The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-04-10
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Special Dispatches Boiled Down for
Quick Reading.
LIST OF NEW PENSIONERS ENROLLED
State Forestry Association Celebrates Arbor
Day at liaverford College Judge Ashman
and Others Make hddresses--Dr Elizabeth
Winters BIames coaebunn for Fire
Norristown School Board Rejects Gift.

Pensions granted: William c. Rush,
Glen Campbell. SO; Burton 5. Georgia,
Galeton, SO: William Cooncy, Miffiin-
purC So; Erastus II. Ames, Washing
on, : ;; David r. Palmer, Teeplevllle,
SS; Samuel Stuffe Somerset, $50; FISH
.r WI. on. Edinboro, $40; Samuel M.
5ayer, hucona, So; Peter s. Myers, Sab
bath Resi-, SI2; Jerome B. Cole, Mel
son. $I2; Lucy Butler, Petrolia, 50;
Mary A. Duncan, Whitestown, So; l1eze-
kiah Scritchheld, Braddock. SO; Frank
T. Stoughton Lewisburg, 50; James Cas-
son, East McKeesport, $40; William
Bumbaugh, Altoona, $40; William
Thompson, Marion Center, $Iz; John
Graham, Strongstown, $12; George M.
Busch, Pittsburg, $T2 William Vanatta,
Johnstown. $I2; Hezekiah Dixon, Phil
ipsburg, $40; Lewis Wambaugh. New
Baltimore, $40; Robert Sidler, Mones-
sen, $I2 John II. Bonheyo, Pittsburg,
$40; Oliver J. Walker, Tarentum, So;
Martin Botterff. Recdsville, $I2; lhos.
Dillon, McVeytown, $40; Adm Z.
Brown, Hornby, So; Joseph Mauck, Sig
lerville, SO: Samuel G. Stine, Hunting
don, $I2; John Burk, Erie, $40; Charles
Baker Eric, $24; Dennis Ring, Erie,
$I65o; James Kelly, Erie, $40; David
Oiler, Braddock. SO; Francis M. Fleck,
Springdale, $40; Samantha Longweli,
West Freedom. So; David McCloskey,
Ramoa, $I2; Emma ]. Cook, Pittsburg,
So; Mary A. Lewis, Tioga, So; Amelia
Mangus, Johnstown, So.
The annual meeting of the Council
of the Pennsylvania Forestry Associa-
ton was held at Haverford College in
celebration of Arbor Day Exercises
were held in Alumni Hall. President
Isaac Sharpless, of Haverford, well
coined the members of the Forestry AS
sociation and spoke on the subject OF
forestry. He described the devastation
to the trees in the vicinity caused by the
storm in February, and then dwelt on
the general good results which the For
estry Association had brought about all
through the State. The president of the
association, John Birkinbine, of Phila-
delphia, spoke of the work of the as
sociation, showing that it had gradually
developed and worked out new phases
of the forestry question each year. He
said IT was important to maintain the
forests, both from a commercial stand
point and as protection from freshets
in the spring. A poem was read by DR..
Francis B. Gummere, of Haverford Col
lege. The topic was the admonition OF
William Penn to his people in regard
to the care of the forests. Judge w. N
Ashman, of Philadelphia. and DIR. A.
g. Bolles. of the college, also addressed
the meeting The members of the as.
sociation and their friends then adj
iourned to the gymnasium, where re-
ception was held and refreshments were
served About twenty trees were
planted, most of them being evergreens
The planting completed the general plan
OF the tree planting done by the Campus
Club of the college last year. when about
eighty trees were planted on the lawn.
The Norristown School Board BY a
vote of II to rejected Andrew Car
negies gift of $4,000 for a proposed
free library. The gift was made pro-
vlding that the taxpayers raise $1,000 D
year for the maintenance of the library
AT previous meeting of the board the
gift was accepted. The matter was
taken to court by several taxpayers. but
the court decided that the School Board
had the right to accept the proDosition
An appeal to the Supreme Court is
pending.
en-, was arrested. charged with causing
a fire which, destroyed the stable ad-
joining the sanitarium of DIR. Elizabeth
Winters on the hilltop below West Con
shohocken. In addition to the stable four
thoroughbred horses perished. and car
rages harness. robes, blankets, NOW
full of hay and all the equipments of the
stable were destroyed The loss is csti.
NJ G.
insurance.
Charters were issued by the State
Department to the following corpora
tions; The G. J. Buechler Cut Glass
Company. Philadelphia capital $4,000;
Monongahela Light COMPANY, Pittsburg,
capital, 81 900; Swedish Provision Com,
pany, McKeesDort, capital $4,000; Stan
yon Engineering Company, Pittsburg,
capital, $1,000.
A chime OF bells was presented to the
Glen Mills House of Refuge, which com
pletes the furnishing of the Smith Me
mortal Chapel. The bells are the gift Of
Mrs. Mary A. Combs, and are in mem
ory of her father and mother, John F.
and Elizabeth Monroe Smith, the donors
of the chapel, Each bell bears an ap-
propriate memorial inscription
Special Officer Schweitzer locked a
gang of eighteen tramps in a freight car
near Bethlehem Junction. Catasqua off
GERS arrested two of the gang on the
charge of breaking into a store in that
place year ago. The others were
ordered to leave town.
w, f. Coyan, connected with the
works OF Carnegie Steel Company, 'at
Homestead, has invented a process for
making rails which is being used at the
Edgar Thompson Steel Works, Brad
dock, with pronounced success. BY the
Coyan process the inventor says rail
can be produced with hard tough face,
free of scale. The rail, it's asserted, will
wear from a third to half longer than
the ordinary rail and il can be bent 10
any shape without fracturing it.
At Harvey's Lake. a summer resort
near Wilkes-B Barre, James Larkins, aged
81 years, warden of the lake, was found
dead in house in which he lived alone.
His throat was cut and he also had sew
eral stab wounds on his head During
the night LarlIins had as his guest Sam
uel Keller, who is about 90 years of age.
In honor of Easter the men had pur-
chased several quarts OF whisky, and
they drank it. II is presumed that they
-luarreled and fought with knives. When
Larkins' body was found Keller was still
in the house. His clothes were saturated
with blood, and he also had stab wound