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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-09
UNDER CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY
Manager international Policyholders'
Committee.

New York Especially .---Sensational
results have quickly followed the in
quiry by the distict attorneys Office
into the recent election of directors
of the New York Life Insurance
Company.
George r. Scrugham, manager OF
the international Policyholders' Com
mittee, which inspired the present In
vestigation, making grave charges
against those who conducted the
election, was himself placed under
arrest at Albany and put aboard a
train, leaving Albany for New York
at 1.15 O'Clock A. NJ.
Scrugham is charged with con-
spiracy, and he was the third man
Identified with the International Pol
icyholders' Committee to be taken
into custody since noon. The other
are Charles Stirrup and Charles r.
Darlington. These two were not
members of the committee, but were
employed as watchers for the com.
mittee at the election. Stlrrup was 2
watcher at the directors election OF
the Mutual Life Insurance Company
while Darlington acted in a SINH
lar capacity at the New York Life
election.
Conspiracy Is Charged.
They are specifically charged with
having "unlawfully conspired togeth.
er together for the perversion and
obstruction of the due administra
tion of the laws of the State of New
York, with relation to the election
of directors of the New York Life
Insurance Company" The warrants
were Issued on the complaint of AS
slstant District Attorney Walter B
Howe.
Stirrup, 1t is alleged was employ.
ed in a subordinte capacity at the
office of the policyholders' committee
previous to December 1S. and the Of
fenso with which he is charged was
committed prior to that date.
Jacob Frank. a New York Life In.
surance Company agent, was arrest
ed, charged with forgery in the third
degree. Frank had been summoned
to explain the signatures of several
policyholders to alleged forged bal
lots cast at the recent election of dl-
reetors of the New York Life. At
the time of his arrest Frank, 1t is
said, made q statement to Assistant
District Attorney Smyth and Howe
that had an important bearing on
the late Developments.
The policyholders' committee,
headed by Scrugham as manager and
Samuel Untermeyer as counsel, and
with a membership of many distin-
guished persons in this country and
Europe, fought the administration
tickets in the recent elections of di.
rectors of the New York and Mutual
Life Insurance Companies.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-09
WRECK OF A FLYER.
Disastrous Smashup On Ohio River
Division of B. & o.

Parkersburg, w. Va. (SpeciaD.-
Train No. 716, northbound, flyer on
the Ohio River Division of the Bal
timore and Ohio, was wrecked at
2.30 O'Clock at Pleasant View, 40
miles below here, while going at so
miles an hour.
About 20 persons were injured,
and three or four Of that number
will die.
The relief train arrived here from
the scene of the wreck at O'Clock
P. NJ. and about a dozen of the in
jured, including the three mentioned
above. were removed to st. Joseph's S
Hospital. The wreck was caused by
bad rail. Not one of the train
crew was injured. Three coaches
rolled over an emhankment.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-09
Killed by Fan Down Stairs.

York, Pa. (SpeciaD - Becoming
entangled in a blanket which she was
carrying, Mrs. Rebecca Bixler, of this
city, tripped and fell down stairs.
She died shortly afterwards. Mrs.
Bixler was just recovering from a
severe sickness. and was alone in the
house at the time of the accident.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-09
Eckles Worth s15o.Ooo.

Chicago Especially The estate of
the late James H. Eckles, president
of the Commercial National Bank
and former comptroller of the cur
rency, Is said to amount to only
S150,0O0 The property consists
chiefly of real estate and bank stock.
and by his will goes entirely to his
widow and daughter.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-09
klDNAppED BOY
WAS MURDERED
Horace Marvin Found In Field Near
His Home.
WAS PLACED THERE BY SLAYER.
A Duck Hunter Finds the Four-year-
old Lad in Spot Where All
the Grass Had Bsen Burned Away
and Which Has Been Traversed
Daily by Searchers.
MYSTERY STILL DEEP.

The body OF Horace Marvin,
who disappeared March 4, was
found near his fathers farm.
All Indications point to the
probability that 1t was placed
there within the last few days.
DR.. Marvin, the father is GER
tain the boy was kidnapped and
murdered, and every effort will
be made to solve the mystery.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-09
100000 Driven From Homes.

Odessa tBy Cable) One hundred
thousand people are estimated to
have been driven from their homes
by the overfowing OF the Dnieper,
Dniester and Dyina. The inunda-
tions are more widespread than usual
and have caused extreme distress
over an enormous area.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-09
THE NEWS or THE WEEK
Domestic.

Another complication in the dis
tribution of the fortune left by the
late James Henry Smith, the Silent"
millionaire, who died while in Japan
on his honeymoon, is promised
through the discovery that Smith
had an older brother in Chilli
More than s43,000,000 in improve
meDts and work on every building
in Philadelphia is at standstill as
a result of fruitless conferences of
employers with bricklayers' and
stonemasons' unions over a division
OF work.
J. e. Sullivan, agent of the Ala
bama Southern, at Birmingham, Ala,
and Frank Richardson shot and kill
ed each other during a quarrel over
freight
Cyrus d. Foss, son of Bishop Foss,
has been removed from the secre-
taryship of the Philadelphia Civil
Service Commission by Mayor Rey-
burn.
Count Otto Won Waldstein. a noble
man of Austria, was shot and killed
by mistake for a desperate by a
posse in California
District Attorney Jerome is to look
into all insurance companies referred
to in the Investigations in New York.
William S. Alley, a former mem
ber of the New York Stock Exchange,
has filed petition in bankruptcy.
Firefighters in autos travelled 2S
miles in 80 minutes in q dash across
Iowa.
Secretary Shaw predicts war over
the control of the Pacific Ocean.
Charles T. Thornton, note-teller,
and William w. Baker, bookkeeper,
of the Hamilton National Bank, of
Chicago, were sent to the Peniten-
tiary for embezzlement.
Arrested on the charge of vagrancy
in Philadelphia, John Dempsey at
tempted suicide in a cell at the police
station by gashing his throat with a
razor.
Capt. Edgar Macklin, of the Twen-
ty-ffth Infantry, was fully and hon
orably acquitted by court-martial in
San Antonio, Tex.
Constantin Brun, the Danish min
lister to Washington, sailed for Eu-
rope from New York.
Alex. A. Chisolm was tried in
Birmingham, Ala, on the charge of
embezzllng 100000.
G. G. Sickle, of Pittsburg, leaped
from Suicide Pier, in Cleveland, and
was drowned.
Albert Koenig shot Nettie Woods
In st. Louis and then shot himself.
Fourteen steamers brought 20,729
immigrants to New York in "a hours.
Wilson Miner, the young hus-
band of the widow of Charles T.
Yerkes, was named as the defendant
in a divorce suit brought in the Su-
preme Court of New York by Mrs.
Yerkes-Mizner.
William F. Corey, president of the
United States Steel Corporation, and
Mabelle Gilman, the actress, an
nounce that they will be married
May 10.
Governor Stuart, of Pennsylvania,
vetoed the bill placing osteopaths
on the same plane with other medi-
cal practitioners.
A committee of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
has made a report favoring early
marriages.
Judge Embry, of Oklahoma, who
sentenced John w. January, the re-
captured convict, favors the mans
pardon.
The cornerstone of the Masonic
Temple at Hammond. Ind, was laid
by Vice President Fairbanks.
Carroll B. Short, Texas attorney,
was shot and killed by DR.. Buck
Paul.
The Pennypacker Libel Law of
Pennsylvania has been repealed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-09
Minlonalre olives s6. .000.

York, Pa. Especially - Theodore
Helb, millionaire business man of
this city, presented $1,000 to the
endowment fund of the theological
seminary at Lancaster. The presen-
tation was made through Rev. H.
Apple, of this city, Mr.. Helb's pastor,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-09
Defended His Home.

Ironton, o. Especially ~ Dr.. Wayne
Mccoy, prominent physician at
South Point, was shot and killed by
Capt. John Davis. Of tho Portsmouth
ferryboat. Captain Davis asserted
that he was defending the sanctity
Of his homo.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-09

Mrs. A. e. Heneberger. OF Har-
risonburg, yice-president general Of
the Daughters OF the American Reyo-
luton OF Virginia, Is this week the
guest OF Mrs. William s. Welch. re-
gent OF the Peggy Stewart Tea Party
chsnfar of Apnanolis
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-09
Major Rathbone Dead.

San Francisco Especially Major
Gerald Rathbone died here after a
brief illness, He was consul at Paris
under the first Cleveland administra-
ton. During the war he was aid on
the stan Of General scofield.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-09
Gas IlIIIs Entlrr Familv

New York Especially - Wilii4n
Gross. his wife and their two boys
were found dead from inhaling IL
Illuminating gas In their fiat in Jersey
City. Gas was pouring from a dis
connected pipe In the kitchen.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-09
Foreign.

! rived at Plymouth, England, with
the survivors of the crew of the
British tank steamer Silverslip, de-
stroyed by an explosion of benzine.
The engineer and four firemen were
killed and four others seriously
burned
Under the drumhead court-martial
now abolished in Russia, 1,144 per-
sons were executed, 70 condemned
to the Siberian mines for life and
71O to minor terms of imprisonment
In anti-European riots at Rawal-
pindi, Punjab, India, a Hindoo mob
burned the mission church, looted
the postoffice and smashed the win
dows of the residences of Europeans.
At the Primrose League demon
stration in London ex-Premier Bal
four, head Of the Unionists, came
out squarely in favor of protection.
Charles j. Steedman, of New York,
son of the late Rear Admiral Charles
Steedman, committed suicide by
shooting in hotel in Paris.
Two Americans are among the sus-
poets arrested in Guatemala city in
the life of President Cabrera.
Twenty new battalions of Chinese
troops will be raised by conscription
to form a special army for the de-
fense of Manchuria.
The British colonial premiers re-
viewed a portion of the nations
navy at Portsmouth. including the
Dreadnought.
The Sultan OF Turkey has as last
issued an trade in regard to the
American schools and other ques-
tions.
The British Cabinet is considering
plan for giving the colonies a quid
pro quo for their preferential treat
ment of British goods by subsidizlng
lines of steamers between England
and the more important colonies.
Professor Curtis, who incurred the
imperial displeasure byhis publication
of the Won Hohenlohe memoirs, has
resigned the presidency OF the Prot
estant Consistory OF Alsace.
General Botha. premier OF the
Transvaal, at the imperial conference
in London declared his uncompromis-
ing opposition to a commercial con-
ference within the empire.
Harry Gullam, professional golf
player, after quarreling with his wife
and striking her at Edinburgh, COM
mitted suicide by throwing himself
over a precipice,
It Is announced that the French
government will welcome any action
by the United States looking to the
creation OF a Joint tariff commission.
English women suffragists will op-
pose the election to the House Of
Commons of Henry Chaplin, express
ident of the local government board.
The Reichstag passed the first read
ing OF the Kiel canal bill providing
for $3.750.0O0 as the first instaIment
to bo expended.
Russia's Council OF the Empire
adopted the army recruiting bill and
the bill appropriating $4,000, 900 for
famine relief.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
Death Of Ebenezer H. AIIbee.

Ebenezer H. Allbee, 49, died in the home
of his niece, Mrs. F. Il. Aldrich, Ito Ell
lot street, Tuesday morning. He had
been i'll only a few days and his death
was due to a general breaking down in
cident to old age. Until he was taken Ill
the latter part of last week, he had been
in good health for so elderly a man.
The body was taken TO Bellows Falls
Tuesday afternoon and the funeral was
held at the home of his son, DR.. r. F..
Allbee yesterday afternoon. He was
born in Londonderry and was the son OF
Horace and Hannah Allbee. He attended
the public schools there and lived there
in early manhood. He married Miss
ANGELA Whitman of Londonderry. AT
ter their marriage they lived several
years in Jamaica, The first Mrs Allbee
died and he married Mrs. Caroline Perry
of Westminster They lived in West
minister II years, until the time of her
death Since then he had lived with his
sons in Bellows Falls or with his niece,
Mrs Aldrich. The past three years he
had made his home with his niece in
Westmoreland, N. H., and came to Brat
tieboro with her about three months ago.
He is survived by two brothers. Samuel
of Illinois, and Horace H. Allbee of Mid
dlebury also one sister, Mrs, William I,
Wheeler of West Townshend, and TWO
sons, Judge u. H. Allbee and DR.. p. F.
Allbee, both of Bellows Falls.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
Rutland News.l

In the passing of that esteemed Yer
monter, John II. Merrifeld, ii is not in
appropriate to pause a moment to take
the measure of the man. Dryden said
that the best evidence OF character was
a mans whole life" Using the Dryden
standard of measure Mr.. Merrheld passes
with a percentage that leaves him in
class seldom out-ranked.
Many a Vermonter has crossed the
stage and passed off who had more i'm
posing carriage, more brilliant en-
semble; but no heart ever beat truer or
steadier with pulsations of homely hon
esty; no heart ever beat stronger with
firm and unvarying desire to do just the
right thing; and but few have succeeded
as well-none better.
The meteoric flash of some men, to-
gether with their diamond-like brilliancy
has attracted attention in passage, and
these in their way have distanced Mr..
MeTrifeld. But, measured by that
Dryden gauge where the soul shines out
in superlaUive brilliancy, where great
throbbing hearts beat In unison with the
fatherhood of God and the brotherhood
of man, he was not outclassed.
For 35 years a public servant, man
of affairs, in positions high ani low, he
never undertook the execution of a trust
confided to him without invoking help
from on high, and entering upon his duty
with a sole and single purpose to do equal
justice 10 all men. John H. MeIflneld
was an exceedingly modest man-some-
times almost dlhidenI to the extent of
being hampered in public duties-never
aggressive with his views to the discom-
fort of his fellow associates, yet with an
ability and a knowledge of affairs which
made him a loved and respected leader.
Where John II. MerTifeld has gone,
where human lives are weighed for what
they really are, he will not be found
wanting May his mantle fall on gem
Grafton who need the stimulus of such a
well lived lifel
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
[sprlngheld Republlcan.l

The weekly newspapers up in Yer
mont bring an array OF appreciatlve
tributes to the character OF the late John
II. Merriheld, clerk OF Windham county,
former clerk of the state House of Rep
resentatives, speaker of the House and
member Of the Senate, that are as rare
as they were deserved. Modest and hon
est, singularly pure in his life and aims
capable beyond his own appreciation,
citizen absolutely faithful to all his obli-
cations, 1t is pleasant to see how much
people thought of him The virtue OF
absolute sincerity and simplicity OF char
acter made Mr.. Merriheld the recipient OF
universal confidence. He came to be
known as Honest John" throughout the
entire state, and this was a tribute Of real
and affectionate appreciation. His was a
genuine manliness without the flaw OF n
single mean trait. Greater men than he
could have been better spared
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
Some New Ena!ana supsr,tItIons.

Gramp added that he knew We were
going TO have a dull day, for he had heard
II raining in the night about l o'clock;
and" said he, II couldn't help thinkin
o. that old saying.
Between IL and two
You can tell what the day will do,
1t may cloud up or clear of later In the
night; but the day will be what IL was
between ~ and two. II our dog comes
into the house and puts his head under
the mat I'm certain sure there's goin' to
be a cold snap, and IL comes every time.
When the wind dies down at sunset It
will blow again the next day. A thunder
storm amt good for eggs that are under
a hen Matching. The chickens are apt
10 be crazy.
March winds and May sun.
Make dun cloth white, and fair maids
dun
keep my young cattle in the pasture
during the summer; but l bring 'em in
when the weather is bad; and they know
a great sight better than l do what the
weather Is goin' to be. They'll gather
at the bars a good many hours before
storm comes-often when the sky amt
begun to show a sign OF It,
Dream of picking fruit out of season.
And youll quarrel without reason
When you're peelin' onions hold pin
between your teeth and it'n prevent
your cryin'. II you want TO get rid of
the rats in your house, ketch one and
tar and feather 1t and turn It loose. All
the rats will leave in a hurry. When l
was a boy I'd sometimes play so hard
I'd have a pain in my side To cure IL
I'd lift up a stone, spit under 1t and put
the stone back in its place. l wouldn't
have any more trouble from the pain
after that. II you begin to tell some
thing and forget what you were saying
that is a sure sign that y vas true.
Mend your clothes upon your back
Poverty you'll never lack
when the world was new the devil
spent a lot of time sowing II with stones.
He carried the stones in his apron, and
where you see spots that they are very
thick, you can know his apron strings
broke there. To stop the hiccoughs see
how near you can hold your little fingers
together without their touching. If you
! don't want to have the toothache, cut a
little bit from each toe nail and finger
nail Then wrap the cuttings in a white
paper or birch bark and put 'em in hole
bored in a pine tree. Close the hole by
plugging and you won't have any trouble
with aching teeth as long as you live,
though this won't prevent your losing
your teeth by decay. You can cure rheu-
rnatism by putting mustard in your shoes.
If you have the stomach ache
Eat piece of burnt cake "-lClif-
ton Johnson in the New England Maya
| zine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
Dumas Pere and the Temperature.

Dumas Pere, when manager of the
Theatre Historique, was continually
studying the influence of the temperature
on the sale Of tickets-at least he seemed
to do so; in fact, this seeming interest
in the showing of the thermometers was,
like so many other acts of his nothing
but an expression of the proverbial kind
ness of his heart
One day Dumas happened to meet an
Old friend whom he had not seen for 30
years. Where are you going to dine to-
night?" He asked the friend,
Tonight I shall dine nowhere was the
answer
"Oh no." said Dumas. you are rlis-
taken; you will dine with me-" He led the
friend into his house and gave him the
upper place at his table. The poor man
had not had such dinner for long dime,
and Dumas, when retiring into his writing
room after the coffee, said, 1T is matter
of course that I expect you tomorrow at
the same time"
The friend came the next day, and the
day after this, and so on for ten years up
to his death. One day, however, he told
Dumas that as he was eating bread he
did not earn, this arrangement could not
continue. IF / am not able honestly to
earn my meals, / shall not come again.
Tell me in what way / can be of service
TO you"
Dumas thought for a moment. then he
said: You can do me great favor.
You may go to the new bridge every day
and take the temperature by Chevalier's
thermometer. The temperature, you
must know is of great moment in the
matter of the sale of tickets. Could you
do this?"
The poor fellow answered affirmauvely,
and from that time on reported to Dumas
every day: at noon the thermometer
showed so and so many degrees in the
shade" And Dumas, who. of course, did
not care in the least about the tempera-
ture, replied with the same regularity:
81 am very much obliged. If you only
knew what a service you are doing mel
-[Harper's Weekly.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
Montpelier Argus.l

News of the death OF Hon. John H.
Merrlheld, eX-speaker of the Vermont
House OF Representatives and widely
and affectlonately known in the Green
Mountain state, was received In every
section with genuine regret. Mr., Merrl
field had been in public life over 30
years and the strict integrity which
marked his conduct OF the offices which
he occupied earned for him the sobriquet
of Honest John" In the past ten years
il any one referred to Honest John" the
one addressed knew with no further eX-
PLANTATION that Mr.. Merrifield was referred
to. In addition he possessed a kindly
heart and a disposition always to do all
in his power to assist any who desired
his aid. Those who came in contact with
him could not but admire his exceptional
qualities. and the attractive personality
Of Honest John Merrifeld" will long be
remembered by all who knew him
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
jamaica Lumber Company Holds the
Lumber

A hearing on the petition of Julia F.
Hogan and c. II. Hogan of Jamaica and
the Deerfeld River company for the dis
solving of an injunction secured against
them by the Jamaica Lumber company to
prevent removing lumber from Jamaica
was held before Judge f. L. Waterman
Monday afternoon. The Hogans had sold
5000 feet Of spruce boards to the Jamaica
Lumber company about a year ago with
the understanding that the lumber should
be ordered shipped before Nov. l, 1906
They had received $500 for the lumber
from the Jamaica Lumber company. The
company did not order the lumber shipped
before Nov. l and the Hogans suisse
quenty sold the lumber to the Deerfield
River company and rendered the 5000
back to the Jamaica Lumber company.
The Jamaica Lumber company then
sough. an injunction preventing the re-
moyal Of the lumber, which was granted
recently by Judge Waterman. The
Hogans and the Deerfield River company
Med a petition for the dissolving of the
Injunction. The court ruled that by
The payment of the $500 the lumber
passed into the hands of the jamaica
Lumber company and became its property
ana denied the petition for the dissolVing
OF the Injunction. A. V. d. Piper of
Jamaica and C. c. Fits were for the
Jamaica Lumber company, A. F. Schwenl1
LOT the Hogans and E. w. Gibson for
Tie Deerileld River company.