The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-11-28
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
Real Estate Investment Company Forced 10
Assign--lce Trust Invading the State.
Singular viii by Grocer.

Pensions were granted the following
persons last week; John Gault, Houtz-
dale, So; Frederick p. Hinkley, Dayton,
81; Lewis A. West Munhall. SI2; Will
lam Winters, Alexandria, SS; Cornelius
lngels, Waynesboro, $io;Robert l. Nc
Collum, Kittanning, $40; Joseph Falcon,
Indiana, SI2; Michael l.epley Beaver
Springs, So; Sarah f. Johnson. Ridge
way, SO; Margaret a. Brown, Penn
Run. So; Robert McLanahan. Atwood,
SS Mary Addison. Northeast. s.; James
Murphy, Hollidaysburg, $Io; John
Janey, Webster, Sio; James Carr, Her
rickvile, $I2; John Gants, Patton, $40.
The Odd Fellows in the western part
OF the State have started movement
TO erect home for aged and infirm Odd
Fellows. The order already provides
for needy widows and orphans OF Odd
Fellows, and now il is the intention to
carry the matter a step further. 1t is
proposed to purchase farm OF about
200 acres in this part OF the State and
erect the necessary buildings thereon.
In furtherance OF the movement
meeting OF Odd Fellows will be held in
Carnegie Music hall, Allegheny, on jan
uary 10, 1901, when lodges in SO counties
are to be represented.
The Fayette County Gas Company,
which recently purchased the property
and franchises OF the Fayette Gas Fuel
Company, OF Uniontown, is branching
out in the southern part OF the county.
Other wells will be drilled this winter,
and il sufficient supply cannot be secur-
ed in Fayette county the company will
pipe the gas from their West Virginia
territory.
The revised census returns for the
State OF Pennsylvania show that the
population OF the State is 6,So2,II5, an
increase OF I,o44 IoI or 1913 per cent. over
the population in 1890 when the total
was 5,25S,ol4. Ten years previous, in
1880, the population was returned at a.
2S2,8oI, the per cent. increased during
the decade from 1880 to 1890 being 227
per cent.
The Real Estate Investment Com
pany, of Philadelphia, has made an as
signment to John J. Ridgeway, the
president and principal stockholdcr.
The assets, il is said. amount to $780,
| 900, and liabilities 100000. The hold
ing OF considerable real estate on which
! no money could be secured is said to
have caused the failure.
]. Carter Judson, auditor OF the as
signed estate OF Samuel Hazlett, ex-
banker OF Washington, has filed his re-
port 1t shows claims allowed to par
ticipate in the distribution OF $685.
o42. 81; balance for distribution, $Io4,-
| o7o37, which makes pro rata OF 27.e
| per cent. to be recovered by each claim
ant.
Two boys, aged and years, in
mates OF the Childrens Aid Society
| Home at Uniontown, ran off because, as
they said, there were too many girls
at the house" Their homes were at
| Connellsville and they tramped the dis
tance, IL miles, in six hours, barefooted.
They were returned by the authorities.
1t is stated that the American Ice
| Company is endeavoring to obtain con-
troll OF all the ice supply companies in
| he Pocono mountains, at Stroudsburg.
1t is claimed that an offer OF nearly ST.
100000 has been made for the plants IT
Tobyhanna, owned by the Pocono &
North Jersey Ice Company.
The will of George Driver, the aged
grocer OF Washington, who died last
week, authorizes his executors to pur-
chase plain monument suitable for
the whole family, not towering and cost
'y for show because such is vanity, and
makes the living poorer and the dead
| heed it not
William Simms. colored, wife mur-
derer was hanged in the Fayette coun-
| ~ Jail at Uniontown Thursday morning.
| The drop was sprung at Io:42 o'clock
and life was extinct in IS minutes. Six
! hundred people witnessed the execu-
ton, the Jail being thrown open to the
public.
A new concern, the Aluminium Iron
and Steel Coating Company will start
a large plant at South Connellsville at
once. This company is composed chief
ly OF English inventors and capitalists,
who will introduce the Poppelin system
OF coating in this country.
a boiler exploded at the foundry OF
Vanberger & Co., Carbondale demol-
ishing the boiler room, wrecking the
rear end of the foundry walls and scat
tering debris for many hundred feet.
Engineer David Wilson was killed, be-
ing blown fully 200 feet.
Gov. Stone has appointed Max l.
Mitchell OF Wiliamsport. common
pleas judge OF Lycoming county, to sue
ceed the late Judge Metzger Mr..
MitchelPs commission runs until jan
uary, 1902
Charles J. Coll, OF Connelsville, su-
perintendent OF Lemont plants Nos. I
and 2, of the II. c. Frick Coke Com
pany, has resigned to become general
manager OF the Acadia Coal Company,
limited, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
The Tarcntum, New Kensngton and
Springdale Street Railway Company
has forfeited its New Kensington street
rights and bond OF s., 500 by its failure
TO complete the proposed street railway
within a specified time.
Fl. W. Hartman, superintendent of
several industrial interests at Ellwood,
has let all the contracts for a dam 10 be
constructed across the ConnoQueness-
ing creek just north OF the town, to fur
nish cheap power to factories.
The conductors and motormen of TIA
New Castle Traction Cotnnonv