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KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED. ROBBERS LEFT A TRAIL. Stolen Wheat Dropped From a Hole in a Sack. The granary of James Soults, of Sugar Grove, was robbed of 50 bushels of wheat Monday night. Soults discovered the robbery the next morning and also found a trail, a hole having been forced into one of the grain sacks by the robbers in their haste, allowing the wheat to fall out in a small stream. Soults followed the trail for several miles. It was finally lost near the barn of is man named Hallback. A. warrant was sworn out and Hallback placed under arrest. The stolen property was discovered hidden in the hay mow. The Hollidaysburg office of the Guarantee Loan and Investment Company was robbed. The safe was cracked and $500 in cash and many valuable securities taken. Manager J. C, Akers says the stolen property belongs to private individuals and that the company loses nothing. The sheriff condemned the four rolling mills and 90 houses of the Catasaqua Manufacturing Company at Allentown; and will sell them January 2. Executions were entered in favor of A.N. Ulrich andR, Hamorsley. trustees, for $105,616.67, and A. N. UIrich and J. S. Elverson, trustees, for $104,680.56. A dividend of 31 2-10 per cent will be paid to the depositors of the Meadville Savings bank, which suspended nearly three years ago, Depositors antedating certain changes In the ownership of bank stock will receive nothing. The Westmoreland hospital management has secured an option on the Frank Shearer property, West Pittsburg street, Greensburg, and will probably purchase It and begin the erection of hospital buildings. James Overand, employed by the Equitable Coal company, at Webster, was run over by a trip of empty wagons in the mine, and had both legs broken, besides sustaining internal injuries. Four children of Jesse Cassel of Broad Axe were poisoned by eating apples. It developed that the trees had been sprayed with paris green to kill bugs and the poison stuck to the apples. Judge Miller, of Mercer county, has deferred sentence on William Goldberg, the wealthy junk dealer of Sharon, convicted of the larceny of $300 worth of copper wire. William Mallorv, n blind man, and one of Sharon's best-known citizens, has received information that he will receive about $3,000 by the division of an estale in England. Edward F. Bliss and Peter Dunn are under arrest at Mt. Pleasant for mayhem. Bliss kicked Dunn's eye out and Dunn bit off a piece of Bliss' ear in a fight, The prosecution of D. C. Oyster at Ridgway, ex-president of the bank, was dismissed on his payment of the costs. Alpheus W. Gans, of Fairchance, died from injuries received by failing from a bicycle in a road race last October. Norman Thomas, who as "Razzle Dazzel," has become 80 well known recently, was taken to Warren asylum. A. Nagl has been appointed postmaster at Lillyville, Beaver county, vice W. Liebendoafer, resigned. Frank Griffin, aged 60, was killed by a fall of slate in a mine at Scott Haven, near Greensburg. David McCoy, A stonecutter of Greenville, was beaten by highwaymen and robbed of $40.
