The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-08-30
THE news IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic.

archisiic literature. The challenge will
bt ignored
In his annual report TO the War De
partment General Wint. commander Of
the Department Of the Missouri, recon-
mends that married men be barred from
enlistment and that chaplains be prohb-
tied from marrying soldiers.
William II. York, aged II years. who
was one OF Guerilla Morgan's raiders
during the Civil War. is in Jefferson
County (Ky) Jail on the charge OF the
murder Of his brother aged 50 years.
Mr.. Theodore p Shonts, chairman OF
the lsthman Canal Commission. was a
guest of the President at Oyster Bay,
and discussed with him matters apper-
tanning TO the great undertaking.
The discovery OF oil in the heart of
Warren, Pa, has made that town oil
crazy. Wells are being sunk in back
yards Of residents There has been
phenomenal rise in land values.
A Brooklyn man has asked that his
wife be committed to an industrial home
because he is tired OF combing her hair
and sewing buttons on her bouses. She
was committed
John Moore, a negro, 20 years old,
was taken from jail in Newbern, N. c.,
by a mob OF 100 armed men and lynched.
He attacked a woman in a country store.
A Philadelphia man became convinced
that he was about to die and so predicted
in a letter to a relative When about
to post the missive he dropped dead.
A t5-year-old choir boy OF Philadel-
phia has been arrested in Philadelphia on
the charge of burglary The police say
he has committed over 10 robberies.
Six thousand union carpenters of Bos~
ton will receive an increase in wages
under the decision OF Judge George l..
Wentworth. to whom as special arbi-
TRAITOR the employers and unionists sub
nitted the question Of new working
agreement
The mystery Of the loss OF trunks and
Of other baggage in Western cities is be-
lievcd TO have been solved by the Chi
caqo police. who arrested a man and a
woman A search OF their rooms re-
yealed evidences OF the missing baggage
Mr. Harry +. Hooper, city register Of
Baltimore, was elected vice president
Of the American League Of Municipali-
ties. in session in Toledo. The league
will hold its next meeting in Chicago
The Chicago police believe they have
a clue to the Mizc murder mystery. They
have arrested man for holding up
woman. The circumstances and meth
DDS employed are similar to those in
the Mize case.
The work OF the National Young
lined AT Lake Geneva by Miss Emma
Hays, one OF the national secretaries Of
the association.
Frank PUNISH, a Chicago swindler, has
been arrested after being out OF the PEN
itentiary for only. three weeks. He has
spent over 80 years behind the bars
The report Of the fever situation in
New Orleans was encouraging There
was a small report OF new cases and
only one death during the night.
Benjamin Kunkle and his daughter
.n-law, Mrs. Francis Kunkle were
drowned in Big Beaver Creek, near
Lancaster, Pa.
James Madison Brooks, a salesman
OF the Standard Oil Company, commit
ted suicide in New York by shooting.
The value of the estate OF the late
Secretary Hay exceeds S2soooo.
In an address before the National lr-
rigation Congress, now in session at
Portland, Ore. james J. Hill, presi-
dent OF the Great Northern Railway,
quoted statistics to show how public
lands of the West are passing into the
hands Of monopolists
The breaker, office, boier-house and
engne-housc of the Pine Hill Coal Com
pany. at Minersvile Pa, were burned.
The loss is $4,000; partly insured. Six
hundred men and boys are thrown out
Of employment.
James P. Hennessey was arrested in
New York on the charge Of the forgery
Of $4,000 against the estate OF the late
millionaire d. P. Morgan, Of which he
was cashier.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
announces that in future it viii accept
no freight cars from manufacturers IN
less they are equipped with airbrakes.