The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-02-27
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
Mine Workers Preparing for tho Annual Con-
vention-fiyo Italians Killed al Shar.
on-Bg Coal Land Deal.

and none but residents OF Jeanette will
be employed. a 3o-blowcr tank will
be erected, and from 200 to $50 men viii
be given employment at the start
y crusade has been made by the tru
ant officer OF Hcmpfcld township,
| Wcstmorcand county, on the parents
OF all truants. and notices have been
| served on them To appear before the
| board OF directors They say they will
| pay no attention to the summons, and
declare they will fight the case in court
II fines are imposed according to the
provisions OF the compulsory school
law.
The school board of Evansville, Brad
ford county has filed petition in the
| Dauphin county court for a writ of
mandamus on State Treasurer Barnett
and Superintendent OF Public Instruc-
| ton Schaclfer, TO compel them TO paw
the district its share OF the school ap-
preparations for the current fiscal year
On the basis Of $5.5oo,ooo.
Local unions OF the United Mine
Workers all over the Central Pennsyl-
vania district, the bituminous field, are
electing and instructing delegates to the
convention which meets at Altoona
March s. 1t is not likely that demand
for all increase of wages will be made,
but an eight-hour day will be insisted
upon.
The widow of Charles Lynch, of Vim
tondale who sustained fatal injuries by
falling down stairs at the Cook hotel III
| Johnstown, has filed suit at Ebensburg
against the proprietor for $4,000. She
claims the stairway was not protected BY
a railing.
The big deal for $4,000 acres of coal
land in Allegheny. Lower Burrell and
other townships in the northern end
! OF Westmorcland county is to be clos
ed. The land goes to Drape & Kirk
land, OF Pittsburg, at a cost OF $50 an
acre.
Thieves broke into the residence OF
Mrs. Wallace. widow OF c. p. Wallace,
a prominent banker OF Beaver Falls,
ransackcd the lower rooms, ate hearty
breakfast and carried off more than $Ic1
worth OF silverware.
Miss Maggie Cline, a clerk in the
Adams Express Company's Office at
Uniontown, made an Intellectual effort
TO commit suicide by taking poison
while respondent, supposedly over a
love affair.
Five Italians in the employ OF the Hail
Furnace Company Sharon. were run
down by a southbound freight train
about onc-half mile north of Sharon
on the Erie & Pittsburg railroad, and
all were killed instantly.
The Washington county bloodhounds
which were purchased to run down ne
gro highwaymcn have proved their met
tie by following a trail successfully ~
miles.
Seventy-fve miners employed at the
Jamison works No ?, near Greensburg,
are on strike on account of the inaugura-
ton OF piece work, which they claim will
materially reduce their wages,
John A. Thomas, widely known bv
his sobriquet of Indian Doctor" was
found dead in bed at Cory. Thomas
was II years old and a civil war veter-
an.
As an incentive TO the establishment
of State hospital at Uniontown citi-
zens agreed TO furnish a site near Noun
tain View Park.
Horcops Serafn. a Titusvlle silk
weaver, has received letters patent on
pile fabric process by which he clair,s
he is III a fair way to revoutionize the
oriental rug and carpet trade.
David Cartwright has returned to
New Castle rich mine owner in Ore
gon. He left there in the 6o's TO make
his fortune. His younger brother Rich
ard shares his good fortune.
George Dales, of Kittanning, in hanI-
ling dynamite at stone quarry. was
seriously injured by premature ex-
plosion, his right hand being torn of
and his head cut in a number of places.
Sick and tired of life. John Donovan,
aged 90 years, 4 mill worker of Sharon,
lay down by the track OF the Pcnnsy l.
; vania and had his head ground off under
the wheels OF 4 passing freight train.
The outcome Of the disbanding of the
Punxsutawney lodge OF the Junior Or
der OF American Mechanics recently
has been the arrest of IL OF its leading
members. principally officers, on a
charge OF conspiracy.
As a result oi the contention betwe IN
the Eric Railroad Company and its
striking boiermakers, 100 men from va
rious departments have been laid off in
the company shops at Susquehanna.
The authorities OF Grove City College
have completed arrangements to take
two full companies of uniformed col
, in the inaugural parade on March 4,
A little daughter of Andrew Moravic
! miner at Brownhcld; tossed $500 IL
paper money in the CRATE and it wa:
burned.
President Mitchell, of the United Mine
Workers has issued call for a join
convention Of the anthracite coal oper,
ators and miners at Hazleton, March Ia
, The sexton at Sweet Valley cemetery
? refused interment TO the remains o
Ralph J. White, the aged farmer who
killed his nephew and committed sui
eide.
The silk workers strike at Scranton
has reached an acute stage. non-unior
workers being boycotted AT every turn
and mills heavily guarded
Edward Glazier, OF Transfer, Merce,
county, is back from the Klondke, witt
| tales OF hardship. He was reduced II
/ eating raw dog.