The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-08-23
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
OVERCOME BY GAS.
Dynamite Releases Foul Air In a Mine and
Three Men Are Revived with
Difficulty.

The following pensions were issued
| last week: Miller Fording, Greenfield,
| y6; Joseph McQuiston, Pittsburg, Sc;
John Miller, Blairsville. 81; William
Null, dead Baketsvlile, $40 20 sf2: Leo
nard Bronson, dead, CORY, Sl1; Rob-
ert McCracken, McCaslin, SO TO s;
Helen H. Bronson, Cory, Sl2 Eliza
| beth Mccall, SaNonburg, IS; minor of
David kissinger, SS John Lopp, Ros-
eoe, ~; Jonn Diemer, Pittsburg, So;
John y. Lyle, Kinzua, 81: Andrew A.
ketteridge. Sharpsburg, IS; Alexander
carson, Allegheny, Sc; Samuel g. Ma
Jors, Rochester, So; David B. Allen,
Bellefonte fs6 to $40; Hugh f.. IIamil,
Georgeville, sl2 to sl4; Thomas Reese,
Mosgrove 50 to sS Elizabeth Jackson,
Chiontown. So; Rebecca A. Snare,
Cove Forge. IS; Hannah r.. Miles.
West Newton, IS; William Mccall, b en-
nett, Sc: Lewis a. Dowden, Redman
Mills. So; William II. Eiseman, La
trObe, $40; Lawrence Doyle, Alle-
gheny, Sc; William Craig, Chambers
vile. $40 to Sl2; Rudolph Hoover, SOM
erset, Slf to $l1; Lewis Huffman,
Barkeyville. sS TO $40; Thomas H. +.
Repine, Homer City, SO to IS; George
Sensebaugh, Lbcnsburg, SO to IS. Ann
Burd, Cddwallader, So; Fannie Winter,
| Somerset Sl2
The other evening at Rough Run,
| Butter county, a mining camp, three
| men were overcome by foul air in a
SHAFT sunk for taking out limestone.
| y dynamite blast was fired, after
which u man named Anthony went
back into the shaft to learn the ef-
| fectS OF the shot. After waiting for
some time for his return, one named
| Taylor was sent into the shaft to see
what had become of him. Taylor also
| fallcd 10 return, and u third man,
named Ml!lison, went In. When Milli-
son, too, remained at the bottom two
| more men ventured in and they found
the three lying unconscious from foul
gas which the dynamite blast had re-
leased. They were taken to the top
ana Taylor and Milison soon revived,
but Anthony remained in a delirious
condition, and may not recover.
Two children named Nichols were
drowned In the Monongahela river
near Coal Center the other day. A boy
were out in the waves made by the
steamer Little Bill, and got beyond
| their depth. The boy managed to
reach the shore, but the little girl was
drowning, when her sister. aged IL
| years, went TO her rescue in a skiff, and
In trying to save the child was grasped
so tightly by the little one that she
| was pulled out of the boat and both
we're drowned. The bodies were found
later, locked firmly in n death grasp.
/ -.
| or Mt. Washington Pittsburg, had a
| terrible experience at the railroad sta
| ton at Greensburg recently. She and
her mother were crossing from one
train 10 another when the child's foot
was caught between the cars There
| she was pinioned for nearly ten min
utes before the trainmen could sep
arate the cars sufficiently to have the
| foot of the child extracted. The
mother held the little girl and the cries
were piteous. The foot was terribly
| crushed.
Miss Rose Finney daughter OF Mrs.
Eiizabeth Finney widow of New
| Castle made a desperate attempt to
| commit suicide the other night. When
FOUND the young girl, for she is only
~ years OLD, had swallowed two ounces
| OF carbolic acid, asd was unconscious
| Her throat was terribly burned by the
| acid. In one of her lucid moments she
| told those about her that she had taken
| poison because her mother and sister
| had gone TO Cascade park and left her
| at home alone. There Is no hope for
her recovery.
Fayette county furnished another
murder last week, making five mur-
| der trials for the September term. Joe
| and Andy Sanko, Slav brothers, quar-
| relied over domestic troubles at Smock.
| They had been drinking. Suddenly
| Joe Sanko opened a pocketknife and
stabbed his brother in the neck, pene-
tratinS the Jugular vein. the victim
| bleeding to death in a short time. Joe
| Sanko wandered about the works as IL
| nothing had happened until the sheriff
| deputized an officer by wire to arrest
| him.
A suit 70 recover $1,000 for spelling
| spring of water has been filed by
Mrs. Amanda j. Hutchison against
| Elmer c. Christy and s. c. Kennedy,
| road supervisors OF Clay township.
The plaintiff alleges that great deal
of sickness in her family has been
caused by the spring from which the
| water for domestic use was obtained
becoming filthy, and accuses the road
supervisors of nesligently allowing the
outlet OF the spring to become closed
up where y crosses the public road
cottage of chares ReteW OF Harriss tss
burg, on the United Brethres camp
day e3eiA:.s, Mrs. William Miller. Of
Harrisburg, was so horribly burned
/ kat her death followed shortly after,
Mrs. MlllcrN daughter Grtrude, vas
badly burned. In "A snort time the cot
tage was in blaze and the flames
| quickly communicated to adjoining
cottages. Ii Of which We're totally de-
| stroyed.
The employees OF the Canonsbure
plant OF the American Tin Plate Com
| pany were locked out last week. The
men have been receiving cents a box,
and demanded .. The demand was re-
fused. Vice President Hugh Scanlon.
OF the Workers Association, came and
| called meeting OF the workmen. The
men left the mill u attend the meet
ing, and after 1t was over returned to
the mill, but were refused admission
Mrs. George Lewis, of Sharon, re-
ceived telegram the other morning
stating that her husband, Captain
George Lewis, had committed suicide
by hanging in the Dixmont Insane
Asylum. Within the hour she received
word that her father had died at
Smoke Run. Clearfeld county. Cap
tain Lewis was one of the best known
citizens of Mercer county.
Judge Durham, at Towanda, filed an
opinion refusing a new trial to Will
lam J. Henry, recently convicted OF
secord degree murder in killing Geo.
Rutiedge of Sayre. He has become
melancholy of late, and Friday night
made second unsuccessful attempt
upon his life by severing an artery in
his leg. He tried to hang himself to
his cell door before.
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