The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-04
KEYSTONE STATE
IN SHORT ORDER
LatestNews Happenings Gather
ed From Here and There.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Bethlehem Steel Company Rail.
road Conductor Terribly
Burned.

John Reilly, of Palo Alto, fell and
injured his knee. He may be crippled
for life.
The annual Sunday school conven.
ton of Port Carbon district will be
held in the Methodist Church, June g.
Nearly fifty boys in ten townships
Of Chester county are now enrolled in
the boys corn clubs.
Borough council, OF Tamaqua, has
decided TO build a $4,000 hose house
for the Citizens Fire Company.
Edwin Montford, of York, was fined
500 by Major John r. Lafean for
operating his automobile recklessly
while intoxicated
The executive committee of the
Shamohn High School Association,
decided to hold the 1914 class reunion
at Edgewood Park, July l.
Rev. A. Memverse, rector of the
Church of Our Lady, Mt. Carmel, left
for Holland. to visit his invalid sister,
and to recuperate.
James Thomas, twelve years old, of
Port Carbon, was knocked uncon-
scious when struck on the head by
stone from sling shot His condi-
tion is serious.
The last concert of the sixth season
Of the Perkiomen Symphony Orchestra
was rendered in the Perkiomen Semi
nary gymnasium, under the direction
of Prof. David Il. Croll.
John Hunsicker a Bethlehem Steel
Company railroad conductor, was ter
ribly burned when in uncoupling cars
hot Stag which one of them con-
tained, was spilled over him.
Frank Wisner, sixteen years old,
while in the Cameron mine, Shamokin,
thrust his head over the top of
wagon and was killed when a timber
from a chute struck him.
Raymond Sifagoss, fifteen years old,
tried to run across the tracks of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad at Easton. He
was caught between two cars and
crushed to death.
Blood poisoning which developed
from a wound which Mrs. Samuel
Parry, Mt. Carmel, received when she
stepped on a garden rake, caused her
death.
David Weller eleven years old, of
is in the hospital at
West Chester with a fractured skull.
He was hit by baseball bat while at
play.
A movement to consolidate Lititz
and Warwick has been started, and
Elmer Eby was chosen chairman, and
Frank Schner, secretary, of commit
tee to work for the proposition.
Rev. Cleveland Frame, pastor Of the
First Presbyterian Church in Malvern,
preached the baccalaureate sermon to
the graduating class of the Malvern
High School, In the First Baptist
Church.
Mrs. Mary Linden, eighty-four years
old, of Louisville, KY, died as the re-
suit of a shock from a fall down a
flight of stairs. Mrs. Linden was visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Heiken,
at Pottsville.
The Parent-Teachers Association, of
Frackville, elected these officers
President, ]. Howard Buck; vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. j. X. Berk; secretary, T.
NJ. Reed; treasurer, Mrs. j. c. McGin-
mis-
Ground has been broken at the coal
shipping yard of the Reading Railway
Company, between Mill Creek and st.
Clair, for the erection of a steel water
reservoir or standpipe, to be 105 feet
high.
While on the way to a fire at the
Penn Central gas plant, Lewistown,
Jesse Estep was thrown from the Hen
derson auto truck. which was wrecked
in making turn at a street corner
Estep's collarbone was broken.
Frank O'Mlene, a contract miner,
prominent in fraternal societies and an
athlete, was crushed to death by fall
OF coal, and Joseph Wychan narrowly
escaped a similar fate at Shenandoah
City Colliery. O'Mlene leaves bride
OF two months, who is in critical
condition from the shock.
Harry Hill, conductor on the
Marcus Hook division of the Southern
Pennsylvania Traction Company's
lines, was slashed on the face by an
unidentified colored man. at Third and