The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-07
The KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News Of Pennsylvania Told in
Short Order.

town to board train for Pttsburg.
They were in four-seated wagon and
when about a mile from Boswell in
the darkness they took the wrong
road. They were soon startled by
a volley Of shots fired in the air, while
a crowd of ten or a dozen men
swarmed around them. Some Of the
robbers held the horses, others
searched the passengers and several
covered the party with guns TO pre-
vent any escaping. One man was re-
lieved of sos and each one was COM
PEELED to give up all he had.
William Brilliant, young man Of
York, charged with assault and bat
terry on his father, was fined cent in
plead guilty to administering thrash
ing to his father, and told the Court
that he was defending his mother, as
the father was beating her at the
time. After the Judge had repri-
manded both sire and son for fighting,
he commended the younger man for
defending his mother, and fined the
prisoner cent and told him he was
released. The Judge remarked that
il he were thirty years younger he
would have administered whipping
to the elder Brillhar. himself for beat
ing a woman.
At meeting OF the Board of Trus-
tees of the West Chester State Nor9
NAL School. Bird I. Baldwin, grad
uate of Swarthmore College and Of
Harvard University, and at present
an instructor at Harvard, was elected
professor of pedagogy as successor to
Prof. J. George Becht. who was re-
Gently elected principal of the Clarion
Normal School. The trustees also
received twenty paintings, which have
been placed in the art gallery OF the
new library building by number OF
Philadelphia friends of the school
William Wayne, of Paoli, a men,
Der of the State Legislature, will in
troduce and labor for the passage Oh
a bill in the next session of the Legis.
lature appropriating $4,000 for the pur.
chase of tract of land and the crecA
ton of a monument on the Brandy.
wine battlefield, near West Chester,
to the memory of General Anthony
Wayne. Representative Wayne is a
lineal descendant of the general and
lives in the house that was the home
of his noted ancestor.
The three banks and three trust
companies in Norristown organized
a clearing house association by elect.
ing F. G. Hobson, of the NorristowD
Trust Company, president, and vii.
liam II. Slingluffs, of the Montgom
cry Bank, secretary. Heretofore each
institution made its exchanges with
each of the other financial institu.
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trouble.
Policeman William McKeown, OF
Ridley Park. noticed light burning
in the second story Of the residence
of William Simpson, and, knowing the
family were away, he began an investi.
CATION. He found cellar window
open, but could not enter, as he weighs
more than 200 pounds. While he was
away securing the services of a thin.
ner man to go through the window
the burglar escaped.
The Upland Board of Health mott,
fed the Chester health authorities that
tramps have been sleeping in the hos.
pital for contagious disease for sew.
eral nights. There are no patients in
the hospital, but all the bedding and
other furniture is in the building. II
the tramps who slept there run al
large through the city, it is feared
there may be another epidemic Of
smallpox.
Isaac Clements, aged Is years, OF
Pinegrove Township, committed sui
eide by hanging himself with strar
to an apple tree in his orchard. Glenn
ents was engaged to marry an IS-year
old girl, and he became despondent
when he learned that her parents dis
approved of the match.
George E. Dawson, gray-hared
man O. years OF age, employed for
the past eight years as a watchman in
Phoenixville, was on trial in court at
West Chester, charged with assault
on three girls not more than IL years
of age. The jury convicted Dawson
of indecent assault. Judge Butler sen
fenced him to three years imprson-
ment in the Eastern Penitentiary
A sorrel horse stolen three years
ago from George w. Willauer, a
Pottstown liveryman. was purchased
on Tuesday by Howard Van Bus
kirk, of Pottstown, at a Philadelphia
horse stable. When the horse arrived
he was identified by Willauer and sew
eral stabemen.
Judgments were entered at Holli-
daysburg against John A. LAWYER, the
missing Altoona newspaper publisher.
One Judgment for $o7s is in favor
of LAWYER himself as executor of the
Samuel BARNS estate. His recorded
liabilities aggregate $4,000.
At the coroner's inquest into the
cause of the explosion which killed
four rockmen at the Pine Hill Col
liery, Pottsvlle, some witnesses testi-
fed that the men were killed by ex-
ploding dynamite, and others testified
they were killed by an explosion of
gas. A verdict that the cause Of death
is unknown was rendered.
Because of the lurch of trolley car
while rounding curve on the Coal
Castle Division John Motley, of
Greenbury, fell from his seat and his
neck was broken His body fell be-
meath the wheels and was mangled.
After being out nineteen hours, the
Jury at Bcllcfonte returned verdict
Of guilty OF murder in the first degree
against Ira Green, aged ~. and Will
liam Dillon, aged 10. The two men,
along with three others, escaped from
prison recently after beating the turn
key, Jerry Condo, so severely that he
died. The fugitives were caught after
A chase OF several days and Green and
Dillon were accused of murder. One
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