The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-01-28
The News.
Domestic


Secretary of State Samuel S.
Koenig left Albany for Washington
with the certificates of election of
Elihu Root as United States senator
from New York, signed by Governor
Hughes and the Secretary of State.
That Mrs. Allen F. Read, who at
tempted to dynamite Mrs. Genevieve
Chandler Phipps, at Denver. is sane
and has never been insane is said
to be the report of one of the alien
lists for the state.
John Osborne. supposed to be the
Oldest mail carrier and probably the
oldest employe OF the Postal Depart
ment. celebrated his ninety-fourth
birthday at his home in Osborn, q.
A father acting as best man at the
wedding of his son was the unusuai
feature at the marriage OF MISS
Kathryn Charlton, of Oak Park, ana
Lloyd r. Steers, of Chicago.
Harlow ~ Higginbotham, of Chi
cago. for years the president of the
board Of trustees of the Field Mu-
scum Of Natural History, has been
retired from that position.
Directors Of the Boston and Mon
tana Consolidated Copper and Silver
Mining Company at New York de-
olared a quarterly dividend of 81
share and 81 extra.
The jury in the case Of c. F. Hyde,
charged with the killing of Duncan
S. Kemp, at Amite City, La, brought
in a verdict of not guilty.
n ig-
tributed in New Orleans. the preco-
cious freight coming from the New
York Founding and Orphan Asylum.
A volcanic disturbance let loose
the water of a mountain lake near
Lucerene, Tagalos Province, p. l.,
causing considerable damage.
The constitutional equal suffrage
amendment passed the South Dakota
Senate without debate and with but
two dissenting votes.
The House of Representatives at
Phoenix adopted a memorial to Con-
gress asking immediate state for
Arizona.
Four persons were killed and four
teen injured in the explosion of tons
of dynamite, which wrecked part of
the Forcite Powder Works, near
Newark, n. j.
Fifty men employed on a crib
leading down to a tunnel under Lake
Michigan, a mile and half off Chi
cago. were blown to pieces by an ex-
plosion of powder, burned to death
or perished by drowning. 4.
Reading of the reports Of Presi-
dent Lewis, Vice President White
and Secretary Treasurer Ryan were
the features of the second day of the
United Mineworkers' annual con-
convention in Indianapolis.
The Board of Pardons of New Jer-
sey refused to grant a parole TO
Charles Belcher, former mayor of
Paterson, who is serving a term in
States prison for embezzlement. ,
The board of overseers of Harvard
University confirmed the election of
Prof. Abbott Lawrence Lowell as
president to succeed Charles w.
Eliot.
a bill to guarantee deposits in
banks and trust companies was in
troduced in the general assembly of
New York.
A Joint session of the General
Assembly of Illinois adjourned in a
deadlock over the United States sem
atorial contest.
Three thousand men fought for a
chance to shovel snow in New York
until the police reserves dispersed
them.
Patrick ]. Keiran, of the Fidelity
Funding Company, hopes to settle
his financial affairs out of court.
William ]. Stcne was reelected to
the United States Senate by the Cen
eral Assembly of Missouri.
Falling icycles suspended traffic on
the Brooklyn Bridge from IL a. NJ.
until p. NJ.