The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-09-17
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Latest News Happenings Gather
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ed From Here and There.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Train Kills Prominent Warren Woman.
Twenty Men Hurt In Crash OF
Cars At seranton-War
Boosts Business.
Joseph ii. Diyel. II has been an
nounced at Danville, will receive the
appointment as deputy internal reve-
u collector for the Ninth State Dis
trict.
Charles Henninger. forty-three years
old. a hreboss at the Colbert Colliery.
~Shamokin, was killed when he fell $50
feet down a manway. A widow and
six small children survive.
Boyd Grange, a Muncy musician,
suffered serious burns. when the acety.
lene gas in his automobile exploded.
His hair, eyebrows and e~yelashes are
burned of and his face is blistered.
Chester City Council has awarded
tho contracts for the new {75, 700 bond
issue to Il. J. Coleman. of Philadel'
phia. at par with accrued interest. The
money will be used to pave streets.
Falling from a telephone pole, John '
Gerber, a lineman, Of York, struck q
wire carrying 1900 volts Of electricity
and for several minutes was suspended
head downward. The shock doubled
up his body but did not seriously in
jure him and fellow-workmen rescued
him.
While there are many industrial
plants in the country visibly affected
by the war in Europe. there is one con
Germ which already is beginning to
profit by II. The Dryden horseshoe
works Catasaqua posted notices that a
large part Of the plant will run night
and day.
Franklin Gilkeson. secretary OF the
Bristol Chamber OF Commerce, mailed
notice to members OF that body to at
tend a meeting to consider whether 1t
would be advisable to hold a Fare
Refund Week" and farmers fair under
the auspices OF the Chamber OF Com
merce and Bristol's retail merchants.
Mrs. Alice jefferson. s~ixty-three
years old, wife of j. p. Jefferson, of
Warren. was killed by a special train
on the Dunkirk. Allegheny Valley &
Pittsburgh Railroad. Mrs. Jefferson
had been a guest at the home Of w.
w. Rankin and emerged into the dark
ness and stepped on the track in front
of the engine.
The final chapter in the dissolution
OF the Temple Iron Company. known
AZ the Hard Coal Trust, and ordered
dissolved by the United States Su-
preme Court, occurred at Reading,
when stockholders at a meeting pass
ed a resolution to decrease the capital
stock from $4,000. 900 to s25O.OOO.
The State Health Department has
sent receptacles to Coatesville to have
tests taken of the borough water and
springs at the request of the local
board since the outbreak of typhoid
fever. which local physicians and the
town authorities appear to be bafied
as to the source OF pollution.
In q head-on collision between a Blue
Line express car and a southbound
Carbondale car on the Scranton rail
way at North Mayheld, twenty men
we're injured. several of them seri-
ously. The street car was loaded with
men. on their way to work. The col
lision occurred in a dense fog on a
straight track, through mlsunderstand-
Ing of signal lights.
Becoming Respondent because OF
hearing so much talk about the Eu.
ropean wal and fearing that as a re-
suit of IL he would lose his employ
ment in a textile mill. George +. Sell.
twenty-four years old, of Montello, shot
his pretty, young wife in the head and
then turned the weapon on himself and
committed suicide with q bullet in the
temple. 1t is believed the wife will
recover.
A meeting of the Bucks County
Teachers Association will be held In
Boylestown, September 19,,in the high
school building. Addresses viii be de-
liyered by DR.. Ambrose l.. Suhrie, the
new head Of the department Of peda-
gogy, at the West Chester State Nor
NAL School; County superintendent ].
II. Hoffman, and Miss Margaret Ma
guie, principal of the George Wash
ington Public School, Philadelphia.
The mediators appointed by the
Welfare League and the Business
Mems Association. of Norristown, 1
consider the closing of stores on Sun
days are: Zebulon 7. Smith. DR.. B. f,
Place, Rev. John Allen Crawford.