The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-12-12
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS.
Items Which Are of Particular
Interest to Pennsylvanians.
IN THIS AND NEARBY COUNTIES.

body should Know About--A Weeks
Accidents and Grimes Accurately and
ConciseIy ChronIcied.
WEST NEWTON. Pa, Dec. 3.--Edward
Taylor and Lewis Rhoades were instantly
killed at Suterville, on the Baltimore and
Ohio road, and Slough Booth, father-in-
law of Rhoades, was perhaps fatally In
jured by the West Newton coal train. The
men were miners and were returning home
from Suterville, when the freight train
ran them down. Taylsr was single. 40
years old. Rhoades and Booth each leave
widow and several children
A child suffocated.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4--Lewis Rowland,
years old, was suffocated during fire
early Wednesday morning at the bakery
Of Charles Rawling, 1l12 Dickerson street.
PerIshed in the Flames.
PITTsBURG, Dec. 5.--Mr. Irwin, the jani-
tor of the building at the corner of Penn
avenue and Ninth street, occupied by the
employees of the Hotel Anderson, dis
covered fire issuing from the basement
shortly after midnight this morning He
quickly gave the alarm, but the flames
assembled the fues of the heater to the
third and fourth floors. There were about
forty occupants in the building, but all
were got out with the exception of Irwin
and his wife, who were burned to death.
When the ffremen arrived ladders were
thrown against the building to the third
story, and to the roof of the next building,
and one by one the guests were carried
down in safety, and taken TO Alderman
McKenna's Office and to the houses of peo-
Pile on Penn avenue, opposite the building.
A sight that filled the spectators with
horror was a woman and two babies at
n. .,-I uttsts, IO...
Moore the wife of the steward of the Ho-
tel Anderson. Instantly ladders were run
up, and she was among the first rescued.
At the first alarm Janitor Irwin ran
down through the halls, which were al
ready filled with smoke, to alarm the occu-
pants of the rooms He went as far as the
second floor, and then rushed back TO as
sist his wife. When he returned to his
| room she was not there.
Filled with anxiety for her welfare, he
began a search of the building. He dash
| ed from room to room ON the fourth floor,
and not finding her started for the third. 1t
was there he died Overcome by the
| smoke he sank exhausted near the rear
| wall on the floor, and at the other end of
the hall the wife, for whom he died, had
| perished.
The loss is placed at $4,000, and the
amount Of insurance is unknown.
To Cast an Aluminium Bronze Gun.
| PtTTsBU-RG, Dec. 6.-Dr. Stephen II. En-
| mons the inventor of the explosive EN-
! monste, has given directions for the cast
.Ss u an aiuilii1iGGHs bronze gun at the
| Pittsburg Reduction companys works.
DR. Emmons expresses great confidence in
his new idea. The gun will be finished In
six months and will be tried at Annapolis.
1t will have a range of fifteen miles.
| A Strike at Pittsburg.
| PITTsBURG, Dec 6-The yard conductors
and brakemen of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad in this city, thrty-five in number,
have quit work and been paid off and dis
charged The trouble was caused by the
company having three yard men arrested
for breaking into a yard clerks office
Wednesday night to get warm, the office
| only having been recently painted. The
| prisoners appeared before a magistrate
yesterday, two of them being dismissed
| and the other one being fined small
amount. The arrest Of an employe of the
Baltimore and Ohio is equivalent to q dis
charge, and the other yard men struck to
have their companions reinstated. A
freight blockade has resulted, and the
railroad tracks for four miles are filled
with freight. The men are quiet and or
derly. They will make an effort to extend
| the strike.
A Catholic Church Burned.
PITTsBURG, Dec 6.-St. Mary's Catholic
church, of Homestead, Father Bullion
! pastor, was destroyed by fire Friday morn
, ing, together with the parochial residence
dwelling occupied by Sisters of Mercy
| and the dwelling houses of two men named
| Veilheimer and II. B. Ecleson. The tota
! loss is $4,000. The fire originated in tn,
basement of the church.
An Important Convention.
PITTsBURG, Dec. GA convention of tn,
coal miners of central Pennsylvania, com
prising the counties of Centre, Clearfleld
Cambria, Blair, Bedford, Huntington AM
jefferson, has been called to meet at AL
toona next Wednesday to consider propo
: | sition to establish fund to pay the wage
D of check weighmen at the mines, and +
vote on the advisability of demanding
general advance in the price of mining o.
| Jan. l. The convention will be one of tn
. most important ever held in central Penn
. syivania, MS a strike, if ordered, would a
feet 10000 men. 1t would also seriousl
interfere with ocean steamships, the bull
of the seaboard coal mined coming froI
;, this district.
n soalded by Exploding Boilers.
: LANCASTER, Dec THE three boilel
r in N. Byers g. Co. IS sawmill, at Columbi
z exploded Saturday morning, completed
demolishing the boiler house and terribl
n scalding d. Forsey, of Williamsport, an
!. Christian Singer the fireman. The form,
q will die.
"a Very Funny Burglars.
Is GLENoLDEN, Dec. Mitchell & Hall
?. feed store was entered by burglars and Il
II safe blown open. After getting the boot
which consisted only of a few dollars, Il
burglars found can of red paint al
- | spread it over the store. On the count
a they painted: Don't mind us boys; we
~ done up others before. Bowery Kids"
" A bad Aim and a Had Fall
d SCRANTON, Dec. PETER Kraemer, ag
1t 16, climbed up tree to cut off branch
's and throw them down TO his companion
He accidently struck himself with t
l. hatchet in his hand and fell from the stu
>. ming effect of the blow His drop of thin
4 feet caused internal injuries, from whi
d he died in half an hour.
10 Fired by Natural Gas.
* PIrTsBURG, Dec 9-Suddenly increas
r. pressure of gas in the natural gas ms
supplying fuel to the Continental Tu
Works company, located on Second a
ID nue., blew stopcock out of the pipe cG
IS, nected with a stove in the machine depa
b. ment Monday morning Watchman Can
lie bell was seriously burned in his repeat
ne attempts to replace the broken valve a
e save his employers property. The flan
ID got beyond his control aud damaged
re machine department, oil ware house a
pattern department. to the extent of S2O,C
az Fully insured