The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-02-28
the KEYSTONE STATE.
News Happenings Of Interest Gathered
From All Sources.
FIVE MEN KILLED ON A BRIDGE.
Joseph E cheesmau Says He Was Compelled
to Steal According to the Plans Of Com
panion--F. R. Lines, Of Bethlehem, Wins the
Lehigh First PrIre- Failure to Cross Ballot
Elected an Alderman. Other News.

lehein. The following are the names Of
the contestants and the subjects of their
orations: William s. Brownell, Jr., "A
Phase OF Industrial Life;" James N.
Downey, international Arbitration to
Satisfy National Honor" Foster Hew-
EFT, THE Corporate Movement" w. S.
Johns, "Washington's Political Ideas;"
F. r. Lines, "Washington's Interest in
the West" William F. Roberts, The
Labor Movement in America" First,
second and third prizes were awarded
to F. X. Lines, OF Bethlehem, Pa; ].
N. Downey, Lancaster, Pa; and Viii
liam F. Roberts, Freeland, Pa. respec-
lively. An interesting part of the cere-
monies was the reading OF the honor
roll of the Senior Class, which was as
follows: Conrad f. Martinez, Havana,
Cuba; Frederick A. Hausman, Allen
town, Pa; Ernesto Franco, Quito,
Ecuador; Joseph J. Nolan, Carbondale,
Pa; w. N. Haas. Hepler, Pa; l.. A.
Frendenberger. West Bethlehem. Pa;
Samuel D. Harleman. South Bethle-
hem.
Charles Collum, one OF the best
known business men in Allentown,
made public the fact that he has re-
ceived letter threatening that il he
does not deposit $500 in a cigar box
at the East Penn Junction one OF his
boys will be kidnapped. The letter
reads as follows
Charles Colom:-W have struck
town and need money, and we want
you to put 500 dollars in cigar box,
take it down to East Penn Depot, and
put it under the steps. II you don't
and put the chief and his men on we
will have one OF your little boys. We
will have our game or the dot. So
come down with the money. We will
watch you or any one you put on, and
We have two Others spotted. If we take
the kid you will never see him in these
parts again" Mr.. Collum has two
bright boys and he is prepared to pro-
tect them.
The confession boy made in jail at
Uniontown is queer tale OF crime and
may lead to the detection OF several
robbers who have been working this
section. William Jones, aged I8 years,
was arrested while in the act OF stealing
pair OF shoes and held for trial. He
sent for a justice OF the peace and made
sworn statement that his name is
Joseph Edward Cheeseman, OF Balti-
more, and that he was compelled to
steal. He says he fell in with an aged
cripple whose name is Jones and a man
named Duffy. Jones, he asserts, taught
him to steal and compelled him to rob
as he planned wherever they went.
Jones has been working Uniontown all
the week on crutch, ostensibly selling
pencils. He was arrested and denies
the boys story.
At the annual netting OF the Mont
gomery County Historical Society held
at Norristown the following officers
were elected: President, Joseph Form
ance; vice-presidents, Rev. A. A. Mar
pie, Rev. T. R. Beeber, H. w. Kratz;
recording secretary, Miss Frances M.
Fox; corresponding secretary, Mrs. A.
Conrad Jones; treasurer, DR.. w. H.
Reed; librarian, Ellwood Roberts: trus-
tees, w. W. Potts. S. c. Smyth, Samuel
c. Jarrett, Mrs. Mary Preston and +.
G. Hobson. A committee was appoint
ed to take steps toward forming a his
torical museum.
A straight mark has reelected Geo.
Kellow alderman OF the I4th Ward,
Scranton. Tuesdays election show
ed that he was defeated by one vote but
he succeeded in getting the balot-boxes
brought into court and examined for
the reason, as he alleges, that some
votes were improperly marked. Scv-
eral were found cast for mis- opponent
where straight mark was used by The
voter instead OF the cross, as REQUIRED
by law These we're thrown out, and
Kellow declared elected by three votes.
Five Italians employed at the blast
furnaces in Sharon were ground to
death while on their way to work, as
they walked along the Erie and Pitts
burg Railroad track. They were over
taken on small iron bridge by
southbound freight, and crushed be-
tween the wide steel hopper cars and
the bridge structure. The men were in
the habit OF walking on the track on
their way to the Sharon furnace, where
they worked.
The house OF DR.. Lincoln Hulley,
professor OF history in Bucknell Uni
versity, Lewisburg, was burned. Mrs.
Hulley and two children were rescued
with difficulty, one girl being overcome
by smoke. DR.. Hulley's valuable Ii
brary, the manuscripts OF sermons and
lectures and the manuscript OF book
to be known as The Psalter," which
he expected to publish, were burned.
His loss is $1,000, with no insurance.
Samuel Wertz, who resides at Shin
town. is the hero OF the village by rea-
son OF having killed a catamount with
a stone While Wertz was on the
mountain near his home the catamount
attacked him. Having no weapon
Wertz jumped to one side and picking
up large stone hurled it at the beast
as it sprang toward him. The stone
struck the catamount squarely between
the eyes, killing it instantly.
Findlay Blose, a I2-year-old boy, at
tempted to cross the railroad tracks at
North Point in sleigh. A train struch
the sleigh. The boy was caught on the
pilot of the locomotive and carried over
mile. He escaped with only few
bruises.
The annual report OF Mine Inspector
Davies, of the Fifth Anthracite District,
just made public shows that the total
GOAL production last year was 5,343,2oI
tons, or 2o,243 less than in 1900. There
were forty fatal and seventy-six non
fatal accidents. leaving seventeen wild
ows and forty-four orphans. The total
number OF persons employed was 49,
III, an increase OF SI8.
The employees OF one OF the mines Of
the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at
Harleton adopted plans for bene-
fciary fund. The company will con-
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