The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-12
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| tlsh Commissioners w. T.. Meehan
representing the Commonwealth, the
deeds for the lands donated as a site
Tor a State fish hatchery. The event
was one OF great Importance to Center
county and the citizens showed their
interest by crowdng the Court.
house. The speech Of presentation by
/ Judge Love was responded to by Com
missioner Meehan. The secretary OF
| the commission then read the follow.
| ing resolutions which had been adopt.
ed at a previous meeting: To the gen.
erous citizens OF Center county, Pa,
At a meeting of the Fisheries Commis.
sion of the Commonwealth OF Pennsyl.
vania, held at Bellefonte, this 9th day
OF August, 1903, it was unanimously
resolved that the sincercst thanks OF
the Department OF Fisheries be ten.
dered to the public-spirited citizen.
who so generously donated the ground
to the Commonwealth for the use OF
:he Fisheries Commission, for the erec.
ton OF a fish hatchery.
| Conrad Schroeder, one OF the bes,
known and wealthiest contractors in
Scranton, accidentally killed himself al
his home in Green Ridge, while hand,
ling revolver He had taken the re-
volver out OF his trousers pocket and
was about to place it in bureau
drawer, where he usually kept it, wher
the weapon was discharged The bull
let entered his head and he died almost
instantly. Mr. Schroeder built most Of
the important buildings in Scranton
and was a man of the highest integrity
| He was president OF the South Side
bank and was interested in many OF
the city's industrial establishments
Howard Flood and Lawrence Leber
man were badly burned while working
inside one Of the large stoves at the
Warwick furnace, Pottstown. Both
men entered the lower bell for the pur
| pose OF making repairs while the fur.
mace was in blast and while at work
employees lowered the upper bell. The
gas from the charge beneath rushed
upon the men and they were probabl,
fatally burnd. They managed tc
crawl down a spiral stairway on tho
outside OF the furnace and fell in
faint at the bottom.
Jesse Beer. aged Q. and Roy Rohr
aged &, Of Bath, climbed tree to get
a hoynet's rest. The hornets were in
bad hu1for and resented tie intrusion
There were severa. big spikes in the
tree, and the lads, in their eagerness
to get away, fell and caught on these
spikes. Rohr had four-inch cash cut
in his face and his companion has a
cash extending IRON half way from his
mouth to one OF his ears.
Mr.. and Mrs. Monroe Stewart, ol
Oklahoma, are visiting relatives and
old friends at Brockawayvile. They
drove the entire distance from Okla
homa to their old home in light
spring wagon, drawn by pair OF hardy
Western horses. The trip was made in
iorty-hve days and the expenses cr
route were but $50.
The remains OF James A. Harkns, Of
Philadelphia, were found at the tipple
OF the Keystone Coal and Coke Com
pany, east OF Grecnsburg, near the
Pennsylvania Railroad tracks and taker
to the Greensbuig local morgue.
| From papers found on his person hi'
identification was established.
Produce Dealer Beverly Hatchs dog
went mad and bit Orlando Blackburn
severely on the thigh at Altoona. Whilt
Patrolhan Lloyd Waugh was trying tc
shoot the animal it sprang at him ano
lacerated his arm with its teeth aite'
it had been shot once in the head
By saving off a bar in a window
Thomas Donahuc ard Robert Black
burn escaped from Jail at Washington
The space they went through was 6A
by IA inches and blanket ropes lowered
them to the ground Sheriff Carothers
has offered reward OF $500 Tor the
capture OF the jailbreakers.
Webster, the I4-year-old son OF Jas
G. Fox, a member OF Legislature. wal
instantly killed near Gallagherville, By
being struck by an express train or
the Pennsylvania Railroad. The bo,
was conveying water to railroad work
ers when the accident occurred.
Governor Pennypacker appointed
William II. Lambert. Philadelphia; B
L. McFeeters, Williamsburg, and Ed
ward Overton, OF Towanda, commit
tee to cooperate with committees iron
the Forty-fith, Fiftieth, Fiity-first, One
Hundredth Regiments and Battery ID
Pennsylvania Volunteers, i'll the erec'
ton OF memorial tablets at Vicksburg
The 80 and 3S-inch mills in the Car
ncgic Steel Works at Homestead were
closed down, throwing 500 men out o.
employment. Whether the shutdown
is for repairs or due to lack OF raw
material is not announced.
The Shamokin School Board decid
ed that blows shall not be inflicted upor
the head or hands of pupil. and in nc
case shall child be shaken violently
The Pennsylvania Railroad Compan,
is building six dining cars and ioui
buffet cars at the Altoona shops. lhes'
are the first cars OF the kind to be con
structed at Altoona.
While assisting butcher at Reading
I2-year-old Wilbur b. Erb's arm wa
ground to pieces in sausage machine
There was not single death during
the month of July in Bangor, which hS
a population of over 1000.
Joseph Bontempee, an Italian OF las
ton. shot his wife in the breast, alleging
that she had been untrue to him. ~
was later arrested in Philipsburg.
While swimming in the river at Nor,
ristown in front of the High Schoo
boathouse, Leo Holmes. 10 years old
was seized with cramps and wa
drowned.
DR.. Thomas Lloyd, his wife and hi
mother, Mrs. Thomas Lloyd. of Shame
kin. were driving home when the horse
ran away. The trio were hurled iron
the carriage and badly injured.
John Knier, Jr.. aged 80 years. o.
Mannheim. accidentally shot and kilief
himself while in search OF ground hogs
Knier endeavored to crawl under
fence, dragging his gun, when the wes
pom exploded.
By the will Of Catharine Daer, late O