The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-02-27
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Condensed Special Dispatches From
Many Points.
STATES TRAVELLING LIBRARIES.
Thlrty.Four Of Them Created, Which May Be
Secured by Any Place That Lacks Library
FaciIitles--Crushsd Under Big Boulder
Coaster Killed by a Trolley car-carnegie
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| Stahstown. SO: Philip Miller, Marble
| $I2 William Fitzgerald, Georgeville, So;
| John hinges. Johnstown, $I2; Harvey
Elliott, Butler, $Ia; James A. Roche
Ulysses, SO; William Lucas Homer
| City $40; Frederick Qesscnberger, New
Cumberland, $40; Jerry Bennington
| Canonsburg So; John Ward, Sewick-
| ley, $S Thomas Davis. Emblenton, $I4;
! Francis Gcmmell, Pittsburg, $40; Sarah
Falknburg, Woodcook, So; Emma
Connck, Steamburg $I2; John r. Gil
fillen, Tidoute, $I2; Samuel c, De-
woody. Franklin, SO; Lamar Donahue
| Allegheny, $I2; Levi c. Reed, Dudley
| $40; Fitzimmons Laughlin Hoopstown,
| So; Charles S Henry, Allegheny. $8
| Richard NJ. Hoffman, Bullion, So; Can
ada Davis. Carmichael, $8 James P.
| Ewing. Walnut Bottom, $I2; Nicholas
r. Short, Tanoma, $I2; Ellis B. Gar
rison, Uniontown, So.
The Pennsylvania Free Library Com
| mission met in the State Library Har-
| risburg, ]. G.. Rosengarten. of Phila-
| delphia, presiding and all of the mem-
| bers present 1t was announced that
| UP to the present time the commission
| has created thirty-four travelling libra
| ries which have been sent to twenty-five
points in the State and thirty more IL
braries are now being created and will
soon be ready for distribution. To secure
one of these libraries an application must
come from twelve taxpayers in any town
not having library facilities, or from any
rural district A library of fifty vol
umes is sent for six months, when it is
ordered to be shipped to some other
point where an application has been
made. The BOOKS in these libraries cover
history travel, fiction, useful arts, etc.
and the demand for them increases as
the facts about them become known.
At Redmonds Mills, near Homestead,
large boulder fell from hillside,
where gang of laborers were work
ing, to the tracks of the Pttsburg
Virginia and Charleston Railroad and
| killed Raffaelo Diuseso and Antonio Bo-
zalo. Michael Surra, Gusippe Cirallo
and Laurent Falletti were injured.
| While coasting down Hygienic Hill,
Steelton, Julius Shade. age years, was
killed by a trolley car His companion,
William Marks, escaped death by roll
ing off the sled when he saw the impend-
ing danger.
Andrew Carnegie has given the larg-
est library donation on record taking
the population into consideration North
Besscmer, a borough but few years
old, and with population scarcely of
1000, will receive $So,oco for library.
The annual banquet of the Dauphin
| County Bar Association was held at
Harrisburg with Hon. Robert Snod-
grass as POSTMASTER. Toasts were re-
| sponded to by Judge r. W. Archibald,
| Judge ]. w. Simonton. Congressman M.
Z. Olmstead, Meade ID. Detweiler, Sena-
tor John f. Fox and Hon. Lyman d.
Gilbert.
| Judge Ferris permanently restrained
the Avoca authorities from interfering
with the construction of the Scranton &
| Northeastern Railway through that
town. They had repeatedly arrested the
workmen for alleged violations of ordi-
nances.
The storcroom and postoffice in ]. A.
| Schwcnks building. at Providence
| Square, were destroyed by fire. The
| Collegevlle Fire Department saved the
| dwelling part from total destruction.
| The loss is about $1,000.
The eighth annual banquet of the Vir-
ginia Fire Company OF Columbia was
held in that city. Over one hudred mem
bers were present. Among the guests
were c. g. Hartman, chief engineer of
the Lebanon, and William f. KIM of
Columbia,
At the Juniata Silica Works. near
Vineyard, John Patrico, of Wellsville,
the engineer, was caught in connect
ing shaft while he was oiling the bear
ings and whirled about the shaft and
killed.
Frank Larkin and Oakley Lee, two
boys, have been missing from their homes
in Darby since Friday, and despite the
efforts OF their parents to locate them,
their whereabouts are unknown.
Negotiations are in progress for the
sale OF the Hatboro Water Company and
the Hatboro Electric Light Company to
a syndicate of capitalists headed by c.
Taylor, Leland, OF Philadelphia.
On the ground that clerk at Hickory
Ridge Colliery, operated by the Union
Coal Company. overcharged them for
mine supplies, GOO men and boys went on
4 strike.
John Startzell fell down a breast $50
feet deep at Burnside Colliery, Shame
kin, and was killed
Louis Paschuck committed suicide bv
| shooting himself in the head at Shenan.
doah.
H. II. Mann was appointed postmaster
at Patience.
Fire at Coatesville destroyed the
houses of William Johns and David II.
Mills, in the southern part of the bcr-
! ough.
Anthony Morica,, who was injured by
| falling coal at Gilberton Coliery, Ma
hanoy City, died at the Miners Hos
| pital.
While purchasing revolver in a Nor
| ristown gun store. William Mccormick,
| of Bridgeport accidentally shot himself
in the left hand
The body of Wassil Barrll was found
| in the Cranberry Mine, Hazleton, where
he was drowned three months ago Was
| sill entered the mines during heavy
rainstorm, which caused a sudden in
| undation of the mines.
A special meeting of the Schuylkill
| Classics OF the Reformed Church was
held at Pottsville, Addresses were made
by Rev ]. G. Kershner, of Mahanoy
CITY, and Rev. c. T. Bartholomew, of
! Cressona.
When smallpox guards shanty
caught fire at Pittston and he was busy
| putting out the flames the patient was