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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-10-03
THE COLUMBIA.

New York (Special) In the closest
and most soul-string race ever sailed for
the old Americas Cup the white flyer
Columbia beat the British challenger
over a windward and leeward course of
80 nautical miles by the narrow. heart
breaking margin of 90 seconds. AS Lip
toms latest aspirant FOR cup honors must
allow the defender 43 seconds on account
of the extra 1888 square feet of canvas in
her sail area, the official record, under
the rules. gives Columbia the victory by
l minute ~ seconds.
AS spectacle the contest was superb.
From the time the two sky-scraping
racers crossed the starting line until they
fed across the finish line, four and half
hours later, the result was in doubt, and
the excitement aboard the excursion
fleet increased until men became frenzied
and women almost hysterical.
So evenly matched were these two sci
entihc racing machines that never after
they started were the rival shippers out
of each others hail, and more than three
quarters OF the time they were so close
that Charlie Barr. who had the tiller
aboard the American, could have tossed
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Filipino Official Accused.

Manila (By Cable) Juan Cardona,
who until recently wasPresident of Gero-
ma, Province of Tarlac, and who was ap-
pointed secretary of the Tarlac provin-
cial government, has been arrested on the
charge OF accusing persons of crimes
for the purpose Of extorting money from
them.
More than so persons declare they
have been robbed by him in this way,
some saying they have even surrendered
title deeds to property. Cardona had
been considered one OF the most reliable
natives holding pro- American views.
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biscuit to Captain Sycamore on the
Shamrock. For miles as they beat their
way to the outer mark the black shadow
of Shamrock's huge club-topsail was
painted on the big mainsail of the Co.
lumbia, for an hour on the run home,
with the two yachts flying like scared
deer before the following wind, they ran
almost beam to beam, as if they had been
harnessed together.
The memory of the races between the
Genesta and the Puritan, in 1885, and
Lord Dunraven's first Valkyrie and the
Vigilant, in 1898, which have been treas
ured by yatchsmen up to this time, will
be forgotten after this magnificent duel
1t will live forever in the memory of
those who witnessed it. In the years to
come the yachtsmen of the two nations
will recount the thrilling story of the
celebrated first race between the Co.
lumbia and the Shamrock H., sailed off
New York harbor in the first year of the
nwe century.
Yacht Start. Finish. Time.
Shamrock ...II.oo.I4 3.3I.5S 43L44
Columbia ...II.ooIo 3.3I.23 43o.22
The next race will be over a triangu-
lar course ten miles to leg
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-10-03
Customs Receipts In Cuba.

The Division of Insular Affairs OF the
War Department has prepared for pub
lication statement of receipts from all
sources at the several custom houses in
Cuba for the seven months ended July
81. 1901, as compared with the same pc
riod OF 1000 and 1899. The statement
shows that the total receipts from all
sources during the seven months ended
July 81. 1901, were &c. ISo, ,33o.I7 for the
same period OF 1900 $o34o, ,zoo.44, and
for the same period of 1899 SILL
z62. 20.
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ONE DEAD AND TWO DYING.
Woman Poured OIL In Kitchen Stove
With Terrible Result

Pittsburg (Special) AS a result of
an attempt to use oil to hurry along the
kitchen fire Mrs. Barbara Sturgent is
dead. her husband, Andrew Sturgent
and their son George are dying, and two
other children-Barbara and Andrew
are very badly burned
The family occupied two rooms Of a
tenement house at IIo2 Washington ave-
nue., Braddock. Mrs. Sturgent, while
getting the breakfast, started to pour oil
on the kindling wood in the stove and
Immediately there was an explosion. The
room was filled with clothing hung on a
line to dry. In an instant the two rooms
were blazing furnace. Mrs. Sturgent
was burned to death, while her husband
and son were literally cooked. The other
families in the building were rescued by
prompt work by the firemen
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SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

A passenger train on the Wabash
Railroad was wrecked IL miles south
east OF Council Bluffs. Iowa. Three
persons were fatally injured, 10 seri-
ously hurt and number Of others
slightly injured.
Citizens of Chicago have started Sc
cret organization known as the Re
public which is to be extended over
the country with the view to protecting
life and property from anarchists.
James ?. Thomas, cashier OF the Le-
roy c. Partridge Bank, OF Ovid. N. Y,
was indicted on the charge Of embezzlc-
ment
Mrs. Lyon Pullman secured divorce
in Chicago from George NJ Pullman,
who is now in San Francisco
Mrs. Howard Brockway. wife OF a
well-known musician OF New York. and
daughter OF Otis B. Boise. recently ap-
pointed TO the chair OF harmony and
composition at the Peabody Conserva-
tory OF Music, was killed by fall from
a railroad train on the New York Cen
tral Railroad She had been afflicted
with melancholia
Shaffer accepted Gompers' challenge
and named Simon Burns as his member
OF the committee TO decide upon his
charges against the presidents OF the
Federation OF Labor and the United
Mineworkers
At the inquiry into the steamer
Islander disaster. held in Victoria. B.
c., it was testified that both the captain
and pilot were drunk.
Smith Jones, I3 years old, was SEN
tenced to prison for life N Bonneville,
Ind. for killing a lad OF the same age.
President Samuel Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor. and
President Mitchell, OF the Mineworkers'
Union, joined in an open letter to Shat
fer, saying they would resign if he could
prove the charges he made against them.
A steamer has been chartered to carry
the first cargo Of Pennsylvania anthra-
cite coal ever shipped from the United
States to Europe. The coal will go to
Berlin for use in American made stoves.
The National Camp. Patriotic Order
Sons of America. met in biennial session
in Buffalo. A. J. Colburn, OF Pennsyl-
vania, was elected president
Leon Czolgosz was visited by his faith
er, brother and sister, but he also denied
to them that anyone else was concerned
in the killing Of President Mckinley. de-
clarng that he alone was responsible.
Details OF the kidnapping of Miss
Stone, the American missionary, and her
assistant by Bulgarian bandits were re-
ceived by the American Board of For
eign Missions.
The National Council of the United
Order OF American Mechanics, in session
in Hartford. CT, passed resolutions de-
nouncing anarchy
Patrolman O'Neil, who was the cause
of Devery's arrest, was dismissed from
the force by Commissioner Murphy.
There is reported to be discomfort in
Samoa over the way island is being gov
erned.
Instructor J. s. Croswel, in the State
School OF Mines at Rola. Mo-, killed
Miss Powell, student, through jeal-
ousy, and then fed. A mob is after
him.
Seth Low was nominated for mayor
by the Republican city convention OF
New York. His candidacy was also in
dorsed by the Citizens Union.
The British mule transport Monterey
landed a number OF destitute St Louis
men at Newport News in violation OF
the law
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to send the Schalk- Burger letter to the
Imperial Government, which, he says,
reciprocates the Boer statesman's de-
sire for peace. He then proceeds to
charge that the responsibility for the
war rests with the burghers whose in
vasion OF unprotected British territory
opened the saddest page in South Airi-
can history" Lord Kitchener quotes a
letter from member OF the Volksraad
TO a member OF the Cape Colony As
sembly declaring that the time is ripe
to drive the English from. South Az
rica."
In conclusion Lord Kitchener de-
clares that, having annexed the two re-
publics to Great Britain, he cannot
break faith with the people who have
shown LOYALTY to the new regime
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personal To pay my mother during her
life $1,000 year, and at her death said
sum 10 be paid to my sister, Helen Nc
kinley. II the income from property be
insufficient 10 keep my wife in great
comfort and pay the annuity above pro-
vided, then direct that such of my prop
erty be sold so as to make a sum ade-
quate for both purposes. Whatever
property remains at the death Of my
wife | give to my brother and sisters
share and share alike. My chief concern
is that my wife, from my estate. shall
have all she requires for her comfort
and pleasure, and that my mother shall
be provided with whatever money she
requires TO make her old age comfortable
and happy.
Witness my hand and seal, this 22d
day OF October, 1897, TO my last will and
testament made at the city Of Wash
WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
(SeaD
THE foregoing will was witnessed by
us this 22d day OF October, 1907, at the
request of the testator, and his name
signed hereto in our presence and our
signature hereto in his presence.
GEORGE B. CORTELYOU,
CHARLES LOEFFLER."
II is given out on authority that the
Mckinley estate will total $a2s 900 to
$25o,ooo, including life insurance of
$4,000, Aside from this insurance, the
estate consists of real estate here and
contiguous to Canton and of deposits
in Washington banks. The will is in the
Presidents own handwriting, and is on
Eecutive Mansion letter paper.
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ForeigH.

London newspapers continues to re-
port that Lord Kitchener viii resign as
commander-in-c in South Africa be-
cause, as one paper puts it, he desires
more serious penalties for rebellion and
wants better reinforcements. Major
Burnham, the American scout, who was
on the staff OF Lord Roberts, has been
given the honor OF companionship OF
the Distinguished Service Order.
General Gaselee, who was command
er OF the British forces in China, praises
the American military authorities for
their well-equipped hospitals and COM
missariat in China.
King Edward received Mr.. Choate,
the United States Ambassador, at the
Marlborough House and renewed his
expressions of sorrow for Mr.. McKin-
ley's assassination.
The Chinese Government is consider
ing a Russian offer for the purchase OF
the Pei Yang Squadron, consisting OF
10 warships.
The Bulgarian bandits who kidnapped
Miss Helen II. Stone, the American
Missionary, demanded G2s,ooo for her
release.
The Cunard steamers Campania and
Lucania communicated by the wireless
telegraphy at sea distance OF 65 miles.
Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian dramat-
ist and poet, is critically i'll.
Abdul Hamid, Sultan OF Turkey, is
said to be in failing health.
Further details OF the engagement be-
tween the Colombians and Venezuelans
at Corozona September "a state that 800
Venezuelans and cannon were cap
tured and 600 killed, wounded or miss
ing; also reported that a lrother OF
President Castro was wounded. The
Venezuelan authorities will send 5000
men to guard the frontier on the Quay
ira Peninsula.
A Paris newspaper states that, as a
result Of the conference between the
Gar and President Loubet, the Euro
pean cabinets are exchanging views
with the object OF taking action against
Turkey.
A French newspaper publishes a story
of trouble between Great Britain and
Turkey, which is denied in London and
Paris official circles.
The London Daily News publishes an
unconfrmed rumor that Lord Kitchen
er has resigned as commander -in-chief
in ScLth Africa.
Extraordinary precautions we're taken
in England TO protect the King and
Queen upon their return from the Con
tinent.
The Russian Prince Mackachidge and
his wife were arrested in Rome as an
archists and ordered to leave the coun-
try.
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RKINLEY'S VAULT
GUARD ATTACKED.
The Sentry on Top Of the Tomb Fires
at a Man.
seLDIERs CHALLENGE UNnEHDHD.
no Had Been Watching a Lurking Figure
Ia the Bushss-rhe vsndals, One Of Whom
Was Masked, Make Their Escape Believed
That an Attempt Was to Be Made to Blow
In the Temb

Canton, O. (Specia) A strange
story comes from West Lawn Cemetery,
where a company OF regulars from Fert
Wayne, Mich. are guarding the vault in
which the body of the late President Nc
Kinley lies. Ii is to the effect that the
guard on duty on top of the vault fired a
shot at one man who refused TO heed his
challenge, that the shot was diverted by
another man who appeared from another
direction and that an effort was made
to stab the guard.
Military regulations prevent either
the officers or the men OF the post IRON
being quoted on any matters connected
with their service, and for this reason
Captain Biddle who is in command. was
obliged to decline to be quoted at the
camp. He will make full report to his
superiors at once Reliable authorities
made the following statement:
Private De Prend was on guard duty
on top of the vault at a point command
ing the entrance below and the approach
from the rear.
Shortly before 7.3o he saw what he
took to be the face of a man peering
from behind a tree about 40 feet from his
post
He watched il for 20 minutes, he says,
and at 7.4s saw the man hurry to a tree
10 feet nearer. He challenged the man
20 halt but this was not needed, and the
fellow approached nearer.
De Prend leveled his gun and aimed
10 shoot for effect, but just at that in
stant another man who came toward him
from the opposite side caught the gun,
threw it up and the bullet was spent in
the air. This same man struck De Prend
on the right side OF the abdomen with a
knife or other sharp weapon, cutting an
az" cash in his overcoat an inch and
half long each way and a smaller one in
his blouse. The flesh was not broken,
but bruised under the cuts in the cloth
ing. De Prend in the struggle fell and
rolled down the side of the vault.
Lieutenant Ashbridge, officer OF the
day, was in front of the vault and rush
ed to the top on hearing the shot, but
the men made good their escape All
members of the company on hearing the
shot hurried to the vault, and besides
searching the cemetery the guard was
increased.
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Capital News In General.

Members OF the Senate committee
made arrangements to hear the charges
preferred against Lieut.. Col. II. o. S.
Heistand
President Roosevelt has assured the
friends OF Commissioner Of Pensions
Evans that he will not be removed.
Some unknown person seht $6I5o
in cash to Secretary Gage, the amount
he had defrauded the government in
customs duties.
Assistant Secretary to the President
Barnes asked to be transferred to a po-
sition in one OF the executive depart
ments.
The Census Bureau issued a bull
letin showing the paper and wood pulp
industry to be capitalized at $I67, ,5o7,7I3.
The receipts during August from the
War Revenue Act we're $4,000, 600.
General Corbin returned to Washing
ton and expressed himself as highly
gratifed with the conditions in the Phil
ippines.
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lisytI.us Oppose President Sam.

Kingston, Jamaica (By Cable) Re
ports Of revolutionary outbreak in
Hayti reached here by the German
steamer Alene. from New York via Jere-
mie, Hayti. According to the statements
OF those on board the Alene, a large
number of prominent men in Jeremie
were arrested on the charge of con-
spiracy and Immediately removed to
Port-au-P Prince and imprisoned. The
situation in the interior of Hayti. is re-
ported TO be serious. owing to the oppo-
sition to President Sam continuing to re-
tain Office,
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TO spy ON ANARCHISTS.
Secret. 0ath.BOuud Organization Is Started
10 chieako

Chicago (SpeciaD ITO stamp out an
archy and anarchists in Chicago a num-
Der of men have joined hands and form
ed secret oathbound organizatio on which
they hope will be the nucleus OF secret
fraternity with branches in every city
throughout the United States
incorporation papers were issued for it
at Springfield The name of the new
organization is the Republic" It will
include one grand lodge and a number
of subordinate lodges.
The principles of the organization as
expressed in the papers OF incorporation
are ito protect life and property from
anarchists; to battle with the anarchist
propaganda; to guard and protect the in
stitutions of this country from anarchists
and their agitation"
1t is planned to include a regular sys-
tenn OF detective and spy work upon the
anarchists and prosecution OF every one
oi them at every opportunity.
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More Gold Comes Ia.

Vancouver, B. c. (SpecialD. = The
steamer City of Seattle has arrived from
Skagway with 3I4 passengers Crowds
are now coming out from Dawson, and
200 were to have arrived in Skagway on
the day that the Seattle left. The steam
er had $500, 900 worth of gold. Among
her passengers was Consul McCoolS, OF
Dawson, who is on his way to Washing
ton on Government business. He says
much excitement is reported at Atlin on
account of the discovery of what is be-
licyed to be the mother lode of the
district
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Shot as He Sought Revenge.

Kingston, N. Y, (Special) Augustus
Miller was shot in the stomach and
probably mortaily wounded by John
Walton. Walton had reported several
employees of the Lawrence Cenent Com
pany at Rosendale to the management
of the company for making alleged de-
rogatory remarks about President Nc
kinley after the latter was shot, and they
were discharged. Miller being one of the
number. Miller and his wife, it Is said
assaulted Walton, and the latter, who
had been warned of threats against him,
shot Miller while defending himself.
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Cruiser Cleveland Launched.

Bath Me. (SpeciaD Great interest
attended the launching here at the Bath
Iron Works of the United States cruiser
Cleveland. The spectators occupied every
available place from which the ceremo-
nies could be viewed.
At few minutes before noon the
christening party, including Miss Ruth
Hanna, Senators Hanna, Frye and Hale
and Congressman Little6cld, mounted
the platform at the bow of the cruiser.
and almost at the stroke of noon Miss
Hanna, with a dsinily mounted silver
hatchet, cut the cords, releasing the key
shores, and, as the big craft began to
move, broke a bottle of American cham
pagne over the bow, christening the
cruiser cleveland"
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CZoLGoSZ SENTENCED.
To Die Ia Electric Chair Week Beginning
October rs.

Buffalo, N. Y. (SpeciaD Leon F.
Czolgosz, the assassin OF President Nc
Kinley, was sentenced to be electrocut-
ed in Auburn State prison in the week
beginning October 2S, the earliest time
permissible under law.
Before sentence was passed the assas-
sin showed desire to speak, but he
seemed unuable to get his voice above
a whisper and his words were repeated
TO the court by his counsel.
There was no one else but me-" he
said in a whisper mo one else told
me to do it and no one paid me TO do
1t. | was not told anything about that
crime and | never thought anything
about the murder until couple OF days
before committed the crime"
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THIRTEEN MEN DROWNED.
Prospectors We're Caught In Cloudburst in
Texas

San Antonio, Texas (SpeciaD News
has just been received here OF a terrible
disaster in Preside county, near the
Rio Grande river. Thirteen men who
were prospecting for cinnibar lost their
lives in foods caused by waterspout
or cloudburst.
The men were in two parties camped
one mile apart in dry ravine known
as Alaminto creek, in which there had
been no water for IS months on account
OF the drought. They were asleep al Q
o'clock. There was cloudburst several
miles up the ravine. A volume of water
20 feet high washed down the channel
OF the ravine and swept over the men in
the two camps before they were aware
of their danger. All we're drowned, and
only six bodies have been recovered.
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HIs Final Resting Place.

Springfield, III. (SpeciaD The ashes
OF Abraham Lincoln will soon be put
away, never to be disturbed again, in
accordance with the wish OF his son,
Robert 7. Lincoln. An excavation IS
feet deep is being made beneath the
vault where they now rest, and in this
the coffin will be placed. II will be sur
rounded by an iron cage. which Is to be
Embedded in and made part OF solid
concrete block s by 8 feet and 10 feet
long The transfer will be made after
the return Of Governor Yates. This
will make the twelfth removal OF the
body.
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Alive With a Broken Neck.

Philadelphia (Special) George Hop
kins, IS years old. of Cool Spring, Del,
is in the Jefferson Hospital here with a
broken neck. He sustained the fracture
more than two weeks ago, but his cond-
ton remained such that the attending
physician decided to send him to this
city for treatment. Cool Spring is many
miles from any railroad station, and
Hopkins made the entire journey in
hammock swung in the ordinary road
wagon. The surgeons at the Jefferson
Hospital think there is possibility OF
the mans recovery.
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Our New Possessions.

Gen. Isidcro Torres, who surrendered
some months ago, was arrested in Ma
Mia and will be tried on the charge OF
having ordered the murder OF Corporal
Fieldner OF the Twelfth Infantry, at
Malolos, Province OF Bulacan, last Oc-
tober.
Colonel Athena, with his entire staff,
has surrendered TO Captain Pitcher in
Luzon, who had been in close pursuit OF
him since Lieutenant Hazard captured
the deserter Howard in his camp.
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MOTHERS AWFUL DEED.
Threw Four Children Into Well and Eel.
lowed Them.

Cleveland (Special) The town of
Little York, station on the line Of the
Akron, Bedford and Cleveland Railway,
IS miles south of this city, was the scene
of terrible tragedy.
Mrs. Perry Curtiss. the wife of far
mer, drowned her four small children
in well and then committed suicide by
jumping in after them
Her husband was in Cleveland with
load of potatoes and knew nothing of
the tragedy until he read an account of
it in the newspapers. Mrs. Curtiss was
released from the Massillon Insane Asy-
lum recently as cured and il is thought
that it was while suffering relapse that
she committed the terrible deed.
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Why British Fall to Capture Bosrs.

London (By Cable) Perhaps one OF
the reasons that the British, who are so
frequently reported as being in pursuit,
fail to overtake the Beers in South Al
rica, is found in a remarkable army or
der, recently issued by Lord Kitchener,
as follows: THE commander-in-chief in
South Africa desires to impress officers
in command OF mobile columns that the
object OF such columns is mobility, and
that he has learned that such forces car
ry with them furniture, kitchen ranges.
pianos and harmoniums, which nullify
that object. These articles must be
handed over to the nearest stofes."
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Shot by q Marine.

New York (SpeciaD Charles p.
Meiner, OF Yonkers, N. Y, one of a
batch OF military prisoners who were
being. escorted aboard the steamer
Hamilton, bound for Norfolk, tried to
escape and was shot above the right hip
by one Of the marine guards, Edward
Early The guard used revolver, and
the bullet passed through Meiner's
body Meiner was conveyed TO the
Hudson Street Hospital and after Early
had reported at the Leonard Street Pr-
lice Station he was allowed TO proceed
wsth the rest OF the guard, in command
oi Lieut. G. Bishop Jr