The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-03-11
The news.
Domestic

The Eastern Pig Iron Association,
which is made up of the leading iron
producers of the East, has practically
agreed to reduce the wages of its
workmen 10 per cent. Similar re-
ductions may be made later on the
part of the blast furnaces in the
country.
Charles M. Schwab, president OF
tho Bethlehem Steel Company, was
passenger on the Lusitania from
Liverpool. MIR. Schwab said he
thought 10 years more should ses
abe production of steel in this coun-
try doubled.
AS the result OF an exchange of
shots between John NJ. Morgan and
City Marshal Hugh Bone, at Clarks-
Vile, Ark, Morgan is dead and Bone
Is thought to be mortally wounded.
The remains of Col. John NJ. OF
ter, once manager for the interests
of A. T. Stewart, were placed in a
vault without religious services,
flowers or mourners.
Ensign Humphrey Churchill, who
made the trip around the world on
the flagship Connecticut, and Miss
Martha Williams Churchill were mar
ried in San Jose, Cal.
The anthracite district officers OF
the United Mineworkers of America
are in session at Wilkes-Barre, Pa,
TO formulate demands upon the NINE
owners.
A verdict awarding the federal
government $134,116, In unpaid GUS
toms duties was handed down against
the American Sugar Refining Com
pany.
The Deering Coal Company, five-
million-dollar Delaware corporation,
was placed in the hands OF a receiver
by Judge Kohlsaat, of Chicago.
The steamer Aki Maru was In
wireless touch with Japan or the
United States during the entire voy-
age from Yokohama to Seattle.
Thirty armed tramps attacked n
train of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road at San Bernardino.
Charles NJ. Schwab has returned
from Russia with orders for Amer
lean armor plate.
Daniel Wolford. OF New York,
famous as a double of Abraham Lin
coin, is dead.
Seven negroes, convicted Of muir
der or assault in Louisiana, were
hanged.
The New York Central Railroad
is spending $S,000,00O for equip
ment.
United States Senator Isaac Steph-
enson, whose term of filling out the
unexpired term of John G.. Spooner,
expired, was reelected by the Wis
consin legislature in joint ballot for
a term of six years, on the twenty
third ballot. He received SO out of
1913 votes cast, there being 10 abb
sentees.
Captain William Ferguson and his
wife Mary were drowned by the sink
ing of the barge, George II. Bates,
at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
docks, between st. George and New
Brighton, Staten Island, during the
storm. Six other barges anchored
nearby sank during the storm.
A Philadelphia dentist, 81 years
old, wooed and won a 19-year-old
girl. while his son, aged 20, was also
counting the young woman.
Andrew Leis and a woman suppos-
ed to be his wife were found shot to
death in the Hotel Elberon, New
York.
Divers may be sent down to the
sunken White Star liner Republic to
recover the corpse of Mrs. Eugene
Lynch.
No anti-Japanese legislation will
pass the Montana legislature at this
session.
Steel sheet manufacturers of Pitts
burg have cut prices from 81 to $6
q ton.
Col. Edward e. Britton and Quar-
antine Commissioner Frederick H.
Schroeder former president and Sec
ond vice president of the Eagle Saw
ings and Loan Association, of Brook
lyn, were found guilty of stealing
$4,000 from the institution.
The third squadron of the Atlantic
fleet, made up of the Maine, New
Hampshire, Idaho, Mississippi, Mon
tana and North Carolina, has been
formally detached from Admiral
Spery's Atlantic feet and organized
into a special service squadron,
Both the government and the de-
fense rested in the governments suit
against the American Sugar Refin-
ing Company.
The Commercial Cable Company
IS to lay a new cable between New
foundland and New York City.