The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-05-25


the Salvation Army s2,100 damages
for the obstruction Of air, light and
access to It's building by the 81" Of the
Philadelphia & Western Railway,
William Dietz, employed in the erec
ton OF an addition to the Eagle
Brothers silk mills, Shamokin, plunged
from the fourth story girders to the
ground. He was removed in q critical
condition to the State Hospital. his
skull having been fractured.
Workmen excavating for hotel ad.
dltion at York, uncovered box con.
talning the bones OF young man. eyi'
IDENTIFY buried there seventy-ave years
or more ago. The police are making
an investigation. Many years ago
stable occupied the cite and the prop
erty was owned by James Smith. one
OF the signers OF the Declaration Of
Independence.
As the result OF a conference be
tween officials OF the Lehigh Coal {
Navigation Co. and the United Mine
Workers It is expected that the strike
inaugurated in the Panther Creek Val.
ley on May 3, throwing eight thousand
idle, will be settled within few days
The proposition will be submitted TO
the different locals for referendum
vote.
Charles NJ. Schwab sanctioned the
election OF another large department
TO his Bethlehem steel plant. which
means an outlay of more than half
million dollars and gives employment,
TO several score Of skilled mechanics
On account Of the demand for larger
calIber guns. new general annealing
test and storage plant for large guns
will be built on the hill between the
Lehigh and Saucon plant.
Thirteen-year-old Ralph Schmicls. Of
Catawissa, climbed thirty-foot tele-
phone pole, upon which steps had beer
placed. touched telephone wire,
crossed with a municipal electric wire,
and was hurled TO the ground. suffer
ing concussion OF the brain. The boy
and his father brought suit for $4,000
The jury gave the boy dollar and the
father $50.
A cave.ln on the main street OF
Mazeville, Schuylkill county. swallow.
ed six.year-old Joseph Chubick and
soon after the subsistence spread and
house fell to the bottom of the hole,
which Is 100 or more feet deep. The
boy soon was clambering up the side
of the cave-in after the first sub.
sidence, but was caught by a second
fall OF earth which carried him into
the interior OF the Stanton Mine. OF
the Madeira Hill Coal Company.
A deed filed at Sunbury transferred
2,607 acres Of coal land in Northumber
land and Columbia counties, owned by
the Anthracite Coal Company. of Pitts.
burgh, and leased by the Colonial Col
lleries Company, 10 the Colonial Col.
leries Company, new Pittsburgh cor.
poration, for a consideration Of ST.
100000. A 100000 mortgage held by
the Colonial Trust Company, Of Pitts.
burgh, was satisfied. The rights and
interests OF the richest coal lands in
the two counties operated by the
Colonial Colleries Company since 1907
thus have been acquired by the com
pany for s1.5O0,0OO.
The Patriotic Order Of Americans In
session at Harrisburg selected Read
Ing for next years convention. Off
GERS elected we're: President, Mrs
Amber Strausser, Altoona; assistant
president. Milton d. Delp, Philadel.
phia: vice-presldent, Mrs. Clara Berg
man, Ashland; assistant. John M
Nugent, Philadelphia; conductor,
Theresa Pearson, Philadelphia; assist.
ant, William II. Roderwig. Of York;
guard, Mrs. Lottie Miller, Annville; sen
tlnel, Mrs. Cora Bastian, Milton; trus
tee, Mrs. Ida Reist, schafferstown.
Resolutions favoring flag in every
schoolroom were discussed
Ridley Park passed an sS5, 900 loan
bill for a new high school building by
q two to one vote. The School Board
civic and woman's clubs and the home
and school associations have been
waging civic campaign In It's favor
for weeks. The vote in the North Pre-.
cinct was 10 for, AZ against; South Pre-
clnct, So for, A against
Falling headlong into basin con
tanning little more than a gallon OF
water, Victor, the one-year-old twin
son OF Anthony Cacease, Of Reading,
was drowned
Leaving a note saying "good-by. I'm
sick Of all this raying about standing
head Of my class don't worry" John
Wachtman. first honor man OF the
Harrisburg Technical High School, has
disappeared from his home in West
Falrvlew His parents have asked po
lice aid In searching for him.
The body Of G. j. Troy, who fell from
the New Cumberland Valley Railroad
bridge into the susquehanna River
April 10, was found by Harry Mace, Of
Highspire Michael Troy. his brother,