The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-11
KEYSTONE STATE
IN SHORT ORDER
LatestNewsH sHappenIngs Gather
ed From Here and There.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
solon Hurt BY Fall In capItol-Motor'
eyclist Hits Pole; klIled-Lehlgh
Canal To Open March is
Mother Of 6 Ends Life.


Canal To Open March is
Mother Of 6 Ends Life.
Clarence Snyder, the Reading Rail
way brakeman, OF Philadelphia, was
absolved from blame by the Grand
Jury in connection with the death OF
Charles Fisher, one OF the two engi'
neers of the passenger and freight
trains which collided at Royersford in
December. Snyder. who opened the
switch, claimed he acted under or
ders of Fisher.
With every prospect for busy sea
son before it, notices we're posted an.
nounclng that navigation on the Le'
high and Delaware Divisions OF the
canal operated by the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company would start on
March Is. During the last few weeks
extensive improvements and repairs
have been made to the locks and II
canal itself.
At meeting of the General Com.
mlttee in charge of the coming Slough
evangelistic campaign TO be held In
Reading, jeremiah G. Mohn, leading
manufacturer, rendered his resignation
as chairman of the.important Finance
Committee. Mr.. Mohn was one OF the
big moneyed men of the campaign. A.
NJ. Sampsel was elected TO succeed
him.
Patrick Murphy. serving ten months
for burglary, walked out of the Lack
awanna county prison and is still at
liberty. Murphy was trusty and
went outside the prison to scrub the
steps. The sunshine and crisp air
offered a temptation that was too
great for him to resist and he was
several blocks away before the prison
attaches took up the pursuit.
The Catasauqua Town Council end
ed its police probe by exoneratlng
Chief of Police William II. Sheckler
who is probably the oldest police chief
in the State having filed the position
for more than thirty years. He was
accused of not arresting an Allentown
athlete who while officiating at foot
ball game assaulted a player.
Mrs. Ray Silberman, mother Of six
children and wife of Harry Silberman
prominent local merchant, commit
ted suicide by inhaling gas. She had
been i'll for two years and brooded
over the fact Taking a rubber tube
she attached one end to gas Jet and
then. crawling into bed, put the other
end in her mouth.
Austin w. May, aged twenty-eight
of Mann's Choice. was instantly killed
on the pike, FIVE miles west of Bed
ford, when his motorcycle crashed In
to pole. Both his arms and Jaw,
were broken and his head crushed
Accompanying him were two Others
who were uninjured. May is survived
by young wife,
AS q result of the street riots which
have characterized the strike at The
Reading Hardware Company's plant
Oscar NJ. Croft. former member OF th'
State constabulary and now an office
of the Reading police department, wa
held for court by Magistrate Breen oi
a charge of assault and battery pre-
ferred by Stanilous Janeszewski.
The striking full-fashioned knitter'
of the Nolde G Horst hosiery plan
in Reading filed exceptions to Judg'
Endlich's decree granting an injunc
ton against them because their meth
ods of peaceful pitketing," and othe
actions about the plant resulted i
street riots and general disorder.
I
Rotarlan Billy Sunday wrote to tn
Allentown Rotary Club that 1t woul'
be impossible for him to accept al
invitation to be the guest OF the or
ganlzation while he was in Philadel
phia. but promised to run over durini
his Paterson engagement.
At a meeting OF the Reading Rotar.
Club, movement was started for tn
purchase of the Pendora Park prof.
erty in East Reading, to be used TO
park purposes and especially as
playground for children. 1t will cos
about $4,000.
After having apparently recove-e
from the effects of an operation mad
necessary by blood poisoning whic
followed a slight scratch on the kne
resulting from a fall Frank Kunke
man. of Kissinger's Church, suffere
a relapse and his condition is Critica
Archibald Courtney, for more tha
fifty years an iron worker at Catasat
qua, long suffering from the effect
of fall, died while on the way hom
from the NJ. E. Church, of which h
was sexton. lie was eighty-two year
old
Representative James Bergy.
Juniata County. was painfully injure
by fall on the marble steps in tn
Capitol rotunda while leaving tn
House. He was taken to hospits
and later went to his home.