The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

| continued Inc discussion OF plans Tor
aiding the work of improving roads.
The police have recovered some
jewelry that was stolen from the
coffin OF Lady Mary" Livingston, on
the family estate, below Hudson, n. y.
Papers on newspaper topics were
read at the Worlds Press Parliament
| in Festival Hall, on the Worlds Fair
Grounds, in s.. Louis.
The Cumberland Presbyterians. at
their session in Dallas, Tex, discuss ed
| the subject OF reunion with the Pres
byterian Church.
knights of Labor lecturers are or
ganzing the teXtileworkers in Phil
adelphia with the object OF making a
| contest against the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor for supremacy.
John Hathaway, a colored jockey,
was sentenced in Winchester, Ky, to
be hanged for the murder OF Eta
Thomas.
David Rothschild. former president
OF the Federal Bank Of New York
was convicted of larceny in the first
degree.
A call has been issued for the for
nation of an association TO comprise
all the trust companies in New York.
President Clowry, OF the Western
Union, said that his company had
absolutely ly abolished the racing de-
partment.
The left leg Of Major T. A. Bing-
ham, United States Engineers, was
amputated at hospital in Buffalo.
The Temple Of Fraternity, at the
Worlds Fair, was opened by the
Daughters OF Rebekah
John J. Donahue, an alleged EN-
bezzler in Sioux City, Ia, was caught
in Ireland.
The National and International
Good Roads Association began its
convention in the Missouri State
| Building, in the Exposition grounds.
An address was made by Secretary
OF Agriculture Wilson.
During heavy electric storm los
eph Odle, a private in the One Hun
dred and Thirteenth Company of
Coast Artillery, at Fort Hancock, n.
J, was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed
Frank Betsa, Hungarian, 20 years
old, was convicted in Morristown, n.
J., OF the murder OF Mime Root, of
Hibernia, and was sentenced to be
hanged.
Prof. w. L. Stokesbury, of Vir-
ginia Institute, Bristol, was elected
president OF Lincoln Memorial Uni
verslty, at Cumberland Gap, Tenn.
At the annual meeting OF the Ana
tonda Copper Mining Company the
old directors, with one exception,
were reelected
A commemorative tablet was un-
yelled by the General Federation OF
Club Women at the Worlds Fair, in
St. Louis.
Testimony for the defense was
given at the trial OF James Gillespie
for the murder of his sister in Ris-
ing Sun, Ind.
The tin wage scale was completed
and adopted by the Amalgamated AS
sociation in Cleveland, o.
Louis Oliver, chronic thief, was
sentenced in Mason, Mich, to prison
for life for stealing.
government dredge for the Delaware
River was submitted by the Maryland
Steel Company and they will secure
the contract.
Exciting debates on fire insurance,
strikes AMI kindred subjects took
place at the session OF the National
Association OF Manufacturers in Pitts
burg,
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion is holding session in New York
and is investigating freight rates from
the West to seaboard ports.
United States Senator Latimer, Of
South Carolina, addressed the Cool
Roads Convention, in session in St
Louis.
A British bark was wrecked ard
steamer went ashore in the dense
fog off the Newfoundland coast.
Murphy J. Foster was formally re.
elected United States senator by the
Louisiana legislature.
Burglars robbed the postoffice AZ
Swarthmore, Pa, OF stamps and cash
estimated at 5000.
There was sharp break in the
New York cotton market
indianapolis will entertain Prince
Pu Lun. OF China.
Mrs, Herman Leroy Jones, wife OF
wcll-kuown New Yorker and
prominent in society Of that city. has
mystcrously disappeared, In a note
TO her husband she says she will work
out her own destiny.
The Give Federation has offered
IT'S services with view to bringing
about settlement II the existing dif-
ierenccs between the Lake Carriers
Association and Pilots Association
In an address in St. Louis Gen.
Nelson A. Miles suggested that 5000
soldiers during times OF peace be en-
ploycd in assisting local authorities
III constructing good roads.
The International Navigating Com
pauy's steamer the Conemaugh has
not been heard from since she sailed
from Seattle to New York on Decem-
Der 49,
The batilcship Rhode Island was
launched A Quincy, Mass. The water
was not deep enough, and she stuck
in the mud
The dissolution OF the second or
extended bond conversion syndicate
OF the United States Steel Corpora
ton took effect
The Rosebud Indian Reservation.
in the southern part OF South Dakota,
VIII be thrown open TO settlers in
July.
The General Federation OF Wo-
mems Clubs is holding its seventh
biennial meeting in St Louis.
a monument to Gen. Rufus Putnam,
OF the Revolutionary Army, was dedi-
Gated at Sutton. Mass
Foreign.
One OF ;he first official acts Of the
Gar upon his return TO ST. Peters
burg will be the reception OF Sir
Charles Hardiugp tho pr;,;sL 80,