The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-28
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGs
vioLAroRs OF GAME LAWS.
HUGE CORPORATION FEES.
Report Of Secretary Of Common
wealth Shows Increase In New
Corporations.

tnat during tne year l94 charters
were granted to street railway COM
panies to locomotive railway com
panies, 54. There we're 35i certifl-
Gates granted extending routes of
street railways Charters granted
under the act OF April 20, 1874, num-
Der 2,9S2. Fifty-four bank charters
were issued. Loan associations char
tered were 112. Fees due the Com
monwealth to the amount of s231,0 ,033.-
10 were paid into the State treasury,
and the bonus paid in amounts to ST.
723,754.23.
Charged with permitting school at
tendance of children not successfully
vaccinated and because a board of
health physician had not endorsed the
school doctors informations were FL
ed against five principals of Altoona
schools. ID. l.. Hoffman, w. w. Os-
born, s. M. Harkness, M. w. Black
and w. G. Ream. The health authori-
ties are said to have been defied and
test case is to be made.
Joseph Finler, convicted Of man.
slaughter in the Beaver county courts
for the killing of Frank Johnson at
the Rochester tumbler works last
June was sentenced two years and six
months in the Western Penitentiary
by Judge J. Sharp Wilson. Johnson
was a striker and Finler was coal
and iron policeman.
The Pennsylvania railroad added
eight new crews of 4S men to the mid
die division. The 116 crews on the
division were unable to handle the
trains and the number was increased
to avoid freight congestion. Extra
men will be promoted to regulars and
the men suspended last spring put
on extra.
The New York Central railroad Is
said to have purchased Is farms near
Plumville. Indiana county. The Sec
tion is on the line of the talked-of
extension of the New York Central
from Beech Creek to Kelleys station.
on the Allegheny river, 10 miles south
OF Kittanning.
II Is estimated that 100000 will be
disbursed in wages at the mills and
furnaces In Sharon and South Sharon,
this week. In many cases payday
would not fall due until after Christ
mas, but the men will get their money
this week.
The $4,000 damage suit of Council
man G. M. Greer, Of Canonsburg.
against the burgess, a constable and
three councilmen of that borough,
ended In q verdict for Greer for $4,-
300. The suit was the result Of dead
lock in the Canonsburg council.
The new Congregational church at
Lindsay, which was recently compile
ted at a cost Of about $4,000, was dedi-
Gated free of encumbrances. Rev. j.
T. Jones. of Pittsburg. assisted by Rev.
James jenkins, of Ebensburg, Pa, Of
ficiated at the dedication.
Harriet, the 10-year-old daughter
of Edwin Jones, slipped down a mine
breach in the rear Of her home in
the Hecksherville valley and landed
400 feet below, but was not injured,
landing In the snow.
William Reifsteck, 63 years old, died
at Altoona, from injuries received
from a fall on the ice. Reifsteck was
employed In the Pennsylvania rail-
road shops and leaves wife and four
children.
Chauncey Latshaw and Frederick
Hilliard were placed on trial in But
ler county, on charges of burglary.
They are alleged to be two of the men
who committed the Elliott robbery at
Jacksville, last June.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dennie has entered
suit against s. P. Kettering of Sharon
for $4,000 for the death of her four
year-old daughter, who was run down
ond killed by an ice wagon of the de-
| fendant.
Mike Bollock, aged So. a Slavish
miner, was killed by a fall of slate
at the Leisenring No. 1 mine Of the
| II. G. Frick Coke Company. His body
was inferred in the Slavish cemetery
| at Trotter.
At a meeting of the Jansen Iron
company. at Columbia, 1t was decided
to move It's plant at Oxford. N. j..
employing 500 hands, to Columbia.
The company now has plant at Col
umbia.
The will of George Munsch has
been probated at Butler. st. Marks
German Lutheran church, Butler, re-
ceives a legacy of $500 and the Ger
man Lutheran church Of Chicora, Pa.
S2oo.
Thomas Salisbury, colored, OF More
wood, may die from injuries received
in fight at Mt. Pleasant. Michael
Green, his alleged assailant has elud-
| ed arrest
| Carl Pagant of Braddock. was kill
ed by train at Donohue station. He
Is supposed to have been on his way
to New York when the accident oc-
Cured.
| The home of Samuel Brent. eight
miles north of Somerset. Pa, was de-
stroyed by fire. Mrs. Brent and three
children escaped in their night clothes
and walked through the snow to the
nearest neighbor's.
The residence of Samuel Gardner.
at Time, Greene county, was destroy
cd by fire. The mother was consid-
erably burned by rushing into the
building to rescue some heirlooms.
The bill for the extension of the
time for the construction OF the