The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-09-09
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Latest Doings in Various Parts
Of the State.
PREPAREDFORQUICKREADiNG
Half-5rother Brother Is Ruling OF
court-eirl Campers Save Youth
From orowning-Want Lin.
coin Road.


coin Road.
II. r. Leonard, Of New Castle, Della.
ware, shell expert, one Of the three
men hurt in the Bethlehem Steel Com.
pany she'll explosion test at the Red
lngton proving grounds. in which two
others were killed, had narrow
escape from dying at hospital in
South Bethlehem. II 50 happened that
sharp piece of steel from the shell
In Leonard's left leg worked itself up.
ward and severed an artery, the man
nearly bleeding to death before dis.
covered.
Beverly w. Kunkel. Phi D., profes.
sOr Of zoology at Beloit College, Wis
consin, has been appointed professor
Of biology and head of that department
at Lafayette College. lie is to take
the place made vacant by the sudden
death OF Prof. Alvin DAWSON, some
weeks ago. Prof. Kunkel was born in
Harrisburg in 1881, was member Of
the faculty at Yale for seven years
and did original research work in
Wiedersheim's Laboratory, Freiburg,
Germany.
While Miss Anna Foley and Miss
Elizabeth Dougherty. members Of a
Baltimore party camping along the
North Branch Of the Susquehanna near
Northumberland, were out boating
they saw John Trench and William
Deepen, Of Shamokin, struggling to
catch hold of an upturned boat. Be
ing expert swimmers. the young wom.
en- jumped into ten seet of water, and
catching the drifting boat. pushed il
toward the men. They grasped it and
~ere pulled to safety.
Talk among trainmen was tabooed
by the Pennsylvania Railroad n. w.
Smith, superintendent of the Middle
Division, caused to be posted on all
company bulletin boards the following
notice: Discussion of matters pertain.
ing to the European war in passenger
trsinmens rest rooms or about the
station at Altoona, among trainmen
themselves, or with the ianitors, who
mostly are Of foreign birth, is pro.
hiblted."
A. L. Shaw, of the State police force,
located in Pottsville. was stabbed in
the neck by Mike Bruza. at Miners
vile. Shaw's wound was so jagged
that the jugular vein was visible, the
knife missing it by only a hairs
breadth. Bruza, after his arrest, said
he did the stabbing because he was
afraid Shaw and other State troopers
might arrest him, although he said he
did nothing to deserve It.
Judge Evans decided that half
brother Is a brother in the eyes Of the
law, when he made permanent the in
junction restraining Miss Hazel
Hughes, Of Espy, from filling a posi-
ton as teacher. to which she was elect
ed by majority vote Of the School
Board, one member OF which was her
fathers halfbrother.
General c. T. O'Neill, commanding
the Fourth Brigade n. G. p, has is
sued orders for the parading Of the
entire Fourth Infantry on October T.
in connection with the semtcenten-
nial celebration at South Bethlehem
Harry p. Shomo, clerk in the Audi
tor Generals department at Harris
burg. a well-known Republican Of Har-
risburg, withdrew as a candidate for
the Republican nomination for Coun-
" Commissioner Of Berks.
A big stone and frame barn on the
farm on the State road, at Media, own
ed by Dr. William T. Werntz and
leased to Arthur Bleakley, was de-
stroyed by fire. the loss being close to
$4,000, including contents.
Victoria Makanavage, four years
old. OF Shenandoah, was injured prob
ably fatally when her clothes took fire
while she was playing with matches.
Her mothers hands were burned seri-
ously in beating out the flames,
Joseph. two.year-old son Of John
Monaghan, of Girardville, while visit
ing at Big Mine Run, was run over by
a farmers wagon and injured prob
ably fatally
More than 1000 petitions Of candi.
dates for various offices to be filled in
Lehigh this fall county, borough and
township. were filed in the Courthouse
at Allentown.
Harrisburg business men have in.
Augurated a movement to have a
branch made of the Lincoln Highway
from Lancaster to Harrisburg. thence
10 Gettysburg. The highway now
goes from Lancaster to Gettysburg by
way of York.
Muriel F. Weishample, aged seven
years. Of South Bethlehem, started all
alone on a 3,OOO-mile trip to Alameda
Cal. where she will make her home
with her uncle and aunt Mr.. and Mrs