The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-25
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD


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The jury in the case of Henry B
Youtsey, tried in Georgetown, KY, on
the charge OF being a principal in the
murder of Governor Gcebel. found him
guilty and placed his sentence at life
Imprisonment.
Fourteen persons comprising the
families of Thomas Miller and Andrew
Benaswitch, were made seriously sick
In Reading, Pa, by eating toadstools
for mushrooms.
Both houses Of the Kentucky Legis-
lature passed the non-partlsan election
law and Governor Beckham will sign
II.
While his wife was sewing and sing
ing, John Pfeiffer hung himself in Chi
cago in her presence without attract
ing her notice.
John Donan and John Ford were
killed by an avalanche of dirt and rock
In the Excelsior Slate Quarry, near
York.
A daring burglar robbed the house
of Colonel Charles l.. Richardson in
Fredericksburg, Va.
Miss Frances Griscom won the Bal
timore Cup in the golf tournament at
Short Hills, N. j.
Charles Dudley Warner, the noted
author, dropped dead at Hartford, CT.
The Grove Avenue Baptist Church
In Richmond was burned.
William AirgOod died at Williams
port from the effect of Knockout drops
given TO him and his companion by
a couple Of men who robbed them.
Milry Johnson, colored, who shot a
conductor on the Texas and Pacific
Railway, was taken from the officers
at Port Allen, La, and lynched
The people of Montgomery present
ed loving-cup to Naval Constructor
Hobson, Gen. Joseph Wheeler making
the presentation speech.
Capt. John B. Adams, past COM
mander-in-chief of the G. A. r.,
dropped dead in the Statehouse Mt
Boston. He was SO years old.
Miss Mary Chenewlng was burned
to death in Kanawha county, w. Va,
her clothing having caught fire from
an open CRATE.
Nicholas Scalp, a Swedish naval
cook who was on the Maine when she
was blown up, committed suicide in
New York.
S. l.. Morris was arrested in Chi
cago on the charge Of plotting to kill
John W. Gates, the former steel king
Gen. Scott Ship, superintendent of
the Virginia Military Institute, dis
missed three students for hazing.
A sealed pouch containing $1,000 dis
appeared from the st. Paul Office of the
American Express Company.
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safe Of the Farmers Bank in Nevada
Mo-, and killed Constable Maron.
DR.. William f. Reilly died at his
home in Carlisle, Pa. He served in
the recent war.
Representatives of all the big coal
mining companies met in Scranton,
Pa, and decided to insist on decrease
in the price of powder being COM
puted as part Of the increase in wages
to contract miners.
Nearly every cotton mill in North
Carolina is tied up by a strike, the
loomworkers demanding the discharge
of the supervisors. claiming that they
are brutal to their employees.
A Norfolk, Va. jury brought in a
verdict against the Norfolk Railway
and Light Company for $4,000 dam
ages for causing the death of r. j.
Bass.
George Brown, colored. was convict
ed in York, Pa, of an attempt to out
rage Miss Nora Holdinger, and was
sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary.
The wrecking steamer Coley was
sent to endeavor to save the cargo of
the Baltimore schr. John A. Curtis
which was sunk in Hampton Roads
The testimony was concluded in the
trial of Youtsey for completely in the
murder Of Governor Goebel, of Ken
lucky.
Erastus Warfield, colored, who tried
to assault n farmers wife in Elkton,
KY was lynched by a mob
The presidents of the big anthracite
coal-carrying roads, at a conference
held in Philadelphia, agreed to pay the
10 per cent increase, guarantee 1t un-
I'll April l and abolish the sliding
scale.
Eleven Slavonian strikers were ar
rested in Hazleton and taken to Beltz-
vile. where they we're accused of caus-
Ing the rioting and murder OF Ralph
Mills at Oneida on October 10.
The torpedo-boats Dahlgran and
Cravan were in collision outside New
port and were obliged to put back
slightly damaged. They reached New
port safely.
Samuel Hargadine, farmer, living
near Dover, Del, was seriously injured
by an explosion Of dynamite.
John Hughes, postmaster Mt Cam
bria, Pa, shot and killed burglar
who was trying to rob the pOstoillca
Harry Howard Stewart was arrested
In New York, charged with killing his
child in Cleveland.
Eight people were burned to death
or suffocated in fire in Hester street
New York.
Prof. Charles c. Everett, dean of the
Harvard Divinity School, died, aged II
years.
Joe Pazen was shot, it Is believed
fatally, in Chicago by Zorah Card, an
actress.
Thomas F, Lane, son-in-law Of
United States Senator-elect Blackburn,
of Kentucky, committed suicide Mt his
home by shooting. Ill-health is as
signed as the cause of the act, Mr.
Lanes little daughter was in the room
with him at the time.
twenty Americans repairing wires
were surprised by Filipnos near San
Jose, Luzon, and all killed or captured
except seven. Three American scouts
were also killed near Takloban.