The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-24
KEYSTONE STATE CU[[INGS
COAL COMPANY SOLD OUT.
Sheriff Sells Continental Coal Com.
psny's store-The Keystone Coal
Company Takes Control.

Glen McLaren, has been attached, and
exposed at sheriff's sale. Thirteen
mine mules and other mining property
were recently attached and sold at
public sale. The company has been
insolvent since last fall, when the
slump In the bituminous coal market
put II In financial troubles. It's fail
ure TO pay royalty to the Keystone
Coal Company. the firm that opened
the vein and had operated 1t up to
some years ago. when It was leased
to the Continental Coal COMPANY nut
the mines back into that concerns
hands, It having virtually assumed
control of the mines.
One man was killed and two others
were injured in a revolver duel over
stolen chickens at Midland No. 9,
Pittsburg Coal Company town, one
mile from Canonsburg. The dead
man is John Tongondt. unmarried; a
resident of Midland No. q almost in
stantly killed. The injured are
Tony" Zulic. foreign miner, shot
through the shoulder and taken to
Washington Hospitals: David Jack
son, colored. shot through hip, taken
to Washington Hospital. The fight
Is alleged to have started over q
statement made by Tongondt. In which
he accused the other two men OF
stealing his chickens. No arrests
have been made. Zulic and Jackson
claimed they fired in self-defense
when Tongondt attacked them.
Anna Debeski. a 17.year-old slavish
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two babes, born week ago, and cast
them into g vault In the rear of her
aunt's home at Bradenville. The
girl came recently from st. Louis.
where her father resides, to live with
relatives at Bradenvile. Her mother
is in the old country. Constable
Harry Fry, of Latrobe. arrested the
girl and brought her to the Green's
burg Jail. SHE attempted to com
nit suicide by cutting her throat with
a razor after she had been arrested.
She refused to give any details of the
killing of her infants to Coroner
Wynn after she was placed in prison.
Lynn Scott, a young man of Buffa-
10 township, Butler county, has been
placed under arrest on an information
for manslaughter. He Is charged
with causing the death of George X.
Flanagan. a young West Penn rail-
road brakeman. son of James Flanni-
gan, of Butler. While at work on a
freight train going from Butler TO Al
legheny few weeks ago Flanagan
was struck on the head by an empty
beer keg thrown into the car from
the steep hillside near the track. His
skull was crushed and death resulted.
Flannigan's father Investigated the
case and as q result made information
against Scott. Scott was released on
$500 bail.
The deal by which the Home Gas
Company of Butler and all its hold
ings become the property of the new
Phillips Oil G. Gas Company has been
completed. The consideration is re-
ported as s260,O0O. The oil firm OF
Thomas W. Phillips Sons & Company
also is merged and passes title to 9O,
900 acres with l54 producing gas
wells and 1S7 producing oil wells over
to the new concern, which is capi-
tallzed at s2.000,000. The Phillips
Oil & Gas Company is making ar
rangements to supply other Western
Pennsylvania towns and cities. The
headquarters still remain m Butler
Chief of Police Nugent, Of Oil City.
was notified by the New York Detec-
tive Bureau that it had arrested
James Davis, alias Frank Sweeney.
green goods" man, on tip given 1t
by the local police. Davis recently
sent a letter to merchant of Oil
CITY Offering to sell him $1,000 in
a 4 Int from
genuine money for $500. The letter
was turned over to the pohce VINO
opened negotiations with the man.
A 2.year.old daughter of Lewis d,
Corwin, of Waynesburg, was choked
to death to-day from q candy bean
entering her winduipe. The parents OF
the child were at Higbee when the ac-
cident occurred, and owing to the dis
tance from a physician nothing could
be done to save the little girls life.
Mr.. Corwln recently published a news.
paper at Ellwood City, Pa.
S. A. Miller's barn, about seven
miles from Apollo, was destroyed by
fire, the loss being es imated at $4,000,
with $500 insurance. Mr.. Miller's
house was burned acout six weeks
ago.
George Conley, of Johnstown, was
probably fatally hurt by being caught
under wagon loaded with lime.
which he was driving, when 1t upset.
The accident occurred near Seward.
Seven murder cases are on the trial
lists for the August term of Criminal
Court in Westmoreland county. Be-
sides these over 100 other cases are
set for trial.
John Prayer, 45 years old, employed
at the Tarentum Brewery, was thrown
from a street car at New Kensington.
and was probably fatally hurt.
Mrs. John Fallsner, an aged resi-.
dent of Woodland, Clear6eld county,
was probably fatally hurt by being
struck by freight train.
Mrs. C. s. Price, on Johnstown,
had her leg broken in a runaway ac-
cident. Her little daughter was also
badly hurt.
Governor S. w, Pennypacker has
fixed October as the date for the ex-