The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-19

Is demorali2ed.
Francis Alberto who murdered Gerano
ie Foo at Blue Anchor, N. j., 10 secure his
| Victims wife and insurance money, was
,cntenced TO DO hanged.
sixty-1vo girl weavers employed mt s. N.
Wilson's wooden MILL in Trenton, n. j., went
Dn Il strike. demanding the discharge of the
foreman.
| The court in Frankford, KY, decided
| against the demurrer filed for "Talow Dick
| Coombs. and ordered his attorney to file an
| answer.
| The Democrats and Populists of Oregon
agreed upon fusion tickets for presidential
eectorF, congressman and State officers.
| There was destructive boiler explosion
nj the Riverside plant of the National Tube
| Company, in Wheeling, W. Va.
J. $. 1Ianly executive agent of tho Farm.
| ers' Alliance, has a scheme on hand for o
farmers trust.
Joseph stringer choked his wife to deatf
and then committed suicide at Baskerville
| Tenn.
The operators and miners in the bitumin
| Gus coal fields OF Indiana, came to an Sgrec
| ment
Judge Johnson's departure for Nome left
the Alaska Territory without u judge OF
judicial office.
The United states Government awarded
TO the Oceanic Steamship Company a 10 year
contract at - mile for carrying the
| Australian and English closed mails across
| The Pacific.
Two Italian strikers were shot by deputy
sherifrs in Now York during a riot.
Charges were made at the meeting of the
Chicago Presbytery that the General Assem-
| bly, was dominated by system of bossism
and one-mGn power worse than any political
| machine.
The rumors looking to the combination OF
the Carnegie Frick interests and the CramI
| shipbulding concern has been denied by the
latter company.
| Owing to the strike Of the miners. the con
dition of the coal trade has assumed alarm
ing proportions in Plttsburg, Pa.
! A complete steel house was shipped from
| Philadelphia to Prince Yoshibito, mt Toxic
and 81 locomotives and tenders were shipped
| TO Russia
Captain Louis Osthelm First United States
| Artillery, was found dead in his room in
| Chicago hotel, with bullet-hole in his
| temple.
II. H. Pitcher. II banker. in charge OF the
| Livermoro Bank, at Oakland Cal, com
mitted suicide. his trusteeship of an estate
valued at 5000, 600 being under investigation.
| Foster Grubb and c. II. Shenffer were
killed, and Samuel X. Clouser fatally injured
while working under cars in the railroad
| yards at Harrisburg, Pa.
The case OF the Baltimore coffee merchants
! against the New York imports was begun
again before the Supreme Court in New
| York.
Chaplain Charles d. Pierce, in his report,
defends the canteen at Manila, and says II
| replaces number OF disreputable gin
| shanties
An unsuccessful attempt was made to rob
| the First National Bank of Charestown, W
| Va. The robbers were discovered and driven
| of.
Vast sections of farming land in Texas is
inundated, and it is reported that number
| of lives have boon lost.
Rev. DIR. William L. Junkin, of Montcair,
| n. j., brother-in-law of Stonewall Jack
| son, died from pneumonia.
A fire in Greenpoint, n. Y, destroyed sew
| eral factories and threw fifteen hundred mon
out of employment.
William Mohole was arrested at Paterson,
N. j., while manufacturing counterfeit silver
money.
Charges were made TINT Brigader General
| Funston put two Filipinos to death without
| trial.
Joseph thinner, OF Paterson, n. j., killed
! George Marion in "A hotel at Wallington.
The plans for tho now convention hall at
Kansas City have been completed.
John NJ. Egan was elected president OF the
| Central Railroad of Georgia.
Tho losses to CTOlg bV the Hoods in the
| Texas lowlands will be enormous. The
| powcrhouse at Austin, In which eight work
| men were drowned. was undermined by the
| flood and machinery valued at S300,0 600 de-
slroytd.
From National Democratic headquarters
comes report that preparations arc being
| made TO boom Ex-Governor Robert E. Patti
son. of Pennsylvania, for vice president.
Webster Davis, former assistant secretary
| Of the interior. made II speech at the pro-
| Boer meeting strongly condemning the Brit
| ish dip omacy and military methods.
The large departments store OF Joseph
! Horne Il Co., in Pittsburg, was destroyed by
fire. Tho loss will be nearly two million
dollars.
There was very large audience at Wal
lacks, whore the play Of "Sapho" was again
put on, with Miss Nethersoe in tho title
role.
A four-year-old son OF Russell Nicklas, In
ChHmbersburg, Pa, was killed by being run
over.
Three building associations in Atlantn,
with branches in other States applied for re-
ceiyrrs Ia Atlanta on account of excessive
taxation.
Emma SPINNER, loveslck girl OF nineteen
wears, committed suicide near Paterson,
New Jersey.
a trestle on the Durham and Charlotte,
near Gulf, went through, wrecking an ac-
commodntion train.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says 81 600
was paid in advance to the man who shot
Goebel.
Harry Hamburger, convicted OF murder IN
Detroit, Mich, attempted to commit suicide.
strike Is threatened by tho telegraph
operators on the Southern Railway system.
King and Lewis Goodsby, coored, were
executed in BaIley, Ga. for murder.