The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-01
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Latest News Cleaned From Various
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A government inspector of public
buildings sites arrived in Shamokin
Thursday and began inspection of
properties offered for sale for a pub
lie building.
Montgomery County Poor Directors
have filled the vacancy in the office
of steward of the county home, caus-
ed by the death of j. Frank Voor-
hees. They named his son, Daniel
Voorhees,, for the place. His in
cumbency will continue until the
first of next April. There we're a.
dozen candidates from all sections
of the county.
The Philadelphia &c Reading Coal
and Iron Company's Bear Valley
shaft, work on which was started
five years ago, has been completed
and was operated Thursday for the
first time. When the new breaker
is completed work will be given
1000 men and boys.
A jury in Meadville awarded Sum
mer Gray Judgment for $4325 in his
suit against the Meadville & Cam
bridge Springs Traction Company
for injuries sustained in the College
Hill runaway accident last December,
when three persons we're killed and
several hurt.
William Charnley, aged years,
son of John n. Charnley, of Darby,
fell fifty feet from a chestnut tree.
His left arm was dislocated and frac-
tured and he was badly lacerated
and bruised. After having his in
juries treated he was removed to
the hospital, where he is improving.
Because Elmer Freeman, one of
the detectives who have been testify
ing in the liquor license cases at
Allentown, reported to Judge Trexler
that he was attacked while in the
reading room of his hotel The
Judge postponed hearings of two
cases for ten days, in order that the
affair may be sifted to the bottom.
Freeman told the Court that he was
sitting in the reading-room of the
hotel when number of men filed
into the place. knocked him down
and began to kick him. BY the time
policemen arrived there was no trace
of the alleged assaiants.
Miss Frances Berks, agent of the
Service Federation, was in Shamokin
to inquire into the condition of min
ers and slate pickers whose conditions,
according to a number of magazines,
said the articles were exaggerated
and written by strangers in the re-
gion. She was greatly surprised
over the prosperity of the average
miner. Where poverty existed she
found it due largely to Incidence.
In many instances she learned that
miners own their own houses. and
that some own considerable other
property.
Resident Of Georgetown and Laurel
Run, on the mountain near Wilkes
Barre have been frightened by some
strange animal during the last few
days, which they say has appeared
from the brush along the mountain
road between the two places Opin-
ions as to what it is differ. Some
say 1t is an enormous ape and others
that is is a bear which has wan
dered down from the Bear Creek dis
trict, where they are plentiful. Those
who have seen it have not waited to
makeN any investigation, but have
fled as fast as they could. Hunters
are now in the woods.
Nathan w. Beddall of Pottsville,
and w. L. Bryant. of Schuylkill
Haven, returned from very sue
cessful hunting trip through New
Brunswick, Canada. The former shot
moose and a caribou, and the lat
ter shot moose and a lynx. Bry-
ants moose measured Sc inches
across the antlers, which had 81
points. Beddall's moose was ASH
inches from tip to tip of the antlers
and had 16 points. Much smaller
game was also bagged by each.
More than>half a dozen boys whose
ages are from Is to Is years, led
by one whose brain became infamed
by reading cheap novels, formed
Jesse James Club and created much
excitement at Brodheadsville. The
fathers of the boys, who are respect
ed citizens, broke up the organiza-
tion. Old fashion whippings had
salient effect. The boys formed the
organization and elected their Off
GERS. That they did not get the re-
volvers they coveted so much was
due to the fact that letter sent by.
them to Chicago, ordering the weap-
ons, was intercepted. With this evil
dence of guilt against them the boys
broke down and confessed to their
parents.
jury in court at Media, awarded
TO Jane B. Clymer the sum of
$375S.75. Her suit was for $4,000
and interest The case was one of
OF the most peculiar ever tried in
the county. Levi H. Clymer, now
dead, was married three times, Jane
b. Clymer was his third wife. The
second wife was in court aiding the
executor under the will in their pro-
test as to the payment of the amount
claimed by the plaintiff. 1t was
shown, however, that the plaintiff
had lived with Clymer for nineteen
year and he thought that she was his
legal wife. A bill of separation was
put in evidence between the deceas-
ed and the second wife, which was
claimed to be legal separation or
equal to divorce. In law, however,
the separation did not amount to a
divorce, but the plaintiff testified
that she had lived with Clymer for
nineteen years, believed that she was
his lawful wife, that she had loaned
him $4,000 on property in Lans-
downe Borough and also that during
several years illness she had taken
care of him. The jury gave her the
amount of the mortgage and interest.
new hosiery mill will be estab-
lished at York Haven, by Joseph J.