The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-04

At Shenandoah while Engtneman
David Cooney, was pushing q trip Of
eight loaded mine cars at good speed
on Packer No 4 Colliery cuim bank,
he lost control OF the locomotive on
account of slippery rails. The cars
and locomotive jumped of the tracks
and plunged down an eighty-foot EN-
bankment. Cooney and Conductor Ma
der barely had time TO jump and save
their lives.
without a word OF advertising. and
not even an Official announcement. the
First National Bank at Schaefferstovn
was reopened for business to the Joy OF
residents of the town, and especially
Of depositors and stockholders. who
had been in suspense ever since the
ucrning OF February 6 last. when Alvin
Binner, the cashier, blew out bis
brains.
A million-dollar fire took place in
Chester with no excitement Without
the ringing OF fire bells or the sound
ing of the alarm whistle, securities,
the face value Of which aggregated
s1,O00.000, were burned beneath the
boilers OF the Beacon Electric Light
Company's plant All the securities
had been fully paid and there was no
further use for the documents.
Despondent because she had been
lame since childhood and could not go
about as her friends did. Miss Annie
Crane, aged thirty-four years. OF Eas-
ton, went into the house OF her next
door neighbor Mrs. Rosa Brodie. while
the family was absent. turned on the
gas and attempted suicide She was
discovered in time, however, aud re
vived.
While a Reading Railway passenger
train was rushing toward Wetherill
Junction, Joseph Zeigler, telegraph
operator, was frantically trying to
move fve-ton boulder off the track
which had rolled down from the noun
tain. When he failed, he ran to a
nearby tower and flashed a warning
over the wires, stopping the train in
the nick Of time.
Lancaster is stirred by the pre-
llmlnary meetings incident to the com
ing OF Evangelist Slough next month
For three weeks the preliminary work
has been in progress and thousands OF
persons have been attending the neigh
borhood prayer services. The huge
tabernacle was finished last week and
the first service there will be held Sun
day.
Carl Connors. awaiting his being
taken to the Reformatory at Hunting
don, tried to end his life In cell at
the county prison. He TOOK the phos-
phorous off two boxes OF matches,
placed them in water, and then drank
the mixture. His condition is serious
and he has been removed to the State
Hospital.
Grangers and dairymen will unite
with the State Dairy and Food officials
in an attack on the proposition in the
Steedle bill to reduce the cost of retail
oleo licenses. The bill Is In the hands
Of committee which will be asked to
give a hearing early in March. John
A. McSparren, master Of the State
Grange, will appear to contest the bill
/, Patrick Maroney, aged eighteen,
popular young athlete, who started to
work only last Monday at the Bethle-
hem boundary & Machine Company,
was probably fatally injured when In
trying to adjust betting. his clothing
caught in the machinery and he was
whirled around line shaft.
Katherine Boyle and Mary Kreegan,
young women employed at Williamson
Free Trades School, we're held up and
robbed by a masked man as they stood
at the entrance to the school grounds
waiting for a car to Media
Disgu'ted because the doctors 10
Pittsburgh could give him no relief
Howard G. Snyder, druggist OF
Pittsburgh. went to his old home IL
Lancaster, was operated upon by his
family physician and after resting .
night returned to Pittsburgh. He will
now fully recover.
Farmers in the upper end OF Lehigh
county are loading potatoes for ship
ment to the big city markets at thirty
seven cents bushel, the lowest price
that has been obtained for a long time