The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-09-28
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death. lie was seventy years old and
resided at Victoria Mills.
Altoona,-alrs. John Rauscher,
eighty years old, OF McKees Gap,
died few hours before her grand
daughter, Catherine Green, who
lived with her grandparents, was to
have been married to Clarence Bow
ers, of Altoona.
Norristown.-Pursuant to a decree
OF foreclosure and sale made July II,
1911, by the Court OF Common Pleas
OF Montgomery County, the Mont
gomery County Rapid Transit Com
pany was sold at public sale to the
Bondholders' Committee
Pottsyile. e.-Miss Gertrude Heff-
ner, of Ashland, was awarded Yer,
dict for $3.50 and the costs of suit
in the case against Charles Brecker,
Jrp OF the same town, in which she
had him tried for breach OF prom
ise to marry, made two years ago,
when she was nineteent years old.
Allentown.-As the result OF a
Joy ride in which fourteen young
men from Allentown started out in
one automobile, eleven were badly
injured in an accident at Northamp-
ton, at two o'clock the other morn
ing, and It is feared that at least one
will die. Several others, If they re-
cover, will be manned for life.
MISUNDERSTANDING a court
ship of seven months. Russell Bis
sett, aged 16, of Washington, Pa.
and Elizabeth Eicher, aged IA, OF
Glassport, were married at the home
of Miss Eicher's aunt, Mrs Olive
Hall, at Glassport. Alderman Cou-
sin, of Glassport, performed the cere-
mony.
Media.-Charles w. Rider, form
er ticket agent at the Upland sta
tion of the Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington Railroad, pleaded
guilty to embezzling s4,400 while he
was ticket agent, covering a period
of nine years. He returned eight
hundred dollars.
Nazareth. Nazareth Hall
Military Academy reopened with a
greatly increased enrolment. Dur
ing the summer important improve
ments had been made to the school,
which is the oldest boys school in
America. The opening address was
made by the principal, Rev. DR.. S. j.
Blum.
Ebensburg. Citizen of Hastings,
this county, asked Judge O'Connor to
oust the six members of the Hastings
School Board, for the reason that
because Of deadlock in which the
religious and political beliefs of the
board members figure they have fail
ed to elect teachers for three rooms
in the Hastings schools.
Chester.-David NJ Burrows, sales
man for a Philadelphia tobacco con-
cern, was held up and robbed here
by two footpads, who took his gold
watch, stickpin and about five dol
lars. In their haste the highwaymen
missed Burrows wallet, containing
ffty dollars, which was in the inside
pocket of his vest.
Pottsville. e.-John Carwen. a min
er, employed at the Wadesville Coz
liery, several miles north of this
place, was rescued after being buried
alive, when all hope had fed. Car
wen was working alone at the time.
A fall of coal shut him into his cham
ber. The returning partner of the
unfortunate man gave the alarm. A
rescue force worked frantically, en-
couraged by rappings showing that
Carwen was still alive. After four
hours of dangerous work the man
was rescued.
West ester.-Despondent and
worried over adverse business trou-
bles, Joseph Frame, who conducts
q local hack business, attempted sui
eide in his home here by shooting
himself in the head with revolver.
After being discovered by members
Of the family, who hurried to the up
stairs room upon hearing the shot,
he made attempt again to shoot him
self. He was admitted to the local
hospital, where his wound was re-
nn,tad oc mot fatal
Shenandoah. - A Pennsylvania
Railroad passenger train, engine and
coaches had narrow escape from
plunging over geventy-foot bridge
near the station here. After the
engine turned at the turntable and
was backing the train to the station
three cows ran upon the track Just
as the train was about to pass on the
bridge. The cows were struck, two
killed, causing the front coach to
jump the tracks and run twenty-five
feet upon the sills on the high bridge.
The emergency brake was applied,
stopping the train and saving the
coach from plunging over the bridge
and dragging the balance. of the train
with 1t to the rocky bottom, seventy
feet below.
Lewisburg. .-Bucknell University
opened with the brightest prospects
for a successful year that 1t has had
In recent years. There are $50 new
registrations in the college, and in
all departments there are 240 new
registrations, the largest In the his
tory OF Bucknell
Norristown.-Mrs. Mary d. Truck
sees, announced that her daughter,
Maise Trucksees. was married to
Harvey w. Kline, on November 81,
1909, in the First Presbyter ian