The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-09-29
STATE
HAPPENING

Pottsville.-A novel cour,shin ma
testified in court here bote was
Judge Bechtel in a case in e vbI.e
Mrs. Louisa Schultz, a widow smoa 'os
Hartman Hoffman for breach ~
promises to marry. Mrs. Scbu,,.
said that Hoffman never callod hss
"dearie' or honey and she does
not believe he loved her. althnucS
she said she still loves him. When
Mrs. Schultz pressed Hoffman ~
Keep his promise of marriage be
sold his fine big house and furnitrro
and instead built little one-story
shanty. Mrs. Scnultz alleges tbay
this was done to cool her easernesa
to become Mrs. Hoffman. Tho deo
fendant said that he would have
kept his promise to marry Mrs
Schultz, but that he had heard that
her former husband might still be
living. Mrs. Schultz asked for
$1,000 damages, but the jury onlv
allowed her $2S.
Scranton.-A premature explosion
in Storris No. 1 mine brought death
TO John Memica, a miner aged al
years. When his body was removed
from the mine and his pocke,s
searched he was found to be a trav.
cling bank. In his pockets and in
an old belt around his body he car
ried over 81 500 in fifty and twenty
dollar bills. Memica's widow was al
most paralyzed with astonishmen,
when the money was handed to her
Her husband had always assured her
1t puzzled him to make both ends
meet.
Scranton.--One of the most seri-
Gus mine caves in years in this vi
cinity took place in Old Forge,
Houses owned by John Snyder and
Anthony Thomasonie were wrecked.
One owned by John Hainsley was
damaged. 1t is said that the dam
age to the Snyder home was so great
that the structure may have to be
rebuilt. Superintendent John Cor
coran, of the Jermyn Coal Company.
has notified the people of the vicin-
ity to be on the look out for fur
ther settling.
Pottsville.-Joseph Kusko, of st.
Clair, was suffocated and John
Walsh, of the same place, fatally
hurt by slide of tons of black dirt
in small mine at Broad Mountain.
They were working at the base of a
big bank, when suddenly the entire
side collapsed upon them. 1t re-
quired half hour of the hardest
kind of work to get them out and
when they were recovered KuskO
was dead, Walsh was barely breath.
ing, but was resuscitated, although
1t Is believed he cannot live.
Pittsburg.-Miss Edna B. Doe, OF
Washington, d. c., was instantly
killed, Walter j. Wilson, of Glen 0s-
borne, suburb of Pittsburg, was
probably fatally injured, his wife Sc
riously hurt, and Max Feltwell,
chauffeur, had three ribs crushed, the
result of local passenger train 955
on the Pennsylvania Railroad strik-
ing the automobile in which the
party were returning from Washing
ton, d. c., to Sewickley.
Media.-The officials of Edgmont
Township are negotiating for loan
to make extensive Improvements 10
Edgmont great road which is
anticipated, will .orm a connecting
link with the projected main high
way from Philadelphia to Pittsburg
hall, John B. Davis and Samuel Pin
kerton will be called upon to expend
$1,000 for improvements to this
highway.
Pottstown. - Seized with convul-
sions while out canoeing on the
Schuylkill Canal, Monroe Reitnouer,
young man, Is years of age, was
drowned when he fell out of the frail
bark. The canoe was partly over
turned with the result that his com
panions, George Schauersand Will
liam Barr, narrowly escaped simi-
lar fate.
Shamokin.-Police discovered a
hut on Brush Valley Mountain in
which they captured a man almost
nude, with hair hanging far down
his back ari whiskers to his knees.
He was almost starved. He said bis
name WAS Joseph Moleskie and that
he had gone into the mountains
some time ago having become tired
OF living with human beings.
Shenandoah. While Charles
Dougherty, 28 years old, of Lost
Creek, was walking on the Reading
tracks he was run down by the Can
nun Ddil IApitSS. Nuo
25 feet into the laurel bushes. He
Is in a critical condition at the state
Hospital. A short time ago he met
with a similar accident and lost an
arm and barely escaped with his life.
Huntingdon. - A disastrous fre'
caused by incendiaries, destroyed the
large sawmill plant of the Broad TOP
Lumber Company and 100000 leel
of lumber, near Coalmont. The
Huntingdon fire department respono-
ed to a summons for help. The loss
is $4,000.
Collingdale.-Rev. Walter S. Dun-
lop, who has been the pastor oil tne
Collingdale Baptist Church for Two
years, has rendered his Resignation
in order to resume his studies ioI
another year at Grocer Seminary al
Chester.
Chester.-Annie McFadden, -
years old, died from an illness when
developed from an abscess whlch
formed on a tootn three weeks ago
The Inflammation gradually grew
worse, inoculating her entire sly
tom and affecting her heart.