The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-04-06
The KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News Of Pennsylvania Told in
Short Order.

at Cniol station, Harrisburg, has
been placed on the retired list.
Miss Mercy Shugg, OF Tamaqua,
ieli III front of a moving passenger
train and would have been killed
were it not for Watchman Daniel
Derr, who dragged her aside.
The match has been applied to
Keystone Furnace, of the Reading
iron company after six months idleS
ness. This is one of the largest fur,
naces in the Schuylkill Valley.
Because of i'll health, Constable
John l.. Fisher, OF Lebanon, has re-
signed his Office. Fisher was tried
last fall for the murder of City So(
hcitor j. Marshall Funck, but was
acquitted.
John Eckles, lineman. was works
ing ON fiity-ioot pole in front OF tho
post office at Altoona, when he grasp1
ed live wire. A blue fame came
from his body, while he slowly swung
loose from the wire and fell dead to
the pavement.
The Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical
ASSOCIATION, whose headquarters arc
in Lancaster, is making efforts to in.
crease its membership in order ia
combat perncious bills in the Lcgis-
lature reXt year President w. o,
frailey has appointed eastern and
western committees on membership,
the chairmen OF which are Joseph d,
Remington. Philadelphia, and Louis
Emanuel, Pittsburg.
The dwelling occupied by S. H,
Myers, near Quarryville, was Destroy
ed by fire. The family narrowly
escaped death, fleeing from the build.
ing in their night clothes. The loss
is $4,000.
Revenue Collector II. T.. Hershey,
OF the Ninth District, has begun an
investigation among the cigar manu-
facturcrs in an endeavor to find those
who have shipped goods to the West
which bear no factory number, district
or State, nor date of cancellation on
the stamps. Such goods have been
seized in Ohio.
Chester county now has eighteen
township high schools, more than any
other county in the State.
While Samuel Tobak was attending
a horse sale at Norristown a stranger
entered Tobak's wagon nearby and
drove away.
Ground has been broken for tho
erection of the new St. Stephen Re.
forme Church i'll Eberton. Henry
Gable presented the lot to the con-
gregation.
While playing with cartridges, at
Doylestown, Russell and John Dimm,
young sons of ]. c. Dimm, wera
severely injured about their faces by
an explosion.
Walter Eagans, who is charged
with committing all assault upon his
I3-year-old sister, Ethel, at Norris
town has been arrested in Llanerch,
Eagans denies that he committed tho
assault.
Judge Johnson has granted a rule
TO show cause why the Office of Super<
visor in Springfield Township, to
which William II. Lownes was res
Gently elected, shall not be declared
vacant. Mr.. Lownes failed to file his
bond within thirty days, as prescribed
by law.
Duffy's Island, in the Susquehannah
River, opposite York Haven, which
suffered severely during the recent
ice movements, will again be used
for the cultivation of tobacco. Tho
soil has not suffered in the least One
hundred acres will be devoted to tho
cultivation of tobacco during the COM
ing summer.
In the appeal of John ]. Nocton, to
set aside the ordinance OF the Borough
OF Norristown vacating portions OF
Strawberry Alley, near his place OF
of business, in order to construct the
new Pennsylvania passenger railway
station, Judge Swartz has handed
down an opinion dismissing the ap-
peal. Judge Swartz holds that inas-
much as the plaitff's property did
not abut on the vacated portion he
had no case.
Opposition to the appointment OF
Rev. ]. B. Coleman to the Mount
Hope Methodist Episcopal Church has
The new pastor preached
on Sunday Nand was warmly well
coined.
Thieves visited the homes of Rev
Afford Kelly and Recorder of Deeds
Walter X. Hibberd, at Frazer, and
stole vituals from the Hibbard refrigf
orator and new overcoat at the KeE
ly domicile.
While leaning out of a second-story
window, Howard Boyer, of Chester,
aged years, slipped and was in dams
ger of falling out OF the window when
his 3-year-old cousin, Edgar Melvillel
grabbed his feet and held him until
Mrs. Boyer appeared.
George Fancourt, of Kingston, com.
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the head. Fancourt had sold out his
florist business and on Tuesday the
family were TO depart for Spokane,
He had an attack o
but was known to have no
other trouble.
One of the large stones in the tank
furnace at the Spring City Glass
Works slipped out of position and the
molten glass began running out. II
was necessary to call out the fire de,
partment to cool the furnace SO thai
repairs could be commenced. Ovei
one hundred hands are thrown out OF
employment.
At the Palm Sunday conhrmatiop
services in the churches of the Bcthle
hens the number of persons admitted
to church membership reached nearly
five hundred.
A dispute has arisen concerning tho
new law doubling the number of mine
inspectors in the anthracite region and
requiring their election by the people,
A successor will be elected to Williap
Stein this year. He is the only in>
spector still serving by appointment
but his friends now assert that Stein's