The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-06-21
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
1he latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domeshe.

| supreme Regent Howard {. Virgins,
OF the Royal Arcanum, says there is no
occasion for alarm about the condition
OF the order, members are being niti-
atcd, new applications are being received,
and others are increasing the amounts
OF their certificates.
AT the Convention of American Zion
sts in Philadelphia it was decided that
Palestine was the best place for the col
onizaiion Of the Jews
ALVIN J. Tucker, OF Clyde, New York,
dreamed his uncle had died and left
him a legacy of $4,000, and on the fol-
lowing day learned that it had really oc-
CURED.
College entrance examinations, con-
Quoted by the college entrance examina-
ton board, will be held today at 100
points in the United States and in Eu-
rope.
Six members Of the last Arkansas
General Assembly, including the presi-
dent OF the Senate, are under indictment
on charges Of bribery, perjury and con-
spiracy.
Judge Dickey, Of Newburg, n. Y, de-
nounced in open court the defendant,
who was trying to recover a second time
money he had loaned on mortgage.
The patrons of the public school AZ
Little Silver n. J., insisted on the rein
statement Of the schooitcacher who had
been dismissed because he chewed to-
| bacco.
The manual Of the Daughters Of the
Faith, about TO be issued, declares that
a Catholic divorcee who remarries should
be socially ostracised
Pascel ?. Pratt, millionaire merchant
and banker, died in Buffalo, N. Y. He
had undergone an operation and never
rallied from the shock.
Rear Admiral Sigsbees squadron sail
ed from Tompkinsville for Cherbourg,
France, where John Paul Jones' body
will be taken on board
The Bell and the independent tele-
phone companies in Amsterdam, n. Y,
and contiguous cities are indulging in a
rate war.
Francis Murphy the temperance ad-
vocate who has been i'll six weeks with
blood-poisoning, is recovering slowly
There was a free fight in the First
Recorders courtroom in New Orleans,
IN which all parties produced guns
Miss Mamie Babb, a schoolteacher. Of
Norway, Me, viii Join Peary's expedi-
ton in quest Of the North Pole.
During an orgie among the Eskimos
on the Diomed Islands a native woman
was burned at the stake,
Herman Kluesendorf and Mary Kohl
eloped from the poorhouse in Milwau-
kee and were married
Miss Minnie Stoermer, Of New York.
after trying twice TO shoot the man who
Tilted her, killed herself
Dowie wants TO raise 100000 to carry
a restoration TO Paris and purify the
gay French capital.
Otis Bolts, aged II years, convicted
OF the murder of his child wife, lost
his nerve on the scaffold at Peoria, Ill.,,
and was barely able to stand while be-
ing prepared to be hanged.
The concluding session Of the Credit
Mems Association was held in Mem
phis. A resolution was adopted favor
ing the Lodge consular bill. Officers
were elected.
Samuel Greason, colored, convicted Of
the murder OF John Edwards, was ac-
quilted at Reading, Pa, Edwards wife
having completely exonerated him.
The federal courts have issued a tenn
porary injunction restraining the Mis-
souri, State Railway Commissioners from
enforcing the maximum freight rate law
Harvey Smith. John Collier and VIII
Jackson, all colored, were hanged at
Decatur, Ala, for murder. Troops were
present as precautionary measure.
While excavating for water mains in
one Of the main streets Of Helena, Mont.
workman found an ingot of copper
and gold weighing Is pounds.
Formal indictments against FIVE pack
ing firms Of Chicago have been drawn
up and presented TO the federal grand
jury in Chicago for action.
W. II. Werner, OF Columbia, s. c.,
the winner Of Cecil Rhodes scholar
ship, committed suicide at Asheville,
n. {. He had been ill.,
At ST. Paul, Ind, jealousy prompted
William Boardman to kill his wife and
then himself.
At Kieler, Wis, Mrs Paul Kloss kill
ed her four small children and then
committed suicide.