The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-19
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The latest happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
domestic,

President D. r. Francis and Direc-
tor of Exhibits Frederick ]. V. Skff
OF the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
have been made grand officers Of the
Order Of the Crown Of Italy.
Edwin p Welcs, the millionaire
treasurer of the Brainerd Lumber
Company, was found dead in bed in
Minneapolis. His death was due to
an affection Of the heart.
The San Domingo government has
agreed to pay the award of the arbi-
traitors in the case of the San Domingo
Improvement Company, amounting to
81, 100000.
The threatened strike of the union
machinists in the Erie Railroad shops
was averted by an amicable adjust
mcnt of the difference prevailing.
Nj. Jusserand, the French ambassa-
dor, and Nine. Jusserand and Nine.
keJane, the actress, arrived at New
York from Havre.
Memorial exercises dealing with the
life OF Senator Hoar were held at all
the public schools in Worcester, Mass.
Merritt L. Joslyn, who was assist
ant secretary OF the interior under
President Arthur. is dead. at Wood
stock, III.
By the will of Mrs. Sarah Z. Pot
ter, OF Boston, about $3,ooo,ooo is be-
queathed to charitable purposes.
Nj. Bensinger, president Of the
Brunswick Bake Collender Company,
died at French Lick Springs, Ind.
A man named Palson was drowned,
and his companion, John Lynn, had a
narrow escape from death when a
small boat capsized off the whistling
buoy in New York Bay. Pailson and
Lynn were of the crew of a Sandy
Hook lightship.
In an address in St. Louis President
Francis said that the Worlds Fair
had lost million dollars by being
compelled 10 close its gates on Sum
days.
Prince Fushimi, first cousin OF the
Emperor Of Japan, is expected to visit
San Francisco at an early date.
Near Plano, Tex, blind man killed
his wife, his mother-in-law and then
committed suicide.
The American Board of Foreign
Missions, in session at Grinnell, Ia,
adjourned
DIR. Livingstone Seaman, who mas
recently visited the Japanese hospitals,
read a paper before the International
Congress of Military Surgeons, in ses-
sion i'll St. Louis, to which he emu
merated lessons to be learned by the
American Army in preventing diseases
IN case OF war.
A jury in Norristown, Pa, awarded
a verdict of $4,000 to Miss Blanche
Gertrude Keck, of Allentown, who had
sued Rev. Edgar J. Heliman, pastor
OF Grace Lutheran Church, at Wynd-
moor, for breach of promise.
Italian Day was observed at the
Worlds Fair and exercises commemo-
rative OF the four hundred and twelfth
anniversary of the landing of Colum-
bus on the Island of San Salvador
were held
Fire in an old studio belonging to
Augustus St. Gaudens, across the line
in Connecticut from Windsor, VT, de-
stroyed models, statues and other
works OF art valued at thousands OF
dollars.
Former Gov. w. Murray Crane was
appointed United States senator by
Governor Bates, of Massachusetts, to
succeed the late George f. Hoar.
Col. James p. Averill, Jr., vice COM
mander OF the Grand Army OF the Re-
public, died at his home. near Atlanta,
Ga.
The gunboat Paducah was launched
at the shipyards of the Gas Engine
and Power Company at Morris
Heights, n. Y. Miss Annie May
Ieiser, OF Paducah, KY, was the spon-
sor.
Baron Stcrnburg, the German am
bassador, introduced to the President
Marco Graf Won Ballestrom, an Off
Ger OF the German Army. who is max
ing a tour of this country.
Albert J. Adams, the former policy
king Of New York, was released from
Sing Sing Prison, after having served
nearly I8 months of a one-year-and-
nine month sentence.
Nellie Gardner and Mabel Wright,
OF Belleville, ILL.,, were sentenced each
to ID years in the penitentiary for
completely in the murder OF John Dun
lap,
The Paducah and Evansville packet
Bob Dudley sank eight miles above
Paducah, after striking a sunken
wreck. All the passengers were saved. |