The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-12-16

OF pig iron a week.
The former driving park at Weigl
Scales was surveyed by representa-
tives of ]. P. and c. X. Eagle, sIll
manufacturers, who will construct 4
large dye plant there and remove
their Shamokin dye works to that place
The Eagle Brothers recently added
several new members to the firm and
increased the capitalization from g.,
100000 TO s2O.0O0.O0O.
Dan O'Brien, twenty-eight years old
OF Scranton, tried suicide for the tenth
time. He was hanging from a cell
bar at police headquarters when cut
down. "Drat the luck, will you ever
let fellow alone?" said Dan when
cut down. Magistrate Williams told
him he would have to stop hanging
himself or something serious might
happen to him some day.
Mrs. Henry Vosburg, thirty-eight
years old, found at her home in Scran.
ton with bullet wound in her head,
fought fiercely an hour TO prevent doc
tors at the State Hospital from at
tending to the injury. She told them
that she had shot herself and that she
didn't desire to go to all the trouble
that she did and then be compelled TO
live.
That men we're employed at pub
lice auction to bid up against him the
price of property until It was raised
to $3.50 is the defense of Jacob Stein,
filed with the Court at Reading, In
the suit brought against him by the
estate Of the late Daniel /. Saul for re
covery of the amount In question, al
legged to be due on the purchase Of a
farm in Perry Township.
While assisting his uncle, William
Menier, of Aristes, In killing hogs sui-
fering with cholera, the animals hay.
ing been condemned by State agents,
Clarence Fetterman missed his aim
when a hog ran at him and the load
ploughed into his uncle's abdomen.
Menier is in serious condition.
Sixty-three more men are employed
in the Pennsylvania Railroad machine
shops at Altoona this month than one
year ago. The total is 1854. They
are repairing locomotives for the i'm
mense volume Of traffic being handled
by the Pennsy and they are kept busy
day and night. Il
Formal proclamation OF the results
OF the November election for three Su-
perior Court Judges and on the cleo
tion on the four proposed Constitu-
tional amendments has been made by
Secretary OF the Commonwealth Cyrus
E.. Woods on behalf of the Governor.
l; was later than usual this year.
The loss may reach 100000 in the
derailment Of twelve cars in an extra
eastbound freight on the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad at Clementon. The wheel
OF Frisco line car broke, and as u
left the tracks, eleven other cars fol-
lowed. They were loaded with wheat,
oats and -four for the allies.
A rich vein Of iron ore was uncoy'
cred on the farm of William Bertsch,
near Seisholtzville, by Milton, W. n
and Robert Gerry. The vein is twenty
feet wide at the top. Samples run
high In percentage, and mining opera
tions probably will begin at once.
A green hat may send Country
Smith, colored, of Harrisburg, to the
electric chair. The police alleged that
the hat worn by Country" when ar.
rested was stolen from the home Of
Mrs. Ella Albright, murdered last sum
mer. Smith is accused of the crime.
From the triennial assessment OF
Bucks county, it is shown that there
are 92S less horses and 1866 less COWS
than in 1912, and the value of the In
crease in real estate taxable is sl'
260,2O1.
The State Commission of Agricul1
ture considered plans to work in conf
junction with State College in ths
farm bureau and farm advisory work
so that the State will get the benefit
OF double service and they probably
will be put into effect early next sum-
mer.
Although she was able to walk inie|
the Coaldale Hospital unaided, 1t was
found that Mrs. Cassie Galiously ws'|
suffering from fractured skull and|
her condition is critical. How she was|
injured is not known.
The American Sheet and TinplanI
Company, of Pittsburgh, has recelw
an order for 100000 boxes of tinpI
to be shipped to the Orient. Thf7sy
ers are said to be Standard OH Pa|
ests. RlI
The Secretary Of the Common
Issued charters as thlrd-class Ct
Bethlehem and South Bet41
which voted to become citiS
month.
New York city has 5.333,537