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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-01-26
Reggie Makes Appeal.

a trip to Newport through the biz
card, made by Reggie, and a long broth
erly appeal to Alfred on his lonely,
snow-covered farm, were the arguments
which brought about the second sons
equalization.
II has been an open secret that none
Of the Vanderbilt boys approved Of their
sisters choice Of a husband. Even be-
fore they met Szechenyi they were
against him. This feeling increased
when they saw him and sized him up.
He is BY no means the type Of man they
are.
The date Of the wedding, combined
with his dislike Of SzeChenyi, put Al
fred on the outs with he affair. Long
ago he and Harry Payne Whitney prom
ised that on January q they would act
as ushers for their warm chum, Frank
X Polk, who is to marry Miss Potter,
Of Philadelphia, in that city.
When Alfred heard that the date for
his sisters wedding had been selected,
and was that very day, he asked his
mother to change 1t, telling her of his
promise to Polk. But Mrs. Wander
bilt, the elder, is a martinez in family
affairs. She refused point blank
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Buried on Farm.

SO last week Alfred ran off to the
Adirondacks, then 10 Newport, and bur
led himself on his farm. He discussed
the situation with Harry Payne Whit
ney, and both decided they would go
to Philadelphia Monday instead of at
tending Miss Gladys marriage.
Whitney had no use for Szechenyi,
though the count has been making his
home in the Whitney house since the
engagement was announced. Mr.. and
Mrs. Whitney have both avoided him on
all possible occasions, and have never
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Seaboard Florida Limited.

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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-16
TRAIN DROPS 25 FEET.
Four-Score Passengers Hurt In
Wreck OF Special.

Atlanta, Ga. Especially The Sec
ond section of what is known as the
Colliver special, running from Cleve-
land, Ohio, to st. Augustine, Fla,
was wrecked between Dallas and Hi
ram, Ca, on the Southern Railroad,
on trestle twenty-five feet over the
nearly dry bed of Copper Mine Creek.
Five of the seven cars went into the
mud. Three trainmen are dead, and
more than eighty passengers, most Of
them residents of Ohio, were injured.
Engineer James Edwards, who was
caught beneath the cab of his engine
when it overturned, after clearing
the trestle, was killed. Road Fore
man of Engines Schnapps, and the
negro fireman, Nose Baldwin, were
injured fatally and died soon after
reaching Atlanta on the second relief
train.
Mrs. Emil Hoover, of Columbus
Ohio, is in a dying condition, and
Miss Florence Studebaker, of Cleve-
land, probably will die.
The injuries to the passengers
consist chiefly of broken limbs and
bruises.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-16
WILL GET A HEARING
Brownson Controversy To Be Aired
in the Senate.

Washington, d. @. Especially THE
Navy Department and the quarrel be-
tween President Roosevelt and Ad-
miral Brownson will be investigated
by the Senate. When Admiral
Brownson resigned rather than &C
quiesce In the appointment of Sur
geon Stokes to the command of the
hospital ship Relief, Senator Hale,
In a carefully prepared statement,
landed Admiral Brownson's courage
and manly independence. Thursday
Mr.. Hale, who as chairman OF the
Naval Affairs Committee, is the Sen
ate's arbiter on all naval matters, IN
troduced q bill which has for Its
purpose the settlement of all the
pending controversies between line
and staff, which raises the pay OF
officers and men and which seeks In
a general way to improve existing
conditions. The bill made, of course,
no reference to the Brownson epi-
sode, but 1t was understood by every
member that Senator Hale had taken
this method of bringing the contro-
versy between the President and the
late chief of the Bureau of Naviga-
tion to the official attention of the
Senate
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-16
MANY CHILDREN IN
A DEADLY CRUSH
Sixteen Killed and Forty Others
Badly Injured.
PANIC IN AN ENGLISH MUSIC HALL.
The Gallery Being Overcrowded, an
Usher Calls to the Children to Come
Down Stairs for Better Seats-in
the Wild Rush Following the Little
Ones Are Trampled TO Death.

Barnsley. England (By Cable) -
sixteen children were trampled to
death and 40 others, several OF whom
cannot live, were injured in a mad
rush for better seats at an entertain
ment given in the public hall here.
There was great crush to secure
admittance to the entertainment and
when the show opened every seat was
taken and the gallery was literally
packed with children, who hlled the
aisles and were dangerously massed
against the lower railing. WIN
view to relieving this crowding IN
the gallery, the attendants decldeo
to transfer some of the children TO
the body of the house, and one OF
the ushers called out:
Some of you children come down
stairs"
Immediately the rush started and
within few seconds hundreds OF
children were being trampled under
foot. Even those who had seats In
the gallery. doubtless being panic
stricken by the screams and struggles
of the crowds fighting to reach the
staircases, Joined in the stempede.
The scene was a terrible one. The
cries of the injured and means OF
the dying caused the greatest excite
ment among those gathered in the
bodv of the hall Police and ushers
rushed to the head of the staircases,
which we're literally strewn with dead
and dying, and by the most desper-
ate efforts managed to drag scores
of the struggling children to the
corridors below. 1t was with the
greatest difficulty that a panic among
the children in the lower part of the
house was averted, all of these event
ually being taken to the street In
safety.
When the reserve police arrived
they found the narrow stairway prac-
tically blocked with bodies, which
were crushed in some cases beyond
recognition. Scores of children were
forced by the pressure from the
crowd behind them to scramble over
those that had fallen, whether liv-
ing or dead, and many of the inJur-
ed children we're found later to be
suffering from fractured bones and
severe lacerations, caused by the in
describable manner In which they
had been trampled upon.
Soon after the accident the APP
proaches to the hall were crowded
with sobbing women searching for
their missing children.
This disaster recalled that of June
16, 1888, when 1876 children were
crushed to death while rushing down
from a gallery in Victoria Hall, Sun
derland, to obtain toys given away
by Fay, conIurer, at the close OF
his performance.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-16
FINANCIAL

When Reading had crossed 102
there was most extensive covering
of shorts which has been seen in the
present movement. 1t is said that
part of the bull account Is being
aided by sale of finance bills drawn
on Paris.
Keech, Leow & Co., Philadelphia,
said: disappointment over the fail
ure of the Northern Pacific directors
to declare an extra dividend was for
gotten in the discussion which fol-
lowed the sensational jump In Lacka-
wanna to 500. In most quarters
this skyrocketing of high-priced
stocks is severely condemned"
The Bank of France reduced its
discount rate from to 3h per cent.
Says the Iron Age: ITO drop
within less than three months from
a rate of production of pig iron OF
27, 100000 tons per annum to rate
of 100000 tons on the first of
January 1t what the industry has ac-
| complished. 1t shows how thorough
| ly manufacturers have been imbued
with the conviction that 1t is wiser
to meet changed conditions rather
than continue In the hope OF early
betterment and pile iron in the in
terval."
Very clever manipulation" said
one of Wall Streets biggest brokers
apropos of Readings jump.
The distribution OF stock by i'm
portant interests is believed TO be
taking place while such specialtles
as Reading and Union Pacific are
being manipulated to district atten-
tion. Recently a big lot OF New
York Central was sold in that way
by the Union Pacific. The theory
OF some shrewd people is that the
very biggest capitalists are liquidat-
ing before there may como more
important railroad receivership than
has yet occurred.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-16
COMMERCIAL COLUMN


r. G, Dun g Co.'s Weekly Review
OF Trade says:
Business quieted down at the con-
clusion OF holiday sales, as is custom
ary, and time was devoted to stock
taking, while manufacturing plants
were overhauled and repaired. Much
idle machinery resumed on January
2 and more mills will reopen this
week, but In many leading industries
there will continue TO be reduction
in output until the outlook is more
definite. This curtailment is general
In the iron and steel industry and
at New England cotton mills. Cloth
ing manufacturers have received
numerous cancellations, and In some
lines buyers have asked delay in
shipments of spring goods until the
situation Is more fully developed
There is a better feeling as to mer-
camille collections, Eince the closing
days of December brought no special
pressure In the money market.
Many iron furnaces and steel mills
have resumed and others are to open
next week, but the curtailment OF
production has been SO general that
not over so per cent of the capacity
will then be in operation, according
to estimates by some of the best au-
thorities in the trade.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-16
THIS AND THAT.

A piledriver at New Orleans Is 108
feet high, the highest ever built.
The banana and potato are almost
identical In chemical composition.
Six of the largest colleges in Swift
zerland have 2.1sS female students
In Austria no less than "A out Of
every 100 doctors die OF heart dis
ease.
Mexico's coffee exports this year
will be In the neighborhood OF b0,-i
100000 pounds.
In Cuba the state telegraph Offices
have been combined with the postal
department.
Grapes are still trodden with the
bare feet In many OF the Vineyards
OF Spain and Italy.
Asbestos shingles. made Of ashes
tos fiber and cement. absorb per.
cent. OF their weight In water.
A fashion article on bridal wells
relates that q recent bride wore her
face covered on the way to the altar
-Four thousand graves In South
Africa OF British soldiers who feIf
IN the late war still remain unmark-
cd.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-16
RAGING FIRE IN
A SKYsCRApER
Firemen's Hard Fight Above the
City's Roofs.
SPECTACULAR BLAZE IN NEW YORK.
Half the Firemen in Manhattan
Fail to Control the Fire Until
the Building Was Burned Out
Sensational Rescues From the Roof
of the Building.

New York Especially -Four fire
men went to their deaths when they
responded to fire that ruined the
Parker Building, history business
structure occupying the block be-
tween East Eighteenth and Nine
teenth Streets. on Fourth Avenue.
Fought by half the firemen of Man
haitian and apparatus that blocked
the streets for blocks, the flames
we're never controlled, and only with
difficulty confined to the building In
which they originated. Floor after
floor gave way and dropped to the
basement, and beneath these and
crumbling walls no less than 80 fire
men were caught and either Killed
outright or seriously injured.
When the fire had burned itself
out and the firemen's roll was called,
three men of Engine Company NO.
70 and one from Fire Patrol No. 3
failed to respond.
Tim Hutchinson, of Patrol No. 3,
was removed, dying, to the hospital.
Captain Wilson and Captain Garvin,
of Engine Companies Nos. "a and ~.
who were injured internally, were
among those dangerously hurt.
When the casualties began the
Florence Hotel which adjoins the
burned building on Eighteenth Street,
was made temporary hospital,
where fire department physicians
gave immediate aid to the injured.
The monetary loss was estimated at
$1,500,000.
The fire was one of the most spec
tacular as well as disastrous in re-
cent years. From start to finish its
course was marked by heartrending
scenes, sensational escapes and
flashes of heroism.
The fire was discovered shortly af-
ter o'clock by the night watchman,
George Noyes. who found a blaze on
the fifth floor in the Offices of the
Hooker-Jackson Company, publishers
of the Encyclopedia Britannica. The
fire spread rapidly and shot at once
to the roof.
After the fire had been in prog
ress about an hour it was discovered
that six men employed in the offices
of the Suffolk Engraving Company
had gone from the fifth floor to the
roof and were penned in there, with
no means of escape. The fire de-
partment has recently been equipped
with new gun for shooting ropes
to the tops of high buildings and 1t
came into play for the first time to-
night.
Captain Gordon took some men
from Hook and Ladder 3 to the roof
of the Florence House, next door,
which is seven stories high. The gun
was loaded and fired. The rope shot
up to the twelfth floor of the Parker
Building and was made fast to a
chimney, and the men got down
safely.
Seven firemen of Engine 70, which
first arrived, run up to the fifth floor
of the burning building after 85-foot
extension ladders had been raised to
the windows of that story to make
possible the firemen's retreat. After
fruitless effort to stay the flames at
the place of origin the firemen were
driven to the windows only to find
that the tops of the ladders had been
burned. cutting off their only retreat
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-16
CURRENCY BILL IN THE SENATE
Provides For Acceptance Of State and
Municipal Bonds.

Washington, ID. 9. Especial .--Con-
gress now has the Aldrich Currency
Bill, which is expected to become a
law. 1t is said senators and members
are busy perusing Its provisions to
determine how generally II shall have
their support. Senator Aldrich,
chairman of the Finance Committee,
who introduced It, has called q COM
mittee meeting for next Tuesday,
when the bill will become continu-
ing order.
Chairman Fowler, of the House
committee, does not approve the
measure, and said so in a carefully
prepared statement. There are some
other critics whose words will have
weight. Representative Weeks, OF
| Massachusetts,, practical banker and
a member of the House Currency
Committee, is doubtful of the feature
providing for the use of railroad
bonds as a basis for the emergency
currency. Much emphasis Is laid on
that provision by a number of men,
who say that national banks will pur-
chase bonds as signs of panic ap-
proach and dispose of them as panics
disappear, thus raising and depress-
ing the bond market.
| However, the expectation Is that
the Finance Committee will vote to
exclude railroad bonds, and to de-
gree that criticism would be met.
IL is quite likely that the amount
of currency which may be taken out
on other than government bonds will
be increased from rs per cent, as
the bill now provides, to S5 or 80
per cent. Very careful provision Is
made regarding the redemption of
the circulating notes." as the emerg-
ency money will be officially known.
A new provision, which 1t is proposed
to write into the existing law, is that
taxes received on circulating notes
secured by bonds other than bonds
of the United States shall be paid
into the Division of Redemption of
the Treasury and credited to the re-
serve fund held for redemption of
United States and other notes"
This would assure more specific
provision for redemption than the
| government has ever made. In the
same line is a provision that the cir
culatlng notes shall state upon their
face that they will be redeemed by
the United States in lawful money
upon presentation to the Treasury
Current bank notes state that bonds
have been deposited to secure their
payment.
A concluding section in effect would
prevent country banks from sending
as much of their reserve to reserve
agents In New York and other large
cities. They have been keeping about
6 per cent. in their cwn vaults, but
II this section becames law, would
have to keep about 10 per cent,
The leading members of the Fl
nance Committee are we'll pleased
with their work. While aware that
the bill will meet with no little criti-
cism, they believe it will be adopted
by the Senate without important
notifications.
Speaker Cannon would have had
the tax of one-helf cent. a month, or
6 per cent. year, considerably high
er; he would have IT, graded to a
maximum of about per cent, but
Senators Aldrich and Hale feared that
rate of interest would be so high as
to keep the banks from taking out as
much extra circulation as they ought
| IN hova
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-16
Foreign

The Transvaal's opposition to East
Indians has brought the British gov
ernment face to face with a serious
race problem, as the action Of the
officials and the courts In the Trans
vaal is bitterly resented in India.
Armenians, Greeks, Bulgarians,
Jews and others oppressed by Turkey
held n congress In Paris and decided
10 organize for the overthrow Of the
present Turkish government.
Captain Kayutin, commander of a
Russian Black Sea steamer, has been
brought to st. Petersburg a prisoner
on the charge of bringing in arms for
Russian revolutionists.
The Socialist agitation in Berlin
has subsidized, but the neighborhood
OF the palace and the public squares
were still guarded by large forces
OF police.
The Gear has manifested his conf
dence in Father John OF Cronstadt
by appointing him to take part in the
sittings OF the Russian Synod.
The White Star Line has reduced
Atlantic rates on second and thirC
class passages, by $3.50 to SIS, respec
lively, for the purpose, 1t Is said, o.
fighting the Cunard Company, anC
the latter has announced similar re
ductions.
Rioters burned the Protestan
Episcopal chapel in the Province o
Chekiang, China. The disorders arr
directed against the dynasty.
Storms on the English Channe
and the west coast of Europe caused
q number OF small wrecks and th'
loss of more than 40 lives.
Conferences in Manchester, Eng
land, for a settlement Of the disput
between the cotton mill owners an
the employees are said TO indicate
settlement.
The discovery of reyolutionar
plot among officers OF the artillery a
the fortress of Warsaw, Russia, ha
led to the imprisonment OF seyel
officers.
William Redmond, member of tn
British House of Commons, in an ad
dress In Rome said that political lib
critics were greater In Australia tha
the United States because Irishme
formed the nucleus OF the Australia
DoDniatioD
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-16
burglars Returned For PIundcr

New York (speciaD. - Burglars
who stripped shoe store in Leonia
N. j., several nights ago and hid
their plundcr, returned for It with n
wagon. They were seen by Marshal
Paul Minnerly, who attempted to ar
rest them. They fred on him. send
ing bullet into his breast and caus-
ing n wound which the physicians say
will probably prove fatal. ME thievca
escaped.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-16
Bank Looted OF $40. 600.

Mexico City (speciaD - Seven
hundred and forty thousand dollars
is missing from the Bank of Yucatan.
Fernando U. Rodriguez, subdirector,
and Mateo Ponce, former cashier of
the bank. with ten other persons
have been arrested. A lawyer, P. G.
Ponce, and Eduardo Ponce, son-in-
law and son, respectively, of the
cashier, are among those arrested, all
of whom are among the most promi-
nent people of Madeira.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-16
Nominated BY The President,

Washington, d. G. Especially The
President sent to the Senate the
nomination of Fred. T. bennett .oi
North Dakota to be Copmissioner OF
the General Land Office; also the
nominations of James F. Tracey OF
New York to be member of Philip
pine Commission and Secretary OF
Finance and Justice and Gregaric
Araneta of the Philippine Islands tc
be an associate justice of the Su.
preme Court of the Philippine Is.
lands.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-16
DEVoURED BY WOLVES.
More Than Two Hundred Russians
Victims OF The Beasts.

St. Petersburg (By Cable) -
Wolves have eaten at least 245 men,
women and children throughout Eu-
ropean Russia in the past few weeks,
according to official statistics here.
The reports are undoubtedly incom-
plete. so that the number is probably
considerably larger than given by
the authorities.
The severe winter has driven
thousands of packs from the wilder
ness to the more populous sections
of the country, where they haunt
the country roads and even venture
into the outskirts of the smaller
towns.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-16
WASHINGTON

There was an interesting debate In
the House between Representatives
Burlison and Payne over the part
leading newspapers are taking in the
financial and political questions Of
the day.
The House Committee on Naval
Affairs has decided to report favor
ably the resolution of Representative
gill calling for an investigation of
the Brownson incident.
The State Department denies that
Ambassador O'Brien was instructed
to demand that Japan sign a treaty
restricting immigration to the Unit
ed States.
The House of Representatives has
asked the Secretary of the Treasury
for a report On the condition of the
banks.
The Senate Committee on Inter-
oceanic Canals figures that Panama
may cost s100,000,000, or total of
1926, 100000.
A Prohibition lobby is at work
urging that federal liquor laws not
conflict with state prohibition pro-
visions.
An increase of a million dollars in
! the appropriation for projectiles and
ammunition was asked for by Rear
| Admiral Mason, chief of the Naval
Bureau of Ordnance,
A congressional lottery was con-
Quoted in the House of Representa-
tives for rooms in the new Office
building of that body which is now
nearing completion.
Judge James F.. Tracey, of the Su-
preme Court of the Philippines, de-
clined the proffered appointment as
member OF the Philippine Commits
sion.
In his annual Chief of staff Gen
eral j. Franklin Bell urges more pay
for the Army and the restoration OF
the canteen.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf sent
to the House an estimation OF S2,-
100000 for submarine torpedo boats
The President listened to argu-
ments for and against the use OF
banzoate of soda in catsup.
Representative Sterling introduced
an employers liability bill in the
House.
The subcommittee of the Banking
and Currency Committee of th'
House agreed to the proposition Of
Chairman Fowler for national banl
guaranteed credit notes.
A measure making train-wrecking
where life is lost, q capital offense
was offered in the House of Repre-
sentative Moore, of Philadelphia.
A number OF coal operators me
TO perfect an organization with I
, view to have effective precautionl
against mine disasters.
Representative Gaines introduce,
resolution for the preservation o
the old home OF Andrew Jackson
near Nashville, Tenn.
Surgeon Stokes received final in
struetions from Secretary Metcal
prior to leaving for his duties oi
the hospital ship Relief.
Gen. Winfield S. Edgerly has beel
| ordered TO assume command of tn
Department of Dakota.
The President sent in the l.aa
! ton of Capt. John E. Pillsbury L
be chief OF the Bureau of Navigation
and Lieutenant Commander Edwar,
H. Campbell to be Judge advocat
general of the Navy.
Justice Gould signed the order dis
charging the rule issued against tn
? Grant Memorial Commission to pre-
! vent the destruction OF the historl
: trees in the Botanical Gardens.
Richard A. Ballinger, OF Iowa
q commissioner OF the General Lam
once, has resigned and his assistant
. Fred bennett. of North Dakota ha
lbeen appointed In bis place.