The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-01-17

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Five men were drowned by the split
ting of barge which was being loaded
with steel rails on the Mouongahela
River at the Edgar Thompson Steel
Works, Braddock. The four missing
bodies are pinned to the bed of the
river under 375 tons OF steel rails, with
which the barge was being loaded. The
barge is one which was used for send
ing rails South. While twenty-nine
men were on board putting the rails
in shape, the riverward side Of the
craft suddenly cracked open with
noise like an explosion. The capacity
OF the boat was 500 tons, and 1t is
thought that the 375 tons which had
been placed aboard suddenly shifted
to one side, tearing the craft along a
weak seam.
Charles Reed, Of Southampton, died
at the hospital at Chambersburg from
injuries received by being struck by
a Cumberland Valley passenger train
in Shippensburg. He was 81 years old.
He saw the train, but his reins were
crossed, and in striving to pull the
team away he guided the horse on the
rails. The coroners of Franklin coun-
ty, where he died, and Cumberland
county, where the accident occurred,
conferred and held the inquest in
Chambersburg A girl with him,
Joanna Wolf, had her collarbone
broken.
The mangled body of Antoine Morovo,
day watchman at Fairview Station, on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. was
found under Crum Creek Bridge, Ches-
ter. On the side of the track his din
ner pail and lantern, still burning,
were found, both intact. This latter
fact has caused Coroner Fry to make
an investigation, especially as the spot
where Morovo met his death has been
selected on several occasions by train
wreckers to derail Baltimore and Ohio
trains.
When Mrs. John Clements infant
son died, at Shamokin, she called next
door at the home of her friend Mrs.
Joseph Simmons, for assistance. The
residence was full of coal gas. Mrs.
Simmons and her four children we're
senseiess in bed and almost dead. Mrs.
Clements carried the occupants to the
open air and summoned physician,
who revived the patients.
William r. Martin, James Kennedy,
Frank Green, Patrick Murphy, Will
liam Murphy and John Carson, tramps
who were on trial for assaulting Mr.
and Mrs. Jacob Baker, an aged couple
of Pottsville, were found guilty. Judge
A. l.. Shay imposed the heavy sentence
of ten years each at separate and soli-
tary confinement.
Detectives in the employ of the
State Pharmaceutical Board summoned
thirteen druggists and druggists clerks
to appear before Alderman Pollock at
Wilkes-Barre on the charge of not hav-
ing their certificates displayed in the
stores. They were each fined $40 and
costs.
Much Eastern money is seeking in
vestment in western Pennsylvania coal
lands at this time. In counties adjoin-
ing Allegheny particularly there Is
great demand for land for mining, and
or deals already closed $1,000, 900 will
come to this end of the State and nego-
tlatons are on for more acreage.
A paper on the Buried Valley Of
Wyoming" was read at the Historical
Society rooms at Wilkes-Barre by Will
liam Griffiths, a mining expert. Many
facts about the formation of the coal
strata and the presence of large bodies
of quicksand were explained.
James Millage, 1O-year-old boy,
was arraigned before the coroner at
Pittsburg, charged with causing the
death of May Dieber, 6-year-old girl.
1t was alleged that young Millage
chased the girl with a burning broom,
finally setting fire to her clothing Be-
fore the flames were extingulsbed the
little one was fatally burned.
George Deisheimer, Of Georgetown,
Wayne county, accidentally shot and
instantly killed his wife. Dcisheimer
was cleaning a gun, which he did not
know was loaded Mrs. Deisheimer
was standing close by, and as her hus-
band touched the trigger the charge
exploded.
While DIR. w. G. Weaver and w. e.
Flnney, of WilkesBarre, were driving
between Sugar Notch and Ashley the
buggy went over steep embankment
and was broken. Neither of the men
was badly hurt.
The first prisoner to occupy a cell in
the new township lookup at Ardmore
is James Glendinning, who was arrest
ed for drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct at the Pennsylvania Railroad sta
ton.
The Shamokin Coal Company, oper-
atipg the Natalie Colliery, notified its
1900 employees, who had asked that
the colliery be operated ten hours In
stead Of nine, that the petition was
granted. The new hours will go into
effect at once.
While walking on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad tracks one mile east of ASH
land, Mrs. Matilda Ferguson, 70 years
of age, was run down b. Lehigh VAL
ley train and terribly injured.
Frank Galway, aged 70 years, who
worked in the mines nearly fifty years
and was never before In an accident,
was instantly killed by fall of coal
in the Beaver Brook mines, Hazleton.
Henry Hess while unloading coal
from a car at Chambersburg fell
through the trap door underneath the
car and was carried TO the bin below
and completely buried by the coal.
With great difficulty he was rescued.
Death suddenly terminated a social
meeting of the Black Horse Athletic
Club at Norristown, when Captain
James Hill was stricken down while
playing cards Apoplexy caused his
death.
William Hoffman,, a constable of
Elizabethtown,s was arrested, charged
with haing iunntie1ta1 I'm tho rohharry ~