The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-11-21
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
Tramp Sues a Railway Company for Damages.
Boys Capture Wild Cai-Dyna-
mite Creates Havoc.

Last week pensions were granted the
following persons: Thomas p. Steph-
ems, Indiana, SO; Catherine Campbell,
Rochester, So; Henry Veon, Beaver
Falls, SO; Isaac b. Rice, Zelicnople, So
Benjamin +. Mcclure, Burgettstown,
SI2; Ransford 2. Robinson. Evans City,
SIo; John w. Barber, Mifflinburg, $IoA
Henry Reed, New Florence $i2 Hoy
ard Kerr, Foxburg, $I4; Regina J.
core, Penheld, SI2
An epidemic of dphtheria at Brae-
burn, the new manufacturing town up
the Allegheny river, has caused the
closing of the public schools at that
place. Two children have died recently.
Lindsey Miller. a colored man, was
killed at the stone quarry OF r. l.. Hal
lam & Sons, on Brady Hill, near Wash
ington. Twelve sticks OF dynamite we're
being thawed by a fire and one com
menced blazing. Miller picked it rrM
and threw it down, when the whole
twelve sticks exploded, putting out both
OF Miller's eyes, taking off his right arm
and leg and crushing his head
Pierce Wagner and Arthdr Roberts,
two I4-year-old boys. with their dogs,
captured wildcat in the woods near
Bellefonte. Their only weapon was a
sling shot. and the animal was only
brought down after a running fight Of
over mile. The cat measured three
feet six inches and had claws two
inches in length.
Stephen Kozlowski, a tramp and a
patient in the Butler hospital, has be-
gun suit for $4,000 damages against The
Pittsburg and Western railroad He
claims his left leg is paralyzed as a re-
suit of being struck on the hip with
mace by a special railroad officer who
was putting him off freight.
AT Wilkesbarre William Schaeffer,
a notorious young criminal, escaped
from the custody OF the deputy sheriff.
Schaeffer has just been sentenced TO
three years in the eastern penitcntiary
for burglary, and while the transfer was
being made at the jail door Schaeffer
slipped away. EEw
An explosion of dynaa e at the ex-
cavation for the new reservoir at Drift
wood. killed Foreman Herman Smith,
OF Reading, and injured a dozen others.
A man named Noil was most seriously
hurt. Smith was thawing the dynamite
when it exploded. blowing him to
pieces. The whole town was shaken.
MIS- ouSlN huutlS SUM- WIG VI JOilIi
Anderson, well-known carpenter Of
Harmarville, gave birth to triplets,
boy and two girls. Mrs. Anderson is
a years oi age, the mother of eight
children previous to the addition to the
family The babies are all doing well
and aggregate a weight OF I8 pounds.
The iron furnaces, known as the Pow
elton furnaces at Saxton, Bedford coun-
ty, which have been idle for the past 10
years, have been rebuilt and put in first
class condition, sold to company of
capitalists and will be put in operation
under the name of the Saxton Furnace
Company.
The varnish works and tank storage
OF the Jamestown Paint and Varnsh
Company, limited, were totally destroy
cd by fire Friday afternoon. The build
ings covered about an acre of ground.
The loss will exceed $4,000, with no
insurance.
Henry Douchamp, manager OF the
Brownsville Window Glass Company,
has submitted proposition for the To-
cation OF 24-pot tank window glass
| plant at Chareroi. The company ask
| for a free site and agrees to employ
from I25 to $50 workmen.
The following fourth class Pennsyi-
vania postmasters have been appointed:
Bishop, Washington county, Patrick
| Henry; Carr, Butler county, Mary A.
Dunbar; Eagle Rock, Venango county,
Peter l.. McCrea; Summit City. Nc
Kean county, Ida Coulter
Arrangements have been completed
for free rural mail delivery for most of
Beaver county, including Brush Creek,
Duluth, Harshaville, Holt, Frankfort
| Springs, Hookstown Black Hawk.
Skaters. GAINESVILLE, Love, George
town and Boyne.
An Italian employed on a pipe line
trench near Waynesburg, picked up a
stick of dynamite. It went off in ais
hands, and his eyes were blown out,
his nose torn off, his jaw badly torn and
his tongue cut in two. He was taken 10
Pittsburg hospital.
The will of w. F. Brinker, of Green's
burg, makes the following charitable
bequests: To St. Paul's Orphan home,
Butler. $1,000; Theological seminary Of
the Reformed church at Lancaster, ST.
600; Westmorcland classes, $500; Sec
ond Reformed church, Greensburg, 5000.
The plant OF the Hughesville Furni-
ture Manufacturing Company at
Hughesvile was burned with its valua-
Die machinery and large quantity of
manufactured goods. The loss is $75,-
600.
! II. S. Shaffer, OF Big Beaver town
ship, Beaver county has been awarded
SIoo judgment against William Petrie
for the killing of a coon dog. Petris
shot the dog on his own farm as il was
following its owner across field.
James E. Kitson. formerly one of the
proprietors OF the Kitson stock farm
near Chestnut Hill, and a son OF Com
modore Kitson, OF St. Paul., committed
suicide by shooting himself with Win
chester rifle.
Walter, son of Prot. A. D. Colegrovc.
of Cory, Pa, accidentally shot by Burt
Judd, died OF his wound, Fears are en-
tertained for Judd's sanity.
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