The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-15
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.


started in the Proth0notary's othce
at Allentown by Miss Katie Hart
man of Macungie, against DR.. o. X.
Hopes, of Tamaqua. Miss Hart
man is 20 years old and asks for
$4,000 damages. She allages that
DR.. Hopes began courting her eight
years ago, and in last February, for
no reason, ceased his attentions. On
March he was married to Miss
Sue Brode, and is now practicing
dentistry in the coal region.
Alleging great mental distress and
physical suffering, Mrs. Harriet Low
ry has entered suit for $4,000 dam
ages against four women who hazed
her at her East Sandy home several
days ago. The defendants are Mrs
Verda Lowry, a sister-in-law; Mrs
Nellie Glaze. Mrs. Bertha Grigman
and Mrs. Hulda Pherson. The plain
tiff alleges that the women came to
her home, daubed her face with stove
polish and then gave her a coat OF
molasses and feathers. When Sher-
if McElhinney went to East Sandy
to serve the summons he found that
the four women, having learned OF
his coming, had left for the hills.
They remained In hiding for several
hours and until the Sheriff had taken
the last train back to the county
seat. The women say that the good
name of the town demanded that
Mrs. Lowry be driven from IL, and
that they adopted the hazing method.
A number of freak election bets
were paid in Reading Wednesday.
On Oley Street a young woman dress
ed in the lightest and flimsiest of
Summer clothing was hauled dozen
times up and down the street In a
wheelbarrow by young man. On
Walnut Street, young woman set
tied wager by publicly kissing
man dozen times.
That the Uniontown e. Wheeling
short line, the road projected from
Wheeling to Uniontown by j. v.
Thompson the millionaire coal man
of Fayette County, is to be built soon
was indicated when the Briar Hill
Coal & Coke Company let the con-
tract for sinking four mine shafts
and the construction of 1000 coke
ovens at Khedive, Greene County, at
approximately $2,000,00O. These
coke works will be on a spur of the
proposed road, which will provide
the only outlet for the production.
1t will be the first attempt to coke
the Greene County coal.
DR.. James Oliver Flower, 64 years
old, a prominent dentist and widely
known in the East and West, died
in Pittsburg of tuberculosis after an
illness of four years. He was the
father of Dr. W. S. Flower. who
several years ago eloped with a
daughter of Charles Lockhart, the
Standard Oil magnate, who disin-
herited her.
George w. Haskins. Ga years old,
senior member of the law firm of
Haskins & McClntock died suddenly
at his home in Meadville of apoplexy.
He was for several years professor
of Latin language and literature in
Allegheny College and resumed the
practice of law twenty years ago. He
was widely known.
Battling with her husband, who
was evidently insane as the result
of long illness. Mrs. Walter Yerkes
was stabbed nine times and serious
ly wounded at the Yerkes home. at
Fulmor Station, Hattboro. When
the woman dropped exhausted on the
bed the frenzied husband believed
he had killed her. Then he placed
the muzZle of a 32-caliber revolver
in his mouth, fired one shot and
dropped to the floor dead.
Mrs. Charles Hagenbuch, her two
daughters, Misses Salome and Eva,
and her son, Harry, had narrow
escape from asphyxiation from the
fumes of coal gas at their home in
Shenandoah early the other morn
ing. The da1mper on the stove pipe
wa-s closed, allowing the deadly
f,...
The barking of a pet dog down stairs
awoke Miss Eva just in the nick of
time. She was so badly overcome
that she was scarcely able to grope
her way to the window and let in
fresh air. She soon revived and then
hurriedly ran and opened windows
in the rooms occupied by her mother,
sister and brother, but found them
in deep stupor. Physicians were
summoned and after some hard work
every one was revived The timely
barking of the dog saved all their
lives.
President John Mitchell, OF the
United Mine Workers of America,
who intimated in a speech at Coal7
dale, on October 30, that he would
not remain at the head of the organi-
zation much longer, is a candidate
for reelection at the annual con-
vention to be held in Indianapolis
next January Close friends of Nit
chell in Mahanoy City, say that he
has made up his mind to remain
leader until the expiration of the
present agreement with the opera
tors in April, 1903. in the hope of
forcing further recognition for the
miners in the hard coal fields.
Charles Mitchell, young man, of
Three Tuns, near Amber, owes his
escape from death after a train
crashed into his horse and wagon,
at local crossing. to the fact that
the train was slowing up for the
Amber stop. Mitchell drove on the
tracks and the slowly moving train
smashed into his wagon. The horse
was bruised, the wagon practically
wrecked, commuters on the train
were thoroughly scared, and Mitchell
escaped with several bruises and
shock
Forty boys employed at the Dia-
mond Glass Works, Royersford,
struck for an increase in wages.
They have been receiving SIS week,
and demand 81 day. The plant,
with the exception of one shop, was
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