The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-01-03
news IN BRIEF.

The New York jury In the case of
Louis N. Hilliard. who died at Belle
vue Hospital, gave verdict that he
came to his death from injuries caused
by Davis, Dean and Marshall, the
nurses. The accused we're held for
the grand jury.
Mylos Mcdonald and Thomas Ken
nedy. pair of gamblers in New York,
had pistol duel the result of which
was the mortal woundlng of Edward
Courtency and George Price.
In his address before the Southern
Educational Association, Professor
Branson attributed the backwardness
of education in the South to the lack
OF cooperation.
Andrew and Elizabeth Noel, of Jack
son township, Pa, were arrested on
the charge of burning their house to
defraud the insurance company.
The threatened strike on the Wilkes
barre and Wyoming Valley Electric
Railway was avoided, compromise
being amicably agreed upon.
d. A. Jennings, of Columbus, Ohio,
sued 20 people of Washington county,
Ind. for 100000 damages for perse-
cutting him and his family.
| A fortune In government bonds was
found in the cave Of Ypsulanti Smith,
hermit who died near Fletcher, Ohio.
The Red Mountain stage was over
turned near Ouray. Col, and six pas
sengers precipitated over a cliff.
William Westlake, widely known as
an inventor died at his home in
Brooklyn.
Prof. Moses Colt Tyler, of Cornell
University, died at ithaca, N. Y.
William Fl. Smythe, grand secretary
OF the Masonic Order in Indiana, was
shot and seriously wounded in his Of
flee In Indianapolis. He says woman
shot him.
At the second quarterly meeting of
the American Physical Society, held in
New York, Prof. Rowland of the Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, was
reelected president.
Samuel ID. Miller whose son was alb
Quoted from indianapolis, Ind, by the
boys mother, recovered the child at
Lawrence.
Mrs. Lulu c. Jenkins. whose husband
was lynched in Ripley county, Ind.
will receive $4,000 damages from the
bondsmen of the Sheriff.
Abraham Johnston and his wife. an
aged couple, were tortured and robbed
at their home, near Marietta, o.
Mrs. Mary Kennedy was burned to
death and several other women were
injured in fire in Chicago.
Michael Maloney, farmer, died at
his home, in Lenox township, Pa, at
the age of 1O7 years.
John F. Welshaus. former resident
OF Shepherdstown, w. Va, died sud-
denly in Chicago.
The general meeting of the Ameri-
can Chemical Society was held in Chi
cago.
The wife of Samuel d. Miller, son of
former United States Attorney General
Miller, kidnapped her seven-year-old
son, who, with his father, was living
at the home Of his grandfather in In
dianapolis. The couple have been liv-
Ing apart. but are not divorced.
The fifth annual convention of the
National Commercial Teachers Fed
Grafton was opened in Detroit w. G.
Stevenson, of Port Deposit, Nd, presi-
dent of the federation, made an ad-
dress on the progress of commercial
education.
Mr.. Bryan, in speech at Jefferson
banquet in Lincoln, Neb., said that
whether he would ever be candidate
for office again was a question which |
must be determined by events.
Charles H. Cramp says he received |
cablegram announcing the signing of |
the contract with the Turkish Minister
OF Marine for the construction of a
cruiser.
Deputy John Usher and Charles
Bowline, a saloonkeeper, were killed |
and Birch Hillen wounded. in Mayfield |
KY, as the result Of an effort to arrest |
Hitler.
Psychologists of the University of |
Chicago announced as the result of ex-
periments made upon turtles that salt |
causes the heart to beat.
Handsome Elk, a dangerous Indian,
of South Dakota, beat his squaw near
ly to death and scalped another Indian
woman.
Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner sur
rendered his Office as district attorney
of New York to Eugene A. Philbin un-
der protest.
Prof. d. w. Batson, dean of Ken
lucky Wesleyan College, resigned on
account of his opposition to football
playing.
Mr.. Cleveland wrote letter to the
Atlanta Journal stating that he did not
vote for Mckinley at the recent cleo
tion.
Rev. DR.. Thomas Murphy. an emil
nent Presbyterian clergyman and &C.
clesiastical writer, died in Philadel-
phia.
Frank Corcoran, while skating on
Louck's Dam. near York, Pa, broke
through tho Ice and was drowned.
The strike of the miners at the En-
terprise colliery, in ShamOkin, was set
tied.
The new Rocky Mountain smelter
started up at Florence. near Pueblo.
Col.
Mr.. Bryan, in greeting to political
friends in Kansas, says, THE princi-
pies of Democracy still live, and the
policies for which the fusion forces
fought will yet be vindicated."
THERE'S growing doubt as to Mr.. Ad-
dicks ability to capture one of the Del
aware senatorships, to be filled when
the legislature of that State meets in
January.
The pony supposed to have been rid
den by ona of younQ Cudahy's ah-