The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-02
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BRIEFLY TOLD.
Special Condensed Dispatches From
Many Points.
PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED.
Removal Follows Dynamite Plots Bogus Priest i
May Be a Murderer---New "Oleo" Test Case
Gift May Cost His Life Bullets Fired
csrs-Made Gifts and Then Died-ws1
man Drowned.

man Drowned.
Patents granted PennsylY
Rudolph Berg, Pittsburg, air
ing and cooling apparatus;
son, Mcdonald, packing and y
sci Lucien Castin, Point Marion, meSV
tallic railway tie, also car fender; James
II. Curry, Williamsburg. combined hand
and stand mirror; Richard J. Douthet,
Sharpesburg, animal trap; Glen D.
Gibbs, Pittsburg, hose reel; Gustav A.
Hassel, McKeesport, cutout for cranes;
Constant Laval, Allegheny, apparatus
for silvering glass; Patrick Meehan,
New Castle, annealing box; William
Swindell, Allegheny gas producer;
Peter Theobald, Carrick auger holders;
Martin J. Triece, Blairsville. curtain
poles.
These pensions were granted james
Farley, Allegheny SO; Samuel M. Bai-
ley, Dubois, So; Ephram j. Hampton,
Orbisona, $40.
A bogus priest who has been defraud-
ing business men of Pittsburg by passing
bad checks is suspected of being Frank
lin Williams, the Trenton cigarmaker,
who is charged with a murder commit
ted there last month. One of the men
whom the bogus priest tried to defraud
called on the police and discovered that
the would-be impostor rescmbled the
man who is described by picture and
otherwise in the circular of the Trenton
police on the murder case. The local
police sent for some of the victims OF
the counterfeit priest. and they were
shown the picture of the Trenton man,
who was recently captured in Syracuse,
They promptly identified it as the pic.
ture of the man who defrauded them,
The supposed priest has represented
himself as the rector of some church,
and paid for goods with bogus checks in
excess OF the purchase price, .pocketing
the difference.
Harvey Hahn, aged ID years, of Read
ing, with his brother and several COM
panions went out for walk, each taking
with him rifle received as a Christmas
present. They intended to shoot small
birds. In climbing a hill near the Hes
sian camp the rife carried by the elder
brother was accidentally discharged the
bullet entering Harvey's abdomen When
the boy was taken to the Reading Hos
pital it was found that his wound was
similar to that which caused the death of
President Mckinley. An operation To-
Gated the bullet embedded in the walls
OF the back, under the liver 1t had
penetrated the abdomen, passing through
the stomach.
Franklin Robling, Jr, superintendent
of the Scranton bureau of police, was
removed from office by Director of Pub
lie Safety Wormser, by request of Re-
rnrIar W I
refuses to make any statement concern
ing the reasons for the removal, further
than to say it is for the good of the
police department. 1t is understood that
the removal is due to the failure of the
police department to put an end to the
dynamite outrages that have occurred in
that city since the beginning of the street
car strike, or to catch any of the perpe-
traitors.
James MacGregor, acting for the State
Dairy Commissioner, has begun a civil
action to collect $Ioo penalty and costs
for violation of the oleomargarine law
against o. H. Shoemaker, who owns
stores in Uniontown and Connelsville.
1t this test case is successful, other
suits of a similar character will be insti-
tuted, instead of criminal proceedings.
While patrolling his beat, John Cor
ham, watchman at Roach's ship yard,
Chester, attempted TO cross over a sliuce-
way by means of plank. when he slip
ped and tell into the water. When Cor
ham failed to appear at the ship-yard
search was made and his lifeless body
was found in the sluiceway He had
been connected with the yard for twenty
six years.
Anthony SockaloslSi was held I'D in
Williamsport by four men, who beat him
into insensibility and robbed him. The
same highwaymen attacked William Bar
anewsky on the road from Mddleport
to Lewistown and slashed him with ~
knife and then robbed him. Edward
limerick was held up and robbed in the
southern suburbs of Pottsvillc.
j. R. Cincerny, discharged Pennsyl-
vania Railroad brakeman, who caused
the arrest OF large number of brakemen
Tor working on Sunday, says he will
have additional arrests made to stop
Sunday work in the Pennsylvania wards
at Newcastle. The men already arrested
have been discharged.
Charles Britton, of GirardyilIe. was
shot while riding on Schuylkll traction
car at Connor's patch. The bullet pene-
trated the car window and lodged in the
mans back, inflicting a severe wound,
Another car was fired upon earlier in the
evening, but no one was injured.
George Noll, of Pottsville. while NAV
ing Santa Claus, died suddenly. He
had just distributed gifts among his
family and sat down to have a chat
when he fell from his chair dead. MI
Noll was 81 years old He was vet
eran of the Civil War
Fire of supposed incendiary origin
destroyed the barn on the property of
Charles Reikert, near Cambridge. Sal
isbury Township. Ten cows, two
horses, farming implements and grain
were burned, entaling loss Of about
$4,000.
Boys found bundle near Lamokin
Run which contained the dead body of
an infant.
At the home of John A. Ellis. near
Woodhill, the members of the family
OF the late George B. and Amy Akin
son Ellis, of Buckmanville, held 4 re-
union for the first time in thirty-eiaht
years.
Harry L. Frederick was shot in
quarrel over a wodnan in house at
Scranton. Frederick is at the Scranton
private hospital, and his recovery is