Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
NEWS FROM THkEE STATES.

Condensed Dispatches From the Surround.
ing Townsville NeighbOrhOod mt a
Glance.
MERCER Prohibitionists have raised $500 for
educational purposes.
The Tifin Street Railway has been sold to
Eastern parties for 81, 900.
AT 6o'clock last evening the towboat Annie
Roberts collided with the Maggie at St.
Mary's. -Four barges were sunk and Clinton
Martin, of Short Creek. was drowned.
AN order has just been received at the Al
toona machine shops for Is new class 'Ar an
thracite locomotives. 1t is stated that another
similar order will follow at an early date.
THE license court for Lawrence county con-
Venes tomorrow. There are % applicants The
temperance people are making little effort
against the granting of licenses, preferring to
wait for the battle in June.
DIR. ]. D. YARMOUTH, who was arrested at
Carey, o., last Friday for bigamy on complaint
of former wife. was found near his home a
raving maniac, with gashes IN his head which
we're certainly made by an assassin. He will
die, There is no clue.
JACOB CARROLL, a lineal descendant of
Charles Carroll, one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, is dead, at
Wooster, from blood poisoning caused by a
brass shoe eyelet which rubbed sore spot on
one OF his feet His age was Ga years.
WHILE little son of Joseph Shuler, of Penn
station, was playing with an old horse pistol it
was suddenly discharged, the ball passing
through his grandmothers hand and injuring
her seriously. The weapon was not known TO
have been loaded, and was given to the boy to
amuse the baby with by shooting paper caps.
LAST July young daughter of John Mise
man, an ironworker residing at Youngstown,
found young turtle about the size of a
quarter in the yard, and soon after it disap-
peared, Mrs. Wiseman yesterday killed a
chicken she had raised, and on opening the
craw the turtle. which had grown considerably
was found alive and kicking, having grown fat
in its new quarters.
lat 10 o'clock yesterday forenoon an uely
wreck occurred on the Pennsylvania Railroad
midway between Braddock and Bessemer.
car in the middle of train 1872 going east left
the track, plunging into lot of ore cars side
tracked, and heaped six cars together in one
solid mass, reducing some to kindling wood.
Fortunately no one was injured. A tramp
stealing rIde narrowly escaped death, but
leaped OF in safety as the cars separated.
Two weeks ago Mrs. Della Collar, who re-
sides about ten miles from New Castle. became
suddenly insane. Physicians from this city at
tended her, but failed to relieve the malady.
Saturday last Mrs. Collar was seized with
spasms resembling hydrophobia, and while in
one Oh them died. When child Mrs Collar
was bitten by a cat and regularly thereafter
with the approach of spring queer blotches an
peared on her face. This year they failed to
appear.
DAVID BARKLEY, the Ohio boy who is con-
valescing from an attack of the rabies. is now
able TO sit up. Heis very sore all over his BODY.
but this sensitiveness to touch is ascribed to
imagination; as he handles himself with ap-
parent ease. The physicians think that this
fear is a result of the hydrophobia. The
patient converses with visitors who are still
numerous at the Barkley home Scores of
letters from all parts of the country are COM
ing in. and owners of ''madstones" are proffer.
ing their services. A well-known Eastern phy-
sician writes that his daughter was bitten by a
dog six years ago and he is in fear that The
bite NAV still result seriously, hence he wants
the BarkIy boys treatment in detail Scien-
lists are writing for data to be used in expert
menting.