The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-04-20
The KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News Of Pennsylvania Told b
Short Order.

| hN bllCNlpIS VI l1C NOdlESNlllf
| Young Mems Christian Association
have decided to erect new building
tor bowling alleys and swimming pool
Coatcsville council has passed OF
the ordinance granting the Yves
Chester Street Railway Company th'
right to lay tracks and operate a,
electric railway in that borough
Work has been commenced on til
new line.
a Shamokin young woman, wn'
refused to reveal her identity, saw
the police and crowd pursuing
John Didavich, who. it is alleged hat
snatchcd purse from Miss Elizabetl
| BOYD. The young woman grapplet
with with the fugitive and held mir
until the police arrived.
Mrs Emily Dichl, Of Stroudsburg
was burned to death.
On account of the spread of small
| poN. a Shamokin officer OF the STATE
! Board OF Health notified the inhabi
tants that unless they were vac
,inated by April 2S collicrics and fac
tories will be shut down.
Dale Patton. who has been a tcrro
70 the people OF Big Valley for scvcra
| gears. was sentenced to four and ono
half years in the Western Pcnitcntary
| by Judge Woods, at Lcwistown. lie
| broke down and cried like child.
In the effort to determine what shal
be done with money collected foi
erecting monument to the mine
workers shot down at l.attmcr. .
meeting of the Executive Boards o.
all three districts is soon to be called
Fire originating from sparks from
A railway engine near the Port Clinton
tunnel. destroyed many hundred acre.
Of timber on the Blue Mountain ont
mile west Of Hamburg. The flame.
were eNtinguished during the nigh
by 100 men and boys.
There were but two bidders for the
ncw city liberation plant to be PLACED
On Island Park, in the Susquchanna-
Codcr & Miller, Harrisburg, S275,
300; Eastern Construction Company
IF New York $3.50 500. No action was
taken on the bids.
In the investigation of the Blythe
Township election frauds at Potts
vile. the court was informed tha
Patrick Connolly, member OF the
District School Board. was expelled
from the board for the alleged reason
that he missed two meetings. 1t is
charged that the real reason Connolly
was put out was because he revealed
p plan to cXtort money from the pr- =.
school teachers, who we're told to pay
up or get out"
While the two young sons oi
William llaincs, farmer. of Ian.
caster, were depositing waste in tho
titchcn stove, the stove was shattered
by an explosion ard both boys were
badly burned. While collecting waste
PAPER the boys had picked up paper
bag containing gurDowdcr.
The residence OF Chief of Police
Thomas McKcowan. at Ridley Park
vas entered while the officer was away
by negro and some money, a rcvol-
yer and several other articles of value
stolen
\ transfer was filed in the Record.
Cr's Office al Lancaster whereby the
Philadelphia, Coatcsville & Lancaster
Railway Company becomes the owner
OF all the property and rights OF the
l1randywine Electric Street Railway
Company. The consideration named
j. 81. The companies had laid Out
parallel routes from Coatcsville tC
Lancaster through a thickly settled
region. There will now be no wal
of rates as at first indicated and th,
move is one of protection. The pro
posed road will be the connecting
link between Lancaster and Phila
lclphia by trolley.
Charles Croll, of Plymouth, while
prisoner OF Constable Zeigler. o.
Allentown jumped from a Lehigh Val
ley express train while It was going
at high speed down the mountain nea'
White Haven. lie has not been seer
SINCE, and whether he was hurled int
The Lchigh River and drowned o.
was unhurt and escaped to the wood
is not known. Croll is accused OF tn,
,.rceny OF military property from AZ
.\llcntown COMPANY.
Charged with criminal libel, Rev
L. a. Smyth, pastor of the East Stat,
Street African Methodist Episcopa
Church, Harrisburg, has filed bono
OF $1,000 for his appearance at the
June term OF court The charge wa!
preferred by officer J, II. Early, anC
is said to have grown ont of an article
published in the Boys Capital, which
Mr.. Smyth edits.
The Philadelphia & Reading Rail
way Company has asked Governor
Pennypackcr for hearing on an ap
plication to extend the time OF tn,
commissions of coal and iron police
men Recently the Governor dccidec
that he would commission these Of
iicers for one year only. The Cover
nor has signihcd his Willingness tc
hear argument.
Two OF the three borough auditors
of Marcus Hook refuse to serve.
In an address at the West Chestc
High School, President Joseph Swain
of Swarthmore College, offered to th'
school "a free scholarship at Swarth
more College for four years.
Samuel A. Grocer, of Upland, ha'
completed his thirty-seventh year a;
superintendent OF the Upland Baptis
Sunday school, and the celebration wa
marked by banquet to the teacher
and officers of the school.
While Mrs. Ncwlin was testifyin,
against Chester Hcmcrey in the offc,
OF Alderman X. J. Shoemaker, o.
Chester, Hcmerly sprang up and at
tempted to choke the woman. He wa
subdued and held for trial. Mrs
Ncwlin says he assaulted her SON
The. court has appointed John T
Dohoney, a Harrisburg newspapc'
man, member OF the Board of Com
missioners of Dauphin County, to i'll
the vacancy created by the death o.
William NJ. Lauman, of Middetown
George Pratt was arrested at Potts
ville, charged with fraudulently col
lecting money for alleged insurance
Pratt is said to have duped persons ir
NorristoWn and other places