The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-04
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give them more salary.
Less than one-half of the municipal
candidates in Schuylkill County COM
piled with the law requiring the FL
Ing of their expense account, and the
time for filing has now expired. A
trial of SS3 candidates obeyed the
law.
The home of Joseph Stevenson, of
Lewistown. was robbed by sneak
thieves, of seveal hundred dollars
worth of diamonds and jewelry
The thieves gained entrance by plac-
ing ladder to a window in the
second story at the rear of the house,
while the family were entertaining
company on the first floor.
Frank Letter was shooting rats on
farm at Irish Valley, near Shamo-
kin, when his gun accidently explod-
ed, forty grains of shot entering his
hand, almost tearing IL off.
The employees at the Readings
car shop have been notified to work
thirteen hous a day. They have been
working ten hours a day
Eight miles of the State road, the
portion leading from Hamburg TO
Shartlesville, will be made this sea-
son under the new road bill. 1t is
estimated to cost about 100000 to
$4,000.
The explosion of a compound with
which Prof. William Davies, of Yard
ley, was experimenting, wrecked the
dwelling occupied by James Hustled
and started fire which completely
destroyed a large barn and farm i'm
plement house, entailing a loss of
several thousand dollars. Members
of the Hustled family and Prof.
Davies had narrow escapes from be-
ing buried beneath the debris.
Many prominent Hungaians are
interested in the establishment of
a Magyar colony for which land has
been purchased just outside Dun
more, near Scranton. The tract
which is extensive, will be occupied
solely by Magyars. The town will
be laid out with care and with an
eye to the aesthetic as we'll as the
material welfare of the residents.
Good dwellings will be erected, and
it is expected that a good class OF
people will take up their residence
therein.
The dam in the Susquehanna in
Lock Haven is rapidly disintegrating
since the timber sheathing has been
removed by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company. The company no
longer has any use for the dam.
Mrs. Julian McCleary fell down a
fight of stairs at her home near
Stewartstown. and died from the ef-
fects of her injuries the next day.
Henry G. Risser, yard master OF
the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
at Catawissa, died at his home after
a brief illness, aged Sd years.
Charles Haman, a well-known
resident of Catawissa, ,di ed at his
home after an illness of two days,
with neuralgia of the heat, aged 65
years. A wife, one son and two
daughters survives him.
The Tioga County Commissioners
have invited the seventy-one road
supervisors of the county to meet
at Wellsboro on April 13 to form
permanent organization for further
ing goods roads. DR.. Joseph Hunter,
State Commissioner of Highways,
has promised to deliver a practical
talk.
John Schafer died at the Moses
Taylor Hospital, Scranton, from
blood poisoning, following an injury
to his ankle, on which a prop fell
while he was at work in the Belle
vue Mine.
Allowing a stick of dynamite to
come in contact with his naked lamp
in a Mahanoy City mine, caused an
explosion which shattered George
Miller's right arm and destroyed the
sight of one eye.
Sampel Richard has given up
blacksmithing at Tylersport, after
working at the forge exactly fifty
years. He spent .forty-seven years
in the same shop at Tylersport.
Charles Donnelly, aged 70 years
and mentally unsound, committed
suicide by hanging in the attic of his
home at Mt. Holly Springs. He had
been i'll for some months.
While playing on the street, the
eight-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Austin, of Oil City, was run
over and instantly killed by street
car.
At Shermansville, near Conneaut
Lake, during an electric storm,
lightning struck a party of four on
the front porch of the house of
Joseph Ghosts. instantly killing his
mother, stunning his daughter and
affecting the others. In the same
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barn was struck and burned and his
horses creamated.
Terribly crushed by a fall of 100
feet and believed to be dead, John
Brady was carried to an undertaking
establishment at Monessen, to be pre-
pared for burial. On the cooling
board where he had been placed,
however, life returned TO him and his
next ride was in the ambulance. not
the dead wagon, as had been expect
ed. He was taken to the hospital
and will recover.
Samuel Manin, of Shamokin, had
Mrs. Mary Aleska arrested, charging
her with stealing a chicken. The
litigants were neighbors. The wom-
an said the fowl belonged to her,
Justice j. p. Mccormick decided that
the chicken be placed between the
two houses and II It few to the wom.
ans home 1t would prove she was
the owner of the fowl. 1t went to
Manin's yard, and the woman was
placed under bail for court.
While walking toward his country
home in the suburbs of Greenwood,
George Given, manager of the AL
toona Manufacturing Company, was
assaulted by two thugs in the dark
ness a few minutes after stepping
from the street car, knocked down
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