The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-09
Pennsylvania
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Condensed Special Dispatches From
Many Points.

i'm DSItnei, washington, 9lZ, WiiiidHf
Morlock, McKeesport, $I2; George Coy,
Den Run, $40; Michael P. Dick, caring
Spring, So; Joseph B. Milburn, Bristol,
$I2; Oliver Staley, Claysville, $ra; Orion
w. Miller, Teplevile $I7; Alfred M.
Millvillage, $I2; Alfred Walton, Dick
Pittsburg, SO; John II. Camp, South
$40; Philip Johnson, Oil City, So; Hi
ram Davis, Saegertown, $3.50; johnson
II. Crick, Rimersburg $S Daniel Sim
mons, Braddocl<. $Iz: Charles w. Smith,
Dugall, SI2; Samuel A. Morse, Leroy,
$a4; John Kelly, Sandy Lake, $40;
Rhoda A. Adams, Russell, S8 Rachel
Hilty, Pittsburg, $S Mary II. West
Vandergrift, So; Lydia A. Cox, Wells
boro, $2s; Sarah A. Fruit, Transfer,
So; Julia A. Sourwine, Rockford, $8.
Judge Harry White who sat in the
court appointed for the Barker-O % Con-
nor judicial contest. in Blair county, has
received three threatening letters.
he received two letters saying that il
trouble for him. A third letter was
found by Judge White at his home 1t
was mailed at Jefferson and declared.
"The people here are not going to take
any fooling. You Judge, are safer at
home. 1t has been remarked that
Yankee was as safe at Gettysburg as
you are at Ebensburg. Barker will
never be Judge-there will be some ore
drop before it is over" The contest
concluded a few days ago by the with.
drawal of Barker.
Charters were issued by the State
Department to the following corpora
tions: Steelton & New Cumberland
Bridge Co, Harrisburg; capital $1,000 3.
The Farmers & Mechanics Trust Co.,
Mercer; capital $Ias,ooo. The Scran-
ton Journal Publishing Company,
tile Company, Frankfort; capital, $780,
COO Standard Connecting Rod Com
pany, Beaver Falls; capital, $4,000.
Pittsburg g. Brady's Bend Railroad Co.,
to build seven miles OF road in Clarion,
Armstrong and Butler counties; capital,
$4,000; president, Edward Wilkins
Dewey, New York.
Under the order sent out by officers
of the American Steel &; Wire Company
OF Pittsburg, a pension department has
been created in that organization. Its
provisions retire from active service
ard under pension all employees who at
tain certain age or whose physical con-
dition necessitates relief from duty.
The new order went into effect January
I. The company has about 10000 en-
ployees. A fixed fund, the amount of
which has not yet been announced, has
been set aside by the Company. 1t will
~ O1acaI ~t,o of
disbursement, A board Of arbitration,
to be announced hereafter will be ap-
pointed to frame regulations.
State Treasurer Barnett reports that
at the close of business on December
81, there was $4,3oo,63I.57 in the general
fund of the State Treasury. Philadel-
phia banks held the following sims:
Farmers and Mechanics National, $Is6.-
yoo.II; Quaker City National S63o,-
s5o.o2; Corn Exchange National $7s,-
700; National Bank. Germantown, Sso,-
100; Ridge Avenue Bank $4,000; Sixth.
National, $4,000; Southwark National,
$4,000
Auditor General Hardenbergh will
proceed against number of corrora-
lions which have not complied with the
law passed by the last Legislature re-
curing them to pay 10 the State treas
ury bonus on their authorized increase
Of capital stock. 1t is alleged that in
many instances this increase has been
made and not reported, and the law
Furnishes such delinquents to the extent
OF forfeiting their charters.
Having read of the action OF the MAY
or of McKcesport in offering to &C
knowledge total abstinence oaths on New
Years Day free of charge, Aldermen
Alexander M. Snyder, of Lebanon, an
nounccd that during this whole year he
will administer swearing off oaths with
out price. He has added the stipulation
that all violations of the oath are to be
punishable with thirty days in jail. Al
ready large number of persons have
taken the oath.
The lower public school building in
the Second Ward, Allentown, was dam.
aged by fire to the extent of $4,000. The
fire occurred before any of the pupils
were in the building The old part of
the schoolhouse was one of the two
buildings in which the first homeopathic
medical college in the world was started.
this being the institution ont OF which
Hannemann College in PHILADELPHIA
grew, 1t has been used for public school
purposes many years.
Charles Minnich, I3 years oil age, of
Danielsyille, was burned to death. The
boy was assisting in throwing hay from
the loft of a stable when the lantern cx.
ploded and the building caught fire. BE,
fore the lad could escape he was roasted
to death. The stable was DESTROYED
causing loss of $500.
John Wilson was arrested at Media
charged with stealing large quantity
of wire from the line of the Postal Tel.
egraph Company along the West Ches
ter Pike in Haverford Township. A
man with Wilson succeeded in escap-
ing
Dairy and Food Commissioner Cope
has turned over 10 the State Treasury
$1,000 collected from violators of the
"oleo" and pure food law OF the sum
S7as was paid by dealers convicted In
Westmoreand county.
Harold Brown, aged 10 years, was mr.
rested in Lancaster on the charge Of
holding up Roy Martin, an older boy
from whom purse containing $s was
taken. A charge Of attempting 10 rob
the home OF Rev Walter Whitley has
also been preferred against Brown.
A silk flag has been presented to Iohn
Brown Circle, OF the Ladies of the O.
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