The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-08-06
NEWS
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Domestic

MISS fOld LdIOliette, uduEuNtl VI
Senator Lafollette. has filed motion
in the federal court at Chicago to
set aside the order OF adjudication
in the bankruptcy of the VIII j..
Block Amusement Company. she
asks $1,000 damages, alleging that
she was engaged to play a role in
Honor Bright" that was never stag
ed, and. as a result. failed TO receive
$50 a week salary agreed upon.
Charles Humphries. chief clerk in
the Bureau OF Police of Philadelphia,
and Harry B. Bromley. of we'll
known family Of manufacturers. were
run down and killed by a train while
crossing the tracks of the Reading
Railroad at Nicetown Station in the
northern section of the city The
auto crashed through the gates at
the crossing directly in the path of
train
Kidnapped and held a captive for
"a hours in lonely hut, where she
was horribly maltreated. Clara Kon-
ter, aged is. was mysteriously return
ed in a dying condition to her home
at Shawstown, near Pittsburg.
Charles J. Swain former president
of the Quaker City Auto Club, and
Dr. John r. Overpeck were seriously
injured by an auto turning turtle
into a ditch.
Special agents for the government
in Chicago are collecting alleged evil
dence to substantiate proceedings for
the disruption of the Hartman sys-
tenn of railroads.
President Truesdale. of the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western Rail-
road. refuses TO treat with the Switch
mems Union, and a strike is threat
ened.
The conference between the attor-
neys for the government that has
been held at Lenox, Mass. has ended,
after deciding to prosecute the Stand
ard Oil case with all possible speed.
August Eberhardt. of New York.
the self-confessed murderer of his
aunt, has been indicted and held
to trial in September at Hackensack,
N. j.
officials who investigated the
death of Edward Lauterbach. of New
York. declare his death was due TO
insatiate fondess for automobile
speeding.
A scientific analysis of the con-
tents OF the stomachs of Mrs. Belle
Guinness and children. of Laporte,
Ind. shows traces of strychnine.
The millionaires of Great Neck and
other towns of Long Island are arous-
ed over the number of evidently in
cendiary fires in that section.
The youngest son of Secretary
Luke Wright sustained a broken leg
in an encounter with an unknown
man at Memphis.
The mother of Barbara Reig
threatened to kill officer Shellard
when the eoroner's jury brought in a
verdict of suicide.
1t is now believed that George b.
Cortelyou will not be a candidate
for nomination as governor of New
York.
James McCafferty, chief of the New
York detectiHeebureau is to be tried
for conduct unbecoming an officer.
Mrs. Robert Fink, of Philadelphia,
has filed a suit for divorce, charging
barbarous and cruel treatment.
Percy Raisbeck will probe the mys-
terious drowning of his father and
Btepmother at Annandale, MINI.
The New York policemen are busy
killing all the unmuzzled and un-
leashed dogs in the city.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gruber, of Philadel-
phia, and the baby she attempted to
kill are dead
James H. Budd, former Governor
of California, died at his home, at
Stockton.
Mrs. Estella NJ. II. Merrill, known
as Jean Kfncaid," of Boston, is
dead.
The Sante Fe passenger train was
wrecked and the engineer killed.