The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-02-21
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
RURAL MAIL DELIVERY.
Washington County will be The First In The
United States 10 be Completely Covered
by the Free System

ington and says that he has instruc-
tions to remain until all the petitions
filed from Washington county are act
cd upon. The following places have
applied: West Middletown, Indepcnd-
cnce, Mt. Hope. Jcffeson township,
Florence, lIoustonville, Eighty -Four,
Venetia. Finleyville. Scenery Hill Mo-
! nongahela, Union township. Charleroi
Fallowiield township, Roscoe. Coal
Center and for an additional route to
Burgettstown, which already has three
routes. 1t is estimated that it will take
20 or 80 carriers to serve all the farmers
OF the county with their mail once per
day. The county will be the first in
the United States to be completely GOV.
cred by the rural free delivery system.
The new Somerset county hospital for
insane was dedicated Friday afternoon.
1t is a brick building, costing SI2.
and will accommodate 100 patients.
The county is now maintaining 60 ind-
gent insane persons at State in
stitution at Dixmont. Harris
burg, Wernersvile and Polk, at
cost OF more than $4,000 a year. I'm
der an act of Assembly passed in 1907,
the county will now receive $3.50 per
week for each INDECENT insane person
maitaincd. and it is estimated the gain
10 the county under the present system
will be $1,000 year.
The following pensions were granted
last week: David lIberts, New Mahon-
ing, so; James Shirey, Green Castle.
SO; John Gibson. Frceport, $I2: Peter
Stein. Duqucsnc. $I2 William J. Mann,
Jeanette. SO; William Ehrhardt War
rcn, S17; William Colpetzer, Bellefonte.
SS; John l.. Roycr Johnstown. SI2:
Andrew !, Knpplc Johnstown $I4: Ir-
win H. Pile. Somerset. So; Minnie Sax
ton. Walkers Mills. SS; Teresa Nc
Mackcn, Butler. So; Sarah J. Little. Al
toona, So; Joseph A. Mason. Connclls-
vile, SS; James II. Dewalt Mononga-
hela, So; Michael Miller. Mount Jew
EFT, SI2; Evan Evans. Mahanoy City.
SS George Lands. Latrobe. SS; SAM
ucl A. McNutt. New Florence. So;
Elizabeth Klcinmeycr. Johnstown, SS
Mary ]. George. Nandergriit, So; Au-
gustus IT, Wetzel, Mt. Carmel. So Uri-
ah w. Tiley. Mahanoy City. So Andrew
p. Grain, Altoona, $50: Isaac L. Myers,
Meadyillc. $50; Scott Sprague. Geneva,
$I7; Richard Suster, Stewards Station,
$I4; Aaron ]. Davis. Clarion, 50;
Abraham Coffman, Blairsville. SO; John
West. Washington So: TimotlV GOWN,
Freeport.$S; John i. Sprangle. Punxsu-
tawney, SIo; James X. Hooker Mones-
sen. $S; Maggie X. Rkc, West Eliza
beth, S8 Arthur X. Johnston. Ship
pensvllc. $Ia; i. +. Clark. Soldiers and
Sailors home, Erie. SO: w. p. Delaney,
Turtle Greek. SO; John Saunders, dead,
Irwin, So; Frances Saunders, Irwin, So;
Mary Anderson. Darlington, So; Melis-
sia A. Wells, California, So.
Martin Parobek was run over by a
wagon in the Washington run mine,
near Uniontown, Friday and killed. A
strange fate pursued the Parobek iami-
ly. They are Slavs and worked at the
Braznell mine at the time OF the big eX-
plosion on December 23. Andy and
Mike Parobek. brothers OF Martin,
were killed in that explosion and Mar
tin identified their mangled remains.
He would not work in the mine where
they met their DEATH but secured work
at Washington mines and had been at
work but five days when the fate he
tried to escape came swiftly.
The marriages OF George w. Beveridge
and Charles Cozad, two prominent
young men OF New Castle, will be the
sequel to pretty romance oil the Span
ish-Amercan war. The two boys we're
members OF the Fifteenth regiment, p.
V. l., and with their regiments were
stationed in Georgia for some time al
ter the close OF hostilitics. While there
the two soldiers made the acquaintance
OF two charming Georgia girls, and after
the soldiers were sent north and mus
tered out they correSponded with the
young women. In this correspondence
the girls agreed to accept the two New
l., al l,n.t.
through life. and a double wedding will
be the result early in March.
Owing to the fact that certain mining
regulations have been violated at two
mines in Washington county, where
dangerous gases threatened the lives
OF the miners, and where the supcrin-
tcndent OF the mines resumed work in
spite OF the notice OF the mine inspec-
tors, the state bureau OF mines
and mining have authorized the
inspectors to ask the court for an in
junction to restrain the owners from
further operations. The mines affected
are the Black Diamond and will, in
Washington county.
A fight has broken out in the lower
part OF Lawrence county between the
children OF two district schools, and al
ready arrests have been made. There
are two district schools i'll radius OF
two miles, one located in the village oi
Wurtenburg, the other at Burnstown.
Whenever children of the two districts
meet there is pitched battle. and re-
Gently some OF them have been injur-
ed. At one of the fights the children
OF John Rutter were badly hurt.
1t is given out by officials of the
Cambria Steel company that improve
merits costing $2,ooo,o 900 will be made
to the works at Johnstown. These inn
provemults have been contemplated for
some time and will consist mainly of
new open hearth furnaces. about IS OF
which will be erected. This will in
crease the force of employees here sew
eral thousand.
At the meeting OF the trustees OF the
new college in process Of erection at
Sandy Lake. ex-County Superintendent
l.. r. Eckles was unanimously chosen
principal at a salary OF $1,000 year.
A COW infected with tuberculosis was
discovered in the herd OF Samuel Show
Alter residino ,1aar Eerra Hill and II