Indiana County Gazette (Newspaper) - September 6, 1905, Indiana, Pennsylvania by fire night and Improved Accommodations CLUB TO PARTICIPATE is in readiness promises to be one of the the direction County Agricultura improvements have and numerous good at secured that have ever society has gone to great ex to make the grounds convenient and commodious for attend the fairs and fifty been planted during and seats am been erected in the grove many have an op to sit down when they be be ample room this year people who drive to the bitch their horses as the ground south of the stock bemused that purpose of society have AM 1 water lines run into the have been ces sb there an adequate water supply attractions this year will be oi iry Possibly the 41ft Hippo elves relay races and company 1600 on the race other amusements will be the Ocean Wave Reeid Band of 24 give concerts during the will all be machinery and the will both be large of the first i of tbe Farm pits by tbe Indi Wednesday the classes on Thura pace and a race bv on Friday to seat people ust west of the grand bas agents at al ia part of tbe State in to bring their fast 90 that all tbe races on tbe society f very pne wKp may attend a Ibf on U Win to ftt the on o and belonging wib totally destroyed night It ig said to ave been the work qtf an incendiary The blaze was discovered by PeW who lives nearby about 40 oclock Stiles spread tbe alarm and soon many people Were 6n the scene The brigade re but the flames had gained too much headway for them to do any good and the budding burned to the ground The house was not tenanted and there inside The 16ss amounts to between two and three hundred dollars and there was no in surance It is believed that the blaze was due to Incendiarism a there was no other way by which the building could have been fired This is the second fire In Cherry tree in the past month and in each case it looks as though it was the work of an incendiary The house that burned last night is an old landmark having been stand 65 years INDIANA DEFEATED JEANNETTE Was Too Much for the On The Indiana Base ball club defeated tbe Eikin team of Jeannette on Sat by a score of 13 to 3 OLeary pitched for and proved to be too big a for as they got only five hits and most of these came in tbe last inning OLeary went through his regular performance by knocking ont a home rnn The batting of St and the fielding of were tbe game St bad three hits and a score of two runs two hits one three assists and no errors The score by inning R H B Indiana 03000703 9 Elkins 5 Eateries Indiana OLeary and St Elkins Granger and Mooney TYPHOID AT NANTICOKE Over a Hundred Cases Reported and Schools Have Closed WilkesBarre a suburb of this city is in tbe throes of a typhoid epidemic Physicians claim there are over a hundred oases The school board at a meeting last decided to close tbe schools in definitely The county coroner f ears that they will have use tbe schools for hospitals Three deaths have so and literature Is distributed ing citizens to boll tbe water and to take sanitary to prevent sporadic epidemic Capt Company Will Gather There In October The reunion of tbe survivors of Oo D 206th Regt wai com manded William O Gordon during tbe Civil war will be beld in on Thursday Oot 13 Every member who expects to be present notify James M Mar of Indiana who has charge of tbe arrangements This reunion la likely to prove tbe biggest thing in thin line during the pear in Indiana as it is thought other commands will meet at at tbe game time WEEVIL f New bugs in the agricultural department Chicago Inter Ocean CLARK NEIL TO ANSWER A CHARGE OF MURDER Blairsville Intersection Youth Has Terrible Experiences as Result of Shooting Affray INTERESTING LEGAL POINTS Does a Former Conviction for As sault and Battery Destroy the Validity of Murder Charge CASE ATTRACTS MUCH NOTICE wJU be merry An effort will the stores give after were file W Mri H Gross of Pine Flats died Monday at 3 m at tbe age of 55 years Mrs Gross bad baen for over a year with of tbe She is sur ber husband and five Funeral will be con ducted fey Rev E Lee Perry of Indiana afternoon ai 9 and interwent will in the Fine fiat graveyard The unfortunate case of Neil of Blairsville Intersection is again before tbe Westmoreland county courts This time Neil is with tbe murder of E H Neil it will be recalled was found guilty of assault and battery at May term of court for tbe injuries inflicted on and was fined 135 and costs died a few weeks ago as a result it Is alleged of the bullet wound by Neil and bis Indictment on tbe charge of murder followed The Important question Involved is whether a former conviction on a charge of assault and battery Stal living at tbe time of tie trial will not excuse Neil from a second hearing on tbe point of being twice put in for tbe same offense Another question is whether or not in case Nell ia compelled to stand trial on this charge of murder his former conviction may not stop him from setting up certain lines of defense Nell it will be recalled it the express officer of tbe Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Blairsville Intersection who shot one night last COUNCIL DOES A OF BUSINESS A Busy Session Was Monday Night and Many Im portant Matters Taken Up MORE SEWERS TO BE BUILT Applicants for Street Lights Must Walt Until New Contract Is Made With the Electric Company THE WEEDS MUST BE CUT Town council held a busy and im portant meeting on Monday night Petitions asking for street arc lights were presented as follows One at Philadelphia and Fourteenth streets with 28 signers at Twelfth and Wash ington with 20 signers and at Thir and Washington with 21 sign ers W M Mahan appeared on behalf of a street light is much desired by the people living in the vi of Wayne avenue and Grant street Council decided to hold over these John John died at residence Jo OB Thursday morning He was ased 7 years The body brought to were held Id tbe lja after made In the to February Neil thought be waa about to be attacked by and fired the shot The bullet entered tbe mouth of and emerged at tbe back of tbe neck PLEASANT FAMILY N Children and 9f Wf Home A reunion of tbe family of Mr and Mm Thomas Wiggins was held at their home sear Parkwood on Satur day Tbe eons and daughters with their children and a number of were no that tbe as sera binge wai a large one dinner course wai be principal feature of the occasion was nerved in a grove near the bouse Afterwards there was music and ing and a general good Among those present with tbe foils were S W Wiggins 190 of Heights wife and Denier county 5 Mrs H J and ber Mrs Lowry Mr lie and ber five children all of Indiana i Mrs Maggie Steele and her daughter JJ Wiggins bis wife and two daughters B bis wife and three matters until after a new contract had been made with the Electric Co The question of the yearly bli paid for street lights was taken up Some correspondence was read showed that Kittanning pays 938 per year each for candle power lamps Latrobe and Greens burg pay for candle power Indiana has 160 for candle power Several petitions for sewers having been presented in proper form on mo tion the clerk and the borough engi neer were authorized to advertise and receive bids for the construction of sewers as follows On Philadelphia street from Sixth to Eighth and on Water street from Sixth to Seventh It is thought several other petitions will be presented before the bids are taken and can be included in the work to bedone this fall A number of bills presented were taken up and ordered paid but those of tbe Clymer Water Co for and of tbe Indiana Electric Co were held over for investigation The matter of street crossings was also considered Council recognize that there are many places where crossings should be put in and J tjie clerk and tbe borough engineer to take bids for the construc tion of both vitrified brick and ce ment crossings In a great many places about town property holders have allowed the weeds to grow up along their side walks tp such an extent as to make the walks almost impassable The was requested to have the lice notify property holders where condition to have the weeds or grass removed before the end Of this week otherwise they will be by the borough and the worfe fep the owners pf Pine m At fatuity from by Smoke Almost smothered by Goph bis flf Pine weya Awakened from sleep night at n to fl id thair home in their mea they their way to flod the entire their borne and their in tbe embrace of the fire demon Theh cries of fire brought a crowd of workers to the scene but the flames had made such headway that it was impossible to save the building Their efforts were directed towards saving the household goods and in tney were partially successful the furniture of two rooms down stairs being taken ont But all the stock of groceries in the store and the clothing furniture and bedding on the second floor were burned Ihe flue originated in the store room but from what cause is not known Mr Woodside closed the store shortly after 9 at time everything seemed right The building was owned by Lincoln Gibson who carried no insurance Woodside bud insurance on the goods in tbe store KISKI ATHLETE MARRIED Harry Catcher of Crack Team Harries Telephone Operator New Brighton 5Aftec a few weeks courtship and to prise of their friends as well as the parents of the bride and groom Harry Pfeiffer and Edith Sharrer were married at last Friday The announcement was made public Saturday by the brides father and the romance Is now the talk of the town is one of the best amateur athletes in Western For the past two years he has been at Springs school He is a son of Mrs Sarah J Peiffer of Allegheny and is said to be wealthy in his own right The bride for sometime has been an operator at the local exchange of the Bell Telephone company DROPPED DEAD AT TABLE John Donahue Expired While Eating Dinner With His Family While eating his dinner and sur his family John Donahue of near Taylorsville fell forward and died about noon last Friday Mr Donahue had been troubled with and heart disease but was in his usual health and was seat ed at the dinner table He was aged about 70 years and is survived by hie wife and several children Funeral services were held Sunday forenoon at 10 oclock Interment being in the Taylorsville church graveyard ACCIDENT ON B R P Handcar Ran Down at DuBole Three Men Killed DaBois Sept serious accident here this morning in the yard of the railway A band oar with 14 Italians aboard going In a dense fog was run down by a work train south bound Six were hit and badly injured three will die For brothen named are mong injured f ifj f flit F Many Laws are Will j ROADS ARE IN V Mr William J Jack and Martha B Taylor both of town were united in by tbe pastor Lewis Hay of tbe Lutheran church early this morning left on tbe train for LOB where Mr Jack has been elected teacher and director In tbe Los Angeles Military Academy Mr Jack is a son of the Hon and Mrs S M Jack and is a graduate of Tale where be won both and fame Tbe is daughter of Mr and Mrs A T Taylor Both have in local social affairs and ate deservedly popular Tbe wedding was a very quiet oue only tbe immediate families o tbe contracting parties will be ia attendance k Immediately after tbe ceremony the bridal couple were driven lo P M station where they started on tbe trip west For the first years the Grand Ju jury met week JT Owing to the Fair there will be no cases that are being beard For an hour Monday mArnin Telford was on the bench tions and then p The first thing taken was stables returns These most cases do not create much est but there are a time From Green township turn that loose are pi hand boards not sold with put r West Whes bridge out of Index boards not all and Young reports of liquor i North and Illegal selling of Montgomery repor of liquor Nineteen responded to their Nichol of Green v as foreman The instructions of Grand Jury were of an explanation of He then defined some of to be passed upon ly high crime charged seph Moorhead of the Grand J ury J r Court then heard a nonsuit m the cafe of vs George Bennett oases of illegal liquor turned by the different con were taken up arrests the Grand yesterday c Joseph a traveri empaneled and the first c list for was then It is an appeal from Peace The Peter Riddle and Margaret a farm jointly Thomas farm under lease from and the time He was to the the crops under Peter Riddle son to go on tbe place mai offered him i place weed tbe straw controversy resented represented Tbe value of tne thirty or thirtyfive The testimony in in by noon on Tuesday Tbe case pf Q sorne 9oal Tne Grand been very dinner pn Tuesday A Mr John and Miee of ft Ibf
