The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-03-09

Mrs. Mary Steele, OF Williamsport, to
make professional call. DR.. Miller
had rang the doorbell and receiving no
response entered the house and passed
to the dining room, where the women
were found. He extinguished the fire
in their clothing with blanket and
then dragged the settee out Of the
house. Both women are expected to
recover.
State Compensation Referee HoucH,
of the Eastern District, has rendered
farreaching decision refusing com
pensation TO Sheridan NJ March.
plasterer, Of Bangor who was injured
while working in the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Groner, Of Bangor, by the
breaking of n scaffold The decision
Is to the effect that March was EN-.
ployed as a casual employc, inasmuch
as he was not working "in the regu.
lar course OF the business Of the EN-.
ployer." Groner Is a shoe salesman.
Mr.. ana Mrs. David Stambaugh, aged
residents OF the village Of Elliottsburg.
Perry county, were burned to death in
fire which destroyed their home.
They lived some distance from any
houses. and the flames, which are
thought to have started from de-
fective flue. had spread through their
home before an alarm could be given.
An Increase Of fifteen cents per day
was granted TO trackmen employed
along the entire system Of the Lacka-
wanna Railroad About 5000 are af.
fected. They will get $1.75 per day
under the new scale. More than 800
foremen employed by the Lackawanna
received voluntary increase Of S5 per
month.
The annual convention Of the WON.
an Suffrage party, OF Chester County,
was held in the New Century club
house, with larse gathering OF promi.
nent women from all sections OF the
county. Mrs. Lewis Lawrence Smith,
CT Stafford, the county leader, pre-
sided. and the branch organizations
made reports showing good work.
Lewis Gehris, thirty.four years old,
Of Northampton Heights, was injured,
perhaps fatally. his skull being frac-
tured in fall down a flight OF stairs.
In his haste to reach the dining room
for a quick meal, in order to keep an
appointment, Gehris tripped at the top
Of the steps and fell backward to tho
bottom.
At meeting the stockholders OF the
Cumberland County Agricultural So
ciety voted to increase the mortgaged
lrdebtedre7s Of the corporation from
$500 to $4,000. This additional sum,
with $4,000 additional stock author
ICED to be issued, will be expended for
Improvement Of the grounds.
Milton Crout. who murdered his
rother-in-law. at his North Bethlehem
home, several months ago and who
was acquitted Of the charge of murder,
on the plea of insanity, was, on order
NJ Iudre W. NJ. McReen, Of Easton.
taken to the State Hospital for the
Criminal Insane, at Fairview.
A strenuous effort will be made 10
work all the collleries Of the Pottsville
region full time during March, the last
month under the old scale II the
Philadelphia embargo results in a
scarcity OF cars the coal will be stored
in the anthracite region, and even
dumped along the tracks II necessary.
Robbers were thwarted in their RI.
forts to force an entrance into the
postofice at Port Treverton by the
pluclly postmistress, Mrs. John w.
Michael, and her sixteen-year-old
daughter, Helene.
Ernest Nimmo, Of Cory, an invalid,
wandered from home and was found
beside the railroad tracks at Lovell's
with one leg cut Off and his skull frac-
tured.
A bar OF red hot iron pierced John
Robinson while working in the Hopes
& Townsend Iron Mills, killing him In
stantly.
The Brooke Iron Company has in.
creased the wages of its puddlers
twenty-five cents per ton.
Deeds covering the tires 10 1000
ncros Of tir,berlard. mainly in Lower
Mifnln Township, Cumberland county,
were fled by Mrs. Charlotte x. Freyer.
This land has boen purc|n-ed by the
State at Il sum said to be $4,000, and
Is to be a forest reserve tract.
Mayor Charles r. RNoa>s. of Al.
toona, in his first r'o-sr-a q Council.
rccor'~ondeA tho builT' NJ new
city han and r-ged tho r,aiing OF
loan Of S1cOo ocO fer fhe pc re SO that
It mirht be dedicated on 'te fftieth an.
niversary OF the city in 1917
Homeva-dNcurd 10 r''~'. Mountain
VIA tho philadelphia Te-6',g tracks
from Mahanoy City, Ardrew Banks.
twenty-five years o'd, was crushed to-