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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
JEALOUSY DROVE HIM TO CRIME.
Shocking Double Tragedy in New York
clearinghouse.

New York (SpeciaD .--Insanely jeal-
Gus of his pretty wife, who was IL
years his junior, Christian Kirschoffer,
40 years old, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
OF Williamsburg, shot her and their
four-year-old son. lie then fired a
bullet through his own brain, dying
instantly. The boy died soon after
and the wife has little chance of re-
covery.
All those who knew the couple
unite i'll saying that there was alb
solutely no ground for Kirschoffer's
suspicion OF his wife, as she always ap-
pcared devoted to him, stayed closely
at home and attended to all the details
OF management of the clearinghouse
There was no witness to the trag-
edy, but Fanny Curry, a servant em-
ploycd in the house, heard the shots
and ran to bedroom on the first
floor, where the shooting occurred, in
time to see Mrs Kirschoffer lying across
a window ledge, while on the floor
was the body of Kirschoffer. Not far
from his father lay the child, who had
been shot in the head and was un-
conscious
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
Bloekading Of Port Arthur.

Toxic, (By Cable).-The house OF
Representatives listened to a signi-
fcant speech by NJ. Yamamoto, the
minister OF marine, and passed with
out dissenting voice a vote OF thanks
TO Vice Admiral Togo and his officers
for their service to the country.
In his remarks the Minister OF
Marine said it was no new thing TO
be prepared for emergencies in time
of peace, but that since last October
the Japanese Navy had been under the
necessity of increasing its strength
and had been constantly ready for
action on account of the actions OF
Referring to the result OF the work
OF Vice Admiral Togo and his fleet,
NJ. Yamamoto told the House OF
Representatives that to block a port
successfully the blockaders should be
at least twice as strong as the de
tenders OF the port. He said the latest
reports showed that the Russians had
four battleships, FIVE cruisers and 10
torpedo-boat destroycrs ahoat at this
time, from which it must be concluded
that the work Of repairing at Port Ar
thur was being carried forward eff
ciently. The latest attack on Port Ar
thur had enabled the Japanese to
observe the actual strength OF the
enemy.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
M0RM0NS EXCLUDED.
Indiana Congregation to Fight for Use Of
Schoolhouse.

indianapolis, Ind, (SpeciaD.-By a
decision of the Circuit Court the Nor
mons OF Perry county are excluded
from the schoolhouse, where they have
been holding their Sunday services.
The case has been appealed to the Su-
preme Court to test the right of the
township trustee to exclude church
society from schoolhouse on Sun
days during the school term, where
permission has been duly obtained TO
use the schoolhouse for holding relig-
ious services when unoccupied for
school purposes.
The Perry county Mormons have
been holding prayer meetings in the
schoolhouse Tor several years without
objection OF the township trustees,
but several weeks ago, when the eld-
ers began to teach the Mormon doc
trines, the trustees applied for an in
junction.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
PANAMA DISBANDS TROOPS.
Only One Battalion Remains Under Countrys
CoIors.

Panama, (SpeciaD BY recent de-
erees, the second battalion OF Pana-
man troops on the isthmus is disband-
ed, leaving only one battalion under
the colors, and the vessels forming
the Panaman navy are offered for
sale.
Owing to the recent fire at Bocas
del Toro, the four government secre-
raries have been sent there by Presi-
dent Amador to study the means to
be taken to repair the damages sus-
tanned by the town. They sailed from
Colon on the United Fruit Company's
steamer Preston, taking with them
some relief supplies for the inhabi-
tants who suffered from the conha-
grafton.
President Amador gave a banquet
10 Second Vice President and former
Gov. Obaldia. William w. Russell,
the retiring secretary of the United
States Legation, and recently appoint
ed Minister to Colombia; Col. J. r..
Shaler, the superintendent OF the
Panama Railroad Company; Senior
Arrange, and other prominent persons
were present.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
The RUSSIANS PILLAGING
Koreans Fleeing From Their Homes
Near Anju.
RUSSIANS ARE SOUTH OF THE YALU.
Japanese Scouts Report the Russians Ia
Greater Strength South Of the yalu River
Than They Espeeted-A japanese Minister
Informs Parliament Of Conditions About
Port Arthur.

Seoul, (By Cable Two Ietach-
ments OF Russian troops, one estimat-
ed to number 500 and the other ZOO
men, are reported to be pillaging the
country around Anju. The native Ko-
reans in fear are fleeing south. Anju
is 30 miles north of Ping Yank, and
about 90 miles south of the Yalu
River.
In order to provide for the require
ments of the army OF occupation the
Japanese authorities have decided to
extend the fishery concessions in the
Korean provinces OF Hwang Hal, Chy-
ung Chyong and Ping Yang.
japanese scouts report that they
have discovered that the Russian
troops are south OF the Yalu in much
stronger force than was thought.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
Congressional and Departments.

The annual report of the Census
Bureau on cotton spinning showed a
decrease for the year from the total
OF 1902. Its publication caused an ad.
vance in cotton on the various eX-
changes.
The House Committee on Appropri-
ations completed the Sunday Civil APP
preparation Bill and reported it TO the
House. The bill carries a total OF
$s5,o23,ooI.
Complaint was made TO Secretary
Hay that native children in the Congo
Free State were mutilated by Belgian
officials.
The Postofiice Appropriation Bill
was passed by the House, the sec
tion being adopted increasing the rural
letter-carriers' salary from 5000 to
$72o.
Representatives of Southern cotton
interests protested before the Senate
committee against the pending Eight
hour Bill. Arg lent was also made
against the bill before the House Com
mittee.
The House committee authorized
a favorable report on the Frye bill
extending the coastwise laws OF the
United States TO the Philippine Is
lands, July /, 1905.
1t is rumored that Secretary Moody
will retire from the Cabinet to enter
law firm in Boston.
The President will press the button
in Washington and start the Worlds
Fair machinery in St. Louis.
The State Department has receive
formal notice from the Chinese gov
ernment denouncing the Chinese ex-
clusion treaty.
Senator German introduced a bill
in the Senate which will enable the
Wabash Railroad TO enter Wash
ington.
The Washington Police Trial Board
recommended a fine OF $40 month in
the case Of Samuel A. Croft.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
AFTER SULLY'S BACKERS
Sensational Developments Expected at
Investigation
LOSSES FELL ON SOME OF BEST HOUSES
Creditors Express Belief That Books Of the
Cotton King Would Enable Them to Reach
the Men Responsible for the SuIly Contracts
A Statement by President MeDougalI, Of
the Cotton Exchange.

New York, (SpeciaD DR.. p. Nc
Dougal president of the Cotton Ex.
change, made the following statement
relative to the conditions OF the mark
| ct:
The loses in consequence of the
failure OF d. J. Sully G. Co. fall on
some of the most conservative houses
in the trade-frms that were well
| able to stand them without nconveni-
ence.
There is no warrant for any furth-
er apprehension especially as consum-
ers are making inquire for spot cot
ton, which introduces an element of
safety and stability that has been
lacking OF late"
1t was said on the Cotton Exchange
Thursday that sensational develop
ments are expected when the receiv.
ers begin their investigation of Sully's
books. These books, it was reported.
contain records OF the transactions
made by Sully for at least two OF the
capitalists who are said to have backed
the Sully deal, and the creditors ex-
pressed the belief that these records
would enable them to reach the men
responsible for the Sully contracts.
In general way prices worked up
ward until May reached 1865 and
July 1873, net gains OF about 20
points, when rumors that New Orleans
bulls were in difficulties caused re-
newal of liquidation and break to
near the low point of the morning.
The improved tone of the market
was partially attributable to a reas-
suring statement OF the president OF
the exchange to the effect that the
losses resulting from the Sully failure
fell upon the strongest and most con-
servative houses in the trade and that
they were able to sustain them with
out inconvenience. The fact that the
o'clock call passed without further
incident also had reassuring effect.
The market ruled very firm i'll the
late trading, with May selling up to
1885 and July to I4.o5.
The close was practically the best,
with prices at net advance of 22GI45
points. The sales of the day were es-
timated at 100000 bales. q.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
DREAM COST LEGS,
United States Army Officer Thought lie Heard
Charge Ordered.

Galveston, Tex, (SpeciaD.-Licut
Barton Z. Gardner, United States
Army, on furlough from his com
pany, in Arizona. and passenger or
an eastbound Southern Pacific train,
gong to visit his mother, in Mas.a
chusetts, met with peculiar accident
As the train was nearing the depot
III Flatonia he was seated in the chair
car. He awoke as the brakeman called
out the name Of the station and jump
ed out OF the window. He rolled un.
der the train and both legs were cut
off. Immediate medical attention was
given and the patient is resting well,
with good prospects of recovery.
Gardner said that when he heard the
brakeman announce the station he
dreamed his captain commanded q
charge and it was this halucination
that caused the accident.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
To ROB THE FIRE VICTIMS.
Chicago Prisoner Confesses he Tried to Claim
Bodies That Bore Valuables.

Chicago ILL.,, (SpeciaD A gruesome
polt to get valuables found upon vic.
tins OF the lroquios fire was admit.
ted to the police of this city by John
Mahnken, who was arrested several
days ago and who was accused Of
seeking to get possession Of tie body
OF Mrs. Amelia Mueller, OF Milwau-
kee, and also that of Mrs. Frank r.
Orecnwald. On Mrs. Mueller's body
was $500. On Mrs. Greenwald's fin
gers were several valuable rings.
Mahnkens story duplicates a man
who claimed to be physician. Mahn-
ken knew him as DR. George"
The New York police are said tc
have information that man answer.
ing to the description OF Or George
has been implicated in several life in.
surance swindles. He is also said tc
have left Chicago to escape detectives
from a Southwestern state, who want
him for Similar crimes.
Mahnken employed all undertaken tc
bury the body of Mrs. Grcenwald
whom he had falsely identified as tina,
Of his aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Kouth, OF
Montreal.
His confession is in the hands OF
the police.
Twisted Jordon's undertaking es.
tablishment," he said, "and cried as
real as any person would that had lost
a dear relative. identified the body
and sheet was placed over it. Later
| was informed that the body had
been positively identified as that OF
Mrs. Mueller, of Milwaukee. Another
body was marked No. "a, and | iden.
tined that one, and it was laid aside.
Il went then to where the unclaimed
valuables were taken, and there ]
broke down again and wept.
hen we buried the body at Elm
wood. 1t was later identified by Mr..
Greenwald as that OF his wife, and was
disinterred and reburried.
"'Dr. George never learned his
last name-then advised me to start
a suit for damages, and that was what
| was about TO do when arrested"
Mahnken is 28 years of age.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
REBELLION IN COLORADO.
Governor Peabody Has Ordered More People
10 Telluride.

Denver, Col, (SpcciaD "A special
train bearing troops left Denver for
Telluride. The entire force of three
hundred men will be under command
OF Adjustant General Bell.
Governor Peabody stated that he
will declare San Miguel county in a
state OF insurrection and rebellion be-
cause of the representations made to
him by public officials and citizens of
the two, who declared that a body of
men were arming outside the county
to join with men within the county
for the purpose of destroying pro-
perty and inficting personal injuries
on persons in Telluride.
A dispatch received from Telur-
ide contained the news that twenty
Finlanders left that place. 1t is in
ferred from this fact tht the deporta-
tion of strikers and their families has
been resumed by the military.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
SCORES INJURED IN STORM
Indiana HarbOr Merchant Struck Dead
and Fifteen Customers Hurt.
MANY HOUSES WERE BLOWN DOWN
The Number Of People Injured at Indiana
farbor VIII Probably Approximate 25.-An
Three Of the Hotels In the Place We're Badly
Damaged, Green's Hotel In Particular Being
Badly Wrecked.

Chicago, ILL.,, (SpeciaD One of the
most severe storms this city has
known i'll many years, passed over
Chicago the other night.
Great damage was done in the sub.
urbs to the south OF the city and con.
siderable loss was sustained north OF
the city proper. One life is known to
have been lost and many persons were
hurt
The storm did not strike the bus
mess portion OF the city in its greatest
force.
The town OF Indiana Harbor, TWEEN
ty miles southeast of Chicago, on the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railroad, was the heaviest sufferer.
One man, p. Barker, the proprietor
Of a dry goods store, was killed, and
fifteen persons who were in his store
when the storm struck were injured,
some Of them seriously, although none
OF them is expected to die. Barker's
store was entirely demolished.
Eighteen residences were blown
down and several persons were hurt
in the ruins OF their homes.
1t is almost impossible to obtain
full details at present because of the
condition of the telegraph and tele-
phone wires, nearly all of them being
down for miles between Chicago and
Indiana Harbor.
Tho ,.,;r.c ,f ,1,n nIn 1,,,ae ,,.a.a
knocked down and the power was
body to reach the place save on the
through the place.
The number of people injured at In
diana Harbor will probably approxi-
mate twenty-five. All three OF the
hotels IN the place were badly dam
aged, Green's Hotel, i'll particular, be-
ing wrecked. One two-story frame
building was turned entirely over.
The storm created havoc in the town
OF Hammond. Ind. A number of resi-
dences were badly damaged and two
people were injured, but not fatally.
One end OF the large plant of the Re
public Iron and Steel Company was
blown down, causing loss of at
ICdAl S%OIOOO.
A number OF business houses were
unroofed, and the city was in total
darkness. SO many of the electric light
wires were blown down that the au-
thorities compelled the company to
shut off all power, lest lives might be
lost through contact with live wires.
In the freight yards OF the roads run
ming through Hammond great damage
was done. Many cars were unroofed
or blown over, and the yards in many
places were piled with wreckage.
In Grand Crossing, eight miles south
of the center OF the city, number OF
buildings were wrecked, freight cars
blown about the yards and the tracks
OF the railroads covered with debris to
such an extent that the majority OF
incoming trains were compelled to call
upon their passengers to assist in re-
moving the wreckage from the tracks
so that the trains could proceed.
TO the north OF the city the storm
vas also severe, much damage having
been done in the suburbs of Evanston,
Rogers Park and Thornton.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
PANIC IN COUNTY HOSPITAL.
Many Patients Supposed to Be Very III We're
Run Out.

Escanaba, Mich, (SpeciaD.-In a
fire at the Delta County Hospital over
90 patients were thrown into panic
and many were forced to leave the
building in their night clothes.
So dense was the smoke and so rap
idly did the flames gain headway that
the attendants were unable to control
the frightened patients, and many who
were thought to be at the point Of
death arose from their beds and es-
capped from the building by ladders
and fire-escapes.
Many stood about the outside OF the
building nearly 80 minutes, dressed
only in their night clothes and in snow
up to their knees before they could be
taken to nearby homes.
The fire was under control within an
hour, but it is feared that many OF
tine patients who were suffering from
typhod fever will never recover from
the effects OF the exposure.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
Scandal 10 Tokyo.

Tokoyo, (By Cable).-A legislative
scandal is threatening in connection
with the proposal of the government
to create a tobacco monopoly. 1t is
alleged that certain members of the
Diet agreed to support the movement
to increase the compensation paid to
manufacturers for a share OF the in
crease secured. 1t was originally pro-
posed to pay the manufacturers a sum
equal to three years income, and it Is
said that the illicit project was to se-
cure four years income. The police
are investigating the paattsr.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING.

New York City has 10000 tele.
phones.
The tolls of the Suez Canal ip
1903 were S2I, 10000
About $4,000 people in Great Britain
wear glass eyes.
Red and black are the common
colors OF deep sea animals.
Hollow steel spheres are in use in
Sweden for billiard balls.
The basis OF most indelible inks is
the ordinary nitrate of silver.
Belgium alone has $3.50, ,ooo, 900 in.
vested in Russian factories and rail-
ways.
The Chinese and Japanese make
many articles of furniture out of paper.
Twenty million rabbits were export.
ed from Victoria, Australia, last year.
The Russian consumer pays for
sugar three or four times the export
price.
1t is said that salmon, pike, and
gold fish are the only fish that never
sleep.
The cost of cleaning the streets OF
Paris is IL cents per square yard per
annum.
Alloys of iridium and assmium are
now very generally used to point gold
pens.
In all countries more marriages take
place in June than in any other month.
OF the 4,5oo paper mills in the
world, Asia has but nineteen and
Africa but four.
The cost OF living in Tamatave,
Madagascar's metropolis, Is double
that in New York.
The murders in the United States
in 1908 numbered 6,o76; the legal exc
cutions numbered but I23.
The receipts of the Cuban govern
ment last year were $I8,ooz, 500 and
its expenses were $I5,o33,o46.
American locomotives are used on
tine Yafa- Jerusalem Railway, although
it is owned by Frenchmn.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
Foreign.

A dispatch from Colonel Leutwein
announced a hght at Omatako Noun
tain, in which the Hereros were re-
pulsed with the loss OF 10 men killed.
General Reyes, who left Paris last
night for Colombia, intimatel that he
would accept the presidency OF the
new republic.
An agreement has been reached for
the organization OF a Macedonian
gendarmerie under European officers.
Josef Rebicek, for six years con
ductor Of the Philharmonic Orchestra
OF Berlin, is dead
Two French anarchists were arrest
ed in Liege, Belgium, and confessed
being bomb-throwers.
Secretary Wyndham, in the British
House of Commons, stated that ap-
piications for advances under the Iris !
Land Act amounted to $4,000, 900
from 4,I52 tenants, on 200 estates that
had been received.
Prof. Carl Schumaun, cuator OF the
Royal Botanical Museum, is dead.
An Italian parliamentary committee
will inquire into accusations against
Signor Nosi, former minister OF public
instruction, who is charged with mis-
appropriation OF funds.
Ii is stated that the proposed en-
gagement OF the German Crown
Prince to Princess Alexandra OF
Brunswick and Luneberg was pre-
vented by the young lady's father, the
Duke OF Cumberland.
Masse and Moranne, the bicyclists
who purjured themselves in the Fair
case in France, were sentenced each
TO three years imprisonment.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
Scarlet Fever Germ.

Chicago, H., (SpeciaD.-To search
for the scarlet fever germ in series
of experiments on apes is the object
OF trip to Europe about to be un-
dertaken by DR.. Ludwig Hektoen,
head of the Mccormick Memorial In
stitute for Infectious Diseases. The
institute was endowed by Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold +. Mccormick, who lost
a son through scarlet fever. DR.. HEX
toen will sail for Liverpool April /.
After two months spent i'll the hos
pitals there experimenting on monkeys
he will visit various hospitals on the
Continent.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
Rescued Her Pupil.

Chicago, (SpcciaD,-Plunging into
the Des PLANES River Miss Louise
Jackson, school teacher of haywood
a suburb OF Chicago, rescued one Of
her pupils, the little daughter of Sam
uel G.. Kline, after the mother OF the
child had tainted and two boys who
had accidentally knocked the little one
into the river had run away. Unaided
Miss Jackson fought her way through
the swift waters OF the Des PLANES,
which is at higher flood stage than
for years, and it was only after she
had slipped back into the river from
the crumbling bank several times that
the heroic young woman brought the
little girl safely ashore.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
PORT ARTHUR SHELLED AGAIN.
Threatened the Destruction Of Russian Forts
and the Town.

London, (By Cable).-While IN. .e.
ports from Toxic that Port Arthur
had been occupied by the Japanese
were premature, the latest dispatches
from St. Petersburg show that a
japanese fleet of battleships and IL
cruisers, together with 8 torpedo boats
were engaged Monday night in an.
other tremendous bombardment that
threatened the destruction oil Russian
forts and the town.
1t is probable, as reported from To.
kio. that the Japanese made an i'm
portant movement by land upon the
Russian base at the same time.
Naval experts here believe tha,
these latest attacks will hasten the
fall OF the Russian base.
A dispatch to Reuters Telegram
Company from St. Petersburgh SAYS:
japanese torpedo boats appeared
off Port Arthur at midnight of the
night OF March 2I-22, and the shore
batteries and guardships shelled them
for 20 minutes.
The Japanese retired, but reap.
peared four hours later, when they
met with the same reception, wher
they retired again.
AT a. NJ. Japanese squadron OF
two divisions, in all consisting OF {
battleships and IL cruisers, and ac.
companied by torpedo boats, ap.
peared, and the Russian squadron
sailed out from the outer roadstead
to meet them.
AT 9 A. NJ. the Japanese battle
ships. having fired several shots at
Liaotishin and sheltered behind the
promonotory, began a furious bonn
bardment of Port Arthur"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
$500 For a Kiss.

Shawnee, Okla, (SpeciaD.-A jury
in the District Court, after being out
twenty hours, gave verdict in favor
of Mrs. Maud Bell Lees. of McCloud,
against Ewers White, president of the
Oklahoma board of agriculture, for
$500 and costs. Mrs. Lees alleged that
White had attempted to kiss her, and
that her husband, at her request, had
caught him in the act and mauled
White with a poker. All parties are
married and prominent.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-03-30
GasoIIse Causes Big Fire.

Lansing, Mich, Especial }. - The
Grand river has reached the highest
point in its history here, and the
food has caused heavy damage. The
water has oyerAowed for two blocks
70 the westward OF the river, and the
lowiands on the east side Of the
stream are all flooded. The Kala-
rnazoo street bridge went out during
the night. Gasoline floating down on
the food from a leaking tank into the
boiler fires at the Gates and Edmonds
Gas Engine Company's plant resulted d
IN FIRE that grtied the plant. The loss
il, $4,000.