The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-02-22
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.


the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad, the officials Of the com
pany have opened employment offices.
\ holdup man tore a 5000 brooch
from the dress of Mrs. john w Cornish
in New York. fired two shots ai her hus
band and escaped
At meeting Of the creditors of Mrs.
Chadwick in Cleveland Attorney Locs-
er, who has been acting as receiver.
was elected trustee.
Former Congressman Christopher A.
Bergen, Of New Jersey, is dead at his
home, at Haverford, a suburb OF Phila-
delphia.
The law firm of Mcpherson. Hyde &
Damon, of Boston, announced the theft
OF notes and bonds 10 the value OF $50,
oo0
Five persons were burned to death
in a dwelling at the Howe Brook planta
ton, near Island Falls, Me.
Five men were killed and i3 injured
by fall OF rock at the Lytlc Colliery,
near Pottsville, Pa.
The remains OF Gen. Lew Wallace
were buried with simple ceremonies in
Charlottesville, Ind.
DR.. r. Jones Watson, of Denver. Col,
was acquitted OF wife murder in New
London. No.
William II. Parsons, the paper manu-
facturer, of New York, died at Palm
Beach, Fla.
Six armed robber, entered delivery
office in Chicago held up the employees
and compelled clerk. at the point OF
revolver, 70 open a safe. from which they
secured $500 They made their es-
cape.
Tuberculosis farms will be established
i'll different sections OF the country by
labor organizations for treatment OF
/ union workers afflicted with consump-
ton.
The body Of the man who committed
suicide in a Boston hotel was identified
as that OF Hiram McCollum. formerly a
department clerk in Washington.
Because OF difference with the facul-
ty the senior class at Massachusetts
Agricultural College, at Amherst, has de-
cided 10 withdraw.
Governor Hoch, ,of Kansas, signed the
bill appropriating 100000 for the cree
ton and maintenance Of state oil re-
fnery.
A dozen persons, cut off from escape
by smoke and flames, were rescued by
fremen from a Cleveland apartment
house
The second trial Of Nan Patterson, ac-
cused OF the murder OF Caesar Young
will begin on March O. in New York.
A negro, charged with assaulting a
white woman, was shot to pieces by a
Texas mob
Governor Toole, Of Montana, signed
bill prohibiting employment of chill
dren in mines.
An effort viii be made 10 establish
lodges of the Knights of Pythias in Lon
don. England.
The Religious Education Association
concluded its sessions in Boston. Bish-
op w. F. Mcdowell, OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Chicago, was elected
president, and President Faunce, Of
Brown University, first vice president.
Damaging evidence against Wallace
A. Lowell, alleged wildcat" insurance
man, was introduced in the trial of Low
ell and w. NJ. Cowell in Chicago,
charged with using the mails to de-
| fraud
Judge Judson c. Clements, represent
ing the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, began an investigation in Pitts
burg of charges OF excessive rates on
| terminal railroads in that city.
In the United States District Court,
New York, an order was passed dismiss
ing the involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy against the brokerage firm Of
Munroe & Munroe
Nine. Rejane, the French actress, and
her daughter, Germaine, were among the
passengers who sailed from New York
on the steamer La Touraine for Havre.
Harrison F. Johnson, wealthy New
York lawyer, died in hotel from NOR
| phine or some other drug. A woman
OF the Tenderloin is under arrest
Three children were burned to death
at Springdale, Mich, and their father
Frank Pearson, so badly burned, that
he probably will die.
Bgler Johnson was convicted Of the
murder of his wife in Tonawanda, Pa,
and sentenced to death.
Eight workmen were seriously injured
! by an explosion OF sulphur in the Brook
lyn Sulphur Works.
Sam Bowen was declared not guilty
OF the murder of Prof. E. L. Cotton at
College, Pa.
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