The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
THE NEWS.

spike was driven by an infant son OF the
president, the party was welcomed by Mayor
Taylor and Governor Tyler, and an elabor-
ate banquet was given at night by the Sea
board officials.
bold stage robbery occurred In Grut
Gulcb, California. Two masked men held
up TWO troopers and went through the pas
sengers on the stages following them. Mail
and express matter were not touched.
A disastrous freight wreck occurred on the
p. W. and b. at Dover, Del. The wrecked
cars took fire. Five tramps were buried
under the ruins, three OF whom we're rescued,
although one afterwards died
Smith Afford, whose brutality is supposed
to have caused his wife's death, was tarred
feathered and painted near South Bridge
ton, New Jersey.
The cruiser Variag, built by the Cramps
for the Russian government, had n success.
ful trial trip of the Delaware capes.
Colonel Eli II. Sutton. OF Detroit. Mich.
accused OF completely in the state military
scandal, was acquitted.
Blanchard II. Maui, twenty-one years old
student at princeton University, commit.
ted suicide.
The Naval War College at Newport, II. l.
was formally opened for instruction.
Irene Van Horn was killed by lightning il
Centre Valley. Pa.
The United Confederate Veterans closed
their reunion at Louisville. and will meet
next year in Mem phis. A resolution recip
rocating the kind words of General Sickles
toward the men Of the Confederacy was
adopted after lively discussion.
Referee Nusbaum. in hearing the ease
against the Ice Trust in New York, ordered
the production OF the books. Evidence was
given by Independent dealers to show how
the trust raised the price.
The Southern Railway stockholders met
in Richmond, Va, and authorized the issue
OF a fourth supplement to the company's
first consolidated mortgage deed.
The three negroes Stirling. Ivory ard
Perry-were held by the coroner's jury in
Philadelphia for the murder OF Prof. Roy
White.
Biscoe Hindman, OF Louisville. was elected
commander chief of the United Sons OF
Veterans.
Tho Philadelphia grand jury held Tower.
man William A. Lantell responsible for the
freight wreck in the tunnel.
An epidemic of black cankcr rash up
peared at West Derby, VI. Three deaths
were reported.
Della May Fox. the actress and soubrette
WINS committed to the insane asylum ut As
toria, L. l.
Five persons were killed md three injured
by the explosion Of nitro-glycerine in Mari.
eta, o.
About twelve hundred workers in gas Ak
ture factories in New York are on strike.
Frank Preston, who was arrested on the
charge of being one Of the men who robbed
the bank at Williamsburg, Va, was dis
charged, there being no evidence against
him.
George Higgins and j. Roney Cunning
ham, while driving home at night from Sum.
NIT Bridge, Del, went through an open draw
and both were killed.
The annual meeting OF the William CramT
d Sons Shipbuilding Company was held In
Philadelphia, and quarterly dividend OF
] a per cent. declared.
william Ingram, colored, was convict d
in Norfolk, Va, OF the killing OF Lille Full.
Ter, and sentenced to one year in the city
jail.
Judge Cantrill, of Frankfort, KY, issued
bench warrant for the arrest Of former
Governor Taylor who is in Indiana.
Captain w. T. White, assistant superin.
tendent of the Virginia state penitentiary
died at his home in Richmond.
Constable Hurricane Branch had his man
hunt in Nansemond county, Va, without
interference.
The great solar eclipse was observed with
unusual success In various parts OF the
South. The government had expeditions at
Barnesville, Ga. and Pinehurst, N. c.; the
Johns Hopkins University had observers at
the latter place, and other universities had
expeditions at various places, all Of whom
secured good photographs and valuable
scientific data.
Judge Morrow, OF the United States Court
San Francisco, granted an Injunction to pre-
ven: health authorities from discriminating
against the Chinese in precautions against
the plague.
Bishop Moore. OF the Roman Catholic bio.
cese Of ST. Augustine, Fla, was stricken
while preaching Il sermon in Allegheny. Pa
cargo of purple ore was broughtto Phil
adelphia that had been dug from the site Of
the ancient city of Telmessus.
Fire broke out in the Hecla branch miEe
in Houghten, Mich. One Of the men was
overcome.
Henry X. List, president OF the City Bank
Of Wheeling, W. Va, died at the age Of sey-
enty-nlne.
Sheriff Tyler, OF Grant county, Utah, and
Jan jenkins, n cattle owner, were killed ly
outlaws.
The mills OF the York Haven Paper Com
pany, at York Haven, Pa. were destroyed
by FIRE
Mrs. Frank Wilson tho largest woman IL
TennsylvaniH died at her home in Easton.
John c. Cass was sentenced to twenty
yeRrs Imprisonment in Lynn Mass, for
robbery.
An elephant from Bostock's circus iel
| from the train while en route to Newark.
| New Jersey.
Judge c. W. Jeffers, judge of tho Munici-
| pal Court IN Wheeling. W. Va, and formerly
mayor, was found dead 10 hisJaw office. lie
had been missed for more than week, and
| n search revealed his decomposed remains
in n room In the rear Of his Office.
Timothy b. blackstone, formerly prcsi-
dent OF the Chicago and Alton Railroad
Company, died In Chicago.
At the anniversary meeting OF the Amori-
can Unitarian Association in Boston, move
ment was started and a committee named
| for the organization OF an international
council OF religion.