The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-05-18
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.


eyed co years, Z rc5t"r-dnt keeper, re-
t'3'rr on Fourth street, was seriously
an6 probably fatally burned yesterday
by the explosion Of gasoline stove.
N-.hesbarre, Pc, May 1.-Two wo-
men ne. death on the rail yesterday.
Mrs. Hattie watkins, 4 peddler Of no
tions, was run over by Il Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western railroad
train at Avondale and cut to pieces.
Mrs. Susan Meichler, while picking
coal on the Central Railroad of New
Jersey. was struck by Il coal train and
instantly killed.
Shenandoah, Pa, May G.-While Ber-
nnrd Suco,skie, aged 28 years, and
Henry Chesona. aged 90, coal miners,
were loading coal cars in the Turkey
Run colliery, hear here. yesterday,
they were caught under a fell OF top
coal and almost instantly killed. 1t
took gang Of men over three hours
TO dig them out. Their bodies were
badly mangicd. Doth men were single.
McConnellsburg Pa.. May 9.-Will-
lam c.. BG"'.., wac VS. SEOt by Clem
Pennel at Barnes Gap, Fulton county,
recently, while in company with
posse which WAS trying to arrest the
outlaw, died at his home in Buck
valley Sunday. Pennel is being har-
bored by friends, and no effort is being
made to capture him. He is armed,
and swears he will xii! any man who
attempts to take him.
Philadelphia, May G.-The Phoenix
yl,,n Vic Nf Dhnn-iNsvilln gt
contracted with representatives of the
japanese government to build large
steel bridge for the Imperial railroad
Of Japan. The contract was secured
after q sharp competition with num-
ber Of the leading bridge building
firms OF Europe. The company has
also contracted to build number OF
steel bridges and viaducts for railroads
in Brazil, Canada, Central America
and Peru, besides building IL steel
railroad bridges for the Eastern Chi
nesc railroad, the southeastern ter
minus of the Great TransSiberian
railroad now being built by the Rus
sian government.
Yardley, Pa, May G.-As a result OF
a premature explosion of powder at the
stone quarries OF James Shuvelin last
night Shuvelin, the lessee, and John
Burns, the foreman, were instantly
killed; John Pott, another employe,
had his right leg crushed, and three
Italians, who were engaged in loading
carts directly beneath where the blast
exploded, were severely injured.
Shuyelin and Burns were engaged III
tamping the powder in the crevices Of
the rock, when spark from steel
rod which was used ignited the fuse.
There were 325 ponds of powder in the
hole at the time. The men were hurl-
ed over 100 feet into the air by the ex-
plosion, and when found afterward
were 200 feet away from the quarry.
Harrisburg, May S.-Six bills grant
ing pensions and gratuities have been
vetoed by Governor Stone, as follows:
Emma c. Shaded, widow of Sergeant
Elmer C. Shaded, providing for SO
month; appropriating S275 to William
District, cook in the Fourteenth
regiment, n. G. p, for injuries at
Camp Hastings; pension of IS month
for Mary Il. Givens, widow Of w. u.
Givens; appropriating $3.50 to Charles
II. ltODlESOU, SedUltu III II lISl naval
battalion of the state, for injuries;
also $3.50 for William p. Powell, second
lieutenant, Ninth regiment, N. G. p.
for accident and disability at Hazleton
during riots in 1897; also providing
compensation for Daniel B. Hughes.
member of the National Guard, for
disability contracted at Lattimer dur
| ing the riots the same year.
! Pottsville, Pa. May S.-The powder
mill plant of the Pottsville Water COM
pany, located in the Indian Run val
| ley, several miles west of here, blew up
yesterday, destroying IS tons Of pow
der. No workmen were about the
plant at the time of the explosion, but
John X. Seiders, who lives nearby,
was slightly hurt. A gang Of tramps,
1t is believed, set fire to magazine,
which contained 1000 kegs Of blasting
powder and 80 kegs of rifle powder, in
all about ID tons. When the flames
reached the powder it exploded with
terrific report. Pottsville and vicin-
ity was shaken and many window
panes in the houses in the western
suburb of this place were broken. Five
minutes afterwards the drying house,
containing four tons of powder, went
up. The two explosions wrecked the
entire plant. The loss will amount TO-
about 10000