The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-27
The news.
Domestic

ITesluenJ Clarence MdChdN, OF tHe
Postal Telegraph Company, declares
the corporation of which he is the
head will be the last competitor to
The Western Union as 1t Is impossible
for a new corporation to obtain en-
frances to commercial centers or OBJ
tain rights of way along the high
ways between cities.
The explosion of four boilers in
electric light works threw Paterson
and Passaic, N. j., into darkness, in
jured nine persons, caused a panic
In a theatre and shut down indus
tries.
Tom Taggert, Democratic national
committeeman of Indiana, was acci-
dentally shot while hunting in Mis-
sissippi. He may lose the sight of
one eye.
Thomas l.. Lewis, of Ohio. was re-
elected president of the United Mine
Workers of America, over William
Green, of Ohio, his only opponent,
by 23,597 majority.
Empolyes OF the Philadelphia Rap
i'd Transit Company will appeal to
Governor Stuart to aid them in Sc
curing arbitration.
Fifteen men were killed and five
injured by premature explosion of
nitroglycerine in a tunnel near Fish
kill Landing, n. Y.
Eight OF the dressmakers indicted
Tor completely in the sleeper trunk"
smuggling of millinery, through
.heir counsel, entered pleas of guilty
In New York.
A well-to-do barber and his wife
and mother-in-law were horribly
murdered in their fiat, or the East
Side, the murderers making their
escape.
Sensational charges against the
State Hospital for the Insane of
South Carolina were made in re-
port by an investigating commission.
George l.. Goodwin, for a quar-
ter OF a century treasurer of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
road. died at Sandwich, Mass
George Westinghouse, president
of the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company, was granted
six months leave of absence.
Anna Furlong was murdered in
a Chicago resort, and her head car
ried away by the murderer. Six
persons are under arrest.
The switchmen of the various
railroads entering Chicago and the
COMPANIES nave uBlttu W DlNl
tion under the Erdman act.
A proposition to merge the coal
and metal miners was made at the
convention of the United Minework-
ers at Indianapolis.
Robbers captured and bound and
gagged Chief of Police Brouner, OF
Mohawk, n. Y, and then robbed the
postoffice.
Charles A. Moore retired as presi-
dent of the American Protective
Tariff League at a meeting in New
York.
Miss Marian +. Ferrell, of Ithaca
n. Y, is to travel to the Philippines
alone to marry Carlos Topaz.
Mrs Mary f. Mcintosh, an aged
widow, of Rockford, Del, was found
murdered in her home.
The University of Missouri will
teach its women students how to
raise babies.
Capt. A. Schroeder, commander OF
the Norwegian schooner Alice, to.
gether with his wife and daughter
and crew of seven men, were drown
ed when the schooner foundered in
a storm in the South seas.
J. NJ Fiske & Co. and LathroI
Haskins & Co., members Of the New
York Stock Exchange, suspended ow.
ing to a collapse of a pool in Col.
umbus and Hooking Coal and Iron
The enemies of President Lewis
in the convention of the United Mine
workers succeeded in suspendinp
the salaries of 60 organizers dur.
ing the session of the convention.
Benjamin Thomas, former presi
dent of the Chicago and Western
Indiana Railroad, is accused of OBJ
tanning part of $S50,000 through {
real estate conspiracy.
Senator Jotham p. Aids, presi
dent of the New York State Senate
demands an investigation of allega
tions that he accepted bribe.
Mrs. Angelo c. Quinlan, a dress
maker. indicted in the "sleepe
trunk" smuggling conspiracy, ha
confessed She was fined $500.
The lives lost in the coal mine
OF Pennsylvania last year number
ed 1,045.
Rhode Island has repudiated
gift 100000 worth of North Caro-
lima bonds.
Mayor Gaynor, OF New York,
in favor OF disarming the police.
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