The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-09-12
The Neos
Domestic

erly Mrs. Burke-ROche, Will quit he1
husband and will return to the home
OF her father, Frank Worth, in New
York, in order that her children by
her first marriage may inherit their
grandfathers wealth.
The investigation Of the affairs OF
the Interborough Metropolitan rail.
wav merger of New York promises
svme highly interesting develop
fnents. The company formerly paid
a per cent. annual dividends. Now II
pass 9.
senator Depew, who has returned
from Europe, says that the slump in
the American stock market has pre-
vented tho contamination of many
important deals in America in which
foreign capital was interested.
Mrs. T. Nutting, of New York, wife
of retired army officer, was killed
and her daughter, Mrs. Phillip Moore
and the latter's child were badly in
1ured in a runaway accident al
Bridgewater, n. S.
1t is estimated that of the S10,-
100000 annual damage to property
in New York from fires s2,000,000
damage results from careless hand
ling of matches and cigarettes.
Three bandits executed a daring
holdup on the Rocky Mountain Limi-
ted, of the Rock Island Railroad, go
Ing through the chair car and pas
senger coaches, taking all the pas
sengers' valuables at the points of
revolvers.
DR.. Edward Giasgo, a prominent
young physician, of Brazil Ind, is
fo nsff ell Tor Ia f1t-
wounded In the breast, was placed
under arrest following a mysterious
shooting on a lonely road.
The federal grand jury at James
town, n. Y, has returned additional
indictments against the Pennsylva-
mia and New York Central Railroads
and the Standard Oil Company.
District Attorney Jerome has asked
for a special grand jury, presumably
to consider the destruction of books
previous to the merger of'New York S
street railways.
Burton Plummer, aged 10 years,
confesses that he set fire to the Nor
mandie Hotel, at Columbus, o., be-
cause he was jealous of the atten-
tions of a clerk to a waitress.
William Sumner Lapworth, son of
wealthy Massachusetts manufac-
turer, has married a loom girl, the
daughter of a farm laborer, employ
ed in his fathers plant.
The Chicago Office of the Postal
Telegraph Company has sued the
Telegraphers' Union for alleged non
payment for messages filed by strik-
ers
The date for the beginning of the
trial of United States Senator
Borah at Boise, Idaho, has been fix
ed for September 23. He is accused
of conspiring to defraud the govern
ment by securing illegal entry of
timber lands.
At Scott Haven and Suterville, on
the Pittsburg Division of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, an attempt
was made to wreck the New York
express by drawing spikes from the
tracks. A fast freight train was de-
rallied.
The cruiser Fylgia, with Prince
William on board, sailed at dawn
from Boston for Sweden. The Prince
and Lieutenant Commander de
Klercker arrived just after midnight
from Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
In New York the directors of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad declared the regular quar-
terly dividend of 2 per cent. on
capital stock and an extra dividend
of per cent.
The State Board of Railroad Com
missioners of Kansas issued an or
der for the establishment OF a fiat
two-cent-a-mile passenger fare in
that state.
At Little Rock the Farmers Ma
tional Cooperative and Educational
Union fixed the minimum price for
middling cotton at 15c. a pound.
Charles II. Deeve, millionaire plow
manufacturer, is in a private hospital
In Chicago. His malady is said to
be fatal.