The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12
Pennsylvania
BRIEFLY TOLD.
The Latest Condensed Dispatches From
Many Points.
COUPLE PLANNED TO DIE TOGETHER
Fire Destroys Three Business Building on the
"Square" In Wilkes Barre, Causing Damage
to the Extent Of sz6O.OOo-Got Certificates
But Prevented Successful Vaccination
Mother and Daughter Perish In Fire.

| NilSlOHS RIdllttu ICIl1SylNdIlldnS
| Urban L. burst, Connelsville, SO Robt.
Z. Lytle, Franklin, So VIM. II. Stucky,.
Everett $24 Benjamin Stoy East Hick-
| Dry, $I2; Augustus Hawn, Huntingdon,
| s12; William Corkling, Soldiers Home,
| Erie, $I2; George w Morrison, Flem-
ing, $1o; Archibald Spratt, Leechburg,
SIo; William Remley, Beaver Falls, So;
| William P. Kirkpatrick, New Castle, So;
| Joseph Noland, Mount Union, $24;
Sarah J. Reeves, Athens, So; Dorothea
J +. Purhen, Nauvoo, So; Rachel Skinner,
! Washington, So; Sarah Stewart, Three
! Springs, SO; Kate r. Buckley. Antrim,
$8 Mary A. Kerr Kittanning SO Eliza
beth |. Small, McKeesport, $8 Clarssa
A. Wald, Sturtevant, SO; Gerome Bas-
sett, Cory, sly; William Smith, Latrobe,
! S17 Elizabeth ]. Caraher, Altoona, So;
Louie M. Kifer, Cory, 8; Emma Van
sooyoe, Tyrone, $S Lavina Wheeling,
Deckard, $I2.
Mrs. Sarah Klee and her nine-year-old
| daughter, Mary perished in fire which
| destroyed their home in Carnegie, and
| all the other members of the family were
injured. The Klee home was two
story frame house on Broadway, the
ground floor front being devoted to a
! grocery store kept by Klee. The fire was
discovered about 4.4o o'clock, and the
flames spread so rapidly that the occu-
pants of the upper story were shut off
from the stairway. When the iremen
! arrived the father refused to leave the
| building without his wife and the child,
and the fremen were compelled to carry
him out.
The health authorities of Plymouth
| have discovered that some mothers, after
the School Board required a certificate
of vaccination, took their children to
| physicians, had the vaccination perform
! ed, got the certificate and then, hurrying
home, washed off the virus. The result
was that the child was not sick and there
was no swollen arm. The mother OF a
| child that was stricken with smallpox
confessed this, and an investigation re-
vealed the fact that it has been done in
bther cases.
A fire at one OF the business corners Of
the Square" Wilkesbarre, caused loss
of about 100000. The Corn Exchange
Building, containing Weitzenkorn's shoe
and general furnishing stores and many
Offices the Langfeld Building, contain
ing the Globe dry goods store, and the
Simon Long Building, occupied by the
Simon Long clothing store, were de-
| oliO1Cd. llC IRE SldI III tile AiODC
sore, an electric wire in the Christmas
display window having ignited some cot
| ton
General orders were issued from the
| headquarters of the National Guard, an
nouncing that upon the recommendation
| of the First Brigade Examining Board,
Captain Charles J Erskine, Company K,
Second Regiment, is discharged from the
service. Second Lieutenant Edward
Jones, Company L, Ninth Regiment is
also discharged.
Knauer Amole, of Coatsville, aged
about so, and Mary E. Irwin, aged As,
of Malvern, Chester county, attempted
TO commit suicide together in a hotel at
Reading. The womean died, but the man
| may recover.
Several veins OF coal l,ave beer IN
earthed on the farm of Urias Barry
near Hopeland Clay Towship. The veins
ere being worked to ascertain their
value.
William O'Gara, OF Shanollin, aged Fl
years, whose back was broken in a foot
ball game at that place died at the State
Hospital, Ashland.
John Solick OF Ashley, while stealing
ride on the planes, was thrown off a
truck, run over and killed,
The following fourth-class postmas-
tiers were appointed for Pennsylvania:
| Seitzland. Charles c. Bollinger Netera,
Frank V. Snyder.
August Misal, brakeman on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, fell under his
train at Haines' Station, ON the Fred
erick Division, and was killed.
Fire destroyed a barn and three tobac-
| co sheds on the North farm, cast Of
| Columbia, tenanted by ]. J. Eisenber-
ger The loss is over $1,000.
Harold Herr, of Lancaster who went
to the Klondike three years ago, has re-
turned bringing quantity of gold dust
and nuggets. He is the owner OF several
| paying claims.
Gilbert Parker, of West Pittston, was
killed at the Exeter breaker, his cloth
ing being caught by a shaft revolving at
high speed, and the body was badly
mangled.
Mrs. Amelia Edelman was standing
| by the stove in her home at Pottstown
when her clothing ignted. Neighbors
| hearing her cries came and smothered
the fire by rolling her in carpet. Her
condition is critical
! henry i1OONen, charged WITH having
| placed dynamite on the tracks of the
Northern Central Railway on the night
Of November IS, whereby the Western
express was wrecked through the ex-
| plosion, was given a hearing before Al
derman c. f. Keech at York, and conf
mitted to Jail to await trial.
! William Templeton, a colored man.
attempted to rob the house occupied by
Mrs. Mary Frograss, at Connellsville,
but was shot in the act by>Mrs. Fro
grass. When Templeton fell he pulled
his revolver and fred the bullet strik-
! ing Mrs, Frograss. Both were removed
| to the hospital.
A man named Jones, supposed to have
been a tramp, walked over the abutment
of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge at
Port Royal, striking on the rocks fifty
feet below, and was instantly killed.
The Phoenix Hose Hook and Ladder
Company of Phoenixville, took posses
sion of its new building which has been
erected at a cost of $I2,ooo
Thomas Johnson was sleeping in his
| paint shop at West Chester, when he was
aroused by flames around him. He was
| forced to jump out of the window in his
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