The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-12-09
The news.
Domestic

twenty-five hundred girls anO
women, striking shirtwaist operators
now demanding higher wages and
better working conditions in New
York, marched through the East
Side to the City Hall, where they
presented a petition to Mayor Nc
Cleilan
Two little girls. Agnes Smith and
Annie Luedke, both l3 years old.
who escaped from the Industrial
School at Milwaukee on the night of
November 20 made a 40-mile trip
to Jefferson Junction, clinging to the
rods underneath a passenger train.
BY the decision of Judge W. l..
Newman, of the United states Dis
trict Court of Atlanta, Costa George
Najour, a Syrian, is declared a white
man and eligible to the privileges
of citizenship In the United States.
Walter G.. Smith. a prominent at
torney of Philadelphia, resigned as
a member of the board of trustees
of the University of Pennsylvania be-
cause he differed with a professor
on a question of the divorce evil.
Former Queen Liliuokalani, of
the Hawaiian Islands. has executed
a deed of trust whereby great part
OF her 100000 estate after her
death will go to the endowment Of
orphan asylums in the islands
Lucien J. Irwin, president OF the
Louisville, Henderson and St Louis
Railroad, indicted jointly with his
road on the charge of rebating, gave
bonds Of $4,000 in the United States
court at Louisville.
Special Agent Parr, of the Treas
ury Department, testified in the su-
gar frauds hearing that he was ask
ed to name his price to keep quiet
about his discovery of a secret spring
in sugar scales.
Closer social and business rela-
uonship between Boston and Chicago
was the keynote of a banquet ten
1erad the members of the Boston
Chamber of Commerce by the Chi
cago Association of Commerce.
Capt. W. A. Johnson, mining ex-
pert, after being evicted from a hotel
in Salt Lake City because he couldn't
pay his bill. committed suicide by
taking cyanide of potassium.
Professor Giddings, of Columbia
University. in an address in New
York, said he sees danger lurking
in the big corporations, and that
they are defying the law
Albert T. Patrick appeared in court
in New York In an effort to gain his
freedom, but the judge refused ha-
beas corpus and sent him back to
Sing Sing.
Mrs. Dora E. Doxey, of Columbus,
Neb., was arrested and charged with
numbering her husband of three
months by placing arsenic in his
food.
Fred Rosena. an Italian, was hang.
ed at Newcastle. Pa, for the mur.
der OF his cousin, John Coccho, on
July 12, 1908.
John Ellsworth was sentenced to
five years in the state prison al
Mount Holly, n. j., for robbina
Schuyler Rainier.
Marines at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard had an hours battle putting
out fire in the chemical laboratory
building.
The steamer Vaderland rescued
the crew of the waterlogged schooner
Eugene Borda off the Massachusetts
coast.
Three persons were injured in 8
riot in Chicago when strikers at
tacIed occupants of nonunion tailor
shop.
The grand jury at Louisville, in.
dicted two railroads and the Ameri.
can Tobacco Company for rebating.
DR.. William A. Packard, professor
emeritus Of Latin in Princeton Uni.
versity, died at Princeton, n. j.
Governor Stubbs was snubbed by
the Topeka Club, of Kansas, in with
drawing a dinner invitation because
he fought the club in an effort to
abolish the liquor locker system.
Mrs. Harriet c. Mott, sister of the
famous Bidwell brothers, who swim
died the Bank of England, and who
spent a fortune in obtaining their
liberty. died at Muskegon, Mich.
DR.. j. T. Zimmerman, in an ad-
dress in Chicago, stated that there
are 100000 white slaves in the uni
ted States, and that they represent
an investment of S54O, 100000.
Frank NJ. Coudon, of Cincinnati,
was the man who informed the Of
ficials OF the Big Four Railroad OF
the defalcations of Charles l.. War
riner
Eshmayer Surkin. who was PEN
sioned for bravery on the battlefield
by Nicholas /, of Russia, died In
philadelphia, aged one hundred
years.
Governor Hughes was asked to re-
move Bird S. Coler from the presi-
dency Of the Borough OF Brooklyn
ON charge of incompetency.