The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-07-12
THE NEWS.

eu Association OF Iron ana steer
Workers. has issued circulars to lodges
asking that the scale committee be EN-
powered TO change the base of the scale
adopted at the indianapolis convention.
Anato Mariana to show his thanks
to the Virgin Mary for his recovery
from severe Illness got brass band
and lot of fireworks and had a cele-
bration.
Judge Hubbard. OF San Francisco,
has decided that the marriage of per.
sons in Nevada who had been divorced
in California within one year is valid.
Mrs. Alice Knight, feeling remorse
for having run away from her nus.
band with u man who deserted her,
committed suicide in New York.
Samuel Appel, trusted employee Of
Rosenstein G Rhoads. in Lancaster,
Pa, was convicted on the charge of
robbing his employers.
Sixteen hundred men have been
thrown out of employment by the
banking Of fire furnaces OF the Lacka-
wanna Iron and Steel Company.
Much damage was done on Black
wells Island by the storm of Saturday
II will take several weeks to repair
the unroofed buildings.
Three more bodies was taken from
recovered Of the victims of the Lloyd
pier disaster being 146.
Dr. j. w. Kline, of Fort Dodge, Ia,
claims to have discovered in con-
densed sunshine a cure for cOnsump-
tion in its earlier stages.
Nine hundred Buffalo excursionists
had perilous rescue from a steamer
beached by squall at Crystal Beach,
Ontario.
The fire in the Standard Oil Works
has burned itself out. and of the "a
tanks only four are left standing.
Jas. Bell, Postmaster at Gainesville.
Fla, died when the discovery was
made that his accounts were short.
David Haller and Isaac Braumfine,
two members of boating party, were
drowned in the Schuylkill.
Preparations were completed for the
opening of the Goebel murder trial in
Georgetown, Ky.
William Ryan was arrested in New
York on the charge of strangling his
daughter to death.
David A. Fry was found unconscious
In the stable in the rear of his resi-.
dence in York, Pa.
Five firemen were kille. and five in.
jured in fire in Pittsburg.
The funeral of Col. Charles O'Bricn
Cowardin took place from st. Peters
Cathedral in Richmond, very large
number being i'm attendance.
John Regala was killed by lightning
at Dunmore, Pa, and John Watson suf-
fered Il similar fate at his farm near
Sodus, N. Y.
The ST. Louis grand jury declared
that the police were much to blame
for the lawlessness that prevailed dur
ing the strike.
The inventory of the estate OF the
late Leander Mccormick, filed in Chi
cago, shows it to be valued Mt four
millions.
The funeral of Commander James
ID. Graham, U. S. NJ, retired, took place
from the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn.
Lightning struck the foremast of the
United States collier Caesar, lying at
Norfolk, and did considerable damage
The funeral of Judge Lippincott, of
New Jersey, took place from his resi-
dence in Jersey City.
There was much suffering and a
number of prostrations from the heat
in Richmond.
Harry Duez, an expert swimmer, lost
his life while displaying feats in Phila-
delphia.
Irene Richmond colored, was burned
to death at her home in Richmond, Va
Five mad dogs were killed in Fulton,
Va, during the past few days.
Nathan l.. Baker killed his daughter
and himself in Richmond, Ind.
General Macarthur, at Manila, cables
the War Department the list Of recent
killed and wounded.
The Navy Department has received
report from Commander Tilley, the
Naval Governor of the Samoan Islands
of Tutuila, showing the satisfactory
workings of the new government estab-
lished there by the Navy.
Secretary Long has named Capt
Merrill Miller as commandant of the
Mare Island Navy Yard. and Capt
George e. Idle to be captain of the
same yard.
A summary of the years work of the
Patent Office has been given out by the
commissioner.
A report of the conditions in the
Alaskan gold fields has been received
at the War Department
Rear-Admiral Cotton has been desig-
mated as commandant of the Norfolk
Navy Yard vice Rear-Admiral Barker.
A contract was signed in New York
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
for the substitution of the third-rail
system in the Belt Line Tunnel for the
trolley.
The roof over walk at the Union
Depot in Pittsburg collapsed and a
number of passengers were injured.
Antonio Soso and Jose Vasquez, two
Mexican cattlemen, fought with guns
in Arizona and both were killed.
General Otis was summoned to
Washington and had a conference with
Secretary Root and General Miles.
Governor General Wood, of Cuba, Is
sued orders to have the three regi-
ments ready for departure.
Prof. Henry f. Osborn, of New York,
was appointed a paleontologist in the
Geological Survey.
Elmer Andrews, a farmer of near
Bridgeville, Del. was arrested on the
charge of forgery.
John Roe, colored, who attempted an
assault ON girl near Columbia, Ala,
was shot to pieces.
Ludwig Reiter, of Munich, Germany,
arrested in Baltimore as he was about
TO sail for Germany, died in a prison
cell in Washington, where he was
taken to answer a charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses.
Charles A. Higgins, assistant gen
eral passenger agent of the Santa Fe,
died AT his home in Chicago.