The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-02-24
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LIVE tCTES AID COMMENTS
Failing into a reloader at the lie.
hirh CCal q Navigation Company's
Hauto storage plant. Adam Schlls, OF
lanssord. was crushed to death.
Voters of Steelton will be asked to
approve an eighty thousand dollar loan
this Summer. The loan is for paved
streets. motor FIRE apparatus and gar.
bage collection.
An increase of five per cent in
wages has been granted to Delaware
& Hudson freight clerks, foremen,
delivery men. station agents, baggage
men, AID messengers.
w. W. lngraham, aged twenty-seven,
civil engineer employed by the Erie
Railroad slipped of a bridge at Co
lumbus and was killed. lngraham's
home was in New York.
A receptacle containing polish ex-
ploded on a stove Mrs Martin Mean.
drews. OF Mt Carmel. was cleaning
al her home and burned her probably
fatally.
o. q. B. Malehorn has been elected
chief Of the Steelton FIRE department
succeeding John Shupp C. T. Framer
and John T. Drosey have been chosen
as assistant Chiefs
Without reGaining consciousness,
Mrs. Margaret Corbett, Of Carlisle,
who was burned when her clothing
caught FIRE as she was preparing din
ner, died in the Todd Hospital. She
was sixty-seyen years old.
c. NJ. Sanner and Grover Kessler,
workmen employed in a tannery at
Confluence, we're placed in quarantine.
suffering from anthrax, said to have
been contracted while handling skins
which came from China.
The State Threshermen's Associa-
tion adopted resolutions pledging sup
port to the State Highway Depart
ment in enforcement Of the traction
engine law. H. H. Drubaker, Of
Rohrerstown, was elected president.
Suit has been entered IN Dauphin
County Court by J. l. Freedman
against Miss Bertha P. Roth for re-
covery Of an engagement ring. Freed
man. who Is a salesman, alleges that
he returned Miss Roth's ring when the
engagement was ended, but she failed
TO send back his ring.
Mrs. Elizabeth Balek. forty.two
years old, Of South Bethlehem, while
crossing the Linden Street grade
crossing Of the Philadelphia & Read.
ing Railway, on her way to visit her
son, was struck and instantly killed
by a train. The body was discovered
some time afterward.
State beekeepers win have their an.
nual convention in Lancaster March
3 and 4 and discuss legislation which
win be asked to rid me apiaries Of
foreign diseases. The honey industry
OF the State is estimated BY State 70
ologist Surface to be worth a million
dollars year
Fifteen miners were killed and fifty.
three injured in the Tenth Bituminous
District. including Blair and Cambria
Counties, last year, according to the
report OF Mine Inspector Joseph viii
liaIas, OF Altoona. One man out Of
every 3Gl employed in and around the
mines met with fatal accident, and
one out Of every 1O3 was hurt Three
million six hundred and thirty-eight
thousand six hundred and thirty tons
Of coal we're produced.
Mrs. David Faulkner, AGED twenty
four, and her three small children
we're burned to death and four other
persons we're badly hurt when FIRE
destroyed the Faulkner home at Du-
bois. The woman's husband and his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Bertha Faulkner,
aged twenty-five, were badly burned.
end their condition is critical The
fire was caused BY the explosion Of a
can OF kerosene oil which Mrs. Faulk.
ner was using in an attempt to hurry
a fire.
To better carry on soil improvement
work throughout the Eastern and New
England States, an Eastern Office Of
the Soil Improvement Committee Of
the National Fertilizer Association has
been opened at 1928 Munsey Building,
Baltimore, Md. The main Office Of the
oommittee is at Chicago. Melvin
Ryder, assistant editorial manager,
has been placed temporarily in charge.
The work Of the committee includes
lecture and demonstration work, the
preparation and distribution of bulle
tins, and cooperation with agencies