The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
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q handsome gold embossed pulpit
Bible as memorial to his deceased
wife, Mrs. Mary c. Miller.
Judge Marr, in Schuylkill County
Court, non-suited William Matz. a
Wayne Township farmer, who asked
for $4,000 damages against the
I, Pottsville Union Traction Company.
Matz drove In front of the car and
was badly injured, but testified that
he signaled the motorman to stop.
Miss Harriet Hastings, of Belle
fonte, niece of former Governor Hast
ings, and Miss Isabel Lyday, OF
Chambersburg, composed the first
class of trained nurses graduated
from the Altoona Hospital.
The order to reduce the number
OF crews on the Middle Division OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad has been
rescinded because of the increase
In the volume of freight, which is
said to be heavier than usual at
this time of the year.
Rev. Robert C. Williamson has re-
signed the pastorate of the Presby-
terian Church at Kennett Square, to
take effect the middle of June. Ill
health is the cause and he will prob
ably return to his native State-Mis-
souri,.
Several months ago Walter Biddi-
son bought the hotel at oxford for
$65,000 and he has now sold 1t to
Ira Mclaughlin, of Newark, Del, for
$4,000.
In the past twenty years, from
1887 to 1907, there were 344 di-
81 L..
During the same period 4,819 mar
riages were issued.
Truman Clair Sheats, 12-year-old
son of c. w. Sheats, of Lock Haven,
died in the hospital of tetanus as the
result of stepping on a nail week
ago.
Rev. William Horn, son of Rev.
DR.. E. T. Horn, of Reading, will
probably be elected pastor of the
Lutheran Church of the Advent, one
of the most important churches in
New York York City, succeeding the
late Rev. DR.. Krotel, whose assistant
he was.
William L. Kite, of Darby, who
was elected a justice of the peace
on the Republican ticket, but had
not qualified on account of illness,
died Wednesday, aged AZ years. He
Is survived by a widow. A petition
Is being signed by citizens of the
borough asking Governor Stuart to
appoint George G. Patched, formerly
Register of Wills, to fill the vacancy.
With men lining the sidewalks and
not one making move to stop it,
Miss Florence Straub, a junior at
the Bloomsbury State Normal School,
put them all to shame by running
out into the street and capturing a
runaway horse and then leading 1t
to its owner.
William Geary and Melvin Gaga-
han and II. Troxell, of Windber, were
before Squire Chorpenning at Clear
field for having killed a deer one
day previous the opening last Decem-
ber. The 800 fines were paid.
Alleging false arrest, Jacob Young,
of Reading, brought suit for $4,000
damages against William A. Boyd,
a member of troop G., of the State
Constabulary. He says that the
trooper arrested him for laughing
at him.
Arrangements were made by the
State Forestry Commission for the
transfer of 500 acres of the Mont
Alto Reservation to the State De-
partment of Health for the establish
ment of one of the camps for COM
batting tuberculosis. Commissioner
Dixon inspected the place and ar
ranged for the first work to be done
this summer. The camp will be
located near White Pine, a place of
many natural advantages, and as the
State has allowed 100000 for es-
tabhshment of such camps the Mont
Alto camp will be made a model for
the State.
The women of Lewisburg have or
ganiZed a civic society to improve
and beautify the town They expect
to have the support of the new Coun-
ell recently installed, which has thus
far proved to be very enterprising
body. The officers of the new So
ciety are: President, Mrs. Emma ].
Matlack; vice presidents, Mrs: Alfred
Hayes and Mrs. H. G. Dreisbach;
recording secretary, Miss Mary Hoffa;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Harry
S. Bourne; treasurer, Miss Annie
Dale
The head of Abraham Kensey, an
aged resident of Wilkes-Barre sew
cred by a Lehigh Valley locomotive,
rolled into the hands of his son who
had been knocked down by the same
locomotive. They were returning
from visit to a sick relative when
struck by the locomotive. The faith
er was instantly killed and the son
had narrow escape. being knocked
down. AS he picked himself up
his fathers head, cleanly severed by
the wheels, rolled into his hands.
The remains of the noted Indian
fighter and Revolutionary War veter-
an, Thomas Coleman, was exhumed
at Collinsyille, where they have rest
ed since 1887 and buried at the
Coleman farm which he owned. He
spent much time killing Indians in
revenge for boiling to death his
brother in boiler of maple sugar.
Henry Free, of York, is dead from
Mood poisoning. The malady came
from the bite OF small insect upon
the little finger of his right hand.
The member swelled and the deadly
virus inoculated his whole body.
Free was a veteran of the Civil War.
Engineer ]. b. Nightingale and
four assistant engineers of the State
Health Department, who were pre-
pairing the data for q map OF the
Allegheny watershed in Pennsyl-
yania, have arrived at Dubois and
VIII devote some time surveying