The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-06-06
PENNSYLVANIA NEWS.
The Latest Happenings Cleaned From
All Over the State.
SLEW HIS ENEMY ON THE STREET.
Henry Smith, a Brakeman, Ended Feud by
Numbering Thomas Kelly, Mine Worker at
Tamaqua- Sixty Cases Of Typhoid Fever In
Population Of ZOO. Creek Ran Into Mine
'-Goycrnor Acts on Bills..0ther News.

| shadow of the galows. Kelly worked
in the mines and Smith was employed
as a brakeman. The men had been
/ enemies for years and quarrels were
frequent. Friday night. with a number
OF companions, they engaged in a street
| fight, but were dispersed by the police
! Smith, who was under the influence Of
liquor, entered his home, where his
wife and child were sitting. and grab
bing butcher knife he dashed out on
| the street and attacked Kelly before the
, crowd could interfere. Kelly fell shriek-
| ing 20 the ground, disc:nbowcled and
otherwise mutilatcd. He lived until 8
o'clock a. m. Smith was promptly ar
rested. Excitement ran high and sev
eral thousand people were soon o1 the
street. Cries of Lynch him were
heard on every SIDE, but the murderer
could not be found The officers had
spirited him away, and ~l'le the crowd
was hunting for him Smith was being
rapidly driver to the Mauch Chunk Jail.
Governor Stone has signed these
bills: Providing for the recording in
certain instances OF titles to real estate
acquired by Fl years adverse posses
sion. Requiring persons temporarily
| employed by detectives or detective
dSNlNiON ~ ldhC OuL llCtllSCS. lC Dlll
providing ior the eNtinguishmcnt OF any
ground rent or annuity o: other charge
upon real estate after twenty-onc years
and making the same applicable to cases
where the Commonwealth is a party
claimant was vetoed.
One hundred and fifty miners en-
ployed in the mines OF Nicola Coal and
Coke Company, at Hecla. came within
an ace OF losing their lives. The Sc
wickley creek broke through the top of
the mine. One entry runs directly be-
meath the creek and within eight feet of
the bed OF the stream the water in great
volumes poured into all the workings
The great roaring of the flood alarmed
the miners and they escaped by close
scratch.
The amount OF money in the general
fund OF the State Treasury is nearing
the SIo,ooo,ooo mark, and were it not
that the Treasurer will begin to pay the
school funds in few days it would get
far above that figure by the close Of
June. At the close OF May business
there was the sum of $1,000. .7oo.o5 in
the fund The Treasurer has already
paid $32s, 20 to members and en-
ployees OF the Legislature.
Lorenz Pnegar, until recently the SUI
perintendent of the Jamison City tam
merry, and now a citizen OF New Paltz,
N. Y. committed suicide in his room at
the Exchange Hotel. Bloomsbury, by
shooting himself No reason can be as
signed for The deed just before killing
himself he received special delivery
letter, which seemed to excite him. but
in it there was apparently nothing to
have caused him to kill himself.
Little May Shenk, OF Pottstown,
years OF age. was crushed to death by
heavy cart wheels in the presence Of
her iather and other workmen. The
child was being drawn in hand wagon
by its elder brother OF 7 years along the
public road at, Stowe. and when about
to pass a horse and heavily-ladcn cart
the child fell from its wagon in front of
the wheels OF the cart, which passed
over it, crushing its life out.
Asux Bransk. of Pottsvle, was held
up by footpads on the outskirts of
Pottsville. while returning from Min
ersvile and robbed and beaten. The
robbers held revolvers at his head and
after securing about $25 in cash they
beat him and threw him nsensible to
one side OF the road.
Five highwayincn attacked Albert
Zeltfclder on his way home from Will
low Grove. They missed the money he
at his lack OF cash. He reused the
raudcrs escaped.
Delegates representing SO churches,
with a membership OF 100000 in the
United States and Canada. convened at
Shamokin and formed a permanent or
garization TO be known as the Little
Russian Church Association. A bishop
will be elected at a convention to be
held in the near future, after which do
ceses will be formed and the priests
given regular stations.
George Sccley. r2-year-old boy, was
caught by a revolving shaft in the plan
ing mill OF the Peck Company at Peck
vile. Before the machinery could be
stopped he was whirled to death and his
body irightiuly mangled.
Jessie McQuaid. aged 81. is dead, the
result OF gunshot wound. The old
man was shooting crows near his home
in Sugar Creek township, and while
holding his gun behind han Il was ac-
cidentally discharged. the shot tearing
away portion Of his right foot.
While dynamiting i stump Edward
Johnson, OF Roaring Branch, was
struck on the forehead by piece OF
rock blown out by the explosion and
probably fatally injured.
The epidemic OF typhoid fever at
Cross Forks is on the increase Sixty
cases have been reported. The popula-
tion OF the town is only about two hun
drcd The trouble was caused by i'm
pure water.
The strike at the Hammond collery
OF the Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Irou Company has been settled.
The court at Pittsburg approved the
sale oi St. Paul's Roman Catholic Ca
thedral to H. c. Friclk for $I,325.oco,
declining to give weight to some OBJ
jestons which two members OF the con-
grcgation had filed.
A number oi capitalists IRON Scran-
ton and Jclunyn decided TO turn the old
company store OF Watkins & Stein at
Swoycrsvilc, into n mil for the manu-
iacture OF silk ribbons. They expect
to employ about 200 hands.
Eldrcd Reynolds, aged II years. fell
into the Lackawanna river near Homes
dale and was drowned. Many men are
searching for his body.
David Ferguson, Of North East, was
4 =. II. -. 4.