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

WHO IailCu 10 OIdW CialliS.
At Newport News the new Morgan
Line steamship FL Siglo was successful
ly launched. Miss Susan s Usher. Sis
ter OF Lieutenant Commander Usher.
u. s. N. christened the vessel
An amicable settlement was made in
Atlantic City by the representatives OF
the Green Glass Bottle Manufacturers
and committee OF the Blowers Union.
Judge Halsey, in Wilkesbarre, Pa,
made final the preliminary Injunction
restraining the striking machinsts from
interfering with the non-unionists.
William Mallory and Zig Jones,
farmers OF farewell county. Va, quar-
relied after leaving a distillery, and in a
fight Mallory was shot to death.
Miss Albertine Struggled. a school
teacher OF Philadelphia. attempted to
commit suicide by leaping into the
dock.
Private Louis Haggerty Tenth Ar
tillery, killed his wife and then himself
at Sullivans Island. s. {.
General Manderson. who was to have
been Schley's counsel, found that he
was not able to serve.
A company has been formed to erect
a new hotel at Berkeley Springs w.
Va.
Dairy Golden. aged p, OF Bridge
port. w. Va, was killed by train.
Hall a million dollars in gold arrived
at Seattle from the Klondike.
Rain has fallen in some OF the dry
sections in Iowa and Nebraska.
VIM H. Pratt OF West Chester, Pa,
is accused of killing his wife as the re-
suit of a quarrel over his sale OF two
cows to raise money to buy diamonds
for a widow
The Municipal League in San Fran
cisco is intervening in the dock strike
there with good prospects OF bringing
about peace.
r. l.. Leverton. a private in Company
I D. Twenty Regiment. at Fort
Mcpherson, Ga, has been charged with
arson.
All the coke concerns OF the United
States Steel Company we're consoli-
dated, the II. c. Frick Company be-
coming paramount.
James Ferguson, son OF Charles Fer
guson. OF Baltimore. was instantly killed
at Atlantic City by charged telephone
wire
Twelve hundred industrial insurance
agents in Philadelphia formed a union
Tor mutual protection.
David Maclay. the Oldest man in Fon-
tain county, Pa, is dead. He was born
in 1903
A company has been formed at York
to make waterproof and acidprooi cof-
fms
George Slade has been made general
manager OF the Erie Railroad system.
John Shanabrook was killed at Han
over. Pa. by falling from a girder.
No national banks will be established
at present in Porto Rico.
z. s. Dean was fatally shot at Col
burn. Va. by Sam Mullins.
While playing at hanging in Arkansas
boy hanged himself. He is uncon-
scious. The Governor oi the State may
recommend the repeal OF the public exc
cution law.
The drouth in the southern parts OF
Virginia was broken by heavy rains.
| Philip Woods, colored. was killed by
lightning near Richmond.
! Mrs. Felix Matthias and two OF her
children. living near Howards Lick
/ Mountain. ate toadstools by mistake for
mushrooms. and died.
| The secretary OF the International
Longshoreman's Union ordered a strike
1 to affect the boats OF the Anchor Line
at all ports.
More than twenty Princeton students
who failed to pass examinations in June
have been dropped to lower classes
foreign.
/ Governor Tuan, OF the Shantung
| Province in China, issued a proclama-
/ ton urging the magistrates not to al
/ low the missionaries to exert any influ-
ence in the decision OF cases.
The National Miners Federation o.
! France proposes general strike in that
I country unless its demands are com
piled with.
Owing to the illness OF his mother
Emperor William has changed hi:
plans and will not attend certain fes-
tvities.
Arctic fishermen brought to Vardoe
Norway eight survivors of the explor
ing ships Stroemmare and Famalien.
The British transport Manila landed
600 Boer prisoners on fuckers Island
one OF the Bermuda Islands
Commandant Hermanus Steyn.
cousin OF President Steyn, was killeC
while fighting at Ficksburg.
The yield OF wheat and oats in Eng
land is somewhat below the average.
The governor OF Shantung, China, i
making smokeless powder and arms.
NJ. Cambon, the French ambassador
to the United States in an interview il
Paris. eulogized President Mckinley
and praised American institutions
Senior Pulido, Venezuelan minister o
war, has resigned. An official repor
says the reyolutionists were again de
ieated by the government forces.
The War Office was compelled TO cal
off its boycott on the London Dali,
| Mail, which it tried to cut off from new
of the South African War
Lord Stanley reported in the Hous,
OF Commons that the cost OF the war il
South Africa from April / to August
was &3s75o,ooo
DR.. Suering Berson. a German. ha
reached height OF $500 feet in bal
loon, The temperature was 40 degree
below zero
Martial law has been proclaimed OF
the Bermuda islands. where Boer pris
oners OF war are confined.
Lord Kitchener reported that tn
Beers were shooting British yeomen af
ter their surrender
A Boer commando, with two guns, ha
entered Portuguese territory, encamp
ing at Guanetz
financial
Utica. ~ Y, has sold at auction SI65,
COO 4 Der cent CITY bonds at IooZ