The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
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liner Providence, secured aid by
wireless when he discovered his boat
aflre and prevented a panic among
the passengers, who were transferred
TO another steamer.
The shoe factory owned by Arthur
G. and Chester b. Williams, at Co
chituate. Mass, was destroyed by FIRE.
causing an estimated loss of $50, 900.
About $50 hands are thrown out of
employment.
Secretary Straus announces that
President Roosevelt has not ordered
any Investigation of the stock ex-
changes.
H. A. Deland, founder of Deland,
Fla, and one of the leading business
men of Fairport, n. Y, is dead.
Adimarl Hollyday recommends en-
larging the Brooklyn dry dock to ac-
nommodate the largest battleships.
Ivan r. Coffin, a student of Lehigh
University, was drowned while shoot
Ing the Weygot Rapids in a canoe.
Hugh Bonner. FIRE commissioner of
New York, died of a complication OF
Bright's disease and pneumonia.
Fire in Bahia, Brazil, destroyed
more than 80 buildings and caused a
loss of $1,000.000.
Harry X. Thaw was served with
copy of the summons and complaint
In the proceedings brought by his
wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, to annul
their marriage. A messenger deliver
ed the papers to Thaw at the Mattea-
wan Insane Asylum and about the
same time Mrs. William Copley
Thaw. who is made a codefendent,
was served at the Hotol Lorraine.
Part of the crew of the wrecked
American ship Tillie Z. Starbuck
were adrift a thousand miles out in
the Pacific for eight weeks.
Lewis II. Hall, a contractor who
travelled from Venezuela to New York
to enter hospital, died on reaching
the metropolis.
An artists model, known only as
Margaret, who dropped dead on
Broadway, New York, spoke four
languages.
The New York Board OF Trade and
Transportation is opposed to the Aid
rich Financial Bill.
The scout cruiser Birmingham
averaged 20 knots an hour on ner
speed trials.
The first international convention
nnder the direction of the Young
Peoples missionary movement of the
United States and Canada opened in
Pittsburg.
The attack made by Attorney Cen
eral Lyon, of South Carolina, upon
Judge Pritchard for appointing re-
eeivers for the dispensary fund has
started warm fight there.
The convention of Indiana miners
at Terre Haute demands that the
coming national convention of the
order shall ask for a wage increase.
Fire which broke out in the store
room of the Superior Paper Company,
In Kalamazoo, Mich, did damage es-
timated at between $4,000 and
100000.
Frederick van Eeden, the Dutch
sociologist and founder of a commun-
istic colony in Holland, spoke before
the Civic Forum in New York.
Samuel L. Hampton, American
railroad conductor, under sentence
of death in Mexico City for the muir
der of negro, is dying at the hos
pital
Mrs. Margaret Deland discussed
the Change in the Feminine Ideal"
before the League for Political Edu-
cation in New York.
III Il Hbul III COuItIOOm III De-
catur, Ala, w. +. Holland and his
son Walter were killed and j. II.
Turner fatally injured.
A bill was introduced in Congress
to increase the rate of pay for carry
ing the mails on the short" railroad
lines.
Dan Hogan, of Pittsburg, shot and
killed himself on a Chicago and
Northwestern train near Janesville,
Wis.
Frederick Warren Freer, a painter
of international reputation, died In
Chicago of heart disease.
Three young women were drowned
while boating on the Appalachie mill
pond, near Greer, S. G.