The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, December 01, 1898, Image 7

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    THE SILVER LINING.
————
When poets sing of lovers’ woes
And blighted lives and throbs
throes
And yearnings—goodness ouly knows
It's all a pose.
and
I am a poet, too, you know,
1, too, was young once, long ago,
And wrote such stuff myself, and so
I ought to know,
I, too, found refuge from despalr
In sohnet's to Amanda's fair
Or Titian halr-
To flames, and go into decline?
Not much! When sonnets fetched per
line
Enough to dine.
So, reader, when you read In print
A poet's woe—beware and stint
Your tears and take this gentle hint
It is his mint,
—Olivar Herford.
Sif Thomas’ Invention
-.
I
few things are more unpleasant to
contemplate than the prospect of be
ing burled alive. The horror of
idea haunts some people like a night
mare; the dread of such a fate
amounts in some of them to a species
of madness, It was with old
Thomas Twining. who had. on repeat
ed occasions given the most precise in
structions gas to the tests which should
be applied to his presumably lifeless
corpse before It finally made
ready for its resting place awong the
Twinings of three generations
One evening as he ruminating
over the subject he struck with
what he thought was a new idea. lt
was not new. by any means, for cof
fins which would antomatically
on the revival
have been known from
Hest times, Sir Thomas
of these of course: if he
have had one made long
sides, there was really something new
about his idea that
coffin should not merely open, but fly
to pieces, so as to afford instan
relief, and
sary tools, explosives,
the prisoner escape,
should awake tind
in from the air and the sun
The baronet had always had a
for mechanics,
amd the like. Castle Twining
full of apparata lathes, benches
tools—and so Sir Thomas decided up
on inventing with his own hands, tue
coffin which inclose re
mains, and effectualiy
guard him against the doom which he
regarded as ten ible
than death,
RO
was
Sat
wis
ajar
of 2 supposed COrps
almost the ear
never heard
Lad he would
ago, and Ix
which was the
faneous
HeCes
enable
if
contain the
ele. 1o
even
should
fo Yer
io himself bricked
taste
electricity, chemistry
wi
and
was to fils
which was to
thes more ter:
He thought over all sorts of
--0f levers which the
ment of the body must certainly act
upon: of elongated electric buttons,
the faintest pressure upon which
would lift the cover of the coffin and
lay its sides and ends flat upon its bed;
of cements which the increasing tem
perature of the “body” would melt,
and of fabries which, while air proof
would easily be torn in shreds by con
vulsive and fingers, All
these, after full consideration. he dis
carded as falling in some particular
to meet the requirements of the case
Patience rewarded him at last, how.
ever. The next solution, he perceived
must be a pneumatic one, The releas
ing apparatus must be operated upon
by an increase of the internal air pres.
sure. How was this to achieved?
The answer came to Rir Thomas jnst
as the idea of gravitation came
Newton and that of steam Wat
by observation of one of the common.
est incidents imaginable. The falling
apple of the former and the hissing
kettle of the latter. spake not more
clearly to those keen observers than
did the opening of a bottle of soda wa
projects
slightest move.
desperate
Tree
to
fo
alr?
of Imprisoned air in the projected cof.
fin effect the purpose in view?
Still, there was this difficuliy
the force necessary to let
soda water was greater than that
needed to operate the mechanism
which would throw the coffin open.
And how was this Initial foree to be
provided? Much anxious thought was
bestowed upon this problem. But it,
too, at length yielded to the baronet «
persistent efforts, for he found
the same effect, on a much larger an
therefore better scald, could be pro
that
loose the
To devise n plan by which a light met
al plate, attached by a slender rod to
two cups containing tartaric acid awd
carbonate of soda, which would rest
upou the corpses’ hands, apd on the
slightest movement tilt the chemicals
into a vessel of water, was no difficult
matter. And then Bir Thomas had the
satisfaction of beholding his coffin
complete,
IL
It was beautifully made of oak
binged at the corners in such a way
as to open out flat directly the cover
was disturbed, and having a most in
genious snap-cateh for the cover itself
#0 that, when once fastened down, I
was practically immovable from the
outside, but was Instantly lifted partly
off when the increased Internal al
pressure acted on a valve as delicats
as the tympanum of a telephone,
. Words cannot describe Sir Thomas’
delight when for the first time he put
the coffin to practical proof. Having
¢hloroformed hie favorite dog. a mas
ti
tiff, he laid the animal out in the col-
fin, set the metal plate in position on
his paws, charged the cups with the
necessary chemicals, shut down the
cover with a sharp click and calmly
awaitec® he result,
Half an hour passed and nothing
happened, There was nothing surpris
lated the anaesthetic to last at least as
long: but when fifteen minutes mor.
i had gone by, the baronet began to feel
| a little anxious. He was not so much
concerned about the dog, altheugh he
was sincerely attached to hin It
the thought that the invention
| might be a failure, after all,
{| distressed him most,
when as if some
was
ane
seen to rise
i with a velocity as if dynamite had
| been exploded under it, while the mas
| LLY, with a yell that might have Hfted
i the not of the casket
i but of Castle Twining itself
[ madly out of its prison, gave a
roof
fere
like one possessed through
window. The mastiff was not
turned the poor beast was so emacia
had induced it to come home,
Thomas was overjoyed. The great
111.
After this Sir Thomas took great de-
light in showing off the merits of his
the first of these occastons the services
of the mastiff were again requesition
But the mastiff objected, Once
buried, twice shy. No sooner did
cateh sight of the dreaded receptacle
than he broke loose
ed
from his custodl
ans, and galloped off as fast
legs could carry him. Of course, an
other dog was found, and put
through the experiment successfully
but strange to say, could not
be Induced to repeat the performance
and gx a very wide
In fact, long before
demonstrated his in.
as hls
was
he, too,
ive the mansion
berth ever after.
Yention to
Sir unas had
the affections of
and
eil to borrow from his neighbors
raed alienated
dog on the estate, wins
ers reached such a pass at last
having been “used up.” wo to speak
that in respone to the numerous appli
which rachea Sir
wonderful coffin,
POSS ript
cations fo
Thomas
the he
¢
of
by way
Kindly requested to bring
own dogs
The coffin
in
lie on a narrow
and Sir Thomas
it for and
afternoon
used to
the library,
wonld
raze
sometimes hours
%
lovingls One
ol £1)
F Rurpr wid
upon it
idea occur him which he was
had not
Lg It was that he should put
Cri i
with
ftogegtod it
SUZResisag 11
the inl tinal test by
the coffin
and then, by setting the apparatus go
pr
unfortunate
be supposed to be dead
invention to a
confining himself in
effecting his release
as he would do if,
should
ing
i isely
ly, he
while still
own
alive. Of course, he would
himself: that a1
well as impracticablo,
as h
als and
having stretohed
casket, to
it in the proper way.
He pot in an extra dose of the soda
and the acid,
carefully
he had
tion.
One hand the met
al plate, the other still supported the
At supreme moment a
sudden sinking of the heart sent a cold
not chloroform wie
DeCesSsSary, asx
would
adjust
levers, and then
himself ins.de the
Fdeed,
could
tha
Se
be as much
iD
do the chemi
lower the
cover Hpan
laid himself down
the lid forward
worked it
drew until
into the right posi
was Just beneath
cover this
sensation through the baronet's frame,
and could not help thinking it
would have been better had some one
he
else been present io case
Bali! what could happen? Had ho
not carried ont a hundred similar ex.
periments without a single failure?
He withdrew his hand from the lid
and in an instant, click!
was to all intents and phrposes dead
and buried.
What happened Immediately
clear account. It is certain, at
the apparatus falled to act. The baro-
net swears that he moved the metal
plate exactly in the right way,
that instead of hearing the “fizg” of
ing to save a deathly aud appalling =i
lence, while a few seconds sufffeed
to throw him into the agonies of as
phyxiation.
He remembers very little else, and
from this point the story Is continued
by tire servants at Castle Twining,
who say that they heard a most awfal
crash In the library, as of some body
falling from a considerable height;
that on rushing in they found the cof.
{ lin on the floor, literally broken in
| was frantically endegvoring to oxtri
cate his head from one half, while his
feet seemed firmly wedged into the
other. They got him out. purple in
the face, and with every vein in his
| body at bursting point, and applied re.
| storatives freely, after which he «pes.
ily recovered, though speech was still
denied him, It was pot before a pow.
erful restorative had begn administer.
tered to him that he gasped:
“I think I must have forgotten to
put In the water!”
Whether this was so or not, it is cer.
tain that Sir Thomas had the wreck
' of the coffin carefdlly removed and
disposed of. He never made another,
and never patented the invention. He
stil retains his dread of premature
burial, but his final ipstructions on
the matter are that all possible doubts
as to his decease shall be resolved in
decide upon, but that his bedy shall
not be inclosed in any coffin whatever,
we
enough for me!
sts m—
THE ROSES WERE DRUGGED.
How Travellers on (German Railway Train
Were Robbed by a Clever Scheme.
It may be all right for heroines to
by presenting them with The
novelists and dramatists must pot be
robbed of all thelr stock in trade. But
it the nineteenth
man to be particular about the roses
he aceepts, or rather about the girl
who gf%es them. A short time ago a
man and his two sisters were alone In
FOSeN,
behooves
a station, an elegantly dressed.
thickly vellsd woman entered the car
riage, carrying a superb bouquet
When the train started,
asked her fellow travellers If
would object to her closing the
dow, The man hastened close |t
for her, aud, in moving to get out of
way, the stranger dropped her
roses, He picked them up for her:
and, thanking him charmingly, she
asked him to keep one, Then, turn
ing to his companions, she graciously
offered each of them a few of the
flowers, Naturally the courtesy was
accepted; and the next thing of which
the travellers were conscious was that
the train had arrived in Berlin, that
thelr velled companion had disap-
peared, and that all of thelr money
of
she
win.
fo
course, the roses had been drugged.
The police have discovered that the
criminal is na young man, and that he
has conducted a number of
robberies in similar fashion.
admit Ig the
daring
Line
refinement
a
that it
all, the
to sandba
rose method is preferable
gging or garroting. If Chi
citizens should meet young
who would upon
roses upon
welcome
_
CARO wo
shower
would
from
insist
them,
the
cruader forms of hold-up
they
change
tut,
mn
I
after
velled
with
women FOses,
How Porte Ricans Shave.
The natives of our territor
new
wooded country abounds in
the place of that
article, the
tree, so-called,
¢ i
Of A i
when
3.1
Sa oie
Among
the soap
is
more sush than a
Its Lulb
makes a
an odor
Porto Ri
highest
tree rubles] on wet
{ lot Lie 5
whi fonds
wiiaoa
white lather
old
who
Snow
has like
The
tho
brown
soap. ANS, are
aii.
Rreat
soap
to the lowest,
dandies
¢
of
their
t oil made lye
soap it is, smooth and
This cocoanut oll soap is
When a
have a shave in the
in way. make out
cocoang and hom
and a fine fra
grant
for
send
shaving man wishes to
morning giarts
out with his cocoanut and
and bottle. It
sheild
iis donkey-taifl brush
8 never
in
jst
any trouble to find an empty
Porto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica,
any of the larger West In
islands, even in in
mountains. At least twenty gen-
erations of thirsty people have lived
and awny bottles,
he man no mirror,
poor to own such a luxury,
in twenty in Porto
the cheapest kind of
tut generously rich nature
virror, as well as the
Lhe man goes to some conven
pool in the mountain siream
where the water is quite gstill--there
is his mirror. He breaks hig bottle on
hottie
or ali
dian remote spots
thu
there
thrown the
carries he is too
Not one
lico bas
a looking.
hotise
SYen
glass
provides the
soap.
ent
pce of suitable size, Then be lathers
profusely, and begins to
A cut or even a
slight
ing.
How to Ride in a Hansom.
The hansom eab of our day started
in life as “the patent safety.” The
patent of that safety vehicle has long
since expired: anybody may come to
grief in it. Here, for instance, is the
Sufferer. of Arthur's Club, who “ven-
tilates” his accident.” A hansom horse
came down with him six weeks ago,
amd, by the operation of its first
gent the Sufferer's head
through the double glasses of
window folded above it, cutting
clean
of n surgeon providental. The driver,
When he came
pened. The fare was sitting too far
forward, It seems; when the horse
slipped it was unable to recover it
self. The straight tip Is to sit as far
back in your hansom as possible, and
put your feet against the footboard.
The up-to-date hansom, though, has
no footboard, and you do not always
ride with the door open. You will do
well, anyhow, never to have the win:
dow down, and always to wear a tall
bat, If the Sufferer had taken this
latter precaution his head would have
been a long way from geing clean
throngh the glass,
——
A Curious Claim,
One of the strangest claims ever
made to an insurance company was
that for $1.50, the value of a plum
pudding which had been aceldentally
burnt to a cinder. The claim was not
allowed, though the amount was pal
try, because it was proved that the
casualty had rosulted fr
to jut any water in the saucepan,
| The Phenomenon Explained by the Presence
of Much Arsenic on Boars
Zion, which
Philadelphia
The ar
re
German bark
at the port of
{a rather peeulinr cargo. It
| of 1,800 casks of china clay, but in ad
| dition there were on board 500 casks
i of arsenic, This part of the cargo had
Ia remarkable effcet on the crew,
The fact that arsenic as weil as
| strychnine helps the formation of adi
pose tissue when taken into the human
system in minute particles is well
known, and both drugs have become
{ favorite tonics for convalescents, On
board the Zion the men slept very
near the large array of barrels con
taining the drug. They were stored
in the hold, wear the forecastle, and
partially exposed the rays of the
sun, which streamed in through the
open hatch, When only a week out
from port one of the crew
consisted
to
indescribable odor was coming from
the casks containing the drug. It was
{ not long after thelr attention had been
| called it that they all noticed the
i same thing, and, strange not
all more fore week
Several of
of
to
to say,
ibly a
German
fact that
were filling out thelr clothes 1o a
greater extent when
ped. Many others, as days
became abnormally stout, in vast con
trast the former
feed it
later,
became
the
the tars
aware he thes
much
than
they ship
went by
to slim appearance
which many of them presented before
the land was left
in
One man gained, it
ponds,
jirss Xx
sald, twenty-five
affected to a
gate
Others
were
the
entire crew
pounds,
tent, Bur
weight p ti
i
Hitle
ARR if on Dy
was less than
the sal
Philadelphia and the
i #earcely recognizable wii
with the old a
taking on of
Several of
ni
nyvs The entire
avoirdupois is att
to Vapor,
tion
haled by the seame
in
it
prescription
wii
i, generated by
of the }
sun on th
acted
i
i
precise is
whi when given as a
Hammes
does
in a
who
removed fr
! any
slept aft
BHOOW
A Saving Soldier.
“There is a
New
ReneTrad
Orleans usurs
The one
who was statione
a somthern
leans during
asked to
connected
insurance 3
for $10,000 and had been 1
1884. |
1
that
draw the
He told me
geant when he took the
a plain every and
every dollar had
made from the capital of his
He had dabbled a little in money lend
ing at the outset but. although
profits were enormous, be found
business was making him unpopular
' among the men, and he then bought
an interest in a small candy
near the post ‘hat prospered,
i he made other investments, all of
which have turned out so well that
he is worth to-day between $10,000 and
| $15.000. He is married, and a
was surprised
asioned 1
SIZ, 0 jiins
in conversation
he wasn't evens a ser
bast
that
beeen
that
nsurance
day private,
hie possess
Wages
the
the
and
good
his wife, who is sald to be a very
| shrewd woman, and who looks after
I subsequently heard the story verified
from another source, and know it to
It shows what a
steady, pushing fellow can do—even
in the ranks.” New Orleans Times
An Anecdote of Admiral Dewey.
One afternoon Mr. Dewey came
down to my table on the gun deck.
With an easy air he sat down on a
camp stool and sald quietly:
“So you are the ship's writer?
“Yes, Mr. Dewey.”
.
books.”
“You, sir”
“This Is your liberty book. Let me
po,” Amd Mr. Dewey
leaf after leaf, glancing down the list
with a grim smile.
¥
a conscientious bookkeeper,” he said.
after a pagse,
“I'he men think that I am too much
go, wir”
Dewey regarded me with a search.
fag look.
“Why, what do they say?” he asked,
Boylike, Impetuousiy anxious fo
lkarn what manner of man I had to
deal with, I blurted out:
“They say they want less book and
more executive officer.” J
Mr. Dewey's face darkened and his
square set jaw closed hard,
“If they mean by that thal they ex.
pect me to sail ship on sweel words
and fair promises in spite of past ex-
periences, they will be badly out of
reckoning,” he sald slowly. Harper's
Round Table, .
. Hi-Temper Unnecessary.
ft is recorded of President Lincoln
“and
mid”
“write
give that man a plece of my
“Do so,” sald Mr. Lincoln,
it now while you have it on
mind. Make It sharp; eur him
Stanton did not peed another
invitation. It was a bonecrusher that
he rend to the President, “That's
right,” said Abe, “that’s a good one.”
“SNhom can 1 get send it by?’
mused the Secretary, “Send it” re
plied Lincoln, “send 11” Why, don't
it at all. Tear it up. You have
freed your mind on the subject, and
that is all that j= Tear it
up. You never want to send such
letters: I never do!” The Vis
not lost upon the Secretary.
your
all up.”
10
send
HeCcessary.,
lesson
What Advertising Is.
Advertising Is
tells the which are of great
daily Importance, It of more ac-
count to the frugal housewife to know
where certaln Necessary cot
modities at a price than usual
to know of the troubles in Slam
Alaska, .
It should
with re-
business news, It
things
is
to get
less
and
The news should be news,
not be allowed to grow
petition ih the same old way.
If you can advertise only in a small
way, pick ont the best paper ln your
territory amd spend all your adverts
in that, When busi.
and you can more
sane
you
tule
money your
HHesR spend
ErOwWs
yr, in
buy
nutil
mone
paper
the
all
more
You
space
are using
can
Properly prosecuted, newspaper ad-
That
who
yor:
and
‘Advi
PE
here
ising will always pa)
there there “
t pay. |
but that h
man Ray %,
ed
meth
rising doesn’ have trl
withing
faulty,
effort
well as
proves
mis were
sympatheti pays in adver
tising as srything else,
in
thie
taking medic the regularity
of
thie dre i > Sores .
i Gru wi id 0 Bat I'vason
dose | important
an
1h
columns of a new Rpaper
for bn
hat reason
offer the very
best mediums
Yor t
XifleaE Onunonnnee
ents, Programmes,
1 GF ARR . i
wil hangers and sehomes of ali OTK,
the
never
from the indn al write-up of
town dow
“
14%
cans
are
4 five,
The local
. 3 3 3
bousehold Lied
Rig
town
doings of
of the
brimfal out
and sparkling with the dail
5 . .
of
ign."
the dea i
people
1 are and
i« what
SPAPETS
It lets
w hat
Bates,
& your signs,
thousands of know
{Charles Austin
peaple you
to sell
A Kentucky Centenarian.
are many curiosities through
and ountains of
hentucky, the Carter caves,
the half
told: the river that
northeast
th
has never
is
mountain,
explained
and women
i
nysteries of which
hax cut
under a
may
why men
gh and
rs that be
bint
Ih an old age
been Known,
to the
of the
nearly
seventy-five te
few the
these moun
It is me
traveller
country
ive 10 sil in
fins never
sight
mmon
srough this section
{0 sw old people at
from
years of age,
evers
Louse ranging
ninety but reach
centary
Going over
mark.
road from Ash
land to Gravson, after passing
the line Carter and Boyd
counties, off in a secluded spot on Wil
liams Creek, lives man In
this part of the country and perhaps
Hix uame is
David Wade, He was born August 20,
198%, or a little more than 111 years
ago. He ix a spare built man, never
weizhed more than 150 pounds, but
always wiry and spry, and now at his
the dirt
ROO
between
the oldest
:
to Joe Barrett's store at Kilgore and
alights from his horse and mounts
again when he is ready to go home
without any assistance whatever, His
faculties are correspondingly
When the civil war
came on he enlisted and served his
country as a soldier until peace was
proclaimed. He was then an old man
aml ouly on account of his unusual
activity was he accepted, He now
draws a small pepsion frou Uncle
The oldest men in the neighborhood
on being questioned, say: “1 do not
know how old he ig nor how long he
he was an old man when 1 was
* and some of them worked for
the old charcoal furnaces
a boy.
at
—————————
tiow Peace Was Received in Porto Rice.
A day after the fight at Aibenito
peace laid her detaining hand on the
shoulder of each general, and the op
erations closed for thirty days. Peas
came differently to different men. One
major of volunteers, who had already
established his nerve on polo fields
and as a most reckless rider, withoni
a moment's hesitation threw his hat
high In the alr and cried: “Thank
God! Now 1 won't get killed!” On
the other hand the artillerymen of Bat
tery B of Pennsylvania, when they
Tieard peace hind come, swore and hoo
ted and groaned. They were behind
a gun pointed at the enemy, who was
intrenched to the Jeft of Goayama,
The shell was In the chamber, the
run backwards, but before it spoke
Lieutenant McLaughlin of the Signa
Corps galloped upon the scene, shriok
clared!” Whereat the men swore.
THE KEYSTONE STATE.
News Gleaned from
Various Parts.
Latest
LEWIS RICHTER GUILTY.
Zohuer Helrs Awarded $19,000 Damages
Agninst a Conl Company Child Burned
to Death While Playing With Matches
Bhamokin Police Finally Capture =
Bargiar After Two Years.
The jury lo the case of Lawis Lichter, who
was ou trial in Criminal Court, at Allentown,
charged with causing the death of Jaeoh
Kniser, a war veteran, returned a verdiet of
gulity of voluntary manslaughter, Richter
was & bell boy ats hotel, Beveral weeks
ngo, while the usual Baturday night throng
was on Hamliton street, Richter and Keiser
got into an altercation, It isslleged that
Kelser struck at Richter with a case, when
the Iatter, so it is sald, gave the old mas a
stibging blow in the jaw, knocking him
down. Keiser is ssid to have died from the
effects of the blow. When the case was
called Richier's lawyers made an attempt to
have the array of jurors quashed, because
two names in the wheel were of men who
served on juries befcre this year. This
came about through the September panel
leing quashed, because one name 100 many
bad been placed in the wheel, Judge Al-
bright refused lo entertain the motion and
ordered the case to proceed. BSestence has
not yet been pronounced. Richter's law-
yors will take the case to a bigher sourt, al-
leging that it is fllegal for a man to serve
more Lhan once ob & jury fn a year,
Settled After Seven Years.
After pending seven years the ease of
David Zolner versus the Lebigh Coal and
Navigation Company was settled at Tama-
quam, when the Zohner helrs were paid
$15,000. Zobner sued the company for
iamages done his farm by the culm from
the defendant's collieries washing upon it.
Two of the arbitrators decided in his favor,
but the company protested and in the argu-
ment before Judge Koeh the defendants
won. Zohner earried the case to the Suo-
preme Court, which reversed Judge Koch's
decision, and the heirs were paid the ful
amount with interest,
Tot's Fatal Amusement.
The 22-year-old child of Mr. and Mee.
Michael Homolo, of Dunmore, was burped
to death in thelr apartments. The father
and mother went out, leavisg their two
ohildren, aged 6 and 2 years, respectively,
in the house, The children found some
matebes and played with them. The flame
caught the clothing of the younger ebhild,
acd in a few moments she was enveloped in
flames, When the neighbors rushed up-
stairs in response to the cries of the other
ebild they Ioand the babe on the floor un-
conscious and her face and body most fear- |
fully burned. She died shorty after.
wards,
Arrested After Two Years
The Shamokin police received informa-
tion that Thomas Frohman would at some
time during Friday night visit his parents
alter an absence of two years. He was ar.
rested near midnight and was placed in jail,
Two years ago the police eaptured a num-
ber of alleged burglars, but Frohman, who
was suspecied, ran home, The officers fol-
lowed, »o be climbed from the attic to the
roof and jumped thirty feet to the ground
without sustaising injury. He then disap-
peared in the mountains, He says that he
went West,
Found in a Dying State.
Peter Lynch, a sober and industrious type
setter on one of the morsing papers of
Hazleton, was found iying in an usconscious
condition In front of his boarding-house in
West Hazleton, Two physicians remained
with bim all day, but he died without re.
gaining bis senses, There was a mark on
bis temple, as if being bit with some blunt
instrument, which leads to the belie! that
he was foully dealt with,
Three Deaths Iu Ten Days.
The family of Mr. and Mrs Albert H.
Fried, of Allentown, is sadly afflicted. With-
in ten days three children bave died from
diptheria. Lillian May, aged 10, Robert
Patterson, aged 7. and Jeanie Gertude,
aged 6. The gris! of the mother is shatter
fog ber health.
An AMiicted Family.
Duriag the past week five members of
the family of Reuben Widisin, in Adams
County, have died of diptheria and at pres-
ent another member, a child, Is oritically fli
with the disease. Several cases of diptherin
also exist Io Huntsdale, a village of Cum-
beriand County.
Stone Causes a Boy's Death.
John, the 6-year-old son of Wiliam For.
rey, of Lebanon, while playing in the yard
of one of the public schools on Wednesday,
was hit on the head by a stone thrown, it is
charged, by a young colored boy named
Hughes. Young Forrey died of brain fever,
snd the police are luvestigating the matier,
Struck It Rich in the Klondike.
B. C. Lipple and wife of Sharon, have r -
turped from the Klondike, where they
cleared, they say, over $65,000. Lipple
owns two valuable claims, and this is his
third trip to the States. He says that much
distress from cold and bunger will prevail
this winter at Dawson,
Coal Train Conductor Fatally Hare,
Jobn Ahreasfleld, of Gordon, employed as
a conductor on a Philadelphia & Resding
coal train, was struck by su engioe while
sinnding aiosg side of his train near
Glrardville and sustained fojuries from whieh
he died at noon. He leaves a wife and threes
ehilidren,
Country Stores Robbed,
The general store of Glaney L. Dry, at
Lenhartaville, was robbed of ready-made
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