The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-04-24
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED
Big SAILS Of Coal Land In Somerset County.
An Alleged shopliIter Attempts to
Break Jail.

%, teiiu >. Wmpple, MeStnelu, %,
William ID. Abbott, Wlckhayen, SO;
Thomas o. Scott. Monongahela, $17;
Josiah NJ Hennen. Moravia, S14;
Charles Hoover. Berlin, SS;David Dib-
Ter, Marion Center
Simon Curry was shot and probably
fatally injuted by Mrs. Hattie Sterrig,
n young married woman. of st. Mary's
Elk county. Two stories of the shoot
Ing are told. One Is that 1t was done
while the woman was in n jealous
frenzy. The other Is that she did 1t
to protect herself from Curry, who Is
reported to have been drunk. The
woman Is In the Ridgway Jail.
The Red Lion Match Company, of
York, went into the hands Of n recelv
er as the result of n petition presented
to Judge Rittenger alleging Its inabil-
TO Judge lBttenger alleging Its lnabil-
ity to meet its financial obligations.
The assets are estimated at from So
600 to $4,000. and the total indebted
ness, $S235.3I.
Eva Armstrong. alias Mrs. G. ii.
Miller of Allegheny. one of the gang
alleged shopllfters, now in the West
moreland county prison at Green's
burg, was detected IN bold attempt
at jail breaking. She had sawed Off
two bars In the hospital department
window, and had begun work on the
third.
The Blair county auditors work.
Just completed, shows that 1t cost the
county last year S19S for the support
of each Jail prisoner and $47.16 for
Il.
tistics have started theories that the
county either treats its paupers too
poorly or its criminals too well.
The murder of City Treasurer John
Blevins. of New Castle, has been re-
called by the arrest of Perry Douds on
Il charge of obstructing justice, the
specific allegation being that he has
written fictitious and anonymous let
ters for the purpose of misleading de-
tectives. He gave bail.
One of the largest coal deals eff
fected in Somerset county was recent
ly made with the w. X. Niver Co., of
New York. The sale embraces over
10000 acres adjoining Berlin. Devel-
opments of the new territory are to
begin Immediately, requiring an eX-
pendlture of S1,000,000.
Miss Daft. the eldest daughter of
City Assessor Thomas Daft, of Me
Kecsport. who has been teacher in
the public schools mt that place for sew
eral years, has resigned to accept "A
similar position ut San Junt, Porto
Rico. She Is to receive $50 month
from the government.
The smallpox in Bedford county,
along the Maryland border, has assum-
ed such serious phase, there being
30 eases along the Piney Ridge road
within small radius. that the Mary
land state and county officers are tax
ing measures toward establishing a
quarantine.
Home made spring bltters nearly
killed A. Jetherldge, aged II. and his
wife, year younger, mt their home
south of Erie. They We're found un
conscious ana physicians had n hard
time TO revive them. They have used
The bltters for 30 years.
Daniel J. Kehoe, alias Frank Major,
and ut one time in the Western peni-
tentlary at Allegheny under the name
of Joseph Jenney. was hanged at
Meadville, Tuesday for the murder of
November II, 1890.
Peter Leonard. deaf mute. of vii.
Transport, rode on Il bicycle to death. A
dealer recently received Il wheel with
n 30O-gear aud the mute took 1t out for
II trial. He rode up and down the
street several times and then fell off
the machine dead.
At Shonfield, Erie county. five child
rem drank some crude wool alcohol,
and rs result John Sworski Is dead.
The children, whose ages ranged from
: TO II, were playing on some logs,
when they found the liquid. The other
four will recover.
At Erie. John Ziegler. machlnst,
made desperate attempt to kill his
wife, but failing, ended his own life
with a pistol shot through the brain.
There had been some trouble over a
legacy left by Zeiglers' mother to his
children.
While Miss Emma McClelland, 1G-
year-old daughter of Andrew McClel-
land, xat Uniontown, was baking, n
spark dew out of the stove and ignit-
ed her dress. In an instant she was
all aiiame. She Is not expected to
live.
The Rev. George B. Reeser pastor of
the Emanuel Reformed church mt Han
over fell 40 or 80 feet from the scaffold
of new chruch edifice which his con
gregation Is building and died in half
an hour. He landed upon a stone pile
With piece of macaroni as a
weapon. DeminicO Augustine of Hills
vile, Mahoning county, stabbed An.
cello Sossto. The strange stilletto
entered Sosisto's ear, piercing the
drum and rendering him deaf.
Mrs Cora Redfeld. an aged woman
living near Titusyille. was savagely
attacked by COW and but for the
timely arrival of neighbor would
have been killed. Her condition is
very critical.
j. V. Thompson, of Uniontown, has
purchased the Shields farm, two miles
south Of Washington, comprising 800
acres, for $40 per acre. 1t Is under
laid with coal and partly covered with
timber.
The Westmoreland Coal company
has sent to the Buffalo exposition a
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