WHEN LIFE IS DONE.
When life is done availeth naught
The pleasures that we dearly bougkt,
The wealth we risked our souls to gain,
The honors won through toil and pain,
The titles coveted and sought.
No world-wide fame av. aileth aught,
No name, no marvels science taught,
When earth and earthly objects wane.
i When life is done.
The kindly deeds for others wrought,
The patient word, the Sentorons thought,
The effort made by hand or brain
"Gat L Taig for right, though made in
Shall hy by, od forgotten not
en life is done.
—Magdalen Rock.
IRISH I5 Vo SSAA
“SOME INJUNS.” }
3 THE TRAPPER'S STORY OF A SIOUX’S
¥ GRATITUDE.
RENTER III
NCE in his life old Thad Grif-
fin, the trapper, did a very
foolish thing; at least, that
was what he called the act,
avhen he thought of it at all, for a long
time afterward. Two young Sioux
braves having attacked him, Thad had
killed one and wounded the other. But
he took the wounded man to his cabin,
dressed the wound, nursed the Indian
back to health, and then restored his
gun and canoe, and told him to go
home to his own people.
But the Indian did not lead a scalp-
ing party back to the trapper’'s camp,
as Griffin had half expected he would,
Nothing more was heard of him. Three
years after, when Griffin left Fort
Snelling at the end of September, and
started up the Minnesota River to be-
gin his fall hunt, the incident had al-
most faded from his mind. He pad-
dled to the headwaters of the Pomme
de Terre, and camped a few days in a
little thicket of scrub oak, while he
looked round to see what the prospect
was for furs—and for Indians. He
had kept his eyes open all the way up
river, for the Sioux were reported ta
be on the warpath. This, however,
was somewhat in the trapper’s favor,
for they would be likely to travel in
big bands, and with care he might the
easier avoid them.
There were “slathers of fur signs,”
but no traces of Indians in this region
of rolling prairie, broken at the east-
ward by a belt of heavy timber. So
one day Griffin set out with his gun to
try for a saddle of venison. When the
afternoon was almost over he found
a good sized buck, and presently start-
ed for camp with the hide and saddle
slung to his back.
Clear sky and bracing atmosphere
and the promise of a successful season
made the blood fairly bound through
the trapper’s veins, and he strode along
feeling as though he would like to
sing. Indians were far from his
thoughts just then. The greater was
his dismay when, just as he had
reached the top of a low ridge half
way between the woods and his camp,
he saw a band of forty Sioux coming
up on the other side.
Griffin had had many a “fuss” with
these same Indians, and he recognized
them instantly as belonging to a vil-
lage that wintered in the Ottertail
Wo00GS, away off at the northeast. Evi-
dently they had been out on the Da-
kota prairies for a big buffalo hunt,
for they were on foot and leading
their ponies, which were loaded with
hides and dried meat.
Flat in the grass dropped Griffin, but
not soon enough to escape the sharp
eyes of the Indians. Raising a terrific
whoop, they left the ponies to look
out for themselves, and came on in a
body, while Griffin slipped the venison
from his shoulders and started at his
best pace toward the belt of timber.
The Indians were not more than two
hundred yards away when Griffin
sighted them; but in running he had
the advantage of going down hill, and
he had almost doubled the distance
before they reached the top of the
ridge and began to shoot at him. None
of the bullets happened to hit the mov-
ing target.
Griffin glanced over his shoulder.
‘As he expected, a dozen of the swiftest
runners had threwn off their blankets
and, knives in hand, were approaching
at a rate that meant mischief for a
man who must cling to a twelve-pound
gun. But the trapper had been in
worse places than this, and he felt
that if he could once get into the
woods, with night falling, he could
dodge the Indians,
He was still a half mile from the
timber when he looked back once more.
One of the braves was now far in ad-
vance of the others, but all his pur-
suers were gaining, and Griffin began
to fear that he might lose the race,
tired as he wa% from his hunt and
handicapped by the weight he earried.
That foremost Indian must die!
Griffin slackened his pace a trifle, that
he might get his breath before trying
to take aim. The Indian put on an
extra burst of speed.
When Griffin was close to the timber
the leading Indian had come so near
that the trapper could hear the patter
of his footsteps. Thinking it must be
now or never, the trapper wheeled and
was about to pull trigger when his
adversary made a movement that
caused Griflin to hesitate from sheer
surprise. The Indian waved him 1te-
ward the woods.
“White man no shoot!’ he shouted.
“Me him friend! No stop: Injun ne
ketch um!’
‘Phe white man took a good look.
heap quick. Injun run by; no Ketch
um. Bimeby dark, white man run off.”
Grifiin shaped his course for the near-
est clump of bush, and put his last
atom of strength into a leap that land-
ed him fair in its centre. He spread
himself flat and clung close to the
ground. Yelling like mad, to lead his
mates away, the young Sioux kept on
into the woods.
It was so contrary to the trapper’s
training to trust an Indian that his
first movement was to slip out his
knife. He meant to be prepared in
case the Siuox should Dounce on top
of him.
But the Indians tore on into the for-
est, and after him went the others.
They passed so near the place where
Griffin lay that they might have heard
his hard breathing had they not been
running so fast and yelling so lustily.
But a fat old fellow who brought up
the rear gave over the chase at the
edge of the forest. He leaned against
a tree not twenty feet from Griffin's
bush, evidently intending to wait until
the others came back with the white
man’s scalp.
The young braves kept up the search
until after dark. All that time the old
fellow lingered by his tree, and Griffin
dared not even stretch for fear of
being heard.
He hardly knew what action to take.
It seemed that the young brave had
meant him to get away as soon as the
crowd passed; and it would be easy
enough to shoof the old Indian, and
then make his escape in the darkness.
But the trapper finally decided that
the right thing to do was to lie still.
The old fellow might be his friend's
father for all he knew. To kill him
there might throw suspicion upon the
young man. And Griffin knew that if
the Indians’ discovered the trick that
had been played upon them they would
kill the perpetrator.
“I won't do it!” said Griffin to him-
self. “Not if I lose my scalp for it.”
By the time the band returned from
the fruitless chase the trapper had got
his breath. He wasted none of it, we
may be certain, in the course of the
impromptu council that the Indians
held before they left the timber. Prob-
ably the talk lasted less than five min-
utes. But that seems a long time to
a man who feels enemies crowd around
his hiding-place and dreads that any
instant they may fairly fall over him.
But finally they did leave, and Griffin
crept out of the bush and fetched a
wide circuit to reach his camp. He
did not feel any appetite for supper
just then. What he would do, and did,
was to load his belongings into his
canoe and, heading down stream, put a
wide stretch of river between himself
and the redskins.
Griffin never saw or heard of the
young Sioux again; but the trapper
had a better opinion of the tribe and
the race from that time forward.
“Sure enough,” he used to say, when
he told the story, “most of em are bad,
and others of ’em are worse; but I tell
you, boys, sure enough, some Iniuns
are folks!”—Youth’'s Companion,
Ant Hypnotists.
That ants doctor their sick by hg:
notism and magnetism is proved by
observation. An ardent student tells
how he witnessed what may be termed
a seance in medical science among
ants. He saw several of these little
creatures emerge from the hills and
noticed that there were some among
them which were weak and emaciated
—invalids, in fact. They were accom-
panied by healthy members of the com-
munity, and all made their way toward
a distant mound.
On following their movements through
a glass the observer saw on this mound
a big and sturdy ant which made
some motions in the direction of the
advancing invalids. The latter went
up the mound, one by one, and sub-
mitted themselves to treatment. This
consisted in the physician ant passing
his feelers over the head and body
of the patient in a manner distinctly
suggestive of the hypnotizing of nerves
and muscles practiced by human doc-
tors. Every one went through the
treatment, then the patients went back,
and the doctor marched off in the op-
posite direction.
Recruiting Men For the Navy.
In order to assist in the recruiting
of men for the navy, the Navy Depart-
ment has prepared large lithograph
posters for display in all the principal
cities and towns in the country. The
navy is in great need of able-bodied
seamen and is using extra exertions
to secure them without delay. These
posters are the most elaborate bids
for men the navy has ever made. They
are highly decorated and picture life
on a man-of-war in the most alluring
colors. The centerpiece is a picture
of the battleship Kearsarge, with a
happy, contented-looking jackie of
heroic dimensions as a companion
piece. These pictures are highly col-
ored and can scarcely fail to attract
attention. The text gives practical
information regarding ratings and pay,
and shows the advantage of naval ser-
vice. To make the words more im-
pressive, they are printed in red with
a profusion of capital letters. Over
150,000 of these posters, which are of
immense size, have been distributed
among recruiting centers.—Washing-
ton Star.
An Opportunity For Some One.
Here is an advertisement that was
published lately in an Italian news-
paper: “An agreeable young man, of
This—yes, this was the same young | most distinguished family, good, seri-
brave he had spared and nursed! Real-| ous, honorable, hard-working, finding
izing that, Griffin grasped the meaning | it out of his power to cffect 2 most
of the words, and instantly he raeed | remunerative business plan, proposes
about and made for the woods again. | 10 a wise father of a family to marry
“White man saved Injup, now Injun| his daughter. if only she be agrecable
save white man’ the savage called | and have a dowry exceeding 100,000
as soon asthe trees and bush Lid them | ltre— Alfa, 1444, Posta, Firenze.” -Eos-
from sight.
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Daring English Equestrians.
NE of the most extraordinary
feats of horsemanship ever
performed in this or any
other country was that of Mr.
John Leech Maning, at the White Hart
Hotel, Aylesbury, nearly three-quar-
ters of a century ago. He rode his
horse upstairs into the dining room,
and while the meal was in progress
fumped the animal clean over the table.
Describing the incident not very long
ago, Mr. Maning said: “Nothing was
removed from the table. In fact, the
dinner was actually going on. I
jumped the horse bareback, without a
bridle, before more than forty gentle-
men, who were dining after the steeple-
chases.”
Seven or eight years ago a number of
German officers stationed at Metz per-
formed an extraordinary equestrian ex-
ploit—or perhaps escapade it ought io
be called. Shortly after 12 one night
six lieutenants of the Thirteenth Dra-
goons dashed cut of the barracks on
their chargers, clad in nothing but their
shirts. Without pausing they charged
an adjacent cafe, breaking the door-
ways and windows and leaping their
horses over the heads of the terrified
customers. Two of them actually rode
around the large hall of the cafe, the
sthers contenting themselves with
leading their horses round by the
bridles. The police were at once sent
for by the proprietor, but as one con-
stable who ventured to expostulate was
brutally maltreated for his temerity,
the others thought it prudent not to
interefere. A few minutes later the
rowdy officers remounted their steeds
and rode off again at a gallop. It is
bardly necessary to add that their out-
rageous conduct created quite a sensa-
tion in the town.
For the sake of a wager a remarkable
feat of horsemanship was some years
ago accomplished by a sporting noble-
man in a certain West End mansion.
He made a bet with a friend that he
would ride his pony from the ground
floor of the house to the top and down
again. His steed required a good deal
of persuasion to attempt the task,
but it was finally performed, though
the damage done to the stair carpets
and other things amounted to £50,
which had to be paid by the winner.
The foregoing performance was par-
alleled by the exploit of a Lincolnshire
farmer who, at Kirton Lindsey, in that
county, succeeded in riding a pony up
two flights of stairs into a room and
to the ground floor again. The scene of
this equestrian feat was the George Inn
at Kirton Lindsey, and it was consid-
ered all the more remarkable because
the weight of the rider was as much as
twelve stone, while that of his mount
was under thirty stone.
A marvelous feat in the hunting field
was reported a few months since from
Warrnambool, Victoria. During a run
of the local hounds a horse known as
Handy Andy, ridden by Mr. M. J. Dick-
son, approached a stiff four-rail fence
in the neighborhood at Grasmere. An-
other horse, bearing Dr. MacKnight,
stopped within a few feet of the ob-
stacle, and, running down the fence,
got in the way of Handy Andy. The
latter. then jumped the obstructing
horse, rider and fence, just touching
the doctor with his hoofs. The feat
was superbly done, but, unfortunately,
Handy Andy stumbled on landing and
unseated his clever and intrepid rider.
Some extraordinary equestrian ex-
ploits have taken place in New York.
At a costly banquet, given some time
ago in the carriage room of Mr. W. H.
Clark, an American millionaire, his
favorite horse was ridden round the
table by one of the forty guests, after
it had enjoyed a poetical “feed” of
flowers and champagne. Afterward
Shetland ponies were ridden into and
about the room by others. of the guests,
the revels being prolonged into the
small hours of the morning.
Some volunteer officers in Wales rode
their horses at full gallop at midnight
over the rocky declivities of a mneigh-
boring mountain without mishap to
men or mounts.—Tit-Bits.
Fighting For Life in a Net.
Tangled in a big fishing seine after
the capsizing of their boat one mile
from shore, Charles Beck and his son,
George Beck, two Evanston firemen,
struggled for their lives for two hours
yesterday morning in Lake Michigan.
Not until the imperilled men had cut
the net, which was 300 feet long, in
two, were they able to extricate them-
selves. Then, thoroughly exhausted
with their efforts to keep afloat while
they were escaping from the. death
trap, they battled again with the waves
and, by aiding one another, swam to
the beach in safety.
The Becks, who live at
avenue, Evanston,
21406 Maple
had gone out early
in the morning to take in the seine.
which they had set off Grosse Point
Lighthouse. They were engaged in
hauling in the netful of fish when a
squall arose. Their boat, a flat-bot-
tomed scow, swung into the trough of
the sea and filled with water. While
they were bailing out the water with
their hats the scow capsized, throw-
ing both its occupants into the lake.
Immediately the arms and legs of the
men became entagled in the seine and
rendered. them powerless to swim.
Divesting themselves of their rubber
coats and boots, the father and son,
with a fishing knife, b cutting the
cords from their bh and ankies.
When once they 1 cut themselves
loose and had stavied to swim toward
shore they azain beeam
Jon 8 stre
to give out after a half hour's struggle,
and the double burden of helping the
poy to keep afloat, and freeing both
himself and his son from the impend-
ing meshes fell to the father.
The latter’s endurance had nearly
given out when he succeeded in separ-
ating the last strands of the seine.
Both fishermen were so prostrated
when they reached shore that they had
to be assisted to their home.—Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
Bull Tripped Up the Tents.
A new rendering of the old story of
the bull in the china shop is told by
P. J. McCook, a nephew of General An-
son G. McCook, and himself a veteran
of the Spanish-American War.
“During the Porto Rico campaign,”
said Mr. McCook, “my company was
camping in a field not far from the
town of Adjuntas. A barbed wire
fence separated the camp from another
field, in which were a number of cat-
tle. The fence was taken as guard line,
and sentries were posted along it. Dur-
ing the night a frisky bull in the ad-
joining field took it into his head to
charge the fence, with the idea of get-
ting at the sentry on the other side.
The sentry naturally resented the in-
trusion, and when the bull got within
range prodded him sharply in the nose
with his sword bayonet. The bull re-
treated with an angry roar.
“Evidently the injured nose troubled
the animal, for presently he made an-
other rush for the fence. Again he met
a vicious stab. By this time the in-
furiated animal was roused. He upset
the sentry, snapped the wire fence and
was in the midst of the camp in a
second. The scene that followed beg-
gars description. The company was
sleeping in the little ‘pup’ tents used
in the field. As the angry animal rolled
through the field he tripped and
stumbled over the tent ropes, and in a
few minutes dozens of men were strug-
gling to get loose from the canvas and
howling in pain as the feet of the
animal landed on them. A ‘strike’ in
in a bowling alley is not more complete
than the way in which the indignant
bull demolished the company street of
tents. There was little sleep that night
in Company A.”
Lost Life Rather Than Retreat.
‘Among the interesting figures at the
recent naval maneuvres at New Lon-
don was a signal corps sergeant named
Ackers, who lay claim to one of the
most remarkable war records in the
Army. At Manila, in China and in the
West he has seen service. At the time
of the Chinese campaign he was chief
telegraph operator of the American
forces. During the battle before Tien-
Tsin Ackers was sent with a message
to Colonel Liscum of the Ninth In-
fantry, whose regiment was under
héavy fire. The orders were to re-
treat.
“I brought the word to Liscum,” said
Ackers, in telling the story. “Liscum’s
fighting blood was up and he was mad
at the idea of retreating. Turning to
me he gave me the worst wigging I
ever received. There we stood out in
the open, with the bullets flying in all
directions, and the Colonel sailing into
me for fair. Of course, I had to stand
up to attention, and it wasn’t the most
comfortable position in the world with
about 50,000 Chinese shooting at us.
“Well, Liscum had just about fin-
ished with one tack and was begin-
ning another when: all of a sudden he
doubled up and went down in a heap in
front of me. I think that was the first
time I ever regretted the end of a wig-
ging. The sheer nerve of the man to
stand up there and call me down as
if we were in barracks while bullets
were whizzing on all sides was won-
derful, but it cost him his life.”—New
York Tribune.
Saved From an Alligator.
While a number of passengers were
waiting for the morning train at Pablo
Beach, Fla., they heard the wail of a
child. Jerry Delaney, Deputy Sheriff
and a former Cincinnati policeman,
headed those who hastened to search
for the cause of the cry. A short dis-
tance away they saw a big alligator
dragging a child away, having secured
hold of its dress in its mouth. The
child was shrieking. The posse rushed
to the rescue, and the gator redoubled
‘its efforts to get to its bayou nearby.
A big dog belonging to the child came
running along and dashed at the
'gator’s head. The ‘gator whacked its
tail around with great force, dashed
the dog into its mouth which it opened
with a gulp, taking in the dog and
swallowing him with ease. The ‘gator
dropped hold of the child’s dress in the
struggle. The posse at once killed the
‘eator. It was fifteen feet long. It
is thought to have been made fierce
by hunger, as it is seldom that they
will attack human beings and espe-
cially so near a habitation. The child
was uninjured.
She Got Two Cougars With Two Bullets,
Mrs. A. 1’. Dobrowsky, the young
and pretty wife of a jeweler, killed
two mountain lions on Sunday at Bear
Mountain. The man and his wife go
every Sunday into the woods, but last
Sunday she killed her first mountain
lion. She was alone on the mountain-
side when she was attracted by the
baying of her heund. She feumd he
had a large lion up a tree. As she pre-
pared to sheot at it she saw a second
lion looking hungrily at her threugh
the thick follage. Just then her hus-
band came up, attracted by the noise
of the dog. At the count of three
two rifles rang out and twe tawny
brutes fell to the earth mertally
wounded. As they rolled in their death
struggles Mre¢. Dobrowsky saw a third
lion bigher up in the tree than his fel-
led in|
ngih began
lows lad been. She killed it with one
ball. The smallest lion measured five
{et.— San Francisco Chionicle.
THE FIRST EVICTION.
A Magyar Version of the Old Story of the
Garden of Eden.
The Magyar folk-story teller hits off
the opinion of the peasantry with re-
gard to their Roumanian and German
neighbors in a tale current among
them. It runs as follows:
When Adam and Eve fell God sent
Gabriel, the Magyar angel, to turn
them out of Eden as 4 punishment tor
their sin. Gabriel was received most
courteously, food and drink of the best
being set before him. Now Gabriel
had a kind heart and took pity upon
the poor folk, and would not accent
their hospitality, remembering his er-
rand. So he returned and begged that
some one else be sent to evict the sin-
ners, as he really could not do it.
Then Raphael, the Roumanian angel.
was sent and was received as Gabriel
had been. He, however, was very fond
of a good dinner, and so he sat down
and thoroughly enjoyed himself. The
feast over, he told the erring pair his
errand. They at once began to weep
most piteously and beg for mercy.
Their bitter sorrow so touched his af-
ter-dinner heart that he, too, returned,
and asked that some ene else be sent,
as he could not possibly turn out the
poor folk after accepting the hospital
ity. ‘Then “it was that Michael, the
German angel, was sent. He was re-
ceived as the others by the trembling
pair and treated even more sumpiuocus-
ly. He sat down and enjoyed himself
until the last morsel of food had van-
ished and there wasn’t a drop of liquor
left. 'Then he arose and, turning to his
host and hostess, said: “Now then, out
you go, and be quick about it” Most
piteously did Adam and Eve beg at
least for time, even reminding him that
he had partaken of their bread. All in
vain. Thus it was that our first parents
were driven out of Eden.
Origin of Red Cross.
In reading the record of work done
by the Red Cross in South Africa one
wonders once again that history should
be so silent as to the treatment of the
sick and wounded in the great cam-
paigns of the past. Even the inaugu-
ration of the movement in 1863 at Gen-
eva, which has enabled the world to
realize the paradox of how in the midst
of war to be at peace, created no more
stir in Burope than to give rise to but
a few lines in an out-of-the-way part
of the Times. Yet fourteen govern-
ments had sent delegates and such
aristocratic bodies as the Ancient Or-
der of St. John of Jerusalem, and such
authorities were represented as Miss
Florence Nightingale, whose work in
the Crimea had first in history stimu-
lated the imagination on behalf of the
wounded. But the immediate occasion
of the convention were the awful bat:
tles of Magenta and of Solferno, in
1859, which left 52,000 Killed and
wounded on the battlefield, their blood
giving the name to a new dye, magen-
ta. To-day more than thirty nations
are agreed to abide by the Geneva con-
vention. Toward the conclusion of the
Spanish-American war the parallel to
our blue book was a big handsome gray
volume, with a massive red cross on
the cover and fully illustrated, by Miss
Clara Barton, the American “lady of
the lamp.”—London Chronicle.
Disguised Dog as a Baby.
The most prominent of the dogs at
present in the public eye is that terrier
which its owners attempted recently
to smuggle across the Channel dis-
cuised as a baby in long clothes. It
is attracting the greatest interest at
Calais, where it is in charge of one of
the officials at the buffet at the Gare
Maritime, who, it appears, has been
commissioned to attend to the dog un-
til the owners’ return to the continent.
The dog’s name is Bob, but we fear
this is no more valuable as a means
of identification than if it had been
called Smith or Jones. It is said to
belong to an American lady and gen-
tleman, who are at present staying in
London. The animal is a large Irish
terrier, so large that it must have made
an exceedingly fine €hild when dressed
as a baby. The lady crossed from
England to the continent in nurse's
attire two days previously, and, it is
stated, traveled especially to Paris to
fetch the dog.—London Daily News.
The Way a Pocket is Picked.
The easiest, safest and some of the
most lucrative graft I ever engaged
in was when I was a boy robbing
women in the street or on the crowded
cars. I was at that time what is called
a moll-buzzer, a fly that buzzed about
women. I worked with Zack and one
or two other boys. Each of us had his
particular job to look after. I was
generally the pick, dip or tool, the hoy
that actually made the touch. My
companions were stalls—i. e., they were
to look out for the policeman, distract
the attention of the victim and cover
up my operations. As a rule one stood
in front of the sucker, one directly be-
hind him, and ome was the lookout.
Then, when we had the victim just
right, I would do the dipping.—Auto-
biography of a Thief, in Leslie's Popu-
lar Monthly.
Measles and Ammonia.
A Detroit woman who labors among
the poor children of the city was tell-
ing her experiences.
“One day there was a death in the
neighborhood—a little girl died, and
the children were visibly impressed.
They told me about it in unison,
“It was better for ber, wasn’t it,
Missus? one little girl said philoseph-
iealy.
“ ‘What was the trouble? 1 asked.
“ ‘0, anether spoke up, ‘she had
measles and ammonia on the lungs and
a lot of things.’
“I was, of course, deeply impressed
by the ‘lok of things,’ but more so by
the ‘ammenia on the Iungs.’ ”-<Detroit
Free Press,
KEYSIGHE STATE NEWS GONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
Independent Coal Company—Disass
trous Fire—Generals Relieved.
Mysterious Disappearance.
The following names were added to
the pension list during the past
week: William Gerst, Bellevue, $6;
William H. Henry, Mifilintown, $12;
Samuel J. McConnell, Wertzville,
$12; George Fisher, Great Belt, $8:
John Alexander, Shippensburg, $17;
Anthony Gouker, Dunbar, $14; Hiram
Baker, Somerset, $17; Henry W.
Hoak, Beaver Falls, Marcus Martin,
Elizabeth, $12; Charles Taylor,
Phillipsburg, $10: Gawin A. Mcl.ain,
Indiana, $6; Luther S. Collins, East
Charleston, $10; Thomas R. Luck-
hardt, Plumville, $17: Elizabeth Mor-
ris, Indiana, $8; Daniel A. Barnhill,
Newville, $10; Frank B. Koons, Hunt-
ington Mills, $12; Jacob Barley. Car-
lisle, $8; Perry Watts, Pottsville,
$10; Andrew J. Duryea, Eldred, $12;
Robert C. Hemphill, Titusville, $8.
One of the largest of the independ-
ent coal companies of the Pittsburg -
district is now being formed for the
purpose of mining and marketing
coal from a plot of 3.000 acres in this
state, near the West Virginia line-on
the Panhandle railroad. The com-
pany has applied for a charter under
the name of the Pittsburg and Wheel-
ing Coal Company It willl have a
capital of $300,000, and will issue
$160,000 in bonds. The bonds will ba
issued for the purpose of improving
the property and opening a number
of mines.
The Morgan Opera House at
Sharon was totally destroved by fire.
The loss to the opera house company
will reach $100,000. Other losses
were: W. BE. Sloughenhauf, $10,000,
partly insured; Scotch Woolen Mills
Clothing Company, loss $12,000, in-
surance, $3,500: Guy Steebe, drug
store, loss $8,000, insurance $2,500;
A. T. Brady, jeweler, loss $5,000, in-
surance $1,000.
John Rankin, employed at the Tin-
del Morris Company forge, at Ell-
wood, is mysteriously missing. Ran-
kin was working night turn and, after
eating his lunch, left , the factory.
When the men resumed work and he
did not return he was scarched for,
but in vain. He had no money, and
s0 far as known no enemies.
General @Gobin, of the Third
gade, and General Wiley, of the y
ond brigade, have been relieved from
duty by order of Major General Mil-
ler. Brigadier General Schall, of the
First brigade, assumes command of
the entire body of troops remainisg
in the mining region.
The workers at the Altoona TA
plant are having trouble securing
suitable boarding places. There ara
only a few hotels located in the vi-
cinity ‘of the glass works, and these
are of a class that do not cater to
boarders. Some blowers have left
the city to get work elsewhere.
George S. King, the oldest resident
of the Conemaugh valley, who had
long been known as the “Father of
Johnstown,” and who for many years
had heen recognized as the father of
the industry of the Alleghany moun-
tains, celebrated his ninety-third
birthday. 2 :
The Rochester Savings and Trust
Company has been organized at
Rochester. A number of the charter
members are directors in the First
National bank, and it is understood
the two institutions will be consoli-
dated.
The coroner’s inquest into the
death of Charles Clifford, murdered
at Finleyville, was held at Washing-
ton. ‘The jury decided that Clifford
came to his death as a result of
wounds inflicted by William Byasseea.
Leroy Williams, a contractor of
Dunbar, has mysteriously disappear-
ed and his friends are greatly alarm-
ed. He left home to attend the G.
A. R. encampment at Washington,
but has not since been seen.
Lawrence county farmers are
alarmed by an incendiary, who is
burning barns. Those of Miss Martha
Patterson, W. P. Kelso and James
Russell, all of North Beaver town-
ship, having been destroyed.
The Rev. J. A. Marquis, who is to
leave the Westminster Presbyterian
congregation at Greensburg, to ac-
cept a call to Redlands, Cal.,, was
presented with a purse containing
$510 by his congregation.
The officers who have been at work
on the safe robbery at the Westmore-
land Coal Company office have a
man locked up at Irwin whom they
believe to be one of the gang.
Henry W. Weddige, an old Phila-
delphia & Brie railroad engineer,
leaned from the cab of his engine
near Erie and was killed by his head
hitting a bridge.
Chemist Ashman, of Pittsburg, has
submitted to New Castle councils an
analysis of water used in teat place,
which showed it to be unfit for drink-
ing purposes.
While celebrating in Ca
Dickinson football victory
Naval Acadmey three
seriously injured.
Rev. Dr. George BE. Reed, who is
president of Dickinson college, re-
signed his position as state librarian.
The general store of Joseph Stig-
litz, at Wampum, l.awrence county,
was robbed of 3400 worth of goods.
Miss Georgia E. Shaw has resign-
ed as postmistress at New Kensing-
ton. anda lively scramble is being
made for the place.
At Mercer Frederick Bawater, aged
18, was sentenced to Morganza re-
formatory for an alleged assault com-
mitted at Sharon.
The reunion of the Fifty-severth
regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers,
was held at Sharon Friday.
rlisle the
the
students were
over
Bu blew the safe in a hotel at
Jeann securing $50 in cash and
many valuable papers.
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