The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

timber tract of $4,000 acres in Miss
issippi. The sum involved is ST.
600, 600
In New York a second indictment
was found charging Philip Weinsei-
mer, president of the Building Trades
Alliance, with eXtortion
A. A. White, Of Baltimore, was
among the speakers at the Convention
of the National Association of Master
Bakers in St. Louis.
Judge Julian Bennett of Water
town, ) d., who weighed 44o pounds
and who was known as the largest
judge in America, is dead
Aired Davis, one of the oldest life
guards at Atlantic City, was drowned
while attempting to secure a bather,
who was rescued.
George J. Sicard, former law part
ner of ex-President Grover Cleveland,
is dead at Buffalo, aged 90 years.
-Four children were drowned in the
Brazos River, near Acton, Tex, by
the capsizing of boat
Comptroller Edward NJ. Grout,
whose gubernatorial aspirations have
been nurtured by Senator Patrick II.
McCarren, of Brooklyn, came out in
the open as a candidate for the nomi-
nation for governor of New York.
Mr.. Robert b. Armstrong, assist
ant secretary of the Treasury, ad-
dressed the second annual Convention
OF the American Institute of Bank
Clerks. in session on the Worlds
Fair grounds.
Philip Weinseimer president OF the
Building Trades Alliance Of New York
I'm 1er indictment on the charge of
extortion, pleaded not guilty He
was released on $4,000 bonds.
Legal proceedings are pending
against 2S prominent citizens of Grip
pie Creek, Col, who are accused OF
conspiracy and assault to kill in the
deportation cases.
The United Garmentworkers, at
their session in Buffalo, took up the
case OF Henry White, former general
secretary. against whom charges have
been preferred.
AT Youngstown, O., pickets are
guarding the upper mill of the Ameri-
can Steel Hoop Company. Strike
breakers are, however, being admit
ted.
Rev. Henry Baas, of London, Eng
land, died suddenly at the Inside Inn,
Worlds Fair grounds.
The National Association of Master
Bakers is holding its annual conven-
ton in St. Louis.
The Connecticut tobacco crop is said
to be the largest for many years.
lhirty-tive people were injured in
trolley wreck near Rochester. A
train OF two cars collided with a sin
gle car on the Rochester and Eastern
Railway.
A petition has been mailed to Presi-
dent Roosevelt asking him to inter
vene in behalf of the men deported
from the Cripple Creek district.
Salvatore Bossato was shot to death
by Carlo Rossati in New York because
he disclosed to the police the secrets
of the Black Hand.
Another fruitless effort has been
made by the Western railroads to
bring about an adjustment of the su-
gar-rate complications.
Two strikes. affecting 5000 men,
were declared against the plant OF the
Republic Iron and Steel Company,
Pittsburg.
The cotton firm OF II. +. Page &
C''i va -NNN CIlcdllS, ldlItu anu CduS-
ed much excitement on the exchange.
-Four masked men held up the pay
master OF the O'Rourke Construction
Company near Paterson, N. J.
Carlyle Mckinley, associate editor
OF the Charleston News and Courier,
died after a long illness.
Harry +. Poyer, assistant city solc-
itor OF Cleveland, O., was stabbed by
his father-in-law.
The National Conference of the
Seventh-Day Adventists is in session
at Nortonville, Kan.
The Texas Prohibitionists nominat-
ed w. d. Jackson for governor and a
full state ticket.
John Redmond, the Irish leader, ar
rived in New York on the White Star
liner Teutonc.
hIe German-American Bank Of Sid
ney, o., has been placed in the hands
OF receiver.
The annual movement OF currency
to the West for crop-moving purposes
has begun.
Fire destroyed FIVE four-story tene-
ment houses in the Williamsburg sec
ton OF Brooklyn.
Plans have been completed for an
expedition to Egypt by several Prince
ton professors.
Mrs, Florence Maybrick left New
York for Ellenvillc, in the Catskill
Mountains.
Fire i'll the glue factory Of Armour
& Co, Chicago, caused loss of $780,
900.