The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-12-06
The KEYSTONE STATE
The Latest Peuusylvsuis News Told Ia Short
Order.

III ihN iiibt NltlllOQlSl I-DiSCODdl 1ihiNif
Shamokin. The corner stone laying of
Bethany Church, a, Green Ridge, was
observed by a large number of persons,
and opening OF the Grant Public School
building was celebrated by Lincoln Post,
No. 14o, and the Sons OF Veterans pa
rading and presenting to the school a
United States flag
On wager Of SIS L. L. Rouch, Of
Shamokin. plucked chicken OF its feath-
ers in eight seconds, and won the bet
He issued challenge to defeat any one
in Northumberland County for from SIS
10 $foo at the same game. He will give
an exhibition Christmas eve of an at
tempt to pluck seven chickens in one
minute.
The report OF Mine Inspector Patrick
c. Fenton, of the eleventh anthracite
district, comprising sixteen collieries, en-
ploying 1900 men and boys, shows only
ono fatal accident for November. This
is the lowest death list in any month
since Inspector Fcnton took office three
years ago
Roscoe Sheridan, farmer, aged IS,
living at Clifford, was found with his
rcck broken at the foot Of staircase
in a Carbondale hotel. He had taken
a load of Thanksgiving produce to town
and went to the hotel for the night. 1t
Is supposed that he lost his bearings in
The dark corridor and iell down the
steps late at night.
Three hundred and thirty-eight cases
OF contagious diseases were reported IN
Scranton during the month OF Noven-
bcr. The majority were measles. Only
nine were typhoid fever.
Thomas Harmon. Il fireman on the
Delaworc 4 Hudson Railroad, was kill
ed in the Lackawanna yard by falling
under the wheels of freight car. By
the irony of fate he met his tragic end
lust as the train was passing his home.
A freight wreck occurred at Boiling
Springs on the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad Eighteen freight cars were
demolished. Seeing their danger Engi-
neer Kaufman. of Chambersburg, and
Fireman Reed, Of Williamsport, Md,
jumped from their locomotives to save
their lives. The accident was due to
failure Of the air brakes.
The -four and grist mill owned by
Martin Moore, two miles southeast OF
Mount Joy, was destroyed by fire, en-
failing a loss of $4,000
Orders were issued by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad for the Altoona shops
to work ten hours day in the future,
instead Of nine, which was established
last Spring.
Hugh McQuilen, Pennsylvania agent
at Trenfeld, was run down by pas
scnger train and instantly killed.
A dams
cmpolye at Cresson, was killed by pas
senger train there.
John Barney Cambria Furnace em-
ploye. in Altoona, was immersed under
a splash of hot metal. He cannot re-
cover.
Two Austrians who had been arrested
by Constable Stanley, OF Hollidaysburg,
for tampering with witnesses at a court
trial, we're killed Oh the railroad al
Cresson.
Enterprise Colliery, near Sliamokn, in
which a fire started more than yeal
ago, and which was officially pronounced
out last week by w. l.. Connel & Co..
Scranton, was discovered on fire above
water level Thursday. 1t may take year:
10 extineuish the flames. The fire up
to date has caused more than 100000
loss Veins worth several million dollars
are imperled and adjoin rich tracts OF
the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron
Company.
Edna Betchtel, Cora Bicel, Mamie
Hene and Anna Kline, the four Read
ing girls who were rescued from
Bawery gang by the New York police,
arrived home. They were stagestruck
and say they went to New York to get
Jobs as chorus girls. They deny re-
port that they were. enticcd from home,
John Henderson was found guilty OF
attempting to murder George Clark,
fellow prisoner in the county Jail. The
verdict was rendered less than forty
eight hours after the commission OF the
crime, which is the record in Venango
County. Henderson attacked Clark be-
cause he turned States evidence against
him in a orsestealing case.
The Berwick Hospital Association has
received a communication from Mrs. Lu-
Gle c. Hawk, of Philadelphia, offering,
with the aid of other Philadelphia women
to establish and furnish private room
at the new Berwick hospital to be known
as the Philadelphia Room. They will ac-
cept the offer,
btOlSN JikllOlih was SdhSHl pNNNNN'
two pieces of coal in the Royal Oak
mines, near Shamollir, and squeezed so
frightfully that there is little hope OF
saving his life AT the peril OF their
own lives several mine workers rescued
him as quickly as possible
Madeira, Hill & Co., OF Philadelphia,
have purchased the stock of the Black
Creek Coal Co. from Stauffer and Rowe,
operators of the Harleigh colliery, and
assumed control December I. Madeira,
Hill & Co. have also bought Spear Point
from the Diamond Coal Land Company,
near the Harleigh, and now control over
100000 tons of unmined coal in this
tract The Harleigh breaker will be en-
larged and other extensive improvements
made to develop the mine. w. J. Thorn.
as, of Pittston, now in charge of the Pond
Creek operations, has been appointed
superintendent at Harleigh.
William Berger, Pinegroye Town
ship farmer, fell from his coal wagon
The rear wheels passed over his body
injuring him so badly that his life is de-
SPARED OF
The Republican borough committee, OF
Shamokin, decided Monday night to hold
primaries for the February election Dec
cmber I6, when candidates for number
of offices, including burgess, tax collec-
o..J ,.-ar-aar ,f ropr mill na rhnce1