Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, December 12, 1902 LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. T. M. Richards, of this place, visited Altoona on Thursday. F. J. Parrish, Esq., of Gallitzin, attended court this week as a witness. There is some talk that Ebensburg will have a brick plant in the near future. Mr. Joseph Simindinger, of Carroll township, was a visitor to Ebensburg on Saturday. Four new cases of smallpox were reported to the Altoona board of health on Monday, all in one family. Four Dauphin county meat dealers have been arrested upon the charge of selling bologna containing acid. Mr. Frank O’Hara, of Munster township, spent this week in Ebensburg attending court as a juror. Judge Bell, of Blair county, assisted Judge O’Connor for several days this week in disposing of cases in court. Miss Blanche Henry, who has been visiting relatives in Williamsport, Pa., for a couple months, has retuned home. Mr. Wm. Tierney of the East ward, Ebensburg, has sold his farm in Cambria township to Porter Kinports of Cherrytree. On Saturday Judge O’Connor announced January 5th as the date for Motion Court and January 20th for argument court. Mr. William Pryce, residing in Cambria township, four miles north of Ebensburg, had ten sheep killed by dogs one night last week. A short time ago some money was dropped in McBreen’s restaurant that the owner can recover by description and paying for this notice. Pay your taxes before Dec. 20th, after that date five percent will be added on all unpaid borough and school taxes in Ebensburg borough. Five cases of smallpox have been discovered at Sonman, a small mining town near Ben’s Creek. The houses have been quarantined and one school closed. On Wednesday evening Mrs. Maude Collins entertained the Whist club of this place. The lady’s prize was won by Mrs. Johnston and the gentleman’s prize by Mr. Buck. Mr. Carl Rivinius, Ebensburg’s well-known jeweler, has placed in his establishment two fine plate glass show cases in which will be displayed a handsome line of holiday gifts. Smallpox is quite prevalent in Glen Campbell, Indiana county, and the residents of that place are alarmed over the matter. There are a number of cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever in the place too. Mr. V. S. Barker and son, Austin, left Saturday for New Castle to attend the funeral of Mrs. Edward Jones, a sister of Mr. Barker’s wife. Mrs. Barker had been with her sister for several days before she died. David Miller, who was convicted at the recent term of Centre county court for the shooting of his son-in-law, Robert Roach, was sentenced by Judge Love to eight years and eleven months in the penitentiary. A bill was introduced Friday at Washington by Representative Jenkins, to make newspapers or other periodicals unmailable which contain any pictures of suicides or details relating to suicides beyond a simple statement of death by suicide and imposing a penalty. Some two years ago J. H. Kinter, of this place, sold his hotel property by article of agreement to I. N. Rodkey, of Cambria county, for $6,250. Mr. Rodkey failed to make the first or any subsequent payments as promised in the article. A few days since he made a tender of the whole amount to Mr. Kinter, who refused to accept the tender. [Indiana Messenger] A train of 61 heavily loaded coal cars of the Pennsylvania railroad company broke away from a siding on a branch between Lovett and Windber Wednesday afternoon of last week. They made a wild and terrible dash down the mountain, and 39 of them piled up in one of the most marvelous masses of wreckage ever seen. The loss reaches many thousands of dollars. Mrs. William Kimball, wife of the proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel in this place, is seriously ill from the effects of blood poisoning. A short time ago Mrs. Kimball injured one of her fingers while engaged in hanging curtains but at the time regarded the wound as being of little consequence. Blood poisoning developed and Mrs. Kimball’s condition is quite serious. J. H. Glasgow, purchasing agent of the Cresson Supply company, formerly of Altoona, was badly injured in Harrisburg a few days ago. He was crossing the capitol grounds when a bolt fell from a scaffolding where workmen are erecting a wing of the new building. The bolt struck Mr. Glasgow on the right side of the head, splitting the ear and causing scalp lacerations. He was removed to a hospital. _________________________________________________________________ See what people are saying about Windows Live. Check out featured posts. http://www.windowslive.com/connect?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_connect2_082008