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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, February 1, 1907
Volume 41, Number 5


Items Local and Personal

Richard Russell, manager of the Cresson Foundry, Machine and Car 
Company, has tendered his resignation to the board of directors of that 
company and will shortly remove from the Gibson property on Horner 
street in this place to New York City where he has secured a position 
with a manufacturing concern.

J. G. Lloyd of this place has been quite ill for several days past with 
violent cramps of the stomach.  At this writing Mr. Lloyd is much 
improved and will doubtless be able to be out again in a few days.

E. James & Son, the Ebensburg druggists, have added a handsome onyx 
soda water fountain to the already finely equipped store.

Misses Margaret Myers and Maud Luther returned home Tuesday from a 
visit of a few days in Johnstown.

The little one-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Evans of the west 
ward is critically ill with pneumonia.

Mrs. H. W. Chester and children, of Carrolltown, is visiting her 
mother, Mrs. Mary Eckenrode of this place.

Miss Ida Evans returned Saturday from a two weeks' visit with friends 
in Johnstown and Windber.

Robert Evans, who has been suffering from Bright's disease, is reported 
to be slightly improved.

Ned and George Bender are visiting their grandmother, Mrs. E. R. 
Dunegan of St. Augustine.

Miss Bird Kinkead of Johnstown is the guest of the family of Fergus C. 
Lloyd in this place.

Squire J. D. Parrish of the Centre ward is confined to his home with an 
attack of grip.

Miss Grace Fenlon is visiting her sister, Mrs. George Bearer of 
Pittsburg.

James Kirkpatrick of Carroll township was an Ebensburg visitor today.

Mrs. Martha Jones of High Street is confined to her room with grip.

Miss Elizabeth Smith of Cleveland is the guest of Miss Mabel Jones.

George Thomas returned Saturday from a visit in Johnstown.

Burgess Callan of Cresson was a visitor here Wednesday.

A. E. Bender was in Patton on business Tuesday.

Attorney P. J. Little was in Johnstown Tuesday.


Late News of County

Elmer Paul of Cresson who underwent an operation recently for 
appendicitis is improving slowly.

Wednesday was the coldest day this year.  At 7:30 a.m. the thermometer 
at the Anderson House at Cresson registered 19 degrees below zero.

Jerome Flick moved his family from Westover to Cresson on last 
Thursday.  He is residing in the house he built here some two years ago 
on upper Keystone avenue.

One man knocked unconscious, another with his finger shot off and a 
half dozen others almost cut to pieces with knives was the result of 
the wedding activities of Frank Kobza and Anna Marko at Puritan, this 
county, Saturday night.  A number of the parties are now confined in 
the county jail.


Mother St. John
Youngstown, O., Jan. 29

Mother St. John, the only surviving member of the quartet of noble 
women who came here from Cleveland in 1874 and laid the foundation of 
the present flourishing Ursuline community in West Rayen Avenue, is 
celebrating the 50th anniversary of her profession.


Attempts Suicide!
Karamarkovic, Condemned Murderer, Attempts to Kill Himself in His Cell 
Saturday Night

The fear of death has transformed Marko Karamarkovic, the Cambria City 
foreigner under sentence of death for murder, into a madman.  Terror 
has seized the convicted man and he is apparently seeking by any means 
at all to avoid that horrible trip to the gallows which he believes is 
inevitable.  Saturday night he tried to commit suicide in his cell and 
would have undoubtedly succeeded had it not been for a man in the jail 
corridor.

Since the death sentence was passed on him by Judge O'Connor, 
Karamarkovic has been in a frenzy.  He shouts from time to time in his 
own language.  At times he weeps and sobs and tears frantically at the 
cell door.  He repeats constantly that he did nothing for which he 
should be hanged.  Saturday night a man in the corridor happened to 
hear a series of dull thuds.  He looked in Karamarkovic's cell.  The 
foreigner was beating his head against the stone walls of the cell.  He 
was endeavoring with all his might to kill himself.  The other 
prisoners at once called the turnkey and the latter rushed into the 
cell and prevented the frenzied foreigner from doing further harm to 
himself.  Since that time Karamarkovic has never been left alone.  A 
man is with him in the cell day and night.
  

Letters Lately Issued

Estate of John C. McDermitt, late of Ashville.  Renunciation of brother 
filed and letters issued to J. E. Litzinger.

Estate of Adam Rudolph, late of Loretto.  Renunciation of Christopher, 
one of the Executors, filed and letters granted to B. W. Litzinger.


$13.37 for a Rabbit 
Moxham Man Killed Bunny Out of the Lawful Season

Albert Gochnick, a Moxham foreigner, had rabbit for his Sunday dinner 
but it came high.  While returning home from his work at the Valley 
Mine at Ferndale Saturday evening, he bowled over the bunny with a 
stone.  A minute later Game Warden Robert Bowman happened along and 
arrested him.  In Alderman Ephraim Wirik's court the dinner bill 
amounted to $10 fine and costs, $13.37 in all. [Johnstown TRIBUNE]
  

Body Badly Mangled

Grover Sanders, aged twenty-two years of Cassandra, was found along the 
railroad tracks between Benscreek and Jamestown early Tuesday.  He had 
been killed by a train and his body was badly mangled.


Fell Under Train 

Martin Closkey, aged fifteen years, who lived with his mother, Mrs. 
Estella Closkey, above Cresson, was fatally injured near his home 
Monday evening.  He fell under a train and was badly mangled.  He died 
while being taken to a Johnstown hospital.


Powder Can Explodes 
Thomas Cartwright of Thomas' Mills was Thrown Fifteen Feet
Daughter Fatally Burned, Died Sunday

Thomas Cartwright, a miner, was thrown fifteen feet and miraculously 
escaped serious injury; his wife was painfully burned about the hands 
and head; a two-year-old daughter of the family was fatally burned and 
died at 3 o'clock Sunday morning; a six-months-old babe was badly 
burned; and several windows were blown out of the house when a quantity 
of powder exploded Friday afternoon in the Cartwright home at Thomas' 
Mills, about two miles east of Hastings.

Thomas Cartwright is a miner and for some time past has been employed 
in the St. Boniface workings.  Like most of his fellow workmen, 
Cartwright kept a can of powder at his home and each day took to the 
mines only what he thought would be sufficient for the blasting to be 
done that day.  It was while filling a small can with some of the 
powder Friday afternoon last about 3 o'clock, preparatory to his going 
to work on the night shift that night, that Cartwright accidentally 
allowed a small amount of the explosive to drop on the cook stove near 
which he was sitting.  The fire ignited the small can of powder which 
he was filling and the resultant explosion communicated to the large 
can of powder.  The detonation which followed was terrific and was felt 
by neighbors living some distance from the house.  It shook the 
Cartwright Hotel not far away and a number of men there at the time ran 
out to find smoke issuing from the miner's home and a great commotion 
among the occupants.

Several of the downstairs windows in the house were blown entirely out 
by the concussion.  Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright, a two-year-old girl, a 
six-month-old babe and small boy were in the kitchen when the explosion 
occurred. The father was thrown backward fifteen feet to the wall of 
the house.  The mother, who was standing near the stove, was 
frightfully burned about the face and head by the explosion and one of 
her hands were burned to a crisp in her attempts to extinguish the 
flames which were literally eating up her two-year-old daughter.  The 
child was terribly burned in spite of the brave efforts of the mother 
to prevent it.  Its clothing was entirely burned off its body, which is 
practically roasted.  The child also inhaled the flames.  The six- 
months-old baby, which was lying in a cradle, was also terribly burned 
as a result of its clothing catching fire.

The little boy was playing behind a door at the time and escaped 
uninjured.  The burning powder set fire to the house, but the flames 
were extinguished by neighbors who had been attracted by the noise of 
the explosion and the screams of the unfortunate and frenzied victims.

When the seriousness of the victims' burns was realized, hasty 
summonses went out for physicians.  Drs. Rice and Hagey of Hastings and 
Dr. Murray of Patton, reached the scene of the explosion in a short 
time and were soon alleviating the excruciating pains of the mother and 
her children.


Unknown Hungarian 

An unknown Hungarian was killed by a fall of rock Wednesday afternoon 
in the Brawley Mines, located in Carroll township, a short distance 
from Carrolltown.  Undertaker Buck of Carrolltown took charge of the 
body.


Resolution of Condolence: Ethel Jones

Whereas, God in His Divine Wisdom has removed from among us our beloved 
friend and Sister Ethel Jones and 

Whereas, This bereavement has cast a deep gloom and sorrow upon our 
Sunday School and especially upon her own beloved family, Therefore be 
it

Resolved, That we tender to the bereaved Father and Mother and their 
family our sincerest sympathies and condolences; And we pray our 
Heavenly Father who "gave and hath taken" to Himself this beautiful 
daughter and friend, will also heal the hearts that have been so deeply 
wounded and will verify to the afflicted "His Great and Precious 
Promises."  She was a beautiful Christian Character, modest and 
retiring in disposition, kind and sympathetic in Spirit and in company, 
she was ever careful in the use of words that had any tendency to hurt 
another's feeling.  She was an obedient child, a loving sister, a loyal 
friend and a kindly disposed acquaintance.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to her family and a 
copy to four of our county papers and that these resolutions be spread 
on the minutes of the School.

  By order of the School
  J. A. James
  Mrs. A. V. Caldwell
  Robert Clyde, 
  Committee