The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-12-30
The news.
Domestic

Mrs. william G. Rockefeller was
an unhappy Santa Claus when her
chauffeur was arrested for speeding
and she had to spend half an hour
in court while police guarded pres
ents.
Mrs. Edward II. Hartman, widow
OF the railroad king, is the richest
woman in the world, according to a
conservative estimate of the estate
left by her husband.
The water supply of Atlantic City
was cut off by fire at the pumping
station. Fire engines pumped water
into the mains, thus preventing a
famine.
Annie Pavlinski. eight years old,
has been arrested as a shoplifter in
st. Louis. She has been arrested
three times for theft.
Thomas b Flynn, of Elkton, Va,
said to be a vaudeville actor, died
in = hospital in Philadelphia from
gas asphyxiation.
The Democratic convention at But
Ter, Mo, failed to elect a successor
TO the late Congressman De Almond
Tlburn Island, Gulf of California,
has been explored by seven Ameri-
cans and is no longer a mystery.
One man was killed and several
injured in a fire in a moving picture
theatre in Pittsburg.
Charles l.. Warmer, former local
treasurer OF the Big Four Railroad,
who confessed to q shortage Of S643,-
900 in his accounts, pleaded guilty
10 embezzelment and was sentenced
TO six years in the penitentary.
Mrs Sarah Ennis, OF Philadelphia,
and James l.. Mack, of Atlanta, Ca,
committed suicide because they had
no money for Christmas
Portions of the brains Of George
Rhoiius. the Indiana millionaire, are
being examined by order OF court to
aid in disposlng of the estate.
Timothy p. Sullivan, Little Tim
of the Bowery, and a power In New
York politics, is dead.
A corset steel DETECTED a bullet
and saved the life of Miss Ethel
Eitelhuber, of Chicago.
The United States Steel Corpora
tlon will distribute $2,000,0O0 in
bonuses 10 employees.
William NJ. Ampt bequeathed
$3.50, 900 for pGblic concerts in Gin
cinnati.
J. Plerpont Morgan paid $4,000
for two soup turccrs
Mistaking North Baltimore, o.,
for Baltimore, Md, Joseph thinner
man got off a Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad train to meet his family,
fell from O hotel window and was
killed.
Herbert Kester, aged 10 years, of
Overton, Pa, after a desperate en-
counter shot and killed the largest
bear seen in Pennsylvania this sea-
son.
Mrs. Pearl Armstrong, of New
Albany, Md, is charged with admin
istering rat poison and strychnine
TO her husband, who died.
Mrs. Emile l.. Fernandez, widely
known in the theatrical world as a
promoter Of stars, died in New York
OF Bright's disease,
Two men were 5uffocated in fire
that destroyed the cabinet factory of
Edward b. Jordon & Company
Brooklyn, y. Y.
Turkeys are so scarce at Albany
n Y, that inmates OF public institu-
tions may have to do without them
James McGill, a one-armed man
saved William Hanlon, a skater,
from drowning at Middletown, N. Y.
The Wabash Railroad in Ohio will
be sold to satisfy the James Comp
ton claim for 100000.
shirtwaist strikers and suffra-
Gettes, in Il automobiles, paraded
Fifth Avenue.
Zelayas army has been defeated
by the troops Of General Estrada,
according TO advices reaching DR..
Castrillo, the representative in Wash
ington OF the Estrada provisional
government.
The Senate took the first steps to-
ward threshing out the Pinchot-Bal-
linEcr controversy in compliance
with the Sccrctary's demand for q
complete investigation.
The people OF Arizona are a unit
for statehood, says Governor Sloan,
In his annual report on affairs OF the
territory.