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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-07-25
COMMERCIAL COLUMN


r. @. Dun 6 Co.'s Weekly Review
of Trade says:
Encouraging reports are received
from leading commercial cepters,
the volume of business being excep-
tionally heavy for the. season, and
stocks are depleted by the usual
clearance sales. providing more
prompt payments and greater con-
fidence In the future. Buyers are
numerous In the large cities, pre-
pairing for an active fall trade, now
that the agricultural outlook Is less
uncertain Clothing manufacturers
report much new business and few
cancellations.
A firmer tone has appeared in the
primary market for cotton goods,
manufacturers securing without
difficulty the prices asked. While
a few lines are distinctly quiet, there
Is more evidence OF satisfactory
business than at any time for several
weeks.
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ACCESSION OF new KOREAN
EMPEROR AMID DISORDER
Fierce Clashes Between the Japanese
and Natives.
Japanese Guards Re uIse Thousands
of Rioters Near the Palace, Killing
and Wounding Large Number--All
Approaches to the Palace Occupied
by the New Emperor Guarded.

Seoul tBy Cable) With the city
guarded by Japanese troops and dis
turbed by grave apprehension of at
tacks, the ceremonies attending the
accession of the Crown Prince to the
throne were carried out at 10 O'Clock
Saturday morning. when the former
Emperor took his leave of the Cabi-
net.
Despite n proclamation issued ear
~ In .he morning calling on the peo-
PIE to remain in their houses and the
mountain of machine guns intrenche,l
behind breastworks built in the
streets approaching the palace. the
patrolling OF the suburbs by militia
and other warlike preparations, the
capital was repeatedly distubed by
disorder and severe fighting.
The streets were being cleared at
noon, when desultory rife firing was
heard in different parts of the city,
presumably by the deserters from the
Ping Yang Regiment, whose plotting
continues.
Houses of Ministers Burned.
A concerted effort was made at 2
O'Clock to murder the entire Cabinet.
After haranguing at the Temple of
Heaven a mob of 1000 marched a
mile to the mansion of Lwanyung,
which they sacked and burned. The
same fate was then visited on the
homes of the Prime Minister and
others.
The same mob then proceeded to the
home of the Minister of War, near
the old palace, but here they we're
met by Japanese guards, who repuls-
ed the rioters. wounding and killing
many.
The rioters surrounding the Pre-
mier's residence were dispersed by
the Japanese police with the assist
ance of the artillery. The Premier
sought refuge in the palace, the other
Ministers going to the Japanese Res
dency-General.
The new Emperor is performing
his duties in a purely perfunctory
manner. He is said to show little
strength of character, and the out
look for his administration of public
affairs is not promising.
The Korean Cabinet formally no
titled the Japanese Government OF
the abdication of the Emperor and
the accession of the Crown Prince.
During the night the Imperial Depu-
ties visited the mausoleums and
made the same announcement to the
spirits of their departed ancestors.
The new Emperor will occupy the
North Palace, the former Emepror
in his old refuge. adioin-
Ing the American and Russian Con-
sulates. The Cabinet continues il
office, but on account of their alarm
two men have in turn refused to
accept apDointment to the vacant po-
5ition of the Household Ministry.
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HON. JOSEPH H. CH0ATE
PLEADS FOR ARBITRATION
Suggests a World Convention For
That Purpose.
BIG DAY AT PEACE CONFERENCE.
A Declaration That Spain Adheres to
the Principles of Moderation Which
Inspired the American Proposition
Limiting Force for the Collection of
Public Debts.

The Hague (By Cable) The sit
ting of the Peace Conference Thurs
day was one OF the most important
yet held, for interest in the ques-
tions discussed as well as for the
powerful speeches delivered by JOS
eph II. Coate, of the United States,
Luis M. Drago, of Argentine, and
Perez Triana, of Columbia, while in
addition, Spain made a declaration
which attracted much attention as
revealing the desire of the Spanish
government to assume kind of
moral tutelage over the Latin-Ameri-
can countries
Spain's declaration says that that
country adheres to the principles of
moderation, which inspired the
American proposition. limiting force
for the collection OF public debts,
these being the principles that the
government and the King have fol-
lowed and will always follow
Spain sees today" says the dec
laration, 'as an accomplished fact
what shehas ardently desired since the
last conference, namely, the presence
at The Hague of the representatives
of the Latin-American nations, which
are sisters of ours in language and
in race. Spain is disposed to accept
every proposition tending within the
limits of international law to fa-
cilitate the legitimate and peaceful
development of the Spanish h-Ameri-
can republics. The doctrine Just
enunciated by its illustrious author,
DR.. Drago. was not included in the
program; therefore. 1t could not OBJ
tain our support. but as an earnest
protest against possible wrong from
the use of force, 1t deserves all sym
pathy."
In concluding his address Joseph
Fl. Choate made an eloquent appeal
to the nations to enter into a general
convention, which ought to be en-
tirely distinct and Independent, for
the settlement OF disputed questions
arising In arbitration.
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THIS AND THAT.

The birth ratio In Germany Is six
1000 higher than in England.
Tho Russian secret service en-
ploys more than 5000 women. Sew
eral of them draw $4,000 a year.
For the last three months the
tropical islands OF Jamaica. sur
rounded by q warm sea. whore tho
evaporization ia great, has suffered
from drought as severe AS any
which visit tho inland dcserts far
away from any large body Of wster.
A German article Describes loco
motive equipped with feed water
heaters which has recently been put
into service on tho Egyptian state
railways, and effects saving In
coal of Ala per cent, or over ST.
900 year TO each engine.
The Bible which King Edward is
10 present TO Bruton Church. at VIII
liamsburg. Va, on the occasion OF
Its conaccration on October 10 next,
was sent recently to Ambassador
Bryce at Washington. who VIII for
ward Il 10 the church ofncials.
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"At the proper time" he said,
we shall ask for an opportunity to
explain our views on the project we
offered for fortifying the present
permanent Court of Arbitration and
for the organization therefrom of a
tribunal which shall compel the con-
fidence of nations and be the neces-
sary sequel to the general arbitra-
tion agreement which we now Offer" T"
The committee dealing with the
bombardment of undefended towns
and villages approved the Italian
proposition forbidding such acts.
Upon leaving the sitting, Brigadier
General George B. Davis, one of the
American delegates, remarked ironi-
cally:
'Since the time of Julius Caesar
no example exists of an undefended
town being bombarded, but the con-
ference took three weeks to realize
it."
The American delegation has pre-
sented to the peace conference this
propositions
IF for any reason a captured
neutral vessel cannot be tried, the
vessel must be released"
The Peruvian delegation has pre-
sented the following amendment to
the American proposition regarding
the collection of contractural debts:
THE principles established by this
proposition cannot be applied to
differences arising from contracts be-
tween the government of one coun-
try and the foreign subjects of an
other, when the contracts provide
that these differences must be sub
mltted to the judges of local tribu-
nails"
The Venezuelan delegation pre-
sented a declaration on the same
subject, making the same objection
as Peru, with the addition that in
case no contract exists, all diplomatic
means of reaching an understanding
must be tried before recourse is
had to the permanent court of arbi-
tration. The Venezuelan declaration
ends with these words:
1T is understood that said differ
ances are to be settled through
peaceful means without recourse to
coerciye measures implying the enl-
ployment of military or naval
forces"
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TRUST PROBERS ON VACATION
Purdy, Author of the Injunction-Receiver-
ship Method, Goes to Europe.

Washington, d. c. Especially Mil
ton d. Purdy. assistant to the At
torney- General and author of the in
junction-receivership method of deal
Ing with the trusts, has sailed for
Europe for a vacation of six weeks
or two months. 1t is probable that
there will be no great activity in
trust prosecutions during the next
two months, for Attorney-Genera
Bonaparte spends most of his time
at his country seat in Maryland, So
licitor-General Hoyt is already in
Europe and Assistant Attorney-Gen-
eral McReynolds, who prepared the
case against the so-called tobacco
monopoly, accompanies Mr.. Purdy
on his European journey.
Only two more antitrust suits are
in immediate contemplation. The
case against the Du Pont Powder
Corporation is in print, ready for the
final approval of the Attorney Gen
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Plague Kills 1,OoO,oo7.

London (SpeciaD. - Returns of
deaths from the plague in India show
the appalling total OF 1.06O,067 for
the six months ending June 80. The
monthly total Is at present decreas-
ing, however, the death roll for June
being placed at 69.064 The total
for the first six months of 1907 all
ready surpasses that for the entire
twelve months OF 1904, when 1,O22,-
600 persons died. This total is the
highest ever recorded previous to the
nrQcant wear
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Foreign.

The syllabus promulgated by the
Pope contains a preamble setting
! forth than Roman Catholic authors,
under pretext of examining dogmas,
explain them in the name of his
tory in such a way that the dogmas
disappear.
The marriage of Prince Robert
de Brogile and Estelle Alexander.
divorsed wife of Sidney Veit, in Chi
cago, last summer has been annulled
by the French court.
In the trial of Professor Hau at
Karlsruhe on the charge OF murder
ing his mother-in-law some rather
damaging evidence against the pris-
oner was given.
Fourteen persons are reported to
have been drowned at Marstrand,
Sweden. by the capsizing of a sail
boat. Only one of the party es-
capped.
In an Anti-Jewish massacre at
Skonitz, a Polish town on the Aus
trian border, hundreds of persons
were killed or injured.
The Korean cabinet ministers have
resigned and the Emperor is very
angry at them for advising him to
abdicate.
William Hasketh Lever, Liberal
member of Parliament, secured judg-
ment for damages of $250,00O
against the Daily Mail and Evening
News for libels during the contro-
versy that followed the attempt to
bring about a soap combine.
Premier Franco, of Portugal, has
recommended the abolishing of the
Portuguese House OF Peers
The council of ministers has def
nitely approved the project for
double-tracking the Siberian Rail-
way.
The Italian minister Of public in
struction, Signor Baya, has sent q
large contribution to Louise de La
Rance (Ouida), which she has ac-
cepted most gratefully.
The American proposal for the in
Identification of private property
seized at sea during war was adopt
ed in committee by a vote Of 21 to
II.
NJ. Thomson, the French minister
of marine, gave a luncheon TO Rear
Admiral Stockton and the other Wis
iting American naval officers
The Korean Premier has asked
the Emperor to abdicate because of
action in sending deputation to The
Hague.
The alleged detention Of a Mussul-
man woman in the Ghetto, in Tehe-
ran, nearly led to a massacre.
President Roosevelt has given a
set of his works to the University
of Berlin.
The bomb explosion in Therapia,
Turkey, summer quarters Of the
American Embassy, is now supposed
to have been connected with a pos
sible attempt upon the life of George
Christich, natural son of the late
King Milan. OF Servia.
The appeal Of the executors of the
estate OF William Louis Winans, OF
Baltimore, who died in England in
1897, brought before the London
courts, has been dismissed.
Secretary Taft has fixed upon Au-
gust "a as the date for an address
at Oklahoma City upon the new con-
stitution.
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IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD.

Bank of England retains its 4 per
cent. discount rate.
New York banks are still Offering
6 per cent. for Philadelphia money
for six months time.
With the best possible weather
from now on, there can only be an
average cotton crop" says an ex-
pert.
Doing no improvement work ex-
cept what cannot be avoided" said
a Pennsylvania Railroad representa-
tive.
Amalgamated Copper directors de-
clared the regular quarterly dividend
of 50. The stock fuctuated from
sSh to 90A.
The income derived on Chesapeake
G. Ohio notes is ~ times as great
as the dividend yield on the stock.
President Rooseveit's reported in
tention OF not having ,yongress take
up the tariff question at the next
session was we'll received on the
street.
Since Hartman Interests bought
the Baltimore and Ohio, Norfolk 4
Western and Chesapeake & Ohio
stocks from the Pennsylvania they
have decreased in value 1900. 900.
The Pennsylyania's profit on that
stock when 1t was sold amounted to
at least $l5,000,000.
Northern Pacific's point advance
carried the entire market upward.
The professionals who are now mani
pulating the market regularly use
one or two stocks to lift and they
apparently sell other stocks under
the cover Of the leaders.
Westinghouse assets are set down
at s72.000,000, OF which $4,000
600 are labeled Investments. Thc
company's gross earnings for the
year ending March 81 1907. we're
$33. 900, 900 and the net profits from
manufacturing we're (4.17y,b75d
Other income amounted to sl.2b6. 4
336. N
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eral, and the papers in the case have
been submitted to him. The other
proposed action is against the In
ternational Harvester Company,
which is declared by the Government
officers to be a monopoly in restraint
of interstate commerce.
The investigation of the Harvester
Company has never been completed
although the preliminary examina-
ton, which was enough to satisfy Of
ficers of the Department of Justice
that some action should be taken
against the corporation, was COM
pleted some time ago. The prosecu-
tion of the Harvester Company may
possibly go over until the autumn.
An experiment will be made in the
suit against the Tobacco Company,
which is charged with violating the
Sherman law. An injunction will be
asked against 1t to prevent it engag-
Ing in Interstate commerce, and the
court will be asked to appoint a re-
ceiver.
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Nine. GouId Denies II.

Paris (By Cable).--A correspon-
dent saw Nine. Anna Gould and ask
ed her If there was any truth in
the rumor that she is engaged to
Prince Heile de Sagan, whose repu-
tadon as spendthrift almost equals
that OF Count Boni de Castellane.
Il would be much obliged" she
said, III you would contradict the
report. cannot understand how
II originated. | am not engaged nor
am ! likely to be. The report is
entirely untrue"
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Boni Defeated.

Paris (By Cable) The appeal of
Count Boni de Castellane from the
decision Of the court on November
IA last granting a divorce to the
Countess de Castellane formerly Miss
Anna Gould, OF New York, was dis
missed and final decree OF divorce
duly entered. Attorneys for the
Count made practically no contest.
Although the Count, under the law.
has still sixty days In which to ap-
peal TO the Court OF Cessation upon
legal grounds, the judgment Is re-
garded as final
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Mrs. Birdsong Pardoned.

Jackson, Miss. Especially - Gov
ernor vardaman granted an uncon-
ditional pardon OF Mrs. Birdsong,
who was convicted of the murder OF
DR.. Butler. her family physician,
who, she claimed, had insulted her.
She was sentenced TO prison for five
years. Her case was appealed, but
the sentence was affirmed. She has
never been In prison. In announc-
ing the pardoning OF Mrs. Birdsong
Governor vardaman frankly declar-
ed that he based his action largely
on the unwrItten law.
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II. X. THAw IN POOR HEALTH.
Confinement Is Telling On Murderer
OF Stanford White.

New York (SpeciaD Friends and
relatives of Harry X. Thaw are be-
coming alarmed over the condition
of his health, which is said to be
decidedly on the wane. Although
his wife calls at the Tombs every
day with many delicacies for him,
he has scarcely eaten anything for
three weeks.
DR.. Mcguire, the prison physician,
has been prescribing for Thaw, but
his remedies seem to have had but
little effect on the physical condition
of Stanford Whites slayer. 1t was
thought that open-aiT exercise in the
prison grounds would benefit Thaw,
but his confinement has been such
that a general breakdown may come
at any time. His illness is describ-
ed as congestion of the liver.
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The NEWS OF THE Week
Domestic.

District Passenger Agent Wood
and Ticket Agent Wilson, IN Ashe-
vile, N. c., of the Southern Rail-
road, we're sentenced to 80 days In
the chain gang for selling tickets
In disregard of the new rate law.
Otto H. Droege, formerly of Mary
land, has been named o police mag
istrate OF the city OF New York, at
salary of $1,000 a year for 10
years.
President Finley, of the Southern
Railway. delivered an address before
the Louisville Commerce Club on
railroad conditions in the South.
The State Board of Pardons OF
Pennsylvania refused to recommend
pardon for James B. Gentry, the
actor, who killed Madge Yorke.
Hugo Lobe, recently from Ham
burg, locked himself In the bathroom
of his boarding place in Harlem,
N. T., and turned on the gas.
p. o. Mulford, former cashier Of
the defunct American Bank at
Manila, was sentenced to eight
years Imprisonment
Governor Carter, Of Hswsii, said
In Seat Wash, there was no Anti
Japanese feeling in Hawaii.
George Sandberg, somnRmbulist,
plunged from a third story window
In New York and was killed.
The remains OF Lieut.. Cooper
Goodrich we're buried at Stone
Church, N. j.
Officers elected serve for the en-
suing year by the Grand Lodge Of
Elks we're: John X. Tener, of Char
leroi. grand exalted ruler; Edward
W. Leach, Of New York, grand treas
urer; Fred c. Robinson, of Dubuque,
Ia, grand secretary; Bayard Gray, of
Frankford, Ind, grand lecturing
knight; Thomas F. McNulty, of Bal
timore; Mayor Charles Schmitz, OF
Wheeling, w. Va, and Thomas B.
Mills, of Superior, Wis, grand trus-
tees.
Judge Saunders, of New Orleans,
has decided that the lighthouse ten
der Maple, ON which President
Roosevelt was making a trip was
responsible for the collision with the
fruit steamer Esparta near New Or
leans in the fall of 1905.
ate secretary to Speaker of the
House Samuel j. Randall, committed
suicide by jumping into the Della
ware River.
Fourteen persons we're injured in
a trolley-car collision at Butler, Pa.
Fritz Ulrica. a travelling salesman,
was killed in a wreck on the Chica-
go Great Western in Kansas.
Kentucky Day was celebrated at
the jamestown Exposition with
barbecue and oratory.
A quarter of a million barrels of
oil in tank at Lima, o., were ig-
nited by lightning.
The United Mineworkers have lost
21 900 members, owing to nonpay-
ment of dues.
Vice President Fairbanks dined
with railroad section foreman at
Gible, Ore.
Governor Davidson, of Wisconsin.
has signed a two-cent rate law.
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Chicago Especially Henry Berg,
a retired grocer, committed suicide
by throwing himself over the railing
on the twelfth floor of the Chamber
of Commerce Building. Berg was
consumptive and had been despon-
dent. He read the account of the
suicide of Anna Normoyle, who kill
ed herself by jumping from tha fif-
teenth floor of the Masonic Temple,
and, 1t is thought, the story suggest
ed the method of quick death.
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Burned Rr Molten NLetnI.

Pittsburg, Pa. (SpeciaD Caught
nnder shower Of molten metal at
the Homestead Steel Works five men
we're seriously burned, two perhaps
fatally, while many others received
minor injuries. The men we're tap
ping a furnace in open hearth mill
No. when the big ladle, containing
tons of molten metal. was accident
ally tipped. AS the fiery liquid
struck the floor it splashed with ex-
plosive force upon the workmen
standing about.
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venezuela Refuses To Paw

Brussels (By Cable) .---venezuela
has intimated that It viii refuse to
pay the $2.0O0.o00 debt to its Bel
gan creditors. This decision is con-
trary to the finding OF The Hague
Tribunal, and the Belgian govern
ment. realizing that persistence In
this refusal would inflict the most
serious injury to the cause OF arbi-
tration, is doing It's utmost to induce
Venezuela to carry out The Hague
verdict.
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Killed BY Outlaws.

Guthrie, Ok. Especially Deputy
Marshal Morris and Special Officer j.
p. Dickson were killed while trying
to arrest two negroes charged with
robbing a bank at Sassakwa, |. T.
The negro fugitives were in a house
in the negro settlement, reinforced,
1t is reported, by a dozen friends.
Friday night Deputy Morris was slain
by the outlaws. When Dickson fell
mortally wounded Saturday night he
shot and killed one of the negroes.
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World,s Ponce Makers.

London (By Cable) Speaking at
a. lunchean in this city in connection
with the bazaar to raise funds for
the Duke Of Connaught's soldiers
home, Whitelaw Reid, the American
ambassador, offered toasts TO King
Edward and President Roosevelt,
and said: 1--WE honor two men
whose lives are OF the greatest Inn
portance TO the peace OF the civilized
world, two men who have earned the
name OF peacemakers. and two men
who share the belief that In prepa-
ration for war is to be found the
greatest security for peace"
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Flye states Get a-cenl Rale.

Chicago Especially - New inter-
state passenger rates between all
points in Illinois, Iowa. Missouri.
Minnesota. Wisconsin and North
and South Dekota were made effect
i've at midnight Thursday night
This reduces all Interstate passen-
ger rates 10 the basis OF 2 cents a
mile except In Wisconsin and the
Dakotas, where the rates are based
on 2H cents q mile, The law re-
GENTLY passed In Wisconsin, making
the rate 2 cents mile. will become
on we August IS.
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MFR. Cleveland stiIl Sick.

Princeton, \. J. Especially 1t Is
stated here that ex-President .Cleve-
land who had an attack of acute in
digestion a few weeks ago, has not
recovered from 1t as quickly as ex-
pected.
1t is hoped now that he will he
able TO go to his summer home in
New Hampshire by the first of Au-
gust.
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No War, Cannon DECLARES.

Milwaukee Especially - Speaker
Cannon, of the House of Represen-
tatives, passed through here en-
route to Oconomowoc on a pleasure
trip. In regard to the Japanese sit
uation, Mr. Cannon said: "The
United States will never, in my
judgment. give Japan or any other
nation on earth just cause for war,
and ] have no fear that Japan or
any other nation in sight will give
us any just cause for war with IT,"