The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-07-12
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
DROWNED HIS RESCUER.
Coy, Sc red With Cramps, Embraces Another
Lad too Tightly and Both Lose
Their Lives.


near that place few days ago.
tramp seized him and he cried TOR
nelp. fiarinan Leverenz, aged H. went
10 his rescue. Peters, as he arose for
the last time, threw his arms around
Leverenz, and both were drowned in
the presence of a number OF persons.
Inc bodies were recovered.
The following pensions were issued
last week: William ID. Watson.
Strudsburg, SO; Hiram T.. Garrett
Harrisburg. SIC; Levi Reinhart, Kirk
wood, Lancaster, Sc; William G. Quail.
Soldiers and Sailors Home, Erie, s6
James Barber, Burllngame, Lycoming.
s1i benjamin Abbott Fichtner Connu-
ence. Somerset, S12; John Trimble.
Blairsville, IS; John Kelly, Wilkins
burg, Allegheny, S6 Charles T. Byrnes.
maple Shade, Venango, IS; Joseph ID.
Ross Oil CITY, So; Herbert l.. Hall,
Glenburn, Lackawanna, IS; George v.
Jones, Canonsburg, Washington, Sc:
Frisby Thompson, Harrisburg, Sc:
Charles q. Gudykuntz, Allenwood-
Union, 80; Isaac NJ. Grandon, Waynes-
burg, Greene, sS Fred Berkhart, CO.
dell, Mexican, SS; Robert Nicholson,
Confluence, Somerset. 81; Alexander
Clark, Everett. Bedford $14: John II.
Reitz, Asherton, Northumberland $40;
Adam II. Weaver, Bowmansdale, Cum
beiland, $l2; John l.. Sharp, Ledger,
Lancaster. s17; Robert +. Mckinney,
Newberry, Lycoming. $i2: William u.
Shuf, uriah, Cumberland. $40; Wal
lace Biddle, Canton, Bradford, S2t;
William Oakley, Knoxville, Tioga, $14;
Bert Ballard, Troy, Bradford, S17;
Daniel Gramm, Stiltz. York, $1O
Michael ELDERS, Schaefferstown, Leb-
anon, $l7; w. O. Colt, Waterford, Erie.
So; Frank Smith, Erie, sl7 Widows
Hannah ID. Chapman, Pittsburg, $S;
Margaret Damn. Middle Lancaster.
Butler So; minors of William Manalis,
Wilkesbarre, SIG; Nettie Decker, To-
wanda, s12 War with spain-Bridget
Mars, Wilkesbarre. S12; Christiane f..
Spiece, Lock Haven, $l2; Rose Rhodes,
Parsons, Luzerne, $12.
a gray-haired father passed through
Waynesboro a few days ago on his
way to recover his 11-year-old son,
who had been kidnapped from Green
Village, September 25, 1897, by stere-
opticon exhibitor The father, who Is
George w. Rhodes, received word that
his son had been recovered from his
captor dt Everett, Bedford county,
and Immediately left his work in the
harvest field, mounted his bicycle and
left for the Bedford county town. The
father had located the stereopticon
exhibitor at several towns in the
state, but had always appeared just
too late TO overtake him. While at
Akron week ago he received work
kidnaper, was In this part of the state.
The father says he has ridden 5000
miles on his wheel hunting his boy
OvereNertion in bicycle riding pro-
duced internal Injuries from which
Normal Shaw, of Centertown aged IL
years, died.
A miniature male baby is being
raised in an incubator at Reading.
The mite of humanity weighed but two
pounds when born June 8, but now
weighs about three pounds. Its arms
are not much longer than a mans
finger and its legs are proportionately
small. A finger ring can be slipped on
its arms. Its head is not much larger
than a walnut. When born it could be
placed In quart jar. 1t Is, however,
perfectly formed and Is thriving, with
promises that it will become stronger
and soon be able to live without the
incubator.
A lad named Richard Yost, of
Beaver Falls, aged IA years, while
getting fruit from a mulberry tree fell,
alighting on his head. He staggered
into the house, and as the family are
very poor his mother did not like to
incur the expense of doctor, so she
bathed his head and he crawled under
the table and went to sleep. Some hours
afterward she tried to awaken him and
could not. A doctor was then called
and 1t was discovered that his skull
was fractured. He was removed to
the hospital and Is now in u critical
condition.
James Grant, one of the Oldest
freight engineers on the Fort Wayne
Railroad, was brought to Beaver Falls
the other night on passenger train No.
20, east-tound. in a dying state. HIS
skull had been crushed in, but how he
received his injuries is mystery. He
was taken to the hospital as quickly as
possible and died without having re-
gained consciousness. His hone is at
Crestline, o., where he has a wife and
family. He was So years old.
Moses Higgins, farmer living near
White Oaks, southwest of West Alex
ander. while suffering from hemor-
rhage one day early in the week.
coughed up tooth. When boy Hig-
gins was descending from a stable loft
and was struck in the face by a saddle
stirrup and had a tooth knocked down
his throat. 1t lodged in cavity Of
one lung, causing hemorrhages. He is
now well up in years and the tooth
was in the lung for 80 years.
Coroner Dugan, Of Philadelphia, held
an inquest a few days ago In the case
of the 4-months-old child of Thoma,
Burns, which was suffocated in bed by
its parents, who We're arrested. 1t
was shown that they had been drink
ing the night before, but that death
was accidental, and upon tie parents
taking the pledge not to partake of in
toxicating drinks for the rema lnder of
their lives they were discharged.
T. n. Ross was instantly killed ar1
Frank Humphrey had his leg broken
and his hip badly injured at Worth
Bros. & Co.'S steel plant, at Coates
Vile a few days ago. A holstng chain
caught, and in trying to loosen IL the
men were thrown underneath a heavy
iron mold which was suspended to the
chain and a moment later fell with a
crash Ross had his head crushed to
a jelly.
The Ligonier board of education
completed its election of teachers by
electing George T.. Baron. principal;
Harry NJ. Yealy of Derry. assistant
principal. and Miss Retta Irwin. pri-
mary department. Baron is a sergeant
in the Tenth Pennsylvania. and Is now
EN- route home from the Philippines.
Ella Maskery, of Fairvlew township.
Mercer county, is dead, the result Of
burns sustained while shooting hre
crackers on the Fourth of July,