The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
4 TERRIBLE MISTAKE
Well Known Harrisburg Man Takes stryeh
nine and Dies.

IieTfilHn D. NOiS, n WelI-RnOWn Demo-
cratic politician of Harrisburg. took
strychnine by mistake to-day, and died
several hours later In great agony. He
was 40 years old, and until recently
held a position i'm the international rev
enue service. MIR. Wolz was at one time
publisher of the Harrisburg Sunday
Capital" and afterwards one of the
proprietors of the Evening Star" He
was for several years chairman of the
Democratic city committee. widow
and one child survive him.
After the dlscouraging situation In
the coke field near Dunbar. presented
by the reports of several weeks past.
the favorable reports of last weeks
trade viii be hailed with delight. The
trade last week showed decided signs
of improvement. II ovens being added
to the active list, making 10,3l5 ovens
In blast and S062 idle The production
amounted to l03.77S tons, an increase
over the previous week of 1883 tons.
The total shipments from the region
amounted to 6,l62 cars, gain of 1i7
cars over the previous week.
Tho following pensions were granted:
Pennsylvania-Joseph r. Wickline,
Sharpsburg; Thomas w. Dyott. Erie,
Andrew J. Foy, Belwood; Jonathan
Wiser Hopewell; Arthur Colville. Pitts
burg; Elizabeth B. Littell. Allegheny;
Minor q. George. Zelienople; Elizabeth
Launtz. Conemaugh, and Jacob l..
Reece. Pennsville, Fayette county; Will
liam Berwinkle. Apollo; Adam Leake.
Altoona: John Lancaster. Braddock
Joseph Bryant. Erie; George r. Head
rick and Margaret J. Croft, Pittsburg
Daniel w. Daugherty, Salisbury; Hiram
Mccoy, Galeton. Potter county. John
| q. Stahl. Willamsport: George F. MIL
Ter. Lancaster: John r. Stevens. Eagles
mere: John Reymer. Scranton; increase,
David Comfort, Blairsville: reissue,
Christopher f. Yockey, Chicora.
Daniel j. Slattery, the Erie railroad
| supervisor who has been missing since
| May 2S, committed suicide. After leav-
| ing bradford he went to Falls Creek,
took a train to Pittsburg and thence
| to Bellaire. o. on the evening of May
80 he was seen by a fisherman to leap
| into the Ohio river. The body was
| taken from the water soon after. He
had removed all papers from his body
| and even cut the initials from his shirt
| front.
The body was inferred at public en-
! Dense. A mark and the number on his
shoes led to his Identification.
Martin Mauer, of Erie, walked out
on the breakwater, sat where he
thought he would fall in the water.
and then shot himself through the ne ad.
| He fell backward and was found
| Mauer had been for twenty-five years
| Eries leading wholesale confectionery
| but overstepped himself in the en-
larGement of his factory and failed. His
next venture was In the Ohio oil field,
| and II cleaned up the balance Of his
| wealth. He was a knight Templar and
| leaves a wife and four children
Contracts have been let for the recon-
struction of the Rosena furnace at New
| Castle which will make ii one of the
biggest furnaces In the United States
The capacity will be about $50 tons. The
Enterprise Company of Youngstown
will build the stack and the New Castle
engineering works do the iron work
The furnace will be 95 feet high and 27
feet in diameter. The Improvements
will cost about s1500O0.
| Capt. j. w. Reynolds and John Kyler
of Espy, Pa, were burned to death,
| and Maurice Reynolds was fatally
burned on the Susquehanna, at Pitts
| ton. The dredge was being used by the
| Spring Brook Water Company, in erect
| ing u filter. The men went to bed in the
| cabin and soon after a fire broke out
In the boiler room.
The bark peeler strikers, angered he
cause certain Frenchmen would not
Join their ranks at Croyland. com
menced n riot, which necessitated the
| p.
Woodsmen from adjoining camps are
| also striking for advanced wages.
George f.. Landers, postmaster, 1t
, Newberry. stood up to be punished for
shooting Select Councilman Seth T..
| Foreman last fall. After reprimanding
| the prisoner Judge Metzger sentenced
him to two years solitary confinement
in the Eastern Penitentiary.
To get on deck. they had to run
through the boiler room and only
Maurice Reynolds lived through the
fiery ordeal. He was rescued by boat
from the shore, but was so badly burned
he cannot recover. The dredge burned
to the waters edge and sank
Benjamin Thornburg. a Washington
county poorhouse character, famous In
his day as fighter. died at the age OF
81 at the Washington county poorhouse
from injuries received by being struck
by a train.
| II. ]. Welsh, brakeman, was killed at
Courtney. He had asked a young lady
for a rose. and in reaching for it. as the
train was moving. lost his balance and
fell under the cars. He was ground into
pieces.
At the words "two years" Landers
fell to the floor as II shot. and his aged
mother. uttering a piercing scream
dropped into the arms of a friend in a
dead faint.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
Armagh postoffice. Indiana, kept in ID
II. Mack & Sons store, and got $3.50 "
money and $500 in notes and postage
stamps.
The Pottstown iron company has as
signed. 1t failed in February, 1898
since which time it has been in charge
of receivers. Its capital stock is $l,OOo,'
900.
Reports from many sections of Fay
cite county show the 17-year locust:
are multiplying at rate to cause ap
prehension of serious destruction tc
| crops.
The general store of Henry & n. NJ
Dewalt. at Harrison City, has beer
closed by the sheriff at the suit of s. VI
Ferguson and will be sold.
Paul Hughes, aged years, ant
James Faddis, aged II years, OF Rice:
Landing, killed a copperhead snak'
measuring 27 inches.
Mrs Robert Mair of Latrobe. ar
aged lady. attempted suicide by drink
ing lye and is in critical condition.