The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-10-11
the LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.


DOMESTIC
The Peoria National Bank, whose
president is accused OF embezzlement
closed its doors, and the Dime Savings
Bank, with which he is also connected,
posted the Co day sign.
Two city blocks were burned over on
the upper East Side in New York by a
fire that threatened to involve the entire
lumber district.
Wilkens Hobensack, who had been
private secretary TO Congressman F. T.
Wanger, committed suicide in Norris
town, Pa.
Burglars dynamited the stamp box at
the Chagrin Falls (Ohio) Postoffice and
got away with the contents.
Officers were elected at the Congress
OF the Daughters OF the Confederaey in
San Francisco.
Gaynor and Greene were taken from
Montreal, Can, to New York by Secret
Service men.
Judge F. A. Smith, Of the Appellate
Court, in Chicago. in decision against
union men, declared that there is no
such thing as peaceful, polite and gen
tlemanly picketing
The Great Northern Railroad Com
pany has offered rewards aggregating
$4,000 for the arrest and identification
of all the robbers who held up the
Great Northern train near Seattle.
The Convention OF the German
American National Alliance at lndianap-
oils took steps to further instruction in
the German language in the public
schools.
The Society OF the Army Of the Ten
nessee concluded its session in Cincin-
natl. Gen. Fred d. Grant and Lieut.. U.
S. Grant third were present.
J. B. Williams, president Of the Yer
mont Slate Company, and 10 Hungarian
laborers were killed by a cavein at the
quarry, near Granville, n. y.
The latest reports OF the typhoon's
terrible havoc in the Philippines show
that 200 natives and 2s Americans and
foreigners were killed.
William McDermott insisted on plead
ing guilty OF counterfeiting in Houston,
Tex, and was sent to Fort Leavenworth
for I3 months.
The trial OF the suit Of Mrs. Lizzie s.
Cowcn against the estate OF the late
Broadway Rouss was begun in New
York.
Formal demurrers were filed in the
federal court in Chicago in the Beef
Trust case by the attorney for the pack
ers.
Col Martin Van Burcn Davis, CON
nected with the government mint, died
at his home, in Philadelphia.
Henry A. Leonard, the Wall street
clerk, was indicted for forgery in the
second degree.
The structural ironworkers have gone
on strike in Winnipeg, Man.
N. {. Dougherty, for many years city
superintendent Of schools and one OF
the most prominent educators in the
country, was arrested in Peoria, H.,
following an indictment by the grand
jury charging forgery.
New Orleans reports 2S new cases of
yellow fever, total TO date of 3,Iz2.
The bark Tillie Baker. from Savannah
for Philadelphia, has been held up at
Marcus Hook pending investigation OF
suspicious cases OF fever on board
District Attorney Jerome announced
that he would submit certain features
OF the life-tnsurance scandal developed
by the legislative committee TO an eX-
traordinary grand jury.
An operation for appendicitis was per-
formed on August Belmont at the Nc.
mortal Hospital, in New York 1t was
reported to be successful
Two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars are missi1g from TIE Alamosa (Col)
Bank. The owners OF the bank are
likewise missing
Five Thousand TWO hundred dollars
was secured by burglars, who entered
the Bank OF Springfield, S. D., and blew
open the vault.
Three children were burned 10 death
and a number Of persons had narrow
escapes in burning hathouse in Brook
lyn
Vito Laduca was held without bail in
Brooklyn on the charge Of being impli-
Gated in the kidnapping OF Tony Meren-
dino.
Louis Carmichael, who worked up
Horace Greeley's boom for president,
died suddenly in Sydney n, y.