The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-11-21
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Latest News Cleaned From All Over
the State.
IsT OF PENSIONS GRANTED.
4 Media Cripple Could Not Escape From Burn.
Ing House and Was (remated.. Eighteen
Pennsylvania Corporations Increase Their
Stock During 0ctober..N Norwood Man Ia.
der Bail for Setting Fire to a Barn.

erstown, $S; John Glover, Meyersdae,
$I2 Samuel Plank, Shade Valley, So;
Frank Hulick, Oakdale, So; Madison
Mclaughlin. Davis, $1o John Richards,
Wampun, So; Gerrit Heering, Meyers
dale, $I2; Lewis Cruise, Hollodaysburg,
& Adam Manges, Hillsview, $I2; Anne
Young, Flegers, So; jeanette Moody,
Canton, SEQ.
The prosperity that has come upon
Pennsylvania is again shown by the doc
uments in the State Department. Cor
porations all over the State are increas-
ing the amount of their capital stock
for the purpose of enlarging their busi-
ness. The following were the increases
during October: Carnegie Tube Com
pany, Pttsburg from ST. $4,000 to 100000;
Coal Bluff Co., Pittsburg, from 1000
to 100000; Saxman Coal & Coke Co.,
Latrobe, from nothing to $Ioo, 1000 Brown
& Zortman Machinery Company, Pitts
burg from $4,000 to 100000; Browns
vile Water Company, from nothing to
$4,000; CHARTERS Trust Company, Nc
KEGS Rocks, from ST. 1000 to 100000;
Haugh & Keenan, Storage and Transfer
Company, Pittsburg, from nothing to
$75,ooo Keystone Car Wheel Company,
Pittsburg, from 100000 to 100000;
Sharon Coke Company, from $4,000 to
$4,000, 900; Early Dawn Creamery Com
pany Pittsburg, from $1,000 to $4,000;
Philadelphia Foundry & Machine Com
pany, from $1,000 to $4,000; Columbia
Plate Glass Company, Pittsburg from
nothing to $4,000; Columbia Bewing
Company, from nothing to $4,000; HUI
ron Coal Company, Greensburg, from
nothing to $4,000; Brownville Glass
Company, from nothing to $4,000;
Brownsville Manufacturing Company,
from $1,000 to $I25.ooo; National Cable
& Wire Company, Pittsburg, from SII,-
900 to $4,000; Waynesburg Water
Company, from nothing to 100000.
Only one company has reduced its cap-
tai, the Relay Manufacturing Company,
of Reading, from 100000 to $Ioo. This
was done because of merger with an
other company, and for the purpose of
reducing the tax on capital stock.
While sitting alone in her home and
unable to move from her chair, Mrs.
Maggie Dougherty, of Rockdale, aged
Go, and a cripple, was burned to death.
Mrs. Dougherty had been an invalid for
20 years, and it had been her custom to
stay alone in her house during the day
while her husband was at work A wo-
man neighbor saw smoke coming from
the building, which was a three-story
frame structure, and hurrying TO the
house to rescue Mrs. Dougherty, found
the door locked, and she was unable to
get in. The building was soon envelop-
ed in flames, and piercing shrieks could
be heard from within, but no one was
able to aid the unfortunate woman.
A large stone mansion on East Court
street. Doylestown, belonging to Joseph
Mekeal, of Philadelphia, formerly the
Shellenberger property, was sold to the
Pennsylvania Society for the Advance
ment of the Deaf The society will
conduct home for the aged deaf. This
will be the only institution of the kind
in the State, and there are said to be
only two others in existence, one in New
York and one in Ohio.
For nine years Benjamin Christine
lived in New Castle as the adopted son
Of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Lebenderfer,
without knowing that his mother also
lived in New Castle. The boy recently
learned of his mothers whereabouts, and
as a result the Court set aside the de-
rree of adoption and mother and son
we're united.
The station OF the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway Company at West
Woods was broken into and the in
truders tore up all tickets and paste
board baggage checks on hand and
threw them into the stove.
Charged with setting fire to the barn
of H. B. Ward, at Prospect Park which
was destroyed on November 3, Thomas
Alexander, OF Norwood, was held in
$500 bail by Alderman Smith at Ches
ter.
AS William H. Newcomer, of Hickory
Grove was working in a field, he was
suddenly bereft of sight in his right eye,
the formation of blood clot destroying
the vision.
A thief broke a plate glass window
in Silverman's jewelry store at Shenan-
doah, GRABBED tray containing three
gold and three silver watches and ran
off.
G.. Wilson Smoyer, OF Allentown, who,
it is alleged, attempted to poison his
parents several weeks ago by putting
arsenic in their coffee was acquitted in
court on the ground OF insanity.
A. c. Fulmer, proprietor of the Mey-
ersdale Electric Light Works, sold the
establishment TO II. ]. Wilmoth, of Mey-
ersdale, for $4,000.
Ross Springman died at Wlliamsport
of lockjaw. Two weeks ago while car
rying a ladle of molten brass he tripped
and fell into the metal which he spilled.
Hearst Fredericl's 8-year-old son,
George while attempting to jump from
a wagon at Selimsgrove fell under the
wheels and was crushed to death.
John Runko, a miner, of Enterprise
has notified the police tkat robbers en-
tered his house and stole $1,000. lie
secreted the money at home rather than
deposit il in banks, because he lost 500
BY bank failure twenty years ago.
John Landers, aged SO years, OF Lam
caster, committed suicide by hanging
himself at the County Hospital.
Mrs. Mary Neiman, of North Cow
entry, who spent Sunday visiting her
son, Milton Neiman, of Pottstown, fell
dead on her return home as she was
about to enter her gate.
Fire in the livery stable of +. Koche-
nour, in the upper END OF Harrisburg,
destroyed the stable, with ten horses
and many carriages, and also three
dwelling-houses, were burned and two
dwellings were badly damaged. The loss
is estimated at $4,000
Mrs. Carrie Emegh was arrested in
Allentown for sprinklng salt and water \
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