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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
BOY KILLS MOTHER.

Mahanoy City Especially Mrs. AL
bert Major of Lanigans, near this
city was shot dead with a rifle bull
let intended for a cat, at her home.
The shooting was an accident, ac-
cording to the two sons, George and
William, who had been handling the
rifle from which the fatal bullet was
fired.
The boys were stationed at an
open window watching for cats after
the young chickens. The rifle lay on
a table close by. When Mrs Major.
entered the room, william, who is
only years old, had the weapon in
his hands, and it was discharged.
Mrs. Major died in a few moments,
the bullet entering her heart.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
KAISER'S HEIR TURNS
BOSS WOOD-TURNER.
Has Lathe Set Up in Bedroom
and Piles Up a Stack OF Fine
Chair Legs.

Crown Prince Frederick William,
following the requirements of the
House of Hohenzollern that each
Prince shall be skilled in some trade,
Is becoming an adept In wood turning.
He surprised his suite by ordering
that lathe be set up in one Of his
bedrooms and he spent the morning
turning out chair legs.
He worked at the machine in his
shirt sleeves, and when the electric.
ity failed he summoned an adjutant
to help him turn the lathe. The ad-
jutant also was In his shirt sleeves
and the two men alternated In driv-
ing the machine.
Emperor William is a cabinet max
er, his father was a bookbinder, and
his grandfather was a turner.
In mastering q trade the Crown
Prince, however, has not overlooked
his artistic pursuits, and he has taken
a new violin master, a talented
young Pole, Bronislaw Huberman,
whose acquaintance he made at
musicale. given by the Minister of the
Interior.
Bronislaw caused sensation "by
his soulful playing" of Schubert's
Ave Maria" When he finished the
Crown Prince, himself a violin player
of ability, led the applause and begged
the artist to repeat the piece. At the
same time he asked permission to
stand near him and observe the posi-.
tion of his hands
AT the conclusion of the repeti.
tion William called the young master
aside and said to him:
81 think l know now why almost
everybody plays better on the violin
than l. / was not taught to use my
hands correctly, either with the bow
or on the strings. Come to my home
tomorrow and give me a lesson and
continue coming until know how to
hold my hands as you do. Charge
whatever you please. 1 want to
learn"
The virtuoso talked of previous
engagements, but Wilhelm insisted
that he give him at least one lesson
before he left Berlin. This one les
son grew into many, since the Crown
Prince is determined to learn to play
ave Maria" as well as Huberman.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
THREE BURNED TO DEATH.

Williamsport Especially Two per-
sons were burned and another died
In hospital later and a fourth is
missing as the result of a fire which
occurred in the home of Joseph Lo-
renzo, at Castenea, near here. The
fire followed an explosion of a lamp.
The dead are:
Pasquale Bonady, a boarder, and
two Of the Lorenzo children, one six
years old and the other aged three
years. A boy of eight years is mis-
sing and is believed to have been in
clnerated. Mrs. Lorenzo was terri
bly, burned in an attempt to rescue
her children. The father OF the fam
lily was badly burned while attempt-
ing to save one of the children.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
TO MAKE THEIR OWN CEMENT.

Pittsburg Especially .-Angered by
what 1t claims was exorbitant prices
charged for cement by Independent
concerns in the past few years, the
United States Steel Corporation has
entered the cement making field It.
self, and now threatens to drive the
small makers of cement out of busi-
ness. A new cement making plant,
costing $1,00O,000, and with capac-
ty of 100000 barrels per year,
was opened between the Homestead
and the Duquesne mills of the cor
poration, on the Monongahela River,
above Pittsburg. Through a recently
discovered process the corporation
will be enabled to convert it's i'm
mense Stag piles into marketable
cement.
The plan of establishing cement
making plants in both Pittsburg and
Chicago was evolved, and 1t is now
hoped to make 5,000,0O0 barrels per
year, which will be more than enough
to flood the market after such a big
buyer as the corporation itself has
withdrawn.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
ADMITS HE TIED
SELF IN HIS BED.


Coatesville Especially The mys-
terry surrounding the gagging and ty-
ing in bed of ]. Barton Harry at his
home on East Main Street. was clear
ed up on the arrival here of United
States Postal Inspector s. U. New
hard, to whom Harry made a full
confession that he was the author of
the threatening letters addressed to
himself and to his sweetheart, Miss
Mary Ellis.
From the start Postmaster A. II.
Swing suspected that young Harry
was the author OF the letters and the
author of the supposed attempt on
his life. and he at once communicated
with the Postal Department at Wash
ington. When Inspector Newhard ar
rived here he went to the Harry
home and accused young Harry OF be-
ing the author of the letters and ty-
ing himself in bed. At first the
young man denied the charge, but
on being put through sweating pro-
cess he broke down and made a full
confession in the following sworn
statement:
81 hereby state under oath that ]
wrote and mailed the letters address,
ed to j. Barton Harry and Miss Mary
Ellis, which were intended as Black
hand letters; same letters postmark-
ed at Coatesville, May 4 and s, 1908.
(Signed) -. Barton Harry"
The confession of Harry has great
ly relieved the nervousness of the
people created by the affair. The
only solution of Harry's strange
pranks is that he was extremely jeal-
Gus of Miss Ellis, and he aimed to
win her sympathy.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
How the Eye Sees the Eye.

At recent meeting of the French
Academy of Sciences, the apparatus
of DR.. Fortin for rendering visible
the inner structure of the human eye
was described. A very brilliant mir
ror is illuminated with a Cooper Hew-
lit tube, and the light is reflected
into the eye, after traversing two
thicknesses of blue glass and being
concentrated by a large lens fixed in
a screen The observer places his
eye,behind the lens at such distance
that the whole field appears Uniform
ly illuminated. What he sees is a re-
Election of the interior of his own eye.
The circulation of the blood In the
minute vessels is visible. When a
screen pierced with a pinhole is
passed rapidly to and fro between the
eye and the lens, the structure OF the
fovea, the minute spot on the retina
which Is the most sensitive part of
the eye. is revealed. The apparatus
is designed to aid investigations by
oculists. s.-The Youths Companion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
ACQUIRES BIG COAL FIELDS.

Pittsburg Especially The extern
sive property of the Federal Coal and
Coke Company, near Fairmount, w.
Va, has been purchased by the New
England Gas and Coke Company Of
Boston for a spot cash consideration
of 1880, 1000. The purchaser, which
is one of the largest concerns of its
kind in the country and which con-
trolls the coke and gas business of
Boston and surrounding towns, will
Immediately expend $75O,000 in the
further development of the property
The purchase includes $500 acres
OF exceptionally good gas and coal
fields, situated IL miles south of
Fairmont, on a branch of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad. The field
has 800 acres of surface, containing
a nine-foot vein of coal. The selling
company was controlled by Pittsburg
CAPITALISTS.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
ODDS AND ENDS.

The mole will starve to death in
a day.
Fishhooks have been made on pre-
cisely the same design for 1000
years.
The one hundredth anniversary OF
the opening of the port of Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, to international
commerce is to be celebrated next
year by national exhibition of in
dustrial, pastoral and art products
from June 10 to September /.
The most remarkable. clock weight
in Maine is that of the Baptist Church
at Cherryfield--an old smooth-bore
cannon. The old cannon was one
of the old scmooth-bore type, and
was brought by Gleason r. Campbell
from Boston on one of the return
trips OF lumber vessels.
A German not long ago invented
a horseshoe of paper, prepared by
saturating with oil, turpentine and
other ingredients. Thin layers OF
such paper was glued to the hoof
till the requisite thickness is attain
ed. The shoes. thus made was said
to be durable and impenetrable BY
moisture. re.--London Globe.
The oldest Roman Catholic Col
lege in the United States is George
town College, Georgetown, D. G.
Hasheesh, which In its effects is
much the same as opium, Is prepared
from the gum taken from hemp.
Paper bags are absolutely neces.
sary In certain lines OF business, aud.
considering that there are no cash
return, constitute probably one OF tie
large items of expense to stores and
market stalls The expenditure for
ordinary paper bags, such as are
used In grocery stores, during 1906
reached nearly $9,200, 900. The out
lay for all bags or various kinda
amounted to $4,000, 700,
Australia's largest cattle herd Is
that running on the Victoria River
Station, northern territory. 3eo miles
south Of Port Darwin II nambers
10000 head.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
aGoodeThn\qs
.:TIST0tQ Eat
Sss1s. EzNDsn1K:Z0

Poached Eggs With Creamed Gel.
ery.-Carefully arrange poached eggs
on rounds of buttered toast. FIJI In
the centre of the dish with a pint of
celery cut into inch lengths and
cooked in boiling water until tender,
then stirred into a cupful of cream
sauce. Serve very hot. This is a
light and nourishing breakfast dish.
Bean Porridge.--Boilo one quart of
beans without soaking with half a
teaspoonful of soda until the skin
cracks. Have fried In slices half a
pound OF salt pork, add to beans with
little salt and pepper, cook with suf-
ficient water to keep from burning,
and when real soft add fine bread
crumbs or -four to thicken. Bread
crumbs are best.
Rice Pudding.-Rice pudding Is to
many people a not very palatable ar
ticle OF diet, but as it is frequently or
dered In cases of convalescence from
various illnesses, formula is given
for its preparation: One ounce of
whole rice, three-quarters of pint
OF milk, half an ounce of butter, one
egg, sugar to taste. Let the rice
swell In the milk over slow fire, stir
in the butter and then let the mixture
cool. Beat the egg we'll and mix with
the rice, butter a breakfast cup or
small mold, fill It three parts full and
bake. Turn II out and serve.
Good Corn Bread.---Scald one pint
OF white meal, add teaspoonful of
sugar, also one OF salt and table,
spoonful OF butter or meat fryings;
then stir in as much buttermilk as is
required to make thin batter-pre-
viously placing teaspoonful Of soda
IN the sour milk. Lastly add pint
OF dry meal. Thoroughly beat with
spoon or paddle and bake In buttered
pan In quick oven. Try this with
vegetables often for dinner. You win
feel better than when you dine, week
IN and out, on adulteratad dour.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
Household Matters.
Hints From Old Virginia.

One or two tablespoonfuls of am
monia added to a pail of water will
clean windows better than soap.
Always keep your celery roots and
dry them. They are good for season.
ing soups and sauces.
A large calico bag to cover the
ironing board when It is not in use
will keep the ironing sheet clean and
be handy receptacle for holders and
waxing cloth.
II double layer of brown paper is
put under the oilcloth on shelves or
tables It will wear three times as
long as II laid directly on the wood
Elvyn B. A., Roanoke, Va, In Boston
Cooking School Magazine.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
Newspaper ami Educntor.

A newspaper is always printed In
rush. There is always something in
1t that should be left out; something
left out that should have been put in.
II is sometimes too quick to Judge
and often too quick to act, but. with
all its shortcomings, there is more
education In a bright, newsy newspa-
per than there Is In novel. el.--Denton
Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21

1t contains 43O rooms which are
used for office. committee and storage
purposes; 679 windows, $50 door
ways, lao fireplaces. 261 wash basins
and sinks. fourteen bathtubs, ffteen
ventilating fans, eighteen motors.
eight elevators. two 1O00-horsepower
boilers, eight steam pumps. lighting
service equivalent to 5000 incandes-
cent lamps of sixteen candlepower
each, and over $4,000 squire feet of
sky'light. This is all on the inside,
and when we look over the outside
and the forty acres of land TO be kept
up, we begin to realize that It is no
small job to keep the cobwebs out of
the Capitol and the weeds out of the
yard,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
A $4,000 Dentist Bill.

Edwin ]. Richardson, the dentist
of Brook street, Grosvenor Square. is
claiming from Mr. Fremlin, a brew
er of Maidstone. $50 for dental SER
vices rendered to his wife. The claim
is contested on the ground that the
charges we're not fair and reasonable.
Cross-examined. Mr.. Richardson
admitted that he had charged as
much as $4,000 for putting a mouth
in order.--London Chronicle.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
Once Prominent, Dies A Suicide.

Lancaster Especially Joseph Her
zog, who was formerly a prominent
business man in this city, was found
hanging In stable dead. He was
81 years of age. About 1885 Her.
zog, who was then in the grocery
business, was convicted OF note for
geries aggregating in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000. He was sentenced
to ten years imprisonment, and since
his release made a precarious living.
Dependency over the late loss of a
position is supposed to have induced
the suicide.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
An Unfortunate Accident.

A smart man put arsenic In bottle
OF wine. hoping that burglar would
drink It. and his wife placed 1t among
hundred other bottles. The smart
man is now wondering which is the
bottle and is prepared to sell his
stock of wine cheap.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
Veteran Railroad Conductor Dead.

Easton Especially Thomas Gala
han, a retired passenger conductor
on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, died
aged GA years. He was a Civil War
veteran, serving as a private and
later corporal in Company E, Forty
seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Vol
unteers, of which ]. P. S. Goblin was
colonel. He was employed by the Le-
high Valley Railroad Company near
lY forty years.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
Biz Lumber ono I'm 1ao7.

According to a report from the
United States Forest Service the larg-
est yearly lumber cut in this country
was that OF 1907, the amount being
37560,736,000 feet. valued at s62s.-
151,3SS. The average increase In the
price of lumber since 1899 has been
forty-nine per cent.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
Money Expressed To Bank Lost.

Williamsport (SpeciaD A pack
age containing S1O7, consigned to a
local bank via the United States Ex-
press is strangely missing, having
been lost here, and the local agent,
1. j. Kantner, is conducting an in
vestigation to determine where it has
disappeared to.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
Woman Breaks Cen Lock.

Altoona Especially. - Paul Reilly
and Sallie West we're arrested in
Juniata for disorderly conduct. The
woman was given the freedom of the
corridor of the borough lookup. She
broke the lock on Reilley's cell and
both escaped.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21
Danger 10 Anger.

Unrestrained anger acts upon the
blood as yirulent poison. It irrl-
tates the nerves. invades the calm
ness OF the brain and leaves in it's
wake the wrecksge that comes after
the tempest
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21

Altoona Especially AN inspection
of the Altoona post office disclosed
a shortage OF one cent In the money
order department. Four clerks drew
lots to make II good.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-21

Sixty car loads of Canadian made
harvesting machinery have been or
dered for Siberia.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-03-10
A Department of Transportation +?

The creation Of a Department of Trans
portation and Public Works would seem
a natural sequel 20 the development of
President Roosevelts policy for the i'm
provement of the nations waterways.
as well as a necessary consequence Of the
increasing control Of the Federal govern
meut over the railroads through the In
terstate Commerce Commission. Mr..
Roosevelt remarked not long ago. in dis
approval OF a project for a Department
Of Public Health, that he thought the
Cabinet was large enough. We have
not observed any indication OF change
OF mind since. but there is so much
more reason for the establishment Of
Department of Transportation that
possibly il is true. as asserted. that the
President is inclined 10 approve the
main features of the Ransdell bill.
Whether the project for a new ex-
ecutive department finds favor or not,
il is certain that at no distant day Con-
gress will have to provide more extern
sive machinery for the enforcement Of
Federal legislation for the regulation OF
railroads The Interstate Commerce Com
mission is now. and has been for a long
time, swamped with business. II was
originally a semi-judiciai body, but
gradually a number of important admin
istrative duties have been intrusted TO
it, so that it regularly exercises both
judicial and administrative functions
To insure the maximum OF efficiency,
these two functions ought TO be sepa-
rated, though, of course, they should
continue to be exercised under a sin
gle bureau Of the executive branch, such
as that proposed by Mr.. Ransdell The
commission could then devote itself
solely to the hearing and determining of
complaints as to service and rates, and
other controversial questions arising
from the relations Of the railways and
the public, while administrative officers
could take over the other work which
Congress has imposed on an overworked
body.
One of the objects of the RansdeI
bill is the coordination Of work along
similar lines now performed by two or
more departments. 1t may well be
asked. by those opposed to the creation
Of an additional executive department.
why this coordination could not be as
well effected by Congress itself as by
bringing number Of bureaus together
under a single head. Inasmuch as Con-
gress decides upon the broad general
lines of Executive policy, il is within
the power Of Congress to prescribe a
method by which the various bureaus
and departments may cooperate TO carry
out that policy II Congress did more
Of this sort of thing. perhaps there
would be less outcry about alleged Ex-
ecutive usurpation
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-03-10
State Rights Again.

state rights have come 10 the front in
a new form in South Carolina, where
Judge Pritchard. OF the Federal court, has
taken jurisdiction of funds in custody of
the State dispensary board. and has APP
pointed members Of the board receivers
for the funds This is alleged by the
State rights men to be in violation of the
constitutional provision that State can
not be sued. but inasmuch as there is a
question whether a commission IS the
same thing as the State il looks as II
there were two sides to the case. Sena-
tor riilmau takes the view that an APP
pointive board has no sovereignty, even
though a creature OF the State Nor
does the legislature appear to have taken
the State rights issue seriously. for in
spite Of a special message from Gov
Ansel asking for the passage OF bill
transferring the dispensary funds to the
state treasury. and thereby removing
them from the Jurisdiction Of the Federal
court. that body adjourned without acting
on the measure
Judge Pritchard appointed the receivers
on the application Of citizens Of other
states who had claims before the dis
pensary board. He has ordered that the
funds in possession Of the commission.
amounting 10 $4,000. be turned over 10
the receivers. The attorney general Of
South Carolina however. has advised the
receivers. Who are also members Of the
commission, 20 disregard the order Of the
court. only one member Of the commits
sion has accepted appointment as re-
ceiver. and the others appear disinclined
90 do so. The matter is further COM
plcated by the fact that the commission
had already acknowledged the jurisdiction
Of the Federal court by joining in or con-
sentng 10 an application for an order for
the payment OF claims due foreign credit
ors. This action. il is alleged. amounts
TO a waiver OF objection 20 the Jurisdiction
OF the Federal court.
There would appear 10 be some force in
the contention OF the State rights fac
ton that the dispensary commission Is
as much a part OF the State govern
ment as its educational or charitable in
stitutons. and that If Federal court
can legally take over the administration
and the funds Of one department Of a
State government Il can take over any
and al others" At any rate judge
Pritchard has raised some interesting
questions that viii probably be taken up
10 Tho supreme Court His action also
gives point 10 the demand OF Mr.. Bryan's
platform that foreign corporations be
compelled to submit their legal disputes
70 the courts OF the States where they
DO business.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-03-10
CONTRAST IN STATESMEN.
An Interesting study OF Hoke Smith
and Tom Watson,

and Tom Watson,
From the Meidrim Ca Guidon.
Two more interesting characters DO not
exist in the State. They are the COM
plements OF each other. Smith Is large
and truly a veritable giant. Watson is
small. delicate. and emaciated. The
voice Of the one is coarse and monoto-
nous. while that Of the other is high
pitched. sharp. and clear Smith is ar
gumentative, forceful. and convincing.
Watson is dramatic. imaginative. end
persuasive. Smith deals in facts. Watson
in fancy. Smith has no humor. while
Watson has a brilliancy OF wit. Smith
is without literary finish. while Watson
is scholarly. Smith is materalist. Wat
son an idealist. Smith knows little of the
people. their customs. habits. or legends.
Watson is from and OF the people and
knows. as few men do. the secret springs
that man them 10 action. Both men are
ambitious, and strange as it may seem
both have, 70 large degree, the money
making faculty, Smith has grown rich in
Atlanta real estate and contingent fees.
while Watson has amassed wealth de-
Tending criminal cases and acquiring
farm lands.
Smith has few loyal friends. Watson
has legion Of devotees who follow him
with a blind idolatry. When Smith visited
Watson it was the mountain going TO
Mahomet, and the mountain labored until
it brought forth a propaganda that was
pleasing to Mahomet. But the mountain
has ceased 70 labor, and those who do
not dwell in the shadow of the noun
tain or follow the teachings of Mahomet
are wondering IL the mountain Will go
back - Mahcmet-or Mshomet to the
mountain