The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-02-08
The KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News Of Pennsylvania Told 10
Short Order.


load went through Smiths heart and he
was instantly killed.
Attorney Lentz has filed his petition
with the Board of Pardons, asking that
the death sentence OF Mrs Kate Edwards
be committed to life Imprisonment. Me-
Lentz continues to receive letters at the
rate OF about fifty a day indorsng the
appeal for clemency More than 2o.-
600 signatures have already been receiy-
cd for the petitions.
In a quarrel over the grouudhog at
Pottsville H. p. Wilson was stabbed
Wilson contendcd that on account Of
the deep snow and cold weather the
animal did not come out of his burrow-
AT the height OF the quarrel Harvey
Williams. it is alleged, drew dirk and
plunged it into Wilson's bosom. VIII
liams is now a fugitive.
CONSERVATION was caused among ttd
twelve men yet to be tried for alleged
completely in the operations OF the Maha
IN Carbondale by the announcement thar
Joseph Cogliandro, one OF those indicted.
had made a complete confession, telling
all about the Malta and implicating all
OF the fourteen men under arrest and
many more. Because OF the fact tha1
some OF the men Cogliandro accuses hays
not been arrested District Attorney Lew
is declines to make public the confess
sion. The second of the alleged ring-
leaders, Frank Muncula, on pleading
guilty to robbery by menace, received
the full penalty OF the law, Judge Edt
wards sending him to jail for FIVE yearR
and nine months Muncula admitted
having secured $40 from young Italian
by threatening the vengence of the Malta
on him.
Prof. Richard Darlngton's hands and
face were severely burned in fighting a
fire in his home in West Chester, due
to the upsetting of lamp.
While horse belonging to John'
Marsh, an East Goshen farmer. wasi
standing hitched along the street att
West Chester it became restive from thei
cold, and in plunging about fell on the
top OF the hitching post, which pierced
the animals stomach, death resulting iul
few minutes.
The prosecution against |. Newtoul
Henderson, Jasper p. Faucet and Charlesi
| w. Manley, supervisors of Westtowrrl
| Township, charged with negecting toi
repair public road near Westtowtpi
! Friends Boarding School has been with
drawn, the matter having been adjusted.
satisfactorily to all concerned. I
The will of Charles Lockhart. thsi
Standard Oil millionaire, whose estate
is estimated at a sum between S75,ooo-
600 and SIoo,ooo,ooo, was probated in
Pittsburg. After providing for mem
| bers of his family and friends. Mr..
Lockhart bequeathS $4,000 for publici
benefits. OF this sum, the United Pres
byterian Church gets $Isoooo, divided
| as follows Board OF Foreign Missions,f
! $4,000; Board OF Home Missions, $3o.-i
ooo Board of Freedmen's Missions.
$1,000; Board OF Church Extension, $Io,-4
ooo Board of Ministerial Relief SIo,4
600; Board OF Education, $4,000. Ths
| Young Mems Christian Association, Of
Pittsburg, is to get $1,000 and the rex
mander OF the bequest is to be divideS
among local hospitals. Mr. Lockhart
| cut off his youngest child, Mrs. SARAH
Eleanor Flower, with 100000 because
she married against his wishes.
James Kohn, Of Doylesiown, is sleep-
ing in the open air with the tempera-
ture near zero. He is undergoing treat
ment for pulmonary disease at the homa
of DIR. Fred Brister, New Britain. His
bed is under an open shed, and when
he awoke the other morning he found
the snow all about him even with his
body. He was comfortable all through
the storm. Mr.. Kohn is rapidly im-
proving under the treatment.
The Governor sent to the Senate tina
names of the following persons to be
members of the Board OF Medical Ex-
aminers for three years: w. d. Ha-
maker, of Meadville, and NJ. p Dick
eson, Glen Riddle. representing the
Medical Society of Pennsylvania J. c.
Guernsey, Philadelphia, and Edward
Cranch, Erie, representing the Homeo-
pathic Medical Society, and William
Rauch, Johnstown, and J. NJ Louther.
/ Somerset, representing the Eclectic Meds
ical Society
Hydrophobia caused the death OF
James Foulk, Q years old, Of Plymouth
| Township. He had suffered for week
as the result OF a dogs savage attack
six weeks ago. While coasting dowr
! Germantown Pike a dog attacked Foulk
and companion. Foulk pluckily fought
! the animal, but the dog sank its teeth
into the boy and frightfuliy tore and
lacerated his face.
At the funeral Of Amos Shaner. aged
os years, in North Covenry Township.
Chester County, the average age of the
six pall-bearers was II years. They
were Jonathan Freigh, 70; Samuel Eek
er, 72; Isaac Ortlip, 80; John Irwin.
72; Fred Freigh, u, and William Rs-
dor, 80. John Shaner, the undertaken
is 72 years old.
Considerable surprise was occasioned
| in Hazleton when officials OF the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company posted notirs
to the effect that until further notice the
colleries would operate three days a
week. The same condition prevails at
the collieries of the Individual opefa-
/ ors. No one seems to be able to trv
| Just what the curtailment means at this
time, and the only answer the officials
make is that there is surplus Of coal
at tidewater
Ralph Crowl, the young man who held
up trolley car on the Philadelphia
and West Chester line few weeks ago,
and robbed the conductor in wild Wesr
fashion at the point OF two big re-
volvers, was convicted in court at Wess
Chester and sentenced TO serve ten years
in the Penitentiary.