The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-09-27

rendered SenSeleSS by O. blow with n
club and lay several minutes after the
robbery before he was discovered.
He was taking the money to furni.
ture store to pay for his household
goods.
By the caving of sand bank at
Arnold three children were buried
alive and perished before they were
discovered. They were: Otto Sarge.
Jr., 10 years old; Esther Sarge, 6
years old; Fritz Strate, years old.
The Strate boys neck was broken.
while his companions were smothered
to death. The children left their
homes about o'clock in the after
noon. They dug the excavation with
shingle. They were missed about
supper time and Otto Sarge, Sr., and
William Strate, their parents went
to search for them. Two coats found
on the sand pile revealed the cave-in.
Following the payday for mill work.
ers and railroad men at Dubois,
three holdups were reported between
Saturday night and Sunday morn
Ing. William Newmyer, employed by
the Dubois Brewing Company, was
waylaid in South Main street and rob-
bed OF his gold watch and chain.
Samuel Cacinor was held up in Dixon
avenue and robbed of $40. A mill
worker was held up near Spring ave-
nue. and small change was stolen.
-Four men attacked Vacinor. Three
men said to have been members of
the quartet are under arrest They
are George Overdorf, j. N. Mechan
and Fred Arble, all residents of this
vicinity.
While United States Inspector
Slayer was sleeping in a hotel direct
ly across the street the psstoffice at
Carrolltown was entered by thieves,
who carried away cash and stamps
amounting to s4O0. The safe was
blown open with nitroglycerin. In
spector Slayer and Postmaster w. F.
Donohue were aroused by the explo-
sion, but the robbers escaped. Blood
hounds owned by Cambria county
were used in the pursuit.
DIR. Harry Medley, Druggist S. e.
Porter and the latter's clerk, D. J. G..
Herwick, were all convicted in court
at Uniontown, on charges of selling
liquor without license and on Sunday.
They are from Vanderbilt, where
Porter runs drug store. 1t was al
legged that they acted in partnership
and made a profitable thing out of
illegal traffic in liquor.
By vote of 123 to A the citizens
Of Wampum have decided to iss,N-
bonds for $4,000 to erect a munich
pal waterworks and electric light
plant. Last evening the residents of
the village held a celebration. Bur-
CESS Miller was surrounded by the
Wampum band and a street parade
was held.
The Delaware county authorities
have offered a reward of $500 for the
arrest and conviction of the slayer Of
John w. Carter, farmer Of Johns
Corner, near Brandywine Summit,
who was killed last week. The crime
is believed to have ben committed
by a negro farmland employed by
Carter.
A son of Samuel Smith, a building
contractor, created CONSERVATION in
the East Waynesburg public school
building by playing with a stick of
dynamite, which finally exploded.
One of the boys fingers was blown
off, and an eye was probably Destroy
ed. Several pupils were knocked
down by the explosion.
Armed with crowbars and sledge-
hammers 20 men, some with faces
masked, went to the Youghiogheny
river bridge at West Newton and
tore down the barricade placed there
Friday by Constable Thomas Washa-
baugh of Greensburg under the direc-
tion of the County Commissioners.
Giuseppe Blanco, a wealthy mer-
chant of Pittsburg, who shot and
killed his wife July last, pleaded
guilty to murder in the second de-
gree. He was at once sentenced by
Judge Wheaton to serve IS years at
hard labor in the Eastern Peniten-
tiary.
Burglars entered the residence of
Robert Shedline, in Pulaski township,
Mercer County, and after chloroform-
ing his wife and two children ransack-
ed the house, procuring SITS and two
gold watches.
Rev. Paul Stradach, of Easton. has
been called 10 the pulpit OF the En-
glish Lutheran church at Washington,
Pa, made vacant by the resignation
of Rev. c. H. Hemsath
Rev. R. NJ. Russell, D. D., pastor of
the Sixth United Presbyterian
church, North Highland Avenue,
Pittsburg, was unanimously elected to
the presidency of Westminster col
lege at New Wilmington.
The store of Collins, Watson G Co..
at Colinza, Forest county, was enter
ed by thieves who secured about 5000
in cash and negotiable paper from the
safe the door of which bad been left
open.
The Upper Ten Mile Presbyterian
church, at Prosperity, has called Rev.
A. ]. Keener, Of Kittanning, to sue
ceed Rev. T. w. Young. who resigned
recently.
The total number of voters in Phil
adelphia, according to the Septem-
Der canvass is $4,000, a decrease of
50, SO compared with the canvass
made in May. prior to the gas lease
fight