The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-07-09
THE STATE AT A GLANCE.

in a very bad financial shape and can
see no way out of it. The teachers
have not been paid for the last three
months, and are clamoring for their
money.
The Pottsville High School
Alumni, mum bcrlng about 1000 mem
bers, have started movement which
they hope will provide Pottsville with
a handsome new public library. They
already have 500 volumes, and have
asked Andrew Carnegie for an en-
endowment.
Governor Pennypacker on Nor
day made the following appointment
ments: Members of the State Board
of Health, DR.. Charles f. Harvey,
Philadelphia, and NJ. A. Embeck,
Boiling Springs; Port Warden, Phila-
delphia, William r. Tucker, Phila-
delphia; member State Quarantine
Board, J. l.. Forwood, Delaware.
Miss Nellie Price, of Mahanoy
City, night operator in the telephone
exchange at that place, is suffering
from a very sore neck, the result of a
bite by bed bug, and it is feared
that blood poison will develop. Miss
Price was bitten one morning last
week when she lay down on a couch
in the Office to take a rest after her
nights work.
Work is about to begin on the
new Odd Fellows orphanage at Sny-
dertown, near Sunbury. 1t will &C
commodate $50 children and the
estimated cost is $4,000. The
structure will be brick and stone.
The building is expected to be ready
for occupancy within one year and
inmates will be admitted from over a
dozen counties in this part of the
state.
Those in charge of the Natalie
coiliery, near Shamokin, are taking
account of stock, and people who
know say the working will soon be
leased and in operation, The stock
taking is under the supervision of the
receivers of the Shamokin Coal Co,
the Plttsburg Trust Co., who are now
in command. They want the inven-
tory IN their hands in Plttsburg as
soon as possible, and there is every
reason to believe the rich workings,
so long idle through schemes and
schemers, will soon be in operation
again. The colliery employs one
thousand.
While the husband of Mrs. Miles
O'Rourke, oil Woodward township,
Clearheld county, was absent, a
stranger called at the house and ask
ed Mrs. O'Rourke for something to
eat. She was preparing coffee at the
stove when the man struck her on the
back of the head, leaving her SEMI
conscious He then bound her in a
chair and demanded where the family
kept its money.
AT first she refused 10 divulge the
hiding place. The man lighted a
lamp and applied the flame to her
feet. The pain caused her to point
out the place where the money was
hidden. The sum was a trihe over
$4,000.
In his hurry to get away from the
house the robber dropped part of
the money, which Mrs. O'Rourke
picked up and placed in the bosom Of
her dress. The man missed it and
returned, prepared to torture her
further. A noise outside of the house
frightened him and he lett hastily.
The authorities have offered reward
of $500 for information that will lead
to the arrest of the thief.
Colonel George A. Bayard, one
of the Oldest citizens of Belletonte,
and who served through the Civil war
as major of the I48th regiment, was
struck by freight train on the Penn
sylvania railroad at Bellefonte on
Tuesday and instantly killed. He
was It years old,
Andrew Iludock, aged IS, of
Freeland, treasurer of the Pennsylva-
MIA Slovak Catholic Union, was found
dead on Tuesday in his butcher
wagon as the horse attached to the
vehicle came into the limits of the
town from Sandy Run. There was a
bullet hole in Hudock's temple and a
revolver was found along the rosdside.
The coroner in making an investlga-