The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-11-02
KEYSTONE STATE
TOLD IN SHORT
The Latest Happenings Cleaned
From All Over the State.
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD

Charles Swede died from broken
neck sustained when caught under
mine cars at the Draper colliery, Ma
hanoy City,
Physicians at the State Hospital at
Fountain Springs, removing the appen'
dix from Charles McGrail, aged nine
years, found pin in 1t.
Business in Lancaster county in all
branches Is on the increase, and
especily the silk mill and garment fac
tories are working overtime,
State Department OF Agriculture re-
ports show that there will be a serious
falling off of the States celery crop
because of lack of rain during the
summer.
Teachers in the Pittsburgh public
schools have asked for an increase In
salary from $50 to 500 year. The
high cost Of living is given as the rea.
son for the request.
Mrs. Rachel Kindig, aged seventy,
Of Bendertown, has died of burns re-
celved when her clothing caught fire
as she was making apple butter at an
open fire in the yard Of her home.
At a rally of Dauphin County Chris
tian Endeavor workers at Penbrook re.
ports were submitted showing that
the.e are 112 societies with more than
10000 members in the city, county and
West Shore towns.
Pro,. James s. Brobst is the Oldest
teacher in CARBON county in point of
service, and is now teaching his fifty
fifth consecutive year. having entered
the profession during the Civil War
He is still enjoying excellent health.
Just thirty-two years in August, Mrs
w. X. Scott, of Iskesburg, started to
make quilt. This week this quilt
was completed. 1t has 1886 pieces of
cloth as its component parts, and rep
resents approximately Eve months
solid work.
The trustees of the Dickinson School
of Law have secured a site for the
erection of the new building to be
known as Trickett Hall. The plot Is
in the Mooreland district, but short
DISTANCE from Carlisle's new $12O,OOO
technical high school.
D. c. Potter, aged sixty-four, one
armed man. of Harrisburg, employed
as messenger by a telegraph COM
pany, was attacked by highwaymen
and robbed Of his watch and money.
He was found unconscious in the street
with leg broken and cuts about the
head.
Melancholy, Mrs. Tura Mills, aged
sixty.four, of Almedia, Columbia
county, threw cord over the timbers
of the barn and tieing the ends to-
gether, put her chin through the cord
as she stood on the floor. She was
found dead a half hour later with her
feet still on the floor,
Because several of the employees
failed to wear union buttons 500 men
and boys employed at the Lehigh Coal
& Navigation Company's No. Is Col
liery, Tamaqua, went on strike, swell
ing the total to 1000 idle at the com
pa,y's operations, owing to the button
strikes.
Adam p Rupert, cashier Of Union
Eank, Altoona, was stricken with
apoplexy while sitting at his desk. His
condition is critical The banker has
not been in the best of health since
he was shot several years ago. by
Frank G. Hohl. the auto banait who
held up the Union Bank in broad day
light, and got away with S2,SO0
1t was announced at the Williams
port plant of the United States Rubber
Company that building adding $4,000
feet of floor space will be erected at
once and the capacity of the factory,
which is now over 5000 pairs of rub
Der shoes, increased to 10000 pairs a
day. with an ultimate increase in the
working force from its present
strength of 675 to 1900 or more
Many OF the striking miners of the
Rochester G. Pittsburgh Coal & Coke
Company returned to work. when they
found that the district board of the
United Mine Workers of America had
refused to back the strike on the
ground that the demands of the men
were in violation of the Philadelphia
agreement. Seven Of the eight PUNK
sutawney unions voted to return to
work pending further investigation by
the board.
On the very first day the Swiss
Cleaners and Dyers put their new $780,
600 plant in operation. in Bethlehem,
William f. Schneider, connected with
the concern, and one of Bethlehem's
prominent business men and citizens,
received burns which resulted In his
death. Escaping gasoline fumes are
alleged to have escaped and communi.
Gated to the firebox of the boiler room,
causing an explosion. Mr.. Schneider
was enveloped by flames and fatally