The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-02
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William A. Brewer, Jr., formerly presi
dent of the Washington Life Insurance
Company, was indicted by the New YORK
Grand Jury for perjury The charge grows
out OF report made to the state
superintendent OF insurance in 1908 re-
garding the condition of the company.
A warrant has been issued for III,
arrest OF Erich Nluenter, an instructor
in German at Harvard University, on +;
charge Of numbering his wife in Cam
bridge, Mass, about two weeks ago
It being alleged that the woman's deati
was caused by arsenic.
DR. Charles A. Nicholas, Of Spring
field, ILL.,, accused OF using the mails il
an attempt to defraud Mrs. Susan DAY
by threatening letters, has been deniec
new trial and will have to pay $I,7oc
fine and costs.
Arthur Jacobs, a San Francisco teams.
ter, has been arrested on a charge OF
looting. He and several other men arc
said to have stolen several tons OF Red
Cross supplies for the destitute
Mrs NJ l. Standfer. who acknow-
Iedged she shot and killed her sister
because the latter won the affections OF
her husband, was acquitted by an At
lanta (Ga.) jury.
The anthracite coal operators have
again rejected the demands Of the mine
workers. The latter will meet next week
to decide the strike question.
II. l.. Huntington opened with a
gilt OF $4,000 a fund to alleviate the
ruined fortunes Of professional mel and
women in the California disaster.
The engineer Of a freight locomoth :
on the Pennsylvania was killed and two
others injured by the explosion of the
boiler, near Steelton. Pa.
Members OF the crew OF the cruiser
Columbia marched in the parade OF the
Confederate veterans in New Orleans.
Earthquake shocks continue to be felt
daily az Salinas, 100 miles south of San
Francisco
The steamer Buckman, Of the Alaskan
Line arrived at San Francisco with
volunteer physicians, Red Cross nurses
and a cargo OF 200 tons Of provisions
of Cape Blanco the ship was struck
by a gigantic tidal wave.
The Shaw Machine Company, manu-
fac;urers Of textile machinery, with a
plant at Lowell, Mass. was placed in
the hands OF a receiver, in Boston.
Two men and several dining room
girls were suffocated in a fire that broke
out at midnight in the hotel Of Henry
Goetz, IN Frankenmuih, Mich.
BrRadier General Edward Wellman
Serrell, L. S. A., retired, died in a
sanitarum in New York. He had a
wonderful nilifary career
There was reduction in the divi-
dend Of the New York Consolidated
Gas Company because OF the reduction
in the price Of gas.
A conditional gift Of SI2.s 500 was
made by Andrew Carnegie to Morris
Brown College, at Atlanta.
The latest figures OF the earthquake
casualties at Santa Rosa show al dead
and 63 injured.
Returns from the Sixth Alabama con-
gressional district indicate that Capt.
Richmond p Hobson has defeated Con-
gresham John p. Bankhead in the pri-
maries.
Arthur r Hadley president Of Yale
University, has been confirmed as Roose-
welt professor Of American history in
the University OF Berlin for the year
I9o7-S
President Mitchell, Of the Minework-
crs' Union, put on the operators the re-
sponsibirity for the delay in the nego-
tiations
The net earnings Of the United States
Steel Corporation for the first quarter OF
1900 were over S36,oooooo
The government investigation OF the
alleged fertilizer trust began before Judge
Lurton, in Nashville
Frost and ice damaged fruit and truck
in North Carolina There was a foot
of snow in Maine.
J. n. Strohbar was acquitted at At