The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-02-04

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LatestNews Happenings Gather.
cd From Here and There.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Two Killed, Six Injured In Coal Car
Crash In Mine-RaJah Temple
Admlta Forty From
Allentown.
Governor Brumbaugh accepted mem.
bership on the Board Of Trustees OF
Fisk University. Nashville, Tenn. The
institution is devoted to the education
OF colored persons The Governor OF
Tennessee Is also member.
Allentown furnished forty out of
slxty-two novices admitted to member.
ship in Rajah Temple. Mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine, at special session in
Reading. The Allentown Shriners
went to Reading by special train. ac
companied by the Allentown Band, the
crowd numbering 1877.
Clarence Snyder, OF Philadelphia,
was released from the county jail at
Norristown where he has been confined
awaitins trial for manslaughter,
charged with having been responsible
for the death OF the two engineers in
the wreck Of freight and passenger
train at Royersford, on December IL.
A Warren chemical manufacturing
concern started work on a large order
OF gun cotton for England. Two shifts
OF men are working night and day to
complete the order. An unconfirmed
report is that Russia has ordered $780,
900 worth OF gun cotton from the same
concern.
Clayton Ziegler, storekeeper, Of Par
leysville, was held under $500 bail for
alleged conducting Of gaming house
and selling cigarettes to minors, among
them Isaiah Blank, aged fifteen, who
on Tuesday night shot Horace Lat
shaw, after the latter had won his
money at pool.
Orders were issued by the II. c.
Frick Coke Company to Immediately
fire 1000 coke ovens which have been
idle for year or more. The ovens
are scattered through the entire Con-
nellsville district. about twenty plants
being affected The new order will
give employment to about 1000 men
for fve days a week.
Raymond Chrismer, member OF the
Senior Glass Of the Northumberland
High School, accidentally splashed
some writing ink into his eyes and
became totally blind. He was rushed
to a Sunbury specialists Office, and 1t
is said he will probably never be able
to see again. The ink is believed to
have contained an acid that paralyzed
the optic nerve.
The tanker Paraguay from Sabine,
Texas, for Philadelphia, with cargo
of oil, was In collision with an un-
identified outward bound vessel OF
Marcus Hook. Eight plates Of the
Paraguay were badly damaged above
the water line. The outward bound
ship proceeded down the river and the
extent of her damage, II any, is not
known.
The Columbia County Court refused
fifty-four licenses and granted fifty-two,
dealing the heaviest blow to the liquor
interests that had ever been dealt in
the county. Berwick and West Ber-
wick. with twenty-nine licenses, will
be altogether dry. Catawissa lost all
five Of its licenses, and 0rangeville is
also dry by the loss Of its two licensed
hotels. Practically half the county will
be dry.
with his wife as the only witness,
Wesley Dietz, sixty years old. resiling
six miles south OF Hanover, met a
tragic death. Deitz was saving wood
with a gasoline-driven circular saw
when a small belt came off. He at
tempted to replace 1t without stopping
the engine and was caught in the main
belt and hurled around the Shaft sew
eral times before his wife could stop
the engine. His skull was crushed
and both arms broken.