The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-06-13
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The PENNSYLVANIA Railroads own IN
vestigation committee has issued several
thousand circulars to officials OF all its
lines calling upon them TO give evidence
regarding alleged car discrimination in
the coal traffic and the acceptance Of
mining stocks
]. S. Young, of J. S. Young & Co,
Of Baltimore, has been ordered by New
York court to produce books and pa
pers and testify in the investigation OF
the tobacco trust"
Edmund Eschbach shot and fatally
wounded his wife because she refused
to admit him to her home al Fort
Schuyler, n. y.
Judge Lynde Harrison, a prominent
citizen Of Connecticut, died at New
Haven Of apoplexy
Three pesons were burned 70 death
in FIRE near Walpack Center. N. J.
Llcwclyn Randolph Snowden died
suddenly in Philadelphia.
George J. Gould and his associates
have decided upon a scheme OF financing
| his entire trans continental system similar
to the plan recently adopted by the South
ern Railway 1t contemplates the issue
OF bonds for at least Sioo,ooo,ooo.
Before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission Vice President McCrea, OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad. stated that Presi-
dent Cassatt has started a movement
TO stop rebates as soon as he secured
control Of the company.
Counsel for Capt Robert Wynne,
OF the United States Marine Corps, VINO
was before a court-martial accused OF
| insubordnation. states that disabilities,
| due to sunstroke, warrant Captain
Wynne's retirement.
A westbound limited express ran into
an open switch near Lancaster Pa,
colliding with a construction train, de-
molishing both locomotives and injuring
number Of passengers
A total loss OF $4,000 was caused
! by a fire following an explosion IN
tobacco factory in Hopkinsville, KY,
which for time threatened the de-
struction OF the city.
Miss Ethel Rockefeller daughter OF
William Rockefeller. arrived from Eu-
rope under an assumed name, claiming
she is shadowed by detectives.
Governor Hayward, OF South Caro-
lima has ordered the prosecution OF the
State Dispensary Board on the charge
! OF malfeasance in office.
Walter L. Houser, secretary OF state
OF Wisconsin, was arrested on the
charge OF attempting to bribe the Com
missioner of Insurance.
A wel-dressed, bright child of FIVE
years, who was placed aboard a train
| in Texas, has landed alone among
strangers in Missouri.
Mrs. Bertha Binn, a widow, and her
! fve-year-old son were found dead IN
their home at Edgewater, n. J.
Three Spanish gunboats captured by
Admiral Dewey when he took Manila
have been sold as junk.
Rev. James r. Wylie was sentenced
to the Folsom (CaD. Penrentiary for
one year for bigamy
Manager Thomas T. Wilson, OF Mel
son Morris & Co., representing the beef
packers OF Chicago, appeared before the
House Committee on Agriculture and
made a general denial Of the accusations
in the Neill-Reynolds report regarding
the beef industry.
Proceedings were suddenly stopped
in the court-martial OF Capt. Robert F.
| Wynne, when a naval surgeon testified
that Capt Wynne was affected by sun
stroke to such an extent as 10 be insen-
sible TO his military obligations.
Leaster Thompson and Benny Runyan
aged about II years, were drowned while
bathing in Paw Paw River, at Water
vliet, Mich.
The Breathtt County (Ky) grand
Jury returned an indictment charging
former Judge Hargis with the murder OF
DR.. b. d. Cox.
A train on the Knoxville division OF
the Southern Railway was derailed; no
one was killed.
The strike situation at the Ohio mines
is unchanged The troops are still on
guard.