April 7, 1882 - Smallpox Outbreak, Conemaugh Borough Man Goes Nuts & East Conemaugh Attack - Cambria Freeman

MIss Gussie Morgan daughter of John Morgan dies of smallpox in Johnstown.

David Londregan - Conemaugh Borough

Young window woman named Arthur lives with her father a Mr. Varner - attacked in East Conemaugh.

 

April 1, 1882 - Nanny Goat Rescue in Johnstown, Idiot with a Gun=Trouble, Update on St. Vitus Victim & Look Back at Old Iron Furnaces - Alleghenian

William Gerhardt recues a goat off a hillside in Johnstown.

John Schnabel shoots himself in the head accidently. 

Miss Lizzie Berger dies of St. Vitus Dance. 

Johnstown Iron Furnace History

 

February & March 1882 - Undertakers Refuse to Bury a Dead Child - So Smallpox Nurse does it herself, Awful Hot Cinder Accident at Hinckston Run & A Terrible Case of St. Vitus Dance - Sent to Poor House - Cambria Freeman

Undertakers Refuse Burial - instead Miss Zoler a nurse at the Johnstown Smallpox Hospital buried the dead child herself. Father was Policeman Ellsworth of Cambria City. 

Patrick Moran of Minersville burned by hot cinders along Hinckston Run.

German named Birke had Maggie Hoffman arrested and accused of stealing from him. 

Elizabeth Berger from Germany - case of St. Vitus Dance sent to Poor House to recover by her brother.She'd worked in the home of John Malor of Coal Street - Conemaugh Borough. 

 

January 6, 1882 - Bucket of Water Proves Fatal, Elevator Accident & A Simple and Beautiful Act of Kindess for One Franklin Borough Family - Freeman

John Shire - 17 yr old - dies at parents house in Morrellville after getting dunked with a bucket of cold water.

Charles Unverzagt - 14 yr old - killed by an elevator at the Wood & Morrell Store. 

Miss Therea Harshberger of Franklin Borough who never had smallpox offers to take care of and nurse the small children of John Hoy of East Conemaugh. Kindness Indeed!

 

May 14, 1866 - Johnstown News - Odd Drowning and Smallpox - Alleghenian

Francis Gallagher - MInersville - Drown in River