The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-12-08
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Cohipauy Hills OI the united states
Steel Corporation Wednesday saw
the first briquette made from ere
dust in their special plant. The bri.
quette will be converted into pig
iron and thus is solved the conser-
walton of ore dust, which has hereto
fore been scattered by the winds over
the many square miles of the Pitts.
burg district. The discovery of the
briquetting plan and its operation
here means a saving of millions OF
dollars on what has heretofore been
accounted as waste and was reckoned
in the cost of production. For two
years the steel company has been
working on plan to capture the ore
dust from the furnaces and machin.
cry was invented for this purpose. A
special plant for the briquetting was
built and its first product was
brought to hand yesterday. Fifty.
eight men are employed in this con.
servation scheme, and new plants
will be added to meet the require
ments.
Lebanon.-To marry and thus es
cape a breach of promise suit, onl,
to be literally dragged from the arm,
of his bride to answer another breach
of promise suit, was the unique ex
perience of Matthias Fatt, aged 2a
years, of this city. Miss Maria
Bruker, of Hebron, recently brought
suit against him for breach of prom.
Use, and on Tuesday of this week he
married her, an alderman perform.
ing the ceremony in the office of the
marriage license clerk. Fatt and his
bride had scarcely left the place
when Miss Annie Marshall, of this
city, went before Judge Henry and
instituted a breach of promise suit
against the bridegroom. No amount
has been named for heart balm, and
a sympathetic friend furnished bail,
so that Fatt could return to his bride
and conclude the honeymoon.
Lock Haven. - Secretary Calbfus,
of the State Game Commission, es-
Inmates there were about 500 deer
killed in Pennsylvania the season just
closed. OF this number at least 1875
were killed in Clinton county, which
is unquestionably one of the best
sections in the State for the propa-
cation of deer. This has been the
best deer season since the introduce
ton of the new laws governing the
killing of deer and sportsmen gen.
orally have endeavored to live up to
them in the strictest sense. There
have been no violations revealed and
strange as 1t may appear not an ac-
cident reported during the entire fif-
teen days, yet the woods were fairly
swarming with hunters.
Pittsburg.-L. Swift, Jr., a former
councilman convicted of bribery dur
ing the councilmanic graft crusade OF
last spring, surrendered himself to
the sheriff to begin four months
sentence that had been imposed. APP
peals to the Superior and Supreme
Courts for a new trial were refused,
and the sentence of the lower court
was upheld. Swift was charged with
taking $S1.10 for his vote in coun-
ellis on the ordinance selecting banks
as city repositories.
South Bethlehem.-Edward Miller
nearly killed his brother-in-law.
Charles Kratzer, with shot in his
anxiety to kill rabbit that sudden
ly dashed across their path, while out
hunting. Surprised at the audacity
of the cotton tail, Miller hurriedly
M hic aI hA trio r.
ger. The shot struck Kratzer full
in the right arm and side, and doc
tor afterwards picked out 175 pieces
of shot from the wounded mans
body.
Shenandoah.-Jose Botanas, 16
years old, had an awful experience
and a miraculous escape from death
at Maple Hill colliery. He was done
for the day. Passing rapidly-revolv-
ing machinery, his clothing caught in
a belt, whirling him in space from
one wheel to another for about five
minutes before his agonizing cries
were heard and the machinery
stopped. Strange to say, he was only
slightly injured.
York.-Sol C. Mayer, so years old.
of Atlanta, Ca, dropped dead in
local jewelry store. Heart disease
was the cause. Mr.. Mayer, who is a
travelling salesman, had entered the
store for the purpose of having his
watch repaired. While the jeweler
was examining the timepiece, Mayer
fell backwards to the floor, dying
within few minutes.
Pottstown. A Reading Railway
flyer running fifty-mile clip through
the lower end of Pottstown, killed a
man who is believed to be an en-
ployee of one of the industries in
that locality. His head is missing,
and he was otherwise SO terribly
mangled that identification is impos-
sible.
Altoona. na.--After nine years of wan
dering about the country, c. f.
Ames, aged AZ. plumber, returned
TO his former home at Beaver Falls,
found his wife married to another
man, and rather than cause any
trouble in the apparently happy
agreed to 20 his way,
he was permitted to take
his eldest son, aged IL. Father and
boy started for Wilkes-Barre, where
the former had been employed, but
their money, ran out when they