The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-06-20
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Busch that he was persuaded TO cor
init the theft by tramp, who gave him
a watch as reward. The youthful th;s
was captured by Dilker's daughter afs
an exciting chase.
w. w. Seaman, died at his home ne,,
Nauvoo. He was a successful numbp,
man and speculatcr in coal lands Il,
located $4,000 acres OF bituminous co,l
land in Clearheld County for the Van.
derbit interests, also large tracts IN
the Pennsylvania Railway Companv
His age was So years.
Major John Weldman Mish, Treasure,
Of the Lebanon Gas Company for ffh
years, and a retired lawyer, died ct hi.
home in that city, aged 81 years. Thouet
strong Democrat, he was the first Dis.
trict Attorney of the country, having
won on personal popularity. He alsc
held other political offices and was ex.
tensively interested in industrial and
banking enterprises in the city. He wa,
prominent in Masonic and Odd Fellow
circles. He was noted pedestrian ani
headed many excursions of the Foo
GanGer Club to the Blue Mountains
| every hill of which he knew, and wher,
he maintained we'll provisioned CO..
tage for many years.
At the regular meeting OF the Borough
Council held at West Chester a resou.
ton was passed for the borrowing o.
| S25oooo for a new sewer and dispose
| plant and to make new sewer system
and agreed on July 81 as a day for the
| people to vote on the proposition.
Six Italian merchants charged with
selling cottonseed and other oils for pure
olive oil, were arraigned before Alder.
| man Brown at Wilkes-Barre at the in.
stance of R. NJ SINNERS, agent OF the
Pure Food Department Each gave
5000 bail for trial
Daniel Muninger. aged IS years, ol
Mountain Grove, is dying from starva.
ton. His Jaws are locked and he is
unable to partake OF solid foods. This
! condition has existed for some time and
his death is expected hourly.
Brooding over imaginary family trou-
bles, Henry Uhrich, North Londonerry
Township farmer, aged IS. hanged him
self to a rafter in his barn by his hitch
ing strap He was found by his wife
Trudging his way YEARLY toward the
county almshouse at Schuylkill Haven
l JOlll llOMCll, VI NldlldllAN AlANr Qlbpptu
upon the highway at St. Clair with
broken heart. the humiliation being too
much for him From a well-to-do con-
dition he was reduced to abjcct poverty
in a'few years.. He was picked up and
removed in conveyance to Schuylkill
Haven, but died at the very portals Of
the institution he had set out to reach
According to Andrew Serania's idea
of marriage a husband should have the
right to beat his wife without nterfer-
ence. He delivered himself of this opin-
ion when arrested at Mahanoy City for
presenting his wife with a pair of dis
colored eyes. The justice didn't share
the prisoners views and committed him
TO the country jail.
Mrs. Mary F. Myers, of York, widow
of ]. c. Myers. one of the men killed in
the dynamite disaster, near Pequea entered
suit against the G.. p McAbee Powder &
Oil Company, of tittsburg, the operators
of the plant which was blown up. The
widow claims $4,000 damages and al
leges negligence on the part OF the COM
pany Il is said numerous other suits
will follow.
Mrs. William H. Bowen. of Morton,
was opening bottle of grape juice and
the bottle exploded A piece OF broken
glass struck her in the eye, cutting the
eyeball in two. She was taken to a
Philadelphia hospital, where the eye was
taken out.
The Standard Scheen Works. Limited,
at Glen Rock, has passed into the hands
/ of receivers The liabilities of the COM
pany are $I7,277, and the asets $Io5oo
The Young Mems Democratic Society
of York, has elected the following ofti-
GERS: President, T. b. G. Hiestand; first
vice president, Isaac S Marks; second
vice-president, Michael Stambaugh; sec
retary, w, w. Van Baman; assistant
secretary, Samuel Kaufman; treasurer
Elmer S. Frey, and trustee, Edwin G.
Dempwolf
Rev J. B. Baker, pastor, of ST. Peter:
Lutheran Church, New York, has re-
signed to accept a call to the Lutheran
Church at Newport
Highland Lodge, No. 10, Knights Of
Pythas, was instituted at Somerset b!
Virgil r. Saylor, of Somerset, distric
deputy grand chancellor, with member
ship of 20.
During storm at Treverton, Lightning
tore the residence of Jacob Holzappe
almost apart. His wife was flung iron
her bed by the house being wrecked
SlS was shocked by the electric bolt Sc
badly that for two hours she remaineC
unconscious. One of her children mar
rowly escaped being crushed by a chin
ney collapsing.
While nearly a thousand people stoot
on the bank, Joseph Lameski, aged 20
and his cousin Sophia Laneski, aged Is
were drowned in the Little Lake, II
Westview Park, on the edge Of ALE
gheny City. The congregation OF th'
, Immaculate Heart Church was holdini
= picnic. Joseph and Sophia and anothe
r couple went boat riding. After TIM
: the men tried to change places, but up
set the skiff, and all four went into tn
water. Lake Keeper Farrell saved on
couple, but the other two did not re
: appear on the surface. The water wa
e bat FIVE feet deep, but the victims wer
: held fast by the mud A hundred men
c members Of the congregation, plunged II
t 20 the rescue, but it was an hour late
before the bodies were recovered.
John Mahoney died at his home at s.
|, Clair, aged Io5 years. He was the old
. est man in Pennsylvania. Mr.. Malone
. was also the Oldest miner in the State
. having worked most of his life beneat