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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-12-31
WASHINGTON
By TELEGRAPH

President Roosevelt has written
letters to the chief executives OF
Canada and Mexico urging them TO
send representatives to take part In
the discussions of the Conservative
Commission.
The expediency Of passing a river
and harbor bill, in view of the re-
duced revenue. is causing perplexity
to the House and Senate leaders.
The Geological Survey has planned
system of rescue stations In the
vicinity of coal districts to reduce
fatalities In the mines.
The monthly statement OF the Bu-
reau OF Statistics shows a falling of
in both imports and exports.
Twelve members of the House
committee will start for Colon to in
vestigate conditions on the isthmus.
The portion OF Justice Wright's
opinion in regard to the right to
speak and publish is being widely
discussed and Judge Parker's argu-
ments for the defense are recalled.
Consuls report that the wide fluc-
tuations in the price of silver have
caused extensive business troubles in
China.
Rear Admiral Melville, U. S. NJ
retired, commander of the Pennsyl-
vania commandery of the Loyal Le-
gion, and Col. John P. Nicholson, re-
corder in chief of the Philadelphia
Commandery, visited the President.
Mercantile interests of Great Brit
ain, France, Germany and the United
States are displaying great interest
at this time in legislation affecting
the importation of crude rubber
from Brazil.
The appeal of the American TO
bacco Company from the decision OF
the United States Circuit Court for
the Southern. district of New YORK
was docketed In the Supreme Court
According to the latest advices to
the Isthmian Canal Commission,
there have been 81 deaths so far as
the result of the premature explosion
of dynamite at San Obispo Decem-
ber 10.
The President commuted First
Lieutenant William ]. OLaughlins :
sentence to six months confinement
to post limits and to a fine of 500
a month for the same period
President Roosevelt promised Rep
resentative Dwight, of New York
that he would attend the dinner
to be given Representative Sherman
on January 23 in Washington.
Complaint was filed before the In
| terstate Commerce Commission by
Northwestern millers who claim that
the railroads are charging excessive
rates to the Atlantic seaboard.
President-elect Taft decided to Wis
| II Texas some time after his inau-
guration. He has written to Frank
H. Hitchcock, inviting him to come
to Augusta.
President Roosevelt will appoint
H. A. Sudger, of North Carolina,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the Panama Canal Zone.
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KILLED AFTER XMAS DINNER.
Husband Shoots Wife Following Sep
aration.

New Brunswick, N. j. Especially -
The police are searching for George
r. Holman, accused of shooting and
killing his wife. Margaret, just after
they had eaten a Christmas dinner
together at the home of his father
here, following a separation of sew
eral weeks.
Anger at the woman's refusal to
return and live with him is believed
by the police to have been the cause
of the tragedy. According to the
elder Holman, his son, after the
shooting, turned the revolver on him
self, but stayed his hand when his
father suddenly appeared and then,
after begging the elder man to shoot
him. dashed from the house and dis
appeared.
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IN THE WORLD Of FINANCE

The price of lead was again re-
duced 10 points to 4.SO.
David s. Ludlum, assistant cashier
Of the Philadelphia National Bank,
has resigned and will identity him
self with mercantile interests.
President s. NJ. FELTON,. of the
Mexican Central. denies that he is
20 resign.
Directors OF the Pennsylvania Com
pany declared the semi-annual divi-
dend of per cent. All the stock
Is owned by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road
Nipissing will pay out 100000
next month in dividends and the
La Rose will distribute $4,000
This is not bad for two Cobalt Com
panies.
American Woolen declared regu-
lar quarterly dividend of IL pei
cent on the preferred stock, payable
January 10, 1909 This is the thir'
| ty-ninth consecutive dividend and /:
equivalent to 6S.25 share, making
| the aggregate payment S16,275,0OO
The boom In Rawhide Coalition
stock that carried 1t from so cent
| to S1.50 a share has vanished ant
| the stock is back to whore II started
| Mining men are asking the question
| How much OF their stock did thu
insiders sell during the campaign
that cost them a great many thou
sand dollars?
The association OF ]. p Morgan
| Co. and Kuhn, Loeb q Co. In th'
| purchase OF $11,000,000 OF Chesa
peake & Ohio per cent. 20-yea
bonds created good Impression Il
financial circles for obvious reasons
The bonds were sold at 9S. less one
half Of per cent to brokers.
II is asserted that C. NJ. schwal
has retired from all his mining en-
terprises. including San Toy. Mont
gomery. shoshone. Tonopah Exten
sion and Greenwater-Deat Vclle,
with him In the latter we're asso
eiated John W. Brock and Charlie
Miller, formerly president and vice
president OF Toaopah.
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peputy sherins In battle.

Wheeling. w. Va. Especially -
pelbert Moore. or Mountain Joe. a
Barbour County man, was shot and
fatally wounded by Deputy Sheriff
Curtis Rice and Detectives Robert
Siukleman and Thomas Kelly. OF this
city. The Wheeling officers left here
and went TO the homo OF Moore.
back In the hills. Moore, as he left
the house. was ordered TO throw up
his handn by the Wheeling ofiicers.
who had the drop on him Moore
pulled his gun and the officers fired.
Moore was hit in three places and
will dio.
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TROOPS TO LEAVE
CUBA new YEARS DAY
American Soldiers viii Begin To Sail
Then For Home.
A fEW REMAIN UNTIL Arm.
These Will Keep the Barracks and
Quarters in Order Until the Camp Is
Formally Turned Over for the New
Permanent Cuban Army Establish
ment of Independence.


Havana Especially New Years
Day will witness the beginning Of
the evacuation of Cuba by the Army
of Pacification. which has been in
possession of the island since the
beginning of the provisional govern
ment, October, 1906. The first pro-
visioual regiment of marines, num-
bering about 900, which will be
among the first troops to leave, are
now concentrating from various posts
at Camp Columbia About half this
regiment will sail from Havana OH
January 1 on the cruiser Prairie
which arrived here Christmas eve,
bound for Newport News. The Prai-
rie will return about the middle OF
the month and embark the remain
der.
Headquarters Companies A, b,
and d, Twenty-eighth Infantry, Will
embark on the transport Sumner at
Matanzas, on December 81. From
there the transport will proceed TO
havana and embark Companies f,
G., II, stationed at Guanaiay, and
Company e, stationed at Guines. The
Sumner will also sail from Havana
on January 1 for Newport News, the
ultimate station of these companies
being Fort Smelling.
From that time on the transports
Sumner and Mcclellan will be en-
ployed in the embarkation at inter
walls of the remainder Of the army
Battery f, Third Field Artillery, for
| the Washington Barracks, and the
| Fifteenth Cavalry, now stationed at
| Cienfuegos, Placetas and Santa Clara
| destined for Forts Myer and Sheri-
dan.
To March At Inaugural.
The headquarters army, Eleventh
! Cavalry, now at Columbia and PinaI
del Rio, the Mountain Artillery and
Fifth Infantry, now at Cardenas
Sagua and Caibarien, for Plattsburg
the Eleventh Infantry, now at Santi-
ago and Holguin, for Fort ID. A
Russell, and the Seventeenth Infan-
try, now at Camaguey for Fort Nc.
Pherson, will leave Havana about
February 81 for Newport News. II
is the intention that all of these
will appear in the inaugural parade
at Washington.
This leaves only two companies
of engineers and two battalions OF
the Seventeenth Infantry under
Colonel Pitcher, which will remain
at Camp Columbia. These troops
will not embark until April l, which
will complete the evacuation.
The embarkation of the troops will
be effected with as little ceremony
as possible, and it is probable thai
their departure will be attended with
as little notice as marked their land
ing. The purpose in deferring the
departure of portion of the Seven
teenth Infantry until April 1 ha'
been the subject of considerable
speculation, but it is believed tina
this was agreed upon at a conference
between Governor Magoon and Pres
ident-elect Gomez.
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Take Rome From Brain.

Philadelphia Especially After ly-
ing paralyzed and speechless for
more than IS months, Aleck Good
ner, of Camden, is well on the way
to recovery at a local hospital, as
the result of a delicate operation
performed by DR.. Bacon, one of the
resident physicians. Goodner was in
iured in a trolley car accident. Re-
Gently, after persistent treatment had
resulted in no improvement, a second
diagnosis disclosed an unusual frac-
ture of the inside base of the skull.
After a small piece of bone had been
removed Goodner sat up in bed and
spoke, for the first time in many
months,
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Another Broadsidc soon.

Washington. d. c. Especially -
President Roosevelt has begun pre-
pairing for submission to Congress a
mass of evidence upon which he bas-
ed the statements in his annual mes
sage regarding the Secret Service and
for which the Perkins resolution pass
ed in the House called upon the Pres
ident to produce. The amount OF
work necessary to put this evidence
in shape for presentation to Congress
Is so great that 1t will not be ready
TO send to the House until after the
Christmas recess.
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Caracas, Venezuela (Special) -
The end of the rule in Venezuela of
Cipriano Castro has come. The die
tator who has governed the republic
with a rod of iron ever since he
took forcible possession of the Vel
low House in Caracas in 1899 is now
openly charged with conspiracy to
compass the assassination of man
he left at the head of the republic
when he sailed away on November
23 from Laguayra, nominally to Sc
cure skilled medical aid in Berlin
for q malady of long standing, and
is today thoroughly discredited.
The Bank of Venezuela has cabled
its correspondent at Berlin and Paris
canceling the unlimited letter of
credit given to President Castro when
he left Venezuela for Europe, and
no one III Caracas believes he will
ever dare return tc the capital. The
Castro cabinet has been forced to
resign and a new and progressive
ministry has been appointed by Juan
Vincente Gomez, the acting presi-
dent.
The attempt upon the life OF
Gomez was frustrated by the cool
nerve and courageous daring of the
acting president himself. Alone and
unsupported he arrested the ring
leaders of the conspiracy with his
own hands In the presence of theiI
armed adherents, and after this ac-
tion he issued proclamation saying
that not only had he saved his own
life, but he had maintained the high
est ideals of the chief magistracy OF
the republic.
Settle Foreign Dispute.
Already the new administration
shows signs of a desire and inten-
tion to settle the disputes between
Venezuela and certain foreign pow
ers that have kept the republic in q
light of uneviable notoriety for sew
eral years past
light of unenviable notoriety for sew
yesterday between Acting President
Gomez and Baron Won Seckendorf,
the German minister in charge of
the interests of Holland since the
departure of the Dutch Minister, M.
| De Reus. last summer. 1t was agreed
| to suspend the operation of the de-
cree issued by President Castro pro-
hibiting the, tfanshlpment at Will
lemstad of goods destined for Vene-
zue'a.
Pending the signing Of treaty be-
tween Holland and a duly empower
| ed Venezuelan commissioner the
| Dutch wraships that have been pa
trolling the Venezuelan coast for
nearly three weeks, will be with
drPwn.
The men in the Gomez death plot
were President Castro's closest
friends and best known adherents.
Secret ciphe- cab'egrams have pass
ed between President Castro, In Ber-
lin. and his agents here since the
popular anti-Castro demonstrations
of December 13 and IA. A promi-
nent lawyer has filed an accusation
in the high federal court. charging
President Castro with completely in
the plct to assassinate and proposing
his impeachment.
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KILLED BEFORE OPERATION.
Hospital Patient Was On Transport
ing Table In Elevator.

Racine, Wis. Especially. - Miss
Mary Hardin, aged As, was killed
in an elevator accident in St. Marys
Hospital, when about to be operated
on.
An anaesthetic had been admins
tered, and she had been placed on a
transporting table and taken to the
elevator. The elevator suddenly
dropped, causing Mis- Hardin to fall
from the table to the elevator floor.
The nurse in charge stopped the ele-
vator and then pulled a wire cable
to raise it. The patients head was
caught between the elevator platform
and the second floor, her neck was
broken and her head crushed. The
elevator was IN charge of a nurse,
who was not familiar with its method
of operation.
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Ocean Rate War.

Liverpool Especially The break
ing up of the Atlantic steamship pool
and the Inauguration of a fierce
ocean rate war are foreshadowed in
the report that the White Star Line
intends to enter the Canadian trade
under its own flag. If this is done,
the Allan Line will retire from the
Atlantic combination and start a rate
war. The reported intentions of the
White Star are credited in shipping
eircles
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CIpRIANO CASTRO'S
IRON RULE IS ENDED
Tie Dictator Has Been Ousted
From Authority.
CANcELs HIS LtTTfRs OF CREDIT
Citizens at Caracas Declare Castro Will
Never Dare Return to Venezuela
Serious Charge Lodged Against Him
by Prominent Attorney WouId-be
Assascins Are Thrown Into Prison.
REVOLT IN VENEZUELA.

The downfall of President Cas-
tro was completed last Saturday.
Castro Is charged with COM
plicity in plot TO assassihate
Gomez.
Gomez, single-handed thwart-
ed an attempt at numbering him.
Castro's brother was placed un-
der arrest and thrown into prls-
on.
Gomez issued a statement tell
ing of the conspiracy and its re-
suits.
A new cabinet was formed.
the composition of which pleases
the people.
All political prisoners in Ven
ezuela will be set at liberty.
Former Minister Paul will set
tie all disputes with foreign pow
ers.
Castro, at Berlin, refuses to
believe new cabinet has been
appointed.
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In Rattle With nurglar.

New York Especially Van Dwight
Sheldon. of Lockport, N. T., aged
19, a student in the School OF En-
gineering at New York University
lost his life in battle with burg
lar in the cellar OF the home OF
Dean Snow. OF the School OF Engi-
neering. The murderer escaped ar
ter a long chase across the snow
covered campus, In which several
students OF the university took part
Young Sheldon was shot in the ab.
domen and died shortly after heins
taken TO a hospital.
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oreign

At the great banquet in Santiago,
Chill, in honor OF the delegates to
the Pan-American Scientific Congress,
emphasis was laid on the solidarity
of the American Continent
Wright, Farman, Delagrange, Bile
riot and Esnault-Polterie, the noted
aeronauts, have promised to take part
in the international aviation races at
Brescia in August, 1903.
Numerous Venezuelan exiles are re-
turning 70 that country. Some Of
the political prisoners just liberated
have been in fetters eight years.
Orders issued to natives at Tun-
yan to cease planting opium poppies
led TO a riot, in which one officer and
ten civilians were killed.
A cafe walter, supposed to be a
crank, tried to pull President Fal-
Heres beard.
In an address to the Douma, NJ.
Iswolski, Russian Foreign Minister,
commended the new American-Japa-
nese treaty.
NJ lie Marques, of Paris, receiver
of the old Panama Canal Company
says the story of the existence of an
American syndicate, to which the
ly 10 have gone, Is not true.
The public prosecutor in the Paris
court, in the suit brought by Count
q Castellane against his former wife,
recommended that the children be
left in the custody of their mother.
The crew OF the wrecked Nor
wegian steamer Solylimt has been
rescued from the Crozet Islands. in
the South Indian Ocean, and taken
to Durham. South Africa.
The steamer Stork, of the Hudson
Bay Company with a cargo of ST.,
100000 worth Of furs, was wrecked
on Lisbon Shoals, in Hudson Bay
tut the crew was rescued.
The first Wright aeroplane TO be
blilt In France by the exploitation
company that acquired the French
rights for the machine has been com
pleted.
Reports from Grenada, Nicara
gaa, state that the recent resigna
tion OF United States Minister Cool
idge grew out OF his interceding witt
President zelaya to release business
men who we're sent TO prison because
they organized a demonstration owe
the election OF Taft as president o
the United States. which Zelaya con
sidered hostile 70 the government.
Russian diplomatic change due I,
the death of NJ. Murayieff. ambassa
dor TO Italy, and the approaching re
tirement OF the Russian ambassado
at Constantinopie and Vienna ma
involve Baron Rosen. Russian am
baszndor At Washinzton.
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HiIrs control no The oulf.

New York (speciaD Frank
Trumbull. president of the Colorado
and Southern Railway Company an
nounced that the control of the
property had passed to the Chicago.
Burlington and Quincy Railroad,
which, being controlled by the J. j.
Hill interests, gives Mr.. Hiii's roads.
the Great Northern and the Northern
Pacific, a free sweep to the Gulf OF
Mexico, and In this way enables him
to compete for business up and down
the Mississippi Valley
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uninue TrIbute no The pead.

New York (special) For precise
ly two minutes, from 1.30 to 1872
o'clock, the business of the Broad
Street Curb Market was entirely sus-
pended. II was the time set for the
beginning OF the funeral OF Harry
B. Suydam. the broker who was shot
in his Office by John G. Lumsden.
Promptly at 1.30 the curb market
bell rang and the brokers left the
roped enclosure and lined up on the
sidewalk. standing with their heads
nncOYArad
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FORMER Bank Clerk To Prison.

Pittsburg. Pa. Especially Herbert
w. Tiers, a real estate broker, form
erly discount clerk In the First
National Bank, was sentenced to
serve five years In the penftentiary
by United States Judge Young. Early
in 1905 Tiers embexzicd s51. 900 for
the purpose OF starting In business
himself. He was discharged and af-
ter promising to pay back the money
was not prosecuted by the bank.
Last June Bank Examiner Folds ais
covered the matter while going over
the books OF the bank and immediate
lv ordered the arrest Of Tiers-
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Samoan Cnscfs Aroused.

Auckland. New Zealand Especially .
1T is reported here that section
of the native chiefs in the German
Samoa Islands are creating trouble.
They consider that they are losing
power and dignity on the dispersal OF
the old Samoan Parliament, and
maintain that when. Germany took
the islands she only became the pro-
tector.
The chiefs are reported as desirous
to hoist the old Samoan flag when
Parliament reassembles.
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Mark Twain Co. incorporated.

Albany (speciaD = The Mark
Twain Company, of New York, cap
italized at $1,000, organized to Sc
cure to the author and his family
all rights in the name or nom de
plume Mark Twain" filed articles
of incorporation with the Secretary
of State. The directors are Samuel
L. Clemens, Clara l.. Clemens, Jean
L. Clemens, Isabel V. Lyons, of Red
ding, Ct, and Ralph w. Ashcroft, OF
New York.
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j. t. Fay A Suicide.

Oakland, Cal. Especially John T.
Fay. husband of Anna Eva Fay. the
mental telepathy specialist. commit
ted suicide by shooting himself
through the head In his room at the
Hotel st. Mark. Fay had .long been
suffering from nervous trouble, and
considered his case incurable. Des-
pondency often seized him, and II
was in one of these fits that he de-
cided to kill himself Fay was a
native OF Ohio and was 81 years old.
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Doctor Is Murdered.

Sturgiss, Miss. Especially DR.. T.
S. Richardson, a prominent physi-
clan, was fired on from ambush and
killed in front of his store here.
Posses were Instantly formed and are
searching for the assailant. Several
days ago the store of Dr. Richardson
was dynamited and w. M. Dabs was
arrested and later released on bonds.
He could not be located tonight.
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WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH.
Mrs. U. G. Bissett Perished In Fire
That Destroyed Her Home.

Washington. D. c. Especially -
When fire broke out in her Great
Falls home Mrs. Maggie Bissett, wife
of U. G. Bissett watchman in the
Montgomery mine, was burned &c
death. The woman was alone when
she met her death.
The house, a small one located on
the road from Great Falls to the
Anglers Club. must have caught fire
about midnight. Neighbors passing
early this morning found the house
in ruins, and in poking about amont
the charred debris discovered the
blackened remains of the woman.
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Hockey Player strIcken.

Woburn. Mass. (speciaD John c.
Proctor. OF Reading, manager OF the
Wine Cocoa Company, of Boston, and
prominent in society and club life
In Reading and Boston, died sudden
~, following unusual exertion In a
game OF ice hockey. Mr.. Proctor
came TO Mishawum Pond in this
city with members of the Reading
Golf Club to play hockey with q
local team. After the game was
over he fell unconscious and died
within few minutes as result OF
cerebral hemorrhage.
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xmos Dinners For 1900. 900.

New York Especially A million
and a half men. women and children
throughout the country, including
125,000 in Greater New York City
alone, were supplied with dinners,
and upward OF 1000 destitute New
York children given toys suited to
their ages on Christmas Day from
the proceeds OF this years Salvation
Army "kettle" contributions. In
Manhattan ON Christmas 1000 per-
rons received baskets, each contain
ing dinner enough for five.
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win Fire Torpedocs.

Pensacola. Fla. Especially The
waters OF Pensacola harbor will be
ripped Jared and torn to spray dur
ing the next few weeks by the ex-
plosions OF tons of gun cotton. The
torpedo-boat hotilla, comprising the
wilkes. Thornton. Tingey. Delong and
McDonough. commanded by Lieut..
W. G. Mitchell. has arrived FOR tar
get practice. The boats will remain
here ind efnitely. Lieutenant Mitchell
Is confident OF hanging up new
worlds records for torpedo practice.
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CIV Mounded In Fight.

Hopkinsville, Ky. Especially A
wholesale shooting occurred in this
county among negroes. In this city,
Kirk Mccoy was shot in the eye
and instantly killed by Eugene Per
guson. AT Fidelia, on the Tennes-
see Central Railroad 10 miles from
here, a general shooting took place
at the depot when the train pulled
in and six were wounded, three prob
ably fatally.