The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-07-23
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED.
A LEAP FOR LIBERTY.
Morris, the Uniontown Murderer, Tries to
Escape.

Hopeless Of any further executive mercy
and with the hangman's moose tightening
about his neck, Frank Morris. the boy muir
derer, who was convicted two years ago for
killing Bernard l.. Oker, made n desperate
but unsuccessful attempt to escape from
Uniontown jail sunday morning. When
breakfast was being served to the prisoners
Morris fingered at the end OF the line and
while the Jail guards back was turned to
him he made plunge through the hole 10y
which rattons are passed into the Jail and
was almost into the kitchen when his clothes
caught, At that moment sheriff Chalfant
atd Deputy Johns accidcntly entered the
kitchen and captured him at the point Of re-
volvers taking him back TO his cell
Mrs. Rosauna Mcdowell, aged co year.
was bcheaied by II pi,tsburg aud Lake Erie
freight train while walking along the rail-
road tracks Mt Mckec's Rocks. No one saw
th" accident and the particulars are not
known. The body was found by track
walker in the ditch beside the railroad. Mrs.
Mcdowell resided ut kittanniug and was
visiting hcr daughter.
Louis Miller. u baksr. single aged % years
was drowned nt the Tumbling run dam near
POttsyill". while boating with companion.
About 80 feet from the shore the boat upset
Miller not being able TO swim sank In about
% feet Of water, Hartman his companion.
swan ashore.
The survivors ot the Two Hundred and
Eleventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers.
of Hartranits division OF the Ninth cprp-,
will hold their annual reunion ut Warren.
september /.
several thousand acrns Of coal land In the
northern end of the Iigonier valley have
been leased by Matthias LoNman, Of Iatrobc.
md other capitalists. The coal will beus..d
'n making coke.
Eightcon shares In the Fayette branch "
th" Baltimore and Ohio railroad were sold at
auction at Unioutown for $50 per share, AMI
one tnontown Electric railway bond which
brought $3.50
a. l.. Smith. Of Bangor. aged "a years. a
'igar dealer committed suicide, taking an
ounce ot laudauum. lie told his wife he had
aken poison and refused to have IA ply
-ician.
The Penn Bridge Company " Beaver Fails
haS secured the contract of constructing the
building OF the Cleveland bicycle tube mill.
u GrecnyilIc. II will cost about $50 600
Headache tablets swallowed in the suppo-
sitiou that they were candy caused the death
" Little ll"lrn Imlay, the 3-ycar-old daugh-
ter ot l.. l.. Imay, % Williamsburg.
A new postoilicn has been established In
'lrarileld county. three miles from Wood
and. IL has been Designated Necitul, with
Edward W. Liz ~ postmaster.
Oscar Bradley, burgess II Bridgcwatcr. WA,
arrested and iln"l for drunkenness aud then
-"arrcst"i on "a charge Of assault Ant battery
preferred 10y his wife
Democratic primaries will be held IN
Washington county saturday. August |, the
convention g. hr held IN" following Mon
lay.
The residence Of ". T.. Piper AMI Waiter
iattou. Dt Dubois. were entered by burglar,
goods valued az nearly $500 being taken.
\. II. Early shot an eagle on the Little
Beaver river near Enon. that measured q trct
tnd II inches from tip to tip of wings.
Il has been learned shat tho accounts of
Jones T.. Britt, who disappeared from West
Newton some weeks since are short.
The cornerstone OF the new Evangelical
'hurch at Grcensburg was laid Saturday by
Btsaep stanford. qt Has,isbnry a.
All but two Of the Mercer attorneys signed
paper agreeing TO take II months vacation,
'ommeEr!ns Monday.
jarrett Smith, Of Dunbar. : In jail at Union.
own, charged with collecting money under
'alse pretensc'.
william Ecsart. farmer living neat
Rochester, was struck hy lightning and
killrd.
Durias the s;nr m at Gtoonshurs, lightning
severely shocked two miners working in a
mine.
Samuel Hutchinson, aged =, fell from q
prilg" AZ Gr""nshurs. and wHs drowned
Starhcy ~ Cramrr, merchants at Ellwood.
Htled. Liabilities and assets, 10000.