The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-16
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! township, uleu dt lHe age OF 00 years.
He is survived by three children.
Chester.-Becoming enmeshed in
the bed coverings, Joseph Dodds,
infant son of Mr.. and Mrs Thomas
Dodds, was smothered to death.
Canonsburg NJ Collins,
well-known business man and candi.
date for borough auditor, was found
dead at his desk with a bullet In his
brain.
Harrisburg George Harris, who
placed distractions on Northern Cen.
tral Railroad tracks in this county
last summer, was sent to an insane
hospital
Chester.-A darning needle almost
three inches in length, which had
been in his body since he was boy
was taken from the back of Edward
Morris, resident of Marcus Hook.
York.-A corps of surveyors is busy
surveying between this city and the
Maryland line for a State road The
survey follows the old York and
Chanceford pike through Dallastown,
Red Lion, Peachbottom township and
Delta.
Reading. - Augustus Gresh
wealthy retired farmer, of Gilberts.
vile, this county, was found dead in
bed. He was eighty-three years OF
age. ApopleXy was the cause OF
death.
Reading,-Raymond Gilmore, a ff.
teen-year-old boy, accidentally shot
himself while examining loaded re.
volver. The bullet entered his head
above the right eye and came out
above the left eye.
Kittanning.- Mary Lehner died
in hospital here as the result Of
wound received when her brother-in
/ Law, Douglass Quinn, accidentally dis
charged the gun he was cleaning
preparatory to hunting expedition.
Waynesboro.-Petitions are being
circulated in Greene, Franklin and
! Fayette counties, asking President
Taft to pardon j. b. +. Rinehart, for
mer cashier of the Farmers and DrOy.
| Nrs' National Bank, of this place, who
| is serving ffteen-year term in the
Western Penitentiary for wrecking
the institution.
Lebanon.-Dr. John J. Light, upon
responding TO a hurry call to an up
! town drug store, was startled to find
| that his services as county coroner
and not his skill as a physician was
required in the case of Mrs Albert
Beyerle, of Annvlle. The doctor was
asked to stop nose hemorrhage and
then found that the patient had died
from hemorrhage of the lungs. She
had been shopping.
Punxscutawney-- Eight miners are
! believed to have been killed In the
! Adrian shaft of the Rochester and
| Pittsburgh Coal and Iron Companys
mine, located four miles from here, as
a result of an explosion. Fifty miners
who entered the shaft several hours
after the accident, in an attempt to
effect rescue, were driven out by the
gas. Some of them, becoming uncon-
scious, were carried to the surface by
comrades. All the missing miners are
foreigners
Reading.-Desponde because she
would have to undergo an operation
in the near future, Mrs. Eli u. Welch
ended her life in horrible manner
She had been melancholy for a week
or more and two women attendants
were in constant attention. Whlle
thew went out of the room for a short
time, Mrs Welch made her way TO the
bath room and securing match
struck il and set her dress on ilre III
moment she was enveloped III
flames. She fell down hlsht Oh
stairs. her burning gown setting hre
to the carpet and other wearing aP
parel. Her husbands both hands were
terribly burned in fighting the ilames'
She died an hour later in local hos
pital. -
Reading.-The death of Charles
Sepner. of Plowville, several days ago
is attributed to the hold-ups that nave
hecn taking place in this vicinity late
ly. Mr.. Segner was found on 'he
Green Tree hill in an unconscious con,
dition, with bruises about heau anu
body. He delivered load OF char'
coal to Hohnton and was on MS way
home. He stopped at the Green Tree
Hotel to have his team OF mules leu
after which he mounted the saduie
mule and started for Plowville' IT 10
now supposed that while he was url,'
ing over this lonely stretch OF woou'
land some of the persons VINO nav
been operating the hold-up game 'a,'
Iv suspected Mr.. Segner of having lne
money for the charcoal that was sou
and took advantage OF TINS 'one'y
mace on the road to hold him up anu
roh him Mr.. Segner's head ana po'y
hear bruises that indicate the use u
n heavy club or possibly Ie'o'''
butt.
Allentown. - Convicted OF MA"
s,auebter in court, Ralph Pollauino,
who two months ago stappeu a.
former friend, Frank Passere''L "
death in a fight that followed a palU,
was sentenced to six years III pi'''"
by Judge Trexler.
Pittsburgh.-The Governor anu
staff many members of the fen"1, sinHds
y>nia Legislature and scores oil lrienoI i,,arol
o. the deceased, attended the lune' o.
=. Iohn Fremont Cox, late Speaker 0.
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