The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-02-01
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.


The Shakers OF Mount Lebanon. y.
Y, and West Piitsheld, Mass, have sold
to the forestry department Of PcnnSyl-
vania their promised land" The tract
consists of 10000 acres in Bloomington.
Pike county, Pa.
Mrs. Louisa Cody has fled in Chey-
enne, Wyo., an amended answer to the
amended petition OF her husband. Buf-
falo Bill, for divorce. She denies all
charges made by him and makes charges
against him.
The County Court in Omaha, Neb 8,
granted 3o-year-old Charles Cook writ
Of habeas corpus for the possession OF
his intended bride, Mrs Matilda A.
Reed, whose age is 50.
DR.. Edward Lindsey Cunningham,
said to have been the Oldest surviving
graduate Of the Harvard Medical School.
died at Newport, r. l., at the age OF 90
years
William Collins. Of Owensville Ky,
offered his wife $1,000 if she would re-
turn TO him. She declared she would
not come back for three times that
amount.
4 trappcr who. under the name OF
Eugene Toilette, has been hunting in
the Hudson Bay district for 10 years,
it has just been discovered. is a woman.
Lincoln Rogers was marriedNn Frank
fort, Ind, 70 Mrs. Matte r. Morian, OF
Rensselaer,, whom he had never seen and
whom he courted by mail.
Col Samuel K. Honey has sued Hol-
lis H. Hunnewell, OF Wellesley, Mass,
for $4,000 for conducting the divorce
OF his wife against her former husband.
John Wanamaker, OF Philadelphia, wa.
ordered to Florida for his health. He
is suffering from throat trouble and a
general breakdown.
Frank A. Gray, alleged green goods
man, was arrested in New York on the
charge Of swindling Mrs. Irene Rother
Of Marion, o., ont Of $500.
4 colored woman died from smallpox
on a Philadelphia and Reading ferry
boat at Philadelphia. The passengers
were quarantined and di,infected.
Work on the Canton Hankow Railway
will soon begin, according 10 w. w
Pinkston, one of the officials, who is
now in San Francisco.
The armored cruiser Maryland, in her
official trial trip off the New England
coast, attained an average speed Of a.
800 knotes an hogr
Two nephews OF Col James NJ. Guf.
fey were killed near Greensburg, Pa.
by the collision OF a sleigh with a rail
road train.
\ photograph OF John Hoch has beer
identified as that Of Hatch, who was as
socia,ed with Holmes, the famous mur.
derer
Col James B. Simpson, a prominent
Confederate, died at Dallas, Tex, from
injuries received in a runaway accident
John NJ. Hall, formerly president OF
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad, died suddenly at New
Haven.
Receivers for the Standard Rope and
Irvine Company were appointed al
Trenton by Chancellor Magee
A bill to prohibit bucketshops ha'
been favorably reported in the Nortl
Carolina legislature.
A number OF warrants were issuet
for officers Of the deiunct German Banl
of Buffalo.
Samuel H. Piles, Of Seattle, was elect
ed United States senator from Wash
inetOn.
The family of John Kirby was mur
dered at Wauchula, Fla.
After passing resolutions TO form ;
Southern cotton association, commend
ing the government reports and urging
reduction Of acreage, the Southern In
terstate Cotton Convention adjourned.
The freight steamer Georgetown, Of
the Atlantic Steamship Company's fleet
went ashore on the outside OF Grea
Point. The captain and crew OF l;
men landed in safety.