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THE PATTON COURIER.
OL. XIIL—NO. 17.
HOOK THE PLUM TREE
ouncil Fills Paying Offices,
of the Borough.
L WERE PRESENT.
A. E. Rumberger Succeeds James Mellon
as Borough Treasurer and A, T, Cornelius
Was Elected Street Commissioner Over
A. H. Burkey.
Borough Treasurer, Albert E. Rum-
berger.
Street Commissioner, Adam T. Cor-
nelius.
Borough Engineer, Howard OC. Yer-
ger.
Chief of Police, William Gill.
Borough Solicitor, Reuel Somerville.
These were the plums that were dis-
tributed at the regular meeting of the
borough council held Monday night.
All the members were present. The
list of applicants for the various posi-
tions were as follows: :
Borough Treasurer—James Mellon,
Albert E. Rumberger.
Street Commissioner — Stephan A.
Cooper, A. H. Burkey, Ed Glass, Adam
T. Cornelius, Thomas Bishop, Victor
Lauer, George Boyer.
Borough Engineer—Thomas J. Gra-
ham, Howard C. Yerger.
Chief of Police—William Gill.
Borongh Solicitor—Reuel Somerville.
On motion of Bailey, seconded by
Nagle, the election of officers was by
secret ballot and ‘scratch’ tickets
were used. Emigh was not present
| gaished before much damage was done.
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.
Pointed Pencilings Pertaining to
People and Places.
—Ellery Hubbard, the young son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hubbard, met
with a severe accident last night while
trying to jump on a sled drawn by a
team of horses and going at a rapid
rate. He slipped and fell and an iron
brace on the sled struck him in the
mouth lacerating his lips in a serious
manner.
—The jury in the Karamarkovic
murder trial at Ebensburg was out
about two hours and a half Friday
night and returned a verdict of murder
in the first degree. The prisoner heard
the jurors polled and witnessed the
impressive ceremonies of the fateful
return without a sign of emotion.
—The First Baptist church was the
scene of an incipient conflagration
yesterday afternoon, which was extin-
Pithy,
An alarm of fire was sounded and the
fire company responded promptly, but
their services were not needed.
THE REAPER DEATH.
Loved Ones Who Have Been Called to the
Other Shore,
Richard Rowland, an aged and re-
gpected resident of this place, died at
bis home on Fourth avenue Tuesday
morning at one o’clock of diseases in-
cident to old age, after an illness of
about a week.
Mr. Rowland was a native of Wales
and was born in that country about 76
years ago. He came to America in 1864,
locating at Pottsville and later moved
to Dudley, Pa. He subsequently
moved to Brisbin and lived in that
place for 18 years. About 13 years
ago the family moved to Patton, where
Mr. Rowland resided until his death. |
He was a miner by occupation, but had |
not been employed for several years. |
His wife died here about eight years |
ago.
He is survived by the following sons
and daughters: Mrs. Esther Wagner,
John Rowland and Mrs. Martha Pow-
ell, of Carroll township, and Mrs. John
Waters, Richard and Miss Harriett |
Rowland, of Patton. Hugh Rowland, |
—Thomas Garvey and Frank Me-
Carty, members of the Patton base
ball team last year, are announced by
contract to play with Punxsutawney
in the Inter-State league the coming
season.
—Kill Buck Tribe No. 369, I. O. R.
M., will attend service at the Baptist
church in a body Sunday morning.
The members will meet in the wig-
Patton and vicinity are invited to
attend.
when the first two ballots were taken.
On the first ballot Yerger had four
votes for engineer and Gra am one.
The former was the only one elected
on this ballot. Cornelius had three
votes for street commissioner and Bur-
key two votes. Rumberger received |
three votes for treasurer and Mellon
two. The second ballot was the same
as the first. On the third ballot election |
of all the remaining officers was made
by the following vote.
For Treasurer—Rumberger 4, Mel-
lon 2.
For Street Commissioner—Cornelius
4, Berkey 2.
On motion the street commissioner
was elected for two months.
President Lingle announced his
standing committees for the year as
follows, the first named of each being |
chairman:
Finance Committee—George E. Prin-
dible, Dr. H. W. Bailey, R. M. Emigh.
Street Committee--N. Anstatt, R. M.
Emigh, T. N. Nagle.
Fire and Police Committee—Dr. H.
W. Bailey, T. N. Nagle, N. Anstatt.
TRANSACTIONS IN REALTY.
Properties In This End of the County That
Changed Hands Recently.
Beech Creek Coal & Coke Co. to
John Danzak, 4,588 acres in Eider
township, $150.
Beech Creek Coal & Coke Co. to
John Danzak, lot in Patton, $150.
Ellen C. Wilt et vir to G. A. Watt,
lot in Ashville, $75.
Augustine Strittmatter, et ux to
Francis J. Strittmatter et ux, five acres '
956 perches in Carroll township, $325.
s Blanche Barnicle to F. J. Hartmann,
wo lots in Ashville, $1.
Benedictine Society of Westmore-
jand county to Marcus Amandus Buck,
lot in Carrolltown, $180.
M. D. Kittell et ux to Clarence R.
—Nothing can stem the enthusiasm
| of a true automobilist. Joe Cole took
{his benzine buggy to St. Lawrence
{Sunday and successfully engineered it
{there and back through about ‘steen
feet of snow.
—The COURIER is under obligations
to Editor Matt Savage, of the Clear-
field Public Spirit, for a souvenir book-
let detailing the advantages of his town,
It is nicely gotten up and of typograph-
ical merit.
—Manager Gilliece and Assistant
Manager Humphrey, of the Patton
base ball club, are in New York this
week securing players for the loca
team the coming season.
—The liverymen have had a chance
| to get even with the trolley company
| for several days past. The excellent
sleighing cut down the receipts of the
latter very perceptibly.
—William Carney, the proprietor of
the Cross Roads hotel, has been arrested
for selling liquor to minors. He
bail for his appearance at court.
—T. J. Fitzgerald and John O’Brien
are in Indianapolis attending the
miners’ convention as the delegates
from the Patton local union.
—The Mellon Sisters have a new ad-
vertisement in this issue announcing
the opening of their new millinery
store.
—Paul Barton is home from Dickin-
son college at Carlisle for a few days.
Lost Her Purse,
Miss Rhoda Rhody, collecting for the
Bell Telephone company, had the mis-
fortune to lose sight of her purse Tues-
day afternoon for a few moments while
making collections in the sheriff’s office
in the court house, and during the
scene. After a long and patient search
Stiffler, lot in Cresson township, $350.
M. D Kittell et ux to Pennsylvania
.. Coal & Coke company, 108 acres in
Barr township, $1.
Eighth Ward L. & B. Association to’
Agnes Fackiner, two lots in Hastings,
$775.
J. M. Gilliece et ux to Matt Collar, !
lot in Patton, $15,000. |
Con Bever et ux to Mrs. A. H.|
George, one acre in Susquehanna town-
ship, §725.
Frank C. Hager et al to Martha A.
Kenney, 8; acres in Elder township,
$776.
T. Barnes et ux to John Wengon, six
lots in Barnesboro, $250.
Elizabeth Wireback et vir to John F.
Clark, 303 acres in Reade township,
$500.
+ 8. McFarlane et al to John F. Clark,
241 acres in Reade township, $500.
Thomas N. Clark et ux to John F.
Clark, 242} acres in Reade township,
$600.
Edward K. Clark et ux to John F.
Clark, 303 acres in Reade township, |
$1,000. i
Annie M. Shaffer to John F, €lark, |
303 acres in Reade township, $500.
Mary Cherkowsky et vir to Lawrence |
1. Hoover, lot in Patton, $2,425.
Everybody wants to boss somebodv. in
and there is alw:ve
WARNS LU Wess Uy Cay buddy.
gambling ww.
on the part of the young lady, her com-
panion, Miss Mary Evans, of the local
Bell central office, Deputy Sheriff M.
D. Bearer and a newspaper reporter,
the ‘‘critter” was finally located.
Evans, it seems, resolved to play a
practical joke on the trusting little |
girl, and, while her attention was di-
verted for a moment, the little maiden’s
hand bag was slyly purloined and
placed in a secluded corner of a desk.
It is needless to state that Miss Rhody
was much relieved upon seeing it again,
notwithstanding that the ‘‘theft’’ took
place in the sheriff’s office. —Ebensburg
correspondent to Johnstown Democrat.
Miss
The Gambling Law.
If you have lost money in a gambling |
house, sue the owner of the building or |
let your wife sue for you, and you will |
get, your losses back.
have to pay the judgment.
neighboring papers as having signed a |
wam at 9:30 o’clock. All Red Men in|
gave |
interval it seemed to disappear as sud-
denly and completely as if a profes-|
sional pickpocket had appeared on the |
of Dudley, Samuel Rowland, of Cone- |
! maugh, and Owen Rowland, of Punx-
| sutawney, are brothers of the deceased.
Mr. Rowland was a member of the
‘ Baptist church and an upright, honest,
Christian gentleman, The funeral
| was held at his late residence Thursday
morning at 5:30 o’clock, conducted by
his pastor,Rev. Singleton Neisser. The |
remains were taken to Brisbin on the
early train the same morning.
Bart Hobart, one of the best known
citizens of Northern Cambria county,
| died at his home at St.Augustine last
Thursday morning after a short illness, |
of pneamonia. The deceased was
united in marriage about 30 years ago
to Miss Catherine Shield, of Loretto,
who survives him in addition to the
following children: Peter, of Pittsburg;
Paul, of West Virginia; John, who is!
in the service of the United States
Navy; George and Walter, at home;
Mary, wife of Weston Miller, of Brad-
dock; Nellie, wfie of L. M. Little, of
| Allegheny township; Mattie, Gertrude
and Katie, who are at present making
their home in Pittsburg. The deceased
was about 65 years old at the time of
his death, was a veteran of the Civil
war, and was a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic.
wife of Timothy O'Leary, of Clearfield
township, also survives.
After requiem high mass at St. Au-
gustine’s Catholic church Saturday
morning at 9 o'clock, interment was
made in the church cemetery at St.
Augustine.
Mrs. James Ardary died at her home
in this place on Saturday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock of paralysis, aged 55 years.
She had been ill but a couple of days.
| The funeral was held in the First Bap-
tist church at 10 o’clock Tuesday
morning, conducted by the pastor,
Rev. Singleton Neisser. The inter-
| ment was in the Fairview cemetery.
Mrs. Airhart Farabangh, of Carroll
| township, died at her home at an early
| hour Sunday morning. She is survived
by several sons and daughters, grand-
children and great grand children. The
funeral took place from St. Benedict’s
Catholic church, of Carrolltown, on
Tuesday morning and interment was
made in the church cemetery.
METHODIST CONFERENCE.
The Central Pennsylvania Body Will Meet
at Tyrone Next Week.
The Central Pennsylvania Methodist
Episcopal Conference will convene at
Tyrone Wednesday, March 28. Bishop
Berry, of Buffalo, N. Y, will preside,
and with the presiding elders will fix
the appointments of the ministers for
another year.
There are four important vacancies
to be filled; a condition which has not
'existed in the conference for several 0 ©
years. This fact makes this session of
the body one of great interest to all
Methodists, both ministers and laymen.
These vacancies are the Danville dis-
trict, Bloomsburg, Bellefonte and Mul-
berry Street church, Williamsport.
The filling of these vacant places may
| necessitate the moving of some min- | and conviction
|isters who otherwise would not be |
disturbed.
Railroad Men Needed,
The Jersey Shore Herald says:
The owner will | Brakemen and firemen are in demand | March 24th to insure capacity business. |
This was|and the Pennsylvania division needs | The success of Theodore Kremer’s soul |
One brother, |
John, of Hastings, and a sister, Mary, |
CAMPBELL'S PERSISTENCE!
Probably Rounded Up Assas-
sins of Driver Hays.
FOUR LODGED IN JAIL.
Italians Who are Thought to Know Some-
thing of the Portage Outrage Have Been
Arrested and Will be Given a Hearing
This Afternoon.
Mario Immese, Guiseppe Costantino,
Francesco Impala, Frencesco DiConte,
Italians, charged with the murder of
Charles Hays and the holding up of
Paymaster Patrick Campbell, near
Portage, almost two years ago, have
been arrested and lodged in jail. They
will be given a hearing this afternoon.
Mario Immese and Guiseppe Costan-
tino are the two of the quartet ac-
cused who were arrested in Johnstown.
They are a pair of a party of almost a
score of Italians who have taken up
their residence in a house in Dale bor-
ough, which was once Johnstown’s
“red light?’ district.
Their arrest was accomplished by
Chief of Police Hugh Mullin and a
quartet of officers on a simple pretext
when they secured their men from a
room of ten sleeping Italians.
The other two men were arrested at
South Fork and were miners employed
| at the Sunshine mines. Constable Her-
| zog and Pennsylvania Railroad Officer
| Charles Parrish got them after an all
| night wait at their boarding house.
| All of the men are said to be ‘coal
miners and are of the ordinary type of
Italians. One speaks very good Eng-
lish and seems to be the leader of the
quartet.
The information on which the men
are held is very carefully drawn and
accuses them not only of having
done the job at Portage, but of having
conspired together to do it.
It will be remembered that on the
30th day of July, 1904, Charles Hays
and Patrick Campbell had in their pos-
session a large sum of money, the
property of the Puritan Coal Mining
company, were waylayed and shot,
Hays was killed and Patrick Camp-
| bell was seriously wounded. The high-
waymen escaped with $2,900. {
| Eyer since his discharge from the
| Altoona hospital, where he almost died
{and put in weeks of pain, Paymaster
! Campbell has been determined that
the men who robbed him and killed
| his companion should some day be
{ brought to justice. Throughout the
| long period that - has elapsed since the
daring holdup, police have been work-
|ing on clews here and there in the |
hope of finding the guilty parties and |
establishing a sufficiently strong case |
against them to warrant arrests. This,
| it is thought, has been accomplished at
last, although two or three previous
efforts have failed.
The arrest of the present quartet
was accomplished very quietly, but
now that it has leaked oat, stories
concerning the affair are many. Itis
told that the man who engineered the
scheme and is mainly responsible for
it has jumped the country with all or |
at least a very large portion of the
| spoils, purchased a property immedi-
| ately upon his arrival in his native
| 1and and will be arrested there within
la few days. Another tale is to the]
| effect that each one of the four men in|
custody now is a bad man and that |
only a short time ago a cousin of one |
of them did a murder. {
The Portage affair set the entire
country agog with excitement and
gave Pennsylvania such a stirring as it
| hadn’t had before in a long time.
! Posses of men scoured Cambria and
‘adjoining counties over in their efforts
apture the murderers. Their ef-
| forts were in vain. Mr. Campbell felt |
| reasonably certain that the men who |
| dia the job were Italians and fully a|
{ score of them were arrested only to be
discharged later because there was no
{ evidence against them. A total reward
of $2,500 was offered for their Rpiure
and still stands. |
|
i “The Fatal Wedding.”
| It is only necessary to announce that
| “The Fatal Wedding ’’ will be the at-
i traction at the Barnesboro opera house
decided in a decision rendered by Jus: them in the worst way. Twenty-five stirring drama has been so great that |
tice Peckham, of the United States su-| young men of good habits would be |it is a source of wonder to almost |
preme court, in a test case referring to | taken irto the service at the local office | everyone interested in current theatri |
the constitutionality of the Ohio state | at once if they could be secured. The |cals. The play has been translated |
law against gambling.
The judge de- | terrific amount of business that has ! into French and German, and is being |
| cided not only that the law is constitu- | been done the past few weeks has been | performed across the water to capacity |
| tional, but that the owner of a house | telling on the road men and more are | business. Aside from the novel plot |
where gambling is carried on with his | needed. One thing which bars many | and pretty story evolved by the author, |
knowledge is responcible for the losses
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$1.00 PER YEAR
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SHOES.
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Don't put it off to-day. Come in and let us show you the
finest in town.
Trunks and Suit Cases.
A Large Assortment.
Ladies’ and Children’s Coats and Skirts.
We still have a full line of the above in stock.
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B. KUSNER,
PATTON, PA.
JUST AS MUCH CARE
Should be taken in the selection of Liquors as in any other
commodity. Some liquors are not fit to drink, while others
act as a tonic and taken in moderation do good to the human
system. The kind that contains no fusel oil or poor spirits
is a stimulent that is needed every once in a while.
Next Door to Bank.
Our stock embraces the leading brands of good standard
Whiskies. We are sure we can please you.
In Beers we handle Duquesne and Piel—the leading
brands on the market. Order a case and it will be delivered
to your home promptly.
We Will Close Every Evening at 8 O'Clock,
Except Saturdays and Evenings
Preceding Holidays.
ED. A. MELLON,
Local "Phone. PATTON, PA.
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