The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-03-20
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
The Latest Happenings 0Iedned From
All Sources.
FLOODS RESULT IN MANY SUITS.
Twenty Berks County Farmers Claim Damages,
Declaring Along the schuyIkIII We're Ruined
Deep Deposit Of Coal DIrt--lilgh Winds
Causes Flames to Spread Rapidly at skip.
pack -Amputated Thigh In IS Seconds.

gheny, car truck; Ulysus G.. Champion,
Tyrone, soap holder for shaving cups;
George H. Fernald, North East thill
coupling Frank L. Fleishman, Ale
gheny, calculating machine; Matthew
Griswold, Jr., Erie, tumbGng machine;
John w. Houseberger, Pittsburg, door
strip; Washington d. Keyes, kittanning,
apparatus for delivering glass; John II.
koons, Waynesboro, lifting jack; VIM.
]. McCauslin, New Castle, hominy hull
er and washer; John Metcalfe and I.
| Bell Roscoe, thread holder; Jesse R.
Oakley, Homestead wood working ma
chine Robert s. Pollard, Pittsburg. de-
vice for operating blast furnace snort
valves; William Rohrbacher and r.
Weddell Duquesne, combination coffee
and tea pot; Harry R. Rose, Allegheny,
fire door; Noah Q. Speer, Pittsburg,
sand drier; Fritz o. Stromborg, Pitts
burg, feed table for sheet rolls; James
| ID. Swndcll, Pittsburg, conveyor for roll
| ing mills; William White, Jr., Pittsburg,
manufacture of steel; John A. Wright,
Irwin, and w. +. O'Neil, Williamsburg,
knife switch.
Pennsylvania pensions: Adam Wach-
| ter, West View. so; John B. Parshall,
| Erie, So John B. Henderson, Washing
on, $50; Stephen Pipes, Van Buren, $I2;
William Warters, Mansfield. SI4; John
Rhodes Rhest East .f'Efla Stroads6uig 49, oas Wm {
Hudson Aughwick Mill, $I2; William
| \. Bailey. West Covington. $I2; Matilda
| Craig, Pittsburg, So; Emilia Gulentz,
| Braddock, So; Elizabeth Suffer- Fry
burg So; James NJ Mitchell, Browns
vile, $I2; Margaret Grabill, lmler, $I2;
minor of Peter l.. Potter, Albion, $I4;
minor of John G.. Reuze, Pittsburg, $40;
Charlotte r. Mason, Fairview, So; Mary
Williams, Scottdale, SO; Julia A. Beam.
cr, Lemoyne, $I2.
James Lang, Pittsburg, SI2; Samuel
I. Bowen, Pittsburg, 50; Samuel r.
Banks. Beaver, SO; Walker Bargesser,
Pittsburg. So; Robert Donaldson, Pitts
burg. ,$I2; Samuel Lines. Spartansburg.
SI2; John ID. Speidel, Mt. Holly Spring,
SO; George Hite, Poplar Run, $r7;
Henry H. Forrest, Jamestown, $40; Mat
thew ]. Andrews. Milledgevlle, $Iz;
William Olinger, Banksville, $I2; Silas
Chapman, Waynesburg, $I2; Henry
Houts, Lindenhall, $I4 Elizabeth Gates.
St. Petersburg, So; Elizabeth Ross Pitts.
vile, So; Sarah Mountain. Meadville. $8;
Sarah a. Camp, Allegheny, $8 Ellen
Hicks, Huntington, So.
WCllN SUITS lOI udllldBCS HdNC UtcU
entered by Berks county farmers who
own lowland between Reading and the
Montgomery county line against the
Reading Coal and Iron Company and
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com
pany. All declare their meadows were
ruined during the late freshet by deposits
OF two to four feet of coal dirt and
black mud. 1t is asserted that hundreds
of acres of the most fertile land in the
Schuylkill Valley have been rendered
valueless by these deposits, and the loss
aggregates nearly half million dollars
Many of the sufferers are truckers and
they declare that their business has beer
destroyed by these coal dirt deposits.
At all of the colieries throughout the
Lackawanna Valley notices were posted
announcing that the rate of wages now
in effect will be continued until April 1,
1908, and thereafter, subject to a sixty
day notice There is no general feeling
III favor of a strike among the men in
this region. Work has been stcadier dur
ing the year than at any time within
twenty years and the average pay drawn
very two weeks the best in the same
period.
For some time workmen have been
drilling for an artesian well on the prop
erty of the Citizens Ice Company. of Al
toona. Friday oil was found after the
well had been sunk to the depth of 248
feet. The drilling has since been con-
tinued and the oils flow is becoming
more pronounced This is the first oil
that has been discovered in this part of
Pennsylvania.
Four barns were destroyed by fire and
two houses damaged at Skppack. The
FIRE broke out in the barn of William
Stephen. and the flames were soon car
ried by the high winds to Christian
Steigners barn, and in short time both
buildings were in ashes. The fire con-
tnued TO spread, destroying the barns
OF. M. II. Zicgler and Mrs. Mary Ber-
toilet.
+ The County Commissioners agreed OH
a division of the $1,000 reward for the
capture of the Bddles The Pittsburg
detectives will get $3.50 each Frank
Holiday. who first recognized the fugi-
tives, gets $3.50; ]. G. Snyder the liv-
eryman who drove in pursuit, receives
$3.50, while the Butler county deputies
who participated receive sums ranging
from $500 to $275 each.
Raymond Barnett. alias Hamilton was
arrested at Pottsvillc, charged with big
amy, anu was committed TO Jail III de-
fault of $1,000 bail 1t is alleged that he
married Miss Louise Bacam. of this
place, last year. A woman from Orange.
N, j. who says she is his wife, caused
his arrest
The Royersford Electric Railway Com
pany has completed its route from Row
ersford to Collegevile AS soon as The
weather is favorable the company viii
commence building the line. which viii
connect with the Norristown system at
Collegeville.
Mrs. Samuel Mace, wife of West
Rockhill township farmer, killed a full
grown fox OF the gray species with a
shotgun in the poultry yard of their
home, near Argus.
At the State Hospital for Injured
Miners, Ashland, DR.. Biddle, chief sur.
geon, in the presence of forty other sur
geons, amputated the thigh Of an injured
miner in ffty-eight seconds.
BY reason of an epidemic of diphtheria
at Richland, nine miles east of Lebanon.
the public schools were closed. More
than twenty children are down with the
disease
A week ago Mrs. Mary Dcvine, of Mt
ar IL