The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-04-04
THE KEYSTONE STATE
The Lstsst Pennsylvania News Told Ia Shon
Order.

NH WAS MltNhtu l<eOh oPNhN~i anu
Frank Gale, employees, seriously in.
jured
Fire in the Konkle Block, Williams
port, damaged the stock OF Matlett &
Co., cloihiers, to the amount of $1,000
Insurance, 5000
James Delaney, foreman Of repair
gang, and FIVE Italian laborers were bad
" injured by the explosion OF boiler
at Even colliery, Erie Coal Company
near Pttston.
John Search. 10 years old, or Harris
burg, accidently shot and instantly killed
Miss Barbara Rinehart, az years old,
Of Reedsvlle. He was explaining the
mechanism of revolver.
At a meeting Of residents Of Coal
Township, adjoining Shamokin, residents
decided to establish banking institu-
ton The township has population OF
1900, but no bank.
The fire at the Phoenix Park Colliery,
large operation west OF Pottsville, has
been reported by the Philadelphia 4
Reading Coal & Iron Company officials
as extinguished. BY sealing UP all the
openings the fire was smothered.
Abraham Cohn, after conducting
shoe and clothing store at Palmyra, Leb-
anon County, for three days, arrived at
his business place to find that robbers
during the night had carried away 5000
worth of his stock leaving less than
enough to suffice for the days business
Rev. David Buckwalter, retired
farmer and for thirty years widely
known minister Of the Mennonite Church,
died at his home in Upper Leacock
Township, aged IS years. Two weeks
ago he went out to his stable to care ior
the horses and the family found MN iy-
ing in STALL unconscious, and with
cash in his head. He is supposed to
have fallen and scared a horse, which
kicked him. 1t was found the man had
concussion of the brain. He gradually
weakened until his death ensued.
Suspicious circumstances surround the
death of James Muirhead, 10 years old,
Of Audenreid near Mahanoy City, lie
attended sleighing party to Freeland
on the night of March II, and was one
of the merriest of the group. Before
leaving Frceland on the homeward trip
Muirhead complained of not feeling well,
intimating that his condition was the
result of some spirituous refreshment
he had taken, although he was not ad-
dicted to the drinking habit. When he
got into the sleigh he lay down and was
soon in profound stupor. His compan-
ions thought he was asleep. When they
tried to arouse him as the sleigh drew
I'D in front of his home they discovered
that he was dead. An investigation was
begun to ascertain the cause of his death.
An autopsy will be held on the body to
determine the cause Of his death.
George E Sprenkle, 60 years old, a
prominent business man. of York Couil-
~ died at his home in Nashville. Death
was caused by tuberculosis from which
he had been suffering for some years.
Deceased had large business interests
in York, being connected with several
corporations. He was, until short
time ago, a director of the York County
National Bank.
A horse and carriage belonging TO
Richard Ackerman, OF Glendon, which
was left standing on tho principal street
OF Easton, was taken by Jay and Oscar
Snyder, aged ID and IL years. They
drove the animal about the streets until
midnight, when they abandoned the rig
The BOYS have been in trouble before and
their father turned them over to the
police.
Another Montgomery County hotel
keeper is in trouble. The Court hand
ed down rule returnable this week on
Daniel NJ Klein, to show cause why the
license granted to him for a hotel at
Limerick Square should not be revoked
because he sold liquor to minors and TO
persons visibly intoxicated.
The will OF Tilghman H. Boyer, a
wealthy manufacturer and dealer in
leather, was admitted to probate at Al
entown and disposed OF the entire es-
tate valued at about $4,000 to a son,
Allen Boyer. of this city, and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Robert Weaver, of New York,
disinheriting his wife, one son and two
of the daughters.
One man was killed and two others
seriously injured at the Short Mountain
colliery, at Lykcns when large slip OF
slate, thirteen feet square, fell from the
top OF slope and pinned Joseph Loricl,
Frank Kraemer and Pole, whose name
is unknown, under it. Lorick was killed
instantly. Kraemer had both legs and
one arm broken and suffered internal
injuries. The Pole was injured inter
nally.
A fire that threatens the Morea Mine
of c. M. Dodson & Co. had its origin in
a manner probably never before dupli-
Gated in the annals of the anthracite coal
region. Several days ago cave-in oc-
cured on the culm bank at the colliery
and the small locomotive which draws
the culm and slate cars up the bank
tumbed into the hole carrying with it
four men, who had a narrow escape
from a terrible death. Later it was dis
covered that the fire in the locomotive
had ignited the coal and the volume of
smoke that is. ascending indicated that
the flames may spread to the entire
workings of the mine
While Anton Jecjak, an Australian
boy, aged 10, who was employed at the
Pennsylvania Steel Company's smelling
furnace at Steelton, was placing mud in
holes on the top of the furnace, the
bricks on the arch gave way and the
boy fell into the furnace. Not even his
ashes could be distinguished from the
surrounding mass.
DR., John R. Locke, 81 years old, the
eldest and best known citizen OF Lewis
town, died from pneumonia. He was
a graduate of the Baltimore College OF
Dental Surgery in the Glass of 1916
One of his most pleasant anticipations
was that of attending the sixtieth ami
Versary of his class in Baltimore in Nav