The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-04-05

ly 100 cases or smallpox under quar-
antine. The epidemic broke out some
time ago, the disease being diagnos-
ed as chickenpox. 1t spread and the
State board of health sent DR.. A. B.
Brumbaugh, quarantine officer, to the
town to make an examination. He re-
ported the disease smallpox and has
quarantined the infected houses.
Previous to DR.. Brumbaugh's visit the
victims of the disease had been per-
mitted to mingle with the people of
the town and trouble is anticipated in
stamping out the disease.
At lock No. five men in a skirf on
the Monongahela river lost their
bearings in the fog and were carried
over the dam and drowned. Only the
name of the ferryman, William N.
Higgins, about 65 years OLD, IS
known. The other men were foreign
miners and were employed in the
Rostraver mines. They were crossing
the river to work when the accident
occurred. High water prevented a
search for the bodies.
DR.. William H. Crawford, President
of Allegheny College at Meadville,
Pa, announced to the Board of
Trustees that Andrew Carnegie has
agreed to give $4,000 to the college,
conditioned on the friends of the col
lege raising $4,000 more, all to be
expended in betterments of Che coll
lege and plant A meeting Of the
Board of Trustees will be held soon,
to take action on the acceptance Of
the gift.
A suit for $4,000 damages was
heard in court at Ebensburg, the prin-
cipals being DR.. Z. J. Burkhart and
Prof e. e. Bach, Of Johnstown The
action was based on an allegation
made against Prof. Bach by DR..
Burkhart last April charging him with
being drunk and disorderly in the
school room. The charge was not sus,
tained, although the jury found for the
defendant
William Childs, aged 50 an en-
ploye of the II. c. Frick Coke Com
pany, was found in dying condition
at the edge of Connellsville. He said
that while on his way home Saturday
night he was held up and beaten by
tramps who sleep on the coke ovens
near where he was found. His body
is a mass of cuts and bruises. He
was removed to the hospital
A new town will be built within one
mile of Ebensburg. The PENNSYLVANIA
Coal and Coke company, which owns
undeveloped coal territory in this Sec
tion, will build railroad to extend
from lrvona to its present new opera
tions at this point The new town
will have bank, electric light plant,
water works and other modern con-
veniences. A coal tipple will be built.
Another big coal sale was made in
Washington County when 1900 acres
of the Pittsburg vein in East and West
Finley townships passed into the
hands of syndicate of Pittsburg
capitalists at $50 an acre. The farm
ers received $25 an acre for it. The
coal is adjacent to the big block Sc
cured by r. A. Whitesides Of Pitts
burg last week.
Ex-Governor Stone, it is stated, is
desirous of getting control of the
lines of the Pittsburg, McKeesport &
Greensburg Company, now extending
its line west from Irwin to connect
with the Pittsburg Railways Compa-
ny at Trafford City. Then he will
have a system traversing Westmore-
land county its entire width.
S. a. Maselli e Co., of Pittsburg,
have been awarded the first construc-
tion contract in the building of the
Ter to New Castle. The contract for
Is miles of the heaviest work on the
entire line. 1t is said that the cost
of building the road will be nearly
100000.
Burgess C. w. Patterson signed the
Greater Conuellsville ordinance. This
increases the area of the borough al
most one-third and increases the
population from 10000 to $4,000. It
is the first step toward the annexation
of New Haven, and Greenwood, which
will give Greater Connellsville the
right to city charter.
Fred Bjerman, day watchman at the
Vulcan iron foundry, New Castle, COM
mitted suicide by cutting his throat.
He was found by his son wnen he went
to the foundry to summon the father
to dinner. He was still alive, but too
weak to speak. He was hurried to the
hospital, where he died shortly after.
To all appearances a poor man,
George Evans, aged rs years, died
at Franklin. A bag containing S10,-
900 in securities was found sewed to
the inside of his undershirt. 1t also
became known that Evans was the
owner of valuable property in the
West.
Henry P. Harris, of Bellefonte, died
this morning in the same house in
which he was born so years ago. He
is survived by wife and five chill
dren.
At court in Uniontown, Samuel
Wright, colored, was sent to the pen
Itentiary for II years for a series of
committed at PIT. Marion
Gov. Pennypacker reappointed Ma
than c. Schaeffer of Lancaster to be
superintendent of public instruction.
Edward, the 14-year-old son of
James Kelley Of Lindsey, died of
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