The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16
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was 90 years of age, trustee OF II. II.
Presbyterian Church for many years anS
aff Odd Fellow. 4"u
a new corporation was organized !.
Pottsville to take possession of the old."'
stove works in the anthracite region ssS
to develop large plant The name p;vsu
the corporation is the Pottsvlle Foundr"
q Stove Company. The officers are i
Forry Laucks, of York, president; r {
McMullen, of York, general manager.
I. L. Derr, of Pottsville, secretary and
treasurer.
Fred Wagner, who fled from a denr,,
sheriff while being taken to Jail last FsII
and who last week, while on his wav ~
colliery near Pottsvile to act as =
special policeman, drew a revolver and
OILY on crowded trolley car. intend;ns
to inlure Michael Flannery, of St Clat
pleaded guilty in Pottsville to charges ol
melting a riot and carrying a concealed
deadly weapon, and was sentenced IA
nine months imprisonment
Young & Brown, of Cory. contract;po
agents III competition with seven othet
bidders, were awarded the contract for
the fne new bridge to be erected across
French Creek at Cambridge Springs
The contract price is S2I,24
The handsome quarters in Stroudsburv
OF the Pohoqualne Fish Association, com,
posed OF wealthy Phladelphians, was
badly damaged by fire and water. The
club-rooms are in McMichael's Hotel and
are luxuriously furnished and decorated
with costly pictures and mounted game
and fish.
Fred E. Stees Commandery of the mill.
lary branch of the p. o. S. OF A., was Of
ganized in Norristown by Acting Com.
mander William Weand, of Philadelphia.
The new commandery has fifty members
J. l.. Oberholtzer was installed com.
mander.
Misses Mary A. Phillips and Marguerite
Eisenhuth were graduated at the COM
mencement of the Selinsgrove High
School, held in the opera house
A large number OF United Mine Work
ers held mass meeting in Shamokin and
it was decided to put all union men they
could in the field TO run for Assembly,
one OF their first duties in becoming mem
bers to be to work for the repeal of the
Stdle COIlSIdDuldry law.
NJ. J. Smith, OF Wayne Township, Erie
County, was appointed County Commits
sioner by Judge Walling to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the death of County Com
missioner McLallen. He is a graduate
of Cory High School.
w. A. Edwards, for three years gener-
al secretary Of the Coatesvlle Young
Mems Christian Association, has resign
ed, to take effect July I.
Franconia Mennonite Church was not
large enough to accommodate more than
800 of the 1000 mourners who assembled
to attend the funeral OF the two sons OF
the pastor, Rev. Abraham Clemmer, who
were drowned with their cousin while
swimming.
Charged with the theft of $500 dia-
mond ring from the home of Nathan
Rambo, of Bridgeport, where he was
working, Harry Shrek is in custody in
Norristown.
In rear end collision on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad at Chrstiana two men
were badly scalded, an engine and four
cars were smashed to pieces, and three
cars OF oil were burned A westbound
freight ran into switch 10 give a clear
track to the Pittsburg Express. Brake
man Z. w. Hiveneer, of Enola, was badly
burned about the face and body by the
oil. He was taken to Harrisburg.
Governor Pennypacker has appointed
Isaac X Grier, OF Danville, a member
OF the Board of Trustees of the Dan
willie State Insane Asylum, vice w. l..
Gauger, Of Danvlle, who declined re-
appointment.
Elias Paul, Lock Hill, Northumber-
land County, is dead. He was 81 years
old and one of the best known and
wealthiest farmers of that region.
At a meeting of the stockholders OF
the Conestoga Fire Insurance Company
held at Lancaster, it was decided to
merge with the Armenia Fire Insurance
Company, of Pittsburg They will be
combined under the new name of the
Guardian Fire Insurance Company
The latter will have capital of 100000
assets OF 100000 and a surplus of $I4o,-
600.
Two "black hand men, Paul Trapp
and Tony Cogliandro, were held al
Scranton in $4,000 bail on thirteer
charges of extortion and dynamiting.
The Schuylkill County grand jury has
found true bills i'll the case Of Alex
Good, Anthony Dimick, George Komisk
and Frank Watsacupski, all Of Cumbola
charged with blowing up block OF foul
houses at Five Points, in the Schuy
kill Valley, occupied by mine boarders.
The yearly meeting of Progressive
Friends will be held at the Old.Meetini
House at Longwood, east OF Kennel
Square, on June 1, ?, and 3. Among th'
.peakers will be Mr. and Mrs. J. G
! Phelps Stakes, of New York City, wh'
will discuss sociological questions. DR.
Kelsey, of the University of Pennsyl
yania, will speak Oh The Cost of PROG
ress"
Mrs. Theodore Miller, 55 years old
Of South Easton, was burned to dealt
while destroying waste paper in he
| yard The woman leaves a family 0
rinc children.
The State Highway Department has mott
fed Montgomery County that there will b
no new roads building started the presen
year III that county because of lack o
funds. Towamencin Township fed al
application two years ago for the i'm
provement OF the forty-foot road iron
Kulpsvllc TO brakes Corner.
Sunstroke superinduced nervous pros
tration and caused the death of Millar
Fremont Blake, who claimed to be tn
inventor OF the dump railroad car nov
in general use, in the house where h
was born, in Martinsburg, Blair County
fifty years ago