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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-30
LATEST QUOTATIONS.

Flour-Spring clear, So 1Oa3. 80; bost
Patent, $3.50; choice Family, 1915.
Wheat--New York No. 9. 759lc;
Philadelphia No ?, 74]+a7516c; Baltimore
No 2, 72c.
Corn-New York No. 2, SOC; Phila-
delphia No. 2, 69u69S; Baltimore No. 2,
4SlIc.
Oats-New York No. 2. $3.50; Phila.
lelphia No. 2, sic; Baltimore No 9,
35c
Hay-No. timothy, s17.O0al75O;
No. timothy, $lG.50a1700; No. 3 tim.
othy SIS 00a16.00
Green Fruits and Vegetables-Apples
per bril- fancy 81 00S1 20; fair to good
per bril- 75cG$1 90; Beets, native, per
bunch 1c0116c; Cabbages, native, flat
dutch, per 100, 75c 0S1 %; Celery, per
1oz. 25c040c; Elephants, native, per
100, 81 O001 %; Grapes, Rappahannock,
per 10.ib basket, 12c014c, do, Western
Maryland, per 5-ib basket, 12cG lac;
Lettuce, native, per hu box, 25c035c.
Lima beans, native, per bu box, S00
90c; Onions, Maryland and Pennsylva-
MIA yellow, per bu, 70c0 75c; Pumpkins,
native, each 4c05c; Squash, Anne
Arundel, per basket, l0c015c; String
beans, native, per bu, green, 25c030c;
Tomatoes, Potomac, per peach basket,
2Oc932c. Rappahannock, Der bu box,
j0c055c;
Potatoes, White, per bu 45a53c; Mary
and and Pennsylvania, per bu 50a53c;
New York, per bu 50a53; sweets, per
brl 20a$l %.
Butter, Separator, 25a26c; Gathered
,ream, 22a23o; prints, Lib 25a26c; Rolls,
lib, 25a26; Dairy pts. Md, Pa, Va,
e3a24c.
Eggs, Fresh-laid eggs, per dozen,
22a23c
Cheese, Large, 60-lb, 12Hal2Hc; me-
iium, 36-lb, 12Sla129s; picnics, 23.lb
l3a13]4c.
Live Poultry, Hens, 1la11]6c; old
ROSTERS, each 25a30c; spring chickens,
llal2c, young stags, 1la11Hc. Ducks
ITALICS.
Hides, Heavy steers, association and
,alters, late kill, 60-lbs and up, close SO.
lection, 121Sa13}Gc; cows and light steers
9&a101Ec.
Provisions and Hog Products. s.--Bulk
clear rib sides, 12c; bulk shoulders,
l2s4c; bulk bellies, l3c; bulk ham butts,
l09ac; bacon clear rib sides, 13c; bacon
shoulders, 12c; sugar-cured breasts,
l5}gc; sugar-cured shoulders, 12c;
sugarcured California hams, 100;
hams canvased or uncanvased, 12 lbs.
and over, lac; refined lard tierces, brls
and50 10 cans, gross, 1l]Gc; refined lard,
secondhand tubs, 11}sc; refined lard,
half-barrels and new tubs, 111<o.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-30
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
General Trade Conditions.

R. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review
OF Trade" says:
Settlement OF the coal strike re-
moves the only serious handicap to in
dustrial progress. Five months OF re-
stricted fuel production had begun to
check the wheels at many manufacture
ing centers. while there was a percept-
ibe diminution in consumptive de-
mands as the purchasing power OF the
wage learners steadily decreased. Trans
portaton is now the worst feature, and
threatens to continue disturbing. That
the railways are well occupied is evil
denced by earnings for the first week
OF October, 3.5 per cent. larger than
last year, and 100 per cent above 1900.
Inadequate supplies OF fuel caused
further banking OF furnaces. but the
effect OF decreased output OF domestic
pig iron has been partially neMralized
by larger arrivals from abroad. Prac-
tically no price can be named for ims
mediate delivery OF home iron, and
there is no disposition to make conces-
;ions on distant contracts owirE to the
abnormal coke situation. Fortunately,
here has been little interruption at fur
nishing mills. and the output OF rails,
structural material and kindred lines is
well maintained. Orders come forward
freely for the heavier lines, numerous
contracts being offered for steel rails
Tor next years delivery, and the plans
ior buildings and bridges keep lot of
business in sight in beams, channels
md angles.
Footwear shops re actively engag-
ID. Prices are easily maintained
Leather is slightly weaker. Large inn
ports have weakened dry hides,
In cotton goods the feature was a
purchase OF about 100000 pieces OF
print cloths. While quotations were
not altered, the tone became decidedly
hrmer, In other divisions OF the mar
ket buyers are only interested in meet
ing current demands, future require
ments being held back by evidences OF
weakness in the raw material
Failures for the week numbered 2oo
IN the United States, against 200 last
year. and twenty-iour in Canada, COM
pared with thirty-one.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-30
New Money For Old.

There is an unprecedented demand
for new money. In reaching out for
the evidence of wealth aesthetic taste
is asserting itself in the choice of the
tokens OF prosperity. New, clean, crisp
notes are in demand, and persons do
not hesitate to ask for them. There is
strongly asserted objection to receiving
Old, dirty, crumpled paper money that
looks as though it might be vehicle
for all sorts Of disease germs.
This fact is in evidence at the win.
dow of every bank paying teller in the
land and at the cash counter Of every
store.
Please give me new money" and
"Will You give me cleaner bin In
place of this oneF are requests heard
thousands of times every day. These
requests are having their effect SO far
that there is a growing tendency to
pay out only the clean, unobjectlon-
able money. 1t is an illustration of the
Old truth that people get what they
want and insist on having.
Every bank will verify this fact OLD
and Objectionable bills go into them.
but they do not go out to their Gus.
toners. They go to the redemption
division of the National Treasury.
where they are exchanged for new
money and then destroyed That de.
partment reports an immense increase
in this branch of its business.-New
York Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-30
LIFE INSURANCE FRAUDS.
The Graveyard Plan Being Worked in New
Orleans.

New Orleans (SpeciaD Life insur-
ance frauds OF a sensational character
are said to have been discovered IN
the New Orleans district The officials
and detectives OF some OF the large
Eastern companies believe they have
clues to at least half dozen OF the
boldest graveyard schemes.
Attorney MacBride, general solicitor
Tor the American Adjustment Company
OF New York. reached this city, the ad-
vance guard OF a corps OF secret work
ers. So far six OF the graveyard cases
are said to have been unearthed.
Twenty-Five fraudulent policies have
been traced down The companies pay
ing the risks have lost between $4,000
and 100000. The full extent OF the
business is not yet known. The frauds
appear to have turned up in extensive
form. The officers on the trail do not
even conjecture to what extent it has
gone.
The scheme that has been worked
IN New Orleans and within radius OF
I5o miles OF this city in the adjoining
parishes is this: A man would apply
for the agency. OF life insurance COM
pany. He would produce recommenda-
lions OF an apparently satisfactory ma
1ure, and be appointed to do business
ior the company. At his suggestion
physician would be named as the ex-
aminer Tor the company, whose duty It
was to pass upon all applicants for pol
icies. The physician and the agent un-
derstood each other and the deal that
was TO be worked. A graveyard case
was run in. That was a policyholder
who would soon die.
The physician passed him and he
took out the policy As a matter oi
fact. the agent and the doctor paid the
premiums, and the principal was pay
able to them or TO some interested
friends In few months the policy
holder died, and the proper death GER
tihcate was sent to the company and
the policy paid.
A number OF detectives arrived from
New York and began an investigation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-30
Foreign.

There were lively discussions in the
British House OF Commons following
the refusal OF Mr. Baliour to grant a
day for debate on the Irish question
and the Speakers refusal 10 allow
President Roosevelt's letter to the
United Irish League Convention in
Boston TO be read.
Preparations are' being made in India
10 send a whole brigade OF troops to
Somaliland to fight the Mad Mullah
1t is proposed TO ask the Abyssinians to
hem in the Mad Mullah from the south
while the British attack him from the
north
The Landsthing rejected the second
reading of the bill providing for the
ratification OF the treaty between Den
mark and the United States in regard
to the cession OF the Danish West In
dies to the latter country
The German government was defeated
IN the Reichstag in test votes on the tariff
bill. The ministry will now either dis
solve the Reichstag, negotiate Tor a COM
promise or let the majority pass the bill
in any form it chooses and suppress it in
the Bundcsrath
The Morgan scheme OF transportation
in London received a hard blow when the
announcement was made that Speyer
Brothers, who are financing Charles T.
Ncrkes' plans, had bought control of Il
large company hitherto allied with the
former interests.
John Morley has presented the library
OF the late Lord Acton, which was given
him by Andrew Carnegie, to Cambridge
University
The murderer OF an English mission
ary was shot in front OF the mosque at
Tangier, Morocco, by order of the Sui
tan
The International tuberculosis Con
gress will meet in Berlin to-day, and Dr.
Kochs theories will be discussed.
The anniversary of the battle of Trafal-
gar was appropriately celebrated in Lon
don.
The British government has inform
cd Russia in connection with the lat
ter's proposal that direct relations be
established between Russia and Afghan
istan that it was impossible to consider
any change in the existing arrange
ments without more precise informa-
tion regarding the proposed relations.
Ernest Roche Nationalist, introduc-
ed a bill in the French Chamber OF
Deputies providing for the separation
OF church and state, the bill being
intended as a challenge to the govern
ment to carry out the Radical pro-
gram. The Chamber rejected an ur-
gency motion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-30
A Tranrressorn Hard yyov.

In 1894 fugitive from Vienna With
$250,000 in trust funds. In 1902
slowly perishing pauper on Blackwelrs
Island, New York-his wife dragged
with him down TO the public almshouse
in foreign land Such is the summing
up of eight years in the life of Adolpl
Bethlehem, alias Boedesch
Crime doesn't pay. Or when it does
1t is in an exceptional case that proves
the rule. In Brooklyn borough this
very year there was the case of man
who had been thief all his life. He
had stolen $1790 and served eighteen
years In prison. Results of his efforts,
State board and $99.44 per year aver.
age plunder.
In Bettelheim's case fright and con.
science opened path to blackmail
His dollars went chiefly to buy the ST.
lence of one who knew where they
came from. Sin worked a third degree
of its own, and has eclipsed the punish
ment possible under the law. If men
would learn some things as easily az
they do others very few such exam.
pies as the Bethlehem incident affords
would keep many from roguery.-New
York World.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-30
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

Alter hovering between lie and death
since last December Mrs. Ada G. Den
mis-. the victim OF one oi the most mys-
terious assaults in the history OF the
District OF Columbia, died from the
effects of her injuries.
In an address before the American
Missionary Association Rev Dwight
NJ. Pratt said the Indian can never be
fitted Tor the responsibilities OF citi-
zenship by the government
The w. C. T. |. at their convention
in Portland. Me. discussed the question
OF the teaching OF the effect of alcohol
in the schools and the progress OF the
antinarcotic movement
he greatest gas well ever struck in
Armstrong county II not in Pennsyl-
vana, is sending forth millions of cubic
feet of gas every "a hours.
Gen. Thomas J. Stewart commander
in-chief of the Grand Army of the Re
public, has made number of appoint
ments to his staff.
The United States Philippine Commits
sion decided to enact a land registry bill
drafted by Commissioner Ide.
The first session OF the convention OF
the American Missionary Association be-
gan at New London, Ct.
The first general missionary conven-
ticn OF the Methodist Episcopal Church
lcgan at Cleveland, o.
The missionary council of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church began in Philadel-
CHA
The jury in Pittsburg brought in a
verdict OF involuntary manslaughter in
the case OF Mrs Ida Wilkins who shot
her husband while trying to commit
suicide
The jury for the trial OF Roland Mol
ineux Tor the murder OF Mrs. Adams
in New York was completed and the
taking OF evidence was begun.
President !. J. Hill, OF the Northern
Securities Company, testified in ST.
Paul in the big merger case before
Special Examiner f. G. Ingersoll.
Col Edward Butler St Louis poll
tician and millionaire. was indicted for.
being implicated in the municipal brib
cry scandal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-30
The Cause of Beriberi.

1t has long been known that unhy.
gienic conditions favor the occurrence
OF the disease known as beriberi, 50
prevalent in the Philippines and in
other countries of the East. 1t is gen.
orally believed that its direct cause
is to be found In defective food. Major
Rost, of the British Imperial Medical
Service, claims to have discovered a
bacillus in fermented rice and rice.
liquor which he concludes is the
specific cause of the disease. 1t pro.
duces In fowls many of the symptoms
resembling those Of beriberi in man.
Moreover, fowls feeding upon ferment.
ed rice develop similar symptoms. lie
ascribes the disease. then, to the use
Of fermenting rice and especially the
rice-liquor, to the use of which bever-
age the coolies are especially addicted.
Children never and women rarely.
drink rice-liquor, and hence the infre.
aueDcy OF the disease in such subjects.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-30
A MILLIONAIRE INDICTED.
Colonel Butler Implicated in the St. Louis
Bribery Scandal

St. Louis. Mo. (SpeciaD The Oc-
tober grand jury returned an indict-
ment charging Col. Edward Butler a
prominent local politician and million
aire, with bribery in connection with
the city lighting deal, in which $47, 500
is said to have been disbursed among
members OF the House OF Delegates
combine.
Buffers arrest was ordered immedi-
ately, When the last grand jury adj
journed its report contained the state
ment that Edward Butler was the man
who paid the $A7,soo to 10 members OF
the House of Delepates to secure the
passage OF the City Lighting Bill. The
money was said to have been distributed
at the house OF julius Lehman, each
member of the combine receiving s., 500
Delegate Charles F. Kelly a fugitive
from justice, is charged in an inC.ctment
with being the distributor.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-30
JApANEsE SYMBOLISM.
Elaborate system which Conveys Special
Meanings.

The Anglo-Saxon. in his self-assur-
ance, thinks that his pictorial symbol
ism, which he has borrowed chiefly
from the Greek and Hebrew. is the
only one contained in decorative art.
| The anchor as representing hope, the
wings for aspiration. the crown for
| power, the sceptre for authority, the
scroll or open volume for wisdom are
| the main features in his little system.
He seldom realizes that the japanese
have developed symbolism into sys.
TEN so extensive as TO make that of
his own ar1-world clumsy and ridcu-
| lous In comparison. To the brown
men of Dai Nippon, Western symbol
ism is puerile and ridiculous. Theirs
represents the united labor of the poet.
painter. sculptor and embroiderer. A
thousand objects. all attractive and n
majority beautiful per Sc, represent
spiritual counteTparts. The system is
applied to kakamonas or wall banners.
fans, garments and screens. II you
wish TO convey TO a friend the senti.
ment of good luck, you send him q
screen on which are painted or en-.
broidered storks flying toward the sun.
If the friend be aged the storks should
be flying toward the nest and IL very
aged, the storks should be alighting.
Where, on the other hand. death has
occurred in some family to which you
are attached, the symbol which ex-
presses the fact is the cobweb with OF
without the spider. Here the japan.
ese artists are divided. The realistic
school introduces the spider to suggest
the voracity and destructiveness of Az
rael; the idealistic school omits the
spider. and uses the web to express the
thought that where the web is there is
no longer any human activity, and that
even the spider which made the web
has shared a similar fate. Where, for
example, a house is in mourning, the
inmates should be sheltered with
screens on which appear the graceful
but sombre lines of the cobweb. At
least twenty birds are used to repre-.
sent the different emotions. and three
score of leaves, flowers and trees have
these secondary meanings.
Not alone does each leaf have
meaning per Sc, but this is varied again
by juXtaposition with one or two other
leaves. The combining or grouping is
positive science in itself Most prom.
inent of all the symbols is the sacred
mountain Fujiyama. Doubtless the ma.
jestic beauty and extraordinary isola.
tion of that world-famous peak i'm.
pressed the people of the islands from
the very first. BY degrees it became a
symbol of their own country to which
all souls yearn. 1t was a mountain
and also a door into heaven. As a
symbol it expresses patriotism, the
hearth spiritual, and aspiration. When,
therefore, you desire to present
screen to friend let it contain storks,
swallows and sparrows. bamboos. oak
leaves, fishes, the Temple of Nikko and
Fujiyama, but do not send one with a
cobweb unless there be death in the
family, or one with the dragon of ra-
pacity unless you desire to insult him.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-30
An End to Footblndlnc in China.

Soon after Chinese girl is born her
feet are tightly bound up in order to
prevent them from growing. The re.
suit is that when she becomes won.
an, indeed long before this period Is
reached, she cannot walk, but only
waddles awkwardly. At last, however,
good time seems to be coming for
these babies. During the Boxer dis.
turbances it was found that escape
from the rebels was impossible for
most of the women, for the simple rea
son that they were unable to run. II
Is believed that hundreds of the poor
creatures who would otherwise have
been alive at the present moment were
Killed by those rufiians land afterward
by many European soldiers, tool. The
Cinnamon are said 10 have been SO
shocked that they intend to put a stop
to the cruel and absurd practice of
footbinding. SO this is one benefit that
VIII come to the Chinese babies out of
warfare. Sometimes it does look as if
good could come out Of evil.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-30

However loving and trusting two
young hearts may be, says the Phila.
delphia Saturday Evening Post it is
foregone conclusion that they can in
no way affect the price of coal this
winter, and It is brave young man
who would take his fair young bride
by dhe hand and face the whole world
with coal at $50 ton. Therefore the
weddings are being postponed by hun
dreds of thousands until more auspi-
cious times, and everybody knows
what that means. That there is many
slip is nowhere more truly spoken
than in reference to engaged couples.
and a wedding postponed has but one
chance In five of ever coming off.
Worse than that, the coal strike and
the consequent boosting of prices are
going to have similar blighting effect
upon next springs crop of engage
ments and weddings, 'since only the
fabulously wealthy can afford this
winter to allow Cholly and Araminta
TO hold down the sofa in the warm and
cosy parlor until all hours of the night.
Stern papas will enforce the early clos.
ing rules with unheard of rigidity when
$50 coal is being consumed in the fur.
mace. Parlor duets will become an un-
known quantity, impecunious young
men will have to go to bed immediate
ly after dinner in order to keep warm,
and there will be no engagements fol.
lowing the winter season of tete a
tetes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-30
LIVES ARE LOST IN A FIRE
Big Sugar Refinery Destroyed in Hall An
Hour in Chicago.
A WILD LEAP TO THE STREET.
Employees In the Building We're Caught. Almost
Without Warning, by the Rapid Sweep Of
the Flame s-Two Men Leap from the
Seventh Floor and Fall Into Mass oi
Seething Flames.

Chicago (SpeciaD BY FIRE when
broke out shortly before midnight IN
the plant OF the Glucose Sugar kehn-
ery. situated at Taylor street and the
Chicago river, that factory was almost
DESTROYED. and it is said that IS men
lost their lives 49,.
The number OF dead has not been
.stabi;shed as vet. but it is known that
Al least X we're working on the seVenih
foor The flames spread so rapidly
ana, man who was working on the
third floor had barely time to escape
With his life. 1t is not thought by the
EMPLOYEES of the concern or by the hre-
men that the men in the upper story
could have avoided death
The plant OF the refining company
consisted OF three buildings-a drying
house. seven stories in height the main
refinery. Ia stories high, and another
structure OF four stories. The hre
started in the drying house, being
caused BY an explosion. 1t sprcau
with almost incredible rapidity, and Dy
the time the first OF the Fire Depart
ment had arrived the building was
ablaze from foundation TO root.
II was impossible for the hremen 20
make any effective fight against the
flames, and in short time all the walls
were down. The building within a han
hour from the time OF the explosion
was a mass OF debris.
The fremen bent every effort toward
saving the History building OF the re-
fnery. but so intense were the flames
that il caught fire in several places, ana
al 1880 a. m. it was evident that, even
II it could be saved at all, 1t would be
badly damaged.
The men employed in the three lower
floors of the drying house ran Tor thg
doors and windows as soon as they hau
knowledge OF the fire, and all OF them
succeeded in reaching the open air
On the third floor one man was al
work. He was cut of by the dense cloudis
Of smoke that poured through the build
ng and was compelled to make run Tor
his life down stairs. The man burst
through mass of flames when he reach
ed the lower doorway and was badly
burned. Two minutes later would nave
made it impossible for him 10 escape.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-30

"Are the stars visible to ordinary
sight in the daytime?" asks E. Walter
Maunder in knowledge. There is a
widespread tradition that they are;
that if an observer places himself at
the bottom of any deep shaft-as of o
mine, a well or factory chimney
which may shut off scattered light and
reduce the area Of sky illumination act.
Ing on the retina he will be able to dis.
Germ the brighter stars without difficult
ty. or course, every one knows that
Venus from time to time may be seen
even at high noon, but then Venus at
her brightest is many times over
brighter than Sirius. Then, again, the
assistance of a telescope enables the
brighter stars to be discened at mid.
day, but the telescope not only directs
the eye and greatly limits the area
from which the sky light reaches the
observer, but II enormously increases
the brightness of the star relative to
that sky illumination. The naked eve
observation of true stars in full sun
light stands in quite a different cate.
CORY. Humboldt, who was much inter.
ested in the question, repeatedly tried
the experiment in mines, both in Sibe.
ria and in America, and not only
iailed himself ever to detect star, but
never came across any one who had
succeeded. Much more recently an
American astronomer set up tube for
the express purpose of seeing the
Pleiades by daylight, also with 10 eff
feet"