The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-10-18
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.

Domestic.
p. H. Morrissey, grand master of
the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, says he thinks a strike of the
switchmen from the Pacific Coast to
Buffalo, n. Y, is extremely improba-
BILE.
Former Governor Douglas says he
will again be candidate for the
governorship of Massachusetts If the
people of the State demand 1t.
DR.. Frank Brouwer. of Toms
River. n. j.. charged with the muir
der of his wife. will offer a defense
Of ptomaine poisoning.
Twenty white men have been in
dicted for the Atlanta rioting. Sixty
negroes have already been indicted
on the same charge.
Daniel Francis, colored, who was
hanged in Chicago, went to dealt
thanking God he was going to hea-
ven.
A policeman and two highwaymen
were shot during a desperate battle
on the streets of Toledo, o.
The women delegates to the Ma
tional Purity Convention went slum-
ming in Chicago.
Counsel for the assignee of the
firm of j. NJ. Ceballos & Co. says
the best detectives in the world have
been put on the track of Manuel Sill
yiera, the Havana agent.
Frederick Cole Fairbanks, son of
the Vice President of the United
States, eloped from Pittsburg with
Nellie Scott and they were married
in Steubenville, o.
George W. Cornwell, who confess
ed, in Bridgeport, Ct, to the theft OF
$4,000 worth of bonds from Mrs.
Johanna Lumpkin. was sentenced to
state prison.
The annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Board of Foreign Missions de-
cided to cooperate with the United
Brethren and Methodist Protestants.
Fire in the Edinboro apartment
house in New York caused a panic
among the inmates of the Institute
for Destitute Blind adjoining.
Orsen Broke was arrested in Desh-
Ter, o., on the charge of giving poison
to his sweetheart so she might COM
NIT suicide
Pennsylvania authorities will urge
federal prosecution of Armour & Co.
for alleged violation of the Pure
Food Law.
Iron Mountain fast mail jumped
the rails at Memphis. Mo, killing one
man and seriously iniuring a number.
Founders Day was celebrated at
Lehigh University.
The schooner yacht Frolic, for
which government officials have been
searching for over two weeks, was
captured off Providence, r. |. \
number of Cinnamon were arrested.
At the National Farmers Congress
at Rock Island. ILL.,, resolutions were
passed favoring the election of sena-
tors by direct vote, a parcels post and
postal savings bank.
Testimony was offered in the con-
test over the will of Millionaire
James L. Crawford of Scranton, Pa,
to the effect that the document was a
forgery.
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie
NJ. Shaw delivered an address before
Kentucky bankers advocating more
elasticity in the use of bank reserve
funds.
The requests of ushers and the
laughter of the audience caused Mrs.
Reginald Vanderbilt to remove her
hat while in a Boston theater.
THE Human Hearts" Theatrical
Company was badly shaken up in
wreck on the Seaboard Air Line
near Ochillee, Ga.
John B. Mcdonald, for 40 Years
member of the general committee of
Tammany Hall, will support Hughes
for governor.
The work of diverting the Colora-
DO River back into its old channel
is expected to be completed in 10
days.
Jim Johnson, who assassinated his
father, near Moultrie, Ca. by shoot
ing him, was convicted of murder.
The home of Judge NJ. Yoder, of
Chehalis, Wash, was dynamited in
an attempt to assassinate him.
Fire caused the loss of 500, 900 in
Goldield, New. For a time the entire
town was in danger.
Miss Florence Mcdonald, an ac-
tress, fell from a fourth-story window
in Chicago. killing herself.
Henry Walters has been elected a
director of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company.
Several Of the trunk line railroads
of the West are threatened with a
traffic blockade