The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-03
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Creek Valley, through which runs
one of the richest anthracite coal
veins in the entire world has an
nounced that 1t will construct one of
the largest coal breakers in the
world 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 It
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.- 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 II. S. Arthur, who
is not permitted that privilege. An
nouncement that the amendment had
been signed by Tener came as
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 21,
without attracting general attention.
ottsvlle.-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.
Many of the collectors stated If their
demands are not granted they will 90
on strike and refuse to accept re-
election.
Tyrone.-Eight employees of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
we're injured in a head-on collision
between two locomotives here. En-
CINE No. $40 with Engineer J. G.
Hull and Conductor H. r. Harshber'
ger moving west with one car at
tached and a local engine and cabin
with Engineer S. w. Keith and Con-
ductor II. II. Miller going east, coli
lided near the depot.
Hazleton.-Mayor Charles Bruch
and the other city officials of Halle
| 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-
/ II. oft no nf ! 0l
South Bethlehem.-Moret than two
hundred members of the Clauss iam'
lily attended the ninth annual reunion
at Waldheim Park. The Clauses
who came from the Bethlehems'
Philadelphia, Limeport, SaegersWlle'
East Greenville, Raubsville and yarl'
GUS Lehigh county towns, are dc.
scendants of Nathan and DanleI
Clauss.
Lebanon. - Grant, seven-year-old
son of Grant Wagner, of Palmyra
was perhaps fatally injured, and MIS-
John Lettich, of near Palmyra, seri'
ously hurt, when the team occupleu
by them was struck by Lebanon
Valley Street Railway car at BON,
gardner's Lane, two miles east o'
Palmyra.
Lancaster.-Mrs. Samuel Warner
a member of prominent iam'l"
committed suicide by hanging ne'
self in the attic of her home at Nl'e
House. Her body was found Oy nel
husband. Mrs. Warner has been 'D
i'll health for some time
Hazleton.- While picking hucKer
berries in the woods, Bernard
Wisske, a ten-year-old West naL,e
ton boy was struck by bolt oil llsHr
ming during a short thunderstor'"
and instantly killed. Andrew NOV"
alki, boy with him, was KnocNsS
down by the same bolt, but escap''
injury.
Marietta.-A mad dog was KiI'e'
on the Duffy farm, just nor'n "
town, after it had bitten several uoe''
and gave several men a chase
Temple.-While Edwin NJ, BeCAe.,
an employee at the Muhie"us,
Brewing plant, at Hyde PARK, nso, neo
here. was working on the tnlru "V ond
be was stricken with paralysis ""o
fell a distance of twenty feet IRON ROM,
window to the roof of the pom
house. sustaining compound S ',
ture of the skull, resulting in ue''"'
Carlisle. -. Contention amo"s ~ ~.
directors of the Shippenspurs od
G. Manufacturing COMPANY ,iyor
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