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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-08
FINANCIAL

Nipissing's quarterly dividend of
3 per cent. has just been declared.
One of the things that is hurting
American Smelling is the fact that
so many mining companies are now
treating their own ores.
Cripple Creeks output of gold this
year Is expected to reach $4,000
600.
In the past year the leasers on
Goldfeld Florence have paid divi-
dends of $4,000.
1t is not improbable. say the bank
ers, that $3O,00O,000 of Panama
bonds will be issued this year.
Readings September anthracite
tonnage Is expected to exceed 1,000,-
600 tons.
There will be little II any i'm
provement prior to election in the
steel trade" says the Iron Trade
Review"
Net earnings OF Utah Copper in
August Appropriated S240,000.
George A. Huhn has returned from
quick trip to Paris. He says the
foreigner is anxious to buy good
American securities.
Gold In small amounts continues
to flow from this country to Canada
where 1t is needed Tor crop-movine
purposes.
Engineers who have recently ex-
amined the Nevada Consolidated say
that the company has ore blocked
out sufficient to keep the big reduc-
tion works busy for twenty-five years
The Chicago & Alton Railroad has
ordered 1000 freight cars.
Belmont again attracted the chiel
attention in the Philadelphia mining
market The prices advanced TO ss
The buying of this stock appears tC
be first-rate and II Is said to be based
upon the favorable reports received
| from the company's mines.
A statement was made at Chicago
| Tuesday that transcontinental roadi
will increase rates on eighty com
| modities westbound and twenty east
bound on January from every ter
ritory east OF Missouri to the Paci
fc Coast. The average increase vii
be to per cent.
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Foreign

A Moari patient at the New Zea-
land leper station was discharged as
cured, after having been treated for
eleven months by Dr. Mason with in
lection of cultures.
The American fleet arrived at Ma
nila, and felicitatiOns were exchanged
between the commandants OF the
forces on land and on the warships.
The rabbis of St. Petersburg
recommended that the customary
fasting on the Day of Atonement be
omitted, abstinence being favorable
to cholera.
France has decided to support the
proposal made by Russia 10 submit
to the signatories of the Berlin
Treaty the question of the occupa-
tion by Bulgaria of that part of the
Orient Railroad lying in Rumelia.
The steamer Erik, which carried
supplies to the Peary Arctic steamer
Roosevelt at Etah, West Greenland,
has returned to st. Johns and reports
all members of the expedition well.
A revolutionary movement against
President Gonzales Vigues, of Costa
Rica, was attempted, under the di-
rection Of former President Ignasias.
A mob at Smyrna burned the Of
fees of the company TO which the
steamer belonged that ran down a
ferryboat, causing the loss of 14O
lives
The indiscriminate bombarding Of
the town of Tabriz, Persia, continues,
and two shells recently fell close to
the American consulate.
Rev. Dr. Andrew r. Taylor, of
CASTOR Memorial Church, Philadel-
phia, has accepted a call to Cooke
Presbyterian Church, Toronto.
The second international Congress
for Popular Education was opened in
Paris with an attendance of 5000
delegates.
Wireless telephony experiments,
conducted for the British Admiralty
by DR.. Lee DeForrest, have been
satisfactory.
Russias war budget for 1909, as
submitted to the Douma, carries an
increase of S20,000,000 of which
S8,OO0,000 is for increases In salaries
of officers OF the lower rank.
Since the beginning of the present
cholera epidemic in st. Petersburg
there have been 5,655 cases, 2,l6S
deaths and ,651 recoveries.
1t Is feared that pestilence will
follow the food in Hyderabad. India.
There we're several thousand fatali-
ties.
The Austrian government contin-
ues to warn its subjects against emil
grafton to America, particularly
Pennsylvania.
The German Emperor was the sub.
ject of an experiment with Roentgen
rays at a Prussian hospital.
Japan will reduce its large force
OF troops in Northern China TO only
two companies.
A Turkish steamer ran down 9
feryboat off Smyrna and 140 per
sons were drowned
The United States battleships Ala
bama and Maine arrived at Gibraltar
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NEWS
By TELEGRAPH
Domestic

AS a consequence OF the recent
death OF Grover Cleveland, its chair
man and counsel, the Association OF
Life Insurance Presidents voted to
amend its constitution by abolishing
the office of chairman, which had
been held by Mr.. Cleveland since lts
organization.
Miss Marie McKenna, daughter OF
E. w. McKenna, vice preident OF the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railroad, has gone among the glass
workers Of Alton, Ill, TO aid the
poor.
Sheriff Lane, who refused to COM
ply with an order to produce Harry
X. Thaw before a Pittsburg court,
has been ordered to explain his dere-
liction to the court.
Vice President Charles w. Fair
banks delivered an address at the
cornerstone laying OF Allegheny
County Soldiers and Sailors Memo
rial Hall, Pittsburg.
The answer OF the Standard Oil
Company Of Indiana to the govern
ment's petition for a hearing by the
United States Circuit Court Of APP
peals will not be answered by Dis
trict Attorney Sims.
Because his son Richard refused
to give him money which he de-
manded, John Burkhardt, 66 years
old, of Union Hill, n. j., shot and
seriously wounded his son.
II the warning of Miss NJ. Cary
Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr
College, Philadelphia, is needed, Miss
Helen Taft will probably escape haz-
Ing.
A full-grown African Lion escaped
from the winter quarters OF Leon
Washburn's Circus, as New Bruins
wick, n. j.
James II. Vahey has been nomi-
mated for governor of Massachusetts
by the Democrats Of that state.
The attorney for Martin Schleyer,
of Kenosha, Wis, charged with the
murder of his wife. acquitted his
client by dropping the unwritten law
and substituting Byrons Don
Juan"
Mrs. Claude Libby Hams, wife of
Capt. Peter G. Hams, in answering
her husbands suit for divorce, de-
nles that she acted improperly with
William e. Annis.
"A
lature has exonerated Governor Han
ley of charges of trying to influence
the vote of a member of the General
Assembly.
Vilhiahlmr Seffanson, of the Ameri-
can Museum of National History,
found himelf in the Arctic regions
short of matches.
The Demler tin plate plant, at
McKeesport, Pa, the cradle of the
tin plate industry of the country, is
to be abandoned.
Miss Emily II. Niles, a wealthy
woman of Arlington, Mass, was
frightened to death by the scream
ing of a maid.
The United States steamer Tar
lack was driven ashore on the Sa-
moan Island by a gale and may be
a total loss.
Samuel Hohenshelt, wealthy resi-
dent of Cherry Valley, Pa, was kill
ed by a fall from porch
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WASHINGTON

The quantities of the principal
articles imported for manufacturing
industries we're considerably larger
in August, 1908, than in the same
month last year, when manufacture
ing concerns were making their
greatest record.
President Roosevelt has made pub
lie letter written by him 10 Iuv-
ernor Haskell OF Oklahoma, relative
to the shipment of whisky into pro-
hibition territory.
Five diamond rings, five set with
opals, one set with topaz, one watch
and other articles of jewelry were
recovered from the well-hole of the
sewer at Thirteenth ami G Streets
Washington.
Capt Ten Eycke Dew. Veeder
commander of the battleship Alaba-
ma, at Gibraltar, has reported to the
Navy Department the death at sea on
September 81 of Eugene w. Cooper
Surgeon General Rixey has completed
his organization of corps of nurses
for the Navy and the appointments
have been announced.
Director of the Mint Leach an.
nounced that he would resume the
purchase of fine silver for subsidiary
coinage.
The case of colored soldier dis.
charged for his part in the Browns.
Vile affair was carried to the Su-
preme Court.
The Forty-fourth and Forty-third
Companies, Coast Artillery Corps
from Port Washington, Md, at the
fire command practice at Fort Mon.
roe, Virginia, on September 10
1908, made seven hits out of eight
shots fired at two targets.
An aggregate loss of $1,00O,0OC
day during the months when forest
fires have been prevailing in various
parts of the United States Is estl
mated by w. j. Magee, the erosion
expert of the Department of Agrl
| culture.
Secretary Wright will attend tn,
dinner at Boston to be given b,
the merchants association of tina
city to w Cameron Forbes. the vic,
| governor of the Philippines.
The Eastern Public Education AS
sociations continued the reading o
papers on pertinent topics.
Recent reports having failed I,
indicate the presence of yellow fe
yer in Havana, Cuba. the Publ,
Health and Marine Hospital Servic,
has removed the quarantine.
Mr.. Lane, OF the Interstate Com
merce Commission. declared that tn,
commission has jurisdiction of for
-eign commerce between the seaboars
and interior points.
Secretary OF War Wright approx
ed the application of Orville Wrigh
for an extension OF time for min,
months in which to deliver an aero
plane TO the government.
Judge DeIacey decided the Distric
child labor law 20 ba CONSTITUTIONAL
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-08
Cigarettes In Chelsea Fire.

Boston sp eciaD. - Cigarette
smoking by ragpickers who were vio-
lating the Sunday ordinance was the
cause of the great Chelsea fire. which
destroyed property valued at more
than $1,50O.000 and resulted in the
death OF IS men and women on
April 12 last. Such is the report
OF Judge Cutler, OF the Chelsea
court, who held an inquiry to deter
mine the cause. Israel Smarlsky,
foreman in charge Of the ragpickers,
Is held directly responsible for the
cigarette smoking.
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BoNIBTHRowER AN EXILE.
De Rudio, Who Tried To Kill En-.
peror, Living In California.

San Francisco Especially A story
published here is to the effect that
Conte Camille De Rudio, the Italian
exile who threw one of the bombs
that shattered the carriage of En-
peror Louis Napoleon III and EN-
press Eugenie, killing ten persons
and injuring $50 others in Paris on
the night of January IA, 1858, is
living quietly in Los Angeles with
his English wife, who aided him to
escape the scaffold and who has been
with him ever since.
De Rudio says the idea back OF
the plot to kill the French Emperor
was a hope that an uprising in
France would be followed by one in
Italy, in which the monarchy would
be overthrown. De Rudio, in his
story, connects Francisco Crispi with
the plot, declaring that he saw him
in conference with Orsini few mo-
ments before the bombs were thrown.
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CANAL WORK GOING WELL.
Col. Goethals Tells President 1t
VIII BE Finished In 1914.

Washington, d. c. Especially -
Col George w. Goethals, chairman
of the Isthmian Canal Commission,
and Major w. L. Sibert, one of the
army engineer commissioners, arriv-
ed in Washington for a thorough dis
cussion of canal matters with the
authorities here.
Colonel Goethals discussed the
subject at some length with the
President, telling him that every
thing was going along nicely; that
they had met with no unexpected
obtacles, and that he still adhered
to the belief that the canal would
be ready for business January /
1919.
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TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.
Hundreds Perish In Recent Great
Floods In India.

Bombay (By Cable) Thousands
of native houses have been washed
away and there has been heavy loss
of life in the Hyderabad and Deccan
districts as a result Of the floods,
which followed an unprecedented
rainfall. The river Musi rose 60
feet, all the bridges we're carried
away and the country was devastated
for many miles in either direction.
Corpses are strewn everywhere
and scores of bodies have been found
in the branches of trees, where they
were lodged by the swollen waters.
The native hospital at vHyderabad
was undermined by the waters and
collapsed and all the inmates were
buried in the wreckage.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-08
Denies Sine Wrote Letters.

Clinton, III. (SpeciaD Author
ship of the letters alleged to have
been written by Mabel Smell Nc
Namara, of Kansas City. niece of the
late Col. Thomas Smell, a millionaire
of Clinton, and which we're a feature
of the suit to break Smell S, will, is
emphatically denied in an answer
filed in the Dewitt County Court by
the niece. The answer is made TO a
suit recently filed by the contesting
heirs to have deeds of land which
Colonel Smell gave Mabel set aside.
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An Old Mason Dead.

Bellingham. Wash. Especially -
Possibly the oldest member of any
secret order in the United States
died at Lynden. He was the Rev.
Alexander LIE Claire, SO years OF
age, who had been for rs years a
member OF the Masonic fraternity.
For 40 years he was frontier
preacher, leaving the Catholic Church
at the age of 21 to join the Meth
odists. He was born in Canada OF
Scotch and French parentage and
learned the cobbler trade. At the
age of ~ ae gave up the ministry.
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$500, 600 Lost BY Fire.

Pittsburg Especially. - An explo-
sion of gas at the plant of the Pitts
burg Plate-Glass Company's works
No. 2. at Tarentum, suburb, re-
suited In loss by fire of $500,OOO
and threw 500 men out OF employ
ment. w, A. Long. q watchman, was
Knocked down by the exnios'on'
bruised about the body and inter
nally injured Halt 81 the plant y
In ruins and the flames we're only
checked by large steel BUILDING
recently erected by the company
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Steal From ChiIdren's Banks.

York. Pa. (speciaD-spring Grove
have been visited by several mean
thieves. who have been going from
house to house taking money and
other yaluables. At the home Of
George Messersmith they broke open
the banks Of the children, who had
gathered together about 40 cents to
admit them TO the York County Fair.
A man was arrested at the home of
C. X. Bower. and It is thought he waa
implicated in the crime.
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8 DEAD IN NEW YORK FIRE.
Children Hurled From Windows by
Eenement-HOuse Inmates.

New York Especially AT least
eight persons we're burned to death
and many were injured, one fatally,
in fire In a crowded tenement house
on Mulberry Street early Sunday
morning!
At 2.15 O'Clock four bodies had
been recovered from the building
those of two men, one woman and
little girl. Four other bodies were
in the upper part of the building.
The fire started on the first floor
in dry goods store. and spread
rapidly. There was a fire-escape on
the front of the building, but it was
of little use, as the so persons in
the building, believing themselves
wrapped by the fire, completely lost
their heads. and children were
thrown from the windows TO the
streets.
Nearly all the children were
caught by persons on the sidewalk.
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Crushed BY An Auto.

Holland. Mich. Especially While
on an automobile trip from Grand
Rapids to Holland, Dick Brink, OF
Grand Rapids, a prominent merchant,
was accidentally killed. While driv-
ing down a hill near Vriesland the
steering-gear broke and the auto
mobile turned bottom side up in q
ditch Mr.. Brink was almost in
stantly killed. The other members
OF the party-Mrs. Drinks, Mr.. and
Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Ten Brock, all
OF Grand escaped with slight
injuries.
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Dowie Was A Millionaire.

Chicago Especially &C. d. Thomas.
receiver for the estate of John Alex
ander Dowie, founder of the relig-
ious community of Zion City, H.,
filed a report in the Federal Court
showing the assets of the estate TO
be $1,709,647. Against this are Sc
cured claims OF $326,327 and unse-
still in dispute, Of $4,903,725.
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is WORSE THAN LEPROsY.
st. Louis Hospital Has Patient Suf-
fering From Rare Disease.

st. Louis, Mo. Especially .-Strick-
en- with one of the ,rarest diseases
known to science, zoran Zigni, "a
years old, is a patient in the Skin
and Cancer Hospital. No hope is
entertained for his recovery. Penn
phigus foliaceus" is the name given
this disease. II resembles leprosy.
In leprosy the skin crumbles and
wastes away. In Zigni's ailment II
completely disappears, giving the
body the appearance of being severe
ly burned. Often the entire skin
disappears before death comes, Civ.
ing the victim terrible pain.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-08
Wright,s Time Extended.

Washington, D. c. Especially Sec
retary Wright has approved the rec
ommendation of the acting chief sig
nal officer of the army that Orville
Wright's contract time for delivering
his aeroplane to the Government be
extended TO June 2S, 1909. This
was done in order to allow Wright
ample time to recover from the in
juries he received in the accident
to his aeroplane at Fort Myer, Va.
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FIND LOST MAN IN BROOK.
Rich New Englander May Have End
ed His Life.

Saxonville, Mass. Especially The
body of Frederick G. Dawson, su-
perintendent OF the Saxonville Wool
en- Mill, for whom several hundred
men have been hunting since his
disappearance, was found in Lymans
Brook, at East Sudbury.
There was nothing about the body
to indicate foul play, and some OF
his friends believe that the wealthy
mill man jumped into the water TO
end the mental depression from
which he has recently been suffering.
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Robbers Escape On Handcar.

Ladysmith, Wis. (SpeciaD The
State Bank was robbed of about
$4,000 by cracksmen who escaped
on a hand car. Citizens turned out
to ascertain the cause of the explo-
sions and were met with a volley of
bullets from the robbers. Night Of
ficer Gordon was shot in the arm.
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Auto Crash Kills Girl.

Louisville, Ky. Especially Miss
Katherine Hord, member of prom
inent family, was almost instantly
killed. Robert Payne, a young So
ciety man, was crippled and four
other persons were bruised, when an
automobile collided with a street car
at Twenty-eighth Street and Broad
way.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-08
Eight.Hour Law Unconstitutional

Madison, Wis. (SpeciaD The Su-
preme Court declared unconstitution-
al the Wisconsin eight-hour railroad
telegraphers' law which was enacted
at the 1907 session of the legislature.
The law is declared unconstitutional
on the theory that it is in conflict
with provisions of the federal Con-
stitution.
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Six Dead And Eight Injured.

Portland, ore. Especially "A log
ging train at Scappoose was in col
lision with a Northern Pacific passen-
ger train. Six loggers we're killed
and eight injured, None OF the oc-
cupants of the passenger train was
hurt.
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SlxuII Fractured By Fall.

York, Pa, Especially Samuel Dill
ler the 16-year-old son of Joseph
Dlller. was thrown from a horse and
sustained a fracture of the skull.
The OILERS live on a farm near
Burns meeting house. The boy is
still unconscious.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-08
nenth of Nayal Constructor.

Washington Especially. - Word
reached the Navy Department of the
death at Elizabeth, N. j., Of Naval
Constructor John b. Hoover. retired.
He was a native OF Philadelphia and
was appointed an assistant naval con-
structor on July 29, 1875.
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Three Blocks Burned In Vermont.

West Falrlee, vt. Especially The
business section of this town was
nearly wiped out by fire. The loss
estimated at $4,000. includes three
business blocks, the Eagle Hotel. two
livery stables, two dwellings and
q dozen smaller buildings.
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SCHOOL FOR WIVES LATEST.
Chicago Clubwomen viii Teach The
Means To Domestic Felicity.

Chicago Especially A school for
wives is the latest undertaking of
Chicago clubwomen.
At a meeting held at the Union
League Club, Representatives of a
number of local women's clubs met to
found an institute of domestic science
which, ultimately, it is planned, will
lie a national organization affiliated
with the General Federation OF
Women's Clubs,
Courses will be given in making
clothes, cooking, household econo-
mics and general housekeeping.
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Town Wiped out BY Fire.

Winnipeg, Manitoba (SpeciaD =
A dispatch from Fernie received here
says that the new town OF Michael
was wiped out by fire. The town
was partially detroyed during the
biz fire on July 81
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Cholera Not Increasing.

st. Petersburg tBy Cable) .--cho'
era has reached the STATIONARY
stage In St. Petersburg, the new
cases reported in the last few days
showing but little variation. The,o
were 267 new cases reported up y
o'clock Thursday afternoon an'
113 deaths.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-08
MnnIla Hears From Fleet.

Manila Especially Admiral sper-
ry has notified Capt. U. r. Harris,
commandant of the Cayite Naval Sta
ton, by wireless that the feet will
arrive on Friday afternoon. The
cholera is steadily decreasing here.
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Orders so Wright Airships.

LIE. Mans (By Cable) .-Lazare
WELLER, the French aeroplane pro-
moter, announced that he had given
an order to Wilbur Wright for the
construction of SO Wright aero
planes. The amount OF this contract
Is 100000, and NJ. WELLER is con-
vinced that Mr.. Wright can carry It
caa
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-08

London (By 'Cable) Sir George
Truscott was elected Lord Mayor OF
London in succession to Sir John
Charles Bell. He Will assume Office
November 9.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-08
$500, 900 Fire In Dallas.

Dallas, Texas Especially .--one fire.
man was killed and hve persons serI-
ously injured in FIRE in the busi-
ness section. which caused loss Of
5000. 900.
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40 PERSONS PERISH.
A Turkish Steamship Runs Down A
Ferryboat.

Smyrna (By Cable) "A Turkish
steamship ran down the steam ferry
boat Stambul outside the harbor
One hundred and forty persons were
drowned.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-08

Miss Katharine Wright. on bene,ss
OF her brother for an extension H. "a
The time set for the delivery o. shs .h,l
aeroplanc to the government -
time limit having expired Monday
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2 Firemen Killed, Q BADLY Hurt

Youngstown Ohio Especially Two
firemen were killed and six badly
hurt as the result OF FIRE in Knox's
S and 10 cent store The building
which had three stories. was wrecked.