The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-07-26
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
uNACC0UNTABLE DEATHS.
Four Children Pass Away Predicting the Time
Of Their Departure Eaten
Canned Vegetables.

thfee children OF the family have died
ana n peculiar matter In relation to
their illness Is that, as they were
stricken with the same mysterious dis
ease, one by one, they would tell their
parents of presentlments OF their death
and would predict the time almost to
the hour when their spirits would take
Hight The children were always in
the best OF health up until recently.
One Sunday the whole family became
VI through eating canned vegetables
The little daughter n few days after
wards, when II was thought all mem
bers of the family had fully recovered
became very sick, and In the course Of
two weeks she died. While returning
home from his sisters funeral How
ard, boy OF ~ years. became III, and.
Just before he was taken into the
house, he called his father and told
MIN that he was going to die, and that
he would be placed beside his sister
within month. Within two weeks
the boy died. Willie, IA years old be-
came III two months ago. The boy felt
confident that he would recover until
week ago. Then he called to- his
father and told him that he would die
within week. In just one week from
that day the boy died.
The following pensions were issued
lnst week: Thomas Hewitt. North
Clarendon, Warren, ss; Charles j.
Hodgkinson, Brookvllle. Sc: Lyman
Humes. Harrisburg. Sc; John McCrae.
Roxbury, franklin. sG; Benjamin
aSn% aSng, west Lebanon, amaao, indiana, ma SO;
Lancaster, Sc; william H. DeLong,
Emporium Cameron. ss; Pat Hlgg ms,
Shamokin, $40: Reuben Leininger,
Sunbeam, Franklin. So: Philip Begler,
dead. Warren. s12; Wescott Corbin.
dead. , Hollldaysburg. $40; Joseph
Fisher. dead, Braddock. Alie-
IaI
susquehanna. SEA- George Hill. Fort
Palmer, Westmoreland. si4 Rebecca
]. Beck, New Bloomfield, Perry, IS;
Dora Corbln, Hollldaysburg, So: Cath
arine Foy, Bellwood. Blair, sS Mary
Masters, Masters; NH, H,oll,steryilIe, Wayne. sS
Kline, Leetonia. Ticga, So; Philip
Lamoreux, Lehman. Luzerne. s6 Levi
w. Hartranft, West Hazleton. s6
Isaac Pinkerton, Ellsworth. Alleghe-
ny, So Reuben II. Lynch. Mechanics
burg, sl2; Grove B. Adams, Oregon
Jersey Shore. $40: william II. Free
man. Bradford, s6 John Barnhart,
Mt. Carmel, s6 VIM. Bennett, Brad
dock, SO; Russell J. McQuillen, Sol
diers and Sailors Home, Erie, s8; An
drew Clark. Cowansville. Armstrong
vs. Edwin G, Fairfax, Pitcairn, Alle-
gheny. Sc; VIM. Frew, Johnstown, Sc;
John Henry Rice, Kittanning. So; Geo.
w; Fleeger, Butler. Sl2. Widows
Elizabeth Davis. Scranton IS: minors
of VIM. Linn, Robinsonville, Bedford,
sG; war with Spain. Louis A. French,
Worthwhile, Erie, sl2; Thomas c. Buck
lngham, Scenery Hin, Washington,
IS; William Deeter, Anderson, Luzerne.
sS; George Bilyon, Monongahela, IS;
Jared G. Frames, ROte, SO.
The bark Bandaneira. Capt. Falck.
which Is now discharging her cargo at
Philadelphia. on the Jersey shore, was
visited on Wednesday night by hor-
rible looking insect, which the captain
believes to have been genuine
"strangllng bug" The bug attacked
the captains wife. The mate heard
her screams and struck the bug d lwn
repeatedly. 1t returned to the attack
and was only subdued by the mate at
tacking 1t with heavy handspke.
The bug was three inches long and had
nippers like an iceman's clip.
boiler explosion occurred at the
Zadock Whltehill sawmill, in Wayne
township. near Waynesburg few
days ago. ELI Whitehill. a son of the
proprietor, was blown a distance of
over two hundred yards and killed
Another son was carried as great n
distance, but allghted I'm the creek and
was not seriously injured. The father,
Zadock Whitehill, Is reported fatally
hurt. The boiler divided into two
tdCn Delng carried over 2UO
yards from the scene.
Justice Of the Peace John j. Hare,
OF Chester. has strange bug that can
lift three pounds with his pincers. He
captured the bug on the sidewalk and
took II into his store. and. while hold
Ing IL In pair of plncers. the bug took
hold of a box of watch screws weigh
Ing three pounds, and when Mr.. Hare
pulled the bug away 1t held on to the
box and held 1t suspended for three
minutes and had good hold Mt the
end OF that time.
At the preliminary hearing before
Alderman Swap at Erie few DAYS
ago. c. A. Swartsfager was bound over
to court on charge of the murder of
c. II. Shattuck on July o at Four Mile
creek. Mrs. Shattuck was scnarged,
and then put on the stand by the COM
monwealth. The woman said Shat
tuck met her on the trolley trestle
with Swartzfager. and that she ran
and that she heard shots.
The first monument erected over the
grave of victim of the Spanish
American war in Westmoreland coun-
ty was unveiled at Harold Cemetery
Tuesday. Thousands OF people attend
ed the ceremonies. 1t was In memory
of Isaac Il. Wentzell, who died at Mid
dletown while in camp with Company
NJ, Sixteenth Regiment, August 20. 1t
Is massive granite shaft.
While engaged in prayer at a prayer
meeting In a church at Galloway, ar
Franklin. Mrs. Hannah l.. Mead OF
Pleasantvllle, aged SO years, d ed. She
was kneeling in her pew, when she
gave a sudden gasp and fell to the
floor People went to her assistance.
but she died in few minutes. Heart
disease was the cause.
WILDER Taylor, superintendent OF the
Elco Brewing Company at Elco, two
miles north of Coal Center, was over
come by the fumes of ammonia used
at the brewery. He was about IS years
of age and a wldower with four chill
dren, and was subject to heart troub' @,
which, with the fumes OF ammonia
caused his death.
New Kensington poasts of a woman
carpenter in the person OF Mrs. Steph-
en- Sedorc, Polish woman. She has
built three houses and did all the work
herself. even to painting them. Mrs.
Sedoric digs the cellar. lays the foun-
dation and builds the house from be-
ginning to end. including shingling,
plastering. etc.
Ex-senator Gerard C. Brown was
the other evening gored to death by a
ferocious Alderney bull at his barn
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