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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
RATS COST MILLIONS
Damage To Cereals May Reach $780,
COO, 600 a Year.

Washington Especially The De-
partment of Agriculture will soon
issue a farmers bulletin on the
methods of destroying rats. This
bulletin was prepared under the
supervision of Assistant Biologist d.
e. Lantz, of the Biological Survey.
Experts assert that an infallible
method of exterminating rats would
be worth more to the people of the
county in a single decade than the
Department of Agriculture has cost
since it's establishment.
One rat is much like another, so
far as destructiveness goes; but
three kinds, all immigrants from
the Old World, have made their ap-
pearance in this country. The black
rat was the first to reach our shores,
coming nearly 500 years ago. The
common species, known as the
brown, or Norway rat, arrived the
year before the Declaration of In
dependence was promulgated to the
world and at once proceeded to drive
out its weaker rival until almost
everywhere it has supplanted the
black rat. The third species, known
as the roof, or AleXandrine, rat of
Egypt, is a great mariner infests
almost every ship and is common
along the coast, especially in the
South.
Rats Destroy Millions.
According to Uncle Sans experts,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06

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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK


The appellate division of the Su-
prone Court of New York has order
ed new trial for George Burnham,
Jr., former general counsel of the
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Com
pany. ruling that the evidence did
not Justify conviction and that errors
were committed in admitting evil
dence.
Marie Berkefed, who Travelled
from Austria to New York to wed
man she had not seen, was re-
pulsed because she was not as good
looking as her photograph.
A gang of bogus messenger boys
has been making money in New York
by delivering fictitious death mes
sages.
Seven persons were killed and
eight injured in the trolley collision
at Elyria, o.
Andrew Grady. father of Eliza
beth Grady, the school girl who ac-
companied Policeman Hess from
New York to Baltimore, attacked
the buecoat and tried to strangle
him during a hearing in New York
police court.
Seven priests were injured in the
crash of a platform that carried down
60 persons at the cornerstone laying
of Greek Catholic Church at
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Because they were refused the use
of camp stools while on duty the en-
ployees Of the Shamokin and Mount
Carmel Electric Railway went on
strike.
Citizens of Canton. o., are consid-
ering plan for preserving the Nc
Kinley home intact and converting
it into a memorial, like Mount Yer
non.
j. H. Won Hegerman Lindencrone,
the Danish minister to Germany,
sailed for Europe from New York on
the steamer Deutschland.
Carrie Lederbrand. seven years
old, and her sister Cora, II years
old, were found in Sugar Creek, near
Springfield, Ill.
Thomas d. Jordan. former comp
troller of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Company, charged with forgery
and perjury, pleaded not guilty and
was released on $4,000 bail
A number of machinists on the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
have struck for recognition of the
union and a uniform wage scale.
The Merchants and Miners Line
and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
have won the strike of Philadelphia
stevedors.
The United States Navy scoutship
Birmingham, to make "a knots an
hour, was launched at Quincy, Mass.
President w. w. Finley, of the
Southern Railway, favors govern
ment regulation of the railroads.
Ten stockholders have asked that
a receiver be appointed for the New
York-Cbicago Air Line.
A business mems committee of
10 is organizing to carry out law
and order in San Francisco.
President Hubbard, of the New
York Cotton Exchange, issues a de-
nial to the charges of over-classifica-
tion made against the exchange by
Theodore Price and the Southern
Cotton Association.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
PREFER SUICIDE TOWORSEFATE
Four Wealthy Guatcmalans Kill
Themselves.

Mexico City tBy Cable) Full con-
firmation of the suicide OF four prom
inent Guatemalans and the imprison-
ment and sentencing to death of 10
men suspected of completely in the
attempted murder of President Ca
brera, early this month, was re-
ceived through official and private
channels Tuesday
The State Department received
telegram stating that the Guatemalan
people were so incensed at the SEN
tence passed upon the 10 suspects
that President Cabrera has decided
that these cases be taken to the court
of second instances for revision.
Pending the action of this tribunal
the diplomatic corps is Withholding
the contemplated collective note de-
manding that the imprisoned men
be given a fair trial.
According to a private telegram
the four men who gave up their lives
because of the incident were DR..
Julio V. Blanco, DR.. Jeorge A. villa,
DR.. Echeverria and Baltasar Rodil,
a civil engineer All of the men were
wealthy, and belonging to the first
families of the republic. They had
not heretofore been identified in any
of the policies of the country.
Saved A Bishops Life.
DR.. Blanco was educated in Paris
and lived for years in the different
capitals of Europe. For number
of years he enjoyed a lucrative prac-
tice in Madrid. His affluence in that
capital was due to a peculiar incl
dent. While attending services in
cathedral, at which was present the
Queen Mother of Alfonso, the bishop
officiating was suddenly stricken with
an attack of syncope. DR.. Blanco
saved the prelate's life. and was
thenceforth shown royal favors.
DR.. Echeverria was also educated
in Europe and was wealthy. His
brother was a lawyer and a large
plantation owner
Civil Engineer 5Rodil. who was
wealthy was a brother of the man
in front of whose house was placed
the mine which was exploded The
story of the capture and subsequent
death of these men is dramatic. AS
soon as the mine was sprung they
left Guatemala City, because, it is
said, they feared that Cabrera would
trump up a charge against them.
They returned later and went into
hiding.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06

Washington (SpeciaD. - The de-
cision of Texas jury Saturday, fnd-
ing the Waters-Pierce Oil Company
over a million and a half dollars for
its violations of the antitrust law
and cancelling its permit to do bus
mess in the state, is considered here
to be body blow to Standard Oil.
The action is one of deep signi-
hcance. IL comes at a time when
the Supreme Court of Missouri has
before IL the report of its special
commissioner, which finds that the
same Waters Pierce Oil Company
has been violating the antitrust law
OF that state. and recommends that
its permit to do business be can
celled.
Although there has been very lit
tie doubt as to what action the Mis-
souri, Supreme Court will take, II is
believed that the Texas decision will
prompt quicker action
The Oil Trust is treading a perfect
labyrinth OF legal prosecutions. Ohio.
Texas and Missouri have attacked 1t
under state antitrust laws. The
federal government is prosecuting II
under the Elkins Rebate Law in Illi-
nois, Tennessee, Missouri and New
York It has been found guilty in
Chicago and the government Is
awaiting the inhiction of sentence
by Judge Landis Under the law the
minimum fines must reach S1,500,-
900. If the limit were imposed the
Standard would have to pay S29,-
100000.
The circuit judges of the Eighth
circuit have just heard arguments
on the demurrer of the Standard Oil
to the governments bill, asking for
a dissolution. An early decision is
expected. The court will then ap-
point a commissioner to take testi-
mony. The Department of Justice
will use its best endeavor to bring
the case to a speedy conclusion.
In Ohio the state authorities are
pushing the Oil Trust in civil and
criminal proceedings. The Circuit
Court has just given black eye to
the trust by holding that the Probate
Court of Hancock County, which
fined the Standard $1,000, had jur-
isdiction. The question will be
fought out in the Supreme Court on
error.
The Standard will soon be forced
to trial in the Common Pleas Court
in Findlay, o.. on 200 indictments.
The protracted and sensational
fights which Missouri and Texas
have been waging against the Oil
Trust, and the astounding charges
emodied in the governments action
for dissolution. combined with the
disclosures of pipe line discrimina-
tions of more recent date made by
the Bureau of Corporations, have
been the means of greatly inhaming
an already aroused public opinion
throughout the country.
Austin, Tex. (SpeciaD. - In the
custer suit of the state against the
Waters-Pierce Oil Company a jury
Saturday rendered a verdict for the
state of S1,623,900 penalties and
granted the prayer of the state that
the company's permit to do business
in Texas be Cancelled. An appeal will
be asked for at once by the defense.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06

the brown rat is the worst mammal
ian pest in existence and in the
United States destroys more proper
ty than all other noxious animals
combined A single rat will con-
sumo about two ounces of wheat or
corn a day and 1t destroys for more
of the corn than It eats. The aver
age cost to the country of feeding
one rat on gain is about so cents
a year. If for each COW, horse,
sheep and hog on the farms of the
United States the farmers support
only one rat on gain. the toll levied
on the cereals by these rodents would
reach the enormous total of $780,
100000 a year. Even granting that
half their food is waste material,
the tax of feeding rats is still an
enormous drain on the profits of
agriculture.
Destroy All Kinds OF Articles.
But much of their food is more
expensive than grain and the actual
losses due to these animals are by
no means confined to food. They en-
ter stores and warehouses and de-
stroy dry goods, lace curtins, car
pets, woolens, silks. kid gloves and
other leather goods. They gnaw
through lead pipes, flooding build
ings with water or filling them with
gas. They injure furniture and the
foundations and doors of buildings.
They eat the insulation from electric
wires, causing disastrous fires. The
average fire loss in the United States
due to defective insulation is placed
at SIS, 100000 annually, a consider
able part of which Is believed to be
caused by rats.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
MRS. MCKINLEY AT REST.
Last Wish Was That She Could Join
the Martyred President.

Canton. o. (SpeciaD The body
of Ida Saxton Mckinley rests be-
side that of her distinguished hus-
band in Westlawn Cemetery. Her
last words, "Oh, God, why should 1
longer wait; let me lie beside him."
have been answered.
The funeral services, held at the
old-fashioned Mckinley home, were
extremely simple. Four songs were
sung-the same that were sung at the
funeral of President McKinley-and
the service was the simple ritual of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The house on it's Market and
Louis Street sides was roped off to
restrain the crowds which thronged
neighboring thoroughfares A broad
lavender ribbon huttered from the
door to indicate a house of mourn
ing, and only a few intimate friends
visited the house during the fore
noon. Aside from the ropes strung
along the streets there was moth
ing to indicate that a ceremony of
unusual import was about to take
place. 1t was not until the funeral
services were actually being per-
formed that the streets became
crowded, and the crowds we're held
under excellent check by the local
police.
President Roosevelt arrived at
1915 p NJ. and was driven immedi-
ately to the residence of Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court Day for
luncheon. Among others at the
table were Secretaries Root, Cortel-
you and Wilson, Governor Harris
and Ex-Governor Herrick, of Ohio.
Immediately after the luncheon
the President and party drove to the
Mckinley home, on North Market
Street The body, in its black cas-
ket, rested in its flower-embowered
place in the so-called Campaign Of
fee" in the identical spot where
President McKinley's body lay after
the Buffalo tragedy Flowers in set
pieces and merely fastened together
by ribbon, with the roses which
Mrs. Mckinley favored predominant
ing, flied the room, while many
more for which there was not room
In the house were sent to Westlawn
Cemetery ahead of the cortege.
President Roosevelt, Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks and Cabinet Mem
bers Root, Wilson and Cortelyou oc-
cupied seats in the parlor across the
hall. In this room also were Cover
nor Harris and former Governor Her
rick. Relatives and immediate
friends of the family were seated
in the hall and adjoining rooms.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
IN THE FINANCIAL woRLp.

Better weather and better crop
news helped stock prices.
Since the 'longshOremen's strike
began the port Of New York has lost
over S10,000,00O of exports.
Gold TO the amount OF S2.00O,00O
was engaged for export, making 1S2,-
10000 this week Paris is getting
One big Wall Street trader bought
10000 Union Pacific, which other
traders said was to cover a short
sale.
The eagerness of Paris to accumu-
late gold, considering that II already
has an immense stock OF It. is not
liked by English or American bank
ers.
The Southern Railway has pur-
chased 10000 tons of rails from the
Tennessee Coal & Iron Company for
delivery next year. Northern Pacific
has ordered $4,000 tons from the
Lacknwanna Company
Gross earnings OF the Pacific Mail
Company for the year ending April
80 decreased 1885, ,O93 and net pro
fits decreased $2S4.2S5. The de-
crease In net was more than 38 per
cent.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
Work On Forts stop.

Portland, Maine (SpeciaD One
hundred and forty laborers employed
by the Government on the construc-
tion Of Notifications at Cushings,
Cow and Diamond Islands. In the
Portland artillery district. struck for
increased wages. They demand So a
day and free transportation to and
from the Islands and assert this
amount is allowed in other districts
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
Refused Millions For Her Child.

Detroit, Mich. (Special THE sen.
sational divorce case of Merrill B
Mills, millionaire stove manufac-
turer. Will go no further in the
courts. 1t is announced that n set
tlement has been reached by which
Mills agrees to his wife taking a bill
of divorce and ends the proceedings.
Mrs. Mills gets the custody of Gym
thia, the little girl who was the
principal cause of the contention,
and a fair slice of Mills money, it
IS said. Mrs. Mills was once offered
S1,000,000 outright If she would sur
render the child, but declined
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.

A medal OF honor has been award
ed to Miss Mary Guinan, Middletown,
N Y, by President Roosevelt for
distinguished daring in risking her
own life to save that of John @.
Runyon, an aged man, who was in
imminent danger OF being run down
by an Erie Railroad train.
Secretary Root and Ambassador
Jusserand had a consultation respect
ing the framing Of an agreement be-
tween the United States and Franco
regulating tariff duties
According to statistics, there has
been phenomenal growth in the
volume of manufactured prt,ducts OF
the United States since 1850.
Protests are being received at the
War Department against the. propos-
ed Abandonment OF military garri.
sons in the West
The Treasury Department purchas
ed 100000 ounces of silver for coin
age purposes.
William w. Skinner, aged 70
years, veteran OF the Thirty-sev-
enth Confederate Virginia Regiment
committed suicide at his home by
inhaling illuminating gas.
The State Department is Inform
ed that the Santo Domingo Con.
gress has approved the 500, 900
loan contract with Kuhn, Loeb &
Co., of New York.
Surgeon General Rixey wants the
hospital ship Relief placed In com.
mission and stationed at Norfolk.
The Preaident's proclamation OF
the new commercial agreement with
Germany was lgsnod
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
New Orleans Streets Flooded.

New Orleans. La, (Special) .-Sev-
eral sections of New Orleans are un-
der from one to four feet of water.
owing to heavy rains. Nearly all
rainwater has to be pumped out of
the city streets because of the low
level Of the land. Although big I'M
derground bitches have been built
and an expensive pumping plant has
been established. the rainfall is so
unprecedented that the pumps can
not handle IL.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
KILLED His Daughter.

Uniontown, Pa. (speciaD. = Alex
ander Boyd, Of Coolsprlngs, near
here, accidentally shot and killed
his daughter Helen, years old,
while cleaning a shotgun. The
charge entered the girls side, caus-
ing almost instant death. The faith
er says he did not know the gun was
loaded. A similar shooting occurred
In the Boyd home several years ago,
when Boyd killed his grandmother.
The old woman had been out of the
mouse and returning late Boyd mis-
took her for BURGLAR and shot her.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
JOIN A HUNDRED-YEAR CLUB.
Chemist Wiley Says Present Gem
Grafton VIII Live Long.

Cleveland, o. (Speciaa) - Chief
Chemist Wiley. of the United States
Department of Agriculture, in the
course of an address delivered be-
fore the graduating class of Case
School of Applied Science said:
II belong to hundred-year club,
any member of which who shall die
before he's a hundred years old will
be Immediately expelled in disgrace.
"The present generation is going
TO live much longer than the one
which came before. because 1t knows
more about the laws of diet, hygiene
and surgery.
TITS a rank disgrace for any man
to die except from old age.
"In view Of longevity, if nothing
more, a man should not think that
he is taking too much time in prepa-
ration for his lifework if he should
spend score or more years in Just
schooling"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06

Washington (Special) WHAT is
succotash?" is the momentous ques-
tion over which the Board of Food
and Drug Inspection of the Agricul-
tural Department has been wrestling.
So far, It has only been able to de-
eide what II Is not An Official state
'ment was promulgated today TO the
effect that succotash is not soaked
beans or soak corn mixed together.
and manufacturers are told to gov
ern themselves accordingly II they
desire to comply with the Pure Food
Law.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
CoLDEsT ON RECORD.
April And May According To The
Weather Bureau.


Washington, D. c. Especially The
Weather Bureau has been looking
over its record for April and May
since the creation of the bureau, and
finds that the months of April and
May of this year, taken together,
make the coolest spring of which
there is any record, and, further
more, the officials find few indica-.
tions of a warm June. The last
cold spring was in 1882, and the
present spell of weather is very SINH
lar to that of that record year.
June, 1882, was warmer, in compar-
1son, but the temperature was not
above the average, and at present
there are no indications of approach
ing warm weather for the coming
month. The coolest April on record
was 1875, and, like 1882, the spring
and early summer made a record for
unreasonable weather.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
Hammered A Duke.

Paris (By Cable "A woman
named Nine. Guggenheim was fined
$50 in a civil court for having COM
mitted an assault upon the Duke of
Galleria, husband of the Irfanta Eu-
lalie, aunt of the present King of
Spain. Nine. Guggenheim recently
awaited the Duke outside of a store
in the Rue de la Paix and when he
came out she belabored him with
her parasol, much to the edlfcation
of the passersby
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
10000 To Capture Kidnappers.

Trenton, N. ]. (SpeciaD Gov
ernor Stokes signed the Gebhart Bill,
which provides for the petitioning
Of Congress to take steps toward the
adoption OF a constitutional amend
ment providing for the election of
United States senators by popular
vote, The Governor also signed the
bill extending the Child Labor Law
TO mercantile establishments, and
the bill placing a fund of $4,000
at the disposal of the governor for
the apprehension OF kidnappers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
Boy Killed BY Rat Gun?

Providence. r. /. Especially A
spring gun. set to kill rats in the
barn of William A. Capwell, caused
the death OF Norman, his 1O-year-old
son. The trap had been rigged up
by Norman and his brother Clarke.
aged IA, and has made away with
a number OF rats, when the boys in
vited friends in TO see 1t work,
Clarke was testing the trap when his
brother got in range OF the bullet
and was killed. The brother is de-
Iirious today and under the Doctors
care.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
AnnlhlIated Ry Pretcndcr.

oran, Algeria (By Cable) .-Ad-
vices received here from Morocco
say that the troops Of the pretender
to the throne surrounded and anni-
hilated the Sultan's forces at Mar
ehica, that Muley Bou Bekir, the Sui
tans' uncle. and two kaids We're kill
ed, and that 800 women were cap
tured
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-06
New Torpedo Destrorers.

Washington Especially The Navy
Department today sent out to five
shipbuilding firms, under seal OF con-
fidence, the plans for building Ave
700-ton, 2S-knot torpedo destroyers
authorized by the last Congress
Bids are TO be submitted August 1
next The plans contemplate recipro-
eating engines, hut bidders may sub
init alternative plans providing for
the use OF steam turbines. No ship
building concerns on the Pacific or
Gulf coasts have applied for these
plans.