The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26

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Pittsburgh.-He rains through
out eastern Ohio and western Penn
sylvania the past few days were re-
sponsible for the loss OF five lives.
Reading.-Adam w. Fisher, Read
ing's leading bother, died OF COM
plication OF diseases in his sixtieth
year.
Lewistown.-Those who have fol-
lowed the woods for years say they
have never seen the nuts so plentiful
which is a harbinger Of much small
game and cold winter.
Lock Haven.-Peter Kufskie, who
shot and killed Alonzo Smith in
jealous frenzy, in South Remove, on
July IS, was found guilty OF murder in
the second degree.
Boyertown. - Thieves gained en-
trance to the hall of the Nest OF
Orioles and crushed glass door OF
chest, in which the weekly dues were
hidden. The thieves escaped with
$25.
Carlisle.-In his primary expense ac-
count, Josiah w. Kline, who was un-
opposed for the Republican nomlna-
ton for clerk Of the courts OF Cum
berland county, specified that he ex-
pended $5750 for toothpicks.
Hollidf ysburg Plowden, col
ored, and ex-convict, was sentenced by
the Blair County Court to pay fine OF
$4,000 and undergo term OF twenty
two years Imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary for criminal assault
York.-Charles V. Sponsler, the
clerk, who received fortune from the
John Singer estate, went to New York
| to have the necessary transfers made
+ II now turns out that the fortune Will
exceed 100000.
Duncannon. 49, The two year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Hill
bish. OF Watts township, in the tenn
porary absence of her parent, drank
the contents OF bottle OF carbolic
acid and died in terrible agony.
Mertztown.-W William II. Shoemaker,
seventy.one years old, is dead. He
twice enlisted in the Civil War and
served in Company !, One Hundred
and Twenty-eighth Regiment, and
Company X, Forty-seventh Regiment,
and participated in eleven battles.
Williamsport.-Th body of Miss
Mary Sheppa was found in Loyalsock
Creek, near her home at Hillsgroye.
Miss Sheppa had been missing for sew
eral days and searching party found
the body.
Kempton.-The site of the first
Moravian Church in the Kistler Val
! ley, which was erected as early as
1870, was discovered by William J.
Dietrich, while gathering data of the
early settlers in the Kistler Valley
Selinsgrove.-Char SPOTS, we'll
todo farmer, residing near Fremont,
aged about forty years, while driving
from Middleburg to his home with a
load of coal, was killed outright when
his wagon upset at an embankment.
York Charles Kunkle. aged thirty
four, while working in a slate quarry
at Delta, dropped from the rigging a
distance of about thirty feet, and
broke his neck. His death was IN
stantaneous.
Reading.-Hunter Eckert, of Read
ing. and his sister, Mrs. II. Il. Meigs'
OF Pottstown, have presented the
Christ P. f. Church here with a SlOi
900 organ which is now being Install
ed. 1t will have 1900 pipes.
Easton.-B Becoming melancholy al
ter an illness lasting several years
Miss Nellie Fiefer, forty years OLD,
committed suicide by hanging herself
in the barn on the farm of her father'
William Kiefer, at Nazareth.
Norristown.-For the loss of an arm
by being run over by Reading tram
at the local station two years ago
Ruth Smith, of Reading, was awarded
$4,000 by the railway company aiter
the case was called for trial, MISS
Smith was injured when she sllppeu
on the icy platform and fell under '"o
car wheels.
Oley. - When an inventory was
made of the personal effects OF Tue
late Miss Elizabeth Keim, the olueS.
resident and the wealthiest woman Vi
Pike Township, the appraisers dlsco,,
cred lard can half full of all Rlhus
OF silver, copper and gold COINS
amounting to over $1,000. II was
carted on wheelbarrow to nearby
bank.
Palmerton. It is authoritatiVeE
stated that a trolley line VIII De pu,,,
through this town, and that II WI"
extend between Lexington and sla'Ius
ton, and that preparations are alreauy
under way by which the bulldlnR "
this important link in the chai" "
trolley lines between the anthrao,'o
coal regions and Philadelphia VIII W
completed in less than year
Pittsburgh.--The jury in the coS'
Harry Lott, the composer, sueu ~ ~
$40, 900 damages by Harry sonI'lo,nr",, on,s
for the alienation of Mrs Somlne.,mo .r ooo
affections, returned verdict OF So'uOJ sou
against Lotz Sommerill declare
Lott deliberately took his wire a""'
Carlisle. When some rats
their escape from cage brousn' ~ ,,rs ,S
a restaurant here by several men, ", ,or
Anthony Eckerd made a spri"s nos
the TOP of the table at which sne w" oSo
@ citing The table overturned and SnV
slttlng' Inc '"o'0 - irtornal in