NEWS: Items from the Cambria Freeman, October 17, 1902, Cambria County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright July 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ 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. Michael Bobish or Kowitch, and Charles Namerish or Neemish, Hungarian miners, were killed by a fall of slate in one of the Lackawanna Coal & Coke Company's mines at Wehrum Sunday. Their remains were brought to Johnstown for burial. The remains were badly mashed by the slate.