The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-12-14
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j. Gipe, mlStaklHB ndtCH noouo iOl
candy ate quantity OF them and
died a short time afterwards.
Weatherly. -Weatherly will have
special election on January 8, to de.
eide whether its citizens approve of
proposed fourteen thousand dollar
loan to be used in the installation of
power plant in connection with the
electric light plant for the furnishing
O. power, as well as light, to the
towns industries.
Altoona Investigation by officers
of the State Pure Food Department
confirm the belief that John w. Hud-
son, aged fifty-seven, who died sud
denly Thanksgiving Day, was vic
tim of ptomaine poisoning resulting
from eating chicken. Portions of the
fowl were sent to the States chemists
for analysis.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY due to a
guilty conscience, thieves who recent,
ly broken into and robbed Morris Har.
baugh's tobacco store here, returned
most of the loot leaving 1t on the rear
porch of Harbaugh's home. Among
the articles returned were & shotgun,
a revolver, a number of watches and
several rings.
Hazleton.-The United Mine Work.
ers' headquarters here received mott.
fication that the strike assessment Of
fifty cents a member in force the past
eighteen months had been taken off.
All the strikes in progress when ii
was imposed have been adjusted save
the one in Colorado, where the men
have been out nearly two years
Pottsvile. - Surgeons and physi.
clans, from all parts of Schuylkill
county, were in attendance here, at
convention, conducted under the aus.
pices of the Schuylkill County Medical
Society. DR.. G. II. Boyer, Of Potts.
Vile; DR.. David Taggart, of Track.
vile, and DR.. j. Pierce Roberts, Of
Shenandoah, read papers.
Hazleton. - Albert Ostrander, Of
this city, and Miss Carrie Gilbert, Of
Fulton, n. Y, were married October
20, at Niagara Falls, after a courtship
of twenty-six years. Announcement
to this effect was received here from
the couple, who are now on their
honeymoon. The bridegroom is sixty
years old and the bride forty-eight
Ostrander worked here for years as a
watchman, but recently retired upon
inheriting fortune from relatives.
Allentown.-Breakin ropes caused
two fatal accidents in slate quarries
at Slatington. In the Hazel Dell, Paul
Sinkuleck was instantly killed, when
a heavy stone fell on him, the rope
holding 1t having broken. Lewis
Hughes was instantly killed in the
Cambridge quarry, falling eighty feet
John Dougherty also fell with him and
had his head cut, an arm broken and
was injured internally. He was re-
moved to a hospital in serious con-
dition.
Allentown.-Harvey Rohr young
farmer of North Whitehall township,
filed his bill of particulars in the re-
markable alienation suit which he has
brought against Edwin Layton, rich
farmer of the same township, About
year ago, after a stormy courtshlp'
in which young Rohr was strenuously
opposed as a son-in-law, he married
Miss Gertrude Reeser, the adopted
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Layton. I'M
mediately after the ceremony accord
ing to the assertion of Rohr and other
witnesses, the Laytons declared that
although he had married the young
woman, he could never have her as
wife. Their refusal to give her up
has continued to this day, in face OF
the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Rohr are
now the parents of baby daughter
several months old, Rohr has iur'
nished home ready for the oc'
cupancy of himself and his family anu
has been going to the Layton home al
most daily endeavoring to get his Wlle
and baby. He declared that the Lay
tons have never let him see his wile
alone. Last fall the young husBah~
had the Laytons brought before JUS
tice Henry ID. Gross, who tried to get
them to surrender the young wlle 10
her husband, but they refused Al
various times the young husband says
he got her brothers and other frlenuS
TO 20 along with him for the purpose
of securing his wife, but the Drlue' no
allepes was always intimidated by
the Laytons. The attorneys lor tno
plaintiff include in the statement "'
assertion that recently young kohr
wife expressed a willingness 10
turn to her husband, but that the Lay
tons. among other things, ohereu "1,
a large sum of money If she wou'u
remain with them and not JOIN he'
spouse. Rohr claims SlO,OVO u'''"
ages. The Laytons have never to'u
why they refuse to give up the yo'"e
wife.
uegins-George Focht was found
dead hanging over pole III u sn''
q hotel here. Death was due 10 u"
intentional strangulation.
Pottsville. Thomas Finley oil Nv"
Philadelphia, was held up by JoS'p'
Armour. who bungled in an attempt u
play highwayman, Though ne use"
billy" several times, his victln e'Ip %
nled with him and yelled for hc'p'
Miners responded, and Armour w"s
taken into custody. Justice Mo- seoo m
held Armour for court under 'O'V
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