DURKIN, ELLINGER, YONONSKI, SNYDER Evidently having been stricken by heart failure while ploughing, Miles DURKIN, aged 49 years, was found dead about 4:30 o'clock last Friday afternoon on the farm of BERTHOLD Brothers, one mile from Oakdale by whom he was employed. Nick GEIL saw DURKIN's body in the field as he was driving by and investigated. DURKIN was born in Pittsburgh but the DURKIN family is well known in the Noblestown section. Two brothers and two sisters survive. Funeral services were held at the home of Mrs. Peter LINDEN, a sister of Greggs Station, where the body was taken. On Wednesday evening, June 3, Leroy ELLINGER, aged twenty years, was drowned while swimming in a water tank of an oil well on the Pittsburgh Coal Co.'s farm near Venice, formerly known as the COWDEN farm. About 8 o'clock he, with his younger brother Lloyd and Alf DUNLAP, went to the tank to bathe, and about an hour later Leroy was seized with cramps and sank before he could be assisted to safety. The body was taken to the home of his brother and later removed to the home of John LUTZ, where it was prepared for burial. On Thursday the remains wee taken to his home at DuBois, Pa., where his mother resides, and where funeral services and interment took place. Leroy ELLINGER was the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. M. ELLINGER and was born June 23, 1894. With his father and brother he came to Venice and had been employed as a fireman at Montour mine No. 2 for the past six months. Besides his parents there survive two sisters and three brothers: Mrs. W. E. GINELL, Mrs. Blanche GENSMER and Thomas of DuBois; Martin of McClellandtown, now superintendent of Montour No. 2, and Lloyd of Venice. Mike YONONSKI, a Russian, was killed in Jumbo mine Tuesday afternoon by a fall of coal. His body was badly crushed. He was 52 years of age and leaves a wife, one son and one daughter, who reside in Lincoln avenue. Funeral services from the St. Alphonsus church were held Thursday morning at 9 o'clock. The interment was in the Noblestown cemetery. Mrs. William M. BELL was called to Wilkinsburg this week by the death of her brother, George SNYDER.