The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-30
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Condensed Special Dispatches From
Many Points.
HURT IN DEFENDING A GIRL.
List Of Pensions 0rsnted- Cumberland Com
mlssloners Resist the sherifrs Demands
States War Claim Allowed Congress Asked
to Make an Appropriation Of sbSo,i46zs--
Shot q Robber.

Pensions granted Pennsylvanians -
Eli c. Corbly, Pittsburg, So John G.
Abbott, Sugar Grove, 50; Daniel Zim-
merman, Grove City, $Io; William Bar
key, Cush Creek, $S Perry Tanner,
Gainesburg So; Clark Randall, Union
City, So; Bernard Schmid, Pittsburg,
$Io; William r. Munson, Ulysses, S14;
Mary Rhoads, Connar, So; Karl Ber-
tram, Allegheny, $I2; William w. Lu-
pher, Harmonsburg, $o Richard Ma
loney, Beaver Falls, So Michael Pan
ner, Allegheny, SO; John w. Hahn, Elk
Lick, SO; David Kaufman Jackson
Mills, $40; Thomas II. Wilson, Rose
Point, $8 Rufus F. Evans, New Castle,
So; William H. Miller, New Castle, $I2;
William White, Tarentum, $I2; John
Shriver, Conemaugh $40; Matthias
Shortencarrer, Spanger. $Io Henry
Morris, Allegheny, So; John Kuhl, Fair
view, So; George Price, Altoona, $I2;
Joseph L. White, North Towanda, So;
George s. Baker, Huntingdon, $I2 Ju'
liza A. Boyce, Grover, So.
There were six fires in Altoona Fri
day night, four of which it is supposed
were of incendiary origin. An attempt
was made to ignite a box car loaded with
powder, oily waste being used. At the
Offices of the Hoster Brewing Company,
which were set on fire, the safe was
opened and notes and other valuable
papers were burned. The coal Office OF
w. L. Pennock was entered and the
safe combination was broken, but the
place was not fred
The sheriff and the commissioners of
Cumberland county are at variance over
the matter of fees and case stated was
presented to the court to determine
whether the sheriff is entitled to so cents
for the commitment of each tramp and
so cents for the discharge of each per-
son committed on charges other than tire
violation OF the vagrancy act. The COM
missioners have refused to pay the sher-
iif these fee charges unless ordered so
to do by the court.
When four robbers attempted to enter
the hotel of Isaac Evans, in Duryea, they
were met by Evans with a shotgun. One
of them, Michael Melvin, who says that
his home is in Newark, N. j., was half
way in the window when Evans discov-
cred him and pulled the trigger. Melvin
was shot between the shoulders, the
charge swapping the spinal cord and
bringing on paralysis, from which he may
die. The other three men escaped,
In fight among negroes following a
church service at Lancaster, William
Stevenson was struck on the head with
stone, sustaining a fractured skull. 1t
is said that Thomas Moore wanted to
accompany Stevensons sister -in-law
home from church, but the woman re-
sented his attentions and the fight re-
suited. Stevensons injury is probably
fatal and the authorities are looking for
iAnnra ,,I,D bae I;ea0aao~aI
Governor Stone has been notified by
the War Department that Pennsylvania
claim for money expended in putting
troops in the field during the Rebellion
has been allowed to the extent of $780,
1900, and that the claim has been certi-
fed to Congress for an appropriation. A
large number of claims were not allowed
by the auditors, but the State is salts
fed to get this amount.
For two days recently the Mannheim
National Bank was practically without
funds. When an attempt was made to
open the vault doors they refused to
bulge, and an expert was summoned
from Cincinnati After an inerval of two
days he arrived and with the aid of To-
cal blacksmith the doors were opened.
John Seible, of Johnstown, when he
went through the Civil War. decided his
property to his wife, fearing that he
would never return. Mrs. Seible died
six months ago and then Seible discov-
cred that he had no interest in the prop
erty He has instituted proceedings in
equity against his son and daughters,
the heirs. with view of having
the deed to his wife declared void.
A Stradivarius violin, made in 1871,
was stolen from Alador Fabian, school
master of St. .Julia's Greek Catholic
Church, Pittsburg, few days ago The
violin had been in his family for more
than century anG was valued at 5000.
The police found the instrument in
pawnshop, where the thief had left it
for $3.50
The four-story brick building at 1913
Eleventh avenue, Altoona, owned by A.
R. Wolf & Sons, was destroyed by fire.
The building was worth $4,000 and was
insured for $4,000. 1t was occupied by
store on the first and second floors and
the Altoona Republican League had its
headquarters on the third and fourth
floors
George H. Danner, of Mannheim, who
is the owner of one of the largest private
museums in the State, became the pos
SCISSOR OF large herman blDle, printed
in 1862. 1t is bound in leather and is in
an excellent state of preservation.
II is rumored that as a result of re-
cent conferences between E. H. Harri-
man and President Gould some long de-
ferred Missouri Pacific plans are short
ly to be carried out.
The following charters we're issued a,
the State Department. Food Publishing
Company, Williamsport, capital 5000;
Riefer & Sons, Incorporated, Tanners
Falls, capital, $4,000.
A tramp sent to jail~at Williamsport
on a charge of vagrancy was found to
be wearing seven pairs of trousers, FIVE
shirts and three coats.
The Pennsylvania Chain Company has
been organized at Harrisburg with
capital of $4,000 Adjutant General
Stewart is president and Charles D.
Sucker general manager and secretary.
Factory Inspector Davis has found
seventy-two children illegally employed
in Wilkes Barre, out of total Of g.
goo employed in shops and factories.
w. p Morgan has been appointed
postmaster at Vintondale.
Harry Rosenberger, miner, aged 40
years, of Yorkvile was caught beneath
fall of rock at Pottsville and his life
rr,,ehad o,,t