The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-03-13
Pennsylvania
BRIEFLY TOLD.
The Latest Happenings Cleaned From
All Sources.
MAN KILLED; HIS WIFE TORTURED.
Mjsked Robbers Commit Murder and Ransack
a House. Taking $500 Worth Of Booty--Ihe
Suspects Captured Borrowed Coin TO Sue
iIer-Fesred Consumption; Killed Herself
Bodies Of Mine Victims Recovered.

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Night, Eric, SO; Daniel B. Mowry,
Washington. SIa; John w. Scheonover,
Knoxville, $Iz; Theodore W. Hillyer,
Bloomfield, So; Miller Ickes, Neville,
SIo; John Walbert, Pittsburg. So; James
J. McAfoos, Decker Point. SI2; Samuel
Robertson, Harshavile, $Io; Mary J.
Stowder, Huntingdon. So; Barbara Orr,
Pittsburg, So; Mary Grandan, Conneaut-
vile, So; Eliza A. Spaulding, Port Allie
gheny. $I2; William Cheeseman, Girard,
So; George w. Taylor. Edgecliff, So;
Robert w. Thompson, Washington, $I2;
David Clark, Venetia, IS; Warren Gra-
ham. Northeast, So; Orren ID. Way,
Chambers Valley, $I4; Alex O'Don-
nell, East Waterford, $Io James Vance
Allegheny, $I2: Elias Powell, Rankin
Station, So; Mary Erb, Wormlcysburg,
So Catherine Brant, Latrobe. So; Mar
garct Schugarts, Punxsutawncy, $I2
Three masked burglars broke into tho
house of Henry Smith, an aged resident
near SaXonburg, little country town,
brutally murdered the old man, tortured
his aged wife in fiendish manner and
escaped with 5000 worth of booty, after
having ransacked the place. All day long
the suspects were tracked by posse and
in the evening they were caught. Mr..
Smith was the father of l.. II. Smith and
w. A. Smith, prominent Pittsburg bust
ness men and members of the l.. II.
Smith Wooden Ware Company. The
burglars crushed his skull with an ak,
ard to make their, work sure sent bull
let through their victims head. Mrs
Smith was tortured until she revealed
the whereabouts of the money in the
house. While torturing the woman the
robbers vented their fury by breaking
every thing within reach. Mr.. Smith
was a farmer of wealth and led a re-
tired life. 1t is supposed the robbers
believed that he had large sum of
money in the house, which is one and
quarter miles from Saxonburg. The
murder occurred about midnight
Michael Gwatt, who was arrested on
complaint of his wife for beating her
and trying to get away with a sum of
money for which she had sold her prop
crty, was sent to Jail at Wilkes Barre
by Alderman Donohue. AS he was
being led from the squire's office Gwatt
cried TO his wife. Wont you give me
S. to hire lawyer" Sure" she said,
and handed him bill Now he will en-
ter counter suit against her
Charters were issued by the State De-
partinent to these corporations Ger
man American Savings and Loan AS
sociation. Allegheny, capital. ST, ,ooo, 900
Eureka Knitting Company, Philadelphia,
capital, $4,000; the Pennsylvania Knit
ting Mills Company, Reading, capital,
$1,000; Majestic Apartment House Com
pany, Philadelphia, capital, $1,000
Harry McMullen, the I4-year-old son
of Charles McMullen, of Lebanon was
found dead in the Philadelphia & Read
ing Railroad yards. No one saw the ac-
cident. The body was found by a car
inspector. Deputy Coroner c. d. Weir
ick decided that death was due to an
accident.
1t is said that when Mayor-elect Vance
C. Mccormick, of Harrisburg. takes Of
fee he will appoint Lieutenant Colonel
Joseph B. Hutchinson of the Eighth
Regiment, National Guard, as his chief
of police Colonel Hutchinson is strict
disciplinarian.
Buildings containing FIVE stories and
tenements were destroyed by fire at
Shenandoah. Loss, $4,000. They were
owned by FitzgiBbons Brothers, of Ring
town.
Lawrence Colliery at Mahanoy Plane.
owned and operated by the Shaffer es-
tate. of Pottsville, was permanently
abandoned, The colliery employed near
ly 500 men and boys and had monthly
pay roll of $4,000.
ID. Lloyd Thomas, young lawyer,
who campaigned with the Governors
Troop in Porto Rico during the Spanish
American war. was thrown from sleigh
at Mhhanoy City, fracturing several ribs.
Alice Finnegan, aged 81, a married
woman, living on Duquesne Heights,
committed suicide with carbolic acid,
because she feared death from consump-
ton
Incendiaries attempted to burn the Ar
mory Hall at Summit Hill, but the FIRE
was put out before much damage was
done.
The FIVE bodies of the victims of the
fircdamp explosion at Catsburg mine
were recovered. They were dead when
found by one OF the rescuers.
The Lackawanna Railroad Company
has given a subscription Of $4,000 for
d new railroad Y. M. c. A. building in
Scranton and the work OF erecting
100000 building will begin at once.
A dynamite explosion set fire to the
Catsburg mine. Monongahela. The min
srs were brought out and the air pas
sages closed. The mine is too far from
the river to permit of its being flooded
Leon Sisler, who shot and attempted
to kill Flossie Hampton because she jili-
ed him and then made an Intellectual Al.
tempt at suicide with the same pistol on
November so, pleaded guilty at Norris
iown OF assault with intent to kill.
The blasting OF dangerous ledge
overhanging the Philadelphia & Erie
| Railroad at Ferney caused big land
slide at that place. All the Western
Union and Pennsylvania Railroad wires
we're broken by the slide, cutting off
communication west of Fcrney.
John Jiniski, of Scranton, does not he
| lieve in banks, and kept his savings,
| amounting to $3.50 scwed in the lipings
OF his coat Wednesday night he hung
! his coat on the back OF chair. When
he returned an hour later some one had
| slit the lining OF the coat and taken the
honey out He has had Steve Polewi-
| siz arrested for theft.
| The Montgomery Square postofficc
has been removed to Montgomeryville, a,
mile distant.
| The sanitary committee of the Allen
town City Councils has rejected the
| propositioh 10 give a free franchise 10