The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-09-05
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Latest News Cleaned From Various
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until a month ago was actively at
work in a machine shop. He was
the father of former Burgess Wash
ington S. Roger.
Three mine workers, John c.
Green, Stanley Franckofski and Au-
gust Koakowski, were so severely
turned by an explosion of gas in the
Auchingloss Colliery, near Wilkes.
Barre, that their recovery is doubt
full.
A runaway coal train on the Penn.
sylyania Railroad at ShamoSin col
lided with three empty cars, COM
pletely wrecking one and demolish-
Ing part of the locomotive. The crew
escaped by jumping.
Jacob Harshbarger, charged with
the murder of Tom Jaun, the Aus
trian peddler, was acquitted in Lewis
town.
The Phoenix Bridge Company has
been awarded the contract for build
Ing the bridge across the East River,
connecting New York city with
Brooklyn. The center span OF the
bridge will be 1470 feet long and
the two side spans 1875 feet.
Fred Haupt, Boyd Meyers and Will
liam Miller, of Bellefonte, were given
hearing before a justice of the
peace, charged with killing fish by
the use of dynamite and were sent
to jail for six months.
Mrs. Maria Rudy, a resident of
Hilltown Township, Bucks County,
for 40 years, rode in a steam car
Wednesday, for the first time in her
life.
Inc Eastern Pennsylvania Rail-
ways Company, embracing all of the
trolley lines in that part of the State.
including the system of the Potts
vile Union Traction Company, has
awarded contracts for extensions and
reconstructive work aggregating ST.
5000
The Reading Railway Company is
changing the lettering on its cars.
All freight and coal cars and ca
booses are being inscribed "The
Reading" instead of philadelphia
and Reading" as formerly. The
name is placed under a large black
diamond.
Farmers in the Northern section Of
Chester County have become excited
over the finding of rich deposits of
graphite on the farm of Samuel
Neeley, near Coventryville. Four
shafts have been sunk on the farm
The prices of the farms have advanc-
ed.
The Merchants Protective Asso-
citation has taken the initiative for
the formation of a substantial and
permanent Board of Trade. 1t is
proposed to secure the names of at
least 200 citizens who will contrib
ute 81 per month for that purpose
and at the same time inaugurate a
vigorous movement for greater
Hazleton
With the clerk of the courts at
Pottsville, A. B. Garner. of Ashland,
Republican nominee for the Legis-
latuer in the Second District, filed,
under the new law, his nomination
campaign expenses, 500 registration
fee and 65 cents for postage of CAM
paign cards, which he had printed
without cost.
Mrs. Leah Kaufman, young
bride, was found dead by her hus-
band headforemost in a spring of
water in the cellar of his home at
Elysburg. Kaufman had been alb
sent from the house for some time
and returning could not find his
wife. Instituting search he discov-
cred her body in the water Hastily
extricating her he sought to resusci-
tate the woman, but was unsuccess-
full. How she met death is un-
known. 1t is thought she wanted
a dring of milk, a crock containing
the latter resting alongside the
spring, which is narrow and deep.
She evidently became unbalanced and
fell in, becoming wedged in the
small space and slowly drowning.
Mrs. Kaufman was one of the most
popular and esteemed residents of
that region. Her husband is almost
crazed over the unusual sud Ten end
mig of what virtually was the honey
moon period.
Citizens of Fernwood have sent a
petition to Congressman Thomas S.
Butler. entering remonStrance
against the efforts made by the resi-
dents of East Lansdowne to have
the postoffice moved from Fernwood
to their town. The postoffice has
been located in Fernwood since 1871
and scores of people residing in
Fernwood have written personally to
the Postotfice Department at Wash
ington, praying that the proposed
removal man not take place, setting
forth that it would prove exceeding
ly announcement for the people of
Fernwood to be compelled to walk
to East Lansdowne.
There is rumor that the Read
ing Railway Company may complete
that portion of the Allentown Rail-
coad between Port Clinton and Kutz-
town. This road was surveyed and
partly built years ago. Bridges were
built and the piers for the bridges
across the Maidencreek at Virgins
Vile are still intact. A fine stone
bridge was erected near Hamburg.
but when the Lizard Creek Branch
of the Lehigh Valley was built the
project was abandoned. The line
starts at Port Clinton and It is said
that If the Reading had this line
today it would be a great convenience
in the handling of coal and freight
to points east and north.
At attempt to wreck the north
bound passenger train on the Blooms
burg and Sullivan Railroad was
| made near Forks A rail had been