The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-16
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He is survived by three children.
Chester Becoming enmeshed in
the bed coverings, Joseph Dodds,
infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Dodds, was smothered to death
Canonsburg. NJ. Collins, a
well-known business man and candi.
date for borough auditor was found
dead at his desk with a bullet in his
brain.
Harrisburg. George Harris, who
placed distractions on Northern Cen.
tral Railroad tracks in this county
last summer, was sent to an insane
hospital.
Chester--A darning needle almost
three inches in length, which had
been in his body since he was a boy,
was taken from the back of Edward
Morris, resident of Marcus Hook.
York.-A corps of surveyors is busy
surveying between this city and the
Maryland line for a State road The
survey follows the old York and
Chanceford pike through Dalastown,
Red Lion, Peachbottom township and
Delta.
Reading - Augustus Gresh,
wealthy retired farmer of Gilberts.
vile, this county was found dead in
bed. He was eighty-three years OF
/ AnnRlaNy ba -
death.
Reading Raymond Gilmore, nf.
himself while examining a loaded re.
volver The bullet entered his head
above the right eye and came out
above the left eye.
Kittanning.- Mary Lehner died
in hospital here as the result of a
wound received when her brotherin.
law, Douglass Quinn, accidentally dis.
charged the gun he was cleaning
preparatory to a hunting expedition.
esboro-Petitions are being
circulated in Greene, Franklin and
Fayette counties, asking President
Taft to pardon J. b. +. Rinehart, for.
mer cashier of the Farmers and Drov-
Nrs' National Bank, of this place, who
is serving a fifteen-year term in the
Western Penitentiary for wrecking
the institution.
Lebanon.-Dr. John ]. Light, upon
l ragnAnHfnor IN httrr COLL a
town drug store, was startled to find
| that his services as county coroner
and not his skill as a physician was
required in the case of Mrs. Albert
Beyerle, OF Annville. The doctor was
asked to stop a nose hemOrrhage and
then found that the patient had died
from a hemorrhage of the lungs. She
had been shopping.
Punxscutawney.-E miners are
believed to have been killed In the
Adrian shaft of the Rochester and
Pittsburgh Coal and Iron Company's
mine, located four miles from here, as
a result of an explosion Fifty miners
who entered the shaft several hours
after the accident, in an attempt to
effect rescue, were driven out by the
gas. Some of them, becoming uncon-
scious, were carried to the surface by
comrades All the missing miners are
| foreigners.
Reading.-Desponde because she
would have to undergo an operation
in the near future, Mrs, Ell u. Welch
ended her life in a horrible manner.
She had been melancholy for week
or more and two women attendants
were in constant attention WhlIe
they went out of the room for snort
time, Mrs. Welch made her way TO the
bath room and securing match
struck il and set her dress on fire In
moment she was enyelopeu III
flames. She fell down a flight oil
stairs. her burning gown setting hre
TO the carpet and other wearing ap
parel. Her husbands both hands were
terribly burned in fighting the names
She died an hour later in local nos
pital. -
Reading-The death of Charles
Sepner. of Plowville several days ago
is attributed to the hold-ups that nave
been taking place in this vicinity la.e
lv Mr.. Segner was found on the
Green Tree hill in an unconscious con.
dition with bruises about head anu
body He delivered a load OF chaI'
coal IN Hohnton and was on MS way
home. He stopped at the Green l!e1
Hotel to have his team OF mules leu
after which he mounted the sduui'
n,ule and started for Plowville II Is
now supposed that while he was vi,
ing over this lonely stretch OF wooU'
land some of the persons VINO n"''
been operating the hold-up game 'a,e
lv euspected Mr.. Segner Of having tne
money for the charcoal that was so,u
and took advantage OF this io"
mace on the road to hold him up anu
roh him Mr. Segner's head and Douy
hear bruises that indicate the us, ~
n heavy club or possibly re'o''0
butt
Allentown. - Convicted OF nl"n ni"n
slaughter in court, Ralph PolDao'~U r,s
who two months ago stabbed Ms
former friend, Frank Passere'.r
death in fight that followed " ,.or p
was sentenced to six years III pc
by Judge Trexler.
p,ttsbureh.-Th Governor ana MS
staff many members OF the ,s Ieu"
v.nia Legislature and scores oil ,l!emS ,.'aroI
.. the deceased. attended the iune'o o.
=. Iohn Fremont Cox, late SpeaAe,
'on" 30 ponreeentatives in First