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

The factory of j. II. Harris & Co..
Brooklyn, and two adjoining build
ings, were damaged by FIRE with
total loss OF 100000 Several fire.
men were overcome by smoke and
one was injured.
The Indiana Democratic Conven-
tion defeated Tom Taggart's plan
for direct primaries and endorsed
John w. Kern as the Democratic
candidate for United States Senator.
A Kansas woman has written a
letter to Governor Stubbs, of that
state requesting permission to wear
mems trousers, claiming that skirts
badly handicap her in her work.
Five seamen were scalded to
death on the steamship FL Alba in
an explosion on April 23 while the
freighter was In the Gulf of Mexi-
CO.
John l. Kinsey, who for 40 years
was master mechanic Of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company, died at
Easton. Pa, aged SO years.
Mrs. r J Page, second daughter
of the late John Mitchell, Irish
journalist, author and Nationalist,
died at Lebanon, Pa
General Z. p Alexander. a noted
Confederate soldier and writer, died.
at Savannah Ga.
The Penobscot Bay tragedy in
which seven young people Of Wash
ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and
Mount Holyoke College lost their
lives in August, 1908, is recalled by
the finding of human bones in seal
lop drags
Five sandal-footed Passionist
nuns, the first of their order to visit
this country, arrived in New York
from Cuveto, Italy, on their way to
Pittsburg, where they will establish
a foundation.
Albert w. Wolter, convicted to
the murder of Ruth Wheeler, was
sentenced to die in the electric chair
at Sing Sing the week beginning
June g.
Ronald Amundsen, the Arctic ex-
plorer, plans 10 freeze the ship Fran
In the Arctic ice and spend seven
years drifting across the North Pole.
George w. Rose, an assistant tell
er. whose wages had been reduced,
ended his life in vault of the JEFF
ferson Bank, New York.
Nine circus elephants went on a
rampage at Danville, ILL.,, tossed
three presons into the air and wreck
ed a hundred frame houses.
The bones of Brigham Young's
frst mother-in-law, missing two
years, were found at police head
quarters at Salt Lake City.
Wellington Smith, a millionaire Of
Lee, Mass. had his neck broken by
the collapse OF a folding bed.
The order OF the governors of the
New York Stock Exchange forbid.
ding members of the exchange from
trading with members of the Con.
solidated Exchange was upheld by
the appellate division of the Supreme
Court of New York.
William j. Bryan refused to dis
cuss the threat OF William H. Leaviti
to go to Lincoln Neb., to stop the
marriage of Mr.. Bryan's daughter
Ruth Bryan Leavitt, TO Lieut.. Regi'
nald Althan Owen, an English army
officer.
A special grand jury of Chicago
will investigate charges that s525,.
900 of the funds of the Chicago and
Western Indiana Railroad went tc
bribe members of the Illinois leg.
islature and the Chicago city coun.
Gil
The bull clique operating in cot.
ton on the New York Exchange &C.
cepted 100000 bales OF cotton, the
sales being twice as large as any pre-.
vious day in the history of the
trade
Joseph NJ. Huston, architect OF the
state capitol at Harrisburg, Pa.
charged with falsely certifying Ia
padded bill for desks was convicted
with a recommendation for mercy
The captain and two mates Of the
cod fishing schooner Stanley were
found frozen stiff in the rigging oil
the vessel, which was wrecked In
ALASKAN waters.
At the chapel exercises at the
University Of Kansas James Bryce
ambassador from Great Britain &c
the United States. made an address
Steel. Miller & Co., spot cotton
brokers, OF Corinth. Miss. went into
bankruptcy.