The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-16
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News Of Pennsylvania Told in
Short Order.

DON car containing RaSOllnc WHICH
caught fire ten miles east of Harris
burg. George Klinger, of Harrisburg.
and William c. Lytcr, OF Lcwistown,
were badly burned. The men were
employed by II. S. Kerbaugh & Com
pany, OH the Pennsylvania Railroad
improvements at Enola and were be-
ing sent to Bainbridge to clear the ice
from the tracks. One of the cars
in which twenty-sx men were car.
ried. contained FIVE barrels of gasoline.
The men were nearly all asleep. One
Of the men struck match to light
his pipe. A spark landed on the gaso-
line barrel and in an instnt the whole
interior of the car was a fiery furnace.
The men we're awakened by the in
tense heat. There was a scramble to
get out in which four were unsuccess-
full. They were trampled by the
others and their bodies were after
ward found burned to a crisp.
To increase its coal output. the
Philadelphia & Reading Coal and
Iron Company is tunnclling to tap and
draw off millions of gallons of water
from the old workings of the Beech
wood Coliery near Pottsville, aban-
doned fifteen years ago. Valuable coal
veins i'll the old mine will be worked
Three thousand five hundred dol
lars. an annual pass over the lines OF
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad west
OF Philadelphia, and good Job are
the terms by which Edward p. Keif.
fer, of Somerset, settled his claim for
damages against the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company. Keiffer was vic.
tim of the wreck OF the Duquesne
limited near Dawson on the night OF
December 20. He was badly burnel
Charles Adams, 10 years of age,
pleaded guilty in court at Media to
the charge of highway robbery and
carrying concealed deadly weapons,
and was sentenced to sixteen years
i'll the Eastern Penitentary. Adams
held up three Chester citizens on the
night of January 4. and at the point
OF revolver made them give up
their money and valuables.
An explosion of dynamite aud gun
powder at the Pennsylvania Railroad
improvements two miles west OF
Millersburg instantly killed James
kerns. foreman. and Pictro Ma2i-
gotti, laborer, and seriously iujur.
ing two other laborcrs. All of the
men were employed by Thomas i.
! Kcrns & Son. railroad contractors.
James Kerns, the dead foreman, was
a nephew OF the senior member OF the
firm.
While returning TO his home at
Buck, John Todd was set upon by
thieves and beaten into insensibiity.
His skull was fractured and one car
pounded off. He was robbed of 5000
in checks and SIS in cash, the pro-
ceeds of a tobacco sale. .
The new West Chester town coun-
ii has appointed these borough Off
,ials: Borough surveyor, Nathan r.
Rambo; street commissioner, John c.
Heed; chief of police, Robert Q.
Jcffrics, with the present force OF
lay and night patrolmen; Edmund II.
Brown was reelected president OF the
council.
Governor Pennypackcr fixed May
for the execution OF James Alexan-
lcr and w. l.. Hartley, at Pittsburg.
The congregation OF the First Bap-
list Church, Of West Chester, has
adopted plans for a new $4,000 church
% be erected this summer
A class OF thirty was initiated into
he Bethlehem Aerie OF Eagles at a
meeting which was attended by mem
bers of the order from throughout
the Lchigh Valley
James Mcpherson. Clarence Carr
and Michcal Collins. members OF the
"Shirtwaist gang of Bridgeport, were
acquitted of assault and battery with
attempting to kill Frank Smith farm
cr, and his wife.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
| pany distributed among the employees
of the Altoona and Juriata shops
| Ss52,oS2 pay for the month of Febru-
! lry 1t is the biggest amount ever
| paid for the shortest month OF the
year.
General orders were issued from
! the headquarters OF the \. G. f.. con-
firmng the sentence of Rudolph II.
Schaffer, Company J., Eighteenth
| Regiment, to take effect Immediately
Schaffer was recently found guilty by
4 general court martial OF fraudulcntly
obtaining money and sentenced to be
| dismissed from the service.
Several sportsmen living in Lower
Saucon and at Springtown have form
ed an association called the Landsdale
Game Protective Club. with the object
Of restocking that vicinity with small
game to take the place of that which
| the long, COlu NllllCT NGS'IONtu'
The farms Of II. s. Mil, at Spring
town. has been leased and will be used
as a game preserve.
In Criminal Court at Media, Judge
johnson sentenced Charles Kimball, Of
Chester, to eleven years in the Eastern
Pcnitcntiary. He was convicted of as.
sault and battery with intent to kill and
highway robbery, having assaulted and
robbed George Mackenzie last Christmas
Day. The victim was in the hospital for
seven weeks by reason of the assault.
While Earl Davis and several Other
fishermen were out along the Brandy.
wine, near West Chester, they discovered
sixteen pound carp frozen in block
of ice that had been deposited in the adj
jaccnt meadow by the frcshet few days
since.
Fire in No. | mine stable 600 feet be-
low the surface, at Tamaqua, killed
thirty seven mules. 1t may be necessary
TO flood the mine.
Chief Burgess Ellis c. Abrams, Of
Prospect Park, returned the light ordi-
nance TO Council with his veto, which
has been sustained The electric light
company refused to sign an agreement
with the borough and unless some action
is taken by the body soon the town will
be ithout street lights
Cooking and sewing schools OF novel
.haractcr have hppn petahliS shed on the