The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-04-08


colliery, Mahanoy City. was found o.
a pile OF burning railroad ties at two
o'clock In the morning. He had been
killed by a blow on the head with /,
pick His revolver, with five chan
bers empty was found about thres
hundred feet away. The fire was sub
dued and Corporal Davies and squad
OF nine State troopers were summoned
to work on the case. The mans gold
watch, chain and wallet, he having
received his pay Saturday, are miss
ing.
Litigation started in the County
Court last month, in connection with
the estate OF the late United States
Senator Mathew Stanley Quay, by hh
Mrs. Mary Quay Davidson
of Buffalo. resulted in her favor at
Beaver. when Judge Holt made an or
der requiring Richard r. Quay. a soh
of the Senator. and the Union Trust
Company of Pittsburgh, trustees. 70
file an account within thirty days.
With a temperature only twenty Do
grees above zero and raw wind blow
ing through the Milbacn Valley, fifteen
persons were baptized by immersion Ia
the creek-on the farm OF Ephraim Erb,
at Richland, near Reading. Rev
Michael Kurtz conducted the baptlsmai
service, while several hundred mem
bers OF the Church OF the Brethren
OF the Tulpehocken district, looked on
Twenty-one reasons were filed with
the Court at Reading for a new trial
for David w. Rothensies. Of Elmira
N. Y; Charles A. Stephens, of Phila
delphla. and Frederick G. Anderson
of Baltimore, Nd, convicted of con
spiracy whereby hundreds Of investors
lost $4,000 in defunct local insurance
concerns.
Nathan II. Gehria, and for mauI
years engaged in the business Of miller
and afterwards farming. died at hisI
home at Fleetwood from general de
blllty fastened by r fall which hs
sustained several months ago.
julius Fritz, an Austrian, employed
by an Allentown brewery, becansI
homeslck for his wife, who was visit
ing the old folks across the ocean,
and managed to join her, whereupoU
ne was promptly drafted into FranI
Josef's army.
Orders were issued for the prepara
ton for immediate resumption of work
at Mt. Laffee strippings, which haVe|
been idle for a number OF weeks, Rel
sumption OF work will give three hun'|
dred men employment.
Martin Falstich, foreman for Franz
Weir. an Allentown coal and lims|
dealer, was arrested for embezzlemen'|
and larceny, charged with having gone
into business on his own account WITH
stock stolen from his employer.
Mrs. Laura NJ. Kuntz, widow OF Cy
rus Kuntz, founder OF the Allentown
"Item," is confined to her home With
an injured knee, sustained in alightingl
from car
VIM. II. Wiser, an Allentown coal
dealer, and his son andrew, aged III
teen. are in the hospital from injuries
received when thrown into the street
in 4 runaway.
Peter Wentzel. sixty-four years old
for over thirty-hye years employees
at the locomotive shops Of the Read
ing Railway Company, died of a com
plication of diseases.
The Citizens National Bank VIII
tear down an old landmark on the publ
lie square of Waynesboro. to MAKE
room for its large new banking strucI
ture.
Playing about a bonfire, Agnes. ths
six.year-old daughter Of James O'NelD
OF Coatesville, was terribly burned
Rex. Wilson, boiler-maker, rescueu
the child.
Helene. Cullin, a student at Swartn1
more College, rescued Mary Robinson
age seven. from drowning In Cruz
Creek, near Chester
Thieves stripped the firehouse az
the plant of the Aberfoyle Mill, ~
Chester, OF all the brass fittings an'
hose.
With a broken leg. received by fal1
ing from a bicycle, James Parker, age'
four, is in the Chester Hospital
A lodge OF the Tribe Of Ben Hur ha'
been organized in Allentown. WIN
Simon Laugh as chief.
Littleton Johnson, aged forty, s0'
of Judge Isaac Johnson, Of Delaw@'|
County, died at Chadd's Ford.
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Residents of New Jersey towns op|
posite Chester will not be permlue'|
to land on the Pennsylvania side "
less they are or consent to be vacc''
ated, a precaution taken by the Che
ter health authorities TO prevent vi
spread Of smallpox.
Samuel Spoon. of WeissDort, Q h