The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-03-14
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Isabele.--Held up by three thieves.
Harry Bush, Reading railway station
agent at Isabelle, was robbed OF a
small amount Of cash, and then his
sister, Miss Evelyn Bush, who hastily
| concealed 5000 of the company's cash
in her room upstairs, drove the rob-
bers away at the poipt OF a revolver
Easton,-Knocked into the river BY
a huge block of ice while he was
standing along the shore drinking, a
COW belonging TO the Alpha farms
swan the Delaware below Eaaton,
and succeeded In getting across
through the masses of floating ice.
Reading.-The recently organized
Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania
will hold its first convention In Retd
ing April 13, the anniversary OF the
Issue of the Edict of Nantes, in 1898.
Easton.-Easton Eagles not only
are paying the dues Of members In
service but have created a fund to
pay $1,000 to the family Of any mem
Der killed.
: Kittanning. -- Charles Bair. aged
twelve, son Of Lawrence Bair, a ma.
chinist In the Faucus machine shops,
in Ford City, died almost instantly
when struck by a northbound Penn.
sylvania passenger train near his
home.
Oil City.-Twenty-one residents OF
on City are now at the fighting front
with the American. English or Cana
dian forces. and one OIL City woman
Is at a cantonment just behind the
fighting lines. according to an an
nouncement made by the home sery,
ice section of the American Red Cross\
The woman Is Miss Lois Brundred,
Red Cross worker
WilIiamsport-A huge water tank
on the roof of the four.story factory
Of the Williamsport Furniture com
pany collapsed. releasing several
thousand gallons OF water into the
building and forcing one Of the side
brick walls to give way. The damage
is estimated at 100000 to machinery
and stock.
Indana.-Albert Maruca, aged TWEEN.
ty.fOur, who was shot during an AL
tercaton at Mcintyre recently, died
in the Indiana hospital He was to
leave for camp soon.
Sharon.-Members OF the Farrell
Commercial club voted against an
afterwar trade boycott on Germany
unless there is a disarmament. The
members decided that It was n matter
for the government to handle.
Bellefonte. - Every accused man
pleaded guilty in Centre county court.
and juries had no criminal cases to
try.
Shamokin.-Mrs. Bessie Woodling
and Miss Anette Macarthur have been
put In charge Of two dangerous Penn.
sy crossings.
Observation-Disclosures Sanitarlum,
near here, has been taken over by the
government to be used for injured
soldiers returning from France.
Harrisburg.-The boroughs of Ply.
mouth. Laurel Run. Sugar Notch and
Luzerne filed complaint against the
Increases Of fare by the Wilkes-Barre
Railway company
Greensburg.-Peter Dorzuk. an Aus
trian shoemaker Is sorely disappoint.
ed that he was sent back home from
Camp Lee because Of physical dis
ability.
Shamokin,-Hurrying 10 prepare
breakfast for her husband and son,
Mrs. Patrick Mahoney tripped and fell
against the rail of her bed. breaking
several ribs.
Fountain Sprlngs.-Thom1s Walsh
has died at the Miners hospital from
rheumatism contracted while he serv-
cd with General Pershng in the Mexi.
can invasion
Lehighton. 49, Extensive electrified.
tion plans Of anthracite coal com
panies in the Lehigh field have been
postponed until the end Of the war.
owing to the scarcity of materials and
labor.
Harrlsburg,-The Dauphin county
court has granted a decree cf custer
from charter privileges at the instance
Of the attorney generals department
against the Magnesia Covering com.
pany, Amber.
Hazloton.-Two fatal accidents at
collierles in this district the past four
days made eleven children orphens-
nine more than during Che entire year
OF 1917 in the Sixteenth anthracite
district
Lewistown.-High winds unroofed
the county prison.
Tioga. ga.-Charles Cornelius has been
appointed law clerk OF the public serv-
ice commission
Bangor.-For refusing to send his
children to school, Matthew Mongours
was sent to jail.
Bellefonte- In most parts Of Centre
county the wheat stand is even,
though short and the outlook for n
good average crop is firm.
Mllesburg.-Four young men were
each fined $40 and costs for fishing In
Bald Eagle creek, a trout stream, with
dip-nesi.
Bangor. Two strangers taking
notes In the Nlyory Manufacturing
company's munition plant fed when
the police were notified.
lockwood. Melancholy from wor-
rylng over the national army draft,
C. c. De Haven, twenty,rour shot him.
self and committed suicide at his
home.
Lebanon. W. Henry. aged
eighty. retired business man, has
died at the home of his son, Shamo-
kin. from effects OF fall on an icy