The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-09-13
The KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News Of Pennsylvania Told b.
Short Order.

Carlisle, has made an assignment in
bankruptcy.
Joseph Meyer, well-known Wayne
Township farmer, died at his home of
general debility, aged 81 years.
Joseph J. Kehler, tax collector for
Eldred Township, near Pinegrove, has
rendered his resignation
Lewis Clces, of Montoursvile, aged
27 years, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head.
Mrs. Eva Gray, widow OF the Rev. E.
J. Gray, former president of Williams
port Dickinson Seminary, died while un-
going an operation.
The borough council Of Kennett Square
has refused thc>Tequest OF the Chester
County Gas Company 10 lay their mains
in the streets OF that town
Watson Lomms was lodged in the
Berks County jail for the alleged theft
| of Jonathan Strausser's team Of horse
and spring wagon.
Cyrus Becker well-known farmer of
Spring township, near Reading, hanged
himself from rafter in his barn. He
was so years old and left large family.
L. l.ockert, OF Aloway, ~ J., has pur-
chased OF J Herbert Smith. Hotel Poll
lock, in Doylestown, for a consideration
not made public. The transfer will be
made within a few days.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians of
West Grove have decided to erect a fine
new building The first floor will be
used as a fire engine house and the Sec
ond floor will be used as a meeting place
for the society.
The total valuation of Reading real
estate has been assessed at S48o33,4S5.
The personal property valuation is S1o4,-
o75 and the poll tax $4,000, making
total revenue from the ten mill tax rate
$500, 10000.
Edgar o. II. Richards, OF Easton,
aged years, son of f. J. Richards, treas
urer OF the company, pressed the button
which started the machinery in the
Northampton Silk Companys new mills.
Fifty thousand dollars have been invest
cd.
The Chester County court has granted
4 temporary injunction restraining the
Avondale, West Grove Oxford Trolley
Company from building a bridge over
the tracks OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
near Bakers Station, between Avondale
and West Grove.
S. II. Kratzer, Of Newberg, accom-
panied by his two daughters, went into
the mountains near the Buckhorn, to pick
berries Sadie, aged 10 years, tread
among some bushes and angered rat
tlesrake by tramping upon it. Instantly
the snake wrapped itself around her right
arm and she screamed. Her father came
running. Seeing the reptile about to
strike, he seized it by the neck and beat
its head off with a club. The snake
measured 9 feet and had ten rattles.
Upon returning from work, Patrick
crnon, of Cronshocken, found mis-
three months old infant, Alice, cold in
death from suffocation during the night
The child had been smothered by the
covers on its cradle becoming disar-
ranged, the mother sleeping soundly in
bed by the side of the cradle
Richard Davis, aged so years, was in
stantly killed in the mines of the St.
Clair Coal Company by fall of coal.
Two foreign laborers escaped with slight
injury.
Children playing along the tracks OF
the Lancaster & Quarryville Railroad
found the mutilated body OF Maris Clark,
4 farmer of Providence Township, lying
in ditch near Hess Station. The mans
neck and limbs were broken, and il is
evident that he had been hit by a train
during the night while walking on the
tracks. Deceased was 63 years CT age
and a veteran of the Civil War.
Lewis Ludwig, in this country only
two weeks, was struck and killed by
Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train at
Mocanaqua The shrieking OF the whis-
tie confused him,
An unknown man was seen lying on the
street car track at Wikes-Barre and res
cued just in time to prevent car run
ming over him Half an hour later, at
the same spot car killed him.
Ex-Sheriff A. F. Mogel, OF Berks
County, voluntarily paid $500 into the
County Treasury as fees received while
in Office He proposed to test the salary
law to decide whether he is entitled to
$4,000 or $1,000 year.
After an idleness OF three years the
Eleanor Iron Works at Holidaysburg
are 10 be placed in operation October I.
Employment will be given $50 men, The
immediate cause of the resumption is the
improvement in the iron market.
Clarion County fishermen are becom-
ing greatly agitated on account OF the
death of the FISH in the Clarion River
by the action of the chemicals from mills
The river banks are lined with dead FISH
in some places, and many are seen float
ing down the stream.
The Bucks County coroner's jury IN
an inquest over the body OF Samuel
Small, who was killed by being struck
by an engine on the Philadelphia q
Reading Railroad, at Rockhill, exoner-
ated the company OF all blame. but recon-
mended that the grade crossings be
cleared of bushes.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is expert
menting with a powerful magnet in its
South Altoona foundry plant. The mag
net will lift two ton, and is used to
carry castings, the magnetism being sup
piled by electricity, which, when shut off,
releases the object carried.
Frank Iklesburg, 20 years old. who
was ARRESTED at Tamaqua on the charge
OF the larceny of horse and carriage,
at Norristown, was held without bail
by Burgess Roberts, of the latter place.
The team was recovered at Coatesvlle
where il had been abandoned. lkle-
burg resided at Bridgeport.
Ex-Congressman NJ H. Kulp, Of Sha-
mokin: ex-Judge r. II. Koch, OF Potts
ville and William Pascoe, OF Allentown
drove from Shamokin 10 Treverton and