The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-01-15
TIE KEYSTONE STATE.
Nsws happsnlnp Of Interest Gathered
From An Sources.

Patents granted: - Henry Aiken
Pittsburg. roof structure; John c. Bar.
rctt. Washington, steam or hot water
heater; Charles II. Brown. Dubois
cake or doughnut cutter Charles A
DAILY. Carnot. air and gas mixer; Chris
tian Filzcr.. Erie, hydrocarbon torchl
Elmer Z. Kerns, Bradford gas and ali
regulating valve; James r. Klippelt
N. w. Jeffers and w. D. Bradford
Pittsburg. automatic street railwa,
switch; Willie S. Leehart. Bakersville
wrench attachment; John E. Lewis
Avenue, machinery for picking plate,
ior coating with tin; James B. McCaln
Washington, telephone receiver holder
Patrick Mcdonald. Larimer, four-wa,
cock; Francis McWiliams. Duquesne
tube extractor John Mehlferber. Pitts
burg, folding baby carriage: Camille
Mercader, Pittsburg, piling apparatus
also making seamless tubes or hollow
articles; Burton B. Messer, Washing.
ton. ice cream freezer; James E. Pat.
ton, Pittsburg. game board.
These pensions we're granted Penn.
sylvanians :-Thos. Leadbeater. Johns.
town, SI2; George Hotchkiss, Pitts
field, -SI2; Thomas ]. Baker. Newry
SI2: John Wilson Shields. Gilpiu, $40;
i~NNio W. II ClStNl. lNCW odlt1i, 20. oOu'
frey X. Biber. Charleryi. $40: Smith N
Brown. Youngsville. SIo: William ].
Mckee, Butler. So; Peter Gensler, Bio.
serville, $S; Thaddeus B. Webb, Mif.
llintown, $I2: Jacob Kohler, Bowmans.
dale, SI2; Elizabeth Freeman. McKees-
port So; Ellen Basel. Cory. So: Emily
A. Keen, Shermansvile, $8 Frederick
o. Dupont, Rockford, S8: Casper L.
Gelnett. Dubois. $40; William A. Ca
yett, East SmithheId, $r7; Grsffius
Weston, Port Matilda, $I7; Henry H.
Rhodes. East Brook, $24; Thomas S.
Hall. Allegheny, So; Alfred B. Lam
ason. MapletoD depot. $40; Jonathan
w. Clark. Dubois, s.; Charles Simp-
kins, Petersburg, $I4: John Sumpman.
Mt. Joy. $7A; Susan Mclaughlin, New
Haven. So; Catherine Wilson, New Cas-
tie. So; Adelaide B. Kinter, Marion
Center, So; Helen c. Carroll, Bradford,
SI2.
At the Reading Company's Burnside
breaker. Shamokin, powder keg, sup
posed to be empty, was dumped from
a wagon into the dump chute OF the
breaker. The keg bounded down to
the bottom OF the chute. but before it
could fall into the iron rollers which
crush the coal is was picked up and
flung into the rock chute Once more
the keg rolled down to the bottom, and
lay there until John A. Otto found it.
He thought it would make an excel
lent coal bucket and. pried off the top:
when he found the inside almost filled
with dynamite In all there were thirty
five sticks OF the explosive. How the
dynamite came to be placed in the wa
gon is unknown.
Il L. Al. Il
little daughter of J. NJ. Stambaugh,
OF Oneida Township, few days ago
and her parents were unable to remove
it. Mr.. Stambaugh told his wife he
did not think it would hurt the girl
il the kernel was allowed to remain
in her ear. To prove this he put a
grain OF corn in his own ear. His ear
soon became infamed. and the fright
ened man and his daughter hastened to
physician. The latter soon relieved
the girl, but it took two doctors to ex-
tract the kernel from the car OF the
father He says he will make no more
experiments OF this kind.
With his train going at good speed.
Engineer Heller stuck his head out OF
the cab window on his run from Phla-
delphia to Bethlehem, to watch the sig-
nal tower lights. AS he did so his
head came in contact with an iron rod
projecting from a freight car and he
was almost knocked out OF the cab.
His forehead was cut and he was other
wise hurt but he clung to the throttle
rntil Bethlehem was reached, when he
fell unconscious.
Because OF clairvoyant's statement
The body OF John Tine, Jr., was exhum-
I'd at Dubois by direction OF his sister,
and the discovery was made that what
was supposed to be an accidental death
was in reality a murder. The body was
iornd on November 10 living along the
tracks of the Buffalo, Rochester and
Pttsburg Railroad. A train had pass
cd over the body. cutting it in two at
The hips. A coroner's jury rendered a
was inferred in St. Catharine's Gene
terry.
Harvey NJ. Braucher, an I8-year-old
school teacher OF Albany Township,
was arrested at Reading and held in
OF aggravated assault and battery. Will
liam z. Snyder, a I3-year-old pupil,
charges that because he came to school
few minutes late the teacher accused
him OF nterrupting the prayer and Sc
verely beat him with a branch OF
cherry y''tree. The boys back. it is al
legged, is covered with black and blue
stripes.
Rose Skolsky. 80 years old. OF Nc
Keespor, was found dead in bed at
her home.
Charles Hastings. 81 years old, Of
Ross township, while on his way to
take a train at Avalon. fell on the ice
and fractured his skull. His condition
is serious.
Harry Henderson, 9 years old, OF Al
egheny. who had one eye destroyed
July 4, was struck on the other eye by
a SNOWFALL "Wednesday. and the sight
ri i. destroyed, leaving him totally
blind.
William Roth. OF Allegheny, died at
the West Penn hospital as the result oI
fall from roof on December.2. Roth
was a roofer and was making repairs.
The clothing store OF ]. P. Lintner at
Blairsville. was robbed OF overcoats &c
the value OF $I5o.
The 4-year-old-son OF Emil Ander-
son. at New Castle, was scaldcd tc
death by falling into tub OF boiling
water.
A trolley car OF the Pottsville Union
Traction Company, running from Or
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