The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-10-26
STATE NEWS
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The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
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Playing the role Of peacemaker may
prove fatal to Miss Lillian Marshall. OF
New York City. She was found with
fractured skull near st. Luke's Hos
pital, South Bethlehem. From what
can be learned, the woman was out
walking with man when another man
came along and began 4 fight. In try,
ing to settle the dispute, the woman
was hurt.
Mrs. Helen Gardner Lewis, aged
sixty-four years, wife OF Colonel s. c.
Lewis, who was on Governor Hastings
staff, committed suicide at her home
In Franklin by shooting herself
through the head. Dependency is as.
signed as the cause. She had been
broken mentally for several months,
but her condition had not alarmed her
relatives.
The entire flock OF wild turkeys
which Dr. Kalbfus planted on the
Hickory Run preserve was shot by
gunners. In an effort to save them
the game warden on Sunday rounded
them up in a corral, but the birds
broke through during the night, only
to meet their fate the very first day
Of the open season.
Going into his chicken pen Frank
Cunard, of Frackville, found twenty
Ave valuable fowls dead. Upon ex-
animation he found that the chickens
had been fed on mine dynamite caps,
which, coming under the gizzard.grind-
ing process, exploded, causing death.
An enemy is charged with distributing
the caps.
Miss Annie Hickman, about forty
years old, librarian of the public T.
brary at Wernersville. was killed by
an express train on the Reading Rail
road west of that borough. In at
tempting to cross the tracks, the wom'
an awaited the passing Of local train
and stepped in the way OF an express.
To Increase sentiment for COM
munity high school for the suburbs OF
Harrisburg on the west shore OF the
Susquehanna River. mass meetings are
being planned to reach the voters In
Lemoyne, Camp Hill. East Pennsboro
Township. Wormleysburg and West
Fairfield.
Alvin Sipple confessed to County
Detective Mallery that shot from his
gun as he fired at a bird killed Charles
Polk, the Freeland hunter who at first
was thought to have been wounded
fatally by the discharge Of his own
weapon while he was crawling over a
fence.
The plant Of the Glen Rock Ice and
Cold Storage Company and an adjoin-
ing three.story frame structure. occu-
pied by the Industrial Sewing Com
pany, which employs 100 women, were
destroyed by fire, entailing loss of
$4,000.
The Attorney General has allowed
the use OF the name Of the State In
quo warranto proceedings against GER
tain Councilmen OF Tamaqua, who are
alleged to be interested In borough
contracts. The suit will be brought In
schuylkill county.
Amos Stoltzfus. farmer Of Inter
course, returning home from the
Coatesville Market was instantly killed
on the Lincoln Highway near Coates
Vile. His machine turned completely
over and he was caught beneath the
car.
The West Shore Firemen's Union, at
meeting. outlined plans to secure a
reduction In water rates for the West
Shore towns opposite Harrisburg, to
get uniform water pressure, and to
make an investigation into alleged I'm.
pure water
A score Of neighbors gathering at
the farm of John Wiser, Of Tulpe-
hocien who is Ill, and cut FIVE acres OF
his corn by moonlight. They informed
him that they would be back later on
to husk II and place 1t in his corn
cribs.
The eighty-seventh annual grand en-
campment OF Odd Fellows adjourned
at Chambersburg, after pleasant ses-
sion. Oil City was chosen for next
years session, all other competing
places Withdrawing.
On account of the scarcity OF labor
for the quarrles and iron mills OF Ian
caster county. many firms are import
ing Mexicans. already twenty-five have
arrived.