The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-07-12
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The latest happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

| IL has developed that the legal plo-
ceedngs which resulted in the indict-
ment OF Lawyer Hummel in New York
were instituted by Capt James T..
Morse. an uncle OF Charles w. Morse,
who employed Humme without his neph-
ew's knowledge.
Theodore II. Price, the New York cot
ton broker, came to Washington and,
through his attorney, called upon Secre-
tary Wilson for a retraction OF the inn
pication in his report connecting him
with the cotton-leak scandal
Walter T. Langdon, son OF the assist
ant superintendent Of the insane hospital
at PoughSeepsie. fled with Mrs, Janet L.
| Wilson, who made her escape from that
| institution.
Miss Emma Frances Potts. a Phila-
dephia society girl. was released on bail
on the charge of stealing a valuable ring
from Mrs Mabelle Jarder.
Lena Duerr. a child OF I3, living in
Pntsburg. was made up to look Older
and married to Robert Z. Long by de-
ceived minister in Youngstown, o.
While officers had him custody IN
New York Berthe Claiche, a French
girl, killed Emil Gerdron, who had made
her life one OF abject slavery.
The State Board of Control OF Kan
sas reported that there were many cases
OF insanity in counties where religious
revivals had been held
John Trout committed suicide in Phia-
delphia at the home OF Miss Emma Da-
Wis, who had refused to marry him.
Mrs Matilda Won Linder, who was be-
lieved to have died 80 years ago, re-
turned 10 Reading TO collect $50 legacy.
Two blocks OF the business and resi-
dence section OF Goldheld, New, have
been destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
A quiet Sunday was spent by the
President and his family at Oyster Bay.
They attended church in the morning
Two persons were shot, one probably
fatally. in a fight between whites and
blacks in New York.
While crazy with drink, Mrs. Eliza
Bradley branded her foster-baby, using
a hot hatiron
Judge Cochran. Of the United States
District Court in Kentucky, decided that
Caleb Powers could not secure fair
trial in the state court and removed
the case to federal jurisdiction.
George d. May, formerly president
Of the Big Bend National Bank OF Da-
venport Washington State, was arrest
ed in Boston as a fugitive from justice.
George G. Pierie, chief of the Bureau
Of City Property Of Philadelphia, re-
signed upon the request Of Director OF
Public Safety Potter.
The Supreme Court OF Kansas de-
cidcd that the Kansas Natural Gas Com
pany, a Delaware corporation, cannot do
business in that state.
The Supreme Court of Kansas decided
the law appropriating $4,000 to build
an independent oil refinery to be uncon-
stitutional.
Speaker Fred Paul Groscup, of the
West Virginia House OF Representa-
tives, is i'll in Cincinnati from ptomaine-
poisoning.
Michael Dunn, former building inspec-
tor OF Milwaukee, was sentenced to 18
months in state prison for accepting a
bribe
Grover Cleveland declared that he had
no idea OF retiring from the trustee
ship OF the Equitable Life Assurance
Society.
Commander Frank B. Sawyer, U. s.
~, assumed command of the naval
training station at Newport r. l.
Mrs. Matilda Bender and her daugh-
ter Marie were arrested in Chicago on
the charge OF perjury.
Mrs. Flora Bigelow Dodge was mar
ried in Sioux Falls, Dakota, to Hon.
Lionel George Guest.
John Wilber was arrested in Chicago
for throwing his child into the river
Rabbi Joseph Stolz, OF Chicago, was
elected president Of the Conference OF
American Rabbis, just adjourned at
Cleveland, o.
Nathan c. Schaeffer, of Pennsylvania,
was elected president Of the National
Educational Association, in convention
at Asbury Park, N. J.
Thirty persons were injured in the
wreck Of a Great Northern flyer" at
Springbrook, N. d.
Two Illinois banks, OF which c. J.
Deylin the Topeka (Kan.) capitalist,
was president, have closed.
Refugees fleeing from the yellow few
er scourge on the Isthmus Of Panama
arrived at New York, and paint condi-
tions in the Canal Zone very darkly.
A man who registered as son OF
August Belmont was arrested in Colo
RADIO Springs for alleged forgery. In
New York he was declared an impos,
tor