The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29
NEWS IN SHORT ORBER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
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workers III chicago has spread. Eigh-
teen factories are now cIosed dnu &c
furniture manufacturing industry in
/ Cblcago is at Il stdndstll.
The United States revenue citter
1hetis has captured 81 shipwreciied
japanese poachcrs on all jsland IN
the Pacific aud will send them back
to Japan.
J, j. Jusserand. ambassador OF
France to the United States, was a
passenger on tie steamer La SaVo.e,
which sailed from New YORK for
! Havre.
V. X. Valentine, a North Carol ma
Trainer, fatally shot his wife and then
killed himself He was temporarily
insane from alcoholism.
The Citizens Alliance of Cripple
Creek has ordered 5000 lapel bu,-
tons bearing The incription They
can't come back
Three Italians held Hp O. G. Long
year, paymaster of the Hudson River
Bluestone company, and robbed him
of $4,000
The annual session OF the Supreme
Council United Commercial Travel
ers, was begun in Columbus, o.
The visiting Filipino commissioners
were the guests OF the Boston Cham
Der of Commerce.
DR.. John Frederick Elmore was APP
pointed Peruvian minister to Wash
ington.
Two Indian children OF Eagle Val
ley. New. murdered their little
brother.
The New Jersey State Board of
Taxation sustained the Jersey City
assessor in raising the assessment of
the Standar Oil Company's property
at Communipaw from $4,000 to
100000. The company alleges that
the increase was due to politics.
Fire in Allegheny destroyed the
plants of the Allegheny Crapet-clean-
ing Company. the Duff Construction
light Company. Allegheny Autumo-
ry.
The Portland Mine. at Victor. Col,
which was closed by General Bell be
cause it gave employment to union
men, has rcopened with a small non
union force.
Adolph rancob. who was arrested
in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the charge
OF incendiarism, confessed having
set fire to S2,ooo,ooo worth of
Willis I. Shaw, prominent Maine
tanner, has filed a voluntary petition
in bankruptcy, giving liabilities al
$2o5,ooo and assets at S46,727.
Warships OF three nations partici-
pated in the tercentary of the land
ing OF the first colony in British
North America at Annapolis. n. s.
Juer Meredith and John Bartt, two
gamblers. had quarrel in Marion.
ILL.,, which wound up in a pistol duel.
in which both received fatal injuries
Lightning struck the house of
Clarence NJ. Hyde in New York city,
running oil paintings and other works
OF art valued at $4,000
Worlds Fair officials have planned
for an elaborate Fourth of July cele-
bration, and have invited a number Of
eloquent orators.
One person was killed aud a number
injured by an accident to mixed pas
senger and freight train on the
Pemigewasset Valley Branch of the
Boston and Maine Railroad near
Plymouth, n. II
The big No Hoist of the Ontario
Mine, located near Park City, Utah.
was destroyed by fire. throwing 200
men out OF employment and causing
loss of about 100000.
Twenty firemen had narrow es-
cape from death in fire on the fifth
| and sixth floors of building in Grand
street, New York
The Ancient order OF United Work
men decided in Chattanooga, Tenn
to hold their next convention in Mont
real.
A. P. Bglow, general Western
freight agent of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, died at Chicago.
Henry W. Potter, former partner
OF Chauncey Depew, died at his home,
in Titusville, Pa.
Philip krantz leaped from the
Brooklyn Bridge and swan ashore
without sustaining any injuries.
Judge J. Soule Smith died at his
home, in Lexington, Ky.
The educational board of the Pres
byterian Church proposes to establish
a university at Mckinley, Tex. and
I SI75,ooo OF the necessary 100000 with
which to start work on the buildings
has been subscribed.
Frederick A. Gilman, a banker. OF
/ indianapolis, Ind, prayed fervently in
/ church one night and disappeared the
next morning with all the funds be-
| longing to his customers that was
! in the bank vaults.
| DR.. Joseph and Count Frantz Mar
| yelde, Austrian commissioners to the
| st. Louis Exposition, arrived in New
, \ ork on the steamer Bluecher, from
Hamburg.