The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-10-31
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Carnegie Library Trustees Get ColIec.
tion of Shells al West Chester.
PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED.
Fund for Soldiers Club at Manla-Under.
ground Flood Swept Miners Almost to Death
Philadelphia Delegates TO Mothers Congress
commends Juvenile Pottstown Con.
struction Co. Receives Government Contract

ttoag, Allegheny, $40; James Anderson,
Rochester, SO; Samuel Anderson, Tallcy
Cavey, So; Albert b. Cook, Turtle Point,
50; Thomas Armor, Pittsburg, So; Viii
liam c. Andrews, Phillipsburg, So;
George w. Thomas. Altoona, So Willis
Emery, New Castle, $r2; Hugh Nc
Gahan, Taylorstown, $40; Michael Ba-
ker, Cribs, $r2; David A. Gidea, Hol-
lidaysburg, $40; Patrick Donahue, Erie,
$S Calvin c. Moses, Eldred, $74; Jud.
son N. Carrier Transfer So; Samuel
Lidy, Pittsburg $I2 Samuel Bell,
Mifflintown, sly; Randall Lincoln, En-
$8 Mahala Porter, Canton, $I2; Kate
Levers, Hilltown, So; Mary Swartz-
walder, Elk Lick, 49,
Latest patents issued to Pennsylva-
mans are-John w. Anderson, Allie
gheny, ingot molds; Daniel Bernhart,
Pittsburg, cash register; Horace Chris
man, Pittsburg, fluid meter; Joseph Dar-
ling, Chicora, vehicle spindle; Edward
enamel Joseph Goldberg, McKeesport,
burg, gas engine; John G.. Heir, Pitts
burg, bottle washing machine, also casls
rinser; Reinhold Herman, Grafton, ad.
Unstable head for signals; William G
Hughes, Pittsburg, incandescent lamp
and heating apparatus; George G. Ken.
nedy, New Castle, compound for polish.
ing and cleaning tin plates; Arvid M.
Levin, Williamsburg. ore gate; Henry ).
Lydick Pittsburg, plotting or protracting
apparatus; William G. H. Ripper, New
Brighton, animal trap; Joseph S. Sea-
man. Jr., Pittsburg mold for the manu-
facture of rolls; Arnold Stuck. Allie
gheny, bolster for railway cars; Levi
f. Umsted and ]. G. DicSie, Allegheny.
book holder William j. Wood, Pitts
burg, washing machine.
At the closing meeting of the State
Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, at Harrisburg, it was an
nounced the contributions for the Sol
diers Club Home at Manila amounted to
$oS4S The Philadelphia Chapter suggest
ed the necessity of revision of papers OF
applicants, requiring dates of births and
the names of ancestors OF Revolutionary
sires. The recommendation was adopt
ed.
AT the recent session of the Pennsylva-
MIA Congress of Mothers held at Will
Transport, reports were heard from the
various subordinate organizations. Mrs.
Frederick Schoff, of Philadelphia, presi-
dent of the congress, spoke of the neces-
sty of mothers and teachers co-operat-
ing in the care and education of children.
She commended the Juvenile Couit law
passed by the last Legislature.
More than a score of miners made mar
row escapes from death at Tamaqua by
the breaking of water into No. IL work.
| ings. Joseph Rodgers and Joseph Far
Der were carried a considerable distance
| by the force of the water, but outside of
| being badly bruised they were not Sc
| riously hurt
The shells collected by the late DR.. w.
! d. Hartman Of West Chester, was sold
| to the trustees of the Carnegie Library,
| of Pittsburg. The collection has $4,000
| specimens. Some years ago the heirs
| were offered $4,000 for them, but declined
to SELL Now it is understood that the col
| lection was sold for $1,000
A construction company of Pottstown
| has reviewed contract from the Govern
| ment for 1000 tons of structural iron
work for building to be erected at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Thieves stole 900 pounds of copper
wire from the Western Union telegraph
| line between West Chester and Phila-
| delphia.
A vein of copper ore has been discov-
| cred on the farm of Jared Hofer, in the
Lizard Creek Valley, near Tamaqua.
Angileto Cirotti was struck by train
on the Northern Central Railroad at
York Haven and instantly killed.
The barn on the farm of John Fite, of
Wakefield, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
| $1,000.
Frederic Archer, the organist at Car
negie Music Hall, died at his home in
East End. He had suffered from cancer
| Tor some months. Mr.. Archer was born
| in Oxford, England, on June 10, 1893.
Charged with opening letters address
ed to her stepdaughter, Sallie Spatz,
Mrs. Clarissa Spatz, OF Reading, has
been arrested and held in $500 bail for
hearing before a United States Com
missioner.
Edward Stauifer, "a years OF age, the
son OF Joseph Stauffer, hotel keeper,
shot himself in the head with revolver
in the reading room of the Chester
Hotel. 1t is thought the wound will
prove fatal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Loski, who were
married the other day, discovered that
llSg Hdu DSCH lODDcu Ol 90O, WHICH lnc
bride is said to have earned by selling
kisses to the male guests who attended
the wedding festivities. The couple
were very happy until they learned of
their loss
J. G. Schnapp, OF West Jeanette,
met death in peculiar manner. He
had been suffering for time with ma
larial fever. He went to the yard and
while attempting TO dip water from a
rain barrel he fell headforemost into the
barrel. He was found half hour later,
dead
While eating his dinner in Packer
Colliery, Girardville, Michael Yordus
was killed by fall OF rock.
Charles Johnston OF Sharon, a brick
layer, committed suicide at Youngs-
town by cutting his throat.
MistalSing his brother David for a
chicken thief, Thomas Jones, OF Halle
ton, shot the former in the arm.
The operation .oi the free delivery SER
vice established at Sharpsburg has been
postponed until December 1.
A big wildcat sprang at the horse
driven by Warren Jacoby, who runs the
rural mail route between Cabin Run
Hollow and Berwick. The cat tore the
horses face but the animal ehooL "a ,ff