The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-01-07
STATE ITEMS.

Governor Stuart has been invited
to preside at the Lincoln Day exer-
cises in Harrisburg, in February, by
Congressman Olmstead, Senator Fox
ex-Mayor Vance c. Mccormick and
James NJ. Lamberton.
John f. Achilla, of Shenandoah,
aged SO years, while upon his way
home, was run down and killed by a
Schuylkill trolley car.
Hydrophobia has been discovered
among the herd of cattle at the farm
of the Glen Mills House of Refuge.
Two cows affected have been killed.
The Schuylkill County Commits
S oners inaugurated the new year by
redeeming $24,100 of bonds, which
reduces the county Indebtedness to
S250,000. This reduces the funded
debt tax to a half mill.
The home of w. H. Baker, of Del
roy, was inadvertently damaged by
young men who were ushering in the
New Year. They discharged several
sticks of dynamite in the public road
not far from. Mr.. Bakers residence.
The concussion broke many windows
fer which the boys agreed to pay.
The Philadelphia & Reading Coal
and Iron Company has issued con-
tracts which will vastly increase it's
coal output in the lower anthracite
field A tunnel to be over 1000
feet long has been started to connect
Otto No. l slope and Otto No. 2
slope at Branchdale. Another tun-
mel Is to be driven north in Otto
slope No. /, which will cut a field
of virgin coal. These slopes are g.
100 feet deep.
ID. w. Seller, of Berks County,
shipped n half bushel of Northern
Spy apples to Redlands, Cal, where
he sold them for $3.50.
Sydney Young, a farmer, living
near. Bethlehem, sold his farm horse
to Louis Achenbach, of Plainfield, for
10 cents. The horse is in good con-
dition. Mr.. Yopng's excuse for SELL
ing it so cheaply was that feed was
too high to keep 1t over winter.
DR.. A. B. Moulton, of the State
Department of Health, who was in
charge of the typhoid fever epidemic
at Reading, left there, not deeming
his further presence necessary.
A dynamite explosion in the Luke
Fidler mine at Shamokin blinded
Thomas Hagues and seriously injur-
ed John Swarts.
Mrs. Peter Zubskie, of Shamokin,
became violently insane and in bat
Ting with Privates Davis and Dem
mis-, of the State Police, knocked out
the formers teeth. She was remov-
ed to the Danville Insane Asylum.
At the risk of his life Gateman
Thomas Moakler, of Shenandoah,
dragged a drunken man from the
Lehigh tracks Just as a passenger
train was about to hit him. So close
were both to death that the cow
catcher tore part of Moakler's flying
coat tails from his person.
Eli Swoyer, of FritZtown, has a
peculiar flower plant in his garden,
which blooms bit once a year, and
that on Christmas eve, regardless of
the cold. The buds burst forth this
year through the snow that covered
the plant.
Not In a quarter of century has
the County Home at Hamburg, had
so many inmates as at present, $50
in number.
NJ. B. Wismer, of Franconia, and
Miss Elsie Barndt, of Telford, near
Pennsburg, have announced their
marriage, which took place at Will
mington, Del, June 6.
Thinking he had killed a man,
Ira B. Woy. a lawyer, OF Coalmont,
blew the top of his head off. In n
quarrel with w. +. Ellenberger and
Harry Gallagher. he picked up an
ak and felled the latter TO the ground,
believing the blow to be fatal one.
Joshua Ainsworth, OF Chester, his
face bronzed by the sun and winds
of the Southwest. called TO see his
sister, Mrs. John Knox. OF Chester.
II was the first time they had met
In twenty-five years.
Theodore Morris, of Chester. a 49,
year-old coaster. sustained a fractur-
cd skull In colliding with wagon ct
the foot OF steep hill.
Physicians OF Tamaqua have or
sanized union TO charge time and
half time for visits between the hours
OF p. M. and 7 A. M.