The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-04-27
LIVE NEWS
OF THE
STATE

Minnie Parsons Is the salutatorian.
Tho commencement exercises Will
take place on June 2.
York.-Thousan OF shad are
swimming about in front of the big
dam at McCall's Ferry. Many OF
them have been caught with dip nets
and seines II is stated that on ac-
count Of the dam they cannot get up
the river.
Johnstown. Three coored per-
sons, one a woman, were killed, and
five, also one a woman, were In
iured In an automobile accident,
while returning from dance. The
machine, running fifty miles an hour,
skidded jumped on to a pavement
and ran into a telephone pole.
Mauch Chunk A cablegram has
been received from Peking, China,
by friends Of Mrs Harry r. Packer,
deceased stating that Mrs Packer
lied OF pneumonia and not by the
plague. as supposed, and that the
body will be shipped to Mauch
Cunk for burial. arriving at san
Francisco on May 10.
Media. Harry c. Worrall, a farm
er Of Newton township, began suit
for divorce from his wife, Margaret
Worrall, charging her with miscon-
duct with Thomas Pyle, Of Lima.
Pyle is under bail for trial on
charge preferred by Worrall, and
Worrall was held for trial on
charge Of assault and battery on his
wife.
Bethlehem. George Buss. a broth
er of Tobias Buss, OF Lehighton, re-
ceived word that the DUPONT Pow
der Company had decided to purchase
his invention The invention is one
by which powder is manufactured
that is non-eXploslye unless ignited
by fire He has patented the inven-
ton in this country, Mexico and Ger
many.
bloomsbury. Only the fact that a
hard storm was in progress saved the
village Of EXcnange when the three
story planning mill of John Hartman
and Jacob Smith caught fire and was
destroyed, entailing a $4,000 loss.
rhe mill was In the center OF the VIII
'age and with no fire protection the
heavy rain kept the flames from
spreading.
Norristown-Be Because there is not
sufficient money in the county treas
ury. the erection OF the new House
of Detention. bids for which have
been received, and which will cost
about $4,000, the building will
likely be POSTPONED for a time At the
direction Of County Controller
Jacobs. who says he wants the coun-
ty to pay as It goes
Chester. John Crawl. OF Leiper-
vile, died in the Chester Hospital
from injuries received at the Bald
win Locomotive Works in Eddy
stone, whore he was employed lie
was adjusting the driving box OF
locomotive on wheels when he fell,
sustaining fracture of the skull.
Crawl came to leiperville few
months ago from Reading.
Pottsyille, Armed with legs torn
from the table in their ward, Adam
Hanselman1 and William Colonis, two
inmates at the county insane asylum.
fought a duel to death. When at
tendants rushed to the ward, drawn
there by the sound of the scuflle, Col
onis. who is 80 years old, was lying
on the floor with his head battered
In, while over him stood Hanselman
uninlured. Colonis died shortly
afterward.
Reading The jury in the case Of
S. b. Wagner and c. b. Wickersham
against the Reading Railway Com
pany for the destruction by fire Of
their barn in Douglass township, al
legged to have been caused by sparks
from locomotive, awarded the
plaintiffs $4,000 damages The barn
was valued az $4,000 and contained
crops and machinery worth $1,000.
II was localed forty feet from tho
Colebrookdale branch,
York John b. Kone, Of Chance
ford township, was badly injured by
an explosion of small dynamite
zap which had been hidden away in
some loose tobacco which he had
been carrying around I'M his pocket.
Kone loaded the bulb of his pipe
With the tobacco and, after he had
given several strong puffs, there was
an explosion which carried away
portions of his nose, cut his eye and
burned his face badly
Allentown. BY direction of State
Health Commissioner Dixon the but
ter produced in the greater part OF
Lower Macungie, rich agricultural
township of Lehigh county, has been
uuarantined on account OF scarlet
fever. An epidemic OF this ma'ady
which spread through the borough OF
Emans and sundry villages, was
traced by the health inspectors to be
scarlet fever in the families of the
dairymen.
Bloomsbury. At the closing ses-
sion of the Northumberland Presby-
| terry here Rev. S. c. Dickson, OF
Bloomsbury, and Rev. w. X. Pres
ton, of Elysburg, were elected min
isterial, and ID. H. Snyder, Of Sun
bury, and Robert l.. Montgomery,
OF Warrior Run, lay commissioners
to the General Assembly,
Bethlehem. While on visit to
his daughter, Mrs. w. A. Coleman, az
Rutztovn Howard Laubach, for tWen-