The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-28
PENNSYLVANIA PICKNGS.
SOME IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
OF Interest to pw,llsrs In the Keystone
State.
A BOYS CRIME.
ur SETS FiRE TO ma SISTERS DRESS AND
CAUSES HER DEATH.


CAUSES nER DEATH.
Grace Gould, n G-year-old daughter OF Mr..
ana Mrs George Gould. of Masontown. was
burned to death Monday. Mrs. Gould sent
Grace and her brother George, who Is about
10 years old, TO their coal mine near by to
get some coal. and before they returned
George set his little sisters clothes on fire
with the pit lamp. lie declared before hc
left that he would burn her. The little girl
died a few hours after in great agony. Be-
fore she died she told her parents that George
al set her clothes on fire and then lett her.
TiE NEw BALLOT FORMS sEsr oUr
The revised form of the official ballot was
issued from the state Department ut Harris.
burg. The change is in accordance with
The Attorney Generals recommendations.
The Secretary OF State gives notice to coun-
" commissioners in q circular letter accom-
panying copies Of the ballot, that the forms
that were sent out in March are to be en-.
trely disrcgardcd. The tickets are arrang
ed under three heads" Republican"
Democratic and by Nomination Pa.
pers," the Prohibition candidates coming
under the latter head. Another column is
left blank for names not printed in the bal
lot
rAurERs CANNOT yorR.
The application of Daniel Mcdonnell. an
inmate of the almshousc at Iollidaysburg,
10 have his name placed on the otcrs regis
Ter. was denied in court. The court held that
Paupcrs are not entitled to franchise.
AT Johnstown, Mrs Thomas Larkin was
ntally inj urcd by the explosion that fol-
owed when she threw Il bottle of alcohol
n the stove.
FIVE horses were burned in the barn he.
Onging IN the Stcrritt heirs AT Carlisle to-
ether with stock and farming implements.
.oss of 5000.
EDWARD PARrrrr, of Mt. Pleasant while
nrtleS5.y handing revolver accidentally
hot and killed a companion, Michael Elan
igan.
50, residing near Downingtuwn, threw him.
self in front of Reading engine and was
mangled to death.
by decree Of the Beaver county cour,
the name of the town of Phillipsburg, Bea.
yer county, has been changed to Monaco
| to agree with the recently adopted name Of
the postoflice there.
| Isaac HARPER. Of Beaver Fall was killed
| at Shannopin by a,train on the Pittsburg
| and Lake Erie.
THE long continued drought in Washing
| ton county has made it necessary for the
Washington Water Company to shut Of its
! supply TO consumers
Up TO date there have been over go for
/ eigners naturalizcd at the September term
of court at Uniontown.
FoUR Italian. residing at Wampum, near
| Beaver Falls. drank freely from kg Of
| beer and subsequently became deathly sick.
| An examination of the kcg disclosed in the
! inside the dead body of a rattlesnakc. The
| men will recover.
| THE Ohio authorities TODAY stationed
quarantine officers AT Smiths Ferry. They
have built a hospital there ior any possible
case Of cholera.
FRANK LABOR. n resident of IIahntown, n
suburb of Irwin, was killed by fall of
slate. lie was 80 years old and married.
| A HORSE took fright near Fairbanks, the
occupants of the buggy, TO which he was
attached. being thrown out. Laura Iytle
was killed and Henry Waddle fatally in.
jured.
Ar New Castle on Saturday committee in
! lunacy in the case of Farmer Adams who
was convicted of placing ties on the Fl.
| Wayne ra lroad, decided that Adams il
suffering from acute insanity.
THE Washington Leriem and Examiner
owned by James III. Hopkins, has suspend
ed publication.
THE Washington Glass Company, OF
| Washington, have decided to remove its
bottle works to Indiana, where free gas is
offered