The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-11-01
THE KEYSTONE STATE
The Latest PennsyIvsuIs News Told 10 Short
Order

session in Shenandoah There was
large attendance of physicians from all
parts of the county DIR. Maurcr, OF Ash
land, presided. Interesting papers were
read by Drs. Drchcr, Tamaqua; Straub.
Mincrsvile; Boone. Pottsvile, and NJ S.
Kistler, OF Shenandoah.
James Stevens. OF Scranton. FL years
of age, was whirled to instant death by
a wheel in the farmhouse at the Arch
bald mine. His body was found close
to the wheel, while part of his clothing
and flesh besmeared the interior walls.
An attempt to rob the home of Joseph
Yorsky, of Shamokin. was frustrated by
the bravery OF Mrs. Yorsky. Seeing the
man in her room she leaped from bed,
rushed to another room, got a hatchet.
and ran back to attack the robber. He
leaped through a window and escaped.
John Davitch, OF Pittston, who was lost
in the woods while hunting last Friday
and whom his friends and relatives were
mourning as dead. was found in jail in
Wilkesbarre.
As he was running an engine into the
roundhouse at Pittston, Harry Auken
stuck his head out OF the cab window,
and it was crushed between the cab and
the door of the roundhouse, killing him.
Coal and iron police have been ordered
to put stop to women and children pick
ing coal. A raid was made on large
crowd at the Hazleton, No. 3. Colliery.
Four women were arrested, and each was
fined S. by Alderman Schott. AT Pitts
ton two children were arrested by an
Erie officer and held under SIoo bail.
Superintendent c. Fl. OFT. of the Rob
crt Packer Hospital, at Sayre. has just
received notice from Mrs Mary Packer
Cummings. of Mauch Chunk, that she
has beaded to the hospital which was
named after her brother real estate from
which the income is $1,000 year
The Schuylkll County Coal and Iron
Company, which is buying extensive coal
lands in the lower Schuylkil region,
closed deal by which it acquired sew
eral hundred more acres of valuable ter
ritory The purchase includes the Silver
ton Collery, near Llewellyn.
Col. John A. Glenn. corporation deputy
auditor general, who has been critically
i'll at Mount Holly Springs for more than
two months, shows no signs of improve
meut. He is very weak. and his friends
have only slight hopes of his recovery.
An effort will be made to remove him to
Harrisburg.
Rev. G. Keller Rubrecht. OF Milwau-
kec, Wis, and Miss Nora |. Brobst. OF
Allentown, were married in Christ Lu-
theran Church by the Rev. Charles Nj.
Jacobs.
j. r. Storm, Lancaster county chick
en- raiser, was instantly killed, and Viii
liam Fordney, of Bridgeport, an engi
neer, was painfully injured in rear-end
collision near Fort Hill, on the Trenton
cutoff
Fire destroyed the residence of Chris
tian l.. King, OF Intercourse. The fam
lily became aware of the fire when par
TALLY suffocated. Mrs King had mar
row escape from death, neghbors taking
her from the second-story by ladders
The loss is $500.
Samuel A. Guldin, retired farmer
was found dead in bed at his home, near
the Yellow House, Berks county. His
death was due to heart failure. He was
So years of age and leaves two children
p. B. Eschbach, Boyertown livery
man, was severely injured by a monu-
ment which he was hauling to a cene-
terry falling upon him.
Pottstown capitalists have secured an
option on the East End Hotel at Potts
town, and the baseball grounds surround
ing, and propose to cut the property up
into building lots.
A suit for $4,000 was entered at court
at Easton by Morris Refowich, business
man OF that place, against w. 5. Lobach
The litigation arose over disagreement
as to the lease OF a store.
Fire of incendiary origin destroyed the
barns of Silas c. Snyder and Jacob l..
Erlemoyer, in the upper end of Liver
pool The live stock and part of the
farm implements were saved, but the
entire crops of the two farms were de
stroyed with 500 bushels of potatoes.
The total loss will amount to $500.
There was only $500 insurance. The
citizens OF the town formed bucket
brigade and saved the outbuldings. A
search is being made for the suspected
persons, and il is thought that they will
be apprehended, as the townspeople are
thoroughly aroused.
Emily Lee, the negro girl convicted of
second degree murder for killing Mrs.
Estella Weldon, also a negro woman,
in Scranton last March, was sentenced
by Judge Edwards to twenty years inn
prsonment in the Eastern Penitentiary.
This is the full limit OF the law
By an explosion OF gas at the Silver
Creek colliery, in the Schuylkill Valley.
Michael Connely, aged 40 years, had the
flesh literally roasted from parts of his
body and also inhaled the deadly flame,
His lamp ignited a pocket of the gas
which was suddenly encountered, follow
ing a rush of coal He died in awful
agony His widow and several children
survive.
Davis w. and Esther Baily Entrikin,
OF Kennett Square, celebrated the fiftieth
anniversary of their marriage at their
home
Thomas L. O'Connell, OF Kennett
Square, has been awarded the contract
to macadamize four snd one-quarter
miles of the public road north OF Ken
nett Square for $4,000. The work will
be done under state supervision.
The Chester and Delaware County
Dental Association held their annual
meeting and banquet in West Chester.
Several papers were read, one by Or.
I.oter, of the Pennsylvania Dental Coi-
lege. There was many members OF the
profession present.
The Keystone Farm and Machine
Company of York, has booked an order
for 6ooo corn shelters, The most OF these
are for foreign shipment.
The TOW factory and turning mill