The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-04
THE NEWS
Domestic

Five shipwrecked seamen of the West
Indies sloop Sunlight. who lived 10 days
on vinegar and sugar, were picked up at
sea unconscious by the British steamer
Ikalis and landed in New York
The Federal Biscuit Company. capital.
lied at S30000.000, TO take over indie.
pendent biscuit and cracker manufactur.
ers, will be incorporated at Wilmington,
Del.
After legal battle lasting IL years,
Mrs. Laura j. Oram of Newark, ~ j., is
declared to be the widow of Robert Oram
a multi.milionaire.
The corpse of Catherine Cloughessy
who strangled over her false teeth. was
found on lawn near the Germantown
Cricket Club. Philadelphia.
Twelve revolvers were found on Vernon
Hughes and Daniel Lynch, two youths of
indianapolis, Ind, who fought duel
with police
Joseph Vending, wanted for the mur.
der of eight-year. old Alma Kelner. OF
Louisville, Ky, was captured in san
Francisco
An explosion of alcohol caused the
hasty removal OF 30 patients from the
Mount Sinai Hospital. Philadelphia.
*. Iamasaki. the japanese consul at
NhiNHEVs FtbulS llt luti VI war DftNttH
the United States and Japan.
Mrs. Henry Smith. of Detroit. Mich,
lost her life in saving her son. who was
cntangled in electric wires.
The former Rev. Achilles NJ Lambert
is engaged as night watchman in New
York shipyard.
Thirty cotton mills at Fall River
Mass, have closed to curtal production.
The Democrats of Texas have elected
two women to public office.
+. f. Atkins was elected president of
the Westinghouse Electric and Munufac
turing Company, succeeding George West
lnghouse. Ht meeting of the director, ir
New York.
The Atlas Portland Cement Company
announced that it has decided to suspend
the dividend on its common stock for thG
present, owing to recent heavy cXpcndi
lures.
Rev. DR.. Bostwic< Hawlpy one of the
best known retired Methodist Episcopal
clergymen in Northern New York. died at
Saratoga, aged 90 years.
A street car with % passengers went
through the international bridge over the
Rio Grande River. near FL Paso. Texas.
John Junkin, the negro who killed
Clara Rosen, white girl. in February
1905, was hanged at Fort Madison. la.
The National Currency Association, OF
New York, was organized by twenty.seven
national banks of that city.
Joplin, Mo-. has an epidemic of pto-
maine poisoning. l02 cases having been
reported in the last seven days.
Henry Krintz, aged IS years. of Louis.
vile, ILL.,, married his mother-in.law, who
is 60 years old
E;rn l. l., e
lima and Northwestern Railway at Ches.
tel, S. c.
While other members of the fami-
ly were at the breakfast table Mrs.
Marion B. Jennings. daughter-in-law
OF r. II. Jennings, of Spartanburg,
s. c., state treasurer of South Caro-
lima committed suicide by shooting.
AS the result of the transfer of tho
holdints of the Pearson Syndicate,
headed by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of
New York the formation of an i'm
mense transcontinental railroad sys-
TEN may follow.
A 6 per cent. increase in wages,
effective at once has been granted
the employees in the building and
bridges department of the New
Haven and Hartford Railroad
The New York agency of the Rus
so-Chinese Bank announced that the
theft of stocks and bonds by Cashier
Erwin Wider will not exceed $780,
900.
Lightning hit the drying house os
the Dupont Powder Works at Has
koll. ~ j., and the explosion that
followed was heard five miles away.
The Central Railroad of New
Jersey brought suit at Newark. n. j.,
against the Lehigh Coal and Naviga-
ton Company for 81 100000.
Ira G. Rawn. president of the
Monon Railroad. who was found
shot to death in Chicago, left only an
estate valued at S120 900.
judge G. B. Lake, for many years
a leading jurist of Nebraska, died
Mt Omaha, aged eighty-four years.
Four convicts escaped from Sing
Sing at Ossining N. Y, in dash
for liberty, but were recaptured.
The Democratic State Convention
of Connecticut will be held at New
Haven on September and 8.