The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-10-11
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whisky from the defendant. When the
bottle was produced in court the con-
tents had disappeared. The detectives
denied that they drank the rum.
Three men are now in the Easton Jail
and the mystery of mapy burglaries all
through the Lehigh Valley, as we'll as in
Bucks County, along the North Penn
Road, is cleared up. The men are lr-
vim Derr, William Bierman, arrested
last week and William Leibensbergers
captured at Allentown. Since the ar
rest of Bierman, County Detective john
son has been pling up evidence against
the men and they all confessed. They
committed sixteen burglaries in all.
Lebensberger served in the Spanish
American War and was at Saa Juan
Hill
A negro woman giving her name as
Elenore Banks and her home, Whining
ton, n. c., has greatly excited the negro
population of Chester by declaring that
the world will end in few days.
The private car used by General Man
ager W. w. Atterbury, of the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad, and which figured in the
Paoli wreck, was taken to Altoona for
repairs. 1t was found to be so badly
damaged that it was sent to the scrap
heap and burned.
Mentally unbalanced by reason of ner-
yous troubles, Thomas Emmt Dixon, a
newspaper man of Altoona, shot him
self through the heart at the home of his
sister in that city.
Anna Archer, of Coatesville, who was
found guilty on the charge of larceny
and sentenced to serve one year in the
Chester County Jail, attempted to COM
NIT suicide by hanging herself with a
rope made out OF the bed clothes in her
cell.
While cunning for squirrels Harry
Roth, of Chestnut Hill, Lehigh county,
was shot in the leg by his son and am
putation will be necessary.
Allentown's business men have organ
lied a chamber of commerce with Daniel
Walker as president, and will inaugurate
a systematic plan to boom the mercan-
tile and industrial interests of the city.
John Shick, aged 90 years, of Red
Bank Township, Clarion County, while
in attendanc, as juror at a special
term Of coIrt, was stricken in the jury
box and has been unconscious since. His
recovery is doubtful.
Urias Leaman, of Lancaster, track
walker employed by the Pennsylvania
Railroad, was struck by train mile
east of that city and killed
While Patrick Gibbons and four as
sistants were cribbng in a chamber at
Indian Ridge Mine, near Shenandoah,
tenton rock skipped out of the top, cut
the lamp from Gibbons cap and caught
Martin Klennovich under its weight,
some loose rock preventing it from crush
ing him to death. Clothes were torn
from the other men,
As a punishment for running away
from his home in Mahanoy City and re-
naming on farm for several days, Jo-
seph Zukaw, Q years old, was led captive
through the street by his father Thurs
day. The father tied a rope around the
boys waist and compelled him to walk
behind carriage.
After being on strike just twenty-four
hours the 500 or more employees of
the Morea Coliery near Pottsville, op-
Grated by the Dodson Coal Company re-
turned to work. The disputes which
caused the strike were all satisfactorily
adjusted.
After a desperate fight along the canal,
near Muncy, William Pursley and Ed
ward SINNERS, coal and iron policemen.
Of ShamokinJ captured Martin Lawles
and John Shultz, suspected of having
robbed several stores in this place.
Auditors George Meyer, d. w.
Hughes and Charles Dunkelberger, of
Mt. Carmel, have decided to bring suit
against the school board because the
latter refuses to pay them SII apiece for
auditing the accounts of the district.
At meeting of the vestry of ST. Bar
nabas Episcopal Church. Reading, Rev.
William Emory Henkell was unanimous
ly elected rector. Mr.. Henkell is un-
married, native of Pennsylvania, and
is a graduate OF Lafayette College, Union
Theological Seminary, New York Divin-
ity School and has just returned from
course of lectures at Oxford University.
Efforts to find the grave of Mrs. John
Casper Erb in the old cemetery of the
Swamp Lutheran Church, at New Han
over, resulted in Sexton John Schneider
finding the burial place of Rev John
Frederick Geiger, former pastor, who
was buried ia years ago.
Deputy Revenue Collector Charles +.
Frias, of Norristown, served notices on
the members of fourteen social clubs
that they must obtain charters from the
county courts and also take out internal
revenue licenses if they want to avoid ar
rest for the sale OF liquor.
Hearing noise in her chicken pen at
night, Mrs Fletcher Lyons, "A 7o-year-old
widow, living north of bloomsbury,
opened the rear door of her house to as
certain the cause. Instantly there was a
report OF gun and Mrs. Lyons fell to
the floor with load OF shot in her face
and neck. Her assailant disappeared in
the darkness The aged woman is suf-
fering severely from the wounds and
shock, the latter making her recovery
doubtful.
Thieves displayed unusual activity in
different sections OF Lancaster county the
other night, as many as ten different
houses being robbed Near. Akron the
residence of Ludwig Arnold was entered
and two gold watches and $40 in money
taken. At Mountville and vicinity the
residences of Frederick Copeland, A. B.
Fisher, H. S. Bnkley, J. NJ Fridy, d.
+. Copeland, c. II. Heidler, John III.
Carter and B. F. Hendricks were en-
tered, but little of value was secured
Kennett Odd Fellows Lodge, of Ken
nett Square, has elected the following
officers to serve for the year: Noble
Grand, George Donaldson; vice-grand,
Charles H. Pyle; treasurer, ]. Pennell
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