Ligonier Valley Rail Road Newspaper Articles
We have compiled over 1,400 newspaper articles that mention the Ligonier Valley Railroad, or related subjects. The articles were originally published starting in 1873 and our collection runs through 1995. Enjoy!
Indiana Democrat
Wednesday, January 6, 1904
Enraged Father Kills to Protect Young Daughter
From blows on the head, alleged that to have been inflicted at Kingston on Christmas night by Harry Luce, station agent for the Ligonier Valley railroad and superintendent of the plant of the Ligonier Silica Brick Company, Alfred T. Short of Millwood died at the Westmoreland Hospital Dec. 26. Luce was arrested and is now in the county jail, a charge of murder having been preferred against him by Assistant District Attorney Ralph D. Hurst.
Short spent Christmas day at Kingston as the guest of his brother, Harvey Short superintendent of the pumping station of the Latrobe Water Company. In company with John Squills of New Derry and Harry Wadsworth of Kingston he went to the store kept by Luces wife. The 13-year old daughter of Luce was in charge of the store and Short, it is alleged, made a number of insulting remarks.
The father heard the dispute and asked the three men to leave. Luce says Short became boisterous and he then struck Short with a pickhandle. His skull was fractured. He was brought to the Westmoreland Hospital on Saturday, but could not be roused.