The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-08-02


ANY person who wilfully states. delivers
or transmits by any means whatever to the
editor, publisher, or reporter Of any news
paper, magazine, publication, periodical or
article for publication therein, any libeous
statement concerning any person or corpor.
alton and thereby secures the actual publ.
cation OF the same. Is hereby declared guilty
OF misdemeanor and upon conviction
shall be sentenced to pay fine not exceed
ing five hundred dollars and undergo i'm.
prisonment for period not exceeding two
years or either or both at the discretion OF
the Court"
AT Beaver Falls. the other eve ing Mrs.
Jane Smith was sitting on her front porch
in her bare feet. A pet chicken saw one Of
Mrs. Smiths bare ieet and gave il . fierce
peck. The chickens bill penetrated an
artery aud Mrs Smith almost bled to death
before the flow OF b.ood was staunched.
Mrs. Polly RosE, of Butler county who
died last Saturday after celebrating her
hundredth anniversary, came of long
lived family. Her ia her served In the rev.
olutionary war and lived to be SO years old.
while her mother was few months over
100 when she died.
WHILE Mrs w. H. Brick. of Buffalo,
Somerset county, was sitting IN front Of her
house hol ling her baby an eagle swooped
down as II to carry of or attack the child.
The mother screamed and ran into the
house and the eagle few away. 1t has been
seen before.
LAST year the Raney farm. near Mahon.
ngtown, Lawrence county, was stocked
with imported bug. swapping toads. IL was
feared the cold weather had killed them but
last week they came to the surface in great
number, and are now playing hob with the
bugs.
LAST Saturday night a valuable horse be-
longing to J. W. Gonaware, a Greensburg
merchant, got twisted up in the halter in
some way and hanged itself, being found
dead in the morning.
A PEW days ago a conductor lifted a ticket
from Mcveytown to Lewistown that was
sold August 10. 1867. The interest on its
face value amounted to exactly its original
cost.
A FREIGHT wreck at Bixler, on the Penn
sylvania railroad. caused by the breaking
OF an axle killed ii horses, injured others
and delayed traffic five hours.
JonS w. VANArTA. for extorting money
from an old soldier was sentenced by Judge
Burlington at Ere to $50 fine and serve three
months at hard labor,
f. J. GAYsoR railroad contractor. Potts
vile, has assigned. Judgments amounting TO
nearly $50, 900 have thus far been filed; as.
sets nominal.
AT work in one of the quarries at NJ h on-
ingtown is mule that is known 10 be 81
years old and bids fair to live many more
years.
AT Harrisburg, John w. Boyer, who did
not hear the gong was killed by street car
while gathering wood in the suburbs of the
city.
MAYOR TILBRooK. OF McKeesport has
issued an order that street fakirs will be
prohibited from doing business.
ALFRED TAYLOR has suei Mercer county
for So, 900 for alleged injuries received
white crossing conaty bridge.
THE Fayeite county mutual insurance
company. of Unlontown. which suspended
in 1870, has been reorganized.
Cm,RLIs ANDREWS. brakeman on the
Phisburg & Western at New Castle, fell
setws en- cars Il WAS killed
The big Mexican monument at Hairis.
burg in Capitol Park. IL topping anu viii
be removed soon.
DIrurIIRRIA in malignant and fatal torn
Is epidemic at West Newton.
The Mercer county wheat crop Is the
largest for many years