The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-04-06
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

~ 'N"'' lidlIl COMMANDER Edgar
lownsend Warburton. chief engineer
OF the battleship Maine, now at Pen.
sacoia, committed suicide in his cabir
on board the vessel.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin testified il
her own behalf in her trial in Sar
Francisco for sending poisoned cand,
to Mrs. John p. Dunnng, in Delaware
William f.. Church confessed in
st. Louis, Mo, that he killed hi.
benciactors. MIR. and Mrs. Henry w
ieater, while they were asleep.
Al Adams, the policy king. serving
ndcterminate sentence in Sing Sing
has applied to the board to be re.
leased on parole.
Seven hundred members OF the Ele.
yator Constructors and Millwrights
Onlon OF New York and BROOKLYN
went on strike.
Otis White, of Ransomville, n. Y,
deliberately walked into the rapids at
Niagara Falls and was drowned.
The United States Army transport
Logan sailed from San Francisco for
Manila with 275 recruits.
Mrs. Abbey Morton DiaZ. the writer
and reformer, died at her home, in
Belmont, Mass.
On account Of the strike OF the
miners a coal famine is threatened in
Iowa.
Nearly five and one-half million dol
lars was set apart by the board OF
estimates in New York to be expended
in installing an auxiliary system OF
saltwater mains to be used in con-
nection with hre-fghtng in the
Boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The United States Steel Corporation
filed a demurrer in Trenton. n. J., to
the suit of Alfred Stevens. who asked
that the corporation be required to pay
a dividend.
The Iowa coal miners and operators
have been unable to adjust their diff
ferences and a shutdown is likely to
follow, throwing I3,5oo miners out OF
employment
Edward Reglar, who is something
OF a White House crank, was arrested
in Pittsburg and held, pending an in
vestigation OF his mental condition.
The appointment OF Col. Edmund
Rice, L. $. A., retired. as military sec
retary OF the ceremonies committee
Of the Worlds Fair is announced.
The cruiser Denver was given a
Cape Ann course and again failed to
meet contract speed requirements.
Judge eager, in New Haven, ex-
cluded the sealed letter in the Ben
net will case, which made 4 bequest OF
$4,000 to Mr. Bryan.
Rear Admiral Sigsbee. and Captain
Wainwright and other officers OF the
North Atlantic Squadron paid an OF
hcial visit to President Amador. at the
palace, in Panama.
DIR" Dewing ws arrested in Chica-
go for buying railroad tickets at cler-
gymen's rates and selling them to tick
ct brokers.
A Sabine Pass and Northwestern
passenger train was wrecked in Texas
ard several passengers were injured.
Further sensational incidents mark
ed the second days hearing in the
Bennett will case "a New Haven.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed
against the Pettingill Advertising
Agency. OF Boston.
Mrs. Cauncey Marian, known as the
fattest woman in the world, died in
New York.
The Great Belgrade levee broke at
Vincennes, Ind, causing much dam
age.
Fire in the Quincy Mine, near
Houghton, Mich, did considerable
damage.
The Alien immigration Bill requir-
ing that the immigration OF certain
classes OF aliens into the United King
dom be subjected to state control
passed its first reading in the British
House OF Commons.
The French Chamber OF Deputies
began a debate upon Marine Minister
Pelletan's administration of the navy,
which promises to be a test OF the
strength OF the entire French ministry.