The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-05-18
STATE NEWS
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The Latest GIeanlngs From All
Over the State.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS

II Samuel S. and Charles NJ Coulter.
sons Of Samuel Coulter, formerly pro
prietor Of the Coulter House, Stselton,
lead temperate, decent, law-abiding
lives" they will share between them
the income of their fathers estate,
amounting to S235 monthly for each,
When either of them, in the optaion OF
the Steelton Trust Company, ceases 10
live thus. his patrimony will be just
thirty-fve dollars q month.
Judge Wilmer in United States
Court at Sunbury sentenced William
Philips. Harrisburg, and Harry Price.
Scranton. found guilty Of violating the
Harrison Drug Act, to one year and
one day each In the Federal Prison at
Atlanta, and William Burns and Al
bert Wise. Harrisburg, to four and six
months, respectively, in the Dauphln
county Jail for the same ofense.
The Grand Castle, Knights OF the
Golden Eagle and Ladies' Of the Gold
en- Eagle, adjourned at Reading after
the installation Of officers. The new
grand chief of the Grand Castle IS
John L. BROMLEY, Philadelphia, and
the grand templar Of the ladies' order
is Mrs. Mary Bixler Harrisburg. Next
years convention OF the Grand Castle
will be held in Allentown.
By vote of 22,9S7 to 14,7OS, miners
Of the Second District, United Mine
Workers Of America, ratified the Phila
delphia scale, which means that sp-
proximately 175,OOO miners Of tho Cen.
tral Pennsylvania District wifi not
strike. Many mines, idle vhilo the
vote was being taken and couSted, viii
resume operations at once.
Judge Wilmer in Federal Court sen
fenced John b. Beigle, Of Wilkes -Darre.
to nine months in jail and ssoo fine
when he pleaded guilty TO robbing his
own o%ce. Deigle broke the safe and
door at his store and made Il appear
rs II the place had been robbed. He
went to Canada, but later returBef
and surrendered.
The coke trade Is making no recov-
cry from the blow Il received during
the Easter holidays, many wortmen
still insisting on two days rest out
Of every seven. The recent wage ad.
vance has had no influence on the la.
Dor supply. which is so curtailed that
production is kept down to 10000
tons week.
Nearly one hundred women attended
the county convention Of the Woman
Suffrage party at Norristown. The
speakers included Mrs. Anna Ome, OF
Wayne; Mrs. George Piersol. Phnadel.
phia; Mrs. George Bean and Mrs.
Edgar Gardner of Cynwyd; Mrs. NJ E.
Snyder, Ardmore, and Ethel 5prigley.
Lansdowne.
Fragments of rock hurled over one
thousand feet from an overcharse Of
dynamite in a quarry near Centeryille.
killed Benjamin Rice, FIVE years old.
and severely injured Robert Bcken-
rode, fourteen years old. Worhmen
wore hurled to the ground and injured
by the explosion which came through
O double charge placed by mistake.
Merchant coke operators are meet
ing the recent and 10 per cent wage
Increase Of the II. C. Frlcke Coke Com.
pany. II is the second advance this
year, and coal and coke authorities
say it constitutes the highest wage for
like labor paid in the world.
Fifty women who are ready to do
their "bit" in the event OF war organ.
ized the State College Chapter Of the
Pennsylvania Women's Division for
National Preparedness. MIS-. Anna
W. La Domus, OF Chester State or
ganizer, was In charge of the meeting
Following the tie-up Of sev@al col.
lleries recently, owing to employees
objecting to new time schedule, the
Susquehanna Coal Company's Hickory
Swamp employees went ON strike along
with many workmen at the p. & r. c,
c L, Company's Bear Valley COlliery.
Harrisbure's Council raised the mini
mum wage for common labor employ.
ed BY the municipality from 1e 2-3 to
l7h cents an hour. City Improvement
work has been greatly hampered be-
cause Of the scarcity Of labor.
c. D. Markell, Of East Salem, Juni
ata county, dealer in general merchan.
disc has written to Mayor Ezra s
Meals, Of Harrisburg, for a license to
sell pet skunks on the street. He will
have them in glass cage, he explains.
Arrests of four merchants In Phiia
delphia were ordered by the State
Dairy and Food authorities for the sale
OF cherries used In sundaes which were
not in accord with State food reg1ila.