The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, July 13, 1899, Image 7

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    ; Over the Way,
Over the way or your dreams ry boy,
Are wondrous things for yo .r eyes to
And wonderful paths to a world of joy
. And the marvelous land of the Ought
A to-Be,
——
There is gold in the dust that your feet
will tread,
And diamonds gleam on the wayside
Zrass,
Aud wreaths of laurel to grace your
head
Hang waiting to crown you as you
pass,
Cah =
tates,
And servants to every wish fulfill,
And armored hosts at the castle gates
Stand ready and eager to do your
will,
youth,
repose,
And breezes to fan you with love and
truth,
And gardens that blossom like the
rose,
There are wildwoods ringing
songs of birds:
There are sumptuous feasts where
friends are men
To greet you with tender and honest
words,
And never a theme
regret,
that vou might
Ab! over the of dream {it
les
way your
This paradise of the countless skies,
where,
Your childhood lives in this
land,
And the loved ones lost in the years
ago
In the glow
stand
And tenderly
know.
happy
of its glorious
beckon you
What care if
bleak
And the shadows elatch at your gar-
ment's hem?
It's over the way that your soul must
seek
For the light
them.
your present
that will over banish
Just over the way of you
boy,
wondrous things
to sed,
And wonderful paths to a w»
And the marvelous land of
to-Be.
HOW NO.99 WON THE RECORD
By Ceorge Ethelbert Walsh,
Are
he Ought
“I
don’t believe rd -breaki
runs with or
gines. Its daogerous work, aml
day there'll be
tand or sea that'll cure people
craze.”
Dan Martin,
the shining
No. 99 vigorously,
in
steamships
reco
ai
such big explosi
1
old
11 hbsencd
of
thes eri rie
file REiNneer
Rin
brass counecting
5 until they [wked
like a strong reflecting m r
“I've al'us refu
at a dangerous $
record for the company,” he continued
after a pause. “1 of
bein’ the most careful engineer in the
West, an’ | consider that a bigger hon
or than if 1 had the reputation of hein’
the one that could drive & engine the
fastest. The superintendent has hint
ed to me more 'n onee that he'd like to
gee me break the record with old 06
but I al'us shrugged my shoulders,
and told ‘em that I war'n’ goin’ to risk
the lives passengers for any
foolish advertisin’ of the road. No. sir.
I wouldn't do it.”
Another vigorous rub of the polished
brass rod,
“Nes, No. 99 holds the record now”
he added in reply to a query,
will for some time, too, |
was speakin' of things
made that big run from Ellinwood to
Grent Bend in Middle Kansas
“Was I the engineer at that time? Of
course 1 was, an’ No. 99 never put in
better work. 1 didn’t believe in record
smashin’ then any more than now, hut
I had to break the record that time or
lose my life and 99 too It was a
forced trip that I took, an’ { don't want
to make it agin. No, sir,
enough for me,
“1 was ordered to take No. 9 from
McPherson to Great Bend one morn:
in’ to meet the superintendent of the
sil to run my encines
pace just to make a
£¥y #y
ce game
have
of the
“an' she
But 1
she
FORE
td ore
once Is
bit.
down to Dodge City, where thers was
some trouble with
will have a good chance to mgke 0
break the record. 1 smiled
the safety point one bit
reputation was just as
train load of people behind me.
“1 started out of McPherson on a
speed.
the country when there ain't no ears
danglin' behind, aw’ I just let old 00
skip lively. 1 was goin’ as fast as |
thought she ought to go without run.
nin’ any risk. Ii was midsummer
then, and the day was pretty warm
and sultry. We hardly made a breeze
in our rapid flight. Jim Watson, my
fireman, said he thought the air was
feverish hot, an’ that's just what it
was, The sun seemed to glare at us
like a ball of fire, and the heat ap
peared to be risin’ from the
all around. There wasn't a cloud in
the sky, an’ it just hurt our eyes to
look outside of the caboose, The long
stretch of ralls ahead
silver.
“We'll have a storm or somethin’
before long,’ Jim says as he looks at
the sky. “T'his heat won't last.’
“I thought so, too, but I didn't give
words to my ideas, We were ap
proachin’ Lyons at a swingin' gait
when a few clouds suddenly rose up
in the east, They looked black In the
centre, and seemed to Increase in size
as they approached. in a short time
glistened like
looks were threatenin’. They
nin’ of a bad wind storm. When we
rushed through Lyons the
waved his hands at
threatenin' than ever, and Jim
tered, ‘A tornado. I'l bet!
“Shouldn't wonder,” was all the re-
“We swept on a little faster, |
to port before the storm
Then it occurred to me that we would
be better off probably runnin’
So I slackened speed a
little an’ watched the sky anxlously.
“Suddenly from ths very middle of
the black cloud somethin’ seemed to
extend way down to the earth. It
looked ax if the cloud had burst, an
wis trailin’ along the track right be
hind us. 1 knew that sight only too
well, It was rushin’ down upon us like
a fiend. The sun was still shinin’, but
the fleecy clouds around it made it
flcod the landscape with a sickly
glare,
* ‘Bay, Jim, that fellow is after us’
I sald as quietly as possible.
“Yes, an’ it's a reg'ler twister,”
“Now when a tornado rushin’
down upon you at the rate of eighty
or ninety 1:iles an hour you forget all
the danger there is In record
smashin’, At least I did. There
that big, ugly-lookin® cloud followin’
us with a fearful noise, It
close that we could hear the rush and
roar of it I gave one [frightened
glance at its terrible centre, an’ then I
opened the throttle of old 90. Jim be.
gan to pile coal on, and shake up the
fires. We were directly in the road of
the tornado, and unless it veered to
one side or the other, or we could suc
ceed In outrunnin’ it, we were doomed,
“But 90 responded to my touch like
a horse. She snorted and puffed away
as if aware of the danger behind. The
wheels revolved so fast that it seemed
fis if they could not keep on the track.
In another moment we were speadin’
along at a rate that wonld have made
at any time. But we
goin’ fast enough The
horrible cloud was still on us,
* ‘More coal, Jim, more coal!” 1 shont.
el. “We must go faster.”
“Well, be knew the danger, too, an’
he perspired like a porpoise as he tried
to get up more Faster an’
faster we flew, The strain on the en
in
me sick other
weren't yet
gainin’
steam
gine was severe, but I never thought of
t.. 1 just put on all the steam we
We now holdin’ onr
but it was still
If anything
would
We wore
itwo
§ #4
were
Own
8] race
should gi
down upon us In an instant
really balanced
Hangers.
ve the storm fae
way
between great
‘If we ean reach Great Bend we'll
be all right 1 to Jim, we
both looked anxiously at the pursuin’
“There's a turn in the road, an’
we'll get out of the path of the tor
nade,”
* ‘But we must cross the bridge first’
Jim said in reply
Tes, but we
sped :
“f knew what thinkin' of
The bridge across the large arm of the
Arkansas was only a wooden structure
then, and it was not overstrong. To
rush across it at our tremendous
speed might eanse a catastrophe. Dut
the bend in the road did not occur un.
til after the bridge was crossed. Until
we reached that point the road was as
straight as 8 beeline,
“Neither one spoke after that,
anid fs
cloud.
can't slacken our
hie was
We
and the track abead, We just
beld our own and had pe time to
spare, If we lost one minute the hor
ible flend would be down upon ns,
“*The bridge! the bridge is ahead!
his face turned a shade paler,
“1 could not believe It
youd, and it was hard work to realize
the distance we had covered since the
tornado first alarmed ns,
“Now for it. I muttered to Jim.
‘Here goes!
“I opened the throttle, Then No. 00
that might have been her death knell,
The next Instant she reached the
wooden bridge. and thundered upon it
like the rumblin’ of thunder. The
structure swayed and trembled under
the weight. When we reached the
middie it ereaked and eracked, and
seemed ready to give way at any mo-
ment. But we passed the middle
safely. and the other shore was al
most reached,
“Bee! see!” Jim shouted,
“1 lookdd behind and shuddered at
the sight. The tornado had reached
the other end of the bridge, and as if
angerdd at the prospec: of our escape
the mighty wind was rippin’ and tear
in’ up the wooden structure as if it
was made of straw. We touched the
other side none too soon, for the whole
bridge began to sway, and then top-
pled over before the furious onslaught
of the wind.
“But in another moment we reached
the bend in the road, and roshed out of
the path of the tornado. We slowed up
a little then, and watched the baffled
flend hurry past us, earryin’ death and
destruction with It. We both gave a
sigh of relief, and then turned to check
the terrible speed of our fron horse,
“We brought her to a standstill at
Great Bend station with difficulty. It
seemed as If she hated to stop, and
she puffed and panted like a lving
creature, On the platform stood the
superintendent,
“Why, burrab, Martin, you've brok.
en the record all to pleces,’ he sald,
slappin’ me on the shonlder, ‘Since the
agent reported you at Lyons, why,
you have averaged eighty-two and a
half miles. Great Scott! man, that's
a wonderful run?
“Yes, It was, 1 sald,
“I was too tired and nervous to ex-
plain then, 1 was satisfied to think
that we were home safe, It was the
most wonderful run 1 ever made, and
that's how old 99 holds the record.”
BILEWORMS IN IOWA.
Molnes Suecessxful So Far,
Mark Chiesa, an Italian, is success.
brought from
The eggs were
son who brought the eggs carried them
in his pocket and they hatched on ship.
into the sea.
whom the eggs were Instrosted sus-
pended them on a string so that they
got cool air on the ocean and on the
railway trains. Arriving at Des
Moines,
age until the
ready for them,
into a warm room, they hatched in one
day.
mulberry
moths about 4.000 hatched,
The
find mulberry
They oat about
and
in
been
the average Italy,
difficulty has to
leaves for the worms,
wagonlonds a day,
stop eating for a minute, but eat all
the time, day and plight. They must
be fed about fifteen times a day and
during the night. The
devouring the mulberry
noise like rain on the
hunting the food for
provided, and
healthy,
are just
CONOONnS,
why the
sieved, Mr.
times
in
make a
roof. Dy lively
the has been
they are well developed and
about three inches long, and
beginning weave their
There seems to be po reason
industry should not
Chiesa has brought a woman from
Italy who has had thirty vears' ex.
perience with silkworms and she says
worms,
leaves,
worins
to
saw,
The experiment ix the first that is
and is certainly the first that has been
successful, It much
attention as a circus in Des Moines,
and the number very
large. The owner is 8 good-natured
man and he cheerfully and proudly
shows the industrious 4.000 to all who
has attracted as
of visitors is
care to see them.
If they turn
p fo, Mr
large farm. plant it to
futo the bosiness of ralsing
well they
will
mulberry
ont 6s as
romise Chiesa bay a
and go
worms amd producing silk on a
scale From
had
the experience
in America and Italy, where
father is a silk producer, he
reason why the industry should not be
S08 No
entirely successful in lowa.
Piervie
A rich A
i
George's quarter of
Avid Found ihe Thief,
residing in the St
Paris, France, had
been for some little time past the vie
tim of systematic thefts Banknotes
and money not left under lock and key
disappeared regularly. M. Cornette,
of Police, was in
formed of the robberies He found it
wottld be mpossible to keep an effec
five wateh on the bedroom where the
thefts occurred, but he
stratagem turned
fully. A small vial containing a mix
ture of picrie acid and fuschine was
placed in a metal case for holding gold,
and a few Napoleons were placed on
top.
metal
nerican
the Commissary
adopted
which Ol Success.
case had to be held apside
cal preparation would run out and
stain the thiefs bands a bright and in.
delible yellow.
canght yellow. handed, he
A Mastached Morse,
A coal yard at Thirteenth and Chest.
nut streets 8 the prond possessor of a
well-trained
tion, but in the morning it stands out
“Fritler.” as he
is called, seems to feel that he is at.
tracting attention, for he holds up his
head with all the pride a virility of six.
teen years can summon up. Fitler has
easily won for himself the friendship
of all his coworkers, and he is treated
with many distinctions, It is sald that
the animal whinnles In terror at the
sight of a pig, for fear it may
prove a razor-back, but while Fitler
remains with the coal yard people he
need never fear the ignominy of a
shave. Philadelphia Times,
Carrying Hia Coin Pinte,
Captain D. F. Penington, quarter.
master of the Fourth Regiment, Mary-
land National Guard, will have a sim-
ple, scarcely visible, plate on the
cngket in which he ix to be buried, The
plate will be a Russian coin, size of the
old-fashioned “cartwheel” copper pon.
nies #0 DUIMSTONS years Ago.
Captain Penington has had the face
of the colin made SHouth and inscribed
as follows: . ¥. Pennington. Born
Sdptembetr 8, 1847, Died oo”
This plate forms the captain's pock.
otploce, and ever serves as a reminder
of death. This popular Guardsman
gives his friends a genuine case of
exhibits
AN OLD FAMILIAR FRIEND,
New Endings Suggested for a Well.
Known Tale,
The character of the old joke has be.
come a decidedly stormy one,
A few evenings ago nt a little down.
town gathering one of the girls sald
she had heard such a good story.
“It happened out in the Fast End
only last week,” she sald, “A young
woman whose hone Is on one of the
a call from a young man, and It came
on to rain dreadfully, oust re.
member the night. Several times the
young man offered to but each
time it rained harder than ever. He
lived about half a mile away, but, of
course, it meant a thorough drench.
ing to venture out. Finally the girl
said, ‘Well, would simply un
civilized to turn you out such a night
as this, Brother Robert is away from
You
NO,
it
fre
not.’
little, but
the
as well ns
a
to appreciate
ment. ‘Now, excuse me a
said the young woman, ‘and 1
will see that the apartment made
ready for you! So she went upstairs
and told her mother, and then stepped
Into the brother's room to ses that it
order. She more
than five minutes, but when she went
young had
disappeared.”
finally
af
appeared
argu.
mament or
force the
is
wasn't gone
the man COm-
Every body breathed hi
reached this dramatic ¢
“The woman. looked
the room in a bewildered manner, Then
she looked on table in the
His hat Wis
young around
the hat
wasn't there, She
Rhee waited about in an
aimless manner. vainly Birv 10
solve the mystery
rapidly approaching
ing
stpddenly she hear
footsteps
threw it
He
and
have
The
and there stood the youth!
evidently soaked
through. "Why.
you been” she or
At point the
abruptly interrupted
“Pardon me.”
ers, “but if 1
Foung man =a
secure huis nigh
“Excuse m
“but the way 1 heard it
door. young woman
open
through
where on eartt
:
ad
this OArrator was
listener,
he went home
split
the morning's supply ling wood
for the kitchen st
“1 hate to Iw sont
third Interrn
told that
ma’'s god ni
And
weit home
hie
kigs™"
the sto wasn't
The Dendly Upas Tree.
In thrilling stories of ady
poor
caaracters have met an
end beneath the leaves of
Upas tree”
CHine with
poisonous shade
Biricken to
Up in the
the Interior of
snpdden deat
gardens of
Cevion
derful collection
are
There
stuhber,
fingimeg
clove,
gunva
and pearly
tree that gros
at
Among them is a dea
tin the
INR 10
ner of
stained
repaired
garden and sought
from the blazing
ful
the
Ld ¥
vapors were upon them, and so they
afterpoon of a «
story
begin this
thse tory Books --two travel
and tired
depths of the
wayiarers, weary
t shady
shelter and repose
¢ bon
i aa
in beneath a beautd
tree Attie did they suspect that
malign influence of poisonous
rientod
fully.
discos ery
on, smoking and talking peace
After an hour or so one of them
dd a little card pinned to the
tree, and on close inspection discover
that it the name of the tree,
It was the “Deadly Upas Tree!”
Whereupon the travellers posed and
had a snapshot
ed bare
made of themselves
button. And thea they went on their
way rejoicing.
Why She Biushed,
Of course she was indignant when it
Yet there wag
hind her had kept steadily after her
“And he's old enough to be in bet
ter business” she sald to herself, in
digoantly., “I'll cross the street juss
to maks sure whether he is really fol
lowing.”
She crossed the street and so did he,
Then she turned on him,
“Sir,” she said, “why do you persist
in following me?”
He started. as if
wildered,
and sald:
“Madam, why do you persist in pre.
ceding me?”
Two doors farther on he turned in,
producing a latchkey as he did so, and
showing in other wars that he had
renched his destination. She turned
back and went round the block rather
than pass that house and her face
was still red when she feached home,
=~hicago Post.
The Terrors of the Red Ant,
The red aut is a bore fighter, and
is one of the most annoying pests of
the Indian jungle. Not only is its bite
extremely painful, but its tenacity is
such that, haviog once driven its man.
dibles into your flesh, it will allow it
the boughs overhead, Almost immedi.
ately a colony of red ants descended in
a shower on the heads of the unfortun-
ate occupants of the guddee, or cush.
loned seat, on the elephant’s pad, The
scene that followed wax a Yively and
i exciting one, The victims, who were
all natives, made frantic efforts to es.
| cape, for the insects, angry at having
been thus rudely disturbed, attacked
| them furiously, One native man, yell
ing with pain, made a most undignified
retreat by way of a back somer-
gault over the elephant's tall,
while the driver leaped
from his perehh into a mines
of undergrowth, where he made fran-
tie attempts to free himself of his ven
omons attackers. The two or three
remaining natives, after dancing wild
ly ou the pad, pawing thealr, thrashing
and making other efforts
to dislodge the intrnders, finally slid
down the and howled for assis.
tance, As for the elephant, which, by
virtue of its tough hide, was antproof,
minhont
themselves,
wile
it stood complacently looking on, and
| doubtless could have
of its
It took us a long time to clear
of red
i+
wotdering what
occasioned the antice
riders,
the pad
sirange
invaders, which
Hterally while as for the
bitten had lost all fur
ther appetite for hooting that day.
the
coverad
patives, they
THE FIRST SUSPENSION BRIDGE
Dire Necessity Was Its Mother in
Rorven in 1502,
The first
be dignified by
ROTORS
1502,
sURpension bridge that can
that name was thrown
River Korea in
again dire necessity dicta
The Japanese in Pyeng
f the defeat of
winent, defermined to
‘Bina bad began to bestir
of Korea, and the Jap.
from Pyeng-yang by
Chinese and Koerean ar
southward toward
pursuers arrived at
the Im-jin in
Here
ted the ter
O the
1 favor
driven
the combined
hastened
When the
Im-iin
refused to «
eR,
Seoul,
the Chinese general
ntinue the pur-
Koreans would bulld
large and strong
passage of his 120.000
The Koreans were
revenge upon the Jap
iver, the
oss and «
suit unless
a bridge sufficiently
insure the
men in
famishing for
aAnese 4 3 i Lio
fo
wes Fortwo
safety,
stopped by no ob-
could
men in
iectidd enormous
slirimnonnt. Main frie i
all directions,
fibrous
3 th of 100
» hawsers
quantities
t often att
From this elgh
Attach
fet
% carried
vibe tha
yards
were
woven
or heavy timbers
siren
there in the Way
ers dragged in the
Bn, but the Koreans
Niont
(if
water in
Were “Wiies oeeasion
¢
onken ba inserted between the
strands then the
» torsion
ght them a gon ten above
“ii
Lhawsers
Lira
Won
tt was then
i
plied an hawsers,
(and upor and
gravel rogd-bhed
amd
hs
had been
SUSE IRH 1
army of
all their
and im
This
Chinamen,
wil
163 FRARIETN
CRINDD squipage,
crossed in safety.
the
tortolse-boat,
mrpose, was left
Harper's
Magazine,
Fast,
of
are
You Walk Very
ever thought
Have
1
tance you travel
YOu
while you
an hour's stroll?
Possibly you walk three miles in an
hotir, but that does not represent the
travel. The earth turns
every twenty-four hours,
call Cir
distance
Axes
TON
ils
ronmd figures the earth's
travelled during your hour's stroll
a thousand miles in the axial turn of
the earth.
But thiz i= not all. Th” earth makes
a journey round th sun every year.
Put the distance of our planet from
the sun at 802 000.000 miles, The diam
eter 1s therefore 184.000,000 miles, and
cirenmference described hy the earth
STS.O00.000 miles, In other words,
the earth travels around the sun each
day 1.584.000 miles. and every hour
for instance, the hour during which
you took your walk-—the earth moved
through GA000 miles,
So, adding your three miles of leg
travel to the hour's axial movement of
the earth, this to the earth's orbital
| journal and that again to the earth's
' exenrsion with the sun, and you will
find you have travelled within the
| hour 85.0980 miles.
have
SASHA.
A Remarkable Elephant,
Elephant intelligence is about “up
{to the limit" in animals, and an Eng.
| fishman tells of one that was accus
{tomed to receiving pennies that it
{ would drop into a slot for a biscuit
{If given a half-penny the elephant
| would throw it back contemptuously,
‘but one day a boy gave it two half.
pennies at the same time. For sev.
eral minutes the animal held them in
fix trunk as though pondering over
their valine. At last he dropped the
two together into the slot, with the
result that he got the biscuit. He ap.
peared to know that he had made an
unusual discovery and frisked around
in the greatest delight—Detroit Free
Press,
The Force of Habit,
“Jen't there something the matter
with the feet in this poem?’ asked the
critical friend. “1 don't believe some
of the lines have enough.”
THE KEYSTONE STATE,
News Gleaned from
Various Parts.
Latest
I s—
DEATH UNDER ENGINE.
——
Ballrand Wreck Near Shamokin Due to
Nut Placed on Track—~Fireman Morgan
Killed —The Engineer Injured and Pas.
sengers Bruised Locomotive Toppled
Over an Enbaskment— Other Live News,
A disastrous raliroad wreek ocenrred at a
point of the Philadelphia & Heading Raliway
opposite the sidisg running into the Buck
tidge Colilery, near Shamokin, Fireman
Rollin Morgan, formerly of Shamokin, but
now of Newberry, was killed. He was 25
yours old and married, Eoginese Johan
Gardner, of Williamsport, was badly bruised
and lacerated, while a largs number of pas-
songers were brulsed Ly being flung about
the cars. The express trails, knows as No.
8, leaving Philadelphia at 8.36 A. M., in
charge of Conductor William CObilison, was
running forty miles au hour sround the
curve at the switch satering the Buck Ridge
Colliery, when suddenly the pony wheels of
the eugioe jumped the traek. Engineer
Gardner applied the alr aod cilmbed back
to the tank ready to jump. The fireman
was also on the tank, and ss the engive
bounded over the sills it alarmed the passen
gers und tralomen in the eonches, The
engine ran s distance of st jeast 150 yards,
when the pony wheels climbed the rails and
rode upon thelr flanges for s short distance,
They then jumped off again and within the
length of four cars the josomntive toppled
over the embankment, En ins Gardiner
jnmped safely, but his flremas was buried
beneath the tank and instantly killed, his
teinalas being terribly crushed. The for
ward baggage coach No. 442. was partly de-
moilshed In front, but Clifford Potts, the
baggageman, escaped with a shaking up.
The train was made up of a baggage and
smoker day coach, Puliman parior car
“Polladoipbla” and a special car full of
students. All of the cars excepting the one
containing the students in the rear of the
train, were derailed,
Sentenced for Train Wrecking.
Oliver Obl, of Tamaqua, aged 17 years,
who on May 12 caused the wreck on the
Littie Sebuylkiil Eaiiroad, which resulted in
the loss of two jives, was sestenced by
Judge Marr, st Poitevilie, $0 pay the costs,
Dues sggregatiog $700 and to undergo an
imprisonment of three years sod three
months. There were three indictments
against Ohl; first, placing an obstruction on
the tracks; second, murder; third, involun-
tary mansisughler. Obl by the advies of
Lis counsel, pleaded gulity to involuntary
mansisughter, this plea being satisinctory
to the Commonwealth and agreed to by the
court, Io the firetl case the court sentenced
the defendant to pay the costs, 8 floe of
£500 and serve two years’ imprisonment st
separaie and solitary confloement. In the
serond cass he was directed to pay the costs,
a flue ol $200 and to serve fifteen months’
imprisonment, 10 date from the expiration
of his first sentence, The traismes killed
by Obl's thoughtiess act were Bamuoel Grier.
engineer of the passenger
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Denth's Bride.
Miss Martha Hoover, daughter of Joba
Hoover, of Claysburg, was found lying dead
in the parior of the Kellerman Hotel, where
she was 8 guest. The supposition fs that
she became ill while in bed snd went down-
stairs to the parior, where she died before
rolisf eame, Bbe was 27 years old’ The
theory that Miss Hoover committed suicide
was disproved by the Coroner's Jrry, who,
after an investigation, retursed a verdict
that death had been caused b- apoplexy,
The girl was to bave been rarried this
month, it is sald, but arrangements for the
woddiog were delayed. When fousd she
was attired in what was to save bees her
wedding dress and ber betrothal ring was
on ber Ouger.
Killed in » Runaway.
Mee. Annf~ setion, wile of James Daniel
Brittor, ui Bhenkel, Chester County, met
deritt in 8 runaway aceldent. She drove to
Yottstown in company with her little grand.
dAuaghter, Grace, aod was selling raspberries
to bousskespers. While driving on King
Strest a bolt fell out, which frightened the
horse and It ran away. In turning a corner
both woman apd child was thrown out. The
woman's head struck the curb, and the foros
of the blow fractured ber skull She was
taken to the hospital, but an hour later she
died. She is the mother of un large family,
The grandebiid escaped with a few bruises.
Eagineer Killed in Wreck,
The fast train east, known ss No. 18 on
the Pennsylvania Raliroad, jumped the
track st Stewart's. The train, one of the
fastest on the road, was running at a high
rate of speed aud at a crossing at that point
the automatic switch felled to work after a
freight had clesred the crossing, The loeo-
motive turned over and Engineer W. W.
Garland, of Altoona, was crushed to death,
H. A. McAteer, the fireman, escaped with a
tow bruises. The train was made up of
soven mall cars and a passenger conch, The
mall men were badly shaken up, but
were prriously hurt,
rursned From Poland.