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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-30
plan Vast System.

Denver, Col. (speciaD malga-
nation OF the 5000 miles of Harri-
man lines into single system, in a
practical II not a technical sense,
Is the object OF conference of the
chief engineers OF all the Hartman
roads who have assembled in this
city. Chairman lsaacs, consulting
engineer, presided at the session, at
which questions relating TO the stand
ardization OF all the equipment on
the various lines so as to procure
more improved service at less cost
were discussed
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-30
Message From Peary.

New York Especially Commando
Robert Peary. now en- route to the
Arctic icefields in quest of the North
Pole, arrived at Belle Harbor, Labra
dor, on the steamer Roosevelt Mon
day. The following telegram was re
ceived from Belle Harbor tonight:
Arrived G o'clock A. M. Taken or
whale meat at Cape Charles. Fine
weather. All we'll.
(Signed) Peary.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-30
Failure Lends no Suicide.

Chicago Especially, - While de-
spondent on account of financial re-
verses Walter A. Williams shot and
killed himself in a saloon next door
TO the place where he had lost his
money. In his pockets we're found
three letters--one addressed to his
brother, the Rev H. Williams, q
priest, living In South Haven. Mich. /;
one to his mother, Mrs. Fannie VIII
liams, of Detroit, and another to
Mrs. p. J. Shafer, Chicago. a cousin
and the wife OF his former partner
in business.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-30
jealousy Causes Murder.

Louisville, Ky. (SpeciaD Arthur
w. Kraft. aged 22 years, an optician,
was shot and instantly killed and his
wife, Mrs. Pearl Laval Kraft, aged
20 years, was probably fatally
wounded by Philip Hans, Jr., aged
22 Insane jealousy is said to have
prompted the crime.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-30
Prominent Man Insane.

Chicago Especially Leslie Carter,
formerly president of the South Side
Elevated Railroad Company and
prominent in financial affairs, was ad-
judged mentally incompetent to man
age his own affairs. Judge Cutting
will appoint conservator. Mr.. Car
ter has been seriously i'll for several
months, the result of gas poisoning.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-30
DR.. MitcheII President

Columbia s CspeciaD DIR. S
c. Mitchell, head of the department
Of history at Richmond College. Va.
was elected president of the Univer-
sity OF South Carolina, vice Major
BENJAMIN Sloan. resigned DR..
Mitchell has made engagements to
lecture al Brown and Harvard Uni
versitles during the coming session.
and this will prevent his entering
upon his duties here at the coming
session.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-30
Indict MaiI.Order Houses.

Chicago (SpeciaD. - The federal
grand jury adjourned after having
turned indictments against 29 mail
order houses whose alleged Illegal
profits are said to have been between
four and five millions of dollars
The charge is using the mails to de-
fraud.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-30
Drowns Twins; ends LIfc.

Newark. N. J. Especially. - Mrs
Maud Dousette. 26 years old. drown.
ed her twin daughters-Edn and
Lena-l1 days old. in tub of water
and then caused her own death by
asphyxiation. She evidently intended
to cause the death OF her two older
children by asphyxiation. but they
escaped harm from the gas which
is believed to have suddenly become
insane
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-30
Wnnts Money For Ronds.

Grand Rapids, Mich. Especially -
II. II. Gross, president of the, Farm
ers' Good Roads League, speaking
at the meeting of the National Con-
Wet Labor Good Roads Association
advocated an issue of $400, 700, 900
OF bonds for road building. He sug-
gested that the amount be appor-
toned among the States according to
population. About 900 delegates
were in attendance.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-30
Killed BY Explosion.

Kings Mills. o. Especially -- One
man was killed and another fatally
injured in an explosion which de-
molished one of the big powder mills
here. The explosion came just at
the close of the dinner hour before
all the men had returned to work.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-30
Tramps Kill Officer.

Middletown. n. Y. Especially In
a hand-to-hand battle with a gang
Of tramps whom the police were at
tempting to arrest Charles Kane. who
had been called upon by the police
TO assist them, was so severly beaten
that he died a few minutes later.
The tramps escaped.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-30
Fntnl Texns Shootlnp.

l'ort Worth, Tex Especially e. C.
Gaines shot and probably fatally
wounded j. w, Reese on the streets
Of Comache. 80 miles south of here.
The men are opposing Democratic
candidates for representatives in the
State legislature.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-30
Humane soclety Fonnder Dies.

Chicago Spec l).-John G.
Shortall, founder of the American
Humane Association, died at his
home. in Winnctka, aged 20 years.
He presided over the Humane Con-
gress at the Worlds Columbian Tx
position In 1893.
Daily picayune., 1908-08-28

For several days there has been
 a rumor cnrrent that the forces fighting for the adoption of Am- endment No. 10 have given up, il being shown to them that the
 branches of the last legislature did not pass upon the act as it will appear when it becomes a law, before submitting it to the people. Mayor Duley says this is absolutely false, and unless he is poor reader of the times, the amendment will be carried by an overwhelming vote. The houses of the legislature simply passed a resolution favoring the passage of the amendment, according to Mayor Duley. and the people have but to say whether or not the constitution granting towns, cities, or counties the right to vote bonds for public improve ments. He points out where the state is left out of the amend ment. and it makes no change there. The next legislature will then pass an act in accordance with the resolution, and the amendment, if voted on favor ably by the people.
Daily picayune., 1908-08-28
BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE.

One five room cottage with barn, garden. etc, new. Cost $S50. You.can buy it today for S750.
 One six room house, l-2 block of land in Warren's addition. Nice pear orchard, and a good Well. A splendid proposition at S700, or for rent at $7.50 per month.
 A splendid stock ranch and farm ' miles northeast of the city, Tn 1-2 mile of R. F. D., and one mile of two churches and a school house. Comfortable home. Sixty acres in cultivation, one mile of river. Endless stock range, 150 acres in track, one third in river bottom. Price $1,- 25O cash gets it. Will also sell two brood mares and colts, stock and milk cattle, and lots of hogs "a snap.
 One cozy four room cottage home in west Prescott. Good water, garden and. barn. Will exchange for improved sandy land farm. Price $40O.
 Twelve acres next to corpora uons Tn east Prescott, two tenent houses on tract. Good water. Worth double the price asked. Take 1t today for $1, GOO cash. Long list of farm and city property. See me or write for list. Vaughan Realty Co.,,
 ALEX VAUGHAN,
 Sec. and Mgr.
Daily picayune., 1908-08-28
D0NACHEY TO HELP
 FIGHT INJUNCTION
Help Has Come From An Unexpected Source To
 The Attorneys.

Little Rock. Aug. 27. Help from an unexpected source has come to the attorneys who to- night leave for St. Paul to defend the two cent rate and ire ight tariff of the railroad commission, against the attack of the rail- roads of the state in the court of Judge Van Devanter. The new ally is Geo. w. Donaghey. Quite unexpectedly, when the hearing on temporary injunction was on in St. Paul, MT. Donaghey ap peared on the scene and remain ed an interested spectator. No one thought he was taking any interest in the fight, but his ac- ton today in announcing his speechmaking dates for the next week cancelled in order that he might go to St. Paul and render what assistance he can to his state, shows he has been follow ing the proposition all along. He has a number of theories of his own, as to why the rates should remain as they now are. and the attorneys will make use of them in their arguments next Monday. The campaign committee will ar range for other speakers to fill the dates made vacant by Gov. Donaghey.
Daily picayune., 1908-08-28
HEARD FIGHTING
 THE TELEPHONE co.
Would Cut the Rates Down to Where They Were
 Formerly.

Little Rock, August 28. Doug las Heard, who is making a fight to put the Southwestern tele- phone company in Little Rock back on the old rate, is going about his efforts in a systematic manner. He has list of num- bers up to 4600, the number of subscribers the last directory gives, and starting with the first name in the book, he is check ing them off by numbers. He has already found a large number of telephones with the same mum
 Der, seven in one instance, and these MT. Heard says will not count, except as one number, and in this way he hopes to re- duce the list to less than 4,0O0, which will, under the local fran chise, force the company the company back to the old rates. which were advanced on the claim that the company has over 1000 subscribers to the local ex- change. MT. Heard will ask the city council to appoint commis- sion to hear evidence in the case.
Daily picayune., 1908-08-28
VOL. NO. l80. Successor to Dime norn)
STATE ELECTION
 LAW IN A TANCLE
Republicans Would Like to Have Election the First
 Monday in September

Little Rock. August 28. Dis appointed indeed were the Repub- ;can leaders in state politics yes- terday when they found their cherished hope of pulling off an election the first Monday in Sep- tember. a week ahead of the time set and claiming it to be the the regular election. They based their claim on the new act pass ed by the last legisture, which changed the election from the first to second Monday, not talk ing effect until the day of the election. making the old law in force for this year. We had arranged to hold elections in ev- cry regular voting precinct in the state,' said Capt. F. w. Tucker, chairman of the Repub- lican state central committee yes- terday afternoon and if we had gone through with it, would not only have elected John |. Worth ington governor, but a complete Republican legislature as well"
Daily picayune., 1908-08-28
MEETING AT THE PARK.

The Subjects to be preached by the Evangelist at the Park will be as follows:
 Friday night: Preaching Jesus" Saturday night: "Now. " Sunday morning: The Taber- nacle Type and Anti-Types. Preached from chart.
 Baptismal services at the church building Sunday after noon at 4 D. m.
 Sunday night: What Must 1 Do to be d"'presented from a chart.
Daily picayune., 1908-08-28
& &W.C.T.U. " Hrs. Jennie Cdrr piftmdn,
 Editor.
DOES IT PAY?

Does it pay to license a traffic
 which lessens the demand for the helpful things of life, which increases their cost and diminish es the ability to pay for them? Does it pay to license traffic which makes men less skillful,
 less steady, less reliable; which lessens endurance, lessens confi- dence, lessens credit, lessens the demand for food, clothing, shel- ter and tools with which to work ?
 Does it pay to license a traffic which increases taxes by creat- ing demand for jails, peniten- tiaries, asyIums, hospitals, alm- houses, orphanages, reformator- ies, police and criminal courts?
 Does it pay to maintain a nat ional quarantine against crimin- al and dependent classes from abroad and license 250,O sa- loon-keepers to manufacture such products at home?
 Does it pay to support the families of saloon-keepers and bar-tenders and pay their rent, taxes, insurance, and buy luxur- ies for them in order to get a few pennies of our many dollars back in revenue and license?
 Does it pay to employ teachers to teach the children the evil effects of alcohol on the human system ,and license men to sell a thing which inflames the stomach and hardens the brain tissues, softens and weakens the blood vessels, impoverishes the blood, overwol ks the heart, aims the eye, dulls the hearing, diseases the throat. lnngs, kidneys, liver, nerves and muscles, the demand for which is wholly artificial, and when supplied serves no good purpose?
 Does it pay to call ministers to preach the gospel of love, char ity, honesty, purity, forgiveness, and redemption, and license oth- CT men to engage in a traffic which fosters hate, engenders strife, breeds dishonesty, impur- ity and destruction?
 Does it pay to levy tax to support orphans and widows, and license the murderer of husbands and fathers?
 Does it pay to maintain 275 life saving stations on our coast at a cost of a million and half dol lars, and out of the same pockets maintain 250, ,OC0 life-destroying stations at two billion and half dollars?
 Does it pay to listen to the so- phistries and falsehood of pas sions, prejudice, ignorance, ap- petite and greed. and close our ears to the voice of conscience, reason, judgement, religion and God?
 Answer these questions in the light of our advanced civilization and of Gods eternal truth by go ing to the polls. Sept. IA, and
Daily picayune., 1908-08-28
CHU s and PASTORS
METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL.

School conducted next Sunday by Robert $. Stephens. Practi- cal application of the lesson by T. D. Scott. Hymns 50, 40, 70, Fl, no. The officers and teach CTS should be in their places by 9:35, ten minutes before the time for opening. This is important. Why not arrange to do it?
Daily picayune., 1908-08-28

vote against license. You kno w the saloon has never eased one headache or soothed one sorrow or blessed one life, or frightened the life of single mother in all our land, or brought happiness. peace or plenty to single pre- ciouS child.
Daily picayune., 1908-08-28

An attachment was secured by the Little Rock Trust Co. yester- day against the property of the Ferguson Lumber Co. and w. B. Ferguson, ofithis city. The bank holds a claim of $19,075 against the lumber company, less $262. 67, which had been paid on the note. The oank gave a bond for $40, GOO when it secured the writ of attachment. At the same time the trust company secured a gar nishment against O.P. Robinson, trustee; German National Bank, Citizens Investment and Security Co.,, Frisco and Iron Mountain railroads and the Phoenix Lum- Der Co.,, all of which are suppos- ed to have money in their pos session belonging to the lumber company. The Ferguson Lumber Co. has for a number of years been one of the most important in this section of the state.
Daily picayune., 1908-08-28
LITTLE ROCK
Items Gathered at the State Capital By the Picayune's
 Representative

Little Rock. Ark, August 28. Somewhere in the state there has been an awakening, but no one seems to know who started 1t. Big posters have been re- ceived in the city and are being put up in conspicuous places, ad- vlslng the voters not to forget Amendment No. g, which forces every voter to pay his poll tax. In the agitation over the other proposed amendment, this one was about to be forgotten.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-22
A GOOD PRECEDENT.

A Boston magistrate. it is stated.
created quite a sensation in that gay
old town a few days ago by imposing
both a fine and Jail sentence on "a
prominent young man" for carrying
a concealed pistol. There. as in most
other places, the habit has been to let
the gun-toter off with a mere fine,
often little more than a nominal one.
so this official thought he would try a
more drastic remedy.
Plainly this magistrate was right, II
his object Is to break UP the evil
habit and that should be the object
of the police and magistrates OF every
locality in the country. II it is wrong
and Illegal to carry a pistol concealed,
or any other weapon for that matter,
as it most certainly is. the way to stop
it is to punish adequately those who
indulge in the habit. In a great ma
5ority of cases 1t can not be broken
up by imposing fine. for, except to a
very poor man, that is no punishment
at all. The offender will pay the fne
and repeat the offense next day If he
chooses to do so. The only way to
abolish the practice Is to make the
penalty so severe that prominent"
men, and those of other classes, will
not dare to take the risk of going to
Jail for the offense Of toting a gun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-22
PROTECTING EMPLOYEES.

A federal law which has long been
needed. and which was championed
vigorously by President Roosevelt, be-
came effective on the first day of this
month. 1t is an act granting certain
classes of federal employees the right to
compensation for injuries received
while at work. 1t affects fully q ,00t
individuals.
Hitherto, only those in the railway
mail and life-saving service of the gov
eminent had any hope of continued pay
in case Of injury or support for their
families in case of death. The govern
ment employees were in this respect
worse off than the employees Of private
individuals or corporations.
But the law now in effect corrects
this injustice. BY It's provisions arts.
ans or laborers in arsenals, navy yards
river and harbor work, fortificatior
construction, government manufactur.
| ing establishment and hazardous worl
in the reclamation and Isthmian cana
service are now assured support df they
are injured while at work, and may
know that If they are killed their fam
lilies can with assurance look to the
government for an income.
Under the law the compensation FOL
injuries is fixed at the regular pay o,
the person injured for not longer thar
one year from the time Of the acd.
dent. In case of death, the widow, oil
children under the age of Is or de-
pendent parents shall receive the VIC
TINS salary for IL months. The secre-
tary of commerce and labor is the
Judge Of the justice of all claims and
has supervision of the administration
Of the act. Care has been taken to
prevent the abuse of the law and at the
same time to afford prompt succoI
where the person injured or his de-
pendents are in need.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-22
THE CONTROL OF RAILROADS

The question of the extent of gov
ernmental control and regulation of
railroads will be more and more a
question for the courts to settle. For
example, the interstate commerce
commission orders railroads to report
monthly every instance when employees
have been on duty for a longer period
than the hours prescribed by the law
and by the commission. Each viola
ton of this sort subjects railroad to
a fine Of $500.
The Boston & Maine Railroad COM
pany questions whether the commerce
commission has the power to put such
an order into effect. Through q suit
in equity, brought in the federal court
at Boston, the railroad company
claims that the order violates the con-
stitutional right that no person oau ps
compelled In any criminal case to be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News-1
Some men are so slow that they
step on their own heels.
Wise is the man who IL able to say
nothing at the right time.
1t sometimes takes man down
when a woman sizes him up.
MANY a man who attempts to get
rich quickly goes broke in hurry.
A clever woman can take any old
thing and make something new out OF
II.
IT'S the easiest thing in the world to
call people hard names-at distance.
All men may be born free and
equal. but no man Is as independent
as a hired girl.
People can depend only on them
selves-and good many people can I
even do that.
Beauty is only skin deep. but a
mans cheek is often estimated at
more than its face value.
Some men marry poor girls and
settle down and some others marry
rich widows and settle up.
A man would have but little time
for anything else II he loved his
neighbors as they loved themselves.
We say Just as dasagreeable things
about other people as they say about
us-but Of course that's different
II would be much easier to convince
the average man that honesty II the
best policy II the dividends were
larger.
tributes only to campaign funds isn't
down on the books Of the recording
angel a. q philanthropist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-22
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To Looie Linkenfusser. vich vas
Visiting in Stingneld. (Try coundy
chaiD
Lieber Looie: dake dis occasioning
to discussion nit you, der supchect
vich ISIS now before der courdt, Mob
Violence. On dis delicatessence sup
chect, hat a few remarks NIT der
bark on. Berheps, Looie, you ISIS nod
negst to der true significessence uf der
expression, derefore, / will make q
nois like Misder Webster und put you
negst: Mob Violence; idiotic parti-
ciple. Enervescendt tense.
To make q mob violence, Games
feirsd der alleched motif. Der motif
iss usually a nigero, vedder he iss
guildy er nod. Id makes VERY fiddle
differmendt. Negst. Games der bunch
uf men vot honestly belief dot dey hal
a good und proper crouch, und should
trim dot particular niggero. Dey need
kviedly. und go fort in skearch uf der
niggero, vich hat chusd peen shipped
oudt uf town py der sheriff. Finding
dot der victim hat peen remofed der
avengers go home und to bed. Aboudt
dis time, a bonch uf buns down in der
Tenderloin discofer dot somedlng va
bidding. "vod i'd iss?' Says COM
offsky. der Rushing butcher. "A nig.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-22
A SATURDAY SERMON.

Behold we count them happy which en-
dure. James vii.
The great purpose Of life Is happi-
ness-at least, the nearest approach to
1t that is possible. 1t is for happiness
that we toll, aspire, cultivate ourselves
love. marry, accumulate property and
perform all the wholesome duties of
life. 1t is also for happiness that we
loaf, cheat, lie, steal and commit all
sins and crimes. There is no other
ultimate aim known to the human
mind than happiness.
And our conception Of happiness de-
termines our lives. There is the true
happiness, the substance, and the false
happiness, its shadow. The one lures
us upward. through noble endeavors.
The other is hooking will o. the wisp
that leads us into morasses of disap-
pointment.
Are you getting the genuine article,
or a spurious imitation? There Is this
to be remembered: Genuine happiness
does not cost nearly so much as the
false variety. Perhaps the only one
really to be envied, and yet the
one least envied. is the one
whose ideals are humblest and best At
into the heart. For true happiness con-
sists not in the multiplication of ma
terial wants, but in the simplicification
of them.
There Is likely to be more of 1t In
the simple wayside flower than in a
conservatory filled with exotics; more
Of 1t In the song of a wild bird than in
the braying Of brass bands; more OF 1t
in the workingman's simple meal than
in the sumptuous spread designed for
the usually perverted mouth Of the
very rich; more of it in the tremulous
II like you" of a modest youth or
maiden than in the dramatic IT adore
thee of a assembling world.
True happiness lies not in what the
eyes may see, the ears hear, the
palate taste and the hands hold, but in
the soul that senses these things. And
he who thinks he must toot the big
bass horn or beat the bass drum to be
happy will find the whole show of life
a delusion and disappointment.