The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-06
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SAAASSeAS
That women were hung to the
walls until they tainted was one of
the charges made against the Off
cials of the Atlanta city prison in
an investigation now going on.
Secretary of War Dickinson, on an
inspection trip in Porto Rico, dis
cussed with business men and poll
tical leaders conditions on the is
land.
The telegraphers OF the Big Four
Railroad and the management of the
system have reached an agreement
and no strike is likely to follow.
President Bishop, of the Aero Club
of America, may visit College Park
and other Maryland sites for the in
ternational meet in January.
Col. John Byrne, father of Cadet
Eugene Byrne. of West Point, who
was fatally injured in a football
game, died at Buffalo, y. Y.
Superintendent Brown, of a mine
near McAlester, Oklahoma, was res
cued from a mine after being en-
tombed 2S hours.
Gus Schnell. government meat in
spector at the Nelson Morris plant
at FL Paso, Texas, committed suicide
by shooting
Prof. Heinrich Hergesell, who
hopes some day to sail from Berlin
to the North Pole in an airship, was
passenger, arriving by the steam
ship PrinZ Joachim, from Jamaica
and the West Indies
Brigadier General Edwards, chief
-, of the United States Bureau of In
sular Affairs, accidentally fell down
Nembankment at San Juan. Porto
Rico. while inspecting a wall, and
was badlyNinjured.
Bessie Mr,Priest, aged IS years,
of Los Angeles, Gal, died of poison
after dining with rival for the
hand of a son of a millionaire.
DR.. Alfred II. Hoodiey, promi-
nent physician of Northampton,
Mass, died from blood poisoning re-
ceived through a scratch on
thumb.
Dr. Joseph s. Nen, of the health
department of Chicago. declares
some physicians prolong the illness
of patients to increase their income.
Five men were killed by the ex-
plosion of a boiler at the plant of
the Metropolitan Electric Company,
West Reading, Pa.
The suffragettes of Illinois are to
send out theatrical companies to
spread the doctrine of votes for wom-
en-.
WI Ting Fang, the retiring Chi
nese minister sailed for Europe, say
ing he will return in 1859.
Twenty-seven lines of hose were
used in fighting a fire at 214-21S
Sullivan Street, New York.
Charels w. Morse has been denied
new trial.
Louis A. Culliver, attorney for
Francis Dolan, who is charged with
having aided in the alleged Tammany
many theft of the independence
League machinery in the September
primaries, said that he would apply
for warrant for the arrest of Will
liam Randolph Hearst.
Col. James Gordon, on whose head
was once placed a reward of S1O,-
600 on allegations that he was in
the plot to assassinate Lincoln, will
succeed McLaurin in the United
States Senate.
Governor Cotton, of Porto Rico,
gave a brilliant reception in honor
of United States Secretary of War
Dickinson and Brigadier General Ed
wards.
Bernard II. Ball, second vice
president Of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad, was taken vio-
lently insane while at his office, in
Philadelphia
c. II. Smith, convalescent patient
at Bellevue Hospital, and Mrs. l.. r.
Rotzell were married in a taxicab in
the court yard of the hospital.
Major General John A. Wiley,
prominent in the National Guard of
pennsylvania, died at Franklin. Pa.
Madison Square Garden. 1t is re-
ported, has been sold and will be
replaced by an office building.
The New England Marine Com
pany shows liabilities of nearly ST.
100000, and assets OF $3.50.
Imports at the port of New York
Increased over Sal, 100000 during
the year
The price of hogs In the West has
reached 1915 per hundred pounds.