The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-09-20
THE NEWS OF The Week.
Domestic.

At the unveiling of the Mckinley
statue in Columbus, o., there was a
panic among the crowd just as Gov
ernor Harris had begun his speech
A woman standing in front of the
stand where Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth was seated tainted, and in the
effort to carry her out the crowd be-
came unmanageable. No one was
seriously hurt.
New counsel in the Thaw case ap-
peared when John II. Iselin, former
assistant district attorney, called at
the Tombs and registered as asso-
ciate counsel for Harry X. Thaw, the
murderer of Stanford White. Mr..
Tselin was closeted with Thaw for
an hour.
The body of II. X. Wampole, a
wealthy Philadelphia manufacturer
of chemicals, was found in Goat
River, New York He had been miss
ing for several days. 1t is believed
he committed suicide.
Five men we're arrested In Chicago
on the charge of selling bogus bonds
Surrounding the arrest OF Dr. W..
w. Turver, of Buffalo, is q mystery
which is battling to the police. DR.,
Turver conducts a private maternity
hospital and is under indictment for
illegitimate practices. A few days
ago the body of Miss Edith Pinner
was shipped to Hoboken, N. j. 1t is
believed she died as the result OF a
criminal operation in DR.. Turver's
hospital.
The trial of Cornelius p. Shea and
6 other officials of the labor organl-
cations of Chicago who were con-
nected with the teamsters' strike or
1906 began. The cases have been
pending on the Criminal Court docket
since June, 1905. The prediction is
made that the trials will consume a
years time and cost 100000.
In an interview in Pittsburg Presi-
dent John Mitchell, of the Miners
Union, heartily indorsed President
Gompers' stand in entering the po-
litical campaigns.
There was a lively fist fight on the
deck of the steamship Graf Walder-
see, in which a number of Polish i'm
migrants were the combatants.
After being fugitive from justice
for nearly year. Granville NJ. Gwye,
cashier of the Bank of Hayti, Mo-,
returned and surrendered.
At Denver, Col, Alva Adams, Of
Pueblo, was nominated by the Demo-
cratic State Convention for governor
by acclamation.
Dissatisfied stockholders of the
Pullman Company are asking for a
distribution of the accumulated large
surplus.
Col. w. II. Knauss, of Columbus,
o., was elected president of the Union
Veterans Legion.
The United States Rubber Com
pany has established a branch in
Great Britain.
Connecticut is reported to have
raised an unprecedented tobacco crop.
At Albany, n. Y, a certificate of
incorporation of the COMMERCIAL
Cable Company of Cuba was filed
with the secretary of state. 1t is
organized with capital of 100000
to operate telegraphic communica-
ton between New York and Havana
by way of Florida and Key West.
At Findley, O., a plea of mot
! guilty" was entered in the Probate
| CCui bS JOln ~. INOChtltlItI On lliN
charge of violating the Antitrust
Law through the Standard Oil Com
pany. Mr.. Rockefeller was not per-
sonally in court, He pleaded through
an attorney.
Lightning struck a flagpole on q
16-story. building in New York. The
employees of the Butterick Pattern
Company, mostly girls, were for a
minute thrown into panic.
Because she would not give III
property that belonged to his dead
wife, Harry Diamond, aged 23 years
shot and killed Mrs. Bertha Cohen
! his mother-in-law.
Former Congressman Theodore A
Bell was nominated for governor o.
California by the State Democratic
Convention at Sacramento.
Atlantic City was chosen as thu
place for the next convention of th'
Order of Hoo-Hoos.
Seven trainmen were killed in ;
railroad collision at Ringgold, Ga.
Twelve persons were killed in {
wreck on the Canadian Pacific Rail
road at Sudbury.