The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-03
KEYSTONE STATE
IN SHORT ORDER
LatestNews Happenings Gather
ed From Here and There.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Celebrate Anniversary OF Lookout
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Blows
Man and Team To
Bits.

Bits.
Founders Day at Susquehanna Uni
yersity was observed by the decoration
of sixty.foot flag pole. DR.. +. p.
Manhart, dean of the school or
theology, was orator OF the day. The
flag was holsted by DR.. David b. Floyd
and Joseph Lumbard, local veterans
who fought in the Battle OF Lookout
Mountain, OF which conflict Tuesday
was the fifty-arst anniversary.
Three thousand quarts OF nitro
glycerine exploded in a magazine be-
longing to the Cupler Torpedo Com
pany, Titusyille, killing Ralph Tubbs.
aged thirty-nine, an employe OF the
company. The building,' the team
driven by Tubbs and the man himself
were blown to bits. Nothing was
found of Tubbs or the wagon he had
driven to the magazine.
A statement made by SchuylkNl
county banks shows that the Christ
mas clubs Of Schuylkill county have
saved six hundred thousand dollars
for Christmas This is an average OF
three dollars for every man, woman
and child in the county. The Schuyl-
kill Trust Company alone has $780,
600 on deposit by these clubs, which
will be distributed this week
Droz Snyder, the fourteenyearold
son OF Senator Charles A. Snyder. OF
Pottsvlle, was seriuosly burned when
! he lit a match to looA into a gasoline
tank on an auto. The tank exploded
Although Snyder is painfully burned
about the face, physicians say he will
not lose his sight.
Mrs. Anthony Tremko. twenty-five
years old OF Taylor. stood over the
kitchen stove at her home In Scran-
ton and poured kerosene on some
wood to which she had touched a
match Her body, burned to crisp.
was found by her husband.
For beating" his way from Potts
town TO Norristown on a train. VIII
liam Smith. Civil War veteran, who
claims that he is eighty-two years old.
was sent to jail by Magistrate Clark.
Smith says he was trying to get to
the Soldiers Home at Hampton Roads
Fire Of unknown origin, discovered
| In the basement OF the department
store of County Commissioner ].
Denny O'Neil McKeesport, destroyed
that building and damaged buildings
on each side, entailing loss estl-
mated at $4,000.
Caught with basket containing two
dead geese August OFT, thirty-one
years old, of Reading. told the police
that he had stolen to keep his family
from starving. officers sent TO his
house found that the family have sub
sisted on loaf OF bread for several
days.
More than a carload OF food and
clothing and almost $500 in cash were
sent to Philadelphia from Shamokin.
TO be added to donations from other
centers for the relief Of the Belgian
war sufferers,
| Virgil Hunt, OF Stroudsburg. and
Howard Demund, OF Delaware Water
Gap patients at the Rittersville State
Hospital, escaped by using sheets.
from which they made a rope to get
to the ground.
Fire destroyed the barn on the farm
OF William Oyler, near Camp HILL
burning seventeen cows and all the
crops and wagons. This is the third
barn owned by Mr. Oyler to be burned
within a week.
Miss Nellie NJ. Cronin, OF ST. Davids,
and Joseph NJ. McGee, postmaster of
South Bethlehem. were married In
the Church of the Holy Infancy. Rev,
r. ]. McGettigan, the rector. per-
formed the ceremony.
Just after expressing a desire for a
sandwich, which son hastened to
prepare, George ]. Hyde, Of Fullerton.
a Civil War veteran, fell dead. He
was eighty-slX years old,
James McArdle, one OF the many ap-
plicants for the postoilice at Mosque
honing, which carries with 1t salary
of S1,7OO per annum, has been noti-
fed of his appointment.
Walking on the Lehigh New Eng
land track with head lowered against
the wind John Berock. aged thlrty-fye
years, did not hear the whistle OF an
approaching engine and was killed
There are two cases of children with
enlargement of the tongue, rare dis
ease, at the Allentown Hospital In
each case the child was born with .
tongue double normal size.
Rev. William Stroheimer, pastor OF
the Schoeneck Moravian Church Eas-
ton. fell from ladder on the chuFh
property and fractured an arm In tso
places.