The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-10-25
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kindly disposed neighbor was re-
sponsible for the fatal injury to Mrs.
Mary Ferry and the wounding of
her 10-year-old daughter, Rosie, by
disease-crazed husband at Phoenix
Vile. Mr.. and Mrs. James Ferry,
with their seven children, live on the
outskirts of town and are in ex-
tremely poor circumstances. Mrs.
Ferry has been an invalid for seven
years. Her husband, too, is afflicted.
Not satisfied with the meat and po-
tatoes which accompanied the soup,
Ferry demanded the broth also, and
because he was refused took re-
volver from his pocket and shot his
wife four times. Little Rosie, while
trying to shield her helpless mother,
received one of the bullets in her
neck. The mothers death is looked
for at any time. The daughter Will
probably survive. The condition of
the other children was pitiable and
they are being cared for by sympa-
thetic neighbors. Ferry was locked
up to await the result of his horrible
crime. He comments on his terrible
act with apparent indifference. They
starved me to DEATH" he mutters,
land would not stand for 1t. /
uOn l care IL MIL hCi but N'Nh
mean to hit Rosie"
A tramp with pillow was deter
mined to ride on the cowcatcher of
the passenger train leaving Nesco-
peck early the other morning for
Hazleton. The man climbed on the
engine and arranged a comfortable
berth. but was found by trainmen.
He eluded them, however, and was on
the engine when it pulled from the
station. Men in the yard, saw him,
had the train stopped and handled
him in such a manner that he gave
up his project.
When Warren Ebert, brakeman
on the 12.3S train through Lanedale,
turned over to the railroad officials
suit case which had been left on
his train, and saw thousands of dol
lars worth of jewelry when the Of
fcials opened the case, he gasped
The suit case was the property of a
Philadelphia jeweler, who had left
the train. forgetting to take She suit
case, and the jeweler sent Ebert a
diamond shirt stud worth about 500
as a reward.
The Gideons School. in East Penn
Township. has just closed its first
month without pupil in attend
ance. Elmer e. Seigerwalt is the
teacher and he has opened school
on time each morning and closed
Just as formally. The school was
attended last year by thirty-two pu-
| pills, but parents refused to have
| them vaccinated and all have been
refused admittance this term in con-
sequence. The Courts will probably
be called upon to settle the various
| phases of the case. The district
School Board will refuse to pay Stei-
gerwalt his months wages, it is said.
Typhoid fever, attributed to the
eating of oysters which were con-
taminated by sewage, prevails in
Lower Macungie Township to an eX-
tent that causes considerable alarm.
| DR.. NJ. F. Cawley, health officer of
Lehigh County. made an investiga-
tion and found seven cases. In no
instance could the origin of the dis
ease be traced to the milk, water or
| food supply that was in regular use,
but DR.. Cawley learned that each of
the afflicted persons had eaten raw
oysters last month, and all had
bought the oysters from the same
| dealer.
The twelve miners employed in
the lower shaft of the old Dull work.
ings of the Pennsylvania Glass Sand
Company. at McVeytown, fell ninety
! feet, huddled up in narrow cage,
| and all escaped serious injury. At
| ter the noon meal the men stepped
| into the cage; at that instant the
brake on the drum became jammed
and the engineer lost control of the
machineryN
Mrs. Sarah Wilson Farquhar, wid-
ow of the late Rev. John Fafduhar,
who for twenty years was pastor
of the Presbyterian Church at Lower
Chanceford, York County, died in
| her saith year, of pneumonia. Mrs.
Farquhar was notable for her high
Christian character and her devotion
to her church and family.
Uria l.. Glessner, aged AT, a
wealthy Milford Township farmer,
attempted suicide in his barn near
lockwood, by hanging himself with
binder twine. His wife found him in
an unconscious condition suspended
by the neck. She quickly cut the
rope with a knife that her husband
had been using, and then tainted.
Her screams had attracted neighbors
to the scene. They found Glessner
clasping his wife's arm. The couple
were restored to consciousness and
both will probably recover. Glessner
was despondent over financial loss
Ed Thompson and Clint Coefield,
two fourteen-year-old boys, discover
ed a broken rail on the Franklin
Branch of the Erie Railroad near
Franklin. AS the passenger train
from Oil City, which connects with
the New York and Chicago trains at
Meadville, approached, Thompson
threw off his red necktie and waved
It frantically The engineer saw the
signal and stonned his train. He said
the train would doubtless have been
wrecked had 1t struck the curve at
full speed.
Reading hunters of pheasants and
wild turkeys have returned home
with empty game bags since the open
Ing of the season on Monday. Sever
al managed to drop o pheasant or
two in the Blue Mountains near
Hamburg, and few squirrels, but
they report that game is generally
scarce.
Jacob Bethel. president of the
Dovers and Mechanics National
Bank, York. was injured in a runa-