The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.

itNtu III WdSHlnklOu b0dL all Ine BON-
ernments interested will ratify It.
The Presbyterian committee which
examined the returns from the pres
byterics concluded that some revision
of the creed is demanded, as well as a
supplemental statement
The Senate Military Committee
heard arguments for and against the
army canteen.
The Naval Appropriation Bill will
provide for two battleships and two
cruisers.
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected by the Gridiron Club.
In a collision between a wild freight
and fast freight on the Atlantic
Coast Line at Clifton, Va, Robert
Boyd, the fireman, was killed. and En-
glneer Flipper, of Manchester, had a
miraculous escape.
Ex-State Senator Little, OF Virginia,
who was arrested in Washington on
the charge Of misappropriating money
was brought to Fredericksburg and re-
leased on bail.
James Parker, who had served seven
years of thirteen-years' sentence for
larceny that he did not commit, was
released from the Eastern Peniten-
tiary, in Philadelphia.
The committee of the New York Po-
lice Board exonerated the police from
responsibility for the race riots In
"Hells Kitchen"
Morris Aarenburg, a lad, pleaded
guilty in Philadelphia to the charge
of stealing SSS37 from Mrs. Margaret
A. Beck.
The body of James C. Rockenbaugh
was found near Harpers Ferry, w. Va,
under circumstances indicating sui
eide.
A shortage in his accounts of $500
led to the arrest of Reuben II. Weaver,
a tax collector of Warrington town.
ship. Pa.
The proprietor of a saloon in Fred
ericksburg, Va, struck w. Eustace
Moncure with billiard cue, fracturing
his skull.
Five men were thrown from a hand
car on the Berrysburg Railroad. near
Philippi, w. Va, and seriously injured.
Miss Annie Cook saved the life of the
child of G. f. Bowen at Guyandotte,
w. Va, but lost her own in doing so.
Alice O'Donnell, a nursegirl, admit
ted having killed the child of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Jones, in Brooklyn.
Mrs. Annie Connell took an ounce Of
laudanum in Richmond, Va, with sui
cidal intent, but was saved.
Mr.. Frank Roane was found dead in
his bed in Lynchburg, Va. from heart
disease.
Typhoid fever has broken out among
the inmates at Sing Sing, New York.
A movement is on foot in Richmond
to redistrict the city. One ward con-
tains one-fourth of the entire popula-
tlon, but its representation and its ap-
preparations are on the basis of the
other wards, which contain only half
as many people. 1t is thus hoped in
this manner to diminish ward politics.
Count Pietro Alesso, young Italian
nobleman, through his representatives
in New York, asked the United States
authorities to hunt up his wife, who
ran away, and his missing bonds.
Drunken negroes caused consider
able excitement by long-continued and
indiscriminate discharge of firearms in
Greenlawn Cemetery, Newport News.
One of the crowd was shot.
The United States Circuit Court in
Newark, N. j., appointed temporary
receiver for the Bay State Gas Com
pany. Mr.. Addicks is believed to be
behind the plaintiffs.
Major John Mcbride, who command
ed the Irish Brigade in the Boer Army,
came to New York on the steamer La
Bretange and spoke hopefully Of the
Boer Cause.
Policeman Mccormick, of New York,
ha l., ~
breach of promise by Miss Margaret
Lynch. They had been engaged for 81
years.
Governor Lind, of Minnesota ap-
pointed Congressman Charles A.
Towne United States Senator to tenn
porarily succeed the late Senator Davis
until the state legislature can elect a
successor.
Rev. D. e. Stuart, of Wilkesbarre
Pa, was released on the charge of COM
mitting a criminal operation on his
wife, and rearrested on the charge Of
forcing her to drink carbolic acid
Former Train Dispatcher W. s. Grove
was acquitted in Philadelphia of the
charge of causing the fatal wreck at
Hatfield by his criminal negligence.
Frank Lantell, a Baltimore and Ohio
towerman, was acquitted in Philadel-
phia of the charge of causing a fatal
wreck by his negligence.
Charles w. Morgan and Claude Tur-
ner, brokers, were released on bail in
New York on the charge of securing
money fraudulently.
Harry S. Sollenberger and Ezra
Sheets were sentenced in Philadelphia
to three months in prison for killing
by faith cure.
Harry Mundis. whose wife ran off
with a soldier, shot and killed himself
at his home in York, Pennsylvania.
Ex-State Senator William A. Little,
Of Virginia, has been indicted for fell
ony by the grand jury He is accused
Of misappropriatlng money collected
by him from the sale of land for which
the court appointed him commissioner.
The brig c. c. Sweeney arrived at
New York with the survivors of the
tug John S. Deering, of Beaufort, S.
c., which foundered off Cape Hatteras
Jessie Morrison, on trial at Eldorado
Kan, for the murder of Mrs. Castle,
testified In her own behalf.
William Seaton tried to kill his sis
! ter and her entire family at South
| Park, near Seattle, Wash.
The Southern Industrial Convention
in New Orleans, adjourned after re-
electing the officers and selecting Mem