The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-08-23
CROPS rr.n,,NED Up
us THE Dnorrn THAT mas PREVAILED Il

DY THE DRorrn THAT mas PREVAILED IN
CENTRAL PESNsYLvASIA.
JoHNsTOwS-Reports to crop canvassers
for Government information are that the
country in this section OF Pennsylvania Is
in worse condition as the result OF proong-
I'd drouth than it has been from the same
cause in II years. There are large areas in
this and adjacent cUiintiss where crops ma.
turing in these la,itudes early In August
and until the middle OF September will
vie only 40 per cent of the average pro-
ducton. These crops have been literally
burned up and rains now would not serve
TO restore them, although IL would check
the damage TO growths maturing later
The corn grown in the North can stand
more drouth and higher temperatures than
most other of the native crops. md tue
yield will be next TO nothing. The oat
crop was not caught for go long siege. but
il will be light and inferior Potatoes have
stopped growing in fields asgregating many
thousand acres. and those that escape the
dry rot will scarcely he iit for seed purposes.
Late berries have dried on the stalks, and
in nearly the whole area of the State west
of the mountains the black berry crop is ~
failure.
The prospects are that the fruit growers
will fare no better than the grain growers.
Apples and pears at this time are not grow
ing. They are simp'y ripening at much less
than their normal size, The crop promised
six weeks ago has been reduced already
fully 40 per cent The aggregate of losses
can only be approyimated by comparison
of returns from widely Sc arated districts.
but it will run into the millions OF dollars
in the adjoining sections of Pennsylvania,
Ohio and West Virginia. Many farmers,
according to the reports OF agents in po-
sition to know, will be so crippled financially
that they will not recover for years
AMONG the pensions issued at Washing
~. r H.. e. Nl...
sylvanians: Original, Andrew J.. Swa', OF
Albion Erie county. Original, widows
ETC., Leah Frazpl ~ Lone Pine Washing
ton county, and Eva y. Clark, of Bradford,
Mexican county lncrease.-John NJ.
Rough, Mt. Pleasant Original widows,
etc.-,Sarah shearer Of Leechburg Rachel
TAYLOR, OF Leeraysvlle, Martha J. Horton
of Altoona. Haster A. Bradley. of Elbridge
Mary Moore of Erie, Christina .Scheiterloin
IL Plttsbnrg and minor children OF Chas. l..
Butterlield in Crawford county.
THE II year old son of J. ii. simmons
Rochester, while PLAYING on large log on
u slope near the Tumbler works. started the
log rolling. lie fell off and the log caught
him and crushed the life out OF him, re-
ducing his body almost to pulp.
A GASOLINE stove exploded at the residence
OF J. n Puriy, Meadville. Mrs Purdy and
young daughter were frightfnlly burned.
1t is believed the former will die.
Ar Meadville, the Farmers Cooperative
Bank has closed its doors. The stockho,d.
ers who are individually liable. are able to
pay all liabilities.
SwARMs OF erasshoppers are destroying
the crops and even eating up the fences and
agricultural implements of Lawrence county
farmers.
BY the discovery OF tools in w. J, Kline's
cell, the authorities of the Washington
county Jail discovered big plot to escape,
A CHILD Of Frank Gill, OF Trauger. West.
moreland county. was crushed to death uu-
der the wheels OF neishb boris wagon.
OwrNo to the drouth the water company
10 supply its patrons