The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-06-17
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

Lewis Nixon resigned as president oil
the United States Shipbuilding Com
pany
Thomas Marcum, bother OF J. E.
Marcum, for whose murder Curtis Jett
and Thomas White are being tried at
Jackson. Ky, made dramatic address
ior the prosecution.
The Equitable Assurance Company
has refused to pay $3.50 insurance on
the life OF Arthur r. Pennel, who fig
ured in the noted Burdick case in Bui-
falo, on the ground that Pennell was n
suicide
The hotel employees strike has caused
rich women to help do the hotel cook
ing. the guests to wait upon each other
| and to eat under police protection.
In the TcNtilc Workers strike the
| eighty-ninth firm granted the demands.
1t is rumored that Col. Robert c.
Clowry is to retire from the presidency
OF the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, and Charles A. Tinker take his
place.
The one hundred and twenty-sixth
anniversary oi the American flag was
observed at the Betsy Ross House in
Philadelphia
Judge Gray, chairman OF the Anthra-
cite Strike Commission, appointed
Prof. Charles p Neil, OF Washington,
commissioner to compute the increase
OF miners wages under the sliding
scale
Mrs Isaac Poore, the wife OF a far
mer OF Washington county, Tenn, who
was criminally assaulted by negro,
is expected to die. a mob was dis
suaded from lynching the negro.
The doors OF the Bessemer (Ala.)
Savings Bank and the Bank OF Com
merce were closed, the president OF the
former, who is confessed deiauter,
being a fugitive.
James Dumas, proprietor OF a trans
Ter company. in Indianapolis, Ind,
killed Sarah +. King. wife OF Wesley
X. King. a workman, and then com
mitted suicide
Mrs. Mary Mcknight, who confess
ed having poisoned her brother and
his wife and child in Kalkaska, Mich,
was arraigned and pleaded not guilty.
he hearing in the case OF the
charges against the coal-carrying rail
roads was continued before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, sitting
in New York.
The United States Circuit Court OF
Appeals refused to modify its recent
decree allowing the PENNSYLVANIA Rail-
road to remove Western Union wires.
A number OF New York merchants
brought charges OF extortion and con-
spiracy against various steamship lines
running to South Africa.
President Ramsey, OF the Wabash
Railroad, denied that there was any
truth in the various sensational rail-
road rumors.
Three robbers looted an express train
on the Erie Road. rear Englewood, Ind,
and two were captured with their pockets
full OF loot.
A meeting was held in New York Of
the Cotton Duck Corporation. but
nothing was done toward the proposed
combination of plants.
In the trial OF Robert A. Ammon. in
New York, William F. Miller testified
that he gave Ammon S255,oco and got
back c7ly S5,ooo.
Governor Heard, OF Louisiana, signed
the death warrant OF A. +. Baton, con-
ycted OF killing seven members OF the
Early family.
Judge Horton, in Chicago. fined the
members Of the Northern Illinois Coal
Dealers Association $500 each for con-
spiracy.
Gen. Alexander Mcdowell McCook,
Urited States Army, retired, died at the
home OF his daughter, in Dayton o.
Seven persons were drowned at Abe--
deen, Ark, on White River, by the
capsizing Of a houscboat
Robert Neil was robbed while en-
route from Liverpool to New York on
the steamer Germanic of $4,000
Justice Lacombe, in the United States
Circuit Court in New York, decided
that the presidents OF coal roads must
answer certain questions propounded
by Interstate Commerce Commission.