The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-15
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Teneriffe; Lady Sutton and Herbert
Atsley. of London. turned turtle near
Boston because their chauffeur was
forced to sneeze.
Fire of unknown origin destroy
ed the plant of the Greater New York
Metallic Bed Company In the busi-
ness section of Philadelphia, entail
ing loss estimated at $4,000.
Two dwellings In Philadelphia col
iapsed as the result of an explosion
which occurred several years ago
One person was killed and several
were injured.
The cruiser Yankee, ashore on
Hen and Chicken shoals, is being bat
tered by heavy seas, and it is now
believed that 1t will be impossible to
save her.
workmen at the shenango Mills.
at Newcastle, Pa, may resent the
plan of the Steel Corporation to
put in the mill men from the idle
Greer Mills.
The federal building and a num-
ber OF other buildings at Carrabelle,
Fla, were destroyed by a FIRE, the
loss being estimated at 100000.
The wireless telegraph station on
huSbldu l1llls Dan Idutlb'shf was IL
uninterrupted communication with
Honolulu, 1900 miles distant.
Registration in New York City for
the first three days shows a marked
falling off as compared with that OF
four years ago.
The Pittsburg Buffalo Coal Com
pany closed what is said to be the
largest coal contract ever made, with
the NJ. A. Hanna Company.
The eommitte of the international
Tuberculosis Congress awarded
number Of prizes to Maryland insti-
tutions.
The South Mountain Iron Com
pany's stove manufacturing plant at
Pine Grove, Pa, was destroyed by
fire.
The bones of FIVE bodies we're
found in the ruins of the elevator
that was burned Friday in Richford,
VT.
Sixty well-developed cases Of
measles have been reported to the
health department, Chambersburg,
Pa.
The Water Works Department Of
Augusta, Ca, is fully restored for
the first time since August 26.
Rev. John Costello has been plac-
ed in charge of St. Mary's Episco-
pal Church at Waynesboro, Pa.
At Delta, Pa, William Bennington
killed his wife with a shotgun and
then committed suicide.
A negro was lynched by a mob
at Younker, Ga. He had committed
a series of murders.
rpt. l. pF NV
tlement of the shoe lasters' strike at
Lynn, Mass.
Five new cases of cholera are re-
ported in Manila.
To perpetuate the memory of the
81 patriotic women Of Edenton, N.
c., who first defied the mother coun-
try in October, 1874, by declining
to use any more tea, bronze tablet
was dedicated to them by the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution.
While riding on Chicago and
Western Indiana Railroad freight
train at Ninety-first Street, Chicago,
Garrett Kelly, a locomotive fireman,
was killed almost instantly by shot
fred aimlessly in the dark, it Is be-
lieved.
Angered because of a news item
printed in the Morrill, News, Perry
Royer marshal of Morrill,, Kan, shot
and killed J. II. Schmucller, editor
of the News, and then committed
suicide.
Judge Heaton, of the Superior
Court, at Fort Wayne, Ind, holds
that the letters 60 X" written on
the back of an order for money and
having a signature under them mean
"all right" and are equivalent to an
Endorsement.
Judge Pike, of Reno New, refused
to grant a divorce to Virginia Harm
ed, the wife of e. II. Sothern.
A contest over the million dollar
estate of Joseph f. Greenough, Of
Boston, claimed by three women, has
been settled out of court.
Mrs. Flora Avery, of South Dsko-
Ia. who had not seen her daughter
for IL years. met her in court in
New York City.
Bartels. Thelen e Co., of Boston,
and Chelsea, made an assignment,
with liabilities between 100000
and 100000.
The Chicago and Alton Railroad
has ordered 1000 cars from the
Standard Steel Car Company, of
Pittsburg.
E. II. Hartman Is to reorganize
the Gould interests In Pittsburg and
place l.. f. Loree in control.
Fifty students were hurt in class
rush at the Bennett College Of Medi-
cine and Surgery, Chicago.
J.. NJ Brown and sister. Of St.
Louis, were lost in the mountains
OF Mexico for two days.
Foreign
The Paris Temps expresses the hope
that Great Britain will give Russia
satisfaction in the matter of the
Dardanelles.
Reported in Rome that the Abruz
zi-Elkns engagement ls Off, owing tC
Miss Elkins' refusal to change hei
religion.
NJ. Gerasimof, a socialist member
of the frs Douma, was arrested in
st. Petersburg, charged with endeay.