The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-01-01
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
Mysterious shooting-TroIiey Con.
tract Awarded-$2o0,00 900 En-.
dowment Fund.


town. sS; Willber Davis, Union City.
So; James Hand, Big Run, IS; Mar
Gus B. Day. Tidioute, $751; Levi w.
Heith, New Era, SIT; Frederick G.
Rodgers. Erie, $3.50; John Ward.
.Johnstown. s12; Hannah e. Getz. New
Cumberland, S12; Julia A. Snyder. Kit
tanning, s12; Mary Il. Fleck. Altoona.
S12; Marshall M. II. Lytle, Altoona.
Sc; Henry G. Hall. Lancelot, SO; Will
lam G. Iddlngs, Lewisburg, s12; Harri-
son G. Wears, Pittsburg, $40; War
with Spain-Mike Valnis, Pittsburg.
sl7; Caldwell G.. Byers, Mercer, $12;
Francis e. Mcintyre, deceased. Cory.
s12; Henry KEEPER, Johnstown, s14;
Lucy A. Mcintyre, Cory. S.; Mary ].
Wood, Columbia, IS; Mary Young, Sun
bury, sS.
The new county scheme that created
quite an uproar in Westmoreland, Fay
ette and Washington counties four
years ago, is to be given another
boost. In the manufacturing towns
of Monessen, Donora, Charleroi and
other rich and populous districts some
agitation Is going on. and the promo
ters, principally leading men of the 10
calities. are greatly encouraged by a
strong sentiment that has sprung up
In favor of a new county. n
While returning from a dance lat
Columbus Wednesday, Lola Munsey
| and Earl Spencer, of Cory. were struck
by freight train on the Western New
1 York and Pennsylvania Road, and
both are at the hospital with frac-
tured skulls. and cannot live. They
were driving In binding snowstorm
at the time of the accident.
Allegheny College, of Meadville.
some time ago had the promise OF
| 100000 towards an endowment fund.
| II enough more should be pledged by
January 1. 1902. to make total OF
| 100000. Twenty thousand is still
lacking. and the president of the ms
titution is anXiously hoping that $20,-
900 may be heard from.
Natal Barr, of near New Florence.
brought an action against the Cone
maugh Stone Company to recover $5-
900 damages for the death of his child.
The child was instantly killed while
asleep in its crib by flying rock from
the company's quarries, quarter or
a mile away, crashing through tho
roof of the Barr home.
The employees OF the Youngstown
and Sharon Electric Railway and
Light Company presented President
Randall Montgomery at Sharon. with
a fine antique clock, and the Amalgam-
ated Association of Street Railway
Employees presented him with a gold
headed cane.
NJ McClain, a deserter from the
United States navy, was arrested
Thursday at his home in Greensburg,
by Detective Charles Miller. of Phila-
delphia. McClain was assistant en-
gineer on the cruiser Charleston dur
ng the Spanish-American War.
Ten boys on a big sled met with
coasting accident at Altoona. Pa, FRI
day and all are more or less seriously
injured. The boys were coming down
Fourteenth avenue and the sled got
beyond their control. ran into a tree,
breaking the tree clear off.
The Mercer postofHce was burglar
lied Monday by two men, who gained
an entrance through a transom in the
rear of the Office. The men succeed
ed IN working the combination of the
safe, in which they found but little
| money.
Mayor Giles, OF Altoona, vetoed the
ordinance granting the Altoona Belt
Line Street Railway Company fran
chise for the streets OF the city. CIV
ing as his reason that the city was
getting nothing in return.
A fund of about $1,000 has so far
been raised by the people of Butler for
the families of Thomas L. Edwards
and Charles B, Parker, the men killed
in the nitroglycerin explosion of De-
cember II.
The National Steel Company at
New Castle posted notices in the To-
cal mills and furnaces saying that the
same scale of wages will be continued
there and at Sharon until January.
1908.
John w. Craper. aged 30. Balti.
more and Ohio Railroad engineer, COM
mitted suicide in his room at the Bal
tlmore House. Connellsville, Wednes-
day by drinking two ounces of carbolic
acid.
Bernard BerlSman, a New Castle
clothing dealer, made an assignment
to ex-Sheriff Charles Mathews for the
benefit of his creditors. Berkman was
formerly in business at Beaver Falls.
The projectors of the new trolley
road, from Kittanning to Rural VIII
lage, Pa, have awarded the contract
for engineering the line to John No
mine, Of McKeesport.
Capt. Austin Clark has been an.
pointed burgess of Kittanning, by
Judge W. d. Patton. The office has
been vacant since the resignation of
Burgess Il. r. Lee.
The Sharon Steel Company has
placed orders with the Baldwin Loco
motive Company for two additional
| standard gauge locomotives to cost
$4,000.
The Monaco English Lutheran con.
gregation has extended a call to Rev.
]. McCreery. OF Nova Scotia.
The drug store OF DR.. Mullen. Fifth
street and Mexican avenue, at Donora.
was almost totally wrecked by a gas
explosion. No one injured.
The Morrell coke plant of the Cam