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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
Over a Million In Peril.

Chicago, (Special) q am seriously
alarmed at the news of the renewed ac-
tivity of the Martinique and St. Vim
cent volcanoes" said Louis H. Ayme
United States Consul at Guadeloupe
who is in Chicago on sick leave
Should Mont Pelee blow its head
off, he continued, "the loss OF life con
sequent upon the production of a great
tidal wave would be appalling. With
Martinique as a center chain Of
islands extends northwestward embrac-
population of 10000 persons. Al
most without exception the cities and
villages are along the coasts. and but
slightly elevated above the sea. A tidal
wave 20 feet high would probably de.
stroy half million lives before il
dashed against the shores Of Porte
Rico with its million inhabitants
There is also apparently grave dan
ger that other long-extinct volcanoes
may break ont. The great Soufriere OF
Guadeoupe has been active for centu-
ries, discharging vast column of sui
phur-charged steam from the old sum
init crater. This may have acted as a
sort of safety valve, but it, as reports
seem to indicate, the seismic forces are
increasing i'll intensity, this volcano and
others along the line OF weakness S
marked by the island chain may soon be
rivaing Pelee.
The people of these islands are in a
hard situation. Their communication
with the outer world depends chiefly
on single line of steamers. which call
at intervals of from 10 days to three
weeks at some of the islands when
freight offers. The whole fleet of this
line, to which the ill-fated Roraima be-
longed, could not carry 1000 persons.
While the great bulk of the islands
population is made up of blacks and
mulattoes, there are many thousands
whites living there, chiefly Creoes Not
a few Americans are established in or
visiting the islands on business.
Martinique seems to be doomed. 1t
will not be possible to persuade its peo-
PIE to remian there if they can get
away. Guadeloupe, where my consul
ate is situated, is in an even worse pre-
dicament 1t is staggering under a tre-
mendous debt which it cannot pay; its
cane plantations are being abandoned
and its business men are retiring Quad
eloupe is the natural refuge of the flee
ing people of Martinique, and will have
these terrified and starving thousands
thrown upon its already inadequate re-
sources"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
Newsy Items of Interest,

Mr. Leishman, the United States min
lister at Constantinople, has concluded
a satisfactory understanding with the
Sultan as TO the complicated questions
between the United States and Turkey.
Brigadier General William H. For
wood, surgeon general Of the Army
closed his active military career to be
succeeded by Brigader General Rob
ert NJ. O'Reilly.
United States Minister Bowen re-
ported that there was a battle Just be-
hind the legation in Caracas, Venezuela,
in which the revolutionsis,s were
routed.
A translation was received OF the re-
port OF General Santos. Commanding
the rebel gunboat Padlla, which cap
tured the government fleet in the Bay
OF Panama.
Lieut.. Ward Winchell, the naval ex-
pert, reported that oil was ssfully
used as fuel on the Oceanic Steamship
Company's steamer Mariposa from San
Francisco to Tahiti.
A publication issued by the Census
Bureau shows that the average OF the
white people Of the United States has
been increasing by one year with each
decade since 1890.
The President accepted the resigna-
ton OF First Lieutenant Grant r.
Trent, OF the Eighth Infantry, to per-
NIT that officer to accept an important
position in the civil government OF the
Philippines.
The War Department is experiencing
trouble in finding a sufficient number
OF officers to supply the demand for
military instructors in colleges.
President Roosevelt accepted the in
yitation TO attend the annual encamp-
ment OF the q. A. X. veterans.
General Chaffee reported that James
Foley and Henry c. Carey were killed
IN an engagement at Wears, Island OF
Mindanao.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
As 10 Shinment Of Game.

The United States Department of Ag-
ricuture has issued circular defining
the laws regarding the shipment OF
game. The following notes are taken
from il;
Robins. swallows, cedar birds, mead
ow-larks, flickers, night hawks. or bull
bats, and a few other insectivorous
species. as we'll as such birds as long
spurs, snow buntngs and shore larks,
OF weeds. are occasionally killed as
game. They are, however, generally
protected. and under no circumstances
should they be sent to market or ship
ped out OF the State.
Statutes even more stringent than
those protecting game birds have re-
Gently been enacted by many States for
the preservation OF birds which are not
included in the game list. Under these
statutes birds which are in demand for
r:illinery purposes are protected
throughout the year, and sale and pos
session, as we'll as killing, are prohib-
tied.
1t should be remembered that the
principal centers for millinery supplies
dIC HCdlly al lONdtSu III S'"'Ss N'i~i.
have such laws. and the purchase Of
native song-birds, as well as OF herons,
pelcans, gulls ternes or sea swallows.
grebes, or other plume birds, should be
avoided
The shipment OF these birds or any
part OF their plurnage is prohibited by
the provisions OF the Federal law. Os-
trich feathers are not subject to these
restrictions, and their. use should be
encouraged
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
MURDERED BY RIOS BAND.
Two Women and Girl Killed Ia Luzon-At.
tack Town.

Manila (By Cable).-Rios, fanatical
leader OF the irreconcilable natives OF
the Province OF Tayabas, Luzon, at
tackled the town of Laguimanoc at the
head OF 80 riflemen and $50 men armed
with bolos. The band wantonly killed
two women and one girl and wounded
several other persons, A detachment
OF the native constabulary arrived unex-
pectedly at LaGumanoc while Rios
men were still there.
They attacked and routed the ban
dts, killing several of Rios followers,
and have rounded up 700 men, many of
whom are suspected OF completely in
the attack on Laguimanoc. The guilty
ones among the 700 men will be picked
out and the remainder set at liberty.
One OF Rios lieutenants who was
captured said Rios was a direct de-
scendant OF God, and that it was beyond
the power OF man to injure him
The constabulary have also captured
one OF Rios mountain strongholds.
-Four detachments OF constabulary are
now following the main band OF the
outlaws.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11

number OF other officials and White
House attaches met him at the station
Mr. Roosevelt appeared little dis
/ figured as result OF the Pittsheld ac-
cident, but apparently had recovered
from the shock.
Through a Gordon OF police the Pres
ident was escorted to carriages in wait
ing and was quickly driven to the Bal
timore and Ohio station Secretary
Hitchcock, Commander Cowles. the
Presidents brother-in-law, and Secre-
tary Cortelyou rode in the carriage
with him.
A special Baltimore and Ohio train
OF seven handsomely equipped coaches
was in readiness, and the President en-
tered his car, lifting his hat in response
to the greeting from the crowd
The train was two minutes late when
it pulled out 7.32 o'clock 1t was in
charge OF Pullman Conductor w. NJ.
Johnson, who has been assigned to the
Presidents specials for a long time past.
The personnel OF the Presidents party
was the same as that OF his New Eng
land trip, except for the addition OF S.
II. Hege, general agent OF the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, and Col. l..
S. Brown, general agent OF the South
ern Railway.
The trip was somewhat hurried
one, and no extended stops were made
at places other than those announced
in the itinerary--Wheeling, W. Va; !;
Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tenn, and
Asheville, N. c. The immediate object
OF the President was to attend the con-
vention at Chattanooga OF the Brother
hood OF Locomotive Firemen, in whose
work he has always shown a deep inter-
est
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
Oil Fuel on Steamers,

The report OF Lieut. Ward Winchell,
United States Navy, an expert detailed
by the Navy Department to observe
the installation and efficiency OF the oil
fuel system as fitted to the Oceanic
Steamship Companys steamer Mari
posa, has been received at the Navy
Department. The report gives posi-
tive information in regard to the evap-
orative efficiency OF the boilers and set
ting ont some facts relative to the use
OF oil as fuel, which have been earnestly
sought from the Navy Department by
steamship men and oil producers, as
well as technical papers. Some OF these
facts follow:
The Mariposa's gross displacement
is 3,I6o tons and her average horse
power, with oil, about 2,4SI, giving her
daily average OF 354 knots and mean
speed of 1883 with 27S barrels OF oil
per day.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
vow TO REMAIN SINGLE.
Bachelors and Old Maids cOterie is Establish
ed In Williamsburg.

Williamsburg, ~ Y. (SpeciaD With
solemn VOWS not to fall in love with
each other and rigid bylaws forbid
ding the wearing OF jewelry, frils and
furbelows, and waxed mustaches, the
Bachelors and Old Maids Co.erie has
established itself in Williamsburg.
Ten young men and ten Yong women
living there have taken the vow to re-
main single all their lives The mem
bers bctray their lack OF faith in the
binding force OF this vow by turning the
fines into a fund which will be the only
provision for the members when they
shall reach old age and helplessness.
They have placed the age at 6s. each
member remaining true 10 the vow until
that age is reached being entitled to a
pe- sion from the fund
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
Monroe Doctrine Out OF II.

Washington, D. c. (Special) ).-The
destruction of the Crete-a-Pierrot will be
made the subject of an official report
TO this Government by United States
Minister Powell who is now at Port
au Prince.
Pending the receipt of the report there
is, in the opinion of the officials here,
little likelihood OF any action by the
State Department. Indeed, judging from
the character of the instructions trans
mitted through the Navy Department to
Commander McCrea, If the Machias,
there will be little disnosition to ques-
tion the Justice of the treatment accord
ed Admiral Killick
Commander McCrea was especially
instructed to prevent interference with
commerce at Cape Haitien, and in The
ez ecution of those orders he was
obliged to warn the rebel admiral that
he must not search foreign shipping. else
the Machias would use her force against
him. The threat was effectual only SO
long as the Machias remained in Haitien
waters. As soon as she headed north
ward it seems Killick held up the Ger
man steamer Markomannia and seized
her cargo OF arms.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
Both Sides Satisfied.

Wilkesbarre, Pa. (SpeciaD At the
close OF the seventeenth week of the
miners strike both sides to the con-
test say they are satisfied with the situ-
alton. The operators state that the
output OF coal the past week was greater
than any other week since the strike
began, and next week it promises to be
still greater. The strikers, on the other
hand, claim. through their officers, that
the efforts OF the big companies to re-
sumo mining has been a signal failure,
as they have been unable to get miners
to cut the coal
AT strike headquarters it is admitted
that the washeries are turning out
certain amount of coal of poor quality.
but il is claimed that the total output
is only a drop in the bucket President
Mitchell says the miners are just as de-
termined as ever, and that all talk OF
them going back to work was without
foundation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
A COAL MINE CAVES In
Over Twenty Acres Of Land Sink Near
WiIkesbarre.
MUCH VALUABLE PROPERTY RUINED.
1imbers Rotted In The Mine from Lack Of
Care and Accumulation Of Water Through
Disuse Caused by Strike-A Further cavein
is Expected and Men Have Been Pleced on
Guard

Wilkesbarrc, Pa. (SpeciaD.-A big
cavein OF the carth's surface over the
Payne mine, at Dorrancetown, took
place, causing considerable excitement
in the neighborhood. The cavein COW
ers an area OF nearly - acres and al
iects some valuable property on Wyom-
ing street. The iound1 ions OF some OF
the mansions on this thorouGhfare are
badly cracked. La.ge assures are also
TO be seen i'll the roadway
further caven is expected, and a
number oi men have been placed on
guard to give the alarm should the
earth sink still further.
The cavein is due to the fact. so it is
said, that the mine has not been in op-
Grafton since the strike, and the water
has accumulated in the workings in
large quantities.
Charleston, w. Va (SpeciaD D.-Thc
coal miners strike in the Kanawha and
New River fields, involving 1900 min
ers, which has been in existence since
June !, is practically at an end. Each
local union is instructed to go back to
work on the best terms possible. with
out regard to the action OF any other
local
Several of the lar"est operators in the
New River field have made terms with
their men and resumed No concessions
have been ~-anted, and from the miners
standpoint the strike is ,mplete fail
ure. the men returning to work at the
same rate as before the strike
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
Flag Arouses Strife,

Upon receipt OF letter from New
York man, whose name is not made
public, Mr.. Alvey A. Adee, Second As
sistan. Secretary OF State and acting
head OF the department, has directed
Ambassador Mccormick to ascertain
facts regarding the sending OF the flag
to the United States to be presented
to the United Hungarian Societies OF
New York by Gen. Joseph Zseni.
There was some opposition aroused
in New York to the acceptance OF the
flag. General Zseni and the Others
who came with him are members oil
the government party OF Hungary
No international question is involved
but Mr.. Adee is merely seeking the
facts at request of the New Yorker
who wrote to the State Department.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
Financial.

Baltimore & Ohio touched ~, its
highest mark
A new English tobacco syndicate has
been formed to combat the American
British trust
ST. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
has declared its regular quarterly divi-
dend OF ] per cent.
American Snuff Company declares a
quarterly dividend OF l IL per cent
on its preferred stock
The Boston & Philadelphia Steam
ship Company has declared quarterly
dividend OF SI.5o a share.
The consensus OF opinion among the
best judges OF the situation in the West
is.that very little actual Eastern money
will be needed this Fall and Winter to
handle the crops,
is believed that St. Paul directors
will next week increase the dividend
to 7 per cent. The earnings justify it.
The Rubber Goods Manufacturing
Company hands out the regular quar-
terly dividend OF 3-4 per cent on the
preferred stock.
Norfolk & Westerns earnings are
sufficient, il is said, 10 pay a per cent.
dividend, and an increase from the pres
ent 2 per cent. TO 3 per cent. is con-
fidently expected.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
THE PRESIDENTS TOUR
Mr.. Roosevelt Little Disfigured as Re.
suit of PittsfieId Accident.
. BRIEF STOP IN WASHINGTON.
Personnel Of the Presidents Party Was the
Same. as That Of His New England Trip-No
Extended Stops Were Maize Other Than
Those Announced in Itinerary Wheeling
W. Va; Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tenn.

Washington, d. c. (SpeciaD .-Smil-
ingly bowing in acknowledgment OF the
enthusiastic and prolonged cheering OF
an assemblage that crowded the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad station here,
President Roosevelt began his Southern
tour.
The President was in the city hour
and 20 minutes after his arrival from
Oyster Bay. He came over the Penn
sylvana railroad at 6.I2 p. IN. on a spe-
eial train OF two cars, made up at Phila-
delphia during brief stop there. Sec
retary OF the Interior Hitchcock, Chief
Wilkic, OF the Secret Service, and a
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
Two Men Hold UD Train.

Nashville, Tenn (Special) - As
through passenger train No. 2, north
bound on the Louisville & Nashville
Road, due here at 7.2o p. m, was pull
ing out of Franklin, Tenn, eighteen
miles south of here, the express car
was boarded by two masked men. With
a revolver at his head, Messenger Battle
was forced to open the outside safe.
which the robbers rifed. Keeping the
messenger covered with their guns. the
men rode with him into the South Nash
vile yards here, where the train slowed
down and they disappeared
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
dored to Death By a Bull.

Harrisburg, Pa. (SpeciaD Samuel
Huff, aged 6s years. for many years pro-
thonotary OF York county. was gored to
death by vicious bull at his farm, near
New Cumberland. Mr.. Huff had gone
to field to drive the animal to another
pasture. The bull became stubborn, and
when Mr.. Huff used club the animal
showed fight, forcing the farmer to a
fence. A farm hand, noticing the battle
from another field, hastened to Mr..
Huff assistance. but he was dead before
the iarm hand could drive the animal
away. Mr.. Huff was horribly cut by the
bulls horns.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
Burial of Faithful Craig

Chicago Especially Funeral services
for William Craig. the Secret Service
man, who was killed while accompanying
President Roosevelt on his tour OF the
New England States, were held here
in the chapel of Royston Brothers un-
dertaking rooms, The services, which
were conducted by the Rev. William w.
Wilson, of ST. Marks Episcopal Church,
were simple. Mrs Craig was so over
come by grief that she was unable to
attend the funeral President Roosevelt
ordered a large floral design.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
InOeulstiOu for Typhoid.

London (By Cable). - Prof. E. A.
Wright's investigation Of typhoid inocu-
lation, covering FIVE years in South
Africa, India, Egypt and Great Britain,
has resulted in the publication Of volum-
inous statistics, which he says demon
strate both the preventative and curative
results OF inoculation. II has reduced
the mortality fourfold. Professor Wright
believes better results will be attained in
the near future, owing to his experience
in the Standardization OF vaccine,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
SUNK BY GERMAN WARSHIP
Haitian Revolutionary Gunboat crete.a'
Pierrot Riddled.
CREW WAS ALLOWED TO LEAVE HER.
When Admiral kiIick Is Ordered to Surreu'
der the Vessel the Crew Set Fire TO IT.
The German then Fires into the Vessel Until
hSinks- Retaliation for the Holding Up Of
German Steamer.

Cape Haitien (By Cable) The gun
boat Crete "a Pierrot, which was in the
service of the Firminist revolutionary
party has been sunk at the entrance OF
the harbor of Gonaives by the German
gunboat Panther. The crew OF the Crete
a-Pierrot left her before she went down
The Panther received instructions
from the German Government to capture
the Crete-a-Pierrot She left promptly
for Gonaives, the seat of the Firminist
Government. The Panther found the
Crete-a-Pierrot in the harbor OF Con-
aives.
The commander Of the German gun
boat informed Admiral Killick, on the
Crete Pierrot, that he must remove
his crew and surrender his vessel in FIVE
r'iIutes. Admiral Killick asked that
this time be extended to IS minutes
This request was granted on the condi-
lion that the arms and ammunition on
board the Crete-a- Pierrot should be
abandoned when her crew left her.
The crew OF the Crete-a- Pierrot left
that vessel amid great disorder. AT the
end Of the IS minutes the Panther sent
a small boat carrying an officer and %
sailors who went to take possession OF
the Firmnist vessel
When these men had arrived at about
so yards from the Crete-a-Pierrot flames
were seen to break out on board OF her.
She had been fired by her crew before it
left her. The Panther then fred on the
Crete-a-Pierrot until she sank. Thirty
shots in all were fired.
There is much feeling here against the
Firmnists and their cause is considered
to be a bad one. Sold ers are leaving
here to attack St. Marc. Port au
Prince is calm.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
SLAYS HIS AGED WIFE.
Rev. Maurice Wilson, Of Huntington, W. Va,
Commits an Awful Crime.

Huntington, w. Va. (Special) =
Without the shedding OF bood there
can be no remission OF sins" Thus
spoke Rev. Maurice Wilson, a Baptist
minister, whose head the SHOWS OF so
winters had whitened, as he drew a ra-
zor across the throat OF his aged wife
and she fell lifeless at his feet.
The tragedy is supposed to be the
outcome OF family differences or of re-
ligious fanaticism on the part OF the
aged man. For many weeks he has
been an intent student OF the sacri-
fcial law OF the Bible, and it is thought
by many that his mind was warped by
his close application and that the terri
Bile tragedy that has aroused Wayne
county from one end to the other is
the result OF this.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
PIXIES PEAK ENGINEER MISSING.
His Wife's Lonely Vigil in the Powsrhouse on
the Mountain

Colorado Springs, Col. (SpeciaD- -
Supposedly crazed by his isolation from
society, Charles Archer, an engineer
OF the cog road, in charge Of the Pixies
Peak powerhouse, at Half Way House.
disappeared Tuesday afternoon, and no
trace OF him can be found.
At night his wife took his place and
ran the powerhouse through the night
On Wednesday morning she made a
thorough search OF the territory be-
tween the Halfway House and Man
itou and discovered his initials, &C. A.. :"
carved on a tree, with an arrow point
ing up the mountain. Following the
direction indicated by the arrow she
found footprints which she believes
were made by her husband.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
Foreign.

The French government has stopped
payment OF the salaries OF IS priests in
Brittany who took part in the recent
school troubles
Prof. Simon Newcomb. OF the Johns
Hopkins University. received the doc
tors degree from Christiania Univer-
sity.
Serious anti-Servian riots which oc-
crrred at Brod, Slavonia, have been
suppressed by a battalion OF infantry.
Philip James Bailey. the author OF
"Festus,' died at Nottingham. Eng.
Many persons were injured in a tram
car accident in Glasgow.
The Trades Union Congress. in ses-
sion in London, refused to adopt a reso-
l.tion advocating female suffrage and
passed resolution denouncing the
South African war.
The recent misfortune OF the Czarina
has caused the dispersal OF members Of
the court and diplomatic society who
had assembled for the prospective
christening.
Lieutenant Colonel Saint Remy was
sentenced by court-martial in France
70 one days imprisonment for reius-
ing 10 obey an order TO close unauthor-
lied schools.
German diplomats regard the search
OF the German steamer Markomannia
by the revolutionary gunboa. Crete-a-
Pierrot as an act OF piracy
Prof. Rudolph Virchow, the great
German patholoRist sanitarian and re-
former, died at his home, in Berlin, at
the age OF 81.
The troops OF Gen Alexis Nord. the
Haytien war minister, were defeated
by the revolutionis;s near Linbe:i-
klimbe
The Pope has confirmed the appoint
ment OF Bishop Farley to be arch
bishop OF the Diocese OF New York.
The Emperor and Empress OF Ger
many left Posen on their return to
Potsdam.
The Soufriere volcano, on the Island
OF St. Vincent. is also active again.
The German steamer Castillia. Just ar
rived at Jamaica reports encountering
a fall OF volcanic dust 800 miles at sea.