The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-02-04
PENNSYLVANIA NorHa
A Few Combinations Of Events Occur
ring Throughout the State.

Jacob Reiksl, aged e5, while working in q
sswmill at Kreinis, a small village near
Mercer was caught in a belt and drawn
between hy-wheel and boiler, where be
was crushed into a shapeess mass. He
leaves a wife and four children.
Miles Bradshaw, Of near Beaver Falls, on
Monday night had 70 sheep, valued ut sioo,
killed by dogs.
Before leaving for work Friday morning
an oil driller named Stoner living at Gallery
| Junction, turned on the gas in the stove,
leaving his wi c and child sleeping in bed.
Shortly after fire broke out, and before the
neighbors could subdue the flames, both
mother and babe were burned to death.
| They were found lying in bed, with the child
clasped in its mothers arms.
The Pain ertown oil field. about nine
miles southwest of Greensburg, Is being de
veloped successfully. IL is known now that
an exceptionally fine grade of lubrcatins
| oil has been found ON the Flu ton farm.
| Indications point to good flow when the
we'll is completed. Great secracy is main
| tanned by those iH charge of the premises.
| The oil, in its crude condition, is valued at
| So a barrel.
| A lad named Michael ncClo,key, aged 9
years, residing in Philadelphia secured .
| bottle containing about quarter Of a pint
| Of vhiskev and drank the contents He had
| been a sufferer from valvulzr disease Of the
heart, and the whiskey so stimulated the
action Of that organ as to cause death.
Alfred James, a missing Washington boy,
is supposed to have perished by freezing In
| the woods.
License court convened at Clarion. Judge
Clark granted license to 80 out of a appli-
capts, with an order that bars should be
closed by 1890 p. M.
wire nail over an inch In length was
found imbeddel in the liver Of 4 chicken
killel at Rochester.
Bert Rush, young man living at Farm.
| ingtOn, FAyette county, was thrown from q
pony Sunday and tstsy injured.
John WentLell, of Greensburg, was
attacked and fatally injured by ferocious
dog.
county, accidentally shot himself through
the heart.
s3.year-old son OF James Montgomery
OF " ashipgton fell into the fire and was
burned IN death.
Oliver Msckin was killed while telling .
tree within mile Of JoAnstown, the tree
crushing his body.
Senator Cameron has introduced petitions
In the U. y. Senate from over 200 towns in
Pennsylvania favoring the passage of bill
subjecting eomargarine to the laws Of the
several states.
Daniel Weller died on his farm. where he
was born, near Canonsburg aged el. He
leaves II hldren, q grandchildren and one
great grandchild,
John McClymods and his daughter, OF
Darlington, were perhaps fatally injured in
q runaway accident at Beaver Falls.
Last week two children OF the family Of
John Cetz. a hotelkeeper at Lands Valley,
died Of diphtheria within half an hour Of
each other Friday two more of his children
died of the same disease. The first two
children who died were buried at the same
time and the two who died Friday also will
be buried at one time.
George II. Senter, employed at the coal
chute, was struck by an engine at Meadyillo
ana fatally hurt.
Mrs Davis, of Philadelphia, laid her
sleeping infant on the open folding bed the
other day, and went about her duties in an
other part of the house. While absent. her
littl son loosed the latch and the bed closed.
He did not know baby was in the bed.
Later the mother returned and found her
baby dead, 1t having been sutiocated.
Two dwellings on the Adair farm, Wash.
Ing county, were totally DESTROYED by fire.
The occupants lost all their efiects- Total
loss, 5000.
John Barr, recently released from the
Riverside panitentiary, was frozen to death
near Enterprise Wednesday night. He had
been drinking heavily and attempted to
walk to the house of his sister.
On account of business engagements, Cap
tain John w, ,!orrison, Sate-Treasurer-
elect, has decided not to accept the cashier
ship Of the treasury rendered him after him
election by State Treasurer Boyer.
Robert f. p. Pollock, of Msrchard, killed
himself by the accidental discharge of gun.
while hunting.
An insane man, j. J. McFee, was stran.
gled to death by fellow inmate, o. A. vii.
liams at the Dixmont ,Pa.) insane asylum.
Peter Ryan, a prominent rmer living
near onnellsyi le, while crossing a bridge
on the Southwest Penn road, was struck by
n train and insanity killed. He leaves a
wi and six children.
Miss Allie Born, fCanonsburg, fell on the
slippery pavement ard ractured her skull.
She is not expgcte to live.
The handsome ataolic church at Con-
ne,lsville was destroyed by fire, The build
ing including con ents, was valu d at nearly
100000, on which there was only $4,000
insurance. = he church was built in 1886,
and the building, which was the finest
church edIice IN the country, alone cost
5000.
John Lafferty, aged 81 years. was found
frozen to death IN field adjoining his
residence at East Nottingham.
Anthracite coal has been found in Berks
county.
Seymour White, a brakeman in the AL.
toona yards, was run over ana instantly
killed by shifting engine.
George Leinbsch, of Leesport, aged 40, and
one Of the wealthIest citizens in Berks
county, was killed in his stable bya vicious
horse. He was kicked on the temple.
Mrs. Edward Kensinger OF Altoona, was
probably fatally burned Saturday evening by
the explosion OF lamp.
According TO the first official report Of
Hoskins & McClntock, ssslgnees of the
essrs. Delsmater the general creditors OF
theinsolvent bankers will not receive more
than 3 or 10 cents on the dollar.
Near Erie, fire destroyed the Lone Fisher
mans inn, widely known summer resort
located on the bank OF Preseque Isle bay.
Loss, $4,000; insurance unknown.
An incendisry fire at Altoona destroyed
A. Q. Mercer & Co.'S brick works. Loss,
$1,000; partially insured.
A Very Old Bible.
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