Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-22
TRI-STATE NEWS.
Condensed Special Dispatches From Sur
rounding Communities That Are Tribu.
fnrY 10 Piftshnrg.

rounding Communities That Are Tribu.
tary TO Pittsburg.
| LAST evening boiler in the Lake Erie and
Western shops at Lima exploded, killing Peter
Schick. and demolishing part of the build
ing.
JOHN r. CALVIN, a farmer residing in Green
township, Ohio, Yesterday visited North Lima
and drank quantity of hard cider, causing his
death an hour later.
THE contract for the new Jail building and
Sheriff's residence for Fayette county was
yesterday awarded to Laughead, Modisette &
Co., of Uniontown, at Sl06, 600.
The election of Edward Barrett as Burgess
of Pittston is to be contested on the ground
that the election board of one district quarreled
and new board had to be substituted.
IT seems that the Mrs. Meals who has eloped
from Cleveland caused sensation in Youngs-
town a few years ago, while residing there. A
young bachelor minister was mixed up in the
affair.
The Republican Central Committee, Of
Columbiana County. Ohio, held meeting last
evening at the Court House in New Lisbon,
and agreed to hold the primary elections on
Saturday, May 4 There will be a lively fight
for the nomination for Treasurer.
THE miners committee sent from Scranton
to present the powder reduction question to the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western directors,
returned home to-day with instructions to wait
on General Sales Agent Storrs, to whom the
matter was referred. They will meet Mr..
Storrs next week at his Office here. The agita-
tion affects 10000 miners in the Wyoming and
Lackawanna coal fields, and if granted, will
increase their wages at least 100000 year.
MR.. W. ]. WALKER, who was reported to
have been convicted of murder and sentenced
to be hanged in Denver, Col. has returned to his
former home in Greensburg, q living witness to
the falsity of the report. Mr.. Walker will az
once commence proceedings against the persons
who circulated the SANDER. He first learned
that'he was to be executed on the gallows about
the first of this month, while in Arizona, and at
once closed up his business and came home,
arriving here on Monday.
CONSIDERABLE excitement prevails at La
trobe and at Bradenville over the killing of
John Shannon, who was reported to have COM
mitted suicide on Saturday night last. 1t was
given out that the man had committed suicide
through fear of the White Caps, who. it was
said, had sent him several threatening letters.
Suspicious have within the past two or three
days been aroused in the minds of the people
down there that Shannon was foully murdered.
No arrests of the suspected parties have yet
been made.
WILLIAM KEcK, of Laury's station, was re-
leased from Jail two months ago, after serving
term for attempting to kill at Siegfried
Bridge. Yesterday morning he attempted to
kill Edward Shr1ver, his brother-ln-law, at
Stempton. After desperate struggle and
great excitement in that town he was caught
by an officer, handcuffed and taken to the
depot. Just as the train steamed into the sta
tion keck threw himself on the track. Sew
eral ladies who were at the station and saw the
attempted suicide screamed and two tainted.
Keck's hands were lacerated in frightful
manner by being dragged over the rough stone
and his head cut by the engines blow.