The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-04
THE NEWS OF THE Week
Domestic


Peace Fund met and organized. Chief
Justice Fuller was elected president.
The Interstate CommerS3 Commits
sion has been appealed TO to name
the third member of an arbitration
board to consider the dispute over
the question of wages between the
conductors and trainmen on the
Western railroads out of Chicago
and the railroad officials. which
threatens to involve 40 railroads and
100000 men. The mon have refus-
ed to arbitrate.
Nathan Y Lands, a Philadelphia
furniture dealer. testified in the in
vestigation Of the alleged S4,000,000
graft on the capitol at Harrisburg
that he made the bootblack stand in
the Senate toilet room for about
SIPS. The state paid Contractor An
derson $1,619.20 for the stand.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota
decided that the Great Northern Rail-
way Company may issue the $60,-
100000 of stock, the offer of which
was made to the stockholders De-
cember IL last without getting au-
thority from the State Railroad Com
mission.
Jennie Burch. the 15-year-old girl
charged with the death of an infant
By giving the child a poisoned peach,
was declared not guilty but insane,
and was sent to Matteawan.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota
upheld the Great Northern Railroad
Company in its contention that 1t
had 1t the right to issue the $780,
100000 of stock.
Horace G.. Knowles, American min
lister to Roumania and Servia, sailed
for Europe from New York on the
steamer La Provence.
The bill for a recount of the votes
cast at the election for mayor of New
York in November, 1905, passed the
Assembly IFS to 21.
John Mitchell, president of the
United Mineworkers', is confined to
his apartments in Indianapolis with
a severe cold.
Hamlin F. Lee, a nephew OF the
Confederate general who fought the
Union Army, died at Colorado
Springs. Colo.
At Guilford, Chenango County, y.
Y, fire destroyed the opera house,
postoffice, two stores and several
dwellings.
Stevenson & Co.'S warehouse at
Manila, containing $4,000 bales of
manila hemp, was burned. Loss
100000.
Herbert B. Walker was elected
president and general manager of the
Old Dominion Steamship Company.
Rev. Ambrose w. Vernon, of Dart
mouth, accepted the call to the chair
of homiletics at Yale,
w. r. Hearst filed five libel suits
against ting Chicago Tribune for
100000 sGcb.
Miss Bertha NcNally, of Canton,
o., committed suicide on her we'd
ding day.
Three indictments were returned
against the New York Central Rail
road and its officers as a result of
the wreck of the Brewster Express
on the night of February 16, in
which "a persons were killed. The
indicted officials are Vice President
Albert II. Smith and General Super
intendent Ira A. Mccormick.
The Keystone Express on the Penn
sylvania Railroad was wrecked near
Wilmerding, Pa, when the engine
and three cars left the tracks. Train
wreckers had torn the tracks apart.
Paul Charles William Sohege, Of
Paris, the third husband of the late
Isabella Eugenia Sohege, whose first
husband was Isaac Merritt Singer,
founder of the Singer Sewing Ma
chine Company, has sued for a S20,-
100000 interest in the Singer es-
tate.
Capt. William Swift, who COM
manded the new battleship Connecu-
cut when she struck a rock off the
Island of Culebra, was placed on trial
before a special court martial at Fort
Monroe.
The undergraduate student body at
Princeton University presented a low
ing cup to Grover Cleveland in hon
or of the former presidents sew
entieth birthday.