The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26
LATEST HAPPENINGS
ALL OVER The STATE.
Spreading Of Rails Causes a Locomotive
to Jump the Track.
PENSIONS FOR pHNNsyLvANlANs.
Richard koI Held on a Serious Charge at Nor
rIstown--GlrI Knocked Down the Man Who
Called Her Mother Vile Names-BIow at
fiazing- Westminster College Faculty Sns-
pends Ten Upper classmen--- Other News.

$r2; Mary f. Lytle. Pittsburg. SO; Mar
tin ]. Moore, Altoona, So; Rcbccca Z.
Turney. Rural Valley, So; Margaret
Dunno, Meyersdale, So; Mercy T. Hare,
Cory, $S
The faculty of Westminster College
Sharon, took decisive step toward
eliminating hazing at that institution by
suspending ten upper classmen for the
remainder of the term for brutally as.
saulting and abusing several Freshmen
when college opened short time ago.
Richard Kolb. parole patient of the
Norristown State Hospital for the In
sane was arrested on the charge of as
saultng number OF female residents
Of the West End II is claimed that
man answering Kolb's description has
been making life miserable for the wo-
men who were compelled to frequent
lonely places A few nights ago Mrs
Emma Brodlcy, wife of DR.. Charles
Brodley, was attacked near the hospital
and severely injured A man crept up
behind her and struck her on the head
with some blunt instrument. The wo.
man fell 10 the ground but her screams
frightened the wretch away.
Mrs. Nathan Stermer and her son.
John, were both seriously injured in q
runaway accident at Mauch Chunk.
BY the giving away of trestlework
at the Tidewater Steel Company, Ches-
ter, shifting engine fell to the ground,
distance of IS feet. The engineer, Ed
ward Lane. stuck braveIy to his post
and narrowly escaped being crushed to
death. Fireman John Cole jumped and
was badly bruised. Engineer Lane was
picked UP sepselcss and is thought to be
internally injured
Alderman Donohue, of Wilkes Barre,
praised Miss Elizabeth Smo1insli for
knocking down Paul Rogoski, who
was calling her mother vile names. Ro-
goski had the girl arrested but when
the Alderman heard the story he dis
charged her after saying she was brave
and noble daughter, and made the man
pay the costs.
Through the spreading of the rails on
the kutztown branch of the Reading
| Railroad an extra passenger train con-
sisting of two coaches filed with pas
sengcrs jumped the track and was hurl-
| ed over tcn-foot cmbankment near
Topton, and dozen or more people
were more or less injured
A stock company has been formed at
| Akron and will erect large building
Tor the shoe factory recently started.
Robert McGraudy, aged o2 years,
committed suicide at Jamison by cutting
his throat from ear to ear with a razor,
almost severing his head.
Bold robberics were committed by
tramps in West Bethlehem Several resi-
dences were robbed OF silvcrware. jew
elry and valuables amounting to over
| 5000.
| During the absence of the families at
| prayer meeting the residences of Alfred
! x. Hartzell and Mrs Hettie Schaffer
OF Allentown, were entered by burglars
and at each place several hundred dol
lars worth OF jewelry was taken.
Patrick Toccoe. the 4-year r-old son Of
! A. Tocco, of Bethlehem. fell backward
! into a tub of boiling water and was
frightfully scalded The child will die.
A Io-monlhs-old child Of George Maluk
al Readington, was scalded to death by
upsetting pot filled with boiling coffee
Louis Boninski. aged years. was
drowned in the canal at Reading He was
, playing on the towpath, when strange
! youth who was passing. pushed him
| down the bank and shouting "Now
SWIM ran away Young Bonnslli sank
/ at once, and by the time his companions
had. summoned aid, was dead
| John A. Brown, II years OF age. OF
Allentown found dynamite cartridge
! on an ash heap. He got hatchct and
| began pounding on the ctTtridgc An
explosion followed. and the boy was
! thrown quite 4 distance. He was seri-
ously injured about the head, tacc. chest
and hands, and a doctor had to ampu-
tate finger.
George Clark died a. the Easton
Hospital from injuries received by be-
ing crushed between two engines at the
Durham furnace, where he was en-
ploycd.
Knolting a window sash rope about
! his neck and tying the other cud TO a
rafter in the attic. George Will. vet
Gran OF the Civil War, committed sui
eide at Harrisburg.
Albert IIarple. boy, was killed by
being crushed by an elevator at the
mills oi Wm. II. Grundy & Co.. Brs-
toll The boy started the elevator, then
attempted to jump on.
Michael Munsh, accused OF the MUIR
! der OF John Contro by cutting his
throat. was given hearing before JUS
tice Missimer at Pottstown and commit
ted 10 Jail to answer the charge.
Governor Stone appointed Florence
c. Callighan. George A. Grant and Lie
cestcr d. Ward. OF Philadelphia and
George A. EIettricll OF Sunbury, to free
scholarships in the Pennsylvania School
OF Industrial Art Philadelphia
The requisition OF Governor Odell OF
New York. on Governor Stone for the
return OF John Bausch was honored.
Baliscf, it Is alleged, killed man nam
cd Geschwind in North Hampstead. N.
Y He was arrested or September 5
in Doylestown.
After eluding capture for six months
BENJAMIN Carr, colored, OF Amber, has
been placed under arrest and commit
ted to Jail in default OF $500 bail to
answer charges OF assault larceny and
resisting an officer. The officers sur
rounded Carr in field and took him
after sharp tight
Joseph Kurtz,. who was arrested last
week 1T Norristown Tor annoying a
young woman with whom he became
cnamorcd while he was serving SEN
tencc in Jail, was adjudged insane He
became infatuated with the woman, who
lives opposite the jail, by pcering
through the narrow window OF his cell.
The third case OF smallpox within a