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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16
First Ride Was Fatal.

Chattanooga, Tenn. (SpeciaD. Near
Admission, Ala, w. A. Turner, wife and
3-months-old baby jumped off a South
ern Railway train while 1t was running
at the rate of 40 miles an hour Turner
was killed and the wife and baby are
thought to be fatally injured. At last
accounts the woman was dying.
They had never been on train be-
fore, and when the engine blew for
the station where they were going
they deliberately walked to the plat
form and jumped off.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16
Million Dollar Fire,

Ashland, Wis. Especially A round
million dollars worth of property was
destroyed by fire in the lumber district
of this city. The flames were checked
after three hours struggle and before
they reached the valuable sawmills and
ore docks along the water front. The
wind favored the fire-fighters during
the afternoon and probably nothing
else saved the millions of dollars
worth of property along the waters
edge, and perhaps good part he
city
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16
Gets SEE, 900 After IN Years.

Leavenworth, Kan. (SpeciaD After
six trials in the United States Circuit
Court and a delay of 21 years and A
months, the Mutual Life Insurance
Company OF New York settled its case
with Mrs. Sallie e. Hillmon-Smith, this
city, by paying her $4,000 in cash.
This amount, with interest, was decided
by a jury to be due her on a policy
held by Hillmon when he disappeared
in 1879.
The Mutual Life of New York is the
second of the three original insurance
companies to settle. The Connecticut
Mutual is still holding out, with a
Judgment OF $11 ,054 against it.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16
Big Denlin Murnt Sugar.

The American Caramel Company
which Daniel f. Lafean, Of York
president, has secured the plants
the Lancaster Caramel Company
Grating plants at Lancaster and Rc
ing, for $l,000,000.
This gives the new company az
Lutte control of 50 per cent. Of the g
mel business, not only of this cOull
but of the world. With the acQu
ton of these two mammoth plants,
especially that of the Lancaster Y
pany, the American Caramel Comp
will control all of the export buslh
furnishing practically all the uau'
England, France and Germany
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16
Freight Wreck on the seaboard.

Petersburg, Va. (SpeciaD -Four fiat
cars loaded with lumber were driven
into the new freight depot of the Sea-
board Air Line in this city. The ac-
cident was caused by the failure of
the brakes on a train which was be-
ing shifted to stop the train. The
four cars were completely wrecked
and hole thirty feet square made in
the depot. No one was injured, the
brakemen escaping injury by iumping.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16
Brave Girl BADLY Burned,

Brave 16-year-old Maggie Day sa
her 4-year-old niece from death
was severely burned in a gallant el
to rescue her 6-year-old niece, who
burned to death. Miss Day was as
with the two little ones at the IA
house of her sister at Hughesv
when the dwelling caught fire.
Escape by the stairs was cut off,
she wrapped the child in her room
blanket and dashed into the adioIl
room where the other little one
sleeping.
The flames drove her back, howe
and she had to jump from the win
with the child she held
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16
HnY POIsOned His Eniher

Fresno, Cal (SpeciaD Fred Hines,
l3 years old has confessed that he poi-
soned his father, who is lying danger
ously i'll at the County Hospital. The
boy said that his father treated him
cruelty, and had refused to allow him
to drive his team. He concluded to
kill him. He and his younger brother
bought the poison which Fred put in
his fathers coffee
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16
Georri. Nav Follow sui,.

Atlanta, Ga. (SpeciaD Owing. TO
the result of the recent election in
North Carolina, in which white su-
premacy was engrafted on the state,
Representative Hardwick will intro.
duce at the next session of the Georgia
legislature a bill providing for a con
stitutional amendment similar in form
and provision to that adopted in the
cid North State.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16

Washington (SpeciaD.-A board of
survey has been appointed to meet at
Seattle August 25 to examine into and
report upon the circumstances pertain
ing to a shortage of Government pro-
perty and the failure of certain officers
in Alaska and Manila to receipt for
Government stores invoiced to them
by the quartermaster.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16

Elkton, Md. (SpeclaD "A startling
fatality occurred at Port Deposit, when
Miss Mary Kelly, who for number of
years had been demented, stood delib-
erately in front of a fire and stuck her
head into the flames and before assist
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16

Washington Especially The month
ly report of the statistician of the De-
partment of Agriculture shows the av-
erage condition of cotton on August /
to have been rs, as compared with 1858
on July /, 1900; "a on August l, 1899;
9l.2 on August l, 1898, and S5.3 the
mean of the August averages of the
last ten years.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16
KEYSTONE STA1E
LATEST NLwS CLEANED r,o,.
oUs PARTS.
COSTS THE STATE Sim,
That Amount VIII Now Go,.,
Muliin, of Columbia. si., MS
w. Sinclair Who was Murd...,H' ~ HP
wife at Greentree-Flercs r,u r,, y y
tween Workmen aud sernsn,. T"'

tween Workmen aud Sernon, En'
Through the finding of an o.,
Bible at the suburban home Wv -, u "a
w. Sinclair, at Green Trea W. y, Nq
Mullin, of Columbia, will IhIa'
terred from poverty To weai,h W v
come into possession of an n, o1. ana
SAID to aggregate 800 GOA 9''a,e
same time Auditor-Genernl v AZ
tails TO collect this sum for IcCa
as under the circumstanco,," ,"e y
certainly not escheat ''
Mr.. Sinclair was , nrosu
uelphla frult merchant. and =.
week ago since the conn.,. uu u
Mortified by the double 'iiun''y criul'y
errlng wife. who shot how '1
down as he entered the ga,o, nus
suburban home and then tool, LAY Y ol
life by firing a ball into ber cH h.l, uer
Ihe dead man had been r,i.aH s'a'i
orphanage in Philadelphia ',vu agy
much as he was supposed fo p"p h.,
living relatives, Auditor.Ce.DDoa-'a,' aa'
Cauley directed Register of Wm 1
ger to issue no letters on ,bo "aN ...
being of the opinion that II MAXIM ,'a
cheat. u "oull|
A claimant for Sinclair's God
however, put in an appearance % 4,
person of Mrs. Alice Mullin ~
OF Hugh Mullin, of Columbia pa pl'
declared herself to hc n sis,o. a.
dead man. She has employe5 oo,
and has taken steps toward SStIIn
the estate. '''''u
Look for the family Blblo" oa,.
Mrs. Mullin, when doubt was ova. %u
as to her relationship to the deaa ~r, J,
The Sinclair house Al Croon Y,
which has been in charge of tbo N
ner since the tragedy. was tboro,I
searched. In bureau drawer o,1
OF the bedrooms the old Rino
found, giving the record of tho Sjrl
family as far back as 1900 and nroJ @
that Mrs. Mullin is the only mr,.l r
of the last Sinclair family NJ
brothers and sisters.
Counsel for the Auditor-General
THEREFORE recommended that the con
be dropped, and Mrs. Mullin will M
take possession of the estate wib
encountering further trouble Of
character.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16

Arthur b. Ayers died at DIS ~. uy
near Meadville, Salisbury lo"n, gus"
aged Go years. For more thau Wv, wv,
years the deceased served as cOH0't r't
of Salisbury Township, durlns w, ",
time he arrested many notorious '"
mountaineers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16

Charleston, w. Va. (speciaD j. II.
Shaver, florist, droppead dead OF
heart failure. He came from Hunt
ingdon, Pa, in 1870, and engaged in
the lumber business. He was after
ward Deputy United States Marshal
under Marshal George w. Patton.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16
Probably Murdered by Tramp,

The mangled remains oI n,
Brown were found along the rtl'
track at Pulaski by two seclloh ia
The pockets were turned inside o9'
It is suspected Brown was rOpp,u ,io
train by tramps and then thrown
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16
Water Famine Threatens Washing

Washington is threatened wlln
water famine. The water comp
there is working its pumps ia!
night and has prohibited the USE
water for all purposes except lnO''
SOlutelY necessary.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16
Found Dying by Railroad Tracks

An unknown, well-dressed iua" art
found lying near the Trenton IN Wv
railroad with his skull crusneI iS Tor
was taken to Charity HoSpl'"' '
town, where he died,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16
A Miner Instantly h,''''

Midland, Md. (speciaa1D,, ia ,eors, "a :"
Joseph McKenna, aged ~ o,Ioe by
Instantly killed in Ocean odui iuiD weigh
falling of a piece of TOP oof ssll on
about 500 pounds, when and and Kill
head, breaking his neck ~"
him instantly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16
KILLED HIS FRIEND.
TUE INuUMAN CRIME OF A DEs-
PERATE MAN.
MURDERS THE MESSENGER

Fully Solved by the Confession of Charles
IL. II. FerreiI, a Former Colleague, Who
Had Recently Been Discharged FerreIi
Was About to lie Married, and Wanted
Money.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16
REVERSE IN PHILIPPINES.
Worst for the American Troops in Two
Months.

Washington (SpeciaD. - The first
serious check which the American
troops have met in the Philippines
during the past two months is recorded
in a dispatch received from General
Macarthur 1t is assumed that the
little American command which suf-
fered so severely was completely trap
ped and was obliged to surrender or
be exterminated. The message is as
follows:
Manila, Aug. 4.
"Adjutant General, Washington.
First Lieutenant Alstaetter, corps of
engineers, U. S. army, with escort Is
men, attacked August !, road between
San Miguel de Mayuma Uuzon) and
San Isidro Luzon). by armed insur-
gents, reported $50 strong. Entire
party killed, wounded or captured"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-10

winner Of the thirty-six hole handicap on the last
will continue through the week. The COMMITTEES in
charge consists Of Walker Smith W. P1erson Ham
and Frederick c Cary Entries close to-day with
Speaking of Taylor recalls particularly interest
ing article which the English champion has con-
II do not believe in extremes in clubs" he says,
ny driving clubs are short and light but they are
not pokers. I play with them because they suit
them The pay c9b @ just f6T2
two inches in length, and what spring there is in
proper is the ordinary one neither notceably thick
theory and my bag carries quite an array Of iron
furniture My full set is as follows Cleek. driving
Taylor mashe, putting ceek and goose neck put,
ter Ny idea is that you should have at hand
possible to use right handed club. For exampIe
may not use my midiron once in playing dozen
matches, but when do 1t it is because it is
right for one club W" 5e to SAY any thar IS bs s ad
10 use use enc me IRON well than dozen badly. don't
the best club on ali possible occasions II is CON
eyeryhng, and to Know them ale ale 'sn' 'iu0 i0r
CeUea5d og one Of the governors Of the
golf ball that will carry from thirty to fifty yards
covering is Of gutta percha scarcely an eighth Of
% dee p TR Re3 Whit The Ps o small cube
n Pure re PSgs rubber is wrapped tightly around it
IS ready for its coating of white paint The in
IIet lH rupber wrapping ADDS great
device has not yet been perfected TO point where
clude it largely from general use
Deal Beach will claim a share of attention from
Jersey golf players this week. A four day tourna
G for the championship Of the North Jersey
bhore Golf League IS to begin there on Wednesday
and and players from the seabright, Hollywood, Red
Bank Spring Lake and Mantoloking golf clubs
Will be eligible TO compete. Following this a WON
ems tournament under similar conditions will be-
heId. me latter begins on September 49, and will
practically close the Deal Beach season The
course now has a playing length of $40 yards
matches lread
next Saturday is a meeting between the Flushing
ana New brunswick teams, Flushing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-10

IN the same city there is no good reason
why the golf playing public should not have the
pleasure Of seeing them meet. Certainly Taylor is
not increasing his popularity by refusing Vardons
overtures
The only way OF comparing them now is by noting
their scores on the same links and this is ALWAYS
an unsatisfactory method AS far as It goes how
ever II shows Varoon to be the better man. Taylor
did the Seabright course shortly after his arrival
IN this country in 70; on Friday Vardon made the
same course IN 2. To be sure Taylor was lust off
the steamer, while Vardon has become well &C
climated. but in both cases neither man had ever
been over the course. Another such method Of
comparison VIII be given this month at Man
chester, Mass, where the two men are to play on
the links Of the Essex County Country Club On
wednesday Nardon will play the best ball of Joe
Lloyd and Dingwen. while the following week on
September IS. Taylor and Lloyd will play over the
same course. The Essex County club has tust
completed a new eighteen hole links the last nine
holes of which alone cost $4,000 so that it f. evil
dent each man viii have good chance to show
his merit.
Taylor has also agreed to play ar the A5,,o,
Hunt Club on September Is. when it is hoped that
walter J. Travis and Findlay S. Douglas Will on
pose him Should they not be able to come two
local amateurs will be substituted Vardor,s n,a
cover varied tour. Next Saturday he "a 20 -
pear AT the Richmond County Conntr, C,.
staten Island From there he goes to Hartford on
September is. where he plays the hest han % -
l. Brown and William Watson in the forenoon ana
halph w Cutler and F. K. Cooley in the ar,a
noon. His other dates are:
September 2o-MoFris County Club at Morrtstovr
September 22-Toronto Golf Club Toronto On,
teTo -it9yai Montreal Golf Club Montreal On.
0ctcs % County Club Scranton Penn
gctopeT dd5-oaklsy Country Club. Cambridge Ms
2ctooer 2g-Myopis Lowell (pendinO1 -sS' -H4lss
oetooer 2S-Albany Country Club Albany y U
nardon expects to return to England about tno
niaole OF December. Nothing is said reqard,. me
coming back for another season. '-''S MS
WINE professional interests are occupvino = ior-.
N'e OF attention, tournaments for amate,,rl - Sc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-10

going merrfly along. This week will witness TWO
excellent contests. though at widely different INKS
Tuxedo after absence OF more than TWO years
from the gollng circuit, is going TO hold q -FOUR
day affair its new eighteen hole Inks whhe
Lenox always popular resort for golfers, is also
down for similar tournament, occupying the en-
tire week The latter meeting will practically Close
the season on summer resort courses, but 1t Will
not by any means be poorly supported one. The
Berkshires are never gay as at this time OF the
year. and scores of golf players have responded to
the Invitations to compete. The college element
will be particularly well represented. The present
Lenox Cup is a magnificent trophy. 1t is to go 70
the player first winning it three times. So far
Percy Houghton, of Harvard. and Chester Girls
void, jr.. of Princeton. have leg on 1t, and both
are expected to compete again this week.
The Tuxedo prizes are four in number, and in
addition there will be a number Of handsome
medals The chief trophy is the Tuxedo Cup, pre-
scented by Charles F. Hoffman. The second cup is
by w. P. Hamilton, and is known tho
Ramapo Cup. The first sixteen qualify for the
Tuxedo and the second sixteen for the Ramapo.
For those who fail to qualify for either. A. D. Hen
ry offers the Wee Wah Cup and the Mountain
Cup, presented by Thomas Stokes, goes to the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-10
ROWING.
RIVAL OF THE VESPER CHAMPIONS
CONTESTS THIS WEEK

The rowing contingent disappointed at the
non-arriva yesterday of the famous Vesper eight.
winners Of the worlds championship at Paris. The
members of the sailed the French Line
steamship La Bretagne. which it expected
would arrive yesterday She left Havre twelve
hours late, however, and will probably come up to
her pier to-day. The Vesper crew will have rous-
ing reception when they reach Philadelphia. their
home. Frederick r. Fortmeyer. secretary of the
National Association of Amateur Oarsrnen who ac-
companied the Paris, sailed for home on
Saturday.
This week will be a fairly busy one for many of
the oarsmen, who will do more or less training for
the forthcoming club regattas. on Saturday next
the annual rowing and other aquatic sports
Of the New-YOrk Athletic Club will be held at
Travers Island and il the weather is fine the usual
large gathering of spectators will no doubt be on
hand.
The Dauntless Boat Club will also hold its annual
regatta the Harlem on Saturday. The pro-
gramme is as follows: Race for single gigs (handi-
cap) single shells handicap, eight cared shells
eight Dared barges, four Dared barges double gigs
and novice single gigs. There will also be fitting
tournament and slippery dobbins contest. Mr..
Camacho offers handsome new single gig to the
winner of the slippery dobbins. No has ever
been known best the slippery dobbins yet 1t is
said. so Mr.. Camacho may be enabled to retain his
gig;
rowing machine to place in its clubhouse so that
the members of its eight shell crew keep in
form throughout the winter months. This Is a
wonderful crew in more ways than one, and in the
opinion of many rowing experts II will win the
National championship next year though the
Vesper eight should be among the entries. This
young has junior intermediate National
championship and senior races all in one year.
And now it is reported that Ten Eyck and
Rumohr are to row. after all. But. strange to say,
the rowing world Is not going into Mysteries
the fact. The had opportunities enough 10
each other in the National Regatta. but didn't
seem anxious TO take advantage of them. Neither
of them has rowed since, although Rumohr made
a bluff at doing in the recent Middle States
Regatta. If II is true that he is going to Ten
Eyck. 1t may be that he did want to show his
form in the Labor Day.
1t Is said that Ten Eyck has challenged Rumohr
to mile and e half at Point of Pines, a
resort Boston, September 20. and
that Rumohr has accepted the challenge 1t is also
said that the proprietor Of hotel there Is to ex-
pend $500 cup for the winner
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-10

called. although all the women were pretty girls on
the safe side of twenty. The contestants were
Miss Clara Miller Miss Ethel Adelaide Coldinp
Miss Lizzie Gondrum. Miss Frances Lavar Mics
Kitty Waller, Miss Mamie Barry Miss Margaret
Burke. Miss Adele Scheiner and Mrs Jennie Cohen
A thousand or more people crowded around the
tank to see the race start. The pistol was fired
there was a splash. and the nine mermaids were
off. The racers did not keep together AT one side
Miss Golding used an overland stroke and when
her competitors had covered about half the dis
lance she had already finished and was receiving
the congratulations of her friends
Miss Golding. who is from Bath Beach saws that
she is the champion girl swimmer of the 1,orld
She began to swim when she was thirteen wears
old, and has taken part in almost one hundred
races without ever being beaten After the race
her manager, Arthur T. Sheldon. OF the Third Ave
nue. Theatre. issued a challenge for a match 10
any woman in the world for any distance
The results of the races were:
womens Race-5O yards one heat First r . col,
Ing second Mrs Jennie Cohen; third. Lizzie Gondrum
- Boys Raee.60 yards. three heats afteen starters
The trudson siro iSS was u A%e%
shea s yards Or Bath bss
bon Beach Tmp as third Thatcher
f' S and Ess teams a from the Kn
booker team b Sss0nd race was won by the Knicker-
S SsrS Tms frSt race 800 second race 24s Order
heeder L Goodwin and J. Rudy; Bath Beach AniI
gan d ~, De k1isslle Walsh and H. shea Referee
starter y l. Swoope. Knckerbocker AthIet,c tg,
timskeeper Professor Alexander Mafrert KnicLsboS
@N'''e''' Niuo Announcer. Arthur ]. sheldon
After the races Professor Arthur HoIda, =,
newark N j. champion high diver OF the
world" gave an exhibition OF high di,,,no 49,
10 MS surprise, as hs preparing 10 take his
leap william Ellis. another champion OF the
world climbed up the ladder and dived the on
hundred feet to the water. amid the applause az
me spectators Professor Holden's act seemed
Ha
liDz. NAAs eAAA On his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-10
HARNESS RACING.
GRAND CIRCUIT MEETING AT EMPIRE
CITY PARK OPENS TO-DAY.

The Grand Circuit trotting meeting at Empire
City Park will monopollze the attention or the
followers of harness racing this week. The horses
that have been making such brilliant records in the
last two months at Detroit Cleveland. Columbus.
Buffalo GIens Falls, Boston. Providence and Hart
ford are now quartered at the fine course near
Yonkers and the meeting will open to-day with
what promises to be one of the best harness races
Of the year. Georgena, the Brooklyn trotter that
won the $4,000 race Hartford last week trotting
in 2:O7 is entered in the 20S here and II she
starts she will meet for the first time such gre.
horses as Charley Herr. 2OS%l Clayton. 2;OSA. and
Grattan Boy POS. Lord Derby, 2:OSh. the horse
that forced her to trot in 2071s at Hartford. Is
another of the great ones in the field. Horsemen
would not be surprised to see Lord Derby outtrot
the chestnut mare here, her feet are bothering
her not little It is even said that she is in dan