The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-01-18
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The latest happenings Condensed Tor Rapid
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tempting to force an entrance INTO tne
home OF the Lance brothers, near Mon
AGO. Pa, has been identified as Arthur
S. Harris. OF Midway Pa, a young man
who had borne spotless reputation.
Practically all the 600 miners who will
take part in the Convention of the United
Mineworkers have arrived in lndianapo-
lis. President Mitchells message IS ex-
pected to make important recommends
tons.
President Robbins, OF the Armour car
lines. declares the charges made against
the refrigerating company are based on
testimony that is preludiced and biased
and in many respects false
Minnie a. Worth, wife OF Gorham A.
Worth. a wealthy New York broker, Sc
cured a divorce from him as the result
Of a sensational episode in which Mr..
Worth and Mrs. Emil Schaefer figured
The heirs Of Jonathan Clark. a mil
lonaire contractor. OF Chicago, have
sued Miss Caroline Patterson, who was
his sweetheart, for 100000, which they
charge she secured from him.
The report OF the Philippine Commits
sion was submitted to Congress by Sec
retary Taft, with a letter commenting on
its principal recommendations.
Mr.. Calvo, the Costa Rican minister,
declared that the American Panama
Company had no legal right to its al
legged concession in that country.
William T Wardwell, former treas
urer OF the Standard Oil Company, has
given 100000 for site for a Red Cross
hospital in New York.
Hugh Wallace and William Foraker,
boys. about IL years old, were drowned
in Como Lake at SMYRNA Del, by the
breaking OF thin ice.
Mrs. Mary D. Winter secured in Read
ing Pa, a verdict for SIoo damages
against Levi r. Stoudt. a Center town
ship farmer.
Mrs Mercedes l.. Miles, of Brooklyn,
filed caveat against the probating of
the will Of her husband Col Thomas c.
Miles.
William T Mason, a lawyer, OF New
York; his wife, TWO children and nurse
were burned to death in their home.
Alfred Vanderbilt is reported to have
made millions by buying bargains in
stocks whch the market was depressed
The land has been donated which will
enable Princeton to get S3S5,ooo from
Mr. Carnegie to build a lake.
The President has accepted Mr.. Will
liam Williams resignation as commits
sioner OF immigration at New York.
A number OF phlanthropists in New
York have inaugurated a crusade on the
vicious cadet system.
Archibald C. Loomis, whose name ha:
been frequently mentioned in connec-
ton with the booming of the Montrea
and Boston Consolidated Mining and
Smelling Company stock by the failed
firm of Munroe & Munroe, has ten
dered his. resignation as vice president
and director of the National City Bank
of New York. The resignation will bt
accepted.
During habeas corpus proceedings il
the case Of Brodie L. Duke, of Dur
ham, n. c., in New York. Mr.. Defiance
Nicoll, representing Mr.. Dukes family
said they were anxious to rescue hir
from the associations of criminals. MI
Duke will be examined by an insanit
commission.
A sleighing party was run down by
trolley car at Altoona, Pa. Twenty-on
persons we're injured. An intoxicate
I driver is blamed for the accident.
By rare nerve and pluck, Miss Ellie
Deming, aged 20 years, prevented tw
burglars from robbing station of tn
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.
J. w. Bess was hanged at Lexington
KY, for the murder of Mrs. Marth
McQuinn Martin.
A New Jersey justice of the peac
has decided that kissing is not a pur
shable crime.
, All grades OF refined sugar were aC
vanced 10 cents per 100 pounds.
Forty cases of smallpox are said I
/ exist at Horton, Kan.
r The first snowstorm for two years prt
| walls in Oregon.
Selma Variona and Charles Hne
coal miners, were caught under a ia
of rock at the Halle Mines Collier
Pa. and instantly killed,
The Commercial Exchange Of Phil;
} delphia adopted resolutions asking Il
railroad companies to return TO the o
grain rates from the West.
= X. H. Sarasohn, the pioneer Jewi,
p newspaper publisher of the United State
died at his home, in New York, of pne'
monia.
Former Gov. Silas CARRIER, first COVE
nor of Nebraska under the new const
tuition, died at his home, in Red Clou
: Ncb
/ Fire destroyed the Academy of Mus
block in Chelsea, Mass, and cause Il
serious injury TO several persons