The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
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to John f. Donovan for $6S,100.
Spreading rails on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, near Danville, caus-
ed eight cars, loaded with coal, to
leave the track and topple into the
river.
A mine fire. which was started
| thirty years ago in a mine branch In
the Sharp Mountain, above East Mt.
Carbon, has started with new vigor
and 1t sends forth sparks and
| tongues of fire like volcano. The
Philadelphia & Reading Coal G. Iron
| Company owns the land upon which
the old mine is located and will take
steps at once to put out the fire.
Trying to escape from a mine
chamber at the Burnside colliery,
near Shamokin, Anthony Delshant
was killed and Dominick Dolsota fa-
tally injured by fall of coal.
Jacob Jacoby, aged 81 years, of
lGaston, died in his room at the Mt.
| Vernon Hotel, having been asphyxi-
! ated by gas, which escaped from
| heater in his room.
Rev. Geo. II. Miller, who has been
pastor of the Pottstown Landing Re-
formed Church for the past ten
years, rendered his resignation to
Church, Fayette, N. Y. A meeting
of the comsistory of the church was
held Mt which the resignation of the
pastor was not accepted, and he was
prevailed upon to remain. Rev. Mr..
Miller is president of the Philadel-
phia Chassis of the Reformed Church.
1t is believed by the Chester Po-
lice that Augustus Andrews, the
young man from Phoenixville, who
refuses to tell how he was injured
Monday night, was stabbed while
trying to hold up two Italians. He
has been detained under $500 bail.
James O'Malley was convicted in
Pittsburg of holding up and robbing
two men in the East End district re-
Gently and sentenced to serve twenty
years in the Western Pennsylvania
Penitentiary.
Annie Shut, 10 wears old, a mark
or, employed in the Cumberland
shirt factory, Mt. Carmel, got her
hair caught in the machinery and
the top of her scalp was torn off.
She had crawled under a machine
to get a bobip that dropped, when
her hair caught in a revolving shaft.
Many girls tainted at tho horrible
sight and a panic ensued in which
several were slightly injured. The
injured girl may die.
William Cole, aged 2S, contrac-
tor, at Patton, died on the Pennsyl-
vania Limited, while being taken to
a Philadelphia hospital for treat
ment. He was very i'll when placed
on the train at Altoona. and the
conductor at first refused to admit
him.
Robbers entered the home of Alex
ander Stiney. a wealthy contract
miner, of Shenandoah, while the
family was absent and rarsacked the
house. Two gold watches, several
rings, SIS in cash and a quantity
of silverware were taken.
Two young women, giving their
names as Mary Dougher and Mary
Hoska, were committed to prison by
Magistrate Gillespie, of the North
Scranton police precinct, to answer
charge of highway robbery, pre-
ferred by two little girls who charg-
ed the prisoners with having held
them up and robbed them of their
pay envelopes. The little girl, Mar
garet Jones and Margaret Smith,
went to the police station at 7 o'clock
and complained that two women had
stopped them at the corner of Brick
Avenue and Putnam Street and took
from them their pay envelopes, con-
tanning S6.45 and S5.46 respectively.
Both girls are employed at the Klotz
Silk Mill, and were on their way
home. They gave d good description
of the women and early next morn
ing, Miss Dougher and Miss Hoska
were arrested at their homes.
The Eastern Pennsylvania Rail-
ways Company has decided to build
a new trolley branch through Miners
VILE and out to Lytle and Primrose
This will cover about a dozen miles
and will tap a territory populated
by some 5000 people.
Harry Luton, of Colwyn, who
miraculously escaped being killed in
an automobile smashup at Point
Breeze race track, in which his COM
panion was instantly killed, is slowly
recovering, and now it is though that
he will pull through.
Benjamin Schofeld, aged 61 years
member of the G. A. r., and vet,
eran of the Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry, died after
months illness at the residence OF
his daughter, Walnut Street, Darby.
George Miller and his wife, an aged
couple in the service of DR.. F. X,
Straessley, of 621 Washington Street,
Allegheny, were found dead in a room
over the physicians stable, having
been asphyxiated by natural gas
which escaped from the stove while
they were sleeping. 1t is supposed
that In turning off the Illuminating
gas when they retired at night the
heating valve was accidentally turn
ed on allowing the gas to escape In
to the room.
Mayor Dimmick, of Scranton, will
permit sacred concerts by Bauer's
Band at the theaters on Sunday
nights IL the program is strictly
sacred. There must be no jig tunes.
Somebody has written a letter to the
Mayor asking If Waiting at the
Church" will be considered as sacred
music. No decision has yet been an
nounced.
Running ahead of his train to
throw switch, William Siefert, aged
10 years, of Hellertown, brakeman
at the Bethlehem Steel Works, Slip
ped and fell on the rails and the To-
comotive speeding along cut him to
pieces.
DR.. w. w. Cottingham, of Easton,