The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-01-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.


committee investigating hazlng at
West Point were shown the locality at
Fort Putnam where the pugilistlc en-
counters Of the cadets took place.
Rev. Oreste Vinzie. who came to San
Francisco on a British ship, said that
he was forced to work as common
sailor. despite the fact that he had paid
his passage.
ST. Louis citizens have completed the
local fund Of $4,000 GOO for the Worlds
Fair and a committee goes to Washing
ton this week to push the bill.
Negotiations are reported to be un-
der way looking to the purchase of the
Carneg.c steel interests by a syndicate
controlled by ]. PierpOnt Morgan.
The attorneys for Mollineux want all
the evidence in the case. including
what was stricken out by Recorder
Goff. inserted in the record.
Charles Reed. of southampton. Pa.
who was struck by a Cumberland Val
ley passenger train, died in the hospi-
tai at Chambersburg.
Bishop Henry c. Potter, of New
York. suggests that the city ought to
have a military man at the head of the
Police Department.
The West Virginia legislature decid-
ed not TO discuss the debt question. on
the ground that the State owed no part
OF the debt A bill introduced for a con-
stftut.onal convention apparently
meets with favor.
A cablegram was received in Norfolk
from Admiral Cervera denying that he
is i'll. but declaring, on the other hand,
that he is in good health.
George Taylor was arrested in Nor
folk. Va, for the murder in Newport
News, Va, Of Sam Boyd, who, how
ever, turned up alive.
Government officers arrested three
men in St. Louis for swindling Eastern
firms from whom they fraudulently Sc
cured goods.
Asa Jones. colored. confessed in
Petersburg, Va, that it was he who
had shot Rev w. A. Fshburn in
Prince George county.
A witch hazel trust is reported to
have been formed in New England.
John G. Fee, fornder of Berea Col
lege, died at his home in Berea, Ky.
A plan of arbitration to prevent
strikes and lockouts has been agreed
upon by committees of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union and the
Newspaper Publishers Association,
which will be submitted to the two or
CARNATIONS for ratification.
Reported from Chicago that Morgan,
Hill and the other railroad powers are
now after the express companies with
the Intention Of acquiring and operat-
ing them as regular departments of the
railroads.
President Williams, OF the Seaboard
Air Line, announced the appointment
Of General superintendent McBee to
temporarily succeed Mr. st. John as
vice president and general manager.
The Philadelphia grand Jury indicted
Robert Bryan, the saloonkeeper, for
the murder Of Father Riegel, to whom
knockout drops had been administered.
The congressional committee investi-
eating the West Point hazing forced
several Of the cadets to tell on men
still in the academy who had hazed
them.
United States Commissioner Riddle
berger, in Norfolk, Va, held Julius
Brantlgan, a Richmond postal clerk, on
the charge Of robbing the mails.
" lllldH l.. lItuuOlIls VIM was
comptroller of the treasury during
his home, in New York.
Charles II. Boylan, a deputy regent
of the Royal Arcanum, was arrested in
New Haven, Ct, on the charge of
forgery.
Albert Adler, formerly of Baltimore
died in Birmingham, Ala, from the ef-
fects Of fall from a high trestle.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Quarles were
arrested in York Pa. on the charge of
deserting their child
In the causus of the Republican
members Of the New Hampshire legis-
lature Judge Henry +. Burnham de-
featcd Senator William +. Chandler
for the nomination for United States
Senator, receiving 1873 votes TO AZ for
Chandler.
Mayor Taylor, of Richmond, in reply
TO a letter from the Sunday Observance
League asking for better observance Of
Sabbath laws, replied that the chief of
police knew his business.
Habeas corpus proceedings were in
stituted in Topeka, Kan. in behalf of
Mrs. Carrie Nation, who started out on
a crusade 10 demolish all saloon fix
lures.
Jacob Whine, Annie Bryan, Charles
Burns and Ellie Barrett We're arrested
In Philadelphia, charged with partici-
pating in the murder Of Father Riegel.
The Richmond Locomotive and Ma
chine Works received an order from
the Wabash Railroad Company for so
locomotives.
John Gee, 16 years old, after being
chided by his mother in Philadelphia
for his laziness, shot and killed him
self.
Arthur Carter, colored, fooled with
an army musket and killed his sister in
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
The law school OF the University of
Wisconsin at Madison was closed on
account of the smallpox scare.
The town of Olean, n. Y, was ter
rorized by burglars and a number Of
people We're robbed.
Miss Ada r. Fairfax shot herself
with probably fatal result, in Lynch
/ burg, Va.
Surgeon DAILY, of General Miles staff
characterize- former Secretary Alger'
/ magazine article as q hodge podge'
Of inaccuracies.
Cornelius L. Alvord Jr.. pleaded
guilty to embezzling funds OF the First
National Bank Of New York. He will
/ be sentenced Tuesday.
George Ward and James Jones, both
colored were hanged at Washington