The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-02-20
NEWS
by TELEGRAPH
Domestic

baron IdkAnlrH, the new JAPANESE
ambassador, arrived at New York,
and declared that war between the
United States and Japan would be
the most inhumen event In the his
tory OF the world.
Francis T. F. Lovejoy, of Pitts
burg, is said to have admitted that
Mrs. Mary Z. Cochrane, the Woman
in Black" obtained from him q
100000 mortgage on his S750,0OO
home for 81.
Miss Josie Gembino, in New York,
shot five times at Charles Tinge, who
had Tilted her a few days before the
date set for their marriage.
Murray Carleton, millionaire club
man of st. Louis, has adopted a
Chinese girl, who is now studying in
China.
An expendition of American teach
ers on a tour of inspection abroad is
being planned by the Civic Fedora
tion.
The Civic Federation plans send
ing a delegation of American school
teachers on a tour of inspection in
Europe.
Hetty Green is reported to have
said that during the financial crisis
she loaned a million to Harry Payne
Whitney and to the New York Cen
tral, but refused loans to members of
the Vanderbilt family.
States Attorney General Jackson
announced that he would ask for the
appointment of a receiver for the
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Com
pany of New York.
Deputy Chief Charles w. Kruger,
known as the Grand Old Man of the
New York Fire Department, was
drowned while leading his men at
fire on Canal Street.
Carl Pohlig, leader of the Phila-
delphia Orchestra, and other men,
bers of the orchestra were injured in
wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio,
near Chester, Pa.
Secretary Taft presented diplomas
to los members of the graduating
class of the United States Military
Academy.
Nathan q. Taylor a city official of
Creston, Ia, was shot and killed in
the rear of his confectionery store.
L. C. Brewer, a salesman, sent
bullet into his brain in the wholesale
shoe store of A. j. Bates & Co., in
Duane Street, New York, after
threatening to kill G. A. Burnell,
manager of the store, and firing a
bullet into the floor to emphasize his
threat. According to members of the
firm, Brewer had been employed by
Bates & Co., as a salesman, but was
discharged a few weeks ago.
The report of the fire insurance
business of 1907 on the Pacific coast
shows the total amount of the poll
cies written to be $1,233,S29,61S,
on which premiums to the amount
of s25, ,969,447 were paid.
Foster NJ. Voorhees,, ex-governor
Of New Jersey, and president of the
Bankers Life Insurance Company,
was indicted for perjury by special
grand jury sitting in New York.
Mrs. Martha Anderson was found
dead at her home, in Janesville, Wis,
with her throat cut from ear to ear.
The district attorney is investigating
her death.
Brigadier General Henry Carroll,
U. S. A., retired, a veteran of the
Civil War and of the Spanish War,
died at his home in Colorado Springs.
Five persons were killed in the
explosion which wrecked the starch
manufacturing plant of C. s. Tanner
in Providence.
John Hays Hammond, mining en-
gineer, has given up his s250,00 po-
sition with the Guggenheim Explora-
ton Company.
Fire destroyed the Pine Tree
Worsted Companys plant at Putnam,
CT. The loss is about $4,000.
Leslie NJ. Shaw says j. Pierpont
Morgan is the biggest man in the
country today and that he would like
to see the financier president of the
United States.
Henry Schuelle, a wealthy and re-
spected contractor of Alton. ILL.,, con-
fesses he is a burglar who has been
looting stores of the community.
Twelve men were burned by the
explosion of 90 tons of molten metal
in the National Tube Company fur
mace. at McKeesport. Pa.
Receivers have been named for P.
p. Mast & Co., agricultural imple-
ment manufacturers of Cincinnati, o.
Burglars blew up the Farmers and
Manufacturers Bank of Rich Hill,
Mo. securing $4,000 in cash.
Charles ]. Hughes, Jr., a Denver
lawyer, delivered an address which
consumed As hours.