The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-11-16
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

The Chicago police were notified
OF the robbery of the Bank of Rio
at Rio, ILL.,, by eight men, who SC.
cured $4,000 in cash and escaped
Joseph Marsden, a farmer, OF Sus-
sex, Wis, made so much money in
election bets that he gave an oyster
supper to the whole town.
Mrs. Mary Zimmerman, of New
York, after a quarrel with her hus
band, drank cyanide of potassium ana
died instantly.
The small steamer Wyoming foun.
dered i'll Lake Huron. The crew was
saved.
A FIRE in Knoxville, Tenn, caused
loss Of $25o.ooo. Six hremen were
injured.
A list OF prizes has been arranged
for the Elks' reunion in Buffalo, in
1905.
United States consul at Belfast, w.
w. Tonvelle, died in Toledo, O.
Bishop Warren, of Denver, speak
ing to the General Missionary Com.
mittee of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in Denver, said he regarded
the occupation of the Philippines by
the United States government as prov
idential.
A boiler attached to a threshing
machine on the Samuel kaufman
farm, near Laporte, Ind, exploded
and killed Warren Bassett 10 years
old, and John Boltenhouse, 90 years
old, both of Elkhart Six others were
hurt.
Judge Brawley, in the United State,
Court, in Charleston, S. c., signed an
order directing the resale of the De
Kalb Cotton Mills at Camden on De
cember 81 at not less than $I5o,ooo
The schooner Wilson and Hunting
was run down off Barnegat by the
United States supply steamer Colgoa
and sunk. Captain Walton and his
wife and two seamen were drowned
Herman Haas, charged with embez-
zling funds from the Corn Exchange
National Bank OF Chicago, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced 10 the peni-
tentiary for six years.
Frederick Eve, of Jersey City, who,
with others, was arrested on serious
charge preferred by two girls, was
found dead in his cell.
A New York jury rendered YER
dict of $35,ooo to Mrs. Mary c. Ga
Nun for the death OF her husband in
the Grand Central Tunnel.
Mrs. c. A. Curry was shot and
killed and her husband probably ia
tally wounded in a pistol duel at
their home, in East Pueblo.
John Hodgson, brother OF Frances
Hodgson Burnett, the authoress, died
pauper in the City Hospital, in
Knoxville, Tenn.
Lawrence de Fabio shot Carrie Jim
itz and her brother Frank in South
ington, CT, and then killed himself.
-Four tramps were burned to death
IN .. w. Haggerty's barn, which was
destroyed by fire, near Altoona, Pa.
Frederick Griebel, of Ridgewood
Heights, l.. l., who lost all he had
on the election, committed suicide.
A misplaced rail caused the wreck
OF the Southern Railways fast train
near Cochran, Ga.
The steamer Finance, owned by the
Panama Railroad Company, from CO.
lon to New York, was brought into
Savannah with rudder gone, by steam
er FL Paso. She had passengers AMI
freight aboard.
Prellminaries are being worked out
by the Pennsylvania interests for the
complete reorganization OF the Van
dalia Line, which was recently sold
under foreclosure proceedings.
Edward Truman, aged 70, who was
a member OF the noted Quantrell band,
IN Missouri, shot and killed James
McCabe at Sedan, Mont, during
quarrel. Truman surrendered.
Mrs. Charles Whittlesey Pickett
dropped dead while reading a paper
before the Hannah Woodruff Chap
ter, Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, in Southington, Ct.