The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-10
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Latest News Of Pennsylvania Told in
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a check for S555,oo5 from City treas
urer Schoch, of Philadelphia, collect
cd as license taxes. Up to the present
time the collections of the Auditor
Generals Department are SI,ooo,ooo'
ahead OF this time last year. An effort
is being made now to run down the
foreign corporations that are dong
business in this State and evading
taxation by not registering. Every
one of them will be made to register
and pay back taxes, and it is thought
a million dollars will be secured from
this source. Recently one of these
foreign corporations was forced to dis
gorge $4,000 back taxes and another
paid over to the State $4,000 taxes
which it had evaded paying for long
time.
William A. Engle, of Pottsville, an
engineer employed on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. has received a patent
on a cut-out valve for locomotives,
the principle Of which came to him
in a dream. So realistic was the de-
vice pictured to him that he could not
get it out OF his mind, and the result
was that he perfected models and
drawing and applied for patent. At
present, for the slightest breakdown,
i, is necessary to disconnect the entire
disabled side, causing expensive de-
lays. Mr. Engle's invention is form
of valve cutting off the supply OF
steam from one or the other pipes
leading to the steam chest. By it de-
fects in the steam chest and cylinders
are readily located.
While he was walking along the
tracks of the Philadelphia & Reading
Railway Jacob Zook Schmucker was
run down b. + freight train at a point
Just north o. the station in Phoenix
vile and received injuries which re-
suited in his death He was IS years
of age and was considered one of the
brightest pupils of the Hill School,
Pottstown He had been camping
with some Of the faculty in the Adj
rondacks and while on his return his
mileage book gave out when he reach
ed Perkiomen Junction Being put off
the train at that point he started afoot
to Pottstown. He was the son of the
late DR.. V. NJ. Schmucker, of Read
ing.
A contract has just been closed be-
tween the Pittsburg Steel Company
and the Republic Iron and Steel Com
pany for 10000 tons of billets to be
delivered to the Pittsburg Company's
works at Monessen within the next
two months. The contract involves
about 100000 The business goes
to concern outside of the Steel Cor
poration, and the price is about SIo.25
ton, although the Billet Association
recently fixed the price at $23 ton.
Burglars at the home of Mrs. Kate
Al. Al.
badly Frightened when she suddenly
opened door and burst in upon
them. They were SO scared that in
escaping through window one of
them carried along the sash upon his
shoulders and bore it down the street.
Mrs. Berger pursued two of. the men
until they outdistanced her. The
burglars dropped most of their booty,
Henry Buhmn, who owns small
farm in Powder Valley, in the lower
portion of Lchigh County, for some
time has noticed that an oily substance
appeared on the stream running
through his property. Mr.. Buhmn Sc
cured quantity of the substance and
had it Analysed by chemist in Phil
adelphia, who pronounced it to be
petroleum of a fine quality. Further
Investigations will be made and the
drilling of well may be started
DR.. r: l.. Cooper, one of the best
known physicians in the lower end OF
Montgomery County, died after a
brief illness at his late residence on
York Road: at Ogontz. He was
stricken with paralysis and never re-
covered consciousness. He had been
a resident of Ogontz for the past
thirty years and for the past five
years had served Cheltenham Town
ship as sanitary agent.
The plant of the Ellis & Lessig Iron
and Steel Co, Pottstown, was sold at
public sale for $Io5,ooo. George B. Les
sig, president OF the company and the
heaviest stockholder, was the purchas-
er. The company will be organized
and work is to be resumed in a short
time. The Ellis & Lessig plant COW
ers fourteen acres and is equipped
with plate and bar mills and nail ma
chinery.
An unidentified man was killed on
the Pennsylvania Railroad at Lafay-
ette. He was about 90 years old.
He had discharge paper for Neal
Devlin, of Company E. Second New
Jersey Cavalry. dated Vicksburg, June
20, 1906. He also had slip of paper
hearing the. address OF Dennis 7.
/ Gormley. of 1924 South Eighteenth
Street Philadelphia.
John H. Harden and Paul Herman.
limlnary surveys for the buildings
OF Phoenixville, have begun the pre-
which will be erected on the farms
recently puchased by the State for a
hospital for epileptics, near Spring
City. The plans for the buildings
will be drawn by Philip Johnson, of
Philadelphia.
The committee appointed at a re-
cent citizens meeting to call upon
he Board of Public Buildings and
Grounds with view to ascertaining
the character OF the wall il is proposed
to put around Capitol Park, made a
report at meeting held in the Board
OF Trade rooms, Harrisburg. In its
report the committee says it had the
assurance of Governor Pennypacker
that plans for a proposed wall have
not been approved and that no con-
tract has been made.
The farmers OF Aston Township are
alarmed by the numerous robberes
in that vicinity. Four places were
entered in one night. Miles Kelly, a
grocer, lost wagon; Andrew Math-
ews lost saddle and bridal; mum.
ber of chickens were taken from the