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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
DEATH WIPES OUT FAMILY.
Demise OF Father And Four Children
Followed BY Mother.

Chicago (SpeciaD - Mrs. Rose
Vrzal, of 153 West One Hundred and
Fifty-eighth Street committed sui
eide because, it is believed. of ru-
mors circulated regarding the num-
erous deaths in her immediate fami-
ly within the last ten months. Her
husband, Martin Vrzal, died, and
then, within nine months, her four
children died, the cause of each
death being given by the attending
physician as stomach trouble"
An anonymous telephone message
was sent TO the police department
saying it was advisable that an in
vestigation be made, as all the MEM
bers of the family were insured a
short time before death. An investi-
cation was commenced, but it de-
veloped nothing definite. 1t is be-
lieved by the police that either de-
spondency over the deaths of her
family or dread of the investigation
caused Mrs. Vrzal to take her life.
Late on the strength of statements
made by Mrs. Emma Niemann, daugh-
ter of Mr.. Vrzal, the police arrested
Hermann Billeck, said to be a fortune
teller and hypnotist
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13

Attacking the Panama Canal pro-
ject, Senator Morgan says the United
States was in the shipping business
under the sea flag of dummy cor
poration.
The report of the Paymaster Cen
eral of the Navy shows that it cost
$40, 9,604,749 to keep the warships in
commission during the past year.
Mrs. Helen l.. Sewell widow of
the former New Jersey senator, died
suddenly of heart disease.
The House defeated the Pilotage
Bill by vote of 110 to 164.
President Roosevelt commuted to
life Imprisonment the sentence of
death passed upon Arthur Adams
and Robert Sawyer, negroes, who
mutinied and killed the officers and
part of the crew of the schooner
Harry Berwind.
The bill permitting national bank
ing associations 10 make loans on
real estate as security and limiting
the amount of such loans passed the
House.
The Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations made a report favoring
the ratification of the Algeciras
Treaty regarding Morocco.
The House Committee on Banking
and Currency held a meeting prepar-
atory to framing a bill for a more
elastic currency.
Consideration of the Fortifcations
Appropriation Bill was begun by a
subcommittee of the House Com
mittee on Appropriations.
The President nominated w. Nor
gan Shuster, of the District of Col
umbia, to be secretary of instruction
in the Philippines.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
given notice that he will anticipate
interest without rebate amounting to
s12, 100000.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
At THE NATIONS CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.
The Ship Subsidy.

General Grosvenor, chairman OF
the House Committee of Merchant
Marine and Fisheries and most ar
dent of ship subsidy advocates, took
the first step to compromise with the
opposition, which has hitherto been
successful in holding up the Senate
measure in the committee.
General Grosvenor announced to
the committee that he had prepared
important amendments to the Senate
Subsidy Bill. 1t makes clear that the
subsidies are to be applied only to
lines from the South Atlantic Coast
to South American republics. and
from the Pacific Coast to the Orient.
The subsidy for the South African
line is eliminated, also the one for
the short line on the Northern Paci-
fic to the Canadian Coast.
The committee will meet again
Thursday to consider the Grosvenor
amendments. These propositions in
a degree meet with the objections of
Speaker Cannon and Representative
Watson. of Indiana. The latter pre-
vented action on the matter In the
last session. Now he declares that
he will favor a bill providing subsi-
dies for South American lines and
not more than two lines to the Philip
pines. Such a proposition, he be-
lieves, will pass the House. This is
as far as the Speaker will go, accord
ing to the subsidy authorities.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
FIGHT AT BEAUTY CONTEST.
Free-For-All Fight In Pennsylvania
District School.

Washington, Pa. Especially East
Finley township, 10 miles from this
city is in a turmoil over free-for-all
fight in the district school during
beauty contest and as result many
residnets of the township are carry
ing bruises. The trouble was started
when Samuel Teegarden and John
Sampson, who were buying votes for
the leading contestants in the beauty
contest, were informed that they
were SO in arrears in the payment of
the votes, and all votes cast after
their money had become exhausted
would be thrown out, Teegarden and
Sampson are said to have resented
this action and endeavored to destroy
the ballot box. A general fiPSt fol-
lowed, in which the lights in the
schoolhouse were put out. Many girls
and women were trampled upon, but
none were seriously injured. War
rants have been issued for the arrest
of all involved in the fight.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
FlNAA AL WORLD.

Union Pacific's net profits in Oc-
tober increased $165,395.
Bank of England directors con-
tinue the 6 per cent. discount rate.
Reading directors are now ex-
pected to take dividend action on
December II.
Call money in New York ranged
from 20 to 28 per cent. The con-
tinued high rate discourages specula-
ton.
The American Car e. Foundry
Company's new plant at Madison,
ILL.,, is making forty cars day.
Samuel NJ. Newberger, of Phila-'
delphia, has been elected member
of the New York Stock Exchange.
A New York Stock Exchange seat
was sold Thursday for $S2,50O, a
drop of $4,000 from the last previous
sale.
In three months wire products
have risen 81 the ton.
Commercial failures in the United
States during the month of Novem-
ber were SS5 in number and SILL
9S0,782 in amount OF liabilities. In
the corresponding month last year
there were S17 defaults with total
Indebtedness of SS.866,79S.
While the $12,000,OO0 to be dis
tributed by Secretary Shaw on De-
cember 10, in the shape of antici-
pated interest on Government bonds
will help little, the sum is too
small to make much impression on
the money market
Bankers connected with the com
pany seem very confident that Kan
sas City Southern preferred will go
upon per cent. dividend basis
next year. The stock is tipped by
good people to cross so.
II Atchison follows the example
Of other railroads 1t will increase its
dividend at about the same time that
It increases its capital.
Although 100000 tons of an
thracite were mined in October and.
November. the coal companies sold
100000 tons from their previously
accumulated stock which had beenI
mined when anthracite was so cents|
, ton cheaper than II Is now.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
LIVES LOST IN RAGING FLOOD
Half of Arizona Town is Swept
Away.

Phoenix. Ariz. Especially Private
railroad dispatches received here say
that 60 lives were lost at Clifton in
the great flood that swept through
the camp, destroying many business
buildings, wrecking the smelling
plant of the Arizona Copper Com
pany and tearing out miles of track
OF the Arizona and Mexico Railroad.
Clifton, which has about $500
people, lies in narrow valley near
| the eastern line of Arizona. The less
prosperous of the inhabitants live In
Chase Creek Canon, a peculiarly dan
gerous situation in times of high
water. Two years ago IL lives were
lost In the canon and immense dam
age was done by the rise OF the San
Francisco River.
The principal business section of
the town was almost completely
ruined. The name of only one vic
tim, however. has been obtained
Mrs. Joseph Thorn, who, with her
husband and children, was caught in
falling building and killed. The
other members OF the family had
narrow escapes.
The Coronado Railway from Cliff.
ton to Longfellow is destroyed. II
Will be several weeks before business
can be resumed over the road. The
financial loss cannot be estimated.
The Gila River bridge went out,
cutting off all communication with
the Clifton section by that route. All
wires are down on the main lines,
with the exception of one by way of
Lordsburg, which is working inter-
mittingly. Owing to the isolated
section in which the foods occurred
the work of securing exact details of
the disaster is difficult.
The concentrator dam which gave
way. precipitating the great flood
upon the town, was constructed en-
tirely of earth. The dam was car
ried away two years ago as result
of the swollen streams and num-
ber of persons were drowned.
The water came down the San
Francisco River and Chase Creek
with rush late yesterday. There
is hardly a building in town which
was not damaged to some extent.
The greatest damage was done in
North Clifton, where several stores
and residences were washed down.
Pattison's Addition was almost wip-
ed out. East Clifton also suffered
greatly. Great damage was inflicted
on the Detroit and Shannon copper
concentrators.
A sudden rise in the ella River
caused by heavy SHOWS and rains in
the last two weeks was responsible
for the food
Clifton is town In Graham
County, Southeastern Arizona. In
1900 the population was S64. 1t is
located at the end of branch 81 the
Arizona and New Mexico Railroad,
and has a telegraph and express Of
flee. 1t is built upon the bank of
the Rio San Francisco, a branch of
the Salt River.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
EXPLOSION IN A
FACTORY TOWN
Eleven Persons Hurt, Fourteen Build
ings Burned.
LOSSES OVER HALF A MILLION.
Boiler Bursts, Shattcring the Four
story Factory Of the J. Harvey
Shoe Company, Lynn, Mass-Stair-
ways and Fire Escapes Hold Until
Most of the Employees Escape.

Lynn, Mass. (special) The ex-
plosion of boiler in the four-story
factory building of the p j. Harney
Shoe Manufacturing Company, on
Alley Street, and the fire which i'm
mediately followed destroyed IA
buildings in the West Lynn manufac-
turing district. causing total loss
estimated at about $4,000.
Eleven persons were injured, one,
Miss Celia Tradenburg, an operative
in one of the burned factories, being
in a critical condition at hospital.
In addition to the direct loss the
shoe manufacturers will suffer Sc
verely from the interruption to their
Christmas business.
The properties destroyed and dam
aged are:
p. J. Harney Shoe Company.
Tufts g. Friedman Shoe Company.
II. p. Hood Creamery.
Boston and Maine West Lynn Rail-
road Station.
Jacobs Leather Stock Company.
M. j. Worthley Shoe Company.
Eight dwellings.
The explosion occurred just before
Z o'clock, when the employees were
assembling at their benches. There
was roar and the building, a five
story wooden structure, was torn apart
heavy machinery dropping from floor
to floor. Almost Immediately the
ruins took fire.
Fortunately for those in the build
ing, or a majority of them, the stair
ways held for the most part, as did
the fire-escapes, and to this fact the
absence of large loss of life is due.
In the other factories nearby the eff
feet of the explosion was felt, win.
dows being smashed and holes torn
in the walls. The Boston and Maine
station, Immediately across the rail-
road tracks, was wrecked. Debris
from the Harney building piled on
the track 10 feet high and blocked
all traffic over the Eastern division.
The scene of disaster in West
Lynn bordering on Charles and Alley
Streets was well fitted for big fire,
and the weather conditions-a high
southwest wind and hard going
were also against the firemen. The
district is the newer factory section
of the town, and dates back to the
great fire of November 26, 1889,
when, because of the passage of the
fire limit law, cheaper factories than
brick were sought for, as well as
cheaper land. The factories were
built close together, and to a great
extent filled with inflammable ma
terial.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
TERRIBLE FATE OF
FOUR CORNELL MEN
Athletes Risk Lives To Save Their
Comrades.
SEVERAL ARE SEVERELY BURNED.
One Of Finest Fraternity Houses in
the World Destroyed - The Uni
versity and Town of Ithaca in
Mourning Fire Breaks Out Early
in the Morning.

Ithaca, N. Y. Especially Cornell
University and the city of Ithaca are
paralyzed by the worst catastrophe
which has ever occurred in this COM
munity. BY the burning of the Chi
Psi Fraternity lodge at an early hour
in the morning, seven lives were lost,
100000 worth of property was de-
stroyed and the finest fraternity
house in the world was practically
! demolished.
Seven men are killed. Six of them
died almost Immediately; the other
fingered until evening.
The dead are:
William Homes Nichols. of Chica-
go, ILL.,, a member of the senior class
of Cornell University, and a son of a
wealthy commission merchant in Chi
cago. He was member of many
clubs and societies and an editor of
the Cornellian, which is the college
annual. A charred body has been
found in the ruins, but 1t is not yet
known whether it is his or that of
Frederick w. Creole, of East Orange,
N. j., who also perished in the
flames.
over, Pa, senior in Cornell Univer-
sity, member of many clubs and
very popular among his classmates.
He died in the Cornell Infirmary
within few hours after the death of
his roommate, Nichols.
Frederick w. Greele. of East Or
ange, n. j., a member of the fresh
man class. His body has not yet
been recovered.
James McCutcheon, of Pittsburg,
Pa, a member of the sophomore
class. substitute halfback on the Cor
nell football team and very popular
among his classmates.
The city of Ithaca has lost three
gallant firemen-Alfred c. Robinson,
an attorney and a member of the vol
unteer fire department; John Rum
sey, son of a prominent hardware
merchant and member of the vol
unteer fire company. and Estey j.
Landon, foreman of the Empire State
Furnishing Company and a member
of the volunteer fire department. All
of these men were killed by the fall
ing of the north wall of the building
while they were engaged in the act
of stretching a hose on that side.
Just how the fire started will pro-
badly remain a mystery, but at $50
A. NJ, S. S. Decamp, of New York
City, sophomore of Cornell and a
member of the Chi Psi Fraternity,
was awakened by the smell of smoke.
He rushed to the door of his room. but
found his escape cut off. Running
to the window, he slid down the
vines and reached the ground in safe
ty. He ran to the nearby fraternity
houses and sent out the alarm. 1t
was fully 80 minutes after the fire
had started before the department
reached the scene. The campus fire
facilities were utterly inadequate,
and it remained for the city COM
panies to make an attempt to check
the flames, but 1t was too late.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
KILLED BY AN AUTO.
An Aged Italian Woman Dies As She
Predicted.

New York Especially in the par
Tor of her little four-room fiat, two
flights up in the tenement house at
328 w. Twenty-sixth Street, Grand
ma" Serafina Macalsko was laid out
Sunday afternoon to begin her long
sleep. Grandma" as everybody In
the neighhorhood called her, was
one year less than 90. Until two
days ago she went up and down
stairs and about the neighborhood
as spry as woman one-third her
age. She had one dread.
Some day l will try to cross the
street and an automobile will kill
me-" she said often. In italy we
had no such things when / was young
and happy, but just before ] came
over three years ago. they had them
there, too Why should men and
women rush like mad, most of
them with nothing much to do when
they get there?"
Friday afternoon she put her
daughters baby to sleep and started
out for a short visit to a son nearby.
Just as she got in front of the house,
and about half way across the street,
an electric brougham, running fast,
pulled around the corner and bore
down upon her. She stood still in
her terror. The heavy car hit her
and threw her / 8 feet right into the
doorway of the house where she had
lived. She never regained conscious
ness, and Aled at 10 o'clock Sunday
morning.
''She was never Ill a dav and vat
she was killed, as she said, by an
automobile" said the daughter,
Francesca
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
A Battle At Leyte.

Manila (By Cable) A column of
constabulary troops encountered q
band of Pulajanes between La Paz
and Terragona, on the Island of
Leyte, December 8. In the battle
that followed four soldiers were kill
ed and eight were wounded. Among
the wounded was Lieut.. Ralph p.
Yates, Jr. His wounds are not seri-
Gus. Thirty Pulajanes We're killed
and many were wounded and cap
turel. No details OF the fight have
been received.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
Foreign.

NJ. Jaures, the French Socialist
leader in the Chamber of Deputies,
warned the government that in the
proceedings toward Morocco it was
embarking on a dangerous adventure,
but the Chamber, by 457 to SO, voted
confidence. When Count Castellane
rose to make a speech, half the depu-
ties left the chamber.
The British Foreign Secretary in
formed Parliament that he had no
information that any Arrangement
had been made under which German
merchant vessels would be trans
ferred to the American flag in the
event of war involving Germany.
A census of the German Empire
to December 81, 1905, shows the po-
pulation to have been 60,641,27S,
compared with 56,367,17S in 1900,
an increase of rs per cent.
The Agricultural Chamber of West
Prussia adopted resolutions en-
powering its executive committee to
import Chinese as farm laborers.
London inanciers believe that the
report of Secretary Shaw means that
something will be done to relieve the
financial situation,
A dozen insurgent leaders of San
Domingo were attacked by the gov
ernment forces and Perico la Sale
killed.
The Yudin collection of 10000 vol
umes on Russia has been bought for
the Congressional Library at Wash
ington.
A widespread conspiracy against
the Ecuadoran government has been
discovered in Guayaquil
japanese newspapers eulogize Pres
ident Roosevelt's attitude toward
them in his message.
English newspapers announce that
some OF the Lloyds are insuring
against war between Russia and ia
pan in 1907 at five guineas per cent.
1t is reported that Count Boni de
Castellane will marry Madame Le-
TELLER, twice married and twice d.
vorced and worth $15, 100000.
Gerald Lowther is mentioned as a
possible successor to Sir Mortimer
Durand as British ambassador to the
United States.
Cottonseed and cottonseed oil,
largely imported from America, are
threatened with almost prohibitory
duties in France.
The American minister, Mr.. Gum
mere, arrived at Tangier from Fee,
by way Of Ell Araish, on the steamer
Saida.
French newspapers comment fav-
orably on the appointment of Henry
White as ambassador to France.
Police Inspector Sheremetieff was
mortally wounded in st. Petersburg
by Terrorist, who then killed him
self.
King Edward is trying to prevent
the Marlborough divorce scandal
from being aired in the divorce
court.
Mrs. Gerald Fitzgerald secured
divorce from her husband, a rich
Irish landlord in Dublin, Ireland.
Eleven thousand seamen on the
Black Sea are out on strike and
slipping is tied up.
Charles Wyndham, the actor, has
announced his forthcoming retire
ment from the stage.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
LOWER JAW KNOCKED OFF.
Man, Unable To Write, Cannot Tell
How He Was Mutilated.

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa Especially .-Caspar
Schoflon, 80 years old, was brought
to a hospital here from Bakerton, a
suburb, where he was found lying on
the street. Part OF the mans lower
jaw was missing, the upper jaw bad
ly splintered and the base of his
tongue lacerated. Schofon is very
weak from loss of blood. and how
he was wounded is a mystery. The
hospital physicians say his Injuries
are such that he will never be able
to talk, and all efforts to have the
man write have been futile. The DO
lice authorities say Schofon, who is
a foreigner, never learned to write,
and will be unable to explain his in
luries until he is taught to write, If
he should recover.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
ITALY TO ADMIT U. S. MEATS.
VIII Accept Government Stamp As
Sufficient.

Washington (SpeciaD - Restric-
tions upon the entrance into Italy
of American pork products have been
removed by the Italian Government.
Heretofore Italy, in common with
some other European Governments,
has insisted upon making its own
microscopical examination of Ameri-
can pork products sent to that coun-
try. The expense of the examination
had to be paid by the American ex-
porters. This requirement placed
the packers in the position of having
to pay twice for the examination,
once here and again in Italy.
Secretary Wilson took up the ques-
tion with the State Department and
has induced the Italian Government
to accept the certificate of inspection
placed on meats by the Agricultural
Department.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
A California Shake

San Luis obispo, Cal. (specia) -
At 10.40 o'clock p. M, this city ex-
perienced an earthquake which last
ed more than 80 seconds. The
shock was from north to south. Half
an hour later second shock was
felt, but was not so pronounced as
the first. The earthquake also was
felt at Santa Maria. .Guadaloupe,
Cayucos and Cambria. AT the latter
place articles were shaken from
shelves. Ne perceptible damage was
sustained here.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
Strike OF Sailors.

Genoa (SpeciaD The greatest
alarm is being felt here over the de-
cision of the shipowners to suspend
the Transatlantic service, owing to the
strike of the seamen. Over 1000
emigrants who had booked passage
are being boarded and lodged at the
expense of the city officials, who de-
sire to prevent bloodshed. The gen
eral public is demanding that the
government intervene in the strike
situation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
New Child Labor Law Bill.

Senator Lodge introduced a bill
designed to prevent the employment
of child labor by prohibiting inter
state commerce in any article in the
production of which a child under
IA years of age has been employed
and the prohibition extends to chill
dren under 16 years of age who can
not read and write. The violation
of the law is made a misdemeanor,
punishable by fine of $500 and i'm
prisonment for one year.
Senator Beveridge introduced a
bill very similar in its provisions.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
ENTOMBED MINERS RESCUED.
Carclessness Had Caused Explosion
OF A Lot OF Dynamite.

Houghton, Mich. Especially -Four
teen boxes of dynamite exploded in
the Quincy Mine, cutting off from
escape over 40 miners who had gone
down the shaft before the explosion
occurred. Rescuing parties believed
them dead until they were found in
a sheltering level, where they had
fed after the explosion.
One man, William Gogin, was
blown to pieces, and three others
were wounded. over a score Of
miners were half-suffocated from
smoke and were resuscitated with
much difficulty.
A careless miner let fall some
burning grease in a powder box and
the explosion followed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
VIII Sue The World.

San Francisco (SpeciaD The Su-
preme Court decided that the Nc
Emery Act, passed at the last session
of the legislature, is constitutional,
and that propertyowners can estab-
lish title to their lands, the records
of which were destroyed by the great
fire, by suing the world at large. If
no claimant appears within a certain
period, title to the property is re-
established.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
Cotton Mills Raise Wages.

Providence, r. !. Especially An
advance in wages varying from to
10 per cent. will be made in the
cotton mills of Rhode Island this
week About 10000 operatives will
be affected, and in addition, 1t is un-
derstood, the pay of about 5000 mill
hands in Massachusetts, and Connec-
ticut factories controlled by Provi-
dence officers will be raised to cor
respond with the schedules in this
state