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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
Ills Report Leaks Out.

The premature publication in San
Antonio paper OF the annual report OF
Brig. Gen. Frederick D. Grant. COM
manding the Military Department OF
Texas, has been called to the attention
OF the officials OF the War Department
and General Grant has been requested
to explain whether or not he gave the
document to the press, contrary to
orders.
Annual reports made by command
ing generals OF the several military de-
partments are made direct to the Sec
retary OF War and are not supposed
to be given out for publication until
so ordered by him. Often these re-
ports contain information or recon-
mcndations OF somewhat confidential
nature, and often some OF the recon-
mcndations contained in them are used
by the Lieutenant General OF the Army
in his annual report to the Secretary OF
War. Strict orders were issued by the
War Department about a year ago
that no officer OF the army should make
public his annual report. 1t is beiev-
ed at the department that General
Grants report was given out through
Misunderstanding which will be sat
isfactorily explained.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
LANGLEY TO THE PRESS
Will Tell All About His Flying Machine
When il Flies.
ONLY IN AN EXPERIMENTAL STAGE.
Practice Of Scientific Men Not TO Make PUB
lie Results OF Work Until certain-Expsri.
ments Have for Their Object the Develop.
ment Of Machine for War Purposes-Pub.
lie Misapprehensions.

Washington, D. c. (SpeciaD Pro
fessor Langley, secretary OF the Smith
sonian Institution, whose experiments
down the Potomac river with the aero
drome, or flying machine devised by
him, have attracted wide public inter-
est, in order to correct certain public
misapprehensions, issued the following
statement:
Smithsonian Institution, Aug 10.
ITO the Press
The present experiments being
made in mechanical fight have been
carried on partly with funds provided
by the board of ordnance and ior,ifca-
tions and partly from private sources
and from a special endowment OF the
Smithsonian Institution. The expert
ments are carried on with the approval
OF the board OF regents OF the Smith
sonian Institution.
The public's interest in them may
lead to an unfounded expectation as to
their immediate results, without an eX-
planation which is here briefly given.
These trials, with some already con-
Quoted with steam driven flying ma
chimes, are believed to be the first in
the history OF invention where bodies
far heavier than the air itself have been
sustained in the air for more than a
few seconds by purely mechanical
means. In my previous trials success
has only been reached after initial fail
ures, which alone have taught the way
TO IL. and | know no reason Why pros
pective trials should be an exception.
1T is possible, rather than probable.
that il may be otherise now, but. judg-
ing them from the light of past expert
encc. it is to be regretted that the en-
forced publicity which has been given
TO these initial experiments, which are
essentially experiments and nothing else,
may lead TO quite unfounded expecta-
tions.
1T is the practice of all scientific men,
indeed of all prudent men, not to make
public the results of their work till
these are certain. This consideration.
and not any desire to withhold from the
public matters in which the public is in
terested, has dictated the policy thus far
pursued here.
The fullest publicity consistent with
the national interest (since these recent
experiments have for their object the de-
velopment OF machine for war pur-
poses) will be given to this work when
It reaches stage which warrants pub
lication"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
POSSE IN PURSUIT OF MURDERER
A Desperate 'Negro's Deadly Work 10
Alabama Town.

Heflin, Ala. (SpeciaD News has jus,
reached here that three men have been
killed and ten wounded in Randolph
county by negro named Sledge. The
sheriff and posse are now in pursuit. but
have not yet captured the murderer.
The trouble started over difficulty
in watermelon patch last Saturday
A party OF white men were working the
public road at Beaver Creek near La.
mar, and when they finished they asked
permission to cat a few melons in the
negro's patch. They were told to heir
themselves
The men began to cut and slash mel
ons and vines while Slcdge looked on
/ he negro warned them to stop. anc
then went after his gun. Returning, he
cmptied the weapon into the crowd
woundng 9 out OF II.
Immediately Sledge fed. A posse
headed by the sheriff overlook the lie.
gro near a bridge over the Tallapoosa
River, FIVE miles from Wcdowe. He
was ordered to surrender, but replied
ny firing his shotgun. instantly killing
Thomas Ebbet and Robert Ford
Sledge was accosted on the road By
James Moore and Bud Wilson. With.
out warning the negro raised his gun
and hrcd, instantly killing Moore and
mortally wOundinp Wilson
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
More HOP full for a Canal.

DR.. Thomas Herran, the charge
d'affaires at Washington for Colon.
bia, has received several additional dis.
patches for Bogota confirming the re.
port that the Colombian Congress had
under consideration a new proposition
for Panama Canal Treaty with the
United States. These dispatches were
forwarded by DR.. Herran to Acting
Secretary OF State Alvey A. Adee, who
refused, for the present, to make pub
lie their text.
According to the dispatches the Co
lombian Congress probably will en-
power President Marroquin to negoti-
ate a new treaty with this country along
certain lines laid down by Congress.
Exactly what these lines may be is not
stated in the dispatches, the last OF
which is dated Bogota, August H. A
committee OF three has been appointed
by the Senate to draft the canal reso-
lutions, which will have to be reconcil-
able to the Colombian Constitution
and also as near as possible to what it
is believed will be agreeable to the
United States. The names OF the
three senator's appointed on this COM
mittee are not stated in either OF the
three dispatches received by DR.. Her
ran, but he believes they were selected
because of known views favorable to
the construction OF the canal across
the 1sthmus OF Panama.
Both the officials OF the State De-
partment and DR.. Herran feel much
more optimistic than they did few
days ago, when the first news OF the
defeat OF the treaty in the Colombian
Senate was received here There is
now renewed inclination to hope that
Colombia is now taking means to get
around her constitution in some man
ner not yet clear to the authorities
here.
Acting Secretary Adec received a
communication from the president OF
the cable company running between
New York and Colombia, which ex-
planned that delay in getting word
from Bogota was not due to any fault
OF the cable company, but to the delay
i'll overland transportation from the
point where the cable lands in Colom-
bia to Bogota. He said it takes from
five to fifteen days to get a message
from the landing station OF the cable
to Bogota, but that the Colombian
government had entered into an agree
ment to repair the telegraph lines be-
tween the two points Immediately.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
Jade Tablets Returned.

Three valuable jade tablets, looted
from the ancestral temple in the For
bidden City when Peking was captur-
ed, have been turned over to the Gus
toms surveyor at San Francisco by
Capt. A. V. p Anderson, Sixth United
States Cavalry.
They will be given by the United
States Government to the Chinese Min
ister, Two OF them are richly engrav-
ed in the Manchu characters. and the
third bears interesting Mandarin let
tering. Captain Anderson explained
they we're given him at Yang-tsun,
China, by Russian officer, who sought
to show his affection by their bestowal.
The customs officials have thanked
Captain Anderson for returning the
tablets.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
BIG PIANO COMBINE.
A sIO,oOo,ooo Holding Company Has Been
Formed In New Jersey.

New York .(SpeciaD.-A $4,000, 900
holding company, to be known as the
Aerolian-Weber Piano and Pianola
Company, has been incorporated under
the laws OF the State OF New Jersey
and will at once assume the general
management OF the interests in the
manufacture OF musical instruments
heretofore controlled by the Aerolian
and Weber companies. 1t is the largest
organization OF capital ever brought to-
gether in the musical business, and the
process OF its accumulation has been
going on many months. The COM
panies forming the corporation are the
Weber Company, the Weber Piano
Company, the Votey Organ Company,
the Vocaian Organ Company. the Or
chestrele Company Uondon), the
Choralan Company (Berlin). the
Whcelock Piano Company and the
Stuyvesant Piano Company.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
{ oreigu.

Gen. Menotti Garibaldi, eldest son oil
the famous Italian patriot OF tha,
name, is dead
Turks and Bulgarians each blame
the other for burning Macedonian vii
lagos.
Two accused members OF the Hum
bert family we're found guilty OF swim
ding in Paris and were sentenced to
varying terms OF Imprisonment.
Baron Won Theilman resigned as
secretary OF the German Treasury and
Baron Won Stengel was appointed in
his stead.
1t is rumored that Emperor Francis
Joseph will abdicate as King OF Hun
gary.
The St. Mary Fruit Association, at
Kingston, Jamaica. has dispatched a
steamer to Baltimore with 10000
punches OF bananas, but, as a result OF
the damage by the hurricane, the asso-
citation will suspend operations for II
months.
Rev. Dr. George c. Lormer is re-
turning to New York, having refused
all ovcrtures to accept call in London.
DR. Lardy. the Swiss minister at Par
is, has declined to serve as an arbtra-
wi b'l AAiN NhNGANld NlhlllS
Some $500 textlcworkers in Saxony
have struck ior higher wages.
The Hamburg American and the
North German Lloyd Steamship COM
panies are reported to be discontented
with the manner in which their agree
ment with the international Mercantile
Marine Company is being carried out,
and may terminate it, Director Ballin,
OF the Hamburg American Company,
however, denies the story.
Turkey has accepted all the Russian
demands and begged that the Russian
warships be withdrawn from Turkish
waters. The powers are negotiating a
plan for the settlement OF the Mace
donian trouble. 1t is reported that
Russia will act on the sea, Austria on
the land and Italy will exercise surveil-
lance over Albania.
The town OF Burmi, Northern Nj
geria, was destroyed by British force,
700 natives being killed, including the
former Sultan OF Sokoto The British
loss was II men killed and o. wounded.
The shareholders OF the Cunard
Steamship Company ratified the agree
ment between that company and the
British government.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
SHELLED BY THE TURKS.
5000 People Homeless an5 Starving 3Oq
Killed.

Salonica (By Cable "A correspon.
dent at Monastir sends this dispatch:
When the Bulgarian bands entered
krushevo they occupied the Grcel
quarter, hosting their flag over s
Greek house The Turkish troops ar.
rived August I2. All the Komitajis had
already gone, except about 400 loca'
men. Although no shot was fred from
the town the Turks began lombard
ment, which was continued throughout
August 49, The shells destroyed 36c
houses, 2I5 shops and the Greek church
and school The Bulgarian quarter cs
capped.
The Turks entered the town August
"a, pilliaged all the houses, assaulted
many OF the women. stripped many per
sons naked and killed about 800 loca
Bulgarians, and also some 90 innocent
Greeks and Vlachs.
About 5000 people are homeless ant
starving.
The material damage done amount.
10 several million francs.
The Turks, August 10, massacret
200 Bulgarians who surrendered at 3
village near Monastir.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
PRESIDENTS TAXES ON SYCAMORE HILL
His Country Home and Property 10 Village
Assessed for $4,000

Oyster Bay (Special) The town as.
SCISSORS have completed the assessment
roll and its total is above $II 900 600, ar
increase of $75o,ooo.
President Roosevelt is assessed for
$4,000, the same amount as last year
This is for Sycamore Hill and hi.
property in the village.
William c. Whitney is high man or
the list. He is down for $4,000 on hi.
estate on the Wheatley Hills. Charlie,
NJ. Pratt, $4,000, is second, and Viii
liam d. Guthrie, Slo5 900, third. RcaI
estate values have risen to a marked de.
gree The Isaac Smith farm OF ISc
acres, which adjoins that of President
Roosevelt, went begging for years at
$4,000, but has recently been sold for
over $2oo,ooo.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
Financial.

The Union Pacific will connect It's
tricks with the Great Western at Coun-
Gil Bluffs.
The regular quarterly dividend OF IN
per cent on National Lead preferred
has been declared.
The Gould pool in Missouri Pacific
followed the lead OF the Rockefeller
crowd and sold stocks all around.
Missouri Pacihc's June gross earn
ings 81 per cent. III six months the
company has earned net "A per cent.
on all its stock.
II is said that the Steel Corporation
IS waiting TO buy its Bessemer for the
last quarter, expecting the price to sag
TO ~ fiat.
The American Wool Reporter" saws
that the wool trade has been brisk Tor
week and the feeling in regard to the
trade IS one OF strength.
J. E. Stead says that next month a,
the meeting OF the British Iron anc
Steel Institute he will announce dis.
coycry that will revolutionize stee
manufacturing.
A shortage OF wheat receipts ha.
closed a number Of Minneapolis -four
mills.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
SPARKS FROM The WIRES.

The Buffalo Union Furnace Comrany
has procured an injunction against the
National Association Of Blast Furnace
Workers.
The Detroit police are as far from 8
solution OF the murder of Alphonse
Wines as they were when the mutt.
lated body was found.
The answer 10 the bill in equity
against the Susquehanna Iron and Steei
Company was recorded at Lancaster, Pa
Policeman Joseph Hunkler was shot
and killed by Waller Gleason, who after.
ward shot himself.
Sixteen more bodies of victims OF the
mine explosion at Hanna, Wy, have
been recovered.
Elijah Fl. Lewis. a private at For.
Douglas. was shot and instantly killed
Uprisings in China are said to
threaten 10 involve the whole country,
owing to the antagonsm OF foreign in.
terests,
The eight women concerned in the
smashing OF Wichita joint pleaded
guilty.
DR.. Corea, the Nicaraguan minister
10 Washington. declares that the in
itiative. for the rcopening Of negotia.
tions Tor the construction Of a canal
through his country must come from
the United States
The Russian squadron has been or
dercd to Turkish waters as show OF
strength to back Russia's demands in
connection with the recent assassina-
alton Of her consul. France and Aus
tria may join in the demonstration. The
Italian fleet has been ordered 70
Macedonian waters.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
GIANT CRUISER LAUNCHED.
A distinguished Gathering Sees the Penn.
sylyauia Plunge.

Philadelphia (SpeciaD.-An event
which will be memorable in the history
al this State was witnessed here when
rsis giant armored cruiser Pennsylvania.
Shr;:tened by the daughter OF NJ. s.
Quay, the senior United States Senator
Gnd the States political leader. was
launched a, the yards OF the William
CTaInp Ship and Engine Building Com
pany.
The initial plunge Of the formidable
addition 10 the United States Navy was
witnessed by the largest and one of the
most distinguished assemblages that ever
gathered at Cramps shipyards. More
favorable weather could not have been
desired. and the flag decked sea.fghter
gohng down the ways greeted by the
shouts OF thousands OF spectators and
xAr shrill blasts Of hundreds of river
rTaft, was an inspiring scene.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
In the Departments.

Gen. Frederick D. Grant. comman-
der OF the Department OF Texas, has
been asked by the department to eX-
plain the premature publication OF his
annual report in San Antonio.
State Department officials are en-
couraged by additional advices to hope
Colombia will find a way to agree on
tn canal project.
Figures have been published showing
the commerce between the United States
and its non-contiguous territories for the
fiscal year. just ended.
The Cuban government is ready 10
conclude the formalities connected with
the leasing of the coaling stations in
Cuba to the United States.
Secretary Wilson exhibited the first
hank of silk reeled from the silk-reeling
machines recently purchased by the De
partment OF Agriculture.
Midshipman Duncan Douglas was
dismissed from the Naval Academy at
Annapolis because he made false state
ment regarding his age.
The bronze statue OF General Sher-
man was placed upon the pedestal built
for it in the grounds south of the Treas
ury.
A tax will be placed upon vessels en-
tering the ports OF Panama or Colon for
sanitary purposes.
DR.. Herran, the Colombian charge.
has advices announcing the appoint
ment OF Senate committee to confer
with one OF the House in preparing a
bill in regard to the Panama Canal.
The reelection OF James c. Keller as
president OF the National Association
OF Letter Carriers would be unfavorably
regarded by the postoftice officials.
Secretary Wilson, OF the Department
OF Agriculture, has issued a vigorous
statement regarding the conditions in
the cotton market.
The controversy between the Book
binders Union and Assistant Foreman
Miller in the Government Printing Office
has broken out afresh.
The Philippine Commission has ap-
pointed Capt. George r. Langhorne
secretary to the provincial government
of the Province OF Moro.
Fifty or more inmates Of the Wash
ngton Industrial Home have been taken
violently i'll, supposedly from p,omaine
poisoning.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
Blow 10 Save Killed Him.

Tunkhannoek, Pa. Especial Jacob
Wilsey, farmer who lived near Lake
Carey, Wyoming county. was attacked
BY vicious dog. The animal seized him
by the throat. threw him down and was
z'zngling HIM terribly when Mrs. Wilsey
Szme TO her husbands rescue with an ak.
he wife struck at the dog just as Mr..
Nilsey raised his leg Wilsey received
1he fuIi force OF the blow just below the
knee. seyering an artery. He bled to
Srzik before physician could reach
him.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic.

Mrs. Bertha Roda, wife OF Phila
delphia textile striker tried to kill he
four children because they were starv
ing.
DR.. Allen Thompson, wealthy ply
sician OF Troy, n Y, committed sui
eide at Asbury Park by cutting hi
| throat.
The result of the Democratic count,
| convention in Ohio indicates tha
neither Tom l.. Johnson nor John l.
| zimmerman has enough pledged dele
/ gates to control.
1t is stated that the Wabash Rail
| road has secured valuable terminal,
/ in an entrance into Cincinnati.
Rev. ?. J. Hayes, secretary to Arch.
bishop Farley. was appointed chancel.
| lor OF the Archdiocese of New York
to succeed Right Rev. c. H. Cotton
bishop-clect OF Buffalo.
Rufus Cantrell the negro grave rob
Der, OF Indianapolis, Ind. confessed.
Two persons we're killed and many
jured in a wreck OF an excursion
train full OF Elks near Chehalis, Wash.
Believing that he would not be able
to be impartial in the second trial oi
Lulu Prince Kennedy, Judge Wofford
swore himself off the bench.
Six hunters Of lost gold mine. hail
ing from Chicago, are under arrest at
Turks Island, West Indies, suspected OF
filibustering.
John El,ler father OF Efie Ellsler,
the actress. and himself an actor and
theatrical manager, died in New Yorl;
OF heart disease.
The monument to the memory OF
Hale Johnson, who was assasinated last
year, was unveiled by prohibtionists at
Newton, Ill.,
By the merging OF number OF sheet
and tin plate companies in Pittsburg
an independent combine has been
formed
Theoretically. a hostile fleet sailed
from the tropics to attack Portland,
Me, marking the beginning OF the
mimic war.
The Southern Pacific has made an
offer to build tobacco dry warehouse c
at Nacogdoches. Tex.
Secretary OF War Elhu Root sailed
from New York for Liverpool.
The deal for the purchase OF iron ore
lands on the Mesaba Range, Mime
sofa, by the United States Steel Cor
poration has been verified
Schuyler c. Kelley, lieutenant colonel
OF the Missouri militia, is mysteriously
missing from his home in Kansas City,
Mo.
The creditors OF Porter Brothers
have formed a corporation to carry on
their business pending bankruptcy pro-
ceedings.
The organization OF the Southern
Textile Company, combine OF South
ern cotton yarn mills, has been COM
pleted.
The Society OF American Florist and
Ornamental Horticulturists elected OF
hcers at Milwaukee
The Sultan OF Dcseen has apologized
for the insult rendered the United
States flag
The volume OF business in the iron
market has greatly increased OF late
Big tax rebate frauds have been un-
earthed in Chicago.
The Congregational Summer Assem-
bly,, at New Buffalo, Mich, passed reso-
lutions in favor of the union OF United
Brethren. Methodist Protestant and Con-
gregational denominations.
The parade of the Grand Army of the
Republic was feature at San Francisco
The National Association OF Union ex-
Prisoners OF War elected officers for
the year.
Henry Broughton, the witness who
ran away and had to be captured, was
on the stand in the trial OF Caleb Pow
crs at Georgetown. KY
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26

Iudge Alraid Of hlmseIt.

Kansas City. Mo. Especially .--Believ-
ing that he will not be able to be impair
tial in the second trial of Lulu Prince
Kennedy for the murder OF her husband.
which has been set for November 10,
Judge John w. Wofford swore himself
off the bench and named Judge Joshua
w. Alexander, of Galatin, to try the
case. At her first trial Mrs Kennedy
was given 10 years in the penitentiary.
She killed her husband. Philip H. Ken
ncdy. agent for a local transportation
company. month after their marriage
because he refused TO live with her.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
Suicide in Jail.

Nyack, N. Y. (SpcciaD Herman T.
Coates, who murdered Louis Hrl at
Spring Valley on May 10, 1902, COM
mitted suicide in the Rockland county
jail by cutting his throat with rusty
razor, which he obtained in some unac-
countable way. Coates was brought from
Richmond, Va. where he was arrested
for vagrancy. While there he confessed
to the murder of Hull On Sunday he
jumped from an Old Dominion steamer
off Sea Girt, but was rescued.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
Rumberts Convicted.

Paris (By Cable) .-Oac OF the great.
est criminal trials in the history o.
France eliminated here when the jur,
in the Court Of Assizes rendered a yer
dict of guilty against Thcrese Humbcrt
her husband, Frederic Humhert, and he'
brothers Roman ard Emile Daurignac
After brief deliberation the court sen.
fenced Therese and Frederic Humber
each to five years imprisonment and TO 2
fine of 100 francs (about S2o). Emile
Daurignac to three years and Ronair
Daurignac TO two years The vcrdicl
was reached after the jury had been oui
four and a half hours.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-26
A Tragedy In Honolulu.

Honolulu (Spccia) e. NJ Jone,
shot and killed his divorced wife and
probably fatally wounded her mother,
Mrs. Parmenter. jealousy is assigned a.
the cause of the shooting. Jones wife re.
GENTLY obtained divorce on the ground
OF cruelty. Jones is half breed while
his wife was a member of prominent
white family. After the shooting Jones
disappeared with threats to commit sui.
eide. There is talk of ynching him in
the event he is found alive.