The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-04-18
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II was testified during the legislative
investigation of the Northwestern Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company that Mrs.
Henry l.. Palmer, wife OF the president
of the company, got eight per cent. in
terest on loans from the company.
New York hnanciers are discussing
the formation of an institution similar
to the Bank OF England, with fifty mil
lions capital, to control the money mar
ket
Contractors Greene and Gaynor we're
fined Ss7s.o4o and given four years each.
charged with conspiracy to defraud the
government in Savannah harbor work.
While the epidemic of typhoid in
Pitsburg is decreasing. towns along the
Ohio River below Pittsburg, report
alarming number Of cases.
Governor Higgins has signed the Arm
strong Insurance Bills affecting rebating
and the acquisition Of real estate
A six-inch gun crew on the cruiser
Pennsylvania broke the worlds record
by making Il hits in 90 seconds.
Mrs. W. c. Jwte, widow Of Pitts
gurg coal millionaire, testified in court
that Frank n. Hoffstot and James w.
Friend got nearly 100000 Of her hus-
bands money for a loan OF $4,000
Governor Pennypacker announced that
the State OF Pennsylvania had recovered
all the money it had on deposit in the
Enterprise National Bank OF Allegheny
Doubt has been cast on the presence
OF Andrew c. Fields in Dobbs Ferry, as
Mutual Life officials and others declare
they cannot find him.
I g'as sa4
OF the G. A. K. and Adjutant John
Truesdale visited the Georgia battle
fields.
Farmers in the mountains near Tama-
qua, Pa, are being held up and robbed
by Dick Turpin, who dehes posses.
The George Washington University OF
Washington won the annual debate with
the University Of Cincinnati.
President Connell, OF the Cancellation
Board. believes a strike in the anthracite
mines will be averted.
Miss Mary Callahan, aged 20 years,
a Maryland woman. committed suicide
on the street in Philadelphia.
Nathan lsaacson, who attempted sui
eide by jumping from Williamsburg
Bridge, New York and who was de
scending on a ferryboat, was saved
from instant death by the captain Of
the vessel backing his craft so that
lsaacson hit the river 10 feet from the
ferryboat
Mrs. Alice Wright, OF Texas, testified
that Valet Charles Jones told her he tes-
tihed falsely against Lawyer Albert Pat
rick, under sentence to hang for the
murder Of Millionaire William R. Rice.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
heard evidence that the six soft-coal rail-
roads allot coal shipments among them
selves and FIX the rates.
The New York Mutual has institut-
cd a second suit against Andrew {.
Field, who was formerly executive agent
for the company.
n George J. Gould testified in the Men
gis-Fitzgerald suit that he contemplated
building a rival road to the Western
Maryland. but latter acquired the line
to aid his friend, Attorney Pierce. Its
linking with :he Wabash was an after
thought.
John Alexander Dowie had trium-
phal entry into Chicago the police and
Zion guards being powcrless to keep the
throng at the railroad station in order.
1t is said that JOHN d. Rockefeller IS
erecting a million-dollar mansion on his
Pocantico Hills estate as present to his
grandson.
Among the 1900 emergency troops in
Stotzenberg, Island of Luzon, 143 are
suffering from malaria and III with other
diseases