The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-02
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many years a member OF the school
board, died while sitting in chair at
his home, aged eighty-three years. He
was stricken with apoplexy.
Erie.-Lowry Barber rest estate
dealer of Waterford, and treasurer of
the County Democratic Committee
was killed and four other injured
when an automobile in which they
were riding turned turtle The in.
jured will recover.
Harrisburg locomotive draw.
ing the southbound Buffalo express.
struck market wagon driven By
Washington Sheets near Dauphin, and
demolishing the wagon, hurled Sheets
thirty feet He was brought to hos.
pital in this city and although suffer.
ing from broken bones, will recover
York.-The Western Maryland Rail.
way train ran down and killed Erwin
kohler, near Eleska, while he was re.
turning from coon hunt accompanied
by his brother, Allen Kohler. The
brother guarded the body until track
walker came upon the scene.
Coopersburg.-A herd of 25 Jerseys
from T. S. Cooper's Linden Grove
Farm was shipped to Chicago to com.
pete as an exhibit in the National
Dairy Show, the greatest cattle show
America has ever seen. The Lehigh
display is valued at more than
100000.
Bristol.-Incensed because his wife
did not have dinner prepared on time,
John McGill, forty-five years old Of
Edgely, above Bristol, seized a butch.
er knife and plunged II through his
heart. lie died instantly. McGill was
employed as laborer at the Floral
Exchange.
Harrisburg. - West Chester resi-.
dents protested to the State Railroad
Commission that the line OF the West
Chester Traction Company in that
town is in bad condition, and that
some places the rails have parted and
the operation of the heavy cars jars
the houses. The commission is asked
to abate what is declared dangerous
nuisance,
York. Metallic poisoning, contract.
ed while employed in one of the local
industrial plants here, caused the
death of George w. Brenner, former
sergeant of police. Brenner had been
a prominent local politician. He was
forty-fve years old.
Harrisburg. the Dauphin Coun-
ty Court Harry A. Claybaugh was con-
victed of murder in the first degree
for cutting the throat of Mrs. Mary A.
Goudy in this city, last summer. The
Jury was out less than two hours fol-
lowing a trial of three days.
Scranton. Edwin G. Eckert pro-
prietor OF the Acme Extract and
Chemical Works, of Hanover Pa
pleaded nolo contendere in Federal
Court when indicted for selling eN
tracts that were nc: properly labeled
He was sentenced to pay fine ot
ten dollars and the costs
tsburgh.-Answering the publish
ed statement that options on five thou'
sand acres of land had been taken py
Warden John Francis with a view oI
locating the new Western penitentlary
near Bellefonte, the Warden SAID tha'
the fact the options had been taken
did not indicate the institution WOulu
be located in Center county,
West Chester-ln the Chester Nou"'
ty Common Pleas Court, 7. Larry Eyre
brought suit against the western
Telegraph Company to recover FhvvV
damages to his 13Sacre farm Oh Tue
Brandywine, by reason OF employees
cutting down three large SHADE uce9'
the limbs of which interiereu WIN
wires. The jury awarded Mr. Eyre
$500.
sbarpsville.-The safe in the post
Office here was blown open Win nluo,
plycerine. and $4,000 in stamps anu
$1,000 in money taken Ihe Du',u'"9 ,no6
was damaged to the extent OF $I'VvV,
Persons living near the building H'a.U
the report, but attributed II 10 al ca
nlosion at one of the blast furnaces,
The robbery was not discovereu un'"
the office was opened for business
slatington.-E Edward German 'no
richest man of this section, was p'oD
ably fatally injured when sp','lu
bull overpowered him in secoHu v
counter and inflicted WOUNDS ot as
ous character. Last summer nv r,s
attacked by the animal that heaus S n,S
berd and came off victorious a'',
free use of a pitchfork' Inc "''
seemed resentful since.
Reading.-william F, Lind'rman'
twenty-five years, employed as ,n on
engineer at the Deyr Quarries, Sou'a a
Birdsboro, was killed whlIe ol',"S Sr;ld.
machinery in the stone crusIl'ns sIl7.St in
inc II is thought he was caUb" m
the shafting and whirled to ms ugaJ ,aJc
MY ,,en anding the machinery idle mau'
an investigation and touhu onglne.
mans body lying near '"'
His neck was broken
South Bethlehem, ~ hral,e.
Bethlehem Steel COMPANY i.p,ed at
man was almost instantly H.i,CJ ',oJ off
The steel works when he was lo''eT .hicb
a car and fell under the ""'
severed both legs.
Carlisle.-Because ''' ,i,ionei
Of citizens of Shippensburs pe,,nW on VIII
the Court to suspend sentence ." arson
bur tT Hockersmith, convicted ,',,ce ol u,I "
at the last criminal session 'u"s 'u,",ssOend.