The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-07-28
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
UNUSUAL SUICIDE.
Probably Insane Woman Adopts an Original
Method to End Her Life.


Method to End Her Life.
Mrs. Charles Simmerman OF Easton
committed suicide In an unusual man
ner n few days ago. She told her IL
year-old child she was going to take q
bath. a few minutes later the child
heard her mother groaning and ran for
help. When neighbor climbed into
the bath room he found the woman
dead on the bottom of the tub. There
was not an inch of water In the tub ana
Mrs. Simmerman had evidently laid
down with her mouth to the spgot and
turned on the water. She was 80 years
old. and was released from the Norris
town insane asylum a few weeks ago.
Samuel =. Langdon. of Philadelphia,
! entered suit In the Blair county courts
against John Loudon and seven other
prominent capitalists of Altoona to re-
cover 100000 damages. Mr.. Langdon
alleges that the defendants bargained
with him on January 8, 1893. to sell him
the controlling interest In the Altoona,
Clearfield and Northern Railroad COM
pany, and that they have committed
breach of this agreement. The com
pany has gone out of existence and the
railroad was recently sold at receivers
sale.
While n well was being drilled for
Elizabeth the crown pulley gave way,
leaving the tools and more than 1000
feet of rope In the well. II the tools
and rope can be recovered the well VIII
be cut down to the depth of 5000 feet.
If they should not be successful Its
record, at its present depth Will stand
as the deepest well drilled In the
world. The well was drilled $3.50 feet.
A block of 5000 acres OF coal land be-
tween the Monongahela river and JEFF
! ferson. Greene county, has been sold
to a party of eastern capitalists and
will be paid for within twenty days.
| The coal Is all along the line of the
| proposed Pittsburg, Connellsville &
Wheeling railroad. and the options
were taken by the projectors of the new
road.
About 60 of the Baker heirs met at
the Alcorn schoolhouse n few days
| since to arrange for taking steps to
secure the s36,OO0000 they claim Is com
| Ing to them from an estate near Phila-
| delphia. Several attorneys met with
| them, among whom We're ID. T. Wat
| son, of this place. and w. II. S. Thomp
son. of Pittsburg.
The police of Franklin captured
| man at Big Rock Bridge. just below the
\ city limits, who was totally divested of
| clothing and running wild. He gave
| his name as Thomas York. of Pitts
burg. and says he has n wife and four
brothers in Pittsburg. When found he
was almost famished.
Five bridges in Jackson township
were washed away during storm the
| other day. as was also Shafer's bridge
| over the Pocono, In Stroud township.
| The handsome summer resort owned
by Thomas sites was damaged to the
| amount of $500. Considerable damage
| was done to standing crops.
Miss Isabelle White and Mrs Harriet
| Cooper, of the Ladies' Auxiliary Com
mittee of the Butler Hospital Associa-
| tion, received n letter the other day
| from Andrew Carnegie stating that he
would contribute $500 to the fund for
| the erection of n general hospital in
this city.
George McKibben. who knocked
down and killed James Kearns while
| driving on the street recently, at New
| Castle, was arrested for murder. The
coroner's jury declared the killing ac-
cidental. McKibben Is the son of Will
| liam McKibben, proprietor of the Knox
hotel.
| The body of female infant, about 3
| days old. neatly packed IN n lard can,
was found floating at the Muncy dam
a few days ago by some fishermen.
Every indication points to the fact that
the child was murdered before being
placed In the can.
| While seated at the supper table at
| his home in Franklin recently, Sylves-
ter Haggerty. aged 23 years. was struck
by n bolt of lightning and rendered un-
| conscious.
| Frank Scully, 16 years of age. of
| Crabtree, Westmoreland county, pour
| ed oil into n stove to start q fire and
was probably fatally burned by the eX-
plosion that followed.
| A fire in Hawley. a town 12 miles
from Honesdale. destroyed ~ buildings
entailing a loss of $4,000.
Thirty-one towns are trying to Sc
cure the Mammoth Star shoe factory
at New Ringgold, which must remove
| from that place on account of the
scarcity of adult labor.
Lightning struck the barn of Philip
| Klingensmith, near Greensburg, Tues
day. and completely destroyed 1t, with
all it's contents. LOSS, $1,000. with ST.
600 insurance.
Referee Charles L. Hawley told the
Lackawanna County Court that James
r. Dainty tried to bribe him In an as
sumpit action in which Dainty was the
plaintiff.
Sharon capitalists are negotiating
with foreign manufacturers for the
erection of a tin plate mill there, for
which bonus of $4,000 is asked.
Mrs. Samuel sifton, of Dunbar, few
days ago leaped from a moving train,
having forgotten her pocketbook. and
sustained fatal injuries.
Twenty-Five firemen and thirty-six
brakemen We're suspended on the Penn
sylvania and New York division of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad.
Caught between a load of hay and
barn door at Goodville, Lancaster
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