The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-11
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them farewell They endeavored to cheer
her up, but she insisted the end was
nigh Al the stroke Of II she passed
away. Consumption was the cause OF
death.
Mrs Elizabeth Snyder, in court az
Pottsvile, charged her husband, Frank
Snyder, with having attempted to poison
her, but the jury acquitted him. Mrs.
Snyder charged that her husband de-
posted a quantity OF poison in her cup
OF coffee on the. evening of November
I8 last white she was upstairs, where
She had gone at his request to get his
tobacco When she same downstairs,
she said, she heard the rustic Of a paper
IN his hand and saw bubbles in her,
coffee cup, which aroused her suspi-
cions Fearing TO drink the coffee, she,
kept it for examination. DR.. Charles,
II. laval, OF the Philadelphia College
of Pharmacy testified to having found
in the coffee twenty grains Of copper
sulphate and fifteen grains of tartar
emetic, or antimouy DR. A. II. Hal
berstadt, of Pottsville, testified that the
quantity OF poison was sufficient to prove
fatal If retained in the stomach
I. NJ. Betz has been appointed post
master at Rupert
A house belonging to Albert Schnee.
at Mt. Pleasant Mills, Snyder County,
was destroyed by fire, entailing losa
of $1,000
A derrick fell OH Edward Bright, az
the Cruise Kemper Company's works.
Amber, and broke both his legs. One
of the legs was amputated.
The Snyder County School Directors"
Association, at its annual session elect
ed John Y. Shindel president and p
Scott Ritter secretary.
Rev. A. S. Aiken, pastor of the Lower
Chanceford United Presbyterian Church,
Airville, has completed the thirtieth yeaf
Of his pastorate at that church.
The York Board Of Health will ask
the City Council for $4,000 to wipe our
its Indebtedness, establish new DEPART
ments, increase salaries and pay its run-
ming expenses during 1905.
The prison inspectors of Northamp-
ton county passed resolutions calling
the attention OF the County Commis-
sioners to the crowded condition of thu
prison and asking that the structure
be enlarged.
Although the freshmen of Susquehan-
ma University worsted the sophomores
in the annual flag scrap the sophomores
turned the tables by stealing away TN.
noticed to their annual banquet, held in
Williamsport
A bitter fight is being made TO ouss
Prof. p. II. Bridenbaugh, former pres.
ident Of the State Poor Directors Asso-
ciatior, from the almshouse Stewardship
in Blair county. His opponents are III,
S. Wertz and Tradeus Lngenfelter.
Thieves entered the Pocono Inn, .
large summa boarding house estab-
lished by members of the Society Of
Friends in Philadelphia, and stole a
quantity OF bed clothing. Recently two
other hotels in the Poconos were ram
sacked
AT the funeral of David Fahs, who
was engaged in charity work in York,
letter which he wrote on November 4,
1859, was read. In this letter he said
he consectated his life to the Lord
Upon the envelope was written: Thin
letter is to be read at my funeral, and is
not to he opened until them"
The report of County Auditors X. r
Trauger, X. Monroe Stout and Ezra
Michener shows that Bucks countys
total expenditure for the past year was
ST4o,o5o.57, or $I6,2o5o3 in access OF
the previous year. The balance in the
treasury is $5So3.Io, with an outstand.
ing indebtedness of $4,000.
George A. Depue, of Easton, has COM
menced suit to secure $TT,3Ss damages
from Upper Mt. Bethel Township for
injuries received and losses sustained
on August 25, 1904, when a bridge in
that township collapsed beneath his au-
tomible precipitating him to the bed Of
the creek, twenty-five feet below
An unidentified Slav employed by III.
5. Kerbaugh & Co., railroad contractors,
engaged in constructing the Pennsyl-
vannia Railroad Company's grade
freight line was shot and killed at Cole
by II. A. Klensing, of Cum
berland County, who was in charge OF
the firms commissary department at
that point. Klensing. it is asserted,
went to the hut occupied by the Slav.
who was known only by numbsr, to
erect partition in the building. An
alteration followed and Klensing
pulled revolver, firing at the foreign
er. The bullet struck the man in the
head After the shooting Klensing
disappeared. Papers found in the
shanty show that the dead man has a
wife and six children in Russia. No
one in the foregn colony of the rail-
road workers can identity the dead man.
Professor Benjamin W. Frazier, a
member of the faculty OF L.ehigh Uni
versity, died at his home in University
Park of paralysis. He became sick
while crossing on ferry from New York
to Jersey City, and soon after boarding
the train for South Bethlehem became
unconscious, remaining in that condi-
ton until his death. Prof Frazier was
born in Philadelphia in IS4I and III 1850
was graduated from the University OF
Pennsylvania. He then studied abroad
Tor several years. He was appointed to
The chair of mining and metallurgy at
Lehigh University in 1871 since which
time he had been connected continuous
ly with that institution. At the time
of his death DIR. Frazier was professor
Of Mineralogy.
Frank Grim. so years old, an timer
ant photographer, was frozen to death
on the street in Hanover. His body
was found in the snow.
A Woman who said she had travelled
TO Chester from Austria in search of het
husband, who deserted her some years
ago caused the arrest of Alof Monika,
who She says is her husband She says
that when she went to the house where