NEWS: Items from the Tyrone Herald, August 17, 1905, Blair County, PA

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The Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Thursday, August 17, 1905

  J. H. Ukkerd of Philipsburg, has received a telegram from Towanda, 
N.Y., stating that Fenton Brown, brother of Mrs. Ukkerd, was killed 
while playing ball. It is only about a week ago that the young man left 
Philipsburg after a visit to his relatives.
  M. McCann agent for the James McCann estate, has sold to W. Scott 
Smith, the property of the latter on east side of Pennsylvania avenue 
above Thirteenth street. The lot is 30x185 feet in size and contains a 
dwelling house fronting on Pennsylvania avenue.
  Manmari Inami, a Slav, was struck by engine No. 2656 hauling a 
freight train west, at No. 6 bridge, near Union Furnace, Monday. He 
received serious injuries, including a fractured skull and badly 
lacerated left arm and shoulder. Inami was brought to Tyrone where his 
injuries were dressed by Dr. J. M. Gemmill, after which he was taken to 
the Altoona hospital on No. 15 train.
  Ross Slogenhop, aged 7 years of Altoona, was the victim of an 
unfortunate accident Monday morning by which he lost the sight of his 
right eye. He and several companions were at play and got their hands 
on a railroad signal cap. The boys proceeded to touch it off by 
hammering it. They were successful and a piece of it flew up and struck 
young Slogenhop in the right eye. He was taken to the hospital, where 
an examination showed that the sight of the eye had been destroyed and 
the ball was accordingly removed.
  John Cassidy, alias John Fraley, about 19 years old, coming from 
Altoona to Tyrone on the Logan Valley Electric railway Friday noon, was 
violating the company's rules, and when remonstrated with by Conductor 
E. McIntyne, drew a revolver and threatened to do bodily harm to the 
conductor. Near Fouss' mill Cassidy left the car. Later in the day he 
was arrested at that place and brought before Esquire Davison on a 
charge embodying his misdeeds. Bail in the sum of $500 was demanded, on 
failure to secure which he was consigned to the borough bastile till 
Saturday, when Officer W. M. Snyder took him to Hollidaysburg jail.
  The idiotic custom of deluging people with confetti may result in 
destroying the eyesight of Clark Goodlin, aged eleven years, of 
Greensburg. A handful of the stuff was thrown in his face during the 
recent visit of a so-called carnival company, some of which lodged in 
his eyes. The sight of the left eye is now completely gone and it is 
feared the other will be destroyed also.
  D. T. Caldwell, agent for the W. M. Lyon estate, has sold to Samuel 
Snyder, of Tyrone, lot 32 1/2 x 180 feet on West Fifteenth street, for 
$350, and for the Lyon-Shorb estate to John B. Beam, of Northwood, plot 
of ground between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets and alley H and 
borough line for $150, and for A. M. Roberts estate to J. W. Dawson, of 
Tyrone, block No. 11, "Snyder farm." For $550.
  Walter Dalby, of Lewistown, is supposed to be the largest boy of his 
age in the state. He is just 14 years old, but stands 6 feet 3 inches 
in his stocking feet and weighs two hundred and eighty-five pounds. 
Walter has just entered the employ of the Standard steel works, where 
he will learn moulding.
  H. E. Steel, of Huntingdon, in charging a soda tank in the basement 
of his store recently narrowly escaped serious injury by the explosion 
of one of the tanks. Fortunately for him the weaker part of the tank 
was turned downward and the force was expended towards the earth. As it 
was the floor beneath was splintered. Mr. Steel is a brother of C. A. 
Steel, of this place, and is well known among Tyrone people.