The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-12
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic.

Nellie Fletcher, who was found dead
in New York clearinghouse, it wa,
found, was New Haven girl. who hac
gone to Chicago with a Yale graduate
but had returned East.
President Buchanan. OF the Interna-
tional Association OF Ironworkers
stated that the strike was ordered be-
cause the American Bridge Company
had violated its agreement.
The cry OF Fire in Proctor's Fifth
Avenue Theater, New York, nearly
caused panic. Five women tainted
There was no fire and the engines were
only passing.
The ierryboat Neptune, plying be
tween Allegheny, Pa, and the West
End, was sunk by the steamer Marga-
ret and all on board we're forced to
swim to the shore.
In head-on collision between pas
senger trains on the Burlington Rail
road, John Peterson was fatally crush
ed and three other passengers injured.
David W. Bucklin, who was arrest
ed in the raid on Canfield's, in New
York, sued the Trenton On. j. chief
OF police for $4,000 damages.
The Porto Rico House OF Delegates
Loan Bill. All the American members
OF the House opposed it.
The plant of the Franklin Baker
Company, importers of cocoanuts. in
Philadelphia, was partially destroyed
by fire.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
returned several indictments against
get-rick-quick turf investment con-
Germs
The officers and joint committees OF
the Brotherhoods of Fremen and Train
men sent a circular to their respective
lodges advising them not to strike pend
ing decision by the court on the njunc-
ton proceedings instituted.
Mrs. Albert Zorn. who died OF strych-
poisoning in Chicago, according to
her husbands statement, committed sui
eide after reading Tostois "Resurrec-
ton and comparing her life with that of
the heroine.
Charles T. Molony. general superin-
tendent OF the Pennsylvania Warehous-
ing and Safe Deposit Company, secured
5000 from the Girard National Bank
ON an alleged forged check and disap-
peared.
During discussion of the reciprocity
treaty in the Cuban Senate Senor San
gully denounced it as a scheme on the
part of the United States to keep Euro
pean commerce out of Cuba
A general strike has been ordered by
the International Association of Bridge
and Structural Ironworkcrs against the
American Bridge Company.
Rev. J. NJ. Caldwell at one time a
presiding elder i'll the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, was declared insane by a
Chicago jury
The Convention of Negro Presidents
of Agricultural Colleges in an address
urges members of their race to take up
farm life.
Judge Cantrill, in Versailles, KY, de-
cided that Governor Beckham is eligible
Tor reelection as governor OF Kentucky
Cornell University professors are to
be retired after attaining the age of 20
years on pension of SI.5oo year.
Charles f. l.. Henderson was executed
in Duluth, MINI, for the murder II Ida
Mccormick, his mistress.
A conference OF Sunday school mis-
sionaries, at which II states are repre-
sented, was begun in Chicago.
Rufus Cantrell, the rcsurrectionist,
made a full confession to the grand jury
in Noblesvlle, Ind.
District Attorney Coatesworth, OF
Buffalo, declares himself to be satisfied
that he knows who committed the
Burdick murder, but has not yet SUI
hcicntly strong evidence to convict.
A negro Wednesday night entered
the house OF white man at Cordova,
Ala, for robbery, and in a fight that
followed killed the vl,itc man aud
murdered his wife and child.