The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-02
THE news.
Domestic

in abdominal surgery, hospital
cot and two tanks of oxygen, which
arrived at r. II Harriman's retreat
in the mountains, gave rise to rumors
that .he financier was TO be operated
en-.
The steamer Ohio, which left
Seattle for Valdez, Alaska, August
"a. with 1875 passengers, struck
rock off Steep Point. Alaska, and
sank with a loss of FIVE lives The
dead include the Ohios wireless op-
orator
"Old Bill" Macabee. of Baltimore.
nged i05 years, and sole survivor OF
the crew of the Constitution, now in
the United States Naval Home. at
Philadelphia. IS 81 with fractured
thigh
3iyert w shirk. president OF the
First National Bank, OF Upton Ind
was arrested az the Calumet CLUB.
Chicago. charged with misapply:ng
S2d.252 of the bank money
james J. Hin declares that while
the wheat crop of the Northwest will
he 5O.O00,O0o bushels larger than
that ot many previous years, IL VII
not he a bumper crop.
Practically all the available water
power sites in Northeastern Michigan
ssts identified with gas and electric
properties
Miss Edna Schaeffer, a Philadel-
phia school teacher, ill from nervous
troubles. eluded a nurse and leaped
on bridge to her death.
Miss Eleanor Kennedy, a public
school teacher. was stricken with
heart trouble while bathing at Ocean
city. ~ j.. and died
u Clark, colored convict. after
killing a member Of a Georgia posse,
was shot to death and burned
Frank Walsh, aged l6 years. was
killed during fist fight with Eugene
Rahill. aged l6 years, in Philade!.
phia.
The first National Conservation
Congress met in the Alaska-Yukon.
Pacific Exposition Auditorium at
Seattle. with delegates present from
all parts OF the United States and
Canada.
Firing a single charge OF buck.
shot at two supposed chicken thieves,
Charles Hartshorn, Sr.. OF Newark.
o.. instantly killed John Weekly and
William Trace.
The bible is not original with It's
supposed compilers, according to
opinions expressed by Prof Gerald
B Smith. of the University of Chi
cagO
Chicago is to have an institution
for medical research similar to that
founded within recent years in New
York by John ID. Rockefeller.
Fire originating in the Whitney
House. at Truckee. Cal, consumed
the theater and threatened to wipe
out the business quarter.
Charles M. Schwab. president OF
the bethlehem Steel Company, was in
Chattanooga en- route from New Or
leans to New York city
George Ruttledge found a pearl in
the Wabash River, near Mount Ver-
non, H., weighing 46 grains and
which he sold for S2,500.
Governor Campbell. of Texas, will
not be present in FL Paso at the
meeting in October OF Presidents Taft
and Diaz.
A stampede was begun to Blue
Cloud Gulch. west of Helena. since
rich placer gold strikes have been
made there.
The submarine torpedo boat Tar
pon exceeded every contract require
mcnt in her trials just completed.
Ida County, Idaho, voted dry" un-
der local option law
Five hundred dollars for a dinner
with liquid refreshments" to be
served at his funeral was among the
requests in the will of the late Au-
gust II. Karutz. of New York Kar-
utz stipulated that heirs who failed
To attend the funeral banquet should
be disqualified.
William Taggart, of Philadelphia.
broke an engagement TO marry in
order to inherit $l5. 600 willed him
on condition that he remain a bach
eior
Plans are afoot to organize the
100000 steel, iron and tinplate
workers OF the United States into the
Order of the Sons of Vulcan.
&. r. Curtis, former naval Off
ner. a victim OF smallpox. was sent
70 quarantine on arrival in New York
from Naples.
Mrs. Mary Mcclure was thrown
over "a cliff of the Palisades. landing
ON a ledge. which saved her life.
One thousand coal miners in the
Youghiogheny Valley have refused TO
work in mines using carbonite.
The mother of Marion Bleakley,
the incubator baby" is said to be
an ctrcss