The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-24
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK


John r.. Walsh, former president
OF the Chicago National Bank, was
indicted by the federal grand jury
for alleged mismanagement of the
funds of the bank. The Indictment
contains 1S2 counts.
G. w. Powers, cashier of bank at
Midwife, Ca, fought off three burg
lars after he had been shot ] 8 times
Andrew Carnegie is quoted as say
ing he would give $200,000,000 to
be assured of 10 years of life.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has ac-
quired control of the Philadelphia
and Erie.
A hitherto unknown cave, filled
with bones, has been found in
Tennessee.
The MacAndrews & Forbes Com
pany, of New York, was fined $10,-
600 and the ]. S. Young Company,
of Baltimore, $4,000, in the United
States Circuit Court in New York
for combining to monopolize the
trade in licorice paste.
Miss Mary Glass, a teacher, was
| found with her throat cut in the
schoolhouse at Eldorado. Kan. Rob-
ert Hall, who was found with cash
had quarrel with her.
The plant of the South Atlantic Car
and Manufacturing Company, In Sa-
vannah, Ca, together with 20 cars
of material and many partly COM
pleted box cars, was destroyed by
| fire.
John Kraeis, his infant son and
his farther-in-law, named Shuman,
were found dead from asphyxiation
and Mrs. Kraels in a dying condition
at their home, in FOstoria, o.
Governor Winthrop, of Porto Rico,
~ his annual message. congratulates
the islanders on their commercial
an agricultural prosperity.
Elmer Dempster was executed in
Washington, Pa, for killing Mrs.
Samuel Pearce and her three chill
dren.
DR.. James Woodrow, who was
prominent in church and state, died
In Columbia, S. G.
Governor Albert r. CHmmins, of
Iowa, was inaugurated to serve his
third term.
Attorney General Franklin L. Car
son, of Pennsylvania, after an inves-
tigation, denies that there was fraud
in the construction of the $13,000,-
600 state capitol.
Eight New York aldermen, sus-
pected of accepting bribes to vote for
eX-Judge Cowing for recorder, were
examined by grand jury.
Judge Hough, of New York, has
ruled that the Antitrust Law does
not apply to steamship freight rates
made in London.
The remains of John c. burden, of
Harrisburg, Pa, were partly Gre
mated in a wreck near Raleigh, N. G.
A. r. Mallory, inventor of the NAL
lory plow, committed suicide in a
grocery in Atlanta, Ga.
Seven men were killed by the ex-
plosion of locomotive near Norris
town, Pa.
Snow is three feet deep in Mon
tana.
After mourning each other as dead
for more than IA years, Rev. John
A. Gull, formerly assistant pastor of
ST. Francis de Sales Church, of Oak
land, Cal, and his wife were re-
united in that city.
Michael O'Neil, a Central New
England Railroad conductor, though
mortally injured in a wreck near
Winsted, Ct, dragged himself a mile
and sent message which saved a
passenger train.
Judge English met by chance in
Sheridan, Wyo., the wife from whom
he had been divorced 80 years ago,
made love to her and again won her.
The Clyde Line freight steamer
Onondaga, from Boston for Charles
ton, is ashore upon Orlans Beach,
Massachusetts, coast.
A general corporation hunt has
been instituted by the legislature of
Nebraska, Kansas and South Dakota.
The police of New York have been
asked to look out for Frank S. Nor
ton, missing Boston violinist.