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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
Body Warm When Found.

Hammond, Ind. Especially George
Simons and Fred. Whittmore, em-
ployees of the Knickerbocker Sand
Company of Chicago, while covering
a sand pit two miles east of Gary,
came across the body of young man,
still warm. The face was mashed
in with a club, almost to pulp. The
features were unrecognizable. Be
sides the remains was a club with
which the deed had been committed.
as 1t was covered with blood.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
Attacked In Japanese Town.

Toxic (By Cable) AN official re-
port from Miyazafii Prefecture states
that mob of 80 persons attacked
a timber factory owned. by French
men in the village of limo on May 6,
doing considerable damage to the
factory and the residences of the
Frenchmen, who either took refuge
in the mountains or left for Kobe.
No person was injured. Forty ar
rests have been made in connection
with the affair. The motive of the
attack has not yet been reported.
The damage is estimated at about
$4,000.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
Moro Pay For Soldiers.

Washington, d. c, Especially The
officers and enlisted men of the Army
won their fight for increased pay,
when the House of Representatives
after debate of two hours, agreed to
the conference report of the Army
Appropriation Bill. An appropriation
of $7,000,000 was made for the pur-
pose, $5,000,000 of which win GO to
the enlisted men. Nine hundred and
forty-two officers on the retired list
also will benefit by the increase. I'm
der suspension OF the rules bills were
passed placing the Porto Rican Regi.
ment of Infantry on permanent
basis.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
United States And Japan.

Washington, D. C. (SpeciaD -
A general arbitration treaty between
the United States and Japan was
signed by Secretary Root and Am
bassador Takahira. This treaty fol-
lows the lines of the several arbitra-
tion agreements which have been ne
gotiated between this country and
European nations during the winter.
In accordance with the ideas adopted
at the recent Hague Conference. X
will permit of the arbitration at Tho
Hague of nearly every class OF dis
pute which may arise between tho
signatory powers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
WAS ROlSTED ALIVE
ON THE FIRE ESCAPE
chIld's Horrible Death During Tsne-
ment Blaze.
OVER ONE HUNDRED RESCUED.
Falls Through Escape to the Redhot
Platform on the Floor Below From
Her Mothers Arms When Woman
Made Misstep in Attempting to
Get Out Of the Burning Building.

New York Especially -Four per-
sons we're killed and 12 injured In
fire believed to be OF incendlary or
igin, which practically destroyed the
five-story tenement house at 101 Or
chard Street. This building is with
In stones throw of Delaney and
Allen Streets. where 26 persons were
burned to death in tenement house
IRE three years ago.
The dead are:
Eva Berg. SO years ola.
Samuel Sach, 10 years ola.
Hattie Kopelmann, u years UId-
Unidentified man.
The fire was first seen by a police
man, whose call for assistance
brought several other officers to his
assistance, and in a moment nearly
everyone in the house had been
aroused and the fire escapes were
,hoked with frightened tenants. The
policemen carried several children to
he ground before the fremen ar
rived. BY that time men, women and
children were packed so closely on
The narrow platforms of the fire es-
,apes that no one could get down.
While persons in the building, who
1ad been unable to get out because
All the windows leading to the fire
escapes were crowded, struggled for
exit on one side, the firemen on ex-
:ension ladders labored on the other.
0ne by one women and children were
dragged from the overloaded plat
,orms by the firemen and carried
iown the extension ladders to the
street and safety. More than q hun
1red persons were taken from the
Gre escapes in this way
In the meantime those who had
been forced to remain in the blazing
house, finding escape by windows
and stairways blocked, sought to get
out on the roof Not one of them
succeeded in reaching the roof, how
ever, as the flames had swept up the
stairways and spread all through the
upper part of the building
1t was while attempting to reach
the upper part of the house that lit
tie Hattie Kopelmann lost her life aud
her mother had remarkably narrow
escape from death. Mrs. Kopelmanu
had gone out on a fire escape intend
ing to make her way to the roof as
the flames were sweeping around the
lower part of the iron ladder. She
had the child in her arms when she
stepped through the window to the
platform. A misstep caused her to
fall and as she struck the side Of
the platform Hattie fell from her
arms and rolled through the open
ing in the platform to the platform
of the floor below, which was red
hot. There the child was burned to
death before anyone could reach her.
Mrs. Kopelmann rolled acorss the
opening, but saved herself from fall
ing through. Mrs. Eva Berg and the
Sach boy were burned to death in
their rooms, apparently having been
overcome by smoke while asleep.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
FINANCIAL

New high price for Reading, 56M.
since the october slump.
May corn in Chicago jumped from
7O% to "A cents. A bear panic pre-
vailed in the corn pit.
1t is said Gould needs 10000
600 at once with which to continue
work on the Western Pacific.
j. P. Morgan joins other leading
captains of finance and industry in
declaring that the worst corner in
business has been turned.
The Central National Bank, Phila-
delphia, has declared its usual semi
annual dividend OF per cent and
carried 100000 to surplus fund,
making $4,000, 900. and leaving un-
divided profits of $295,000.
So far in 1908 Pennsylvania Rail-
road shipments of coal and coke are
22 per cent. smaller on their East
ern lines than during a correspond
ing period of 1907. The decrease in
tons is 4,3S6,400.
80 far this year our house has
sold $20,000,000 OF bonds" said the
Philadelphia representative of a pro-
minent house.
A Philadelphia coal dealer who
serves several score mills, says that
collections are now very easy, far
more so than they we're one year
ago.
April fire losses In the Unite,I
States and Canada were S26,669 600.
compared with $21,925, 600 last
YEAR and S292. 200 OOO in 1o06 Tha
last-named month was the biggest
on record, and was due TO the San
Francisco catastrophe.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
ODDS AND ENDS.

During the last six months there
have been burned In New York City
l0,3S5,000 tons Of coal
Receipts OF the Manhattan Post
Office are now amounting to $5i,r
$40 each day that IL is open.
A house to cost S2,500 will bo
built by the city OF Chicago to shell
ter the elephant Duchess in Lincoln
Park.
A monument to the Drownback
family to be erected at Pottsville,
Pa, will weigh eight tons and CON
tain 1900 names.
AT least 80 per cent of all cases of
neuralgia headache are attributed by
DR.. Toms. an American oculist, TO
defects In the eyes.
A moderate wind moves at the
rate of seven miles an hour, q storm
at the rate Of SO miles, and a hur-
ricane OF the rate OF so miles.
A child just born TO Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Kuenhle, at Bucyrus, o., is
its own uncle. Its father is also its
grandfather. Figure 1t out.
There has been a noticeable in
crease in the negro population of
New York City recently, and most
of 1t is settling on the upper west
side OF Manhattan Island.
Among Austrian railways bri-
quettes are used only by the State
railways. They used last year $4,000
tons made at Pilsen, Bohemia, and
IL 900 tons OF English briquettes.
The coal used during the same period
amounted 70 100000 tons. The
briqucttes were Of two sizes-one
weighing 2,2 mounds. and the other
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
The News
Domestic

Seventytwo men who for more
than "a hours had been facing death
in the raging sea near Fire Island
were rescued from the crumbline
hulk of the big German ship Peter
Rickmers. The ship is a wreck.
fire in the business district OF
Atlanta, Ca, destroyed s1,50O.000
worth of property, compromising two
blocks OF building.
Mrs. Russell Sage has offered
100000 to the American Bible So.
ciety on condition that the society
raise like sum.
Four persons we're killed by the
explosion of kitchen gas stove in
tenement at St Johnsbury. VI.
Three more corpses were found on
the farm of Mrs. Bella Guinness, at
Laporte, Ind.
The Euclid Avenue Trust Com
pany, OF Cleveland, o., has made an
assignment.
The oil-tank steamer washtenaw
went ashore of Monmouth Beach, NJ
].
Edward Il. Brennan. a lawyer of
Butte, Mont, was arrested in the Of
fee of F. Augustus Heinze, at "A
Broadway, New York, on the charge
of extorting $4,000 in demand notes
from Mr.. Heinze.
The delegates-at-larg from the
Massachusetts Democratic Convention
to the national convention in Denver
were instructed to vote for Bryan for
the presidential nomination.
Major o. p. Chaffee, who was an
officer in the Confederate Army and
a brother of Lieutenant General Ad-
ma r. Chaffee, U. S. A., retired, died
in Kansas City.
Train robbers shot and killed an
express messenger, after which they
robbed safe in a baggage car of
Denver and Rio Grande train.
The shed on the Guinness farm, at
Laporte, Ind, containing the remains
of the victims was broken into and
the bodies seriously disturbed.
Joe Garcia, alias Joe Cordova, who
killed a policeman in Salt Lake City,
was fatally wounded by detectives in
Seattle.
The famous Pequot House, in New
London. Ct, was destroyed by fire.
Judson Harmon was nominated as
the Democratic candidate for govern
or of Ohio on a Bryan platform.
Twenty-Five masked men visited
the home of John Sanders, at Wells
burg, KY, and compelled him to dig
up his tobacco plant beds on pain
of death. When the beds We're de.
stroyed the riders whipped Sanders
until the blood flowed. They next
went to Nelson Cummings place, and
upon his refusal to come out, the rid
ers fired several volleys into the
house.
The sensational divorce proceed
ings brought by Henry ]. Lord, mil
ionaire horseman and dog fancier.
of Nichols, Ct, against his beautiful
young wife, a former society leader
of Brooklyn and Richmond, Va,
came TO an abrupt end when the at
torney for Mrs. Lord withdrew from
the case and she consented to her
husband securing a decree.
District Attorney Jerome said that
he would go to Jail rather than COM
ply with an order received from
Judge Rosalsky that certain grand
jury minutes be filed with the clerk
of the Court of General Sessions and
forced the Judge to write new or
der.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
WASHINGTON

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, in reply to the Senate resolution
of inquiry, sent a communication
denying that it had any information
of any agreement or understanding
whereby any railroad would have i'm
munity from prosecution under the
commodity clause of the Hepburn
bill
The President has written letters
to Senators Rayner, Stewart and
Smith, of Michigan, in which he de-
clares he is the commander-in-chief
and had the right to take the action
he did in the Brownsville affair and
in the case of Colonel Stewart.
The crop report issued by the De-
partment of Agriculture shows the
yield of wheat to be less than last
year.
The House committee agreed to a
favorable report on the bill to refer
to the Court of Claims the claims of
the Ute Indians in Colorado for about
s2,000.000.
A number of publishers testified
before the House committee investi-
eating the Paper Trust to the exor-
bitant prices extorted for print pa
per.
Senator Rayner will introduce a
resolution in the Senate asking for
an investigation into the treatment
of Col William F. Stewart
A special report of the Census
Bureau shows the wages paid in man
ufacturing establishments in different
parts of the country.
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon received
the congratulations of his friends up
on having reached the age of 72
years.
The Senate passed a bill appropria-
ting 5000 TO aid the Pocahontas
Memorial Association to mark at
jamestown, Va.
An argument in behalf of postal
savings banks was made in the Sen
ate by MIR. Carter.
The Senate adopted a resolution
introduced by Senator Foraker dl-
recting the Interstate Commerce
Commission to inform the Senate
whether railroads engaged in inter-
state commerce have since May l
complied with the commodity clause
of the Interstate Commerce Law.
The propagandst methods OF the
forestry service were attacked by
various senators during the discus
sion Of the Agricultural Appropria-
tion Bill
That the Republic of Columbia has
| twice made demands for and then
asked arbitration OF her claim foI
| $10,000,000 from the United States
and been refused was made known al
the State Department.
The late Stephen Decatur Smith
bequeathed a plain gold ring which
was formerly the proper II Com.
modore Stephen Decatur. he Ma
tional Museum.
The President has decided to ap.
point James j. Crofiey, of Iowa
United States district attorney foi
the third district of Alaska to sue
ceed Machan V. Harlan, who has re-
signed.
The House OF Representatives, by
an overwhelming vote, went on rec
ord against the reestablishment o.
the canteen in National Soldiers
Homes.
The Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations agreed to report favorabl,
the general arbitration treaties with
Sweden and the Netherlands.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
DESERTS THE WIDOW
At THE ALTAR
A virginian Changes His Mind About
Marrying.

Richmond, Va. Especially Mrs.
Blanche Diggs, pretty widow of 10
months, who was to have been mar
ried at night to II. c. Fueral, was
deserted at the altar, after the we'd
ding feast had been prepared and the
house decorated, and while the min
lister and the guests were in attend
ance.
The cozy little home on Clay
Street was decorated for the cere-
mony, the friends of the contracting
parties had assembled, the minister,
Rev. DR.. Hicks, Of Manchester Bap-
tist Church, was on hand, and the
bride was preparing for her second
wedding, when a letter handed in by
a postman informed the young widow
that her ungallant lover had chang
ed his mind.
In his letter the bridegroom stated
that he had come to the conclusion
that 1t would not be best for him to
marry. 1t is learned that on Friday
morning Fueral packed his clothing
in a suitcase and left his boarding
house, since which time nothing has
been heard of him. He paid his
board bill before leaving.
Friday afternoon, prior to the date
set for the wedding, Mrs. Diggs went
to Ashland to spend the day with her
sister and consequently she did not
know of her fiance's disappearance
until she started home, about noon
Saturday. She at first would not be-
lieve that he had deserted her. and
contended until the receipt of his let
ter that he would surely be present
In time for the ceremony.
Three weeks ago ]. II. Humphreys,
proprietor of the clearinghouse in
which Mrs. Diggs lived, inserted an
advertisement in a newspaper for a
young man to occupy q large front
room in a private family. Fueral
was attracted, was given board, and
there met the woman he was destin-
ed to court, win and afterward desert.
At first the couple saw little of
each other, but two weeks ago their
attachment became closer, and Thurs
day the announcement was made that
the wedding would take place Sat
urday Since the death of her hus-
band Mrs. Diggs has been employed
in a large dry goods store, having
been thrown upon her own resources
to make a living.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
BIG FLEET ENTERS
THE GOLDEN GATE
Record Breaking Cruise From the
Chesapeake Ends.

San Francisco Especially Through
the towering rocky portals OF the
Golden Gate---heavy laden with the
romance of centuries--int the har-
Dor Of the city of hundred hills;
into new San Francisco, risen from
the, ruins of two years ago, the At
lantic battleship fleet steamed We'd
nesday in review of multitude un-
numbered.
It was the same imposing pageant
OF immaculate white ships that sail
ed from Hampton Roads nearly five
months ago in the wake of the Pres-
dents flag, but with the splendid ac-
complishments of recordbreakilg
cruise of more than Ia 1000 miles and
three weeks of wonderful target
work behind 1t.
Wednesday the white-anchored,
four-starred blue flag of the Secrs-
tary of the Navy, flying from the
mainmast of the trim little gunboat
Yorktown, fluttered the welcome O =
the Navy, while the Governor of CT =
fornia, the Mayor of San Franci go
and the people of a hundred to sns
and cities voiced the greetings OF the
enthusiastic West.
San Francisco, Oakland and other
cities nearly all took a holiday to
witness the coming of the feet.
There was a complete cessation of
business, and the streets in the
downtown sections were absolutely
deserted. More people came into
the city than left during the terror
and homeless days following the fire.
Sun Shines Just In Time.
A few remaining scars of city
shaken and burned appeared rose
tinted in the JOY of the general cele-
bration. A welcome sign spelled In
letters SO feet high topped the high
Telegraph Hill. The sun, which all
morning long had been obscured by
heavy gray clouds, broke through
just as the ships we're passing
through the Golden Gate and shone
with monday brilliancy on tho pag-
eantry of fighting craft.
The city is gay with merrymaking,
and the long program of entertain
ments planned In honor of the fleet
is well under way. Streets and
buildings are illuminated for the first
time in the history of the city, many
Va 'hC GiohN ohJ oNAdPSlo AAiN hRNS
risen upon the sites of less impos-
ing buildings destroyed being out
lined in a fire of electric bulbs. The
still crowded hills of the city are
flooded now and then in the flash
and the play of scores of searchlights
trained from fighting tops and flying
bridges. Below them in the anchor
age grounds the illuminations of the
heaviest fleet ever assembled under
any flag makes brilliant the waters
of the bay for thousands of yards
around.
Official dinners, band concerts, and
reception and ball at the Fairmount
Hotel, with 5000 invited guests, are
features of the first evening of the
fleets stay.
The feet threaded its way through
the crowded harbor, past the islands
and ferry lanes and reaching far oui
to the Oakland shore, turned at last
when opposite Hunters Point, and
pointing back toward Golden Gate tC
face the incoming tide, steamed into
anchorage formation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
CoNFEssEs ON DEATHBED.
Mother Acknowledges She Killed Two
OF Her Children.

Bristol, Tenn. Especially. - Mrs
Make Peltier cleared up two murder
mysteries on her deathbed in the City
Hospital here, where she died at
O'Clock. Calling a nurse to her side,
Mrs. Peltier, who was a good looking
middle-aged wcman, confessed that
two years ago she threw her three.
year-old son into the Holston River
from a trestle, and six months lated
she strangled her one-year-old baby
to death with shoe string. The
drowning was at that time believed
to have been done by others and the
mother was not suspected Of having
killed her offspring. Mrs. Peltier was
a member of good family residing
in Kingsport and came to Bristol for
treatment several days ago.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
ncclsIon Aeainst RaIIroad.

Boston (speciaD The informa-
tion filed by Attorney General Dana
Malone, sometime ago against the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad. in which he claimed that
the company had transgressed the
law in securing control of six street
railway companies in Massachusetts,
was affirmed by the full bench of the
Supreme Court, so far as It relates TO
FIVE of the roads, the exception being
in the case of the Springfield Street
Railway Company.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
Night Riders Again.

Lexington, Ky. Especially Several
tobacco beds on the farm of Joseph
Ware, in Boyle County, were blown
up by might Riders" There was
no intimation of their presence on
the farm until the explosion told of
the destruction of the plant beds.
No warning had been given Ware, it
is said. There is no clue to the iden.
tity of the riders or whence they
came.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
FIye Mon nrnwncd.

Newburyport, Mass. Especially. =
Five of party of nine men were
drowned by the capsizing of naptha
launch owned by George e. Bailey,
of this city, on Plum Island Bar, of
here. Those who lost their lives
were all young Italians employed ir
local shoe shop. and their bodies
were swept out to sea Bailey
Thomas Keenan, and two others clune
to the overturned craft until boats
came to their assistance. The Plum
Island life-saving crew took then
ashore to the station and cared foi
the men.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
Traln Wreckers EoIIed.

Washington, Pa. Especially The
passing OF shifting engine, which
the would-be train wreckers had not
counted upon, undoubtedly averted
serious disaster to the east bound
flyer from St. Louis to Pittsburg on
the Panhandle Railroad of the Penn.
sylyania system between here and
Mcdonald. An obstruction was plac-
ed on the tracks in such manner,
experienced railroad men say, that
nothing could have saved the fasi
train had II not been discovered. The
switching engine ran into the oil.
Rtruction End wc- r"--
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
WhoIesaIc Arrests In Perm.

Lima, Peru (By Cable) As an
outcome OF its investigation of the
recent futile revolutionary movement
in Peru, the government caused &c
be arrested and has turned over foi
trial by a military court 10 OF the
leading men In the Democratic and
Liberal parties. The prisoners In,
clude Callos Pierola Benjamin Bozo
and jose Carlos Bernales. The In
surgents, dispersed by government
troops, have fed 10 the Huanuco dis
trict and the Durand brothers, the
leaders Of the movement are in hid.
ing,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
House Blown Up.

Dayton. Ohio (speciaD The en-
tire rear portion of the house occu-
pied by Frank Gentle, wealthy
Italian fruit merchant, was blown to
pieces by a heavy charge OF dyna-
mite. No one was injured. Four
days ago he received letter from
Piqua demanding the payment OF
$4,000 to the Black Hand Society.
A vigorous search has been begun by
the police of this city and Piqua, With
well-defined clue to follow, and
arrests are expected soon.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
Barron sternburg Goes 70 Europe.

Washington, d. c. Especially -
Baron sternburg, the German am.
bassador, accompanied by the Bar
oness, will sail from New York fol
Europe on May Is, taking a steamer
which touches at Genoa They will
be absent about three months. The
Baron expects to spend part of hk
vacation in saxony looking after per
sonal affairs. Miss Langham. the
baroness sister, will leave New Yorl
on May 18th for Cherbourg, to joir
her sister, the Countess de Faramond
in Paris
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-14
Prof. Rnscll Killed.

Sterling Ill. Especially Prof. Carl
Busch, said to be a graduate of the
University of Leipsic, for many years
holding the chairs of German and
Greek literature at Antioch College,
Yellow Springs, Ohio, was killed by
a freight train near here while walk
ing on the railroad tracks. Six
years ago he met with financial re-
verses, resigned his position at the
college and became a wanderer.