The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-12
THE NEWS
Domestic

Signs or cyanide in the stomach
OF Col. Thomas II. Swope might have
resulted from the mingling of for
maldehyde, injected in embalming
fluid, and the natural amomnia in
the body, testified DR.. Walter M.
Cross in the Hyde trial.
On representations that the Uni
ted States Life Endowment Company
is totally insolvent, the concern was
placed in the hands of the Central
Trust Company, of Illinois, as re-
ceiver
Seven passengers were injured
when a street car of the Wilkes
Barre and Wyoming Valley Traction
Company plunged into a mine cave
In at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
The American Bible Society Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
has received gift of 100000 from
Mrs. Russell Sage.
The New York City Federation of
Women's Clubs demands the appoint
ment Of a woman as an assistant
district attorney.
Frank r. Minor, a wealthy grain
broker of St. Louis, was sentenced
to the penitentiary for conducting a
phNhNA ohbRs
Three firemen were killed and
three injured in a wreck of new
automobile fire engine at Macon, Ga.
A piece of tattooed flesh was ex-
hibited in a murder trial at Monte
sano, Wash.
AS test of the constitutionality
of the Ohio primary law, a suit was
fled In Cleveland to restrain the
board of election from placing the
name of United States Senator
Charles Dick upon the Republican
ballot.
Operations of a clever forger, who
secured almost $4,000 in cash, have
just been revealed to the Boston
police authorities by the officials of
the National Shawmut Bank, which
lost that sum through bogus checks.
William Randolph Hearst filed ad-
ditional suits for damages owing to
the Hearst-Gaynor controversy,
against Adolph Ochs, Henry Water
son, Melville +. Stone, Herman Rid
der and seven Boston daily news
papers.
Blueprint charts showing how
Heinze made good his famous bet
that United Copper would pass Anal
gamated were introduced in the trial
in New York by the prosecution as
its trump card.
IL. f. Laflamme told the Mems
National Missionary Congress in
Chicago that knowledge of dentistry
added to the success of a mission
ary in heather lands.
Mrs. Margaret Potter Black, bet
ter known as Margaret Horton Pot
ter the authoress, was declared in
sane by a court in Chicago.
Progress is being made in the ar
rangements for the celebration of
the fiftieth anniversary OF the bat
tie Of Gettysburg in July, 1918.
viii Johnson and Charlie Walker,
negroes, were positively identified
by Conductor w. H. Bryson as the
highwaymen who shot him and
murdered Motorman S. T. Brown in
the holdup of an Atlanta street car
a week ago.
Former United States Senator Will
liam l.. Mason, in an interview Civ
en- out in Chicago, declared that so
per cent. of the seats in the United
States Senate have been practically
purchased.
Owing to the great variety of
shades which have hitherto been
used on flags and sweaters as the
Harvard University color, the cor
poration has decided on a single Off
cial crimson.
Mrs. Mary A. Hartman, widow of
the late L. II. Hartman, will neither
deny nor confirm the report that her
daughter Mary is engaged to Charles
Cary Rumsey, OF New York.
Mary S. Moore. a Boston dress
maker, pleaded guilty to defraudlng
the government OF customs in the
SLEEPER trunk cases, and was fined
$500
The freight steamer Santurce and
the oil tank Ligonier were in collis-
ion during a fog off Cape Cod.
George A frost, Of Cumberland,
Nd, was awarded a metal by the
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.
The Wesleyan College, acting up-
on its own initiative, adopted a reso-
luton abolishing hazing.
Suffragists plan to tour the State
States Steel Corporation amounts to
$4,000 900.
SuHragists plan to tour the Stast
of Illiuois in automobiles.