The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-06-27
LATESTNEWS INSHORTORDER



The United States District Court o
Kansas imposed fines asgfegating 85,
600 on the Burlington Railroad anc
Packers Swift, Cudshy, Armour anC
Morris and gave Jail sentences to two
freight brokers for violating the anti
rebsting clause Of the Elkins law.
President Stickney, of the Chicago
Great Western Railway, announced tina
his railroad would at once discontinue
the practice of allowing grain elevator
rebates.
Richard Ivens was hanged for Tho
murder of Mrs. Bessie Hollister, il
Chicago. He made no confession ant
was in state of collapse on the scat
fold.
An analysis of 40 samples of sausage
and hamburg steak in indianapolis
proved that 33 of them contained chemi-
Gals prohibited by law.
Three small children of Charles Wues-
thorn, of Harrison, O.. were burned &c
death by the explosion of a gasoline
stove.
Prof. George B. Stevens, Dwight pro-
lessor of systematic theology in the Yale
Divinity School, is dead.
An Italian woman testified at the coro-
ner's investigation into the murder OF
Mrs. Alice Kinnan, in New York, that
Mrs Kinnan said she had been dubbed
by an attorney, with whom she had
quarreled over money matters.
The executive council of the Fedora
tion of Labor named a committee to
call on Secretary Bonaparte in reference
to shipj joiners' and carpenters wages.
J. Z. Holloren, of Springfield, Mass
was elected president OF the National
Association of Train Dispatchers, in
convention in Buffalo.
The cotton manufacturers OF FalI
River, Mass, granted the operatives a
"a per cent. increase in wages. About
$4,000 hands are benefited.
President Jacob Gould Schurman, OF
Cornell University, declares the nation
needs new baptism of business honesty
Mae c. Woods suit in Omaha. Neb.,
against Senator Thomas c. Platt was
dismissed.
John T. Winn, who was tired of i'll
luck, threw himself from a New York
ferryboat.
A monument was unveiled on the old
Red Bank battlefield, near Woodbury.,
N J.
Mrs. Emma Kaufman, wife Of a
wealthy Sioux Falls brewer, who IS ac-
cused OF beating her maid-servant to
death, was pursued by a mob of women
crying Lynch her p
The Pennsylvania Railroad issues a
statement that President A. J. Cassatt
has not been asked to testify before the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Caleb H. Jackson, who said he was a
manufacturer, of Harrisburg, Pa, was
arrested in New York on a charge OF
embezzling $4,000.
The police know who murdered Mrs.
c. D. Kinnan in upper New York, and
have the weapon with which the crime
was committed.
The Brooklyn Eagle declares that Will
liam Randolph Hearst controls a major
ity Of the Democratic State Committee
of New York.
The Cleveland CO., ice dealers charg-
ed with conspiring to raise the price OF
ice were found not guilty
Eighty thousand dollars OF the SIoo,-
600 voted by the Canadian Parliament
for the relief of the San Francisco suf-
ferers has been forwarded to James D.
Phelan, president of the relief committee,
The Philadelphians accused OF graft
in connection with the erection OF the
Municipal Hospital were acquitted Of
the charge of conspiracy by order of the
presiding judge
A nephew and two nieces of he late
James A. Bailey, the circus man, will
contest the latter's will leaving millions