The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-11-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

on the baltimore ana Ohl0, near ONO
pyle. Engineer Charles Walters was
killed and Brakeman Geo. H. Quantz
badly injured.
No clue has been found TO the where
nbouts of Miss Anna Elizabeth Lamp
kin, who disappeared from her home In
Richmond a week ago.
Attorneys for Rudyard Kipling sued
snt an injunction in Now York against
u. +. Fenno & Co. for infringement of
patent.
Ben Higanbotham was acquitted at
Wheeling, w. Va, after trial on the
charge OF killing Mayor Depriest, of
Gulloden.
Governor Tyler issued a procama-
lion calling an extraordinary session
Df the Legislature to meet on Janu-
airy 90.
Lampson Sherman, a brother of the
late John sherman. living in Des
Moines, Ia, was paralyzed.
Superintendent Pratt, of the Carlisle
Indian School, submitted his annual
report.
The British steamer Georgian Prince.
Captain Flett. arrived at Philadelphia
with Captain Anderson and his crew
Of thirteen men, of the abandoned Nor
wegian bark Highhyer.
The Havana Trades Union is seek
Ing to have incorporated in the Cuban
constitution a declaration against
monopolies, the move being directed
against Spanish cigar manufacturers.
Mrs. Eliza T. Griswold, Of Philadel-
phia, who claims that she placed S162-
900 with ex-Mayor Strong for invest
ment, sued out an injunction against
the executors.
One of the indictments against Rev.
DIR Wharton was quashed by Judge
Heisley at Freehold. N. j., and the
other two may also be proven defec-
tive.
DIR. Christopher r. Ahlstrom and an
unknown woman were found dead,
having been asphyxiated in room in
the Boulevard Hotel in New York.
The schooner Mascotte arrived at
San Francisco with stories of fights
with the cannibals on the Admiralty
Islands and Solomon Island.
The prisoners on trial in Woodstock,
Va, on the charge of robbing the Mas
Ranutten Bank, were acquitted.
A heavy snow storm ragged in New
York State about Buffalo, and also in
parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
There was a clash at Tampa between
cigarmakers OF the American and the
Spanish unions.
Three persons were injured, one
fatally, by natural gas explosion in
Pittsburg.
Henry Ulrich, boy of good family,
was indicted in Richmond for forgery.
Three boys are on trial at Philippi,
w. Va, on the charge of train-wreck-
ing.
Isaac Burrlolo, convicted of wife
murder, was hanged in Wcllsboro, Pa.
The murder of Louise Frost by Pres
ton Porter colored, mas stirred up race
feeling to such an extent that all
negroes of bad character have been
warned to leave Elbcrt and Lincoln
counties.
A negro accused of poisoning DR..
Love in Albemarle, N. c., got away
from the mob, which had taken him
from Jail, and is now free.
Irwin x. Roby, of Waynesboro, Va,
and Miss Cordelia M. Potter, of Staun-
ton, Va, eIoped to Winchester and
were married.
Thirty-four Of the Chicago Irish Am
bnlance Corps, who fought for the
Beers, arrived in New York and were
welcomed there.
The four men accused Of killing Miss
Jennie Bosschieter were arraigned in
Paterson, N j., and pleaded not guilty.
The Virginia Conference of the NJ Il.
Church South has selected Newport
News as its next meeting-place.
Miss Carrie Wesler, of st. Thomas,
Pa, mentally deranged by ill-health,
committed suicide.
The United States lightship Boush
Bluff was badly damaged by fire in a
Bhipyard in Norfolk.
Samuel Sheppard was convicted in
Elizabeth, w. Va, OF numbering his
wife
b. Ebcrle, tailor, of Passaic, N. j.,
was held up by two female robbers.
Virginia College, Roanoke, Va,
burned to the ground yesterday morn
ing. The $50 young lady students
saved practically nothing of their ef
fects. No lives were lost. The loss Is
about $4,000, partly covered by in
surance.
The committee of twelve appointed
at the last General Conference of the
Protestant Episcopal Church has
drafted three canon relative TO di-
vorce, to be submitted TO the next
General Conference for adoption.
The National Civic Federation is
sued a call for national conference
10 consider the best means of securing
the settlement Of labor disputes by
Cancellation and arbitration.
In his annual report Admiral Brad
ford, chief of the Naval Bureau of
Equipment, recommends the estab-
lishment of wireless telegraphy on
several naval ships.
According to Commissioner of I'M
migration Fitchie, immigrants have
arrived in this country at the rate of
1000 per day from all countries since
July last.
Miss LOonie, who is serving a sem
tence in Elmira, N. Y, retracted the
confession she made duplicating
Mayor Frank II. Flood in her for
geries.
The 400 striking miners at the Malt
by colliery OF the Lehigh Valley Com
pany returned to work.
Anthony Comstock, in behalf of the
Society of Suppression of Vice. threat
ems a war on places OF vice in New
York.
A masked burglar ATTEMPTED TO rob