The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-01-19
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

Greensburg, Jan. 6.-SuperintendentF f.
! L. Kelly, Of the Westmoreland Tele-
| phone company and the Hempheld
| Electrict Street Railroad company, was
/ instantly killed by a shock of electricity
at noon today. He was connecting the
wires en- an arc light, when 5000 volts
passed through his body. Kelly was 26
| years old and single.
Allentown, Jan. 6.-Charles Mosser
and Thomas Breining, of East Allen
town, arrested last week by Officer
Frick. on the charge of having held up
| Jonas Brown on the Lehigh bridge with
revolvers and taking his valuables,
were found guilty in court today. Each
was sentenced to four years at solitary
confinement in the Lehigh county Jail.
Philadelphia, Jan. 9.-The supreme
court on Saturday heard the appeal of
Senator Quay and others to have the
indictments charging them with un-
lawful use of state money removed
from the quarter sessions court. David
T. Watson. of Pittsburg, made the
principal argument for Senator Quay,
and ex-District Attorney Graham spoke
for the commonwealth. Decision was
reserved
Philadelphia, Jan. 9.-Miss Sophia
Dallas, daughter of George NJ Dallas.
who was vice president OF the United
States under President Polk, is dead.
in her 10Th year. Miss Dallas had been
suffering for some time from hear t
trouble, and her death occurred at Jhe
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Carl Morrell, who is now the only sur
viving member of the former vice presi-
dents family.
Pittsburg, Jan. 10.-Jack McClelland
of this city. and Luke Stevens, of Buff
falo. f.atherWcirhts fought IL hot
rounds last night at Homestead. Nc
Cleliand received the decision before
the 18th round. because Stevens broke
his left arm and could not proceed.
While neither man had any decided
advantage in the fight, Stevens seem
cd to have the better OF it UP to the
time his arm snapped.
Media Jan. S-John Bennington, OF
Media, who is in his 99th year and is
probably the oldest man in Delaware
county, is seriously i'll with pneumonia
at his home on Second street. He has
been sick very little during his long
life, and as he has wonderful vitality
for a man nearing "A hundred years ii
is thought he may yet recover. Ben
nington was farmer in his active life,
and retired to private life. He has al
ways lived an abstemious life, and
never used tobacco in any form nor
INDUCED in intoxicants.
Aashland, Jan. 5.-A double frame
building at Brownsville. owend by Sol
omon Hawk, was totally destroyed by
dynamite this afternoon. Edward Eber-
man and Harry Meyer and their fam
lilies. who lived there, were eating their
dinner in the kitchen, which adjoins the
building, and thus escaped injury. The
Brownsville school building stood but
30 feet away, and all the windows were
shattered, causing a panic among the
children. Thomas McAndrew. aged II
years. and Howard Westerfelt, aged Il.
were struck by flying debris and badly
injured. There is no clew to the affair.
Pittsburg, Jan. "A small fire in the
Arlington hotel last night caused a
panic among the guests and help, but
no one was seriously hurt Next door
to the hotel is the Alvin theater, where
the Sing of the Cross" is being pro-
duced. The audience packed the house
to the doors. and for a few moments
there was great danger of a serious
panic. A number of people left their
seats and rushed for the door, but the
perfect discipline of the employees and
the coolness of the actors prevented a
general stampede. After an inter-
ruption of about five minutes quiet was
restored and the play proceeded.
New Castle, Pa. Jan. 9.-John Bev-
ins, city treasurer of New Castle, was
found Saturday midnight in his office
unconscious and dying. His head had
been beaten to a jelly, the safe broken
open and perhaps 5000 in money taken.
Saturday evening Blevins went to the !
tailors for a new suit of clothes. The
garments were not ready, and he went
to his office. which is over the JAIL to
wait until the tailor had finished. When
at midnight he had not returned home |
his son went to his office. He found
his father lying on the floor uncon-
scious in a pool of blood He died |
soon afterward. The robbers and mur-
derers left no clew to their identity,
The prisoners in the Jail said they
heard sound as of something falling
about o'clock, and that was about the
time Blevins went to his Office.