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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
Rabbi Hirsch,s Address.

Rabbi Hirsch, of Chicago, was the
first speaker of the evening. He was
in good voice and his words we're dis
tinctly heard in the balcony He said,
IN part:
"Battle-cradled Judah's early poet
ry, like the youthful strains of the
awakening national consciousness
among other peoples, running in mel
odies singing of CORY victories, and
sounding the crash of clashlng
swords, the whir and stir of flying
arrows. 1t is the mighty God of
War whom it invokes and proclaims,
and to read the significance of the
universes revolving and changeful
sceneries the Hebrew bard's Tyre bor-
rows symbol and sign from camp
and contest. Stars are an army sent
forth in nightly raiG to defeat the
Btormcloud's 8 daring minions. Tide
and tempest, roaring sea and raven
0ds abyss are giant warriors leaping
TO the fray. Thus mythology and the
nascent nations vivid memories of
recent feuds and broils vie with each
other to lend glamor to the horrors Of
the man-wasting battle-ground.
"But in the noontide fulness of the
nations maturity Judah's muse and
ecstasy gives vision of purer and
softer tints and tones. They sing of
peace. They pIOphesy of swords
turned into plow shares. They pict-
ure God enthroned as Judge over the
dwellers of his footstool His de-
cisions render superfious the appeal
TO arms. The art of war is forgot
ten in consequence. Not rs one des-
tined to snatch his laurel from a
torrent Of blood, but as one waving
the palm undefiled by CRIME of mur-
der, they name and hail the future
ruler OF their nation Prince OF peace. .
'The conservation Of Israel's pro-
phetic assurance is upon US. The
GLAD day of its fulflment Is nearing
Let them doubt who will. Ours is
the fervent faith that vindicates the
foreyision."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD.

Hartman was reelected president
of Southern Pacific.
The Bank OF England reduced its
discount rate from to 4 " per cent.
All adyices from Wall Street were
to the effect that business on the
Exchange was entirely professional.
There is an entire lack of public buy
ing.
A big drop In tho price of Rio
Tinto, the biggest copper mine of
Europe or the whole world, indicates
the feeling about the copper metal
market abroad.
Mayor Reyburn, of Philadelphia,
was consulting bankers with regard
to the city's $13, 100000 loan, the
rate of interest on which Is to be in
creased from 3 X to per cent.
A number of leading Philadelphia
banking firms are lending call money
at per cent
1t is proposed to increase the size
of the Executive Committee OF Union
Pacific in order that Hartman may
not continue to have sole control of
that company's affairs.
So far this year tho shipments OF
coal and coke on the Pennsylvania
lines east amounted TO 14,S22, 900
tons, an increase of $4,000 over the
same period in 1906. This gain is
considerable less than the gain OF last
year over 1905.
The Iron. Age says of the pig
iron trade: "The March product OF
the coke and anthracite blast fur
naces was 2,225,175 tons. as COM
pared with 2,O45. .Oes tons in Fcbru-
airy, short month. and 2,235.3O6
tons in the record month. December.
While on the face of 1t this looks as
though March had been larger than
February, as matter of fact tho
daily rate of production in March
was only 71.7S0 tons, as compared
with that of 7s.oss tons for Febru-
ary."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
At The NATIONS CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.

The monument to the Rough Rid
ers in Arlington Cemetery was dedi-
Gated. President Roosevelt made an
mainly on patriotism and good citi-
Senship.
The joint board of the Army and
Navy has determined to establish
closer relations between the person
mel of the seacoast fortifications of
the Army and the forces of the Navy.
President Roosevelt announced that
he will say nothing upon the ques-
tion of railroad regulations or con-
troll in his address at the opening of
the jamestown Exposition.
Attorney General Bonaparte made
an argument before the Supreme
Court in the employers liability
cases and his address closed the hear
ing.
The railroads are reported to have
practically abandoned their plan to
raise freight rates.
Representatives Binger Hermann,
charged with destroying public rec
ords, clung tenaciously to his form
er denials that he had railroaded
the on-Hyde-Dimond patent
cases through the department upon
the request of the late Senator Nit
chell.
The Secretary Of Commerce and
Labor has ordered a general inquiry
into the management of the various
immigrant stations throughout the
| country.
Brigadier General Walter 4. Dug
gan was placed on the retired list.
The State Department announced
officially that the treaty being negO-
tiated between Great Britain and the
United States was confined entirely
to the question of fresh-water fishery
and the use of boundary waters. not
including st. Johns River. 1t has
been practically completed.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission has divided the country into
districts, minor complaints from var
ious sections to be heard by differ
ent commissioners.
w. T. Stead. of London, conferred
with President Roosevelt and Sec
retary of State Root relative to the
forthcoming peace congress at The
Hague.
The United States Secret Service
reports the discovery of bogus ten
and twenty dollar notes.
The President appointed Oscar r,
Hundley United States district judge
| for Alabama.
Federal officials secured the ar
rest in Lowell. Mass. of Michael
Iatros. Greek consul at Lowell
Mass. on the charge OF getting con
traband immigrants into this coun-
try.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
ARMED GUARD ON ROAD
Pennsylvania Plan For Catching
Trainwreckers.

Pittsburg, Pa. Especially In or
der to devise ways and means for.
stopping the epidemic of train wreck
ing officials of the Pennsylvania met
here in conference at the office of
superintendent Long, for the Pitts
burg Division. President McCrea
was also in the conference part of
the time by long-distance phone from
Philadelphia. After the meeting the
following authorized statement was
made
"At a meeting of the officials of
the lines both east and west. held
here to discuss both ways and means
of getting at the train wreckers, II
was decided that tracks must be
patroled and even, II necessary, to
put armed guards on each and every
100 yards of track from New YORK
to Chicago. This will be done in
order to get at the wreckers, and 1t
was further the sense of the meet
ing that once caught the entire
wealth OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
would be put back of their trial in
an effort to convict And, further,
It was decided best to work for the
passage of a bill through the state
legislature which increases the PEN
atty for train wrecking where no
lives are lost from 10 years, the
present limit, to 25 years for the
first attempt and so years for the
second attempt.
"The Pennsylvania Railroad de-
sires the public to know it is sparing
no money in trying to run down the
vandals who are wrecking trains.
Every detective along the entire
Pennsylvania system, as we'll as
every private agency we can hire
and the police in towns through
which the road passes, have been
pressed into service. II is necessary
that the railroad run. down these
vandals and imprison them, at least,
and 1t will be done"
There have been several arrests
in the Pittsburg district within the
last 18 hours, and In all cases those
arrested are being held.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
PEACE PROBLEM.
Slow Progress Being Made In WASH
ington.

ington.
Washington Especially A day Of
conference between the Central
American representatives here in the
effort to reach basis for peace had
no marked results. Having deci-
phered the cable response from his
own government to the propositions
submitted to him by the representa-
tives of Salvador and Guatemala,
Senor Corea, the Nicaraguan minis
ter, called upon Senor Creel, the
Mexican ambassador, who has been
taking the part of mediator, and &C
quainted him with President Zelaya' S
answer.
This made necessary further con-
ferences, which fact was taken as
an indication that the Nicaraguan
response was in the nature of a
counter proposition. Therefore,
Messrs. Corea and Creel repaired
to the State Department to confer
with Secretary Root and Assistant
Secretary Bacon. This conference
also advanced matters only so far
as to pave the way for another con-
ference, which was held late in the
afternoon between Messrs. Creel
and Corea and Herrarte and Mejia,
the latter two representing Guate-
mala and Salvador, respectively.
1t is believed by some of the
parties to these conferences that, ow-
ing to necessity of consulting their
home countries at every stage, i'm
mediate satisfactory results cannot
be expected.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
SEVEN FOR CONVICTION
FIVE FOR ACQU|ITAL
The Closing Scenes In The Thaw
Case.
Jury WAS HOpElEsSLY DIVIDED.
Jerome Declares He Will Fight Propo-
sition to Bail Out 1haw, and
Prisoner Will Probably Spend Sum-
mer in Jail Jury Wide Apart on
First Degree.
HOW THE JURY STOOD.

On the first ballot the jury
stood eight for conviction of muir
der In the first degree and four
for acduittal on the ground of in
sanity.
Some of the eight were willing
TO meet the four half way on a
compromise verdict, but the four
refused to alter the views they
held.
The four favoring acquittal fin
ally won over one of the eight
who had believed Thaw guilty.
The evidence called for by the
jury was at the request of this
one Juror, and the documents
turned his vote to Thaw.
Six of the eight favoring con-
viction once voted for man
slaughter, in an effort to reach
compromise.
Throughout the eight ballots
four never wavered from acquit-
tai, and one always voted for con-
viction. On the final ballot the
lineup was seven for conviction
and Ave for acquittal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
Attorney Sent To Prison.

Washington, Especially - Among
the prisoners sent from this city TO
the Moundsville CIV. Va.) Peniten-
tiary was Thomas M Fields, an at
torney, who was sometime ago con
yieted OF embezzlement OF the funds
OF the Washington Beneficial Endow-
ment Association, OF which he was
receiver, and sentenced to five years
imprisonment at hard labor. Fields
carried his appeal to the Supreme
Court OF the United States, but with
ont avail.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
columbus Dispatch Burned Out.

Columbus, o. Especially The six
story Brickell-Mithoff Building, on
Hight Street, square north Of the
State House, and occupied by the
Evening Dispatch, newspaper plant
and also the three story Hoster
Building adjacent. wero practically
destroyed by fire. The loss is es-
timated at 100000. The Dispatch
plant Is water soaked. and the upper
noor, holding the engraving plant. Il
complctely burned out
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
Strawberries NInned.

Wilmington. N G. Especially 1t
Is believed that great damage has
been done to strawberries and vege-
tables in the Wilmington trucking
belt by the continued cold of the
past two nights Sunday the mini
mum, temperature was but four de-
grees above freezing, and even mora
severe weather Is predicted by the
weather bureau, with q heavy frost,
which might prove disastrous 10
many crops Snow is reported within
40 miles Of Wilmington.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
Against Our Typcwriters.

Berlin (By Cable). - During the
discussion by the Budget Committee
OF the Reichstag of the appropriation
to purchase typewriting machines for
the military authorities, DR.. sude-
tum. Socialist. introduced a motion
providing for the exclusion Of Ameri-
can machines, because OF the pro-
hibitive effect of the American GUS
toms duties on German goods" !"
Herr Paasche, National Liberal, first
vice preident OF the Reiehstag. sup
ported the motion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.



Editor Stead's announcement in
HIS speech at the Carnegie Institute
dedicatory ceremonies of his plan for
raising 100000 for a pilgrimage
from all countries to The Hague
Peace Conference met with ready re-
sponse. Silver coins were showered
upon the stage by the audience, and
representatives of number of col
leges promised contributions.
The joint congressional postal
commission, after a session in New
York, issues a statement expressing
the opinion that great economies can
be effected by establishing modern,
up-to-date business methods in con-
ducting the business.
Frederick Pabst, a millionaire
brewer. and Mrs. Leon Barnickel,
wife of an athletic instructor, were
seriously injured in an automobile
accident at Milwaukee.
The Appellate Division IL the New
York Supreme Court granted a mo-
tion to disbar George Burnham, Jr.,
who was convicted of felony,
The Protestant Episcopal Church
Congress, at New Orleans, discussed
the right of the preacher to discuss
social questions in the pulpit
The Appellate Court in Chicago
declared the public policy forbids the
recovery of insurance on a person ex-
ecuted for murder.
Distinguished diplomats and edu-
Gators from several nations attended
the dedicatory ceremonies of the
Carnegie Institute at Pittsburg.
President Roosevelt sent a letter,
and Mr.. Carnegie and Baron de Con-
slant (French representative of The
Hague Peace Trlbunal) delivered adj
dresses.
Fred Schultz, yeggman, was sem
tenced to Auburn State Prison for
life by Justice Arthur f. Sutherland
for the killing of Watchman Edward
Pullman at Sodus, Wayne County,
n. Y.
The cotton compress in Chickasha,
l. T., together with a vast amount
of cotton, was destroyed by fire,
! causing a loss estimated at $1,000
900.
The jury in the rebate case of the
General Electric Company and New
York Central Railroad, in Syracuse,
N. Y. disagreed.
| York has instituted proceedings to
restrain a combine of the telephone
companies.
The jury in Minneapolis found the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha Railroad guilty of granting
rebates.
Mrs. Sylvester r. Smith, wife of a
wealthy railroad official, living in
Chicago, jumped into Lake Michigan.
Robert c. Ogden, of New York,
was reelected president of the Con-
ference for Education in the South.
The Pennsylvania House Of Repre-
sentatives passed a bill to tax an
thracite coal.
Regis II. Post will be inaugurated
governor of Porto Rico on April IL.
Four hundred men employed in a
hat factory at Orange, n. j., went
on strike against regulation bar
ring them from bringing beer into
the shop in working hours.
1t now appears that the presiden-
tial election in Cuba will not take
place for a year, and that American
troops will hardly leave the island
before January, 1909.
A resolution was passed by the
! House of the Minnesota legislature
recommending that President Roose-
welt be nominated to succeed him
self for president.
Howard Nicholas and Leonard Leo
pold were convicted in Chicago of
the murder of Mrs. Margaret Leslie,
the actress, and the former sentenc-
ed to life Imprisonment and the lat
! ter to IA years.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
THE WORLDS PEACE
IS THEIR OBJECT
International Congress Opens In
Carnegie Hall.
WILLIAM 7. STEAD AS A KNOCKEU.
Formal Opening of the Peace Congress
Before a Brilliant and Cosmopolitan
Audience-Andrew Carnegie and dis
Party Arrive Late, as Their Tram
From Pittsburg Was Delayed.

New York Especially with repre-
sentatlves of the leading nations OF
che world present, the National Ar
bitratlon and Peace Congress was
formally opened Sunday night in
Carnegie Hall before an audience
that taxed the capacity OF the spaci-
GUS auditorium.
Two strange flags hung over the
stage. They were silk Stars and
Stripes set into field of white satin,
which enclosed the emblem on all
sides. A golden angel, bearing In one
hand a palm leaf, supplanted the
usual war eagle or pike head on the
stan, broad bands of white Inscribed
with the golden word Peace" were
suspended from the feet of the an
gle. This is the flag Of the state to
come-the united states OF the fed
Grated nations of peace--for the has
tsnlng OF whose coming the first ma
tional peace conference has met.
Directly in front of Andrew Car
negie's box in the first tier hung the
yellow flag of Scotland, with the
roaring lion clawing the edge of the
box. The stage itself was typical of
the epoch OF eternal peace. Silver
stars sprinkled a broad hanging of
white and the eagles and arrows Of
the American shield we're carefully
screened by the innocuous symbol of
brotherhood.
Carnegie Came Late.
BY a mishap to the train service,
Mr.. Carnegie, who was to have pre-
sided, and the delegates appointed
by the Emperor of Germany and
many of those from France, Belgium
and England, who had been the iron
masters guests at the opening of the
Carnegie Institute. at Pittsburg, last
week, were not on the stage, but ar
irving late. took seats in the boxes
after the evenings session had got
well under way.
The music was given by the Ora
torio Society of New York with full
orchestra, under the direction of
Frank Damrosch, and a hymn invok-
ing peace on earth, the words of
which were written by D. w. Warren
was rendered with magnificent effect,
the audience of over 5000 joining in
the singing.
In front of the Oratorio Society sat
some of the men who are to take part
In the deliberations of the peace con-
ference. Among these were Rabbi
Emil G. Hirsch, of Chicago; Bishop
Henry c. Potter. Monsignor Lavelle,
DR.. Frederick Lynch, George Foster
Peabody Booker T. Washington and
DR.. Charles e. Jefferson.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
Pipe ExpIodes.

Tonawanda, N. Y. Especially. -
Mike" Vorski, laborer, picked up
on the street a pipe which appeared
to be filled with tobacco and lit 1t.
Immediately there was a terrific ex-
plosion and both his eyes were blown
out, his nose flattened out and his
scalp partly torn off. He will die.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
Poisoned Her Rnhv.

Memphis, Tenn, Especially The
police report that after poisoning
her two-year-old baby, Mrs Clarissa
Gold, aged 22 years, attempted sui
eide by swallowing a portion of the
same drug. The child died while
being conveyed to a hospital, and
the woman's condition is serious
Dependency over domestic affairs is
believed to have prompted the act.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
Washington Ignorant OF 1t.

Washington Especially We know
absolutely nothing of the matter
here" said Secretary Loeb. when
his attention was called to the Chris
tian a dispatch published saying that
a local newspaper there had announc-
ed that President Roosevelt, who was
awarded the Nobel peace prize last
year, will have to deliver a lecture
in Christiania in March, 1909, in
order to comply with the rules affect
ing the holders Of the Nobel prizes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
King OF Margarine Dead.

The Hague (By Cable) - The
Avondpost announces the death at
the age of 8S of Simon Vanden-
bergh, founder of the Margarine fac
tory, known throughout the world.
The King of Margarine, as he was
called, began business as small
shopkeeper. He was philanthropist
and poor, prosecuted Jews never
sought his aid in vain when leaving
Rotterdam for America.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
Haymarlset Juror Kills Himself.

Chicago Especially Principal Jas.
H. Brayton. of the Raymond public
school. committed suicide at his
home, shooting himself in the head.
Ill health is believed to have been the
cause. Br. Brayton had been con-
nected with the Chicago schools for
thirty years. He was prominent So
cially and in Masonic circles, and
was a member OF the jury which con-
victed the Haymarket Anarchists in
1887.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-04-18
The Russell Sage Foundation.

Albany, n. Y. Especially ,-GoyeIn-
or Hughes signed the new law In
cooperating the names OF Margaret
Olivia Sage, Robert w. Deforest.
Cleveland II. Dodge, Daniel C. Gil
man, John M. Glenn, Helen Gould,
Gertrude M. Rice and Louisa ID.
Schuyler, together with such persons
as they may associate with them
selves as the Russell Sage Founda-
tion sor the purpose OF maintaining
a fund and applying the income to
the improvement OF social and living
conditions in the United States.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-11
Nampa VIII Have a FIGURING Mill.

Thomas Scott. of st. Anthony, an
experienced mill man, who comes
here highly recommended by the
banks and leading business men of
his city, has contracted to erect a
75-barrel FIGURING mill in Nampa be-
fore next harvest. This is no maybe
so or hope so affair. Mr.. Scott, who
seems to be a thorough business man,
came here at the invitation Of the
chamber of commerce and looked the
field over. After doing so he was
satisfied that there was an opening,
and at once submitted a proposition
which was that he would erect a
complete mill of 75-barrel capacity,
with strictly modern machinery. When
the mill is done and shows for itself
that it is all that 1t was guaranteed
to be, Mr.. Scott is to secure favors
that will cost the town $500. The
chamber regarded this as a very lib
eral proposition. and unanimously
voted to accept the proposition. The
contracts were drawn up in due and
legal form this morning and signed
up by Mr.. Scott and the authorized
officers of the chamber. Thus Nam.
pa through it's chamber of commerce
sc cures another fine industry which
has been needed here.---Numpa Lead
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-11
ENGRAVED CARJJ.
shot Over 10 Pounds Of Hops.

As a result of a dispute over 10
pounds of hops 7. Phinny, yard boss
at the Poff Brothers hop yard, north
of this city, last night shot John
Trash in the back with Winchester
rifle. Phinny was arrested and
brought to this city and Trash lies at
st. Joseph's hospital in a dangerous
condition.
A son of Trash charged Phinny
who has charge of weighing all hops
bropght to the dryer, with giving
short weight and Phinny denied 1t,
refusing to make any alteration.
Trash went home and told his father
the circumstances, with the result
that Trash went to the Phinny home
shortly after o'clock with the avow-
cd intention of making Phinny give
him credit for 10 pounds of hops.
A wordy argument followed, re-
sulting in Phinny ordering Frash to
leave the place. The latter refused
and drew a gun. Phinny went into
the house, and securing his shotgun,
returned. Trash turned and ran
away, and as he did so Phinny emp
tied the contents of his Winchester
into his back, when he was but 90
feet distant.-Vancouver (Wash.)
Chronicle.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-11
souo,ter Rights Recognized.

The case of Clark vs. Washington
Water Power company in which the
latter was given a hearing today be-
fore Judge w. w. Wood on the or
der to show cause why an order
should not be made, enjoining the
company from crossing the claim Of
Clark with their power line. At the
morning session, held in the council
chamber the company denied every
allegation of the complaint which
necessitated the taking of evidence
at the hearing set for 2 p. m. How
ever, the company, meanwhile effect
ed settlement outside of court in
which 1t recognized the rights of Mr.,
Clark and paid him a consideration
for the right of way.
This settles a very important point
While the coult did not pass upon 1t
the company conceded the point al
stake, that the bona fide squattel
who has settled upon claim prioi
to the creation of a forest reserve
even though the land is unsurveyed