The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31
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ing when flames almost completely
destroyed their home at Collingialc.
An alarm was sent out and the fire
companies from Norwood, Sharon
Hill and Folcroft responded, but
little OF the house could be saved.
The fire was discovered by Mr..
Marshall's daughter while the fam-
lily was at breakfast, and 80 quick
was its spread that they we're cons
PEELED to leave their uncompletcd
meal and fly. Several streams from
the chemical extinguishers were
soon playing on the blazing building,
but the water was turned to ice al
most as soon as It left the nozzle.
Mrs. Marshall received such a nerv-
GUS shock from the excitement at
tendant on the fire that a physician
had to be summoned. Mr.. Marshall
is the father of former County Com
missioner ]. Harry Marshall and or
former Sheriff j. Humphrey Mar
shall, both prominent in Delaware
County politics.
The home of William G.. Daniels,
at Scranton, former clerk OF the
County Commissioners, now secre1
tary of the Poor Board, was almost
totally destroyed by fire. The total
loss on house and furniture will
reach $4,000, on which there is
some insurance. The fire was due
to the thawing out of frozen water
pipes which was being done by the
domestic, Miss Emma Bartosch. In
this work the young woman used o
hand lamp, the flame from which
overheated and set fire to the wood
work.
The lives OF two children, John
and Mary Machak, aged and b
respectively. were sacrificed in fire
which broke out in a large double
house in tho Fourteenth Ward,
Johnstown. The little ones were
suffocatej by smoke as they lay in
bed in an upper room. Fire from
a detected fiue attacked the parti-
ton between the two houses and
shortly filled the side In which the
children we're with smoke, suffocat-
ing them. The damage to the build
ing was slight.
Quite a sensation was caused in
Bethlehem when Postal Inspector w.
w. Stone, of Philadelphia, arrested
Walter f. Hoffman, a highly respect
ed young man, and charged him with
/ robbing the mails. Hoffman had
lbeen employed at the post Office for
seven years as chief mailing clerk,
but his Irregularities are said to
have extended over a two year per-
iod. When arrested several decoyl
letters containing silver coin werel
found on his person. AT hearing.
before United States Commissioner
w. J. Jones, Hoffman was held In
$1,000 bail His trial will take
place In the United States District
Court at Philadelphia in March.
Hoffman is largely the support Of
a widowed mother and an invalid
sister. He Is 26 years old.
A number of property owners in
Springfield encouraged by Mrs. Mary
Agnew, 6 neighbor, recovering dam
ages from the Llewellyn Mining Com
pany for undermining and causing
her lot to cave In, instituted suit
against the company for undermine
ing their houses and lots.
Mrs. w. B. Bethel, who for the
past ten years has had charge OF
the art department at Betzger Col
lege for women, Carlisle, has re-
signed her position, which will be
taken by Miss Winifred S. Woods,
who has lately returned from South
America, where she was at the head
of the art department of Conception
College, Chill.
The sharp turn of a trolley car,
in rounding a curve In Pittsburg,
shook Frederick Bushar, who was
riding on the rear platform, so that
he dropped his false teeth. He saw
them going and in reaching to save
them, fell headlong to the street.
Bushar sustained a broken arm and
shoulder and several fractured ribs,
In addition to internal injuries. He
lies in a serious condition.
Joseph Long, Cambria brake
man, 21 years of age, fell under his
train at Johnstown and was ground
TO pieces.
AS a reward for saving the. First
National Bank of Altoona from burn4
lng at Sunday mornings fire, Presi-
lent John Lloyd has sent to the
Firemen's Relief Association check
.or $3.50.
Caught between cars on. the Read
ing Railroad at Landingville, Will
liam Martin, aged 81 years, has his
sheet crushed in. His death oc-
,urred instantly. The accident oo-
eurred when the man tried to pass
between two sections of a coal train.
Valentine W. Schrelner and Catha-
ilne. Schreiner, his wife, have
brought suit In the Columbia County
Courts against the Shamokin 8
Mount Carmel Electric Railway
Company for $4,000 damages, al
eged to have been sustained by Mrs.
Bohreiner when one of the company's
sars eollided with a COW.
While tunneling for water near
Fishers Ferry, Joseph Roughton
and John Moody found a we'll de-
fined copper vein, the outcrop being
thin and almost perpendicular.
Peter Kuzikewicz, aged 26 years,
son of a Shenandoah merchant, was
killed in a railroad wreck near
Havre, Montana. He was fireman
on locomotive.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
large slaughter house of o. B. De-
long, at Lansford, entailing a loss
of $4,000, partly covered by insurI
affce.
Announcement is made of an In
crease of $40 month in the wages
| of section foremen on the main line
of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and
an increase of from SIS to $3.50 In
the pay of division foremen.
While crossing the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks at Mountville, the
team driven by DR.. s. B. Koser was