The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-09-27
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

from the Union National Bank OF Chi
cago
The fact that American capitalists
Will subscribe nearly $4,000 900 to
Chas. r. Yerkes' company for building
railways In London is surprising the
English people.
The torpedo boat Stockton arrived
at Norfolk after IA successful builders
trial trip.
Eight people were injured by the fall
OF an elevator in the Fisher Building,
in Chicago.
Four masked men held up the ex.
press car on the st. Louis-Portland
flyer, on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, near Lincoln, Neb., and robbed
the local safe.
Alfred Castner, barber, and Pasquale
Omassure, tailor. rivals in love, fought
until Castner was dead and Omassure
probably fatally injured.
A lone robber held UP passenger
train on the Northern Pacific. near
Rathdrum, Idaho, and got awny with
$500 of the passengers property.
| Pearl Corbin, IL years old, living
near Luray, Va, died from the effects
of burns. Her clothes caught fire from
"A cook stove.
| John Sisson and his son killed John
Connor and his nephew, Martin Dever-
ux, in Warsaw, Ky.
Martin Fry who killed his brother
in-law in Carlisle Pa, was convicted
of murder in the first degree.
Fire burned to the waters edge the
steamer War Eagle, of the Eagle Pack
| ct Company. and the Carrier, of the
Calhoun Packet Company, while lying
at their docks. Joseph Schultz bill
clerk of the War Eagle, was burned to
death while asleep on the deck, and
one man is missing.
James Catlett, colored, after serving
four years of a sentence Of eight years,
imposed for the murder of George
Grandstaff, in Winchester, Va, was
pardoned by the Governor.
| Judge Powers gave out a statement
| declining his appointment by Acting
| Governor Nebecker, of Utah, to the
United States Senate because he knows
he cannot be seated.
| Augustus Bowen, boy of IL years,
was so badly beaten and kicked by
Allan Engel, an older boy, in Ship
pensburg, Pa, that he may die from
his injuries.
| Theodore Furley was found guilty Of
| attempted rape on Mrs. Sarah Bowers
in Martinsburg, w. Va.
David Lewis Shepard and his wife,
| in Foxboro, Mass, were murdered,
probably by their deranged son.
e. s. Mason, president OF the Bank
of New York, died at his home in that
city.
Four negroes were taken from the
| jail at Pontchatoula, La, and lynched
Train service was restored in Calves
ton and martial law abrogated.
| The daily bulletin issued from the
headquarters of the miners announced
that the strikers had received graft
| flying accessions to their ranks in the
| Wyoming and Lackawana Valleys.
| The attempt Of the organizers to get
the miners at Williamstown and Tower
City TO join the strike was n failure.
| The inhabitants of the region about
Hazleton fear trouble. Several small
acts Of violence were reported.
Lindsay Jackson. colored, was ar
rested at Alexandria, Va, on the
charge of attempting n felonious as
sault on Mrs. James Coxen at Side
|
The Electrical Review, of New York,
claims negotiations will soon be con-
cluded consolidating the telegraph and
telephone companies.
Oyster-tongers in Pagan Creek, Va,
defied the sheriff and his deputies, who
came to arrest them for working on
| leased beds.
The Postoffice Department issued
fraud order against Arthur o. Foster
e Co., dealers in cotton futures, in
Philadelphia.
The executive committee of the
Christian Endeavor Society decided to
hold the next convention in Cincin-
natl.
Joseph Michigan was arrested in
| New York on the charge of killing his
wife by throwing her from window.
Charles Prust, superintendent of the
Norway Iron and Steel Works, died at
his home in York, Pa.
Four men OF the fishing schooner
Mary A. Whalen were drowned during
the gale off Cape Cod
II was estimated that there are 1000
bodies yet to be taken out OF the ruins
in Galveston.
| rive pollcemen were overcome in
New York by a fire that caused loss
of 100000.
One fireman was killed and ten in
jured by falling wall in Toledo, o.
Farmer Baldwin, of Hilton, N. j.,
was shot four times by Thomas Doyle.
Doyle was wounded by the farmers
shot gun.
Efforts Of the strike leaders TO close
the West End Coal Company's mine at
Mocanaqua were fruitless.
Governor Sayers, Of Texas, said that
the rebuilding of Galveston would be
well under way by the latter part of
the week.
The South Danvers National Bank,
OF Peabody, Mass, closed its doors.
Congressman Boutelle, of Maine, is
reported to be rapidly improving.
Captain Holway and crew of three
men of the barge S. l.. Watson, which
sank off Highland Light during the
storm Tuesday, were saved by the tug
boat Gladiator, which had the barge in
| tow.
The Census Bureau announced the
population Of FitchbuTg, Mass, Johns
town, Pa, and Molden, Mass.
Fl, II Lusk, formerly a member of