The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-02-24
The News.
Domestic

In the second congressional DIS
trict of Georgia Judge Anderson s.
Roddenberry of Thomasville, was
elected TO succeed the late Congress
man James NJ, Griggs.
Competition. and not combina-
tions or agreements, fixes the prices
of meats, claimed several big pack
ers at the investigation at jefferson
City, Mo.
The long fight over primary Leg
islation I'm Illinois ended in the
House with a sweeping victory for
direct plurality primaries.
President Walker. of the Illinois
State Miners. states that the Cherry
disaster was due to the negligence
of mine inspectors.
Robert Gordon, 75 years old, OF
Pittsburg, after voting for half a
century. has discovered he is not
citizen OF the United States.
The merger of the Union and
Southern Pacific Railroads was again
taken up .u New York before EX-
aminer Williams.
There are 100000 homeless cats
in Chicago, according to Hugo
Krause, superintendent OF the Anti
Cruelty Society.
One man was killed and two wom-
en- and man injured in an automo-
bile accident in Philadelphia.
Henry ; Haskins, representative
on the New York Stock Exchange for
Lathrop Haskins & Co., which fail
ed with the collapse of the Colum-
bus and Hooking Valley Coal and
Iron pool, has been barred from the
stock exchange.
Another legislator was involved in
the graft scandal at Albany, n. Y,
when Senator Conger declared that
former Assemblyman Jean Burnett
had accepted a bribe of 81 900 from
bridge-building interests. .
John T.. Scott, of Harrisburg, Pa,
is the sixth person figuring prQmi-
nently in the Pennsylvania State
Capitol graft case whom death has
claimed.
The steamer Magic City was sunk
in collision with the Merchants and
Miners' liner Parthian at the mouth
of st. Johns River. Florida.
State troops are guarding the
courthouse at Columbus, Ga, where
Arch King, "A negro, accused of as
saulting girl is on trial.
After ten years of unbroken mel
ancholy. Mrs. Alexander Tannenholz,
VI DtAlbANs .hlNiss ItBdlu-
ed her mental facilities.
DR.. John =. James was stricken
by paralysis while attending court
in Philadelphia and died soon after
in a hospital
b. Brooks. formerly a messenger
boy. has been appointed general man
ager of the Western Union Telegraph
Company
The Supreme Court of Illinois has
decided that Col. Thomas Smell, the
eccentric millionaire. was of unsound
mind.
Rev. DR.. William Everett, schol-
ar and former congressman, died at
Quincy, Mass
Col. Henry Watterson. editor OF
the Louisville Courier-Jo Journal, is
seventy years old.
With the grand jury which has
been investigating the alleged milk
trust nearing the completion of its
labors, IT Is said at the Office of the
district attorney of New York that an
investigation of the cold storage
warehouses would probably be insti-
tuted in New York.
Governor Fort, OF New Jersey. re.
ceived a letter from President Taft
expressing his approval of the Gov
ernor's position in urging the legisla-
ture to vote for an income tax.
VIM. Lynasen. of Elizabeth. n. j..
young convict school teacher in
Auburn On. " Prison, was found
dead in his cell.
Three children were burned to
death in tenement house in the
Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. n
Y.
Burglars blew open the safe OF the
Citizens Bank of Chatsworth, Ills
obtaining 10000.
Five cases of smallpox have devel.
oped aboard the armored cruiser
Washington.