News From Penna. Counties The ladies of the Curwensville Presbyterian Church have organized a Ladies' Home Missionary Society, also a Foreign Missionary Society. Addison Barber, of Millville, Cambria county, had the index finger of his right hand crushed while engaged at the Cambria Works on Monday. Mr. Daniel Selfridges, of Chest township, Cambria county, recently came across two young panthers. One of them he shot but the other one got away. The Trough Creek correspondent of the Huntingdon News informs us that Empraim Greenland, for many years a resident of Altoona, is almost blind. Robert Stewart, a resident of Houtzdale, celebrated his one hundredth birthday on Friday. He is in the apparent enjoyment of good health. Two of the children of H. S. Davis and wife, of Jackson township, Huntingdon county, a girl aged 8 and a boy of 4, have recently died of scarlet fever. A 2 year old child of James Patterson, of Duncannon, pulled a pot of boiling coffee from the stove and was so badly scalded that death ensued in a day or two. "Dens of iniquity" disgrace Bedford, and "brazen faced street walkers" ply their vocation in defiance of all the rules of common decency, which is sad indeed. The Directors of the Poor of Cambria county are considering the propriety of heating their almshouse by steam. The cost, it is said, will not exceed $2,800. The members of the First Presbyterian Church, Williamsport, have resolved to erect a new church edifice, the location being on the corner of Third and Mulberry streets. A dwelling house at Woodland, Clearfield county, occupied by a man named Ward, was recently destroyed by fire with most of its contents. The loss is put at $900. The wash house of David Hostetler, near Allenville, Mifflin county, occupied by a man named Ward, was destroyed by fire a few days ago, together with Mr. William Hostetler's entire winter supply of meat. Mrs. K. L. Green, of Clay township, Huntingdon county, while superintending her household affairs on Tuesday morning, sat down to rest and expired almost instantly. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Death of William Beamer William Beamer, notice of whose serious illness with tetanus has already appeared in the Tribune, died on Saturday night at the residence of his father, Solomon Beamer, Esq., in Millville. Mr. Beamer's affliction dated from an accident which occurred at Gallitzin more than a month since in which one of his fingers was mashed while he was coupling two cars of a freight train. Recently he caught cold in the wound and tetanus ensued, causing death, as stated, preceded by terrible suffering, that night. Deceased was a brother of the County Treasurer, I. F. Beamer, and leaves a wife and three children. The funeral took place Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment in Hutchinson's graveyard. Mr. Beamer was aged 31 years and 10 months all but four days. A particularly sad circumstance in connection with the death of Mr. Beamer is the infirm condition of his aged mother, which precludes a last look from her loving eyes into the face of her departed son. Friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral. Annie Whiteman PABlair Rootsweb List Administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair