The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-11-28
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
nnmestic.

Domestic.
A contract has been closed by the Viii
liam R. Trigg Shipbuilding Company,
Of Richmond, Va, with the Standard
Oil Company for the construction OF a
tank steamer to carry 1900, 100 gallons
of oil and to cost $4,000.
The United States Court to Spring
field ILL.,, refused an injunction restrain
ing the Chicago State Board Of Equaliz-
alton from assessing the stock of the
traction companies.
Caballos, the insurgent leader in the
Philippines, has 500 fully armed men in
his command, and it is reported contem-
plates an attack upon Mauban, Laguna
Province.
Isaiah Bollin, principal of the colored
school in Lexington, Va, resigned his
position because OF recent attempts to
assassinate him and left for parts un-
known.
By the dropping of an elevator cage
in the retail dry goods house of Town
send & Wyatt, ST. Joseph, Mo, two per-
sons were fatally hurt.
Smallpox is raging in the southern
islands Of the Philippines. The United
States Commission is preparing an act
to compel vaccination
The grand jury in Jeffersonville, Ind,
indicted Newell {. Rathbone, the con-
fessed insurance swinder, for murder
in the first degree.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will spend SIS, 100000 next year for roll
ing stock-SIo,o 900, 900 for cars and So
100000 for locomotives
Fire Cpt,t,,ic Tobt1 | Crappall
of New York, and William Marks, a
broker, were accused of conspiracy.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
advanced the wages of all its shopmen
in Louisville 10 per cent.
Charles Larken, aged 80 years, died
in a Boston hospital from the effects of
biting off his tongue.
Geeza Granzer, who shot Mrs. Susan
ma Miller in Philadelphia, committed
suicide.
Lawyer John L. Semple, OF Camden,
N. j., on trial in Philadelphia for being
concerned in counterfeiting, testified in
his own behalf, denying the charges and
producing judges and lawyers to testify
to his good character.
Santiago Iglesias, agent in Porto Rico
OF the American Federation of Labor,
who was arrested on a charge of conspir-
acy, has been released on $500 bail, fur
nished by President Gompers.
John B. Berthoff Western Union
manager at Jersey City, and Isaac Ker-
charge of carrying on green-goods
game.
Elmer Frey of York, Pa identified
John Kottcamp and Harry Ream, who,
he says, robbed him and put him, bound
and gagged, on an electric car track.
Walter Strattan, alias Ben Starne
pleaded guilty of holding up a Missouri,
Kansas and Texas train and robbing the
United States mail at Caney, I. 7.
The American Tobacco Company alb
sorbed the firm of d. H. McAlpin &
Co., of New York, paying s., 100000 for
the property.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dale, of Chicago. was
arraigned in Hoboken on the charge of
numbering her hve-year-old daughter,
Emeline.
c. D. Upchurch and Leslie Lynch,
two farmers, had a pistol duel at Flynns
Creek, Tenn, Lynch receiving a fatal
wound.
Joseph w. Jones died on his farm,
near Winchester, Va, where he had
lived ever since he was born, 81 years
ago.
A great deal of mail matter was burn
ed in the disastrous wreck on the Santa
Fe near the Needles, in California.
An unknown man threw himself head
long into one of the furnaces at Schoen-
berger's mills, In Pittsburg.
L. z. Cook, railway mail clerk, was
arrested in Pittsburg on the charge Of
embezzlement.
Robert Coburn, OF Chicago, shot
Charles and John Miller, whom he
found near his hen roost.
Robbers got into the postofice at Dun
cansville, Pa, and got $I,ooo in stamps
and cash.
Capt John Lawson. q pioneer loco
motive builder, died at his home, in St.
Louis.
J. E. Davidson committed suicide in
Union City, Tenn.