The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26
THE NEWS.

until after the argument in the governorshp
contest case.
The story comes TO Vancouver, B. c., that
the chiefs OF rative tribes In New Guinea
celebrated the establishment OF peace by eat
ing the body Of chief who had been killed
in battle.
| Hundreds of settlers and men employed in
the lumber camps In Manitoba are reported
to be hemmed in by the fires which are
sweeping the vast forests.
Allen Il. Hlldebrand and John Kissinger
were held under bail at Red Lion, Pa, on
account OF the manner they conducted the
hotel ut that place.
| Camden On. J.) jury gave Miss Ida b.
Dulaney $4,000 damages for breach ofprom-
ise the defendant being Thomas J. Husband.
Studying faith-cure doctrines drove Mrs.
Angeline Smith, of Chicago, insane, and she
is now in the Detention Hospital.
John Hughes OF Syracuse. killed his wife,
from whom he had been separated, as she
was coming cut of church.
Amos Gerlsh was arrested In Goshen n.
y. for brutal assault on two old women
whom he wanted to rob.
Crazed by liquor, William Aylward. n
fisherman, killed one of his friends and seri-
| ously injured others.
William Hoffman. who is partly insane.
knocked down George strlckler. a Dunkard
preacher, who was conducting funeral SER
vices in Manchester Township
Miss Maria Dinse. of New York, leaped
from Brooklyn Bridge and, by some re-
markable luck. escaped apparent injury.
She Intended to commit suicide.
Clssie LOTUS, the English actress. fell from
pier into deep water at Old Point Comfort
and narrowly escaped drowning. She had
a sudden attack OF vertigo.
G. Z. Moreledge, an actor. who had been
promoter of various visionary schemes,
was sentenced to twenty-five years in the
Missouri penitentiary
| number of lives have been lost in the
floods in Mississippi and Louisiana, and the
damage to property, including the railroads,
is enormous.
! George NJ Wilson, paying-teller in the
Merchants Bank of Toronto Ont, con-
fessed to having Systematically stolen from
the institution.
At special meeting of the directors of the
American Steel and Wire Company it was
decided to resume operations at the idle
plants.
| Twelve sacks OF mail addressed 20 Francis
Truth, the divine healer were seized by the
| postal authorities.
| Dr. Thomas c. Moore, of Smyrna, Del.
was arraigned on the charge of violating the
election laws.
The New York State Democratic Conven-
tion has been called to meet in New York
city on June g.
| John Peters, colored. who assaulted Katie
Richie near Tazewel, W. Va, was lynched.
Bartholdi's statue of Washington and La
fayette, presented TO New York city by
Charles Broadway Rouss, was unveiled in
Lafayette Square, General Henry Kyd Doug
las delivered the oration.
Papers bearing on the control OF public
service corporations were read before the
American Academy of Political and Social
| Science, in session in Philadelphia.
President Patton, of Princeton, says II the
Presbyterian Church is Calvinist Church.
as he believes it to be, there is no need Of
revising the Confession of Faith.
The grand jury Of Frankfort, KY, return
ed indictments against John w. Davis and
Green Golden as accessories to the murder
Of Governor Goebel.
In fight among the delegates TO the Re-
| publican State Convention at Montgomery,
Ala. one man was shot and seriously
wounded.
Tho first train to cross the James River
bridge OF the Richmond, Petersburg and
Carolina Railroad was run from 1Ianches-
ter.
The steamer Miles, from Kobe, brought
twelve hundred japanese immigrants TO
work on railways in the United States.
Twenty-six Italians were arrested in the
Croton Valley, N. Y, charged with melting
riot and carrying weapons.
Thomas Podmore killed his father John
Podmore, in Anderson, Ind, in defending
his mother.
An attempt was made to start up the work
on the new dam Mt Croton Landing New
York, but the contractors did not have
enough laborers to keep the works going.
In letter to the Brooklyn Democratic
Club former President Cleveland pointed to
disasters which have overtaken his party
because of its false leadership.
NJ. Cambon the French ambassador, de-
| llvered an address to the students of Colum-
bia University in New York.
Carl Brown, of Coxey army fame, urged
Missouri middle-of-the-road" Popuists to
support Admiral Dewey for President.
Mr.. John O. Wagner editor Of the Ship
pensburg, Pa, News, is dead, aged siXty-two
| years
President Patton, Of Princeton University.
announced a gift OF 9l5OOO to the instiu-
ton.
Nearly all the miners in the plttsburg dis
trct returned to work.
Reports from Louisiana, Mississippi and
| Alabama tell of heavy loss from floods caused
by the unprecedentedly heavy rains of the
| past few days.
Strikers led by men who claimed TO repre-
sent the Carpenters Union. attacked force
of union workmen ON Madison street.
| Chicago.
John W. Hunter, eN-Mayor Of Brooklyn.
is dead at the age Of %.
| The steamer Nippon Maru arrived at San
| Francisco from the Orient via Honolulu, and
was sent to quarantine.
| Admiral Dewey will have to decide whether
he will review the Chicago Dewey Day
parade from grandstand constructed by
the contractors, or from stand erected by
union carpenters anlliated with the Building
| Trades Council.
! Five people were injured one fatally, and
considerable property was damaged by
tornado that passed just west of Concordia,
Lafayette county, Mo.
Four lives were lost In fire at Newcastle,
| Pa.
The strike of the italian laborers on the