Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, October 17, 1902 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Dr. S. C. Gearhart, of Blandburg, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Zahm of Vintondale spent the past week in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Misses Maude and Bessie Shoemaker returned home on Saturday from a visit to friends in Pittsburg. Mr. Newton J. Roberts of Johnstown, an old time Ebensburger, spent Monday and Tuesday in town greeting old friends. Mr. Robert Cassidy, the barber, fell from his haymow one day last week and although no bones were broken, he was unable to work for several days. Dr. J. Ellis Glasgow, of Altoona, has been appointed assistant medical examiner of the P. R. R. relief department and will be stationed at Cresson. Mayor Pendry of Johnstown, at the instance of Dr. A. M. Wakefield, acting president of the board of health has decided to issue an order prohibiting further holding of dances until the small pox wave has been controlled. Peter Patterson, of Jordan township, Clearfield county, had his pocket picked between $50 and $60 while in the crowd entering the opera house at Clearfield last Monday night, on the occasion of the Patterson meeting at that place. On Friday while he was cleaning the Todd reservoir, James Crouse killed a fine trout with a rake which he was using. The “speckled beauty,” was seventeen inches long, nine inches in circumference and weighed a pound and ten ounces. [Bedford Gazette] It is predicted that the new freight route over the Portage railroad from Gallitzin to Hollidaysburg will be completed within six months. Contractors are making arrangements for the building of shanties and the proper housing of their employees during the progress of the work. Frank Beckwith was sentenced by Judge Love at Bellefonte last week to $1 fine and nine years’ solitary confinement at hard labor in the Western Penitentiary. Beckwith was convicted at the August term of murder in the second degree for the killing of his wife, last February at Sandy Ridge. George L. Strayer, of Altoona, attempted to commit suicide Thursday morning of last week by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. It is not known why the man attempted to take his life, but it is supposed because he is under indictment for implication in the forging of orders on a beer company. YOUNG MAN CREMATED Fire at South Fork Monday night caused the burning of the scalehouse of the Argyle Coal company and the cremation of John Kline, a young man who was sleeping in the building. The monetary loss will hardly exceed $300 on which there is an insurance of $170. The scalehouse was situated about 150 feet from the tipple of the Argyle Coal company, a quarter of a mile from the town of South Fork. Shortly after 11 o’clock Monday night the men who were working on the tipple discovered flames coming out of the roof of the scalehouse and hurried over to it. They endeavored to open the door of the building which was a frame structure, 16x24 feet in size and a story and a half high, but were driven back by the flames. They could do nothing but stand idly by while the shed burned down, the rain which descended in torrents shortly before, being the only thing which saved half a dozen other buildings. The origin of the fire is not known. The fire had burned itself nearly out when it was learned that young Kline was missing and the men remembered he said he was going into the scalehouse to lie down a while before going to his home nearby. The men found the remains and removed them from the smoldering ruins. The body was charred beyond recognition, one hand and both feet were burned off, and the other arm was but a stump, leaving little more than the trunk, and head to show what a few hours before had been a young man in full life. The dead youth was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kline, his father being a dairyman. He had worked for the Argyle company off and on for five years. He was 20 years of age. _________________________________________________________________ Talk to your Yahoo! Friends via Windows Live Messenger. Find out how. http://www.windowslive.com/explore/messenger?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_messenger_yahoo_082008