The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-14
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der intended to burn the girl to death.
Discovering that she was alone i'll
the house, the robbcr choked. her into
insensibility and dragged her into the
dining-room. Then he ransackcd the
house, collecting hnery, silverware and
jewelry in bag. He then saturated
the clothing of the unconscious girl
with oil and piled paper and rags
around her. Before he applied the
match, Frank Ross, a brother of the
girl, came home from school, kicked
at the locked door, threw his books
on TIE porch and went downtown. Be
lieving help was at hand, the robber
fed out the back door without any
booty. The girl was still unconscious
when discovered.
The chief veterinarian of Pennsyl-
vania, DR.. Leonard Pearson, with a
Government veterinarian, DR.. Shauf-
Ter, OF Philadelphia visited stock yards
near Lancaster to investigate the ORR
gin OF Texas fever in Lancaster
county. The inspectors learned that
;he disease has found its way to Leb-
anon, Barks and Chester Counties.
That infected cattle were at the local
yards is not denied, and they have
been thoroughly disnfected and there
is no fear OF further contagion.
Mrs. Nina Virginia Cooper Dyer,
wife OF William Ashmead Dyer, cash
ier of the Cambridge Trust Company,
and daughter of Assemblyman Thomas
V. Cooper, OF Media, died in Chester.
Mrs. Dyer was 27 years of age and
was well-known in society. She was
registrar of Betsy Ross Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolu'
ton. She was married on June 7,
1902, the wedding being attended by
many prominent people, including Ad-
miral Schley.
a woman in black" who has alarm.
ed the west end OF the town of Norris.
town, has turned out to be man mas.
querading in female attire. He haunts
dark alleys and seems to delight in
arousing cries of fear from startled
women. One woman resolved that
she would not be chased, but wher
she saw her tormentor's trousers. she,
too, ran. The cries of the distressed
woman attracted several men, who
gave chase to the prowler in black
but he escaped up an alley.
The new Capitol Commission met
at Harrisburg. Supervising Engineer
Green, Architect Huston and Contrac.
tor Payne all positively assured the
commission that the Legislature halls
and the committee and clerks rooms
will be ready when the Legislature
meets in January. The commission
ers inspected the building and were
convinced that the assurances were
well founded
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has notified the foremen OF its
shops in Harrisburg to make large
increases in their forces imme diately.
1t is expected that all OF the men who
were furloughed in June will be or
dered to report for work. The COM
pany is now working ten hours day.
with a Saturday half holiday in all OF
its Harrisburg shops
After suffering greatly from the in
cursions of variety OF evildoers, Es-
sington has now been menaced by in
cendiares. An attempt was made to
burn the house OF Christian Walz. A
motorman OF a Southwestern trolley
car saw the flames and gave the alarm.
Neighbors organized bucket brigade
and succeeded i'll extinguishing the
flames.
There is marked improvement in the
coke trade at Connellsville, and every
indication suggests that the trade will
assume normal conditions within few
weeks. The total production last week
was IoI 900 tons, and the next weeks
output will run considerably over the
100000 mark. More than 1000 ovens
were placed i'll operation last week.
Out OF 23,257 ovens I6,2IS were active
and 7o39 idle.
His clothing catching in betting in
the Conshohocken Woolen Mills, Mi
chael Cecil was whirled around the
shafting, and when an arm was torn
out of the socket he was hurled across
the room. The other arm was frac-
tured, as we're both legs. He died
soon after being taken to hospital.
While playing ball at Weissport,
David Snyder, aged 50, exerted him
self greatly in order to reach second
base. When he succeeded in reaching
the base he fell dead on the bag from
heart failure.
Otto Traub, a driver on the wagon
of a Chester Heights bakery, was
held up by men and women from one
of the boat houses along Darby Creek.
and, after being robbed of all the
money in his pockets, the bread and
cakes in the wagon were stolen and
taken to a boat house. Traub was de-
livering bread in the vicinity when
two men and two women halted him.
While the men rihed his pockets the
women looted the wagon of its con-
tents. The holdup is the third that
has occurred in that vicinity during
the past three weeks.
Major w. G. Speck. OF Carlisle, was
reelected major of the Eighth Regi-
ment by the commits stoned officers.
The summer home Of the Phladel-
phia Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton, on Dwight Farm, Downingtown,
has been closed for the season.
Judge Isaac Johnson, at Media,
overruled motion for arrest of judg-
ment and motion for a new trial in
the case of John Wilson, Jr., of Ches-
ter, convicted of selling adulterated
milk.
The farmers of Montgomery Coun-
ty have enjoyed three nights sleep
without the theft of horse. Eight
horses stolen within ten days is the
record for the last count No part
of the county has been immune. Hard
ware stores did a big business in
supplying extra latches, staples and
locks.
Joseph Devln, IS years old, Of