The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
NEWS In SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.


ernor Herrick, Secretary OF State
Hay, United States Senator Dick;
Governor Durbin, OF Indiana; John
Mitchell, president of the United
Mineworkers.
Snowdrifts block railroad traffic in
Manitoba, Montana and North Dako-
ia, and floods in Michigan arc causing
trouble. Numbers OF towns are mum
dated and families homeless.
The sugar imports at New Orlean;
have grown to great proportions since
the reduction duty on Cuban imports
went into effect.
The body OF Anna Newkirk, who
had been missing from her home
near Salem, N. J., since January IL
was found floating in a creek.
The American Locomotive Company
disc harged one-half of its employees
in the Scranton shops.
Wallace II. Ham pleaded guilty in
Boston to indictments charging him
with the larceny Of $23S,ooo.
The various transatlantic companies
came to an agreement TO restore the
eastbound steeragc rates,
Colonel Clough, vice president OF
the Northern Securities Company,
denies that new company is being
planned In spite of official denials,
there are indications that differences
exist between the Union Pacific and
the Hill-Morgan interests.
Evidence was given in St. Louis in
West Chelmsford, Mass, are OH a strike
charged with having illegally accepted
fees from the Rialto Grain and Securi-
ties Company, of ST. Louis.
Three hundred quarryworkers en-
ployed by Winston Locher & Co., at
the trial of Senator Burton. OF Kansas.
against an order fixing 10 hours as a
days work.
Samuel c. Hazard, OF Pottsville,
Pa, was sentenced in Minneapolis to
two years i'll the penitentiary for
bigamy.
One life was lost in the fire that
ragged OH the Nebrask prairie between
Atlanta and Loomis.
Eighteen Minneapolis -four mills
shut down indefinitely.
Wrecks, landslides and snowsldes
in the snowshed region of the Sierra
Nevada Mountains have impeded traf
fs, carried away telegraph wires and
cut off tclegraphic communication with
the East.
Alexander Pelmslcy, chemist, was
killed by the explosion of quantity
OF flash powder while experimenting
in Philadelphia.
The public schools Of Chicago will
be organized into miniature national,
state and municipal governments.
The National Bank OF Holdenville,
one OF the largest in the Creek Nation,
suspended payment
President Roosevelt delivered lee
turc to a number OF young indians on
the evils OF gambling.
The East-bound Pittsburg and Buff
falo express ran into an open switch at
Northeast, Pa.
Officers were elected at the annual
meeting OF the Disciples OF Christ,
held in Chicago.
Facario Sakay, the so-called presi-
dent OF the Filipino republic, has been
killed
Three persons were killed by illum-
mating gas in New York tenement
house.
Andrew Carnegie, with his wife and
daughter, sailed for Cherboug from
New York on the steamer St. Paul.
A woman was saved by a living
bridge from a seven-story building in
New York which was gutted by fire.
Three whitecappers were sentenced
to the penitentiary for intimidatlng
colored workmen in Helena. Ark.
The plant OF the Bayway Refining
Company in Elizabethport, N. j.,
was destroyed by fire.
+. Henry Richardson, editor OF the
Atlanta Journal, died at his home, in
Atlanta, Ga.
Two negroes accused OF murder
were lynched by mob near Cleve-
land, Miss.
Andrew Carnegie has given another
$5,ooo,ooo for educational purposes.
Michael Brush, burgler, shot Po-
liceman Hugh J,Enright and Jacob
Bachman in New York. The latter is
dead and the other mortally wounded.
The colored people OF Kennett
Square, West Chester, are fighting ior
coeducation of the races. The whites
want them to have separate schools.
George Merritt Clark, OF Buffao,
well-known member of the American
Water-color Society OF New York,
died at his California home.
John Mahnken, who claimed the
body OF an lroquois Theater victim as
a relative in order TO enter suit, was
arrested in Chicago.
The borings of the rapid transit sub
way were completed between the Fort
George terminus and the City Hall, in
New York.
Charles w. Eliot, president OF Har-
ward University since 1860, celebrated
quietly the SEVENTEEN anniversary of
his, birth.
Foreign.
A dispatch from Colonel Leutwein
announced hght at Omatako Noun
tain, in which the Hereros were re-
pulsed with the loss OF 10 men killed.
General Reyes, who left Paris last
night for Colombia, intimatel that he
would accept the presidency OF the