The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-04-19

The employees of the Interstate
Steel Works, at Tarentum, have been
granted 10 per cent. raise in wages
and the company is planning to add
two more mills to its plant, doubling
the capacity. One hundred more men
will also be employed. The Solid Steel
| Tube & Forge Company's plant at
| Tarentum will resume work at once.
James d. Wilson, the receiver, has put
the plant in shape for starting and
| $50 men will be employed.
The boiler of a threshing ma
chine engine exploded a
barn on the farm of David
Berkheimer, near Duncansville.
George Webb, David Burkheimer and
Frederick Steiner were badly hurt. The
barn was badly damaged The men
were engaged in chopping feed.
Webb was blown so feet in the air
and will probably die from his injur-
les A straw stack near the barn
caught fire and before the flames were
extinguished did considerable dam
age.
The McCance Supply company's
store, operated by Booth G. Finn, six
miles from Latrobe, was robbed. The
burglars blew open the safe and got
valuable papers and 50 in cash.
Brickyard employees met the robbers
a short time afterwards and question:
ed the men. The reply was a fusil-
lade of shots in the air. The robbers
stole horse and buggy at the barn
of farmer near Kingston and es-
capped
Louis Burger of South Sharon, bor-
ough clerk and manager of the foreign
exchange in the Colonial bank, was
held for court in the sum of $500 on
charge of illegal voting at the Feb
ruary election, preferred by DR.. w. G..
Berryhill. Berryhill claims Burger has
not received naturalization papers.
Burger furnished bail He claims his
political enemies trumped up the
charges against him to injure his
standing.
storm at Burnsville in West Fin
ley township, Washington county un-
rooted several houses while many
buildings were struck by lightning
and some burned The steeple of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church at
Burnsville was carried away and fell
through the roof. The storm was ac-
companied by hail stones as big as
walnuts.
During an electrical storm the barn
on the farm of Joseph Hays, in Beaver
county, was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground. Three val
liable horses were cremated and con-
siderable grain and all farming i'm
plements destroyed. The loss is esti-
mated about $4,000, with only about
5000 insurance.
One of the largest deals in oil prop
erty for some time in Venango county
was the transfer of a lease of 14O
acres in Sandy-creek township from
Mrs. Emma Gordon and George Tib-
bens to Eugene E. Grimm, of Frank
lin, and E. f. Jenkins of Pittsburg.
The consideration was S5O00O.S
Grading has begun by a large for.
under Contractor Green on a street
railway from Footedale to Browns
vile, via New Salem.-Surveying is
being done for 80 new coke ovens of
the A. L. Keister Coke Company at
Waltersburg.
The search for valuables at the
lsme of Benson B. Fordyce, NichoI-(
son township, Fayette county, has
been concluded. The estate has been
appraised at $4,000 All property
will be sold on April IS.
At a meeting of the trustees of
Allegheny college at Meadville, Pa, it
was decided to accept the offer of
Andlew Carnegie to give the college
f25,o provided the trustees raise a
like sum.
The safe in the Bicmont shoe store
at Monessen, was robbed of about
$500 in cash. The thief entered the
store during the temporary absence of
Mrs. Bicmont IN a back room.
James Gillie, a Pittsburg and Lake
Erie railroad conductor, was caught
between two cars at Monongahela,
and was killed. He was 22 years old
and lived at Coal Bluff, Pa.
Robert G. Wagner, a Pennsylvania
railroad flagmal, was killed by a
train at Kittanning Point. He was
27 years old and resided at Patton.
William McLain and two children of
Scottdale, were thrown from bug
sy, which cillided with a street car.
and were painfully hurt.
Mrs. Joseph Moetis died at Shenan-
1oah after II hours illness from spot
ed fever. Three cases of the disease
we're reported.
A 1-year-old sen of Mr.. and Mrs.
Sample Long, of Irwin, was scalded
o death by falling into a pan of boil
ng water.
Frank .Snider, 35 years old, was
lilled on the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
'oad near West Newton.
Since the reduction in the number
If liquor licenses at Ellwood City,
council has dispensed with the SER
ices Of Capt. Moon, who had been
'hief Of police for several years.
The commissioners of Lawrence
county, have let the contract for two
at New Wilmington. for
Il ,422 and another near West Pitts
'urg, for 1915