The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-03-25
The News.
Domestic


from Montevideo for Pensacola. Is
aground ten miles west Of Pensacola,
with prospects that she will be a
complete wreck.
The Connecticut Senate adopted a
resolution requesting the state dele
cation in Congress to oppose the
proposition to lay a federal inheri'
tance tax.
The factory occupied Jointly by
the International Button Company
and the NJ. b. Shantz Button Com.
pany. Rochester, n. Y, was damaged
by fire.
II. NJ. Tilford was elected a d.
rector of the Standard Oil Company
at New York, succeeding his brother
w. II. Tilford, who died recently.
The state legislature of Connect
cut has passed an act Incorporating
the National Council of Congrega-
tional Churches of the United States.
The main building of the Easton
Foundry and Machine Company at
West Easton, Pa, was destroyed by
fire. entailing a loss of 100000.
Rev. william Bellar. the Oldest
minister in the Ohio Methodist Con
ference, died at his home at Col.
umbus aged eighty-seyen years.
Maldonado Florencio. 19-year.
old student at the Valparaiso Uni.
versity. is dying from a deep wound
In his throat, self-inficted.
Fourteen Pennsylvania Railroad
Company employees have been sub
penaed in connection with Standard
Oil rebating cases
Fire broke out in the laundry
house of the Western Penitentiary,
partially destroying the building.
The forty-sixth joint ballot for IL
linois United States Senator gave
Hopkins, IS; Foss, is; Shurtleff, IS,
Stringer, 33.
The boys dormitory, dining-room
and music hall of Asbury College.
Wilmore, KY were destroyed By
fire.
Three men were killed in the ex-
plosion of the plant of the Coeur
d'Alene Powder Works at Wallace,
Idaho.
Mrs. Cyrus Sousley, of Albany, Pa,
was found by her children hanging
in the garret of their home.
The United States Circuit Court
of Appeals, of New York, decided
that a moving picture is a stage
representation" within the meaning
of that term in the copyright law.
The question arose in suit brought
by Harper & Bros. and Klaw G Err
langer against the Kalem Company,
manufacturers of moving-pictuTe
films, to enjoin them from produc-
ing exhibitions of Ben Hur."
Baron Mayor des Planches. the
Italian ambassador at Washington,
sent a message to Police Commits
sioner Bingham concerning the Wig
orous efforts of his government to
find and punish the murderers of
Lieutenant Petrosini.
Miners in the Scranton district are
conducting a campaign of reorgani-
cation, and meetings are being held
nightly in different localities for the
purpose of getting the men back into
line.
A fire escape crowded with fifty
women began to give way during Il
fire panic at 112 Prince Street, New
York, the women being rescued by
firemen.
Prof Isaac V. Flagler, well known
as an organist and composer died in
Auburn. y. Y, aged seventy years.
Fifteen thousand persons attended
the funeral of Gen. William j.
Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs.
The National Wholesale Grocers'
Association will hold their annual
convention in Detroit in June.
Net earnings of the United States
Steel Corporation show a decrease of
over 69,00O,000.
The Cambria Steel Company has
made cut OF 10 per cent. in wages,
affecting 5000 men.