The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-03-13
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
The Latest Happenings Cleaned From
All Sources.
MAN KILLED; HIs WIFE TORTURED.
M)sked Robbers Commit Murder and Ranssck
a House. Taking $500 Worth Of Booty-Ihe
Suspects Captured Borrowed Cola to Sue
lIer-Feared Consumption; Killed Herself
Bodies Of Mine Victims Recovered.

Pennsylvania Pensions: jeremiah
| Spriggs. Johnstown. So; Robert b. Nc
| Night, Eric, SO; Daniel B. Mowry,
| Washington, $I2 John w. Scheonovcr,
| Knoxville, $I2; Theodore w Hillyer,
| Bloomfield, $8 Miller Ickes, Newville,
| SIo: John Walbert, Pittsburg. So James
| J. McAfoos, Decker Point. $I2; Samuel
Robertson, Harshaville, $40; Mary J.
| Stowder, Huntingdon. $8 Barbara Orr,
| Pittsburg. So; Mary Grandan, Conneaut-
vile, So; Eliza a. Spaulding, Port Allie
| gheny $I2; William Cheeseman, Girard,
| $S George w. Taylor. Edgecliff, So;
| Robert w. Thompson, Washington, $I2;
David Clark, Veneta, So; Warren Gra-
| ham, Northeast So; Orren ID. Way,
Chambers Valley, $I4; Alex. O'Don-
nell, East Waterford, $40; James Vance,
| Allegheny. $Ia; Elias Powell Rankin
| Station, So; Mary Erb Wormcysburg.
SS Catherine Brant, Latrobe SO; Mar
garct Schugarts, Punxsutawncy, $I2.
Three masked burglars broke into the
house of Henry Smith. an aged resident
near SsXonburg, little country town,
| brutally murdered the old man, tortured
| his aged wife in fcndsh manner and
| escaped with $500 worth of booty, after
| having ransacked the place. All day long
| the suspects were tracked by posse and
in the evening they were caught Mr..
| Smith was the father of l.. H. Smith and
| w. A. Smith, prominent Pittsburg bust
ness men and members of the l.. H.
| Smith Wooden Ware Company. The
burglars crushed his skull with an ak,
and to make their work sure sent bull
let through their victims head Mrs
| Smith was tortured until she revealed
the whereabouts of the money in the
house. While torturing the woman the
robbers vented their fury by breaking
every thing within reach. Mr. Smith
was a farmer of wealth and led re-
| tired life. 1t is supposed the robbers
believed that he had a large sum of
money in the house, which is one and
a quarter miles from Saxonburg The
murder occurred about midnight.
Michael Gwatt, who was arrested on
complaint of his wife for beating her
and trying to get away with sum of
money for which she had sold her prop
crty, was sent to jail at Wilkes-Bar
by Alderman Donohue. AS he was
being led from the squires office Gwatt
| cried to his wife won't you give me
| SIS to hire lawyer?" Sure she said,
and handed him bill Now he will en-
ter counter suit against her.
Charters were issued by the State De-
partinent to these corporations: Ger
man American Savings and Loan AS
sociation, Allegheny, capital. ST. 900 600;
Eureka Knitting Company, Philadelphia,
capital, $4,000; the Pennsylvania Knit
ting Mills Company, Reading, capital,
$1,000; Majestic Apartment House Com
pany, Philadelphia, capital, $1,000.
Harry McMullen, the I4-year-old son
| of Charles McMulen, of Lebanon, was
| found dead in the Philadelphia & Read
| ing Railroad yards. No one saw the ac-
| cident. The body was found by a car
| inspector. Deputy Coroner c. d. Weir
| ick decided that death was due to an
| accident.
1t is said that when Mayor-elect Vance
| c. Mccormick, of Harrisburg, takes Of
| fce he will appoint Lieutenant Colonel
| Joseph B. Hutchinson, of the Eighth
Regiment, National Guard, as his chief
of police. Colonel Hutchinson is strict
disciplinarian.
Buildings containing five stories and
tenements were destroyed by fire at
| Shenandoah. Loss, $4,000. They were
owned by Fitzgibbons Brothers, of Ring
| town.
Lawrence Coiliery at Mahanoy Plane.
owned and operated by the Shaffer es-
| tate. of Pottsvlle, was permanently
| abandoned. The coliery employed near
| ly 500 men and boys and had a monthly
pay roll of $4,000.
d. Lloyd Thomas, young lawyer,
who campaigned with the Governors
| Troop in Porto Rico during the Spanish
| American war. was thrown from sleigh
at Mhhanoy City, fracturing several ribs
Alice Finnegan, aged 81, a married
| woman. living on Duquesne Heights.
| committed suicide with carbolic acid,
because she feared death from consump-
ton.
Incendiarics attempted to burn the Ar
| mory Hall at Summit Hill, but the FIRE
was put out before much damage was
| done
The five bodies of the victims of the
frcdamp explosion at Catsburg mine
were recovered. They were dead when
found by one OF the rescuers
The Lackawanna Railroad Company
| has given a subscription of $4,000 for
new railroad Y. M. c. A. building in
| Scranton and the work of erecting
100000 building will begin at once.
A dynamite explosion set fire to the
Catsburg NINE Monongahela. The min
srs were brought out and the air pas
| sages closed The mine is too far from
the river to permit of its being flooded.
Leon Sisler, who shot and attempted
to kill Flossie Hampton because she jilt
| ed him and then made ar Intellectual at
| tempt at suicide with the same pistol ON
| November So pleaded guilty at Norris
.own OF assault with intent to kill.
| The blasting Of a dangerous ledge
overhanging the Philadelphia & Erie
| Railroad at Ferney caused big land
slide at that place All the Western
Union and Pennsylvania Railroad wires
we've broken by the slide, cutting off
communication west of Fcrney.
John Jiniski, Of Scranton, does not be-
ieve in banks and kept his savings,
amounting 10 $3.50 sewed in the lipings
Of his coat Wednesday night he hung
his coat on the back OF chair. When
he returned an hour later some one had
slit the lining OF the coat and taken the
money out. He has had Steve Polew-
siz arrested for theft.
The Montgomery Square Postoffee
has been removed to Montgomeryville a
mile distant
The sanitary committee of the Allen
I n. 49, IL