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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-22
A NoIsELEss oUNFoWDER.
German Nolaer said 70 Have Inyent
Cd . Remarkable Explosive.

ea . Remarkable Explosive.
HAzLETON, Pa. July IA noiseless
and smokeless gunpowder h said to have
been invented BY John Bohnengel. q Ger
man Of this city. He is employed as
molder In the Hasleton Iron Works. but il
of m inventive turn Of mind and has some
knowledge Of chemicals and explosives
At private exhibition given few days
ago the practicability q his discovery was
made 0parent A shell loaded with his
powder was Arsd It target afty yards
away. The only sound indicating the ex-
plcsion was the falling of the plunger on
the shell. Tha bullet struck tho target, an
inch board, and went through It.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
OFFICE OF THE cHEsAPEAKE AND


OFFICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE AND
Potomac Telephone Company-A divi-
dend Of 81 per share will be payable on
the 2sd day Of July. 1900. to the stockhold-
ers Of record at the close Of business on
the 18th day Of July. 1900. st the ONCE Of
the treasurer Of the company, 61s Four
teenth Street northwest. Washington. D. c.
The transfer books viii be closed from
the 18th day Of July to the 23d day Of
July, inclusive.
JEREMIAH N. WILSON, President
CHARLES G. BEKBE. Treasurer.
washington. d. c.. July u, 1900.
Observation-Disclosures
HERMAN BAuMGARTEN.
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SIS Seventh St N. W. fhons 1oaa
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suMMEa REsoRFs.
Chautauqua Hotel,
ch,ut,sep, ssseh (Bsy R;lsss. EsryissA.

Most delightful eammer and family resort On
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fishing; large airy roonns abundance Of shade: two
entertainments daily in Auditorium; divine services
Sunday At II, s:s0, and . O'Clock Trains Leave
leave Beach $50 a m, 7:l5 and s:l5 p. m.
Round trip, 80 cents; Is days. Is cents; children
half price. Room and board, 500 per week and
IN. Beautiful building lots for sale. address
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pLUEr pOINr RoUSE-On Potomac River iront.
between wfkemon's and Colonial Beach; bath
fpe. crsbbine, and Asa,ing; terms IS Fer week.
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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
SITUATION IN CHINA.

Field Marshal Won Waldersee re-
viewed five thousand of the foreign
troops at Shanghai.
The Germans in China are discuss
ing an expedition to Pao Ting Flu after
the arrival of their main force.
1t Is reported that the allied forces,
in the attack upon the Pei Tang forts,
lost 300 men, mostly by the explosion
of mines.
The English and German news
papers express disappointment over
the Independent action of the United
States in China.
Mr.. Rockhill, special commissioner
of the United States, has conferred
with Minister Conger at Pekin con-
cerning the peace negotiations.
The Chinese declare that the En-
peror and the Empress Dowager will
not return to the Imperial Palace in
Pekin, as they hold that it has been
desecrated.
That the Empress Dowager is not
favorable to any punishment of the
Boxers is shown in an edict just is
sued which deals leniently with the
Boxer movement.
Reports are published in Berlin that
Count Won Waldersee will occupy the
Imperial Palace in Pekin, and thereby
prove to the Chinese that the allied
forces are masters of the situation.
English opinion is not favorable to
President McKinleys independent
policy in China. The English news
papers, however, intimate that the
European concert will soon be broken.
The Navy Department at Washing
ton has ordered a number of additional
warships to the Asiatic station. in
Guiding the Kentucky and the Vicks-
burg, it being the apparent purpose
of the government to see that the open
door in China is maintained.
The foreign representatives In
Washington promptly cabled their re-
spective governments Secretary Longs
order for an increase in the American
feet in Eastern waters. The inde-
pendent action in China outlined by
the United States government in its
replies to Germany and Russia may
cause a change in the attitude of those
powers.
Admiral Remey, in a report upon
the attack of the Russians, Germans
and Austrians upon the Pei Tane
forts, says that the Europeans took the
forts Friday. Twenty-Five Russians
were blown up by mine. The Chi.
nese, to the chagrin of the attacking
force, escaped, leaving only four dead
behind, The loss of the foreign forces
was 100 men.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

The new King of Italy proposes to
give his valuable collection of rare
Old coins to one of the state museums.
President Loubet, of France, is in
terested in autographs and has one Of
the best private collections in that
country.
Hall Cainc, the novelist, 10 at work
on a volume of memoirs chiefly de-
voted to his intimate friendship with
the Rosettis.
Sir Thomas McIlwraith, who died
recently in London, arose from a poor
omigrant boy to pc three times Premier
of Queensland, Australia.
The Rev. William Lennox Mills, who
has lust been elected Coadjutor Bishop
of Ontario, Canada, was born in Wood
stock, Ontario, and was educated at
Trinity University Toronto.
Col. Frank Rhodes has none of Ais
great brothers massive physique or
intense virility of character. He as OF
medium height and relatively broad
shouldered in comparison with his lean
body and fianlts.
Miss Helen Chaddick, OF England,
has been astonishing both tho whiteo
and blacks in Central Africa by her
flve-month journey, all alon9 save for
her black attendants. into tie far in
terror.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
FIELD OF LABOR.
Austria has women miners.

Austria has women miners.
India has a greater variety of plants
than any other country in the world.
Chicago retail druggists have COM
bined to cut rates in drugs and pro-
prietary medicines.
The New York United Engineers
have donated SO to the striking work
ingmen of Porto Rico.
The International Typographical
Union has been recognized at the
Paris Exposition by being awarded a
gold medal or grand prize for its ex-
hibit in the department of social
economy.
The New York Cigarmakers' strike
committee reports that IL has received
in voluntary contributions up to date
the enormous sum of 1854 1876, of which
Union 80 of that city alone gave $685.
600.
The Printing Pressmen and Assist
ants Union of Richmond has been
granted a nine-hour workday, the
same as the Typographical Union now
enjoys. This order affects about 75 OF
80 men at present.
The Cigarmakers' Union of Chicago
is looking for counterfeiters of the
unlOH ldDel. n Ou
Chester avenue was fined 800 by Jus,
tice Everett last week, and Other
prosecutions will follow just AS soor
as the evidence can be collected.
The Massachusetts, fifty-eight-
weekly labor law has been declared
unconstitutional by the courts.
Housesmiths and Bridgemen's Unior
has been successful in obtaining en-
increased wage scale of AZ cents an
hour and double pay for overtime ant
sunday work, for its members employ
ed on the new East River Bridge unit
the 1st of May, after which date wage
are to be raised to so cents an hour
with double pay for overtime and worl
on Sundays.
The locked-out laundry workers o
Dayton have raised $500 of the $40.
900 that they are going to invest II
a cooperative laundry. The cigar
makers OF the same town have collect
ed $4,000 for the non-unionists who ar
staying out ON a strike with them.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
RIVALS FIGHT TO THE DEATH.
A Barber and Tailor in Deadly Combu
One Dead the Other DyInp

n barDer anu n lhllOf III benuIy COMBAT
One Dead, the Other Dying.
New York (SpeclaD ALFRED Cest-
nor and Pasquale Omassurc, two Ital-
ians, of Jamaica. Long Island, loved
the same girl, and their rivalry ended
in tragedy. Cestnor was stabbed to
death.
Omassure was tailor's helper;
Cestnor a barber. While the latter
was at work in his shop, Omassure
rushed in at him with appraised hand
and started a quarrel over the source
of their troubles. Cestnor grabbed up
a razor and made jump for Omassure,
who fled from the shop and across the
street to a tailor's establishment.
Cestnor paced up and down the side
walk for few moments, and Omassure
reappeared He had a large pair of
shears. The men sprang at each other
and cut and slashed, until both lay
upon the ground. Cestnor'S throat
was gashed open, and he had a dozen
stabwounds in his body. The tailor
was unconscious from the slashes of
the BARRIERS razor. Cestnor was dead
when picked up. Omassure was taken
to the Jamaica Hospital under arrest
He probably will die.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
nowARn nrILrY.
Death Penalty for Alleged slayer OF
Kentucky's Governor.

Frankfort, Ky. Especially james B.
Howard, who has been on trial for the
past ten days, charged with being a
principal In the assassination of Will
liam GOebel, was found guilty, the jury
fixing his punishment at death.
Howard did not lose his composure
when the verdict calling for the eX-
treme penalty of the law was read in
the crowded courtroom. He glanced
at his attorneys, who sat beside him,
and smiled, but said nothing. After
the jury had been discharged Howard
was taken back to the jail and here
for the first time he betrayed emotion.
He called for a pen and paper and
wrote a long letter to his wife, during
which tears coursed down his cheeks.
He was Joined later by his attorneys,
who spent a good part of the day in
conference with him in regard to the
motion for new trial, which will be
filed tomorrow, and other matters in
connection with the case.
w. II. Culton, who is under lndict-
ment as an accessory to the Goebel
murder, and who gave damaging evil
dence against both Howard and Caleb
Powers, was released on bail and his
case was Continued until the January
term. His bond was fixed at $4,000
and his brother-in-law, e. r. Hogg, OF
Owsley county, and j. F. Halcomb and
John Johnson, of Jackson county, be-
came his suretles.
Howard and his friends are very
bitter in their denunciation of wit
nesses, who, it is charged, were in the
conspiracy to murder Goebel and who
have since been manufacturing testi-
mony against others in order to OBJ
tain immunity for themselves. How
ard was represented by ex-Congress-
man w. G. Owens, of Georgetown, and
Carl Little, of Manchester. The prose-
cution was represented by Acting Com
monwealth's Attorney Williams, T. g..
Campbell, of Cincinnati, and II. B.
Golden, of BarbOursville.
Jim" Howard, as he Is commonly
known in the mountains is a striking
ly handsome man, "A years of age, and
would be one OF the last to be pointed
out by a stranger as the man on trial.
He had the record, however, of being
the leader of the Howard-White fac
ton in the Baker-Howard feud in Clay
county, in which numerous lives were
taken. He had killed George Baker
and was suspected of the assassination
of Tom Baker, who was killed after the
same fashion as in the Goebel murder,
and Howards friends believe that
these facts had very much to do with
the making of the verdict sentencing
him TO the gallows.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
TRAGEDY OVER A pEAFowI.
Kentucky Coroner Kills His Noishbor in
Petty Quarrel.

Louisville, Ky. (SpeciaD. DR. Hugh
NJ Mccullough, coroner of jefferson
county, shot and killed George Owen
at the latter's home. Coroner McCul-
Tough was arrested and denied bail
The trouble that led to the shooting
started about two weeks ago between
the Mccullough and the Owen fami-
lies, which are neighbors. and came to
a head over a peafowl, which escaped
from the yard of Mr.. Owens house
The fowl had been given by Mrs. Nc
Cullough to Mrs. owen, mother of the
man who was killed.
Mrs. owen says Mrs. Mccullough
fired seven times at her with a revol-
yer, none OF the bullets hitting her
DR.. Mccullough came home in the
evening, and going into the Owen yard
according to Mrs. owen began to abuse
her. George Owen came in at this
time and addressed DR.. Mccullough
who, Mrs. owen says, Immediately shot
the young man and shot a Newfound-
land dog that belonged to the Owens.
Mrs. Mccullough is reported 10 be
prostrated by the affair, and has not
yet been arrested on tho charge Of
shooting at Mrs. Owen
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
ARnllronh Mnn,s suicId,.

Birmingham, Ala. Especially War
ner M. Newbold, superintendent of the
South and North and Birmingham
Mineral divisions of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, committed suicide
at his residence in this city by shoot
ing himself in the mouth with 3S-
caliber pistol.
Mr.. Newbold lost his wife three
months ago. He was about fifty-fve
years OF age and has been connected
with the railroad company for many
years. He was prominently mentioned
as a probable successor to General
Manager Metcalf, of the Louisville end
Nashville.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
Nowspaper Man Commits suicide.

Harrisburg, Pa. Especially George
II. Welshons, one OF the best known
newspaper men in Pennsylvanis, COM
mitted suicide by severing the arteries
of his arm with a penknife In a bed
room of a Harrisburg restaurant. Mr.
Welshons had been drinking very hard
since he came to this city two weeks
ago, and labored under the halluclna-
tion that he was pursued by enemies.
He left this message, which was writ
ten in a clear hand, on the wall of the
room:
Facing my God, die innocent and
believing In my wife's fidelity.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

Washington (SpeciaD The War
Department has received the following
cablegram from General Macarthur:
Manila. September 2S.
"Adjutant General, Washington:
September IL Captain Devereauv
Shields and fifty-one men OF Company
f, Twenty-ninth Regiment, United
States Volunteer Infantry, and one
hospital corps man left Santa Cruz,
Martinique, by the gunboat Villalobos
for Torrijos, intending to return over
land to Santa Cruz. Have heard moth
ing since from Shields. I scarcely
doubt that the entire party was cap
tured and many killed and wounded
Shields among the latter. lnforma-
tion was sent by letter from command
manding officer at Boao, dated 2Oth,
received September "a, consisting OF
rumors through natives.
"The Yorktown and two gunboats
George S. Anderson Colonel Thirty
eighth Volunteer Infantry and two
companions of the Thirty eighth Vol
untecr Infantry sent to Martinique
Immediately.
Anderson confirms the first report
as to the capture, but was unable sep
tember 81 to give the details OF the
present whereabouts of Shields ana
party or the names of the killed and
wounded. This information probably
available soon.
Anderson has orders to commence
operations Immediately, and to move
relentlessly until Shields and party are
rescued. All the troops are expected
soon. Logan will be sent to Marindu-
que If necessary to clear up the sltua-
ton. MACARTHUR"
The Twenty-ninth Infantry was re-
cruited at Fort Mcpherson (Atlanta),
Ga. Captain Shields was lieutenant
colonel of the Second Mississippi dur
ing the Spanish War. He was made
captain in the Twenty-ninth Infantry
July 5, 1899. He was resident OF
Natchez, Miss, where his wife now re-
sides.
The scene of this latest reverse is
a small island lying due south of the
southern coast of BuZon, and about
three hundred miles from Manila. Mar
induque is about twenty-four miles In
diameter, and was garrisoned by two
small detachments of United States
troops. One of these was at Boaz, on
the west coast OF the island, and the
other was at Santa Cruz, the principal
port, on the north SIDE. captain
Shields appears to have started from
Santa Cruz on a gunboat for Torrijos,
a small coast port, and it 10 inferred
that the boat as we'll as the body of
troops under that officer has been cap
tured, for the despatch makes no refer
ence to his return.
The officers of the gunboat Villalobos
were Lieutenant Edward Simpson,
commanding Ensign Irwin F. Lands
and Naval Cadet Roe W. Vincent.
Lieutenant Simpson has seen over four
teen years actual sea service. He en-
tered the navy on June II, 1876. He
returned from his last tour of sea SER
vice in May, 1896, and was assigned to
shore duty. On February l, 1898, he
was ordered to the Brooklyn. Ensign
Lands has seen not quite three years
of sea service. He Joined the navy
| September 6, 1893, and his last cruise
expired in May, 1899. He was ordered
to the Asiatic Station on December 22,
| 1899. Cadet Vincent has had one year
and seven months of sea service. On
February /, 1899, he was assigned to
| the New Orleans.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
Hanged for Arson.

Raleigh, N C. (SpeciaD -Chauncey
Davis was hanged al Tai oro for burn
ing the residence of Mrs. Lavlnia Bat
tie.
Davis arose as If nothing were to
happen. He tal.sd calmly and coolly
about his execution, never failing to
protest that he was an innocent man.
Between one and two o'clock Davis
was led to the gallows and mounted
the steps of the scaffold. From the
scaffold he spoke briefly, claiming to
the last that he was innocent.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
YELLOW JACK RACES IN HAVANA.
Said to Exist In Part of City Occupied by
Americans.

Washington (SpeciaD The Sur
geon Generals office of the War De-
partment has no information regarding
the epidemic of yellow fever in Ha-
vana, although it is known to exist
there to a considerable extent Private
advices from Havana indicate that the
outbreak is serious. The fever exists
in the best parts of the city and
among Americans who have gone
there. 1t is said at the War Depart
ment that no fears are entertained of
a serious outbreak among the troops
of the United States, as they are out
side of the city and not in infected dis
tricts. The outbreak is not uneXpect-
ed, as fever usually develops about this
time Of year, and is even worse during
the months of October and November
than in the spring. Surgeon General
Sternberg does not think there need be
any apprehension concerning the
spread of the disease.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
EIGHT VICTIMS OF TORNADO.
That Number Killed and Six Injured In
Morristown, MINI.

Faribault, MINI. (SpeciaD The fol-
lowing is n corrected list of the killed
and injured by the tornado which
struck Morrlstown:
Dead-Harry S. Wait, a farmer,
leaves widow and family; Otto Gatzke,
son of Paul Gatzke; Frank Pittman,
of Waterville; John Rohrer, Edmer
Brooks, Jacob Miller, Jr., Jacob Weber
and - Peterson, a hired man.
Injured-Paul Gatzke, proprietor OF
saloon, injured internally, may die;
Frank e. Wilder. injured internally,
may die; Frank Pittman, son Of Frank
Pittman, may die; - Porter, head
bruised, condition serious; Bernard A.
Schmidt, slightly, and William Brooks.
This is the third disaster that has
visited Morristown this year. In Feb
ruary the entire business district was
destroyed by fire, apd among the struc-
lures rebuilt was Gatzke's saloon. The
village was visited by another fire in
May, which did damage amounting to
SIC, 900.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT
Prof Brooks Secures photographs from
the LIsht Of the Plnnet Nenus.


Geneva, N. Y. (SpeciaD.-Dr Will
liam r. Brooks has succeeded in photo
graphing objects solely by the light
from the planet Venus. By this is not
meant photographing the planet itself,
which has been done many times. The
experiments were conducted within the
dome of the observatory, so that all
outside light was excluded except that
which came from Venus through the
open shutter of the dome. The time
was the darkest hour of the night after
tho planet had risen and before the ap-
proach of dawn. The action of the
light from Venus was much stronger
than anticipated, the Photographic
plates being remarkably clear, intense
and fully timed. The experiment will
be continued every clear night. DR..
Brooks was an early worker in
photography, and has used 1t for many
years in his astronomical research.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
rrnIn Struck Herd Of Cows,

AS a herd of seventeen cows Oel
ing to Henry Barnett was being d.
across the Philadelphia ana heo
Railway tracks in Salisbury town
a passenger train struck inc
Eight COWS were killed and thFe'
jured. .o,o
The train had q narrow escape
being wrecked. The front 0, Wv
CINE was splashed with blood
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

San Juan dc Porto Rico (SpeciaD.- -
The plant of El Diario, organ of the
Federal party, was completely destroy
ed Ivy mob. The type and presses
were smashed. The supposed cause of
the disturbance were articles attack
ing Mayor Egozcuo, who is a Republi-
can. No arrests were made. Munoz
Rivera, the editor Of the paper, is pre-
pairing q protest to Governor Allen on
the ground that no protection was af-
forded by the authorities. The protest
will he sent to Washington.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
A HomicidnI MnnIn.

New York (SpeciaD Frederick
Schmidt, a cripple, fifty-slx years old,
was arraigned in the Harlem Police
Court charged with having murderous-
ly assaulted his fourteen-year-old
daughter Kate
Schmidt became a cripple about
three years ago, and since that time
has grown so peevish and fretful that
no one of the family could manage
him bat his daughter Kate. She look
ed after his every want and lived in
the same room with him. Sunday the
man suddenly seized an axe and at
tackled the defenseless girl. He hack
ed and bruised her fearfully.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
Cnwnrdlv peed ofnnrrlnrs.

Shamokin, Pa. (SpeciaD Two bur-
glars broke into the home OF Mrs.
Leona Kress, at Big Mountain, near
here, and upon the woman's refusal to
give them money they crushed her
skull and dubbed her daughter, Mrs.
Mary Marcinak, so badly that 1t is fear
ed both women will die.
Mary Marcinak. daughter of Mrs
Marcinak, while handing her mother a
hatchet to defend herself. was also
dubbed until she fell senseless to the
floor. Neighbors scared the burglars
oWnV
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

While William Caul and Thomas
Gam were returning TO their ny
in Ashland, they were con'ronte'
six masked men, armed with reVoI
who ordered them to throw up
hands. McGann obeyed and
beaten into inscnsibility with tncI
end Of revolver After taxing
their money. $50, the robbers org
the two men to leave as soon rs
sible.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
Insult~d Our Flag.

San Antonio, Tex. (SpeciaD limited
States Consul w. w. Mills, at Chihua-
hua. Mex, has sent note to the Fed
oral authorities here and also to the
State Department at Washington de-
failing an insult to the American flag
over his Consulate on September 16,
the anniversary of Mexican Independ-
ence, by mob of MeXicans He had
hoisted the United States and Mexican
flags in honor of the day and the mob
tore down the United States colors.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

The Bellefonte Iron Furnace, NJ
has been idle since June 20 "e"'
blast. ,,,.,.o tho
The ceremony Of rellghtlhg smC ~
mace was witnessed by scycral mug
people, who loudly cheeteu ,,onn 40
Miss Sara Hastings, Inc SVTI
daughter of Ex-Governor on aAu ."
II. Hastings, applied the tcTch'