The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-01-08
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
Divine Healer shorn Of Alleged Pow.
er--BlJ Coke By-Product-soI-
der Drowned.

Ine De0SfDU rOil uuTlDB tne past
month: John Ludwig, Sizerville, $12;
Vincent Amos. Scenery Hill, $40;
Frederick Berthel. Washington, s12;
George Coy. Den Run, $40; Michael
p. Dick, Roaring Spring. ss; Joseph
B. Milburn. Bristol, s12; oliver Sta
ley, Claysville. s12; Orion w. Miller.
Tepleville. s12; Alfred M. Gorley.
Uniontown. $40; Nancy Holmes. Mill
village. S12; Alfred Walton, Dickson
burg. Sl2 J. II. Camp. South Oil City,
S6; Martin S. Potter. Altoona, SIC:
William Morlock, McKeesport. $i2;
Philip Johnson, oil City. Sc: Hiram
Davis. Saegertown, $3.50; Johnston Fl.
Crick, Rimersburg, sS; Daniel Sim
mons, Braddock. $12; Charles w.
Smith. Dugall, s12; Samuel A. Morse.
Leroy, s24; John Kelly. Sandy Lake.
$40.
Francis Schlatter, the Divine Heal
err" tramped out of Wilkesbarre Mon
day a broken man. He went there
to heal the sick and MANNED and Incl
dentally to heel himself, but he could
not convince the audience that he was
Schlatter the healer. They pictured
him with long hair and a big beard.
but these we're shaved off during an
enforced stay at Blackwells Island.
and he found he had lost his chief
stock in trade with his hair cropped
close and beard gone.
Lewis La Clair. Of Uniontown, has
received a letter from Lieutenant
James A. Ruggles. OF the Thirty
eighth Artillery, at TT. Caswell, N. c.,
stating that his son. Corporal William
La Clair, was drowned on December
"a, while returning in a small boat
from South Port. The boat capsized
with young la Clair and three other
soldiers. All were saved except La
Clair.
Some of the members of Company
A, Tenth regiment, National Guard of
Pennsylvania at Monongahela are
making Inquiries as to who is in pos
session of a medal presented to the
company in 1874, and which since
that time has been handed down to
the best drilled member of the com
pany. 1t was with that understanding
that the medal was presented.
County Chairman j. M. Hantz, OF
the State Grange. has announced the
dates for the Farmers institute to be
held in Fayette county. as follows.
Uniontown, January IL; Point Marion,
13 and IA, and Perryopolls, Is and 16.
The State speakers will be Prof. G..
c. Butz, r. S. Seeds, Hon. ]. II. lands.
G. E. Hull, DR.. |. A. Thayer and DR..
NJ. r. Conrad.
Porch climbers entered the resi-
dence of State Senator J. II. Cochran
Thursday while the family was at
supper and stole over $1,000 worth
of jewelry. Addison Kelly, a former
Princeton athlete. who was a guest
of the family. lost a fraternal pin and
a gold baseball, received as a prize
as a member of the champion team of
1897.
Forty-six applications for liquor IL
censes have been filed in Mercer coun-
ty, as against 2S year ago. The new
borough Of South Sharon asks for IA
wholesale and retail; Sharon.
Wholesale and 12 RETAIL Greenville.
retail; Sharpsville, 8 reail; Wheat
land, retail, and Stoneboro. l retail.
Comrades and the closest friends
through life, Robert McKelvey, aged
73, and Timothy Stanley, two old
farmers of Tyrone township. died
within two hours of each other at
Connellsville. The funerals were held
at the same time and the two buried
almost side by side.
John C. I. Steveline, business agent
of the steel metal workers of Phila-
delphia, has beer sent to Pittsburg
to investigate certain jobs in that
city which, 1t is alleged, are being
supplied with material from firms on
the unfair list.
The Sharon Coke Company it pre-
pairing plans for the erection of one
of the most modern by-product plants
in the country. 1t will consist of
3l2 ovens and will have capacity
of about one thousand two hundred
tons daily.
Thieves entered the residence of
Mrs. c. p. Breckbill at Mt. Pleasant.
and purse containing $50 and jewel
ry valued at 5000 were stolen. The
robbery occurred while the members
of the family were at breakfast.
The long coal tipples and check
houses Of the Vesta mines. No. 2, at
Elco two miles north of Coal Center.
belonging to Jones & Laughlins, Ltd,
were entirely destroyed by fire Friday
morning. Loss, $4,000; insured.
The Wheatland rolling mill, at
Sharon. which has been idle for about
two months resumed operation Mon
day. While the plant was idle ex-
tensive repairs were made. About
200 men will be affected
Captain Hustead A. Grow. of Con-
nellsvilie, has sent his resignation as
captain of Company ID, Tenth Regi-
ment, N. G. p, to Colonel J. f. Bar
nett.
At meeting of council at Washing
ton Chief of Police Alexander Rankin
was reduced to patrolman and sus-
pended for ten days.
+. T.. Hamilton, Secretary and
Treasurer of the New Castle Traction
Company has rendered his resigna-
tior~