The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-03-27
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Special Dispatches Boiled Down for
Quick Reading.
PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED.
Slabs Undertakers fIorses-Three 0ffenses Of
the Kind 10 Shenandoah In Three Months
Library Gift Rsseinded - Opposition TO
Carnegie Project 10 Norristown-s4o,ooo iof
Baptist Institutions.

Pennsylvania pensions: Edward
Murphy, Washington, SO; Alexander
| Maxwell, Erie, So; Daniel Gross. Paint.
erville, $I2; John Veach, Mench, $I7:
| Philip PETER, Strodes Mills. $I2; Viii
liam Rimert, Howards, $I2; William
Sharp. Clum, $8 Silas Biddle. Edin'
burg, So: Joel Snyder, East Hickory
S3o; Eli Ehrhard Fleming. $40; Thos
Snuff. Altoona, SI2: William Kline
Warren, SIz; George w. Baldwin, Clays'
vile. $I2; James Connor, Greensburg,
$I2; Emmaline McGarvey Bolivar $S'
Annie Schrader. Butler. So; Annie f
Mcknight. Pittsburg, So; Sarah E. Ret.
finger, North Freedom. So; Margarei
Mccall, McCandless, So; Catherine A
Ruff, Wyalusing, So.
The Carnegie Library project at Nor.
ristown received another setback wher
the School Board decided TO reconsidei
Its action in reference to contributing
$1,000 toward purchasing a building
site. AT the last meeting of the board il
was decided by vote of 10 to 8 to make
up a balance necessary to purchase Z
$4,000 site for a library. Andrew Car.
nege offered $4,000 providing citizens
raised $4,000 to purchase a site. There
is much opposition to the plan and the
The School Board then voted $1,000, but
President Smith announced that the &C:
ton must be reconsidered as the law
required that a majority of all the di
rcctors must vote for the project ts
make IT successful, whereas the nuinbet
who did vote lacked one of making
majority
he annual oratorical contest OF the
Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Oratoricai
Union was held in the Franklin and
Marshall College Chapel, Lancaster The
colleges represented were as follows:
Ursnus, John Lentz Gettysburg. w W.
Barkley; Muhlenberg. Lawrence IL
Rupp; Franklin and Marshall John r.
Jones; Lehigh, George X. Goodwin
Lafayette, Frederick Starr Wright
Swarthmore. Miss Ida Wright. First
and second prizes SIS and Sis. were
awarded to F s. Wright. LAFAYETTE. and
Miss Ida Wright, Swarthmore respect
lyely The Judges were Judge Tohn
Stuart, Chambersburg DR.. s A. Mar
tin, president OF Wilson College. and
Prot. Francis B. Brandt. of the Central
High School Philadelphia Dallas r
krebs, of Ursinus College, presided.
The Scranton poor district now has
two Boards of Directors. as a result of a
dispute over the boundaries OF the va
rious subdivisions from which direc,ofs
are elected. Friday the terms OF four
members OF the present board OF siy ex-
pre- and five directors elected in Feb
ruary presented their certificates. The
existing board refused to acknowledge
them as directors. whereupon four of
the elected men met in another part OF
the room and organized.
Two horses owned by Joseph Nevis
Ky, an undertaken and liveryman Of
Shenandoah. were stabbed by some one
who broke into the stable One OF The
horses died and the other cannot re-
cover lhis is the third instance within
the past three months when horses
owned by local undertakers were ciit
with knives, and in each case the animals
died.
The will of Matilda Heydrick. pro-
Dated at Norristown, disposes OF an eS-
tate OF $4,000 to charitable purposes
among Baptist institutions. The eyrc.,.
tors are Judge Wilson F. Sally and Re-
"A. A. DeLarme, the latter former pas
tor at Norrstown, but now officiating at
Paterson, N. ].
Missionary Alliance Day was observed
by the students of the Reformed Th.o-
logical Seminary in connection with (,
classical conference in Santee Hall. Ian
caster Addresses were delivered by
W. Appel Lancaster; Rev. c. E. Schaef.
Ter, Reading; Rev. Rufus w. Miller
Reading; Rev. T. s. Bromer, Lebanon,
Rev. Prof. G. w. Richards, Lancaster
and Kew A. {. Whitmer, Lancaster.
George Westinghouse has presented
four cannon to Pttsburg for Schenlcv
and Highland Parks. The cannon were
originally made by the Fort Pitt Foun-
dry Company prior to the Civil War.
and were in use i'll many engagements of
that war
By the will of Evan Buchanan. of Eas-
ton, who leaves an estate of $4,000. the
Easton Home for Friendless Children
will receive $500; the Easton Home for
lnfrm Women, $500. and the Faston
Hospital, $1,000. The rest of the estate
goes to the family.
II. W. Miller, of Lewistown. was
struck by live electric wire while he
was on his way home one night recently.
AT first he was supposed to be uniniured
but he has since become blind and part
ly paralyzed.
DR.. Martin G, Brumbaugh. late Com.
missioner of Education for Porto Rico.
lectured on conditions in the island be-
IolN d ldlBS duuCllCc III Alumni Hall. az
Haverford College.
Nine young men of Portland. caught
by Constable Fox playing poker in
slate factory were fined SO and costs
each
In Delaware county outside Of the city
of Chester there were o4o births and orc
deaths during 1901 Radnor leads the
list in births with Io4
Mrs Bridget Mccarthy aged ?. wears
died at the Pottsville Hospital from
burns, her cothing having been ignited
from brush fire.
The Bradford Hardwood Lumber
Company has purchased $1,000 acres OF
hardwood lumber lands in Michigan.
Burglars entered the residence of Mrs.
William A. Covington at Norwood and
secured a gold watch, two gold chains.
FIVE gold rings and $2s.
Robbers entered the schoolhouse al
Mount Pleasant and stole the window
curtains and other furnishings. They
took their plumber away in team stolen
from Charles +. ,Zook. of Maytown.
which was recovered after having been
abandoned
Officials OF the United Mine Workers
maintain policy of silence concerning
the probable outcome of the Shamokin
convention.