The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-26
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED
Womans Perlious Leap From a Traln-Pos!
Offices observation-disclosures Capture
Dovlne-Crooks Acquitted.

The following pensions were granted
during the week: Jai..es Hindley,
Pittsburg. SO; William IL. IIollings-
head. Bushman, $40; William l..
lIanes. Hope Church, SG; Thomas pry.
or, Pittsburg SU: John l.. Cambin,
New Castle. 50; John T. Butler, Gov.
ington, Sl2; John W. King. New Castle,
! Sl7; Elizabeth Thompson. Washington,
! IS; Charlotte Motion. New Salem. IS.
Original, Robert Potter johnstown,
| IS; George T. Hurburt. Tidioutc. S12
lncrease-Clark West, Tioga, SO; Mil
ton Trout. Canton. S11: Robert Ritchic,
Allegheny. Sl2; Daniel Il. Rarah. Oak
| land, Si1; Columbus W. Hubbard, Ki.
! gers, $40; Francis Reno. Carnegie. IS;
| John Milliken, Jccffrson, So; johanna
Lang. Mt Oliver IS; Ida A. Blllman,
pittsburg. sS.
Daniel Richards. aged 20 years, of
| Green Ridge. was found dead on the
| porch of the home of his intended
| bride at Mt. Carmel Monday with n
bullet hole in his right temple. Young
Richards was to- have been married to
| Miss Elizabeth Waters, the 1G-year-old
! daughter of Harry Walters. The
| young man called at the Walters home
! Sunday evening and shortly after 10
| o'clock he started for his home in
! Greene Ridge, three miles away. That
was the last seen of him by any of
the family until his body was found
| on the porch the next morning. The
weapon from which the fatal shot had
been fired has not been found. The
, police are working on the theory that
| Richards was murdered and his body
| ,arried TO the Walters home.
| c. II. Glover Philadelphia and
Erie operator of Cory City, was found
| dead in the street near the Lee hotel,
at Sheffield, Friday morning. 1t Is be.
| lieved that he met with foul play, as
his hat was found on the third story
veranda of the hotel and his body un.
! 1erneath. His wife Is an operator
here and she was the first to get the
news over the wires, and she nearly
| tainted. He had not been boarding at
the Lee hotel, and how his hat was on
the veranda is mystery. He was
seen on the street about 10 o'clock.
| a large number OF the Sharon and
Sharpsvllle members of the defunct
| Odd Fellows Endowment association
decided TO fight the recent order of the
courts allowing the association to pro-
ceed against the policy holders to col.
| lect back dues on 43 death claims ag-
| gregating SSl 900. The cases have
been placed in the hands of Sharon at
torneys.
During an electric storm early Fri
day morning a bolt of lightning shot
| thpntt0h no Of hn 81 I.NI,,
| Wlshok, miner at Calumet, struck
him on the head. killing him instant.
| ty. He was awakened by the crash
Of thunder and arose from his bed
to see what time it was. Just as he
struck match to hold to the face of
the clock the bolt struck him.
I John Sholey, an accompllce of Hcr-
ry Rowe and Weston KEEPER, both
under sentence of death for the mur-
der of Charles w. Ryan. cashier of the
| Halifax National bank of Halifax.
was sentenced Monday by Judge
Slmonton to the Eastern penitentiary
for ten years, Sholey pleaded guilty
to being accessory before the robbery.
Three hundred and fifty men and
| boys employed at the Harry colllery
Df the Temple Coal Company at Forty
! Fort, near Wilkesbarre, went out on
strike Monday because three carpen.
tiers refused TO join the union after
being requested to do so. The com.
pany officials refused to interfer.
| John n. Akerman of j. q. Brill &
| Co., electric car builders of Philadel-
phia, was in Center county the past
week looking up points of advantage
FOR trolly car service from Coburn
TO various points in Penn and Brush
valleys. The intention of the company
Is to get power from Elk creek.
The skeletons of bear and deer
have been found in a cave at New Wi.
mington. They We're unearthed by
the blasting of IL ,e rock. The man.
ner in which the zones lay indicated
that the bear had carried the deer into
the cave to devour it, but was impris.
oned by fall of rock.
An incendiary fire at Easton Sun.
day, destroyed the Wonderland thea.
ter, portion of Steinmetz & Zearfoss'
lumber yards, ID. j. Howel's Sons
marble works and NJ. w. Cooley's liv.
cry stables, in addition to damaging
/ other property. The loss was $25,000;
| the insurance $1,000.
The following postoffices have been
ordered discontinued on June 30 be.
cause of the establishment of rural
free delivery: Rattan, Ovid, Pine Run
and Wheelock, Erie county, and West
Spring Creek, Warren county. The
mall Is TO be sent hereafter to CORY
The thirteenth anniversary of the
great fire at Dubois that destroyed
property valued at $1,J0O,OOO, laying
| almost every husinass hIocL ond dyyaI