The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-11-16
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News Of Pennsylvania Told in
Short Order.

contest has been started for post.
master at Perkasie. The following
are in the field: Joseph g. Moyer,
the present incumbent; N. O. Crouth-
amel, ex-recorder of Bucks County;
Oscar II. Myers, and Samuel Bishop.
William Wagner, of Plymouth, was
arrested charged with having attempt
ed to cash forged check for SIoa
at the Kingston Savings and Deposit
Bank, W lkes-Barrc. He is 20 years
old and It is said he wanted the money
IN order to marry.
The Enterprise mine fire. Shamokin.
is spreading and causes much concern,
The ground in the neighborhood Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks is
sinking i'll many places. Watchmen
have been placed on duty and tho
tracks are patrollcd day and night
Perseverance Lodge. No. 2i, of An
cient York Masons, of Harrisburg,
celebrated its I25th anniversary. A
banquet was teld at the Board Of
Trade auditorium, and addresses were
,maGe by Governor Pennypacker, Adj
jutant General 7. J. Stewart and Rev
!. Wesley Hill.
George Peacock, 90 years old, a
member of the firm OF Peacock &
Motz, while walking along railroad
siding near lilourtown, where his
workmen were unloading colt coal,
was stru:k on the left leg by a large
lump of coal and sustained com.
pound fracture
Charles I. Straughn, OF Shenan-
doah,' who was elected Controller of
Schuyikill County at the recent elec.
ton, has announced his deputies az
follows: Chief, Elijah Kantner, Cres
siona; clerks, Frank Palmer, Potts.
vile; Joseph Carr, Frackville. and
William Watson, Shenandoah; solici
tor, c. A. Snyder, of Pottsville
Miss Christian B. Bassett, a Potts
town public school teacher, has in,
stitued suit against the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company to recover $4,000
damages for personal injuries said ia
have been sustained in the wreck al
Stowe last April. John J. Fleischutt,
who was held responsible for the dis.
aster, is serving two-month sentence
in prison.
Orders were issued from the Potts.
vile headquarters TO the thousands oi
employees of the Philadelphia &
anthracite region to attend lectures to
be given by mining electrical, ven-
tilating, pumping, ubricating and
medical experts, who will travel
through the region.
In court at Ebensburg w. H. Buter-
baugh, convicted of having employed
Curtis Sewers and Isaac Murphy to
burn his store, in Johnstown, in order
that he might obtain 5000 insurance
money, was sentenced to eleven and
one-half years in the penitentiary.
Sewers received sentence of seven
and one-half years, and Murphy, who
turned States evidence, escaped with
three and one-half years. The Hide
brand family, who occupied lodgings
above the store. narrowly escaped cree
nation.
Policeman William Bosher and John
Donohoe, of Springfield Township,
raided the hay houses in that vicinity
in which tramps have been lodging
for many months past. One dozen
tramps were taken into custody and
lodged in the police station at Amber.
They will have hearing The tramps
were found snugly tucked under the
hay, and from the outside no one was
in sight, but when Policeman Bosher
started to run fork into the hay,
the knights of the road exclaimed,
I'VE are your rabbits"
The fifth annual convention of tho
Pennsylvania Shoe Manufacturers
Association, representing nearly 100
factories, was held at Reading. H. F.
Algert, of Watsontown, is president.
Reports were submitted showing that
trade is in excellent condition with
good prospects for the next year.
Ex-Congressman II. d. Green deliver.
ed an address on Reciprocity"
Joseph Roman, an Italian, was stab
bed so badly at Shenandoah that he
died. Half an hour later while tho
police were seeking clews to the trag-
edy, Toney Passila, friend of the
dead man, got into an alteration with
three countrymen and he was stab
bed six times. The assailants escaped.
The police believe the men who stab
bed Passila are the same that killed
Roman.
Mrs. William Carroll and her
daughters, of Chester, were injured in
a runaway. Their horse bolted and
the wagon was overturned, throwing
out both women. Miss Margaret Car
roll, the daughter, sustained a broken
arm and collar bone.
The Washington School Board de-
cided that any pupil OF either sex in
the towns schools found smoking Gig
arettes hereafter will be expelled. The
board produced a roll of names of $50
pupils who had been found smoking.
Those set to look over the conduct
OF the children reported that many
parties OF school girls had formed lit
tie smoking clubs and smoked ciga-
rettes each afternoon.
Hundreds Of bushels OF apples are
going to waste in the vicinity of Ham.
burg, as the high price demanded for
picking the fruit renders the crop
Improbable for the average farmer.
George Groner. of Honesdale, aged
80 years, was killed by falling from
cliff fifty feet high. He was gath
sring leaves from the hillside above,
but lost his balance and fell to the
rocks beneath.
The State Supreme Court, aftes
filling number of decisions in cases
from Allegheny county and othes
western counties in the district, ad.
lourned to meet in Philadelphia, op