The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-03
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| creek Ndlley, through WHICH Iuns
one of the richest anthracite coal
veins in the entire world has an
nounced that it will construct one of
the largest coal breakers in the
world a short distance from this
place, one that will cost several mil
| lions of dollars and having an an
nual output of million tons Of coal.
The plan of the company is to drive
a tunnel from the top of Nesquehon-
| ing Mountain down to a level of sew
eral hundred feet below the surface
Of the main valley, where another
shaft will be erected at the breaker
and the two shafts will be connected
by tunnel through which coal will
be conveyed from great distances.
The breaker will be erected midway
between this place and Lansford,
where for a distance of five miles
and a width of several miles no coal
has yet been mined but where II
exists in eXhaustless quantities. All
plans and arrangements have been
completed by the company, which ex-
poets to have this mammoth colliery
In operation in two years.
McKeesport-Ci officials to be
deprived of Office the first Monday in
December, by reason of an amend
ment TO the law governing cities of
the thlrd-class, will try again for
the places they now hold, with the
exception of Mayor H. S. Arthur, who
is not permitted that privilege. An
nouncement that the amendment had
been signed by Tener came as a
thunderbolt to the politicians of Allie
gheny county, after 1t had been dis
covered by w. s. McClatchey, chief
clerk of the County Commissioners.
It had been passed by the Legisla,
ture the latter part of April and
signed by the Governor, June 2l,
without attracting general attention.
ttsville.-The tax collectors OF
this county in convention decided to
demand an increase in commission
for collecting the school taxes under
the new school code. Instead of two
per cent. commission they demand
five per cent, because of the extra
labor entailed by the new law which
compels them to notify every tax,
payer of the taxes due within thirty
days after the duplicate is opened
nf hn pn1lnntnrc CT 20 nI IL THAR
demands are not granted they will 90
on strike and refuse to accept re-
election.
Tyrone.-Eight employees Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
were injured in head-on collision
between two locomotives here. En-
CINE No. $40 with Engineer j. G.
Hull and Conductor II. r. Harshber'
ger moving west with one car at
tached and local engine and cabin
with Engineer S. w. Keith and Con-
ductor II. II. Miller going east coll
lided near the depot.
Hazleton.-Mayor Charles Bruch
and the other city officials of Ia2Ie-
ton expressed no fear that they come
under the provisions OF the ripper
features of the new third-class city
law. The Mayor, City Treasurer ana
City Comptroller here were elected
in 1910, and their terms will expire
in 1913, the year of the next mu-
nicipal election after that of l9lL
South Bethlehem m-More than two
hundred members of the Clauss fam
lily attended the ninth annual reunion
at Waldheim Park The Clauses,
who came from the Bethlehems'
Philadelphia, Limeport, SaegersYiIle'
East Greenville, Raubsville and yarl'
Gus Lehigh county towns, are de.
scendants of Nathan and Daniel
Clauss.
Lebanon. - Grant, seven-year-old
son of Grant Wagner, of Palmyra
was perhaps fatally injured, ani MIS-
John Lettich, of near Palmyra, serl
ously hurt, when the team occupIeu
by them was struck by Leblanc"
Valley Street Railway car at boH',
gardner's Lane, two miles east oI
Palmyra.
ancaster.-Mrs. Samuel Warner
a member of a prominent FANNY
committed suicide by hanging neI.
self in the attic of her home at Nn'V
House. Her body was found oy "5,
husband. Mrs. Warner has been u
i'll health for some time.
Hazleton.-While picking hucNes
berries in the woods, Berha'o
Wisske, ten-year-old West HaZ.e ,.
ton boy. was struck by bolt oil llsn.
ming during short thunderstolm
and instantly killed. Andrew nv"
alki, a boy with him, was Rhoons
down by the same bolt, but esc'p''
injury.
Marietta-A mad dog was kilIe'
on the Duffy farm, just hoI'I g,cs
town. after it had bitten seyera' uoe''
and gave several men chase'
Temple.-While Edwin NJ, beynS,, 'h"r,
an employee at the MuhIe"Uo uoar
Brewing plant, at Hyde Parh, soor
here, was working on the tniru an" and
he was stricken with paraIys,.s ,,,n m'
fell a distance of twenty feet ltuT noiio,
window to the roof of the OCm, Srac
house. sustaining a compou"u tb
,ure of the skull, resulting in ue'''
Carlisle. - Contention among g.n, ,J
directors Of the shippensOurg Tapt .t
G Manufacturing Company .ooiver
annlication to be made for '',v ,,,cns