The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-02
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS,
Domestic

German warships are gathering off
the coast of Venezuela. and the North
Atlantic Squadron of the United States
Navy is in Porto Rican waters, only a
short sailing distance from Venezuela
The Germans will likely blockade Ven
ezuelan ports to compel payment of in
demnity owed to German subjects.
In a hand-to-hand fight between 1S
men, Company f, Ninth Infantry and
bolomen near Dapado, Samar, Philip
pine Islands, Capt. +. II. Schoetfel was
wounded and seven men killed and a
number wounded.
An Ontario and Western train of so
coal cars ran away on a down-grade
near Scranton, Pa, and left the track
at curve at a speed OF 90 miles an
hour. Every car was completely wreck
ed and four men were killed
The Erie Telegraph and Telephone
Company is to be reorganized, with a
capital of $4,000. .ooo and to be con-
trolled by the American Telegraph and
Telephone Company.
The Unalde Asphalt Company of San
Antonio, Texas, has been awarded the
contract for sewers and pavements in
Havana Cuba, at $I2,ooo 600
huNOlilO DNBulO Was Husli dtNu do hN
was about to kill the false friend on
whose account he had mortgaged all his
property.
One person was killed and number
injured by an explosion in a powder
mill OF the Moosic Company, at Jermys,
Pennsylvania.
Joseph Place, who was accused in
Martinsburg, w. Va, of numbering his
wife, was set free by Justice Snyder
Robert Henson, colored, was hanged
in Trenton, N. J., for numbering Mrs
Mary Van Lien, colored, and her child
Capt. Richard Leary, the brilliant
naval commander, recently governor OF
Guam, died in Chelsea, Mass.
Winfield S. Arter, stockbroker oi
Pittsburg, who had become respondent
committed suicide.
Steve Broderick killed one man and
wounded two others in New York be-
fore he was captured.
The one hundred and twenty-ffth an.
niversary of the battle Of Trenton wa.
celebrated with sham representation o.
the historic battle, meeting at the op
era house, with Prof Woodrow Wilson
as the orator, and a fireworks display a
night.
Company f. Twenty-hrst Infantry
had desperate fight with Filipino in
surgents in gorge near San Jose, II
which ~ of the insurgents were killed
and two Americans wounded.
The Spanish squatters on the Island
of La Costa, a government reservation
off the Florida coast, who are suspected
of being smugglers, have been ordered
to quit.
Frances Ross, who is supposed tc
have escaped from a Portland (Ore)
convent was decided in Chicago to bC
suffering from religious melancholia.
In a fight between whites and negroes
at Childcrsburg. Ala. white man ant
his son were killed and a white boy anC
negro wounded.
Failure TO obey orders caused a coils
ion between freight engine and a pas
senger train on the Canadian Pacific
near Saulte Ste Marie.
Three men were killed and three SER
iously injured by the breaking of a
crane at the American Bridge Compa-
ny's works, Chicago.
Odus Reeder, second lieutenant Phil
ippine scouts, committed suicide by
shooting himself on board the trans
port Lawton.
Ex-President Cleveland consented to
serve on the commission appointed by
the Civic Federation to promote indus
trial peace.
In defending her sister Florence Dob
son, of Somerville, Mass, shot and ser
iously wounded her drink-crazed father