The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-10-18
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Elmer Long and Peter Dowd, Coal
Township Commissioners, returned to
Shanokin from Harrisburg, being as
sured by the State Road Department
that a macadamized road will be built
from Paxmos to Shamokin, a distance
of six miles.
Fire in the home of tax collcctor A.
l.udewick, at Frecand, damaged the
building and furniture. The loss is
$1,000 Heroic work on the part of fire.
men prevented the fire from spreading.
The Taxpayers Association of Lu-
cerne County has commenced action
against the auditors of Pittston Town
ship to compel them to publish an item
lied statement of the receipts and ex-
penditures OF the public school directors,
treasurer and tax collector OF the town
ship, which they had refused to do.
Mrs. Joseph Savin, of Nanticoke, fled
from her home because her husband,
who had been acting peculiarly for some
time, took saw to bed with him and
threatened to saw her to pieces. The au-
thorites took him to an insane asylum.
DR.. Arthur J. Wilson, City Bacterio-
logist, has reported that the water OF the
wells in Scranton is better than it might
he expected In only one case out of
100 was typhoid bacteria discovered.
Before Justice Morgan the first suit
Of the Borough of Shamokin to recover
mouey from the property owners due for
street paving was heard John p Ma
he- was the defendant. Judgement for
$40 was entered. This is the first Of a
series of suits to be filed.
John d. Gill, of Greensburg, Prohbi-
ton candidate for Justice of the State
Supreme Court, filed in the State De-
partment a formal notice of his with
drawal. A meeting OF the Prohibition
State Committee will probably be called
to nominate candidate to take his
place.
Reports received by State Fish Com
missioner Meehan from all sections OF
| Pennsylvania show that the present bass
| season is the best in ten years, and that
the trout season was the best in thirty
years
Gusseppi Lonizzi, an Italian, who was
to have been married to Theresa Pact
tari, at Steelton, disappeared few hours
| before the time fixed for the marriage
and is still missing
J. Sutton Wall, Chief Draugitsman OF
the Internal Affairs Department, and
four assistants left Harrisburg for Erie
to make a survey OF the shore of Lake
Erie to determine the point which was
the western terminal Of the old boundary
line between Pennsylvania and New
York.
Governor Pennypacker honored a re-
QUESTION from Governor Higgins for
the extraditon Of Edward Carney, who
is wanted at Buffalo, N. Y, to answer
a charge of being pckpocket. Carney
was arrested in Harrisburg during the
Old Home Week celebration.
The new home of the Rescue Hook
and Ladder Company OF St. Clair was
dedicated
The annual donation day at the Home
of the Aged and Inirm Deaf at Doyles-
town netted the institution $I87.o5.
While picking apples Albert McCarty,
of Bucksville. fell from tree and frac-
tured his colarbone
Because he fell on an icy pavement and
permanently injured his hip, a jury
awarded Henry Clemmens $1,000 dam
ages against the city OF Reading.
John Kosct, a young Hungarian was
killed at the Bethlehem Steel Works.
Christian Nixdorf, 70 years old, of
Lancaster was fatally injured by the pre-
mature explosion of brass canon,
which he, with other old veterans, was
engaged in discharging along the route
OF the G.. A. R. parade at Myerstown
He was struck in the breast by the
breech block of the canon, which was
blown off.
Robert r. Koch, of Philadelphia, who
sued Edward Semmel, of Easton, for
$4,000 damages because of alleged SLAM
der, was given a verdict of $Ioo. The
allegation was that Koch had been called
crook by the defendant
A train of eleven heavy freight cars
dashed down steep grade on siding
and crashed into Luckenbach's grain ele-
yator in Bethlehem, doing considerable
damage.
Susan J. Cunningham, professor OF
mathematics and astronomy, and Eliza
beth Powell Bond, dean of women, have
returned their designations to the faculty
OF Swarthmore College, to take effect
at the end OF the current year
The Waynesburg Southern Railroad
Company, capital $4,000, was chartered
by the State Department to build twelve
miles of railroad in Greene county.
Zembo Temple, Ancient Order OF the
MOBILES of the Mystic Shrine, Harris
: burg, celebrated its first anniversary at
its temple by taking in fifty novices. A
banquet followed, at which lllustrious
Potentate Harrison Dingman, of Wash
ington, was the principal speaker
The jury of inquest impaneled by Cor
oner King in Royersford to hear evil
dence in regard to the fatal wreck at
Aramingo rendered an accidental verdict
and did not place the blame on either of
the train crews.
Excelsior Temple, No. %, o. of N. A.,
celebrated the third anniversary of its
founding by banquet.
Residents of Spring City have pro-
tested to Manager Corbin, of the Mont
gomery and Chester Street Railway,
against allowing cars with fiat wheels
to run on the line.
Henry Kane, negro, was arrested
near Obey Line on suspicion OF having
murdered John Carter near Chester last
month. Kane had been under surveil-
: lance for some time He denies knowing
anything about the murder.
Department Attorney General Fleitz