The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-07-06
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News Of Pennsylvania Toll in
Short Order.

Counties are alarmed by blight ~
the grain, the like of which they
never before saw. Fields which ap.
pear to be in splendid condition on
close examination are found 10 CON
tain heads of dead wheat in profusion.
The affected wheat heads have the ap.
eesrance of being prematurely ripe,
and inspection shows that they are
shriveled and hollow. 1t is asserted
oy experienced farmers that large
percentage of the heads are dead.
The Cecil Rhodes Scholarship Com.
nittee OF Pennsylvania. at a meeting
IN Harrisburg, selected Thomas Ellis
Robins, of Philadelphia, a graduate
of the University of Pennsylvania, for
he. the three years scholarship at
Oxford University, England. The
Competitors for this scholarship were
w. Pohins. Sidney l. Watts, Pitts.
burg; Richard Mott Cummere, Haver.
ll.i., 4n1 Dertal Leigh Alexander,
New. Wilmington. The committee
consisted Of Presidents Harris, Buck.
n,n; Sharpless, of Haverford Col.
lege; Crawford, of Allegheny Col.
lege; Provost Charles c. Harrison,
University of Pennsylvania.
We'll. if she is happy, I'm sure ]
uhtt iNihaI hNu hOlIlSOll MIC
kenna, wealthy member of the Nc
kenna Brass Manufacturing Com
pany, of Pittsburg, when told that
his hancee, for whom he had furnished
handsome home, had married an
other man. Miss Charlotte Martin
was a school teacher. She has been
engaged to Mr.. McKenna for some
months and they were to have been
marie during the week. Last winter
Miss Martin met William Hamilton,
q member of Michigan hockey team,
while it was playing in Pittsburg. The
acquaintance ripened into love and they
were married. They are now at the
bridegroom home in Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich.
-Four men disguised as white caps"
and dressed in women's clothes kid.
mapped George Frick at his home in
a suburb OF Pottsville, and taking him
to promontory at Goat Hill placed
a rope about his neck The other
end Of the rope was thrown over the
crossbeam of a trolley pole. The
men were about to string up Fricke
when policemen arrived and rescued
him. 1t is alleged that Fricke had
paid no attention to repeated warm
ings sent him by the white caps"
A feeling of decided animosity pre-
walls among the farmers of Monroe
county against the "red devils" and
other varieties of automobiles that
have invaded the county with the COM
ing of the summer visitors. The auto,
however, had everything its own way
until this week Morgan Hibbard, OF
Philadelphia, and Albert Rhoades
while riding in their automobile over
took two farmers riding in a farm
wagon on narrow road and request
ed the farmers to allow the auto to
pass. The farmers refused and for
two miles the young men walked"
their machine. Finally the patience OF
the two Young men in the auto was
exhausted and one of the young men
jumped out of the auto and turned
the horses aside. In the fight that
followed the farmer thra shed Hibbard
severely. drawing blood
State Treasurer Mathues' statement
for June shows a balance of $I3,685,.
326,o7 in the general fund of the State
Treasury at the close of the months
business. During the month Mr.
Mathues added the following institu.
tions to the list of repositories;
Charleroi Trust Company, Charleroi
$4,000; Farmers Trust Company
Carlisle, Ssoooo; Halifax National
Bank, Halifax, $4,000; Union Ma.
tional Rank, Summerville, $25,onoi
Yough National Bank, Connellsville,
S25 5000. Mr. Mathues also withdrew
the State deposits from the Anc-ni
Savings Bank. Pittsburg; First Ma.
fial Trust Company, Pittsburg.
D;ttchuy, eeIDN1 tao,1are
cured over 10000 signatures to theif
ries. The blanks have been in circus
lation three weeks, and it is expected
that the number will be increased to
90 900 before the end of next week.
Several hundred teachers are working
in behalf of the movement.
A locomotive boiler exploded on
the Pennsylvania Railroad while the
train was going up the mountain fifty
yards from Ehrenfeld Station. killing
three men and injuring two others.
George Faust and Miss Sarah Sher.
man, lovers, were attacked on the
street in Mahanoy City, by frienzied
Italian and seriously stabbed. The
young woman sustained long wound
across the back part of the neck and
Faust lost part of his left ear in trying
to shield her. The couple believe they
were mistaken for others. The for
eigner escaped.
During the progress of severe elec.
trical storm at Lancaster lightning
created panic at the residence OF
Joseph Cohn, where large number
Of persons were assembled attending
the funeral services OF COINS dauGh'
ter. The bolt came down the chimney
into the room where the funeral party
was assembled, passing out through
an open door. A number OF persons
were severely shocked and Cohn was
badly burned about the neck.
The family of Harry B. TAYLOR,
retired hardware merchant of Chester
narrowly escaped being poisoned. A
domestic mistook drug for vanilla
flavor and used it in making ice cream.
Discovering her error later she rushed
into the dining room. shouting, Don't
eat the cream, it's full OF poison" She
was just in time, for the family had
reached the desert course.
Phillip Stufflet, aged 3o, was killed
in the tool-grinding room of the Nc.
Clintie Marshall Construction Com.
pany's plant. Pottstown, when an em-
erv wheel burst and fragment struck
him on the head.
While Mrs. ]. B. Scott, wife of
prominent farmer, of near Finland,
was driving to the Finland Creamery
she emit in the roadway monster
black snake. Escape from the mon.
eter beinO almost homeless she de.