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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
DREYFUS SHOT BY
MIL|TARIST NEAR zOLES BIER
Crime Committed Almost in Presence
Of French President.
SIGNS OF A RoYAusr PLOT.
Writer on Military Subjects Declares He
Shot at Hero Of the Dreyfus Case In
Protest Against the Presence Of SOL
diers at Ceremony to Honor Author
Who Maligned the Army.
DREYFUS' EXCITING
CAREER.

Major Alfred Dreyfus, convicted
in 1894 by secret court-martial
of selling military secrets to a
foreign power. Publicly degrad-
ed January 4, 1895.
Imprisoned on Isla du Diablo
for two years. Move begun in
November, 1897, to prove his in
nocence.
Major Esterhazy tried and unan-
imously acquitted, after being
charged with forging the charges
against Dreyfus.
Agitation begun by Zola's ia
nous letter forced a second trial
for the accused officer August z,
1899. Again convicted and SEN
fenced to 10 years Imprisonment.
Case finally presented to the
Supreme Court, and after an ex-
haustive examination, Dreyfus
was declared innocent July IL,
1906, and restored to the army.
Under Secretary of State Sar-
raut and NJ. Pugliesi-Canti fought
a duel after a fight growing out
of a discussion of the case in the
House of Deputies July 13, 1906.
Dreyfus given the Cross of
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
July 21, 1906.
Shot and slightly wounded by
Louis Gregoris, an editor, at the
national ceremony of entombing
Zola's remains in the Pantheon,
June 4, 1908.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
RoosEvELT's AFRICAN TRIP.
President Acknowledges That He Is
Going After Big Game.

Washington, D. C. -(SpeciaD -
Acknowledgment was made that
President Roosevelt would start in
April. 1909, for an extended hunt
ing trip in British East Africa, While
It has been known for sometime past
that the President has been contem-
plating such a trip, no confirmation
OF the report was given until today,
1t is planned that early in April
President Roosevelt will sail, accom-
panied by his second son, Kermit,
and 60 direct TO Africa. The Presl-
dent expects to spend one year on the
expedition and already good deal
of correspondence has taken place
preparatory to the arrangements for
the hunt, such as guides, Transports
tion and subsistence supplies.
The President will carry with him
a full equipment Of the modern weap-
ons for killing large game and he
expects to bring home with him one
specimen of each of the species
abounding in that region. He in
tends TO devote much time to the
study OF African wild animals and
will study the habits of the beasts
in their homes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
--LATEST NEWS
Domestic
BY TELEGRAPH

Five men were injured when the
Adams Express fast freight, known
rs the Million Dollar Freight on the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad. crashed into a switch en-
gine on a sharp curve at the Port
Morris freight yards in New York.
William Jeffries was hanged in the
st. Charles (Mo) Jail yard for the
murder of William w. Wussler, a
farmer. in March, 1905. Fvlly 1000
persons witnessed the execution.
Congressman J. f. Laning. Repub-
lican, of the Fourteenth Ohio District,
and a candidate to succeed himself,
has been indicted as a result OF the
recent bank failures at Norwalk, o.
Right Rev. Robert A. Gibson, bish-
op OF Virginia, sailed for Europe on
the steamer Mauretania. Olga Meth
ersole also was a passenger on the
steamer.
Mae O'Reilly. who was said TO have
been murdered on the Guinness
farm, is alive and well in Saratoga.
N Y.
State Senator James p. McNichol,
of Pennsylvania, was held for court
ON a charge of criminal libel.
Daniel H. Mcmillan. district feder-
al Judge in New Mexico, died in Den
yer.
The steamer Corwin, from Seattle,
has been the first vessel to reach
Nome.
At the annual diocesan conven-
tion of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of Delaware, Rev. DR.. F. J.
Kinsman, of the chair of ecclesias-
teal history of the General Theolo-
gical Seminary. New York City, was
elected Bishop of Delaware to sue
seed Bishop Cayton Coleman, de-
ceased.
Thomas A. Mcintyre, senior mem
ber OF the firm of r. A. Mcintyre, re-
fused TO answer questions regarding
stock deals before a United States
commissioner on the ground that the
replies would incriminate or degrade
him.
Charles T. Muir paying teller of a
branch of the Corn Exchange Nation
al Bank, New York. upon the dis
covery that he was short in his ac-
counts. went into the cellar of the
bank and blew out his brains.
II Is Nldllutu ludl al duOpNcu
daughter will be the chief beneficiary
TO the estate of P. j. Montague, the
wealthy wine merchant and former
Baltimorean, who died in New York.
The United States Steel Corpora
tion is figuring on a contract to sup
ply the Russian government with a
million tons of steel rails to cost
s25, 100000.
, President Underwood, OF the Erie
Railroad issued instructions that all
the roads locomotive and car shops
be placed on a 10-hour-a-day basis.
II is rumored that the Cunard
Steamship Company will spend $4,-
100000 to build a ship to beat the
Lusitania and Mauretania.
Before the hearing in New York
TO dissolve the Standard Oil closes,
100000 words will have been TAX
en- in evidence.
Bishop Edward Wilson. of the Re
formed Episcopal Church. died at
Metuchen, N. j.
Rev. Dr. ]. NJ. Gordon was found
dead in bathaub at Hopkinsyille,
Ky.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
FORTUNE FOR GOOD CAUSE.
MIR. Averin To Make 10000 People
Happy.

Los Angeles, Cal. Especially. - c.
w. Averill, who recently inherited
S1O,O00,000 from an aunt in Massa-
chusetts, declares he is going to make
1000 or more people happy. After
visit to his old home in Farming
ton, Me-, he will establish headQuar-
ters in a big city, where, he says,
all who need help and deserve it can
find It,
II am not going to be fool about
this he said, but If being a fool
is being deceived occasionally, all
right. | have succeeded in piling up
exertions, but can never spend the in
come of $1O,000,000.
IF a man has $500 and needs as
much more to carry out his plans
and make him a success and thereby
happy, l propose-to give him tho ad
ded $500.
Another thing. am going to help
bad people as well as good. The
good people have churches and re-
spectacle folks to care for them, but
the bad have no one but the devil
and the police.
want TO help the incorporate,
the convict, the girl who has to hang
her head, the man who has made a
failure of himself. Lots of us cannot
resist temptation.
Il have set the number l will aid
at 10000. but If / succeed in helping
them | will look for 10000 more.
suppose my headquarters will be in
New York of Chicago, because can
Beach farther from either of those
places than any other"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
FINANCIAL

Atchinson directors declared a
semi-annual dividend of " per cent.
Readings output of anthracite in
May was 1851, 600 tons, compared
with $4,000 a year ago,
Regular dividends were declared
on American Smelling common pre-
ferred. The formers rate is now 4
per cent.
steel manufacturers are working
in absolute harmony" said C. NJ.
Schwab in reference to the cut in
steel prices.
Commercial failures in the United
States during the month of May, ac-
cording to statistics compiled by r.
G. Dun & Co., were 1879 in number
and $13, 3,643,3S1 in amount of liabili-
ties. This is the most encouraging
monthly statement as to the amount
of defaulted Indebtedness since July
of last year.
There is no verification of the re-
port from St. Petersburg that Russia
will buy 100000 tons of heavy
steel rails with which to relay the
tracks of part of the Siberian and
other lines.
May fire losses in the United States
and Canada were only $4,000, 900.
the smallest amount for any month
In just one year.
Wabash cut the passenger fare
from Chicago to New York and the
Nickel Plate has now met the reduc.
| tion.
London liquidated 10000 shares OF
| American stock.
The Imperial Reichsbank, OF Ger
many, reduced its discount rate to
Az per cent. No change In the Bank
OF England's 21s per cent. rate.
Union Pacific fell per cent. now
that the mystery is out OF the bond
| issue.
The output Of pig iron in May was
1,163,997 tons. an increase OF H.
395 tons over the month of April
and decrease OF 1.131,60S tons as
compared with May. 1907. The daily
production has fallen off from 49,
2s9 tons in April to 37.54s tons on
Inn0
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
A HEAD-0N COLLISION
ON THE W, B. 8 A. Line
8 People Killed and 10 Badly
Injured.

Baltimore Especially Two cars of
the Washington, Baltimore and An
napolis Electric Railway Company,
while running at high speed, colld-
ed near Camp Parole, two miles from
Annapolis, about o'clock p. M, and
were completely wrecked the acci-
dent causing the death of eight per-
sons-six men, one woman and a
child.
The child was the three-year-old
daughter of VIM. e. Slaughter, gem
eral traffic manager of the road. A
particular element of tragedy was
given to the affair by the fact that
the woman and two of the men were
evidently on their way to attend the
June ball at the Naval Acadamy, and
they presented, lying dead on the
track dressed in the attire of the
ballroom, sad suggestion of the
light and dark in human life, one in
stant full of happy anticipation of
an evening of dancing and joyous
ness, the next brought face to face
with eternity, their pitiful bodies and
bloodstained faces to be gazed at with
compassion or idle curiosity, accord
ing to the nature of those who com
posed the crowd which quickly as
sembled.
The responsibility for the accident
has not been definitely determined,
but there was, 1t was stated, con-
fusion in the orders as to where the
cars should pass. The cars were both
specials, the down car from Balti-
more and the other from Annapolis,
which left at 7.45. The accident oc-
cured about 7.50. It is said that
orders had been issued for the Bal
timore car to wait at Best's gates,
three miles from Annapolis where
there is long siding, but in some
way the orders were not received or
understood, and the car continued
towards Annapolis.
Just as the curve had been round
ed, in which the trees obscure the
view, the two cars dashed together,
and in a moment were lying on their
sides, the life dashed out of eight
of the passengers of the two cars
and both cars hopeless wrecks.
The accident was described by Mr..
William Harhesty, an eyewitness of
the collision. He lives near Camp
Parole, and was at his home looking
toward the track when the collision
took place. He said that the cars
approached each other at high rate
of speed, but that the motormen. or
one Of them, undoubtedly tried to
check his car, as the witness heard
the noise of the brake Tightening.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
Coral Weighs Two Tons.

New York Especially What is be-
lieved to be the largest and most
valuable piece of coral reef ever gath
cred for any institution in the world
was brought here by Capt. Joshua
Slocum in the little lotion yacht, in
which he formerly sailed alone
around the world. The piece of cor
al, which weighs nearly two tons
is the property of the American Mu
scum of Natural History. 1t was
found by DR.. B. e. Dahlgren. who
spent several months off the coast
of Andros Island exploring reefs
gathering coral and getting photo
graphs for the museum.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
TORNADO SWEEPS
OVER ARKANSAS
Twenty.0ne Lives Lost in Nebraska
and Kansas.

Omaha, Neb. Especially A torna-
do which passed over Southern Ne
braska and portions of Northern
Kansas Friday evening was the most
destructive and covered the most ter
ritory OF any similar storm which
has visited that region in many years.
AT least 81 persons were killed, 0
were fatally injured and a score of
others hurt. In addition, reports to-
night say that several persons were
killed at Byron, Neb., and Phillips
burg and Courtland, Kan, which
towns have been cut off from COM
munication.
The storm was general throughout
Fillmore, Webster, Franklin and
Thayer Counties, Neb., and reached
over into Kansas, from where reports
are coming slowly of great destruc-
tion. The towns of Carleton, Fair
field, Deshler, Shickley, Geneva,
Franklin, Ong and Riverton, Neb.,
are among those visited by the storm,
and in no one of them did the ele-
ments spare life or property.
At Carleton five residences and
two churches were destroyed, while
a new school building and 80 houses
were partly wrecked. The home of
Lester Carter was demolished and
his wife and baby were killed, while
Carter himself and another child suf-
fered severe injuries.
At Geneva the storm wrought
great destruction; and in the ad
jacent county claimed several VIC
Tins, dead or injured
At Fairfield more than 40 build
ings were partly wrecked or de-
moished The loss there will exceed
100000. Vague reports from other
points cannot be confirmed because
of broken wires.
Trains in all directions are aban-
doned because of washouts and de-
stroyed roadbeds.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
ON ICEpACx WITH
MADOENED DOGS
Thrilling Experience Of Or. W'fred
GrenfelI.

St. Johns, N. +. Especially BAT.
Ting for 40 hours against a pack OF
hunger-maddened dogs on an ice pack
Off the coast of Labrador, with the
temperature below zero and with
only knife to defend himself from
being torn to pieces by the savage
brutes, is the thrilling experience
that DR.. Wilfred Grenfell, the cele-
brated ssionary-physitian, has re-
Gently passed through. The story OF
DR.. Grenfells escape from death Is
told by Capt w. Bartlett, of the
steamer Strathcona, which has Just
arrived here from tie north. Cap
tain Bartlett was with Commander
Peary on several of his expeditions
to the Artic.
DR.. Grenfell had left Battle Har-
bor Labrador, to attend several
patients at another settlement 10
miles distant, and was travelling over
the ice with a pack of dogs when he
found himself driven off the coast
by moving ice field Before he
realized 1t he was in an area covered
only with broken drift ice, and before
he could stop the dogs the animals
had carried him into the water. The
dogs attempted to climb on Dr. Gren-
fells back and he was obliged to
fight them before he was able to
climb onto a solid piece of drift ice.
The dogs also succeeded in saving
themselves.
With the wind blowing gale
from the northwest, the temperature
ten below zero, and night at hand,
the doctor would have been frozen
to death, for his clothing was satur-
ated, but for the originality and in
genuity he displayed. Taking off ais
skinboots he cut them in halves and
placed the pieces over his back and
chest to shield those parts of his body
from the blast. AS the wind and
cold increased, when night came on
he determined to kill three of the
dogs to afford him more warmth and
to supply the other beasts with feed,
fearing that becoming hungry they
would tear him to pieces.
AS 1t was they attacked him saw
agely, and he was bitten terribly
about the hands and legs. He spent
trying night. He wrapped himself
up in the skins of the dead dogs, but
still found it so cold that he repeat
edly had to run about the ice to
keep up the circulation of the blood.
Hoping that next day he would be
in sight of land, though the ice was
fast receding from the shore, the doc.
tor took the legs of the dead dogs,
and binding them together made a
pole, to the top of which he attached
part of his shirt to serve as a signal,
and this eventually proved to be his
salvation, for the flag was seen by
George Reid and others. OF Lockes
Cove, Mare Bay, and they affected
rescue.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
Moroney Suspended.

Parkersburg, W. Va. (Specia) -
AS a result of charges being pre-
ferred against him, alleging drunk
enness. City Recorder P. H. Moroney
was suspended by the board Of af-
fairs. His suspension has created a
tremendous sensation in local poll
tical circles. The accused man s
friends say that 1t is a plot instigated
by his political enemies, and that
when the hearing comes up counter
charges viii be made that will cause
a still greater sensation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
Former millionaire Pennilcss.

Milwaukee, Wis. (SpeciaD &C. J.
l.. Myer, former first president of
the Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road, and worth at one time a mill
lion dollars, came TO Gustave Frell-
son, OF the Associated Charities, and
applied for admission TO the Milwau-
kee County Poor House. He told OF
his failure In business, of his losses
In first one direction and another un-
III finally he was left entirely penni-
less. He has two daughters, both Of
them married 20 wealthy men. but
neither OF them reply to his requests
for aid.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
ADRIFT ON A RAFT.
An Entire Family Floating Down The
Mississippi River.

st. Louis, Mo. (SpeciaD u. W
Appleton, of Missouri Point, Mo-, is
floating down the Mississippi River
with his family, IL pigs, 3 cows, 2
horses and some poultry on a large
raft, which he launched just before
the river broke over its bank and
covered his farm with several feet
Of water. He started Tuesday aft
ernoon, intending to steer his raft
for high ground, but thus far has
not been able to effect a landing.
The raft, which is an enormous af-
fair, was built by Appleton two weeks
ago in preparation for the food. II
is surrounded by railing to keep
the cattle from falling into the river.
Food for man, beast and fowl to last
several days was taken along.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
Leaned To Her Death.

New York Especially Fire start
ing in the basement of Mrs. Mary
MONEYS clearinghouse in West
Thirtieth Street completely cut on
the escape of Mrs Moneys 20
boarders and when the firemen came
sne young woman had thrown her
self from the roof TO the pavement
and was dead, several others were
severely burned and the upper win
dows, front and rear, were crowded
with men and women begging to be
saved. The dead woman is Miss
Marie Beletraine.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
Holdup Man KiIIs Policeman.

San Francisco (Specialj Police
man W. H. Helms was shot and killed
in dance hall by a holdup man
named T. o. Young. Young entered
the hall, drew a revolver and covered
the bar tender, who promptly ran for
the door and escaped Policeman
Helms, who saw the disturbance, en-
tered the hall. At the doorway be-
fore he had time to draw his revol-
yer, Young met him and fred at close
range. Young was captured and is
now in the city prison.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
Telenhone Girls strike.

Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Especially An
cry because their view of the street
below them was cut OFF by window
shades rolling upward from the bot
tom, the girls employed in the ex-
change OF the United Telephone Com
pany at Berwick went on strike today
They declared the shutting OFF OF the
view was an unnecessary hardship
which they did not mean to stand
The company is trying to I'LL theii
places.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
Dcnth And ILfc Togethcr.

Columbus, o. Especially Stricken
with apoplexy at the bedside of Mrs.
Edward Loney. who had just brought
into the world tiny boy baby, Dr.
II. d. Connell, equally well-known
as homeopathic physician and public
spirited citizen, breathed his last on
the porch, where he had been taken
in the hope that fresh air would ro-
vlve him, before his wife and daugh-
ter, who had been hastily summoned,
could reach his side.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
ClereIands, wedding Anniversarr.

Princeton NJ j. Especially The
twenty-second wedding anniversary of
former President and Mrs. Grover
Cleveland was quietly celebrated at
their home. here. A large wedding
cake 20 inches in diameter, bearing
the inscription ITO G. c. and f. T.. c..
June 2, 1905" being the initials of
Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland, was present.
ed TO the Clevelands by Princeton
friends. Mr.. Cleveland Is reported
TO be doing well, though he has not
as yet take 'is accustomed after
noon driv ht Princeton.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
Hanged himself On sca9oId.

Lincoln, Neb. Especially. - c. f.
WILDER, a Beatrice, Neb.. butcher,
improvised gallows in the presence
OF workmen and hanged himself.
The deed was done in the building
he formerly occupied as store. He
parried questions while attaching a
rope to a ceiling hook and. when
attention was diverted. drew moose
over his head. leaped from his lad
der and was killed. His neck was
broken by fall OF seven feet. Il ia
supposed he was demented
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
His Wives Confiscatc1.

Mequinez (By Cable) ).-Mulai Ha-
fid, the usurping sultan of Morocco,
has coniiscated the wives of General
Bagdani and his brother and has in
formed them that the women will
be sold unless submission is sent 10
him Immediately. General Bagdonl
has laid the case before the Moroc-
can Foreign Board, which suggested
that he request the intervention OF
the diplomatic corps.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
A PEARL FARM.
Milnesotan Claims Ability To Make
Every Clam A Bearer.

st. Paul, MINI. Especially e. r.
Jefferson, of Duluth, has devised a
scheme for treating clans SO each
may prove a pearl bearer. He made
a study of the pearl question, as ap-
piled to bivalves, and ascertained the
scientific theory of the origin of the
pearl in shellfish. Then he figured
the cultivation of the gems was pos
sibly a practical venture.
Several years ago Jefferson Sc
cured a number of clans, and after
inclosing a space on a lake shore
planted them in the water. Before
doing so he bored a tiny hole in the
shell and lodged a grain of sand in
each. AS a result he succeeded in
getting number of small pearls.
He says he doesn't know how many
years are supposed to elapse to grow
good-sized pearls.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
Women In Bribery Case,

Columbus. O. Especially Mrs. Mel
son Cannon, whose husband 10 In jai
here In connection with the bribery
OF officials in the East Broad Street
paving contract with the Cleveland
Trinidad Paving Company. was ar
rested and held as witness In thu
case OF President Bramley. of tho
Trinidad Paving Company, OF Cleye
land.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
On Horseback Across Continent

Reno. New. Especially Robert H.
Treupel. a prominent real estate man
of Mamaroneck, N. Y, is in this
city with his father preparatory to
making a horseback trip across the
continent. He will leave Verdi, Cal.
pass through Denver, San Antonio,
st. Louis, Washington and New York.
He expects to make the trip in less
than four months.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11

The Yorodzu 'Choho, a paper OF
Toxic, Announces that 1t has discover
ed in Kosaburo FuJimatsu. a resident
of the Province of Chikugo, the old
est person in the world. His age lie
asserted to be 170S and he has one
of his great-great-grandsons living
with him.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11

In the cburse of report to the
British Colonial Office the resident
Of Borgu province, Nigeria. mentions
that the chief, Kokafu, is said TO have
reached the age OF 205. while his
son did not die until he was 1b7.
The latter visited Sokoto not many
years ago.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11

Countess Tolstoi is in Moscow SUI.
peryising the organization OF a M.
scum In honor OF her illustrious bus-
band. The museum will contain j
great mass of letters received by the
Count, many OF them being from
America.