The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-10-22
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LatestNews Happenings Gather
ed From Here and There.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS

Hlohwaymen Strip Man OF His Clothes
Beside Road-Woman a Suicide
After ouarrel-Horso and
Carriage Stolen.
City officials Of Toronto, Canada, In
spected the Harrisburg municipal sys
TEN.
Measles are epidemic at Riverside
no less than thirty cases having been
reported by physicians.
Henry Arnt, aged seventy-seven. was
burned TO death in a FIRE which de-
stroyed four frame houses at Steelton-
Michael Castrava. aged twenty-ons
years, was instantly killed by a fall
OF rock In the Lehigh Coal and Nayiga.
ton Company's No. s shaft.
Henry G.. THEM, sixty.four years
old, who shot himself in the head In
the cellar Of his home at Mllmont.
Monday, died Tuesday night.
Bids will be asked for an additional
mile and q half Of street. paving for
Harrisburg to complete this years
operations.
Mrs. Ellen Griffith. seyenty-seven
years old, died at her home In Sun
bury within a few hours after her
son, Stephen Griffith. died.
John L. Bendell, OF Green Hill. Ches-
ter county, has filed a complaint with
the Public Service Commission against
the withdrawal Of the Pennsylvania
train leaving West Chester at SEE
A. NJ. for Philadelphia.
The Bethlehem Steel Company has
bought land on the north side Of tho
Lehigh River Just below Bethlehem.
1t is rumored that the new B~ettendort
Car Works will be established Oh the
tract just purchased.
While at work at the plant OF the
Reading Bayonne Steel Casting Com
pany, William II. Kellner. aged thirty
eight years, OF Bethlehem, was killed
by an arm OF a windlass with which a
building was being moved.
Albert Prescaris, six years old,
found a dynamite cap in the yard OF
his home in Shenandoah. He struck
It with a stone, exploding IL, which
shattered his right hand. necessitatlng
amputation at the wrist.
The tube mill OF the Reading from
Company, which closed down ten days
ago on account of no orders, resumed
operations. II is stated that orders
for pipe are coming in more freely.
When running full handed the plant
employs 1900 men.
Thomas Price, a boarder at the home
Of Mrs Mary Klddle. Scranton, is al
legged to have attempted to end his
life, and a short time later there was a
quarrel between the two. Angry, Mrs.
Riddle went to her home and when her
son returned, two hours later, he found
her dead with q bottle that had con-
tanned poison in her hand,
A Reading firm received a contract
from the English Government for 50,-
900 stretchers to be used in carrying
wounded from the field. They are TO
be furnished at the rate Of 1000 a
week. As the contract has nearly a
year to run, il Is apparent that Great
Britain does not expect the wal to end
soon.
Mrs. John Walsh and daughter and
Elmer Herring, Of Union Township,
have been seriously bitten by a cat
which physicians at Philadelphia de.
clare had the rabies. For this reason
It is feared the persons bitten may be
affected, and they will be given the
Pastuer treatment at the county hos.
pital at ~Schuylkill Haven.
Soon after John Hesser. superin'
tendent Of the Susquehanna Coal Com
pany's Hickory Ridge Colliery, drove
to Shamokin and tied his horse to q
post, a man leaped into Hesser's car
rlage and drove away. Three hours
later police captured the man, who
gave his name as Charles Heinds, OF
Sunbury.
Mrs. Harry Nixon. OF Chester. re
celved a letter from her husband from
Quebec, Canada, informing her that
he was about to sail for Europe to
ioin his regiment which is at the front
In Belgium. Less than a year ago
Nixon sent to Derby. England, for the
sweetheart OF his childhood, Leah
Grace. They were married in Phila
delphia.
While on his way from his home in
81. Clair to Mt. Hope Arden Seeley.
twenty years old, son of William
Seeley, was attacked by two highway
men, who pulled him into bushes be.
side the road and stripped him OF all
his clothing. The men even took the
eye glasses from his nose. After warn
ing him not to make an cutlery, the
two men decamped through the
bushes.