Oil Stove Exploded Set Fire to Home of Mrs. James Sherdon Last Evening Quite an excitement was caused at 6:20 last evening at the store of Mrs. Sherdon, 1428 Second avenue, by the explosion of an oil stove used for heating purposes. The burning oil was scattered about the premises, but the flames were extinguished without calling the fire department and without any damage except to the stove. No. 2 fire company was sent to the residence of A. C. Moudy, 512 Tenth street, to extinguish a burning flue at 10:40 this morning. When they arrived the danger was over and they were not in service. -------------------------------- Wagons In Collision A horse belonging to the Fleischman Yeast company took fright and ran away on Eighth avenue this morning and at Seventh avenue and Twenty-fifth street, unable to pass on account of a sewer that is being laid there, collided with the delivery team of Grocer I. W. Hoover. Hoover's wagon was slightly damaged, while the Fleischman wagon and its shafts and the harness broken. neither drivers nor horses were injured. -------------------- Truant Was Arrested Boy Caught by School Officer served Term at Glen Mills Harry Krammie of 400 Spruce avenue, aged 15, and who once served eighteen months at the Glen Mills school, was arrested at his home early this morning by Truant Officer Bratton and will be taken before Alderman J. J. Irwin, representative of the Glen Mills school, for disposition of his case. It is said that young Krammie has been out of school, playing truant, for several days, and, as he stayed away from home at nights, Officer Bratton had a hard time locating him. He is a pupil at the Fairview school building. ------------------ More Dogs Executed Six unclaimed dogs were executed this morning at the pound on Ninth avenue. The number brings the death list up to 127. Many more than that number of dogs fell into the net of the catchers, but many were claimed and as the redemption fee was paid by the owners, the captured animals were released. A number of others await the death sentence. ------------------------ Railroad Trespasser Robbed Mike Gusher, aged 17, a young Austrian who has been in this country but a few months, was beating his way on a freight train several days ago, near Kittanning Point, he was attacked by several Americans, who were also trespassing, and badly beaten up and robbed of all his money. Yesterday forenoon he was wandering about the upper end of the yard when he was arrested by Railroad Officers Shaffer and Spallone and taken before Alderman John J. Irwin. ---------------------------- Chapter of Minor Accidents While playing with a dog near her home, a small daughter of W. H. Swan of 242 Crawford avenue, was bitten on the arm. William Beeler, aged 33, of 1213 Sixteenth street, had has left hand caught in a drill in the local railroad shops Saturday, and sustained a laceration of the second finger. John Brumbaugh, aged 29, of 509 Sixth avenue, Juniata, severely scalded his neck and face, Saturday, by escaping steam, while he was employed on an engine in the local railroad shops. ------------------------------- Woman Struck By Train While crossing the railroad tracks to pay a call at the home of a neighbor yesterday afternoon at 2:27, Mrs. Catharine Beers, aged 60 years, who makes her home with her son, J. W. Beers, an operator, opposite the Cove Forge station, some distance this side of Harrisburg, was struck by train No. 43, Pittsburg Day express, which arrives in this city at 5 o'clock, sustaining serious injuries. The woman, owing to her age, is hard of hearing and did not notice the approach of the last passenger train. Her body was hurled some distance and in addition to serious internal injuries she sustained a dislocation of the left arm at the shoulder. She was carried back to the home of her son and a railroad company physician from Marysville was hurried to the place. While her injuries are of a serious character, she may recover. -------------------------- Annie Whiteman PABlair Rootsweb List Administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair