The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-06
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.

Albert Young, former president of
Teamsters' Union, and others on trial
in Chicago with Cornelius =. Shea,
international president of the Team
sters' Union on charge of conspiracy
with the teamsters' strike of 1905,
entered pleas of guilty and Will turn
States evidence
Three banking institutions in Nc
Donough County, ILL.,, conducted by
c. V. Chandler. with deposits amount
ing to three-quarters Of a million,
has suspended payment.
Former Mayor Seth Low, of New
York. has surrendered to the tax de-
partment of that city S27,3972S,
which he inadvertently neglected to
pay as taxes on a mortgage in 1901.
Otto Young, a Chicago multimil-
lionaire, died at his summer home,
at Lake Geneva. His fortune is es-
timated at s25,000,000.
Augustus Heinze, former president
OF the Aetna Bank of Butte, Mont,
has contributed 100000 toward the
banks assets.
Wilson Mezner, who married the
widow of Charles T. Yerkes, denies
his wife is seeking a divorce.
Mrs Rose d. b. Handheld, armed
with revolver, threatened the life
of John ID. Rockefeller, and was ap-
peased with a check for a million,
but payment was stopped and the
woman arrested.
James ]. Hill says he has refused the
management of plan to consolidate
all the railroads of the West between
Canada and the Gulf of Mexico.
Six lives were lost out of 500 men
in a panic behind locked doors dur
ing a fire in the Salvation Army
Hotel in st. Louis.
Four hundred miners at Hazleton,
Pa, struck owing to change in the
day of the week to be used as payday.
Rev. William Howe, the Oldest
Baptist clergyman in the United
States, died in Massachusetts.
Mrs. Mary l. p. Gamewell, a mis-
sionary in Pekng during the Boxer
uprising, died in Summit, n. j.
An Italian fireman was killed dur
ing a mutiny on the Mallory Line
steamer San Jacinto.
A forest fire theatened to destroy
Judge O'Sullivan signed an order
permitting a review of the Caruso
case before the Court of General
Session. The application was based
upon alleged error in the trial of the
case, and upon the allegation that
Magistrate Baker, who heard the
case, inspected the Central Park
monkey-house in the absence of the
defendant.
George Burnham, Jr., former coun-
sci for the Mutual Reserve Insurance
Company, was placed on trial in the
criminal branch of the Supreme court
of New York, charged with grand
larceny.
By an explosion of chemicals, caus-
ing a fire in the Mercy Hospital,
in Pittsburg, millions of deadly dis
ease germs were scattered and the
firemen were exposed to contact with
the bacilli.
The Peabody Coal Company of
Ohio has sued the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad for 100000 dam
ages, charging that a failure to sup
ply cars prevented it from filling
contracts.
DR.. o. A. Douglas went on the wit
ness stand in the Gillette trial, and
testified that Grace Brown was killed
by injuries inflicted before her body
fell into Big Moose Lake.
Mayor Dunno. of Chicago, has re-
fused to preside at the meeting at
which Senator Tillman will speak on
the race issue.
An effort will be made to raise the
ship Golden Gate, beached on the
Mexican Coast in 1S61-62 with $780,
600 in gold aboard.
A masked burglar, single handed,
held up the passengers on a Chicago
and Alton train for the second time.
The National Grange Convention
adopted resolutions condemning free
seed distribution by the government
as being of no benefit, opposing a
national fertilizer law and favoring
amendment of the oleomargarine law
by striking out the work knowing
ly," to the end that convictions may
be procured for violation of the law.
A committee of the locomotive
engineers of the Reading system had
a conference with the general super
intendent OH the question of in
crease of wages, but no decision was