BAROWS, BURGAN, MONROE, CHAMBON, ELY John WILES attended the funeral of Charles BAROWS at Washington last Friday. R. P. BURGAN, aged 78, president of the Carnegie National Bank, died Monday in his home, 209 Fifth avenue, Carnegie. He was born in Cornwall, England and came to this country in 1863, settling a year later in Carnegie. Mr. BURGAN started the first planing mill in Carnegie in 1867 and the first bank in the Chartiers Valley in 1874. The institution was known as the Burgan Bank until 1902, when it was taken over by the Carnegie National Bank. He organized the Carnegie Coal Company in 1899 and until three years ago, when he retired, had been its president. Mr. BURGAN also owned a box factory in Jeanette, Pa., was president of the Calumet & Sonora Mining company and of the Carnegie Lead and Zinc company and a trustee of the Carnegie branch of the Carnegie Library. He also served a term as burgess of Carnegie. A daughter, Mrs. Anna M. COLE, Shreveport, La., a brother, J. H. BURGAN, Carnegie; a sister, Mrs. Mary STEVENS, Cornwall, England; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren survive. Pittsburgh, March 28.--The body of Thomas J. MONROE, aged 49 years, of Bulger, was found on the Panhandle railroad tracks at the Smithfield street station yesterday morning by John CLISHUM, a track walker. MONROE had been struck by a train. His body was brought to the home of his sister, Mrs. Thomas WILSON, in Laurel Hill. Funeral services were conducted at the St. Alphonsus' church McDonald, Tuesday morning, in charge of Rev. J. A. BURGOON. Interment was at Mt. Oliver (sic) cemetery, Carnegie. *Compiler's note: ? Mt. Olivet cemetery Eleanor Bell CHAMBON, the twenty-months' old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank CHAMBON died on Wednesday morning at 11:30 o'clock, of pneumonia. Her death occurred at the home of Joseph CHAMBON, in Homewood where the CHAMBONs are visiting. The body was brought to the home in Fourth street Wednesday afternoon. Funeral services have not yet been arranged. Mrs. W. L. SPEER has just returned home after attending the funeral of her sister, Mrs. Clara ELY, of Paynesville, Ohio. Mrs. ELY died March 16th in a Cleveland hospital and was laid to rest in the Lakewood cemetery. All extend their sympathy to Mrs. SPEER in the loss of her sister. *Oakdale column