The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-05-16
SUMMARY or THE NEWS.
Domestic.

DOMestlC.
Reported that the Dciterich syndicate
and the American Window Glass Com
pany have formed a pool to absorb all
the natural gas companies in Indiana.
Owing to the rush of people to Jack
souvillc to secure free rations without
work. and fearing trouble from them,
it has been decided to continue the city
under marshal law indefinitely.
The Peary Arctic Club has chartered
the steamer Erik to sail in July for the
North. to learn what has occurred dur
ing the two years since the explorer has
been heard from.
The Jury in the case OF Charles II.
Eastman. the Harvard instructor. who
was accused OF numbering his brother
in-law. brought in a verdict OF acquittal.
Plans are being arranged for the cele-
bration in Richmond OF the three hum
dredth anniversary OF the English set
tlcment of Jamestown, Va.
The mammoth new drydock of the
Newport News Shipbuiding Company
was put in Use for the first time, three
steamers being put in it,
Four new steamers for the Atlantic
Transport Line we're started at the New
York Shipbuilding Company's yards at
Gloucester, ~ J.
The American Federation OF Musi-
clans decided that local unions have no
right to bar women from membership.
immigration Officer Miller captured
rs contraband Cinnamon who had cross
ed the border at Powell Town, Me
Lightning set fire TO the Second Bap-
tist Church in Delaware. O., and several
persons were made unconscious.
Mail Carrier Walter Willis was ar
rested in North Carolina for robbing the
mails.
Capt. Henry Matthews and his sis
ter-in-law we're arraigned in the Isle
OF Wight county court on the charge OF
poisoning his wife.
Arutro Bernasco, who tried to assassi-
nate Chief OF Police Brown, OF Barre.
VT, was sentenced to prison for 81
years.
Miss Molle Wark, who for so years
taught in the public schools OF Cham
bersburg Pa died there, aged 81
years.
The Association OF Surgeons OF the
Southern Railway met in Mobile, Ala,
and elected officers
Henry Johnson, colored, was lynched
in NaIdoSta. Ga, for shooting at a
white man.
Mrs. Cora Luca. smashed a speak
easy effectively with an axe at Glendale,
W. Va.
R. Westbrook Meyes. a real estate
broker in New York, committed sui
eide.
Peter shaeffer. So years old. com
mitted suicide near Dillsburg, Pa
The rumor was confirmed by Vice
President Gross, OF the Brooks Loco.
motive works. in Dunkirk. n. y. that
a locomotive trust has been formed
that takes in all the plants except Bald
win, OF Philadelphia, and the Potter
Company. OF Pi.tsburg.
Five thousand dollars damages was
awarded in Norfolk, Va, to Roco Cor
letti, whose hand was crushed by one OF
the cars OF the Norfolk Company
The annual session OF the Internation-
al TeXtile Workers Union. in session
at Holyoke, Mass. adjourned to meet
next year in Washington
The Elizabeth City county grand jury
indicted Mrs Jennie Wood. OF Hamp-
ton, for attempting to burn her resi-
dence.
Capt. Alfred p. Capron, who served
in the Civil War died at his home in
Winnetka, a suburb OF Chicago.
r. N. Pollock, the Cleveland Savings
Bank president who committed sui
eide, carried insurance Tor S65,ooo.
President Mckinley reviewed the
floral parade at Los Angeles, Cal, and
was showered with rose leaves
Three men were burned to death in a
fire in Ottawa, Ont, that destroyed a
hotel and several boarding houses
Wallace Etheridge was committed to
jail in Norfolk, Va, on the charge OF
killing his friend, Carlyle Shipp.
Private Cumberldge, a sentinel at
Fort Sheridan, was killed by Smith
Wheeler, a prisoner.
-Four railway companies are fighting
in Norfolk, Va, for rights OF way.