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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-09-13
CONDITION OP THE CROPS.
The Weekly Report Of the Weather
Bureau.

Washington, D. c., (Special) Crop
conditions are summarized as follows in
the weekly crop bulletin OF the Weather
Bureau:
Temperatures favorable for the matur-
ing of crops prevailed in all districts east
of the Rocky Mountains during the week
ending September 4, except in the north
ern portions of Upper Missouri and Up
per Mississippi Valleys and in Northern
New England where it was somewhat
too cool. Scattered light frosts, causing
slight damage, occurred in the Central
and Northern Rocky Mountain districts
and in the Upper Missouri Valley during
the latter part of the week The greater
part of Texas, portions of Kansas and
Missouri and the North Pacific Coast
continue to need rain
Under highly favorable temperatures
scorn has advanced rapidly Much of the
early crop over the southern portion of
the corn belt is being cut, and cutting
will begin in Iowa this week. The con-
dition of the crop continues excellent
generally throughout the corn belt.
Considerable overripe spring wheat re-
mains uncut on flooded low lands in
Southern Minnesota and Eastern North
Dakota, and moisture has injured grain
in shock in portions of South Dakota
and Iowa. Threshing is generally well
advanced, but was interrupted by rains
about the middle of the week On the
North Pacific Coast high winds caused
injury to standing grain in Washington,
but otherwise the weather was favorable
gfor harvesting and threshing
While slight improvement in the con-
dition of cotton in Northeast Texas and
in portions of the central cotton states is
shown, the reports as whole indicate
deterioration in the average condition of
the crop as compared with the previous
week. Rust and shedding continue quite.
general, but injury from boil weevls in
Texas is somewhat diminished Cotton
has opened rapidly throughout the belt,
and the weather has been favorable for
picking, which has been generally active,
having been completed in portions of Ala
bama and Georgia.
Much tobacco in the Ohio Valley and
Middle Atlantic States has been housed,
and the remainder is maturing rapidly.
A good crop is generally reported, es-
pecially in the northern part of the Mid
die Atlantic States and in New Eng
land
A very poor apple crop is indicated in
all the important apple-producing states.
Very few favorable reports respecting
potatoes are received. and the general
outlook is for an indifferent crop
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-09-13

Godzyadani, Manchuria (By Cable -
At o'clock P. NJ. Japanese COM
missioner bearing white flag and es-
corted by so soldiers. arrived at post
near the railway and handed to the
Russian officers who went to meet him
letter from Field Marshal Oyama to
General Linevitch, congratulating him
on the conclusion OF peace and begging
him to appoint Russian plenipotentiaries
20 arrange an armistice.
Field Marshal Oyama appointed Cen
eral Tukushima as plenipotentiary for
his side, the letter announced, and he
suggested Chakhedza as the meeting
place.
The negotiations received no official
recognition in the field prior to their
successful conclusion, the army keeping
in a state Of preparedness for a battle
until the receipt by General Linevitch
of a telegram from Emperor Nicholas
declaring that the treaty had been signed
and that he accepted the conditions ar
rived at. This telegram was officially
published in the army newspaper on
September 6, and the outlines OF the
peace conditions were printed in the
same publication.
The officers thereafter observed milf
tary decorum in the strictest sense, but
the soldiers, with the consent of the Off
GERS, engaged in feasting and other
forms of celebration
1t will be week more before the en-
tire army is fully informed OF the con-
clusion of peace, but the news was dis
counted long since by the prevailing
conviction that since the appointment
of the plenipotentiaries, peace was
foregone conclusion. 1t may be said
that TO the great majority of the Off
GERS and men so far informed the news
that the war is at an end is most wei
come.
Thousands are daily drinking to the
health OF President Roosevelt.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-09-13
Serious Charge Against AguInuldo.

Manila (By Cable) Capt. w. P Ba-
ker, medical officer Of the constabulary,
serving in the Province OF Cavite while
testifying in libel suit against the Re-
haichiemiento, native newspaper, de-
clared that Aguinaldo was in league
with the native outlaws He said that
evidence TO this effect was obtained
from captured chiefs. "The people un-
derstand, he added, "that Aguinaldo is
the director OF the outlaw campaign. and
supposedly peaceful natives are aiding
the movement under the same under
standing"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-09-13
LIVES WITH BROKEN NECK.
James Booth Is Brought From Atlantic City on
q Bed of Water.

Philadelphia. (SpeciaD Lying on a
bed of water, James Booth, aged "a
years, conductor on the Central Rail
road of New Jersey, was taken from the
hospital at Atlantic City to his home, in
Mauch Chunk, Pa. Booths spinal cord
is broken between the fifth and sixth
vertebrae, the result OF an accident while
he was bathing in the ocean on August
"a. Booth dived from the shoulders of a
friend and struck on his head in the
sand, breaking his neck.
He was at once taken TO the Atlantic
City Hospital and placed on a water
bed. Doctors said he could not live
In the care OF physician, a trained
nurse and his sister, he was removed to
his home. His case is puzzling the ply
sicians who have interested themselves in
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Appeals 10 the Gar.

St Petersburg, (By Cable Through
a dispatch from Tiflis and current reports
in St. Petersburg say that the oil works
and tanks at Baku have been entirely con-
sumed and the town practically wiped
out; according to dispatch to the Nobel
Company from Baku this is an error
and the loss, though enormous, is not
complete.
This dispatch stated that the firing in
the town had ceased and that the in
cendiarism had been checked The fate
Of the banks and works which are not
yet on fire depends on the wind, which is
blowing hurricane. Unless it changes
and sweeps the fire back on the unaf-
fected districts there is hope OF saving
some of the properties. The sender OF
the dispatch was unable to give details
of what had been destroyed and was not
destroyed, smoke and flames preventing
a close examination.
The St. Petersburg press attacks the
government for its indecision in handling
events in the Caucasus and its neg
lect TO attempt TO take measures to re-
concile the Armenians and Tartars, and
declares that the ruin of one of the most
important industries in Russia and i'm
mense losses to industry and commerce
are the fruits of the governmental dis
regard for years of the most legitimate
amp practical suggestions of the oil
men, especially the governments refusal
OF their request for authority to establish
a local organization for self-protection
against the excesses of the natives.
The authorities of the Caucasus would
seem to have been taken completely by
surprise by the magnitude of the Tartar
rising. There is not the least doubt that
it had been long planned and carefully
organized, and is connected with the
Separatist movement.
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B. and o.,s PIttsburg Station.

Pittsburg, (SpeciaD,-The Engineer
ing Department at Washington has IN
dorsed the plans OF the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad for new railroad sta
ton at Water and Smith6ed streets,
Pinsburg. Objection had been raised by
rivermcn, as the railroad wishes to use
part of the Monongahela wharf. 1t is
/ the intention to erecd a building to cost
about ST. ooo,o 900, which will house all the
Offices of the company that are scattered
all over the CITY at prcsent
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FINANCIAL.

The average price OF railroad shares
has fallen about 4 per cent. from the
top level Of last week
Stock Exchange business in New York
in August gained 65 per cent over the
same month OF last year In the Phila-
deiphia Exchange the transactions in
creased 200 per cent
L. W.. Clark & Co. are largely inter
csted in the purchase Of all the street
railways Of Portland, Me
No one doubts that Morgan still favors
higher prices. There is sonme doubt
about what the Standard Oil people
favor.
One firm Of brokers having an import
ant Philadelphia house are reported to
have bought 10000 shares Of stock in
TWO days.
All rail freight rates on grain from
Chicago eastward were increased 2H
cents on domestic and I cent per 100
pounds on export grain.
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Although the syndicate managers have
only called for $25,ooo,ooo or one-quarter
OF the total issue OF Pennsylvania AIS
it is believed that fully as many more
have been sold for future delivery The
price has been advanced by the syndicate
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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-09-13
THEY CHEER ROOSEVELT
Oyama's Peace Greeting to General
Lineyitch.
ALSO PLANS FOR AN ARMISTICE.
Remarkable Demonstration Among the Russian
soIdIers--Americsn Correspondent a Cen
ter Of Admiration for the cossseks.-Thous.
snds Daily Drinking Health Of President
Roosevelt
Arranging Ar.nlstlce.

Field Marshal Oyama has
sent peace congratulations to
General Lincvitch and asked
him to appoint Russian officers
10 arrange armistice.
Oyama has suggested Chalk
hedza as the meeting place Of
the japanese and Russian Off
GERS.
The Russian army in Man
churia teens with praise of
President Roosevelt for bringing
about peace.
Thousands Of the soldiers
cheer Roosevelt and drink his
health.
Russian soldiers are apprchen-
sive about returning to Rus
sia and many Of them want to
settle in Manchulia.
okio has quieted down, al
though Japenese political agita-
tors continue to try to stir up
trouble.
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The Moros Pselfled.

Washington, (SpeciaD Major Cen
era Leonard Wood, in command Of the
Department of Mndanae, in his annual
report states that the general condition
OF affairs in his department is very salts
factory and has been greatly improved
during the last fiscal year A few small
disturbances took place, as a rule caused
by fanatical Mohammedan priests. but
the Moros have been paciftd to such a
degree that American officials may safely
travel in any part OF the islands where
formerly strong guard was necessary.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-09-13
Town Marshall Killed.

GAINESVILLE, o, (Special) While walk
ing along the streets Of McConnelsville
Marshal H. C. Porter, of that city, was
shot and instantly killed by a well-known
young man named Woodie Stewart, a
brother OF the county clerk OF Morgan
County. Stewart fred four shots at Por-
ter, all of which took effect three in the
head, either Of which would have .pro-
duced death, and another in the body.
Stewart has long been regarded as OF
unsound mind though never before did
he do violent act He has no grudge
against the Marshal and no cause can
be assigned for the crime.
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Worked With Fractured Skull

Chicago, (SpeciaD. - After working
three hours and walking to his house
unassisted while suffering from frac-
tured skull, Benjamin S. Schooley, AZ
years old is dead. Schooley was en-
ployed in the repair shop of an express
company as wheelwright. A heavy wa
gon box which he was repairing. slipped
from its supports and fell on him. He
recovered consciousness within 2 few
minutes, finished his days work and
walked to his house unaccompanied. He
soon became delirious, and died few
hours later An examination showed
that his skull had been fractured.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-09-13

Havana (SpeciaD President Palma
was unanimously renominated as a can
didate for the presidency Of Cuba. Men
dez Capote received the nomination for
the vice presidency. The platform does
not mention the Plat amendment, as the
Moderates consider the constitutional
appendix settled 1t declares strongly
for hve-year extension Of the reci-
procity treaty with the United States
and for amendments thereof according
10 the interests Of both countries.
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Boiled to Death.

Livingston, Mont, (SpeciaD. = Miss
Fannie Wickes, aged ~ years, OF Wash
ington, D. C., died in this city from the
effects of falling into boiling spring in
the Yellowstone Park several days ago.
In company with other Eastern tourists,
Miss Wickes was making tour OF the
park. and while viewing the geyser, step
ped backward in an effort TO dodge the
binding spray OF the spoutcr and fell
into hot spring in which The water was
fairly bubblmg. Her badly was literally
cooked from the waist down, and death
ensued after period OF intense agony
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-09-13
10 Memory Of Senator tlnnun.

Cleveland, O., (SpeciaD. - President
Charles +. Thing, of Western Reserve
University, who returned from a two
month trip in Europe and visit with
Andrew Carnegie at the latter's castle in
Scotland, announced that Mr. Carnegie
has given $2s,ooo toward the establish
ment of a fund of 100000 for the endow-
ment of chair of political economy at
Western Reserve University 10 bear the
name of the late United States Senator
NJ. A. Hanna
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-09-13
Accuses Father Of Siabblpg Him.

St. Louis, Mo, (SpeciaD In a criti-
cal condition and believed to be dying,
William Miller, Jr, a dry goods sales
man under treatment at the City Hos
pital, accused his father Of having in
flicted stab wounds from which he is suf-
fering. The father was arrested and ad-
mitted having had trouble with his son,
but denied having stabbed him.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-09-13

Connellsville, Pa. (SpeciaD. - The
Rand powr.-- Mills at Fair Chance, six
miles south of Uniontown, were entirely
wiped out by an explosion at oos o'clock
A. M. OF the 80 men who went to
work in the mills 10 are known TO be
dead. OF these 10 have been identified.
Scores of people in the town of Fair
Chance, within half mile of the pow
der mills, were more or less painfully
injured.
The shock OF the explosion was dis
tinctly felt in Connellsvile, 20 miles
away buildings being rocked on their
foundations. AT Uniontown hundreds Of
panes of glass were broken.
In the town Of Fair Chance there is
scarcely a house that did not suffer
damage The sides were battered in as
though axes had been used. Haystacks
were toppled over in the fields and live
stock were stunned. The rails fthe
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the
West Penn Traction Railways Company
were rooted from the roadbed and traf-
fic was delayed from four to six hours,
transfers being made over the Pennsyl-
vania.
Train No So, on the Baltimore and
Ohio, had narrow escape from annh-
ilation. 1t had just passed the Rand
Mills when the explosion occurred. The
windows in the passenger coaches were
shattered and passengers thrown into a
panic. Had the train been few sec
onds late it would have been blown up,
as the mills are within few rods Of the
tracks.
A street car on the West Penn Rail
way had also passed. just few seconds
before the explosion and was far enough
away to escape damage, though it was
derailed.
There were seven explosions in all
Every one of the 10 buildings was total
ly demolished. Not a vestige OF them
remains. The debris that was strewn
over the ten acres of ground where the
plant was located took fire soon after
the explosion and added its terrors to
the disaster. The dismembered parts
of the dead were burned in many in
stances. Identification of many was
made by parts of clothing alone. The
first three explosions were not as seri-
Gus as the last four. Then the packing
house, pressing room and magazine blew
up, followed by two cars of dynamite
standing on nearby railroad siding,
which were set off by the conclusion
from the powder mill explosions.
Two other cars remained intact and
it was with difficulty that they were
moved TO a place Of safety after the ex-
piosion.
Wherever a survivor or a finder of
some ghastly relic chose to talk he was
Immediately surrounded by eager groups
Of listeners. Orville Swaney was work
ing in the glazing room and had gone
out for drink of water. He was just
outside when the mixing mill went up.
The explosion threw him high in the
air and he landed on his feet in net
work of fallen wires.
Dodging through these, he sped
around the hill and was so feet away
when the second explosion threw him
on his face. He lay there stunned and
knew nothing OF the terrific blast that
came when the storage magazine went
up. A half hour after the explosion he
was picked up and carried to a place of
safety.
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Killed By Premature Blast

Butler, Pa, (SpeciaD One man was
killed and seven badly injured by the
premature explosion OF a charge Of dy-
Mantle at sand plant owned by the
Standard Plate Glass Works, at Saxon.
Pa. The men were all foreigners Three
OF the injured are suffering from frac-
tured skulls, and will die. The other
four hurt are badly cut and bruised All
the injured were brought TO the Butler
hospital.
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FOREIGN

FOREIGN
The Japanese government announces
that Japan acquires suzerainty over
Korea and a free hand in the Peninsula
Railroad south of Changchun; also the
right to retain the collieries at Fushan
and Yentai.
It is reported that the Swedish naval
authorities have ordered the mining of
certain waterways and that precaution-
ary measures have been taken to pre-
vent injury TO shipping.
Field Marshal Yamagata, of Japan, in
reviewing the war, sums up by stating
that Japan's military strength is unim-
paired and her army could have taken
Harbn.
1t is feared that Jacques Faure, an
aeronaut, and the Marquis dc Villanong,
of France, have been lost in an aerial
voyage from Paris to Denmark.
The King of Italy has given $4,000
for the relief Of the earthquake suffer-
ers. The railways in the devastated dis
trict are badly damaged.
There is some anxiety in St Peters
burg over reported clashes at arms in
Manchuria and the continued delay in
establishing an armistce.
Gen. Leonard Wood, U. S. A., who
underwent a surgical operation, has re-
covered and left London Tor the Phil
ippines.
The International Prison Congress
closed at Budapest and the next CON
gress will be held in the United S ates
in 1910
The losses to the oil companies in the
Caucasus by the incendiary fires are cs-
,imated at Soo,oooyooo
Quiet has been restored in Toxic and
other japanese cities.
The Chinese magistrate OF Quinsan,
near Shanghai, has been asserted and im-
prisoned on the charge OF torturing
British subject OF Chinese descent.
There are indications of serious trouble
between Sweden and Norway. The
Swedish newspapers are calling upon the
government to mobilize 10000 troops.
No more Russian emigrants will be
booked for the United States from Ger
man ports until after the raising Of the
embargo against cholera.
The Russian authorities explain THAT
the principal cause OF the disorders at
Baku is the Moslem hatred OF the Ar
ulcIlians.
Quiet has partially been restored in
Toxic, the result OF proclamation is
sued by the military commander.
Lieutenant General~Ghaffee and Briga-
der Generals Bell and Crozier witnessed
the evolutions Of division Of cavalry
under General Dessirier, in France,
Riots occurred at Kobe, Japan, and the
statue Of Marquis Ito was dragged from
its pedestal.
1Fle increased prices OF meat in Ger
many have caused the butchers in 50 or
90 cities to petition, the government 10 ad-
nit live animals free Of duty.
The transport Logan, with Major Gen
cral Corbin and party aboard, arrived at
Annoy, China, and sailed thence for
| Shanghai
The government OF Morocco has yield
ed to the French demands and given
complete satisfaction.
Nearly all the naptha works at Baku
have been destroyed and all the factories
are closed
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D KILLED BY BLAST
Ten Buildings Of the Rand Powder
Mills Blown to Pieces.
SHOOK BUILDINGS MANY NILES AWAY.
Tore Rails From Baltimore and 0hs aud the
Electric Railway Windows Smashed,
Cattle 10 the Fields Stunned, Trolley Car
DeraIled and Persons Badly Shocked Over
90 Area Of Many Niles

Ten buildings of the Rand
powder mills, at Fair Chance, 20
miles from Connellsville, Pa,
were blown into splinters.
Out of 80 men who went to
work in the mills 10 are known
to be dead.
A passenger train had a mar
row escape, having passed mo-
ment before the explosion oc-
CURED.
Windows were broken and
houses shaken in a radius of
20 miles. Many persons were
painfully hurt in nearby towns.
Cattle in the fields were stunned
and wheat stacks overturned.
Seven explosions in all oc-
Cured.
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Killed By His Brother.

Pleasureville, KY, (Special) - Cash
Clubb, one Of the wealthiest men in
Henry County. was hot and killed here
by his brother, Coswell. The dead man
was 90 years old, His brother is 4S.
Ttey had some difficulty over money
matters, but their friends attribute the
shooting TO mental arrangement rather
than disagreement over finances.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-09-13
Lee aud draut on Duty.

Washington, d. c., (SpeciaI .--Presi-
dent Roosevelt has ordered Captain
Fitzhugh Lee, son of the late General
F'itzhugh Lee, and Granddaughter OF Gem
eral Robert +. Lee, to duty at the White
House for the social season next Winter.
Lieutenant U. S. Grant is also stationed
at the Executive Mansion, and the Pres
ident now has on duty at his official resi-
dence the descendants of General Grant
and General Lee, the two leading figures
in the Civil War. Captain Lee will sue
ceed Lieutenant Fortesque, the nephew,
'of Mrs. Roosevelt, who is with the Taft
party ia the far East.
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Found Mapy "Oreodo ons."

Berkeley, Cal, (Spccial) The first
official bulletin descriptive of the fossils
unearthed by the expedition to the John
Day region, in Eastern Oregon, has been
published by the geology department at
the University of California. 1t describes
some OF the strange monsters thai peopled
the country known as the Bad Lands.
Among these remarkable beasts are ex-
,tnct pigs and peccaries as large as cows,
camel-like quadrupeds, and not the least
interesting the famous thrce-toed horse.
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Baku, Caucasia (By Cable) THE prin-
cipal fighting is not in Baku itself, but at
Balakhan, where hundreds have been shot
by the infantry and artillery, and where
1000 were killed or wounded during a
desperate attack on the military camp
and provision depots.
The troops sustained few casualties.
A large number of workmen barricaded
themselves in the Balkan Hospital.
The soldiers began the attack with rife
fire and then stormed the hospital and
completed their work with the bayonet.
The manager of the Mantashoff Com
pany says that the Bibiebat plants have
been burned out, that the depots of the
Caspian Company have been destroyed
and that the Christian workmen are sur
rounded by thousands of armed Tartars.