The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
The KEYSTONE STATE.
News Happenings Of Interest Gathered
From All Sources.

hPCiibs RlZs w IMAM -. SOihNls ANNN
Brighton, 50; Thomas A. +. Russell,
Russell. So; August Fielder Sr,. Pitts
burg. S9; James L. Eceles, Conneils.
vile. IS; Mary Mayeretta, Bristol, IS;
Hannah c. Dysart, Altoona. $S; Mag
gle Pegg, Charleroi. So: Rehe-ca !.
Brumbaugh. Altoona, So; Mary ].
Hcnch, Eliottsbrrg. SI2; James e.
Harris, McNeytown, St4; Albert L.
Hitchcock, Stevensville, SI4; Nelson P
O'Connor, Brookville, SI2 Susan Will
son, Washington. So; Elizabeth Win
ter Braddock, $S Ann Brady. Allie
eheny, So; Sarah A. Clark, Chicora,
So; minors Of John P. Jennings, Gar
mans Mills, $I4; Charles Lebo, Muncy,
s.; Henry c. Dennis, Lamar, So: Jas.
L. Reed, Clearfeld. $S; Freeman N.
Wilcox, New Albany. $50; George w
App, Soldiers Home Erie, So; Hiram
Thornton, Elliott. S. Edwin Cranmer,
Athens. $I7; Franklin Hoch. Anita. $io;
minor OF John w Reighard, Loganton,
$40; Rebecca A. Murray, Ripple, So
Frank Ritlenbaugh and Joseph
Stearn, road supervisors in East White
land Township. were given hearing
before a West Chester magistrate on
the charge OF maintaining nuisance
in their township in the way OF a piece
OF roadway that is impossible. Sew
eral witnesses testified to the truthful-
ness of the charge and the defendants
we're held to answer at the next term
Of court
The will OF Mrs Ca,harine {. Evans,
late OF Lancaster, which was probated,
SIooo is bequeathcd to the Young
Women's Christian Association. the
new St. Paul's Reformed Church, and
the Michael Schlatter Memorial Church
building fund OF the Reformed Church.
The salary OF Miss Margaret Best,
Presbyterian missionary to Korea, is
also paid for year.
Before the Adjournment OF the Allen
town Teachers Institute. resolution
was passed to ask the Legislature to
make an annual appropriation to each
school district for teachers who hsve
been in continuous service in the public
schools for twenty-five years or more,
D.. William J. Wentz, aged 63, the
most prominent physician in southern
Lancaster county died at New Provi.
dence. He was frequent delegate to
STATE and national medical conventions.
Five milk dealers were arrested in
Easton on complaint OF Pure Food
Agent SINNERS, OF Phoenixvillc, who
charged them with placing preserva-
lives in their milk and using fluid for
.oloring cream The accused pleaded
guilty and were found $50 and costs
amounting to about $Ioo in each case.
Alter chase OF ten miles Phares
Evans, a farmer OF Rawlinsville. cap
.r'cd one OF three men whom he sus-
poets OF having looted his house OF
lot OF marke: produce and his barn
oi two-horsc load OF wheat and corn.
In an address at Mahanoy City. DR..
). c. Swallow. Prohibition candidate
or Governor, advocated compulsory
arbitration law as remedy for strikes.
Secretary G.. w. Nicely, OF the Young
Mems Christian Association Of Chester.
'csigned his position. He will study
or the ministry.
Driven insane by the heat while
working in his tobacco field, Samuel
Neidler, a farmer OF Rotsville. com
nitted suicide by hanging himself.
Governor Stone appointed G. w.
Alump, OF Williamsport, and Charles B.
Bratt, OF Allegheny, members OF the
State Dental Examining Board
Deputy Factory Inspector E. h. PEN
'ose is investigating charges that there
nave been many violations Of the law
n Easton in the matter OF justices OF
he peace and aldermen issuing illegal
certificates i'll cases OF children under
age who are employed il factories.
The dead body OF man was found
N the sheds at the church a. Zionsvi,lc.
In the pockets was found a carpenters
nnion book Wit the name OF William
Westall, No. >2s3 North Ninth street,
Philadelphia It is believed the man
lied OF apopexy.
Bugein Bickle aged u years, em-
ployed at Leithsville> fell into a port
able saw mill and one leg was cit of
and the other hurt. Although it was
necessary TO wait an hour and a half
or physician and then take the boy
sixteen miles over rough roads to Eas-
on, lie uttered no word OF complaint.
Several New York attorneys repre-
'enting q number OF manufacturers, ar
lived at Herndon and entered into
,ontrac; with number of farmhands
% dig coal out. OF the Susquehanna
river Heretofore the iarmhands make
IS 4 week on farms. Now they can earn
rom SIS to $50 week. as the river
1iggers collect from four to FIVE tons
1aily. So many farmhands have lately
been mining coal that farmers have not
-nough help to gather the crops.
AT a meeting OF the Lower Merton
Township Commissioners, it was de-
cded to ask the township voters at the
November election for the privilege OF
borrowing $35o,ooo. of which $3oo.ooc
shall be used for proposed sewer sys-
tenn, and the balance OF $4,000 for
municipal building and site.
William Boyer stableman, aged
a, OF Reading, crawled into a wagon
% sleep. He was dead when found
having been strangled by mouthful OF
:obacco which he was chewing when he
-e.ired
Because Thomas Garfield incurred
the ill-will OF the strikers at Coal Cas-
lie by working at the Anchor Washery
at the Philadelphia & Reading Coal &
Iron Company an attempt was made to
blow TIP his home.
AS result OF ptomaine poisoning
Nom eating canned meats, a plumber
oi Washington society people who at
tended the picnic supper at the club
1ouse OF .he Washington County Golf
Club are seriously ill.,
With coal at So 4 ton, and not to be
1ad at that hgure, many of the School
Boards through Berks county are max.
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