P. J. WALKER, James MAWHINNEY, W. J. WALLACE are the elders of the new U. P. Church recently organized at Gladden's school house on Miller's Run by Rev. Mr. DUNCAN, of Oakdale. A free site has been offered by Thomas GLADDEN and preparations for building have commenced.

Court Notes John DEVORE, horse thief, 5 yrs. 3 mos. Ben. MORGAN, Cecil, whiskey, 3 mos. Mary MCCANN, Cecil, larceny, costs, $1 fine, jail 60 days True bill against Fred. LEE charged by A. VALENTOUR with false pretense. Thomas D. GRAY, shooting James MORGAN, case postponed till February term True bill against Michael MCCARVEY, charge, aggravated battery on the person of a fellow citizen. True bill against James BANKS for felonious assault--shooting a woman at Jumbo--Officer CONLEY, prosecutor J. J. CLARK, McDonald, plead guilty to being a gambler and selling whiskey. One year and three months to the workhouse Borough Constable CONLEY appointed by court on petition to serve till next May as State Constable also, to place of Thos. D. GRAY, resigned. Com. vs. Daniel MORAN, McDonald, selling liquor without license, on Sunday and to minors, keeping gambling and carrying concealed weapons; pleaded guilty; sentenced to pay costs, fine $500, workhouse nine months. Daniel MORAN was recalled and told by the court that it had come to light that he was an old offender and that therefore his sentence was increased to two years.

Oct. 20, 1894 McDonald PA Outlook An Outlook reporter had the pleasure of a conversation with Mr. W. H. KIRKPATRICK, an aged citizen of this place. He told how he, in '56, in company with Jefferson HOFFMAN, now of Center avenue, McDonald, Joseph HOFFMAN, John SMITH (a great-uncle of Mrs. Thos. PYLES, of McDonald), James SMITH, John BRICELAND, Thomas and Peter SHOOK, started from Noblestown, went by way of the sea and the Isthmus to the California gold fields. Some of these died there, and the two survivors, Jeff. HOFFMAN and KIRKPATRICK, spend their declining days within a few miles of where they started on their adventurous trip nearly forty years ago. Mr. KIRKPATRICK recalls vividly the tragic death of Robert STURGEON, father of Mr. Samuel STURGEON, of McDonald at his old mill on the North Branch, long ago. Mr. STURGEON had stopped the machinery, which was run by water power, and gone into the big water wheel to put a "trundle head" on the "crown wheel," when the water rushed on and ground the unfortuna! te man up in the wheel. His son Fred. and Jacob MCEWEN found him there. Willow Grove Column (Sturgeon)

PATTERSON, BROWN, ADAMS, WHITE, MEANS, SMILEY Sept. 5, 1896 McDonald PA Outlook Hugh PATTERSON, Eldersville, unmarried, died, Saturday, on the farm where he was born in 1807. The mother of Mrs. Wm. WRIGHT, Mrs. BROWN, died at her home at Carnegie on Wednesday of this week. At Washington, Robert H. ADAMS, because of a quarrel with his wife, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. At Washington Saturday night two miners named Wilber LEWIS and Isaac WHITE quarreled and the former fatally shot the latter. John P. MEANS, a farmer, 73 years old, father-in-law of Culvert GREER, fell from an apple tree on his North Strabane farm and received fatal injuries. Thomas SMILEY, formerly a resident of Robinson township, died at Scroggsville, O., on the 30th, aged 82 years.

Recently in Belgium they make a draft for the army and Victor VERSCHUREN, of the east end was drawn to serve three years. He and his father are American citizens, but Belgian law will not allow Victor to go back there without serving. The names of Fred. CHARLIER, Louis VEYDT, Paul LECLERC, J. B. LAUVAUX were also drawn, but their numbers were lucky, and they are not called. Augustine SUFFRONT, about six weeks ago went back to Belgium and took his chance in the drawing and was lucky. The fate of Monsieur PENCIS, another McDonald man whose name was drawn, is yet uncertain.

WALKER, POLIKER James G. WALKER, born and raised near Noblestown and who emigrated to Lawrence county in 1872, died on the 9th of January, aged 76 years. Joseph POLIKER, a German, employed in the mines of the Canonsburg coal company, at Canonsburg, was killed Monday afternoon by a fall of slate.

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On Hundred Years Ago The First Settlers of Robinson Township.--Indian Massacres.--A Most Interesting and Hitherto Unpublished Account of Early Days Hereabouts. (Written for the Outlook by a lady who has access to the records.) A wise teacher gave this advice to his pupils: When studying history, always begin from your own doorstep, and study outwards in a circle. This sage bit of advice suggests the inquiry, how much do we know in regard to the early settlement of our own township? How many of us can trace its primitive history back to its earliest existence? Donning my thinking cap, and being somewhat of an antiquarian, I found I was in possession of some of the doorstep history which perhaps may be of interest to some of your readers. As far as I can ascertain, the first white persons who made a permanent settlement within its borders were a Mr. BIGGER and family, who came from the northern part of Ireland, and located on the land now owned by his grandson, Mathew BIGGER, near Robinson Church, in the year 1774. Here, unaided except from helf given by a faithful wife, he succeeded in erecting a log cabin, clearing two acres of land which he planted in corn and potatoes. For six months he was not awar that he had a neighbor nearer than Fort Pitt, although there were at that time a few families living on Miller's Run. Salt and other necessary articles being exhausted, Mr. BIGGER was obliged to leave his wife and child alone in this boundless forest,with no protection save the all seeing eye of the Almighty Father, during his absence. Then supplies could not be obtained west of the Alleghenies, therefore six weeks elapsed before he could return with the much needed supplies. The next year they were joined by the BAILEY Brothers and their families, also from the northern part of Ireland, who located nearby. Their descendents still occupy the land. As far as I can ascertain, these two families formed the nucleus for the first settlement in Robinson township. The Indians, who heretofore had been peacefully inclined, after the capture of Fort Duquesne by the English, were incited by the French to deeds of crulty against the English settlers. While William BAILEY (one of the brothers of whom mention has already been made), with two brothers, SHEARER by name, and a Mr. MCNEILY, were reaping wheat on the farm now owned by Mark KESLO, they ere attacked by a band of Indians. The SHEARER brothers were both killed. MCNEILY ran up the run, and was killed near the line between the REED farm and that of Jas. DONALDSON. William BAILEY ran down the run to Robert GEARY's farm, being favored with much length of limb, would have escaped, had the! bank not given away while jumping the run precipitating him backwards into the run when he was captured. The Indians started across the country to the Ohio river wit their prisoners. Word was immediately sent to Fort Pitt, and a rescuing party was sent down the river on the opposite side, where they lay in ambush, to capture them when they landed. But the sharp eyes of the Indians penetrated their hiding place, and they immediately turned their canoe and made for the opposite shore. The soldiers opened fire upon them, killing many of them. The Indian who had Mr. BAILEY in his bark canoe being shot, he upset it, oping to drown him as his hands were tied behind his back and a rope around his neck which was made fast to the canoe. Fortunately as it went over his hands became unloosed, and being a good swimmer he struck out for his friends, but could make but little headway with the canoe fast to his neck. The Indians on reaching the shore made him a target for their ar! rows. Two soldiers swam out and rescued him from his perilous conditi on in an almost exhausted condition. He was taken to Fort Pitt and was soon back in his old home. The SHEARER brothers were buried north of BEELER's fort, in what is now Candor cemetery. BEELER's Fort took its name from the farm on which it stood. The farm is now owned by the WORK Brothers. During the Indian troubles the BIGGER family took refuge in a fort on Miller's Run. While in this fort Mr. BIGGER's mother died, and was brought for burial to the same place the SHEARERs were laid, this locality being selected by Mr. BIGGER as the place where he supposed the church of the future would be locate. In Candor cemetery, you may find this grave protected by a stone slab in a good state of preservation, bearing the date, May 20th, 1780. Two years afterward, or in 1782, Raccoon Presbyterian Church was organized. A log church was built near the site of the old fort. Seven acres of ground surrounding it including the cemetery wer purchased for 9 pounds specie. This was t! he only church within the township until 1888 at which time Robinson U. P. Church was organized. The first pastor, Rev. Joseph PATTERSON was installed Nov. 11th, 1789. In the southeastern part of the township, not far distand from the town of McDonald was an Indian trading post; also a fort. Both on the Edward MCDONALD farm. In this fort the early settlers in that locality would take refuge when danger threatened. The only families of which I have any knowledge, whose ancestors found protection within its walls,is that of the ROBBs, who are well represented at the present time in the same locality. Nearly 120 years ago, at early dawn, their stalwart forms might have been seen issuing from this their city of refuge, and wending their way with rapid strides up Robbs's Run, not to post themselves as to the projunction of the last new oil well, but with bated breath and anxious eye they pressed forward not knowing but what their wary foes might have consigned their ... cabins to ashes, and laid waste to emerging corn and potatoes, the ...

ANSELE, WOLFE The wife of Hippolite ANSELE, who lives near the Nickel Plate mine, died on Sunday. Deceased had been in this country only about a year. An infant child of Mr. John WOLFE, who lives on the W. H. WILSON farm, in North Fayette, died on the 7th.

MCNAY, CALDWELL, JONES, WELSH J. B. MCNAY, station agent at Boyce, on the Chartiers Valley Railway, died on Friday after a short illness. At Paris, this county, last Saturday, Mrs. Martha CALDWELL committed suicide by shooting herself through the heart. She had done up her work, make out her bread and set it to raise, sent the children away and then committed the awful deed. Her husband was also absent. No cause is known. She was about 34 years of age, leaves a husband and three children living, a boy 13 years old, and two daughters aged 10 and 7 respectively. One child dead. Her father is Thomas LINDSEY, of Burgettstown, and she has two sisters and one brother. At Midway, on the 22d, of diphtheria, Eva, daughter of Wm. JONES, the druggist, aged seven years. At Washington, D. C. on the 19th, Mr. Ferdinand WELSH, formerly of Midway. Deceased was a printer and at one time worked in the Outlook office.

DILLON, GIFFIN Died on the 19th inst., at the residence of his father, Edward DILLON, on the SAUTERS farm in Robb's Valley, of brain fever, Willie DILLON, aged five years. The funeral was on Sunday, services being conducted by. Mr. IRONS. Deceased was the only son in the family. Died at her home, near Venice, on the 19th inst., at an advanced age, Miss Nancy GIFFIN. Deceased resided with a sister, Miss Beckie, who survives her. She was the sister of the father of Messrs. Justus and Minus GIFFIN.

ABSTRACTED FROM THE JUNE 1894, McDONALD, PA OUTLOOK NEWSPAPER JONES-PROSSER Maggie PROSSER To Enoch N. JONES, East Liverpool June 18, 1894 Home of Joseph Fielding, West End Rev. Dr. Irons Will reside in Kittanning ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ABSTRACTED FROM THE NOVEMBER 17, 1894 McDONALD, PA OUTLOOK NEWSPAPER FARRAR-HASTINGS Flora HASTINGS To Richard FARRAR, Cherry Valley November 14, 1894 Home of L. S. Goebring, 724 Wallace Ave. Rev. M. M. Patterson Note: Announcement heading read "Wilkinsburg" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

FEBRUARY 18, 1893, OUTLOOK, McDONALD, PA R. R. COWDEN, of Venice, and Miss Lizzie VOGLE, of Woodrow, were married February 15th, at Washington, by Rev. T. R. ALEXANDER. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MARCH 4, 1893, OUTLOOK, McDONALD, PA Licensed to marry: Marcus W. CHEESEBROUGH and Myrtle M. CRAWFORD, both of North Fayette township. Licensed to marry: Oscar AILSHOUSE and Elizabeth GARRETT, both of Noblestown. Licensed to marry: D. W. SIMPSON, Walker's Mills, and Jennie W. FRAZIER, Oakdale. Squire Newton performed his first marriage ceremony on the first inst., in joining in wedlock Peter COALING and Miss Louisa METZ of that place. (Oakdale column) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MARCH 11, 1893, OUTLOOK, McDONALD, PA Licensed to marry: John BURKHART and Julia REITMULLER, Willow Grove. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MARCH 18, 1893, OUTLOOK, McDONALD, PA Licensed to marry: Stephen E. EVANS, of McDonald, and Minnie E. SNEATHEN, of Pittsburg. Cards are out for the marriage of Miss Mary, daughter of Mr. C. R. POTTER, of this place, to Mr. John CAMPBELL of Midway, on the 29th of this month. A marriage license has been granted George DURBAN and Miss Kate NEIDERPRIMM, both of McDonald. Mr. S. S. JOHNS and daughters, Misses Tacy and Maggie, this week went to St. Louis where Miss Maggie and Mr. Daniel HARDY, Superintendent of the Iron Mountain Road, were on Friday married. On the 14th inst., at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. Thomas WASSON, near McDonald, by Rev. Dr. CATHCART, Mr. Henry BERTHOLD, of Oakdale, and Miss Etta WASSON. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

JUNE 1894, OUTLOOK, McDONALD, PA McCABE-McALISTER Cards are out for the marriage on June 30 of Miss Mary McALISTER, sister of C. B. McALISTER, to Dr. A. D. McCABE, of Newcastle. The wedding will take place at the home of the bride in Moon Township. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OCTOBER 20, 1894 OUTLOOK, McDONALD, PA Cards are out for the marriage of Mr. O. BERLIN and Miss MULVEY. Willow Grove (Sturgeon) column ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CARLIER-BAPTISTE The CARLIER-BAPTISTE wedding was the "event of the season" here. McDonald's handsome magistrate, 'Squire HARDGROVE performed the ceremony that linked irrevocably two human destinies. The bride received many handsome presents. The Willow Grove furnished appropriate music, and dancing wound up the festivities. (Willow Grove (Sturgeon) column) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Married, John ECCLES, of Cecil, and __lla M. SCOTT, Bridgeville. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DECEMBER 29, 1894, OUTLOOK --Nuptial Record-- James KELLY and Alice DUFFY, of McDonald Peter ZIRWAS and Marie MEYER of Midway Joseph ROMAN and Matilda MENTE, of Willow Grove Charles BROWN and Malinda GREEN, both of McDonald Lon. JARRETT, Reissing, and Nettie HARVEY, Willow Grove Percy A. DOUBLE, McDonald, and Mary E. GRIFFITH, Pittsburg ... by 'Squire LOVE, ... AUROY and Adelin ARGERIN, ... llow Grove. ... th inst., at the Presbyterian ..., at Sharpsburg, by Rev. ... PSON, Mr. Frank FOSTER and ... rzah SOLES, both of McDonald. ... FOSTER is one of our repres... business men, and the Outlook ...nds congratulations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Monsieur A. CADOUL, being unable to get any insurance on his Barr street grocery, will on the first remove the greater part of his goods to a new building he has erected near the Champion Coal Works and opposite the Mankedick tipple on the Noblestown road. A new town is growing up at this place, which will extend across the bottom the railroad, and there is talk of the railroad moving the Willow Grove station down there. A name for the new town is wanted and the Outlook suggests "Champion". Mr. CADOUL will still have a branch store at the old stand on Barr street.

SMITH (2), MAJOR, KURZROCK Died on the 19th inst., at his residence near Bulger Station, of general debility, William SMITH aged about 80. Died at Carlton, Kansas, on the 23d inst., John MAJOR, aged 31 years. Deceased was the oldest son of David and Mary MAJOR, who lives at CARLTON, and a brother of Mrs. James BELL of Midway. He was well known here. Has been in the west five or six years. Died on the 23d inst., at his home on the south side, Mr. Jacob KURZROCK, at an advanced age. Mr. Wm. SMITH of Smith township, died at his home near Bulger Friday evening, Dec. 18 at 8 p.m. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. G. M. KERR, of Candor, assisted by Rev. Dr. BOYD of Castle Shannon. Mr. SMITH was past his 80th year. He had long been a resident of Bulger and will be much missed by all who knew him. *Bulger column

A successful beginning The First National Bank of McDonald opened for business at 9 a.m. on Wednesday. About $10,000 was deposited the first day. The safe has been placed in a fireproof vault built of bricks laid in cement. The officers of the institution are: President, Edward MCDONALD; directors, J. D. SAUTERS, W. B. MOORHEAD, J. R. GLADDEN, Samuel STURGEON, J. A. HUNTER, David CAMPBELL, Sam'l. SHANE, P. HOEY, and Edward MCDONALD. Mr. KELSO, of the Burgettstown National Bank is assisting the management for a few days.

STOCKTON, NICHOLS, MCLAUGHLIN Dr. James C. STOCKTON died in Philadelphia on May 18. He was a son of Rev. STOCKTON of Cross Creek, a brother of T. C. STOCKTON, M.D., and also a brother of Mrs. Margaret LEE, who died on the 17th of this month and, like his sister, died from the effects of La Grippe. The remains were buried at Cross Creek Presbyterian Church. *In case you are wondering, la grippe is the flu. Near McKee's Rocks on Monday evening, Miss Cora NICHOLS, a well-educated young lady, was found dead, with a bullet in her head, in her father's barn. She had gone there for a chicken. She took the revolver but did not shoot it. It has been caught alive, its head was cut off, and it was lying beside her. The revolver with three empty barrels was near. The ball entering the head ha been fired from a distance, there being no powder marks. It is believed that some Hungarians working nearby had been fired at by her three times in return for some insult offered and that they returned the fire and killed her. Mm. MCLAUGHLIN, aged 79 years, died at the old MCLAUGHLIN homestead in Cecil on the 18th.

Mr. W. A. COOK, of Washington, Iowa, has during the past week been among friends here. He is a delegate to the U. P. General Assembly in Allegheny. Mr. COOK's father was John COOK, a brother of Miss Elizabeth COOK, of Arabella street, and whose wife was Jane SAVAGE, daughter of Wm. SAVAGE, who formerly lived in North Fayette, and sister of the mother of the LOCKHART brothers. Jane COOK was a cousin of the Doctor and of S. H. COOK.

HOLMES, TIDBALL, CAMPBELL At Collier station on . Albert HOLMES, a son of Joseph HOLMES, who recently . Houstonville to the house . PLANCE on Center avenue, was killed by the cars. While pulling o. the chain broke and he was . the track and run over. He was taken to a Steubenville hospital where he died. Both legs and one arm were cut off. The remains were brought to his father's house on Wednesday and the funeral was on Thursday. Services were held at the Presbyterian Church to which place the corpse was taken, and the interment was at the Arlington Cemetery. Albert HOLMES was about 21 years old. He had been on the road about two years. Recently he had been promoted to Conductor ad was assigned to a train of which he was to take charge in about two weeks. Thos. TIDBALL, brakeman on the work train, was killed at Jumbo Thursday afternoon while coupling cars. He was in between two cars that came very close together when coupled, and holding the coupling pin he signaled to George FITZSOMMONS, the paper man, who was standing near, to give the engineer the signal to back up. The engineer would not take FITZSIMMON's signal, so TIDBALL ran out, gave the signal and went back between the cars as they came together, but was unable to get himself into a safe position, and his head was caught between the cars and crushed. He was not injured any other way. This occurred at 2:35, while funeral services were being conducted in the Presbyterian Church over the body of another railroad man who had been killed Tuesday evening, Albert HOLMES. He died a half an hour later. The remains were taken to his house at Woodville. He was a single man and the only support of his mother. W. S. CAMPBELL, flagman on the local freight between Washington and Pittsburg, was killed Friday afternoon at Bower Hill by the cars.