The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-05-04

OF Norrlstown.
Senator William c. Sproul formalIy
announced the plans OF a new ship
building plant which will be construcs
ed in Chester and one which Is intend
ed to be one Of the largest in the cour.
try, occupying a ground space OF Hft
acres along the river front in that cit
Immediately adjoining Ridley Creel
and extending westward to Mortos
avenue. The land has been acquired
by the Sun Shipbuilding Company
from Senator Sproul, and tho ostats o.
William ]. Mcclure.
State authorities have caused N,
arrest Of Stata Barnick. a fourteen
year-old Perry county girl, who con
fessed to burning her fathers barn bs
cause he refused to permit her q
marry sixty-year-old John Smith. The
girl says she burned the building be
cause Smith threatened to burn boH
house and barn II she did not SmiA
has been arrested also.
While taking nourlshment from al
bottle at the Blair County Home. Pau
the three-weeks-old-son of Mrs. Maz.
Erb. Of Juniata. was drowned by milk
The infant had been put into his cri
and given the bottle, which was placet
In an upright position. The milk RAJ
through the nipple into the babyi
lungs.
Two cars OF the Harrisburg Railway
Company were dynamited in the east
ern end of that city. The floors OF ths
cars were torn up, seats toppled over
and platforms shattered by the explt
sions which occurred within an hour o.
each other. Boys are thought to have
stolen dynamite sticks from a NEARBY
quarry
OuNidlS VI luo OSHlidi HOu hut
Steel Company announce that the Unl
yersal mill of the plant at Harrisburg
broke all previous production record
by turning out 216 tons OF finished
steel plates for a new bridge over The
Ohio River at Louisville, Ky, being
constructed by the Pennsylvania Ran
road.
Frank Weber, Charles Ream and
NJ. Shive, all of Lancaster, pleaded
guilty before Alderman N. C. May to .
charge of hunting and killing thre.
rabbits with a ferret In Fawn Town
ship, York county. The fines and cost
total $50.
While cleaning carp, which h
caught In the Juniata River Mike
Salonisky, quarryman, at Franks
town, found a diamond ring valued At |
500, which had evidently slipped from
an anglers or bather's finger and wU
swallowed by the fish.
The Susquehanna Coal Companyt
Cameron Colliery, one OF the oldest
and largest in the region, employinI
fifteen hundred men, was rendered idl.
by two cars loaded with coal running
wild in the No. slope, badly WRECK
Ing II.
Amelia Paullk, four-year-old daugh
ter of Walter -Paulik, Of Millmont 8
suburb of Reading, was drowned In
rain barrel near her home. The child
evidently fell into the barrel while
play.
Daniel Miller and William Milli
brothers, of Shippensburg, occupy tSs
same room at the Harrisburg Hospital
convalescing from appendicitis open
tions.
Dr. Henry S. Drinker, president
Lehigh University, urges the student
Of the Technical High School to |"
tend the summer military trainini
camps and learn to handle gun
Injury received week ago from STEP
ping on a rusty nail, which penetrat@
his foot, caused the death at KutStown
of Kenneth Meyer, sixteen years ci'
son Of Oscar Meyer
John X. Erdman, seventy-fve year
old. Burgess of Snydertown and CIV
War veteran. died Of complication o
diseases. He held many townsnp
Offices.
Carlisle constahles who ask for y
FOR killing dogs under the new la'
have been refused by the County Con-
missioners.
Mercer County Commissioners ov
cided to appropriate 1915 yearly for y,
mothers pension fund. The State W.
give a like amount.
The Susquehanna Silk Mills. Sus
bury, broke ground for 100000 sau'
ton to its plant II will be five stof'''
high and $50 by 900 feet.
Rev. w. T. Reynolds, rector OF ~,
ity Protestant Episcopal Church, s'o',
ton, has resigned to assume charge
parish In Louisville, Ky.
The Dauphin County Court appo.s'
cd Charles III. Kinter receiver for "