The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-05-24
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
TIE latest Happenings CONDENSED for Rspid
Reading.
Domestic.

rage, tore down part OF his house, broke
much furniture, and then severed his
own jugular vein
A New York poicyhoIder of the Equi-
table Life Assurance Company has writ
ten to President Roosevelt asking him
to order an investigation OF the COM
pany's affairs.
Additional claims, aggregating $1,000,
were filed in The United States District
Court in Philadelphia against the Haight
& Freeze Company, brokers.
The committee OF the United Brethren
Conference, in Topeka. Kan, refused to
accept the report OF the treasurer, Rev.
DR. Mckee, OF Dayton, o.
Mrs. Mary Shepard died at her home,
in Poughkeepsie, N. Y, at the age of
Io4 She was born in County Kiken-
ny. Ireland, December p, 1900.
The president, vice president and cash
er Of the American National Bank OF
Abilene, Tex, were indicted by the fed
eral grand jury.
The municipal fetryboat Richmond
was launched at the shipyards of the
Burlcc Shipbuldng Company, Of Port
Richmond, 5. |.
Minister Barrett declared in New York
that sanitation presented more difficult
problem on the isthmus than the engi-
neering.
II. Clay Grubb, who was tried at Sal
sbury, n. c., on the charge OF killing
his brother-n-law, o. b. Davis, was
acquitted.
P. J. McArdle, Of Muncie, Ind. was
elected president OF the Amagamated
Association OF Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers.
Thieves killed William Strickland,
wa;chman at the Standard Oil ware
houses in Raleigh, N. c., and burned
the place
The various committees made reports
at Yesterdays session of the American
Baptist Missionary Union in ST. Louis.
The American Federation OF Musi-
clans, in session in Detroit, decided to
hold next years convention in Detroit.
The General Synod of the Reformed
Presbyterian Church decided to allow
instrumental music in the church sery-
ices.
Reports were made to the Convention
OF the Switchmen's Union in lndianapo-
lis.
Andrew Carnegie has given SI25,ooo
to Wellesley College for library.
Dr. William Osler, recently professor
of medicine at Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, sailed from New York for
Liverpool enrout to Oxford to accept a
proiessorship.
At Natchez, Miss, Peter Matheson,
book agent, killed two men and fatally
wounded his mother-in-law He also
shot at a four-year-old girl, but without
effect
The women connected with the Toron-
to (Kan) Baptist Church, which was
demolished by a cyclone, have appealed
to John d. Rockefeller for funds for
new edihce.
At Somerville, n. J., George II. Wood
pleaded guilty TO the murder OF George
Williams in the second degree and was
sentenced TO the penitentiary for 80 years.
The First National Bank OF Cornwall
N. Y, has closed its doors. 1t was cap
itaized at $4,000, and, according to a re-
cent statement, owed its depositors SIS,-
900.
President Ripley, of the Santa Fe Rail
way says that Paul .,l6rton, secretary OF
the Navy, can return 20 the service OF
the Santa Fe if he so desires.
1t is probable that an increase in rates
will be discussed by the Royal Arcanum
at its convention in Atlantic City.
At Pueblo, Col, Frank Cowells killed
his sweetheart and then himself.
Philadelphia's City Councils voted TO
lease the city's gas works TO the United
Gas Improvement Company for Is years
for S25,oooooo The announcement OF
the result was received with hisses and
cries of Thieves I" from the gallery.
Alicnsts testified in Somervlle, N.
J., in the case Of George H. Wood, ac-
cused Of killing George Williams, tina;
epieptics might commit crime without
knowing it while in a state OF subcon-
sciousness.
Carl NJ. Spencer, former trusted
employe Of the Des Moines National
Bank, was indicted by the federal grand
jury on a charge OF embezzlement and
for alleged fraudulent entries in the
books.
DR. d. X. Pearsons, a philanthropist,
OF Chicago, who has given many hun
dred thousand dollars to small colleges,
has donated $4,000 TO Montpelier Sem
mary Of Montpelier, VI.