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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
THE new SHIPS WILL
Be WORLD BEATERS
Plans For the Next Additions to
Our Navy.
GREAT SECRECY BEING OBSERVED.
They May Be of 2s,O0o Tons,
but viii Carry Only the Present
12-inch Guns, the Efficiency Of
Which Was Proved by Recent Tar
get Practice.

Washington Especially. - AS was
the case last year, when the plans
for the 20,000-class Delaware bat
tleships were sent to Congress under
the injunctions Of secrecy, the Navy
Department Is exertlng itself to pre-
vent the features of the plans for
the great ships which 1t will ask the
next session to authorize from gain
ing publicity.
OF course, il is realized that after
the ship is afoat and in commission
it is practically impossible to prevent
knowledge of her essential features
from reaching rival naval powers.
But the fact that under the most
favorable condition the building and
completion OF a battleship must con-
sumo any way from two to five years,
affords the nation building the ship
a very substantial advantage in po-
sition, which might easily determine
the issue of q naval war where up
to-date ships are pitted against yes
sells five years old in type.
So in the case of the new ships
recommended to be constructed by
the naval general board II is impossi-
BILE to secure any authentic informa-
tion relative to the features of the
vessels beyond the mere fact of their
bigness, for 1t is certain that they
will be of more than 10000 tons
displacement, if, indeed, they do not
reach the world-beating proportions
of $4,000 tons.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
WASHINGTON

The report of the board of inquiry
in the case of the grounding of the
battleship Kentucky, on Lambert
Point, fully exonerates from blame
| Captain Barry, the commander.
At the Cabinet meeting Secretary
Metcalf advanced a proposition to
increase by $5,0O0,000 the standing
appropriation for the payment of en-
listed men in the Navy.
The chief sanitary officer of the
Panama Canal works reports that the
sick rate in September showed a de-
crease OF nearly per 1000, COM
pared with August
Senator Elkins, of West Virginia.
says a new currency law will have
to be passed to correct the evils re-
spOnsible for the financial troubles.
Secretary Taft will not sail from
France on his way home until De-
cember 8.
The administration building of the
United States Weather Bureau OBJ
servatlon station at Mount Weather
near Bluemont, Va, was destroyed
by fire.
The Washington and Tennessee, of
@Auhiii al OtbiOC . bquduIOus were re-
ported TO the Navy Department as
having sailed from Port of Spain for
Rio de Janeiro.
The managers of Secretary Taft's
boom, apprehepsive of the third term
talk, are trying to have the Presi-
dent again declare that he will not
take a denomination.
The President and Interstate Com
merce Commissioner Lane had a con-
ference concerning the car shortage
situation in the Northwest.
1t learned authoritatiyely that the
President has no idea of maintain
ing Admiral Evans fleet permanently
In the Pacific.
The Sunday School Editorial AS
sociatlon protested against the pro-
posed raising of postage rates on
second-class matter.
Worknen began removing the eff
fects OF the baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company from the old station
to the new union station.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
FINANCIAL

1t is said that Morgan and Others
told the big bear traders IN Wall
Street to stop their game for a few
days upon pain OF further punish
ment If thoy did not follow that hint.
Philadelphia Company has won the
first victory over those who tried
to have its charter annulled and
those who are heavily interested say
that this is merely a forerunner OF
what will result from other attempts.
Morgan is now the accepted firan-
cial leader.
Many Philadelphia brokers refused
TO buy any stocks on margin. I'VE
can't borrow any money, that's the
reason" said one broker, who was
refusing TO take speculative orders.
The ]. G. Brill Company has de-
clared dividend Of tx per cent.
on the preferred stock; per cent
en- the common.
vest N house Manufacturing
shares sold Tuesday at 9s, closing
at 19H. Wednesday the stock fell
70 80 as a result OF the troubles Of
the company.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
SOUTHERN STEEL
MILLS BANKRUPT
Is Long On Assets, But Short of
Cash.
HAD A CAPITAL or sz5.OOO,OOO
Creditors File Petition in Birming-
ham Declaring That the Company
Has Confessed Its Inability to Pay
Its Debts--Owns Extensive Steel, Nail
and Ore Plants in Alabama.

Birmingham, Ala. Especially A
petition in involuntary bankruptcy
was filed in the federal court here
against the Southern Steel Company,
capitalized at 25,O0O,O00. The
creditors seeking the bankruptcy or
der are the Birmingham Coal and
Iron Company, the Sayre Mining and
Manufacturing Company. and the
Cahaba Coal Company. The South
ern Steel Company owns a big steel
plant at Gadsden; steel rod, wire
and nail mills at Enslcy, coal mines
at Altoona and Virginia City and ore
mines throughout the Birmingham
district. as well as coke ovens and
other properties.
Moses Taylor, of New York, is
president. and e. T. Schuler, OF
Birmingham, general manager.
The petition alleges that the COM
pany committed an act of bankruptcy
In acknowledging in writing its in
ability to pay its debts It is also
averred in the petition that the de-
tendant company has been insolvent
for six months. The petition asks
than 1t be adjudged a bankrupt and
that receivers be appointed. Attor-
neys for the petitioning creditors
have gone to Huntsville. where Unit
ed States Judge o. r. 1Iundley is
holding court, to secure an order
naming the receivers.
The filing of the petition v-ls no
surprise in financial and industrial
circles here. Some such action has
been expected for some time, though
IL was rumored that the company
was about to reorganize.
Vice President Schuler said that
his company is "abundantly solvent
and If the creditors are patient and
VIII cooperate with us all debts of
the company will be paid and the
company put on its feet"
Mr. Schuler said, also, that the
operation of the plants will go on
anlnterruptedly. He attributed the
financial embarrassment of his COM
pany to the tight money market in
the East and other causes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
Live Stock.

Chicaeo.-Cattle- Market steady:
steers, 1926 5@7.45; cows, $4,000
8; heifers, $3@5.75; bulls, $4,000
.; calves, 500 $50; stockers and
feeders, $2.40@4.45.
Hogs-Market strong, sc. to 15c.
higher; choice heavy shipping, s6.55
a sos; light butchers, $6.65 a 6.85;
light mixed, $3.50 $50; choice
light, 1915 q 6.S5; packing, SEQ
$50; pigs, IS q CPS; bulk of sales,
$6.40 az $50.
Sheep-Market steady to strongs
sheep, $3.50 a 6.25; lambs, $5.75D
6.75; yearlings, S5.50@6.
Kansas City, -Cattle-Mar-
ket steady to weak; choice export
and dressed beef steers, $5.75@6.8O:
fair to good, S4.75@5.75: Western
steers, s3.50@5.50; stockers and
Tee ers, s3.OO@475; Southern
steers, S5.O0@4.1O; Southern cows.
$3.50 q 1885, native COWS, $4,000.
a.25; native heifers, $4,000 500;
bulls, $2.75Q $50; calves, $3.5O@
$50.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
Foreign

Justice Riddell, of Toronto. impos-
cd fine OF s25 900 on the Michigan
Central Railway for the explosion OF
q car OF dynamite az Essex Center on
August 3, which resulted in the knl-
ing OF men and IN serious injury
TO abont 40 others.
The arrest OF Ensign Charles mt
mo, OF the French Navy. at Toulon.
charged with being a spy. has been
followed by the arrest of an army
officer named Berton, charged with
negotiating for the sale of military
secrets.
Crops throughout Scotland have
suffered damage within the past fort
aight by excessive rains TO the esti-
mated extent of at least 5000, 900.
Builders and officers OF the Maure-
tania- the new mammoth Cunarder.
are confident she viii exceed in speed
the Lusitania
The Canadian Pacific Railway
Company's oriental liner Empress OF
China sank al her dock at Vancouver.
Emperor Francis Joseph's nhvsi-
clans pronounce him convaleseent
Cbolers's rayages in Eastern Rus
piu tohlihut GU II fearful scale, and at
Kieif alone the death list averages
100 daily.
In the trial OF the libel action OF
Count Won Moltke against Macmillan
Harden 1t was proposed that the
court take steps to obtain from EN-
peror William a statement concern
ing the so-called camarilla.
King Alfonso Of Spain will under
go an examination by a specialist in
tuberculosis, from which disease his
father died
The fisheries case between Canada
and the United States in respeet 10
the Magdalen Islands will be sub
mitfed 70 The Hague Conference.
Nulal Hafld insists that has NOT
declared holy war against foreign
ers In Morocco. but against bis broth
er. the Sultan Abd-el-Aziz.
-Four hundred Chinese Just landed
~ santa Cruz, Mexico. made a mur-
derons assault upon the crew OF the
N"e'ieh shin cranIwich
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
COMMERCIAL COLUMN
Weekly Review Of Trade and Latest
Market Reuorts.

r.. @. Dun g Co.'S weekly review
OF trade says:
Autumn retail trade broadens un-
der the stimulating influence OF
favorable weather, and collections
also improve. While reports are al
most unanimous regarding the salts
factory volume OF retail distribution
Of seasonable goods, in other sections
Of commercial and industrial activity
here is some irregularity, attributed
In most cases to high rates for money.
which induces conservatism In prepa-
rations for the future. Yet leading
cities at the West and South find no
restriction in supplementary orders
at wholesale, and jobbers report that
new lines for springs are well re-
,eiyed.
Copper declined still lower, but
prices we're steady In the leading
metal industry.
In the textile industries the event
of the week was the cut In prices By
l Chicago house. There was no evf-
1ence of weakness in cotton goods
prior to that reduction, which in
some lines amounted to 20 per cent,
and Eastern jobbers did not follow
The Western movement. Produc-
srs in New England are all sold so
far ahead that there is no occasion
tor concessions, yet the tone of the
entire industry was unsettled.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
GERMAN BALLOON WON.
FPenchman Second IN Flight From
st. Louis To Jersey Coast.

Washington Especially The Of
ficial air line measurement of the
flight of the two leading balloons in
the international race from st. Louis,
as computed at the Geological Sur
vey, follows:
st. Louis (Forest Park) to Asbury
Park. 1874 miles; St. Louis (Forest
Park to Herbertsvile, N. j., 1914.
The Pommern landed at Asbury
Park, the longest distance Travelled
by the competitors, and tho Isle de
france landed at Herbertsvllla, next
in distance.
All of the data relating to the
anchorage of the balloons has been
telegraphed to Washington and the
preparation OF a man of the fight
has been begun by William Welch
chief draughtsman of the Signal
Corps, U. s. A. 1t is expected that
the Aero Club of America will adopt
these figures and award prizes ac-
cordingly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
DANGER IN PROSPERITY
President Roosevelt Issues His Thanks
giving Proclamation.

Washington (SpeciaD In his an
nual Thanksgiving proclamation Pres
ident Roosevelt embraces the oppor-
tunity to preach a little sermon to
the American people on the dangers
of ease and luxury He fixed Thurs
day, November 2s, as Thanksgiving
Day.
Tho Thanksgiving proclamation is
as follows:
"Once again the season of the year
has come when, in accordance with
the custom of our forefathers for
generations past, the President ap-
points a day as the especial occasion
for all our people to give praise and
Thanksgiving to God.
During the last year we have been
free from famine, from pestilence,
from war. We are at peace with all
the rest of mankind. Our natural
resources are at least as great as
those of any other nation. We be-
lieve that in ability to develop and
take advantage of these resources
the average man of this nation stands
at least as high as the average man
of any other. Nowhere else in the
world is there such an opportunity
for a free people to develop to the
fullest extent all its powers of body
of mind, and of that which stands
above both body and mind-char-
acter.
Much has been given us from on
high, and much will rightly be ex-
pected of us in return. Into our care
the 10 talents have been intrusted;
and we are to be pardoned neither II
we squander and waste them, nor yet
If we hide them in a napkin; for
they must be fruitful in our hands.
Ever throughout the ages, at all
times and among all peoples. pros
perity has been fraught with danger,
and it behooves us to beseech the
Giver of all things that we may not
fall into love of ease and of luxury;
that we may not lose our sense of
moral responsibility; that we may
not forget our duty to God and to
our neighbor.
"A great democracy like ours-a
democrocy based upon the principles
of orderly liberty. can be perpetu-
ated only if the heart of the ordi-
nary citizen there dwells a keen
sense or Righteousness and justice.
We should earnestly pray that this
spirit of righteousness and justice
may grow ever greater in the hearts
of all of us and that our souls may
be inclined ever more both toward
the virtues that tell for gentleness
and tenderness, for loving kindness
and forbearance one with another,
and toward those no less necessary
virtues that make for manliness and
rugged hardihood-for without these
qualities neither nation nor indlvid-
ual can rise to the level of greatness.
Now, therefore, /, Theodore
President of the United
States, do set apart Thursday, the
2Sth day of November, as a day OF
general Thanksgiving and prayer, and
on that day I recommend that the
people shall cease from their daily
work and in their homes or in their
church meet devoutly to thank the
for the many and great
blessings they have received in the
past, and to pray that they may be
given the strength so to order their
lives as to deserve a continuation of
these blessings in the future"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
THE COUNTRYS
FINANCES ARE SAFE
Comptroller RIdgeIy Hears From All
Sections.
TROUBLE LOCAL IN NEW YORK.
Upheaval Due to the Condition of Con-
Germs That Have Been Discredited by
the Operations of Their Own Officers
Manufacturing, Mining and Aeri-
cultural Operations Prosperous.

Washington (SpeciaD ---Comptrol-
Ter of the Currency Ridgley gave out
statement saying that the general
feeling indicates an absolutely sound
situation, that there was not the
slightest need of apprehension about
the banks and trust companies OF
the country. that the banks of the
reserve cities have every disposition
to leave their balances In New York
and other central reserve cities, and
attributes the trouble In New York
to the condition of a very few con-
Germs discredited by the operations OF
their officers and to the different
prices of stocks and securities as be-
tween New York City and the
country banks
Comptroller Ridgely's statement
follows
Il have talked by telephone with
bankers in practically every large
city in reach of Washington by tele-
phone, and also with a number of
bank examiners. l hear of no trouble
whatever among the banks or trust
companies outside of New York. The
general feeling Is that the situation
Is absolutely sound. and there need
be not the slightest apprehension
about the banks and trust companies
of the country. My advices from
New York are that all banks got
through the day better than they ex-
pected, and that there is now entire,
perfect concert of action, so that the
situation is well in hand.
There is every disposition among
the banks of the reserve cities, as
there should be, to leave their bal
ances in New York and the other
central reserve cities, and in this way
TO avoid all the disturbance possible
THE trouble in New York has
been due to the condition of a very
few concerns, who were discredited
by the operations of their officers.
and also to the fact that the prices
of stocks and securities, which form
the basis of such large proportion
of New York city loans, are now the
lowest they have been for many
years. while among the country banks
just the opposite in the case A very
small proportion of their loans are
based on collateral security. Mer-
camille, manufacturing, mining and
agricultural operations are not only
now very active and the price of all
commodities high, but there is an
active demand for material and pro-
duce of all kinds at prices which are
very profitable to the producers.
we are now just about at the
maximum demand for loans to carry
these products in the country. but
from now on, within the next 30 to
so days, they ought to be producing
large amounts of money, which viii
relieve the banks which have been
carrying these loans, and within so
days the country banks ought to be
in very easy condition.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
Wholesale Markets.

-Wheat-Several car
| goes on grade sold at 109hc. for
special bin No. red; 109 for stock
No. 2 red; 10615 for special bin
steamer No. red; los II for stock
steamer No. red; 1041a for spec
lal bin rejected, " for stock re-
! jected, and 100h for rejected to go
through drier.
The market for Western opened
weak and INC. below Tuesdays
close. Spot and October, 109Mt
No. Q red Western, Ill "; Novem<
Der, HOY; December, III ".
Corn-Western opened weak; spot
and October, 73c. asked; year, &c No
asked; January, 81 &c. asked.
Oats-White-No. 2, heavy, COG
61c.; No. 2, light to medium, 500
so; No. 2, heavy, 58@59 No. 8,
medium, 57@58; No 8, light, Sc a
81; No. 4, light to heavy, 540545A.
Mixed-No. 2, 56h a Sic; No. 8,
So a 551 "; No. A, 54@5415.
Butter-Creamery separator, 310
SO; imitation, 24@25.
Cheese-Market steady. We quote
iobbing lots, per lb. IT to 17Ac.
New York.-Wheat-N Q red,
110c. elevator; No. 2 red, 111H, I.
o. b., afoat. No. / Northern Duluth,
1872, (. o. b., afloat; No. hard win
ter, 114h, (. o. b., afioat.
Corn-No. 2, 731sc., elevator, and
IAN, t. o. b., afloat; No. 2 white,
20, and No. 2 yellow, 74A, (. o. b.,
afioat
oats-Mixed, 26@32 lbs, 5sc.;
natural white, 26@32 lbs, 58h
@62; clipped white, 32@40 lbs,
62k OIL.
Poultry = Alive, steady; spring
chickens, 12c.; fowls. 1S; turkeys,
IA. Dressed easy; Western spring
chickens, 12@ 19c.; turkeys, 16@1s;
fowls, 12@15.
Philadelphia.-Whe 1ac. lower;
contract grade, October, 1880
1881 hc. Corn 1sc. lower; October,
701s @71c. Oats 1ac. lower; No. 2
white natural, 59@59hc.
Butter steady; extra Western
creamery, 30c.; do, nearby prints,
33c
Eggs firm; Pennsylvania and other
nearby firsts Gree cases), 26c. at
mark; do, do, current receipts ire
turnable cases) 25 at mark; Western
choice Gree cases), 26 at mark; do,
fair to good, 25.
Live poultry steady; fowls, 100
IA &c; old roosters, 9k @1O;
spring chickens, 12Q141s; ducks.
1903.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
Lost s1O.OOo Came Bnck.

Columbia, s. c. Especially "A
special to the State from Gahfney,
IS. G. says 1T leaked out here
that the express package containing
$4,000 which was lost between
Charlotte and Spartansburg some
time ago was found In room In the
Commercial Hotel, in this city. which
was occupied by the detective who
was detailed to work up the case.
Nothing was learned beyond the fact
that the package was found by the
detective in his room on his return
ff0r being nntS
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
Airshin Lost Rndder.

Paris (By cable) While the Le-
baudy airship Patrie, purchased by
the French Government for the use
Of the army. was engaged in evolu-
tions over Paris with five officers and
two ladies on board, her right pro-
peller dropped off and she drifted
helplesaly in the wind for an hour.
Finally the balloon descended near
lssy without sustaining any damage
or any injuries being inflicted on her
passengers,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
uDDs AND ENDS.

The bicycle craze has at last reach
ed the Mexican city of Vera Cruz.
lhere Is also a motor cycle In town.
The proposed extension of the
Yokohama gas works, at a cost OF
$Sl5,OO0 gold, is stated in a Japan
ese newspaper extract forwarded by
Consul General Miller.
A woman, II years old, accused
at Feltham, England, of intoxication
and disorderly conduct. said she had
been Keeping up her mothers
birthday. Her mother was 9S.
Ihe cloud formation known at
mares tails" and "mackerel SKYE
are invariably three miles high. The
highest clouds are 10 miles high and
these are composed of minute par
ticles of ice.
Consul l.. e. Dudley, of Vancou-
yer, calls attention to the opening
Afforded for the establishment of a
plant to utilize the waste offal of
tish in the manufacture of guano In
British Columbia.
University statistics of Europe
seem to indicate that men are de-
scrting the practice of medicine and
women are taking 1t up.
There are upwards of 5000 900
separate freeholds In France, as com
pared with about 100000 in Great
Britain, fact which in itself speaka
volumes. A Frenchman will part
with anything rather than land.
The grand Jury of New York
County returns on an average Ga in
dictments each day.
Four peers, III baronets and 80
knights were created by the King
Nominally, the King did Il: in rea-
lity, the Liberal ministry did IL. the
birthday honors'' being ona Of the
perquisites of office.
The ancisnt city OF Lyons. tho
third city in France, with popula-
tion OF 100000, vies with Milan In
Importance IN the worlds SILK indus
try. No fewer than 10000 people
men, women and children--are en-
ployed In the factories.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
Girl In Trance Al Dance,

Meriden. Conn. Especially. - Miss
Lille cooney, of Walingford. at
tended dancing school on Saturday
night. and while dancing fell to the
noor in a trance. In spite of the
Efforts of physicians. she has romain-
ed in that condition over since. Med
ical men say It is peculiar form of
blood poisoning, and that the poison
acts like morphine. They have hopes
OF ultimately reyiying her, but her
comatosc conditions puzzles them.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31

Husband And wife Must he Soul
Mates, DR.. Adler Says.

New York Especially True soul
affinity is necessary for the ideal
married life. was the declaration OF
DR.. Felix Adler, in his lecture in Car
negie Hall, before the Society OF
Ethical Culture. DR.. Adler's subject
was THE Keynote of the Ethical
Life"
I'm our work there is no issue
more urgent than the need OF the re-
construction OF the family.
To-day we admit that the child
has rights which we are bound to re-
spect, and that the wife Is the equal
OF the man. What we need is a doc
trine of marriage. The church is tied
up to the ethics of 1900 years ago
the Oriental fantasies of Paul"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-31
Chinese Attack ship.

Santa Cruz, Mexica Especially Be
cause 200 of their oountr.Vmen were
detained on board by the sanitary in
spectors Of this port. 400 Chinese
who had Just been landed. made a
murderous assault on the English
ship Woolwich and her crew. Many
men were seriously injured in the ar
fray aAd fivo may die from the,r
wounds. Tho Chinese would have
swept all before them but for the
timsly aid brought by large force
Of Federal troops and gendarmes.
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Prlnce Leaves SCI. 500. .ooo.

Berlin (By Cable) e).-The late Duke
and Prince John Henry XI of Pless
left cash accumulations amounting
to $21,S0O,000. His successor is his
eldest son, John Henry, Prince of
Pless, who visited America as EN-
peror Williams representative at the
New York Chamber of Commerce
celebration in November, 1902. The
new Duke and Prince married Miss
Mary West, sister of George Corn
wallis West, who married Lady Ran
dolph Churchill (Jennie Jerome)