The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-08-23
The news IN SHORT ORDER |
Domestic,

Near Clarksvil'e, Tex, two negroes
were accused of uttering defanatOry re-
marks about white girl They were
arrested and tried by commttee-hve
white and FIVE colored They were
found guilty and received lashes, admin
istered by the colored men.
The walls of the Avenue Theater
building, in Pittsburg, which was being
wrecked preparatory to the construction
of a new building, fell with a crash,
carrying down IS Italian laborers, bury
ing a number under the debris. None
were killed.
According to Rev. DR.. w. A. r. Mar
tin, lately president of the Imperial Tun-
gwan College at Peking who recently
arrived at Victoria, the Chinese are
greatly aroused by the Japs' triumphs in
the war and are seeking TO emulate them
Hundreds Of thousands OF pounds OF
sulphur were burned in New Orleans
to rid the city of the fever-infected mos
quitoes, and the Marine Hospital Corps
now hope to stamp out the disease in
few weeks.
Mr. James Hazen Hyde, former vice
president of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society, has sold his country place,
on Long Island, to Louis Bossart for
100000, which is about half OF its total
cost.
President Mitchell is trying to check
the weakness in the United Minework-
ers' organization in the anthracite region,
the union having lost many members in
the Hazleton and Schuylkill regions.
Joe Ullman, proprietor OF the Bridge
Club in Saratoga, has received a deadly
bomb similar to those sent TO Jacob IL.
Schiff and the Guggenhems, in New
York.
A log raft containing 100000 feet
of timber will start at an early date
from Stella, Wash, to be towed across
the Pacific Ocean to Shanghai
The tribes in the Moro provinces Of
Zamboanga, Philippines, gave Secretary
OF War Taft and his party a great re-
ception.
A project is on hand in New York 70
erect a chimney into the clouds. 1t will
be the tallest structure ever built.
Five Americans and several colonists
are reported to have been killed in a
fight between them in Mexico.
After an inspection trip in the West,
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson is con-
WINGED that some Of the railroads are
making as obnoxious as possible recent
regulations governing livestock ship
ments in order to secure their repeal.
Frank Ward, of Pueblo, Col, forced
his daughter to swallow poison, which
caused her death He then took the
same drug, which also caused his death.
At Plymouth, Mass, Chicago de-
tcctives failed to identify George l..
Marsh, suspected of the murder of a
chauffeur near Chicago several months
ago.
r. H. Davidson, a Chicago building
contractor, is missing. His friends be-
lieve that he has been slugged by la
Dor gong.
Henry D. Davis, of Cleveland, O., was
elected president of the fraternal order
OF Eagles, in session in Denver, COL
Kipson A. Andrews, former treas
urer of the Pittsburg Coal Company, is
reported to be dying at Youngstown, O.
Minooka, large town bordering on
Scranton, Pa, is so good that the whole
police force has been dismissed
Three negroes who had murdered
women of their own race were hanged
in Memphis.
On a bench in Fairmount Park, in
Philadelphia, the body OF a man was
found Presumably from a letter that
was on him the mans name was Joseph
A. Thompson, of Fittsburg. The let
ter found on him is complaint against
his brother, and claims relationship
through, him with the wealthy Thaw
family of Pittsburg.
At meeting OF the National Railway
Association in Deadwood "Stet" Burr
commissioner from Florida, accused
Walker D. Hines, first vice president of
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Of perjury in his sworn statement Of
the value of the company's property for
taxation purposes.
Adoph Kraus, of Chicago, expressed
himself as we'll satisfied with the result
Of the conference of leading Jews with
M. Witte at Portsmouth regarding the
settlement of the rights of Jews in Rus
sia
The Chamber of Commerce of Bel
lingham, Wash, has passed resolutions
protesting against any attempt 10 modify
the tariff on timber.
Postmaster General and Mrs. Cortel-
you were guests OF President and Mrs.
Roosevelt at Sycamore Hill.
Six Mexican laborers were killed in
ra;lr1oI ~1ff,r,o.,