The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-10-29
THE NEWS TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS
Latest Happenings Cleaned
From All Over Tho State.
LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Physician, Stricken In Patients Homs,
DIes-slsyer or Man Sentenced.
Farmer Killed Huntlng-Nurss
Graduates Get Diplomas.

FARMER NllIed Huntlno-Nurso
Graduates Get Diplomas.
At the annual commencement Of the
j.. Lewis Grocer Homeopathic Hospital
Training School for Nurses at Ches.
ter. DR., Robert i. Mercer presented
diplomas to Miss Mary Henderson. OF
Rhode Island; Miss Rebecca Barrett
OF New Jersey, and Miss Deborah Shell.
drake, OF Philadelphia. The address
was delivered by DR.. q. II. Wells, OF
Hahnemann College. Philadelphia.
Glass pins were presented by Mrs. J.
Lewis Grocer.
Burrowing into an old mine breach
after coal. near McTurk Colllery, five
boys were engulfed in a landslide,
causing the sufocation OF Earl Harris.
twelve years old, Ephralm, John and
James Davis, brothers, and Edward
Sweeney, were saved from a like fate
by the prompt arrival Of a relief party.
who, though exposed to the same dan
ger, never faltered until the last boy
had been reached.
An incendiary set hre TO the farm.\
house Of John Gearinger, in Hin Val.
ley. Before the sleeping family were
awakened the fire spread so rapidly
that Mr.. Gearinger and his eleven-year-
old son were unable to escape and
were burned TO death In the house,
which was destroyed with the con
tents. Mrs. Gearinger escaped by
jumping from the second-story window
in her night clothes.
The first cunning fatality OF the sea.
son occurred at Herrville, when Rich.
ard Derrick. %ffty-seven years old. a
former hotel proprietor, was killed
while cunning on his farm. II Is be-
lleved that Derrick. I'm getting over a
fence, broke a rail and in the fall the
gun was discharged.
While visiting at the home OF a
patient DR.. William W. Johnson. one
Of Chester's oldest physicians and sur.
geons, was stricken with heart failure
and died within a few minutes. A
widow, his second wife. and a daugh.
ter, Mrs. William G.. Clyde, OF Pitts.
burgh, born to his first wife, survive.
Grace Scott, daughter Of Matthew
Scott, while playing in her home at
Huntingdon, fell over a lighted lantern
IN the floor. Her clothing was ignited
and she was so badly burned that
Blair Hospital physicians say she has
but a slight chance for recovery.
While Mrs. Joseph Kaseman was
walking across a second story floor OF
her home in Shamokin, she fell
through an opening extending to the
cellar suffering injuries likely to re-
suit fatally. She is ninety-four years
old.
Moses Purnell, %forty-eight years old.
a contractor of Middleport, died as the
result Of attempting to stop George
Miller's runaway team In that town
several hours earlier. He caught the
bride and was dragged a considerable
distance, his side being crushed.
While riding in a trolley car, VIII
liam Flynn. OF West Chester, suffered
the loss OF his coat. which caught fire
from q pipe which he had been smok-
ing and which he had placed In his
coat pocket.
Angelo Terranova. a miner OF Broad
Top, was sentenced at Bedford to three
to twelve years at solitary confinement
in the Western Penitentlary for killing
William Anderson, at Woodvale In
June.
When Thomas Williamson, Of near
Chadd's Ford, shot at a squirrel, sev.
eral shot struck Evans Slaughter, a
young nelghbor, who was gathering
wood, in the eye, and II is believed he
may lose his sight.
Michael Fitzgerald, of Erie, engineer
of a fast Pennsylvania Railroad freight
train, was killed and three other train.
men were injured when his train ran
into another freight on a siding at
OTIS.
Congressman Thomas s. Butler and
I. Roberts Comfort, of West Chester,
have been reelected directors OF the
Pennsylvania Training School for
Feeble Minded Children, at Elwyn.
While Ellie Yorgas, fifteen years old,
OF Shenandoah, was carrying a lighted
oil lamp in the cellar, the lamp ex-
ploded, setting her clothing on fire
and causing her death shortly after.
Joseph Nesbitt has been elected
guard OF Pharos Temple, No. 8.
Benevolent Order of Egyptians, at
West Chester in place Of George s.
Hampton, who removes to Coatesville.
For killing seven gray squirrels In
one day in violation of the game laws
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