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    1. KENNEDY, FOSTER Feb. 1, 1896 McDonald PA Outlook
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    3. KENNEDY, FOSTER Miss Lulu KENNEDY Killed A son and daughter of Mrs. Eliza LINDSEY KENNEDY meet sudden death within a year. The people of Miller's Run Presbyterian congregation, near Venice, will be shocked at the death of Vance RIDDILE, son of one of their old friends, Mrs. Emma THOMPSON RIDDILE--all which is recorded on the first page of this issue. Mrs. Eliza LINDSEY KENNEDY was born and raised on the farm near by the THOMPSON farm, and she and her family were well known for years to all those who attended that church. Her husband is 'Squire KENNEDY and they live in Crafton. About a year ago their son, Will KENNEDY, a promising young man was brought to their home dead--killed in an accident in the Westinghouse works. And now it becomes the painful duty of the printer to give some details respecting the dreadful death of Miss Lulu KENNEDY, who was last Monday killed by a train a short distance above the Birmingham depots, South Side, Pittsburg. On that day, Miss KENNEDY (who was a stenographer in Pittsburg) and a lady friend and a child, of Crafton, were coming home together from the city,and at the Fourth Ave. station they took a wrong train--a P. V. & C. train--and on the South Side, near the junction with the Panhandle, they discovered their mistake, and a brakeman stopped the train and let them off. He told them if they hurried they could get to Birmingham in time to catch the Panhandle train they wanted. The women started to walk up the track. When opposite the Castle Shannon incline, they saw an eastbound passenger train approaching them. They became confused by the network of tracks and cross-over switches and did not know what track the train was on. Her companion and the child stepped onto one track and Miss KENNEDY onto another. An instant later Miss KENNEDY was struck and killed. Her skull was crushed and one foot cut off by the wheels. The body was taken to Birmingham station and a patrol wagon sent for to convey it to the South Side morgue. As the wagon with the corpse was going along Carson St., the horse got frightened at something and ran off and the men who were driving it were seriously injured. Miss KENNEDY was 19 years old. The funeral was on Thursday, the funeral party passing through here on its way to Miller's Run Cemetery, where the interment was. DOUGLASS and ROGERS of this place were the undertakers. (The front page of this paper is missing so I don't have the obit for Vance RIDDILE) Francis FOSTER died at his home on Station St., McDonald, on Saturday, the 25th ult., at 3 a.m. The funeral was on Monday, services were conducted at the Presbyterian church by Rev. Mr. JORDAN, and the interment was at Arlington. Frank FOSTER was 38 years old. He was one of the most popular men ever in the valley, and he was an unusually active and efficient business man. He has been known about McDonald for 15 years or more. For some time he was express agent and he procured free express delivery for the town. Afterwards he went into the real estate and insurance business, and established a good business, which, since he was kept in the house by his illness--consumption--has been managed by Mr. E. B. MCCARY. Mr. FOSTER was married twice, his first wife, who died some years ago, being Laura, daughter of Amos LOVE, Esq., by whom he had two children, only one, "Frank," now living. Within the last two years he was married to Miss Theresa SOLES, of Latrobe, Pa. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and also prominent in the Order of Heptasophs. His mother, Mrs. Isabella FOSTER, lives at Venice. His sister Annie is the wife of Cashier G. S. CAMPBELL; his sister Lizzie is Mrs. Lyman MCILHENNY, of Robb Valley; another sister is Mrs. PATTERSON, of Venice; and he has one brother, Ross, of Cleveland, who was recently here to see him. The FOSTER family came to this valley many years ago from Mt. Lebanon near Pittsburg, the head of the house having died when the children were small, and Francis was at first a salesman at the SAUTERS house. It is about a year now since he first took hemorrhage of the lungs, and, while most people expected he could not live long, yet when it ... *Remainder of page missing

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