The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-01-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Scnatorship on the first ballot at the
Republican caucus in st. Paul, MINI.
BY the will Of the late Marcus DAILY,
fled in New York, the widow gets
third of the estate. and the balance is
divided equally among his children.
Mrs. Mary Pritchard, Of Parkersburg.
W. Va was frightened into fainting Ivy
a masked man. who awakened her with
a demand for money and food.
The four mastcd schooner William j.
Lipsett, of Somcrs Point. ~ j., went
ashore on Winter Quarter Shoal, near
LeweS, and will be a total wreck.
Two mortgages given by the Grand
Trunk Western Railway Company Tor
$l6.500 600 were filed for record in Mar
shall Mich.
The remains Of former Governor
James A. Mount. Of Indiana. were
buried in Oak Hin Cemetery. in Craw-
fordsvillc.
Real Admiral George W. sumner
succeeded Rear Admiral Silas Casey in
the command of thp Philadelphia navy
yard.
A building in New York that was
being reconstructed collapsed. and two
men were killed by the falling bricks.
Thomas Shaw. a prominent inventor
of Philadelphia, died from paralysis in
Hammonton, New Jersey.
The two Convicts who escaped from
the Virginia State farm We're reap
tured near Richmond.
Isis Morgan. a lovesick y1u,h of 10
years. committed suicide in Fairmont,
w. Va.
The deadlock in the Delaware sena-
torial situation is still unbroken, but
Addicks declares that h. can secure
enough Democratic votes to elect him
whenever he wishes.
The American Board, in Boston, was
advised CT the death, in Constantine
pie, of Rev. DR.. Elias Riggs, the oldest
missionary of the board.
Michael Snyder was shot and killed
in Mahanoy City, Pa, by his brother
Albert. whom he had discovered in IL
licit relations with his wife.
At the conference of foreign mission
boards. held in New York, a reply
was decided upon to be made to a
Buddhist circular, which attributed
the troubles in China to mistakes OF
missionaries.
the race for senatorial honors in llli-
noiS Messrs. Cannon, Hit and Prince
also retired, leaving the place open to
Senator Cullom.
United States Marshal Alcott, of
New Jersey seized Sl7,6O0 of diamonds
found concealed on Antonio Ansenia.
burg-American liner.
Mrs Ella J. Roberts and WilliaI
Berry were arrested in Richmond, Va,
on the charge of causing the ruin %
Sarah E. May, girl Of 10 years.
Luther A. Porter until recently
cashier of the Warren Deposit Bank q
Bowling Green. KY, is said to be about
$50 1000 short in his accounts.
Miss Alta Rockefeller, youngest
daughter of the millionaire, was mar
ried in New York to E. Parmelee Prem
lice, a lawyer of Chicago.
Eight indictments were found Il
Buffalo against Attorney David c
Fitzgerald for subornatlon in conduct
ing divorce mill
Andrew Carnegie offered to give
Syracuse, n. Y, 100000 for a library
if the city would spend $4,000 for its
maintenance.
Joseph D. Parkinson, proprietor of
the Hotel Lawrence at Luray, Va, died
there
George Lewis Argenbright celcbrat-
ed his one hundredth birthday in
Staunton. Va
Democratic members of the Senate
and House of the Pennsylvania legis-
| lature who aided in the election of Mr..
Quay a. United States senator have
| been read out of the party by their fell
/ low members.
The body of the man found in a
/ trunk in New York harbor was iden-
| tilted by a woman as that of Michael
/ Weisberger of New York He was en-
gagged in selling jewelry on the install
ment plan.
Cornelius L. Alyord, Jr., the default
| ing note teller of the First National
/ Bank of New York, was sentenced 70
1S years Imprisonment. The amount
Of his defalcation was $690,000.
Scott Wike, of Illinois. well known
as a Democrat, and assistant secretary
of the Treasury during Mr.. Cleveland's s
| second term, is dead.
Frank Crowell lost his life in an
/ apartment fire in Chicago, while try
/ ing to save his bank book and life in
surance policy.
B. X. Tillman has been reelected
United States senator by the South
/ Carolina Legislature.
Edward p Alllnson Philadelphia
/ lawyer, Senator Penrose's partner, is
dead
Fruitless ballots for United States
senators were cast at Lincoln, Neb.
and Dover, Del
The Pennsylvania State Senate
passed a resolution endorsing the ShiI
Subsidy Bill.
Ex-Governor Mount, Of Indiana
dropped dead at the DenisOn Hotel in
indianapolis.
The Tennessee legislature has elect.
ed E. w. Carmack United States sena'
tor.
The widow Of Henry b. Plant, who
accumulteed fortune Of Sl0,000,000 in
Southern railroads and steamship lines
IS suing in New York to have his will
upset.
Mr.. John Hum was inaugurated gov
crnOr of Delaware at Dover.
In the West Point hearing Congress
man briggs scored Cadet Barnes, and
said that the haZing practice at the
Academy Is brutal cOwardice
Hon. Thomas NJ. Patterson, POpulis
Democrat was elected United State'
senator by the Colorado legislature.
Asspmblyman Abbpl has introduced