The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-11-15
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Tuesday, William Cabel of Weigf
Scales, accidentally shot and killeo
himself
Anthony West, miner at the
No. 8 coliery of Pennsylvania Goa
Company, was crushed to death by q
fall of rock on Tuesday.
Royal ]. Dougherty, aged "a
years, Reading Railway brakeman,
was struck by bridge in passing
through Reading on Tuesday and in.
stantly killed.
Mrs. Walter Harris, of Yves,
Washington street, Easton, has receiv-
ed cablegram telling her that she
has been left $a75,ooo by II. S.
Moore, relative, who lately died in
London, England.
- Because she could not mary John
West Mrs. Clara Dixon of Williams
port took strychnine and died. 1t was
her third attempt. Jerome Dixon, her
husband, left the woman on account
of her lnfatuatlon for West.
Identified by a dozen marks, call
ed upon by many acquaintances and
spoken to by his sister, John Falko-
viski, of Erie, alleged murderer of Leo
Montgomery, still denies his identity.
The reward offered for his capture was
paid to the police on Monday.
The milkmen of Hazleton, sur
rounding valleys have combined for
the purpose of increasing the local
price OF milk from six to eight cents
per quart. On the contrary, the but
chers organized to fight the Meat
Trust and reduce the price of meats.
The Port Griffith postofice, To-
Gated in Pittston township, was enter
ed at an early hour Monday morning
by burglars, who ransacked all letters,
which were opened and strewen on the
floor. They secured about one hun
dred dollars as far as is known.
Benjamin Shue, aged 10 years, of
Florin, was fatally injured Monday
afternoon by being struck by the
Chicago limited on the Pennsylvania
Railroad. Shue drove upon the track
directly in front of the train. The
horse, wagon and occupant were hurl-
ed sixty feet.
"A 7 months old daughter of Otis
Pfautz, of Lititz, was burned to 10
death Monday. In the absence of its
mother from the house the child pull
ed table cloth on which lamp was
standing. The latter was upset and
the flames communicated to the IN
fant's clothing.
Primrose Collery will resume op-
eratlons this week after being idle sew
eral months, fighting fire which has
been ravaging the mine. The COM
pany claims to have the fire exiting
lished, but have hermetically sealed
up the affected part as an extra pre-
Seven hundred men and
boys will be employed.
James J. Kelly, an old soldier.
lied at Pottsville on Monday very
having had a piesentiment
If death. Shortly after breakfast he
old his wife he was going to the old
homestead, few PAGES from his resi-
1ence, occupied by his brother, to die.
He had no sooner crossed the thresh-
Did than he dropped dead.
Andrew Hitchcock. of William
Penn, was found in the First ward of
Mahanoy City, at an early hour Mon
lay morning with seven stab wounds
n his head, face and body. Several of
he wounds are serious He got mix
I'd up in fight and was one against
'lx. He refuses to tell who cut him.
Arrests will follow.
-Three hundred kegs of powder
blew up in magazine at Beaver Val.
ey, in Dauphin county, at o'clock
morning. The shock was felt
1t Pot;sville, a distacne ofthirty miles,
with great mountains intervening. Al
bert Price, an engineer, was seriously
injured by flying pieces of timber.
collapsed and others were
badly shattered.