The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-05-09
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
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At Rhodesia, La, FELTON, Brigmer,
colored, was lynched for assaulting a lit
tie negro girl, and at Brenton, La, Grant
Johnson, who ran a disreputable negro
gambling place, suffered the same fate.
After a contest among representatives,
OF the various colleges in Virginia, Mr.
f. b. Settler, of the University OF Nir-
ginia. was selected to represent Virginia
in the interstate contest.
A verdict for $1,000 was given to Miss
Ella Lemon against the Wheeling Trac-
ton Company, in Wheeling W. Va,
for injuries received during the strike.
Minister Conger again announces that.
while not a candidate for Governor OF
Iowa, he will accept the Republican
nomination if offered him.
w. J. Footner, vice-president and gen.
eral manager of the Great Northern Ex
press Company, died suddenly Of apo
plexy in St. Paul
The State Department received the an
swer of the British Government justify
ing the seizure of the wrecking vessel
Ajax in Union Bay.
Rev. c. ]. Fowler, OF Massachusetts,
was chosen permanent president OF the
National Holiness Assembly, in session
in Chicago,
John W. Sans, a Union veteran, who
killed General A. =, Hill in battle, died
at his home in Everett, Pa
Judge Leathers in Indianapolis, Ind.
enjoined the Supreme Council, Order Of
Chosen Friends, from doing business.
B. NJ. Dawes and his family had diff
Guilty in escaping from their burning
home at Bartonsvllc. Va.
DR.. Harold Snowdcn, editor OF the
Alexandria (Na) Gazette died at his
home in that city.
The naval board made a favorable re-
port on the torpedo boat Shubrick.
Notices have been sent out OF an in
crease in the price Of window glass.
Governor Oden, Of New York, signed
the Anti-scalping Bill.
John Doweiler. OF York, Pa, who has
wasted six fortunes, was just informed
that he was legatee to $1,000, bequeath-
ed 20 him by his father, in Coblenz, Ger
many.
Twenty thousand or more miners will
march from the Schuylkil and other
mining sections to Harrisonburg to urge
the State Senate to pass the Mining Bills.
President John J. Horner. president Of
the Arkansas Midland Railroad, ad-
mitted that the road would pass under
the control of the COULD system.
The Illinois Association Opposed to the
Extension of Suffrage to Women adopt
ed an interesting report on the subject.
New York customs officials returned
to Prince Henri OF Croy some OF his
jewelry they had held up. He gave sat
isiactory explanations. and denies that
he has been subjected to any indigni-
ties.
All the saloonkeepers OF Logan coun-
ty w. Va, seven in number, are in Jail.
serving out fines. One man has 6S in
dictments against him, and his fine
amounts to $4,000
Mrs. Jules Reyna died of cancer.
Her death was expected, and before she
died her son, N. c. Reynal, was mar
ried to Mrs. Sara Caldwell Rutter at her
bedside.
There we're strikes at the Lackawanna
and Lehigh shops in Buffalo, n. Y,
and at the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western shops in Dover, N. J.
Evidence accumulates that William
Rosenfeld, OF St. Paul, Mimi. drowned
himself and his four little children in
the Mississippi river.
The New Century Club, OF St. Paul,
Mimi, has passed a resolution against
the color line in the Minnesota Fedora
ton OF Women's Clubs.
Lightning struck an apartment house
in Chicago and shocked dozen people.
Two were severely injured by falling
glass.