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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
THE EIGHT VACANCIES IN
THE EPISC0PACY FILLED
Men Chosen Have Won Renown as
Pastors and Educators.

Baltimore Especially BY the cleo
tion Tuesday of the last four of the
eight bishops needed to bring the
episcopacy up to the desired strength
the General Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, at the Lyric,
brought to an end one of the greatest
elections II has ever held. The last
four elected we're:
PRESIDENT EDWIN II. HUGHES.
of De Pauw University;
PRESIDENT WILLIAM SEELEY
LEWIS, of Morningside College,
Sioux City, Iowa;
REV. DIR. ROBERT MCINTYRE, of
Los Angeles;
REV. DIR. FRANK M. BRISTOL, pas
tor Metropolitan Church, Washing
ton;
The four bishops elected previous
ly were:
REV. DIR. WILLIAM F. ANDERSON,
of New York;
REV. DIR. JOHN l.. NUELSEN, pro-
fessor of Mast Theological Semi
nary;
REV. DIR. WILLIAM A. QUAYLE, of
Chicago;
KEW. DIX. CHAHLES w. SMITH, Oh
Pittsburg.
All Picked Men.
The eight men chosen are regard
ed worthy to follow the list headed
by Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury.
They are considered the pick of the
thousands of ministers of the church
and among the foremost churchmen
of today In intellect and moral
strength they will constitute a big
addition to the present board of gen
eral superintendents, of which there
are only ~ in active service. In
future church annals the Baltimore
bishops" will be considered the peers
of any in the church.
The new bishops will be conse-
Grated at a special service at p. M.
Sunday at the Lyric.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
WASHINGTON

President Roosevelt signed the bill
for the encouragement of the deVel-
opment of coal deposits in Alaska and
to protect the coal deposits in the
territory from monopolists.
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner
of corporations, made public the sec
ond and third parts of his report on
the operation of cotton exchanges OF
the United States.
BY unanimous consent the House
passed a bill for the incorporation of
the Congressional Club, an organiza-
ton of congressional women.
The House passed a bill allowing
passengers from Hawaii to San Fran
cisco to travel on foreign vessels as
we'll as American.
First steps have been taken to
carry the new militia law into effect.
Admiral A. S. Crowninshield, u. S.
N, retired, died in Philadelphia
hospital, following an operation for
an affection of the nose.
Secretary Taft had a conference
with Frank II. Hitchcock, Eastern
and Southern manager of his cam
paign, and Mr.. Vorys.
IL is stated that secretary Taft will
his nomination by the Republican
Convention.
The jury to sit in the trial of Gas
ton Philip, accused of the murder of
Frank b. Macaboys has been com
pleted.
The Senate adopted the conference
report an the so-called Omnibus Pub
lie Lands Bill.
The House passed the bill provid-
ing for greater air space in the steer
age of steamships.
Orders were issued by the War
Department providing an elaborate
military escort on the occasion of
the removal OF the body of Vice
President George Clinton from the
old Congressional Cemetery to
Kingston. N. Y.
Senator Fulton delivered in the
Senate what he called an Omnibus
speech He frankly admitted hav-
ing been requested to do so to kill
time.
Senator Wetmore introduced a bill
making October FL in each year a
legal holiday, TO be known as Dis
coyery Day in honor of Columbus,
Bubonic plague and smallpox are
causing many deaths in Venezuela.
The Joint congressional committee
that investigated the scandal in the
Government Printing Office submit
ted its report.
1t has been decided not to with
draw any of the United States troops
rom Cuba at the present time.
The House committee reported fa-
sorably the bill for the enlargement
OF the Capitol grounds and for the
,rection OF monumental memorial
to Abraham Lincoln.
The reason women are afraid OF a
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
Foreign

Mrs. Margaret Hamilton, who was
one of the principal witnesses to the
alleged identity of the Duke of Port
land with T. c. Druce, was sentenced
in London to IS months penal SER
vitude for perjury, her appeal having
been disallowed.
Reported in English political cir
cles that President Fallieres will urge
upon King Edward who is about to
visit the Car, the desirability of a
triple alliance of England Russia and
France.
A monument to the memory Of the
officers and sailors of the naval
guards battalions who lost their lives
in the battle of the Sea of Japan,
May 27-28, 1905, was unveiled at
st. Petersburg
Two Americans and one English
man were attacked by bandits and
killed near Coachinia, one of the
mining camps of the Greene Cop
per Company, near Dolores, Chihua-
hua, Mexico.
The inhabitants of the Island Of
Samos, OFF the west coast OF Asia
Minor, are in revolt and fighting
has been going on for several days,
the rebels attacking the palace
An attack upon the Russian finan-
cial agents residence in Teheran and
the wounding of that official has
caused Russia to demand OF Persia
satisfaction for the outrage.
As a result of j Pierpont Morgan g
visit TO Vienna, it is announced that
several notable works of art will he
added to the Morgan art galleries in
London.
Baron Chinda, vice minister of the
Japanese Foreign Office, has been ap-
pointed ambassador to Berlin. and
Viscount Hayashi ambassador to
Rome.
Marquis Ikeda, fifth son of Prince
Togowa, last OF the Shoguns, has ar
rived at Victoria, b. c., on a trip
around the world
The Russian battleship Peter the
Great ran on the rocks in the Gulf
OF Finland, but was refoated.
Returns from the Peruvian cleo
tion show that Augusta b. Leguia has
been elected president of the repub-
lie, TO succeed Senior Jose Pardo,
whose term expires September "a.
Eugenice Larrabure Unanu and Dr.
Belisario Sosa have been elected vice
presidents,
With democratic manner that
won the hearts of thousands who
cheered him along the way Presi-
den Fallieres, of France, took in the
Franco-Britlsh exhibition In London.
Accompanying Fallieres were King
Edward and Queen Alexandra and
a large number OF the British no
bility.
King Edward conferred the Great
Chain OF the Victorian Order upon
President fallieres of France and
the President responded by bestow-
ing the Grand Cross Of the Legion
of Honor upon Prince Arthur of
Connought and Admiral Lord
Charles Beresford.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
A Fatal Peep.

Cincinnati Especially A real dead
victim of the sheath dress is Joseph
Zins, 2S years old. A pretty girl,
name unknown, wore one of modi-
fed Partisan forms on the street
here, and Zins turned his head so
sharply to rubber" that he broke
his neck. He's now dead. Zins suf-
fered from tuberculosis of the YER
zebra or spinal column. This all
ment is not unusual, but it is rare
that the disease attacks such a high
part of the column, the first and
third vertebrae. These bones were
so weakened that the sudden motion
of the head caused the second to
slip out of place and press again st
the spinal cord.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
FINANCIAL

Dick Brothers say the cotton acre
age is 3 per cent greater than last
year.
Some of the May corn contracts
are being settled for privately at n
cents a bushel
Subscription books for the St7,-
100000 of Virginia Railroad notes
were closed Immediately after open
ing, as the amount was heavily over
bid.
Missouri Pacific, which recently
rose from As to 64]s in a compara-
lively few days, has suffered a large
reaction.
National banks still carry S176,-
100000 of United States Government
deposits.
London again sold a considerable
quantity OF American stocks.
Lehigh Valleys April statement
shows that the company earned net
nearly 100000 more than In the
same month last year.
Bear traders were selling stocks
on the report from Washington that
new Government suit was to ba
brought against Union Pacific.
Newburger. Henderson & Loeb an
nounce that all OF the S2,356,000
Chicago & Eastern Illinois per
cent. equipment bonds which were
recently purchased have been sold
One of the leading capitalists in
Philadelphia said that he was buying
"calls' on various stocks, MS he OK
pected by September that there would
be good advance In prices.
One interesting street rumor is
that II. II. Rogers Is going TO get
control of the Chesapeake & Ohio
In order TO prevent unnecessary com
petition with tho new Virginia Rail-
road, which lie is personally con-
structing
Over S5 per cent. OF the Wcsting-
house Companys merchandise cred.
itors have consented to the re-l
organization plan.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
AS A SACRIFICE
FOR HUMANITY
Man Inoc1lated With Germ Of
tuberculosis.

New York Especially LIN the hope
OF discovering preventive and cure
for tuberculosis, Frank Merritt, who
about two weeks ago volunteered to
surrender his body in the interest OF
humanity and medical science, has
permitted physician to inoculate his
system with the germs OF the dread
disease. An examination made show
ed that already the disease has made
considerable progress since the inocu-
lation a week ago.
Merritt, who Is middle-aged
man, was al one time a prosperous
bookbinder In Western state. Ac-
cording to his story his wife and
promising son died, victims of tuber.
culosis. Their loss preyed on his
mind to such an extent that he final
ly failed in business and became
wanderer Two weeks ago he ap.
piled to the Salvation Army head.
quarters in this state for lodging AID
was sent to the Salvation Army Hotel
in Catham Square. Il was there that
he first announced his willingness tc
die If his death might aid in any
way in combating the spread OF
tuberculosis.
Il have had difficulty in keeping
body and soul together he said,
and death has no terrors for me.
For several days after Merritt's
announcement he waited for a reply,
but no one appeared to take advant.
age of his offer. Finally DR.. c. C,
Carroll, of 21O2 Broadway, found
Merritt and last Thursday inoculated
the man with a germ of tuberculosis
A statement from the doctors office
says that the disease has now thor.
oughly entered into Merritt's system
and 1t is expected the case will be
under way in the next few days
thropists and other interested in his
case to call on him at his room
in the Sherman Building on Broad
way.
My action was voluntary" said
Merritt, and IL hope that as a result
OF the experiment a preventive and
cure for tubersulosis may be found.
was well man when | was inocu-
lated last Thursday, but today the
disease seems to be pretty well
developed. My condition will be
watched from hour to hour, and at
certain stage of the disease efforts
will be made to cure me ana the doc
tor seems to be pretty sure that he
can do It. OF course, l am not anx-
ious to die, but felt like doing what
have done in the interest Of human
ity and science"
Merritt is not the mans real me.
He admits that much, but refuses to
discuss his antecedents.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
DRAMATIC COURT SCENE.
Important Witness Proves An Alibi
For Theo. S. Whitmore.

: New York Especially A dramatic
incident of the trial of Theodore S.
Whitmore for the killing of his wife,
whose body was found submerged in
the Lampblack Swamp. near Harri-
son, N. j., occurred in the court in
Jersey City, when Frank j. May,
special policeman of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, was called to the
witness stand and testified that he
saw the man who made the remark
You are n cheap skate" to another
man who refuse to pay his return
fare to New York at LAO A. NJ. on
the night Mrs. Whitmore was killed.
A witness had previously testified
that he saw Whitmore in the crowd
and heard him make that remark.
rs that the man?" asked Alexan-
der Simpson, Whitmore's lawyer,
point to Whitmore, who stood up.
May surveyed Whitmore from
head to foot. and then said:
Il never saw this man before in
my life
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
OLD NORTH STATE
lj FOR PROHIBITION
Drys Sweep State By Probably
$4,000 Majority.

Raleigh, N. C. Especially. - The
majority for prohibition in North
Carolina is upward of 10000, and 1t
is possible it may reach $4,000.
This is on figures and estimates fur
nishcd the News and Observer and
the state Prohibition headquarters.
This (Wake) county has gone wet
in the country and dry in the city.
The total vote In the city gives Pro-
hibition "a majority. But the town
ship precincts, outside the corporate
limits, gave a wet majority of 83,
m2king Raleigh township vote wet
by Ia majority. These figures are
remarkable, because last December
in a local option election the Prohi-
bitionists carried Raleigh by COO ma
jority.
Salisbury and Winston, both wet
towns, voted dry, while in wet Will
mington City, where vets claimed
1000 majority, the vets won by less
than half that number.
Buncombe County, in which Ashe-
Vile is located. gave about 5000
majority for the dry ticket.
The election was conducted quiet
ly and there was no trouble at the
polls.
Greensboro Especially. - Green's
boro goes dry, giving 1,159 votes
for Prohibition and 392 against. Sew
eral small county precincts voted
against Prohibitionists. In one OF
them, made up of cotton mill opera
tives, the-yote is $50 for Prohibition
and 2S against.
High Point, the second largest
town in the county. is dry by 1000
majority. The Prohibition forces es-
innate the county as being dry by
1900 majority.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
BIG GUNS HURL
SHOT At WARSHIP
Monitor Arkansas Rains Shot and
Shell at the Florida.
Commander Quimby end Cr W. n
Order TO Test Explosive Shells OF
Big Guns and Armor Plate, Stand
at Their Posts Within the Hull Of
the Monitor.

Fort Monroe, Va. Especially On
the broad waters of Hampton Roads,
not far from the place where as
years ago the Monitor and the Mer-
rimac riddled each other with shot
and shell, two modern monitors en-
gagged in a bloodless contest in the
interest Of naval science. The mont
tor Arkansas, of 1926 tons, fired six
shots at her sister ship, the Florida.
each of which was accurately aimed
and effective. One of the shots fired
by the Arkansas was a 12-inch pro-
jectile loaded with n new high ex-
plosive. This shot struck the port
plate of the Florida's turret just a
little to the side of a dummy gun,
which had been placed in position
to take the place of the regular 12-
inch gun. This shot smashed the
12-inch armor protecting the front
of the turret, and also badly loosened
the armor seams on the side of the
turret.
The force of the 12-inch high ex-
plosive shell had been entirely spent
by crushing the armor plate, and the
cloth screen placed inside the turret
ports showed no damage, indicating
that none of the fragments of the
exploding shell had entered the tur-
ret ports, and showing, as Chief Con-
structor Washington l.. Capps de-
clared, that If anyone had been in
the turret at the time the powerful
projectile struck he would not have
been injured. The only occupant of
the turret was a dummy man, ar
ranged with springs and wires to re-
cord the shock. He was standing
at the breech of one of the 12-inch
guns and was unhurt
The biggest naval gun, the heavi-
est projectile and the highest explo-
sive known, combined with close
range and deadly aim. were allowed
to work their full havoc on the tur-
ret plate. The result is declared to
be a victory for turret construction,
and this, Notwithstanding the 11-inch
hardened steel plate was blackened,
broken, the seams of the turret
sprung and the rivets and screws
loosened and twisted.
1t was not five minutes after the
terrible impact that the finely bal
anced mechanism of the turret was
being worked with perfect ease, and
the 12-inch gun on the left side was
trained at will Inside the turret
where stand the gunners and gun
crew the havoc was much less ap-
parent than from the outside. Ex-
animation showed that of the many
delicately adjusted instruments for
fire control, sighting and operating
the turret, few, IL any, were out of
working order.
''If this had happened in battle
the Florida would be fighting yet, +"
said one of the rear admirals with
enthusiasm.
Then followed a futile attempt to
destroy the newly designed fighting
mast erected on the stern of the
Florida After five shots from the
Arkansas guns had gone ripping
through 1t the mast still stood firm.
Forty shots would not bring 1t
down, and no enemy would waste
ammunition and time shooting at 1t, f"
was the expert comment. 1t was pre-
dicted that all new ships will be
equipped with battlemasts of this
design
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
A Double Tragedy.

Bangor. Me. (SpeciaD. - Murder
and suicide ended the infatuation of
r. G.. Keith for Mrs. Elizabeth
Ready. Lying together on the par
lor floor in the woman's house. their
bodies were found by Mrs. Ready's
daughter. Keith, who Is married
and has grown children, had long
pursued Mrs, Ready. It is believed
that she again repulsed him, and that
he shot her dead and then put a bull
let through his own brain.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
Enrmnn Wins Wnrer

Client, Belgium (By Cable) -
Henry Farman, the English aero
pianist, covered 1,24l meters, or A.
O3S feet, in his aeroplane with two
men on board. His companion was
NJ. Archdeacon. The feat was per-
formed in a dead calm. BY this per-
formance Mr.. Farman wins the bet
made with M Charron in March Of
this year NJ. Charron held that an
aeroplane would not be constructed
within year capable OF carrying
two persons. one Of them to weigh
not less than 1872 pounds. a distance
OF 900 meters.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
Not Ill From Cancer.

New York Especially George f.
Parker, secretary to the Equitable
Life Assurance Society trustees, gave
out a statement in which he said he
was authorized by Mrs. Grover
Cleveland to deny absolutely the
reports that Mr.. Cleveland is suffer.
ing from cancer. Mr.. Parker said
Mrs. Cleveland is now in Princeton,
that DR.. Bryant has not been to Lake
wood since Monday, and that no
other physician is in attendance upon
the former president.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
schoolchildren In Panic.

Chicago Especially - Unfounded
rumors that an italian secret society
had formed plot to dynamite tho
Dante school, at Ewing and Des
planes Streets. caused panic among
the 1.700 pupils OF the school. When
several shots were heard In the alley
back OF the building, 900 children
In a panic fed to the street. MANY
OF them were knocked down in the
rush for the doors and slightly
bruised, but none OF them We're seri-
ously injured.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
Killed In Auto Accident.

Seattle, Wash. Especially, - Mrs.
Amanda Ottolenduy, of New York,
was killed when an automobile car
rying seven people fell over the en-
bankment on Magnolia Bluff and
landed on it's back, with every mem
ber OF the party underneath. Vera
Brace, a 1z-year-old girl, was the
only witness OF the accident, and ran
three-quarters OF a mile to Interplay
for help Nearly half an hour elapsed
before men We're able to get the car
Dropped up so as to release the i'm
orisoncd people.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
Made sa.Ono.ooo In Corn.

Chicago (SpeciaD A gift Of
$150,000 for gymnasium building
at Northwestern University was made
by James A. Patten, king" of the
corn pit in the Chicago Board of
Trade. The announcement WAS
made by President A. w. Harris at
the annual convocation of the stu
dents held in Fisk Hall Mr.. Patten,
who is credited with having cleared
$4,000, ,000--more or less-in the
corn market within the last two
weeks, was in the audience.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
Sues For Dogbite.

Newport, r. I. Especially - The
United States court here is hearing
the suit of Miss Hilda Rika Oberg
against Mrs. Francis o. French,
brought to recover $4,000 for in
iuries alleged to have been sustained
by the plaintiff by reason of an at
tack by large dog, the property
of the defendant. Mrs. French is
the mother of Elsie French Wander
bilt, who recently secured a divorce
from Alfred G. Vanderbilt.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
Played with A Rattle.

Louisville, Ky. (speclaD Charles
Conn. Of Lexington, KY, salesman
for a law book concern, died of a
rattlesnake bite suffered in the cafe
at the Mary Anderson Theater.
Conn, who was formerly a civil engl-
neer in Arizona, said he was a snake
charmer, and took the reptile out OF
It's exhibition case in spirit of
bravado. He was bitten twice. He
became unconscious in a few min
utes, and was taken to a hospital.
He rayed until death ended his suf-
fering.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
KilIcd MAN And Herself.

Roanoke, Va. (SpeciaD WIN. M.
Simpson, a well-known locomotive
engineer, was shot and killed by
Sadie Butler, formerly of Lynchburg,
who Immediately drank a bottle OF
carbolic acid and died in few min
utes. The woman was OF a very pre-
possessing appearance, and was mad
ly in love with Simpson and had
often declared that she intended kill
ing both herself and him. The trag
edy occurred in a house where the
woman lived.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
Nenrly Killed BY Jams.

Vancouver, b. c. (SpeciaD -
Eighty infuriated japanese nearly
killed Thomas Hughes, conductor on
a Canadian Pacific freight train, and
put the other members of the crew
to flight when the freight train ac-
cidentally derailed a car in which
the japanese workmen were riding
The japanese then made their escape.
Warrants have been sworn out for
the ringleaders.