The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-12-09

Gs the accounts are audited. Many
thousands Of dollars will be dis.
tributed
While w H. Derk, wife and nine
children were dining at home in Ma
hanny Valley fire started on the
kitchen floor, owing to live coal fall
ing from the cook stove. The family
had scarcely time TO escape from the
house. which burned to the ground,
with loss OF S1,5OO Mrs. Derk was
burned badly trying to rescue heir
looms.
George L. Brown, Charles Bowman
and Henry Epply. all York countians
contributed 800 TO the State Treas
ury, they having pleaded guilty TO
charges preferred by Game Warden r.
P. Gemmil that on November 2l they
hunted and shot four rabbits on the
farm Of Mr.. Brown, in Jackson Town
ship. The four rabbits therefore cost
them $25 a piece
Mrs Stephen Benik, OF James City
shot her daughter Anna, four years
old, when she thought she heard a
burglar at a window Turning quick
ly, the mother, while holding her child
in her arms, fired. The child fell 10
the floor with a bullet through its
heart The bullet also passed through
the palm Of the woman's hand with
which she clasped the child.
Samuel Counterman, forty-three
years old, Of Waymart died from gun
shot wounds inflicted accidentally by
DR.. Frank Howley, OF Philadelphia, on
November "a Dr. Howley and Mr.
Counterman were on a hunting trip
The latter was crawling under 4 barb
ed wire fence with the doctor just
back Of him, when the latter's gun was
discharged
After working forty-hye years as a
railroad engineer. being retired last
year without an accident. John
Clouser sixty-eight years. Of Waynes-
burg. met death under the wheels Of
locomotive on the Pennsylvania Rail.
road Tuesday night Mr Clouser at
tempted TO alight from the engine and
fell.
Record prices are being received by
farmers in New Castle and vicinity al
the present time for cattle. Ten
Holstein-Friesian cows al a sale last
week brought S1,073. Five Of the
cows brought $40 the lowest price
for any one Of the five being $50 and
the highest Sl7O
Benjamin r. Davis, chief electrician
for the susquehanna Coal Company
and a well.known Mason. was injured
internally and had a leg crushed at
Hickory Ridge colliery, Shamokin, by
a pole falling on him as he was over.
seeing the erection Of branch line
underground
The first regiment Of field artillery
in the State was organized when Bat
teries z and F, composed OF men OF
the Fourteenth Infantry, which recent.
ly was dissolved, consolidated with
four other batteries. It will be known
as the First Pennsylvania.
Arrangements have been made by
which the Observation-Disclosures evan.
gelistio party. which conducted a cam
palgn in Chester last spring. viii re-
turn in March 1916, and conduct
four weeks revival
With two revolyers pressed against
hia head by two masked men as he sat
reading in his own home at Guava
Paryin Kile a lumberman. was rob.
bed Of over one hundred dollars. The
robbers aed to the mountains.
John Haller. a welder at the works
Of the South Chester Tube Company
was caught by a machine and sus
tanned a fractured skull and other in.
iuries. He died short time after
ward in Chester Hospital
Silver and copper and traces OF gold
have been discovered in the mountains
two miles north Of Bangor. by wn.
liam Blake and his son, William. Jr
The specimens OF silver and copper
ore are said to be excellent.
OF the 1900 pupils in the Carlisle
schools )niy S63 or less than ffty per
cent are fully normal, according TO
the report Of the medical examiners
for the district a new feature is TO
be introduced by the opening Of night
schools in cooking fof working girls.
Blinded by snow, Joseph Nutridge.
thirty-hve years old, Pennsylvania
Railroad track hand. did not see the
approach Of train at Gallitzin. He
was run down, and his right leg and
right hand cut of. He died at hos.
pital several hours later.
The Royersford Board Of Trade
filed complaint with the Public serv-
ice Commission against the 1O0-trip
ticket regulations Of the Philadelphia
q Reading Railway II is alleged that
there has been an unreasonable in.
crease in price.