The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-03-14
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After being out all night, a jury found
DR.. ]. b. Mathews, accused of the MUIR
der Of his wife in Greensboro, N. C.,
guilty OF murder in the second degree.
lie was sentenced to 20 years in the
penitentiary.
Dr. Oliver G. Haugh, accused OF
poisoning his father, mother and several
other members OF the family, and then
setting the house on fire, at Dayton, O.,
has been found guilty of murder in
the first degree.
Mrs Edward NJ. Standifer, Of At
lanta, Ga, shot and killed her 1S-year-
old sister, Miss Whisenant because
Mrs. Standiier believed her husband
was attentive to the unmarried woman.
The sentence OF Mrs. Antonette
Tolla, who was to be hanged in New
Jersey for the murder Of Joseph Sonta,
has been committed to seven and
hall years in prison.
Secretary OF the Navy Bonapartc
states that his next annual report will
have something to say about battle
ships Of the l.rcadnaught class.
Gen Henry {. Corbin who has re-
turned from the Orient, says there
will be no war between the United
States and China.
The late Mrs. J. Thompson Swann's
estate, valued at S3ooyooo, is reported
to have been left to Princeton Unver-
sity, and will be devoted to the develop
,,,g.,t % tt,n v~aJ,,a4, e.b,.1
The Allen-Higgins Company, manu-
facturers Of wall paper at Worcester,
Mass, was placed in charge Of a re-
ceiver. The Indebtedness is estimated
at SIo7,7oo.
L. Stuckey, editor Of the Peoples De
mands, Of Shreveport, La, was shot
and killed by A. NJ. Goodwin, editor Of
the Colfax Chronical, at Colfax, La.
The president and two vice presidents
Of the Mutual Reserve Insurance Com
pany were indicted by the New York
Grand Jury.
The three conyicts who mutined at the
Missouri Penitentary and killed gate
man were convicted of murder in the
first degree.
There was a mutiny on board the
steamer Massachusetts while lying at
her Brooklyn dock. in which a fireman
was killed
Three deaths were caused by the col
lision OF a passenger train on the Della
ware and Hudson with a milk train
near Saratoga.
Two police sergeants and eight pa
trolmen were suspended in St. Louis,
pending investigation OF charges in graft
ing.
District Attorney Devlin, Of California,
believes he has a strong case against the
Elevator Trust.
Mrs. w. B. Lewaller, OF Philadelphia,
has sought the protection OF the police
of New Orleans, stating that a meet,
ing OF socialists delegated her to assass-
nate President Roosevelt and that her
life was in danger because she had not
done so.
Berthe Claiche informed District At
torney Jerome that she paid money to
three members of the vice squad OF the
New York police for the privilege OF
walking the streets and named so police
men who got tribute from other women.
Attorney Whipple declared in Bos
ton court that Rogers and Rockefeller,
the Standard Oil magnates, show inso-
lent contempt in declining information
and then asking the court for a decree
in their favor.
The Illinois Coal Operators Associa-
ton will oppose the demands of mine
workers regardless OF the action to be
taken by the National Association Of
Mineowners.
During a pistol duel between Mrs. Alice
Moore and Mrs. Lucy Taylor, Of Mid
dlesboro, KY, over a love affair a by
stander was shot in the head and killed
A Lehigh Valley Railroad train struck
a wagon loaded with powder, but the
train escaped destruction, as the pow
der burned instead Of exploding.
Antonio Bozzuffl, the I4-year-old son
of an Italian banker, who was Kidnapped
by three masked men, has escaped them
and returned home