The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-10-04
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Denouncing President Castro Of Vene-
zuela as tyrant, briber and traitor,
Vincent Perez Leon, Venezuelan in
voluntary exile, gave some sensational
testimony while being examined before
United States Commissioner Cilchrist
in the $II.oooooo damage suit brought
by the Venezuelan government against
the New York and Bermudez Asphalt
Company, known as the Asphalt Trust,
on the charge that the American COM
pany aided the Mateo revolutionists in
1901. The witness referred to Castro
in the most scathng language, citing one
instance wherein he had caused him (the
witness) TO be thrown into Jail and ter
ribly lashed. Leon declared the Castro
government entered into plot to steal
the rights of the New York and Ber-
mudcz Company
An active Imagination, nRamed by the
morbid adventures Of "Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde which she had recently seen
staged, was responsible for Is-year-old
Nellie Nussbaum's excursion into Black
Hand" literature. She lives at ass East
Sixty-hrst street. She desired to play
the dual role of the villain and the in
nocent, and succeeded so we'll that for
weeks she kept an entire neighborhood
IN ferment OF fear. Selecting her own
father and r. F. Saunwalt, neighbor,
as her victims, she wrote skull-and-
crossbone letters, threatening them in
true Maha style and signing Black
Hand" Now she has confessed, been
forgiven and promised to be good.
Storming with anger, and at the same
time weeping copously, tall and at
tractive-looking young woman, who gave
her name as Mrs. Adelna Shelor, went
to police headquarters and demanded
that detectives be sent in pursuit of her
husband to arrest him on a charge Of
bigamy. Then she told a story of the
discovery Of his alleged duplicity, fiery
interview with another wife, who had
threatened 10 throw vitriol, and finally
the supposed fight of the man TO Mon
treal. She said he was living with his
other wife at the Grausis, but detectives
could not find him, and he is supposed
to have gone to Canada.
For the third time since the death OF
Charles Broadway Rouss, the eccentric
merchant, in March, 1902, woman has
appeared as a claimant to his estate of
$8,ooo,ooo. Mrs. Elizabeth Slattery Cow
an has begun suit against the estate to
recover claim of $3o,2so, which she says
is due her as a balance on a contract
made with the blind merchant in 1892
The most startling feature of Mrs. Cow
ans suit is that she accuses Rouss of
having tricked her into a sham mar
riage, which he finally found convenient
10 renounce.
Explaining the early movement of gold
to this country this season, a prominent
Wall Street banker says that Europe has
been an unusually heavy buyer of our
securities during the past summer. The
heaviest buyer has been Holland, which
holds about $284, 100000 in American
railways and $2oI, SOC, 900 in American
industrial securities, face value.
: In opposing habeas corpus proceedings
on behalf OF Henry Kopp, 28 Manhattan
avenue, Williamsburg, now confined in
sanatorium at Amityville, Mrs. Kopp
declared he had insisted upon her skat-
ing on rollers while he sailed kites, and
in one day bought 10 dogs, IS pictures
and 200 padlocks for his trunk. Kopp
was in court and denied his wifes
charges. Mrs. Kopp, in pleading with
the Court to keep her husband under
restraint, said he drank IS to 20 glasses
of whisky daily, and sometimes two
quarts.