The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-11
KEYSTONE STATE CULL|NGs
THREE ITALIANS DROWNED
Two Bodies Found When Skiff tG
Righted, but They Slip Into the
Water Again.

Their boat upturned by the high
waters Of the Conemaugh river, three
Italians were drowned near Salisbury.
The fourth member of the party.
Tony Glska, was able to swim ashore.
The drowned men were: Frank Satri.
26 years old; Guissepi Canter, 25
years old; Domineck Cantar, 12 years
old.
The men attempted to cross the
raging stream in boat, and it over.
turned. Later in the evening the
boat was found near the shore at
Edra. When the boat was righted
each others embrace under the seat.
The bodies fell into the current and
were washed away.
DR.. John Watson Uan MacLarenD.
of England, has not consented to be q
candidate for pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of UniontOwn, it
was announced at q congregational
meeting Rev. A. s. Milholland, ID.
d., the present pastor, has resigned
after service of years. There are
IS applicants for the place and
committee was appointed to ascer-
tain the qualifications OF the candidates
and report at a meeting of the con
gregatlon on April 25.
The Pennsylvania State Associa-
tion for the Abolition of the School
Tax was perfected at Erie by the
election of Austin Leonard, of Troy,
president; Theodore l.. Kenyon, OF
Columbia, vice president, and r. p.
Rynder, of Erie. secretary. The OBJ
ject of the association is to have the
State assume the entire cost of the
common schools, thereby relieving
farm and home owners from a heavy
burden of taxation. The organization
consists of the aboye-named officers.
an executive committee and a gener-
al State committee, to be selected
one from each county. The move
ment has been already indorsed by
numerous clubs, oranges and promi-
nent persons and its work is well
under way. -.-.,.
Four men met death and four were
seriously hurt on the Buffalo C Allie
gheny Valley division of the Penn
sylvana railroad. Two men were
crushed to death under an overturned
locomotive, which left the track while
making a fast run with a work train
to a wreck near Emlenton, where a
number Of laborers had been hurt.
and two men were run down by a
passenger train, while walking on the
tracks near Kittanning. The dead:
Robert Burkhart, engineer. Pittsburg;
+. c. Shipman, road supervisor, Oil
City; John Mcdonald, OF Gorfrey;
Milton Drummond, of Godfrey.
Mrs. Henry Berkey smashed the
windows of two residences and a gro
Gerry store at Oallville, a suburb of
Latrobe. before a constable placed
her under arrest. A lunacy commits
sion adjudged the woman insane and
she was sent to the county infirm-
ary. When asked why she broke the
windows the woman said she "jusS,
liked to hear the glass crack" Mrs.
Berkey said also that she had PLAN
ned a window-smashing trip to La
trobe, but could not get the chance.
Seven men burgarlized the Dickson
city postoffice between 2 and 3
O'Clock in the morning, dynamiting
the safe and getting away with $3.50
worth of stamps and 81 in cash. Ed
ward Connolly. who lives over the
postoffice, heard the men breaking I'm
the front Of the building and he
stuck his head out Of the window to
inquire what was going on. He was
covered with several revolvers and
told to keep quiet.
During the temporary absence OF
their mother from the kitchen Of her
home near Centralia, Charles and Nell
lie George, four and two years old
respectively, fell into tub filled with
scalding water When lifted from the
tub the girl was dead. The boy expir-
ed soon after.
During a fight at Export, Herman
Stevicks, a Slav, shot and killed
Thomas Williams, an American
Stevicks attempted to get away but
was captured by American miners
and turned over to Constable r. l..
Painter. Williams was 80 years old
and married.
Thomas Amer, 60 years old, and
William Barron, rs years old, while :
walking on the Reading tracks near
Tamaqua, were struck by fast
freight train, and both instantly
killed. The greater part of Barron's
body was ground to pieces.
Six prisoners escaped from the
Uniontown lookup by tearing up a
plank in the floor and crawling into
the basement there forcing open a
door to the outside. All the pris-
oners who escaped were in Jail for
minor offenses.
Margaret, the 1S-year-old daughter
of Grant Taylor, of Tyrone, while
playing with matches in the yard, set
fire to her clothing. She was SO
frightfully burned that she will die.
Hunter Worral Little. q prominent
farmer, was killed at West Chester.
by being run over by hay wagon.
His head was crushed.
Judge Kooser issued an Injunction
restraining striking miners from in
terfering with operating Somerset