The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-04-26
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
The latest Happenings Condensed Tor Rapid
Reading


The Republicans OF the First Con-
gressional district Of Indiana nominated
| Judge Foster to succeed James A. Hem
enway, elected to the United States Sem
ate
In cave-in at coal mine on Heron
Hill in Pittsburg, Thomas Fitzgerald,
aged "a years, was killed and two men
fatally injured
Frank j. McKinnon, apprentice sea-
man, was the second victim OF eerebro-
spinal meningitis at the Naval Training
Station at Newport.
The walled city OF Jolo, in the Phil
ippines, was attacked by Moros. The
secretary of Governor Scott was ambush
ed and killed.
United States Commissioner Ridge
way, in New York, discharged three men
who had a stolen United States bond
for $4,000.
Sam Vandenbroeck blazed away into
charivari party near Lowell, Mich,
wounding several OF the crowd.
Charles Holenbeck committed suicide
in Johnstown N. Y, by taking carbolic
acid.
Nearly 10000 immigrants arrived in
New York. The total number Of inn
migrants landed in New York during
the month is 62,7oI, as against 42,447
landed during the corresponding period
in April, 1904.
Application was made in the United
States Court at Chicago for the appoint
ment of a receiver for the Equitable
Society and for the distribution OF its
surplus among the stockholders
At Allentown, Pa, 20 Hungarian la
borers, residing in a clearinghouse,
were rendered insensible by chloroform
and were robbed of their savings OF
more than $1,000.
A panic was narrowly averted among
the hospital patients on Blackwell Is
land by the overturning Of a pot OF
boiling wax and the ignition Of the
floor.
Three members of gang OF shop
lifters from Chicago were sentenced to
II months in the penitentiary and to
pay a fine of $500 each in New York.
Prosecutor Keeler, of Cleveland, may
try Mrs. Chadwick on forgery charge.
Doubt is expressed If she can be con-
victed of conspiracy if given new
trial.
A man who registered at the Hotel
Hastings. in Brooklyn, as Henry Bren
ner, Of Philadelphia, committed suicide
by gas asphyxiation.
A woman and her two daughters were
found dead in their home in New York,
having been asphyxiated by illuminating
gas.
The handsome country home OF Brutus
J. Clay, minister TO Switzerland, at
Paris, KY, was burned.
The Montana Supreme Court affirmed
the decision of the District Supreme
Court of Silver Bow County in the
Mime Haly case, Chief Justice Brantly
dissenting. This decision favored Heinze.
Mrs. Florence Cunard, OF London,
formerly Miss Florence McFeeters, OF
Baltimore, obtained judgment in a Phil
adelphia court against her first husband,
E. NJ Padelford, for So,46o.
The Cincinnati and Florida express on
the Southern Railroad broke through a
burning trestle near Rome, Ga. None
of the passengers was injured.
George Gould, who killed Alonzo R.
Hammond, of Chicago, whom he accused
Of alternating his wife's affections, was
acquitted in Chicago.
Nine. Teetrazini, an Italian opera sing
er, had Signor Uriburu arrested in San
Francisco on the charge of misap-
propriating her funds.
The snow along the Union Pacific is so
deep that telegraph and telephone lines
are down and traffic is impeded.
Dr. l. s. Wegand committed suicide
in Denver, Col, because he had been
indicted for illegal use OF the mails.
A man who registered as George Bur
ro Of Washington, was found asphyxi-
ated in a New York hotel.