The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-03-29
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News Of Pennsylvania Told in
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While talking with his wife and Mich
| ael Gruber about the sudden death OF
| Kew David Earbinson. DR.. William {.
Detwier, q dentist was stricken with
paralysis Of the heart at his home in Eas
ton, and died in few minutes. lie was
II years old.
Mrs Henry Schooley, of Kingston, is
7 suffering from broken bone in her
foot She has been in the habit OF sit
ting, on her foot and believes she broke
the bone in that way.
Oscar Knorr aged 70 years, Delaware
County's Oldest printer is dead. While
setting type in the Norwood Sentinel"
office he was stricken with paralysis and
was rendered spcechless. lie was re-
moved TO the home OF his daughter, Mrs.
North, at Glenolden, where he died
shortly aftcrward.
Sixteen cases OF diphtheria are re-
ported in the village of Intercourse and
two death have occurred.
Patrick O'Donne was sent to the
Berks County Jail charged with robbing
Jacob Dry, Douglassville farmer. Dry
says that he gave employment TO O'Don-
NELL who was a tramp, and that O'Don-
nell stole So from a child's bank and
Dry's best suit OF clothes. O'Donnell
dseapmed, but was arrested at Port I'm
ION
A cave-in occurred on the public road
two miles west Of Mt Carmel "A
cemetery is situated alongside the road
at this spot, and it is feared part OF it
viii sink into the mines
n.t... ...1
OF MiddlcseN Township. were arrested
charged with forging the name Of Mrs
Meatzcr to- S}oo note, cashed by l. w
"e;zoA Anthony was committed to jail
and OC'er entered bail.
District Superintendent NJ. 4. Coombs.
OF The Carnegie Steel Company an
noanccs that the Greenvillc plant OF the
company would resumc as soon as the
machinery couid be put in order The
mil. has been idle year.
John Stavcr was held in $500 bail for
trial charged with assaul;ing John Dan
Eo and smashing his cornct Dauko is
member OF ST. Johns Band, Of Hazlc-
ton. Ii IS said that rivalry due to their
attentions 10 a girl caused trouble be-
tween the mcn.
Dcspondent because OF continued ill.,
ness Charles I. Trout. aged so years,
Junior member of Girardvllc drug
gist firm committed suicide at the home
OF his brothcr-in-law, Dr. w H. Rob
inson, OF Pottsville, by shooting himself
with a revolver
A. I. Duffy, OF Scranton, chairman of
the Grievance Committee of the union
railroad firemcn on the Lackawanna
system, has been appointed inspector of |
safety appliances on railroads by the In |
terstate Commerce Commission.
At the sale OF the property OF the late
Richard Finney, at Cornwalls, upward |
OF thousand persons gathered the ma
lority to see the accumulation OF relics.
many century old. Old gold and silver
watches were sold by the dozen. Stocks
OF flint lock guns and pistols sold for a
mere song. a good price was received
for gig in which it is supposed Wash
ington once rode.
Wild ducks in great numbers are now
appearing in the Susquchanna River at
Columbia, but sporismen are unable te
shoot them owing TO the high water.
Flocks OF wild geese are also appearing
on the river.
After being idle for three years, the
Duncanvillc iron works, owned by the |
United States Steel Corporation, is to
resume operations this week, giving en- /
ployment to 500 men.
After several attempts to end his Lie,
Calvin Shultz, a bachelor, 43 years old, |
Of Reading Township, has succeeded |
Three weeks ago he cut his throat, and |
physicians saved him by inserting a tube |
through which he breathed. He was re- !
covering when, during a mental abcrra.
ton, he removed the tube from his throat |
and death resulted
w. r. Wilcox, OF West Fairyew,
Cumberland County, who tasted sixty .
days to get rid of Indigestion, says mJ
will start on April to walk from Nsal
York TO San Francisco, Cal ssf
United States Commissioner of Cor
porations James Il. Garfield has ap-
pointed Attorney p. T. Kicullcn, OF
Scranton, his special agent 10 I.acka-
wanna County Mr. Klcullcn has ap-
pointed John T. Brown, also Of Scranton,
as his assistant, and will at once begin
to investigate conditions as 20 corpora
tions in this vicinity
4 caye-in over an abandoned mine is
causing much damage at Clarridgc, a
mining town. A church and three stores,
with their contents have been wrecked
while two other houses are gradually
sinking into the mine forcing their oc-
cupants to vacate The people of the
town fear a further cave-in that will
swallow up other buildings
A Grange OF the Patrons OF Husband
ry has been organized in Fremont, by
Organizer c. II, Dildne, OF Columbia !
County. This is the only grange in
Snyder County.
While returning on freight train
from a visit TO his brother-in-law, Viii
liam Hinklc, in Lebanon, William Gar
rett, Pottstown boilermaker, fell from
the train at Douglassvile and was killed.
A petition is being freely signed by
the residents Of Prospect Park asking
the Philadelphia, Washington & BaIh-
more Railroad officials to replace the
present wooden station with a stone and
brick building.
DR.. l. c. Gable, medical Inspector Of
York County has made his final report
on the smallpox outbreak in several
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