The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-05-18
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
TO THE FRONT.
Seven Pennsyivania Regiments Ordered 10
0hiokamaugs Last Week.

NtustinSs dt MI 1Tttnd last Tludy.
ITO the Governor of Pennsylvania:
Seven regiments of infantry Of your
state having been mustered and or
dered to proceed to Chickamauga, II Is
desired that the State authorities fur
nish all supplies possible in the way OF
clothing, camp and garrison provisions
and al requirements for soldiers In the
field, including tents, which are much
needed. On arrival at Chickamauga of
the troops, with those Of other States,
they will be equipped and moved to the
front. This was found to be better
than equipping regiments at State rem
devious Ordnance Quartermaster and
commissary officers Will report at
Chattanooga. Supplies to meet the
situation. X. A. ALGER,
Secretary of War"
This means that these regiments will
move In the order named-Fourth, Six
teeTh, Third, Fifteenth, Fifth and
Nir!th. Major Thompson says II is
just possible that the order will be
changed to the extent that the Fourth
and Sixteenth regiments will go forth
with to Tampa
The following pensions were issued
last week: Morris Hess Claysville, IS;
Joseph K. Ross. Waynesburg, $6 John
F. Derstine. Bellefonte, So; Benjamin
ID. Morrell, Mckees Rocks. So; Thomas
Graham, Pittsburg. 50: John T. Jamison,
Indiana. IS to $40; John c. Harkom,
Blairsville. Sc to IS; John Hesch.
Rochester; $40 to sl2; Joseph B. Cohen.
Soldiers Home, Erie, So; Lucinda J.
Nan Wrinkle, Rome, Bradford IS; Hem
rietta Matson. Canton. Bradford, So;
Michael Clark Orbisonia, Huntington,
~; Eliza NJ. Fleeson, mother, Alle-
gheny, si2; Edward J. Humphreys,
Ebensburg. Sc; William J. Warden.
Pittsburg. Sc; Benjamin Stroble, Irwin,
IS; William Fl: Reardon, shippenville.
s6; Samuel Morrow. Allegheny, Sc:
George Simons, Brush Valley, IS; Alex
ander f. Hartford. Grafton. $40; Oliver
Wilson, Hubersburg. $40; Emma
Edinger. st. Petersburg. S12; Mary J.
Smith, Troy Center, ss; Emma Nichol-
son, Allegheny, ss; William w. Head
ley father. Perrysville, sl2; Martha J.
Wyman, Sligo, $l2; Richard D. Henry,
Mcdonald, IS; John Fl. Louderbangh,
Library, Allegheny, ss: James German,
Rebersburg, Center, SO; John Hook,
Boalsburg, Center. Sc; Milton hartley.
Polk, s6; Thomas J. Frow, Lewistown,
s6; Lemon Scruder, Penn Furnace,
Huntington. SO to $40; Stewart Durbin,
Connellsville. sl2 to SIT; J. A. Small.
Neoraska, Forest, SO to IS; Jacob w.
Ottinger, Soldiers Home Erie, IS to
sl0; Elizabeth Clements. New Castle.
sl2; Catharine Nearhood, Center Hall,
~; Mary e. jackson. Girard, Erie, s12
Paul Meshok, a Slav miner, repulsed
an attack from three others and dealt
Joe Tenaki a deadly blow on the head
with club at California a few days
ago. The injured man died. Meshok.
his wife and two children were walk
ing on the railroad near Roscoe late
Saturday night, and the ruffians fell
upon MIN, knocking him down and US
ing him up badly. He got a club and
struck Tenaki.
Joseph Habitsky, who shot and killed
his brother Michael, at Alverton, last
January, was acquitted Of the charge of
murder. The defense was that the
shooting was accidental. John Hath
All, convicted of criminal assault, was
sent to the penitentiary for two years
and five months.
Joshua w. Landis. fire Insurance
agent of Berlin. fell from a buggy in
which he was returning from Meyers
dale to his home the other morning
and broke his neck. Lendis was so
years Of age and leaves a wife and a
number Of children.
The Washington county commission
ers awarded to william Miller & Sons.
of Pittsburg, for s379,90O the contract
to erect the new court house and jail.
Sandstone is to be used. An amended
contract calls for granite for the court
EOuse only at So}o,3UU.
William Wertz, aged 1s, had hiss
back broken by stone blasted from
the. Juniata stone quarry and died
Thursday in the Altoona hospital.
With companions he was playing
poker near the quarry when hurt.
David Ramsey, member of Company
I, One Hundred and Third Pennsyi-
vania Volunteers in the civil war, fell
dead In his garden at New Castle re-
Gently while planting potatoes. He
was 73 years old.
William E. Lloyd of West Middlesex.
is back from the Klondike He has
paying claims and will return. He
reached Chilkoot pass after the avail
anche and found 81 dead bodies there.
Centre County grangers have set the
date for the midsummer encampment
at Centre Hall on September 1917.
Leonard Rhone is chairman of the
Committee of Arrangements.
Mrs. Elizabeth Arnold, who was shot
by her son-in-law, Albert Daub, on
April q, at Lebanon, died Monday, and
the wife OF Daub, who was also wound
ed, is not expected to live.
John w. Irwin, a travelling salesman.
was found dead in his room at the
Commercial hotel In Franklin a few
days ago. He was % years of age, and
resided at Slippery Rock
Governor Hastings granted a re-
spite to Walter l.. Goodwin, of Wells-
boro, to have been hanged Wednesday
for the murder of his wife, until June
0.
Mrs. Michael Tott and 6-year-old
daughter of John Polish burned to
death in a fire that destroyed three
dwellings at Minersville, near Potts.
Vile last week.
After dressing In his best clothes.
William Gruver went to the barn on
his farm, near Allentown, the other
day and hanged himself from a rafter.
Herbert Griffith, engineer Of the steel
mills, of Bristol. scaled the big smoke
stack, 1870 feet high, and flung to the
breeze an American flag.
While walking on the Bellefonts
Central railroad. near State College.
Crawford Switzer was killed by a train
the other day.
Cyrus Zeeger, a veteran of the civil
war, met death under the wheels of
Shamokin & Mount Carmel trolley car
last week. 100
Four prisoners got out OF Sunhury
tail recently by means of rope ladder.
Daniel Mckinley. travelling sales