The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-15
Pennsylvania
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Special Dispatches Boiled Down for
Quick Reading.
PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED.
Trust TO Build at Least Twenty Plants Near
Pttsburg- Guards Camp Site Selected
0ctogenarian Buried In Tomb Which He
Made-Msn Sought Refuge in an lcehouse
and Perislicd Miners Resume Work.

New Pcnsioners-Edgar +. White,
| Erie. $12; James c. Bundy. Dubois, Sfz;
Elder Crawford, Trail, 50; John +. Leon
ard, Bradford. SI2; George NJ. Eddy,
| Bradford, $I7; Emanuel Erminger,
Rchardsviilc, SI2; Richard b. Newman,
Fayetteville Sl2; William Smith, Ale
| ghcny. So; Ndam Zigler, Lock Haven,
$40; James Dimpsey. Wall, $f2; Jacob A.
Fisher, Aaronsburg, $I2; Joseph II.
Dickson, Mcadvillc. $40; William A. Ish
Ter. Bellefontc, So; John Nicholas, Ken
dali Greek, $I2; Judson Knight Sharps-
vile, $50; Leopold NJ. Loll, Fryburg,
$24; Martha {. Kuhn, Johnstown.- So;
| Angeline Williams Moravia, So; Jose
phine B. Lewis, Philipsburg So; minor
of Corydon +. Patterson, Allegheny, $40;
William Shannon, New Galilce, So; John
Cribs, Sandy Valley, $S Arson B.
Campbell, NlcKeesport, S; Leonard A.
Hollister Kittannng, So; William Pen
ellie, Lincolnvillc, SIs; James Holt,
Huntingdon, Sro; Joseph Beers, Rock
| hill Furnace, SI2; George Means, Waller,
! $40; Daniel Wonsctler, Washington, $I2;
Samuel Pitard Saxton, $I4 Joseph R
White. New Castle, $40; James P.
Burchheld, Clearfcld, $3o Robert NJ
, Mccullough Canonsbure, $50; Marga
ret Simons, Tyrone, So; Isabella Phil
lips, Carmichacls, So; Nancy Dillon
! Smiths Ferry, So.
Patents granted Alfred NJ. Acklin,
| Pittsburg, apparatus for feeding and
tcnpcring foundry sand; Senate Backus,
Pttsburg, match machine; Allan K.
Bowman, Pittsburg tobacco pipe; Rob
crt s. Breckenridge, Butler, overals;
| James F.. and c. b. Brown, Bradford
vehicle body; Mary A. Deforcc, Cory,
flower stand Oliver G.. Earl Allegheny
bolt; Frank A. Eylcr. Harrisburg. ap-
paratus for diSpelling electricity in dciv-
erlng sheets into or from printing press
es; Jas. NJ. G.. Pullman, Pittsburg, outlet
| box for electric wires and conduits Azor
| r. Hunt and w. Ahlen, Duquesne, heat
ing furnace for coiled bundles, Albert
kalske, Eric collapsibe baby carriage;
| John S. AIatson, Grecnville. railway
block system Alexander ]. Mccullough
| Meadville, electric switch operating de-
| vice; Horace f. Neumeyer, Macunige,
hose nozzle; Henry n. Potter, Pttsburg,
treating ballast for electric lamps; Geo
w. Rhine, of Altoona, air compressor;
Henry {. Rush, Oil City. gas burner for
firing barrels Geo. B. Tenant, Johns
town. power press; George Westing-
house, Pittsburg, automatic fluid pres
sure brake apparatus; Samuel B. Whin-
cry. Pittsburg, blue printing apparatus
Announcement was made at Pittsburg
by 4 member of the party of United
States Steel Corporation officers who,
with President Schwab. are visiting the
plants of the Pittsburg district, that it
had been decided TO build at least twenty
and perhaps twenty-five new plants
About $6o,ooo.ooo is to be expended and
the Pittsburg district will get from 90
to Is per cent of the amount. The Ma
tional Tube Plant at Mckeeesport will
not be abandoned nor removed. but will
be enlarged and improved. Three new
tube plants will he built and while their
exact locations have not been decided
upon, they will be in the Pittsburg dis
| trict
Generals Goblin, SchalI Wiley. Ad-
jutant General Stewart and Quartermas-
ter Richardson visited the Gettysburg
battlefield and selected location for the
division eucampmcnt July 1910 Cen
cral and division headquarters will be
located on the Enmitsburg Road in
front OF the historic Bloody Angle. The
First Brigade will encamp on the
Spanglcr farm, over which Pickett's
charge was made. The Second Brigade
will be located directly across the road,
and the Third Brigade will be stationed
on the outskirts of Gettysburg, The ar
tillcry and cavalry will cncamp on the
Cbambersburg Pike aud Reynolds Ave
nue. on the site of the first days fight
ing. General orders will be issued next
week by Adjutant General Stewart form
ally announcing the selection of Gettys-
burg for holding the encampment and
giving the details for the movement of
the troops.
Charters were issued at The State De-
partmcnt as follows: The Gettysburg
Manufacturing Company, Gettysburg
and Engineering Company, Easton, CAPT
tai $4,000: the Roscoe Electric Light
Company. Roscoe. Washington county,
capital $4,000: the Lancaster Castings
Company, Lancaster capital 10000
Railway Steel Casting Company, Pitts
burg, capital $4,000.
The strike of the miners of the Web
stcr Coal and Coke Company, in Cam
bria county, was terminated when the
company agreed TO sign the Altoona
scale. The companys principal objec-
ton was to the check-off, but that has
been adjusted in manner satisfactory
TO all concerned. There are about 5000
miners in the employ of the Webster
Company in Cambria county, and they
are all at work again.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has shipped 5000 young locust trees to
Newton Hamilton TO be set out on the
Ingram farm in Wayne Township These
trees will be planted eight feet apart and
cultivated until large enough for cross
ties. This is to be an experiment, and
if successful will be followed by other
larger ventures in this line
George Myers, OF Gouldsboro, was
found dead in one of the large icehouscs
at that place. He went into the build
ing TO escape the heat il is supposed,
and fell asleep and was frozen to death.
Jacob Gcttingcr, who died at Sandy
Vile. aged 81 years, will be buried in
grave which he dug himself Several
years ago he secured a lot in the ceme-
terry at Sandymount Church. where he
dug and walled up a grave and erected
tombstones upon which his name aud the
date of his birth were inscribed
Edna Varna, aged I3 years, shot and
killed herself at the home of + s. Ia
gle The child had bcca brooding over
her isolation, she having been placed in
the Eagle home by the Childrcn's Home
Society of Pennsylvania. The mother