The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-01-10
THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.


DOMESTIC
In the y months Just closed the rail.
ways OF the country have ordered 34I.31s
freight cars, 0,265 locomotives and S,2Se
passenger cars In 1904 the figures were
Locomotives, 2.53o, passenger cars, 2,2I3i
freight cars, 13o,soI
\ commission representing the State
OF Missouri began taking testimony
IRON standard On officials u New YORK
in the states suit to have the corporation
declared a monopoly in the Western
commonwealth
An iS-ton hywhee at the Morgan En-
gineering Works, Alliance, o., burst
! wrecked a part Of the building, and a
large piece falling on the railroad tracks
blocked rains.
Attorneys for Johann lloch, who is
under sentence OF death at Chicago ior
wife-murdcr, filed in the State Supreme
Court OF Illinois motion for a rehear-
ing
Former Secretary OF the Treasury
Lyman J. Gage agrees with Banker Ja-
cob H. Schilf that there will be panic
if the currency is not made more elastic.
DR. Harrison S Hathaway Civil
War Veteran aud a prominent physician
of Toledo, o., was struck by a train and
killed
Dr. Charles Eliot Morton, formerly
of Harvard, is leading crusade TO chic
roform the hopclessIy insane and dis
eased persons
The express companies have joined
with the railroads in refusing to issue
passes for The carrying OF business free.
Banker Jacob H. Schiff made an adj
dress before the New York Chamber OF
! Commerce, stating that it the present
stringency in the money market is not
relieved there will be panic, besides
which other crashes will be insignih-
cant
Governor Higgins, OF New York, de-
MED an application for a reprieve for
Albert 7. Patrick, who is under SEN
tence OF death for the murder of William
NJ. Rice, the millionaire
The Massachusetts Savings Bank Com
missioners have asked ior the appoint
ment of receiver for the Provident
Securities and Banking Company Of Bos-
ton
c. S. Guthrie, president Of the board
Of the Republic Iron and Steel Company
died at Salisbury n, C., after an opera
ton for appendicitis
Eight miners were burned, two OF them
fatally, in an accident at the Hazleton
shaft OF tho Lehigh Valley Coal Com
pany
The Louisiana state division OF the
Southern Cotton Association approved
the plan OF holding cotton for IS cents.
A number OF collisions between ferry
boats and other vessels occurred during
the dense fog over New York harbor
A total OF I3G,545,I48 United States
coins was struck off at the United States
Mint during the past year.
Safe-blowers got $1,000 in cash and
government bonds from Albaugh's gen
eral store, in Shoals, Ind
DR.. d. X. Pearson has given $4,000
to Guilford College, OF Guilford. n. c.
Curtis Guild, Jr., was nauguarated as
governor of Massachusetts
A bill has been introduced in the New
York legislature, but Withdrawn, asking
that Chauncey Depew resign his seat in
the United States Senate. Governor
Higgins sent message to the body, urg-
ing the passage OF more drastic life in
surance laws. James W. Wadsworth,
Jr., was chosen speaker OF the Assembly
Plans are being made to extend the
Valley Branch OF the Baltimore and
Ohio from Lexington to Salem, Va, in
accordance with plans made IS years
ago, The city Of Baltimore has over
100000 invested in the stock OF the
road.
Frank Wisniski, the stable boy witness
in the hearing of Dr. ]. W. Simpson,
charged with shooting BARLEY J. Homer,
was unable to testify being alternately
stupefed or frantic from fright.
Charles Edwards, a wealthy chemical
manufacturer OF New York, was found
dying with bullet wound in his head,
received in mysterious manner while
visiting relatives in Utica, n. y.
John A. Mccall has retired as presi-
dent OF the New York Life Insurance
Company and Alexander T. Orr will
succeed him.