Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, March 6, 1903 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Both Johnstown and Altoona will have a street fair next July. Mr. Augustine Yost, of Carroll township, is seriously ill with pneumonia. Mr. F. A. Westrich, of Elder township, was in town this week doing duty as a juror. The entire stock of Mrs. R. E. Jones of Vintondale will be closed out. See regular ad. Mr. Isaiah Gates, of White township, spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. Daniel Hanlin, of Gallitzin township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Monday. Mr. William Tate of this place has been confined to his home during the past week by illness. John Lutz, for many years editor of the Bedford INQUIRER, has been appointed postmaster of Bedford. Miss Marguaret Levy, of Houtzdale, Pa., was the guest of Mrs. Maude Collins, of this place on Monday. South Fork which has been free from smallpox since last November now has three cases of the disease in its limits. The interior of Mr. Charles M. Schwab’s summer residence at Loretto is being beautifully decorated by a force of painters from New York. The doctors report that smallpox has been entirely stamped out of Vintondale and Wehrum, the quarantine having been taken off all infected houses. The bill before the State Legislature fixing the minimum salary of public school teachers at $35 per month passed the House on the final reading last Thursday. Ex-Sheriff D. A. Luther and his son, B. M. Luther, both of Carroll township, spent a few hours in Ebensburg on Monday and were visitors to the FREEMAN office. On Monday, the court appointed J. L. Elder, J. J. Evans and John L. Edwards viewers to lay out a road from Ebensburg to Vintondale through Nantyglo and Twin Rocks. Mr. John L. Stough, of this place, will begin tearing down the residence in which he lives in a few days and will at once begin the erection of a fine case brick house on the same ground. The new house will have all modern conveniences. The House of Representatives at Harrisburg on Tuesday passed finally the bill already passed by the Senate, making it a misdemeanor for a husband or father to desert and neglect to support his wife or children, prescribing a penalty therefore and making the wife a competent witness in such cases. Smallpox has broken out in Spangler. Two cases are already reported but the board of health has promptly quarantined the residences of the victims and are taking all means to prevent the spread of the disease. The schools in the central part of the town are closed and will remain so for some time. J. J. Godfrey, mine boss for the Savage Fire Brick company at the Gooseberry mines, Hyndman, Bedford county, purchased a large wildcat recently from Edward Shroyer and had it shipped to E. R. Dignan, proprietor of the West End Hotel at Gallitzin, this county. Mr. Shroyer caught the cat with the aid of a steel trap. George Lazzor of Portage was brought to jail on Monday to answer to a charge of murder in causing the death of Steve Valastick by striking him with an axe some three weeks ago at Jamestown. Valastick died at the Memorial hospital at Johnston on Saturday and a Coroner’s inquest found that Lazzor was responsible for his death. A dwelling house owned and occupied by Martin Flick near Loretto caught fire and burned to the ground one day last week, together with nearly all if its contents. The fire started from a defective flue, and before it was discovered, had gained such headway that it was only with great difficulty that Mr. Flick, who is a very old man and in feeble health was rescued. The loss will be about $1,000 and it is fully covered by insurance. James Miller, aged 55, of Altoona, employed as a laborer in shops was admitted to the hospital Saturday morning as the result of being seriously injured while at work. A car load of steel tires for the 80-inch driving wheels of locomotives was being unloaded, Miller was assisting the work, and while one was being rolled to the main pile it fell, caught and pinioned him between it and the other tire. He was removed to the hospital where an examination showed he had sustained contusion of the shoulders and back and possibly internal injuries. With a fearful crash a section of fully 75 feet of the north-west section of the Pennsylvania Railroad company’s Twelfth street round house at Altoona caved in at 2:20 on Tuesday afternoon. It was used by the middle division engines. Two locomotives were caught and completely covered with debris. Bricks and timbers were piled up in a big mass. At first it was thought that several workmen were buried in the ruins. Two workmen had been working on one of the engines but had gone away just a short while before the accident happened. The damage will amount to several thousand dollars. Wednesday morning of last week by an explosion of dynamite in the new tunnel at Gallitzin, two men were seriously injured. They are: James Sheehan, aged 28 years, a foreman, and Patrick O’Connell, aged 28 years, a laborer. The men were engaged in blasting. One load had failed to go off. The men resumed the work of loading more holes when the dynamite in the other hole let go. It is believed that it was put off by the powder being ignited from the other blasts, and burning unnoticed until it eventually reached the blast. Sheehan was blown across the tunnel 25 feet. He was unconscious when picked up. O’Connell was standing near the blast and the flash burned him. A negro in the vicinity of the blast was also burned. Sheehan and O’Connell were removed to the Altoona hospital. At this writing it is feared that the former is fatally injured and that the eyesight of the latter is destroyed. Hinder DeVolgin, an Austrian, attempted suicide at the Altoona hospital at 7:30 o’clock on Tuesday morning by throwing himself over the porch railing outside the convalescent ward to the brick walk, eighteen feet below. He landed on his head, sustaining a severe contusion of the brain and will likely die. William Bacon, an orderly, saw the man go onto the porch, also his attempt at self-destruction from the sun parlor, but was unable to do anything to prevent the act. DeVolgin was admitted January 8th from Gallitzin with both bones of his right arm broken and became despondent because he thought he would not recover from the injury. He arose as usual on Tuesday and ate his breakfast, after which he walked out on the porch. He stood there for a short time then threw himself over the railing. As soon as he struck the pavement Orderly Bacon gave the alarm. The man was carried into the dispensary where his injuries were dressed. Blair county authorities were notified on Wednesday of last week of an aggravated case of smallpox at Tunnelhill, just inside the Blair county line. The victim is Mrs. Joseph P. Warner, who has been suffering with the disease for some time but little attention. A physician has been provided and the place properly quarantined. Besides the parents there are five children in the house. The painters and paper hangers of Altoona went on strike Monday to enforce the payment of a new scale of wages calling for $2.25 for painting, $2.50 for paper hanging, $2.70 for frescoing and $5.00 per day for graining. They also ask a nine-hour day. The Master Painters’ Association has refused to pay the scale and 100 men are out. Three independent master painters have signed the scale. Fred Martell, a Pittsburg division brakeman residing in Altoona, was seriously injured near Greensburg Saturday morning. He was walking along the top of the cars of the train and not noticed that the train had parted, walked off, falling to the track below, breaking one of his legs and badly spraining the other and sustaining body bruises. It was his first night on duty. He was taken to the Westmoreland hospital where he was given attention. _________________________________________________________________ See how Windows Mobile brings your life together—at home, work, or on the go. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093182mrt/direct/01/