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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
BIG STEAMBOAT IS
BLOWN TO ATOMS
Many Lives Are Lost In the
Mississippi River.
OVER A SCORE ARE MISSING.
The w. T. Scovell, Plying Between
vicksburg and Davis Bend, is Blown TO
Bits by an Explosion That Occurred
While She Was Taking on Freight at
Gold Dust Landing, Near Vi;ksburg.

Vicksburg, Miss. Especially One
of the most disastrous accidents In
the history of the Mississippi River
occurred at 10 minutes past IL
O'Clock Wednesday morning, when
the steamer w. I. Scovel, plying IN
the Vicksburg and David Bend trade,
was destroyed by an explosion.
Owing 10 the large number oil ne
groes on board It is impossible to as
certain the exact number of the dead
and injured, but officers of the boat
who arrived here state that no less
than 10 nor more than 16 were
killed. The probabilities are that a
like number were injured.
The number of dead and injured
negroes cannot be stated at this time,
but of a crew and passenger list OF
about so, about half are missing.
The negro dead we're cared for at
the place where the accident oc-
Cured, as were some of the injured.
About Ave of the injured negroes
were brought to Vicksburg on the
steamer Senator Cordell with the
white dead and injured. The acci-
dent occurred at Gold Dust Landing,
The Scovell was at the landing
taking on freight, when suddenly a
terrific explosion occurred and the
boat was blown practically to atoms.
Many of the timbers of the boat
were thrown hundreds of yards, and
some of those on board were blown
almost as far.
The pilot house and front part of
the cabin were blown to splinters, and
some parts of the boat were so badly
damaged that she began to sink i'm
medistely. When the Cordell left
here she was listing heavily and her
cargo of 1000 sacks of cottonseed
and so bales of cotton will be lost.
Pending the arrival of the Senator
Cordell the injured were cared for
at Gold Dust Landing as well as pos
sible.
OF the white dead only the body
of Lavell Yeager has been recovered.
Wade Quackenboss was heard to call
for help soon after the explosion, but,
according to the reports of those who
were on the boat, escaping steam
soon smothered his cries. Captain
Quackenboss was not seen after the
accident.
Pilot Dougherty was blown several
hundred feet out into the river, but
despite a dislocated shoulder man
aged to swim to the bank.
The injured were taken to the
Vicksburg hospitals.
The captain was one OF the oldest
and best known residents of this city
and was well known to every man on
the river. The steamer Scovell was
only recently purchased by him and
Others for the Vicksburg and Davis
Bend trade. The boat was insured
for 900
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
A Counsel Under A Cloud.

Washington Especially The State
Department has sent out an order to
all American counsels in Europe to
look out for Frederick McMasters,
of New York, and to communicate
with the authorities in case he is
found McMasters was recently re-
moved as consul TO Zanzibar on
charges filed by Sir Charles Harding
the British under secretary. Harold
Van Buren,, the American consul al
Nice, has reported to the State De
partment that McMasters induced
him to become surety for $1,000
note by representing that he was OH
his way out to his post.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
The British Charge Presented.

Washington (special) sir Morti~
mer Durand, the British ambassa-
dor, called on Secretary Root and
presented EsDe Howard, the new sec
retary. of embassy and who will be
charge d'af;aires pending the APP
pointment of successor to Ambassa-
dor Durand. Later the Ambassador
and Mr.. Howard paid official visits to
Secretary Taft and other officials OF
the War Department. Ambassador
Durand will sail for England on the
29th inst. and meantime will be
given a series of farewell dinners
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
-Four Fire Victims.

Buffalo, n. Y. Especially 49, Four
persons were killed and one was ia
tally burned in small fire in the
Zenobla Apartment House, on Pros
pect Avenue at the corner of West
Huron Street. Other occupants OF
the place had narrow escapes, half
dozen being rescued by the fire.
men. The blaze was a small one and
was quickly brought under control
by the firemen.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
AN AWFUL EXPOSE
OF THE ICE TRUST
Sensational Charges Of Gouging
and Deceit.
THE SUIT BEGAN IN NEW YORK.
Attorney General Mayer Asks for
the Dissolution of the Trust Of
Whose SAG, 325. 4ss of Stock $S3, 26o,-
606 Represents No Tangible Asset
Restricting the Output.

New York Especially Attorney
General julius Mayer, in the name
of the people of the State OF New
York, began an action against the
American Ice Companw in the sup
rene Court of New York County
for the dissolution of the so-called
Ice Trust. A summons and COM
plant Issued here was forwarded TO
the New York City representatives
of the Attorney General for service
upon the proper officials OF the COM
pany.
The complaint alleges as a prin-
cipal feature of the scheme anu
arrangement by which the company
secured a practical monopoly OF tne
natural and artificial ice output anu
distribution, especially in Greater
New York and the communities IN
that vicinity. that IL secured control
of the Main ice field and caused
reduction there last year OF the usuai
harvest from million and halt TONS
to one-third of that amount. Inc
other sources of supply are alleged
to be similarly controlled.
The KEY TO the ice situation IN
New York City is pointed out as ~
ing in the eompany's cottrol OF the
ice bridges" or landing depots, by
which means. It is alleged, the COM
pany is enabled to fix the price OF
ice. resulting last summer in an in
crease from S1.2O a ton at the
bridges to S5 and Sc a ton to the
independent dealers. who are alleged
to be controlled by the company,
and who supply the retail trade.
II is Aaid that by the time the
ice reached the poorer customers II
cost them at the rate of $40 TO Sl4
a ton.
Accused OF Double Dealing.
Correspondence Of the company
with its agents and others is quoted
to show that at the very time When
the company was urging It's custo-
mers to be careful in their purchase
and consumption of ice, owing TO the
shortage of supply, it was informing
its agents that the ice situation
from the company's standpoint was
satisfactory, and that offers were
being received from various sources,
especially from Maine Independent
producers, of ample supplies, ana
the company was at that time refus-
ing to accept these offers on any
terms. It is contended that the ef-
forts of the company were designed
TO create a popular impression that
an ice famine was impending, in or
der to forestall public clamor against
a contemplated enormous increase IN
the price to consumers, which in
crease did, in fact, take place.
1t is declared by the Attorney
General that on the Hudson River
the American Ice Company owns all
Tut II of the 141 icehouses, and
that 1t contracted with the Mountain
Ice Company, operating in New Jer-
sey and Pennsylvania, to restrict It's
sales in Brooklyn, whereby the free
pursuit of the ice business in that
borough was prevented; that 1t had
like agreements with various inde-
pendent concerns along the Hudson
River and elsewhere TO prevent their
entering the field OF competition in
production or distribution of either
natural or manufactured ice.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27

Atlanta. Ga. Especially Robert
Turnage. a white man, 2S years OF
age, was convicted of an attempt a.
assault upon Mrs. Carrie Comstock
the wife of city water meter reade
and solicitor for a cooking com
pound. The jury was out but shorf
time and returned with verdict
Guilty" with the recommendatiot
for mercy. Judge Roam then said I
Difference TO the recommendation 70
mercy he would make the sentcnc
is years penal servitude. The MAJ
num purish nsnt Is 2" years
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
Singing Directors Suicide.

Mayville, Wis. (SpeciaD William
F. Berchert, believed to have be-
come insane through brooding over
the refusal of a New York manager
to accept an opera which Berchert
had written, committed suicide here
by hanging himself to the side ladder
on a freight car. Berchert had for
number of years been director of
singing societies in Milwaukee,
Maysville and other Wisconsin cities.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
Killed BY Dynamite.

Savannah. Ga. Especially BY the
explosion of dynamite in the fire.
works factory of Joseph Carlo and
John Niva, Italians, at 531 Anderson
Street. one fireman was burned TO
death, another was fatally burned, an
assistant fire chief and another fire
man were seriously and possibly
burned.
The proprietors were painfully
burned and boy was struck in the
face by flying debris and severely
hurt Carlo and Niva were counting
3sccdoes they had manufactured.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
To Flight Am Chickcn Dict.

The women of the Brownsville
section of Brooklyn held mass-meet-
ing the other night and resolved to
eat chickens in the future. that they
might boycott the Beef Trust. The
meeting was called to order by Is
rael Reichman, who informed them
that the women pickets sent out dur
ing the day had succeeded In closing
several more butchers shops In
Brownsville. The resolution to eat
chickens instead of beef was adopted
by a vote of 800 to 4.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27

London (By Cable) The newest
american peeress Is Hermione,
daughter OF the late r. W II. schen-
ley, of Pittsburg, Pa. who was mar
ried IN London 10 Lord Peterborough
u retired corr nodcre Of the Royal
Navy. The bride wore robe OF
white velvet draped With old ace,
and white velvet toque The
bridegroom, who had long been re-
rarded as a confirmed bachelor, par
ticipated in naval operations In the
Baltic so Ioeg cgo az the Rnssian
war OF 1855
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
Crater of vesuvius TumbIes.

Naples, Especially .--Another por-
ton of the crater of Mount Vesuvius
fell in and caused a great eruption
of ashes, cinders and sand. 1t was
not preceded or accompanied, how
ever, by either detonations or earth
shocks. In the afternoon for a peri
cd of 20 minutes a rather heavy rain
of ashes fell over Naples, and an
other portion of the crater, on the
side toward Pompeii, fell in.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
Bit Sherif's Daughter.

Bristol, Va. (SpeciaD A heavily
armed posse is following the trail of
Wesley Wilkes, condemned negro,
and white desperate named Eaton,
who escaped from the Gate City
(Va.) Jail, after murderously as
saulting Sheriff Broadwater and af-
ter the negro had seriously wounded
the Sheriff's daughter by biting her.
The men made their way to the
mountains of East Tennessee. and
bloodhounds are on their trail.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
Girls Hurt At Basketball.

Trenton, n. j. (SpeciaD Miss
Helen Lee is suffering from broken
leg and Miss Julia Goldberg has q
sprained ankle as the result of
girls basketball game at the New
Jersey State Normal School. The
game will likely be barred by the
faculty.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
Chance For 500 school Ma'ams.

Five hundred teachers are needed
in New York's public schools be-
cause the course of instruction at the
Normal College has been heightened
to seven years. This was the ex-
planation of the great number oil
vacancies in Manhattan given by
superintendent Maxwell at the meet
Ing of the Board of Education yes
lerday. Another reason for the
shortage in teachers, he said, was
the rule of keeping the elementary
grades in the schools free from over
age pupils. This rule necessitated
separate classes for these larger pu.
pills, and there weren't enough teach
ers to take charge of them.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
8 A ElIIn.no MhIte2

Washington, d. c. Especially The
sciluol authorities of Washington
have been called upon to decide
whether a Filipino Is white or col
ored. The problem was brought be-
fore them by Major NJ. f. Waltz,
United States Army. who sent a com
munication asking that his Filipino
servant, % years old, be admitted 10
the white schools of Washington.
After much discussion the question
was referred to a committee, which
has not yet reported.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
Il. & N. Raises Wages.

Louisville, Ky. Especially. - The
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
gave notice that it has increased the
wages OF its shopmen about per
cent, effective December l. The in
crease affects about 1000 men. By
reason of the higher wages the pay
roll will be increased about 500, 900
q year.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
New Way To Get Cars.

Philadelphia (Speclal) "A new
proceeding in the rebate discrimina-
ton suits against the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has been insti-
tuted in the United States Circuit
Court in this city by the Logan Coal
Company. 1t is in a form of petit
tion for a writ of alternative manda-
mus to compel the corporation to
make a pro rata distribution of coal
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
CONSUL Fairchild Dead

Mukden (By CableJ The Ameri-
can vice consul general, Nelson Fair
child, shot and killed himself. II is
believed that the shooting was accl-
dental Funeral services will be held
tomorrow There is a universal feel
inG of sympathy.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK


Bishop Charles c. McCabe, known
better as Chaplain" McCabe, died
in a New York Hospital from apo
plexy, with which he was stricken
while passing through that city re-
Gently while on his way to Philadel-
phia.
On application of the National
Steel and Wire Company receiver
has been appointed for the National
Wire Corporation. which operated a
large plant in Maine.
1t was testified before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission in Min
neapolis that a scarcity of labor is at
the bottom of the railroad car short
age.
+. Dereylan, who claimed he was
the son of Russian admiral and
married. and who died in Arizona.
turns out to be a woman.
Mrs. Jackson l. Case, twice a wild
ow and worth s10,000.00O. and John
w. Dalman, Standard Oil official,
were married In Chicago.
The Hub colliery. in Nova Scotia,
which has been afire five days, VIII
be flooded by water from the At
lantic Ocean.
George Burnham, Jr., general
counsel for the Mutual Reserve Life
Insurance Company, recently convict
ed of larceny, was sentenced to serve
two years in state prison.
The Ann Arbor Railway and the
Toledo Ice and Coal Company have
been indicted on 1856 counts each,
charged with double rebating on ice
shipments.
The publisher and a writer for
the Morning Telegraph, of New York,
were fined $50 each by Judge Deven-
dorf for criticising the Gillette case.
1t is declared that Mrs. Catherine
Neill, charged with the death of her
husband, stabbed him while under
the influence of morphine.
Col G. r. Cotton has been APP
pointed collector of customs at Ma
nila. He formerly was collector of
the port at Iloilo.
Farmers OF Idaho state that they
have been ruined by the inability OF
the railroads to move their wheat
crops.
Miss Halle Amelie Rives and Post
Wheeler are to wed in Toxic. Japan.
The United State Casualty Com
pany, of New York, has obtained an
injunction in an Alabama court re-
straining the Virginia-C Carolina Chem
ical Company from removing any
books or papers needed in a suit filed
by the casualty company.
BY decision of the United States
Circuit Court of Chicago the Herkes
millions will go to establish the hos
pital he planned for New York.
Chancellor Day, of Syracuse Uni
versity, denounces what he calls the
socialist movement against the
wealthy as "millionairephobia."
George T. Kimmel, former cashier
of an Arkansas bank, who has been
in an insane asylum in New York,
has been declared by jury to be
sane.
The police of Hazleton, Pa, have
been unable to obtain any clue to
the mystery of the corpse of wom-
an found in a barrel.
Dakota, Montana and Minnesota
are short of coal and railroad cars.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
COTTON Factory RaIscs ray.

Biddeford. Me. (SpeciaD The
'eperell Manufacturing Company an
bounced an ADVANCE in wages OF
about per cent, Tho new rate viii
go into effect December 81. About
5000 are employed, the mill being
rated as the third largest cotton fac
'ory In this country,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
Chief OF Terrorists Here.

Almost direct from Siberia. whence
ne escaped in a barrel of sauerkraut,
Gregory Gerschunin, most famous of
the Russian terrorists and chief of
.heir fighting committee. arrived in
this city Wednesday
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
Ohio's Treasury Overlooking.

Columbus, O.--The surplus in the
state treasury now is the largest in
the history of that $4,75O,-
356.39. The size of the surplus is
due to the Aiken law increasing the
saloon tax. 1t Is estimated that by
the end of January the surplus will
be nearly S6.00O,0O0.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
Wouldn't Tell Who He Was.

1t was about 3 o'clock A. M, when
Mrs. E. Frank Galloway was awaken
ed by the opening of door OF her
room. She saw man of heavy
build, medium height and fairly well
dressed. Mrs. Galloway asked him
who he was and what he wanted.
The burglar made no reply but coolly
picked up bundle of things he had
gathered together from the table,
with Mrs. Galloway looking en- and
still demanding to know who he was,
but the burglar paid no attention to
her and climbed out. rear window
through which he. forced his entrance
to the house. After the thief had
gone she gave an alarm.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
BurnIars Rob A postoficc

Macon, Ca, Especially Burglars
broke into the postoffice at Broxton,
Ca. blew open the safe and secured
stamps and money to the value of
5000. No clue to the robbers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27

Arguments on the demurrcrs OF
the railways and grain firms charged
ny Indictment with giving nnd receive
ng rebates, were begun in the unitod
,rotes Court at Minneapolis.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
oreign.

L.
ID. c.. was remanded in London for
extradition to Germany to answer
to the charge of numbering his moth
er-in-law at Baden-Baden.
Lord Ellenborough was married to
Miss Hermoine Schenley, of Pitts
burg, at st. Georges, in Chelsea,
England, before large crowd Of
fashionable persons.
The French court has freed Ma
dame Anna Gould from all RESPONSE
bility for the debts contracted by
her husband, except in few minor
instances.
The three hundredth anniversary
of the sailing of the first British col
ony for jamestown, Va, was cele-
brated with a banquet in London.
Two bombs we're thrown at Chief
of Police Cheshanowski in Lodz, Rus
sian Poland, while he was driving
through one of the principal streets.
A court martial in Lille, France,
degraded Captain Marquiez for refus-
ing to obey orders in connection with
the taking of a church inventory.
Rioting attended the evacuation OF
the episcopal palace and seminary at
Nantes, France.
Fifteen millions of people are re-
ported to be starving in the famine
district of China.
Eight terrorists were condemned
in Sledlce, Russian Poland, and shot.
Sir Edward Sassoon Liberal-Un-
ionist). In a speech in the House of
Commons on the wireless telegraph
conference, contended that Great
Britain played second fiddle to Ger
many.
The japanese consul at Honolulu
says the japanese squadron Will not
go to San Francisco, as originally in
tended, because of fear OF a repeti-
tion OF the Maine disaster.
The steamer Prinzessin Victoria
Luise. which went ashore off Port
Royal, Jamaica, Sunday night, is
likely to become a total wreck.
The French government will not
for the present press the question
of treating recalcitrant priests as sub
jects of foreign power.
George Armstrong, son OF Nine.
Melba, the opera singer, was mar
ricd TO Miss Ruby Otway in London,
a general strike has begun in all
tho ports of Italy and commerce is
paralyzed.
Half a million people are destitute
in Kiangsu, China.
Luzzatti, ex-minister of the Italian
treasury, in an address in Rome, de-
clared Japan and other Asiatic races
were superior 10 the white races IL
the matter of religious federation.
Professor Koch, of Germany. is re-
ported to have discovered a cure fol
the sleeping sickness in Africa and
his experiments upon the natives have
been successful.
The Premier of New South Wales
has protested against any interfer-
ence by the imperial commonwealth
in the rights OF the state governments
in state affairs.
The Hamburg American Line
steamer Prinzessin Victoria Luise
from New York, stranded of Port
Royal. Jamaica, and Captain Bron-
sing committed suicide.
The British Premier announced
that the program OF the second peace
conference would include the ques
tion of the limitation OF armament
The Spanish government has no
tified the Vatican that II cannot taxi
charge of the archives OF the papa
nunciature at Paris.
Raisuli, the bandit chief, has beer
threatening the French and Spanisl
! esiaeats OF Ta1 sler, Nc~occo.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
His "Nian" Client A Woman.

An action against the Inter-
Borough Street Railway was with
drawn by Lawyer Emmanuel L. Sill
berstein because he found that his
client, the plaintiff, who had appeared
as a man, was a woman. The sup
posed man" wore her hair cropped
short, shaved her chin, and wore a
black sack suit which fitted her well.
The lawyer himself was mystified
over the revelation. 81 first became
aware that there was something
queer about my client" he said,
when she refused to be examined
by my physician. | had had an offer
of settlement of the case from the
Railroad Company. She had refused
it. l had then told her that she
would have to be examined by my
physician, who would be called to
testify in the suit. When l told her
this she grew pale and bolted from
my office. / have not seen her since,
nor have l been able to find her."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
little Tim" Gives His Views.

A resolution to pay William M.
WINS $12,500 for his services ag
counsel to the committee of Alder
men which investigated the Street
Cleaning Department last spring
took up the time of Aldermen Thurs
day and elicted notable speech from
Alderman Sullivan. Alderman Sulli-
van asked that the resolution go over
so that he could look into the mat
ter. He said that Mr.. WINS had spent
only 20 working days on the inves-
tigation and that the proposed COM
pensation was exorbitant. From
what Mr.. WINS told me-" said Alder
man Peters, II thought he was going
to do the work for nothing" when
Alderman Peters is a few years old
err said Alderman Sullivan, he'll
discover that reformers like me and
WINS never does nothing for moth
ing for anything"