The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-01-31
the LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMESTIC

Captain Van Schaick, master of tho
| General Slocum, on which 1000 lives
were lost, has been sentenced to 10 years
in jail. He has made an appeal from,
the decision
Nelson Morris & Co. and Armour &
Co deny the giving OF bribes to Chicago
newspaper men 10 influence reports OF
the beef packers trial in Chicago.
Rev H. S Little, just returned from
the Orient, says the students Of the
Chinese universities are fomentng a rev
olution and favor a republic.
Mrs. Susan Day Parker, accused OF
participating in the firing Of the yacht
Scythian for the insurance, has been
declared not guilty.
Charles l.. Tucker, convicted OF the
murder OF Mabel Page OF near Cam
bridge, Mass, has been sentenced 10 be
electrocuted.
Secretary Loeb announces that the gov
ernment may prosecute the wreckers Of
the Enterprise National Bank OF Pitts
burg.
Norman lapeood. editor OF Golfers
Weekly, was acquitted of a charge OF
criminal libel preferred by Justice Joseph
NJ. Deuel..
In the ene-Gaynor trial kilograms
bearing upon the allegation that an at
tempt was made to bribe a Government
inspector were admitted.
The miners of the Southwest at In
dlanapolis decided to stand by the de-
mand for the admission Of the Joint
conference.
There are indications that District At
torney Jerome IS preparing TO prose-
cute certain persons involved in in
surance irregularities
Fire in the sanitarrum of Miss Anna
l.. Aston, in New York. endangered
the lives of a number of patients who
mad recently been operated on.
Constantine Levi and Peiro Forac-
ika, alleged secretaries OF the Baird
(Pa) anarchist band, were arrested
near Monongahela, Pa.
Fourteen lives were lost in an eN-
ploson in the Whittcville Mine. Indian
Territory, that was caused by FIRE damp.
The Pennsylvania State Senate or
dered an investigation Of the Insurance
Department of that state.
The Bank of San Luis Obspo, Cal,
closed It's doors by order OF the bank
commissioners.
Charles Vim killed his wife, her
sister and himself in Providence, r. |.
United States District Attorney Morri-
son denounced the attorneys Tor the beef
packers OF Chicago as trust lawyers and
that their defense OF immunity is clap
trap.
Mary Mccall, age 10 years, saved
two Northern Central Railway trains
from wreck near Harrisburg. Pa. by
signaling that a bowlder had rolled on
the tracks.
James Debuys, for 81 years a member
OF the New Orleans Cotton Exchange
and prominent in the social and business
world OF that city, died suddenly.
The Mississippi compress, at Jackson,
Miss, with $500 bales OF cotton, was
destroyed by hire. Loss Sz5o,ooo, with
insurance OF Ssooooo
Seven St. Louis women have been
stabbed by Jack the Cutter"
Remarks by Colonel Aeldrin, of coun-
sci for Greene and Gaynor now on trial
in Savannah, were construed as a re-
Election on the court by Judge Speer,
who ordered the attorney to his seat,
and delivered scathing address from the
bench.
The suit Of Morris c. AIengis against
Gen. Louis Fitzgerald for a fee of
million dollars in connection with the
sale of the Western Maryland Railroad
will come Tor retria in Brooklyn in
February.
The wage scale committee OF the Unit
ed Mineworkers Convention has report
ed in favor of I2H per cent. increase
in wages, an eighthour workday and
working contract for year
Mrs, Anna Howard, OF Brooklyn, N.
Y, known as the baby carriage thief"
was sentenced 10 FIVE years at hard labor.