The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-07-27
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD.

The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Justice M. A. Stees, Of Steelton, So
cured the first hunters license from
Dauphin county for next season.
Daniel OFT, nlnety-slx years OF age
the oldest resident of Snyder county
and last of the buffalo hunters Of cen
trail Pennsylvania is dead.
Prospects are that the payment OF
schools appropriations this year will
be late due to the heavy demands now
being made upon State funds.
Robert e. Thompson, aged six years
son Of Mr. and Mrs. John w. Thomp
son, Of Steelton, died from tetanus
caused by scratching his arm where
he had been vaccinated.
Stepping in the path OF Pennsyl
vania Railroad yard engine In the car
shops at Altoona. John C. Eberlin. aged
slxty-nine, an employe in the planning
mill, was killed.
State Department OF Agriculture rs
ports are to the effect that the hay
crop this year may 90 over 100000
tons. Potatoes will probably run about
100000 bushels. The hay is above
the average and potatoes below.
James Shultz, a farmer OF Cros,
Roads, near Mifflin, shot and killed his
wife and himself in the presence Of
their nine children. The frightened
children ran to the homes OF neigh.
bors after the tragedy.
Sessions were completed by the Pub
lie Service Commission and the next
meetings will be held early in August
The commissioners have completed
several cases upon which the opinions
are now being written. They are most
ly from central Pennsylvania.
Arthur C. Tedford, instructor at the
Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory
was drowned while attending the
Presbyterian Sunday School picnic at
Alfarata Park, near Alexandria. He
was aged about thirty years. the son
Of Presbyterian missionary to India,
and leaves a wife and two children.
Crazed with heat after having spent
the day in the fields picking huckle
berries, David Davis. miner, of Grier
City, aged forty-seven years and the
father OF FIVE children, standing before
them, said, an end 1t all" and plac.
ing revolver at his right temple
fred bullet into his brain, dying IN.
stantly.
Official notice was received In
Sharon Of further advance in the
wages of tonnage men employed by
the American Sheet and Tinpate
Company. The company advanced
wages in February and again in May
The latest increase will amount to
about eight per cent. making a total
increase for the year OF nineteen per
cent.
Berks county Is about to harvest the
greatest wheat crop in its history, ac'
cording to statement Issued by Z. $,
Wertz, an expert, who made tour OF
the county. An average Pennsylvania
crop is 1917 bushels to the acre and
Mr.. Wertz predicts that the Ber@
yield this year will average twenty.
five bushels to the acre and he points
out a number of farms from which the
yield will be forty bushels.
Hugh McNicholas, aged thirteen
years, son of John McNicholas, Of
Phillipsburg, lives after clutching an
electric high-tension wire carrying l5.
900 volts. He was playing on the Ls'
high Valley Railroad bridge when he
slipped and fell, landing on a cross
arm on a pier carrying the wires. HIS
hands grasped two wires and he fell
twelve feet TO the ground. His condl'
tion is serious.
Ten thousand men, women and chill
dren participated in preparedness
parade at Shamokin under the aus
pieces of the Northumberland County
Patriotic League. The route OF tho
parade was decorated with the nation
al colors, while twenty-five bands ana
drum corps from Pottsville to Sunbury
furnished music. Lincoln Post, NO
14O, G. A. r., led the parade, the chie'
marshal OF which was Joseph KNAPP
a veteran of the Civil War.
The scarcity of paper and dyes
formed the topic of discussion at tne
session at Reading OF the thirteen'n
annual convention of the Central Az
sociation of National Paper Box Manu-
facturers. The convention was pre-
ceded by conference Of Central
Western G. New England paper DO,
manufacturers. Plans were discusseo