The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-04-17
Pennsylvania
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Special Dispatches Boiled Down for
Quick Reading.
PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED.
Seorched Corpse In q Ditch Clothes Burned
From the Body Of Man Found Along the
Railroad at HowelIviIle-Prlest 0ustcd by
kidnapping Plot ReveaIed-Enicre'
log Tobacco Laws-Othcr News.

rysburg $S; Jacob Brubaker, Amsbry,
So; William Kennedy. Mt. Holly
Springs So; Garrett M. Craighed Bea
yer Falls, sly; James M. Packard,
Mitchell Creek, $I7; Robert s. Laugh
ary, Hamill, $40; Robert II. Dickinson,
Erie, $24; Addison K Nesbit, New
Bedford, $40; Stewart Clark Pittsburg,
$12; Andrew Hillegas, West End, So;
Samuel b. McCord Erie. So; Sarah
Rogers, Allegheny So; Jane Moody,
Asylum. So; Catharine Kles, Connells-
vile, So; Jane L. Southard, Caledonia,
So; Ebenezer H. Hamill, Hamill $I2;
William Mccoy, McKees Rocks, $40;
William R. Lawrence, Ligonier, $I2;
James Marsh, Irwin, So; Matthew
Hoose, Athens, $I7; Joseph Day, Wash
ington, $I2 John M. Smith. Allegheny,
So; Isaac Buckingham, Jefferson, So;
George Haben, Butler So; William A.
Holt, Washington, $I2 ]. S. Whipple,
lie Roy, $40; Sarah A. Greenland, Graf
ton, $S Catherine J. Hamilton, Belle
fonte, So; Sarah Bridget Sharon, $S.
Pennsylvania patents Alfred M. Ack-
lin, Pittsburg, drive mechanism for
crushing rolls Stephen ]. Adams, Pitts
burg sand molding apparatus; also
forming sand molds; Fulton V. Zurich,
Pittsburg, metallic wheel; James +. Faw-
cett Pittsburg. lift mechanism for tin
plate Gustave Greenland, Braddock,
match box; John S Klein, Oil City,
speed regulator for explosive engines;
Frank c. Mcpherson, Beaver Falls saw
ings bank; George f. Oatman, McKees-
port, rail supports John w. Paul, hittan-
ming, typewriter; Ralph V. Sage Johns
town, drop door gondola car Charles
Stein, Meadvlle, vehicle tire John L.
Storm, Pittsburg, hat and coat rack;
Samuel Sullivan, Eric, means for cooling
milk cans, George w. Wareham, Pitts
burg, mattress filler Frank A. Wilcox,
Erie, inner tube for pneumatic tires.
Rev. John Almond, Greek Catholic
priest of Olyphant, who was eXcommu-
nicated by Bishop Hoban for unpatrotic
utterances regarding the assassination OF
President Mckinley was ordered by
Judge John p Kelly to surrender pos
session of the Greek Catholic Church
property. Father Almond. i'll addition to
being the pastor of the Greek Catholic
Church at Olyphant, was editor of the
"Swoba" Its editorials had an extreme
socialistic trend, and after the assassi-
nation of President Mckinley the "Swo-
ba" apparently sought to extenuate the
crime. As a result Father Almond was
summoned before Bishop Hoban At
the conclusion of the interview the priest
disavowed the Bishops authority, and on
February 22 he was excommunicated.
Another priest was sent to the church,
but Father Almond refused to give up
the church property. Those of the con-
gregaton who refused to support Ar
mond were refused admittance to the
church. A committee of the congrega-
tion appealed to the court and ain injunc-
ton was granted against Father Almond
to restrain him from conducting further
services and to compel him to surrender
the keys of the church property.
The nude body of a white man about
IS years OF age was found in a ditch
along the tracks of the Trenton Gut off
at Howellville, at midnight by a track
walker. Apparently the clothes had been
burned off the body The flesh was also
badly scorched The corpse was removed
to Malvern, and Coroner Troutman is
investigating in the belief that a murder
was committed. Two theories are ad-
vanced One is that the man was dead
before he was thrown from train and
that the body was carried to this out of
the way place on a freight train. satu-
rated with coal oil, set on fire and thrown
into the ditch. where it was found. The
other theory is that the man was stealing
ride and fell off while asleep and that
matches in his pockets were ignited by
the fall thus burning him to death. The
body has not yet been identified
In investigating the disappearance sf
George Wolls, machnist employed by
the Spring Grove Paper Mills Company,
the authorities have learned that a plot
was concocted last August to kidnap the
I2-year-old son of William L. Gladfel-
ter, an official of the paper company
Through a confession of one OF the men
implicated, it is said, Mr. Gladfelter was
informed that the plan was to conceal
the boy in an abandoned ore pit near
Spring Grove and demand $4,000 ran
som. To thwart the plot Mrs. Gladfel-
ter took the boy to Buffalo, N. Y,
Fourteen tobacco dealers were placed
under arrest in Williamsport for alleged
violation of the act of Assembly prohib
iting the sale of tobacco in any form 10
children under 10 years of age. The ar
rests are the outcome of a movement
started some months ago by the Mothers
and Teachers Clubs and the Women's
Christian Temperance Union Other ar
rests are expected to be made.
The Central Pennsylvania Alumni As
sociation of the University of Pennsyl-
gania held its annual meeting and din
per at Harrisburg. Sixty persons were
present, and DR., John y Cup was toast
master. The guests were Vice Provost
Edgar f. Smith, Dean f. C. Kirk. OF the
iental department. and DR.. Edward
Martin, OF the faculty of medicine.
While going home from sick call
Father Stanislaus Spotanski was held
up by burglars who forced him to wit
ness the blowing up of the safe in the
postofhce at Hudson.
Three men were mortally wounded in
railroad accident at Mckeesport,
caused by locomotive falling through
trestle.
Two men supposed TO be members OF
the gang which robbed bank at Town
Vile, were held captured near that
place Before they were arrested they
held up constable who intended to APP
prehend them, and took his revolver
away and compelled him TO give them
his team of horses and buggy.
The denomination of George l.. Holli-
day has been agreed upon for postmas-
ter of Pittsburg,
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