The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03
KEYSTONE STATE CUlL|NGs
STEVENS FOR JUDGE.
Or. Swallows Opens Prohibition Cam
paign With Large Audience at
Harrisburg.

| A. A. Stevens, of Tyrone. was NOM
mated for State Supreme Court Judge
by the State Prohibition Executive
| Committee at meeting held In Har-
| risburg, to outline plan of campaign
| in Pennsylvania this year. Mr.. Stev.
! ems takes the place of Lee NJ. Grum-
bine, of Lebanon, who was nomin.
sted by the resent State convention
and declined for personal reasons.
DR.. Silas G. Swallow, the Prohibition
candidate for President, opshed the
campaign in the court house at the
! largest Prohibitionist gathering ever
/ held in Harrisburg. Swallow made a
| speech along the lines of his address
at indianapolis formally accepting the
! nomination. Speeches were so made
by j. G. Rummel, Burgess of Ship
pensburg, and Mr.. Grumbine
| The early dissolution OF the voting
trusteeship of the Reading Company,
following the payment OF the semi.
! annual dividend on the first preferred
stock on September 10, is an assured
fact. The payment of that dividend
marks the fulflment of the condl.
| tions under which the voting trust
l Ndh Dt hdSSOlNtus he pay
' ment for two consecutive years of the
! full per cent dividend on the first
preferred stock.
Emma j. Noah. Agnes &c. Philips,
| Evelne II. Garrow, r. S. Fiannegn,
T. F. b. Smith, Paul f. d. Smith,
! Amlia NJ. Herriot, Ella :. Smith and
| James S. buchanan, have begun ac-
tion at Washington against the Pitts
| burg, Carnegie &c Western Railroad
/ Company to recover sS.Gto alleged
to be due by reason of the construc.
tion of the defendants road across
the plaintiffs lands.
Three railroad wrecks occurred al
! most simultaneously shortly after mid
, night Saturday at Atgen. A shifting
| engine and draft OF cars was wrecked.
| blocking the two main tracks. An
| eastbound and westbound freight train
! coming along at the same time crash
| ed into the wreck. Twelve cars and
| three engines were piled in a heap
| that blocked all four tracks.
The coal and coke works at Grace
| ton, Indiana county, which have been
! partially closed for repairs, will re-
| sumo operations in full. A new
washer, with which the same water
can be used several times. has been
| installed. When put into success
| full operation it will be the only coal
washing machine Of the kind in the
| country.
The Shenango tin mill of the Amer
! lean Sheet and Tin Plate Company re-
| sumed operations after a shutdown
| for repairs, affecting over 5000 men.
The Gregg Tin Mill at New Castle. the
| Falcon plant at Niles and the South
/ Sharon plants will start within a few
| days, affording employment to over
| $500 men. The settlement of the
scale brought about the resumption.
superintendent S. c. Long, of the
Pittsburg division of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. has sent John and
Henry Barron, of Johnstown, aged
IL and IA, SO each for notifying the
! division section foreman that tree
had fallen across the tracks, thus
probably preventing wreck.
Miss Emma Campbell, of new Will
mington, has been elected librarian in
the Pennsylvania College for Women
in Pittsburg. and has accepted. She
! is graduate of Westminster college
and was principal OF the High School
at Canonsburg, Pa. for a number
| of years.
For the purpose Of allowing his
counsel to take his case before the
pardon board. Albert Troutwein, OF
| Armstrong county, who was TO have
! been hanged July 2S, was granted
respite until October 4 by Governor
S. w. Pennypackor.
| The bawling of a, calf tied in his
back yard awoke Victor Bayonett, a
| groceryman, OF Butler in time to see
a man cutting the wire screen at the
back window of his store. BayCnett
recognized the man. and the police are
in search OF him.
John S. Childs, of Fallston, was
| killed near the Plttsburg, FIT. Wayne
and Chicago Railroad station at Roch-
ester. His body was badly mangled
and was discovered after a search.
when a brakeman found one of his
arms on the track near the station.
The Rev. ]. H. Bicliford. the we'll
known Methodist preacher formerly
of Pittsburg rendered his resignation
as pastor of the First Methodist
church OF WillEesbarre 70 accept call
in Massachusetts.
! Democratic conferees representing
! Mercer and Lawrence counties, which
compose the Forty-seventh Senatorial
district, nominated Captain w. f.
I Harpst. editor OF the Greenville
| Progress. for State Senate
Hon. George w. McNees, OF Kittan.
ming, was nominated as the Repub-
| lican candidate for state Senator from
the Forty-first Senatorial district. com.
! posed of Butler and Armstrong eoun-
ties.
The Republican conference of the
! Thirty-first Senatorial district. COM
J prising the counties of Mifflin. Junia-
Ia and Perry, on the tenth ballot nom-
mated William Henry Manbecke.
One hundred thousand dollars in
South Sharon sewer bonds were sold
to p. p. Briggs & Co.. of Cincinnati.
I at a good premium. There were Is
i bidders.
| While on his way to get medicine for
1 bic child Incior, NIopcDoId ~