The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-04-18
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS
A CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.
Spilled Kerosene on its Clothing and
Tried to Dry Them.

The Watson builning. one Of the largest
Office and store room buildings In Washing.
ton was gutted by FIRE. The damage TO the
structure will reach $4,000. covered by In
surancc. The loss to druggist e.. W. Roberts
and Thos. Morgan, dry goods, will reach at
least s25.000, nearly all covered by Insurance.
Photographer Crawfotds loss IL sl.0 U, with
no insurance. The loss TO furniture, Libraries,
etc. Of several offices will reach several
hundred dollars. The nre was caused by
spontaneous combustion In Roberts drug
store The burned building is close to the
court house. and preparations were made 10
remove books and papers from the latter.
The posto flee just across an alley, was In
danger. Several thousand dollars worth OF
oils aud chemicals were In the cellar Of the
drug store, but tho fire did not reach tha,
place. Had they burned, nothing could have
saved the entire block. Repairs were being
made 10 the water companys mains, and the
water was turned oifwhcn the fire started
The board Of trustees Of Beaver College
have decided 10 rebuild on the site OF the
college recently burned. on Elk street and
Turnpike avenue. aud have employed Archi.
tect Thomas Boyd. Of Pittsburg, 10 prepare
plans for building 10 cost $50 OOuO IL will
be two stories high, Of bun BRICK with a
frontage OF 100 feet and depth Of 1879 feet
IL will be OF the Romanesque order.
At Hinton 4.year-old child OF Ella
Brooks, widow, broke "a bottle of kerosene
which II had found Ia "a cupboard, upon its
clothing. Childlike, II went TO the lire to
dry lis clothes, and tho oil ignited. The baby
was burned 90 death In q few minutes, and
the mother severely burned In her efforts &c
extinguish the flames.
Under new city ordinance Franklin auth
critics converted two tramps into a chain
gang and took them out on Main street 10
work. The tramps sat down on the curbstone
and remained there until loaded into wagon
and hauled TO jail 10 be given light repast
A. c. W. Cain, boot and shoe dealer
Of Penn avenue. Williamsburg, was robbed OF
batween $3.50 aud $500 about 1890 o clock
saturday evening. by two men who entered
the store after 10 o'clock and oycrpOwered
him taking the money from the safe.
The men who struck against u % per cent
reduction in the polishing department or the
American aN works at Beaver Falls, are
going back 10 work "a. fast as they can get
places.
James King, a farmer near West Newton,
Is charged with starving stock. Humane
Agent Freese shot two horses that he claims
were too far gone to recoycr,and ordered the
rest TO be properly ied.
Samuel Spindler. OF Uniontown. eloped
with Mrs Levlna Yeski Spindler com.
planned that hts wife hal served him cold
meals.
Tho body OF an unknown man. bearing up
on his right arm the tattooed letters RI
aud u star. was found floating IN the ohio
river near Georgetown.
While handling u pistol. the little son Of
DIR. A. A. Johnston. Of BlairsyIlle, was acci-
dentally shot IN the leg, the wound beng
serious. rl--
While shooting at a target atNew Florence.
an Italian laborer employed on the Bolivar
branch railroad was accidenily but fatally
shot in the abdomen.
About three million bushels Of coal left
Pittsburg, sunday Tor down river points. 1t
Is estimated that five million bushels will be
started on the present rise.
The coroner's jury at Washington. has de-
cided that Willims Coleman, whose body was
found beside the track al Findleyyile, was
accidneially killed.
Rev. W. NJ. Tinker, formerly pastor ol the
Baptist church al North East, will be married
on April "a. to Jean Whitcrait at Sharon.
Chief OF Police J. W. Tllard. Of Altoona.
has been appointed chief Of the new paid fire
department
The Henderson family. OF Mercer and Ven.
ango counties will hold q reunion at Hender.
SON Mercer county, August %.
The grip epidemic ut Franklin mas lost its
grip.
Monaco will vote May IA on $4,000 for
wafer works
Thieves stole everything In sight in the
boiler shop ofGeorge sigman In Oil City.
The tailors Of Franklin are on strike
against a proposed reduction in wages.