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    1. [PAWASHIN] Deaths around the state Dec. 28, 1917 McDonald PA Record
    2. Victoria Hospodar Valentine
    3. These are from a column in the paper which was news from around the state of PA. DAVIS, SAMSON, RIBLET, KORS, THOMPSON, COOPER, BEATTY, NIXON, WINELAND, WILSON, SALONIC Judge L. L. DAVIS, 65 years old, of the common pleas bench of Allegheny county, died from pneumonia. Ashely B. SAMSON, aged 83, a prominent farmer and stock ariser (sic), died at Washington. James RIBLET, aged 76, of Apollo, died in Canton, O., at the home of a daughter, where he was visiting. Peter KORS, 35 years old, a miner, was killed when he was crushed between a coal car and a rib of mine at Harwick. Daniel THOMPSON, pioneer resident of Ursina, died there at the age of 88 years. He was a retired lumber merchant. Abie Morris COOPER, aged 13, died at Uniontown from injuries received in falling off the roof of a house which he was assisting his father to repair. John BEATTY lost his life at Norristown in a futile effort to save his father from suffocation by coke gas at the Eagle iron works. While driving in his buggy from his home to Washington Martin NIXON, aged 74, a farmer, was killed instantly when he was struck by a Pennsylvania train at a crossing. John L. WINELAND, aged 75, of the coal firm of John L. WINELAND & Son of Martinsburg, was killed in his own coal yards when a draft of cars ran over him. Rev. William, J. WILSON 72 years old, died in his home. For 41 years he served in Presbyterian pastorates in Clarion, Westmoreland and Indiana counties. George SALONIC, an Austrian, aged 25, plunged in to the burning boarding house of Mike PORTELOK, near Warren, and never came out. His brother, John, aged 27, followed to rescue him and was fatally burned.

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