The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-03-13
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Domestic.

James Webster. travelling salesman
of Rochester, N. Y, who was wanted in
that city on the charge of forgery, com
mitted suicide in New York hotel
where he had registered under an as
sumed name.
The Central Labor Union Of Norfolk
Va, adopted resolutions condemning
Governor Montague and the civil author
ities of Norfolk for having militia sent
to the scene of the street car strike.
The Virginia Senate reported favora-
bly, the bill for tunnel as a means OF
transportation between the cities OF Nor
folk. Portsmouth and Berkeley, and adj
versely on the other propositions.
Charles Hudspeth, of Richmond, Va.
who was for some time at the head of
a transatlantic transportation company,
is missing and is believed 10 have COM
mitted suicide.
Christopher Garrison, an employe of
the Winchester (Va) City Hall, was
sentenced to six months in jail for let
ting a female prisoner escape from police
headquarters.
The burned body of Mrs. James M,
Howard was found hanging in the Gel
lar of her home, in Barakhamstead, Ct,
WITH no traces VI lllN diNAiilh ~ NiAt '''N
police are mystified.
Thirteen people were killed and %
more or less injured by wreck caused
by a broken rail on the Southern Pa
cifc Railroad near Sanderson, Tex.
The coroner's jury in Lowell. Mich,
decided that Mrs William Klump died
from strychnine mailed in a package
labeled headache powder.
Three men looted the house OF an
aged retired farmer named Smith at
Saxonburg, Pa, murdered the old man
and tortured his wife.
Gen. julius S. Estey, president of the
Estey Organ Company. died at his home,
in Brattleboro, VT
The General Education Board, to pro-
mote Southern education, was organized
in New York
A strike of the anthracite miners in
Pennsylvania now seems imminent.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company filed mortgage for SIS, 900
in the County Court at Clarksburg. w.
Va, in favor of the Union Trust Com
pany of New York to liquidate all out
standing mortgages previously given on
lines operated by the Baltimore and Ohio
in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Nir-
ginia.
Advioes received at the head office Of
the Hudson Bay Company at Winnipeg,
Man, declare that evidences have been
found of the killing of Explorer Andree
and his companions by an Eskimo tribe.
In view of the action of President
Roosevelt and the Attorney General, the
executive officials of the Western rail-
roads, at meeting in Chicago, voted to
abolish pooling agreements.
The main office OF the Norfolk and
Western Railroad will be moved from
New York to Philadelphia because the
Pennsylvania interests now practically
control that road.
Ex-Mayor Frank A. Mcgowan was
arrested in Trenton, N. J., as fugitive
from justice in Philadelphia, where he
was indicted for securing $4,000 under
false pretenses.
The surveyors who are engaged in the
resurvey of Mason and Dixon's Line have
found many OF the old markers and have
had some interesting experiences.
BY a gas explosion in the Catsburg
Mine. near Monongahela, Pa, FIVE men
were entombed and a number of their
comrades injured.
Mrs. William Klump died in Lowell,
Mich. from poison which had been
mailed to her in package labeled head
ache powder.
/ A perfumery combine, with a capital Of
Ss,ooo,ooo. is in process of organization,
with headquarters in New York