The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-10
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dered. because the authorities OF sui
livan County we're so lax as to allow
the assailant to escape when " was
known that his victim could not i've.
Vigorous search for the fugitive has
been instituted. For six days after
the affair John Van Buskirk, who
is charged with the crime, was at
his home in Tivoli, and he remained
there until news reached him of the
death of the man he had attacked.
Since that time no trace can be found
Of the slayer, but evidence seems TO
point to the fact that he Is lurking
In the forests surrounding the town.
District Attorney Hill, of Dushore,
has taken up the matter and sent
men out on a hunt for the murderer.
Other detectives have been placed
on the case and every effort viii now
be made to capture Van Burkirk.
the residents are wrought up be-
cause only two years ago one OF
the most brutal murder mysteries
in the criminal history of this part
of the State went unsolved. and they
fear now that another criminal viii
escape punishment.
Coroner King, of Montgomery
County, investigated the death OF
Frank ID. Shaner, of Pottstown, who
died from injuries received at the
Ringing Hill Hotel in Upper Potts
grove Township, on Christmas.
There was doubt as to whether Sha-
ner. who was the heaviest man in
the upper end, died by accident or
was slain The verdict OF the jury
Thursday was that Shaner came to
his death from a fractured skull by
accidentally falling down the steps
leading to the porch of the Ringing
Hill Hotel.
An explosion set fire to the Lacka-
wanna Steel Company's mine at
Cokeburg. The loss Is 500 900.
Several men narrowly escaped death.
Corporation Clerk Whitworth gave
/. hearing at the State Department
in Harrisburg to objectors to the
proposed incorporation of the Juni-
alta Valley Street Railway to run be-
tween Huntingdon and Lewistown.
The obiectors we're the Huntingdon
Street Railway Company. Conflict
of routes was the basis of objections.
Sydney Mcpherson, the 1S-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Nc
Pherson, of Muddy Creek Forks,
York County, has been missing from
his home for several days and despite
the fact that almost everything pos
sibe has been done to find him,
their efforts have proven futile.
Irwin Dressler saved Stephen
Wright from being run down by
Reading Railroad passenger train at
Shamokin, showing him away from
the track as the train passed.
g-I.A I..o r1
at his rescuer and began pummel-
ing him. Dressler returned the
blows and badly punished him.
whereupon, Wright. recovering his
sense, thanked Dressler for saving
his life.
Thomas p. Kennedy, proprietor OF
the West Grove Inn. a well known
hotel keeper in the southern end Of
Chester County, was held in 81 200
bail for court by Justice S. NJ. Pax
son, on the charge of selling liquor
without license. The charge was
brought by County Detective r. o.
Jefferis.
Mine Inspectors John Curran, OF
Pottsville, of the Eighteenth District,
and M. j. Brennan, of Pottsville, OF
the Nineteenth District, embracing
over fifty collieries, finished their re-
ports for last year. They show 105
accidents in the eighteenth and sc
in the nineteenth. OF these there
were twenty-six fatal accidents III
the eighteenth and twenty-five in the
nineteenth The coal production,
when the colliery reports are all in,
will show an increase of many thou
sands of tons in these districts. In
| spector Benjamin Evans, of the
Fourteenth district, made his re-
port for the year. 1t shows eighteen
fatal and twenty non-fatal accidents.
Charles r. Spangler, of York, a
lad Ia years old, was badly bitten
by a ferocious dog, which sprang
upon him while going home from
school,.
The annual report of the York
Hospital and Dispensary shows that
| for the maintenance of the institu-
! tion $1S,171.12 was received. Nine
Thousand dollars of this was appro-
priated by the State and $500 for
the city of York; $11,794.33. OF
which the city contributed $606.77,
was used for building purposes.
The Teachers Association of Eas-
ton has chosen Prof. Earl Barnes to
give the annual series of lectures on
education in 1907
Like ordinary prisoners, two
valuable dogs, which were found
coaming around Darby, have been
committed to the lookup, confined
n an iron-barred cell, awaiting own
srship.
George w. Wildin, of Meadville,
las rendered mis- resignation as assis-
tant mechanical superintendent OF
he Erie Railway, taking effect i'm
nediately. A letter sent over his
head to a subordinate is said to be
he cause of the resignation.
Upper Darby Castle, Knights Of
Golden Eagles, has elected the fol-
lowing officers; Past chief, John
Fielding; noble chief, William Mon
roe; vice chief, Richard Reed; sir
herald, Frank Nelmeyer; high priest,
Ioel b. Jone.
Herbert Steward, Shamokin, has
been appointed mercantile appraiser
Of northumberland County by the
commissioners. There were ten ap-
plicants Edward Nicely Dewart
was sworn in as register and recorder
and sppointed all the clerks who
served his predecessor.
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