The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-09-20
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Latest News Cleaned From Various
Parts.

A factory is being equipped In
York by the Teter Heany Developing
Company for the purpose of manu-
featuring new incandescent lamp.
During heavy electrical storm
lightning struck one of the large
buildings of the Kopp Brick Manu-
featuring plant near Emigsville, York
County. Three buildings in which
Eilns were located and several build
ings used for storage purposes were
destroyed.
Joseph Davis, an old resident of
Hudson, near Wilkes Barre, was
struck and fatally injured by a Della.
ware and Hudson Railroad train.
Hoyt Hess, an engineer at the No.
colliery of the Susquehanna Coal
Co, who was crushed under a fall
OF top rock while repairing slope
engine, died at the hospital, Wilkes
Barre.
The county commissioners of Lu-
zerne have decided to grant no more
generations from taxes, unless the
claimant has recommendation for
exoneration from the poor board or
the scnool board of his district Hith-
erto, they have granted these at first
hearing.
The New Mountain City Trust
Company of Altoona opened its doors
Wednesday. The first days depos-
its amounted to $4,000. II. J..
Nicholson is the president and Il. j.
Lomnitz, secretary-treasurer The
capital is $250,000 with 100000 sur.
plus.
Armita Huber, aged two years,
pulled pot of boiling coffee over
on herself at Altoona and was fatal
ly scalied.
Burton Funk, aged 10, employed
at the Pennsylvania Railroad round
house, tripped and fell in front OF
an engine at Altoona and was decap-
itated.
AS the result of annoyance, due to
frequent shortage of water in various
parts of Wilkes-Barre, movement
has now been started to ascertain IL
the citizens desire a municipal water
plant. Councilman Evans has intro
duced into the city council resolu-
tion that the question be submitted
to the people of the city at the Spring
election.
" -iliam Reinsmith, aged 67 years,
was fatally injured at Allentown by
being thrown from a load of bricks
and run over by the heavy wagon.
Mrs. Thomas ONeill of Bridge
| port, was beaten with a hammer in
/ the hands of a burglar at O'Clock
the other morning and rendered un-
conscious for time. She was
awakened by a noise on the first
floor of her residence. Thinking that
her husband had returned from work
| earlier than usual she went down
| stairs to make an investigation. As
| she entered the dining room Mrs
| O'Neill was struck a blow on the
head and knocked down. The
burglar then escaped. Near the
! O'Neill residence later the police
found coat that had evidently been
dropped by the burglar in his flight.
Several pieces of jewelry were
found in the pockets. The coat may
lead to the Identification of the thief.
A coal train on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad was wrecked at Delano and
twenty-five loaded gandolas were pp
ed about in a promiscuous heap. The
train was travelling at about twenty
five miles an hour when the axle OF
car snapped, causing the smash-up.
Traffic was delayed for several hours.
The William Paige Boiler Com
pany manufacturers of cast iron
heating boilers and radiators, Of
New York. signed contract with
the Chamber of Commerce of Mead
Vile, to bring its Norwich, Conn,
and Exeter, N. H., plants to Mead
Vile. The company will erect big
buildings and be ready for opera
tions with two hundred men within
one year.
Students at the high school at
Sayre who hazed a fellow-student
were given such >fright that they
have not recovered yet. Their vic
tim was Abrain Booth, a newcomer
in the school, and they started to
haze him in the approved method upon
the steps of the schoolhouse. Booth
fought fought back and in the melee
fell or was thrown headlong down
the stairs. They picked him up but
he was unconscious, and, badly
frightened, they hurried him to the
hospital, thinking him dying. There
the physicians found that he had
little more damage than a bruised
head and hip. while the boys who
took him there and others who
awaited their report had severe pal
pitation of the heart.