The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-07-20
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

Court, in Trenton, N. J., granted a
preliminary injunction restraining the
proposed distribution of stock by the
Northern Securities Company.
A freight train ran down a hand
car near Emporia, Kan. One young
man was killed and his three COM
panions, including two young ladies,
were seriously injured.
Osceola Kyle, of Alabama, took the
oath OF Office i'll Washington as a
Judge in the canal zone in Panama
and will sail from New York next
week.
William Z. Sugdcn, for 2f years
president of the Hartford County
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, died
in Hartford, CT, aged 50 years.
The National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers Association has brought
charges Of discrimination against 81
railroads.
The Worlds Fair has made the
first payment Of $500, 600 on the gov
ernment loan OF S4,6ooooo.
Having secured a decree Of divorce
Mrs. Ella Swoboda, OF Chicago, COM
mitted suicide
here was large attendance at the
funeral Of Mayor Samuel NJ. Jones,
in Toledo.
The minority members of the Gu
ban Congress refuse to meet for the
purpose OF passing a bill covering the
proportlonate distribution OF the pro-
ceeds OF the S35,ooo,ooo loan for the
payment OF veterans or to authorize
an additional loan because the ad-
Judication of soldiers claims is not
likely to be completed until Novem-
Der, when it is supposed that another
session of Congress will begin.
The beef packers in Chicago re-
Jected the proposition Of the union
that all strikers be taken back pend
ing arbitration, and proposed instead
TO retain all help employed since the
strike began. The various packing
houses in the West have resumed
slaughtering.
President Roosevelt will receive a
committee OF the United Mineworkers
OF Pennsylvania at Sycamore Hill re-
garding the Colorado labor trouble
petition.
George Wilson, believed to be one
OF the men who held up the Northern
Pacific train near Bearmouth, Mont,
was arrested in Spokane, Wash.
An eastbound passenger train on
the Rock Island Railroad was wreck
ed four miles west of Havana, Ark,
and Fl persons injured.
Mrs. Louise Bruseke, Of Washing
ton, committed suicide on her hus-
bands grave, in Prospect Hill Gene
terry.
a conspiracy among the employees
OF the admission department at the
Worlds Fair is said 10 have been un-
earthed.
Horace s. Ferree, the defaultng
postmaster at Jennings, La. was
brought back from Montreal to New
Orleans.
French Day at the Worlds Fair was
observed by the unveiling of an al
legorical statue of the French Re-
public.
A block of Io-room houses at Sails
bury, Pa, owned by the Merchants
Coal Company, was burned.
The judgement for $4,000 awarded
by New York jury to Eleanor
Anderson in her suit against James N.
Abeel for alleged breach of promise
was vacated by the Appellate Divi-
sion OF the Supreme Court, which
finds that the service Of summons and
complaint in the case was defective.
Because of discrimination against
their race by the Worlds Fair di-
rectors the National Association of
Colored Women refused to hold its
sessions on the Worlds Fair grounds.
William 7. Scott, candidate for
president of the United States on the
National Liberty ticket, was arrested
in East st. Louis on account OF an
unpaid fine.
All the union iron and steel plants
in the Pittsburg district have signed
the new wage scale of the Amalga-
mated Association.
John w. Parker, aged I8 years,
committed suicide in ST. Louis while
in mood OF melancholy.
New York customs inspectors seize d
valuable articles in the possession OF
the officers of the steamship Shimosa
The STANDARD Oil Company an
nounces a cut in crude petroleum.
Memphis, Tenn, is making a cam
palgn against gambling
Because he was discharged August
Geber tried to exterminate the family
of his employer, at San Francisco.
! Foreign.
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman an
nounces that he will ask Premier Bal
| four TO set day for debate in the
! House OF Commons on a vote of cen
sure OF the government in view OF the
prominent part taken by leading mem
bers OF the Cabinet III proceedings OF
the Liberal-Unionist Council. during
which resolution was passed APPROX
ing the fiscal policy Of Joseph Cham.
| berlain.
George A. Church, of Rhode Is.
land, astonished the French claimants
to the estate OF NJ. Poulet, valued a,
$26oooo, by fully establishing hi.
identity as the heir named by Poule,
| in his will.
The White Star Line steamer Ger.
manic will be transferred to the Do,
minion Line, renamed the Ottawa anC
be placed on the Montreal-Liverpoo
| service.
President Loubet, of France, will
confer the Grand Cross Of the Legion
OF Honor upon Secretary Hay.
Mohammed II Torres, foreign min.
ister, released the Anghera Tribes
men who have been held prisoners al
Tangier and Tetuan The Anghers
tribe is pleased with his action, which
minimizcs the danger Of the kid
mapping OF Europeans.
Count de la Vaulx. aeronaut, Will,
attempting a fight in his dirigiblt
balloon over the Mediterranean, fel
into the sea, but was rescued.