The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22

own brains at Lewiston. Three bull
let's from a 3S-calibre revolver entered
the woman's face and neck. Gertrude
Snyder and Bessie Hannah, who wit
messed the shooting. say that Sheaf-
fer had repeatedly threatened the
woman's Life II she did not cease
clandestine correspondence with
man at Three Springs, Pa. Coming in
to the house Sheaffer caught her with
letter. He pulled a revolver and
began shooting.
Michael Kissinger, aged 65. we'll
to-do coal operator of Catfish station.
few miles north OF East Brady. was
committed to Clarion county Jail,
charged with the murder Of his wife.
Lavina, aged co. The dead woman
was Kisslnger's third wife an2 had
been married twice before Eer marii-
age to Kissinger. The! had separ-
ated. Mrs. Kissinger and a 15-year-
old son lived at Catfish Tuesday
evening Kissinger visited his wife to
get her to sign deed for 100 acres
of coal land. for which he had been
offered $500. II is said Mrs. kissing
er refused to sign unless he would
give her part of the proceeds. It is
alleged Kissinger struck her. inflict-
ing wound an inch long on the back
Of her head. The son. who was In an
other room, heard his mother fall and
ran to her assistance. She was dead
when he picked her up. He ran to
East Brady and notified the constable.
who arrested Klssinger A post.mor.
TEN examination showed that death
was caused by blood clot at the base
Of the BRAIN
A regular cloudburst fell over the
country west OF Reading Thursday. II
was accompanied by hail, which did
great damage. The breasts OF two
dams along which several industries
are located gave way. The total
damage by the storm Is estimated at
$4,000. During the storm the steeDle
! of wood and stone on st. Johns Luth-
eran Church. nearly 200 feet high. was
struck by lightning and consumed;
loss S6,500. The church was saved by
hard work.
Robbers forced an entrance into the
home Of John Marshall, farmer. re-
siding near Wampum, while the fam
ily was AT church. They blew open the
safe and secured $50 in money and
other articles. The house was wreck
ed by tho explosion. Valuable papers
were found later In "a whea, fed.
Numerous other robberies have trken
place in that locality recently.
A crusade is being made at New
Castle, by DR.. B. II. Warren, of the
Pennsylvania pure food department,
against keepers of restaurants, drug
stores and others. They are alleged to
have been selling soda water in which
adulterated fruit extracts were served.
1t Is said that the extracts contained
| poisonous dyes.
William Payne, colored, was hanged
| at Beaver for the murder of Alfred
! Austin, May 10, 1902. The trap was
| sprung at 10 o'clock and he was pro-
| nounced dead in IL minutes. The
| execution was witnessed by about
| 100 persons.
Henry l.. Hessley, boy Is years of
| age from near Kittanning, is confined
| in Jail at Indiana, charged with steal
| ing a horse and buggy that belong to
his former employer, George Kunkle-
man, of Conemaugh township, Indiana
county.
John d. Brown, Of Plttsburg. acting
| for a number of capitalists, bought the
property OF the Bradys Bend Fire
| Brick company at sheriffs sale for s5,-
500. The new company proposes to
| finish the plant and begin operations
| without delay.
Leslie G.. Wilson, 29 years old, form
| erly assistant foreman at the galvan-
| izing plant at Vandergrift, shot him
! self in the temple at his home and died
almost instantly. Dependency over
| failure to secure work is supposed to
have prompted the shooting.
Mrs. Mary Boyd, colored. swooned
during the excitement of a revival in
Uniontown church. She was car
ried to neighbor's house and died
without regaining consciousness.
| Pit.
The contract has been let to William
| Miller, Of Uniontown, for the repairing
of the Fayette county home. The i'm.
| provements will cost Sl2.150.
Gov. Pennypacker has fixed August
| II as the date of execution of Frank
| Davis, convicted of first degree mur-
| der in Cambria county.
John Keenan,, of washington, 10
years old, died at Wheeling w. Va.
from injuries received from fall off
a moving passenger train.
August SlegfIied. 23 years old. was
| killed in the Dorothy coal mine at
West Latrobe. by being run over with
a mine car.
The trustees Of the First Presby-
terian congregation of Moressen, have
left the contract for a new parsonage,
to cost $4,000.
Records for the fiscal year show that
the number of births at New Castle
was 532. The number OF deaths was
] 254
The body of a male child, about four
months old. was found on the Monon-
| gahela river bank at Chartered.
A Cleveland and Pittsburg express
| train sideswiped a freight train at
Rochester. No one was hurt, but the
passenger train locomotive was badly
damaged.
Symptoms of hydrophobia developed