The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-02
KEYSTONE STATE
IN SHORT ORDER
All Pennsylvania Cleaned for
Items of Interest.
CLASS DAY EXERCISES.
Explosion OF Coffee In a Dinner Pail
May Cause the Loss OF Sight
OF Aaron Sauerbeer-other
Live News.

John L. Rosenberger, of Lower
Richland, left $500 to Flatland Men
MONTE Church.
Joseph Krentesti, Of Coatesyille,
shot and killed himself as his wife
and child looked on.
John Snyder, a railroad employe,
thirty-two years old, shot and killed
himself, in Lebanon, at his home.
A No-License League, organized at
Mannheim, has united with the Ian
caster County Organization.
The advantages and disadvantages
OF an automobile to the farmer were
discussed by the Bedminster Farm
ers' Club It its monthly meeting.
The degree team of Alpha Camp,
Woodmen of the World, initiated a
class Of forty belonging to the Bethle-
hem camp.
Irwin Hummell, Helfensteln, fell un-
der a trip Of wagons at Locust Spring
Colliery. His legs were so badly
crushed that he will likely die.
Falling while at work in the Fehr &
O'Rourke stone quarry, at Reading,
John Fremniah was injured so that
he died.
The class day exercises Of the
Paradise Township High School were
held at Paradise. The speaker was
Chester A. Diller, of Lancaster.
The Home Association. Birasboro
Nest Of Orioles, wiped out their debt
by holding a bonfire and burning the
bonded papers.
~Eight.year-old Vera Hilbert, was
struck by a trolley car, as she stepped
from the pavement to cross the street
near her home, at C%atasauqua, and
was probably fatally injured.
Captain William Heffner, former SUI
perintendent Of schools, at Centralia,
now Il travelling salesman, announced
himself as a candidate for Congress
in the Sixteenth District.
Postmaster James NJ. Hamilton has
! received instructions from Washington
to have improvements made to the
Chester Post Office Building, which
will cost between $4,000 and $4,000.
+ State Legislature candidates for Milf
fin county are: Ex-Postmaster vii
liam f. Eckbert. Jr., Republican; At
torney NJ. NJ. Mclaughlin, Democrat,
and f. T. Rhodes, Washington party.
Depressed and out of work, John
Dean, an Allentown painter fifty years
old. took a big dose Of laudanum, de
claring he wanted to follow his wife
in death.
Plans for the erection of a ten thou.
sand dollar annex to the Watts public
school building have been approved
by the Building Committee OF the
Chester School Board.
Professor John S. Simons, Of Mariet.
ia, for several years principal of the
Maytown High School, has been Sc.
lected the head of the schools at Du.
Bots, Pa,
An explosion OF a coffee receptacle
in a dinner pail may cause the loss
of sight of Aaron Sauerbeer, a p. & r,
brakeman, of Harrisburg. SauerbeeT
was heating coffee on a small stove
in the caboose.
John J. Hamilton, OF Butte City
Montana, who left Mauch Chunk thir
ty-one a ago, is visiting his sister
Mrs. Thomas Dougherty. 1t Is the
first time they nave seen each Other
in that time.
Eddie Arthur, of Copley, ten years
old. picked up a railroad torpedo anc
was dared by companions to hit 1t witt
a stone. He received a fractured
right thumb, a badly cut left eye, ant
a hole was blown in his left leg.
In the absence of money specially
appropriated. the government, it il
said, will take no part in the unveil
ing of the 100000 memorial arcl
erected by the United States at Val
ley Forge.
One hundred and thirty.seven voter
tof Lower Heidelberg Township. pet
toned the court to be allowed to pres
ent before the voters the question o
whether the township should be d
vided into two political districts.
William Lii and Robert Hall, sol
their homes, at Summit Hill, and lei
in an automobile for Oregon, wher
they will take up a Government home
. stead. Lii has no family, but Ha.
has a wife and several children, tn
, Oldest of which is a boy twelve, whor
The took with him.