OBIT: Reubin McDONALD, 1890, Coalmont, Huntingdon County, PA

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A Constable Fatally Hurt.
Special to the Tribune.
  Huntingdon, Pa., November 17. - Intelligence has just reached here of 
the fatal termination of an assault made on Constable Reubin McDonald, 
of Coalmont, this county, on the latter part of last week.  Coalmont is 
a mining village on the Dudley branch of the Huntingdon and Broad Top 
railroad, and the news of the assault on Constable McDonald, together 
with its deplorable ending has only reached here to-night.  It seems 
that the constable was essaying to effect the arrest of a local law 
breaker said to be named Speelman, when the latter, who was more 
muscular and active than the constable, drew a billy club from his 
pocket and struck the officer repeatedly on the head, fracturing his 
skull.  Constable McDonald hovered between life and death until this 
afternoon when it is reported here, that he died.  No intelligence can 
be obtained of the whereabouts of his assailant.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, November 18, 1890