The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

will be employed.
Monday, July 10, second in
crease in puddlers wages from
S.. so to S3.75 per ton went into ef-
feet at the plants Of the Central
Iron and Steel Company, Harris
burg. About 1900 men are af-
iected.
J. w. Buckingham, local
Methodist preacher, has objected to
the charging of admission to the
Summit Grove camp meeting
grounds OH Sundays. Sunday he
purchased ticket and then brought
the suit to test the legality of the
practice.
Howard L. Smith, a fireman
OH a repair train, was killed on the
Reading Railway short distance
below Bridgeport Friday morning
while tagging ahead Of his train.
He was struck by shifter and his
body mutilated. Smith was resi-
dent of Reading and was 20 years
old.
"A branch of the Pennsylvania
Road from Lock Haven to the fam
Gus Scoatac region is to be built to
tap the extensive fire clay beds
there, and within five years Lock
Haven will be the greatest manu-
featuring centre of fire brick and
other productions of fire clay in the
country.
Willie Frankenfeld, IS years
of age, of Allentown, shot himself
in the leg with revolver. The boy
showed remarkable nerve by taking
out his penknife and probing for the
bullet. He got it near the skin,
when the blood flowed so rapidly
that he became frightened and went
to doctors Office.
The village of Pennington is
seriously disturbed by the presence
there of man who is said to have
escaped from a house at Savona,
where several cases of smallpox
had been quarantined. He also
went to Lock Haven where his
presence created much excitement.
He was quarantined.
During heavy thunder storm
Monday night it rained toads at
L EVELYN and in the Hackshers-
vile Valley. Thousands of tiny
toads were seen everywhere along
the highways and public roads. A
large barn and willow tree near
Connor's Spring were blown down.
A portion of the Philadelphia and
Reading depot was also carried
away by the high wind.
"A Carbondale man, named
Frank Smith, took his two little
daughters out in the woods and
abandoned them. They are only
and 3 years old, but they lived for
three weeks on berries, and slept in
a cave, and were then found by
constable and taken care of. This
may be true, but it sounds little
fshy. Children Of such tender
years wouldn't know enough to
pick berries.
The recent sale of the Shakers
10, 900 acre tract of land in Pike
county to Scranton capitalists ends
a plan long entertained by that sect
to establish community upon the
territory. The proper designation
of the Shaker sect is the United
Society of Believers in Christ's
second appearing. The name
" shaker" was originally applied
because of certain rythmical move
ments of the hands and arms in the
ceremonial of their worship.
Saturday morning William
Wallace Hays was found dead in
bed at the residence OF his son-in-
law, ]. w. Gebhart, at Bellefonte.
Heart disease was the cause of death.
Mr.. Hays was born in Bellefonte on
June 7, 1921. He had been engag-
ed in business in Danville, Shamo-
kin and Springfield, Ill. He was
very much interested in numis-
mates and his collection of 1884
cents is widely known. Mr.. Hays
had in his possession complete set
of the stamps issued by the United
States Government.
Rev. DR.. J. M. Reimensnyder,
pastor Of Trinity Lutheran Church,
Milton, met with a painful, if not
serious, accident on Wednesday of
last week. He was standing on
step ladder under a cherry tree at
his home at Walnut Glen, and the
ladder collapsed and he was thrown
to the ground. He sustained pain
tul injuries about the back and has
since been confined to his bed, prac-
tically unable to move. He was
somewhat improved next morning
and it is hoped he will speedily re-