The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-10-11
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OF Penn Township, was shot and
fatally wounded by some person who
escaped without being detected.
whether the boy was mistaken for
wild animal by some hunter and
shot or wrether he was shot for
taking the chestnuts is not known.
John Rider was driving along the
public road and saw the boy lying
under the tree. He went to see
what was wrong and found his body
riddled with shots, and cuts and
bruises sustained in falling from the
tree. He was unconscious and died
at o'clock without regaining con-
scfousless. The tree was along the
public road and not far from the
boys home and although there are
houses every half mile no one heard
the shot or saw any man with q
gun in that vicinity. 1t is the belief
that the boy was mistaken for
wild animal and shot by a reckless
hunter who, when he saw what he
had done, feared the consequences
and ran away before he was seen.
The authorities are making an inves-
tigation.
According to information gather
ed by County Detective Johnson,
James Fisher, the supposed tramp
who died in the Easton Hospital on
Labor Day, was not stabbed by ne
groes, as he said in an ante-mortem
statement, but by two chums with
whom he had been travelling. Fish
er's real name was James Carney
and his home was originally in either
Rhode Island or Massachusetts. He
was an old-time safe cracker. In
1898 or 1894 he did time in the
New Jersey State penitentiary for
burglary in Union County. At the
time he was brought to the Easton
Hospital he wore a pair of costly
sleeve buttons. Tramps do not, as
a rule, wear that kind of jewelry
and Detective Johnson decided to
learn where they came from He
found that they had been stolen from
safe at Railway. The men with
whom Carney is supposed to have
been travelling were "Amboy Red"
and Elizabeth whitney," safe blow
ers. 1t is believed that Carney had
fight with them and that one of
them Struck" him.
Mrs Mary B. Shaffer, the oldest
woman in Somerset County, and one
of the oldest in Pennsylvania, died
at her home after a weeks illness.
Her age was 95 years and months.
She lived all her life in Somerset and
witnessed the development of the
county from the Indian habitation
to the present time.
Coal companies all through the an
thracite field are complaining about
the scarcity of men, especially those
qualified to work in breasts having
a high pitch or in ''robbing" pillars
This kind of work is generally per-
formed by English-speaking miners
John A. Miller, of Washington
Township, a school director doing
time in the county prison for embez-
lement and graft was permitted by
Court to attend the funeral of his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Catherine Schneck
The latter died at the age of rs
years. Miller was accompanied by
Prison Warden p. ]. Mulholland.
The Delaware Water Gap Council
granted the right of way through tho
streets of Water Gap to the Strouds-
burg and Water Gap Trolley Com
Dany. Work will now be pushed.
The road will prove q great conven-
ience to Summer boarders.
The Mount Holly Paper Company,
located at Mount Holly Springs, went
into the hands of receivers. The
Court appointed Charles H. Mullin
and James A. Stsee receivers under
bonds of 100000. Inability to
realize on the large stock on hand, it
is said, caused the suspension. The
company operates two immense mills
and is one of the largest industries
in this State. The company was in
corporated. in 1867.
After an illness of several weeks
Councilman John c. Lockman died
in the Chester Hospital following an
operation. He was an engineer by
trade.
Martin Fahy, so years old for
thirty years an engine man in the
employ of the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road and known to everybody along
the line, dropped dead at the station
in Mauch Chunk. He had Just step
ped off his engine to oil up when
heart failure ended his life.
One big black bear was killed and
another badly crippled in Clinton
County on the opening day of the
season. Andrew Wilson, of Lock
Haven, shot and killed 400-pounj
bear, on Rattlesnake Run, in the
upper end of the county, which will
furnish steaks for many of his
friends for some time to come
Bruin was caught unaware foraging
along the stream and was killed be-
fore he had chance to put up a
fight. Charles Allabach, of Far
randsville, the champion bear hunter
of the county, started out Monday
loaded for bear. He selected Ferney
Run as his battle ground. He espied
an old bear and two cubs at a dis
tance and endeavored to sneak up
to them. The old bear saw him
coming and he was forced to fire at
long range. The charge took effect
and the bear was badly wounded
judging from the loss of blood but
she got away. The cubs also es-
capped.
While William Hoffa, n boy, was
riding on an elevator in Shamokin
livery stable he was caught by a
piece of timber and crushed to death.
John Berger. of Shamokin, did not
move when his mother called him to
go to work Wednesday morning.
She went to his bedside to awaken
him and found him dead, probably
from heart disease.
While about to say grace at his