The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-03-07
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
SKULL CRUSHED.
Scholars Down with Typhoid Fever--Road su-
pervisor hres!cd-smallpox Scare
Costly.

Oney mas Decn urinkinR ntdNny Oi idtf
md, it is said. has put his family out OF
the house three times within week.
Following pensions were granted last
week: Lazarus II. McElheny, Carbon
Center. So; William Hays. Ligonier,
SIS to $I7: Jeremiah Hartzell Union
town. S. to Sio; Fletcher Benford. Mt
Pleasant. SS to $40: Hiram J. Wiley,
Unity. So Morris n. Sage, Carnegie,
50 to SS; Charles Delozier, Coalport. so
to So; Frederick Lcseman, Bennett. So;
Leonard /. Kunkel, Apollo, $I2 to SI7;
Amariah Cook. Warren. So to $40; La
vinia Foster, West Newton, So; r. c.
Avison. Grcensburg, SO; David Crotty,
New Castle, SO; Thomas Musselman,
Hsw SssbbSa M9hogng 81 10 sS W RavS T. ESsss kops,
Evans City, SO to So; Frank w. Clark,
Shantz, Altoona. So; Monroe Arinonr.
Bellefonte. SO: Robert w. Teese. War
ren, So; Aaron ]. Edsall, Evergreen,
SI7; James Watson, Lock Number
Four, $I4; Jonathan Albaugh. East
Hickory. $24; Joseph w. Shaw, Tyrone,
$I2; Daniel S. Smith, Floyd, $50; Sam
uel l.. French, Latrobe, SO; Elizabeth
Fowler, Grab Tree, $I2
What nearly matched the story OF
THE Old Arm Chair" happened at
sale of the personal effects OF the late
Jesse Baughman, near San Patch, Sat
urday afternoon. An old chest, worth
probably a dollar, was put up for sale
and bidding was slow. A prospective
purchaser turning it over, secret
drawer slid oft and over $500 in coin
and currency rolled out upon the
ground. The money was turned over
to the administrator OF the estate. 1t IS
supposed the treasure was secreted
there by a son OF the late Jesse Baugh-
man. who was accidentally killed while
working about :he distillery OF his
father several years ago.
Articles of incorporation we're filed
for record at Butler Thursday by w. c.
Mcdowell. Robert Fisher, L. c. Wick,
A. NJ. Reiber, w. II. Miller and w.
c. Thompson, OF Butler, for the Butler
Silk mill, limited. The company has
leased the old Witherspoon institute
building and will manufacture silk fab
ric, employing about so hands.
w. J. Finn, of Pittsburg OF the
United States secret service, has arrest
ed Clarence c. Kimbe, photographer
of Coudersport, and George Austin, a
woodman OF Tamarsc. on the charge of
counterfeiting. The detectives found
plates and notes in Austins house. Ten
dollar plates were on the First National
bank of Hornelsville, N. Y, and 6-e
dollar plates on the Galatin bank OF
New York city. Tools, paper and pho
tographs were found in Kmble's house.
William Stein, aged 70, was found
dead in the watch house on the Pennsyl-
vana railroad at Jacobs Creek
Hugh Scott Lusk. farmer was
found frozen to death in the stable OF
John Gault, near Washington Lusk
had been drinking.
Mrs. Burns was awarded SOTO. so dam
ages against the borough of Greensburg
for injuries received through defec-
tive sidewalk. She claimed $4,000.
Andrew Cook, road supervisor OF
Green township, Indiana county has
been arrested for failure to turn over
$Ioo he collected for road tax. Cook
alleges that thieves broke into his house
and stole SI46 from its hiding place, and
thus he was unable to meet the claim
against him.
Westmoreland county's smallpox at
tack will cost the taxpayers about $4,000.
This includes a bill OF $500 by Allegheny
allowed to leave Larimer and go to near
Mckeesport before the quarantine had
| elapsed.
Morris II. Wagner, aged 80, grocer
! OF Salisbury, was crushed to death in
/ stock car in a wreck on the Connells-
vile branch OF the Baltimore and Ohio
| Saturday. Many cars were destroyed
and several car loads OF cattle were
burned or mangled.
The decimation' OF Dairyman Mich
| olas j. Spohn's family, near Butler, by
| typhoid fever, is attributed by physi-
clans to new railroad embankment,
which damned up the foot of ravine
and caused stagnant water to collect
According to the borough solicitor
OF North Washington borough,
James Wilson, the newly elect
ed burgess is eligible to succeed himself
and the Office will not go to colored
man who received few votes at the
recent election.
While running about the kitchen, Jo-
| seph, the two-year-old son of Peter
| Wagner OF East Titusville, fell into a
tub OF boiling water and was scalded
to death.
| ~ NhS'hS atAiNHNh W tllC tIIGtnS-
burg express ran away after being cut
loose from the train at Grecnsburg, and
before it was stopped ran to Manor.
The crew had jumped from il just as
they were about to put it in the round
house, No damage was done.
The teacher and "a pupils OF the Mill
vile township school. near Green's
burg are sick with typhoid fever, re-
sulting from drinking water from an
infected we'll
After being blind for nine years as
the result OF an explosion, c. o. Cor
man, OF Bellefonte, has recovered his
eyesight without medical aid
In the recorders office in Indiana
county during the last week there have
been filed 3S deeds, representing 1000
acres of coal lands, valued at $4,000.
1t has Just been discovered that the
record book Of the sums paid by Street
Commissioner Jacob Fleming to John
Blevins, the murdered city treasurer OF
New Castle, is missing,