The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-01-27
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ed From Here and There.
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TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Routed from their beds fifty or more
guests were driven in scanty attire
from the Hotel Humes, Mercer, by Are
which destroyed the historic structure
and six other buildings with a loss esti.
mated at 100000. The hotel was
built more than 100 years ago. and en-
tertained among many other dis.
tinguished men. General Lafayette.
Jacob Cannon, five years old, OF
Shenandoah, was attacked by vicious
dog yesterday and his legs and abdo-
men were badly torn before the ami
NAL was driven OFF and shot by Police
man Gibson. The boy is in serious
condition.
DR.. II. l.. Orth, superintendent Of
aho Aldli iNbuiB ilOSplNdi AOi hh' III
sane, and Dr. Frank b. Woodbury., OF
the State Commission for the lnsane,
testified before the Dauphin County
Court that the Harrisburg asylum is
overcrowded.
Fifteen sticks of dynamite were
necessary TO break the grip OF Lans.
dale's oldest tree on Mother Earth.
when willow tree planted 101 years
ago was ordered removed by Borough
Council. Six carloads OF wood were
removed.
Francis J. Boaz, contractor has
brought suit against the State Of Penn
sylvania for payment of S12,955.2S,
which he says is due him for work
done in the erection OF the State
tuberculosis Sanitorium at Hamburg.
For the second time within three
months, the Lansdale Foundry Com
pany, manufacturer Of structural iron
work, has found it necessary TO en-
large its plant there by building an ad.
ditlon, 60 by 30 feet.
Statistics just compiled by Commis-
sioners' Clerk Cadwallader, show that
the prisoners in the Bucks county jail
during the year 1915 cost the county
S10,2G719, or on an average of fifty
eight cents per day for each prisoner.
BY decree of Judge Swartz, Mont
gOmery county will have another bor-
ough, and incidentally another elec'
ton district, by reason of the incor-
poration of the village of Bryn Athyn.
in MOreland Township.
Steam passenger trains will be re-
placed by cars operated by gasoline
power on the Meadville and Linesville
branch of the Bessemer & Lake Erie
Railroad. beginning February /, ac.
cording to announcement.
Frank Bohanna. OF Port Carbon.
aged eighteen years, employed about
the ashpits at ST. Clair was struck by
a locomotive, thrown into the ashpit
OF hot clnders and killed.
Hugh r. Mcmahon, molder was
killed at the works of the Seaboard
Steel Casting Co, Chester. by getting
caught under falling flask lie was
literally crushed fiat.
Complains were filed by the At
lantic Refining Company with the Pub
lie Service Commission against the ad-
vance in coal rates of the New York
Central lines on the Franklin Division.
The Pennsylvania Railroad placed
with its Altoona shops orders for Jos
locomotives, rs passenger cars and
1000 all-steel box cars, to be delivered
during 1916.
Henry j. Huesman. seventy-one
years old. Readings oldest florist, and
who years ago conducted n large estab-
lishment in Philadelphia, died Of heart
failure.
Grief over the death Of her mother
Is given by physicians as the cause Of
the death of Mrs. Daniel Schultz,
thirty-fve years old, Of Reading.
Miss Mabel Warden, aged twenty
three. and her sister, Florella Warden,
aged thirteen, were burned to death,
and their mother, Mrs. Myra Warden,
was seriously injured when their home
at Punxsutawney was destroyed by
fire. The property loss was S2,500
Prof. John Smoke, superintendent OF
public schools of Lebanon county, in
addressing the annual convention OF
the York County School Directors As
sociation, advocated an extension OF
the compulsory attendance period of
rural schools.
A man was in the office Of Superin-
,endent of Finance and Accounts
Charles B. Moul at the City Hall, Ches-
ter, and shortly after he had taken his
departure, ii was found that sSS had
been stolen. No clew has been secured
as TO his identity.