The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-05-02
SUMMARY or THE NEWS.
Donicstic.

Joseph T. Widener. son OF the Phila-
dclphia traction magnatc. was fatally in
jurcd by the overturning OF a coach or
which he and other wealthy young men
were riding
The scahng schooner Enterprise ar
rived at Victoria. b. c.. with the flag at
half-mast. two of her hunters having
been drowned while a third died on the
voyage.
Rev. Frank II. Gunsaulus delivered
the Grafton at the Grant anniversary
celebration in Gaena, ILL.,, and severely
denounced the disiranchisement OF the
negro
The members of Harvard Alumni who
object to the university granting a de-
gree of LID to President Mckinley
mailed 7.ooo copies of the protest to
graduates.
Miss Bessie Smith daughter OF Eman-
ucl Smith. who lives near Gettysburg.
Pa. committed suicide by drowning her
self in Rock Greek.
Minister Congcr said in San Francisco
that he had been assured his course in
China had been entirely satisfactory to
the President
John Brodcrick, a Baltimore crook.
was sentenced in Hanover, Pa. TO the
penitentiary for receiving stolen goods.
Rev. Robert Julien, a wcl-known
Presbyterian minister died at his home
in Bordentown. n. J.
w. A. Thompson. colorcd, was fined
Sloo for selling liquor at Downing, Va.
without a license.
Z. II. Conger. United States Minister
TO China. accompanied by his wife.
daughter and Miss Pierce. arrived at
San Francisco from China. He de-
cined to discuss his reported candidacy
ior governor OF Iowa.
At the trial of James Callahan for
kidnapping Edward Cudahy. Jr in
Omaha, young Cudahy identified Gala
han as one OF his abductors.
+. G. Kell, a student at the Medical
College oi Virginia. was arrested in
Richmond for assault on II. b. San
ford, icllow-student
The contract for building the new
East River bridge will be awarded to
the Pennsylvania Steel Company, the
lowest bidder.
William Peters, colored, was arrested
in Basic City. Va. on the charge OF
killing Lottie Fields, his sweetheart.
Assistant Postmaster Charles II.
DreXel, at Tarpon Springs, Fla. was
arrested for a shortage in his accounts.
Only one OF a party OF six gold-seek
ers in the Klondike survived the perils
to which the party was subjected.
Eb H. Wittar was shot and killed at
Grundy. w. Va, by Thomas Beaves,
son OF Judge Alexander Beaves.
Mark Thomas Hayes was hanged in
Uniontown, Pa, for the murder OF Will
liam Lowdon
]. Frank Condor. official court re-
porter. committed suicide at his home
in Altoona, Pa.
Mrs. Maria G. Saxton, aunt OF Mrs.
Mckinley, died at her home in Canton.
O.
Joseph H. Shepherd, for many years
a clerk in the office of the Auditor of
Public Accounts in Virginia, was arrest
ed in Richmond on a warrant sworn out
by the Auditor. charging him with the
misappropriation OF public funds
Encouraging reports come from Gin
cinnau and the flooded district. The
rivers are beginning 10 recede at many
places. and at Cincinnati the highest
stage has almost been reached.
Miss Isabel Goodrich Stillman, daugh-
ter of Mr.. James Stilman, millionaire.
and Mr.. Percy A. Rockefeller, son OF
Mr.. William Rockefeller, were married
in New York
One hundred negroes left Greensboro,
N. c., for the coal mines of West Vir-
ginia.
John Costello, an old-time circus
clown, died suddenly in New York
A representative OF the American
Missionary Association made an inves-
tigation which developed that the death
rate among the negroes in the South is
greater than among the whites.