The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-08-01
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.


The machine shop of the American
Machine and Foundry Company, located
at Hanover, Pa. was destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at from $4,000 to
Si2s.ooo. This plant was owned by the
American Tobacco Company and was
used in the manufacture of its machin-
cry. Two hundred men are thrown out
OF employment.
Eleven men were injured, perhaps ia
tally, in gas explosion in the new wa
ter works tunnel. now in course of con-
struction in Cincinnati. The accident oc-
CURED I4o feet under ground.
President Mckinley sent a message OF
cougratulation to the Baptist Young
Peoples Convention. in session in Chi
cago.
In the Alabama Constitutional Con
vention Delegate Spears argued against
disfranchsement of negro voters.
Negro preachers in Birmingham, Ala.
advise members of their race not to 60
North to take strikers places.
Over two inches of rain fell in Kansas
and Western Missouri thus bringing re
lief from the drouth
Lightning struck and set fire to the
barn of VIM. T. Stewart. near Martins
burg. W. Va. and killed Thomas Chap
man. who had taken refuge there.
The Reading shopmen refused to ac-
cept per cent. increase offered by
the Reading in Philadelphia. and insist
ed on - per cent. increase.
Henry H. Armistead. OF New York,
tried to kill himself while travelling on
an Oregon Short Line express train at
Butte. Mont.
A congressional party, including
some ladies', took the dangerous ride
and sho, the White Horse Rapids, in
Alaska
The Federal grand jury in New York
began the investigation OF the charges
against officers OF the Seventh National
Bank
George Young, a barber OF llion. N.
Y. was shot and killed by Henry
Brown in quarrel over a debt of $40.
The Pittsburg Wire and Steel Com
pany. with capital OF $4,000 600, is to
be incorporated in PENNSYLVANIA.
The Allis-Chalmers plant at Scran-
ton. Pa. started up again. the strike OF
the machinists having failed
Joseph Bennett was brutally beaten
10 death in Scranton. Pa. by Waller
Cosparwcz. powerful Pole.
President Shaffer of the Amalgamat-
ed Association. visited Wcllsville in dis
guise as a tramp to learn the condition Of
the plant that the company is trying to
work with non-union men. He does not
think any injunction will be granted un-
less the men resort to violence
A shell fired from one of the battle
ships lying off Newport struck the City
Hall of the town, making a hole in a
granite block and bursting after striking
a tree. No one was injured. although &
number OF people were near the flying
missile
Mr.. Doty. health officer OF the port Of
New York, diagnosed the case of the
stoker of the Hohenfels, from Calcutta,
as 4 mild case of bubonic plague.
Henry w. Taylor secured in Newport
News. Va, a divorce from his wife. who
had returned TO her old home in Balti-
more, refusing to live in Newport News.
Mrs. William II. Hoover, while asleep,
walked through an open window of her
home in Winchester, Va. and sustained
injuries that will result in death.
John McFadden. who planne ;a,l
delivery in Camden, n. J., to escape
serving in default of $1,000. r1u,t rpw
serve LOCO days for so doing.
The grand jury in Newport News.
Va, indicted Russell Van nrsdale for
the murder Of his great uncle, Robert
Kelly.
Several encounters occurred between
striking ice wagon drivers and men who
sought to take their places in Columbus,
Ohio.
Professor Edgar w. Abbott. of Butler
University, va. drowned while bathing
in Broad Ripple Creek near Indian
apoliS.