The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-07
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An attractive young woman who
says she Is a graduate of Southern
University was arrested in Chicago,
charged with the larceny of jewels
from a Philadelphia family who en-
ployed her as a governess.
l.. p Farmer, chairman of the
Trunk Line Association, and a promi-
nent railroad man, died suddenly in
New York His death is believed to
have resulted from apoplexy.
Judge Henry Stockbrdge, OF Bal
timore, Md, was elected president
general of the Sons Of the American
Revolution, to succeed Nelson A. Nc
Cleary, of Chicago.
James Bailey, a manufactures, of
Camden, N. j., was killed in a col
lision between an automobile and an
electric train at Mays Landing, near
Atlantic City.
Financial circles OF New York hear
that Grover Cleveland is seriously
III with cancer of the stomach.
The casualties in officers and men
due to the explosion Of the Japanese
cruiser are now given as 2O1.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has re-
duced its semiannual dividend from
y to per cent.
Secretary of War William II. Taft
sailed from Charleston, S. c., for
Panama.
Anton Bavaria was found guilty
Of a quadruple murder at Canyon
City, Col.
Alexandria Shick, aged 16 years,
of Chicago, travelled 5000 miles on
Sc.
Ray Lamphere, arrested on sus-
picion of having started the fire
which caused the death of Mrs. Della
Guinness and three children and the
destruction of their country home,
at Laporte, Ind, was held on
charge of murder in the first degree.
John Budtka, residing near North
Judson, Ind, shot and killed him
self after recurring letters threaten
ing him with various kinds of pun
ishment, it being intimated by neigh
bors that he was responsible for the
suicide of his wife.
Howard Ogilvie, formerly a stu
dent at the University of Wisconsin,
and whose employment and subse-
quent fake" suicide gained him con-
siderable notoriety, was sentenced to
a year in the Chicago House Of Cor
rection.
L. II. Bickford, associate editor of
the Chicago Inter-Ocean and former
~ managing editor of the Denver
Times, died at the Presbyterian Hos
pital, Chicago, following an opera
tion for appendicitis.
George c. Hit was appointed re-
ceiver for the indianapolis Star, Mum
Gle Star and the Terre Haute Star,
known as the Star League of News
papers.
Fire practically destroyed the plant
of the John A. Bum Chair Company,
at St. Anthony Park, a suburb of st.
Paul, MINI. The loss is about $780,
600.
Douglass Grant a well-known resi-
den of Mount Holly, n. Y, was burn
ed to death in a fire which destroyed
his residence.
David Orr, who helped John Err
lesson to build the Monitor, commit
ted suicide in New York.
The charge that District Attorney
Jerome was derelict in prosecuting
officials of the life insurance COM
panies who made campaign contribu-
tions from the fund of the COM
panies was taken up in the hearing
before Commissioner Hand on
charges made against Mr.. Jerome to
Governor Hughes.
Detectives boarded the steamer
Campania in New York harbor to
question Mrs. Margaret Clary about
the sudden death of her husband in
Ireland.
A coroner's jury rendered a ver-
dict charging Robert Bachman, the
religious fanatic, who killed a child
at Easton, Pa, with murder.
The referee favors the annulment
of the marriage between Helen Ma
loney and Arthur II. Osborne.