The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-25
SUMMARY or THE NEWS.


Former Governor Jones, OF Alabama,
had an exciting discussion with Chair
man Knox. of the Constitutional Con-
vention, in which the Governor refused
to be expelled from the hall.
Dr. Michael ~ Regent received an
indeterminate sentence in Chicago for
substituting a corpse for an insured man
to swindle the Knights and Ladies OF
Security.
Judge Trout, OF San Francisco, has
decided that the trust clause in the Fair
will with regard to personal property is
void
Thirty OF the new cadets at West
Point were overcome by the heat at the
| funeral OF General Butter6eld.
A general strike OF the United Gar
ment Workers in New York has been
| ordered. involving $4,000 men.
| Henry Burgess, a steeplechase jockey.
was killed in New York while schooling
horse over the jumps.
Some incendiary has been setting fire
to property in Richmond Va, belong
ing to Joseph Heppert
Charles +. Parsons was acquitted in
Richmond OF the charge OF trying to
beat a Norfolk hotel
The Salmon combine was incorporat-
cd in Trenton, N. J., with capital oi
| $25, ,ooo, 600
Jacob Stair. dry goods merchant oi
York. Pa. committed suicide.
The executive committee OF the Unit
ed Mine Workers Association has or
dered back to work all hremen who are
members OF the association and who quit
/ because OF the strike OF the Internation-
/ al Association OF Stationary Firemen.
/ Many Of the men have deserted the
/ United Mine Workers.
A trust was formed by the flint-glass
bottle-makers, the result OF which has
been an advance in prices. The com
bine is capitalized at S3o,ooo,ooo, with
headquarters in Wheeling, W. Va.
Mrs Calvin Baker. OF York Haven,
Pa, left an oil can on the stove, and her
two daughters were burned to death as
a result OF the explosion that followed.
Edward Schroeder. draughtsman in
Brooklyn. was severely injured while
opening a box containing an explosive
machine.
The Holland submarine boat Plunger
was launched at the VIM. X. Trigg x
Co.'S shipyard in Richmond.
The Virginia Prohibitionsts held their
convention at Smithdale and nominated
a State ticket
Judge Thomas, Of the United States
/ District Court. dismissed the suit
| brought by John u Crimmins, a holder
of preferred stock OF the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company. TO restrain the
directors and voting stockholders OF the
road from paying a 4 per cent. dividend
on the common stock OF the company un-
til dividend of 4 per cent. on the pre-
ferred stock has first been paid The
dismissal was the result of an agreement
between attorneys for the plaintiff and
the defendant
J. Pierpont Morgan announced in New
/ York the names OF those who would be
directors of the Northern Pacific Rail
wav Company
General Daniel Butterfed. the dis
tinguished veteran of the Civil War. died
at his home in Cold Springs n Y.
Lewis Price and Jacob Houck we're
| burned to death. by an electric current
from a wire in Winchester
Luther R. d. Spultz, of Baltimore, and
Miss Helen Carroll, OF York, Pa, were
married at York.
August NJ Chendlin, aged Is, was
killed at St. Paul by the wheels Of FIRE
engine
DR.. Samuel Galley. a homeopathic ply
sician, died at Mount Holly, n. J., aged
Co.
The wife of Ex-Governor Henry A..
/ Wise. OF Virginia, died at Ashland, Va.
James NJ. Galligan, an old baseball
player, killed himself in New York
John NJ. Ford, a well-known hotel
proprietor, died at Dover. Del, aged II.