The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-11-08
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
BAD NEWS KILLED HIM.
Anxious Father Drops Dead Alter Hearing o.
Ms Sons DENIS, In Porto Rico
The Boy Was a Soldier.

ell OF IaylOr, ageu 20, dropped deau
Saturday morning when dispatch
dead. The first news came a month
ago, and said the boy, Private John
Powell. had typhoid fever. After that
the old man did no work. and haunted
the postofiice and telegraph station.
When the news he waited for came 1t
killed him.
The following pensions were issued
last week Edmund Il. Hart. dead.
Bradford, So; William A. Gatby, WASH
ington, Sc; Abraham A. Boyer, AL
toona. S6 to $40; George w. Frazier.
Kittannng, SIG to sl7; Frederick Wool
ford. Fossilyille, sl2 to sl7; Lizzie A.
Hart. Bradford, IS; Rhoda A. Seass,
Phuipsvllle. IS: Susanna Stiner, Lees
burg, IS; Delilah Ling. Lovely, $S; JOS.
Ridout, Shippensburg, Sc; John u. Nc
GIN, Elvile, s12; John B. Walker. Ir-
win. IS; Thomas Baker Bakerstown,
So to $l2; Samuel Dungee, McGovern,
81 to IS; John Young, Romela, s6 to IS;
David S. Cochran, Dayton, $12 to s14;
Nicholas Dieddle, Meyersdale, SIG to
slI; George w. Conner, Braddock, IS;
John Arnold, Willow Hill, Sc; Edward
c. Caldwell, Connellsville,, $14; Ven
senas L. Linsenbigler, Efderton, s6;
Annie Donahugh, Marion Center, IS;
II. Paul Pittsburg. IS; Parkison II.
Shipley, Mercersburg. s6 William A.
Johnston. Tioga. s6 to IS; Francis
Reed, Phillipsburg, sl6 to sl7; Peter
Smith, California, s16 to s17; Andrew
Braden, Brookville, SIG to sl7; Thomas
Tierney. Hollidaysburg, So to IS; Mar
garet +. Smith. Rock Hill Furnace, IS;
Maria r. Robinson, Smycksburg, sS
Mary II. Eberhardt. Morris Cross
Roads, IS; minor of Hiram NJ. Hyatt,
Ohiopyle, $40.
Mrs. James Starry. of Norytown, In
diana county, died last week, her
death resulting from the amputation
of limb. Ten days ago she acciden-
tally scratched her foot Before even
ing it had so swollen and was so pain
full that a physician was called in. In
few days physicians in consultation
decided ii was necessary to amputate
the foot to save the patients life. A
was made Saturday. The progress of
the disease was not stayed and death
ensued. She was 60 years of age.
Coroner ]. j. Fitzpatrick, of Wash
ington, was sent to Topsail to investi-
gate an alleged murder which the in
former says was committed several
weeks ago. The circumstances sur
rounding the death of a young boy son
of George Miller, in the mining section
OF Topsail aroused the suspicion of
some people, who allege the child was
given strychnine The coroner will in
ficient evidence will have the body ex-
humed and a post mortem examina-
tion held.
Five robbers entered the Touring
mill of ]. Reece Pantall, at Punxsu-
tawncy few days ago. They insert
ed nitro glycerine in the space between
the body of the safe and door and blew
| the safe to pieces. They found SCI and
sCme valuable papers These were
scattered over the floor and found in
| tact. The miller, living nearby, hear
ing the explosion, fastened to the mill
and saw the men run away. He fol-
flowed them some distance, discharg-
ing his gun, but failed to stop them.
Lottie Hays, 6-year-old daughter of
| Grant Hays, well known business
man of Pittsburg, was almost instant
| ly killed by a West End traction car
last Friday. The child was passing
| around a wagon which was between
her and the car tracks, and did not
see the car approaching. and thus
| shutting off the motorman's view of
| the child. The motorman instantly
! applied the brakes, but was unable to
! stop the car.
Grocer j. NJ. Bucher, of Johnstown,
who killed Daniel NJ. Peer, aged IA
| years, has been arrested on a charge
| of murder preferred by the dead boys
| father, James Peer Bucher claims the
| boy was trying to break into his store.
but the boys father and friends say
the lad was merely peeping In the
/ show window, when Bucher who had
/ been up i'm his store all night laying
in wait for a thief, fired the fatal shot.
+. j. Leuners, an employe of the
! Hostetter Coke Company, was found
dead near the railroad bridge at La
trobe the other day. His employer
believes the man was murdered. This
belief Is strengthened by the fact that
| he was found in a locality that was
entirely off the route to his home. His
pockets contained but 26 cents and he
had not made the purchase of a suit
of clothes as he had intended.
Riley Kulp, aged 22 years, was In
stantly killed at Allentown by the ac-
cidental discharge of shotgun in the
hands of James Dugan, aged l6 years.
| Dugan, with a number of other boys,
was playing in stable, when he
pointed the gun at Kulp, and II was
discharged. After the accident Dugan
! surrendered himself to the police and
admitted the shooting was done by
him.
Arthur Whitted, a convict serving a
! seven months sentence for breaking
into freight cars, escaped from the
county prison at Lancaster last week.
| His cell door was fastened by a hook
lock, which leaves the door ajar for
| about nine inches. He squeezed
through, and got over the wall with
the aid of pair of horse lines which
he found IN the prison.
A petriied snake, measuring from
to 111a inches in diameter and 27 feet
in length, was brought to the surface
from the new shaft of the Philadel-
phia and Reading Coal and Iron Com
pany's mine at Walesville, near Potts
VILE 1t forms piece of petrihed
matter weighing more than 100 pounds.
and is perfect to the smallest detail.
Two men were instantly killed and
another fatally injured the other night
by the explosion of Lehigh Valley
locomotive near Wyalusing, short
distance from Iowanda. The dead are
Fireman Eugene Deegan and Brake
man Warren Robinson. The injured
man is Daniel Georgia, engineer. Traf-
fic was blocked for five hours.
Mrs. William Hysong of Altoona re-
ports to the police that her 4-year-old
daughter had been kidnapped by its
father. who works in Pittsburg. having
been separated from his wife for more
than a year.
Daniel Loose, a farmer. was killed
and his son. Ralph fatally injured by