The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-16
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The plan to construct a floating dry
dock to be stationed at Solomon's Is
land, has been temporarily defeated III
The House on the point OF order that
the money for the same should not be
included in the Naval Appropriation Bill.
The Southern Baptist Convention
opened at Chattanooga with nearly
5000 delegates and visitors. President
Stepens' report showed that the churches
have contributed more than ever before,
the aggregate being $3Is,24S.
The strike of the funeral drivers union
in New York City greatly interferes with
the burial of the dead. In one instance
the drivers OF the hearse and carriages
at a funeral drove off and abandoned
the body and the mourners in a church.
The Electric Properties Company Of
New York, with which John F. Wallace
former chief engineer of the Panama
Canal is to be identified, was incorporated
at Albany, with a capital stock OF SI5-
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David B. Hill testified as to the reason
ableness of his $1,000 retaining fee from
the Equitable Life before the subeom-
mittee of the grievance committee OF the
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The lives OF several men were endan-
gered by the cavein OF copper mine IN
Cuba.
The Paper Trust has surrendered
and the government wins the hnal de-
cision
E. NJ. Wilhoit formerly an agent in
the employ Of the Standard Oil Com
pany, testified before the Interstate Com
merce Commission in Chicago that by
direction OF his superiors he bribed var
ious clerks to get information OF the
business of competitors, and also cheat
| cd customers.
w. F. Bechtel, on trial in Minneapolis
| for embezzing insurance funds, testitled
on the witness stand that he paid $1,000
which had been demanded, TO State In
surance Commissioner O'Shaughnessy.
Police Magistrate Wahle, III New
York. released two merchants who had
been arrested at the instigation OF the
Chicago police authorities and roasted
the Chicago chief.
State Bank Examiner Cameron an
nounced that the depositors OF the Co
lumbia Savings and Trust Company Will
be paid in full.
w. H. Sylvester, president Of the
First National Bank OF Montezuma,
Ind, was shot and killed by his brother.
Counsel for Mrs. Duke filed an appeal
in Trenton, n. J., from the decision
granting divorce to Mr.. Duke.
A petition was filed in Cincinnati for
a receiver for the Springfield and West
ern Railroad
Troops are gradually being with
drawn from San Francisco and the po-
lice resumng authority.
| General Greely reported the conditions
| in San Francisco 10 be improving.
Moses Haas, accused of the agricul-
tural cotton report leak" and charged
with misconduct in Office under the
| Maryland common law, was dismissed
! by Judge Holt, of New York. who
holds that the Maryland law cannot OBJ
tain in New York.
An autopsy shows that Charles L.
| Spier, who was killed while on sup
posed burglar hunt in his home, on Sta
ten Island, died from 32-calibre bullet,
which filled the revolver he carried.
Officials OF the American Sugar Re
ining Company and the New York Cen
tral and Hudson River Railroad entered
pleas of not guilty TO the indictment
charging them with rebating.
The Hamburg American Line steamer
Sarina, from the West Indies, arrived in
New York, after having been atire at sea
20 hours, with 40 passengers aboard.
At the first Woman's Chess Congress,
held at the Martha Washington Hotel,
New York, the championship was won
by Mrs. Charles P. Frey.
The Columbia Savings and Trust Com
pany Of Pittsburg has been closed by the
Pennsylvania State Banking Department.