The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-11
THE NEWS TOLD
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Latest Happenings Cleaned
q From All Over the State.
LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS.

William johnson, or Near Amber, Ac.
quilted or the Charge OF caus-
Ing the Death OF Robert
Grlnell.
NJ Z. Stein was reelected principal
Of the Port Carbon public schools.
The twin children of John Ressel, Of
White Oak, are in serious condition
from drinking quantity Of lye.
The Parkesburg School Board has
elected John NJ. Leachey as tax col
lector.
While cyanking his automobile, T.
Van G. Phillips, of Newtown Square,
received a broken arm.
Mrs. DR.. Carson, Glen Moore, was
severely injured and the horse was
killed in runaway.
John s. Mullin, II. s. Loomis and
George j. Palmer have been reelected
trustees of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of West Chester.
The East Bear Ridge Coal Company
has taken possession of the Girard tun-
mel mine and will erect modern
breaker.
Postmaster Abel II. Byers has been
informed that the Hamburg office has
been placed in the second class list
and ranks in consequence next to the
Reading Office in the county.
A trackwalker, Joe Bunesko, who
patrolled the Pennsylvania Railroad
between Marcus Hook and Claymont,
was struck by a northbound train and
killed.
John s. Wenrich, tenant on farm
near Robesonia, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head.
His body was found by his mother
about an hour after the shooting.
The epidemic of typhoid fever at
Embreeville has been traced to sur
face drainage flowing into well, from
which the school children obtained
their daily supply of drinking water.
Mrs. Lincoln Campbell, sixty-two
years old, of Johnson City, while shop
ping In Shamokin was run down by
a Northern Central passenger train
and injured so severely that she may
die.
The Shamokln Band, surprising
Robert Thomas, its leader, as he was
about to leave with his bride for New
York after quiet wedding, loaded the
pair on hose wagon and after a
parade permitted them to depart.
Michael Horlack was found dead in
mine breast near Centralia. 1t is
thought he committed suicide He sent
his wife and family to Russia recently,
intending to follow them when he set
tied his business affairs.
Without leaving the box, a jury ac-
quilted William Johnson, whose home
is near Amber, for causing the death
OF Robert Grlnell Johnson said he
shot Grinell, who attacked him with
an axe because Lucky Pickett took
refuge in Johnson's house, March 8.
The fifty-second annual commence
ment of the Pennsylvania Military Col
lege Will be held June IT, The bac-
calaureate sermon will be delivered
Sunday, June IA, In Madison Street
Methodist Episcopal Church by Rev.
DR.. Malcolm J. Macleod, of New York
city.
II. M. Hagerman, solicitor OF Ban
gor, Unexpectedly presented his resig-
nation. The action followed wordy
war between him and Councilman, who
objected to his bill of $500 for service
in working for a concrete bridge over
Martins Creek at Pennsylvania ave-
nue..
Between 700 and 800 men and boys
,,o.n xandarad id1a NV ON nlovac nf tho
Susquehanna Coal Company's Hickory
Ridge Colliery going on strike in an
effort to compel all employees to join
the United Mine Workers Of America.
Five hundred employees of the Scott
Shaft, owned by the same company,
went on strike for the same reason.
The Windsor Heights Campmeeting
Association, Of the York district, of
the United Evangelical Church, will
hold It's campmeeting from August IL
to 20. These officers were elected:
President, Rev. r. M. Fosselman; vice
president. Rev. 8. p. Remer secretary,
Rev. M. A. jenkins; treasurer, B. F.
Zarfos.
Succeeding A. F. Huston, resigned.
w. s. Harlan, attorney, was elected
president of the Coatesville Hospital,
at the yearly meeting. A. F. Huston,
J. s. and w. p. Worth, Horace A.
Beale. Jr., and c. l.. Huston, as d.
rectors, we're reelected Mr.. Beale
was chosen vice-president; w. e.