The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-11-14
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

Three out of five Of the convicts who
escaped from the stockadc near Leaven-
worth, Kan, were killed and the other
two wounded in fight with a posse.
The five men had taken refuge in a
barn.
a secret inquest into the deaths af
Mrs. Mary +. Glib and Mrs. Annie
Gordon. alleged to have died of poison
administered by Jane Toppan, was be-
gun by the coroner at Buzzards Bay,
Mass.
Governor Hunt, of Porto Rico. re-
ports that the sugar and coffee crops
will be heavy Fifty thousand children
are now attending the schools. and 2oo,-
600 are unable to obtain tuition
James Callahan was found not guilty
Of perjury thus being acquitted practi-
cally the second time of completely in
the Cudahy kidnapping.
Mrs. Archibald S White wife OF the
president of the National Salt Compa-
ny, slipped on her bathroom floor and
fractured her skull.
Viola Bender, aged IS years, while in
a rage, took strychnine, near Martins
burg, W. Va, and died from its effects
The Ellis Glenn case has been carried
to the Supreme Court of the United
States.
John d. Sarninghausen, German ed
itor, died at Fort Wayne, Ind, aged 81
years.
Adolph F. Kraus, the sculptor, died at
the Danvers (Mass.) Insane Hospital.
The battle ship Illinois will be sent TO
Algiers to test the new steel dry-dock.
Admiral Schley has accepted an invi-
tation to go TO Nashville in January.
Ambark Benhady. an acrobat, was
killed by train at Chester, Pa
Oil has been found in Smyth county,
Virginia.
Fire in Bradford, Pa, caused loss of
$4,000.
The police arrested in St. Louis Laura
Bullion and a man named Longbaugh,
who are believed to have participated in
the express robbery on the Great North
ern Railroad near Wagner, Mont.
Fifteen thousand acres of coal lands
in Hancock county, West Virginia, and
in Green township, Beaver county, Penn
sylvania were sold TO the United States
Steel Corporation at $25 an acre.
Melvin Weisentale, IS years old, was
shot and fatally wounded in Hanover,
Pa, by his cousin. Harry Miller, who
did not know the gun was loaded
Telephone companies of Southern
Pennsylvania have been united into a
corporation, to be known as the Cumber-
land Valley Telephone Company.
Rev. P. II. Nugent, Episcopal city
missionary of Richmond. Va. was de-
posed from the Episcopal ministry by
Bishop Whittle for doctrinal reasons.
The convicts in the United States
prison at Leavensworth, Kan, mutinied.
Twenty-six escaped, one man was killed
and three seriously wounded
The Chicago police have located the
house in Chicago in which Natal was
murdered. Four arrests have been made
in the case.
Charles Dunn, who killed Alice Cot
terrell, Io-year-old girl, in Fort Wayne,
Ind, was convicted of murder in the
first degree.
Gen. James Hagan, who commanded
a brigade under General Wheeler during
the Civil War, died at his home, in Mo
bile Ala.
The British schooner John s. Parker
was wrecked off Orleans, Mass. and the
crew was saved by means OF life-lines
Grant Householder, a haclman, was
caugh hit smuggling Cinnamon from Can
ada into Buffalo
Mrs, Julius Yankee was burned to
death in Chicago and her husband SER
iously injured.