The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-25
THE NEWS.

and other elites and joint ofices will be
substituted.
The tobacco growers OF North Corolina
have agreed to sell none OF their product to
the American Tobacco Company for I've
years.
A. $. Van Wlckle & Co, coal miners at
Colernine, Pa, have advanced the wages Of
their men two per cent.
1t is reported that forty thousand miners
In the anthracite region OF Pennsylvania
have decided to strike.
Thomas Mcdowell. the fret mayor OF Sac.
ramento, Cal. died at South River, n. j.,
aged eighty-three.
Henry Smith died In I,ockbrldge county,
Va, aged eighty-nlno. He had 262 descen-
dants.
Captain Charles l.. Steele. OF tho Eigh.
teenth Infantry, died at Fort Bayard, New
Mexico.
Some Egyptian cotton was received in
South Carolina, tho first ever sent to that
state.
Mr. Ryan made another move Mt Norfolk
In the seaboard Ale Line matter.
Major J. c. Bryant died Mt Newport News,
Va, OF pneumonia.
Francis p. 0wings, Of Chicago, presented
an indebtedness of over 1--WE aud a-half mil
lions Of dollars In Chicago, the largest sched-
ule for liabilities for discharge ever known
under the national bank ruptcy act.
Deputy Sheriff Alfred Henry, while feed
ing the prisoners In the Howell county Mo- }
jail was dragged into II cell and killed. All
the prisoners la the jail escaped.
At Spruce Greek, Pa, Charles Robinson
found John O'Neil In his house with his ife,
and killed him instantly.
The American Steel and Wire Company
has advanced the wages Of Its men at Grown
Point, N. Y, ten per cent.
Three men were fatally scalded by the ex-
plosion Of n boiler on the yacht Caperon at
Delaware City.
Professor Enoeh Howard vlckers, of West
Virginia. was married at Toxic, Japan, De-
cember 20.
Miss Maud A. Clenry and Mr.. Edward ].
Brady, OF Garrett Park, Nd, were married
at Norfolk.
The arm OF Jacob Crumbling. farmer
living near wrightsvllle, Pa, was blown off
by dynamite.
The Tygart Valley Bank, at Philippi. W.
Va, was robbed OF a large SUN by burglars.
Five men of a section gang OF nine were
AhtCO Wy " Tram uCuE OAlOTu, W
Negotiations have been closed In Detroit
which, 1t is contended, will be the beginning
of the end OF the independent telephone
movement.
The annual convention of the Virginia
State Horticultural Convention was held In
Staunt0n.
Captain J. W. Murphy, cashier of the
Third National Bank OF Columbus. Ga, shot
and killed the teller, p. 4. Shutze and then
killed himself, soon after the bank opened.
William Gurley. proprietor of the Indiana
House In Phoebus, Va, was arrested charged
with killing Joseph New, u soldier at Fort
Monroe.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, has written
"A letter to the Democratic committee of
Mecklenburg county, N. c., on the race
question.
Fred Shelley, OF Taylorville, ILL.,, was SEN
fenced to prison for life for com pliclty In the
murder OF MIS-. Jane Brunot.
The old frigate Saratoga started out from
Philadelphia with boys OF the Pennsylvania
Nautical School.
The marine department OF tho Boston
Chamber of Commerce identifies the stea-
mer wrecked ut st. Marys Bay, Newfound-
land. as the Norwegian steamer Parran,
which sailed from Baltimore January 5 for
Sydney. G. b.
Judge Waddill, of the United States Court
Ia Norfolk, Va, denied the injunction asked
for by Mr. Thomas +. Ryan to prevent the
consolidation OF the various lines Of the Sea-
board Railroad system.
Two bids were made for constructing the
rapid transit yoad In New York. Mr.. John Il.
McDonald's being for thirty-ave millions.
Nearly a hundred people at wedding
dinner in Chicago were made violently Ill by
eating chicken cooked In a copper kettle.
James Welch made an attempt to assassin
ate Judge William Lochren, of the United
States Court at st. Paul, MINI.
Negotiations are in progress for the con-
solidation OF Chicago tailors who work for
the wholesale trade.
Louis August, the Fort Monroe soldier
convicted OF murder, committed suicide at
Newport News, Va.
Nick Gilligan, accused In Norfolk, Va, OF
numbering his sweetheart's father. surren-
dered.
The rod employees at the American Steel
and Wire Works at Cleveland went OH a
strike.
The National Convention OF the United
Mine Workers was opened In Indlaea apolls.
Rates on all trans-Atlantic lines have been
raised ten per cent. or more.
Boiler makers In Buffalo, N. Y, went on a
strike.
Joseph Leach, OF Baltimore, a private In
Company b, Fourth Artillery, was found
guilty, at Topeka, Kans. OF killing Corporal
Thomas Finnell, the verdict being "Guilty,
without capital punishment.
The formal presentation by the women Of
South Carolina of gold medal to Lleuten-
ant Victor Blue was made ON board the battle
ship Massachusetts.
The remains OF General Dabney II. Maury.
after lying In state In Richmond, Va, were
taken TO Fredericksburg and there buried.
N. X. doss, a merchant OF Edenburg, o.,
was killed In his store by burglars. Three
tramps were subsequently captured by a
posse.
II. II. TANNER and Frederick o. Bon1lls,
editors of the Denver Evening Post, were
shot by W. W. Anderson. an attorney.
James House, a lunatic, leaped from the
seeond-story window OF a sanitarium at st.
Louis and killed himself.
The authorities of Mount Vernon, Y,
think they have found powder stains on the
night gown OF Mrs. Alfred Morrison, who
was shot by her husband.
Frank Davis was sentenced TO the peniten-
tiary for forty-flve years In Carbondale, ILL.,,
for murder
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