Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-06
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STER.-Detective Edwin NJ.
Gerlach shot and killed a negro burg
lar north of this city
BUTLER. - Mrs. William Klinger
and Mrs. j. p. Allen were slightly in
Jured when a runaway horse struck
their rig and they We're thrown out.
KIT TANNING. - Applewood bor-
ough, a suburb of this place, has voted
in favor of school bond issue of &c.
600, and a new school building will be
erected at once.
WASHiNGT ON.-A fire which con-
sumed an oil derrick, 200-barrel tank
of high grade oil and machinery and
buildings adjoining the we'll caused a
loss of about $4,000.
notwithstanding a fierce
electrical storm John Condren, IA
years old, of Dunbar, was instantly
killed by lightning while standing in.
front of dresser in his bedroom.
WASHINGTO TON.-Hurricane cloud
burst and lightning left many thous-
and dollars damage in their wake
when terrific storm swept over the
northern portion of Washington,
county.
MEADVILLE.-Joseph, the S-year-
old son of Attorney Joseph Stadfelt of
Pittsburg, had an arm painfully
crushed at Conneaut lake while he
was riding in a boat His arm was,
caught between the boat and a wharf.
WARREN.-Jacob Oferlee. who.
lived on the Miller road six miles from.
here, was shot and killed by T. F.
Divilbliss, his neighbor. Oferlee and
Divilbliss were on bad terms for some
time, having had trouble about the use
OF water from the Oferlee farm.
PHILADELPHIA. After choking
Joseph A. A. Vaughn, a bank runner.
and robbing him of $1,000 on a Chest
nut street trolley car, an unknown
man dashed through the car, madly
thrusting aside a score of passengers,
and, leaping to the street, escaped.
BURG.-Motherless and their
father unable to work more than a
few days in nine months, are three
infants which were brought to the
Northside police station recently by
neighbors, who took charge of them
following the death of the mother.
LANCASTER.-The northern end of
Lancaster county was swept by "a
heavy thunderstorm. The Cornwall
railroad bridge at Mannheim and the
bridge at the same place of the Lam
caster and Mannheim Electric railway
over the Chickies creek were washed
away.
JoHNSTOWN.-D. e. Park of Pitts
burg, who has a summer home at
Ebensburg, lest a valuable pair of
horses, which died after they had
been driven almost 80 miles. 1t is
thought the excessive heat and the
exertion of a mountain journey
caused their death.
cONNELLSviLLE.-Dennis Ker.-
win, tax collector of Dunbar borough
for the years 1903-04-05, was arrested
charged by John Mcdowell, one of his
bondsmen, with the embezzlement of
$4,000 of the tax money. 1t is alleged
he collected the money and failed to
turn it over He was released on bail.
PlTTSBURG. - Charges of graft
and protests of innocence growing out
of the construction of $500, 900 school
building in McKees Rocks were aired
in court, when Borough Solicitor Ed,
ward j.. Duffy, for the citizens com
mittee, filed application for an injunc-
ton to restrain further work on the
structure.
RG.-Formaldehyde the
constituent of embalming fluid, has
been discovered in two samples of
milk taken by agents of the state at
Homestead and in one procured near
Grcenville, in Mercer county, and
Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust
has ordered prosecutions commenced
Immediately against the vendors.
TGBURG.-Because John Skel-
ten. the only American present,
danced with an Italian belle at a ball
held at Bridgeville, several men
dragged him from the dancing floor
and began to stab and slash him with
Gtillettos and barlow knives. Skeltou
was removed to the McKees Rocks
hospital, where the physicians placed
2S stitches in his wounds.