The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-06-15
PENNSYLVANIA P|CKlNGS.
SOME IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
or Interes. TO Dwsilers In the Keystons
State.

A SETTLEMENT was arrived at In tho Hugh !
Curry arson case at Washington, whereby
Hugh agrees to pay his brother Marion all
the damage done by the fires and the cost
of prosecution.
JAMES MAMNrit. aged 30 years, of North
Rcaver, while crossing field wal attacked
by large savage bull and gored to death.
Mrs SOLOMON HAGAN, wife of farmer
living near Lock Haven, was killed by be-
ing thrown from buggy In runaway .ac.
cicnt. Her daughter was with her but
escaped unhurt.
Tue water main broke at Monongnhcla
City, Caushcd by the heavy rains ot ycStcr-
day, and undermined the foundation OF the
Presbyterian church. The stccplc and
building are considered unsafe, ~ much
that the families living nearby had To va
cate their homes. The Wainwright family
were seen this morning clinginy to tree
and were all saved.
q. w. MrLLorr's house at Jcannc.tc was
struck and badly damaged Ivy lightning.
Mrs Mclott was hurled to the hOor and
stunned.
LEWIS SCHMIDT has been returned for
keeping wholesale liquor house without a
license at Beaver Falls lie claims that he
simply keeps beer in cold storage for people
who order Il from Pittsburg
A Miss DgvoRE was probably fatally in
jured at Monongahcla City bv being thrown
from buggy.
Ar Tyrone, Sunday night, n child of
Jacob Bichl fell into the Juniata river
which had overilowcd it, banks and was
drowned.
MAJOR LipgSGoops barn near Bliirsvile,
was struck by lightning and burned Sunday
night. Loss, $1,000. The Major Is - years
old.
WHILE the people of New Slvcrbrook
schuylkill county, were holding union ser.
vices in the three.story schoOlhuuSe at that
place, lightning struck the building, badly
shnttering IL and shocking six persons.
Three men named Gardner, Raisens and
! Miller are probably fatally injured. An eye
witness says ball OF tire descended through
the building.
NorutNG less than u clouibur,t IN the
| mountains above lnOntOwn could have
! sent down the terrible rush of waters that
| flooded the lower portions of this place and
| drove fully 50 families to higher places.
| Numerous bridges were washed out or dam
! aged between ConncllSvilc and here. The
! greatest damage was done to the large trcStle
! at LcmOnt.
| EpwApp McCIosxEY fell from building
! nj the Cambria Iron Works, Juhnstown,a and
was fatally injured.
w. W. Fiscus, of Kttanning was the
successful candidate At the West Point ca
detship examination held in Greensburs
EpwNrp McMiLtIN, the wife murderer
wGs hanged ut Wilkcsbarre. His neck was
broken He killed his wife while drunk'
February 20, 1891.
TuE frs. fatal accident on the Mckees-
! port and Reynollton electric railway hap
pened SUNDAY afternoon, when Mary Her.
ii a ri N
horribly mangled. The child was running
down hill aud was going at such a speed
that she could not stop and ran right on the
car track III front of the car.
TnE farmers living along the Juniata river
and the Raystown branch have sustained an
immense loss to grow ing crops and fence,
by the floods of the other day. creeks and
rivulcts were transformed suddenly into
torrents and many families were imprlson-
ell in their houses. TO the south and east
of here the public bridges have been washed
away, rendering the roads impossible.
WHILE driving home from church Alfred
SmiclSer and family, of near Mill creek,
were caught in the flooded stream, their
wagon was overturned and Mary, the five.
year-old daughter, was drowned. At Mill
creek village, people were removed from
their houses in boats and the people at Alex
ander, near the source of the Junata, su-
stained great loss.
TnE damage by food along Ten Mile
Creek, Washington county, will run up
intothousandS, Besides the six bridges be-
longing to the Washington II Waynesburg
Railroad Company which were swept away
miles of track the property of the SAINT
company, were flooded away and destroyed
The damage will fall most heavily on tn,
farmers, many fields of grain being flooded
A LITTLE child of Mrs woodie, at Bolivcr
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