The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-09-06
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
OvERPoWERED HIS NURSE.
DcIirlous with Fever a Hotel Proprietor
Jumps From a sccond.sory Win.
dow 10 Ms Death.

Arthur u. Diamond, proprietor OF the
Ehrenfeld house AT Ehrenfeld jumped
from aecOnd-story window the other
night and received injuries from which
he died. He overpOwered the nurse.
Miss Walter. He never regained con-
seriousness after being picked up. He
was 30 years old
The following pensions were granted
last week: Patrick Noonan, dead, Me-
KEGS Rocks, 80 to IS; william w. Lee
crOne. Woodbury.. sl7; Francis Noonan,
McSees Rocks 81; Elonora Schmidt,
Allegheny, fS Ellen y. Sharp, West
Lebanon, SS; Adam Sewers. Atwood.
IS to sl2; Jane Seely, Jobnstown, 81;
Sarah NJ. Zimmerman, Laurelviile, IS;
Sarah j. Casey. Erie, Si2 James II.
Cover. Fort Hin, So; Solomon g. Mil
Ter. Troutvllle, s. TO si2; Frank vogel.
Hollidaysburg, $i2 to sli; Elias S.
G. Bird. Connellsville, S., Catharinc
Wagner, Johnstown, si2; Betsy Burns,
Russell So; Adam Wolf, dead, Putney-
Vile, $40 TO $50; Benjamin Mann. T!oga.
80 to 81. Patrick J. Boylin, Ehrenfeld.
ts 10 $40; John a. Wooleraver, Indiana.
50 TO s.; Henry w. Stager. Bloomfield.
SO to 81; Frank II. Elvidge. Ben Avon,
Allegheny, 81 to So, George w. Jack
SON. Shoustown, $40; Samuel Stoutner.
Everett. Bedford. $40; Jennie overly.
son. Berlin. ss Elina Wolf Putney-
vllle Sl2; Henry w. Hoax. Beaver
Falls. ss to $40: Samuel -. Mcbride.
sewickley. 81 to So; william I. Mackey.
Altoona, sl7; Christopher Stewart.
Greer. So to 81; Terrence DelOzier, st.
Augustln ss 10 s12; Joseph Crawford.
Everett IS to $40; william Bailey.
Knoxdale. sl4 to t17; John w. Ramsey.
Hlllsvlew, 81 to sl2; Levi w. Patch.
Youngsvllle, SO TO 81; James -. Jordan.
punxsutawney, s2i to $780, Maria a.
Patterson, KenwOOd, 81; Jane Rich
ards. Blossburg, ss Ellen Terrence.
Pittsburg. s.: Margaret l.. X. Gard
| ner. Altoona, ss.
That n thief sometimes has an un-
dercuirent Of honor about him was
demonstrated at Butler few days ago.
About 20 years ago Or. j. r.. Byers
was called on to attend n young man.
stranger, who had a very bad case
Of typhoid fever. The patient had
| neither friends nor money and the
| young physician gave him his profess
sional services, as well as nursing him.
| without any hope of pecunlary reward.
| About year later n gang Of robbers
were captured in the northern part
| Of the state and sent to the penitentiary
| for long terms. Among the lot was the
| doctors fever patient. The doctor had
! long since forgotten about the circum-
| stance, and was much surprised when
| a middle-aged man walked into his Of
| flee and asked him II he remembered
| the young man ne had nursed through
/
an attack OF fever. The doctor renem-
out Hat wallet and counted out the
amount Of the doctors bill, thanked
him ana walked out, -
/ After an abseLte u 81 years, Platt
| Hodges returned to his old home at
| Millers Station near Franklin last
week. In 1869 ne left his family and
| went West TO seek his fortune. For
| several years he wrote to his family.
but his letters finally ceased. Believ-
ing him 10 be dead, Mrs. Holmes re-
! married Her second husband died
few months ago Last spring while In
| Mexlcp Hodges decided 10 return. He
beat his way 10 New Orleans on
| freight trains. and from there walked
to his old home. He and his wife ex
pect to live together the rest OF thei:
lives.
George Berger prisoner in the Gus
tody Of Detective Morris Weiss, leapec
| from Pennsylvania railroad ira n go
ing 4O miles an hour a little west OF
| Altoona Friday morning. The officer
made vain attempt TO catch him be-
fore he got out of the window. No
stop was made. The pair were on their
way TO Scranton. where the prisoner
was TO be tried on charge OF aggra-
waited assault.
w. u. Golfer, after serving six
months in the county jail at Somerset
for stealing a suit Of clothes. walked
out of his cell Wednesday and started
| for Johnstown on the Pennsy .vania
railroad track. At Mineral Point
shifter struck him and he was in
stantly killed. HIS Identity was not
discovered until his mother and step
father Of COalport come and claimed
his body.
Coroner Roberts. Of Scranton. pre-
vented the interment OF Peter ReibeIt's
6-months-Old daughter until he can
have a jury passsupon the question
whether or not the parents Of the child
are guilty OF criminal neglect in not
calling a physician to minister 10 the
little one during its prolong= d il ness of
cholera infantum. The parents are
Christian Scientists.
Two men believed to have been
Italian laborers were killed and their
bodies horribly mutilated near Easton.
the other morning by a railroad train.
The remains OF the men were scat
tered along the Lehigh Valley tracks
for mile. Portions OF one mans body
wers carried to Newark. one mans
head was cut off.
While trying to make a coupling in
the Pennsylvania railroad yard at Al
brakeman. aged % years. accidentally
lost his footing and fell upon the
track. The car wheels passed over
him. cutting off his left leg and left
arm. He was also injured internally
and cannot recover.
a
of Dunbar township. was p tinful in
jured by being gOred by a seer. He
was taking a herd OF catte to the
barn, when they attack him. knock
ing him down and trampliag upon him.
He has a son In Company ID OF Con-
nellsville, who hurried hcme 70 see his
father.
While Mrs. Kate Sisley was car y ng
/ lighted lamp from one room to an
other in her home at Scottdale. the
lamp exploded, covering her with
burning oil. In a moment her cloth
ing was on fire from head 10 feet. and
before the fire could be eXtinsuished
she was so badly burned that she d ed.
Charles Sweetman and Edward
Keefe. employees OF the Erie Raj road
Company convicted OF reckless train
running at Cory, were sente III 5
afternoon by Alderman Albert Tru $.
dale to pay ilne OF $40 and So. A :
torney Hoskins. for the ccmplry pzij
the costs and gave noti-e OF spp=al.
Erie has raised $1,000 for Pcr.o R.eo
storm sufferers.
A well known machinist. w. F. Rug
l. -. (.