The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-11
PENNSYLVANIA NEWS.
The Latest Happenings Cleaned From
All Over the State.
STATE ASYLUM TO BE ENLARGED.
Patents and Pensions Granted During the Week
--Man Lespcd From Train and was Grousd
to Pieces.-Spent Bullet Struck Lancaster
Woman In the Neck--Two Men Quarrel Over
the Wife Of One Of Them at Excelsior

Johnstown, So. James {. McDoHaId,
New Brighton, 50; Frank Thomas, Pitts
burg, So Milton S. Shope, Clarksvile,
| SO; Ira A. Goodrich, Bradford, SO;
Morgan Dively, Claysburg, So; Henry
Kiefer, Brownsville, So; Howard Had
field, Allegheny, $I7; Richmond L.
Hagerman, Pittsburg, S. Henry A.
Herrick, Washington, $40; William II.
Crouch, Fredericktown, $I2; Daniel
Laughery, Trade City, $Io' William w.
Wright Anita, $40; James McMillen,
Reynoldsville, $24 John T. Ployer. Bio
serville, So; Abraham Herbst, Blairs-
vile, SI2; Joseph Coleman, Carnot, $40;
Warren J. Rice, Erie, S24 Isaac Steven,
Lewistown, $S Sabna c. Madden.
Mercer. SI2 Sarah f. Dean, Pittsburg,
So; Rachel Marker, New Lexington, So;
Sarah J. Gruber. New Maysvilie, SO;
Turk. Harrisvile So; Harriet Heaton,
Fleming, $ra; Henrietta Fisher. Adams
burg, So; Mary d. Scott. Pittsburg, $S.
These patents were granted: Andrew
A. Banker and A. F. Heffcrman. Pitts
burg. switch throwing device; Arthur
NJ. Bowman, Bellevue, metallic tie;
Horse Chrisman. Williamsburg, fluid
meter; Isaac Dekaiser, Pittsburg, and
c. O. Hadfeld, Braddock. mica split
ting machine; William II. Forker.
Meadville, wheeled earth scrapcr; Louis
Frederick. Baldwin township, tongs;
William Giles, Jr., St. Mary's box lid
holder; Mary Z. Grove, Pittsburg.
skirt supporter: Reinhold Herman.
Grafton, relay; John E. James. Worth
ington heating stove; Joseph Johnson.
Jr., Pittsburg, stock line recorder for
blast furnaces; Christian L. Loetzer.
Sayre hydrant: Newton w. McCourt,
Bradford, hinge Charles Messer, Cora
opolis hot air furnace; VIM. p Muir
ply, McKeespo-t, folding crate; George
f. Riblet, Erie, heater Henry M.
Schwer, Verona, rail joint; Thomas
Echotrell, Pittsburg, nut lock; Peter J.
Stone. Athens, grain door; James A.
Swearer and c. T.. Ttinbee, Parnassus.
making wire glass plates; Vim. Thomas,
Pittsburg. refrigerator; John s. Wright
enour, Oil City, refrigerator.
The trustees OF the State Hospital for
the Insane held an important meeting at
Norristown, when they arranged for the
expenditure OF the SI2S,ooo recently ap-
propriated by the Legislature for i'm
provements to the institution. The lead
ing item in the appropriation is one of
100000 for the erection of nurses
homes. These will entirely change the
present method OF conducting the hos
pital. Now the 800 nurses, of whom
about half are women, share quarters
with the patients, rs well as dine with
them. Under the new plan tho nurses
will live in buildings entirely separate
from the hospital.
Jesse the II-year-old son OF William
Flanner, Of Hollidaysburg. met with an
accident which will probably result fatal
y. He was picking cherries when the
limb broke, and he fell twenty feet on a
picket fence, the piclicts penetrating his
left side and lungs. tlc was mpaled for
about fifteen minutes before found The
boy is barely living and his death may
ensuc any moment.
Isaac Hoffman, aged about 40 years,
died at the Schuyll,ll County Aims
house. having deliberately starved him
self to death. Two months ago he was
a prisoner in the county Jail. when he
started his fatal fast. lie labored under
the hallucination that his keepers were
trying to poison him. Later he was re-
moved to the almshousc, still obstnately
refusing food. AT death he was reduced
to mere skeleton.
Mrs. John Bucher, OF Lehanon, while
sitting at picnic dinner at Valley Glen
Park, was struck in the necl, by spent
bullet from a revolver The ball enter
cd the side OF her neck and lodged under
the chin. The party who fred the shot
has not yet been apprehendcd.
Theobald Shilling, aged 6s years, tried
to jump from az excursion train at Hub
bard while it was running twenty-five
miles an hour. Trainmcn prevented him.
At Sharon he slipped away from them,
leaped from the train, rolled under the
wheels, and was ground to pieces.
John Ford lies in the Lackawanna
Hospital, Scranton. suffering from a
dangerous wound in the abdomen caused
by pistol shct alleged 10 have been fred
by Joseph Ritter in Jessup. Ritter who
gave himself up. denies that he shot
Ford The shooting tool; place during a
quarrel between a number of men.
Harry Howard. while painting over
target in a shooting gallery at MeKees-
port, was fatally shot by William Lang
The ball entered his face below the right
eye and nc died an hour later at the hos
pital. Lang was placed in jail. He says
the shooting OF Howard was accidental
While unloading hay at his farm at
Broad AK Emanuel Weiss slipped and
was impalcd at Tic throat upon the point
of a wagon standard. His wife and his
brother rescued him. with difficulty, as
the wood had gotten wcdged inside his
Jaw and almost reached the brain. He is
in critical condition.
While Frank Rohrcr and Miss Mary
Rohrer, OF Strasburg, were driving to
Lancaster their horse ran off and both
were badly injured Miss Rohicr will
be permanently crippled.
Twenty-Five years ago Gea. X. Barney
lost a sapphire ring which inc prizel
highly as a souvenir OF a dead sister.
Friday while plowng on his farm at
Chadds Ford he turned il up uninjlTed.
The census made by the county com
missioners OF citizens oi Dsuphin coun.
ty subject to military duty shows o737
in Harrisburg and oo,I in the coInty,
total OF Ioo5S, gain ove: the last en-
rollment OF ISL.
Cecilia WooGrifg, OF Altoona, VINO
assumed the name oi Helen Forsey,
swallowed a fatal dose Of laudanum and
died at the hospital. She had quarreled
with her lover
The union ha;bers at Wilkes-Barre
are going TO stop shaving all who pat
ronize the Two non-union shops in that