The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-15
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Latest Doings in Various Parts
of the State.
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Girl Finds Father Suicide In Garrett.
Boy browns In Backyard Creek.
To Wed After Forty
Two Years.

Two Years.
Going into the attic to note the prog
ress of fruit she was drying since she
became the little mother of the family
fortnight ago when her mother died
in hospital, fifteenyear-old Mabel
Hackenberg, of Beaver Springs, found
her father Robert, lying on the floor.
a suicide. Melancholia, induced by his
wife's death it is believed. prompted
him to fire revolver bullet into his
temple.
Mayor Ward presided at a pre-
liminary meeting for the purpose OF
organizing local branch of the Mems
League for Women's Suffrage Of Penn
sylvanla. State Organizer Arthur NJ
Devices, delivered an address, while
Jacob NJ. Zook, organizer for the State
League, was another speaker.
Louis, the three-yearold son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Mathew Dolan, of Girardville.
while playing in the rear OF their home
was swept down the Shenandoah
Creek by the breaking of the fence.
The body was carried to Homesville,
a mile away.
The Allentown School Board adopt.
I
ed a resolution that all bidders on the
new schoolhouse would have to en-
ploy union labor and sign the scale.
Bid lers declined to comply, and the
matter has been referred to the Solici-
tor for an opinion.
When Mrs. Harman Cromes, OF
Beaver Valley. represented to the
Court that her son-in-law, George
Schlicher, proprietor of the Beaver
Valley Hotel, sold liquor openly on
Sunday. a rule to revoke the license
was granted.
Washington Township taxpayers
have begun proceedings in equity to
restrain the school directors from
erecting a new building at Wayne
Heights, doing away with the present
high schools at Rouzerville.
The funeral OF John Thuma. Civil
War veteran, was held at Marietta.
being largely attended. Taps were
blown to fulfill pact made on the
battlefield fifty-two years ago between
Thuma and Adam Wisman.
The centennial exercises were mar.
red at Kutztown when Howard Heth-
erington, thirty years old, of Allen
town, a Reading Railway brakeman.
was run down and killed by his own
train while shifting in the local yards.
AS a result of the dissatisfaction OF
nearly 100 machinists over the ques-
tion of wages at the Bethlehem Steel
Works, there has been a general rails
ing Of wages among the men in sew
eral departments
John A. Snyder, Harrisburg, let
ter carrier, left for Los Angeles, to
wed Mary c. Stemler, to whom he was
engaged forty-two years ago. He is
sixty years old.
Contractors started with the con.
crete work for the foundation of the
ways at the new shipyard which will
be established on the site of the old
Roach shipyard Chester.
William S. Roth, chief detective for
the Lehigh Valley Transit Company,
while wrestling with friend in camp
at the Poconos, made a misstep and
broke leg
In suing for a divorce from John 8.
Keim, of Perry Township, Sallie NJ.
Kelm AYERS that he caused her to
work as day laborer on neighbor.
ing farms"
Francis Delowry, 21 years old, a
prominent athlete, had his head pinned
under falling mine cars at Kohlnoor
Colliery, Shenandoah His skull was
fractured.
Practically all wheat fields in the
Waynesboro section have been harv.
ested and the yield averages thirty
bushels to the acre.
Julius Kramsky, forty-six years old.
was caught behind heavy fall of coal
at William Penn Colllery, Shenandoah
and was entombed seven hours.
Martin Girvin, eighty-four years old.
of Quarryville, is in a serious condition
from the bite by large copperhead
snake. He was putting some hay into
the trough for the horses, when
snake, hidden In the hay. sprang at
him, biting him on the left hand.
Falling from the wharf of the Con.
sumers' Ice Company, Charles STRAIT
ton, aged twenty-five years, of Ches.
ter, struck his head against the rail
of the towboat Helen Bechtel and sus.
tanned conclusions of the brain and
probable fracture of the skull.