The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-19
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

seven persons are now dead as the re-
suit of Gilbert Twigg, maniac, firing
recklessly on a crowd at concert at
Winfield, Kansas.
Gen. John c. Black and many other
prominent delegates to the Grand Army
of the Republic convention arrived in
San Francisco.
Justice John Woodward, of New
York, addressed the Chautauqua Assem-
bly, on The Mob Spirit in America"
Vice President ]. II. Thompson, Of
the Charleston (W. Va.) Electric Com
pany, has disappeared and is charged
with embezzlement.
John s. Wise surprised Richmond So
ciety by cancellng his box at the Horse
Show.
Norfolk IVA. )believes Vice President
J. NJ. Barr is soon to leave the Seaboard
Air Line.
The will of A. II. Grandy, Of Norfolk,
Va. leaves his SI75ooo estate to his
widow and children, making her ex-
ecutrix.
In an address before the Lutheran
Assembly at Dixon, ILL.,, Judge Gross
cup, OF the United States Circuit Court,
said that government control OF mo-
nopoies is essential to the perpetual
tion OF American institutions.
Secretaries Shaw and Hitchcock
were among the Presidents callers. OBJ
lection is made to calling Congress to-
gether during October because en-
gagements OF members in State cam
paigns.
Col. T. G. Bush, president OF the
Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron
Company, spoke in behalf OF the op-
orators in arbitration proceedings at
Birmingham, Ala.
The socialistic element in the Gar
mentworkers National Convention, in
session at indianapolis, made a second
and unsuccessful attempt to capture
control.
A white man named Thompson and
a negro named Wrightman we're lynch
ed in Colquitt county, Ga, for assault
ing a white woman.
George R. Creighton, a New York
law clerk. has been arrested on the
charge OF forgery, the amount involv-
ed being $4,000.
The Acting Comptroller Of the Treas
ury has ordered the closing OF the
Navesink National Bank because OF
shortages.
The steam yacht Wainotta was burn
ed to the waters edge while going
down the Connecticut river.
At the session OF the International
Typographical Union Mr.. Frederick
Driscoll, commissioners OF the Publish
ers' Association, made an address, in
urb ka etr,i.
in Seattle and Spokane. Mr.. Gompers
was among the speakers.
The steamer FL Dorado, which ar
rived in New York from Galveston,
picked up boat containing a boy 100
miles at sea. He said he had been
swept out Of the harbor Of Havana.
Mr.. D. NJ. Parry, president Of the
Manufacturers National Association,
delivered an address at the Chautauqua
Conference on Mob Spirit in Organ
led Labor"
H. II. Hallowell, assistant secretary
and treasurer OF Penn Mutual Life In
surance Company of Philadelphia, died
suddenly in Atlantic City.
The grand jury at Danville, H., has
indicted IL men and one woman for
participating in the recent lynching in
that place
The Alabama miners have engaged
lawyers to represent them in the hear
ing to arbitrate their differences with
the operators.
At Abilene, Tex, Ex-Governor Lub-
bach, OF that State, aged 81 years. and
Miss Lou Scott. aged 30 years, were
married
Miss Maude Espy died at St. Paul.
MINI, after eating toadstools, which
she had mistaken for mushrooms.