The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-16
LIVE NEWS
OF THE
STATE


the arrest of Dr. j. NJ. Shartle, of this
city, State registrar. A local ordi-
nance requires that physicians shall
report deaths to the city Board Of
Health, under penalty OF fine OF
$40. Dr. Shartle holds that having
reported to the State Health Depart.
ment he had fulfilled all legal obliga-
lions. AS 1t Is the purpose to deter.
mine the authority of the State In
the premises DR.. Shartle will be rep
resented by the Attorney Generals
Department.
Pottsyille. 49, Pottsyllle Borough
Council rendered its verdict In the
sase in which Senator b. II. Ware, OF
Philadelphia was charged with brib-
Iry and sending of Christmas pres
ents to local Councilmen and officials
Who approved of Vare's street paw
Ing contract. After the meeting, the
Councilmen stated that the local
newspaper editor who charged them
with number of grave offenses will
be at once prosecuted on charges of
perjury, libel and civil damages.
Windsor Castle.-The coroner's
Jury in the case of double suicide OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Adam, brought
In verdict that the husband met his
death by strangulation; and that Mrs
Adam met death by being induced to
submit to being hung with her hus-
band. Isaac Kether, father of Mrs.
Adam, was not satisfied, and ordered
doctor to make another examination
Of her body.
Pottsyille.-Maj Heber S. Thomp-
son, aged II years, for many years
chief engineer for the vast coal lands
and other properties of the Girard
Estate in schuylkill and adjoining
counties, died of general debility. He
was a First Defender during the Civil
War and rose from a private in the
Forty-eighth Regiment, p. V. l., to
command OF battalion in the regi-
Nent.
Media. - Alonzo, alias Butch"
Madison, colored man who in De-
eember and January terrorized the
residents of Sharon Hill and vicinity,
was sentenced by Judge Broomall, to
the Huntingdon Reformatory, where
be will remain seven years. Madi-
son was convicted of assault and bat
terry on Ray Hawthorne and Ruth |.
Blair; assault with intent to rob
Myrtle Gorgas, and simple assault on
Helen Crothers. all white girls
West Chester-The sale of the
plant of the Edison Electric IL
Illuminating Company, of this place, to
the Pennsylvania Electrical Com
pany Of McCalPs Ferry, was con-
sluded. The price paid for the plant,
Its franchises, etc, Is 100000. The
new owners will, 1t is said, operate
the plant with power from the Nc
Calls Ferry power plant.
Reading Rev. Franklin ]. Clark,
rector OF st. Barnabas p. f. Church,
has been called to a position on the
Staf of the General Board of Mis-
Sions, New York, as secretary of the
Student Movement. Rev. Mr.. Clark
has been pastor OF st. Barnabas'
Church three years and before COM
ing here was assistant to Rev. Floyd
W. Tomkins, rector Of Holy Trinity
Church, Philadelphia.
Norristown.- Emil and Nicholas
George young men, were acquitted
" manslaughter, because the Com.
nonwealth admitted its case was so
weak that II was not advisable to ask
The jury to convict. The men were
charged with causing the death OF
Hiram Blee, relative, in a street
tight, last October.
Bristol-Michael A. Kelly, a farm
er on the Fishery Farm, was struck
Ind killed by a freight train on the
Pennsylvania Railroad at China
Lane Two weeks ago Kelly, who
gas As sears old, was struck by a
trolley car at Eddington while driv-
ing a hay wagon and was Injured.
Sellersville.-As John Overholt, OF
Perkase, was hunting along the
creek he found the body Of a man
face downward in the creek, and 1t
was found the dead man was William
savacool, of this place. savacool,
was 4S years old and had once kept a
hotel at Newportville.
Boyertown.- Bader, Of
Cumru Township, who came to town
and entered a quarantined home,
where his son, John, was Ill with
iiphtheria, was arrested Health
officer Eddinger brought charge
against him and Bader was fined $40,
Media-H. C. Morris was found
guilty of receiving money under false
pretenses and sentenced by Judge
Broomall to one year in jail Wit
uesses testified that he posed as an
agent for a publishing company,
which publishes two weeklles, and re-
ceived money from people.
Bangor.-Joseph A. Stamp, ma
shlnist, aged Ga years, committed sui
side by asphyxiation. He shut him
self up in a storage room, stufing bed
quilts in the cracks of the door. He
had been morose from sickness.
Danville. - The typhoid fever
situation in Danville is growing
worse, with more than forty cases al
ready reported There is an average
of two new cases daily. The cause
of the outbreak is generally assigned
to the water.
Hamburg. g.-Citizens of West Ham