The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-03-22
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
AT A GREAT RISK.


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| a tree had fallen across the track near
| a curve, and the engineer did not OBJ
| Hervc II until he was too close to stop.
| He opened the throttle and ran full
| speed into the obstruction, grinding IL
| under the wheels. The passengers were
| jostled about, but no one was injured.
| Had the train. left the track at this
| point II would have plunged Into the
river.
| The following pensions were Issued
| last week Richard G.. Smith, Pitts
burg So; Thomas Mehan, Soldiers
| Home, Erie, SO, Thos. j. Myers, Phil
lipsburg, Center, 50; Abraham Burket,
Claysburg, Blair, IS; william. iiackett.
dead Franklin, 81; Daniel Shaded.
Lock Haven, s6 Benjamin q. Riggs,
Kinzua so to $40: Thomas Il. McGavitt.
| Perryopulis, $40 to $iI; Henry &. Alder
| son, Athens, yi7, William j. Heaslcy.
lGlderton. $2i; Ann Eliza Cranmer.
Plttsburg, IS; Clarissa Hackett, Frank
lin, Sl2; Hugh Walker, Rutland, Tloga,
S6 James Plunkett. West 3rluge-
| water, 80 to IS. Oscar NJ Tucker. VIII
hlnsburg SO; Denton Beaman, MADEIRA,
IS to $i0 Peter l.. posten, Maplcton
Depot, Huntington, $l4 to $l7; Edmond
| kinch. McAllisterville, Juniata, 50 to
| Sl4; Edward X. Twist, Roaring Branch,
Tioga, sS to $40; Amanda n. Lynch,
! Gen. Fulton, IS, Jane Louisa Wilders,
! New Castle. So; Mary II. Dean, Pitts
burg, sS John ID. Evans. Latrobe. $40;
| John q. White, Mercer, IS; Alexander
| H. Miller. Emo, Greene, sS to $l2; Will
liam Armstrong, Chambersburg. 80 to
tl0 Darius Miles, North East, ~ to IS;
Harvey Young, Wellsboro sl4 to $l6;
Thomas III. Lingle, Shawmut, Clear
field, $l2 to sl4; George f. Hawk, Scot
land. so to SS Chas. Newell, New
! Grenada, Fulton, so to $40; Robert
) Gordon, Latrobe. $i2 to sii; Henry
Kelly, Pine Flats, Indiana, sl7 to s2i;
Jenny Greer, Mllroy, Miiiiln, S.. Catha-
rinc Walter, Natrona, So; John Haley,
| Warren, IS; John NJ. Findlcy. Mercer,
So. Frank -. Thompson, Johnsonburg,
Elk, SO, John Black. Mundorf, Jeffer-
son, $l2 to $l7; james V. Dennis. Der
rick city, Mexican, $l2 to $lI; William
Reynolds. Blacltllck station. Indiana,
SO to sl2; Charles g. Eddy, Erie, $50 to
$50; Annie S. Wllison. Allegheny, So;
Mahala Prough. Calvin, Huntington,
S.; minors of Daniel Sullivan. Arnot,
Tioga, 500; Jane Pratt, ldinboro, $751;
Louisa Kaufman, New stanton.
| The employment of outside detec-
tives to investigate the murder of city
| Treasurer John Blevns, Of New Cas-
tie. Is now being delayed by a tech
nlcality. For the arrest and convic-
tion of the murderers $1,000 was offer
commissioners. The latter are now In
doubt as to the legality of their action.
The suit of blody clothes found In
pudding furnace in one of the sheet
mills, and supposed to have been the
one worn by Mr.. Blevins on the night
of his murder, have been shown by
competent witnesses to have belonged
to someone else. Immediately after the
clothes were found they were burned
by Chief of Police MCClain.
| william II. Hanna. of Philadelphia,
has entered suit at Grecnsburg to re-
cover 40 acres OF farm land in Cook
and Unity townships. BY the will OF.
Anthony Kennedy the property was
given to the Hibernian Society for the
Relief of Emigrants from Ireland
March H. 1884, the society decided the
ground to Mr.. Hanna. A few years
ago the land was taken ny. by the
many people who reside thereon, and
they now claim to have legal rights to
the ownership. The Hibernian Society
for the Relief of Emigrants was
granted a charter on August 4, 1892.
and was established to encourage
emigration from Ireland.
The Pennsylvania Railroad passen-
ger train, due at Sunbury last Friday,
morning, was wrecked by running
into a big landslide which covered the
| tracks at a point three miles south OF
the city. The whole train was derailed
and the baggage car was thrown over
the bank into the Susquehanna River.
Another landslide, soon after the ac-
| cident, buried two of the sleeping cars.
The only persons hurt were Baggage
master Charles T. Irwin, who sus-
tained n badly bruised shoulder, and
Express Messenger Voorhees,, whose
injuries are slight. Traffic was de-
| layed ten hours.
John Goodman, a young man from
| N n
New Castle on the charge of forgery.
With w. II. Bell, of Titusville II is al
| legged he went to store, made a few
small purchases and presented a check
for $25 on the Citizens National bank
in payment and wanted the change.
The check was made payable to Fred
b. Mayne and signed by Bell, the name
of Mayne being indorsed on the check.
Goodman said that Bell committed the
forgery. The officers are after Bell.
Harry Eckley. the operator who
caused the wreck which killed the fire.
man and engineer of passenger train
No. 81, on the Pennsylvania Railroad
guilty of criminal negligence by the
Coroner's jury. Eckley threw the pas
senger train on the block ahead of his
tower into freight that had not
cleared. He gave himself up. and
confessed to the jury that be had for
gotten about the train ahead.
A charter was granted at the state
department few days ago to the Coke
Belt Street Railway Company. 80
miles long, and with a capital of $780,
900. to run through Fayette and West
moreland counties. William II. Allen
of Plttsburg. is president and a direc-
tor The other directors are j. T.. Wei
| Ter and Bryan Robertson. of Pittsburg
II. s. Young, of Williamsburg, and ID.
| Shaw, of Pittsburg.
The will of ex-State Treasurer Ben
jamin ]. Haywood was probated al
Mercer last week. He bequeathec
1000 in money and property to l.ii
| wife, Mrs. Lizzie Il. Haywood. The in
come on $4,000. II that amount re.
mains after Mrs. Haywood's portion 1,
| provided for. goes to his brother
George Haywood. of Papillon. Neb.
| for life. Q. A. Gordon Is named q
l trustee OF the estate.