The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-20
OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

Receivers for the National Asphalt
Company and the Asphalt Company oi
America filed in court at Trenton, n.
J., reports stating that they have made
progress in reducing expenses by con
Soldating the underlying companies.
During a controversy over board
bill James Masterson fatally shot NJ. ?.
Birmingham. proprietor OF the Hotel
Bratt, in Manchester, O.. and then kill
ed himself Birmingham was shot
three times.
1t was reported in Philadelphia that
the Reading. the Baltimore and Ohio.
and other Eastern railroads will fol-
low the example OF the Pennsylvania
and increase the salaries OF employees.
The Anthracite Strike Commission
began the hearing OF evidence in Scran-
ton. Pa. President Mitchell reading a
long statement and then taking the wit
ness stand.
Col. Edward Butler, the millionaire
politician OF St Louis, was convicted
OF bribery in Columbia, Mo, and SEN
fenced to three years in the peniten-
tiary.
In the American Federation Of Labor
Convention yesterday at New Orleans
a number OF resolutions bearing upon
labor conditions were introduced.
The Methodist General Missionary
Conference. in session in Albany. ~
Y, made appropriations for the vari.
Gus missions in China and Korea
The Central National Bank OF Bos-
ton closed its doors as a result OF inn
paired assets The failure had no ei-
feet in financial circles.
William Rerkgr Rybn
ing letters to a number OF wealthy men
in New York. was arrested on the
charge OF blackmail.
One hundred and ten Presbyteries
have thus far voted for revision OF the
creed, none having voted the other
way.
Superintendent Pratt. OF the Carlisle
Indian School. submitted his report to
Indian Commissioner Jones
The twenty y-second annual convention
of the American Federation of Labor
opened in New Orleans. and President
Gompers. in his annual address. warned
the members OF the dangers of the CON
flicting claims OF jurisdiction made by
different bodies.
-Four men were killed and 30 more or
less Injured by the explosion of a large
boiler in a scrap puddle furnace at the
American Iron and Steel Manufacturing
plant at Lebanon, Pa.
Frank {. Andrews. the convicted vice
president of the wrecked City Savings
Bank of Detroit Mich. was taken to the
Jackson State Prison to begin serving his
Is years sentence.
Mrs. Tingley has appealed from the
decision of the board OF inquiry in New
York to deport the Cuban children de-
signed for the Buddhist home at Califor-
mia.
J. w. McNight, former president OF
the defunct German National Bank of
Louisville, KY, was sentenced TO six
years in the penitentiary for embezzle-
ment
The grand jury of Freehold, N. J.. has
not yet indicted Laura Biggar on account
OF any charge growing out OF her alleged
to Millionaire Bennett.
A young woman lin whose possession
was found a watch chain stolen from one
OF the murdered Boston women. is likely
TO prove an important witness in the case.
The General Missionary Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Albany, N. Y, decided not to admit the
secretaries Of conferences as members.
The coroner's jury held Charles Cav
le-' OF Homestead, Pa, responsible for
the murder OF his mother and four
brothers and sisters,
Rev. James Hill, Marylander by birth,
and senior member of the Indiana Con-
ference of the NJ. E. Church, died at the
age Of 83.