The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-10-14
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construction; John II. Dixon Pitts
burg, fire signal; Vincent Flannigar
and J. r. Partridge, Houtzdale. rail
Joint; Alexander Gartshere and w.
Maxwell, Pittsburg. spike puller; Ed.
win NJ. Herr, Pittsburg, draw gear and
bufIing apparatus; Victor Hildcbrand,
Conemaugh, window shade and curtain
pole bracket; Daniel c. jenkins, ALE.
gheny, device for locking elevators
Howard NJ. Jenkins, Allegheny, device
| for opening or closing elevator doors,
also device for locking elevators; vii,
liam r. Jenkins, Bellefonte, clevisl
John H. King and Z. NJ. Wolfe, Beaver
Falls, apparatus for manufacturing
seamless tubing; Charles NJ. Lamb, Mo,
ncssen, eye-iorming machine; William
H. Logan, Carnegie. rail joint fastener
| Peter J. Shrum, Pittsburg, metalli,
matt Frederick c. Smalstig, Allegheny
cigar punching machine; Hunter B
Scuders. c. c. Cotter and c. s. Wilson,
| McKees Rocks, gauge cock; Edward
| w. Summers, Pittsburg. car truck
| John w. Taylor, Reedsvillc, and w
Hunter, Huntingdon, harvesting ma
chine: Samuel Tobin. Emmett car coup
ling; Edward Walker, Warren, ic'
cream storage tank.
Colonel Henry J, Newman, formerly
OF Chester, committed suicide at til,
Wernersville Sanatorium by drinking
acid After writing letters to his wife
! who is in Salt Lake City, and to hi!
brother. lie signed check for $500 iof
the payment oi his funeral expenses
Colonel Henry J. Newman graduated
from the Pennsylvania Military Col
legc in the Glass OF 1880. and in 1896
married Miss Charlotte B. Larkin
daughter OF Nathan Larkin, and niece
of former Mayor John Larkin, Jr., Of
Chester. He afterwards went to Den
yer, Col, and later to Salt Lake City
He was the son OF John p. Newman, z
bishop OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
District President Patrick Gilday, O
Bituminous District No. ?, Unitct
Mine Workers of America, returned tt
Altoona from indianapolis, where hi
presented the case OF the workmen o
the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Com
panv to the National Executive Board
He was advised by National Presiden
John Mitchell and the members OF TIN
Executive Board to serve a formal no
,icc OH General Superintendent FL
Connor. of the company, at Cresson
that unless the Altoona scale. which
calls for pay for yardagc, was compiled
with in a reasonable time after the no
tcc all the I5coo workmcn oi the biz
coal company would be ordered out or
a strike.
Private John Dowd, the Unitet
States sentry who shot and killed vii
liam Crowley. near the United State'
Arsenal, Pittsburg, few weeks ago
was released from confinement, the yer.
dict OF the court-martial being ne
guilty. The finding OF the court wal
iully upheld by Major General Adn'
| K. Chaffee.
At meeting held in the Hotel Get
tysburg, at Gettysburg, the rural mai
carriers OF Adams county rcorganzct
under the name of The Adams Coun'
ty Rural Letter Carriers Association
The following officers were elected
President, H. l.. Harbaugh, OF Fair
field, vice-presidcnt, Charles H. Pieffer
Of Gettysburg; secretary, J. A. Bish, o.
Littlestown, and treasurer, Elmer l
Hutchinson, OF Gettysburg.
Two boys, Michael Lutzik and An
drew Bore, each 10 years old, were
committed to Jail accused OF robbine
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church.
Hazleton. The tabernacle i'll the church
was broken open and the gold
chalice was stolen. Other gold fixtures
we're also taken. A. Rockmaker, jew
cler, is held in $1,000 bail, charged With
receiving the stolen goods.
A commission was issued at the
Executive Department, Harrisburg, tc
Justice J. 7. Mitchell OF Philadelphia to
be Chief Justice OF the Supreme Court,
to take the place of J. Brewster McCol.
lum, deceased. Justices Mitchell and
McColom were elected at the same time
and in casting lots for seniority, Justice
McCollum won.
A silver of steel broken from a
punching machine at the Lorain Steei
Works, Johnstown, penetrated the heart
OF Joseph Haughton and death result
cd in a lew minutes.
Mayor Cummings. OF Lancaster, has
signed the anti-spitting ordinance pass
ed by City Councils. Persons violating
the measure are subject to a penalty
oil 81.
Annie Dempsey was to wed Edward
V. Daily, at Pottsvillc. Daily did moi
appear for the ceremony. Alter an
awkward wait the wedding was declar-
ed off and the guests dispersed.
L. T. Cosgrove, tax collector OF the
Fourth Ward, Williamsport. was ar
rested on charge OF embezzlemeni
preferred by the Fidelity Bonding Com
pany, OF Baltimore, surety on Cos
groves bond 1t is alleged that Cos
grove embezzled $1,000 OF county tax
funds.
Chief OF Police Hugh Kelley, OF
South Bethlehem, is following in the
footsteps OF Burgess Pennypacker, OF
West Chester. in an effort to check
drunkenness in the town: but he will
, not be content merely TO send list OF
drunkards to the hotel and saloon keep.
ers. as Burgess Pcnnypacker did. Chief
Kelley is collecting the names OF all the
habitual drunkards in the town and will
report them to court for action under
the law passed by the last Legislature
which nrovides that drunkards can be
placed in confinement in the insane
asylums.
While trying to save girl from an
assault by foreigners under the Lin
coin Avenue bridge, in the East End
Pittsburg Andrew J. Kelley, special
policeman in citizens clothes, was shot
and killed. He came upon two men
who had accosted girl and during the
| fight that followed he began to use his
revolver. The foreigners opened q
fusilade and Kelly was fatally wound
| ed Three boarding houses filed with