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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
THIEVES CLEAN OUT DELEGATES
Epworth Leaguers Stranded 10 Colorado
Piekpoekets Make Good Haul

Glenwood Springs, Col. (Special) -
The thoroughly organized gang OF pick
pockets operating at Colorado Springs is
responsible for a party of about, twenty
Epworth Leaguers becoming stranded
here Men and women alike have been
robbed, not only of every cent they had
with them, but of railroad tickets as well,
and unless the railroads will issue tickets
back home on their proof OF having pur-
chased and paid for rides to San Fran
cisco and back, they will be compelled
to ask aid from the county authorities.
In at least ten cases thieves even Sc
cured their victims trunks on stolen bag
gage checks,
Among those robbed are DR. ]. H.
Wilson, wife and daughter, and Mrs. H.
R. Horrington, of Dover, Del. DR.. Will
sons wallet, containing tickets for the
party, drafts on San Francisco banks
and baggage checks, being stolen in the
crush at the depot in Colorado Springs
Major S r. Hooper, general passen-
gen agent of the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad. authorized the Glenwood
Springs agent to furnish passes to Ogden
to stranded passengers who desired to
continue their journey west.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
GRAHAM AGAIN GOES DOWN THE RAPIDS.
Fifth Successful Voyage In His Barrel Through
the Raging Niagara Current.

Niagara Falls, N. Y. (SpeciaD -
About 5000 persons saw Charlie d. Gra-
ham make his fifth successful voyage
through the whirlpool rapids in bar
rel Sunday afternoon. The barrel is OF
locust wood. oval shaped, except that it
has a fiat head it is about S feet long
10 inches in diameter at the foot, and 20
inches at the head With its 100 pounds
OF ballast it weighs I65 pounds.
The start was made from the old Maid
OF the Mist landing below the falls. The
barrel was caught in an eddy and circled
about little above the cantilever
bridge for a quarter OF an hour. The
stronger current in the middle OF the
stream finally jerked it out OF the eddy
into the foaming waters OF the rapids
Passing under the second bridge the
barrel had narrow escape from being
dashed to pieces against the stone abut-
ments OF the bridge. The passage
through the rapids was swift.
1t took the barrel FIVE minutes to reach
the eddy from the starting point and 20
minutes to get out of it, but it only took
three and one-half minutes to pass
through the rapids and the whirlpool. a
distance Of about mile. At no time
during the passage through the rapids
was the barrel lost sight Of 1t was
taken from the water after it had circled
about in the whirlpool for a few min
utes. Graham was slightly bruised
about the elbows and knees, but he was
otherwise unhurt
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
SULTAN SETTLES THE BILL
After Years Of Waiting Turkey Pays This
Country's so5,O0O Indemnity Claim.

Washington (SpeciaD. - The State
Department has received the amount Of
the American indemnity claim against
Turkey-Sos ooo-.hrough the American
Legation at Constantinople.
The money was paid by the Turkish
Government TO Mr.. Leishman, our min
lister at Constantinople, and was placed
by him in the Ottoman Imperial Bank
and drafts RENTED for the amount
These drafts have just reached Wash
ington. As is always the case, the
claims in the aggregate considerably
exceed the amount OF indemnity paid,
but our Government has expressed it
self satisfied with the payment. 1t as
sumes full responsibility for the distri-
button, the Turkish Government paying
down a lump sum OF Sos. 200 and leaving
it to the State Department to distribute
this among the claimants at its discre-
ton and after its own fashion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
ten MEN KILLED
And nine INJURED.
Bridge and Train Fell On Crew Of
Workmen.
AFFAIR WAS WHOLLY ACCIDENTAL,
A Heavy Steel Structure coIiapses Under
the Weight Of Stone.laden Cars, Failing
Into the Midst Of Masons at Work on
the Abutment Below.-v Victims Mostly ltsl'
Ian Laborers.

Springfield, Pa. (SpeciaD Just af-
ter 10 O'clock a. m. three cars OF the
East End local freight went through
the Nickel Plate bridge here. The train
left Conneaut, Ohio, only few minutes
before the accident. in charge OF Engi-
neer William Griffith and Conductor
Philip A. Moore, both OF Buffalo. The
latter was instantly killed. Laborers
were at work on the bridge and the ten
men killed were with one exception,
workmen.
A hll was being made at the bridge
and about IS workmen were about the
structure.
The accident occurred just after pas
Senger train had pulled through The
local, after the passing of the passen-
ger train, pushed three cars out onto
the structure to unload stone for the
masons working beneath on the founda-
tions The work OF unloading had
hardly begun when without warning
the whole structure bearing the cars and
laborers fell with crash into the ra-
vine. So sudden was the affair that
only one man, a mason named George
Smith. had chance to leap to save
himself from injury.
he place where the accident occur
red was at Crooked creek, directly
north OF East Springfield. For many
years the creek has been spanned by a
heavy structural steel bridge. May l
work OF filling up the valley was begun.
In the ravne, IS feet below, masons
were at work building stone abut-
ment.
Railroad men regard it as little short
OF miraculous that the bridge withstood
the strain of heavy passenger train
and FIVE minutes later fell with only the
weight OF three cars upon it.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
Foreign.

NJ. Santos-Dumont, thS Brazilian
aeronaut. failed to win the prize offered
by Henry Deutsch for a manageable
balloon He naviglted the airship to
the Eiffel Tower in Paris, making ex-
traordionary speed, but on the return
trip the motor did not work prop:rly
and the balloon descended int tree.
Disagreements between Lord Miner
and Lord Kitchener and increasing puh-
lie dissatisfaction in England over the
conduct OF the war in South Africa, WILL
it is reported, lead 70 Kitchener being
succeeded in the command OF the Biit-
ish forces in South Africa by Gen Sir
Bondon Blood
The trial at Posen Of Polish students
charged with belonging to secret politi-
cal societies at various German univrr-
sites is attracting attention throughout
Europe Other students connected with
Polish political societies in West Prus-
sia are to be prosecuted.
The Russians at Tientsin celebrated
the opening OF the new concessions and
also unveiled a monument erected to the
memory OF the Russians killed during
the relief OF the Legations in Pekin.
Ex-President OF Venezuela Andrade
said in Porto Rico that he did not think
an occasional revolution hurt a country.
Queen Marie Henriette Of Belgium
was overcome by the heat while playing
croquet at her villa at Spa.
In conflicts between the pupils OF Ro-
man Catholic missionaries and the ma
tiyes on the Island OF Quelpart, in the
Yellow Sea, 90 miles south OF Korea
Is OF the natives and 900 OF the mission
pupils are reported to have been killed.
The American and the German mill
tary authorities at Pekin are still dis
cussing the question OF who shot the
German soldier who was hit by ball
which the Germans claim was fired by
an American sentry
Funeral services over the remains OF
Prince Hohenlohe we're held at Schil-
lingsiuerst, Bavaria, the royal family
being represented.
The trial of 10 Polish students, charg-
ed with belonging to secret political So
cieties at the German universities, was
begun at Posen.
A big meeting was held at the Guild
Hall in London in support OF the gov
ernment's war policy and to offset the
recent pro- Boer gathering in Queens
Hall.
1t is reported that the wife OF Acting
President Schalk- Burger has been cap
tured in the Transvaal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
THREE HUNDRED
PUPILS KILLED.
Mission on Korean Island Attacked
By Natives.
CONFLICT COVERED TEN DAYS
Fifteen Of the Natives Also Killed In the Fight.
ing..The Catholic Missionaries and Their
Pupils Opposed by The Nstlves'.The Gov.
ernor Declares that the Trouble Was the
Fault Of the Pupils.

Berlin (By Cable) The Cologne
Gazette publishes dispatch from Seoul.
Korea, dated July 6. saying that bloody
conflicts, extending over a period OF 10
days, have occurred on the Island Of
Quelpart between the Roman Catholic
missionaries and their pupils and the
populace of the island. Fifteen OF the
natives and about three hundred OF the
pupils are reported to have been killed
during the encounters.
The governor OF Quelpart. according
to the dispatch, says the trouble was
the fault OF the pupils, and arose from
their support of the tax collectors in
levying illegal taxes upon the natives.
Upon hearing that two French mis-
sionaries had been killed in the island
a French warship proceeded to Quel-
part. Upon finding the Missionaries in
question alive the warship returned.
The Korean government has commits
stoned Huan Khan and an American
court official to investigate the matter
and is sending company OF Korean
infantry with them to Quelpart.
Quelpart is in the Yellow Sea. 90
miles south OF Korea, TO which country
it is subordinate. 1t is a penal settle
iueut
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
MANY KILLED IN RAILROAD COLLISION.
Passenger and Freight Train Come Together
on the Chicago and Alton.

Kansas City, Mo. (SpeciaD Four
teen persons are dead, two probably Ia
tally injured, and a large number OF
others more or less seriously hurt, as
the result of head-on collision between
passenger and fast livestock trains on
the Chicago and Alton Railroad, near
Norton, Mo, at 7 o'clock a. m. Six were
killed outright, four died on train con-
veying them to Kansas City, and four
died at hospitals in this city.
The passenger train was travelling IN
three sections on account OF the heavy
Epworth League business to San Fran
cisco. The wrecked train was the hrst
section, and contained no Leaguers.
Conductor Mama. of the freight
train eastbound had been ordered to
meet the second section of the passenger
train at Slater, the next station east of
Norton. but apparently overlooked the
fact that the first section. which was 55
minutes late, had not passed. The head
brakeman on the freight, who was about
four cars from the engine, says Conduc-
tor NJ Anna assumed the throttle him
self on leaving Marshall. and was run
ming the engine when the collision oc-
Cured The trains met two miles west
of Norton on a curve surmounting high
embankment.
The trains collided while going at a
rapid rate. Both engines were demolish-
ed, and the forward cars telescoped,
Both engineers, the freight conductor
and Baggageman Racer were killed out
right. as were three passengers. Most
OF the damage appears to have been
done in the combination smoker follow
ing the baggage car, these cars being
pushed into the space of one car by the
terrific impact of the collision.
The passenger train was due at Mar
shall at GA, but was s5 minutes late.
The freight. eastbound, left Marshall at
7.25, in an attempt TO make Norton. and
met the passenger FIVE miles east OF here.
When the crash came the smoker-diner
telescoped, turned to one side and went
by the baggage-eXpress car and the en-
gine and down an embankment Few in
this car were injured.
In the chair car half a dozen received
scratches and bruises, but the greatest
number of the victims were those in the
tourist sleeper. This car telescoped and
fell on top of the engine. The passengers
were scalded by escaping steam The
chair car piled up nearby. The Pullman
and the observation car remained on the
track, their occupants escaping with a
slight shaking up. These quickly went
to work to aid the injured in the for
ward cars. The tourist sleeper and the
chair car soon caught fire and were com
pletely burned,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
CORN CROP SITUATION.
Drought and Heat Destroying Millions Of
Bushels

Chicago (Special) .-Advices to Board
OF Trade and grain commission houses
are that the drought in the Southwest is
unbi oxen. il is sa1 the damage outside
OF Kansas and Missouri is comparatively
slight, but that unless there is relief with
in 10 days the corn-crop situation will
approach calamity.
A message from Topeka, Kan, decldr-
cd the prospects are for crop OF criy
$4,000 600 bushels OF corn, although last
year 5 crop was Io3ooo,ooo and that of
the previous year $4,000 900 bushels,
The loss on hay and potatoes is also
great-second only to the loss on corn.
1t is estimated that the farmers of Kan
sas and Missouri already have sustained
losses reaching $so,ooo,ooo. 1t was but
natural that hundreds OF reports, of
which the above are fair samples should
have been reflected in the course of
prices on the Board of Trade.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
FIRE PANIC IN HOTEL.
The Guests Escape In Their Nlghtrobes-- Some
of Them Sustain Injuries.

Butte, Mont. (SpeciaI AT 2.4o a. m.
a still alarm was turned in from the
Butte Hotel. four-story structure on
Broadway When the fremen reached
the scene the building was enveloped in
smoke. which appeared to pour from
every open window The fremen were
unable to locate the blaze for some thir-
fy minutes and the greatest confusion
prevailed. A number OF guests on the
lower floors succeeded in cropping their
way down stairs in the smoke and es-
Gaping with nothing but their night
clothes. Scores OF others were rescued
from the upper windows. where the
panic-stricken guests shrieked for sue
cor and threatened to jump to the side
walk below
AT 4 o'clock the FIRE was completely
under control and the hotel management
state that to the best OF their knowl-
edge all the guests and help have been
accounted for.
The interior Of the hotel. which for
many years has been the leading hostel
~ OF Butte, is completely gu;ted, and
Hugh l.. Wilson, the lessee OF the build
ing, estimates his loss at 100000
The hotel guests lost a quantity OF
personal effects.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
capltal News Ia Gan.ral.

A statement by the Treasury Bureau
OF Statistics shows large increase in the
excess of exports over imports during
the fiscal year that closed June 1.
The State Department is advised that
the bubonic plague prevailing at the dif.
ferent towns Of Egypt is of virulent
type.
Captain Putnam B. Strong, of the
Quartermaster's Department, u. s. A.,
resigned, il is said, for personal reasons.
Comptroller Dawes received the pre-,
liminary report of the receiver of the
Seventh National Bank OF New York,
which estimates that the depositors will
receive 80 cents on the dollar.
The report was confirmed that in an
uprising on the Island of Quelpaert, of
the Korean coast, several hundred
Christian converts were murdered.
Captain Barry has been assigned to
command the cruiser Dixie.
The grand jury returned an indictment
against Mrs. Ida Bonine, charging her
with the murder OF James s. Ayres.
The Secretary of the Navy ordered the
famous old Minnesota to be stricken
from the naval register.
Orders have been issued that brass
plate, bearing the names OF officers and
men OF the cruiser Newark who were
killed and wounded in the Pelin relief
expedition, be made a permanent ht-
ting on the cruiser.
Reports to the War Department show
that all but one OF the ten new regiments
have been recruited up TO their full
strength.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
Hxports Run lotto BIIIIena.

All former records are surpassed by
the statistics OF the foreign commerce OF
the United States for the fiscal year
which came TO a close on June 90.
A preliminary statement prepared by
the Bureau OF Statistics in the Treas
ury Department shows that the combined
value of imports and exports for the
fiscal year amounted to $2,3Io,4I3,o77,
against 44,424 200 for the year end
ing June 80, 1000, the largest previous
record. The imports for the year
amounted to $S22,7s6,s33, decrease of
$27, ,IS4,6sI in comparison with the i'm
ports for the previous year. The ex-
ports amounted to SLAB, ,6s6,s44, an in
crease of $o3,I73,4o2 in comparison with
the previous year making the balance of
trade for the year in favor of the United
States 500, 4,ooo,oII. or an increase OF
$I2o, ,3sS,II3 over the balance of trade
for the previous year. In addition to this
there was an excess of $I7,ooI, 80 in the
value of silver bullion exported over the
value of that metal imported
Notwithstanding this large balance of
trade in favor of the United States the
figures show that the imports of gold
during the year exceeded the exports OF
that metal by but $II,342.332. This
means that the immense balance of trade
between this country and the rest of the
world was largely settled by other
means. A certain amount of gold is car
ried abroad by American tourists and
returning Europeans, but as most of
these carry letters of credit this amount
is relatively small. A large part of the
balance goes TO pay freight bills on
American exports carried in foreign
steamers, and some of it to pay interest
and dividends on American securities
held abroad. The small imports of gold
in the face of large balance of trade
during the past year, however, is princi-
pally due to the fact that the American
capitalists are now allowing much of
their money to remain in Europe for in
vestment, and the sales of bonds by for
eign governments in the United States
have gone far toward settling the balance
of trade,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
LABOR WILL FIGHT
THE STEEL TRUST.
A Great Strike Order w President
James ShaffeT.
MANY THOUSAND MEN AFFECTED.
Psiiure Of the Officials Of the Companies sud
the Officers Of the Amaigamated Association
10 Reach an Agreement After Many Confer.
enees--seventy-iive Thousand Men Directly
and Thousands More Indirectly Affected.

Pittsburg, Pa (SpeciaD After a
three-days session the conference be-
tween Representatives Of the American
Sheet Steel, American Steel Company
and American Tinplate Companies, sub
sidiary companies OF the United States
Steel Corporation. and the general ex-
ecutive board OF the Amalgamated As
sociation Of Iron, Steel and Tinworkers.
adjourned without reaching an agree
ment. In less than an hour later PrcSi-
dent Shaffer OF the Amalgamated Asso-
citation had wired a strike order to all
the amalgamated lodges in the t.nplate,
steel hoop and sheet steel mills.
For the present Secretary Shatfer SAYS
that only the three companies viii i've
affected, but later all the union men in
the Federal Steel Company, National
Steel Company and the National Tube
Company may be called out, ii II shall
be found necessary TO resort to extreme
measures to win the fight At the start
it is claimed $4,000 skilled workmen,
10000 unskilled men, and, indirectly,
many thousands more will be affected.
After the adjournment OF the confer
ence the following statement was given
out by the officials OF the three com
panies interested
"The conference between the Anal
gamated Association and the sheet
hoop and tinplate companies failed TO
come to an agreement because the
Amalgamated Association did not re-
cede from its original position, which
was that the three companies interested
should sign for all the mills without re-
gard as to whether these mills had in
the past belonged to the Amalgamated
Association or not
"The manufacturers did not refuse
their rights to organize, but, having
many men in the mills not in the
Amalgamated Association who did not
wish to become association men. claim
ed they must respect these men in their
wishes as we'll as those who are mem
bers of the association"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
Six Bathers Drowned.

Savannah, Ga (SpeciaD The He
brew Gamahl Hasad held its annual pic
mic at Daufuske Beach. Between 3
and O'Clock in the afternoon number
OF the picnickers went into the ocean
for a surf bath A strong southeast
wind was blowing and the tide was at
food. Fifty yards off shore is shoal
and between the shoal and shore is a
sluice. The party was bathing on the
shoal, but finding the tide getting rather
high the bathers concluded to 70 nearer
shore. Almost at once they found them
selves in the sluice over their heads with
mountainous waves pounding and a
sweeping current running. Out of IL
who started across were drowned.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
Robbed Safe and Fired Courthouse.

Minden, Neb. (SpeciaD ALFRED Nor
lin, county treasurer Of Kearney county,
was arrested on charge OF robbing the
county treasury and setting fire TO the
court house on the night OF June 81.
After his arrest Norln made full CON
fession and took the officers to a corn
field, near his home, where, in a box.
was found $677s. His total shortage is
$Io,oII. Norlin, at the time of the
court house fire, said he had been as
saulted in his Office, robbed, and the
building fired He admitted that this
was purely concoction OF his own.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
Explosion on an Excursion Boat.

Sunbury Pa. (SpeciaD.-A excur-
sion boat anchored in the Susquehanna
River at the foot of Market street, this
city, blew up with terrific force, killing
two boys and injuring dozen other per-
sons, two fatally. One man Is missing
and may have been killed also. All OF
the boys killed and injured were fishing
on nearby wharf when the explosion
occurred The engineer was absent at
the time, leaving the boat in charge Of
the pilot When he left there was pres
sure OF TO pounds in the boiler, and he
says he opened the FIRE door.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
Knights Of Pythias Pace a Scandal

Chicago, ILL., (SpeciaD As the result
OF the report just made by the officers
and six members OF the Board of Con-
troll of the Endowment Rank OF the
knights Of Pythias, the indications are
that former president will be deprived
OF his membership and that criminal
proceedings will be begun against three
former members OF the board The re-
port bristles with charges OF msman-
sgement and improper use OF funds,
and II is estimated that the fund is at
least $500, 900 to the bad as a result.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
A Preachers Two Wives.

Huntington, w. Va. (Special) .-Rev.
J. W. Workman was placed in jail here
charged with bigamy. Mr.. Workman is
native of Lawrence county, Ohio, and
ten years ago went to Salt Lick, KY,
where he wooed and married Esteila
Burtt. Two years ago the couple was
divorced, but nine months ago they met,
became reconcied and were remarked.
Two weeks ago they parted, and Mrs.
Workman went to her mother and
Workman went to Harveytown for va
cation. He there met Mamie Spangler,
10, and they were married in four days.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18
A Pet Frog sspIedes

Albany, Mo. (SpecialD AN accident,
in which three children, pet frog and
Some dynamite figured, resulted in one
death and the serious injury OF two per-
sons. The three children Of George Me-
Curry, contractor, found some dyna-
mite in the cellar of their home, and
thinking IL was putty, fed il to their pet
frog A large toolchest afterward fell
on the frog ond exploded the dynamite
A chisel, driven by the explosion. pierced
the temple OF the younger child and kill
ed il. Another child and Mrs McCurry,
who was in the kitchen above, were
seriously hurt,