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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-04
The Pope Much Better.

Rome. Nov. DIR. Lapponi visited
the Pope today and found him much
better. The gouty pain IN his right IS
almost gone. The pontih said his IL
ness was not serious. adding the wors1
feature OF It is the excitement which Il
produces. I am beseiged with letters
and kilograms OF inquiry
The Pope hopes If the amelioratioa
IN his condition continues. TO resmre
his auGit-ces Thursday.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-04
Result of Inquest Over
Bodies of The Dead
Fishermen.
CORONER'S JURY

out Warning or Provocation by
Russian War VeSseis-Conservati
Verdict Was Returned at the Re
quest OF the British Governments
on Account Of the Negotiations
Pending, Which Would be Made
More DifIicult-WitnessesB Before the
Jury Told the Story OF the Now Fa-
nous Incident ut HulI-With Great
Positiyeness IL Was Denied that any
Japanese Torpedo Boats Were With
the Fishing Fleet.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-04
GLOOMY REPORTS FROM PORT
ARTHUR.

ST. Petersburg, Nov. 8, 2:40 a. m.-
There is considerable anxiety here over
the military situation. Little news has
been received from Mukden. General
Sakaharoff's telegram of November 1
merely indicating that matters Were
at dead lock around Shakhe. The
Japanese have made some tentative
movements on both ffanks which were
checked but there are no signs yet of
a general advance by their army.
Foreign reports from Port Arthur are
decidedly gloomy. While the authorities
continue to profess confidence in Ge.2-
eral Stoessers ability to hold out, the
feeling is that the heroic garri--
son which already has made a historic
defence must now be near the limit
of human endurance.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-04

Hundreds OF lives saved every year
by having DIR. ThcE1as' Electric Oh n
the kcrse just when IL Is needed. Cures
Group. heals burns. cut, wounds OF eve
ry sort.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-04
JAPS MAY BECOME AGO

JAPs MAY BECOME AGGRESSIVE.
ST. Petersburg. Nov. 2.-General SAX
aharoff teIegraphs under today's data
that last night was quiet, the Japanese
however, are showing marked signs ot
recommending the offensive against the
Russian left wing. They also re-occu-
pied the village of Sandinpu,- near the
Hun river in front of the Russian
right flank.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-04

Big sale at Gaylord's store viii sur
prise you Gene
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29
ROOSEVELT { FAIRBANKS
Chosen By Unanimous Vote Of the Chi.
cago Convention.
TREMENDOUS OVATION TO LEADERS.
The President Win Be Formally Notified Of
His Nomination on July n, at Oyster Bay
The Notification Of Senator Fairbanks Will
Take Place a Week Later, at Indianapolis
-cortelyou Elected Chairman.

Chicago, (SpeciaD Amid the most
inspiring scenes and in a tumult OF
enthusiasm Theodore Roosevelt and
Charles Warren Fairbanks were nomi-
mated for president and vice president
Of the United States by the Republican
National Convention, and the great
work which called together over 1000
delegates from all parts OF the coun-
try was brought to successful and
glorious end.
No one could complain OF lack OF
enthusiasm the last day OF the CON
vention, for stirred by eloquent ora
tory the convention spent day in
genuine enthusiasm seldom INDUCED
IN, even at national convention.
The great Coliseum, on Wabash
avenue, was crowded to overfiowing
and hundreds were content only to
stand.
The delegates. as well as the crowds
fortunate enough to hold admission
tickets to the convention hall. were
on hand early, for the session was
20 be called to order at 10 o'clock
and for over four hours the vast
throng that fielled the Coliseum from
cellar to roof gave itself Up to un-
restrained enthusiasm and JOY.
Greetings to the distinguished men
of the party as they entered the hall
were as warm. il not more cordian
than on the proceeding days of the
convention.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29
93S BODIES FOUND.
Victims Of Sloeum Disaster Thought TO Num-
Der Over 1000.

New York, (Special). -- Inspector
Schmittberger submitted to Police
Commissioner McAdoo a report OF his
investigation into the General Slocum
disaster. The results obtained by the
100 policemen and staff of clerks
give the total number OF bodies re-
covered as o38. The missing number
%, the injured I72 and the total num-
Der OF uninjurcd persons IS gwen as
236.
The persons classified as missing,
numbering %, and who are positively
known to have been on board the
steamer at the time of the disaster
have not returned to their homes and
can be considered as having also
perished,' said the inspector.
United States Attorney-General
Burnett has received a transcript OF
the minutes taken thus far before the
coroners jury, and is preparing to
submit testimony to Federal grand
jury. The evidence is considered
ample, as il now stands, to warrant
several indictments for manslaugter r.
In the death OF Rev DR.. Edward
Frederick Moldenke, one OF the best
known Lutheran clergymen in this
country, another name was added to
the list OF the victims Of the Slocum
disaster Grief for 20 members OF his
own flock who went on the excursion
and never returned and his compass
sion for the bereft families OF ST.
Marks Church. so afflicted DIR.
Moldenke that he died OF a broken
heart.
DR.. Moldenke was pastor Of ST.
|. Peters Lutheran Church, at Fifty
fourth street and Lexington avenue.
1t was thought that few days rest
would restore the clergyman to his
usual health. but he became suddenly
i'll on Friday and his death followed.
His wife and three sons were with him
at the last. DR.. Moldenke was "A
years ofd.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29

II was 10 o'clock when the In
diana delegation came in. Eyes were
scanned for Senator Fairbanks, and a
great reception was awaiting him;
but with the same modesty he has dis
played throughout the entire conven-
ton he remained at his hotel and did
not come to the Coliseum TO hear
the shouts and witness the enthusiasm
which was aroused by the presenta-
ton of his name for the vice presi-
dental nomination, Governor Dur
bin, who is likely to succeed Senator
Fairbanks in the United States Sen
ate, and Senator 3everidge, who was
to make the first speech seconding the
animation of Theodore Roosevelt,
came in arm in arm with the head of
the Hoosiers and received the cheers
held in reserve for Fairbanks
Uncle Joe Cannon. however. was
the one to receive the preliminary
ovation, and when he stepped for
ward to rap the convention to order
the great thronR burst forth IN a
mighty yell, which could not help
but please the old man. Uncle Joe
laid aside the croquet mallet given
him to use as gavel. and instead he
welded a small and useful gavel. and
not only raped on the presiding Of
hcer's table, but at one time during
The excitement when the convention
was in a delirium OF enthusiasm ne
pounded the gavel on the floor OF the
platform.
No time was lost in getting at the
real work OF the day A few notices
were read TO the delegates. the most
important being the call OF the meet
ing OF the new national committee
after the adjournment OF the conycn-
ton.
Amid applause, Secretary Of the
Convention Molloy began the call OF
states for nominations for president
Of the United States Alabama. called
hrst, yielded TO New York, and ex-
Governor Frank S. Black arose in his
seat amid the New York delegation
and made his way toward the plat
form. Instantly the entire delegation
from the Empire State was on its
feet, each delegate uniurled a large
American fag, which apparently came
from some unseen place.
Speaker Cannon. in his own unioue
way, introduced Black, but the Ia,.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29
Foreign.

The French and German Ministers
at Port au Prince, Hayti, and their
wives were stoned by soldiers form
ing the palace guard while they were
driving by the palace. The wife of
the French Minister is an American.
Apologies have been demanded.
Thirty persons were killed and
many injured in the wreck OF train
on bridge over the Jiloca River,
Spain. The cars, ablaze. hung in mid
air and some of the passengers
dropped into the river
An exequatur has been issued to
George X. Martin, the American CON
sui agent at Rostoffon-Don.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Allison V. Armour and other Ameri-
cans whose yachts are taking part
in the regatta at Kiel, dined with the
Emperor and Empress on their yacht.
The Porte has yielded completely
to the demands OF the powers for re-
dress as a result OF the Armenian
prosecutions. The Sultan however,
has not ratified the Portes decision
Sir Charles n. +. Eliot, British
commissioner and commanier-in-chi hief
for the East African protectorate, has
resigned lhe commissionerShip be
cause he is opposed to the proposed
Jewish settlement in the protectorate
The American battleship squadron
sailed from Gibraltar for Piraeus,
Greece, the orders to go to Tangier
having been countermanded Rasuli,
the bandit chief, has not yet replied
to the letter from the Sultan's repre-
sentative granting his demands for the
release OF the captives.
John Gilbert Meiggs, an American
who with his brother, built the Oroya
Railroad, great engineering feat,
died in London.
II was expected that Pcrdicaris and
Varley would be released Tuesday by
the bandit Rasuli. but a dispatch
from Tangier tells OF another hitch
in the negotiations.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29
Facts About The Ships.

The Percsviet was OF the same type
as the Pobieda, which was reported
disabled by a torpedo April I3, the
day the Petropavlovsk was destroyed.
The Sevastopol is in the same class
as was the Petropavlovsk The Diana
was a sister ship of the Pallada, which
was torpedoed in the first attack Ad-
miral Togo made on the Russian fleet
at Port Arthur and has. not appeared
since, except occasionally in Russian
dispatches as to the progress OF the
repairs upon her.
OF the fleet OF battleships at Port
Arthur. supposing the Peresviet and
Sevastopol out of action, only three
remain-thc Tsarcwitch. the Pobieda
and the unfortunate Retvizan. These
were all damaged in the early days OF
the war, and while many reports have
been disseminated that they had been
fully repaired, no confirmation of this
has been obtained
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29
A NAVAL BATTLE
One Russian Battleship Reported Lost,
Another Disabled.
PREPARING TO DASH OUT OF RARBOR.
The Russians Were Attacked By Destroyers---
Japanese Admiral Says His Ships Sustained
Only Slight Damage-fie Fails TO Give
Any Details Of Loss Of Life 10000 Report
ed Killed.

Toxic, (By Cablel.-Admiral Togo
reports that last Thursday his patrol
boats discovered the battleship Peres-
wet and seven other vessels, ac-
companied by torpedo-boat destroyers,
near the entrance of Port Arthur har-
Dor.
They warned him by wireless teleg-
raphy and he Immediately advanced
his fleet except those engaged upon
special duty. The Admiral discovered
that the Russian feet, which CON
sisted of 3 battleships, 5 cruisers and
"a destroyers, evidently planned a
dash southwark by sundown.
The Russians stopped outside the
entrance to the harbor After night
fall fleet of Japanese destroyers reso-
lutely attacked the Russian ships and
succeeded in torpedoing and sinking
a battleship OF the Peresviet type and
disabling the battleship Sevastopol. a
cruiser of the Diana type was observ-
ed being towed into the harbor on
Friday morning, and it was evident
she had sustained serious damage
The Japanese ships sustained little
damage. The Shirakumo was hit by
shell, which fell in the cabin, and
had three men killed and three others
wounded The Chidori, vessel of
the same class, was hit behind the en-
gine room, but no casualties resulted.
Torpedo boats o. and 90 were slightly
DAMAGED
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29
FINANCIAL.

Thomas b. Brown paid S., 500 for
a seat on the Philadelphia Stock Ex-
change.
Eleven-sent cotton looks cheap now
compared Il I7-cent cotton when Sui
ly was in the saddle.
The Pennsylvania Steel Company
nos secured an order for 10000 tons
OF steel rails for the Southern Pa
cihic This company and the I.acka-
wanna are quite regularly underbid-
Ding the trust on rail contracts.
Lake Erie g. Western oreferred
tumbled 10 points because The d;vi-
dend was Gut in half.
A Lehigh Navigation official saws
he doesn't believe his company has
acquired new coal lands, but possibly
il has cotton more woodland for the
Monroe Water Company, which il
controls.
Seems odd that while the wheat
acreage in the United States is about
10 per cent. below that OF last year
Canada's acreage has increased 9 pei
cent
Directors of tho Philadelphia & Erie
declared the usual per cent, semi.
annual dividend.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29
CHANGE IN The CABINET
Mr.. Needy Transferred TO the Post Of
Attorney General.
MORTON SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
Victor h. Metcalf, Of California, Win Replace
Mr.. CorteIyou-Res,guations Of the Latter
and Of Mr.. Knox Accepted BY the President
Postmaster Genersi Payne Likely to Re-
tire From the Cabinet

Washington, d. c., (SpeciaD.-
President Roosevelt made the fol
lowing announcement regarding chang
cs IN =" Cabinet:
William II. Moody of Massachu
sets, to be Attorney General.
Paul Morton of Illinois, to be Sec
rctary of the Navy.
Victor II. Metcalf OF California, tc
be Secretary OF Commerce and Labor.
The designations OF Secretary Cor
teiyou and Attorney General Knox
have been received and accepted, to
taNe effect July /.
Mr.. Morton was in Washington last
week ana took lunch at the White
House, \ men the President offered
hi.n the stcretaryship OF the navy, 1t
navng been determined al that tinG
to put Representative Metcalt al the
head Ol the department o, Commerce
anu Labor.
AIR. Mofton then declined, and il
was generally supposed u at his name
was no lonser being considered
Tie President was determined to have
him in the Cabinet. however, If il
could be accomplished. and he has the
very highest admiration Tor Mr.. Nor
tons character and ability.
The latter was finally prevailed upon
Q iorepo his own wIshs, owing to
his regard and friendship for the
President
1t is expected that further changes
will take place in the Cabinet next
winter. Postmaster General Payne
probably will retire fr IN the Cabinet
after :he campaign. He viii be sue
ceeded by National Chairman Cortel
you. Secretary Moody will continue
as member OF the Cabinet only until
the end OF the present administration
on the 4th of March next, when he
will retire to enter upon the practise
OF law in Boston
1t is quite likely that other changes
will take place, even if Mr. Roosevelt,
should be elected President; but no
authority exists at this time upor
which to base a forecast OF them
Attorney General Knox, as is well
known, resigned to become Matthew
5. Quay's successor in the United
States Senate, having been appointed
who is prominent Pittsburg lawyer,
has been Attorney General since April
10, 1901.
Mr.. Cortelyou resigns to conduct
the Republican campaign, having been
elected chairman of the National Com
mittee. Alter having been clerk and
secretary of three successive Presi.
dents. he was, in February, 1908, taken
into the Cabinet as head OF the newly
established Department OF Commerce
and Labor.
Mr.. Moody was Haverhill lawyer
and a Massachusetts Congressman for
several terms before he became Sec
rotary OF the Navy, on May I, 1902,
succeeding John D. Long.
Mr.. Morton who is the eldest son
of the late ]. Sterling Morton, Secre-
tary OF Agriculture in Cleveland's
second term, is ~ years old. He is
well-known railroad man, and is
now vice-president Of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad He
; is now citizen OF Illinois. and sat in
the Republican Convention as The
alternate of Speaker Cannon.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29
Second Dsy.

Chicago, (SpeciaD The second dav
OF the Republican National Convention
at Chicago was marked by the adop-
tion OF the platform, the settlement
of the Wisconsin, Delaware and other
contests, the cutting OF Hawaii's repre-
sentation 10 two delegates after a live
ly debate and characteristic speech
by Permanent Chairman Joseph c.
Cannon
The platform OF the party for the
next four year, document of more
than $500 words, was presented by
Senator Lodge OF Massachusetts,
chairman of the committee on resolu-
tlons. The tariff plank declares for
the cardinal principles OF protection"
and further, tina, the rate Of duty
should be the difference between the
cost OF production in the United
Safes and abroad. The rates OF duty
should be readjustcd only when con-
ditions have so changed that public
interest demands it, All such changes
should be made by the Republican
party"
A long paragraph was favored in re-
lation to reciprocity. 1t is a teclara-
ton for Commercial reciprocity,
which is possible only under protective
tariff, and whenever reciprocity ar
rangements can be perfected without
injury to any industry There is
a mild prOhouncement against trusts
and another on the question of dis
franchisement in the South.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29
AMERICA PREPARING FOR WARP
St. Petersburg Paper Alarmed over Big Es'
pansion OF Our Navy.

St. Petersburg, (By Cable).-The
Novoe Vfcmya devotes a long edi-
torial to speculation regarding the
object OF the enormous naval eXpan-
sion OF the United States, saying
1T is difficult to suppose it is for
a pacific purpose, and more difficult
to imagine il is due to fear of aggres-
sion on the part of European
Power"
Continuing, the paper declares that
the only presumption lett is that the
United States is preparing to, at no
distant future, attack some one, and
warns the European statesmen to be
ware OF the boundless appetites of
American exporters for markets
which, other means failing, must be
won by force of arms"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29

The Secretary OF the Interior has
withdrawn from all forms OF disposal
over million acres in Nebraska fot
incorporation in what is known as the
North Platte irrigation project.
Miss Gertrude Heilbrun ard Henry
{. Finkelstein, interpreter and chancep
lor of the Persian legation, were mar-
ried i'll the drawng-room OF the lie.
CATION.
Admiral Ahmed, of the Turkish
Navy, was presented to President
Roosevelt.
Consul General Maxwell in .
cablegram from Santo Domingo, in-
forms the State Department that
Morales was elected president BY
Congress, and Caceres vice presidcntI
and that the Inauguration took place
last Sunday. He addsd that the revo<
luton was considered ended.
The report of Charles H. Robb on
the alleged irregularities III the bureau
OF the Thrd Assistant Postmastes
General Edwin C. Madden has been
made public He finds nothing iml
proper in Mr. Madden's conduct.
President Roosevelt received Car,
dinal Satoli in the Blue Room OF the
White House
The Secretary OF the Interior has
approved the application OF the board
of trustees OF the Columbia University
TO change the name to the Georgd
Washington University
Representative Victor H. Metcalf!
of California, has been selected to
succeed Mr.. Cortelyou as secretary
OF the Department of Commerce and
Labor.
James ]. Greble, a clerk of the Uni
ted States Express Company, COM
mitted suicide from worry over
package of money he lost.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29
10000 Reported Killed.

Chicago, (SpeciaD A special cable
gram to the Daily News from Tien-
tsin. China, says:
Officers arriving at Niuchwang
from the front say that the battle
fought on Thursday at Simenting,
about 40 miles east of Kaiping, was
the hardest blow the Russians have
yet. received. The Muscovites lost,
according to these accounts, 10000 in
killed. wounded missing and prisoners,
That the Russian retreat did not
turn into rout was due 10 the dogeed
bravery OF the men OF the Ninth East
Siberian Rife Brigade, under General
Kondratsvitch, who covered the flying
troops, cortesting every inch Of the
maNn
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29
Officials Sail iof Panama.

New York, (SpeciaD Chief En-
gineer James Findlay Wallace, who
will have charges OF the construction
OF the Panama canal for the United
States government. sailed for Panama
on the. steamer Allianca. With him
went Or. w. c. Gorgas, chief sanitary
Officer. and Drs. J. n. Carter and Louis
A. l.. Gard, Of the United States
marine hospital service. There also
went on the same vessel number OF
gagged at the hospital at Panama.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29

asm which greeted his name when put
IN nomination was repeated.
Pandcmonium broke loose again
when speaker Cannon announced that
in the convention there were 9o4
votes and 904 had been cast for
Roosevelt
The nomination Of vice president
did not take long, for in less than an
hour the eloquent speeches by Senator
Dolliver, in nominating Fairbanks,
and those OF Senators Depew and
Foraker Governor Pennypacker and
ex-senator Carter were all made and
cheered to the echo
On motion Of half a dozen states
the ballots by states was dispensed
with and TIE nomination OF Mr.. Fair
banks was made unanimously amid
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29
Killed BY FouL

Indiana, Pa, (SpeciaD During a
game of baseball here between the
Johnstown Amateurs and the Indiana
Normals George Thomas. the catch
er for the Johnstowns, was almost
instantly killed by being hit over the
heart with a foul tip. Thomas was
a draughtsman for the Cambria Iron
Company and his young wife, who
Witnessed the accident from the grand
stand, was prostrated Thomas and
his wife, formerly residents of Gin
cinnati, were both graduates Of the
Cincinnati University,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-06-29
Has Heart Disease.

Washington, d. C., Especially Rep
resentative Hit, OF Illinois, is suffer-
ing from severe attack of heart
trouble. The family observes the great,
est reticence as to the progress of his
ailment, and have given his physicians
strict instructions not to discuss the
case. Nothing could be ascertained
regarding Mr.. Hits condition furthep
than the 5tatement made at the house
that he was better. IN