The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-28
The KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News Of Pennsylvania Told 10
Short Order.

a. Lancaster.
For retaining fares Andrew Nc.
Kee, a trolley car conductor, "a wears
old, was found guilty in court al
Media Of cmbezzlement from the
Philadelphia and West Chester Trac.
ton Company.
J. w. Ezell. telegraph operator,
who killed lardmaster William G.
Porter, at Newell, on September 10,
because Porter discharged him, was
captured at Buena Vista and is in
prison at Uniontown.
While shooting at birds on the sun.
flowers in his yard with a revolver
Edward Mangus, boy OF Altoona, ac-
cidentally shot John T. zimmerman,
an old soldier, in the right breast, the
ball penetrating the lung
The jury in the case of John Kelly
acquitted him of running slot ma
chine and placed the costs upon Rev.
J. J. X. Fletcher, the leader in the
ant-lquor and anti-gambiing move
ments in Luzerne county.
For failing to remove the bottom Of
Il FISH basket in mill race during the
day, w. d. Albright. of Yeagertown,
was arrested and he had to pay S2o13
fine and costs. He had previously
paid SIS for a license to use the hsh
basket.
The State Forestry Commission is
unable to assist the citizens of Pots
vile to preserve the forests on the
mountains, as requested by the Shake
spears Club and other organizations.
The State Forestry Commissioner
H.. Ia, I,t C.
for the purchase of land, and none can
be secured at that figure.
! A jury at Lebanon acquitted Harry
| Held and James Kutz, of Allentown,
who were charged with manslaughter.
| The accused men were engineer and
conductor respectively OF freight
train which, on June last, killed ex-
| Postmaster J. Henry, of Palmyra. The
Comm endeavored to prove
that the crew were negligent in run
ming the freight train past the station.
! At Wilkes Barre an unruly mule
ran away from a tunnel where it was
working, dragging behind it an iron
trace. The mule got on the tracks OF
the Laurel Line, a third-rail electric
railway, and the trace caught between
the third rail and one OF the running
rails, making a short circuit that stop.
ped all cars and put out all the lights
along the line for several minutes.
Edward Gresham, of Conshohock
en-, was a passenger on trolley car
between Plymouth Meeting and Har.
knoxville when his hat was blown from
his head. Gresham jumped from the
car and was thrown backwards. his
! head striking the road with grea,
force. He was picked up unconscious
and is in a critical condition, suffer.
ing from conclusion of the brain.
Fire destroyed the barn OF William
Lawrence, of Mausdalc. Lawrence
succeeded in leading three horses from
the burning building, but in attempt
ing to get out the fourth horse the
animal became asphyxiated and fel!
upon Lawrence. pinning him to the
floor. William Reese, 4 neighbor, ar
rived in time to pull Lawrence from
beneath the animal and drag him tc
the open air just as the building col
lapsed.
Benjamin Matlack Everhart died al
his home in West Chester. aged s.
years. He was known to scientists az
an expert botanist. Fifteen different
plants have received his name, these
honors being largly conferred in for.
.ign lands. Mr.. Everhart was also q
poet and a writer of books of travel
His works on botany arc regarded as
authority on that subject. He was the
asst OF his family, and it is intimated
that the fortune of $I,5oo,ooo which
he leaves will so largely to charity.
The Scranton Railway Company
10,
receiving street car transfers from
patrons of the road and then reissuing
hem TO their customers. Persons de.
ected using the transfers at second
land will also be prosecuted. The
:harge against them will be fraudu'
emily using street car transfers. The
company has already made an ar
est. The defendant is Albert Ricn.
nond, who, it is alleged, was trying
% dispose of transfers. He was held
% await trial. The company intends
% make this test case.
The Danvile and Northumberland
Street Railway Company, which has
ust been chartered, will build an ex-
ension OF the Danville' and Blooms
,urg Street Railway and will connect
With the Northumberland and Sun
,ury Street Railway in Northumber'
and. At Sunbury connection will be
made with the new road being built
rom Sunbury 10 Shamokin This IN
surn will connect with other roads that
will make it nearly possible to go from
Danville to Philadelphia by trolley.
The case of Joseph Heiser, charged
with manslaughter, came up before
Judge Stout at Doylestown. 1t was
alleged that he had frightened little
Marian Rankin at Torresdale so bad
ly a few months ago that she died.
As Heiser is subject to epileptic hts
and could no. be brought into court
without manacles, the case was put
10 trial with the prisoner at the jail:
Several witnesses told the story OF
the tragedy, after which Howard /.
James, counsel for the prosecution
ioined Harvey s. Kiser, attorney for
Heiser, in a request that he be ac.
uuitted, on the ground OF insanity and
placed in an asylum.
Philip Harter, an escaped inmate
from the Lancaster county insane
asylum, entered the fair grounds and
took Jacob Seyfert's team. DRIVING
at great speed on West King Street,
the team ran into a tree smashing
the wagon. Harter was arrested.
DR.. Adolph Abramovitz, a young
physician at the Allegheny General
Hospital, Pittsburg, formerly at the
IJn;versitv Hospital Of Philadelphia,