The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
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Five business places were burned out
and several families are homeless
The loss was $4,000.
Reading.-Laura, the nineteen'year.
old wife of Oswald Sep, a school
teacher at Allentown, ended her life
by drinking carbolic acid. The cou-
ple were married in Wilmington, Del,
two weeks ago.
Harrisburg.-The will of Mrs Patti
ence Trewick, who died here Few
days ago. was probated here and
leaves practically all of a $4,000
estate to charity. Numerous institu'
tlons in this city are remembered.
Worthwhile Mrs. Nettie Hullinger,
OF Wrightsville, was visiting neigh
bors thieves entered her home and
carried off a gold lined silver tea set,
a valuable china set, revolver and all
the money they could find.
Lewistown.- Frank Miller, thirty
seven years old, employed as a freight
brakeman in the local yards of the
Pennsylvania railroad, committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the
brain. Miller had been suffering from
la grippe.
Lobachsville.-An inventory filed OF
the personal property of the late Miss
Elizabeth Keim, Pike townships
wealthiest woman, shows that the
same amounted to $47277.6S. OF this,
sS2S.5O was realized from linens and
dress goods at q recent sale.
West Chester.-While repairing a
bridge at Glen Loeb Station, John
Eberly, a carpenter, was struck by
Western express train and so badly
injured that he died just as the ambu-
lance reached the Chester County
Hospital here. He leaves a widow and
two children in Lancaster.
Pottsville.-To recover several mil
lion tons of valuable coal, which has
been untouched for fully fifty years,
the Philadelphia & Reading Coal &
iron Company started operations near
the scene of the old Beechwood Col
liery, at Mt. Laffee, a mile above
Pottsville.
Pottstown.-A piece of dynamite
among the coal is supposed to have
caused an explosion in the stove at
the home of Nathan Neblang. The
stove was demolished and the kitchen
wrecked Mrs. Holgantz escaped in
jury, save from flying water that
scalded her head.
ottsville.-Because Joseph Bauser
of Girardville, stated that he had paid
three hundred dollars to two fore
men of the Lehigh Valley Coal Com
pany's collieries in order to hold his
job, he was arrested for slander. j.
S. Laughlin and w. d. Irwin are the
two foremen implicated.
York.-Revs. J. r. Hutchinson, of
Gettysburg; f. H. Hummelbaugh,
Frederick, Md; W. j. Houck, Green
castle, and A. E. Core, of Hanover,
constituting the Executive Committee
of Penn Grove Assembly, met here and
completed arrangements for their
July camp meeting
Allentown. - Charles McFadden,
foreman of a gang of Allentown struc-
tural iron workers, constructing the
new insane asylum of the Schuylkill
County Home at Schuylkill Haven,
met death in falling twenty-five feet
to concrete floor when loose steel
beam tilted His skull was fractured
and he expired within two hours.
Reading-The Reading Railway ad-
justed the wages of its telegraph
operators and signalmen. About six
hundred men are affected. The in
crease will run from 81 to SIS per
month per man. The new rate takes
effect December /, This was the re-
suit of series of conferences between
men and officials.
Altoona.-The inhabitants Of Reign
town, a suburb of Bellwood, were all
agog over the appearance of family
Of bears, male, female and cub, which
Rmbled into the place probably in
search of food. They wandered down
the street as far as the Pennsylvania
Railroad station and then started back
to the mountains. Meantime citizens
were arming themselves for the chase
While the bears were passing through
a field Morris Reign brought down the
male with a shot.
Coudersport-Supe Fred
n. Hamlin and Michael c. Bailey, who
had charge of the water supply of the
Bayless Pulp & Paper Co., the after
noon of September 80, when the com
pany's dam went out, almost wipng
out of existence the town of Austin
and causing more than three score
deaths, were held for the Grand Jury
| by Justice w. w. Thompson for in
voluntary manslaughter. Each gave
bail in the sum of one thousand dol
lars. The Grand Jury will meet here
| December 49,
Pottsville.-A committee of Towr
Council, to whom had been referred
the question, as to whether Pottsvillt
is a city or borough. made report
that the town is to be considered 6
borough until December 1913, wher
the new city officials take office. The
Supreme Court recently prevented thu
first election under Pottsville's new