The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-30
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic.

Commissioner Anthony, appointed
/ by the Missouri Supreme Court to
take testimony In, the custer suit OF
the state against the Standard OIL
Oil Company, made q report to the
court that the evidence introduced
before him is sufficient to oust the
Standard Oil Company and tributary
companies from Missouri.
The town of Hornell, N. Y, was
terrortzed by a gang of yeggmen.
Night Watchman John Henry was
fatally shot and Night Watchman
Thomas Kelley was badly beaten
and others we're injured. Three
yeggmen arrested after two of the
gang had been shot.
Attorney General Jackson, of New
York, applied to the Supreme Court
| for an order to cite the Consolidated
Gas Company to show cause why the
charter and franchises OF the COM
pany should not be annulled as an
alleged monopoly.
The South Omaha Live Stock Ex-
change decided not to sell heifers
and COWS to the packing houses on
account of the heavy condemnation
Of this class of cattle.
The New York Tunnel Company,
which is constructing the tunnel
from the Battery TO Brooklyn, was
adjudged an involuntary bankrupt
in the United States District Court.
The jury in the case of Judge
James Hargis, Lexington. KY, charg-
ed with the murder of Thomas Cock
rill, returned a verdict OF not guilty.
The auditors report will show that
large sums were advanced to the con-
tractors who built the state capitol
at Harrisburg, Pa.
John Bell, who shot and killed DR..
Charles Wilmot Townsend at New
Brighton s. l., was sentenced to be
electrocuted.
Two persons were suffocated in
the burning Metropolitan Hotel, in
| Utica, n. Y. and several persons
were injured.
The charge is made that inferior
rails made by the Steel Trust are re-
sponsible for many serious railroad
disasters.
Mrs Ella Farman Pratt, author of
books for young people, died at her
home in Concord. n. H.
The Philadelphia and Reading an
nounced increases on its suburban
rates from Philadelphia.
The body of Mrs. Louis B. Hall
was recovered from the Eden Park
Reservoir, in Cincinnati.
Theodore Tilton, the American
editor and author, is dying in Paris
of pneumonia.
The Switchmen's Union of America
adopted resolutions denouncing Pres
ident Roosevelt for his utterances
on Haywood, Meyer and Pettibone,
sympathizing with the miners on
trial and demanding that their kid
mapping" from Colorado into Idaho
be declared illegal.
Pinkerton detectives are looking
for j. Edward Boeck, a prominent
New York diamond broker, who is
said to have Tilted the daughter of
a Pittsburg steel king and disap-
peared with $250,000 worth of
jewels and cash.
Frederick A. Burnham, indicted
for larceny and forgery. has resigned
as president of the Mutual Reserve
Life Insurance Society. Archibald
e. Hayes, formerly general agent of
the Equitable, has succeeded him.
The Jermyu No. 2 breaker OF the
Jermyn Coal Company at Old Forge,
Pa, was destroyed by fire, entailing
loss of over $125, 900.
Harlow N. Higginbotham, of Chi
cago. who recently was elected a
trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, sent in his resignation to
Secretary Dix. Mr.. Higginbotham
sharply criticises the Indifference
or delay" by the State of New York
in enacting laws for the proper reg
ulation of corporations.
The passenger steamer Naomi,
plying between Chicago and Mil
waukee, burned in midlake at l A.
M. Four Milwaukee coalpassers
were burned to death and several pas
esengers injured, among them j. M.
Rhodes, of Detroit. The boat carried
so passengers, who were taken off
by other vessels.
District Attorney Jerome and Po-
lice Commissioner Bingham, of New
York, had a conference concerning
the charges of a conspiracy against
Mrs. Howard Gould in which police
officers were alleged to be involved.
A director of the American Pro-
tective Tariff League says 1t will not
support either Taft or Root for pres
ident because they are unstable on
the tariff. Speaker Cannon and Les
lie NJ. Shaw are the leagues favor
ties.