The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-01-21
NEWS
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Domestic

A desperate who killed Policeman
Smith and seriously wounded officer
Deversse, who were attempting TO
arrest him for a holdup near Omaha,
Neb., and was probably fatally,
wounded, was identified as Jack
Curtain, said to be a desperate GRIM
inal, against whom charges ranging
from stage robbery in Wyoming and
bank cracking in Missouri to MURDER
In St. Paul are said to stand.
T. s. Anderson. former president
of the defunct Davies County Bank
and Trust Company, of Owensboro,
Ky. was found guilty of swearing
falsely to a statement OF the banks
condition and was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary.
A butchers bill for $4,000 led to-
the examination in supplementary
proceedings OF Mrs. Ida Rawles
Reader, whose financial deals in
Spanish-American countries have at
tracted attention.
Joseph Wharton, the Philadelphia
ironmaster, practically left an estate
OF s25,O0O,OOO to his widow, three
daughters and his grandchildren.
Swarthmore College gets 100000.
Enrique De Lara, the San Do,
mingo boy who, On September IA,
shot and killed Father Artuoro Assem-
clio, In Central Park, pleaded guilty
to murder in the second degree be-
fore Justice Bowling. in New York.
VI. II. Carmichael, OF Wellsburg,
W. Va, declares that his brother,
Rev. John II. Carmichael, was drivenl
Insane over hypnotism when the cler-
gyman murdered Gideon Browning
and then committed suicide.
Tho f1anfhnr nf rannro1 10
Samuel Higgins was killed and three
members of the railroad officials
family were hurt when his residence,
at New Haven, Ct, was destroyed by
fire.
Otto Kelsey, New York state sup
erintendent of insurance, whom Gov
ernor Hughes twice attempted to re-
move from office, has resigned.
Prof. Abbott Lawrence Lowell has
been named TO succeed Charles w.
Eliot as president of Harvard Uni,
verslty.
Six masked men forced Solomon,
Laughner. of near Pittsburg, to give
up $1,000.
The General Assembly of Ohio has
returned Theodore L. Burton to
Congress
Massachusetts is to spend $6S4,-
900 resurfacing public high wavs.
Charles S. Cameron, president OF
the Tube City Railroad, OF Pittsburg.
was found guilty of giving a bribe
OF $4,000 to former Councilman w.
A. Martin to use among members OF
councils to secure the passage OF an
ordinance for the benefit of the COM
pany. Martin, who is now serving a
three-year sentence for accepting the
bribe, was the principal witness
against Cameron.
Magistrate Moss, in the Tombs
Court, found Bradford Merrill, S. S.
Carvaho and Edward S. Clark, of
the New York American. guilty of
criminally libeling John d. Rockefel-
Ter, Jr., and technically committed
them to the Tombs.
John V. Duffy, confidential clerk
to Martin j. Condor, president of
the American Snuff Company, was
arrested in New York, charged with
forging his employers name to IL
checks. aggregating $500.
The will of the Dowager Duchess
of Marlborough, Lily Warren Beres-
ford, bequeaths her millions to her
son, William DeLapoor Beresford,
who Is an infant, under 4 years of
age.
John F. Mcintyre, in summing up
for the defense in the trial of Thorn
ton jenkins Hains, drew an imagi-
nary word picture of the electrocu-
tion and dissection of Hcins,