The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-11-23
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading
Domestic,

Secretary of War Taft and party
nave reached New Orleans. They
were received by a committee Of
prominent citizens, members of the
governors staff. and military detail
OF regulars and members OF the state
guard.
Andrew Mcaders, Jushua Cummins.
Bee and Edward Hollsomback are
under arrest at Williamsburg, Ky,
charged with the murder of George
Surd and Emma Durham near Cum
berland Falls.
The Liberty Bell was brought back
TO Philadelphia from St. Louis and cs-
eorted to Independence Hall by an
imposing military procession.
William Bate. chauffeur, was found
shot dead in an automobile on a lonely
road near Chicago He is believed to
have been killed by robbers.
Reuben Loree, aged So and his son,
Fred Loree, aged 80 years, were suffo-
Gated to death in the village lookup in
Columbiaville, Mich.
George Mack, chauffeur for Anna
Held, was arrested in New York on
the charge OF running down aged ia
cob Clemons.
Three election officers in Denver,
Col, were convicted OF frauds at the
recent elections. They were fined
and sent to jail.
Twelve whitecappers were indicted
in Jackson, Miss, on the charge Of in
tcrfering with homesteaders.
The Central Vermont Railways
freight steamer Mohawk was burned
off Horizons Point. L. / The Mo-
hawks crew was taken off by the
Fall River Line steamship Boston.
Henry Meldrum, formerly United
states surveyor, was convicted of for
gerry, being the first man to be con-
victed in the so-caled land fraud
cases.
a premature blast in the excava-
ton for the Pennsylvania Railroad
Tunnel in New York did $4,000 dam
age to neighborng buildings.
Announcement was made in Chi
cago OF the completion OF the fund oi
100000 for the erection of the Nc
kinley monument.
After the death of DR.. T. c. Conk-
lin, physician OF Pennington, H.,
the discovery was made that he had
two wives.
William p. Hayde, for many years
county license inspector in Kansas
City, Mo, shot and killed himself
while in bed
President Francis and other officials
OF the St Louis Exposition were dec
GRATED with Legion of Honor insignia.
John and James Black. twin broth
ers, and John Murphy were arrested
in Indian Territory on the charge OF
being the men who held up the Rock
Island train at Fort Logan, N. NJ.
William Pollworth, 20 years old,
shot and probably fatally wounded
Conrad BoXman at Bartlett, H., and
then barricaded himself in his moth
er's home and dehed citizens and po-
lice, but finally surrendered.
John q. Heckscher, secretary of the
National Horse Show Association. was
run down and trampled upon by a pair
OF horses in the ring at the New York
Horse Show. His injuries may result
in conclusion of the brain.
All the shpbuilding cases brought
in the United States Court in New
York against Schwab. Morgan, Gates
and Others were discontinued with the
consent OF the complaintants.
The. Hotel Olympia, the largest
frame hotel building in Olympia, Wash,
has been burned to the ground. The
loss is $I6o,ooo, with $4,000 insurance.
All the guests escaped safely.
One man is dead and three others
are seriously injured as a result of
tre which destroyed the tar plant of
the Denver Gas and Electric Com
pany, in Denver, Col.
In a head-on collision at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, on the rapid transit cleo
trio street car line, due to heavy fog.
hve persons were seriously injured.
w. ,. Lang, superintendent of the
coal mines at Blocton, Ala, died from
the effects of a bullet shot from am
bush.
Three hundred cottages on the Ur-
bana Chautauqua camp grounds, near
Springfield, o., were destroyed by
FIRE
-Four men, comprising the entire
working force. were asphyxiated at a
gas plant at Dover, N. ].
Meridian Street Methodist Church,
in indianapolis, Ind. was destroyed
by fire. Loss $4,000.
Former Gov. Hugh Smith Thomp-
son, OF South Carolina, is critically
Ill at his home, in New York, and
death is a matter of only few hours.