The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-26
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'ne Dcpuedtn OF an Uncle, Dcniel Nav
den. Mr.. Hayden is. locomotive ens
neer of the Erie
The new Forest Hall, in Milford. w.,
dedicated Thursday. Profs. Grave. Tno
mcy and Weir, of Yale, and J. II, Vsr
Etien, OF Milford, made addresses.
The Lakeside Powder Companv's su
against the Codorus Water Company q,
Ryan Township for $4,000 damaoes
was concluded in Pottsvile Thursday
The plaintiff claimed damages becag:,
tho water company cut off the s,rcam
which furnished the power to onera,
their powder plant Au award Of SD.
was given tho plaintiff.
Attorney General Carson has qiver
Secretary Critcffcld an opinion to III,
effect that the local authorities of Des
ware County can collect from the S,an
tax levied upon property owned BY
which was levied prior to the purchase
Deputy Attorney General Flei,z n
forms Fish Commissioner Meehan that
the question of conflicting licenses io
the right to fish for cells in the same
stream is not one for the Fish Com
mission to settle and belongs in tr
courts
Charged with slandering him in
ictter TO their mother in Germany, Iohr
Demmel, of Allentown, began proceed
ings against Mrs. Julia Giherson, hi:
sister.
James McCleffcrty, of Allentown 1,
dying at St. I.ulic's Hospital as the re.
suit OF fall from scaffold 4, the
Rath Portland Cement Mill
William Albright, A conductor on the
night Shfter OH the p & r. Ry. at
Birdsboro. was run over and killed by
, MS own engine.
By a broken llange on a freight car.
twenty freight cars were wrecked at
Lorraine, on the main line of the P. 4
K. Railway. The track was damaged
for more than a mile.
Prof S. A. Thurlow, who was prin-
cipal of the Pottsvile High School for
twenty-five years. has been elected su.
perintendcnt of the Pottsville public
schools to fill the uneXpired term Of
two years of the late Rev. B. f. Patter
son, who died last week. The salary
fixed is SI8oo a year.
Charles Monk hanged himself at his
home in Carbondale His son. John
Monk, returned about midnight to the
house and found his fathers body hang.
aged and was supposed to have COM
mitted the deed in temporary fit Of
dependency
Robbers made wholesale raid upon
the clothing store of Wolf Ansel at Man
helm. getting away with IIo suits Of
clothing valued at over 500 and Jewell
ry TO the value of 5000. The robbers
forced a rear door and carried their
plunder away in team.
Failing into a pit at the dismanted
Bessemer Steel plant at Danville, George
Fasnot the II-year-old son Of Mr. and
Mrs George Fasnot, was drowned His
companion. Clarence Farr, made a fran
tic effort 10 save him, but failed
The only thing adduced at the in
vestigation by Mayor Walker, OF Az
toona of charges o. graft in the Public
Works Board IN connection with the
100000 paving contracts. was that the
sius, George Kuebler, Blair Andrews
visited Chicago az the expense OF the
American Asphaltum & Rubber Co.,
which got tie contract, to make an iuves-
tigation of the filler which had been in
Use there for years
A. B. Richmond, a i:oted criminal law.
yer. died at his home in Meadville, aged
81 years. He retired from practice few
years ago, after having heen retained
in over he thousand criminal cases
Over one hundred of them were homI
cides.
After journey OF 5000 miles acros
the continent. Miss Rhoda Crosby,
Sunday School teacher, of Mahono.
City, arrived at Raphael, California, AM
was welded to Charles Willis, frui
grower Of that place, She got in com
munication with the man through 4 mat
rimonial agency and wires that she !
satisfied
\ wild ride in a pony cart, driven b.
IN escaped female lunatic, was the ex
poricace Of two children of J. L. Pritci
ard. oi Lover Merton. The womar
who proved to be Sadie Lampton, o
Ashland, Ky. is cousin OF Mar
Twain and is an inmate Of a sanltarlur
near West Conshocken She manage
10 eluGc her caretakers and oyertoo
the Pritchard children, who were drlvin
pony team along the State Road, nea
,leir home She seized the pony an
jumped into the vehicle beside the fright
eaed children. Taking reins and whiI
the demented woman lashed the pony
4 breakneck speed across the river brldg
m Cor, ehCnDes ken and continued her vii