The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
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Three robbers secured $4,000 from
the bank of the Archibald Banking Com
pany, in Archibald, Ohio.
Lawrence Wright was dragged to
death by runaway mules in Fawn town
ship, Pennsylvania.
Two more of the convicts who es-
capped from Leavenworth Military Pri-
son were recaptured.
Steve Barnes, watchman at the
Wilkesbarre (Pa) pesthouse, was
frozen to death.
A young woman of many names was
arrested in New York at a hotel, where
she was living in style, ON the charge
of stealing dimonds and other Jewels,
valued at over $4,000, from the family
of Albert ID. Merrill, Brookline, Mass,
by whom she had been employed. She
broke down and made a complete con
fession to the police.
Judge Phillips, in Cleveland, roundly
scorde jury that had acquitted George
Willard OF robbing Sigler Brothers Jew
elry store, the Judge claiming that he
had clearly been proven guilty.
Walter Cavanaugh. OF Kansas City,
Mo, who forced his sweetheart to steal
St,2 in pension money from her wild
owed mother, was sentenced to five years
in State prison.
The grand jury in Barnstable, Mass,
indicted Nurse Jane Toppan for the al
legged murder OF Mrs. Mary +. Gibbs,
Alden p. Davis and Mrs. Gcnevieve A.
Gordon.
The Orient express ran into the rail-
way station at frankfort, Ky, and wreck
ed it, many Of the passengers and peo-
pie in the waiting room having narrow
escapes.
At a meeting held in Paris plans for
the proposed French college in America
to study American commercial and bust
ness methods were discussed
Seven thousand barrels OF Kentucky
whisky are to be shipped to German
warehouses of the Louisville Warehouse
Company to avoid taxation.
Henry Hoover, charged in York, Pa,
with dynamiting Northern Central ex-
press train, was committed for court.
Three runaways from the Indian
school at Carlisle Pa, were caught at
Parkersburg, w. Va, and sent back.
Judge Newburger, in New York, de-
MED the motion to dismiss the indictment
against Roland B. Molineux
James Argyll Smith, former Confed-
crate general died in Jackson Miss, OF
pneumonia.
Sirty-ive persons were poisoned at a
wedding feast in Prairie du Sac, Wis.
Herbert Marx. of New York, who shot
three men at Oak Grove, Westmoreland
county, Va, and was acquitted of any
blame by the coroner's jury, started for
New York J. O. Stiff, the third man
shot, will also die, as the wound has
completely paralyzed his body
Twenty-Five negroes are under arrest
in Andalusia. Ala, charged with COM
plicity in the killing of J. w. Dorsey and
the fatal wounding Of F. Atkinson, a
policeman.
Attorney General Douglas, of Mime
sofa, upheld an opinion that under the
State Constitution, the Lords Prayer
could not be used in the public schools.
President Clark of the Worlds Chris
tian Endeavor, will visit President
Roosevelt for a consultation over the
campaign for Christian citizenship.
Capt Richard R. Turner, who was
keeper of the famous Libby Prison,
dropped dead in Isle of Wight county,
Virginia.
The factory of the National Starch
Manufacturing Company,in in Des Moines,
Ia, was burned. Loss, 100000; insur-
ed.
Ben Knox was shot and killed by Tos-
sic King, who wanted to arrest Knox
for crime of which he was innocent.
A combine is reported to be in pro-
cess Of being effected among the tobacco
growers of the Philippine Islands.