The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-06
THE KEYSTONE STATE.
News Happenings Of Interest Gathered
From All Sources.

1Nt0CHNlilC. fOs JOlin hNouiNNCbs oOlr
diers' Home, Erie. $S Henry c. Kline,
Conshohocon. So; Alvurtis O'Dell,
Tyronvilie. ~: David Hlty Bradford,
Sio: Nathaniel Boughton, Springfield
Sr2: Thomas G. Livingston. Hopewell,
S74; George J. Cornelius, Port Math-
Ida, Sly; Thomas J. Rouse, Platea,
$40; William d. Abbott. Suthervillc,
So: George Wertz. Lewsburg. $I4;
Hannah Snyder, Bolivar, So: Francis
F. Davis, Oil City, SIo; Zephaniah
Waid, Titusvile $74 Huston McKin-
ney, Ulster, $I2; Charles j. Smith,
Quincy, SI2: Frederick Mertz, McVey-
town. S74: John w. Young, Romola.
$I2: Ephraim s. Walker, Saltillo. $I2;
Thomas Haddon. Hone Church. SIo;
Hannah NJ. Myers. Allegheny, So; Lu-
cinda r. Packard. Covineton, $I2.
Harry L. Dubcrs. Soldiers Home.
Erie. So; John A. Martin, Altoona, So;
Redman Flaherty, Pittsburg. $40; Sol
onion Conrath Cookport, $50; John
Miller. Linesville, $I2; Jacob krebs
Spindle, $40; Joseph Tritschler. Pitts
burg. $I2; Frederick Haines, Dayton.
$I2; Emeine Elliott. Mahonlngton, $I2;
Mary A. Hamm. Bcryl, So: Lucinda
Kennedy. Brookville 81; Louisa
Richie. Marion Center $l2; May N.
Edwards, Westfeld, $S; minors OF lg-
natz Fogel, New Brighton, $I2; Sarah
]. Hunter. Beaver, SO; Pamelia IL.
Wood Athens, s..
Upon the recommendation OF Major
General Miller, Colonel Rutledge pro-
NOTED Arthur Wadsworth from a pri-.
vate to sergeant. Wadsworth shot and
killed William Durham on the night
OF October while on guard duty,
i,.oI,,,rr q, orIar m half
given by Wadsworth. The major gen
eral saws he deplores the killing OF
Durham. but the promotion OF Wads'
worth is reward for the faithful per-
iormance OF duty.
On the charge OF stabbing fellow
workman. Joscpo Martinique was taken
to West Chester from the Catanseh
ouarres in the Chester Valley. The
victim. another Italian. was severely
cut in the lungs and physicians say he
cannot live. When the officers appear
ed at the boarding house to arrest Mar
tinque he was found hiding under
bed.
Deeds were recorded in Pittsblrg
conveying to II. c. Frick $4,000 600
worth OF property at the Point"
where the Wabash proposes to have its
terminal and where Pennsylvania Rail-
road interests have projected huge
warehouses. Mr. Frick bought the
property February IL. 1902. 1t was
purchased from Mrs. Mary Schenley,
| OF London. who has vast realty hold
ings in Pttsburg and other American
cities.
Philadelphia, Pottstown and Norris
town will soon be linked with Souder-
ton by trolley road which is to con-
meet with the Schuykill Valley Trac..
ton Company at Trooper. The capital
stock OF the new company is 100000
and the stockholders are mostly resi-,
dents along the line OF the proposed
road.
BENJAMIN Unger OF ST. Davids,
lineman. employed by the Delaware
and Atlantic Telephone Company, fell
from a pole in Wayne, a distance o.
thirty feet, and was taken to the Bryn
Mawr Hospital with broken arm and
two badly injured lower limbs.
Ralph Mattress. who fell ffty-iow
ieet down Girard slope. Mahanoy city
died al the Miners Hospital.
Fire in the engine room OF the Viii
kinson Stoker Works in Bridgeport
! for a time threatened the entire plant
/ Valuable machinery was destroyed.
s. ]. Sinner e. Sons, OF Milton. have
purchsed the Ettingcr machine shop:
| of Chester, and will continue the busi
ness in conjunction with their plant at
Milton.
Regarding the rumor that the
I Philadelphia and Reading Company
sale OF coal in Reading. President Baer
/ Jac1,roe ba ranort - ;ororrert
Arrangements are already being made
for the meeting of the Grand Lodge
of the Knights OF Friendship to be
held in Reading in 1904. Over 700 del
egates will be present
Solomon Z. Stout, OF Reading for
r,erly foreman OF the Philadelphia and
Reading Company's round house at
Twentieth street. Philadelphia, has
! been appointed foreman OF the round
house at Clearield.
Clarence Frost, aged I3, OF Edison
was hunting when his gun was acci-
dentally discharged The shot man.
gled his left wrist and lodged in his
breast. He is not expected to live.
Berks county is considering the pro-
ject OF building another bridge across
the Schuylkill river at Reading, The
Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
filed exceptions to the plan, claiming II
would be serious interference with
the railroad.
The citizens OF Neither Providence
township have organized free library
% be known as the Horace Howard
| Furness Free Library, and the school.
BOARD OF the township have donated the
Use of a room in the new school bgild-
ng. About FIVE hundred books have
llready been purchased.
Charles Cawey, OF Homestead WHO
IS in prison under suspicion OF having
| killed his mother, three sisters and two
brothers, has obtained a patent on
street car brake he invented just before
he tragedy
Edward F. Long, member OF the
law firm OF Rogers & Long. and soiic-
ltor OF the Directors OF the Poor OF
Montgomery county, died suddenly at
| his home in Norristown.
The reunion of the Forty-ninth Regi-
nient, Pennsylvania Volunteers was held
at Huntington After the business meet
ing a rousing campfire was held in the
SQUIRT house at which several hundred
citizens attended
A gang of house-breakers made sue
cessful raid at Normalville and Indian
Head. The general store and postoffice
conducted by G. W. Campbell in Nor
| malVille was robbed of several hundred