The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-01-24
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lhE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
DOMESTIC
AT a conference of representatives o.
the insurance departments of a dozei
states and the Armstrong investigating
committee in New York movement wa.
begun for uniform insurance laws in al
the states.
F. c. HOLSTER and A. w. Gentry
whose wives have recently been murder.
cd IN Chicago, appeared together before
the grand jury 10 give evidence which
led 10 the indictment OF the two alleged
murdercrs.
Former Gov James II. Peabody, wife
and daughter, at Canyon City, Col, were
poisoned by food eaten at breakfast
The Governor recently received severa
threatening letters.
Capitalists OF Duluth, MINI, have Sc.
cured control OF 100000 acres OF timber.
land in the Bahama Islands and lumber
ing operations will begin at once.
4 Philadelphia coroner's jury gave
& verdict that Mrs Anita McMurrow
who claimed to be the Countess de Bet
,ancourt, died of heart disease
Henry Lear, former president Of the
Doylestown (Pa) National Bank, which
failed. was sentenced to FIVE years in the
pcnitentiary.
A great library instead of a chapel
may be established in Chicago as a me-
mortal to President Harper
A score OF people were injured, some
seriously, by the fall OF a part of bal
cony during a minstrel performance al
Fields Opera House, Washington, Ga.
The trial Of a number OF weighmasters
at the Chicago Stockyards. accused oi
defrauding shippers, was begun. One
of the men confessed.
The wage scale committee OF the Mine
workers Convention is in receipt OF
large numbers of resolutions demanding
an increase in wages.
A crash OF freight trains at Newton
Falls, o., caused the death of two men
and the fatal injury of third.
Heavy snow caused a railroad wreck
near Denver, Col.
Coroner Mix, of New Haven, Conn,
has rendered a final decision, concurred
in by the states attorney, that Charles
Z. Edwards committed suicide with
laudanum and a bullet, owing to in
somnia.
At the request of Senator David B.
Hill, the Bar Association of New York
is investigating the payment Of a 5000
fee to the Senator by the Equitable Life
Assurance Society.
The government wireless telegraph sta
ton at Cape Elizabeth, Me, has received
message from the Dewey drydock tow
that travelled 5000 miles, breaking all
records for distance
An official OF the city of Chicago tied
ZIP two traction lines for two hours,
claiming that open gates on the cars
imperiled the lives OF passengers.
L. w. Burlen. secretary-treasurer OF
the Provident Securities and Banking
Company, of Boston, has gone TO Can
ada.
The city of Chicago has sued two trac-
ton lines for overcrowding street cars.
-Four workmen i'll tunnel under East
River, New York, were drowned or suf-
focated bya bursted air pipe failing TO keep
up the required air pressure and permit
ting water to enter and flood a shaft.
President Mitchell of the United
Mineworkers, in addressing the annual
convention in indianapolis, urged a de-
mand for higher wages. The opera
tors have agreed TO meet Mitchell in con-
ference.
w. NJ. Wolfe, professor OF theology
in Brigham Young College, has renounc-
ed Mormonism, having found that the
elders are still marrying plural wives in
Mexico.
The liabilities and forged stock certi-
hcates Of Denison, Prior & Co., Of Cleve-
land, now amount to $3,oooooo
knowledge that the cashier is missing
caused a run on the Washington Nation
al Bank of Pittsburg.
Mrs. Casie l.. Chadwick, now in the
Ohio penitentary, has been put to work
sewing buttonholes.