The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-05-03
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while on his way home. Later Alex
ander Weed, who had been in Mr..
Shades employ for several years, also
fell dead.
The Lancaster police are searching
for Miss Mary Brock, aged So years,
who disappeared from her home a week
ago.
In an endeavor to save her 4-year-old
son from being burned to death, Mrs.
John Neff, OF Lancaster, was badly
blistered on the hands and face. The
child's clothing caught fire from blaz-
ing pile of brush The mother beat out
the flames with her hands before the boy
was badly burned.
Joseph Novitgy, employed at Morea
Colliery Mahanoy City, unlocked the
gates and stepped into the shaft, ex-
pecting to find the cage there The cage
was not there, and he fell 100 feet and
was killed.
a big rally was held by the Patriotic
Order Sons OF America camps OF Scran-
ton and vicinity in the Thirteenth Regi-
ment Armory, at which the principal
address was made by Clarence f. Huth,
former national president of the order.
Byron Clarke, the new Mayor OF Car
bondale, has directed his chief of police
to keep all drinking places in that city
closed on Sunday.
An electric pole fell on r. II. Nissley,
superintendent of construction OF the
York & Windsor Electric light Com
pany at Red Lion. His leg was badly
broken and he was otherwise seriously
injured.
While Tony Doris, aged IS years, of
Glen Carbon. was watching damp pow
der which was being dried in bake
oven, several other boys threw lighted
matches upon the powder. 1t flashed
up and Doris was badly burned. He
was taken to the Pottsville Hospital.
Albert L. Eckert, OF East Strouds-
burg, head OF the Citizens Committee
that asked for an investigation of the
East Stroudsburg State Norman Schools
affairs, has returned from Harrisburg,
where he went to find out the cause
of the delay OF the report OF the invcsti-
CATION. MIR. I,ckcrt says that there is
to be no sidetrackine OF the report, anil
that it will be given out for publication
as soon as it is completed.
After hearing evidence for nearly hall
day, and deliberatng fourteen hours,
the jury in the case OF Lehgii County
against former Clerk of Quarter Sessions
Oscar P. Werley, returned a verdic for
the county for SSoS.o2. The case was
the outcome of sur-chargc OF $II02.29
by Auditor Stuart for the accounts OF
1908. The system OF bookkeeping used
in the Office was the cause OF errors and
charges for clerk lire were said TO have
been exorbtant.
Under the will OF the late Jacob L.
Stcllman, wealthy resident OF Littz,
the following charitable bcquests were
made: $4oo to Hess Mennonite Meet
ing House; $500 each to St. Paurs L.uth
eran Church, Lititz the United Birth
rem Church, Warwick, and $Ioo to the
Lutheran and Reformed Churches, OF
Kissel Hill.
The largest barn in Maxatawny Town
ship, Bcrks county, on the farm of Win
field Delong, was destroyed by fire, with
sixteen cows, thirteen sheep and a lot
of farm implements, hay and grain. Loss
$4,000.
The champion snake killer in the Per-
kiomen Valley for this season is Oswin
Venting. Of near East Grccnville, who
with his stable fork succeeded in killing
fourteen snakes, which he discovered
in den. They measured from fifteen
to thirty-six inches i'll length,
The most profitable COW in Berks coun-
ty is owned by William Stoudt, of Mt.
Pleasant. During the past year she gave
1866 pounds of milk, and realized prof
it Of $S253 for her owner.
While John Miller and Harvey and
Oswin Mcschtcr were unloading car
of bran at Palm they found dead alli-
gator several feet in length. They also
discovered meerschaum pipe valued at
SEQ.
In honor OF his 5oth birthday ami
vcrsary, Rev. DR.. Washington Roberts
Laird, pastor OF the First Presbyterian
Church, West Chester, was presented by
some friends with an envelope containing
SIoo.
Under the direction of the Chester
Valley Came Protective Association,
William f. Lockwood, Jr., and George
Jacobs, of Glenloch, have turned loose
in the woods and fields of that section
number of quail purchased in the South.
Richard Gray Parke, OF West Goshen,
has also released number of quail in
the ncighborhood of his big farm.
Hamburg. farmers in the potato
belt of Berks and Lehigh Counties are
disposng of their surplus stock OF pota-
toes at 20 to IS cents bushel, or one
fifth of what they realized a year ago
Diphtheria in the hous, OF Jacob Wal
lick, of York, has caused the death of
his three children.
The Sterling Collicry, Shamokin, op-
Grated by the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company, resumed opera
tions after an idlcness of FIVE months,
giving employment to 900 men and boys.
The mine had been shut down for re-
pairs.
The Penn Tanning Company and the
Elk Tanning Company, two OF the larg-
est companies of the United States
Leather Trust, will merge their interests
and the main Offices will be moved from
Sheffield to Ridgway. The Penn Com
pany by this merger turns over thirteen
tanneries to the Elk Company, and the
latter will have jurisdiction over forty
seven plants, in Forest Warren, Nc
Kcan, Potter and Elk Counties.
At the annual meeting OF the congre-
eotion of the Reformed Episcopal Church
OF the Sure Foundation, West Chester,
the pastor, Rev. Euclid Phillips, rendered
his resignation, 10 take effect in three