The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-05-27
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED
Court Names unciImen-Purchase
the church-s5ooooo Power
Company-AnnuaI Reunion.

Daniel ID. Whitmer, Canton, $40; Jo-
seph McGill, Cambridge, S17; Joseph
c. Hammond, Riggs, $40; Thomas G.
Stevenson, East Liverpool, $40; Will
liam F. Schafernocker, East Pales.
tine. S12; Mary A. B. Lacey, Lacey
Vile. IS; Ellen Brownless. Akron, IS;
Charlotte Easthorn, Tiltonsville, IS;
Samantha Schafernocker, East Pales-
tine, IS; Lavisa A. Scott, Gallipolis,
IS; David NJ Scott. New Alexandria,
S55; George Barth, Canton, s55;
Franklin Kreider, Wills Creek, s17;
William II. Barnes, GAINESVILLE. $40;
John Ashleman, New Philadelphia,
$40; Martin Richardson, Massillon, SIS;
Daniel Shively. Minerva, S12; George
W. Stevenson, Cambridge, $40.
A crisis in the Cannonsburg town
council deadlock was reached when all
the members rendered their resigna-
tions. Previously hearing in the
case Of the citizens against the coun.
cilmen. wherein the members were
asked to show cause why they were
not discharging their duties, came up
In court at Washington. After hear
ing the case, court issued mandamus
compelling the councilmen to perform
from office. The members then re-
signed.
The thirteenth annual convention of
the International Brotherhood of Pa
per Makers adjourned at Erie after
electing officers and choosing Niagara
Falls as the place of convention for
1904. The officers elected are:r Presi.
dent, George Mackay, of Watertown,
N. Y; first vice president, John M.
Stoughton, of Edward, N. Y; second
vice president, j. Mccarthy. of Lee,
Mass; third vice president, Frank
Mace, Weeriah, Wis.
A Jail delivery took place at Mercer
and two men, alleged to be implicat-
ed in several burglaries, are at liberty.
They were being held on a charge of
robbing store at Fredonia. Plumbers
had cut hole in the bath room Of the
male ward, and while they were work
ing in another part of the Jail the two
men slipped through the aperture into
the cellar and escaped.
The continued drouth is seriously
affecting the prospects for crops.
Farmers In Lawrence county say that
meadows are burning up and predict
$40 a ton for hay next fall. The soil
is so dry that 1t is impossible to plow
sod for corn. The wheat fields are
wilted. Truck gardeners are losing
heavily by the drouth.
Thomas Johns, aged 10, whose home
is In Uniontown, and who was a ped
dler, dropped dead at Argentine, near
Butler. Death is supposed to have
been due to heart disease, caused by
the fright resulting from the discovery
OF some blacksnakes. Johns sprang to
pick up rocks to kill the snakes, when
he fell over dead.
A squad of men, members of the
National Guard of Pennsylvania, has
been sent to Pine Glen by the direc.
tors OF the State board of health to
enforce the smallpox quarantine at
that place. Several cases exist at Pine
Glen and for lack of sufficient patrol,
one of the victims. William Peoples,
escaped.
Pastors Of 40 Of the 60 Protestant
churches in York presented to their
congregations for vote a resolution
asking the municipal government to
create a curfew law to keep the boys
and girls off the streets after d. m.
The congregations voted solidN in
favor of the resolution.
Through the going out of a natural
gas burner in the core oven at the
works of the United States Radiator
Company at West Newton, an explo-
sion occurred and Harry Shelkey, aged
70, was severely burned about the
head and arms and several others
slightly injured.
The court at Washington appointed
the following persons to serve as coun-
cilmen at Canonsbtirg succeeding
those who rendered their designations:
David III. Fee, Richard II. Coulter.
John c. Morgan, John McCahon,
Charles w. Walton and Charles C.
Schade.
The rock miners held O meeting at
Wilkesbarre. They received the as
surance of the United Mine Workers
that the latter organization would back
them up in their efforts to secure the
back pay which they claim under the
commissions award.
The jury on the case of the trus.
tees of the Greek Catholic Church at
Monessen, against Father Eugene
Nolkay, charged with forcible entry,
found a verdict in favor of the de-
fendant, and placed the cost ON the
prosecutors.
H. X. Daugherty, a member of the
last State Legislature, has received
an appointment as attorney for the
Western Pennsylvania pure food and
dairy commission, exclusive of ALLIE.
gheny county,
The Jones G. Laughlin Steel Com
pany has bought the Disciple Church
at Coal Center. for $4,000. 1t is sup
posed that new coal road will be
built across the property.
A carnival held under the auspices
of Du Bois labor organizations con-
tinued for week with good attend
ance.
The American Mechanics of JEAN
nette. Pa, attended a special service
at the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Shade smokeless Coal Com
pany has begun to push operations at
Stoyestown, Somerset county. Work
n o. ha0n ctarfad ~, bn,ca, for tIa