The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-01

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Sunday, January IA. Wednes
day night following, in the pres
ence of few friends at his home,
he was married again. In the
flower bedecked drawing room
near the spot where last Sunday
lay the casket containing the re-
mains of his dead wife, he We'd
nesday evening stood with Miss
Ruby Becker, while Rev. Harry
Mitchell, pastor of the Bethany
Methodist Church, performed
the marriage ceremony. Mr..
Cook first wife died Friday pre-
vious of consumption. In ex-
planation of his hasty second
marriage, Mr.. Cook said: "My
marriage to Miss Becker, so
soon after my first wife's death
was in obedience to the last re-
quest of a dying wife. Miss
Becker lost her mother in Janu-
airy of last year, and in the fol-
lowing March lost her father
She later made her home with
myself and my wife, and was
very attentive to my wife in her
last illness. The request was
that we be married as soon after
her death as possible. " The
bride was the daughter of we'll
known tobacco merchant.
Challenging the world of sci
ence, Henry G.. Rush, farmer
of Lancaster county, has offered
$1,000 as forfeit in the event of
his failure to clearly and indis-
putably demonstrate that Kepler,
Sir Isaac Newton and scientists
in general are wrong in their fun
damental conceptions of astro-
nomical mathematics. Astrono-
mers the world over have always
taught that the movements of
heavenly bodies have been in ell
liptical orbits. This theory, Mr..
Rush maintains, is absolutely
baseless, the correct movement
of all orbits being circular.
A matrimonial agent effected
rather romantic bination at
Moundsville, w. Va. Christian
D. Kleiner, aged rs, years, had
expressed a desire for a mate,
and a Moundsville man agreed to
get him one. He was to receive
$25 for his trouble, $15 being
paid in advance. The Matchmaker
went to Miltonburg, Ohio, where
he knew Mrs. Barbara Yockey,
aged So years, who accompanied
him back to Moundsville, where
she met Kleiner, never having
seen him before, and in few
hours they were married. The
agent demanded the remaining
$40, and on being refused threat
ened to enter suit, but a compro-
mise was effected.
The senate recently passed a
bill amending the pension act of
1890 1t provides that in case a
widow of a soldier has resources
from which $3.50 a year is deriv-
able she shall not be pensionable;
that the bill does not apply to
widows who have married former
soldiers since June 81, 1880, and
authorizes the Commissioner of
Pensions to aggregate the disa-
bilities of an applicant in fixing
his pensionable status. A bill
was also passed providing that a
Widows pension shall commence
with the application and not at
the date of the soldiers death.
The commissioner at Washing
ton has decided that ordinary
Judgment notes will hereafter be
considered the same as bonds
and taxed fifty cents each under
the war revenue law, and if pow
er of attorney is embodied in the
note it must bear the added
stamp worth twenty-five cents.
The universal practice among
business men and internal rev.
enue collectors has hitherto been
to consider judgment note as
an ordinary promissory note,
carrying stamp worth two
cents for every 800 of face value.