The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01
THE NEWS.

out.
The two-mGsted schooner Jane c. Harris
was wrecked of lCape Henry. The crew OF
three was saved by tho Oregon Inlet life
savers.
Mrs. Jessie Scully entered suit In Fall
Ryor, Mass, for divorce from her husband,
who had been her grandmother's coachman.
Notwithstanding n rain and snow storm.
Dewey Day was enthusiastically celebrated
ut Wheeling, and thirty thousand people
crowded the streets to catch glimpse Of
tho Admiral.
William II. Jackson and James Cary, both
colored were sentenced to thirty days In
jail in Winchester. Va, for passing counter
teit money.
There were simple but interesting cere-
monies at tho driving OF tho first spike In
Inc Delaware General Electric Railway in
Dover, Del.
Wash-a-kie, aged chief Of the Eastern Sho-
shone Indians, died in his tepee, on the
Wind River reservation, in Central Wye
ming.
Organizer George ". Purcell. OF the Mine
Workers Union, accused In Williamsburg
Ky, Of leading riot, wus acquitted.
Mr.. Wa Ting Fang, The Chinese minister.
delivered tho oration at the celebration of
the University Of Pennsylvania.
The constitutional amendment designed
to dlsfranchlso tho colorcd voter was adopted
by the Virginia Senate.
Charles II. Carleton. wanted In Philadel-
phia to answer charge of conspiracy, was
arrested In Centredale, II. I.
Aenry M. Alden. editor-ln chief OF Har-
pers' Weekly, was married to Mrs. Ada +
Murray, of Norfolk, Va.
Mrs. Waltons Wilson was gagged and
robbed by couple of Italians in New York.
The men were arrested.
The Virginia House Committee on Finance
reported bill to pension widows OF Conted-
erate soldiers.
A. II. bennett. the New York reformer. was
taken to an insane asylum In Concord, N. II.
A man and n woman were asphyxiated at
Tho Klondike Hotel, Bleecker street. New
York.
DR.. James II. Smart, president of Perdue
University, died at his home in Lafayette,
Ind.
Congressman Ovorstreet, Of Indiana,
tather OF the House Currency bill was re-
nominated.
Hezekiah Thomas died in Morgantown,
W. Va, ut the age of 1 3years.
Leander j. Mccormick, manufacturer of
the famous huryesters and binders, died in
Chicago OF pneumonia.
SamuclGompers, president OF the Ameri-
can Federation OF Labor has returned from
trip to Havana.
The national convention OF the Populist
party will bo held in Sioux Falls, South Da-
kota, ON May lst.
The British steamer Restormel sank in the
Delaware River. She was loaded with q
cargo OF wheat.
A ilfteen-year-oId boy has been banished
from Massachusetts by order of tho court for
forging check.
William II. Beard, the artist, died in New
York.
Tho Western Union Telegraph Company
has bought all the lines Of tho Deseret Tele-
graph Company, heretofore owned and oper-
ated by the Mormon Church.
Owners Of oys ter bods In New York. New
Jersey and Connecticut arc making efforts to
combine. The proposed company Is to have
capital OF SIS O0O,O 600.
Governor Tyler, Of Virginia. co plained
to tho Senate that bills were changed after
they had pnssed tho Senate and before com
ing into his hands.
iue StcdnlCr from ouuIOSt mr.
rived at New York with ono yellow-fever
patient on board. A fireman had diod and
was buried at sea.
Tho Alta Hotel, at Southern Pines n
winter resort In North Carolina, was burned.
Loss 500, OOO All the guests escaped.
The Rapid Transit Subway Construction
company was Incorporated at Albany, with
"a capital OF one million dollars.
Dan II. Hanna. u son Of the senator, was
married in Glenyille, o., to Mrs. Daisy Cor
don Maud.
p. l.. Mccarthy, a farmer, was frozen to
death near New brunswick, N. j.
Frosts In Florida damaged tho strawberry
crop and tho early vegetables.
The large Ingrahamvllle Mil, at Paw
tucket, II. l., was destroyed by flre
Daniel Getzendanner died mt his home In
Charlestown. w. Va.
Senator Lodges venerable mother died at
her home in Boston.
Tom Could the notorious New York dive
Keeper, died.
From the mainmast of the ship Shenan-
Aonh, lying at San francisco, tho ashes OF
Walter s. Blanchard were scattered to the
four winds.
Howard s. Gardner, of Stroudsburg, Pa.
was held In 81 900 bail In Philadelphia on
the charge of using the mails for fraudulent
purposes.
Gen. Il. C. Williams, n veteran of the
Mexican and Civil Wars, died at his honr
ia Chapman, Pa.
Seven hundred iourneymen tailors Of Chit
cago have been locked out by the merchan,
tailors.
Deed was recorded in Norfolk conveying
90 the Vanderbilts railroad properties in
Virginia.
The upholstery manufacturers In Phlla-
delphia rejected the scale offered by the
weavers.
A squad OF negro soldiers from Fort Bliss
Taided the police station In III Pason, Texas,
TO release comrade. fight ensued, in
which one policeman and ono soldier were
killed.
Charles +. StelI brought suit in Carlisle
against persons who demonstrated against
the granting OF liquor license to him
charging that they made libelous state.
ments.
Charles Gregory was committed for the
grand jury Of tho Princess Aune (Ya.) Court
on the charge OF committing folonious as.
Bault on Fannie Hale, fourteen years old.
Governor Tyler, of Virginia. signed tn,
bill for the incorporation OF the Junior Order
OF American Mechanics.