The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-09-01
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
CAR BROKE LOOSE.
One Man Killed, and Two Seriously Injured
On Steep Grade.

union LUMBER Company at lIoch
Haven, boarded q truck to go down
the heavy grade of the narrow gauge
road to the shanty, five miles distant
one day last week. The men lost con-
troll of the car, and after cunning two
miles at great speed II plunged into n
car loaded with prop timber. Barney
Sallio had both legs crushed and a
scalp wound. He died a few hours lat
er. George Julian had his skull frac-
tured, both legs broken and was In
jured internally; cannot recover Nick
Figeo received a confusion of the hip
and was Internally injured; may re-
cover.
The following Pennsylvania pensions
have been granted Hiram Mosher,
Grand Valley: William II. Boughry,
Indiana: Charles Clearkins. Johnson
burg: Benjamin James, Allegheny;
Thomas N. Clark, West Middlesex;
Samuel 8. Shuts, Oil City; Thomas
Webster; Griffith Herrod, Hope; Oliver
Shane. Hoboken; William Lloyd, New
Castle: Samuel Claycomb, Altoona;
George Boyer, Etna; Lewis 10. Dar-
row, Cory; Charles G. Hackett, Derry
station; William w. Foster, Parkers
Landing; Albert @. Harper. kaneviiie;
Susan G. Larimer. Pittsburgh; John c.
wisegarver, Latrobe; Mary Whitman,
Johnstown; John Dillon. Pittsburgh;
Mary J. Coons, Derry station; Mary l..
Williams. Allegheny; Susan Mills. New
Castle: Margaret F. Blake. Martins
burg; Barbara Arentus, Johnstown;
Rosetta T.. Taylor, Lincolnville; Will
liam II. Harvey, Tarentum; William A.
Jackson, Philipsburgh; Winfield S.
Fletcher, Bedford; Robert II. Ayres.
Altoona; John d. Hoer, Pittsburg;
Charles NJ. Roberts (dead), Homestead;
John II. Hill, Claysville; Sidney M.
Wiehl. Zelienople; William Henry
Freeman, Grampian; Della N. Ro-
berts, Homestead; Mary Cummings,
Erie; minors of william S. NJ. Barron,
New Lexington; Adaline B. Darling.
East Springfield; Mary Hoffer. Madi-
son; Katurah Orr, Putneyville; William
Hayes Crier, Columbia, Lancaster CO.;
Randall Kent. Pittsburgh; Andrew
Mcfarland, Everett Bedford county;
Henry j. Potter, Hughesville. Lycom-
ing county; William Leib, Disston.
Lancaster county; William II. Mar
shall, Chieckies. Lancaster county;
| Joseph Youn, Canoe Ridge, Indiana
! county: David Jacobs Carnegie; Sam
uel l.. Pretz. Steelton. Dauphin county;
Abraham Irwin. Frugality, Cambria
county: Charles Il. Rhinehart Mech
anicsburg. Cumberland county; Jere-
miah Minick, Harrisburg; George FL
Ter, Altoona; Aaron Winwige, Latrobe;
Bernard Graf tdead), Leetsdale, Ale
| gheny county.
Two residents of Greenville had
narrow escape from bleeding to death
a few days ago. Mrs. Jas. Sholenbur-
| ger, of Osgood, was tightening the top
| Of q glass fruit jar, when II broke, cut
| ting her wrist in a terrible manner. a
! little daughter of George Hoffman. near
the rolling mill. fell on butcher knife.
slashing her arm I'm terrible manner.
Physicians at Canonsburg removed
| a needle from the wrist of a young wo-
man named Blair with the aid of q
| rays.
While Jos. Gulino, Bernard Stalio,
| and Nicholas Fizio were descending a
heavy grade on the Glenunion lumber
road, they lost control of the car at
Lock Haven, and 1t ran away with
them, colliding with a lumber train.
! All were hurt. Gulino had both legs
broken and was badly hurt about the
! head. One of the other men had his
| hip broken, and the other his ribs bro
ken.
Louisa Kiser, who had her left leg
| cut off by n train on the Erie railroad
last Saturday night at Meadville. was
married Thursday to Charles Il.
| s,chatz the young man who was with
her at the time of the accident. They
were about to board the train for the
| purpose of going to jamestown, N. Y,
to have the nuptial knot tied, when the
accident occurred.
A public meeting of citizens was held
| at Greensburg the other day and
| board OF trade organized by the election
of A. NJ. Sloan as president. The OBJ
! ject is to group all opportunities for
securing the location of manufactures.
Nearly so members were secured. The
membership fee was fixed at S..
Jacob Buntley, a laborer in the Car
bon steel works at Pittsburg, had his
left leg amputated at the st. Francis
hospital. The man was cleaning set
| Of cogwheels the other day, when they
were started. The wheels crushed the
leg TO a pulp as far as the knee before
the machinery could be stopped.
At a colored camp-meeting at Wor-
| ley's grove, near Waynesburg, the
other day. Willie Parks, aged years.
was fatally shot, and officer Charles
Cage painfully wounded. The officer
was pursuing William Shanes for dis
orderly conduct and Shanes fired two
shots before he was arrested.
Mrs VIM. Vankirk, of West WASH
! lngton, died suddenly few days ago
i IF heart failure. She was sitting In the
window of her home sewing, when she
suddenly fell to the floor, and died in
4 few minutes. She was 81 years Of age
and leaves four young children.
James Griffin, a flagman. was in
stantly killed the other day at Juniata-
Vile. 1t is supposed he tripped on
switch frog when a train was backing
into a siding. He was ground to pie
ces. The remains We're brought here.
Griffin was so years old and single.
Alfred T.. Duell and wife have sued
NJ. B. Kerr & Sons. druggists, of Mars.
for $4,000 damages, alleging that the
defendants negligently gave the wrong
medicine in a prescription filled by
Gem for Mrs. Duell. causing her suf-
tering and injury.
The executors of Hamilton Smith. of
Ligonier, who. with his daughter. was
killed at Derry by his horse jumping
over the railroad bridge. have entered
suit for $4,000 damages against the
Pennsylvania Railroad company.
The famous Cornelly arson case
came to q close last week. when the
Jury returned a verdict of guilty as in
1icted for attempting to burn the ar
mory, but not guilty OF the electric
light works fire.
The barn of Martin Bell. at Vira, was
struck by lightning and burned to the
ground the other day. The stock and
farm implements were saved, but the