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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-29
THE FRENCH NOW
DOWN THE M0ORS
An Advance Turned Into a Hasty
Flight.
GERMANY WATCHING THE FRENCH.
When Heavy Fog, Under Which the
Moors Were Moving Upon Casa
blanca, Suddenly Lifts the French
batteries Ashore and Afloat Pour
Into Them Deadly Fire.

Paris (By Cable) Vice Admiral
Philibert, commanding the French
naval forces off Casablanca, tele-
graphs that while the Moors were
advancing on the French Camp, near
Casablanca, under the cover of a
fog, the fog lifted and permitted
the French batteries ashore and
ahoat to shell the Moors with deadly
effect.
AT 2 o'clock in the afternoon Cen
eral Drude had moved forward his
field guns to a ridge, situated about
four miles from the camp. whence
he shelled the Moors, who were then
in full flight eastward.
Admiral Philibert reported that
the situation elsewhere was practi-
cally unchanged.
The report that Mulai Hafig.
brother of the Sultan, had been pro-
claimed sultan is confirmed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-29
A PLOT TO BLOW
UP KING CARLOS
Bomb Explosion Brings to Light a
Conspiracy.
THIRTY POLITICIANS ARE ARRESTED.
Explosion Occurs in the House of a
Medical Student, Who Is Suspected
of Being the Leader of the Con-
spiracy - Two Persons Killed and
Two Fatally Injured.

Lisbon, Portugal (By Cable) An
extensive plot to assassinate King
Carlos and Premier Franco was dis
covered through the explosion of a
bomb in the tenement district of
the city Two persons were killed
and two fatally injured by the ex-
plosion. The affair has caused in
teense excitement.
As a result of the police discoveries
80 Republicans have been arrested.
They were taken secretly aboard the
cruiser Adamastor in the Tagus
River, where they are now confined.
Jose Bettencourt, a medical stu
dent, Is declared by the police to have
been the leader of the conspiracy.
1t was in his room that the explos-
ion occurred and he was making
bombs at the time.
The 80 prisoners will be given a
secret trial, and it is predicted all
will be eXiled to Timour.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-29

can, If necessary, try cases elsewhere
than at The Hague.
Article eight says that the presi-
dent of the court shall be elected
every three years by a majority OF
the votes.
Article nine deals with the pay
ment of the judges The amounts
are not fixed, out the proposal con-
templates a fixed yearly salary, be-
sides special remuneration when en-
gagged in cases, and travelling ex-
penses.
Article 10 forbids judges from re-
ceiving remuneration from their own
or other governments for services
in connection with the high court
Article IL says that the court shall
sit at The Hague, except in cases
of force majeure and the special in
stances provided for by Article Z.
Article IA states that the high
court shall sit one or twice yearly,
in July and January.
Article 19 provides that leach par
ty shall be entitled to have its own
judge to participate in the trial of
cases submitted to the court. If a
special tribunal acts as commits
sion of inquiry even a person not
connected with the court can par
ticipate in a trial"
Article 25 proposes the ratifica-
tion of the convention at The Hague
as quickly as possible.
Article 26 proposes to establish
the duration of the convention, but
the term is not yet fixed. Any sig
natory power is entitled to denounce
the convention by notifying the Dutch
government two years before the ex-
piry of each period, but the conven-
tion remains intact for the other
powers.
President Nelidoff has informally
interview the presidents of the COM
mittees on the advisability of post
poning the discussion of the propos-
ed permanent court of arbitration
until the meeting of the next con-
ference, recommending the powers
in the meanwhile study the ques-
ton. No decision in the matter has
yet been arrived at.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-29
AnE UNABLE TO FILL
BIG ORDERS FOR COAL
Reading Company Declines Large
Foreign Contract.
HeME DEMANDS ARE TOO GREAT.
The Shortage in All Grades of Coal De-
clared to Be Increasing Daily Search
ty of Labor at the Mines One of the
Principal Causes-W Western Railroads
Anxious.

Philadelphia (Special). --- Because
of Ats inability to fll the order, the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
drun Company was compelled to de-
Cline a contract for 100000 tons of
Mnthracite, the order for which was
rendered by a representative of the
Austro-Hungarlan Chamber of Com
merce. The proposed purchaser was
willing to pay the regular price for
pfaring the coal on board vessels.
either here or in New York
Another order for 100000 tons Of
hhtGmious coal wanted by the Italian
government is also being offered to
the largest soft-coal operators of the
United States, with little prospect of
its being taken because of the great
expense in delivering It to the Italian
destination designated. Other for
eign orders have been offered to
American operators with lack OF sue
reSS-
The great demand for coal by for
cign governments is attributed to
the increased amount of coal con-
Bumed by their naval vessels, the
number of which has grown rapidly
NAthAn NAAG ldnA lNO gtdlcs All udNANb
coal is being used for this purpose
and the supply is not equal to the de-
mand. Added to this is the coal re-
Quired for other government insti-
tutions, as well as for industrial con-
sumption.
An officer of the Reading Company
explained that his company was COM
PEELED to decline all such orders be
cause of the great demand for coal
among customers in this country and
because of the scarcity OF labor at
the collieries. The same conditions
confronted every other anthracite
company, as well as all bituminous
operators. he said. Il was further
explained that the shortage of all
grades of coal is increasing daily and
many Western railroads are now
much disturbed concerning their sup
plies for the coming winter.
Men who formerly worked In the
mines are seeking employment in less
dangerous lines Of business. Many
have abandoned mining as a means
of livelihood and have turned TO
farming in Western States. For
eigners who formerly came TO the
United States to take up mining now
seek employment in other fields of
labor.
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FOR THE COURT
or ARBITRATION
Text Of the American Proposition
Completed.
GERMANY AND GREAT BRITAIN.
They Are in the Agreement With the
United States for Carrying Out
the Plan-The Court to Consist of
Seventeen Judges-Provision for
Special Tribunal.

The Hague (By Cable) The text
of the American proposition for the
establishment of a permanent court
of arbitration has been completed,
in agreement with Germany and
Great Britain, and will come up for
discussion this week. 1t consists
of 26 articles. The first article
records the desire of the signatory
powers to organize an international
high court of justice easily acces-
sible and free of charge, with judges
representing the various systems of
laws of the world, and capable of
insuring continuation of arbitra-
tion by Jurisprudence"
The second provides that the
judges must be "jurisconsults of
known competence in international
law selected so far as possible from
the members of the permanent court
of arbitration"
According to the third and fourth
articles the judges are appointable
for terms of II years, and will enjoy
diplomatic privileges and immunities
while exercising their functions.
Article five provides that the court
shall consist of II judges, 8 form
ing a quorum.
Article seven provides that the
high court yearly shall appoint three
judges, with three substitutes, con-
stituting a special tribunal, which
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-29
The SOUTHERN RAILWAY
CUTS ITS Dividend
Reduction Of I Per Cent. on Pre-
feTed Stock.
PRESIDENT FINLEY EXPLAINS IT.
Says Directors Considered That Under
Existing Conditions of High Prices of
Supplies and Labor, of Increasing Tax
es and Legislative Reduction of Reve-
nues 1t Was Deemed Prudent.

New York Especially The direc-
tors of the Southern Railway Com
pany cut the semiannual dividend on
the preferred stock of the company
from 2 x to ] " per cent.
President Finley made the follow
ing announcement:
Al a meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the Southern Railway
Company the income account and re-
suits of operations for the fiscal year
ended June 80, last, were considered.
dividend of / y per cent. was de-
clafed on the preferred stock out of
accumulated surplus, making a to-
tai dividend distributed of per cent.
for the year. For this purpose there
was appropriated a portion of the
surplus income carried forward from
the year ended June 80, 1906. after
payment of dividends for that year.
In taking this action the direc-
tors were Influenced by the consider
alton that the income account for
the year reflects such abnormal and
extraordinary conditions as may not
reasonably be expected to recur At
the same time the directors consid-
NitN Ahdb tAlSlllE tOuulllVuS
of high prices of supplies, material
and labor. OF increasing taxes and
Legislative reduction of revenues, It
was the part of conservative pru-
dence to limit the distribution of the
profits of the company, at least un-
til the permanent effects of such con
ditions can be fairly measured
AS result of the announcement
Southern preferred sold off from SO
TO SO, where it closed on sales OF
1,600 shares. The common stock
held fairly strong, declining three
quarters of a point, TO l59
The reduction of the dividend TO
this basis is assumed to have been
made on the advice OF j. =. Morgan.
who got back from Europe on We'd
nesday.
The income amount for tho year
ended June 80, 1907, gives the fol
lowing figures: Gross earnings, $50
657. 7.994, an increase over last yea
of $3,016,555; operating expenses.
44,699.2S2, an increase of $4.92G,-
! As: net earniuYs. stt.G5S,712, q
decrease of 81 1,909,5S7; total income.
$13,7S7,993, a decrease of 81 1669,-
4SS; balance applicable for dividends
after payment of fixed charges So,
2S0,321, a decrease of s2,93S,744.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-29
IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD.

Atchison has placed orders for 49,
600 tons of steel rails.
There was an advance in nearly
all foreign government bonds.
Little investors, but no big ones,
are buying stock said leading in
vestment banker.
Philadelphia & West Chester Trac-
tion Company will begin hauling
light freight and express packages
next month.
1t is estimated that the four big
electric manufacturing companies
will in 1907 earn $4,000, 900. a
gain of Sl0,0OO,000 over last year.
OF this amount General Electric is
credited with $7,00O,000.
Morgan's home coming was not
celebrated with any fireworks in the
stock market. There Is much curios-
ity, however, as to what he will do
now after his long absence from the
United States.
Very little Is heard these days OF
the formerly predicted retirement of
President Corey, of United States
Steel.
For the first seven months of this
year the Pan Handles operating
revenue increased s2,0SS,S93 and
the net income increased $417,292.
The six great Pacific railroads
Atchison, Southern, Union, Northern,
Canadian and the Great Northern
earned gross the last fiscal year
$492 100000. The Pennsylvania
alone viii have earned in Its cur
rent fiscal year about $4,000, % q.
That gives an idea OF It's relative big
ness,
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Foreign.

Quelch, the English delegate, or
dered to leave Wurtenburg for re-
ferring to The Hague Peace Confer
ence as a thieves supper" was CIV
en- a great sendoff by the Socialistic
Congress.
Fearing a general mutiny in the
navy and army, the Russian govern
ment is making a thorough inspec-
tion of all forts and ships.
The German authorities are close
ly watching Russia since receiving
the news of the spread of cholera in
that country.
King Charles of Roumania granted
amnesty to all who were implicated
in the recent agrarian revolt.
General Caffarel, who was involv-
ed in the French decoration contract
scandals, is dead in Paris
The bandit chief Raisuli has de-
feated the large force sent against
him by the Sultan of Morocco.
Negotiations are in progress for
an extradition treaty between the
United States and Spain.
Frances Won Bredow, daughter Of
Senator Newlands. of Nevada, died
in Berlin. She was the wife of Lieu
tenant Won Bredow, formerly an at
tache of the German Embassy at
Washington.
A woman delegate from India
caused a sensation in the Interna-
tional Socialist Congress at Stuttgart
by a fiery speech, in which she pic
tured the distress in her country.
Mutiny ia spreading among the
Cars Siberian troops, and in a
fight between the mutineers and
sharpshooters IS OF the former were
killed and 35 wounded,
Twenty-seven persons were killed
and nearly so injured in an encount-
er between peasants and Hungarian
soldiers In Herzegovina.
A rate war has broken out be-
tween the Cunard and the German
lines involving cabin passages be-
tween Hamburg and New York.
A British shipbuilding firm has
been awarded a contract, supposedly
by Russia, for several battleships,
cruisers and gunboats.
During the last year Russian from
tier guards made 1900 arrests,
seizing altogether S65,000 worth of
smuggled goods
Mulai Hang, who was proclaimed
sultan OF Morocco, is marching upon
Casablanca with 1900 tribesmen.
A converted Jew who shouted for
the new sultan during prayers in the
grand mosque was terribly beaten.
A plot TO assassinate King Carlos
and Premier Franco of Portugal was
discovered by the premature explo-
sion OF a bomb In the house OF a
student suspected of being a leader
Of the conspiracy.
Cholera has broken out among
the natives in Shanghai and several
Europeans have succumbed to the
disease.
Some 80 Germans are reported
killed and many wounded in a fight
with the Hottentots, in which The
Germans we're defeated.
The United States immigration
Commissioners found 80 per cent o.
the population OF Syria afflicted Will
Egyptian eye disease.
The situation in Morocco 10 becom.
ing more serious, the entire country
being aroused by the fanatical move
ment for holy war.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-29
stolen Mail Pouches.

Chicago Especially Postofiice In
spector Kimball declared, after in
vestigating the recent theft OF two
mail pouches on a Chicago. Burling-
ton and Quincy train, that the stolen
pouches contained matter sent to
points east of Chicago. He said
that IL s25o.OOo had been stolen it
must have been currency sent from
the Denver banks to New York. The
inspector doubted that such an
amount had been taken.
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Live Stock.

Chicago. III Cattle - Common to
prime steers, $4.2O@7.50; COWS.
S3.2O6460; heifers, S3@ 535; bulls.
$2.5O@5; calves, SO a 7.50; stockers
and feeders, S25045.
Hogs Market steady to sc. lower;
choice heavy shipping. $3.50 a $50;
light butchers $595@6.1O; light
mixed, $5.S5 a COS; choice light,
$40; packing, $5.15@ 5.75;
pigs, $500 els; bulk of sales,
$500 a $50.
Sh e Market steady; sheep,
$3.SOd 6.35; yearlings, 1915 a 6,S5;
lambs, $6@7.50.
Kansas City.--C a t ! Market
steady Native steers, S. 7.10;
Southern steers, $3.25@ 4.65, South
ern cows, so a 3.35; native COWS and
heifers, 1925 as; stockers and feed
ers, 1925 q 80; bulls, $2.25 q $50;
calves, $4@6.50; Western steers,
$4@5.S0; Western cows, $2.50Q4.
Hogs Market steady to weak.
Bulk of sales, $5.75 a $50; heavy,
$5.65 a $50; packers, 5000 5.95;
pigs and light, $3.50 as
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-29
The Nation S Capital
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.

Members of the Congressional APP
preparations Committee will visit
Panama to consult with the canal
officials concerning the amount to be
appropriated for next year's work.
Brigadier General Allen, chief sig
nal officer, in his annual report urges
a considerable strengthening of the
arm of the service in his charge.
Congressman Serene Payne, chair
man of the House Ways and Means
Committee, says there will be no re-
vision of the tariff In the next Con-
gress.
The United States has recognized
the provisional government set up in
Honduras by Manuel Dovila as presi-
dent of the de facto government.
Uncle Sans bill for maintaining
the American army of pacification in
Cuba during the last fiscal year was
S2.554,970
The American delegates to The
Hague Peace Conference will insist
on their proposition regarding gen
eral arbitration.
Under the law the President is
authorized to grant the request of
the lsthmian Canal Commission for
permission TO create deficiency of
$S,000,000 during the current fiscal
year to meet the requirements of
the engineer department for an en-
larged scale of operations.
The State Department will take a
vigorous stand in the case of DR..
Hirsch, who has been denied admit
tance to the Russian Empire.
1t is the belief in national politi-
cal circles that Congress in its next
session Will not enact any of the
radical measures proposed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt because that body in
a presidential election year never
does anything except pass the ap-
preparation bills.
General Greely in his annual re-
port gives interesting information
as to the attitude of large firms and
corporations toward employees who
are members of the state militia.
The bid of the Maryland Dredging
and Constructing Company for dredg-
ing the Potomac and Anacostia Riv-
ers near Washington has been ac-
cepted.
President Gompers says the fed
GRAFTON will bring q counter suit
against the National Manufacturers
Association, charging conspiracy.
Postmaster McElroy, of the Ma
tional House of Representatives, is
dead at the age of rs.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-29
Nobel Prize For Kiplinc.

Stockholm (By Cable) The It'd
ningen says it has good authority
for stating that Samuel /. Clemens
Mark Twain) having been suggested
and rejected, Rudyard Kipling has
been designated as the winner of the
Nobel literary Prize this year.
London.-Mr. Kipling was asked
to confirm or deny the story from
Stockholm. He replied that he had
not been notified of the award.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-29
The News
Domestic

A boiler on the coal barge Pater-
son, which usually plies between New
York and Boston, exploded at Langs
| Docks. in Hoboken, killing six men.
After three weeks rest on a farm
under athletic treatment, the health
Of Secretary of State Root has been
completely restored.
Spreading rails caused wreck on
! the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road, In which l person was killed
and IL injured
John F. Gaynor the contractor,
convicted Of completely In the Savan-
nah harbor frauds, is critically III.
The Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis
and Omaha Railroad has been fined
$4,000 for rebating.
Evander McIver, a wealthy con-
tractor of Chicago, was found muir
dered in a basement.
The American ship John Currier
ran on an unchartered rock in the
Pacific
Two persons were killed and three
injured in fight at a Kentucky
fair.
Congressman Theodore +. Burton,
chairman of the Inland Waterways
Commission, has announced the
plans for the coming inspection of
the organization.
Secretary Taft declares the Solid
South is a ghost of 40 years ago, and
that the South should take a part in
the councils of the nation.
The forty-first annual conference
of the Universal Peace Conference
was begun at Mystic. CT.
The ministers of Coffeyville, Kan,
have announced a union scale for
conducting funerals.
One man was killed and eight
were injured in a railroad wreck at
Hagerstown, Ind.
Much damage has been done by
forest fires in the Adirondacks.
Severe frosts are reported through
out the Canadian Northwest.
DR.. Bliphalet Wright died at Pitts
field, Mass.
w. L. SeGdon, director OF works of
tho jamestown Exposition, has re-
signed. TO take effect at once. The
direction of works will be turned
over to W.. NJ. Dixon, assistant to
Director Barr.
The suit to secure an accounting
of the property of Mrs Mary Baker
G. Eddy, instituted by relatives of
the leader of Christian Science, has
been withdrawn by the plaintiffs.
Ezra Meeker, who drove an OK
team across the continent, has been
told that he cannot drive through
the streets of New York.
Street railway officials were ar
rested and fined in Los Angeles for
disobeying a city ordinance requir-
ing tenders on street cars.
The condition of Secretary Taft's
mother is said to be hopeful. 1t is
said that reports of her illness have
been exaggerated.
crank who had a hundred tele-
grams addressed to President Roose-
velt or King Edward was arrested
in New York.
A runaway trolley car plunged
through the walls of a tenement in
New York, creating a panic in the
building.
Burglars robbed the cottage of A.
Howard Hinkel, of Cincinnati, of
$1,000 worth of jewelry.
The Portland Trust and Savings
Bank of Portland, Ore, has closed
its doors.
Former Justice McLachlan, of
GAINESVILLE, n. Y, a recluse, was
worth 100000.
The Mckinley Monument at Can
ton, o., will be dedicated Septem-
Der 80.
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Gasoline Kills Three.

Warsaw, Ind. Cspeclalc--In a
gasoline stove explosion Charles
Webster and wife ana their two
year-old child were burned to death
at their home, near Warsaw. Mrs.
Webster lighted the flre. then the
tank exploded. The liquid was
thrown over her and the child. AS
Webster tried to rescue them his
clothes caught Are and he was over
come. The three charred bodies
We're found in the debris.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-29
$1,000, 900 Diamond For King.

Pretoria, Transvaal (By Cable) -
In accordance with the resolution in
troduced by Premier Botha the
Transvaal Assembly, by AZ to 10
votes, authorized the Government to
purchase the Cullinan diamond, the
largest in the world, and valued at
81, 100000 This great gem will be
presented to King Edward in token
of the loyalty and appreciation of
the people of the Transvaal for the
bestowal OF a constitution On the
colony.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-29
Boat Upsets; -Four Drown.

Sacramento, Cal. Especially Three
persons were drowned here when a
duckboat capsized in the Sacramento
River A fourth victim was added
to the list when Manuel Greggs was
pulled beneath the water by two
women after he had plunged to res
cue the three persons whose boat
had overturned.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-29
HOUSES BLOWN DOWN.
Several Persons Injured Around
JohnstnMn. PA.

Johnstown, Pa. (SpeciaD. IL A
storm that approached the dimeu-
sions of a cyclone did great damage
in Somerset County.
One woman sustained serious in
iuries, and in the vicinity of Boswell,
near here, a path 500 yards wide
and n mile long was swept by ter
rife wind Houses and barns were
destroyed and growing crops leveled.
.. Mrs. David Peterson was probably
fatally injured when her home was
blown down.
The tracks of the Pittsburg, West
moreland and Somerset Railroad
were washed away in a number Of
places, tying up the road.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-29
Man Killed BY Rear.

Ogden, Utah (SpeciaD - Word
reached ogden that James Chapman,
passenger engineer on the Union
Pacific Railroad. was killed by a
bear near Evanston, Wyo., his home.
Chapman was with q party Of friends
camping out. He wandered away
from the camp. His dead body was
found in a thicket. His face and
neck had been clawed by the bear,
and death had resulted from the sew
ering Of an artery in the neck.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-29

Berlin (Dy Cable) The Prussian
authorities are wetching with con-
siderable concern the news indicat-
ing that cholera Is spreading in Rus
sia. The latest report that the
disease has appeared on connuent
of the Vistula intensiiles the feeling
OF anxiety here, aud the authorities
have ordered strict sanitary inspec-
ton OF al Vessels and RATS entering
prusrian territory by the Vistula,
Scared boars evidently made that
rally OF & poinfa T. I7~f~~