The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-23
The KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News Of Pennsylvania Told in
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Street and James Cluelow, of Up
| land Avenue, have lost fine hunters,
| while ID. c. l.. Lashelle lost a valu-
| able mastiff. The poison given the
snimals causes them to act as though
they have been seized with rabies,
! and during the past twenty-four hours
several persons and animals have been
| attacked by the poisoned dogs. AT
| an examination made on one of the
animals it was fourd that it had died
IRON the effect of ground glass.
The bakers Of Lansdale, at meet
ing recently agreed to advance the
| price from four to FIVE cents loaf.
The new price held good for only d
day or two, when one OF the dealers
returned to the former price. As
result OF this another bakery has put
the price down to three cents.
The Lodge OF Elks of Altoona has
decided to erect building.
William Struthers shot groundhoe
which came out of its hole in the cen
ter of Wilkes-Barre
After long idleness the Oak Hill
Colliery, near Pottsville, will resume
work under a new corporation. En-.
| ployment will be given to 600 hands.
At the annual meeting of the con.
trbutors to the Pousvillc Hospital
President Guy F. Farquhar advocated
the erection of building for the treat
ment OF consumptives by the open.air
method.
Three men committed suicide in one
day in Cambria County. They were
August kaut2, aged 81; John Kubitz,
aged OF, lately of Shenandoah, ard
George Shaffer, of Galltzin, aged ~
A large audience witnessed the in.
stallation of Rev II. I. Stewart. oi
| Atglen, Pa, IS pastor of the First
Baptist Church. of Lansdale A ser.
mon was preached by Rev. J. !. Wick.
er, Of Benton. \. ard tic reighbor.
ing pastors participated.
Because the operator Of Gorman'i
individual colliery, al Tuscarora made
reduction OF per cent III wages the
employees went on strike. No cXola.
nation Of tic reduction was ofcrcA
A tie vote i'll the recent election lot
school directors in Williams Tow
ship has been decided by tho ron.
testants, J. p. Hahn ard Forrest ko!b
drawing lots Mr.. Hahn, who is the
present secretary of the board won.
During the funeral OF Mrs. Eliza
beth Bouver at Glenoldcn, a lem 7lc
relative OF the dead woman was ,tricl;.
ell with paralysis.
Henry q. Northamer, the o.aes,
freight conductor on the Middle Di.
vision OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
died suddenly He was 90 years old
and had been "A conductor forty years
A special session Of the Grand Conf
mandery, Knights of Malta, was helt
at Lancaster. to confer the past mas.
ter's degree upon thirty-one cardi.
dates. Grand Commander Frederick
Arnold, Lancaster, and grand Record
er John Hoffman, Harrisburg, Off
ciated.
Tie County Commissioners have
granted the application OF a yearly
appropriation OF 5000 In the inter
est of the application Ellwood Rob.
erts. n. d. Kratz, John A. Wentz, J.
p Knipe, n. d. Tyson and J. B. Lar.
zelere appeared before the commits.
sioners and told of the needs OF the
society.
Philadelphia. York and Lancaster
capitalists have purchased at private
sale from the estate OF B. Yecker, de-
ceased, the Fulton Opera House, Lam
casters only playhouse. They will n-
corporate under the name of the Full
ton Opera Company, with c. A. Icck-
er, Warren b. Broome, Lancaster, and
B. c. Pentz, Of York, as the Board OF
Directors.
Donegal Chapter, d. A. R., held an
heirloom and antique exhibit at the
iris Club, Lancaster Among the ex-
hibits were: Sword. worn by Gener-
al John Steele, who was an officer Of
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rendered at Yorktown; field toilet and
Of France; miniature of George Wash
ngton, painted by peale in 1899, for
which a Masonic lodge has offered
fabulous figure; numerous autographs
Of Washington and Penn.
Fred Ausel, aged 20. and William
Frawley, aged 81, were killed in
wreck in the yards Of the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad, Oil City. The men,
with six others, were engaged in plac-
ing freight cars on the rails. when
number of cars on siding got into
motion and ran into them. Frawley
had been employed only three hours
when he was killed.
While David Fineberg. Brad
dock jeweler, was going over his
books in his store at o'clock the
other morning, thieves entered, beat
him unconscious. gagged and bound
him and carried him out behind the
building. Then they looted the store
of about $4,000 in jewelry and money,
after which they set fire to the store
The hremen extinguished the flames,
first having considerable difficulty in
rescuing Fineberg's wife and children,
who were sleeping above the store.
One thousand men were put to work
by the Sunbury division officials. in an
effort to cut course through the ice
lodged on the tracks between Sunbury
and Wilkes Barre. In many places the
ice is packed to height of thirty feet
James Russ. the Harrisburg hotc,.
keeper, who furnished food and drink
to the legislative junketers OF lSo7
who went to New York to the dedi'
:ation of the Grant Tomb, has receiver
S57s from thirty-seven Legislators anc
he despars of hearing from any OF the
others. His bill was $5oII.
The condition OF the county insane
asylum was denounced by the Potts
vile Grand Jury. The report says
mo words can convey our sense oi
the deplorable condition of these al
| fiicted ones. Their accommodations
are wholly inadequate as TO space Hnc
absolutely unfit as to character. lhf
dining rooms. wash rooms and rooms
| of common resort are a disgrace ic