The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-11
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

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money The unknown was pushed of
and killed and Burke was badly
wounded.
Charles Wood, convicted in White
Plains, ~ Y, of robblng Charles
Smith, Fort Slocum soldier, was sen.
fenced to nineteen years in the peni-
tentiary.
The schooner Onward was driven
ashore by the gale at Rye Beach and
wrecked, the crew being rescued by
the life-savers of Wallis Scuds Station
The Morgan Line steamer El Monte
arrived at New York and reported hav-
ing been in collision at sea with the
British steamer Rappahannock.
NJ. b. Curtis ("Saml of Posen') filed
a petition in bankruptcy in Milwaukee,
confessing liabilities of $4,000.
The Exchange Telegraph Company
was incorporated in Hudson county,
N, j., with a capital of $5,000,000
Alexander Cochrane was elected
president pro tempore of the Bell
! Telephone Company.
Eddie Mcbride was burned to death
while playing Indian with a number
of boys.
At conference of the officials of the
| United Mineworkers' Union in Halle
| tull II was utClutu W uulu lllt COuNGH-
| tion in Scranton. President Mitchell
said the miners would decide for
| themselves whether to accept the in
crease offered, and none OF the Off
cials would interfere.
In an interview in New York Lord
| Strathcona, the Lord High Commits
sioner of the Dominion of Canada, said
he noticed a wave of Imperialism ire
| sistibly sweeping over Europe.
During a heavy fog in New York
| harbor the Old Dominion Line steamer
Hamilton ran down and sunk the Phil
| adelphia schooner A. A. Shaw. The
| crew was saved.
The annual report of the Philadel-
| phia and Reading Railroad and Coal
| and Iron Companies shows a surplus
| of nearly two million dollars over ex-
| penditures.
A number of people were killed and
| injured by tornado in Minnesota
! The damage to property was also
great.
Striking miners who had marched
with the intention of closing down the
North Franklin colliery were persuad-
| ed to return home by the district sec
retary without accomplishing their
purpose.
Burlington passenger train was
held up three miles south of Council
| Bluffs by two men, one of whom was
killed by the express messenger. The
other fled without booty.
It was announced in Boston that the
ambassadorship to Italy has been Of
fered to George Won L. Meyer, former
speaker of the Massachusetts House
ander, of Princeton, and Plummer, of
Yale, defeated Ware, of Harvard, in
the intercollegiate tennis tournament.
Klondike gold to the amount of ST.
500, 900 arrived at Seattle
The efforts of the Lackawanna Com
pany to start proved futile. Strikers
paid no attention to the offer of in
creased wages.
The Republicans of Massachusetts
held their State convention in Boston
and nominated W. Murray Crane, of
Dalton, for Governor.
An investigation was begun in Pat
erson, N, j., to find out whether the
plot to murder King Humbert of Italy
was hatched out there.
Mrs. Lillian Smith, of Inwood, N. Y,
shot her daughters Ethel and Mabel,
and killed her six-year-old son Andrew
and herself.
George Salando, once a baritone in
an opera company, died in New York
hospital from want of food.
Some one threw a chunk of ice at
Mark Hanna during the progress of a
political meeting in Chicago.
Charles Broadway Rouss has with
drawn his offer of $1,000,000 for the
restoration of his eyesight.
The managers of the Delaware State
Fair have practically decided not to
hold any more exhibitions.
NJ. F. Dryden was killed in Wheel-
ing, w. Va, by his father-in-law,
Thomas Workman.
The National Funeral Directors AS
sociation held a convention in Den
yer, Col.
Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania, ap-
pointed Gen. Frank Reeder banking
commissioner. The salary is $4,000 a
year.
Mace Swartley, wholesale produce
commission merchants, of Philadelphia,
failed. The failure is large one.
All the Swedish bonds consigned for
sale in America have been disposed of.
At Camden, N. j., Robert F. Hill was
found guilty of numbering his wife.
Adam Cooling was shot and killed
by an assassin at Mifflintown, Pa.
Gen. Olney Arnold, a prominent
manufacturer, died at Pawtucket, r. l.
The Glass Chimney Association was
formed in Pittsburg.
Fire at Williamsport, Pa, caused
loss of 100000.
B. H. Engle, builder at Harrisburg,
Pa, has failed.
The British steamer Eagle Point col
lided off Nantucket Shoal in fog early
Monday morning with the steamer
Biela, also British, and sunk her in
30 minutes. All the crew were saved.
Second Lieutenant Max Wagner, of
the Twenty-sixth Infantry, was killed
in the Philippines October 1.
Robert Treat Paine, Jr, was nomi-
mated in Boston by the Democrats for
Governor of Massachusetts.
Robert McCurdy Lord retired
banker and broker, killed himself at
Mount Vernon, N. Y.
Rodney Lowry and w. II. White
fought a duel, with fatal results, near
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
A plan is under discussion to con-