The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-17
THE NEWS.


near Philadelphia. The engineer and fire
man and two tramps were killed.
A Philadelphia jury awarded to Mrs
Elizabeth G. Reading, OF Williamsport, Pn.,
$4,000 damages for the alienation OF the
affections Of the plaintiffs husband.
It IL announced that construction OF the
Reading, Lancaster and Baltimore Railroad
to connect at Perryvllle, Nd, with the Bal
timorc and Ohio will be made
The Methodist General Conference, in ses-
sion In Chicago, discussed and acted upon
number Of proposed changes in the organic
law.
George ]. Burgham was arrested In New
York for embezzling s10,2i4 from the Nc
Kinley Music Co. in New York.
The Board OF Foreign Missions reported
that II will close the fiscal year free from
debt and with balance Of sil ,S97.
Two freight trains on the Lackawanna
collidcd, and Engineer William Eschenbach
was killed.
Twenty-Five hundred miners in Michigan
went on strike.
John wanamaker gave out statement in
which he makes the sensational charge that
A. l.. English, director Of public safety in
attacks of the North American upon the ad-
ministration of Mayor Ashbridge, threatened
TO retaliate by publishing afIldavits directed
against the personal character OF Mr.. Wana-
maker.
Charles Robinson who killed John
O'Neill, who was about TO eope with Robin
sons wife, was acquitted in Huntingdon,
Pa, the defense being emotional insanity.
A 49,
candidate FOR Vice President, says he will
not accept the Democratic nomination ex-'
cept on 16.to-1 platform.
A report that the Pennsylvania Railroad
had arranged to borrow $4,000, 600 is be-
lieved to be true, despite the emphatic de-
nial of President Green.
james Baxter, OF Wilmington. DEL, who
killed Mrs. Ryan in Camden. n. j.. was SEN
fenced to 20 years imprisonment,
Philip C. Dresser, New York policeman
was killed by his wife.
Mrs. Annie Gumbert in New York killed
her child aud herself
Officers Of the American Steel and Wiro
Company have authorized the announce
ment that John Lambert has resigned the
presidency and John W. Gate the chairman
ship Of the board OF directors of the com.
| pany.
Governor Stephens, OF Missouri, tried to
bring about arbitration Of the street. railway
strike In st. Louis, but the railway officials
said they had nothing to arbitrate. Cars
were run under police protection.
The Middle-of-the- Road Populists, in con-
vent1on In Cincinnati, nominated Wharton
Barker, OF Pennsylvania, for president, and
lgnatus Donnelly for vice-president
| Many Brotherhood carpenters in Philadel-
phia were reported to be joining the Allied
Council, SO that they may retain their
places.
| The body OF DR.. Shearon II. Tabb, Of the
United States Marine Hospital Service, was
found in cemetery near Savannah.
This district attorney In, Pennsylvania
abandoned the indictments in the cases
against Senator Quay and his son.
The National Chairmakers' Association
was organized In Detroit by seventy chair
makers from various sections.
Major Wesley Merritt ended his
active career as an army officer and sailed
for Paris.
The Fusion Popuists, in convention in
Sioux Falls, nominated William j. Bryan for
President.
George j. Miller, the Hermit Of the Blue
Mountain died In his cave, near Hamburg,
Pa
The steamer Quito smiled from New York
with supplies for the starving people OF
India.
Peter McIntyre was killed by his thirteen
year-old son in Toronto, Ontario.
Benz. L. Houseman was found dead In his
room In Philadelphia.
A number Of plumbers struck at Newport
News, Va.
Hon. A. NJ. Waddell, OF North Carolina,
and Ex-Governor McCorkle, of West Vir-
ginia, were the principal speakers at the
race-problem conference at Montgomery,
Ala.
The announcement Of the engagement OF
Mr.. Alfred G. Vanderbilt TO Miss Elsie
French, Of Chicago, is made.
The st. Louis police were masscd along
one line OF cars that was kept open, the
others being idle.
There was a riot at tho Buttonwood mine,
near Wilkesbarre, and tho superintendent
was hurt.
Mrs. Mary Weatbers cut the throat OF her
four-year-old daughter and tried to kill her
self.
New York aldermen decided TO extend an
official welcome to the peace delegates from
the Boer republics, who are en- route to this
country.
Edward @. Clifford was hanged at Jersey
City, N. j., for tho murder of Division Su-
perlntendent W. G.. Watson, Of tho West
Shore Railroad.
President Powell, OF the Order OF Rail-
way Telegraphers, has discontinued the
telegraphers strike on the Southern Rail
| way.
A legal move is to bo made in New York
for dissolution OF the American Ice Com
pany, on the ground that II Is monopoly
A new shell has been invented by an
American naval oflcer, which, in the recent
tests made at Indian Head, penetrated and
split every kind OF armor now manufactured
in any part OF the world.
Figures at the Postofiice Department show
that there is apparently discrepancy OF
| $Gl ,675 In the accounts OF Charles Il. ".
Neely, former posta! treasurer OF Cuba.
Mrs. Charles A. Dennison, n bride OF three
months, drowned herself in pond on a
farm, near Wellesley, Mass.
Senator Tlllman made characteristics
speech in tho Senate on the proposition to
reduce the terms OF naval cadets from six
to four years. The terms were not short
ened.
President Gompers, OF the Federation OF
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