Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, February 27, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Jacob Burkey, of this place, is visiting friends in Altoona. For the first time in many months Altoona is free from smallpox. H. H. Myers, Esq., of this place, was in Johnstown on Tuesday. P. F. Dillon, of Elder township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Saturday. Mr. Francis Illig, of Carroll township, spent a few hours in town on Monday. Mr. Michael Bopp, of Croyle township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. During the past week Bloom & Skelly slaughtered a beef which dressed 1,000 pounds. Mrs. Frank Jervis is very ill at the home of her mother, Mrs. Charles J. Owens, in this place. Mr. Phillip Shoemaker, of Wilmerding, spent the past week in Ebensburg visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Shoemaker. Mr. Leonce Shields of Pittsburgh spent a few days in Ebensburg this week visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Shields. On account of a freight wreck at Winterset on Saturday night passengers were delayed until near midnight to reaching Ebensburg. Monday was observed as a legal holiday in honor of the anniversary of Washington’s birthday although the date proper came Sunday. Mrs. Margaret Bock, of Morrellville, having been adjudged insane by a commission in lunacy, was on Friday, taken to Dixmont by Sheriff Davis. Mrs. Ellen Williams and daughter, Miss Ella, of Carrolltown, were in Ebensburg on Tuesday in attendance at the funeral of Mrs. Susan Williams. Mr. C. J. Hogue and wife, of Cresson, and Mr. Felix Yost, of Carroll township, attended the funeral of Mrs. Susan Williams in this place, on Tuesday. Mr. Herman Williams and wife, of Vandergrift, Pa., spent several days in town this week, being called here by the death of the former’s mother, Mrs. Susan Williams. Mr. H. B. Kelly, agent at the P. R. R. Station in this place, has handed in his resignation to take effect March 1st, and return to his home in Mifflin to accept another position. The school directors of Altoona have decided to add manual training and kindergartens to the public schools of the city, both systems to be put in operation at the beginning of the next school term. James Brussel, aged 21 years, and a brakeman in the yard at Altoona, while riding on top of a box car at midnight Sunday night was struck by the Fourth street bridge and suffered a laceration of the scalp. He had his wound dressed at the hospital. M. D. Kittell, Esq., Mrs. Maude Collins and Miss Blanche Henry, all of this place, went down to Pittsburg on Monday for the purpose of attending the ceremonies incident to the consecration of Rev. Regis Canevan, as coadjutor bishop of the Pittsburg diocese. The Ebensburg Cornet band gave an enjoyable concert in the opera house on Tuesday night to a good sized audience. The band rendered a very fine program and cleared about $75 by the concert. Besides the band music there were solos by Miss Louis McNamara, Elmer Davis, H. H. Myers and Harvey Tibbott. Thomas Phillips shot and fatally wounded Frank Berringer, another Italian at a boarding house at Wehrum on Saturday. The men had quarreled and Phillips shot the other man in the back. The shooter was arrested and turned over to the Sheriff of Indiana county, who lodged him in jail. This was the second shooting at Wehrum in a week. By a decision of the United States Supreme court in Washington Monday, the Carnegie Steel company scored a final victory over the Cambria Steel company in the celebrated “mixer” case. The decision has no bearing upon the validity of the patent held by the Pittsburg concern, but merely a question as to which of the litigants shall pay the costs. They amount to $2,700. William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, will be in Johnstown Monday evening next, March 2d, and will deliver a public lecture in the Johnstown Opera House under the auspices of the Johnstown Economic circle. The evening promises to be notable and the many admirers of Mr. Bryan should not fail of the opportunity to hear him. Hon. Alvin Evans, Col. S. W. Davis, Lemon Reed, Esq., Messrs. Web. Griffith, T. L. Gibson and others of our citizens went down to Harrisburg this Thursday morning for the purpose of appearing before the Legislative Committee on counties and townships. It is needless to remark that they are solidly against the taking of any territory off Cambria for the purpose of making a new county. While Lin. Lloyd, the eldest son of Postmaster Lloyd, was dancing on a small box on Saturday afternoon at his home, in this place, the box took a tumble and as a result, Master Lin., is now nursing a broken arm. A small bone of the right arm was fractured and the elbow out of place, but we are glad to state that after Dr. Davison got through with him the fracture was reduced, the elbow back in place and no serious results expected. A special train will run from Cresson to Vintondale and return stopping at all stations on Thursday evening, March 19th for the purpose of conveying passengers to the Grand Lenten Entertainment to take place in the Catholic church at the latter place by the New York Entertainment company. It is expected that a great many people along the line will attend the entertainment. A further notice of the schedule for the train will appear hereafter. About ten days ago. Sterling Aiken shot and wounded a Wehrum bookkeeper, Welton Thomas. Reports say that Aiken shot first at Aiken,[as written in the newspaper] who is a negro. Aiken escaped, but the Wehram residents ordered all the negroes in the town, about 20, to leave the neighborhood. After several refusals the white residents took ropes and poles and attacked the negroes’ shack. After an hours’ work it was pulled down and the negroes, seeing their position, gave up the fight and boarded a freight train and left. Messrs. John Gittings, L. W. Kauffman and F. E. Farabaugh, county auditors, met on Monday and after going over their work of the auditors settlement, discovered that they had made an error in balancing the accounts in favor of Treasurer S. J. McClune, amounting to $7,029.87. Ex-Treasurer McClune immediately stated that he would make good whatever amount the auditors found to be correctly due. GALLITZIN GIRL IN TROUBLE Tuesday morning’s Pittsburg PRESS contains the following item referring to a Cambria county girl who seems to have gotten into trouble in the Smoky city. “Detectives Kelly and Riley yesterday arrested a young woman, Lulu Yingling, of Gallitzin, in a Smithfield street store for shoplifting. She was apprehended while coolly packing stolen goods in a suit case before a room full of clerks. At her room in Brighton road, Allegheny, a lot of alleged stolen goods were found.” _________________________________________________________________ See how Windows Mobile brings your life together—at home, work, or on the go. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093182mrt/direct/01/