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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Gsueral Estrada Killed 10 Battle.

San Francisco, Gala. (SpeciaD D.-Eu-
gene ]. Gruettner, an American oi Salt
Lake City, who arrived from Corinto
on the steamer Newport, says that Gen
eral Estrada, the leader OF the forces
OF President Zelaya in Nicaragua, was
killed in battle with the insurgents near
Rives on April II. His troops were
routed with great loss and the revolu-
tionists succeeded in capturing a large
quantity OF arms and ammunition. The
insurgents now have possession OF the
port OF San Carlos and have complete
control ~ Lake Nicaragua.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Shot 10 Death by Mob.

Madison. Fla. (SpeciaD "A mob CT
tered the jail here, having secured the
keys from the night watchman, took
out Washington Jarvis, a white man,
and lynched him. Jarvis was taken
some distance from the town, tied to
tree, and shot to death. He was ac-
cuscd OF numbering his cousin. John
Waldrop, the night watchman, was
blindiolded and held captive until the
mob finished its work. The. tree
where Jarvis was killed is the same to
which two negroes were tied and burn
ed some time ago.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Nine Injured In Wreck.

Raleigh. N. c. (SpcciaD.-Ninc pco.
pie were injured in wreck on the
Southern Railway a mile and hall
southeast OF this city at S o'clock p. m
The train, No 1856. left over half all
hour late. The wreck occurred at a
curve. and is thought to have been
caused by the spreading OF the rails.
Every car was ditched, turning COM
pletely over. The coupling broke. and
the engine remained upon the ties.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Financial.

Hartman and his party are buying
Union Pacific.
Rockefeller interest bought 10000
shares Of St. Paul ior Is3 at private
sale
Europe has bought more than SI8,-
100000 worth OF American stocks in
the past two weeks.
The National Lead Company has de-
clared the usual quarterly dividend OF
/ "a PER cent. on the preferred stock
The four largest stock markets on
this Continent a-e in New York, Bos-
ton, Montreal and Philadelphia.
The United Lead Company has filed
papers at Trenton to increase It's capi-
tai stock from Si5,ooo,ooo to $4,000
600.
President Ross. OF the Dominion
Steel Company, says the unfayorable
reports concerning that corporations
business are absolutely untrue and that
they were issued for malicious pur-
pose.
The Bank fEnglsnd has at last re-
duced its discount rate from 4 to 3 Ia
per cent. II was advanced from 3 to 4
per cent. on October ?. 1909, and re-
msincd unchanged until May ~. This
was an unusually long period OF the
higb rate
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Blinds Lover With Acid.

New York (SpeciaD.-James Mul.
vaney. young stock clerk, was blind.
ed his face Scared for life by ccrbolic
acid thrown at him by his dis
carded fancee, Amelia Cooper. who
is IS years old and lives at 1855 Third
avenue, the scene OF her desperate act
Mulvaney is in a serious condition
Miss Cooper's mother was present a,
a stormy scene. The mother left the
rsom and Mulvaney asserts his fancee
requesting a parting kiss, hurled al his
face a glass filled with acid.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Passenger Train Wrecked.

Columbus, o. (SpeciaD,-A Norfolk
and Western passenger train ran into
an open switch at Valley Crossing
Engineer Mcclure and Fireman Chas.
Flagler, Baggsgemaster Steve Shots
and Mail Clerk c. IL. Hughes were in
jured. Flagler being the most seri-
ously hurt. The injured men we're
brought back to this city. while new
train was made up at the scene OF the
wreck and the passengers carried on
TO their destination.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Paeiiieatlon Work 10 Philippines

Manila (SpeciaD.-Seventy insur-
gents have appeared In the Bataan dis
trict. A company OF scouts has been
ordered to cooperate with the local
constabulary in suppressing them. The
governor OF the province OF Misamis,
Island OF Mindanao, has sent in a
requisition for a hunderd additional
troops. He says he believes the moral
effect OF their presence will end the
partially collapsed uprising in Misamis.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Confederate kcnnlou.

New Orleans, (SpeciaD The thir.
teenth annual reunion OF the United
Confederate Veterans was opened III
the great auditorium on the iar
grounds here. The weather was per.
feet and the arrangements by the local
entertainment committee were highly
successful. Thousands OF veteran sol
diers, hundreds OF beautiful women and
on every hand profusion OF flags
and streamers we're in evidence. There
was martial music without limit and
enthusiasm unbounded.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Europe Aided Our Trusts.

Berlin (By Cable) Prof. Ernst Won
Halle, of the Berlin University, lee
turing on trusts before the American
Chamber OF Commerce here, said:
One OF the most interesting things
about the building tip of American
trusts. especially in their invasion OF
England, was that it was done largely
with foreign money. The United
States was beginning to govern the
world industrially by supplying the in
telligence and organizing capacity while
the world supplied the capital"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Aresen,l Btexa ua: Ed,s KILLED.

Santo Domingo (SpeciaD.-The ar
senai at Santiago was blown up by enc
mics OF the present government and
General Frias was killed and Fl per-
sons mortally wounded. The troops
are pursuing Gen. Jose Alvarez, who
Is said to be the author OF tho explo-
sion The gunboat Colon, which was
conveying General Deschamps to San
chez. has been lost off Cape Espada.
Deschamps and four others saved
themselves in boat, bat the remainder
-of the crew was lost.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Harness Trust Now.

Trenton, N. J. (SpeciaD.-Thc Amer
lean Saddlery and Harness Company.
capital $4,000, to manufacture and deal
in saddlery and harness OF all kinds.
was incorporated here, The incorpor-
ators are Eliot Norton. Louis b. Bailey
and Kenneth X. McLarcn, of Jersey
City. The incorporation OF the Amer
lean Saddlery and Harness Company
is the first step toward combination
OF the principal concerns in the United
States making saddlery and harness. A
meeting OF the board Of directors Of
the company will be held in Chicago
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
A Collision 10 Chicago.

Chicago (SpeciaD.-Twelve persons
were severely injured. five OF them dan.
gerously, and score OF other passen-
gers thrown into a panic by a collision
between electric cars at Thirty-ffth
and Halstead streets One car was
thrown upon the sidewalk by the force
OF the impact. Failure OF the brakes
on one OF the cars is said to have
caused the accident.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
EIGHTEEN PERSONS POISONED.
Eleven Doctors Save Lives at a Boarding
House 10 San Juan.

San Juan (Specia) a).-Eighteen per-
sons living at boarding house here
were poisoned by milk containing pto-
maines. Eleven doctors responded to
the alarm and the use OF stomach
pumps saved the lives OF all the suf-
ferers.
The Americans affected were Messrs
Kellogg, Sisson, Gordon, Schultz and
Hallen and Ar. and Mrs. Chadwick
They are all out OF danger.
At the Maternity Hospital the nurses,
helpers and some OF the patients were
similarly poisoned, but were relieved by
caused alarm throughout San Juan.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Would Be "All President"

Tacoma, Wash. (Special At a pri-
vate dinner to President Roosevelt
given here by Senator Foster the Pres
ident is reported to have said: Il
would like to be President OF the
United States for another term. but
this | will say: ] propose to be Pres
ident this term. | would rather be all
President for three and hall years
than half President for seven and a
half wears"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Accused OF UIorieide.

Des Moines, la. (SpeciaD Mfrs.
Sophia Kruger has been held to await
the action OF the grand jury at Cresco,
after preliminary trial for the muir
der OF her husband, whose body was
found in the river April 10, with a
stone around its neck, The s.atc
charges her with having Drained him
with a pick as he lay asleep, and hav-
ing hauled the body to the river.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Mrs Hadky's Home Robbed.

indianapolis, Ind .(SpeciaD.-Mrs.
Louise Hadley, the hotel chambermaid
said to have been discharged because
She refused to make up the bed OF
Booker Washington, was robbed OF
SIS. The gold watch presented to her
by Indianapolis people was smashed by
burglars, who entered the Smith home,
where Mrs Hadly lives, and chloro-
formed everyone in the house, includ-
ing her
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Two Girls Killed BY Tornado.

Clay Center. Kan. Especially A Sc
we're tornado passed over Clay and Riley
counties. AT Bala, two little girls named
Daub were killed and several persons
injured. Five houses were blown away
at Bala and many cattle killed. A Union
Pacific train narrowly missed the storm,
waiting at Wakefield until it had pass
ed. The track was then blocked with
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

Henry G. Spinks filed suit in
Trenton. N. j., to have $780, 900 worth
OF collateral gold certificates OF the
Asphalt Company Of America can
celed.
The story comes from Guthrie, Ok,
OF a mysterious stranger digging up a
box containing 100000 on a farm
bordering on the Salt Fork river.
-Four men were seriously burned by
the explosion OF pulverized coal at
Martins Creek Cement Mill, on the
Delaware river, near Easton, Pa.
Emil Hartman. former member OF
the House OF Delegates, was sentenced
in St. Louis to the penitentary for six
years for booding.
Capt. Carl Z. Hartman, who was
tried by courtmartal in the Phil
ippines on the charge of embeazle-
ment, was honorably acquitted.
There was a sharp break in United
States Steel due to rumors that the
its plants.
Miss Rosa Kaiser, Of Manchester,
Ind, was brutally assaulted and killed
by some brute and her father seriously
injured.
Joiners in Philadelphia became affili-
ated with the Council OF Allied Build
ing Trades.
Albert F. Franklin, OF Goodwater,
Ala, was arrested in Alabama on the
charge of keeping negroes in scrvitude
Mrs. Sophia Kruger was arrested in
Des Moines Ia, on the charge OF muir
derng her husband.
Edward H. Lucas, a burglar, was
captured in Chaicgo after a terrific
fight with officers.
Mrs. Effie L. Carson, charged with
the murder OF Robert l.. Rigsby, a STU
dent at business college in Macon,
Ga. was arraigned for trial and plead
ed not guilty.
The bulk OF the estate OF the late
Capt. w. +. Norton, an eccentric capi-
talist, OF Louisville. is bequeathed to
the Baptist Orphans home OF that city,
Lawyer Robert A. Ammon was re-
arrested in New York on the charge Of
being involved in the Franklin syndi
cate get-rich-quick scheme.
The Junior Order OF Mechanics, in
convention in San Francisco, elected
officers and decided to hold the next
convention in St. Louis.
The plate-glass manufacturers and
jobbers, in conference al Cleveland
discussed a proposition to eliminate
the commission men.
A syndicate has been formed TO take
at $50 all the new Pennsylvania Rail-
road stock not taken by the sharehold-
ers.
Three members OF the commission
ers OF Arapahoe county, Col, we're con-
victed OF malieasance in Office.
Gen. w. Z. Donaldson, OF Jasper,
Tenn, shot and killed Thomas Choatte,
all intoxicated farmer.
Judge Meyer Sulzberger, OF Philadel-
phia, has made a sharp reply to the
statement OF Count Cassini, the Rus
sian ambassador, that the troubles in
kishenef are due to an uprising OF
peasants against moneylenders.
A final order was made by Federal
Judge Burlington in Pittsburg author
izing the Pennsylvania Railroad to re-
move Western Union poles from the
railroad company's right OF way.
The Elks' National Home, at Bed
ford City, Va, was dedicated in the
presence OF 5000 people. Meade d.
Detweiler, OF Harrisburg, Pa, delivered
the oration.
The jury awarded Charles Broadway
Rosseau, who sued the Charles Broad
way Rouss estate for 100000, verdict
for the full amount, with $500 interest.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
ereign.

The American consul at Hankow,
China, telegraphed on May 4 for a
gunboat as a result OF the report that
American engineers had been attacked
by Chinese.
Count Sizzonaris, all Austrian; has
challenged Prince Radziwill to a duel
as the outcome OF a quarrel over a
game OF cards in London.
By an explosion on the steamship
Coban off the Canadian coast one
man was killed and two others prob
ably blown overheard.
Paderewski is suffering from acute
nephritis at his home, in Switzerland.
He has Cancelled his engagements.
The decision OF the government OF
the Netherlands TO station warships
permanently in the Dutch West Indies
is regarded at The Hague as disposing
OF the recurring rumors OF the intended
sale OF the Island OF Curacao to the
United States.
The Dalmatians have petitioned En-
peror Francis Joseph to intervene and
prevent further bloOdshed in Croatia.
About $50 peasants, mostly women,
we're arrested during the riots in the
district OF Kreutz.
Maxim Cork, the Russian novelist.
declares that men OF the cultivated
classes led the mob in Kisheneff, and
that the recent massacre was the most
dsgraceful OF all Russia's dark deeds.
Warlike sentiment against Bulgaria
is increasing in Turkish military cir
cles. The Albanians planned to at
tack the Servian monastery ut Dechain
containing Russian monks.
United States Ambassador McCor-
mick, interviewed in London. said he
felt convinced that Russia meant &c
preserve the open-door policy in Man
churia.
The sister OF DR.. Karl Nobiling, The
German professor who attempted &C
assassinate Emperor William |. il
1873, has comrlitted suicide by poison
ing,
The murderers OF Governor Bag
danovitch. OF Uia, Russia, who wa
shot and killed, have not yet been ar
| rested.
The government OF the Netherland'
announces that, III consequence OF thu
political situation in Venezuela and tho
interests OF the Dutch colony at Cura
Goa, il is considered absolutely neces
| sary to station permanently a large
warship in West Indian waters.
Theodore Reichmann. a famous sin
ger, died OF apopleXy in Vienna.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
Mrs. Burdick Named.

Buffalo, N. Y. (SpeciaD.-Surroga:c
Marcus handed down his decision or
the application OF Mrs. Alice Hull Bur.
dick for the guardianship OF her chill
dren, naming Mrs. Burdick as such
Guardian
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27
A Historical SIeht Marked.

Worcester, Mass. (SpecialD The un-
yelling of the tablet by the Col. Timothy
Bigelow Chapter, d. A. r., marking the
site of the first schoolhouse in Worces-
ter, where President John Adams taught,
took place in this city. The speakers OF
the day were DIR. 6. T. Stanley Hall,
president Of Clark University; Senator
Poar and Charles Francis Adams, great
grandson OF President John Adams.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-27

The expedition equipped by Miss
Helen Gould to study economic cond-
tons abroad sailed from New York on
the Pntsdam.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1903-12-19
NELSON BOYS MUST HANG.
Minnesota Supreme Court Denies Ap-
peal for New Trial.

St Paul. Dec 19.-The supreme
court has denied the appeal for a new
trial OF Charles and Henry Nelson, un-
der sentence of death for the murder
of Henry krler, a saloonkeeper OF
Owatonna. The Nelson boys, both OF
whom arc under twenty years of age
killed Kricr as he was going home
from his saloon Henry Sutton. who
assisted them, turned states evidence
and escaped with a life sentence.
The decision Of the court is some
what sensational. The opinion is
written by Justice Brown. Justice
Lewis dissents
Justice Brown says that criminal
eases are too often appealed and that
the alleged rights of accused individ-
uals are magnifed and technicalities
brought in when there is no question
as ic the guilt. Where there is no
question as TO the guilt minor CON
siferations in the cases should be set
;lsi9e
Otherwise. Justice Brown says, the
aw comes into disrepute. public dis
content is created and the spirit OF
anarchy and lynching is fostered.
The lower court is affirmed in thu
verGict OF murder In the first degree
! and the sentence Of hanging.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1903-12-19
MAKES A SUCCESSFUL TRIP.
Trial of Flying Machine Invented by
Ohio Men,

Norfolk. Va. Dec ia successful
trial of a flying machine was made
near Kttyhawk. -. c., by Wilbur and
Orville Wright of Dayton, o. The ma
chine flew for three miles in the face
of wind blowing at the registered
velocity of twenty-one miles an hour
and then gracefully descended to
earth at the spot selected by the man
In the navigator's car as suitable
landing place. The machine has no
balloon attachment, but gets its force
from propellers worked by small
engine.
Preparatory to its flight the ma
chine was placed upon platform near
Kittyhawk This platform was built
on a high sand hill and when all was
in readiness the fastening to the ma
chine was released and it started
down an incline. The navigator. Will
bur Wright. then started a small gaso-
line engine. which worked the pro-
pellers When the end oWthe incline
was reached the machine gradually
arose until it attained an altitude Of
sixty feet In the face of the strong
wind blowing it maintained an even
speed of eight miles an hour.
The idea of the box kite has been
adhered TO in the basic formation of
the flying machine.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1903-12-19
HOPE FOR OTHER AID IN WAR
Colombians Rely on the Aid of the Latin
Republics In a War with the United
States.

is taking longer than was at first ex-
pe,ted. 1t was asserted during the
day that ii was not at all certain when
the note would be ready for transmits
sion to .he state department. Indeed
General Reyes is not in any haste to
send il .Cr this may be taken by the
Colombians as the termination of their
envoy's mission here and the country
might seize on the opportunity to
make war, a contingency which Gen
eral Reyes has thus far used his ut
most endcavor to prevent. II is stated
that although General Reyes has en-
plcyed an American lawyer to assist
him in the preparation of the paper
the real arguments advanced in it and
the reasoning will be largely that of
the Colombian minister himself
The legation officials are not in
clined to pass upon the right of the
Atlanta to make a reconnoitre on Co.
lombian territory, but it is evident
that in their opinion such action was
not strictly in accordance with the
best international etiquette Whether
the incident will be cited in General
Reyes note as another alleged in
fringement by the United States on
Colombian rights has not yet been
decided
Bismarck daily tribune., 1903-12-19

would defeat the operation of the
written lease in part
A parol agreement for the leas
Inc Of real estate for a longer period
than one ytar does not become an eX
acpted contract and therefore valid,
whom no possession /, taken under
sucb agreement and the rental for one
year is assumed TO be paid by endor-
ing the amount of the annual rent up
no past due note.
Dae browning, the cSner of the
lend leasel II 10 TIE defetdant I !
one year from April, 1899 for two
hundred dollars as rent with the privi-
leoe of extending the lease fo~ another
vaar if Browning was in possession OF
the land Defendant did not express
lv avail himself of the privilege of ex
tension for another year ur Ter the
lease In October. 1899. the defend
~. and Pr, wning made in oral and
NOW lease OF the land. Possession
was not given defendant under the
oral lease. An endorsement OF one
hundred sixty dollars was made by
defendant on Browning's note for the
possession for 1900. The oral lease
Bismarck daily tribune., 1903-12-19
LIVERY STABLES TIED UP.
Sixteen Hundred Drivers on Strike at
CHICAGO.

Chicago Dec. 19-Sixteen hundred
livery drivers, backed by every team
stess' unicp in Chicago, struck during
the day Nearly 400 livery stables
are completely tied up. The decision
to strike was reached after four weeks
OF negotiations for better wages and
working conditions The men have
been receiving Sl2 week of seven
days The demand is for ar increase
of 81 a week More than a dozen
meetings were held between commit
tees representing the livery owners
ard the Drivers union. but the en-
ployers refused TO make any conces-
sions. claiming that business did not
warrant The paying of higher wages
in view Of the nroads made by auto
mobiles.
Drivers OF hearseS went out with the
carriage drivers and as result fu-
neral professions will be curtailed dur
ing the strike Neither the Teamsters'
union nor the I.iverymen's association
apparently made any exception in the
strike order 10 facilitate burial ar
rangements. although instructions
We're given to pickets not to interfere
with the movement OF undertaking
wagons. which will be used in lieu OF
hearSeS.
The first trouble occurred when an
attempt was made to conduct flu
neral at West Eighteenth and Airport
streets An undertaken secured enough
conveyances to take the body and
mourners to the church. but while the
services were in progress pickets com
pelled the drivers OF the hearse and
carriages to desert under threats Of
violence,
Rehind the livery drivers in their
strike is the entire organization OF
teamsters. 5000 strong. Only zoe
cabs and carriages used by
licensed cabmen, who are pledged not
to handle any Of the funeral business
for liverymen-we operated during
the dav The cabmen belong to a
branch of the Teamsters' union. sep
arate from the livery employees.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1903-12-19

was to continue until Brownings note
of three hundred forty dollars and in
terest was fully paid-more than two
years. In January, 1900 Browning
assigned the written lease of April,
1899, to plaintiff and, by writing,
gave il the right of possession.
Plaintiff notified defendant of its right
to the possession of the land. Defend
ant answered that his lease was still
in force and refused possession. and
cropped the land for 1900 Held, that
plaintiff was entitled to the rent as
spe Gifted in the written lease.
4. Under such facts, the plaintiff
had the right to treat the defendant
as a trespasser, or as tenant, and
having treated him as a tenant, could
recover the rent specified in the writ.
ten lease.
Appeal from judgment Of the dis
trict court Of Cass county, Hon
Charles A. Pollock, Judge.
S. G. More and r. NJ Pollock, foI
appellant.
Newman, Spalding & Stambaugh
for respondent
Affirmed opinion by Morgan. ].