The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-04-04
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A petition declaring that "intolerable
wrongs are being perpctrated in the Con-
go region" and signed by Governor
Guild and members of the Massachusetts
legislature, was forwarded to President
Roosevelt, with the request that some
form of protest be taken.
President Roosevelt will order troop
OF cavalry, two companies Of infantry,
marines and the Marine Band to take
part in the celebration of the Mecklen-
berg On. c. Declaration of Indepen-
dence.
Captain Joseph A. Turney, Of the
Twenty New York Regiment, and
80 years with the National Bank of
North America of New York. has CON
tessed to stealing $4,000 of the bank S
funds.
Mrs Roosevelt, accompanied by her
children, arrived at Fernandina, Fla, and
sailed on the Mayflower for cruise in
West Indian waters.
District Attorney Jerome declares de-
clares the contributions of insurance
fund to political praties is illegal and I'M
moral and includes criminal intent
Georgia Welles, leading woman with
the "Clansman' company, died at New
York hospital following an operation for
appendicitis
Earl Grey, governor general of Cana
da; Lady Grey and Lady Evelyn Grey
are visiting New York.
Within an hour after he had at
tempted to criminally assault Miss Blair,
young white woman, Cotton" a col
ored man, was lyuched in West Carroll,
Florida
District Attorney Jerome asked Jus
tlce Bowling, of the New York Supreme
Court to call special grand Jury to in
vestigate the life insurance scandals.
Mrs Blanche Turner Davis, died i'll
New York from blood-posoning, due, ac-
cording to her antemortem statement, to
drugs self-administered
After voting down motion made by
President Mitchell to adopt the 1908
scale the miners convention at India
napoliS adjourned sine die.
James w. Alexander, former presi-
dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, was taken to a private sanitar-
ium at Deerfeld, Mass.
Two crowded cars collided on the
Williamsburg Bridge, over East River,
The Bank OF Victor, Col, in the Grip
pie Creek Dictrict, was robbed of SIo,-
600.
George w. Perkins, former vice presi-
dent of the New York Life Insurance
Company and member of the firm OF J..
?. Morgan & Co., was arrested, charged
with grand larceny in the first degree,
in connection with the contribution OF
S48,7o2. So to political campaign funds
Patrolman Daniel Strauss, OF New
York, who fought in three wars and was
decorated by Marshal MacMahon for
bravery att Magenta and Soferion, COM
mitted suicide.
The bodies OF six Greeks or Syrians,
stabbed and hacked to death, were found
in laborers' lodging house in Mime
apolis.
According to plans arranged, George
Fl. Perkins will be arraigned before
Justice Moss in New York on the charge
button OF the New York Life Insurance
Company to political campaign funds,
The case of the Great Northern Rail
way Company and r. d. Wood & Co.,
accused of giving or accepting rebates,
is the first to come on trial under the
Elkins Law.
Governor Cummings, Of Iowa, has
written an open letter TO Senator Elkins,
OF West Virginia, severely attacking him
for his method OF cross-examinng him
and declaring him to be a railroad
senator.
Lightning struck the Latter-Day
Saints Church in Carson, Ia, and killed
Rev J B Lentz, the preacher, in the
pulpit, Several members OF the congre-
cation were stunned.
1t was announced in Pittsburg, that
Miss Margaret Louise Magee, of that
city, was to marry Baron Reid de Ride
nau, an attache OF the Austrian Legation
at Rome.
The government is Withholding more
than $1,000, which is due Anne L. Smith,
Of Hurley, Ulster County, N. Y, until
a committee of her person and estate
is appointed
The residence of Julian Hawthorne,
the novelist, at Yonkers n. Y, was part
y burned and the family library and a
number OF rare manuscripts ruined
Mrs. Cecile Ringe, wanted in Rochester
for alleged forgery, was found acting as
nurse in the almshouse, on Blackwells
Island.
Gen. Nicanor Bolet-Peraza, formerly
minister of Venezuela at Washington,
died at his home, in New York Of
pneumonia.