The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-22
NEWS
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Domestic

IH6 llttlluE VI Lnt NhAT
cago, Minneapolis, st. Paul and Oma-
ha Railroad was held at Hudson,
Wis, and all the old officers were
reelected. Following this a meet
ing of the St. Paul and Sioux City
Railroad was held. at which officers
were elected.
Agents who handle the sales OK
coal in New York were subpoenaed
to appear as witnesses in the gov
ernment suit against the coal-carry-
Ing roads and coal companies for al
legged illegal combination in restraint
of trade.
In the trial of Charles w. Morse,
charged with violating the national
banking laws, It was revealed that
youth of 10 years was one of the
heaviest borrowers of the National
Bank of North America.
Kate NJ. Gordon corresponding
secretary OF the National Woman's S
Suffrage Association In her report
said that President Roosevelt refused
to recommend woman's suffrage to
Congress.
Dr. Won Tiedmann, postmaster at
Cortez, New, was arrested, charged
with embezzling $4,000 Of the funds
of his Office. DR.. Won Tiedmann
claims the Office was entered by bur
glars.
Mrs. Mary NJ Emery, widow OF
the millionaire capitalist, has given
the Ohio Mechanics Institute $780,
600 for the erection of a building
10 be known as the Emery Audi
torium.
The American Board Of Commis-
sioners for Foreign Missions, in an
nual convention in Brooklyn, decided
to hold its annual convention next
year in Minneapolis, and to celebrate
in Boston in 1910 its centennial.
Five men were blown to atoms and
from Is to 20 others were badly
injured, some fatally, by premature
explosion of dynamite at the Great
Western Sugar Company's LIMERICK
Quarry at Fort Collins. Col.
Fifty families, aggregating about
200 persons. boarded two large
barges and came down the Allegheny
River, and then up the Monongahela
River to Charleroi, Pa, their future
home.
An attempt to wreck the Chicago
express on the Erie Railroad was
frustrated just in time when an op-
orator accidentally discovered a jack
under the rails at Pymatuning, Pa.
The sum of $4,000 has been ap-
propriated by the American Hereford
Cattle Breeders Association at Kan
sas City to advance the interests of
that breed in the United States.
Rev. Louis E. Holden, president
of the University of Wooster, has
announced that L. H. Severance, of
Cleveland, had given 100000 for
the permanent endowment of the BIZ
BILE and Missionary Training School.
Mrs. Louise H. Chamberlin, a So
eial leader and sister of Perry S.
Heath, former assistant postmaster
general and later editor of the Salt
Lake Tribune. was burned to death
at her home at Albuquerque.
A negro registered at Detroit po-
lice headquarters as Link Rounds,
told the police that he had escaped
from an Indianapolis insane asylum
and murdered his wife a year ago
with an axe.
Fire at Venice, ILL.,, manufactur-
ing town about 10 miles north of
East st. Louis. ILL.,, destroyed the
plant of the Barber Asphalt Com
pany.
w. G. Lucas, a farmer, was stop
ped while hauling a bale of cotton
to Searcy by masked riders, who
burned the cotton in the road.
Henry Standing Bear, a full-blood-
ed Sioux Indian, who is a graduate
of the Carlisle Indian School, and
formerly was a fullback on the Car
Isle football eleven, was arraigned
in court in New York, charged with
bigamy The complainant is Hazel
M. Moran, of St. Louis, who said
she was a graduate of Smith College.
at Northampton, Mass.
Rev. Charles e. Hill, chaplain OF
the Grand Army of the Republic of
New Jersey, and one of the best
known Methodist clergymen in the
State, dropped dead at the home OF
his daughter, at Red Bank.
j. w. Lorraine was sentenced at
Atlanta to five years imprisonment
and to pay fine of $1,000 for steal
ing pay checks from the Government
Health Department at Washington.
The last news from DR.. Frederick
E. Cook, in the Arctic regions, says
he was making dash for tP~ North
Pole.