The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
LIVE NEWS
OF THE
STATE

American colleges, Mlso Emma
Ligget, formerly a teacher In the Ber.
wick High School, sailed January lI
for Peking, the school in which She
will be employed having been found.
ed by the Chinese government a.
reeiprocation on the part of China iOr
the act of President Roosevelt in re.
paying part of the Boxer indemnify
to China.
Reading.-A verdict of $l,l25 IN
favor of the plaintiff was returned b,
the Jury in the suit Of Catharine Ann
Beidler, of Heidelberg, this county.
against the Consolidated Telephone
Companies of Pennsylvania and The
Bethel and Mt. Aetna Telephone and
Telegraph Company, tried before
Judge Endlich. The suit was for he
recovery of damages alleged to have
been sustained to the plaintiffs prop
erty caused by the defendants cutting
down trees.
Worthwhile fixing the fire in the
furnace under the boilers at the York
Chemical Works, Jacob Heiges, might
watchman, was nearly burned 70
death. He got too near the open
door and his clothing became ign.ted
He ran from the building to he
tracks Of the Northern Central Rail.
road, where the flames were a.
tinguished by the shifting crew. He
Is now in a serious condition at The
York Hospital
Altoona. After it had practically
kicked the interior of the stable 10
pieces, a horse belonging to Chester
Mock, OF East Freedom, died Of
hydrophobia, resulting from the bite
from mad dog six weeks ago. The
horse bit a man, who had gone into
the stable to examine it, and the dog
bit a little girl. The horses head
was sent to the State Live Stock
Board for examination.
Shenandoah. 49, Charles p NeiIl
Commissioner of Labor, at Washing.
ton, notified all anthracite coal opera.
tors that, according to the price Of
coal at tidewater points the mine
workers wages for January would be
seven per cent. above the basis ThS
together with full time in the region
makes many miners homes happy
Business was never better in this
region.
Girardville.-Father dead a vic.
time of treacherous overhead coal at
William Penn colliery, wife III and
six children down with scarlet fever
and diphtheria, is the plight Of Harry
Sands family at william Penn
Sympathetic fellow-workers, instead
of attending the funeral, worked the
day and contributed the earnings to
the destitute family.
Reading. - Manual training has
been such a success in the schools 10
the short time that it has been in the
curriculum that at a meeting Of one
of the Teachers Committee II was de-
cided to extend it to the seventh and
eighth grades. Franklin Gill, Of
Bethlehem, has been recommends
as an additional teacher in this de-
partment.
Pottsville.-C Charles p. Price, mine
inspector of the Twentieth District
including colleries in Western SchuyF
kill and Dauphin counties, reports oT
the past year 13 fatal accidents IN
side, and three outside, making
.otal of 16. The total other acci'
lents was 80 inside and 10 outside,
making a total of AZ.
Washington Borough.-Mss Irene
Wills has sued John Young for
$4,000 damages for ALLEGED injury 70
her prospects in matrimony She
was engaged to be married, and hf
Intended husband broke the engage
ment on rumors that she had colofed
blood in her veins, which she denies
Mahanoy City. - Struck by a
crowded west bound Schuylkill Rail-
way car at Mahanoy Plane, WiHan
Mack, of Maizeville, was crushed 70
death. A panlcky feeling possessed
the passengers when the car Jumped
erosswise on the tracks as the result
Of the accident.
Lancaster.-W W. FRANKLIN
O member of the Lancaster bar, mas
been prosecuted on the charge Of en-
bezzlement. j. w. Morrison alleges
Franklin appropriated money given
him to pay costs in divorce proceed'
ings and also failed to account lo'
money collected for Morrison
Reading.-Mrs. Emma Boyer, he'
5-year-old daughter, Verna, and Two
boarders, Anna Bertolet and May
Brady, were made seriously i'll al'a
eating caramels. Samples OF tDe
candy will be analyzed, and If iOuhl
to contain stuff contrary to the pure
food act, prosecutions will follow
Hazleton.-Lewis Grebey Of iAs
city, foreman at the Cranberry cor
liery of A. Pardee & Company v"
struck by mine car and killed,
Shamokin.-Directors of the Vu1
Fellows Orphanage, west Of Snyder.
town, at their semi-annual meeun'
referred plans for a handsome ne,
school building to the Educatlon'
Committee. Over $4,000 were t
pended for the maintenance OF I"
orphanage during 1910.
Mahanoy City. - Mrs CasF'
Schad, an aged woman, living
Coles, fractured her skull, ana