The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-01-14
NEWS
Domestic
BY TELEGRAPH

manager of the Erie Railroad, with
headquarters in New York, has beer
appointed general manager of the
Gilchrist Transportation Company, oi
Cleveland.
Harry Gilmore. 40 years old, who
has spent SO years in prison, ac'
cording TO the police records, receiy-
ed a sentence of eight years in the
Hudson County Court of Sessions In
Jersey City.
The City Council at Port Arthur,
Tex, gave to John w. Gates. on his
request, two plots of grounds. on
one of which is TO be erected a CO.
educational college to cost 100000.
The Empire Theater, now under
lease to Charles Frohman, was sold
under the hammer. together with
three other buildings on Broadway.
New York. for sS50,000 to AL Hay
man.
The Fort View Hotel, of Winches-
ter, Ky, was destroyed by fire. and a
body, supposed to be that of II. l..
Eals, an employe of the Burley To-
bacco Society, was found in the ruins.
Hussein Kiazim Boy. the first am
bassador appointed by the Turkish
a passenger on the steamer Oceanic,
which arrived at New York.
Miss Nellie O'Donnell, a former
cashier for the Schwarzchild & Sulz-
berger Beef and Provision Company,
Kansas City, Mo-, was arrested on a
charge of embezzling $4,000.
The American Locomotive Com
pany has purchased a plot of 1870
acres of land at Gary, Ind, from the
Gary Land Company, a subsidiary
company of the United States Steel
Corporation, and plans are being
drawn for a new plant, which officers
OF the locomotive company say will
be the most complete and best equip
ped locomotive works in the world
Charles o. Wagner, reported TO
have become engaged to marry Mrs.
Florence MaybricK, who was con-
victed in England on the charge of
poisoning her husband and sentenc-
ed TO life imprisonment, and who
since her release has been lecturing
In the United States, denies that he
Is to marry Mrs. Maybrick.
Miss Bridget King, of Newark. N.
j., surrendered herself to the police
OF that city on a charge of aiding
In the abduction of Juliet Testa. the
17-year-old daughter of Pasauale
Iesta, it is alleged, by Rev. Father
Nicholas Siani, a curate of st. Roc
cos Catholic Church, of Newark.
Anselm R. Manning, hero of the
younger and James brothers raid of
Northheld, Mimi, 81 years ago.
cropped dead of heart disease. When
the raiders began shooting Manning
TOOK a gun from his hardware store
ana ana wounded Cole Younger and shot
BIZ Stiles through the heart.
The special grand jury sworn in
on Monday by Justice Dowling re-
turned an indictment against the
S'ar Company. publisher of William
X. Hearst's New York American,
charging criminal libel.
George J. L. Wolff, Baltimore
manager for the Crowe-Levick Com
pany, detailed the rivalry for the oil
trade of Baltimore in the suit to
dissolve the Standard Oil Company.
w. G. Brown, who was a section
hand on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul Railroad, was chosen presi-
dent of the New York Central.
Edward d. Shurtleff, who bolted,
tie Republican caucus, was elected
speaker of the Illinois House with
the aid of Democratic votes.
President-elect Taft heard a re-
port on general conditions of child
labor in the South by A. ]. McKel-
way.
The arguments of counsel for the
defendant and of the Judge advocate
were completed in the court-martiaI
of Commander Charles c. Marsh,
United States Navy, who was in COM
mand of the cruiser Yankee when
she ran ashore at the entrance of
Buzzards Bay.
thornton J. Hams admitted on the
stand that he believed William ].
Annis and Mrs. Hams had been in
innate years before he spoke to Cap
tain Hams on the subject, and that
he did not reveal the story until An
mis- snubbed him.