The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-02-01
KEYSTONE STATE CuLL|NGs
TWO COASTERS KILLED.
Dashed Into Locomotive at Tyrone.
Shortage Of $1,000 Claimed
Against Cashier of Street
Railway.

shifting engine. The dead are: Will
lard Elder, IL years old One foot
cut off at the ankle and the other at
the knee; right side crushed, sku.s
fractured. Died in an hour. George
Leiper, right arm torn off, right ankle
crushed; left foot cut off, left arm
broken. Died IN hospital.
The injured George Thomas, right
arm off, left foot crushed, fearful
wound in back of head and hips torn
apart In Altoona Hospital and can
not live. The sled struck the engine
being thrown under and dragged. The
engineer, William Thomas, saw the
boys approaching and tried to stop.
Dent Ditty, formerly cashier of the
Kittanning and Leechburg Street
Railway company, has been arrested
on a charge of embezzlement, prefer
red before Justice of the Peace, Joel
Crawford by F. A. Moesta, president
Of the company. 1t was alleged that
Ditty, who had charge of all the
money turned over to the company
by the conductors on the line, appro-
priated to his own use $1,000 of the
company's funds. Dltty disappeared
over month ago, but recently re-
turned to this vicinity and was arrest
ed yesterday. He gave bail for his
appearance at court.
The pump station of the Standard
OIL Company, four miles south of
Mercer, was wrecked by fire and
thousands Of dollars worth of damage
was done. The fire was caused by
bursting surface pipe, which threw
an immense quantity of oil into the
boiler house, which was ignited from
the fire boxes. The flames spread
rapidly and burned out the wood
work of the different buildings, and
completely destroyed the building
used as the telegraph Office and the
electric light plant. Much of the
valuable machinery was damaged.
The amount of the loss and the in
surance, If any, was not obtainable.
At Washington, Miss Lizzie Mil
sted the 16-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. ]. H. Milsted, was drugged
and brutally treated and the house of
her parents ransacked in a vain search
for money by two robbers. The girl
was left unconscious. The father has
offered a reward of $50 for an arrest
and conviction. Milsted, who is
contractor, had placed large sum of
money in local bank Saturday morn
ing.
U. s. G. Neel, of Midway, Wash
ington county, was committed to the
Allegheny County Jail by Alderman
c. F. Anderson on charge of en-
bezzlement, made by A. D. Work. It
Is said that Neel and Work were en-
gagged In the teaming business in the
oil fields about Mcdonald, and that
Neel took some of the firms money
for his own use. Work said the
amount taken by Neel was $2,500.
Firebugs attempted. to destroy the
residence Of Mrs. Mary Anderson at
Beaver Falls. A shed adjoining the
house was saturated with oil and fir
ed Boys passing discovered the
blaze and the flames were extinguish-
ed. This makes the eighth incendiary
fire In Beaver Falls within four
months.
Commencing January 2S the Nation
al Tinplate mill Of the American Sheet
and Tinplate company and the Page
Woven Wire Fence compar Mo-
nessen, will inaugurate/ heck
paying system. Her Doth
mills have rendered on The
semi-monthly pays Of IN 10 plants
reach nearly $4,000.
William Sellers, head of the firm Of
William Sellers & Co., of Philadel-
phia, died Wednesday, aged 80 years.
He was member of the American
Philosophical society and was at one
time president of the Franklin in
stitute. He was instrumental in Gre
ating the Centennial exposition.
Freight Conductor P. ]. Kinney, of
the Pittsburg division, Pennsylvania
railroad, died at the hospital at AL
toona, from injuries received at
Gallitzin. He fell off his train, rolled
under the wheels, and his left leg was
ground to pieces from foot to thigh.
Matthew Murphy, 64 years old, liv-
ing near Foxburg, was found dead in
a boiler house ON his oil lease He
had been missing several days. Heart
disease Is given as the cause, and
the condition of the body indicated
that Murphy had been dead two days.
Edward Reagen, about 55 years old,
who had his legs broken at the Pitts
burg steel mill at Monessen, died in
the McKeesport hospital.
In a riot following a wedding cele-
bration among foreigners at Canons-
burg, John Fornsky was shot twice
in the hip. Joseph Fritz was arrest
ed.
Leonard Learn, young farmer of
Indiana county, was killed
by limb Of tree he had cut strik-
ing his head and crushing his skull
as it fell.
A strike among the employees of the
Dugan Glass Company, at Indiana,
Pa, has closed the plant.
Leonard Learn was killed in a
woods near Shelock, Pa, by a tree
falling on him.
While playing on the ice in the
canal at Bridgeport, Earl Zerfoss and
Harold Kung. each s years Of age,
were drowned. Efforts were made to
rescue them, but the boys were dead
when taken from the water.
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