The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
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O'Hara, car inspector, was caught
underneath the car at Cresson and
was so seriously injured that he will
die. Mcclure was underneath a car
making repairs, when O'Hara seeing
that the train was about TO move,
attempted to save his .comrade. TBe
succeeded in dragging Mcguire from
underneath the car, but In the effort
had his right foot caught under the
wheels.
Choked to death by the band of
his shirt was the fate of George
Smith, at Cressona. He was taken
with spasm during the night ana
was found with his head hanging
out Of the bed. His shirt was con-
lracted to such an extent that he
,trangled, his face and neck being
black and swollen.
When the cases against Edward
VI. Earle, of Easton, and James j.
Gillespie, of Allentown, charged with
altering forgeries, came up at Eas-
lon, Earle pleaded guilty to having
signed the name of his aunt, Mrs.
=. M. Brinkerhoff to various notes
which he had given to Gillespie, the
notes starting from small sums and
1eing doubled on renewal. EARLE
hen went on the stand and told all
the circumstances.
The Tri-County Medical Society,
rom Chester, Delaware and Mont
gomery Counties, met in the Imperial
Hotel, Chester, and celebrated the
anniversary of the birth of DR.. Sam
del Hahnemann. Many physicians
we're present and DR.. Thomas 8.
Dunning, of Philadelphia, read nBe-
moir on the life of Hahnemann. Fol-
lowing the meeting a planked shad
dinner was served. The meeting was
presided over by DR.. Edward 8.
Haines, of Rutledge, the president
Of the association.
DR.. Jonathan L. Forwood, who
last week observed his fiftieth ufi-
niversary as a practicing physician,
was presented with solid silver
gold-lined loving cup, by the Deh-
ware County Medical Society at Ches-
ter, of which DR.. Forwood is presi-
dent, at its annual meeting. DR.. p.
w. Jefferis, the next oldest doctor
in point of service In the county,
made the speech. Preceding the pre-
sentation the society was addressed
by Prof. George e. Deschweinitz,
Jefferson College, Philadelphia,
whose subject was Drug Diseases"
A heavy blouse she wore becoming
tangled in loom at the Grocer Mifts,
Upland, resulted in a broken nose
and lacerations of the face and body
for Mrs. Elizabeth McGill, a weaver.
The fact that the blouse was of
thick material, and stopped the ma
chinery, saved the woman from fatal
injury. The loom had to be taken
ri irfn hnfnrn fhn
woman could be released.
William Seymour. an assistant
mine foreman, in the employ of Coxe
Brothers and Company, Hazleton, for,
the past thirty years, was so badly
squeezed between an air motor and
a prop, that he died from the effects.
He was So years of age and the
father of twenty-one children, all asel
living.
The body of Miss Rebecca Sdx,'
the 17-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Mary Sox, who disappeared from her
home in Easton on March 10. was
found floating In the Lehigh RiveF.
Miss Sox left a note to her mother,
saying she intended to jump into
the water from the Suspension.
Bridge. She also selected her psi
bearers, minister and undertaken.
Mrs. Elizabeth Yarnall, "a yeaps
of age, fell and broke her hip at her
home In Eogmont Township, De&-
ware County.
Compressed air engine service lsI
to be installed in the Baltimore and
Red Ash VEINS of the mines at Max
we'll colliery, No. 20 breaker, at Ash
ley, thus disposing of mule servfoe
In those veins.
The amount of freight business on
the Pennsylvania Railroad between
Wilkes Barre and Sunbury necessi-
tates a double track. Many curves
and grades will be eliminated be-
tween Bloomsbury and Catawissa,
and the work will be done this sum
mer.
Falling several hundred feet into
the depths of the shaft at the Phoe-
nix Park Colliery, north of Potts.
Vile, Andrew Bein, miner, was
instantly killed.
Frantic from pain, her garments
all afiame, veritable human torch,
Mrs. John Schmidt, aged 70 years,
OF Pottsville, jumped from her bed
room window upon a porch roof,
and burned to death In the presence
Of hundreds who had gathered and
witnessed the pitiable spectacle, but
were powerless to aid her. She had
gone upstairs with a lamp, which
fell from her hands as she reached
the top stair because she tripped.
The lamp exploded and the blazing
kerosene ignited her clothing. She
attempted to put out the fire by
wrapping a blanket about her, but
in her fright she failed to smother
the flames. In her vain efforts to
secure help she jumped upon the
roof. There she screamed in her
agony. Some one reached her event.
ually and tore off her blazing gar
: ments, but it was too late, for by
the time the rescuer was through
with his work she was charred and
blackened corpse.
After an illness of five days with
organic heart trouble, Henry j. Rit-
ter, member of Allentown city
council, sank dead at his bedside as
he was preparing to retire.
The York County rural free deliv-
cry men have passed series OF reso-
lutions to be referred to the county
commissioners. the State highway
commissioners and the State conven-
tion OF the Rural Free Delivery AS
sociation, in which they demand that