The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-03
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY T0u
Latest Doings in Various Part
of the State.
PREPAREDFO ORQUICKREADlNI
Boy Kills Friend BY Accident VIII.
Musket-Walks 20 Miles At 7s.
Wins Prize = suffraeIsts Or.
panize In Montgomery Co.

Wins Prize = SuffragIsts Or.
panlze In Montgomery Co.
The highest scholastic hon0rs B.
slowed upon Seniors at the Pennsd
vania State College were awarded d
Harvey T. Hill, OF Sandy Lake. Mer.
GER county, Pa; H. s. Smith, Of
Waynesbono, and George w. Luer
sen. Of Reading. Hill was voted u,
John W. White fellowship, carryinr
$500 to assist paying for year,
graduate study at any institution 0.
his selection. Smith was made Hill,
alternate. To Luersen. who will }.
graduated with the highest genen
average for his college course ever A.
tained by q Penn State student. goe
the John W. White medal for excel
lence In scholarship.
Following addresses by Mrs. Franz
NJ. Roessing, president Of the Pennsy
vania Woman Suffrage Association;
Mrs. Anne Orme, OF Wayne county, Or
ganizer, and Della Potter, OF Brooklyn
woman suffragists Of Montgomen
county organized at Norristown Youni
Women's Christian Association. Mn
Drown, Of Ardmore, was elected coun
ty leader; Mrs. George Carson, OF Ply
mouth Meeting, vice-leader; Mrs, Nor
rell. secretary, and Mrs. Barnes, o. |
Lansdale, treasurer. Headquarters
will be opened in Norristown shortb.
II was decided to raise $4,000 to earn
on the campaign for equal suffrage.
AS Norman Kressly seventeen year
old. Of Slatedale, in the upper end o.
Lehigh county, was showing party Of |
companions the working Of an Old
army musket that had stood unused 10 |
a corner OF his fathers home for many
years, his chum. Roy Lentz, also seven
teen, came riding around the corneI
OF the barn on his bicycle. Kressly
pulled the trigger and the charge en-
tered Lentz's heart, killing him almost
instantly. Kressly is grief stricken
and is being guarded for fear he will
end his life.
The Board OF Managers OF the Glen
Mills School for Boys decided thai
nothing would be done In the case Of
Thomas Joseph Long, Of Philadel
phia, who died at the school on Sun
day, May 16, after a tussle with an.
other boy. Long received blow
over the heart. His death was pro
nounced due to natural causes. and
the blow as only incidental.
DR.. c. ]. Marshall. State veterin-
hrian. issued an order at Pittsburgh
prohibiting the shipment into Pennsyl
vanla Of live stock from any point In
Kentucky, specifying that this did moi
include horses. The quarantine was
brought about by the receipt OF several
carloads OF hogs shipped from Louis
vile and found to be infected with the
foot and mouth disease.
AS a result of riot over the Eu-
ropean war between Austrian and
Russian residents at Bethlehem. the
police have made ten arrests, but the
hearing in the cases will not take
place until several OF the combatanb
have returned from the hospital
where their injuries are being at
tended to.
The general committee In charge
Of raising s150.000 for new hospital
building in Easton, which began It's
work, was startled by re.
ceiving, entirely without solicitation,
a gift of $1,000 from Mrs. William F,
Of West Hampton. L. l.,
daughter of the late Colonel and Mrs.
jacob nay, OF EaStOn.
Mrs. Bertha Nones, testifying 10
the divorce action against her hus-
band. William l. Nones, Jr.. of Over
brook, said that she was ordered to
leave as the husband no longer loved
her. A divorce was granted By
Judge Wagner,
Rev. Dr.. A. II. F. Fischer. of Eas-
ton, former pastor Of ST. Paul's Luz
theran Church, has accepted a call
to the Central Lutheran Church,
and will take charge
early in June.
The lives Of five persons were on
at Reading when the two
story dwelling which they occupied
COLLAPSED. The house was tenanted
by Charles Manderbach and family.
Rev. Alexander Thompson, pastor
OF the Little Britain PRESBYTERIAN
at Westheld. New York. He
Is a graduate Of Princeton Uni
versity.
Members Of Norristown Bar had
an outing and dinner at the Philadel-
phia Yacht Club at Essington-
Judges Swartz. Miller and SoIly were
present.