The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-03-14
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Domestic.

Charles Broadway Rouss' offer OF $Io.-
600 toward mortuary chapel in Mount
Hebron Cemetery. in Winchester, Va,
provided a like amount was raised
there, was accepted by the cemetery
authorities.
The New Orleans and Western Rail
road was sold at auction at New Or
leans for 100000. 1t is believed that
the Morgan syndicate bought it.
Dr. II. NJ. Lincoln, OF Saratoga. N.
Y, had Zera Harte and two men ar
rested for giving him knockout drops in
a Norfolk theatre
The Lehigh Valley Coal Company
posted notices that the 10 per cent. in
crease in wages would be continued for
another year.
The First National Bank at Niles,
Mich. failed, and Bank Examiner JOS
eph W. Selden was appointed tempor-
AIRY receiver
Philip NARROW was tried and acquit-
ted IN Newport News. Va, OF the
charge OF offering bribe to Council
man A. Z. Burcher
Five men were badly scalded by the
bursting OF two test tubes at the Amcri
can Iron Works in Pittsburg.
Mrs Ann r. Perkins was attacked in
Manchester, Va, by negro who want
ed to rob her.
Hugo {. Schultze, supposed to be a
German baron, was buried in pottcr's
field in Chicago.
Rev C. H. Tinsley while chopping
wood at Huntington, w Va, cut off
his hand.
Mrs. Anna Goldwaithe Scott died at
her home in Staunton, Va.
The vaudeville White Rats returned
to their circuits in the New York thea
tiers and elsewhere, the managers hav-
n6 abolished the obnoxious FIVE per
cent. commissions.
Cecil Sherbrooke Beaumont How
land, who lived in McKees Rocks, Pa,
as {, B. Rowland, died at the Ale
gheny Hospital from typhoid fever
Governor Stone. of Pennsylvania
signed the Ripper Bill, and under it
appointed the present mayor OF Scran-
ton to be recorder
Officer Mccoy. OF Carlisle, arrested
Frank Springer, who is wanted in Mid
dletown, Pa, for attempted murder.
Mrs. Myrtle Webster was arrested in
Topeka, Kansas. on the charge OF cut
ting her husbands throat.
Rev Francis Budyyoski. a despon-
dent Roman Catholic priest, committed
spicide in Minneapolis.
Steps were taken looking to the de-
portation OF Chinese women held in
slavery in San Francisco.
Beuah Crowther FIVE years old, was
burned to death in Morgantown, w.
Va.
Joseph A. Conin, a New York postal
clerk. was arrested in San Francisco,
charged with robbing mail packages in
New York. He admitted the theft.
Francis L. Pettus. speaker OF the Ala
bama House OF Representatives, and
son OF United States Senator Pettus,
died at Montgomery, Ala.
Albert Zimmerman tried to kill his
wife and her father and then committed
suicide, near Absecom, n. J.
Frank Winteri Thomas Wilson and
/. l.. Pierce were killed in West Nir-
ginia by trains.
Thomas J. Burns. married six weeks,
killed his wife in Boston.
Oliver Laubach was killed by an en-
gine at Bethlehem, Pa.
John (. Searles, reputed to be mill
llonaire, has made an assignment for
the benefit OF his creditors.
John Snyder and Isaac McCullom
farmers, were fatally wounded in a duel
at Parkville ILL.,
Rudolph Dimaria was murdered in
the street at Scranton. Pa, it is al
legged, by Nicholas Lapiz.
All the large tin-can factories have
been sold to the recently organized tin
can combination.
Carter H. Harrison was re-nominated
for mayor OF Chicago by acclamation.
John d. Rockefeller has given Vassar
College $1,000 for a dormitory.
A large crop Of hemp arrived at Phil
adelphia from Manila.
Isaac NJ. Gregory, editor OF Judge
died in New York.