The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-29
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was caught under a fall of coal at
the Midvalley Colliery, near Mt. Car
mel and was instantly killed. Mr..
McAndrews was a member OF the
Conyngham Township School Board
and was one of the most popular men
that ever participated in politics In
that township.
a trolley car OF the Chester Trac-
tion Company's Media division was
derailed opposite Chester Park Thurs
day morning. Six passengers were
on the car and they were all thrown
with considerable force against the
sides of the car One of the passen-
gers Mrs. Jemima Gallagher, of Tod
morden, was seriously injured. She
was removed to the Grocer Hospital.
Spreaded rails caused the car to
leave the tracks
The will of Mary X. Wood, widow
of the late William Wood, of Consho-
hocken, was probated in Norristown
Thursday. The estate is estimated
at 100000 and over. She gives
The mansion in Conshohocken to her
daughter, Mrs. Annie w. Perot. Os
the residuary she gives one-half alb
solutely to her daughter, and the
other half in trust of her grand
children of a deceased daughter, Han
nah j. Jones.
Lansford is threatened with a
typhoid fever epidemic. Eight cases
have been reported. The Lansford
town Council empowered the Board
os Health to employ nurses and do
every thing possible to stop the dis
case from spreading.
1t is reported in Harrisburg that
the various State hospitals are seri-
ously hampered by lack of funds for
maintenance, caused by high prices
of food and materials. 1t is claimed
that the per diem allowance for each
INDECENT patient is entirely too small
under present conditions and that
there is a scarcity of people to act
as attendants, the wages paid in other
fields of labor being more attractive
at present. Under the present sys-
tenn the insane asylums maintained
by the Commonwealth receive a maxi
mum of So a week from the State
and S1.75 from the county for the
care and treatment of each INDECENT
patient. Out of this fund the patients
are fed, clothed and furnished treat
ment and the salaries of the super
intendent and attaches and the ordi-
paid At the present rate of living
it is no longer possible to do this on
S3.75 a week. and the next Legisla-
ture will be asked to increase the
appropriation for the care and treat
ment of the INDECENT insane so as to
bring the allowance up to at least
$4.25 a week.
II. c. Sheedy, OF Scranton, attempt
aI oftnr hn:nO arrested f0I
drunkenness by swallowing a quarter.
following it by fifty-cent piece as
chaser. He still lives to regret his ex-
travagance.
Poor Director Jacob Hollenbacb
made a formal demand on the County
Commissioners and Controller Liv-
ingood for $1S75 salary, AT the rate
of $500 n year, for the last five
months of 1906 and the first ten
months of 1906. This is thought to
be a preliminary to a test suit to
be instituted in behalf of the three
directors, whole salaries have been
held up for over year by the Coun-
ty Controller on the ground that they
are not $500 G year, but $12O.
Charles Renner, aged 63 years, a
scion of German nobility, died at the
He had lived in Altoona twenty-five
years and never to his closest friends
did he reveal his past He was cul-
tured, refined, scholarly and polished
and earned living teaching music
until excesses reduced him to strait
, ened circumstances. His closest
friends believed that 1t was 4 love
affair which drove him from his
native country. However, they were
never able to penetrate the mask
which he kept continually over his
past life. Poverty could not obscure
the gentle breeding. After he was
moved to the county homo three
years ago he was made clerk TO the
steward. Friends saved the body
from burial III Potter's Field and 1t
was inferred in Fairview Cemetery,
Altoona.
Crazed by financial troubles, Dan
iel Becker, a Bern Township farmer,
who had been missing for several
days, came home and drove out his
wife at pistols point Then he
amused hemself by shooting up the
house, blowing out all the window
panes. The shots set one of the
room afire. When found by officers
Becker was taking walk in mill
dam. He was committed to Jail.
Work on tho construction of the
trolley line between Altoona and Bed
ford has been started by the Altoona,
Hollidaysburg & Bedford Springs
Electric Railway Company Presi-
dent Frank G. Patterson stated that
the contractor for furnishing poles
is distributing them along the line,
and that the erection of the poles has