The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-07-22
The news.
Domestic

John ID. Rockefeller has disposed
of sixteen-story building IN Cleve-
land to his son for a consideration
of one dollar. declaring he would not
be bothered with the care OF It.
Mrs Fremont b. Chesbrough.
owner of line of steamers out of
Boston, was indicted for smuggling.
a double bottom having been found
in her trunk.
Rev, Morris NJ Kemp. former rec
tor OF Protestant Episcopal churches
in New York, was arrested on a
charge of being intoxicated.
George n. McCubbin has filed suit
at Towson against the p. w. & B.
Railroad, claiming $4,000 damages
for alleged false arrest
Fire broke out in the residence
of George l.. Potter. vice president
OF the b. & o., near Towson. and
caused about $500 damages.
The proposed merger of all the
telephone corporations of the coun.
try calls for a capital of S970.OOO,.
900.
Mrs. Mary Baker C. Eddy, the
leader of the Christian Scientists,
was SO years old yesterday.
Glen H. Curtiss, the aeronaut,
made a flight lasting 81 minutes in
heavier-than-air machine
Leonardo Gebbia. a Black Hand.
er. was hanged in HahnesyIlle, La.
William l.. Mellon, of Pittsburg,
preferred stakeholder of the Missis.
sippi Wire Glass Company, filed a
bill to have the company enjoined
from payment of dividends on com
mon stock.
Through the efforts OF Congress.
man William Sulzer, Of New YORK,
and a large New York bonding syn.
dicate President Cabrera is negotia.
ting for the refnancing of Guate.
mala.
Only the poor aim OF his assailant
prevented the assassination of Thorn
as w. Benoist, a wealthy manufac.
turer and club man, OF st. Louis,
who was attacked in his automobile.
Theodore s. Whitmore. acquitted
n year ago on the charge of having
murdered his wife, was sentenced In
New York to imprisonment fol
grand larceny.
James A. Patten. who is said by
fellow members of the Board OF
Trade to have made a profit OF
100000. is now on top of Evans
ton taxpayers.
Tho steamer Prinz Friedrich vii.
helm. which left her New York
pier for Bremen. ran aground in the
Ambrose Channel.
Col. Daniel Moriarity was elected
colonel of the Seventh Infantry fol
life at Camp Deneen, Chicago.
The son OF Cuban millionaire
committed suicide by shooting after
his allowance was discontinued.
National President Thomas L.
Lewis, of the United Mineworkers
has ordered the $4,000 miners OF
the Pttsburg Coal Company to dis
regard the orders of Local President
Francis Feehan and not to go on
strike.
A commissioner appointed by Gov.
ernor Hughes has reported that
Louis +. Haffen, president of the
Borough of the Bronx, has subordi.
mated his public duties to his poll.
tical and personal interests.
Nearly a million school children
are doomed to die of tuberculosis
before they are of age, according to
icpOlL VI tue -NdtIohdl ASSOOlatIOH
for the Study and Prevention of Tu.
berculosis.
Fireman William Parry and
Brakeman William Brown were kill
ed when a New York, Susquehanna
and Western train was wrecked in
a cave-in over a mine near Scran-
ton, Pa.
Hewitt Hill was burned to death
and nine persons were injured when
a gasoline tank exploded and scat
tered burning oil over an auto par
ty near Savannah, Ga.
Frank +. McMlllen, Of Altoona,
Pa. shot and killed his wife while
firing through a window at William
i. Mcdowell. who was calling on
Mrs. McMillen.