The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-09-27
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at his own door His body was rid.
died by buckshot. Caluso and his
wife came to West Berwick from
pittston two weeks ago. They retir-
ed about 10 o'clock and at 3 O'Clock
in the morning Mrs. Caluso AMI
other persons IN the neighborhoo,l
were awakened by the shooting and
found Caluso dead in the yard, dress.
ed only in his night shirt. When
Mrs. Caluso realized that her hus-
band was dead she got revolver and
was with difficulty prevented from
killing herself. AS usual In these
cases, the foreign element refuses 10
talk, but IL has been learned thai
Caluso had trouble with the Black
Hand in Luzerne County and that
ne had been warned he would not
live more than two weeks in his
new home. Caluso was 50 years OF
age and is believed to have answered
secret summons at the door whom
he was killed.
Fish Commissioner Meehan is
striving to protect the shad. He
says that unless immediate measures
are taken for the protection Of shad
in the Delaware and SusQuehanna
Rivers this great food fish will be
( exterminated in a few years. He
suggests that the best means of
protecting the fish is for the next
| Legislature TO pass law providing
for longer weekly close season dur
ing the open season, a larger mesh
for gill nets, closer supervision
over all other forms of nets and to
regulate the pollution of the rivers.
Commissioner Meehan has taken up
the matter with the fish authorities
of New Jersey and New York, who
have promised TO cooperate with
him to secure the enactment of
similar bill by the Legislatures OF
heir States. He is also attacking
The dams at Trenton.
An investigation into the death
ot John Casam, OF Lee Park. reveal
I'd the fact that he was Christian
Scientist and refused to have ply
sician, being contented to hear the
readings of Eugene r. Smith lead
er of the sect in Wilkes-Barr His
wife, as he grew worse. says she
begged him to have a physician, but
he refused. Smith has left the city.
Mrs. Casam says her husband suf
fered from tuberculosis for nineteen
years and did not find relief until
eighteen months ago. when he be-
came a Christian SCIENTIST, and was
able to resume work. Last week
when he was attacked with dysen-
terry, he byieved that Christian
Science would cure him in the same
manner
The Farmers Deposit National
Rank of Pittsburg. increased its capi
n1 Oh QGnn mn IN 4k O0n
900 with dissenting vote The in
"rease is made by a stock dividend,
each stockholder receiving six and
u half additional shares for each one
formerly held The last quotation
of the stock was $3.50 in 1908
Last year it paid A. per cent. The
new stock is expected to pay at least
per cent. and be worth from $500
to $3.50 a share. The change will
give the bank an opportunity to con-
duct its business on a largely in,
creased scale. as the $6.000.000 CAPT
tai will greatly increase the loaning
power.
When Miss Susan Phillips. Of Falls
alighted from Lehigh Valley Rail
road train the other morning. n mid
dle-aged man rushed to her and kiss
ed and hugged her vigorously. AS
soon as she got her breath she struck
him and screamed for help. He re-
leased her quickly at the outcry and
was no less startled than she when
he perceived that she was not the
young woman he believed her to- be
He stammered an apology and then
ran down the platform and disap-
peared.
MIS-. George Keiu, wife Of Chief
of Police George Keim, was so badly
burned about the body at her home
in Spring City. while preparing
meal that the burned flesh dropped
off and the bones could be seen. She
struck a match which set fire 10 her
clothing. Her son Charles rushed
TO his mothers assistance and was
badly burned on the hands and feet.
Mrs. Keim is not expected TO live.
Having adopted the standard for
ice cream set by the Food Standards
4 commission of the United States
government, crusade against the
spurious stuff that has been sold in
Pennsylvania under the name of ice
cream has been begun by the Pure
Food Department of Pennsylvania.
The Government standard holds that
ice cream Is a frozen product OF
cream and sugar containing IA per
cent. milk fat. Nut and fruit ice
cream contains / 2 per cent, milk fat.
Eggs, gelatine, corn starch and col
oring matter will not he permitted
in cream under the new regulations
MIX ice cream will be thing of the
past. II will not come up to the
standard. DR.. b. H. Warren has
never been able to secure a recog-
nized standard for ice cream until
now. He has notified ALL his agents
to begin lifting samples at once.
Francis Pollock, aged 20, was
struck and instantly killed by Le-
high Valley express train at Allen
town as he was returning TO his
home from the American Steel
Wire Company's plant, Pollock had
| Just received word that the stork had
left double blessing at his home
| and reported off In order to go home
! The widow and four children survive
II is believed that counterfeit mon
| ey Is either being manufactured a'
| Hazleton or that countcrfeiters are
making the town one of the centefs
| of the distribution of their spurious
coin.
When the butcher shop of Edward
Trautman of Pine Grove WAS dis