The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-06-01

A petition will be presented to Court
at the next term for the incorporation
of new Cumberland county borough.
to include several small communities
located along the Susquehanna River.
near Harrisburg. The new borough
will be known as Fort Washington,
from the historic Old fortress which
marked the high point OK Confederate
invasion in 1863. The new town will
have a population OF about 1900
Grand Army veterans made a public
appeal to the patriot citizenry OF Far
risburg to assist in the work Of In
structing the school children in love
of the flag" we are all hovering
around three score and ten; it is not
reasonable to think we win be able TO
continue this custom many years
more" declared Patriot Instructor E.
B. Hoffman.
Captain George w. Hutchinson. Of
the staff of Colonel Richard Coulter.
Tenth Infantry, Pennsylvania National
Guard, suffered the amputation OF his
right leg at the Westmoreland County
Hospital as the result Of an automo-
bile accident. The driver was blinded
by the light OF a passing street car
and the auto upset over an embank
ment
Thomas Haldeman. q farmer OF
Chambersburg, worth over $4,000,
killed himself after losing $4,000 on a
real estate deal He had traded a
property in Greencastle for a farm.
Wednesday be went to Greencastle
and paid all his debts with cash he
then went to the home Of neighbor
and paid him small bill borrowed
a shotgun and killed himself nearby.
Hayes Schenck, justice OF the peace
at Howard for twenty-five years. who
was convicted in February Of bounty
swindling was sentenced by Judge
Quigley to not less than two years nor
more than three in the Western Peni-
tentiary. In eighteen months Schenck's
bounty transactions amounted to
50 200.
Simon Maines, station agent Of the
Bald Eagle Valley Railroad at Beech
Creek, was killed by fast flyer while
crossing the tracks Of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad at that place in his
motor car. His company jumped from
the car just as il reached the tracks,
and was not injured.
The planting OF twenty-seyen thou
sand two-year-old white pine trees on
State lands which are being reTorested
in the vicinity of Fields Station was
completed by state Forester Arthur B.
Wells. Mr.. Wells has set out nearly
one hundred thousand trees on State
lands this spring.
By the collapse Of a metal ceiling
al the Palace Theater. Reading which
is undergoing changes and improve
ments, David w Earring fifty eight
years old. of Shamokin, workman.
was killed and three others, James
Schweigart, Frank Yarnell and George
Shoop, were injured,
Mayor Ezra S. Meals is in the Har.
risburg Hospital in a critical condition
from an attack Of asthma. His work
will be looked after by Commissioner
W. l.. Gorgas, acting Mayor
George Hardy, thirty-two years old,
was crushed to death under tons Of
rock at the East Bear Ridge mine.
Ambrose McGraw, thirty-hye years,
of 26O4 Pittston avenue, conductor on
the Wilkes-Barre & Eastern Railroad.
was gored to death by bull on the
Lehigh Farm, near Moosic. His body.
lSlAiols AlullidN0ut was AONhN W hiAA
girls ON their way to work II was
caught in the limbs of tree.
Matthew Feigle, a painter OF Steel
ton, was killed by electricity while at
work near high power wires of the
Central Iron & Steel Company plant
at Harrisburg, His body came into
contact with the wires.
The National Historical Society has
purchased FIVE acres of land twelve
miles east of Meadville, which was
formerly owned by John Brown, Of
Civil War fame, and upon which hs
built tannery. The society win ere
a suitable marker.
DR.. Emerson Berger Gordon. Of
Schuylkill county. was found guilty at
Sunbury of running down and killing
George Ilganows. at Kulpmont. hist De
cember, Judge Cummings sentenced
him to year in Jail and to pay fine
Of one hundred dollers.