The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-09-13
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lie VIII likely die. A crowd OF min.
ers. rushed at the maniac, and after
a desperate struggle tied him to
plank, and conveying him to the
surface, turned him over to the Do
lice.
Because of the typhoid epidemic
prevalent in Hamburg the opening
of the public schools was postponed
TO September 10, as a precautionary
measure against the spread of the
disease by the public schools pupils.
The authorities are now nearly posi-
tive as to the cause or source OF
the disease, subsequent to the flood
in the North Ward. In this ward so
per cent, of the cases reported got
their water at a certain well, which
since has been found to be conta-
minated.
Ricardo Forte was hanged at West
Chester for the murder of two small
Italian children in Howellsville
eighteen months ago. There was
nothing sensational in the execution.
Dominick Di Lucca, father of the
murdered children, witnessed the ex-
ecution.
The Williamsport Board of Trade
has just sent out an artistic booklet
devoted to an exposition of the com
mercial advantages, the beauties and
healthfulness of that city. 1t is a
convincing piece of advertising and
another evidence of the hustling pro-
pensities of the Board of Trade and
the citizens in general.
Amicable suits against ex-Mayor
Vance c. Mccormick and Mayor Ed
ward Segross will be filed this week
with Prothonotary Royal by County
Solicitor William II. Middleton in
an attempt to get the Courts to turn
over to the county treasurer nearly
$4,000 now in the hands of the
Harrisburg treasurer. Is is claimed
by the county commissioners that
under the act of Assembly of 1888,
Mayors, Aldermen, Justices of the
Peace and any other magistrates are
required to turn over all fines and
forfeits collected from disorderly con
duct cases to the city, but this act
was amended in 1895 and made 10
read that all of these fines and for
feits collected by the Mayors, etc,
should be turned over to the county.
Bernard Darrah, recently appoint
ed steward of the Conyngham Poor
District, must give up the position
because he has not married. 1t is
an unwritten rule that the steward
OF the district must be a married
man so that his wife may act as
matron of the institution, position
made necessary by the presence of
number of women inmates. When
Darrah took the office it was with
the expectation that he would soon
be welded, but the time in which
he was expected to take a wife has
now elapsed and he is to turn the
place over to a married man.
Fearing that his illness was in
durable, Morgan Oft, of Schoeners-
VILE, committed suicide by almost
severing his head with razor. The
act was committed in sight of his
sister. OFT was thirty-three years
old.
Chief of Police Gideon S. Lever
has suggested a punishment for
vagrants taken into custody in Abb
ington township which, If approved
by the commissioners, will be far
more affective in ridding the town
ship of tramps than the present
method of arresting them and send
ing them to jail for short terms, as
is now being done. Chief Lever sug-
gests that while such extensive road
improvements are being conductd,
to compel the vagrants to break
stone on the roads for several days
in lieu OF sending them to Jail for
ten days. The suggestion is being
warmly approved by residents of the
township. In the last few weeks
nearly a score of vagrants have been
arrested and sent to Norristown to
serve ten day terms. By arresting
the vagrants the authorities believe
they can reduce petty thievery to
minimum in this section.
Roscoe V. Madden, a conductor
accused of having caused the death
of an unknown man, by throwing him
from his street car, was acquitted at
Pittsburg of voluntary manslaughter
When the verdict was rendered Mad
den clapped his hands. wept and kiss
ed his counsel and parents. Order
yelled the tipstaves, and Madden's
father, who was seated behind the
young man, rose and precipitately
threw himself on his son, to stop the
noise. ARREST that man. said
Judge Frazen, but no one stirred.
Madden's father having by this time
suppressed the excitement. II was
several minutes before Madden could
be quieted and removed from the
court room.
Struck by trolley car as he
was engaged in game of ball, John
Scblechler, aged years, of Allen
town, was so badly injured that he
died shortly after being taken to his
home. He caught sight of his mother
and called. Don't cry, mamma, I'm
not hurt much" and then lapsed into
unccnsciousness.
Miles Gray, the Oldest Pennsylva-
mia Railroad employee at the weigh
scales, Shamokin, had his feet caught
in a rail frog and was unable to
release himself to- escape an APP
preaching train. To save himself
from being cut in half he threw
his body clear of the railroad. His
feet were so badly crushed they will
have to be amputated.
DR.. c. C. Boyer scored athletics
and high school societies in an ad-
dress at the Reading teachers insti-
tute on the ground that they rule
the schools. I'm America" he said,
individuality in children has be-
come rebellion run riot. Obedience
to authority is discarded by the girl
and boy. In Europe obedience Is