The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-07-05
The KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News Of Pennsylvania Told in
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placed on trial at Mercer, Judge Will
lams practically declared the law un-
constitutional and gave the jury binding
Instructions which resulted in YER
dict Of not guilty {. NJ. Pclton, State
agent, was required to pay the costs.
United States Deputy Marshal P. ID.
Helms arrested Adam Bueisky, aged II
years, and his brother, Michael. aged IL
years, and James Cuff, aged f3 years, on
a charge of breaking off the lock OF a
rural mail box in Ringtown. Commis-
sioner Woltjcn. OF Pottsville, held Adam
Buesky and Cuff under $500 bail for
trial at the Philadelphia District Court
next September Adam Bueisky, il is
said, wanted the. lock for his rabbit
pen.
In trying to avoid running over
child, Lyman Berger, driver ior the Ma
hanoy City Hook and Ladder Company,
while responding to an alarm OF fre,
pulled the horses to one side and struck
a telegraph pole. He was thrown off,
but was not hurt. The apparatus was
damaged
L. w. Gerber, fireman on the Lack
awanna express. was killed at Bell
Bridge, near the Water Gap. At Bridge
vile, thirty-fvc miles below Strouds-
burg. the engineer noticed that steam
had begun to slaclcn and then for the
first time he missed Gerber Gerber,
it is thought, was leaning out OF the
tender OF the engine when he was
struck by the bridge and his body was
thrown into the creek below.
Robbers entered the clothing store of
l. d. Beneman, at Mt Joy. and stole
fifty suits OF clothing valued at $500
Nathan w. Martz has been appointed
postmaster at Chauncy.
For the first time since grievances Of
anthracite miners which the coneilia-
ton board could not adjust were re-
ferred to an umpire Carroll d. Wright
has not been appointed. The mine work
ers and operators received word that
Judge Gray, OF Delaware, has named
Commissioner OF Labor Charles P. Neill
as umpire for two grievances which the
board wishes to present. This selection
pleases the mine workers.
Deputy Attorney General Fleitz ad-
vised Auditor General Snyder that $780,
900 appropriated by the legislature for
1901 for the erection OF monuments on
the Gettysburg battlefield to the memory
of the soldiers OF Pennsylvania who par
ticipated in the Civil War IS now avail
able, providing the commission IS ready
to organize and do its work. The bill
as passed in 1901 set aside S25o,ooo for
the monuments, $4,000 for the two
years beginning June I, 1901; $4,000
for the next two years, and SI5o,ooo tor
the two years beginning June 1, 1905.
When this bill went to Governor Stone
he approved the $I5o,ooo item and We
toed the other two.
AT the first election held by the Bor-
ough OF Lemoyne, Cumberland County,
w. H. Whitman, Republican, was elect
ed Chief Burgess by majority of I.
The School Board is tie and Council is
Democratic by majority.
Thieves entered the Brodhead Public
School OF Northampton Heights and
stole large lot OF supplies. They de-
faced the furniture and entering the
room where the Town Council meets,
scattered copies of the borough ordi-
nances over the floor and destroyed 9TH
er documents. An effort to enter the
Public Library of the place was frus-
trated by the police.
Frank Hartman, charged with a series
of horse thefts, in Dauphin County and
in Virginia, refuses to eat at the county
jail at Lebanon, and the authorities be-
lieve he is trying TO Starve himself to
death, fearing rough treatment when he
returns to his native State.
Burglars broke into the residence of
Mrs. William Fahey at Inkerman. Mrs.
Fahey's two stalwart sons caught them
and, one using poker and the other a
chair, beat the thieves so badly that
they cried for mercy, and were then
allowed to depart.
Josiah P. Rice has been appointed
postmaster at Oshanter.
Charged with the murder OF his 10
day-old child IN the Fall OF 1908, upon
information furnished in an ante-mor-
tenn statement of his wife, John Sees,
of Limestone Township. Montour Coun-
ty, had a hearing and was committed
to jail without bail. Mrs. Sees, who is
believed to be on her deathbed, says
that when the child was ten days old
nNl HhspalAA PlNASNA lka lNdQ DClWNCu
his knees and then threw it the length
OF the room. DR.. Muffley of Turbot-
vile, testified to the healthy condition
OF the child when born. and an under
taker who buried the child testified as
to the marks upon the skull and bruises
on the body.
As the result OF rush OF coal in
the Cameron Mine Jacob Oliver and
Frederick Cristoffen lay buried under
coal for tweny-four hours, until they
were rescued alive by Superintendent
Rhoads, George Reinhart and a force
of miners. The two men, who were
made prisoners, were almost smothered
during their entombment.
The finding of human foot on the
pavement in front OF the Berwick Meth
odist Church was the cause of consid-
cradle excitement. A physician said that
the loot had evidently been amputated
by surgeon, but there is no record of
an operation OF that kind having been
performed recently, The foot was bu-
ried in the borough lot.
George c. Buss, the Oldest undertaken
in the Lehigh Valley and veteran Of the
Civil War died OF heat prostration in
kutztown, aged 81.
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