The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-01-30
keystone STATE NEWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
Another Sale Of Timber and Coal Lands.
Poslofice Safe ynamited-Awardcd
Damages Against Railroad.

Clelland, Franklin. So; Mary Logan,
Aspinwall, So; Elizabeth A. Brown,
Carr, So; Caroline b. Armstrong, Mcr-,
Ger, SIS.
Frank Jansen. n barber OF South
Scranton. went home drunk from ball,
Quarrcled with his wife and threw
lighted lamp at her. 1t set the bed Oh
fire, their 7-year-old bov was burned TO
death, and Mrs. Jansen was so badly
burned her life is despaired OF. Her
sister Maggie Mcdonald, was painfully
burned. The house was burned. Jals-
sen is locked IN.
A man, representing himself to be an
agent for the Polar Creamery Company,
Philadelphia, sold number OF farmers
in lower Fulton county. machinery in
December last, each paying sos, hav-
ing the farmers contract to pay the
money within one year from February,
1901. The contracts proved to be prom
issory notes. due February /, 1901.
a sale OF about 1000 acres of timber
and coal lands situated in Somerset
county, within few miles OF the Bal
timorc and Ohio main line, and also OF
the line of the proposed Somerset and
Ligorier railroad has been effected
The consideration is between $4,000 and
$4,000.
a case of the utmost importance 10
townships has been decided in the ruling
OF Justice Mitchell of the supreme court.
The constitutionality of the act of As
sembly OF April %, 1900, known as the
township act. was the chief point of at
tack in the litigation, and by the courts
decision it is upheld
Pittsburg and New York capitalists
have purchased $500 acres OF coal in
the eastern end Of Washington county
The farmers who owned the land re-
ceived on an average OF $Ioo an acre.
1t is said. The plots are considerably
cut up by veins bought and now owned
by other operators.
George II. Fleming. of Port Perry.
whilc working in a stone quarry was
probably fatally injured by premature
blast powder. Both OF his eyes wee
blown out, and he was terribly injured
about the face and body Fleming is
about 80 years old and has a wife and
two children.
The Baldwin Automobile Manuiactur-
ing Company of South Connelsvillc,
has assigned. President Humbert saws
the expenditure of $Ioo,ooo and six
months experimenting caused the trou-
Bile. 1t is believed creditors will allow
the company one year for payment OF
debts
]. p. Morgan & Co.. of New York,
have purchased $4,000 acres OF coal land
in Greene county The deed is one ni
the largest ever closed in Western Penn
sylvania. II is said that the Morgan
syndicate paid 5000 an acre The entire
price paid, in round numbers, $I5,ooo.-
900.
Acting upon the suggestion OF citi-
zens J. s. Fruit, of Sharon, has taken
a hand in the matter of trying to Sc
cure public building for Sharon. He
has requested Senator NJ. s. Quay to in
sert the item in the appropriation bill,
providing such building at a cost u
$4,000
The Jenkins Iron and Tool Company,
operating the Lauth iron works at How
ard, Center county will build so new
pudding furnaces and add new equip
ment sufficient to double the capacity Of
the plant and give work to 100 more
workmen.
Andrew w. Root, of Butler, has been
awarded $1,000 damages against the
Pittsburg and Western railroad on ac-
count OF injuries done to his lease and
oil wells by the building of the Reibold
Eidenecn cutoff.
About so Sandy Lake citizens were re-
Gently swindled out OF sums aggregating
81, 100 by a stranger who bought up all
The poultry in that section, shipped it
10 Buffalo, and issued bogus checks Tor
various amounts.
The safe in the postofhce at New
Bethlehem was dynamited and the safe
was completely wrecked, the robbers
securing so in money and $50 in stamps.
The robbers were traced to Hawthorn
and escaped.
Francisco Daz, aged II, has become
a student in the preparatory department
OF Washington and Jefferson College, ut
Washington. He is son of Gen. Diaz
OF the Cuban army, and is intensely pa
triotic.
The supposed suicide OF Dalton Peck
ham, at Erie, turns out to have been
murder 1t is said he came home intoX-
icated, drove his family ont into the
cold, and was found dead the next morn
ing.
Harry Kirkwood, of New Castle 20
years old, has been arrested on a charge
| OF abduction. 1t is alleged that he
| cloped with Sarah Z. Pritchett, S Yeas
old, with the intention OF marrying her.
Lawrence Minor. aged I3 years, who
stabbed schoolmatc with a penknifc
at the Rich Hill school. Fayctte county,
has been held for court.
Mrs. Samuel Buckley. OF Anderson.
| Washington county, has been commit
ted to Jail for alleged cruelty to :
year-old stepdaughter.
| The present session of the Mercer
county grand jury will be a record
breaker for illegal liquor selling cases,
the greater number coming from
| Sharon.
Typhoid fever has broken out at Dun
bar and it is feared it will become epi-
temic.
Adam Garick. a Civil War octeran
and farmer of Bedford county, wa.
shuck by an engine while crossing the
railroad near his home and Instant,