The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-05-09
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
Fores, Fires In Warren Counly--Boy Strikers
Close Piiisburg Glass Faoiories--HosieU
Factory Co.'s 10 Philadelphia

The following pensions were granted
last week: Jacob Fair, Turtle Creek,
50; Henry A. Johnson, Cambridge
Springs, So; John Leh, Enon Valley, %;
Willis Every, New Castle, So; Joseph
McElwee, Dayton. $Io; James M. Pat
terson, New Kensington, $40; George
w. Kinnear, Warren, Sly; Thomas X.
Jamison, Horatio, SI4; John h, Hili'
Claysville, So; Manassa Haw, Waynes-
burg. Sr2; W. A. Phillips, Leechburg'
$40; John Patterson, Taylorstown, $o;
William Golf, Alexandra, So; William
Klingensmith, Indiana, S.; Robert
Ford, Grove City, Sic; Henry Barnhaft'
Braddock, $40; John Henley, Towansdsa,
SI7; Christian Shively, Bellevue, SS;
John s. Trimblc New Castle, SIa;
Thomas Maitland, New Castle, -;
Henry w. Barkielt, Monongahela, ";
Robert Donaldson, Blairsville,. $40;
Elijah 7. Penrose, Bolivar, .$Iz; Luther
Barnes, New Brighton $I7; James q.
Brown, BurPeustown, $50; William IL.
Marsh, Johnstown. SI2; Uriah Marsh,
lohnstown, $S; Edwin W. Lawrennsee'
Carnegie. 50: Alexander Harbaugh, Nc
KEGS Rocks, 81
The Armstrong Cork Company, OF
Pittsburg has booked an order Tor 4So,-
coo pounds OF cork to be furnished TO
the Anhcuser- Busch Brewing Company,
II ST. Louis 1t is said to be the largest
order OF the kind ever placed. The
cork is to be cut and prepared for use
in bottling pint and quart packages.
The order is worth about $4,000 at the
Pittsburg factory, and delivery will COW
er a period of two years. This tremen-
IL Il IL fa s.f
100000 bottle shoppers.
The election committee OF the Penn
sylvania grand lodge. !. O. O. T.. has
decided in favor OF these officers: Joe
Fleming, Shippensburg, patriarch;
Thomas +. Gross, Philadelphia. high
priest: {. +. Millhouse. Pottstown sem
ior warden; James 3. Nicholson. Phil
adelphia. scribe; J. Henry Bertel, Phil
adelphia. treasurer; Howard r. Shep-
pard. Philadelphia junior warden Ed
ward c. Deans, Scranton. representative
The glass bottle factories OF the DO.
Cunningham Glass Company, Cunning
ham & Co., limited, and Frederick
Ling g. Co, Pittsburg, have been closed
indefinitely. The carrying-in boys OF
the three plants numbering about 200.
are striking for an advance in wages.
20 get boys to take the places OF the
strikers, and it is stated operations may
be suspended for the season.
An attempt was made Thursday night
TO blow Up the home OF Harry Pearsoll
with dynamite. Only Mrs. Pearsoll,
with two small children, was at home,
when there was terrific explosion un-
der ore corner OF the house. The floor
.,i tlo ola fat
the walls. No one was injured. Mr..
Pearsoll is a glass worker who has lived
IN New Castle for IS years and does
not know OF any enemy.
a slab bearing the mysterious nscrip-
ton "R. /. 200" was found by workmcn
while making excavations at River ave-
nue. and Pine street, Allegheny about
four feet below the surface. The mean
ing OF the inscription is a mystery, but
it is thought that the slab was placed by
county commissioners half a century
ago, to indicate the height OF water of
some flood.
The Greensburg, Jeanette and Pitts
burg electric road has been sold to John
B. Head. representing an Eastern syn
dicate, for $4,000. The price paid rep
rcsents about one-eighth OF the cost OF
building. The bonded Indebtedness OF
the road is 100000. 1t is said the
Eastern capitalists will thoroughly equip
the road and extend the line to Irwin.
Operations have been suspended at
the East End hosiery factory, OF Holli-
daysburg, and the proprietors, c. and
! ]. Gould. have announced their inten-
ton OF removing their plant to Phladel
phia. Scarcity OF working girls is ths
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factory had sufficient capacity for a
force OF $50 girls.
1t is announced that Andrew Car
negie has promised the money for fine
pipe organ for the chapel OF the West
ern Pennsylvania Institution for the
Blind, at Pittsburg. The appeal for the
organ was made by Col. William A.
Heron, president OF the board OF trus-
! tees.
Daniel Zimmerman. OF Somerset,
heads a syndicate OF Philadelphia capi-
talists. who have discovered a nine-ioot
vein OF coal near lockwood The de-
velopmcnt of the vein will begin at
once, entaiing an expenditure OF $780,
600. The vein is said to be the largest
in this locality.
While Daniel d. Clarke, of Coatesville,
who served three years in Company {,
Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania volunteers.
during the civil war, was signing his
pension papers in Squire Myers office.
he dropped dead from heart disease. He
was in his 10Th year, and leaves a widow
and six children.
Mrs. Asenath Pershing. wife Of Rev.
I. F. Pershing. pastor of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, Uniontown. has
lost her mind and has been taken to
Dixmont for treatment. Grief over the
death OF her daughter. who died last
August. was the cause OF Mrs. Perish
ing's mental breakdown.
Edward Crop, a farmer living be-
tween Meadville and Saekertown, threw
a number of horseradish roots into his
harvard, where eight OF his cows ate
OF them. One sickened and died and
several others had narrow escapes.
Increased attendance has determined
the California State Normal school
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