The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-04-12
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS Condensed
RESIDENCE LOOTED.
valuabics to the Amount OF Several Thousand
Dollars Carried From Wealthy Manufaet-
urer's Home House Was Then Flooded.


ford. wealthy iron manufactures,
whose handsome suburban residence Is
situated at "Birchlawn," visited the
place. The house had been completely
looted, and In addition was literally
Hooded with water, the robbers having
turned on all the faucets which were
still running. The house was unoccu-
pied, as the family is In California.
Everything of value was taken, the
loss amounting to several thousand
dollars. The whole house Is saturated,
carpets and fine rugs ruined, and the
ceiling and walls are down all over the
lower part of the house. The damage
TO the house is over 81, 900.
The following pensions were issued
last week: John F. Schultz, dead,
Pittsburg $40; Bernard Schmid, Pitts
burgh, SS; Simon Parsons, Punxsutaw-
ney, So to IS: John Wortz Osceola
Mills, IS TO S12; william l.. Bemis,
Sanford, Warren. SO TO sS; Margaret
Nj. Fullerton, New Castle, SO; Mary
Woodmansy, mother. Crossingville,
Crawford, S12; Margaret NJ. Dunlap,
Wheeler, Mercer, IS; Harriet Bennett,
Houtzdale, Clearhcld, So; Anna NJ.
Edgin. Allegheny IS; Mexican war
survivor, George w. Ramsey, Mechan-
lcsburg. IS to sl2; Alexander Halle.
Petrolia, $S; II. +. Wilcox, Philipsburg,
s12; Hezekiah Hilty, Vandergrift. s.;
Andrew Walinzer, Howard, Center, so
to $40; Henry McMurray, Burgetts-
town, IS; Samuel Clark, Wooddale,
Fayette. IS to $40; John Warner. Apollo,
50 to SS; Wallace Cole, Tioga, S8 to $40;
John G. Hughes, Dallas city, Mexican,
SO to Sl2; Julia @. McMullin, Bellefonte,
IS; Rachel McMillin, New Bethlehem,
IS: Paxton Gray, Connellsville. Fay
ette. IS; Andrew j. Farier, Mason
tn To,
Run, IS; Freeman N. Piper. New Ham
burg, $751; Ida l.. Meeker, North Spring
field, IS; Caroline Pelton. Albion. IS;
minor of Robert II. Manning, Warren,
Si4 spanish war; James $. Harter,
Washington. SO; Jacob II. Keiser.
Edgecllffe, IS; william Woods, Belle
vernon, s12; Griffin Reno. Kane. $17;
Henry Bullen, Latrobe. s2i; Paul ..
Bates, Sugar Run, Bradford, $17 to $24;
Reed A. Douglass Jones Mills, s4 to
sl2; william r. Calhoun, Park Wood,
SO to S.: jeremiah Zimmerman,
Waynesboro, So to IS; Henry Hufilne,
Vanderbilt SO Co $S: Lucina Petrie,
East Charleston, IS; Susan Ayers AL
toona, $s Sarah Zeigler, Orrstown, sS.
To save his mother from his fathers
murderous attack, Lewis Dennis, near
Milheim, killed his father the other
morning by blow with n chair. The
uttu man, CdUlutl btfnlS, has Dttii
subject to epilepsy for several years.
For some time after midnight the son
heard his mother call for help. Iie
found his father had apparently gone
Insane and was choking her. The son
could not induce his father to desist,
and was forced to brain him with =
chair. Mrs. Dennis Is still suffering
from shock and physicians fear for her
life.
Go NJ
out Central Pennsylvania In baseball
and football circles having been man
aSer of several clubs, was instantly
killed near Philipsburg, few days
ago, while attempting to get kodak
picture OF a large stump which was
about being blown out of the ground
with dynamite, n silver striking him
on the neck and nearly cutting his
head from the body. He was a mem
ber of the firm of Graham, Herd q
Co. He was n corporal In Company
B, Fifth regiment. during its service.
A south-boun Delaware & Hudson
passenger train crashed into Della
ware. Lackawanna & Western engine
bringing freight out of the Diamond
switch at Scranton a few days ago.
Richard Dougherty, engineer OF the
latter train, was fatally injured, and
James Doiley, conductor. and VIII
!
Is said the Delaware d Hudson crew
disregarded the crossing target, which
1t is stated Is against them.
Terrence Anderson of Plymouth,
who was demented, told his wife the
other morning that he intended killing
himself by jumping down n coal shaft.
He started I'm the direction of the
Delaware & Hudson mine at Plymouth.
His wife and two sons started in pur-
I.-l
threw himself down shaft No. 4, which
10 500 feet deep. His body was crushed
into an unrecognizable mass.
Suit for $4,000 has been brought by
Nancy j. Ray against ]. Q. Ray Of
Grove City, her father-in-law. She al
leges that he circulated false and
sanderous stories about her and in
duced her husband to leave the state.
even giving him money for that pur-
pose.
owing to the shortage in the ac-
counts of the murdered city treasurer
John Blevins, of New Castle, the board
OF school controllers will be forced to
borrow $4,000 to pay the salaries of
the teachers and running expenses fer
the balance of the school term.
Cyrus M. Bowers, single, aged 40, of
weak mind, whose home was In Proc
torville, was struck and killed by n
passenger tram at tHe l-Hllaueipnlu ~
Reading railroad bridge on Loyalsock
creek astWeek. His body was found
suspende frS the bridge girders.
w. C,,aclWSt, of smithheld. has
sworn Qua Warrant for the arrest of
Colonel j; a. Keener, the Morgantown
cattle dealer. who is alleged to have
issued $4,000 in notes for cattle, which
he sold and then departed with the
proceeds.
Arthur Seaton, Of Mercer. represent
Ing a syndicate of Pittsburg and local
capitalists, has bought the Parks heirs
farm of los acres, about five miles west
Of New Castle. for the purpose of erec-
ting mammoth bridge building
works.
About 25 Amishmen of Wilmington
township. near Sharon, will join a
colony to be organized of their sect
from Ohio. Indiana, Illinois and Penn
sylvania. and migrate to Idaho.
The freight house OF the Pennsyl-
vania & Northwestern railroad at
Punxsutawney was totally destroyed
by fire the other day. Loss. $1,000
The body OF Isabella Cofrroth, aged
4S, of Mt. Airy. Lancaster county, was
found In small stream running
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