The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-05-10
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Latest Newsof Pennsylvania Told in
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baptisms and accessions OF members in
the local churches.
The sheriff has seized the Nazareth
Canning Comany's plant at Easton on
an execution in favor OF X. + Messin-
ger and others for $1,000.
Thieves ransacked the homes OF l.. l..
Kreider, Susan Kreider and Isaac Sheaf-
fer, in Wilmer Money clothing and sl-
verware were taken.
Fire destroyed the large barn OF Albert
Adams, at St. Lawrence, including crops
and ten cows. James Mcknight. tramp
has been arrested on the charge of hay-
ing set fire to the barn.
The proposed trolley route from
Doylestown TO Perkasic has been sur
vcycd and all rights Of way secured.
The San Jose scale has destroyed
peach orchard OF more than 500 trees
on the farm of Jesse Naylor, in Sole
bury Township.
The iifty-ffth annual commencement
OF Bushnell University will take place
June 70 to 2I DR., r. p. Johnson, OF
New York city, will deliver the address
on Tuesday afternoon Of commencement
week.
Oil fever has struck the town Of Hob
bic and vicinity Oil has been found in
well on Isaiah Mayors farm and as
a result land owners dream OF becoming
as rich as Rockefeller.
The court at Reading ordered the new
trial OF Samuel Grcason, charged with
the murder of John Edwards, to take
place at the June sessions of criminal
court In all probability he will be
acquitted after having been condemned
TO be hanged for over two years There
is no one to testify against him now
The Greason and Edwards murder cases
have thus far cost the county about
$4,000.
ID. +. OFT, carriage manufacturer OF
Wind Gap, has sued William Geoghegan,
slate operator, OF the same place. for
5000 damages, alleging that Geoghegan
alienated the affections OF OTIS wife.
Owing 10 an illness which affected his
throat, Boyd Davis, II years old of Will
Transport, was unable to talk above 4
whisper for two months. While playing,
Ralph Whitehead slapped Davis on the
back with considerable force. Davis
choked for a moment, drank some water
and then discovered that he could talk
as well as ever
Deputy Attorney General Fleitz has
notified DR.. Leonard Pearson, secretary
Of the State Live Stock Board, that the
State will pay for cows killed when suf-
fering from tuberculosis only when the
animals are condemned by an agent OF
the board.
An extensive fall Of rock shut off the
escape OF four Polish miners in the Phoe-
nix mine, OF the Lehigh Valley Company,
at Duryea. A rescue band was organized
and by circuitous route through aban-
doned mine passages, reached the en-
tombed men, who were huddled in a
corner of their chamber, uninjured.
Curwin Heidelbaugh, 10 years old, OF
Plcasureville, accidentally ran pitchfork
through his foot. l.ockjaw set in and
he died
The contract for the erection OF new
township High School at Morgantown,
Berks County, has been awarded for
$o25o. A meeting OF taxpapers has been
called TO protest against the award, It
being alleged ;hat the price is too high.
A movement to remove the county jail
from Penn Common, the Reading city
park, to point in the county has taken
definite shape. A committee of the Board
of Trade, OF which Mayor Gerber is
chairman, has appointed subcommittee
to confer with the county commissioners
on the city's right to the ground occu-
pied by the prison.
Walter Urban returned to Register
Herb, OF Pottsville, a marriage license
which he had taken out last February.
He Immediately secured another license
to marry Miss Helena Andrix. After
securing the first license he and the
woman whose name appeared on it had
a disagreement and the wedding did not
take place.
A committee OF Wilkes-Barre City
Councils has recommended that the "Os-
Ter ordinance" prohibiting the appoint
ment on the police force OF any man over
40 years of age, be repealed. This would
permit Mayor Kirkendall to appoint John
Clifford chief OF police. He is over 30
and the Council recently refused to sane
ton his appointment
Five armed highwaymen robbed Martin
Cubic, of Maltby, of 5000 and compelled
him TO walk nearly three miles in advance
OF their revolvers until they reached the
place where they wanted to leave him.
George f. Payne & Company, contrac-
tors for the new Capitol, have assured
the commission that by August 1 they
will comfortably house in the new edi-
flee all departments of the State govern
ment, with the exception OF the Execu-
tive, Auditor Generals and Treasury de-
partments The granite work on the ex-
ieror will be completed in two weeks,
and the marble work in the rotunda and
corridors in four months, while the
dome is now ready for the terra Gotta.
The will of Mrs. Sallie A. OFT, pro-
bated at Easton, after making few
small bcquests, leaves the remainder OF
the estate, valued at about $I5oooo, to
her son, DR.. Isaac OFT, of Easton 1t
provides that, should DR.. OFT die without
issue, the money is to be used to endow
a chair in the Medico- Chrurgical Col
lege, Philadelphia, to be known as the
Grace OFT chair" DR., OFT is now con-
nected with the faculty OF the college.
William H. Snowden again appeared
before the County Auditors and argued
against allowing the item of$o,4oo.2o
paid by the commissioners TO Emil
Swensson as engineer for the State
bridge over the Lehigh at Allentown.
His contention is that the fee must be