The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-11-04
The KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News Of Pennsylvania Told in
Short Order.

| SyINdl.idllS s---NUCTlSS -. FtIINSssO1p.
Pittsburg, cork washer or disk and
making same; Oliver Badger, Pitts
burg, warm air furnace; John w. Barth.
| Pittsburg, automatic car coupling; An.
drew J, Coghe, Carnegie, folding box
or crate; Leslie H. Colburn, Franklin.
upright tapping ard boring machine;
| Lendell A. Conner, Jr., Pilt3Durg, Jack;
John II. Croskey. PittsDurg, lass in.
ishing apparatus; William and John
| Floss, Meadow Lands clcvator safety
device; George w. Canoe, fhilipsburg,
support for telephone receivers; Alex.
ander M. Cow, pittsburg, apparatus for
manufacturing gas, alsc manufacturing
glass drawing machine; Judus E. Herr.
man, Allegheny, friction draft ringing;
| Joseph Homola, Allegheny, hose coup
| ling; Thomas /" Howell, Snithheid,
railway track gauge; Alexander F.
Humphrey, Allegheny, miniature Ssh
marine boat; Michael Killeen, J. +.
Lewis, Braddock, and A. T. Aiken, Port
| Perry. furnace bo.tling apparatus; John
II. King and {. NJ. Wolfe, Beaver
Falls, apparatus for manufacturing
| Pittsburg, fluid fuel heater and pump-
ing system, also oil feeding and stor.
| ing system
i>ashlllE IpuBll lidlllCS III u stairway
| to reach a bcdchamber TO save his
baby while lis wife lay burning to death
at the bottom OF the stairs was the ex-
perience OF a silk mill foreman, William
Schwartz, OF Pottsvllc. 1t was just be.
fore the hour for rising that MIS-.
Schwartz started downstairs to get the
infant some milk. She dropped the
glass kerosene lamp, which exploded,
throwing the blazing oil about the
stairway. Her husband responded to
her screams for assistance. Despite his
efforts she was burned from head to
foot and is dying at the Pottsvi,lc Hos
pital. Schwartz was also badly burned
While he was extinguishing his wifes
blazing garments a plaintive vail from
the bedroom reminded him OF the in
iants danger. The stairs were all
ablaze by this time He broke through
the wall OF flame and rescued the child
With the coolness that has cllarac.
tcrized him throughout and without d
tremor, William Hays, colorcd muir
derer paid the penalty for his crime 4;
Uniontown. The execution was car
ricd out with remarkable celebrity, and
Hays was pronounced dead in nine and
one-hali minutes alter the drop fell
The crime ior which Hays was hanped
orcd, at Masontown, Novcinbe. "a,
1909 Hays boarded with Perkins and
his attentions TO Perkins wife led 20
trouble between the two which resulted
i'll Hays killing Perkins Hays ieit a
message to tile public warning all young
men against drinking and gambling, the
causes which led him TO the scaffold.
Forest fires which arc raging in the
vicinity oi Tamaqua and menacing val
uabic farm properties are doing oreat
damage. Much valuable timber s be-
ing destroyed and the flames show no
sign oi abatement.
The Tyrone Electric Railway Com
pany. OF Tyrone; the City Passenger
Railway Company, OF Altoona, and the
Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Rail
way Company, three Blair county elcc-
trio railways controlled by the Amcri-
can Street, Railways Company, OF Phil
ldelphia, have been merged under the
name OF the Altoona g. Logan Valley
Electric Railway Company. A mort
gage OF $4,000, 900 III favor cf the Equit.
able Trust Company, OF Philadelphia,
was entered against the electric lines
oi the allied companies,
On the charge oi selling blackberry
brandy adultcratcd with tar ard pre-
Servatiyc acid, ten persons were ar
ragned before Justice Conrad at Potts
vile and fined $50 each and the costs.
Suits were also brought against hyc
other persons Oh similar charge. State
Pure Food Commissioner K. NJ. SIM
mers has some $50 similar suits 20
bring. II he has occasion to proceed
against the same persons again he says
he will ask that the full fine of $500
10 $1,000, fixed by the old law, be i'm
uosed.
Isaac Seachrist, OF Moorc's Mil, On
Chickics creek, has been found guilty
by local magistrate OF using a Ash
basket The charge was preferred by
Fish Warden James d. Parker. A fine
oi $25 was imposed
Owen Owens, aged so, employed as
holeman at a quarry in Penn Argyll,
was killed by being struck with piece
Of slate that fell from a slate block.
Mentally unbalanced from brooding
over religious matters, Mrs. Lizzie
Frey wife of Jesse Frey, of Sharpviile,
look large dose OF paris green and
died.
While Mrs. II. Group. OF Idayille.
wus boiling apple butte. over an open
FIRE in her yard, her dress caught FIRE
and she was so badly burned that she
died within few hours.
Within twenty-four hours after his
son, Albert Lester, had dropped dead
in the postofficc at Gilbertsville, Noah
Lester, an aged resident OF New Han
over, expired.
Walter, the ninc-ycar-old son OF Jel'
lcrson Kelsey, of Colcbrook, was kill.
ed instantly by a ial! from the third
floor OF his fathers grist mill.
William Mitchell, one OF the Oldest
active boilermakcrs in the State, and
the oldest cmp!oyc OF Roach's Ship
yard, Chester, dropped dead from heart
disease.
Kate Higgins, AGED "a years. was
taken to the Pottsville jail on charge
OF larceny. 1t is said she had been
stealing in a systematic manner tor
many months. When the home of Miss
Mary Koch was searched, over wa
gonload of plunder belonging 10 resi-
dents OF the town was discovered. The
property included chairs, rugs, lnirpa
and other household goods, all c'
which, it is said, the girl stole.
A Lackawanna locomotive ran into
a handcar at Gravel Place. +. Stalmack
and George Burton were killed ana
John Frank, G.. Reeves, John .Jukley,
Paul Ridos and ]. Keif were injured.
The msn were riding on the handcar'
All lived in Stroudsburg.
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