The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-10

ment Company. Colonel Trexler re-
garded it as the finest barn in the
state, and it was built at a cost OF
more than twenty-five thousand dol
lars to replace one on the same site,
destroyed mysteriously two years
ago, the first floor being entirely OF
iron and concrete. The livestock was
saved, but all this years crops went
with the superstructure and the total
loss is about thirty-five thousand dol
lars, partly covered by blanket in
surance. This is the sixth barn Col.
Trexler has lost in five years.
Chester.-The coroner's jury in
case OF Mary Evans, the little girl
who died in Grocer Hospital after
being taken i'll, supposedly from eat
ing a cheap variety of candy, rem
dered a verdict to the effect that the
death Of the girl, who was two years
old, was due to castro enteritis, as
shown by the diagnosis made by DR..
H. F. Taylor, the coroner's physician.
Ut. d. "a Al dh h' "N Wv
ger Hospital, explained to the jury
the condition OF the child when she
was admitted to the institution. He
said from the symptoms he had
formed the opinion that the girl had
died from ptomaine poisoning.
Reading.-Miss Ida Miller, aged
2S years, was brought here from
Lancaster on the charge Of robbing
her former employer, Levi Moch, OF
gold watch and chain, valued at
$50; a diamond ring, worth $40;
three other rings, a gold bar stickpin
and bric-a-brac. She admitted the
theft and was committed to Jail
Reading ng.-Financial aid to the
amount of $1,000 was received by
the Neversink Mountain Tuberculo-
sis Sanatorium, and with the revenue
from the fruit and grape yield of the
property and collection day, Septem-
Der 10, coming on, 1t is hoped that
the condition of the treasury VIII
soon be relieved so that the sanato-
rum will not be closed.
Reading.-The biggest fish caught
in this section for many years was
pulled out OF the Tulpehocken creek
by Walter Greber, OF the Cotton Bud
Camping Club. After struggle last
ing more than a half hour the fish
was landed. 1t proved to be a mon
ster carp, 33 inches long and weighed
seventeen and one-half pounds.
Mauch Chunk.-Mrs. Mary Packer
| Cummings, in whose honor the mag
nificent Second Ward school build
ing is called the Asa Packer School
Building, at meeting of the Board
of Education presented that body
with a check for four thousand dol
lars 70 be used in defraying school
expenses.
Huntingdon.-Maz Wilson, an II
year old girl of Connellsyille, visit
ing in this place, disappeared IN
Blair's Park and a large hunting
party searched for her believing she
had been abducted. Her body was
found in Stone Creek, near spring,
where she had evidently gone Tor
drink and fell in.
Reading. - Albert ]. Detweller'
aged nineteen years, the only sup
port of his widowed mother and four
smaller brothers and sisters, was
killed on the Lebanon Valley bridge
of the Reading Road.
Lewistown.-Roy Folk, aged TO-
and Williams Muthersbaugh' q"
we're held in $500 and $500 bail re-
spectively for their appearance De-
fore the Grand Jury at the August
court on charges of forgery.
Williamsport. - Joseph FouseL
aged As years, of Du Boistown went
out in a boat with two companions
to take a swim In the river. luz
boat capsized and Fousei Was
drowned.
Mauch Chunk.-Because the We''
ers in the Derry Silk Mills at East
Mauch Chunk we're reduced tnre'
fourths of a cent per yard, five nun
dred of them went on strike cau'-
ing the mill to suspend operations
Northampton. A contract "''
been awarded for an addition 10 uyu "r
BILE the capacity of the Meyer 81"
plant here. 1t will pro'lue Spd "S
for two hundred new looms W"l'I
will employ two hundred addiuO"''
hands.
Allentown.-overcome by s',.'
and excitement, Mrs. Amanda H. 90
coby. of Allentown, aged 6S, dleu ~
trolley car several miles ous ,.,or
town. en- route to inform her s,''
that their brother, Alfred FUN
Civil War veteran, had died
Allentown.-Report was mau' .n.
the Allentown police of the u,s"r nr.
pearance of Harry Miller, an 'noI S,",
ance agent, who is accused ol "',, ags
deserted his wife and baby two "e''
ago.
Allentown-some flend, by pS''
oning dogs and cattle, has crg"oSjh oSjeh
reign of terror among the L'P Rme
farmers at the base oil tno and
Mountain near Germansyille' Sair
anyone venturing on any OIL ho
anyone ,e" uiahtfaIl does so at wv
risk i Of his life, as every ilri"r, ,e,dy
that hat section has loaded gun ,io.ys ,ys It
tc|s to shoot to kill. In former ,ySs year. the
was nothing uncommon In that