The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-04-13
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
GLOOMY OUTLOOK.


Secretary Edge, Of the Agricultural
department, speaks In the most gloomy
manner on the outlook for fruit In this
State this years. He says that the
frosts and SHOWS Of the past few days.
added to the freezing weather. have A.
most destroyed the peaches and that
the buds have been frosen black where
they had developed at ALL He has had
reports from a number of his corres-
pondents and all have the same story
to tell OF black frosts and ruination OF
the fruit crop. Even the Strawberries
are frozen, and are almost total loss
The Secretary thinks that there may be
O FEW peaches In places where the hills
formed protection. but this Is the case
In only few counties. and the crop
will be woefully short. Brom the South
Mountains. where II was supposed the
trees would be protected. come reports
that the blight is over everything and
from the Juniata and Cumberland val
leys there is no announcement. A bull
letin will be prepared when the major
ity of the correspondents are heard
from.
The following pensions were granted
last week: Horace B. Smith. Gallatin,
Potter, SO; w. w. Seaman. Leota, But
Ter. So; George shingledecker. siverly,
Venango, Sc; John r. shively, Fayette-
Vile. franklin, $6 Nehemiah Camp
bell. Gallitzin. So; Thomas w. Douglass.
Punxsutawney, So; George Payton,
Kendall Creek, Mexican, IS; John N.
Coleman, Clarksburg. Sc; w. III.
Cowen, Frankfort Springs. Beaver. s24
TO 70; Joseph Scrayer, Fossilville. Bed
ford. $40 to $12; Wesley v. Tate, Kip
pie. Blair, sl2 to SIT; Cyrus Thomas.
Greensburg. sS to $40; Timothy Rourke,
OIL City. $6 to $40; Joseph Fisher,
Deckers Point. Indiana. SO; Jane F.
Cowan, Frankfort Springs. Beaver.
S12; Sarah Cumberledge. Brave,
Greene. s12; Elizabeth M. Haskins,
Coudersport. ss; Margaret ID. Patter-
son. Alexandria, Huntington, IS; Eli
zabeth G.. Simpson, Eitta. Kittanning.
s12; Washington r. Christy, Rosston,
Armstrong, So; John M. Detwiler.
MMaterside. M bedford: So; William 7.
merer, Allegheny. Sc: George p. Bell,
Puritan. Cambria. Sc; David Shenefelt,
Huntington. SC: Henry It. Kulp, Brad
dock, s6; Samuel II. Williamson, Bell
wood. ss to s12; Peter r. Reitz, Hath
Vile, Jefferson. IS to $l4; William
soalaford, Lewistown. IS to SO; ELI
r. Booth, Burlington, Bradford, $12 to
S1I; Robert Craig. Soldiers home, Erie,
Ss to s12; Harrison Mansfield. Latrobe,
$40 to $12: William Sloan. Pittsburg,
SO to $40; Luther Reed. Sweden Valley,
Potter, $50 to $50; James Grace. Cen
tertown, Mercer, Sc to s.; Mary A.
Riley Altoona, Ss; Rachel Duer' MUIR.
raysville. Westmoreland, $S.
David B. Lands, president Of the
Conestoga National Bank. one Of the
most prominent citizens OF Lancaster,
was shot and killed Thursday morning
by Ralph w. Wireback. who occupied a
house owned by Lands on a conspicu-
Gus residence thoroughfare. Mr.. Lam
dis had served notice on Wireback to
quit the premises April /. Wireback
said he had lease which allowed him
to stay. and this morning couple Of
constables went to Lands to evict the
recalcitrant tenant. Wireback had for
titled the house In an ingenious MAN.
ner, locking himself in a third-story
room. where he had stacked the doors
and windows with lumber, bedsteads
and other heavy material. When Mr..
Lands and the constable arrived Wire
back shot and killed Lands.
William Dearolph, employed in the
Watsonville pool by the South Penn Oil
Company. of Oil City, was on the top
of H-foot derrick a few days ago
when line which he was pulling part
ed at a splice and he lost his balance,
falling to the ground and landing on
his feet. One foot and leg was driven
into the ground to the knee. but the
other foot struck root and stayed
above the ground. The only mark he
carries is a pair Of black eyes, where
they struck his knees when the concus-
sion Of the fall doubled him up.
The vote on the question OF bonding
the city Of Meadville to enable coun-
ellis to purchase the plant of the Mead
Vile water company carried recently.
The plant will cost 100000. The de-
cisions Of Justice Dean In this and the
Beaver Falls case prevented the city
from building Its own plant.
Mrs. James Colbert. wife Of q coal
miner living near Harrisville, has been
suffering from typhoid fever. and last
Friday morning, while delirious. es-
capped from the house. Monday morn
ing she was found In an abandoned
out-building. two miles away. uncon-
scious. and almost dead from exposure
Benjamin and James Mitchell,
brothers. living at Larimer. were killed
near the big railroad cut west Of Irwin
last Tuesday. They started for home
early and an wur later their bodies
were found side by side in the ditch
alongside the track.
William Phenniecie. of Lucyville,
employed as a policeman, was lodged
in Jail, at Washington the other day,
by Conctable Tobin of Ruscoe on a
commitment Issued by Squire William
McKenna charging him with killing
Robert Hughes.
The sheriff has sold the Macungfe
Iron Company's furnace. six houses
and the property. consisting of 56 acres
at Allentown. to Emma Audenried. of
Philadelphia, for $4,000. The property
is subject to mortgage for $4,000.
An offer has been made to the Gov
ernment by John II. Barnes. of Pitts
burg. to take submarine photographs
of the sunken war ship Maine, by an
apparatus of his own invention.
A trolley car which jumped the track
at Watsontown, Northumberland coun-
ty, fatally crushed William Maggs,
who was standing on the front plat
form, against a pole.
Search Is being made throughout the
eastern part OF the State tfor James
Blank, a 17-year-old. who disappeared
from his home at Bethlehem On Febru-
ary 2S.
While eating an apple Moses KNAPP
penberger foil from his chair and ex-
pired at Jeanette last week. He was "
years old. and leaves a widow and four
children.
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