The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-01
Pennsylvania
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Special Dispatches Boiled Down for
Quick Reading.
PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED.
Rcpe-Jumping Feat Kills a diri--Fat Consts.
bIe's Dilemma Suicide Hired a Baud
Missing Man Found Drowned Injured Ia
an Automobile Accident Woman and Child
Burned--Eseaped LunatIc Drowned

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B. Clark. Pittsburg, lifting jack for cars;
John Il. d. Nommergue, Pittsburg
frame for doors and windows; Leonard
d. Davis, Erie, piercing and shaping
metallic ngots William Ferguson,
Pittsburg, wniffle tree clip; Wilder D.
Forsythe and T. T. Bell. Pittsburg, boil
er tube cleaner; David Heggle, Nc
Keesport, coupling welding rolls; VIM.
G. Henderson, Pittsburg, shears; Ralph
V. Sage, Johnstown, sill and bolster
connection for steel cars; Persifer F.
Smith, Pittsburg. bottom for sheet heat
ing furnaces; Charles Steele, Duquesne,
apparatus for rolling car axles; Hardy
Washburn, Osceola Mills, combined
poker and litter.
Pensions granted: William White,
Elkland $40; Eliver p. Barns, New
Castle, $I4; James Anderson, Indiana,
$I7; John Hickhan, PhGnixvillc. $40;
George w. Lane, Pleasantville, Sic; Jo-
seph Fosnaugh. Wampum, sly; Amos
Garbrick, Bellefonte, $S Minerva Back.
us, Wattsburg. So; Rebecca H. Morgan,
Bridgeville, So; Mary ]. Sechrict, Lib
erty, Sic; Elizabeth J. Ward, Butler, So
Barbara G.. Hodges, Io-year-old
daughter of S. II. Hodges. of Greens
burg, engaged in rope-jumping con-
test with number of her companions
to decide who could register the great
est number of jumps. The Hodges girl
beat all the others, making 40. I'm
mediatcly she complained of feeling diz-
zy. She was taken home and lapsed in
Inconsistencies. A physician was sum
moned and he found that blood vessel
In her head had been ruptured. The
child never regained consciousness and
died next morning.
The National Farm School, Doyles-
town, celebrated Arbor Day by planting
two trees, one to the memory OF VIM
Mckinley and the other for Baroness
Clara de Hirsch About one hundred
friends of the school attended from
Philadelphia. Rev. William McElway
of Philadelphia Mrs William W. Mil
Ter, president of the Council of Jewish
Women; Rev. DR.. Krauskopf, president
OF the schol. and George d. Ochs. of
Philadelphia, made addresses.
Constable Rhoads arrested Michael
Grossup at his home at Stowe on a
charge of assault. Grossup went UP
stairs ostensibly to change his clothing,
but instead sprang through two-foot
window and ran away The officer, who
NClRilS <OO DOullQSt dltCllDNON w iOiiOW
his prisoner through the window and
became wedged fast. 1t was necessary
for carpenter to cut the frame away to
release Rhoads.
Samuel +. Light, president and man
ager of the Lebanon Rolling Mill Com
pany. executed deed transferring the
plant TO the Lebanon Iron and Steel
Company The incorporators of the
new company are Paul II. Denniston,
Harry NJ Krrtz. William 5. Stokes.
William II, Triol, J. Walter White, all
of Philadelphia Samuel F. Light will
continue as superintendent. 1t is ru-
mored that the sale is a method of in
creasng capital and that additional mills
will be erected.
George w. Misscmer, of Steclton, lett
there for San Francisco, preparatory to
going to Manila, where he has accep"
a position under the United States go"
ernment to instruct natives in the print
ing trade.
After arranging for his funeral with
an undertaken and hiring a band to play
a dirgc at the obscquies, Martin Moski,
aged 72 years, of Hazeton. went home
and killed himself by firing shot
through his brain. He was despondent
through ill-health. Moski brought the
first lot of foreign miners TO this coun-
try thirty-two years ago.
Charters were issued at the State De-
partment as follows; Sharon Supply Co.,
Sharon, capital $Io.ooo; Dintenfass
Manufacturing Co, Philadelphia capital
$4,000; Northeastern Warehouse Co,
Philadelphia, capital $25o,ooo; Common
wealth Real Estate and Trust Co., Pitts
burg capital $1,000.
The body of Denis A. Clark, who es-
capped from the State Hospital for the
Insane at Norristown, was found in the
river. Clark was promoter of amateur
sports and boxing bouts. He was pop
ularly known in :he Schuylkill Valley
as "Tossie.' Six months ago he was
committed to the hospital.
While burning waste paper near her
home. in Bridgeport. the clothing of
Mrs. Sallie Hayes became gnited and
she was badly burned. While DIR. A. V.
Ellershow was relieving her distress he
received a call to another Fart OF the
town. where he found that Mary three
year-old daughter of John Culk, had
been burned at a bonfire.
Frank Ashton. of Easton, and his SON
in-law, DR.. E. w, Hubbs, of Philadel-
phia were in an automobile which col
lided with farmers wagon near Ric-
gelsville. The machine was upset and
both men were thrown out Mr.. Ash
tons right wrist was fractured and his
head injured, and Dir. Hubbs' right
thumb was broken.
A three-story stone barn and tank
house on the Soapstonc Farm. near Me.
rion Square, owned by Clement A. Girls
com, president of the International Nav
igation Co., was destroyed by fire, entail
ing loss of probably $4,000.
The committee preparing suggestions
for the Carnegie Polytechnic School in
Pittsburg has arranged for special night
courses for workingmen.
While Sallic Wilhelm, of York. was
engaged in house-cleaning, her two-year
old son got hold of a quantity Of wood
alcohol. which it swallowed. The child
died about half an hour later. The
child's father was killed on the railroad
few months ago.
A Shepherd dog save the life OF little
six-year- old Elsie Saber on her fathers
farm, in Little Mahoney Valley. The
child was attacked by mad bull, which
was chased away by the dog.
Joseph Bluejay, aged 10. was killed ait
Colbert colliery by becoming entanRledi
in belt which dragged him into the
machinery.