The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-04-25
THE KEYSTONE STATE
The Latest PennsyivsnIs News Told Ia sh.,,
Order.

Mrs. Henry Noldy, aged o5, who wa,
totally blind for many years, fell down
stairs at her residence in North Scran.
ton, and broke her neck.
Miss Florence Townsend, of Kimber.
ton, and Miss Sophia Steese, of Noun,
Springs, students at the State Normal
School at West Chester, were badly
burned i'll the laboratory BY an exposio5
OF nitric acid, but neither is seriouslv
injured The young women were exper.
rlentng with the acid, when the rotor,
they were using suddenly exploded and
the acid was thrown into their faces
1t is feared both will be badly Scared
One of Miss Townsend's eyes is injured
Rev. A. w. Brownmillcr, pastor Of
the First United Evangelical Church
Lebanon, broke ground tor the erection
of $4,000 church and parsonage
Members of the Women's Sewing So
ciety filled the first cart with ground
taken from the excavations and the work
was continued for three hours by a
score OF male members of the congrega-
ton. The young men will work nightly
on the excavations until the work is
completed. Each evening refreshments
will be served TO the workers by tho
women of the congregation.
As he entered the Philadelphia &
Reading station at Girardville the other
night Michael Klatch, track walker
Of Mahanoy Plane, was hoored by
vicious dog, which leaped upon him. Be-
fore the animal could be driven of
Klatch lost his nose and goodly por-
tion of the upper lip, which were torn
off.
The San Francisco disaster has a
direct bearing on the interests OF at
least one town in northampton County.
DR.. Irwin Bachman, president of the
Standard Cement Company, with Offices
in the Crocker Building, San Francisco,
arrived in Easton with a number of Cali
fornia capitalists Wednesday to begin
work on a 100000 cement mill to bo
erected at Friedensthal, a stones throw
from Belfast Junction, along the slate
belt trolley line. The output of this
mill was 20 be about sixty carloads Of
cement a day, surprising the combined
output OF all the mills in the Nazareth
district News of the earthquake has
halted the Caifornians from perfecting
arrangements for building the plant at
this time. Dr. Bachman owns mills at
Napa Cal, and quite a colony of Eas-
ton and Northampton County people is
out there operating them. A telegram
to Dr. Bachman said all were safe and
the mills running.
Seven tnen were injured, two fatally,
by an explosion of powder in the Hazel
coal mine of the Pittsburg, Buffalo Co.
On their trip into the mine, one of the
men carried a quantity of blasting pow
der wrapped in a paper The fame OF
his lsrlp came in contact with the pow
der and an explosion resulted. The
injured were all foreigners
The general officers OF the National
Guard of Pennsylvania have decided 10
hold the division encampment at Gettys-
burg on July 2I2S next.
Captain Hiram Meyers, a Civil War
Veteran, who fought in all the famous
battles in Virginia and whose company
led in the first charge at Petersburg
is dead at Bangor, aged II years. He
was one of the founders of the Grand
Army of the Republic, was member
OF Sedwick Post, No 1, New York,
and when U. S Grants body lay in state
in City Hall, New York, was one of
the guards surrounding it.
A gang OF safe-crackers entered the
post Office at New Holland the other
morning, cracked the safe. stole consid-
earble money and stamps and got away
with their booty. When Postmaster John
Roland entered the post Office he found
the. place in topsy-turyy condition and
the safe looking like lot of Junk. The
cracks at the safe door were sealed
with wax and nitroglycerin was used as
an explosive. The plunder secured is
valued at $50. The robbers were cvi-
dently not adequately provided with tools
for the shop of Lloyd Eberly, plumber
was entered and a number of implements
stolen. The bran store of Mr. Gunzen-
hauser, in the borough, was also forced
open and bale of hay taken, presuma-
bly, for horse feed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Peters, mother of Z.
p. Peters, owner of the Peters House,
at Bushkil, is dead at the age Of 81
years. Mrs. Peters and her husband,
who died some years ago, first developed
the village as Summer resort, over
fifty years ago
Civil Engineer Began, running line
at Dornsfe, eleven miles west of Shamo-
kin, in an agricultural district. They
would not state for whom they were
working. II is believed they are em-
ployees of the Wabash Railroad, and
that the line will pass through the Ma
hanoy Valley from Pitsburg to New
York
Recently John Reklaits, of Shamokin,
missed $35 in greenbacks from his bed
tick, where he kept it, prior to placing
it in bank. He kept a strict watch,
and finally was rewarded by seeing rat
emerge from hole in the room and
make its way to the tick, from which
it extracted some straw and carried it
to the hole. Rekatis soon found his
missing money in the rats nest.
AT the annual meeting of the Allen
town fire police, retiring captain Irwin
J, Bachman was presented with hand
some gold badge These officers were
chosen for the ensuing year; President,
A. K. Ross vice president, H. ]. Stuber;
secretary, L. A. Adams: treasurer, Ed
ward Bartholomew; captain, s. o, Reich.
ard; leutenants, James McFadden
Harry Bowman and Charles Stonebacle
Ground has been broken for the new
synagogue >of Kenescth Israel Congre-
CATION, to be erected in Allentown.
Howe breckenridge of Mckinney
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