The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-10-05
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD.
The Latest GIeanings From All
Over The State.

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Over The State.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
The Williamsport Candy Co. factor
was burned with loss Of S25,OOe.
Because Of the need for extra nurses
the typhoid epidemic in Harrisburr
cost the Harrisburg Hospital $1,000
The epidemic is now on the wane.
Rev. Walter Sandt, Of Catasauow
has been elected editor OF "The Em.
cient Workman" a religious paper run
by Allentown Lutheran Conference
It was announced at Tamaqua tha.
tho Victor Hosiery Mill Company. Inc,
will erect hosiery mill there to EN-.
ploy 200 hands and another mill Al
Quakake. TO employ seyenty-Ave
Climbing an electric light pole 10
SHOW Off" before younger boys. Harry
Davis. aged nineteen years, was shock.
cd to death. The accident occurred
near his home at Swedeland.
The Middle Coal Field Poor District
was awarded a premium OF $500 for
its fine herd Of Holstein cattle at the
Allentown Fair which was twice tho
amount 1t was awarded last year.
Stanley Marock. aged thirty-seven
years, had his back broken under
fall Of coal at the New Boston mine,
Mahanoy City. Marock was wed only
i've days ago.
William Evans. of Maple Hill. and
Edward Burns. of Mahanoy City, were
burned about the head in an explosion
of gas at Maple Hill Colliery. The
former is In q critical condition.
Governor Brumbaugh formally as
sented to the provision of Congress
for Federal aid in the con.
struction of post roads in Pennsyl
Vania
The different locals of Nesquehonlng
OF the United Mine Workers OF the
Panther Creek Valley are in receipt Of
letters asking for detailed data on
proposed home for aged and disabled
miners.
Announcement was made in business
circles that Bethlehem within the next
few months is to have a $780, the
atre. The theatre, which viii be five
stories high, will seat between 1900
and 1000 people.
Entombed behind a fall OF coal In
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com
pany's No. mine, Tamaqua. John
Swarm Thomas Bidock, Hugh and
James Black were released uninjured
after large resouing party had
worked three hours TO reach them
Initiating a Spanish toreador. thir
Ieen-year-old Russell Nichols. an in
mate OF Glen Mills House OF Refuge
was gored to death in field nearby
he institution. The animal, infuriated
At the actions OF the youngster
charged him and sank It's horns several
lines into the boys body.
Fire quickly destroyed the home and
ts contents OF John Willard, OF Lost
Creek. The flames were famed by
high winds. The William Penn Fire
Company was powerless to act owing
o there being no water near the scene
The family lost most everything In
,ludlng q neat sum Of money.
Finding can containing nitro
ylycerine In a clump Of bushes near
Butler, Walter Cettnar, fourteen years
I'D, poured the contents on the ground
and applied match. An explosion
which was heard for a radius
)f one mile. The boy wns fatally In
ured and his sister, Stella. six years
,ld, is in q serious condition.
Large quantities OF bass wood are
being cut Of the hills and mountains
II Fayette county and are being ship
BED to New England paper mills
Twenty-Five years ago the bass wood
industry occupied the time OF large
number OF men. the wood being used
It paper mills nearby. Eventually all
he available timber was used, but
'ecent investigation has shown trees,
arge enough for pulp. have again
yrown up.
Yeggmen with high powered tour
ng car visited the village Of st. Peters,
chester county, blew open large safe
n the store of the French Creek Mer
Company, and got $500 In
ash and jewelry, as we'll as over
thousand dollars worth OF stock and
'onds. The robbers fred two shots
oward David ]. Knauer, head Of the
company, when he appeared on the