The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-08
STATE news
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Latest Doings In Various Parts
of the State.
PREPAREDFO FORQUICKREADING

Scranton Armory 10 Damaged BY Min,
csve-Two Killed As Pennsy Case
line Car Hits Auto---Refuses
100000 Order.
The Thirteenth Regiment Armory
number OF nearby dwelling houses
and an unused plant OF the Scranton
Heating Company were damaged BY
cave-ln disturbances OF mine workings
Gas mains we're broken and II was
necessary to warn the occupants Of
number OF houses to vacate. From
what mine workings the subsldencs
resulted is not yet determined. The
damage is already estimated, to
armory and other buildings, at more
than $4,000.
The Mauch Chunk Foundry & Iron
Works has turned down a s3,000,0OO
order for shrapnell shells for the allies,
because II Is too busily engaged in the
manufacture OF machinery for coal col
lieries and other industries. besides at
tending to local work. The plant Is
especially prepared for the manufae
ture OF war munitions, and during the
Civil War was kept busy night and
day for several years In the manufac
ture OF shells.
When the lis graduates OF III,
Allentown High School, who imme
diately after commencement went on
a trip TO Washington, reached Philh
delphia, Miss Pearl A. Ebert, daughter
OF Mrs. Edgar Werley, left the crowd
saying she would stop of. having been
invited to a wedding. The news leak
ed out that she met Leighton G. Pur
sell, son OF Mrs. Marie II. Pursell, oil
Allentown, and they were married BY
Rev. Dr. Frankland.
The Pennsylvania Railroad gasoline
car, which runs between Bradford and
Olean. connecting Bradford with the
Buffalo. Philadelphia division OF the
road, struck a Ford auto containing
Young man and an older woman, kill
ing them instantly and mangling the
woman beyond identification.
For an unwarranted assault on
patient. Edward Gemung, an attendant
at the Rittersville Hospital, was ac'
cused Of assault and battery by Dr.
Klopp, the superintendent, and com
mitted to the Allentown jail.
Prof. Waldemar Grossman, one Of
the leading musical instructors OF the
Lehigh Valley. died suddenly OF heart
trouble, expiring while his wife was
getting glass OF water to relieve
him.
The auto hearse conveying the
body OF Wilson Harter, Of Nescopeck
to the cemetery, broke down and II
was necessary TO transfer the corpse
to a carriage. The cortege then pro
ceeded.
Mrs. David Smith, of Salem Town
ship, tore up boards of her front porch
and killed large rattlesnake, which
had made known It's presence by 3
loud rattle.
Discovering that she had taken
poison by mistake, Mrs. Lydie Shealer'
of Wrightsville, ran to physicians
Office. who administered an emetic S
she tainted Her condition is critical
Harry Burnett, young brakeman ID
the employ OF the Central Railroad oil
New Jersey, who had both legs ampu'
tated at the State Hospital, Scranton
as the result Of an accident, died.
The Allentown Arion Society held
banquet in honor OF its twenty-fourtn
anniversary and the nineteenth ann
yersary of Prof. James Prescott, Of
Philadelphia, as its instructor,
Operations at the Sharon plant Of
the Carnegie Steel Company have been
resumed after eighteen months idie
ness. Five hundred men are en-
| ployed
After sinking for the third time ID
the deep waters of Tumbllng Run
Dam, Pottsville. Mary Matthews
| nine-year-old girl, was rescued "
Engineer Louis Kelker
Reber Mears, Jr., while swimming IL
Fishing Creek, Bloomsbury. wa'
rescued from drowning by his SUNDAY
school teacher, Harold Meyer.
Prof. Royal b. Jenkins, supervislnt
principal OF the White Haven schools
will leave for California to take up 'n'
study of medicine.
Frustrated by combined sunstroh'
and nervous breakdown, Rev. d, j. bly
pastor of Zwingli Reformed Churcn
Berwick, was found unconscious In ~'
yard.
All old teachers Of Lansford wel'
reelected. and all were given an u
crease in salary, with the excep'iV'
of two whose cases soon will be coH
sidered by the School Board.