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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
THE NEWS OF THE Week
Domestic.

The University of Pennsylvania Is
to confer the degree of doctor OF
laws onsDr. Howard A. Kelly.
President Eliot, of Harvard, favors
separate schools for the white and
black races.
A statement has been issued from
the office of District Attorney jerome
that the State is willing to consider
the appointment OF lunacy COM
mission for Harry X. Thaw.
All differences between the West
ern Union Company and its opera
tors In Chicago have been adjusted,
and the men who were discharged
have been reinstated.
Alexis Aladdin. leader of the peas
ant party in Russia, arrived at New
York. He says 30,000,000 Russians
are on the verge of starvation.
crank mistook Chief of Police
O'Brien, of Chicago, for President
| Roosevelt and attempted to shoot
him.
Cardenas & Coe. an old New York
firm of importers and exporters,
have made an assignment.
Justice Greenbaum, OF New York,
issued an order directing the Ameri-
can Ice Company to produce, for the
discovery and inspection of the peo-
pie of the State of New York, all
| contracts made by the company with
long list of firms and individuals.
The political campaign in the Phil
| ippines is causing excitement
throughout the island. The gov
ernment party has reorganized as
| the National Progressives.
Pulajanes burned two towns in
Occidental Negros, Philippines, and
killed six of the constabulary. Two
American teachers are missing.
Charles MEG. Williams, the fam
Gus Wisconsin University baseball
pitcher, who was supposed to be
dead, has been found in Indiana.
Harrow Hall, one of the buildings
of the Lincoln Memorial University,
at Cumberland Cap, Tenn, was de-
stroyed by fire.
Madison Jones, aged IL years,
saved a train from plunging into a
burned trestle by tagging it with
his red sweater.
New York was shaken by the ex-
plosion Of Standard Oil Tank at
Constable Hook, n. J.
Col. James +. ftaTTlSous BIduu-
son of President William Henry Har-
rison, is dead.
Four children we're burned to
death in their home at Bridgeville,
Del.
Under the auspices of the laymen's
missionary movement, a commission
of prominent American business men
will make a visit of inspection to all
the foreign missionary fields and de-
fray their own expenses.
The break in the Colorado River
has finally been shut off. 1t is now
expected that the Salton Sea will dis
appear by evaporation in about 10
years.
Robert Reeder and Henry Harkins,
attendants at the Ohio State Hospital,
were arrested on the charge of muir
dering an inmate.
The will of Elmer s. Dundy leaves
the greater part of his estate to his
mother. His wife gets $4,000.
Gage E. Tarbell, second vice
president of the Equitable Life As
surance Society, has resigned.
The Standard Oil Company has an
nounced a general advance in the
price of oil.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
LITTLE WAR is AVERTED.
Nicaragua And Honduras At Last
Agree To Arbitrate.

Washington Especially Peace be-
tween Honduras and Nicaragua seems
assured as a result of the. activity of
the United States and Mexico. Pres
ident Roosevelt received dispatches
from the Presidents of Nicaragua and
Honduras, both of whom have ex-
pressed willingness to accept the sug-
gestion of this country and to arbi-
trate their differences, which only a
few days ago seemed likely to result
in immediate war.
The statement was made at the
State Department that both the bel
ligerent countries had accepted the
proposition made in the joint note of
the United States, Mexico, Guatema-
la, Salvador and Costa Rica and had
aged to abitrate their differences.
No one yet knows Just what the
trouble has been between the two
little republics, but war was immi-
nent few days ago
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
LOOKING FOR ROOSEVELT.
Drew Revolver On Captain of the
Detectives.

Chicago Especially "A well-dressed
man, evidently of unsound mind, en-
tered the Central Police Station in
the city hall and attempted to shoot
Capt. P. D. O'Brien, of the detective
bureau.
The man placed revolver close to
Captain O'Brien's head, saying:
You're Roosevelt, amt your"
Captain O'Brien sprang up, knock
ed the man down and took the revol-
yer away. He was at once attacked
by the insane man, but after a des-
perate fight subdued him. With the
assistance of other officers the man
was placed in a cell, where he be-
came extremely violent, 1t being nee
essary for several officers to hold him
on the floor to prevent him from
dashing his brains out against the
wall. Later he was removed to the
Hospital for the Detention of the In
sane. Nothing found on the man
indicated his identity.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
GIRL ALLEGED EMBE1LER
Treasurer Of Church Society Locked
Up On That Charge.

Bloomington, Ill. Especially Miss
Helen Dixon is an occupant of cell
in the city Jail, awaiting trial on a
charge of erflbezzlement. She was
leading church worker, looked up
to and respected by all, and intrust-
ed with large sums of money raised
for religious purposes.
Wandering somewhere in the coun-
try in her brother, who by his con-
tinual pleas for money first drew
from her her savings and later the
church funds intrusted to her care.
tHe will pay them back II they
will give me time" is the girls la
ment. Her faith In him ls unshaken,
though others have ceased to be-
lieve that she ever again will see
the money she advanced to him.
Miss Dixon is accused of embezzl-
ing $1,000 belonging to the Clean
er's Society of the Second Christian
Church, of which she had been treas
urer for two years. The money in
trusted to her care had been raised
during four years of laborious efforts
on the part of the members of the
society. When the church proposed
to purchase a new $4,000 pipe organ,
the Cleaners Society agreed 10 raise
one-half the cost. Since that time
the society has been giving periodi-
cal entertainments. There are 100
members in the society, all young
women, and the money earned has
represented an incalculable effort.
The aggregate secured by these vari-
Gus means was about 1900.
Recently the organ was installed
and the Cleaners Society was called
upon to pay the agreed portion.
Two weeks ago Miss Dixon was ask
ed to turn over the money, but she
amazed the members by saying that
she did not have a cent in her pos
session. She also was out of en-
ployment. She was coaxed and
threatened, but refused to make any
statement as to the disposition of
the money other than that it was
gone.
After two weeks effort it was de-
cided, as a last resort, to place her
under arrest. When arrested Miss
Dixon told of sending the money to
her brother, who never returned it.
Her parents are dead.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.

By vote of 6 to the House
Committee on Ways and Means de-
feated the Williams bill providing for
reciprocal free trade in coal between
Canada and the United States.
The trade OF tho United States
with its noncontiguous territories
in the year 1906 was $131, 900, 900,
an increase OF $31,000,000 over the
trado two years before.
Brigadier General Thomas II.
Barry, assistant chief of staff, has
been assigned to command the troops
IN Cuba, vice Brigadier General
Theodore Wint, recalled.
The members of the House Com.
mittee on Public Lands yielded &c
the demands of the President thai
public lands be leased.
The House agreed to the confer
ence report on the Diplomatic and
Consular Appropriation Bill.
Secretary Straus inaugurated de.
parturo by holding a conference with
the chiefs of the bureaus of his de.
partment with reference to the con.
duct of business.
There was an army of temperance
people at the Capitol to attend the
hearing on the Webber bill, which
provides for prohibition in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
the Department of Justice hai
ordered the prosecution of numbe'
OF railroad companies for violating
lew elating to the shipment OF cattle
The Senate passed bill to provid,
for an investigation of the water re
sources of the United States by thu
Geological Survey.
The Postofiice Appropriation Bill
provides increased salaries for al
employees In tho postal service.
The American National Red Gross
cabled an additional $1,000 to Shang
hal for the famine sufferers.
Senator Knox made an argumen
against the expulsion of Reed Smoo
from the Senate.
The conference on the Immigration
Bill reached an agreement which pro
poses to refuse admission to thh
country to Japanses coming from
their own country and not provided
with passports, and authorizes TIN
exclusion of Japanese coolies comini
from American insular possessions
CHARLES II. Madison, of Pittsbure
formerly corporal of Company
Twenty-fifth Infantry, told the Sen
ate Military Committee his version
of the Brownsville affair.
Mr.. Mudd urged retaining the ap
preparation of 100000 for the com
mencement of steel floating dry
dock at Solomons Island, but Mr.
Mann, Of Illinois, insisted upon
point of order, which was sustained
President Roosevelt sent to Con
gress a message calling attention. tc
what he terms the urgent need OF
legislation affecting the different
phases OF the public land situation
In the United States"
The Senate sent the Army Appro.
priation Bill TO conference, with
Senators Warren, Foraker and Black
burn as conferees.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
WOULD NOT SELL TO JAPs.
Hartman Said To Have Refused Of
fer For Steamer Lines.

San Francisco, Especially The
Examiner says that President Harri-
man, of the Pacific Mail Company,
has refused all offers of the officials
of the Toyen Kisen Kaisha, the Japa-
nese company operating steamers be-
tween this port and the Orient, to
sell out to them his line of steamers
in part or in whole.
The Pacific Mail Company, it IS
said, is now considering a proposi-
tion from Mexico by which the Pa
cific Mail is to abandon the Panama
route and run its steamers in connec-
tion with the Tehauntepec Isthmian
Line, or else divide its steamer SER
vice between the two Isthmia roads.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
Mangled BY A Bulldog.

Philadelphia (SpeciaD Attacked
by a vicious bulldog belonging to her
husband, Mrs. Lena Smith was al
most chewed to death in her home
here. She is in a critical condition
in a hospital. One of her a5ms was
so mangled by the angry dog that
1t will have to be amputated and the
other was so torn it will be amost
useless If she RECEIVERS. The wo-
mans neck and breast were also
terribly mangled. The attack on
the part of the dog was provoked
by a beating which Mrs. Smith gave
the animal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21

South Orange, N. ]. CSpeciaD -
William c. De Lancey and Mrs. De
Lancey were badly burned in a fire
which totally destroyed their resi-
dence. on Forest Drive. in the fash
ionable section of Short Hills. They
are now in the private hospital of Dr.
Mefford RunyOn, on South Prospect
Street, South Orange Their two
children were saved by a nurse. The
fire was discovered about o'clock
by some of tho servants, who saw
blaze in the conservatory at the rear
OF the house. where Mr.. De Lancey
had a collection Of costly plants.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
ID. Kuppenheimer snicIde.

Chicago Especially B. Kuppen-
heimer, manager of the firm of B.
Kuppenheimer & Co., was found un-
conscious in his residence in Prairie
Avenue with a bullet wound in his
side. A revolver lay beside him.
He died before a physician arrived.
The coroner's jury returned a vedict
of suicide while respondent because
of I'll health.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
Wolves Terrorize siiesia.

Berlin (By Cable) Packs of
wolves, during the long, cold spell,
have been invading Silesia from Rus
sia. The countryside is full of stories
of lonely wayfarers who have been
surrounded by wolves. pulled down
and devoured. Few persons venture
TO go on foot outside the villages.
The gentry have organized wolf hunts
In the forests OF Tworoger, Sawitz
and Hungohuette. Prince Won Pless
fought a small pack OF wolves and
killed four OF them.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
Derailed On A Bridge.

Easton, Pa. Especially Two cars
of the Black Diamond Express on
the Lehigh Valley Railroad we're
derailed on the bridge crossing the
Delaware River here. Both cars, a
day coach and a sleeper, were dam
aged, and the latter slipped to the
top of the stone pier and came close
to going into the river Several per-
sons were injured.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
Italy Going Backward.

Rome (By Cable) Recent statis-
tics show that Italy's population for
the last FIVE years has been gradual
ly decreasing. In several of the pro-
vinces which furnish the largest con-
tingents of emigrants the deaths al
ready outnumber the births, while
in others the population is stationary.
The lack of laborers is felt every
where throughout the country EN-
igration Is considered 70 be the main
cause OF the depopulation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
Tho Agricultural Bin.

washington Especially The Agri-
cultural Appropriation Bill was re-
ported to the Senate. AS reported
from the Committee on Agriculture,
the bin carries an incease over the
bin as It passed the House in the
appropriations for the Agricultural
Department proper OF s1s4.18O, and
of $500 900 in the appropriation for
the forestry service. bringing the to-
tai forestry appropriation up to ST.
600. 600 and tho grand total OF the
bill 10 sS,302.i9.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
Mrs. Bradley Indicted.

Washington (S2eeiaD Mrs. An
ME M. Bradley was indicted for muir
der In the first degree for the shoot
ing Of former Senator Arthur NJ.
Blown, of Utah, at the Raleigh Hotel,
In this city. on the Sth of last De-
comber, causing HIS death on De-
cember 13. Mrs. Bradley probably
will be arralgned under the indict-
ment sometime this week. Her
trial win not take place for, per-
haps, two months. She Is at pres
ent confined in the district iail.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
soO. coo For Dit or Rroirs

Cleveland (SpecialD For the loss
of a spoonful of brains and other
injuries, which he claims he sus-
tanned when a long-handled adze fell
from an upper story of the Central
High School annex, May 6, 1904,
George o. Beyans wants 100000
damages. Beyans says the brains he
lost were the bost he had, and thft
he prized them highly Tho adze was
accidentally dropped. he claims. by
an employ Of George A. Cook, of
Stevens e. Co., and that Skeel Bros.
were negligent IL not keeping a tenn
porary flooring down above where
he was working.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
Explosion To B,, Investigated.

Terre Haute. Ind. Especially -
Judge James Piety, of the vigo Coun-
ty Circuit Court. instructed the
grand jury to fully investigate the
Sanford powder explosion In which
a passenger train was blown to
pieces and Is persons killed The
jury was advised to ascertain II
criminal negligence had caused the
disaster, and II so to fix the respon-
slbIlity and return indictments
against the guilty persons. The
state Railway Commission Is also in
vestigating the matter.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
Foreign.

General Picquart, French minister
Of war, declared in the Chamber of
Deputies that if the Germans were
violating the neutral territory of
the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,
France would meet the situation.
The Rothschilds have refused the
Brazilian government request to
issue a loan of $25,0OO,OOO to finance
the coffee vslorization scheme.
The gigantic scheme of a firm of
distillers in England to defraud the
revenue has been unearthed.
French financial interests will
make last-ditch fight agains. the
proposed income tax measure.
Formal notice has been given that
a bill to establish an Irish coun-
Gil with extensive administrative
powers but limited rights to legis-
late will be introduced in the British
Parliament.
German officials are becoming i'm
patient over the delay of the Turkish
officials in Furnishing the chief of
the secret police, who seized the
carge of a German ship.
The English House of Commons
refused a new writ for the election
of a member in place of Mr.. William
son, Conservative and tariff reformer,
who was unseated.
Fifty-six women suffragists who
were arrested for disorderly conduct
in the House of Commons, London,
refused to pay the fines imposed and
were sent to jail
Investigation is being made into
the sanity of Professor Hau, of Wash
ington, held at Karlsruhe Germany,
charged with the murder of his moth
er-in-law.
Premier Mohammed FL Aziz Bou
Atour Of Tripoli died at Tunis at the
age of 95.
Anarchists are being arrested in
Berlin on the charge of provoking
soldiers to rebel
II was formally denied that Pre-
mier Clemenceau of France intends
to resign.
President Castro was operated up
on for an infected gland in the groin.
Premier Bond, of Newfoundland,
| which, he said, abandoned the colony
/ in arranging the modus vivendi with
the United States.
The German Imperial Supreme
| Court has sentenced an Italian, who
claims to be a prince, to pison for
attempting to get drawings of a
fortress.
The British chief secretary for Ire
| land announced in the House of Com
mons that the cabinet is committed
| TO home rule for Ireland.
The police arrested three anarch-
| lists in Berlin and 1000 copies of
revolutionary pamphlet
Efforts will be made in Parliament
to obtain a governmental statement
| on the Swettenham episode.
Charles Tucker, a member of the
South Australian Parliament. and a
customs agent named Forwood have
been sentenced each to two years
Imprisonment for conspiring to COM
NIT extensive customs frauds.
Rudolph Dodge, resident director
of the Orinoco corporation and secre-
tary of the United States Commission
on Venezuelan Claims. makes seri-
Gus charges OF corruption against
Venezuelan government officials.
In the. general convention of
s, 900 members OF the German Farm
ers National Association in Berlin
resolutions we're adopted that the
convention expected no further re-
@rctions in the tariff will be agreed
to.
The Russion government has
adopted the scheme to tax all in
comes above $500.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
ESQ DROWNED OR FROZEN.
Joy Line Steamer Larchmont Sinks
After Collision.

Block Island, r. I. Especially A
marine disaster, with an appalling
loss of life and entailing suffering
almost beyond the limit of human
endurance, came to light Tuesday
when a lifeboat of the Joy Line
steamer Larchmont, bonud from
Providence to New York, drifted into
Block Island harbor.
In the boat were several bodies of
men who had died from the effects of
long hours of exposure to death
dealing temperature. In the boat
also were IL, whose suffering was so
intense that they seemed oblivious
to the fact that death was in their
midst, and that they had escaped
only by virtue of their ability to
withstand the rigor of zero weather
in an open boat at sea.
The boat brought tale of disas-
ter that has rarely been equaled in
New England waters, and 1t is be-
lieved that when the final count Is
made it will be found that not less
than $50 lives were lost.
Grim Tokens of Suffering.
Following closely in the wake of
the solitary lifeboat came bodies, cast
upon the beach by angry waves.
Then came lifeboats and RATS. Each
of them bore their burden of grim
death, as well as a load of suffering
humanity, and each brought tale
of horror, of suffeing and of despair.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
Grim Tokens of SnfYerlng.
Another Collision.

Naples (By Cable) The White
Star Line steamship Republic, Cap
tain McAuley, from Boston February
and Genoa February IA for Naples,
while entering the harbor here col
lided with the Italian steamer Centre
America, from st. Thomas January
II. Nobody was injured, but great
panic ensued. Both steamers were
considerably damaged.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
Thawed Dynamite In Stove.

Annville, Pa. Especially An explo-
sion of dynamite, put in the kitchen
oven to thaw for the use of her hus-
band, a quarryman, killed Mrs. John
Zellers and seriously injured her
two children, Lydia and Mary. The
house was demolished.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
Boy Averted Rad Wreck.

Birmingham, Ala. Especially -
Madison Jones, IL years old, discov-
ering that a portion of a eOO-foot
trestle had been burned near Sparks
Gap, on the Southern Railway, 20
miles from Birmingham. left his
wagon in the road, and taking off his
red sweater. tagged an approaching
passenger train from Birmingham.
The train came to a halt, and the
passengers upon discovering the
situation made up a purse for the
boy.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
First TrolIev SIcener.

st. Louis Especially The first
trolley sleeper ever run in Illinois
left East st. Louis for Decatur, ILL.,,
by way of Springfield, and another
departed at 10 p. M. from Decatur
for this city. The cars are equipped
with 10 sections and the usual smok-
ing and dressing rooms.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
Passes Two.Cent Rate.

Raleigh, N. c., Especially BY II
vote of sS to 2S the lower branch
of the General Assembly passed a
2-cent passenger rate applicable to
the Southern Railway and tho At
lantic Coast Line, eXempting other
lines. The Senate is considering a
2 u cent rate.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-21
Killed At Grade Crossing.

Adrian, Mich. Especially Mrs. Mary
Hinkley, aged 50, was instantly
killed; Warren Stamp, aged 2S. was
fatally injured, and Miss Ida Hinkley,
aged "a. was seriously hurt when
the buggy in which they were rid
ing was struck by an eastbound Wa
bash passenger train.