The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-07-05
HE NEWS.

TO his whereabouts.
A public reception was given to Cen
eral Wheeler in Chicago. where he ar
rived to take command of the Depart
ment of the Lakes.
Lightning killed George Shipman at
Dublin. Ind. Henry Brown at West
Manchester. Ohio, and Richard Hlnkle
at Chillicothe.
A cavein at the Columbia workings,
near Duryea, Pa, entombed number
OF miners, who were rescued with diff
ficulty.
Eight Lithuanians members of n
secret society, we're sentenced in Potts
Vile, Pa, for being implicated in a
murder.
G. j. Cedar. painter, fell from the
roof of the new Presbyterian. church at
Newport News, Va, and killed himself.
Mrs. Pauline Cony Aubrey, daughter
of Chief Justice Fuller, was married
at Mayne-Staye to DR.. Samuel NJ.
Moore
Colonel Noyes declared martial law
at Dutch Harbor. Alaska, until he had
recaptured number of runaways.
Robert Noaxs, accused of completely
in the murder of Governor Goebel, was
arrested at Big Stone Gap, Va.
President Mckinley received an en-
thusiastic reception upon his arrival
at his home in Canton, Ohio.
John (alias Piggy Williams was ar
rested in Alexandria, Va, on the
charge of felonious assault.
Edward Shue of Spring Grove, Pa,
drank jimson weed tea and had a mar
row escape from death.
Troops were ordered out in Ever
green. Ala. to prevent trouble between
the whites and blacks.
All the window-glass and fiint-glass
factories closed down temporarily.
The Jim Grow car bill went into ef
feet in Virginia.
Latest estimates of the loss of life in
the Hoboken fire place the number of
victims at nearly two hundred. About
the same number of persons were in
Jured. The aggregate losses on prop
erty steamships, piers and warehouses
is about S10,0O0,OOO. The losses to the
North German Lloyd Company on their
three steamships follow: The Main,
$1,200,000 on vessel and 100000 on
stores and cargo the Bremen, on YES
sci, $700,0O0 the Saale on vessel
$S0O,O00, cargo and stores, 100000.
Present indications are that Mr.
Bryan will pull the strings controlling
the convention from Nebraska. He
sent telegram to Senator Hill to
come at once to Nebraska, and the New
Yorker promptly complied 1t is now
stated that Mr.. Bryan will insist on a
specific 16-to-1 plank The Hill vice
presidential boom is expanding.
Governor Atkinson. of West Vir-
ginia, appointed ex-Commissioner of
Internal Revenue Mason a Judge, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Judge Hagans.
The general meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science at its closing session in New
York selected officers for the next
years convention in Colorado
The anti-imperialists in the Seventh
Illinois District want Henry Wade
Rogers, late president of the North
western University, to become their
candidate for Congress.
A motion for a writ of extradition
for Charles F. w. Neely was made be-
fore Judge Lacombe in the United
States Circuit Court in New York.
The Virginia delegation to the Kan
sas City Convention expect to put
Senator Daniel in the field for the Vice
IreSluentlal nomination.
A determined effort is being made
in Virginia to secure n conditional par
don for Searcey, one of the Aqua
Creek train robbers.
In the Corporation Court in Alexan-
dria, Va, David T. Demarest asked for
a receiver for the Mount Vernon Spoke
Company.
Burglars dynamlted the safe in the
canning factory of the ID. E. Wine
brenner Company in Hanover and got
only $40
The Red ID Line steamer Caracas,
which went ashore at San Juan was
fioated again. The pilot was sus-
pended.
One fireman was killed and eight in
5ured in a fire in Pittsburg which de-
stroyed 100000 worth of property.
Samuel Whitcom and his son were
struck by lightning at Spry, Pa, the
son being seriously injured.
The annual session OF the Order OF
United Commercial Travellers was be-
gun in Columbus, o.
Work is being actively expedited on
number of warships in the Norfolk
Navy Yard.
John G. Woolley. of Illinois, was
nominated for President and Henry b.
Metcalf, of Rhode Island, was nomi-
mated for Vice-President by the Pro
hibition National Convention in Chi
cago. The convention then adjourned
sine die.
The military prisoners at Fort Smell
ing, Mimi. made a desperate attempt
TO escape. All but one were recap
tured.
The Republicans of the Eighth Con
gressional district of New Jersey con
vention at Elizabeth renominated Con-
gresham Charles N. Fowler by ac-
clamation.
The Knights of St. John, in conven-
tion in Philadelphia, reelected by ac-
clamation the present Supreme Presi-
dent Henry j. Fries, of Erie, Pa.
The attack OF the Mexican troops on
Chan Santa Cruz, the stronghold of
the Maya Indians, is still delayed ow-
ing to the vigorous opposition offered
by the rebels against the advance of
the troops.
Yale won the Varsity race at New
London after magnificent struggle.
Harvard won the four-oared and
freshman races with ease.
Hamilton College conferred the hon
orary degree of LID. on Henry Smith
Pritchard, of Washington, ID. c.
The last two COmnaniQs of tha CT