The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-09-27
KEYSTONE state NEWS CONDENSED
AN AGED H0RSETHIEF.
Confessed to Having Stolen Hundreds Of
Horses-Foriy Years Of His Life
Spent In State Prison.

Greensburg, last week. after being
placed behind the bars in the county
prison that during his career he has
stolen nearly 10 horses, and has spent
40 years of his life in State prisons In
Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia,
Indiana and Illinois. The gray-haired
man boasted that he had never receiv-
ed over IA months as a sentence for
stealing a single animal.
Freight train No. 80 and coal train
No. % on the Buffalo, Rochester and
Pittshurg railroad came together In a
head-end collision two miles below
BrockwayVille Tuesday evening. Both
trains were heavily loaded and were
rounding sharp curve. The engines
and hfteen cars were derailed and
badly wrecked. Engineer John Mabey.
VINO has charge of the engine of No. 40.
was badly injured.
DR.. A. j. Wilson, the Vandergrift
druggist who has been a fugitive from
Justice for several weeks, Is now be-
hind the bars in the county Jail at
Greensburg. Wilson was captured at
Toronto, o., near Wheeling, Sunday
night by Deputy Sheriff Seanor. Will
son was convicted of selling liquor at
his drug store without a prescription,
and just before the sentence was pro-
hounced he disappeared. His bonds
man. L. Steel of Nandergrift, owner Of
the drug store of which DIR. Wilson was
manager. and who is now serving a
OF liquor Illegally, lent aid to the off,
GERS In the hunt and furnished the
ciew that led to the docaor's capture.
w. l. Newton of Alexander, N. Y,
arrived at Butler a few days ago and
identified a horse and buggy that had
been stolen from him July 81 The out
ft was left August by a stranger
who had offered to sell 1t at a ridicu-
lously low price, but discovering that
ne was being suspected suddenly fled
Tor New Castle, taking with him a
valuable wheel that he stole in his
hasty flight. At New Castle he aban-
doned the wheel, stole another horse
and drove to Anderson, Ind, where he
was arrested under the name of
Meyers. The nervy thief was brought
back to New Castle, tried on the
charge of horse stealing and sentenced
to 10 years to the penitentiary.
delicate skin grating operation
was performed at Mercy Hospital.
Wilkesbarre, a few days ago. Three
weeks ago Miss Kate Foy, a laundry
employe, had the skin on her right arm
torn OFF from the wrist to the shoulder.
Fifteen other girls employed in the
laundry volunteered to give part of
their skin to be grated on the injured
arm. The girls went to the hospital
and the doctors took a piece sof skin
the size OF a penny from each one and
grated 1t on the arm of the patient.
The latter Is doing well and the physi-
clans think the arm will be as good as
ever In time.
Normalville, in the mountains, is as
suming alarming proportions. william
Showalter, one of the victims, died
Sunday afternoon. This is the first
fatal case, his wife and six children
also having it, but recovering. The
representative of the state board of
health has quarantined the place and
is endeavoring to stamp out the dis
eace. The epidemic was brought to
the community by a man from AL
toona.
Ben Watkins, 20 years old, was ac-
aged 16 years. Husher is night fireman
at the Dinsmore Brick Works, between
Bellevernon and Fayette City. lie
stuck the revolver out of a window of
the engine room and fired, the ball
striking Watkins In the jaw as he was
about to enter. The physician was un-
able to extract 1t and he was taken to
Pittsburg.
A street car on the New Haven &
Leisenring street railway was held up
Tuesday at noon by eight negro BAN
dts near Leisenring. The negroes re-
fused to pay fare and covered the con-
ductor and motorman with revolvers
and threatened them with death. Pas
sengers tried to leave the car. but were
stopped by the negroes. When the car
| left.
The borough council of Tyrone has
| passed ordinances providing $4,000 for
| the purchase of 100 springs for water
| supply and for submission to the popu-
| lar vote at the general election on No
vember Z, 1899, of proposition to in
crease the borough debt $4,000 addi-
tional for the establishment of water
works.
James Farrell, once convicted of MUIR
| der i'm the first degree on the charge of
| killing Henry Bonnecke, an aged miser
but who escaped death on the gallows
| through the supreme court ordering
new trial, was fatally injured on the
Pennsylvania railroad at Altoona.
while attempting to board freight
| train.
Fred Prunty the colored man who
| Clayborn of New Haven just after a
| ball at Morrell, Is lying at the Cottage
| state hospital at Connellsville, in a
precarious condition, and 1t is not
thought that he can i've. The ball pene-
| trated his backa nd entered the right
lung. where it now is.
| Much destitution is said to exist
| among the families of the striking
miners in Nanticoke, near Wilkesbarre.
| An appeal has been issued for food
| supplies. Local merchants have con-
| tributed flour, potatoes and meat. The
| number of men on strike is close on to
| $500 and they have been out now over
| two months.
At the American Steel Hoop Com
pany's plant in Greenville one of the
| big boilers attached to a heating fur
mace let go Tuesday seriously scalding
| Edward. Keck and Edward Callahan,
| heaters, who were standing by. and
| doing considerable damage to that
| portion of the mill.
Alexander Dahringer, aged II years,
Of Sharon, accidentally shot himself in
the right side with revolver the other
morning at Burg Hill, infllcting dan
| gerous wound. The bullet penetrated
one of his lungs. His recovery is
doubtful.
Captain Thomas s. Crago. of Com
| pany x, Tenth regiment, who Is reor-
ganizing the men who returned from
| the Philippines into a company for the
| National Guard, has received more
| than the required quota OF names.
Farmers of Washington county have
organized to hunt down horse thieves.
Geo. Hollenbeck was accidentally
| shot and instantly killed by BENJAMIN