The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-06-23
THE NEWS
Domestic

Engineers of the Interstate Bridge
Commission let contracts for borings
to determine the nature of the Hud-
son River bottom opposite One Hun
dred and Seventy-ninth and One
Hundred and Ninth streets, at one OF
which sites it is proposed to swing
the new Hudson River bridge be-
tween Manhattan Island and the New
Jersey Palisades.
Theodore Elwell, grandniece of one
of Brooklyn's great philanthropists,
James E. Elwell, and daughter of j.
d. Elwell, member OF New York
Stock Exchange firm, and gradu'
ate of Radcliff College, hanged her.
self in an abandoned gymnasium In
Brooklyn.
AS the British steamship Highland
Monarch was proceeding down the
Schuylkill River, bound for Auck'
land, New Zealand, seven members OF
the Chinese crew leaped overheard
in an endeavor to escape. Four werd
drowned and the remaining three
were captured.
Commander Robert E. Peary says
he prefers travelling In the Arctic 10
the inconvenience of a hasty trip
through Europe.
Victor Herbert, the composer,
Ishis wife, daughter and son and Mrs,
Rita Johnson Young, the dramatist,
who is the guest of the Herberts
at their camp at Lake Placid, had
narrow escapes when the Herberts'
boathouse was burned.
William j. Keliher, accused OF
completely with George w. Coleman,
| the young bookkeeper of the Nation
al City Bank, of Cambridge, Mass,
in looting that institution of about
$4,000, was found guilty.
Charles K. Hamilton, the famous
aviator, presented to Mayor Gaynor
the message of Mayor Reyburn, OF
Philadelphia, given to him on his
his fight from New York to the
! Quaker City.
! Grace Larne, the actress, won a
suit against George V. Hobart, the
playwright, in New York, for $3.50,
which she paid him for a sketch he
! didn't write.
The Individual and Social Justice
/ League of America was organized
in New York by clergymen of many
! den, limitations, publicists and labor
/ leaders.
! A card emitting the lucky finder
! to five-acre farm in Missouri will
! be dopped from the aeroplanes in
the st. Louis to Kansas City flight
Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi, a
cousin of the emperor of Japan, ac-
companied by his wife and con-
siderable retinue, arrived in Chicago
The explosion of a dynamite
! bomb in the hallway of New York
tenement created a panic among the
$50 occupants.
John Austin Stevens, founder and
! first president of the Sons of the
Revolution, died at Newport, R. l.
DR.. Herman Marcus, of Atlantic
cyanide of potassium.
President Christopher c. Wilson
and Vice President Samuel S. Bogart
of the United Wireless Telegraph
Company, were taken in custody by
United States Marshal Henkel, at the
company's office, No. AZ Broadway
New York, and taken before United
States Commissioner Shields to an
swer charge of misuse OF the mails
President Daniel willard. of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, de.
clares that If the Interstate Com.
merce Commission does not permit
the railroads to raise freight rates
the transportation lines will be in
bad fix.
The degree of Doctor of Civil Laws
was conferred upon President Taft
by Marietta College, o. He made an
address there at the celebration oi
the seventy-fifth anniversary of the
founding of the college.
The Philadelphia and Reading
Railway Company. the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company and the Bethle.
hem Steel Company were found gull
ty of rebating.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention nominated Webster Grim
for governor and assailed the Repub
lican administration and the tariff
law.
Mrs. Nathan Jasper of New York
saved her husband from the grip Of
a burglar by dashing vinegar into the
eyes OF the intruder.
DR.. o. L. Mahoney, of Phoenix
Ariz.. who has volunteered to get
licenses for all stray CANNES, pait
out 800 on his first effort.
A fireman was saved by air tanks
ana woman stenographer rescued
from a window during a fire in st
Louis.
Legal authorities OF Chicago arc
puzzled over the method of serving
writ of attachment on Judge Chet
lam.
The widow of Charles T. Yerkes
will receive $163,362 from the es
tate left by the traction millionaire
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