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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
WILL Be LESS STRENUOUS.
This Propheeyis is Veniured on Strikes BY Mr..
D. N Parry.

Pittsburg, (SpeciaD. - Nearly 700
delegates we're in their seats when the
ninth annual convention OF the Ma.
tional Association OF Manufacturers
was called to. order by Chairman D,
{. Ripley, OF the local committee OF
reception. Following the invocation
by Rev. Or. S. Edwsrd Young City
Solicitor William =. Rodgers rendered
the freedom of the city to the dele.
gates. Adjutant General Thomas
Stewart then welcomed them to the
state, and Congressman ]. E. Brown
received them on behalf Of the Cham.
Der of Commerce.
President ID. NJ. Parry, of Indian.
apolis, then took charge OF the con.
vention and delivered his annual ad-
dress. In reviewing the labor events
OF the past year he said:
The theory that the condition Of
labor can be bcttercd by checking
production and making life and pro.
perty insecure was put TO an extensive
test and the results were disappoint-
ing to those who believe in thai
theory. There are many indications
which so to show that organized
abor is learning very valuable lesson
IN economies and law observance. and
hopes can be reasonably entertained
that the strikes which have character
lzed the last year will be less strenuous
in the immediate future"
I'm regard to the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers | am positive
hat any crusade having for its object
the grinding down OF labor would
meet with determined opposition
Of practically the entire membership
The policy of this association is
primarily one OF peace. II we stand
Tor anything we stand for the develop.
ment of American industry. Ii is OBJ.
vious that men will hesitate to invest
Their capital in productive enterprises
It 1t means constant struggle with
labor unions and if frequent strikes
tend TO destroy trade by making un.
certain the filling of contracts. In.
dustrial strife adds hazarl to invest.
ments involving the employment OF
labor which cannot fail to be injurious
TO industrial development, thus caus.
ing permanent loss TO all classes.
Therefore our policy is one which
looks TO the maintenance OF peace
and not TO the adoption of measures
!hat will arouse hostiitics."
Speaking OF the closed shops Mr..
Parry said:
The closed shop is against public
policy and is of doubtful legality The
liberty OF the individual would be i'm.
possible if he is debarred from tho
right to contract for his services be.
cause he does not belong to a union,
| believe that this truth will become
generally recognized and that the day
must come when no industry will
be allowed to run on the closed shop
plan. ANY set of men have right
TO contract i'll a collective capacity
for the sale OF their labor, but they
cannot be upheld in making contracts
which exclude other labor from the
right to contract"
In closing he announced that the
association had gained thousand
members IN the last year, bringing the
total membership up to 5000, and was
in better financial condition than il
ever has been.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
FINANCIAL.

Upwards OF 100000 shares oi Lake
Superior stock will not pay the as
sessment
It's 4 dull day now that doesn't see
a new low record for United States
Steel common.
The West Philadelphia Trust Com
pany has declared semi-anuual divi
dend OF ; per cent.
Allegheny Valleys report for March
shows a decrease in net earnings oI
$45,ooS, and the decrease for the first
three months OF the year was Si2S.-
o55
Manv persons naturally wonder
what United States Steel needs with
the Clairton plant, which was not able
10 keep out Of receivers hands.
Traders who tried TO sell Lake SUI
perior preferred short found trouble
in borrowing the stock.
Snow reports that the wheat condi-
tions over the West generally have
been most favorable all week.
The strength Of Amalgamated Cop
per while most other stocks have
been weak. has caused all sorts OF re-
ports concerning settlement OF the
long war between that company and
teinzc. The street has heard that
Standard Dii has finally compromised
With him.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
To Make the Title Clear.

Acting Secretary of State Loomi,
made the following statements:
In order to completely close the
Panama Canal transaction, and to
avoid any question as to the authority
of the United States over the canal
zone. arising out of the fact that the
consideration for concession had not
actually been paid as provided by the
treaty, the Department OF State, acting
under the advices OF the Attorney
General has paid over to J. p. Morgan
e. Co., the duly constituted fiscal
agents OF the Panama government
the remaining So,ooo.ooo of the sum
stipulated in the treaty as the consid-
Grafton for the concession"
The warrant was made out by the
Treasury officials and was brought to
Mr.. LOOMS, who handed it to George
w. Perkins, representing Morgan &
Co, who IN turn will cash il at the
New York Subtreasury. 1t was the
original plan of the State Department
to retain this So.ooo.ooo in the Treas
ury until the arrival here next June
of Senor Obaldia. the newly appoint
ed Panamaian minister. This plan
was suggested by the government of
Panama itself, which was not dispos ed
70 nave so large sum of money as
STo,ooo,ooo placed at one time in the
Panamaian treasury, where it might
prove a great temptation to restless
revolutionary efforts.
But, as Mr. Loomis explains, our
own government decided that its title
would be better and the field OF oper-
ass ., ...1, 4 4 1 d,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
ENDED WITH A BULLET
The Suicide OF a Ruined Georgia
Financier.
HIS TWO BANKS HAD FAILED.
Mr.. J. c. Plant, in Whom the People Of Macon
Had Unbounded Confidence, Could Not Sur.
vive the Loss Of His Wealth and Credit
Shot Himself on the Porch OF His Home
Deficit Found in Private Bank.

Macon, Ga, (SpeciaD Robert II
Plant, president OF the First National
Bank and owner OF the l. c. Plant 5
Son Bank, both recently placed in the
hands OF receivers, committed sui-
eide on the back porch of his home
IN College Street He had been i'll for
two months, during which time came
the collapse OF his financial institu-
tons, the oldest in the city. He had
told his nurse that he wished 10 lie
down. Twenty minutes later ne ask
ed to be assisted to the bathroom.
This she did, and waited Is minutes
on the outside, when she heard a pis-
tol shot. She rushed into the room,
but Mr. Plant was not there. The
bath room had two doors, one open
ing upon the porch. There she found
the capitalist with a .3S-caliber pistol
in his hanI dead The bullet had
passed through the right temple and
out Of the left. fattening itself upon
the wall. Death probably was in
stantaneous. The coroner was at once
summoned, and upon the testimony OF
'i'N libi oV anu d piiy NtIulCl VI
death by his own hands was rendered.
Mr.. Plant leaves wife and nine
children. Wallace Z. McCaw, presi-
dent of the McCaw Manufacturing
Company, and NJ. FELTON, Hatcher, a
prominent attorney, are sons-in-law.
The Plant banking institutions are
the Oldest in the city.
MrI Plant, in addition to being
identified with various manufacturing
enterprises and formerly largely en-
gagged with the New York Life lnsur-
ance Company. was known throughout
the trotting world, and his horses for
years have raced in the Grand Circuit
He owned Grattan Boy, Dulce Cor,
Miss Willamont and other well-known
horses.
George II. Plant, vice-presi lent Of
the First National, is brother.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
CARNEGIE HERO FUND.
Commission Now Has Custody Of $4,000, 600 II
Bonds,

Pittsburg, Pa, (SpeciaD.-A meet
ing of the Carnegie Hero Fund Com
mission was held here and was attend.
by all but four of the membership.
The president, Charles L. Taylor,
reported that the commission now
has custody Of the $4,000, 600 in bonds
donated by Mr.. Carnegie to endow
the fund.
Mr.. Carnegie having instructed the
commission that through on oversight
the colony of Newfoundland had beer
omitted as a participant in the Hero
Fund resolution was adopted cor
recting his original memorandum OF
trust to include this country
A set OF resolutions were adopted
expressing to Mr., Carnegie the CRATE.
ful appreciation OF the high honor
conferred upon the commission in en-
trusting The execution OF his plans
and purposes 10 il.
Mr.. Thomas Lynch. chairman OF the
committee on organization. presented
his report, which was received by the
commission 1t provides that the com.
mission shall be known as the Gar.
ncgic Hero Fund Commission" which
shall administer the Carnegie Hero
Fund. The fund became operative
April IS, 1904, and no applications on
account OF heroic acts performed prior
to that date will be considered.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
GIRL BLOWN THROUGH WINDOW.
Negro Threw Sweepings Of Guneottou Factory
luto Fl.s.

Newark, ~ J, (SpcciaD.--A ter
rife explosion in a frame building at
the plant OF the Petrcioid Company,
manufacturers OF soluble guncottou,
on Dawson street, on the meadows,
destroyed the structure and caused
damage throughout the district to
the amount OF nearly $4,000.
The only person who was injured
was Florence Wrlgley, IS years old,
OF 81 Dawson street, an cmployc OF
the Armiiagc Varnish Company,
whose plant adjoins that Of the Petrc-
fold Company She was blown out
OF the building 10 a distance of 3s or
30 feet. She was badly hurt and was
taken to ST. James Hospital, where
II was said her condition is critical
She had several serious cuts on the
head.
The most remarkable escape from
injury was that OF ihc negro to whose
oarelessne7s the explosion is ascribcd.
The man is known only as George" ,"
and since the explosion occurred he
has been diligently avoiding all in
reviewers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
SEVEN BLOWN TO DEATH
Five Others So Seriously Injured Thai
Their Recovery is Impossible.
ENTIRE FIRE WORKS PLANT IN RUINS.
The Explosion Occurred Shortly Before tn,
Employees Assembled for Duty-At Least
Twenty Persons Were on Their Way to tn,
Factory When the Explosion Occurred-Th,
Property Loss is Estimated at SOC, 900.

Findlay. o., (SpeciaD AS a result
OF an explosion in the two drying
rooms of the Lake Shore Novelty
Company's plant here, seven persons
are known to be dead five are SC
seriously hurt that recovery is believ-
ed to be impossible and twelve or hf-
teen are injured badly.
From reports of the physicians ter
OF the less seriously injured may die
as result of blood poinsoning from
the potash that was driven into Their
bodies.
The Lake Shore Novelty Company
works covered nearly ten acres oi
ground in the southwestern yart of the
city and employed nearly 200 men
women and children. Railroad torpe.
does and Fourth OF July explosives
were manufactured.
Owing to the large rush Of orders
the officials of the plant requested the
employees TO report for duty Sunday
About thirty complied with the re
quest.
Sunday morning the residents OF
lhbIdy Ntlt SldI lltu DN TWO tNplC'
sions that 5hattercd windows through
out the city The concussion was fell
for miles arounl. Two magazines, il
separate rooms at the novelty works
let go simultaneously with terrific re
ports. The exact cause of the eXplo
sion is not definitely known. 1t il,
surmised that one OF the Sherwood
brothers, who were the only persons.
in the drying rooms, dropped a large
box OF torpedoes, but this theory car
not be confirmed.
The explosion occurred shortly be.
fore the employees assembled for duty
AT least twenty persons were on theii
way to the factory when the ex.
plosion occurred.
Human forms were strewn consid
cradle distances apart on the factory
site. The remains of the Sherwood
brothers were found in drying room
No. mangled and almost unrecog
nizable. Their clothing was blown
from their bodies, save a stocking or
the right loot of Jay Sherwood.
The body of Edith Dillon was pick
ed up two hundred yards from where
the explosion occurred.
The news of the catastrophe spread
like wildhre throughout the country
Every train and interurban car tina
has arrived in the city for the past ter
hours was crowded The large plan,
is shattered into fragments, not one
single wall remaining. Bricks and
timber can be found for half mile
around.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
TREATMENT FOR LOCKJAW.
Physician in New York Hospital Adopts Ger
man Method

New York, (SpeciaD Two sue
cessful experiments in treating teta-
nus have been made by physicians in
Gouvernueur Hospital. 1t is a new
mode OF treatment and was discovered
by celebrated German scientist.
His theory is that many diseases,
such as lockjaw, spread through the
nervous system rather than through
the blood. Heretofore cases of lock-
jaw have been treated by injecting
tetanus anttoxin into the blood and
even into the cranial cavity. The
treatment is often unsuccessful.
The patients treated in Gouvern-
eur Hospital were two boys, one OF
whom ran nail into his foot. The
other was shot in the hand with a
blank cartridge. The condition OF
both became very serious. When the
hope for their recovery was almost
abandoned DR.. Rogers experimental
with the new theory Instead OF in
jcctlng the antitoXin into the blood
or skin of the patient whose foot
was injured, the physician made an
inciSion at the groin, where the leg
nerves join the trunk nerves, and the
nerves themselves injected with the
antitoXin.
The effect was beneficial at once.
In two weeks he was convalescent.
and he lett the institution completely
cured about week ago, The other
boys nerves were laid bare in the
upper arm, just below the shoulder,
and the antitoxin was injected in the
nerves. He also began to improve
Immediately. and will be able TO leave
the hospital III a short time.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
Cossacks Stop Jap's A vance.

London, (By Cable While a por-
tion OF the Japanese Army in Man
churia, which had been advancing
toward the Russian position. has fallen
back to the vicinity OF Fcng Wang
Chcng, after sharp fighting with Cos
sacks Thursday in a mountainous dis
'rict, there arc no oficiol reports of
heavy losses on either side.
General Kurokis army is moving
in several divisions, and according to
General kuropatkin's official report to
the Gar there was no general engage
mcnt, the fighting being confined to a
detachment OF Cossacks and d detach-
mcnt OF the advance guard of the
Japanese division marching nO-thward,
with the supposed intention OF exc
cutting a flank movement on Mukdcn.
4 CORES sponlcnt at Niuchwang
states that tho Japanese numbered
10000 and the Russians $4,000, and
that the tight took place 90 miles west
OF Fcng Wang Cheng. These figures
as TO the relative size Of the opposing
forces are likely exaggerated. All re-
ports state, however, that the Japanese c
fell back , to Is miles near their base,
At Fcng Wang Chcug.
Without fight the Russians have
evacuated kalplng, 35 miles south OF
NiuChwaug.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25

The State Department has instruct.
ed Consul Gummere to demand OF
the Moorish government that il takes
the Moorish government that it take
sweeping measures to secure the re-
lease OF Ion Perdicaris, the American
citizen captured by brigands, even il
necessary to acceed to the captors'
terms Admiral Chadwick will receive
orders to proceed to Tangier with the
whole South Atlantic Squadron.
The State Department has been ad-
vised OF the appointment OF Morteza
Khan as Persian minister to the
United States
President Roosevelt signed the com.
missions OF about 372 army officers
advanced one grade and retired.
The Department of Agriculture has
issued a report showing the increase ID
consumption OF cotton in the cotton
states.
Harrison J, Barrett, one OF the de-
PENDANTS in the case charging him
and Tyncr with conspiracy TO de
fraud the government went on the
stand in his own behalf.
Rev. DIR. J. ii. Lucas, Of Fairmount,
w. Va, spoke on Christian Patri-
otism" before the Methodist Prot
estant Christian Endeavor Union. in
Washington.
The board of trustees OF the Carne-
gle Institution effected reorganza-
tion under the new incorporation as
the Carnegie institution OF Washing
ton.
Dispatches from South America in
dicate that Brazil and Peru will not
engage in war.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
LIFE IN PRISON FOR So.
But the Burglary Was Louis divers Third
0ffense

Mason, Mich. (SpeciaD Louis Oil
yer, who, in company with Fred Lee
sarge, stole s. and two hats from a
butcher shop, has been given a life
sentence in Marquette prison by
Judge West 1t was his third Oh
Tense for burglary. Judge West said
that the statute provided that where
prisoner had been twice arrested
he might be sentenced for life. He
said a life sentence was not made
mandatory, but he believed that in
this case II was justified.
Since Oliver was first sentenced, in
1881 said the Judge, "hc has been
under arrest more times than he can
tell. He has served 10 years for
burglarics ! believe the statute re-
ierred to was framed for the purpose
OF riddng society Of just such men
as | cOnSi Ter Oliver TO be"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
Strikers as Military Prisoners.

Trinidad, Col. (SpeciaD D.-One hum
dred striking union coal miners who
refused to be registered by the mills
tary authorities OF Las Animas coun-
iy, which is under martial law, wero
brought to this city as military pris-
oncrs from the strikers camp near
Ludlow. They were forced to march
l8 miles under cavalry escort. As
The county Jail is already full. bull
pen will be constructed, in which tho
strikers will be herded. Major Zeph
I. Hill, commanding the military
iorces, decided on the policy df reg
stering all the 5000 idle men in the
county in consequence of a number
of fires that have occurred in the vi
.inity Of strikers camps.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
ImpersOnatOrs of President.

The mysterious pantomime enacted
in front OF the Capitol Thursday by
men dressed up to resemble President
Roosevelt and Booker 7. Washington
has been explained. Lew Dockstader,
the minstrel, impersonated the colored
sage OF Iuskegee, and Jean c. Havez,
the song writer, made up as the Presi-
dent, and they went through their
mummery before moving picture
camera in order to get photographs
Tor the blackface comedian to use
with new song.
"Oh, Won't You Come and Dine
With Me- is the title OF the ballad,
according to Dockstadcr's friends.
1t IS lucky for Dockstader and
Havez thar they left town Immediately
after they got through with their NOV
ing picture show. Two or three hours
after the minstrels had left the de-
tectives and bluecoats OF the District
force were charging around the city
with gore in their eyes, threatening
TO wreak I'll kinds OF ycngencc upon
the cvildoers il they caught them.
1t is said that under the laws of
the District the minstrcls could be
fined and jailed for their imper-
sonatiOn.
Jean c. Havez is Baltimorean and
for a year or more has been Docksta-
der's press agent, He is the author
OF He Cert'ny Was Good To Me-"
"Good-By, Booze" and other clas-
sical lyrics, and was formerly a local
newspaper man. He said he had no
fear Of the capital slenths, as he and
Dockstader had obtained a permit to
operate a moving picture machine in
the Capitol grounds.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
WOMAN STRUGGLED.
Cast Herself and Child Into River and Fought
OFF Rescuers.

Columbus, o., (SpeciaD With q
pretty little 4-year-old blonde girl
bound to her body with bands of linen,
handsome brunette woman, ap-
parently rs or 80 years old, was seen
to leap over the Rich Street bridge
into the Scioto river at $50 o'clock
A. NJ. Two men who were approach.
ing from opposite ends of the bridge
were attracted by the demonstra-
tions OF affection between the woman
and child as the supposed mother
stood against the railing guarding tho
bridge sidewalk at the outer edge,
with the little girl in a sitting posi-
tion on the rail The woman was kis.
sing the child, and the little girls
face was beaming with smiles as she
she gleefully chucklcd and nested her
lace and fiaxcn curls among the raven
locks of the woman.
Then therc suddenly came a change
in the expression on the woman's
face from smiles to fixed determine.
ton, and as the shadow spread over
her countcnance she, like fash
mounted tho guard rail and threw
herself and the pinoned child into
the waters, some thirty-hve feet be-
low.
The men rushed over an abutment,
plunged into the river and swan from
opposite shores toward the center
of the stream to attempt to rescue tho
woman and child. At the approach
OF succor the woman became as 4
tigress at bay and fought the men
with apparent superhuman strength.
So furious was her defense that, to
save their own lives, the men had to
put back to shore and allow the wo-
man and child to go down to THEM
death.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-25
Baltimore Dock Loan Approved.

Baltimore, Md, (SpeciaD .-Balts-
more ndorsed the S5,ooo,ooo dock loan
Tues lay By a vote OF 1880 to o,2t2.
Its majority was 2a,5S4 proportion
ately, one OF the largest recorded in
the history Of Baltimore. Not even
than 10000. Three and one half votes
were cast ior the loan for every one
against II. IL was victory for pro.
grcss and greater Baltimore of the
most sweeping ard uncertain sort.
Like flood IT swept away all doubt
and hesltancy.