The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-10-26
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
DEWEY SENDS THANKS.
The Admiral Acknowledges the Honor Bestowed
by the Western University
OF Pennsylvania.

The Chancellor of the Western Uni
| versity of Pennsylvania at Pittsburg,
| has received the following letter from
Admiral Dewey. in acknowledgment
of letter sent last June, notifying the
Admiral that the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws had been conferred
upon him.
Flagship Olympia,
Manila, =. l., Sept 26, 1898.
ITO w. j. Holland. Chancellor of the
western University of Pennsylvania
Dear Sir-I have much pleasure in
acknowledging the receipt of your let
ter of June 9Th, conveying the pleas
ant intelligence of the action Of the
trustees and faculty of the Western
University of Pennsylvania In confer
ring upon me the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws. While I have receiv-
ed many evidences of the appreciation
In which my countrymen hold my ef-
forts to break the power of Spain in
the far East, yet no act of individual
or corporation has given me more un-
qualified pleasure than this one Of this
great university. VIII you do me the
honor to accept for yourself and for
the trustees and faculty my warmest
thanks, and believe that I have the
highest appreciation Of this noble dis
tinction.
II am, sir, with great respect,
Very sincerely,
"(Signed) GEORGE DEWEY"
The following pensions were issued
last week: John w. Brown. Blue
Ridge Summit. Franklin sl2: william
d. Jones, Parkers Landing. Arm.
strong. IS; Joseph J. Culver, Deep VAL
ley. Greene. SO to IS: Maria Standin-
bara, Blair. ss; Margaret Ryan.
mother, Canton. Bradford s12; Jacob
Lander, Erie, Sc; Archibald Dickson,
Stoops. Allegheny, So; oliver Shane.
Hoboken. Sc to s12; Morrison Snyder.
Westheld. Tioga. s12 to s17; Isaiah
Simon Nixon, Edmond, Armstrong, ss
to $40; Cornelius Vanscoy. Dubois. SO
to IS; Martin v B. West. Chambers
burg. SO to s12. Matilda Knight. Ken
dali Creek, Mexican, IS; Horace Kis-
kadden. Dixonburg. Crawford, $40;
Thomas Golden. Pittsburg, Sc; John
Logue. Lock Haven, So; Conrad Peter
son, Fleetwood. Sc; Elias Fisher. Fleet
wood. SO to IS; Hugh S. Pollock.
Rochester Mills, Indiana, So to s12;
Joseph Drummond, North Clarendon,
ss to s12: Thomas J. Gillespie. Sharon.
$40: Robert Allen. Breneman, Wash
ington. $40; James L. McNutt, Ford
City, si1 20: William Shields, Eden
vile. Franklin, sS; Jacob A. Peters,
Kittanning, S6 Joseph Gessler. Island,
Clinton, Sc; James Alexander Streams,
Georgeville, Indiana, $40; George w.
Roach. Center Hall, s6; John Eckley,
Wallacetown, Clearfeld. S.; John Ross.
Mountain. Butler, $6: T. NJ. Rutter,
Reynoldsville, SO to sS William MUIR
ply. Pittsburg, SO to sS; Lewis NJ. Nc
Dermott. Pittsburg. IS to s12 James
II. Johnson, Ohiovile, Beaver, $14 to
S17: David Hughes, No. 9 Indiana, s12
to s1i: Martha Stockwell, dead, Bloom
ing Valley. Crawford, IS to s14: minors
of Samuel Stuzman. Johnstown, s14;
Minnie Shroyer. Altoona, IS: Eunice
Il. Perry. Potter Brook. Tioga. So;
Annie T.. Neff, Tyrone. IS: minors of
Robert Gorrie. Pittsburg, SIG; minor OF
Leonard Stockwell, Blooming Valley,
So
The cause of the death of many pu-
pills of No. 2S school in Scranton Is at
last solved through the discovery of an
ignorantly performed act of workmen
in tapping n sewer pipe, allowing gas
TO escape into the air pipe, thence into
the schoolroom. For several weeks
past the children have been infected
with diphtheria, and up to the present
time between 20 and 25 have died, while
many more are dangerously i'll.
Threats were made against Professor
Burdicts life, as some of the afflicted
ones held him responsible.
On Saturday night at Jeanette. d.
and David e. Miller was held up and
robbed. Now 1t is learned that James
McClinchey, formerly of Pittsburg.
popular baseball player. while return
ing from dance at a lonely point was
pounced upon, and because he did not
have enough money to satisfy the
thieves was knocked down. kicked and
cut and left unconscious. The descrip-
ticn of the thieves given by Miller and
McClinchey tallies in every particular.
The upsetting of a lamp at a Slav
ball at the mining village of Export,
the other morning caused bad fire.
The blaze started in Steve Rutgusky's
house and spread to the adjacent
buildings which were occupied by
Steve Moreuns, John Restero. Mrs.
John Haley and two Italian families.
The loss will reach about $1,000. Rut-
gusky and Moreuns have small in
surance.
Frank Lossee, ]. M. Tidd and Frank
Reed, of Greenville, who are in the
Klondike representing a Kinsman (O)
company, write that rich pay dirt has
been found on three of their claims.
Mr.. Lippy, also of Kinsman, cleaned
up 100000 last year in the same terri
tory. Lossee sent home the claws of
huge cinnamon bear, one of a batch
which the party killed recently.
At the home of j. s. Brewster. near
Stoneboro, last week. his twin daugh-
terS, Nata and Nadia, were married to
II. S. and r. B. Lowden of Twin Falls,
Wis. The gentlemen are also twins,
and only recently returned from Cuba,
where they have been as privates in a
western regiment. The young people
met two years ago at school in Chi
cago.
Frank Creek of Company X of the
Tenth Pennsylvar a recruits, who was
left behind at S.n Francisco on ac-
count of illness. has about recovered.
He has returned to Washington on a
30 days furlough. which expires Mo-
vember 6. He expects to go to Manila
with the recruits.
While J. o. Bunnell of Springboro,
was splitting wood in his yard his
small son. Fay. came up behind him
and received the full force of blow as
the father swung the ak back over his
head. The blade entered the child's
face, infiicting a wound that will prove
fatal.
Before Judge Arnold recently at
Philadelphia. Harry A. Heisler. treas
urer of the Junior American Mechan-
les funeral benefit association, pleaded
guilty to having embezzled $1,000. He
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