altoona, were injured in the wreck of an engine at Kittanning Point at midnight. While running along at a fairly good rate of speed the locomotive ran into another one, was thrown from the track and wrecked. Engineer Spispler was caught between the engine and tender and had his left foot crushed and sustained numerous body bruises. Considerable trouble was experienced in removing him. Fireman Buckle sustained lacerations of the head and contusions of the left hip by being thrown from the engine. 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