The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
The KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News Of Pennsylvania Told ia
Short Order.

uichael OF North Water read a paper
m the Cause OF the Disappearance Of
| Slack Bass i'll the Delaware River,
| n which he declared that it is rare
| hing now to catch black bass, and all
hat are caught are OF large size, but
,ery few small ones are being caught.
| This scarcity OF small bass lie, attrib,
| ties To the pollution of the streams.
resolution was adopted urging the
| text Legislature to appropriate a suf.
icient sum OF money to propagate
black bass upon the same basis as
.rout are now. During the discussion
of the resolution it developed that in
Ill parts OF the State there has been
gradual disappearance of bass, and
hey are found in very few streams.
Because the firm of N. B. Yant &
90, Pittsburg, structural iron work.
srs, refused to hire extra men to do
4 job which the union claimed should
De done by men other than those regu,
larly employed in the shops of the
firm, the head of the firm, n. B,
Yant was assaulted. He was kicked
and beaten. Following this assault a
dozen men at o'clock A. NJ. de1
molished a partly completed shop
which the firm is building at Beaver
and Western avenues i'll Allegheny,
erect the steel frame OF the new shop
The union demanded that its members
be employed to do the work, claiming
that II was not properly the work oi
shop employees.
Two hundred and fifty employees Of
the billet mill OF the Pennsylvania
Steel Works, Harrisburg, quit work
because recent reduction of the
working force caused additional work,
The company Immediately closed the
mill.
More than 100 Harrisburg mer,
chants have signed an agreement
not to use trading stamps aftef
May 10.
Ground has been broken for a
Baptist Church at Spring Mill. Tho
pastor, Rev. Charles Dover turned
the first sod.
Governor Penrypacker has appoint,
ed Luther c. Smith, of Drifton, trus|
tee of the State Hospital at Hazelton
vice Arthur Mcclellan, deceased.
The. Schuylkll County Ministerial
Association rendered farewell ban(
duet TO Rev. DR.. ]. T. Satcheli, who
leaves Pottsvillc to take up Metho
dist Episcopal pastoratc in Easton.
Samuel A. Grocer, the Upland
philanthropst, has purchased ground
which is to be used for an entrancS
to Grocer Park, and he has donated
the property to the Park Commis'
sioners. Mr.. Grocer will have the
roadway constructed at his own eD
pense.
Charged with abusing and neglect
ing her three children, Lizzie, u
years old +; Joseph, 8 years old and
James, years old, Mrs. Mary Griihp
was arrested at Chester. Magistrate
Smith committed the three children
to the Juvenile Home. According to
the evidence the woman had married
three times. each OF the children hav'
ing different father.
A committee OF high school boys
is canvassing the town OF Bloomsbury
to secure the signatures of parents I'd
petition in which they seek to secure
shorter afternoon sessions. Half OF
the town has been canvassed and
but twenty parents have refused to
sign the petition.
While Edward Smith, farmer OF
Nichols, was telling a large tree il
struck another small tree which fell
On Smith. He was unconscious for some
time, and since he recovered he has
no recollection o! his life for the past
forty years, but otherwise is i'll good
physical health
Electric light apparatus, which was
installed in Shamokn III 1883 and
which is said to be t"c frst success
ful three-wire incan 'csc"n- system in
the world, has been :hipped to ST
Louis for exhibition at the Exposition.
The members OF Company G,Fourth
Regiment, are dead-locked over tho
election of first Lieutenant to suc<
ceed Lieutenant Phaon L. Shelby,
elected to the captaincy. Sergeant
James Fetter and Warren Barto are
the contestants.
Reports of mine inspectors for tho
btuminous districts comprising the
Irwin field show that the output Of
this field last year exceeded I5,ooo,-
900 tons, an increase OF 5000, 1000 tons
over the preceding year.
Several distinguished Magyars visit
ed South Bethlehem to investigate tho
condition OF their countrymen in thar
vicinity. In the party was Baron
Griska, secretary of the Austrian En-
bassy at Washington.
Denny Court, negro settlement in
West Chester, two squares from tho
court house has been placed under
quarantine, case OF smallpox having
been discovered there. Wholesale
vaccination followed.
Mayor Howard II. Houston, of
Chester, has signed the ordinance in5
creasing the salary fthe chief Of
police and the commissioner of high
ways from $1,000 to $I2oo a year.
A negro named Cook was ar
rested in Chester charged with steal|
ing four bags of -four from Andrew
Bells feed store. The alleged thief
was tracked to his home by trail
OF flour which leaked from a hole in
one of the bags.
Lancaster county is making a great
record in the matter of free rural
mail delivery There are now in
operation sixty-seven routes; fva
will start on April I, and six on.
April IS, making total of seventy
eight routes. During the past year
there has been an increase OF twenty
eight routes.
Daniel J. Donovan, of Glendon,
near Easton, was found drowned in.
the Lehigh River. 1t is thought that
he fell over retaining wall in tho
darkness.
What is believed to be one of the
largest black snakes ever seen in
Berks county was killed on an island
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