The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-09
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adelphia, Baltimore & Washington R,T
road Company for the loss of lee
Norrisown sent the first installmen, :,
$1,000 of its 10000 relief money ra;,si
TO aid San Francisco, to James o. pbs'
Ian, OF that city.
F. B. Coleman, OF Philadelphia wa,
hned $40 and costs for running an an,o'
mobile through Norristown at an illev,i
speed He was observed by the poIIrs
while travelling along one Of the marked
courses.
Forest fires which prevailed in IN.
mountains north OF Pine Grove we,s
quenched by the heavy thunder shower,
of Wednesday night /. H. Hummel
constable, has offered a reward for N.
formation which will lead to the arrea
OF the persons who started the fires.
John P. Martins general store at Pine
Grove, was robbed Of shoes and otbr
articles to the value Of $40.
Lansdale is the center OF an industrial
boom that has resulted in ain unprece.
dented demand for houses suitable 70,
homes OF working men.
The superintendent OF one foundry
plant is quoted as saying. 1--WE could
and would employ thirty more moulders
necessitating an aggregate increase Of
our force by seventy-hvc employees il
we could guarantee the rental OF at less
thirty houses Unless we can increase
our force we may be compelled to close
Our plant and move elsewhere. We clos.
cd it once, but if We have to do so again
Lansdale.
At Amber a building boom. expected
to result i'll the erection OF possibly zoo
houses, has already passed the embry.
onic state, and within the next year this
hustling Montgomery County town ex.
poets to increase its population by posi-.
bly, 1000 people.
Gaetano Layclle, an Italian, was con.
victed Of murder in the second degree at
West Chester for shooting Joseph B,
Carpenter at Coatesville last January.
As soon as the verdict was announced
Levalle made desperate attempt 10
commit suicide. He had a sharp spoon
handle hidden in a handkerchief He
pretended to wipe the preparation from
from his forehead and suddenly thrust
the sharp instrument into his mouth
and tried to cut his throat Quick ac-
ton OF a prisoner, who was beside him
and who grabbed his arm, probably saved
the mans life. After the struggle in the
prisoners dock Lavele fell in a fit and
was carried from the courtroom.
Robert P. Bliss, of Chester, was ap-
pointed secretary of the Pennsylvania
Travelling Free Library Commission, vice
Miss Mary Z. Krickbaum, of Chambers
burg, resigned,
Mrs. George Doubts, of Thorndale, a
few miles east of Coatesville, discovered
man attempting to break into a second
story room. She called her husband and
he shot at the man as he jumped from
the porch roof. Doubts returned to bed
not knowing he had hit the fugitive and
was unaware he had killed man until
next day, when the dead body Of Lewis
Mundy, a track walker on the Pennsyya-
MIA Railroad, was found near his home
with a gunshot wound in his breast. The
ball fits the empty shell in Doubts re-
volyer and he gave himself up TO the
police authorities
Miss Hannah Murdaugh, who resided
in the main part Of Oxford, was stricken
with apopleXy at the supper table, and
died twenty minutes later An invalid
sister was unable to help her Three
other children in the family died in the
same manner some years ago
Warden Keibe Of Reedsville, caused
the arrest of James Brownwell, Roy and
David Barrett, brothers, on the charge
OF having i'll their possession IA brook
trout, under the six-inch limit allowed
by law. They were fined ten dollars
ior each OF the fourteen FISH, and paid
the fine.
Mayor J. P. McCaskey, of Lancaster,
who, for fifty years was principal OF the
Boys High School, has adopted novel
method OF treating with boys who APP
pear in police courts and whose offenses
are not too fragrant. Instead of punish
ing them he delivers a heart to heart
talk and compels the juvenile offenders
10 read a chapter in the Bible The
boys are then admonshed to read their
Bibles at home and discharged.
Edmund Stewart, dairymen and farm
err died at his home, in Ridley Park,
aged o. years, from cancer He owed
one OF the largest farms along the river
front.
Lewis Miller, conductor on the Nit
tany Valley Railroad, was killed We'd
nesday. He had just made a coupling
and in stepping back his foot slipped be-
tween the guard rail and main track
and he was thrown down and one car
ran over him causing instant death.
About two years ago he had brother
killed on the same road and about a
year ago another brother badly inj urcd.
Girardville had its worst FIRE scare in
many years At about IL o'clock the
other night smoke was seen issuing from
the residence of James Cation, on West
Main Street, and although the fire de-
partment responded promptly to the
alarm, before they could get a stream
into play the building was enveloped in
flames In short time adjoining build
ings took fire and the authorities deemed
it necessary to ask for assistance from
surrounding towns. Ashland responded
and by o'clock the fire was under con-
troll. Eight frame tenement houses were
destroyed, together with the contents OF
the Canton properly, where the fire origi-
mated. The loss is $1,000.
Because of the increase in member
ship the Lutheran congregation at Spring
Grove will tear down their present place
of worship and erect a new church cost
ing between $35,ooo and $4,000.
James P. Ream, 90 years old of York,
dropped dead while working on the