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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
LONG FLIGHT or
AN ARMY BALLOON
Sails Five Hundred Miles Over Four
States.
WINNERS or THE LAIN CUP.
United States Signal Corps Aero
nauts Travel Over Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio and Into West Virginia
Spend Two Days and Night in
the Clouds.

st. Louis. Mo. Especially Swing
ing through the atmosphere at
speed estimated at 22 miles an hour,
the United States Signal Corps bal
loon No. 10, In which Aeronauts j.
G. Mccoy and Capt. Charles Def.
Chandler, of the United States Signel
Corps, ascended at st. Louis, passed
over Illinois and Indiana, and across
Ohio, and probably landed In the
vicinity of Point Pleasant, w. Va.
The distance covered, on a straight
line measurement, Is approximately
500 miles, and the length OF the
voyage won for the aeronauts the
Lahm Cup.
The balloon. with a capacity Of
$4,000 cubic feet of gas, was filled
from the gas plant at Second and
Rudger Streets. A number of mem
bers of the Aero Club OF st. Louis
and visiting aeronauts were present
when the ascent was made, at 4.10
p. NJ. The balloon rose gracefully
hand suddenly veering as a sharp
wind struck 1t, collidlng with the
timbers that supported huge coal
pile in the gas plant yard. The
ingly, but prompt work by the aero
nauts in throwing out sand ballast
caused the balloon to shake itself
free from the coal pile unchanged
and shoot straight up several hun
dred feet. Then 1t swept toward the
northeast, and was soon lost to view.
The first report received from the
aeronauts was message dropped
near Leesburg, o.
The message stated that the bal
loonists had dropped It at G A. M,
and that they were then travelling
southeast rapidly.
Later the balloonists we're seer
| passing over Gallipolis, o., and by
! the middle of the afternoon they
were in West Virginia, near Point
Pleasant. There the balloon started
up the Kanawha Valley, according
to a telephone message to st. Louis.
Members of the International Bal
loon Contest Committee and other
aeronauts said that the fight would
esablish an epoch in balloon sailing.
The Lahm Cup was Instituted by
the Aero Club of America soon after
the international races at Paris in
1906, when Frank p Lahm won the
JdHleS GOTuOH beuHetL Oup iOT the
Aero Club of America. So joyful
were the members of the club at the
victory that the cup was named for
the pilot of the balloon United
States. and 1t was put up by the club
to be won by the aeronaut who trav-
eled more than 402 miles, the dis
tance travelled by the United States
in the Paris races, providing the
start was made from American soil.
Lieutenant Lahm has never held the
cup. and this was the first time II
was ever won.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
Foreign

George Kincaid, head foreman of
the public works department in Yu-
kon Territory, was arrested at Daw-
son on q charge OF stealing $4,000
from a registered mail sack and
committed suicide.
The Canadian Pacific steamer Tar
tar collided with the steamer Charm
er, of the same line, at the mouth
of the Fraser River and both ships
were badly damaged.
A movement of rock has occurred
In the old mine workings under the
residential quarter of Newcastle, N.
S. W., and considerable damage has
been done.
Joseph II. Choate, head OF the
American delegation to the Interna-
tional Peace Conference, signed the
final act Of the conference.
The Danish steamer Alfred Err
landsen was wrecked or the rocks on
Castle Point. Scotland. Twenty OF
the crew were lost.
Twenty-seven persons were killed
or injured in a railroad wreck al
Orio, Spain.
Gil Calderon, the notorious bandit,
surrendered near Cienfuegos, Cuba
to Captain Wittenmoyer Of the United
States Army, who is supervisor OF
the rural guard.
The statue of st. Baudine, stolen
from a church, was found In the eel
lar of the thief, who was about tC
ship it to an American purchaser.
Andrew Carnegie and Lord Rose
berry made addresses before the
Philosophical Institution in Edin-
burgh on the negro problem.
A panic was caused in Naples by
the cessation of smoke from all crat
ers of Vesuvius.
In The Hague Peace Conference
we're 38 votes In favor of the es
tablishment of a permanent eourt
OF arbitration; six countries abstain
cd from voting and Mexico and Bra
xil and other Latin-American coun
tries voted against IL because OF th'
suppression OF the words in Articl
+. /, setting forth that the court slhoull
be based on the juridicial elualit
of the states"
Twenty-six growers OF prunes 4
San Francisco have pooled the prod
uct OF their orchards In an organI
zation and are holding IT until tn
market reaches their price.
Emperor William and a numbe
of other royal personages have beel
summoned to testify In Coun
Moltke's suit for libel against Maxi
millian Harden, editor OF a Berlil
newspaper.
The records of terrorism In Russl
during September shows that "a per
sons were executed, 207, includin
73 officials, were murdered and II
people wounded.
Robert Wood. young English arr
Isl, ~ on tiisi IN LONDON on tn
whose nude body was found ia he
room.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
Washington
Some interesting Hap
penings in Brief.

President Roosevelt has ordered
that action be suspended in the mat
ter of cutting down historic trees In
the botanical grounds in Washington.
Porto Rico is endeavoring to Sc
cure representation in the National
Guard of the United States.
The pure-food Investigators will
examine into the methods used In
drying fruits.
The immigration Bureau ordered
the deportation of Lizzie Rocks and
Annie McGrogain, imported as FAC
tory girls by the Finlayson Spinning
Company, of Grafton, Mass.
Capt. Horten w. Stockle, Corps of
Engineers, has been ordered to the
Isthmus of Panama to assist in the
construction of the Gatan locks.
Colonel Raspopon, who was Rus
sian military attache at Washington,
has returned to st. Petersburg.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion continued the hearing of the
shippers and commercial interests
on the uniform bill of lading.
San Francisco people are prepar-
ing an elaborate entertainment for
the battleship feet when 1t reaches
the Pacific Coast.
President Andrews, of the Univer-
sity of Nebraska, denounced the mis-
representation of rich men.
The American Association of Cen
eral Passenger Agents adjourned af-
ter electing officers.
The War Department has named a
seacoast battery on the Presidio of
San Francisco, Cal, Battery Marcus
Miller, in honor of Brigadier General
Marcus p. Miller, United States
Army.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
decided that compounds containing
alcohol in such proportions as TO
make them beverages must pay the
special tax.
The use of the mails has been
denied the Press Publishing Com
pany. Of Boston, which offered 25,-
900 diamond rings to increase circu-
lation.
The One Hundred and Fifteenth
Company, Coast Artillery, stationed
at Fort Rosecrans, has made a new
record in target practice.
Thomas Ryan, for many years as
sistant secretary of the interior re-
tired from that position.
Frank A. Leach, the newly ap-
pointed director of the Mint, took
charge of the bureau.
Director Ballin, of the Hamburg
American Line is said to have con-
firmed the report that his company
will build a steamer of $4,000 tons
larger than the Cunarder Lusitania
Inability to settle the question oI
proxies caused truce in the fight OF
Hartman and Fish for control of the
Illinois Central Railroad.
Gross G. Kleeburg, New York
stock brokers, have suspended busi-
ness, following a decline in copper
stocks from $50 to sac a share.
Robert c. Clowry was reelected
president of the Western Telegraph
Company at the annual meeting oi
the board of directors.
Judge McComas and his bride ar
rived in New York on the steamer
Oceanic and will return to his home
in Washington.
Herman H. Leonard, former treas
urer of the Evans-Snyder-Buell Com
pany in Chicago, was convicted ot
embezzlement.
David Redfield Proctor, cousin Of
the Vermont Senator and a pictur
esque character, died in a Chicago
lodging house.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
TRAGIC ENDING.
Gen. Webb Syck Supposed To Have
Murdered His Bride.

Pikeville, Ky. Especially. - Gen.
Webb Syck, a Civil War veteran, it
is believed, murdered his young
bride of two weeks and then COM
mitted suicide at their home, in Fair
view, suburb. Syck was found
dead in the yard, while his wife's
body lay in bed. Both were cloth
ed only in night gowns. She was
formerly Mrs: Jane Burris, connect
ed with some of the most prominent
families In Northeastern Kentucky.
The shooting is supposed to have
followed bitter quarrel of the pre-
vious day. General Syck and his
bride had just returned from their
honeymoon trip through the South.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
! .ooo MIIes in 1.ooo Hours.

Cincinnati, o. (special). - Dan
OLeary, the old-time pedestrian,
who is SO years old, finished at 7
o'clock A. NJ. at Norwood Inn. a
few miles out, his task OF walking
1000 miles in 1000 consecutive
hours. according to the Judges and
ofiiciaI timekcepers and was formally
declared the winner OF the task
O'Leary said that he felt all right,
but had lost IA pounds during the
endurance trial. The match was said
10 have been for purse OF $1,000.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
FROM CONTINENT
TO CONTINENT
Communication BY Wireless Across
the Continent.
BUSINESS SERVICE is STARTED.
The First Message Is Sent, Under
Supervision of Marconi, From Glace
Bay, N. s., to Clifden, on Coast
of Ireland Congratulatory Messages
Exchanged.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH
HISTORY.

1S42-Professo Morse signalled
across Susquehanna River
without metallic connection
by means of wires stretched
along the banks.
1864 - Clark Maxwell defined
ether waves to the Royal So
ciety, declaring wireless tele-
graphy possible by means of
electromagnetic diversion.
18S5--Sir William Preece, OF
London, signaled between
parallel telegraph wires four
and "a half miles apart.
1S92-Sir William Preece estab-
lished communication be-
tween Flatholm and Laver-
mock, three and a third miles
apart
1897-Marconi introduced the
high wire or aerial, and sig
nailed from Lavernock to
Flatholm.
1901-Marconi signaled letter
IS" from Cornwall to New
foundland
1902-Actual wireless communi-
cation established between
Cape Breton and Cornwall.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
PAID $3.50 For Ear OF Corn.

Chicago Especially Two hundred
and nifty dollars was the worlds rec
ord price psid for single ear Of
corn. A bushel at that rate would
have sold FOR $4,000. The ear, q
Boone County white" was sold to
the highest bidder In an exciting
auction at the National Corn Expo
sition In the Coliseum. The pur-
chaser was the man who grew It, OF
Franklin. Ind. who has captured
81 .bsb in prizes at the show.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
Her Wound Fatal.

Philadelphia (SpeciaD Miss An
ME Sabold. aged 81 years, OF Lans-
dale, a suburb, died in hospital
here from a bullet wound received
Monday night. when she was shot
while walking in the crowded de-
partment store district by Walter
Hallowell, of Bethayres. Pa. Halo
well was employed about Ave years
ago In an office where Miss Sabold
was clerk. He apparently tried ia
rob her before the shooting.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
Killed BY His New Auto

Morenci, Mich. Especially Arthur
Onweller, a merchant of Lyons, D.,
was killed in an automobile accident
five miles east of this city. Mr.. On
weller had purchased a new auto
mobile, and was taking his first ride
in it. His wife and Two children
were in the machine with him
While driving at high speed he lost
control of the machine in some way
and 1t ran into a deep ditch, turn.
ing turtle and crushing him to death
beneath 1t.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
A Nlilllon For A Lense.

Newport, r. I. Especially - Mrs.
ogden Goelet, it is stated here, has
been offered $1.O0O.OOO for five
year lease Of ochre Court, the splen-
did summer residence she owns here.
As no one who can pay such a rent
would occupy ochre Court more than
half the year. say from May to Octo-
ber, inclusive, 100000 rent for
1--WE years would be at the rate OF
S33,330 a month OF the actual ten
ancy or about $1,100 a day.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
Elone ON Hnndcar.

Knoxville. Tenn. Especially Miss
Hazel WILDER, of New York City,
eloped with Monroe w. Deaderick,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. " Deaderick,
prominent In East Tennessee. They
boarded a handcar at the 'Unaka
Springs and rode four miles to be
married by minister. They re-
turned on tho handcar, The BRIDE
groom's grandfather was at one
time Chief Justice of the Tennessee
Supreme Court. The young man met
Miss Wilber while studying in New
York year ago,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
Three Killed BY Train.

Lorain, o. Especially Mathew
Glovoski, FIVE years old. and his sis
ter, Lucy, eleven years old, were run
down by Lake Shore train and kill
ed on a crossing near Amherst, and
their aunt, Miss Sophie Glovek, was
fatally hurt. The three were walk
ing on the track, when the boys foot
became fastened in a cattle guard.
In attempting to resue him his sis
ter also caught her foot in the guard.
The aunt had stopped to unlace the
little boys shoe when the three were
struck by the train.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
ODDS AND ENDS.

Punctuation marks we've first used
in 1870.
A mouse seldom lives longer than
three yeats.
The annual fish catch OF England
Is valued at $4,000, 900.
The factories OF Japan close on
the 1st and 18th OF each month.
Fifty Thousand dollars d year are
spent on Regent Park IN London.
The mattresses used IN tho German
army are stuffed with little rolls Of
paper. and are said 70 bo great
tpnrovament on straw
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
Big Fire In Nashville.

Nashville, Tenn. Especially .-Flre
gutted the store of John Hitchcock
& Sons, dealers in wagons, harness
and seeds, entailing a loss estimated
at $4,000. John II. Hitchcock, Sr.,
was overcome by smoke and barely
escaped. The stock of Mckay, Reese
6 Co., wholesale hay and seeds, was
considerably damaged.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
Rnilronded To PrIson.

Toronto. Ont. (special) - The
swiftness OF Canadian justice is pro-
verbal, but a case in the Criminal
Court probably holds the record, even
for Canadian courts. Horace Noun
tain mail carrier employed in col
lecting letters from street boxes was
arrested at 1915 A. NJ, charged with
robbing the mails. At 11.10 he was
arraigned before the magistrate
pleaded guilty and within an hour
from the time OF his arrest had com
menced serving term OF four years
Imprisonment.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
sufrocated In FoIding-Bed.

Pittsburg, Pa, (SpeclaD. - Mrs.
James Marshall and her daughter,
Mrs. Mary Wright. of Ingram, Pa.
were caught in a folding bed. which
closed on them while they were
sleeping Tuesday night. When res
cued both women were in a critical
condition
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
The News
Domestic


ing letters attacking the reputation
Of Blanche Drummer, Missouri girl,
who recently married Arthur w.
Godfrey, son OF a Boston millionaire.
The suit brought by the State OF
Missouri to oust the Standard Oil
Company from doing business In that
state will come up In the Supreme
Court at Jefferson City next Friday.
Cousins of the late David %.
Grouse, of New York, will attack the
right of Dorothea Edgarita Grouse
Movickar, who claims to be his
daughter, to $4.00O,000 of his estate.
The clearing house has come to
the relief OF the Mercantile National
Bank and forced the Heinze, Moore
and Thomas interests out of clear
ing house banks.
The steamer Sarnia, of the Atlas
Line. which arrived In New YORK
from Port Limon, broke her high
pressure piston rod on October q
after leaving Cartagena. The Sarnia
steamed $500 miles under the re-
naming two cylinders.
The California Limited. east
bound, on the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad, was ditched AT
Earl. Col, by a defective rail and
the engineer was killed. Several pas
sengers were hurt.
The Massachusetts, Ballot Law
Commission has decided that Henry
NJ. Whitney, of Boston, was legally
nominated for governor at the Spring
field Democratic Convention.
Thirty ooastwise tugs are idle In
the waters of New York, Baltimore
Philadelphia and Boston because ol
the engineers demand for additional
help.
Walter Stock was sentenced to life
Imprisonment in the Boston courl
for the murder of his sweetheart
Mary Agnes Bates.
In the equity proceedings against
the alleged anthracite coal trust 40
additional defendants are named.
William G. Rockefeller testified ir
the governments suit for the disso-
luton of the oil combine.
Three persons were killed and 81
injured in a collision on the Southern
Railway at Rudd, n. G.
Four men we're drowned in the
Illinois River by the overturning OF
q gasoline launch.
President Roosevelt killed blacl
bear in the canebrakes near Beal
Lake, La.
Edward N. Kelly committed sui
eide in a church in Seattle, Wash.
after singing.
Fred H. Magill, accused of mur'
dering his first wife that he might
wed Faye Graham, took the stanc
and related in a matter-of-fact way
the events that led up to Mrs. Ma
gills death.
The meeting of stockholders OF thu
Illinois Central Railroad was enliven
ed by dispute, in which the lie wa
nearly passed, between Stuyvesan
Fish and Charles A. Peabody.
There has been no falling off o
trade with Japan since the Japanese
Russian war, according to James 3
Morse, president of the American
Asiatic Association.
The allurements of commercial life
and fear of the ministerial dead
line" are given as the reasons fol
the decrease of young men entering
the ministry.
monument was unvailed at Val
ley Forge to the memory of Main'
soldiers, who were at Valley Forgr
during the winter Of 1777-7S.
A will made by Cassie Chadwicl
before her criminal career became
known would have disposed of 81,
100000 worth Of property.
David c. Briggs, vice president o
the United Shirt and Collar Company
of Troy, n. Y, died in Chicago. o
anaemia.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
NeM Omcers Elected.

Chattanooga. Tenn. Especially -
At the final business sessions of the
Society of the Army of the Cumber-
land officers were elected for the en-
suing year as follows: President,
Gen. Gates p. Thurston, Nashville;
corresponding secretary, Orlando A.
Somers, Kokomo. Ind; treasurer,
Gen. A. e. Carman, Washington, ID.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
Oil Contractor A Suicide.

Arkansas City, Kan. Especially -
A. d. Davidson, an oil contractor,
was found dead IN his room at n
hotel here. He had swallowed lauda-
mum and left a note, saying he was
in financial straits and believed his
mind was failing.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-10-24
Editor Recomes sheriff.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. Especially. =
Horace Hood, editor and part owner
of the Montgomery Journal and one
of the oldest editors of the Alabama
press, was appointed sheriff of Mont
gomery County. one OF the best-pay-
ing positions in the state.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-23
RACE IS EXCITING
sPECTAcULAR PROHIBITION CAM
 PAIGN IN MCPHERSON.
Friends of Mayor George Ward Hold a AFeetSng--Pxeachers Declare
 the Mayor Was Not Threatened.

Birningham. Oct. 22--( Especial )--Col. T. c. Bush presided at mass meeting tonight in the Hippodrome to give en- dorsement to Mayor Ward. who Mon day announced his opposition to prohi- bttton and who was called upon by the ministers the same day and criticized by them.
 pr. Dickinson. pastor of the Baptist church, had distributed circulars in the meeting announcing that he had not threatened the Mayor with political death and the ministers who called on the Mayor were not a delegation from the Pastors Union.
 Col. Bush, in calling the meeting to order said that he did not do so be- cause he was against prohibition, but Instead he was there to show his ss- teenn for a Mayor who did what he con sidered right. Colonel Bush announc. cd that he would vote for prohibition. The Mayor was not present, but J. D. Kirk patrick speaking for the Mayor, said that he thanked the cttzens for the esteem expressed by the meeting
 T. H. Motion, a prominent real es- tate dealer, paid compliment to the Mayor. as did also Walker Percy, at torney for the Tennessee Company. who was called upon by the people to deliver an address.
 The mention of anti-prohibition was oh eered Justify by the crowd, 1t be- ing evident that the meeting was one of anti-prohibitionists
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-23
WORK AT THE FORT
AWARDS TWO nFu
 CONTRACTS.
TAey Call for eB0yeo0 Worth Of Lumber from Vinegar Bend and @40.00o
 f1 Cement fe0m De- W zla0M01fss

Mobile, Oct -(speciai,l Con- tracts were cioeed hare today for ce. msnt. lumber ana timber for the sea walls to be erected by the Government outside ok Fort Morgan.
 The Vinegar Bend Lumber Company was awarded the contract for s.5oo.Ooo feet of lumber and timber and the Southern Lime and Cement Company of Denopolis gets the contract for Ie,- 900 barrels of cement.
 The lumber contract amounts to ss0.- 900 and is one of the largest made in this city in recent years The cement contract amounts to about $40,000.
 g. w. Campbell. member of the firm of Charles Clark & Co. Of Galveston, Tex, which has the contract for build ing the sea wall. says the materials will be brought to Mobile by rail and water and from here transported to Fort Morgan on barkes and lighters belonging to the construction company
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-23
TOAPPEAR FORL.&N.
MOBILE AGENT GETS ORDER FROM
 COURT.
W RI. B0yIxin Ts Cited To Answer An xndictment Fer EafHinw To Use The umfon Railway
 station.

Mobile. Oct. Especial. )---yudge senames in the City Court this morning issued an order to be served on will fam M. Boylxin. local freight agent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, to appear in court in answer to an indictment returned by the last grand jury, charging the railroad com pany with violation of an act of the Legislature of i9o3s Relative to the use of the union railway station here.
 Tn the case Of an indictment of a corporation for the violation of law, no one may be arrested in connection with such indictment, but an agent is bonded to make appearance in court for the trial of the cause.
 It is not known when the case against the Louisville and Nashville will be heard. but 1t Is expected that 1t will be fixed next Thursday. which has been regularly fixed by Judge semmes for the arraignment of prison CTS.
 Judge Semmes has announced that he will not begin the criminal division of the court until Monday, November (.