The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-02-13
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
In Jail Six Years for Contempt Of Court and
Refuses to yield-Runaway Boy
on Training Ship.

NtW leNaS, SlO; GfarCls ". MllcT,
Laddsburg. SI4; David A. Cyphert
Brookville, $24; Henry Delaney Keat-
ing, SO; James ID. Scott, Mount Union,
So; Abraham l.. Coleman. Uniontown,
So; Samuel Day. Sparta. $40; Hugh y.
Crowell, Cory. So.
Judge J. w. Archibald oi Scranton.
has prepared for introduction in the
Pennsylvania State Legislature a bill
that will make it possible to secure
the release OF James Cannon. "a years
o. age, who, charged with contempt oi
court and refusing to purge himself of
the same. has been kept prisoner in
the county Jail since January 6, 1894
Four people were badly bitten at Al
toona by a mastiff which had all the
symptoms of rabies. He ran about
town yelping and snariing at every
person with whom he came in contact
and made several vicious attacks upon
unsuspecting persons before being kill
ed.
Mrs. Bertha Fox. aged 60 of Fox
Chase, near Philadelphia. and her T.
year-old son, are i'll critical condition
from carbolic acid poison, and 2-year-
old child is dead from the same cause,
They were found unconscious and the
husband drunk.
Gov. Stone has appointed these mem
bers of the board to examine applicants
for mine inspectors of the bituminous
coal regions; John Reed. Reynoldsville:
James STAFFORD, Phillipsburg; ID. II.
Jones, South Fork; George Whyel I'M
icntown; Thomas Fisher. Philadelphia
Rev. s. II. Gordon, of Uniontown.
has learned OF the whereabouts of his
15-year-old son Paul, who ran away
from home over a month ago. He is
or the training ship Richmond at Phil
adelphia, preparatory to sailing i'll few
days for an extended voyage.
Ralph J. White. of Wilkesbarre. who
shot and killed one OF his nephcws JOS
eph White. and shot another. James
White. who is not expected to recover,
has been sentenced to serve IS years at
hard labor in the Eastern pcnitentiary
at Philadelphia.
AS a result OF eating pork thought to
have been "doctored' by preservalinc
to prevent decay, one person is dead AMI
five others became seriously i'll, and
probably would have died, in a Pitts
burg suburb, had il not been Tor prompt
medical Did
John Kelly, OF Greenville, confined in
the Sharon hospital, became temporar-
lily insane and escaped from his ward
He rushed through the corridors. Shrek
ing like demon, pulled patients from
, their beds and dragged them on the
floor. lie was subdued by the police.
The employees of w. X. Niver K Co.'S
coal mine at Niverton, struck Monday
against the discharge Of 80 union mir-
ers Two Polish interpreters were ar-
rested, charged with threatening The
lives OF the superintendent and others
James McTome. a prisoner in the
Ioik county jail since January for va
grancy, hanged himself in his cell Ivy
means of leather belt fastened to the
iron bedstead. He was slightly dement,
ed.
Revenue Inspector w. w. Dickson
| and two deputies made raid on
moonshne still in Milford township.
Somerset county, capturing the large
kettle worm and a quantity OF whisky
No arrests were made.
During iracas in Hungarian board
ing house at Newport, Northampton
| county, andre Clement was cut in the
abdomen and will die. Andro Kuvin
was shot in the head and is in a serious
| condition.
While Fred Koontz, aged 10, and
Grant Luther. years old. were coast
| ing at Johnstown, their sled ran directly
in front OF rapidly moving trolley
car koontz was caught under the car
and killed.
! Charles Maze, postmaster at Aristos,
| Columbia county, has been convicted oi
assault and battery with intent to kill,
and sentenced to one year and six
months in the penitcntiary.
| Policeman Owen Hughes, OF Wilkes
barre, attempted to arrest two tramps
when one OF them shot the officer
through the right arm. The wound is
not serious. The tramps escaped.
| Within "a hours after the commission
/ OF the alleged crime. Albert Bishop, the
Greensburg wife beater, was tried and
sentenced to 30 days in Jail and S. fine,
The Valley muck bar mill at Sharon,
owned b. the Stewart Iron Company
will resume operations, giving employ.
ment to 100 men.
George Juback Slav minor, employ
ed in the Atlas mines of the Cambria
Slccl Company. was instantly killed bv
being caught under fall OF coal and
slate.
While playing in room in which
was an open CRATE this morning, Carrie
Kinney. oi Connellsville, fell into the
FIRE, She was burned so that she will
not recover.
Grip has caused the total blindness OF
John Rehner. stockbuyer, well known
in Greene aud Washington counties A
Pittsburg specialist has pronounced his
case hopeless.
At Primrose. near Mcdonald. Charles
Lemon, aged "a, oi Butler, was killed
and his brother Frank. aged 10 badly
scaded by an explosion OF a boiler at
an OIL well.
After cluding the police for nearly a
year, James Boyle and Thomas Burke,
who broke Jail at Sharon, were captur-
ed.
The Westmorcland Hospital Assoca-
ton, Of Grecnsburg, received a dona.
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