The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-06-21
The KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News Of Pennsylvania Told 10
Short Order.

| ing OF James Gallagher, tramp, last
tall, and was sentenced tc SIX months in
| jail. George Emes, who did the shoot
ing, was sentenced last week to FIVE
months in the penitentiary 1t was as
serted that the tramp made improper
proposals to young women and thai
Emes and Richell defended the women
AT the third annual gold medal con-
test in oratory for the pupils OF the
WilkesB Barre High School, Miss Helen
V. Barring won the gold medal for reci-
tations and Robert L. Rheads for the
best original production.
The Scranton Municipal League, which
! has been inactive for some time has
! resumed operations BY request OF its
agent Robert Wilson, the police conhs-
, Gated nearly all the nckel-in-the-slo ma
| chimes in Scranton. The owners of places
in which the machines were found were
fined SIS and costs
The Trenton, New Hope and Lam
| bertvllle Railway has been opened for
travel. The line is sixteen miles long
The eighth annual convention of the
Bucks County Sabbath School Associa-
| ton was held at Carversville Rev. w.
| Barnes Lower of Wyrcote, and Rev.
John NJ. Waddell, Of Doyestown, de-
| livered addresses
Mrs. Aaron c. Griffen, aged IS years,
wife of Warrington Township farmer,
was burned to death by the explosion
| of a can OF kerosene with which she was
kindling fire in the kitchen stove.
Prof. +. S. Benton principal of the
| public schools Of Coatesville, has re-
signed and will go to Philadelphia to
| study law
Harry Moore, Of Coatesville, a rigger,
employed at the Lackawanna steel plant
in Buffalo, was killed in that city by be-
ing caught in machinery,
Robbers entered the White Horse Ho-
tel, on the Chester Pike, in Prospect
Park, and took five pieces OF a silver
set, each piece bearing Mrs. David Nc
Clure's initials; nine yards OF silk dress
goods and a pocketbook containing
money belonging to Mrs. Mcclure, wife
OF the proprietor of the hotel.
Daniel Callahan, aged 6 years, of
Thomaston while on his way home from
school, stopped beside an old mine
breach partly filed with water to throw
stones into it. Losing his balance he
fell down the precipice and was drowned
before the eyes OF several little school
mates.
The contract for the erection of a
State bridge over the North Branch of
the Susquehanna River, between Bcr-
wick and Nescopeck has been awarded
to the York Bridge Company, of York,
by the Board of Public Grounds and
Buildings The York Company, which
bid S2oo,5oo, was the lowest of the 2S
| bidders.
After parting with a friend and ex-
claiming: This is the last time I'll
shake hands" Milton S Shaeffer swal-
lowed a large dose of ARSENIC in the
barroom of hotel at Rothsvile. Friends
attempted to knock the glass contain
ing the poison from his lips. He held
on determined, biting a piece from the
glass and swallowing the fragment. it
is believed he will die
Mark Ashbaugh, aged II, and Otto
Robinson, aged I3, both of Duquesnc,
died in the McKeesport Hospital. The
boys found large quantity of gunpow-
der and filled their pockets with it. One
of them applied match to some of the
powder which had fallen on the ground.
The flames leaped up and ignited the
powder in their pockets Both were fa-
tally burned.
The Valley Forge Park Commission
has made arrangements to provide wa
ter supply for the park. Hydrants for
drinking and sprinkling will be placed
at various points along the roads.
Deputy Sheriff Mass has arrested
John Tozzolino, charged with the muir
der of Frank Collar, whose headless body
was found at Cork Lane ten days ago
Tozzolino says he can prove an alibi,
and he offers to aid the police in rum
ming down the murderers.
Dr. Donate Verna, of Roseto, a grad
uate of the Medical College at Naples,
Italy, was convicted in court at Eas-
ton of having practiced medicine, al
though he neglected to register in the
Prothonotary's office or to appear be-
fore the State Medical Board Judge
Scott fined him $Ioo and costs
Jacob Fritz, aged CO. years, who was
accidentally shot by William Gloss at
the Avon Gun Club grounds, died at the
Good Samaritan Hospital, Lebanon.
Gloss, who was seixed with nervous
! prostration at the time of the accident,
suffered relapse upon hearing of the
death of Fritz and is in a serious con-
dtion.
While assisting in placing a large log
in position at a mill dam at Meckville,
| Cyrus Gerhart, aged so years, OF that
place, fell into the water and was
! drowned
The audit in the estate OF the late
Edmund Kruzensky, Norristown, whose
brothers. arm established the date OF MS
marriage, ended by settlement in which
the property was divided between his
wife and mother.
The taxpayers of B-istol Township
at a special election voted 225 against
Io4 for bonding the township to the
extent OF $4,000 for road Improvement.
Penrose Wcidman and Raymond Frey
burger, two I2-year-old boys of Birds
boro, were killed by being struck by an
express train on the Reading Railway.
The lads, with half dozen others, were
returning from swim in the Schuyl-
kill River and the two boys were stand
ing on the down track watching pass
ing freight train when the express train
struck them.
Sheriff Derr, Of Carlisle, appointed ex-
Deputy Sheriff Goodyear and John Glass
as death watches for David Spahr, the
condemned murderer of his wife, and
asked the Court by petition to ratify the
appointment. Judge Sadlcr stated thar
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