The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
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Inc report OF the committee on
resolutions Of the National Civic Fed
GRAFTON urges Congress to provide a
commission which shall consider the
subject of business and industrial
combinations.
William j. Bryan declares that his
decision as to his candidacy for the
Democratic nomination for President
will not depend upon the choice OF
the Republicans.
A contract for To-, 900 tons of steel
rails is said to have been closed be-
tween the United States Steel Cor
poration and the Imperial Railway of
Japan.
The New Jersey Board of Pardons
commuted to life Imprisonment the
death sentence of John E. Schuyler,
who was to have been hanged next
week
Charged with having aided his wife
to commit suicide last June. James
Wardell was convicted OF manslaugh-
ter In the first degree in New York.
Governor Stokes received the resig-
nation of George A. Squire, of Eliza
beth, president of the New Jersey
Reformatory Commission.
Porto Rico was the topic for dis
cussion at the Mohonk Conference.
A proposition for the development
of water power at a cost of s2O,000,-
600 at Milleroches. on the st. Law
renee, was laid before the Interna-
tional Waterways Commission for its
approval BY the st. Lawrence Power
Company of Canada, and the Long
Sault Development Company.
William Lepper, of Lorraine, Wyo.,
who had lost his property as the re-
suit OF stock deal. shot Judge
Charles w. Brammell, his counsel,
and killed himself
-Four men were killed by the blow
ing up of a mixing mill of the At
lantic Dynamite Company's factory,
near Ashland, Wis.
Secretary Taft inspected the naval
station at Olongapo and the fortlfi-
cations. He will not leave Manila
until November 10.
Various speakers before the Civic
FederaIions in Chicago declared that
federal control was the only remedy
for the trust evil.
The Mergenthal-Horton Basket
Machine Company. with a S75O,0O0
plant at Paducah, Ky. is in financial
difficulties.
The Universalist General Conven-
ton opened in Philadelphia with
1000 Universalists present.
Bids for the construction of the
proposed administration building of
the Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton, to cost about 100000, were re-
jected at a meeting of the executive
committee of that institution, and
new bids will be sought from the
contractors. No reason was given
for rejecting the bids.
A panic was prevented on Wall
Street by concerted action of the big
bankers, led by ]. P. Morgan. Sec
retary Cortelyou deposited seven mil
lions of government funds. John D.
Rockefeller has arranged to loan
large sums to various financial insti-
tutions in New York.
John NJ. Kemmerer, former. presi-
dent of the Kemmerer Iron and Steel
Company, of Scranton, Pa. and for
mer president OF the Scranton Board
OF Trade, was made defendant in a
forgery case brought by Philip Rob
inson, treasurer of the company.
Miss Helen NJ. Gould was present
at the dedicatory services of the new
Army Y. M. G. A. Building at Fort
A~S"NNhNO W. NiNtu W llle SOluleTS
by Miss Gould.
Charles S. Cameron. president OF
the Pittsburg and Tube City Rail-
road, convicted of conspiracy to bribe
city councilmen, forfeited $4,000
when called for sentence
Emperor William of Germany has
presented busts of Frederick the
Great and Field Marshal Count Won
Moltke to the United States Military
Academy.
The German balloon Pommern Is
probably the winner of the race from
st. Louis, the French balloon L'Isle
de France being a close second.
Francis NJ. Ironmonger, member |
of prominent Virginia family.
Confederate veteran, and for years
the New York representative of the |
Associated Railroads OF Virginia, died /
In Brooklyn at the ago of rs.
Robert NJ. Carson. Philadelphia 4
millionaire, has bequeathed s5,OOO,-
600 to establish a college for girls /
patterned after Girard College.
Col. Beneham Cameron, of Stag
vile, N. c., has been elected presi- |
dent Of the Farmers National Con- !
gress.
Mrs. Christopher Schubert, of Phil /
adelphia, ended her life by leaping |
overheard while at sea.