The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-06-06
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Domestic.

In the municipal elections in Havana
the Nationalists claim the election of
their candidate for mayor and the ma
jority of the Council. The Nationalists
won also in other places.
Mr.. Bryan gave out a statement in
Lincoln, Neb., in which he attacks the
Supreme Court decision in the insular
cases, and calls upon the people to re-
pudiate the verdict.
The Chicago grand jury refused to
find indictments against Dowie and the
other Zionists accused of causing the
death of Mrs. Judd and her child.
A little son OF John Williams, of
Richmond, Va, got his head into an ice
cream freezer, and it required two
plumbers and doctor TO get it out.
Five or six hundred soldiers started a
riot in the saloon district about the
Preside, near San Francisco, and wreck
ed one of the saloons.
Floyd Blackburn. the clerk of the
Richmond School Board, who stole S84
from the school funds, got 90 days on
each of two charges.
The reformed Presbyterian Synod Of
America, in session in Piusburg Pa.
denounced labor unions, as well as secret
societies.
1t is reported that a company has been
organized with a capital of $1,000 900,
to build shipbuilding plant at Chester,
Pa.
William Gallagher and a little child
were killed by falling down the shaft of
an apartment house in Jersey City.
Joseph Harris was arrested at Ann
Arbor. Mich. on the charge of kidnap-
ping Albert Koskea, aged a.
Two sections OF Buffalo Bills train
collided at Belwood, Pa, wrecking six
cars.
Reports to machinsts' headquarters
in Washington show that many men in
the shops of the Southern Railway in
Southern cities are on strike. The gen
eral strike OF machinists declared in
Chicago will, it is claimed involve over
20 900 men.
The Hall OF Fame was dedicated at
the University OF the City OF New
York, where the tablets to the memory
OF the 20 American immortals we're un-
veiled, Senator Chauncey Depew de-
liverihg the Grafton.
The monument erected at Freder-
icksburg, Va, by Gen. Daniel Butter
field to the soldiers OF the Fifth Army
Corps which he commanded, was dedi-
Gated with interesting exercises.
A rowboat containing a pleasure
party went over a dam in the Schuyl
kill river, near Philadelphia. and five
girls and two boys were drowned.
Lincoln ]. McCarty. aged 6S years,
OF Lexington, KY died apparently OF
hydrophobia, having predicted his death
three days before the time.
A monument to the soldiers OF the
Civil War was unveiled at Battle Creek.
Mich, Senator Julius Burrows and
General Otis being present
Thomas B. Spellman was acquitted
in Winchester, Va, OF the charge of
setting fire to the Old Dominion Paper
Colnpany's plant.
The tugboat Acorn, in a fog, struck
the coal piers at Kenova, w. Va, and
wrecked the entire feet OF eight coal
barges.
Rev. J. Preston Lewis shot Lewis
Hunt. colored, who had found the
preachers coat on fence and was ex-
amning it.
Minister WI, OF China delivered the
oration at the ceremonies at Grants
tomb in New York
Blakely Hall, Sr., died at his home in
New Brunswick, n. J., from blood poi
soning
Sidney Cole was indicted in Parkers-
burg for the murder OF Capt. w. T.
Terry.
The General Assembly OF the United
Presbyterian Church, in session at Des
Moines, Iowa. passed a resolution ex-
cluding members OF secret societies
from church membership.