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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
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]. Thorburn Ross, former presi-
dent of the Title Guaranty and Trust
Company, of Portland, Ore, and
former Presbyterian divine. has been
found guilty of the larceny of funds
of the State of Oregon.
Miss Elizabeth Baldwin, an actress,
has obtained a verdict of s1,1OO
against Homer Davis, a New York
theatrical manager, for alleged
breach Of contract.
Walter d. Munson, OF the Mum
son Steamship Line and the Inter-
national Coal Company, died In New
York
A Chicago express on the Erie Rail-
road jumped the track at Conesteo,
N. Y, while going 60 miles an hour.
Thomas Kalends. a bootblack of
Alton, ILL.,, has been appointed a crit
ic of Greek in Shurtliff College.
The Florida sea COW which had
been in captivity in New York City
for 19 months is dead.
Charles d. Pierce, a prominent
consulting engineer, committed sui
eide in New York City.
A million dollars has been given
for the endowment of a law school
at Berkeley, Cal.
An epidemic of typhoid prevails in
Boston.
Louis Sherry and his wife, Marie
Bertha Sherry, to whom the restaura-
teur was married nearly 80 years
ago, have signed articles of separa-
tion which purport to give each of
them the fullest liberty of action
consonant with the law. Inciden-
tally, Mrs. Sherry is to get $4,000
year.
Four men were killed, three seri-
ously injured and 100 others had
a narrow escape from death in an
explosion in Mine No. 1, of the Ellis
worth Galleries Company. at Ellis
worth, Pa.
Four masked men looted the Indi-
ana Club, at Hot Springs, Ark, after
forcing the occupants, at the point
of revolvers, to line up alongside the
wall.
The Senate bill making ii felony
TO conduct a bucket shop was passed
by the New York Legislature by a
party vote.
Morris Bengston shot and fatally
wounded Miss Sigrid Appleholm and
then killed himself on a farm near
Rockford, H., where both were en-
ployed.
Mrs. Margaret Wolfram was killed
and her husband and four-year-old
child seriously injured when they
were thrown from buggy in Pitts
burg.
Two sons of Jacob Garuer, aged
10 and u years, were found dead
in a field at Hawthorne. Pa, death
having been caused by eating wild
parsnips.
Since the battleship feet has been
at Los Angeles a million visitors
have gone aboard the vessels.
Joseph Simpson, who shot and
killed James Arnold last Sunday, was
lynched at Skidoo, Cal.
Commander York Noel, United
States Navy. died at the New York
Navy Yard.
Grover Cleveland is i'll at Lake.
wood, n. j.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
WHOLE TOWN BURIED
BY A LANDSLIDE
Over Thirty Lost in a Canadian
Village.
MOUNTAIN FALLS WITH A ROAR.
The Hamlet of Notre Dame de Salstte
Is Overwhelmed by an Avalanche of
Earth and Snow, Loosened by the
Spring Rains Catastrophe Occurred
at 5 In the Morning.

Buckingham, Ont. Especially Half
the little Franch hamlet of Notre
Dame de Salette, 16 miles from here,
on the Lievre River, lies buried un-
der a sliding mountain and at least
30 of its small population are known
to have perished.
The hamlet has no telephone or
telegraph and neither is 1t on rail-
road. Meager bits of news of the
disaster come in by messenger from
the physicians and other rescuers
who were hurried there when the
first calls for aid came at an early
hour
The river Lievre winds at the foot
of the hamlet and a mountain tower
ed behind Il. Spring rains for days
past have been melting the snow and
ice on the mountain side and streams
have been coursing down the river.
At 8 o'clock A. NJ, just as the little
hamlet began to stir for early mass,
part of the mountain started to slide
toward the river. 1t tore path of
death and destruction for its way,
and those who we're not killed when
their homes were engulfed were left
earth.
Camille la Pointes house stood
first in the path of the avanlanche. He
and his family of IL are known to
have perished. Eight others, whose
names have not been obtained, are
known to be missing, and in the
panic the rescuers are attempting to
find definitely how many more are
missing.
Mrs. Desjardin's cottage also was
swept away, and she, with her two
children, a domestic and a hired
man, are known to be buried in the
landslide.
De Salette, like many hamlets of
its kind, rambles into gardens and lit
tie fields on the mountainside, so
about half of it was not in the path
of the avalanche. The sliding mass
rushed with roar and spread fan
like over part of the place and dump
ed itself in the swollen stream at
it's foot.
Cut off from the outside world,
messengers were dispatched to Pou-
pere, the nearest hamlet. Those who
arrived first estimated that at least
dozen houses were crushed in the
path of the landslide.
Buckingham was appealed to, but
the fight of the messengers across
the spring roads was slow. Those
first on the scene found De Salette
in panic, with the uninjured ones
packing their belongings for fight.
The first messengers to Bucking-
ham ordered 25 coffins to be sent to
De Salette, and all the physicians of
the town were hurried across coun-
try with rescue parties.
Landslides along the river are
common each spring with the rains
and swollen streams. The Lievre at
De Salette was a torrent so yards
wide. Occupants of the houses on
the west bank felt the ground slip
ping and made a rush for safety but
were carried into the river.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
EIGHTEEN STUDENTS ARE
SHOT IN GUATEMALA
RingIeaders In the Conspiracy Against
President Cabrera.

Guatemala City, Guatemala (By
Cable) President Cabrera himself
is authority for the statement that
Is of the ringleaders in a conspiracy
against him already have been shot
to death, and that probably more ex-
ecutions will follow.
President Cabrera, against whose
life an attempt was made by stu
dents, received the representatives
of the various powers and made a
lengthy statement to them that he
had unearthed an extensive conspir-
acy against him that led up to his
attempted assassination. He de-
clared that IS of the leaders had
been executed by his orders, and that
the death penalty would be meted
out to others already in the hands
of the military.
Among these are the men who
were imprisoned a year ago, having
been implicated In a plot to assassi-
nate the President. They we're sem
fenced to death after their arrest,
but the sentence had not been carried
out. President Cabrera said that he
had proofs that a majority of these
prisoners were implicated in the new
attempt against his life, and that
they would be executed without de-
lay.
Although there is a surface tran
quillity here, conditions really are
serious. The military is in control
of the city and a partial suspension
of business has resulted. The revo-
lutionary feeling is strong in many
quarters and there are those who
will not hesitate to go, to any length
or face any danger IN their efforts
to make away with the President.
Cabrera, for this reason, has been
seen but twice or thrice in public
in the last few months.
An attempt was made to assassi-
nate President Cabrera last April,
and arrests to the number of about
$50, or those said to be implicated
in the plot, were made. Several of
the arch conspirators committed sui
eide and 19 of the others were sem
fenced by court-martial to death
The latter included two Mexicans,
one Spaniard, two Italians and one
Belgian. The representatives of the
powers later interfered in the carry
ing out of the death sentence, send
ing an energetic protest against such
summary punishment to President
Cabrera.
Later a large number of the minor
offenders were pardoned and released
from prison, and although the Su-
preme Court of Guatemala confirmed
the death penalty on all those SEN
fenced for the attempt on Cabrera's s
life, the sentence was not carried
out
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
Mrs. Shelley Killed BY Gas.

New York Especially Mrs. Mary
Catherine Shelley, well-known vo-
cal teacher, was found dead from the
effects of Illuminating gas in her
apartments, on West One Hundred
and Twenty-fifth Street. In a letter
found by the coroner Mrs. Shelley
said she had been contantly unhappy
for the last two years because of
family troubles and misunderstand-
ings. Mrs. Shelley was 5S years old.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
Il KILLED IN COLLISION.
Sixty Are Injured In Crash OF Aus
tralian Trains.

Melbourn, Australia (By Cable) -
In a COLLISION of two trains from
Ballarat and Bendigo respectively, at
Braybrook Junction, about eight
miles from Melbourne, forty-one per-
sons were killed and sixty injured.
The Bendigo train, with two heavy
engines, crashed into the rear of the
Ballarat train.
Five cars of the latter train were
wrecked.
The wreckage took fire and was al
most completely consumed. Many of
the bodies were unrecognizable when
recovered.
The Bendigo train suffered but lit
tie damage, but the two engines were
piled on top of the rear coaches Of
the other train.
Terrible scenes followed the acci-
dent, many of the injured being
caught in the wreckage, and with
difficulty rescued from the flames.
II was a long time before doctos
and nurses arrived on the scene, and
as consequence intense suffering
prevailed among the injured.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
snsnends Two omcers.

Baltimore. Nd Especially Mayor
Mahool temporarily suspended j.
Arthur Wickham and James H. Ma
rine. two of the commissioners for
opening streets, who, 1t is alleged
formed a combination OF the Mary
land Paving Company in awarding
contracts. The charge of graft" re-
lates to the contract for paving North
tAEenue, between Payson and Twelfth
Streets. work to cost approximately
S14O.0O0.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
NINE BLOCKS BURNED.
Blaze Wipes Out Business Section OF
Richmond, VT.

Richmond, VT. Especially = Nine
business blocks in the town of Rich
mond, Is miles from Burlington,
were wiped out by fire that started
just before midnight, and was not
controlled until about $50 A. M,
causing loss estimated at 500, 900.
Help was called from Burlington.
The 'blaze started in Sandusky's
drug store, on Main Street, a two
story wooden block, and was checked
at the Belleview Hotel, on Depot
Street, after destroying that struc-
ture.
The cause of the FIRE is not known.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
PICKED UP BY A TORNADO.
Man And Wife Carried A Mile And
Baby Dropped In A Road.

Bancroft, Neb. Especially A cy-
clone swept through Cummings Coun-
ty and into Thurston County and
three people are known to have been
killed, a number injured and a num-
Der of houses destroyed. Telegraph
and telephone wires are down and
reports are slow in arriving.
The tornado struck the house of
John Mangleson, near Bender Neb.,
and then swooped up into the air,
taking the wreckage of the house,
and both Mr.. and Mrs. Mangleson.
Both were killed. their bodies being
carried a mile.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
Funeral OF Duke DE chauInes.

Paris (By Cable) After the cell
ebration of solemn requiem at the
Church Of st. Philippe du Roule
Tuesday morning, the body OF the
Duke de Chaulnes was conveyed to
Dampierre, where a second service
was held. This was attended by the
members OF the family and the most
intimate friends, after which the
body was inferred in the mortuary
chapel of the historic chateau.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
Drowns HerseIf Aud Baby.

Trenton, n J. Especially. = Mrs.
Claudia Smith, wife of a farmer re
siding near Yardley. Pa, walked Into
the Delaware River with her baby in
her arms and both were drowned.
Mrs. Smith had been i'll for long
time, and 1t is supposed she cominit-
ted suicide while respondent. SHE
was forty years old and the mother
of eight children.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
FIRE THREATENS TOWN.

Raymond, Miss, Burning And Com
municatiOns Cut OF.
New Orleans Especially "A special
to the Picayune from Jackson, Miss,
says that a serious fire threatens to
destroy Raymond, Miss, about Is
miles from Jackson.
Raymond appealed to Jackson. for
fire-fghting apparatus. but before
aid could be sent a second message
arrived stating that help would be
useless because the water supply had
been cut off.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
Pays S4s4, 900 For Picture.

Rome (By Cable) 1t is reported
that j. Pierpont Morgan has purchas-
ed Raphael's famous lie Vierge de
st. Antoine de Padova" for $780,
900 lire (about $4S4,000). 1t will
remain in Italy and probably will be
house in the Aldobrandini Palace.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
submarInes on For PhiIippines.

New York Especially The United
States collier Caesar sailed from the
New York Navy Yard for the Philip
pines. She has on board the SUBJ
marine boats Shark and Porpoise.
which will be launched at Cavite.
The Caesar will make the voyage
around Cape Horn and up across the
Pacific
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
POSTAL DEFICIT $4,000, 900.
officials Attribute 1t To Increase In
Salaries.

Washington, D, G. (SpeciaD Fig
uring on the basis furnished by the
returns for the first two quarters, the
deficiency in the Postoffice Depart
ment for the current fiscal year will
exceed SIS, 100000.
The net deficiency for the first six
months of the curernt fiscal year is
estimated at S7,616,545, aginst S4.-
963,202 in 1907. In the correspond
ing quarter of last year there was a
surplus of S1,742,145.
Postal officials attribute the deficit
largely to the general increase in
salaries allowed during the year in
the service.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
Big War ships For Russia.

London (By Cable) The Russia
government, according TO a trikd,
Journal, has ordered i've war shhpl
from Arm OF Clyde shipbuilddrs
Each one is to be largera than fth'
Dreadnought.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
TWO MORE BoDIEs FOUND.
Number OF Those Lost In Chelsea
Fire Now Known To BE rs.

Chelsea, Mass, (special. 49, The
number OF lives known to have been
lost in the fire of April 12 was in
creased to l5 by the discovery of two
more bodies.
One was found beneath a pile of
bricks in cellar in Watts Street. Its
sex could not be determined. Miss
Annie Murphy, who has been miss
ing since the fire, lived at the ad-
dress
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
WEDDING RING KILLS DUCK.
Gold Band Found In Its Craw Lost
20 Years Ago.

20 tHTS Ago,
Meriden, Conn. Especially In dis
secting a duck to learn the cause of
its death. Fred Prageman found a
wedding ring which his wife lost
nearly 25 years ago.
Mrs. Pageman believes she lost
the jewel while playing with her
baby in a swing suspended from an
apple tree ON their farm in Yalesville.
The tree has since been cut down,
and this spring Mr. Prageman plowed
the ground for the first time.
The duck that died fed with others
in the loose earth and was probably
attracted by the ring, which was still
bright.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
400 Held For Ono murder.

Lublin. Russian Poland (By Cable
The murder of a policeman VIA
followed by the arrest of 800 work.
men IN local factories. The polHc
found stores of arms, ammunitihr
and melonite bombs.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30

The House committee appointed to
investigate the Paper Trust has in
vited the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association and the Assoei-
ated Press TO submit testimony.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
Doctor Killed by lightning.

Galveston. Texas Especially DIR.
Wallace Rouse. aged 36 years. lee
turer and demonstrator at the Medi-
cal College of Texas University, was
instantly killed by lightning while
fishing.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
RepIevined His wife.

Columbia, Tenn. (Special). Wv. ].
higgins has replevined his wife, for
merly Ada Templeton, from her par
ents. Esquire Farris required a bond
of twice the value of the property
in question, and Higgins placed a
value OF $40 on his wife, giving
bond of $40.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30

The Senate passed a joint resolu-
tion appropriating 100000 for a
survey looking to continuous In
land water route from Boston, Mass,
TO Wilmington, n. c.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
Died on The Same Dav.

Washington Especially John Ed
ward Libbey, president, and Charles
3. Church, vice president, respective
ly, of the Oldest Inhabitants Asso-
citation OF the District of Columbia,
died here. Mr.. Libbey was born In
this city November 22. 1887, and Mr..
Church at Jefferson. Frederick Coun-
ty, Md, September II, 1926. Both
men had long been identified with
the lumber business.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
BOY Prefers peath no Jain.

Fall River, Mass. Especially lid
ward F. Moriarity. aged seventeen,
committed suicide after an attempt
to arrest him on suspicion that he
was connected with series OF m Amor
robhefies. The boy was asleep kn a
clubhouse on the shore when 4 the
police surrounded 1t. Moriarity drew
a revolver, and, after threatening the
police. shot himself in the head.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30

In 1870 the population of Mani
toba was 1900 today 1t is 40O,-
900.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30

The House Judiciary Cophmittee,
has unanimously decided thdkre are
70 grounds for the impeach Jnenf ri
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30

The total issue of s6.5e9, 900 of 5
per cent. refunding bonds has been
sold by the Portland Railway Com
pany to Redmond & Company.
Gilpin observer., 1908-09-10

day in dispatches from the mining dis
tricts Of the north, west, east and
south OF the United States. The num-
ber OF men killed in mines in the
United States averages in the neigh
borhood of 10000 for each year and
experts are employed by the govern
ment in hordes for no other purpose
than to study underground gases and
learn the best way in which the safety
of the lives of Americas workingmen
who are hauling wealth out OF the
earth may be insured.
Every time life is lost production
of the article which that man, woman,
or life is engaged in giving to the pub
lie is curtailed. Insurance companies,
which have put accident clauses in
their policies, are perhaps the best
medium, outside of government re-
ports, to gain an insight into the num-
ber of deaths which industry fur
nishes each year. The English-per-
haps 1t is their deliberate methods
kill only one-third the number of per
sons each year. In proportion to the
population, which America does. The
railroads OF America are declared to
be the incarnation of Old Father Time
himself.
Even e. II. Hartman. the best
known railroad magnate of the coun-
try. has openly declared that upon
going on Journeys over his own roads.
he wonders whether 1t is to
be his last journey. And arriv-
ing at the cause Of this de-
pletion of the population on
railroads. It Is found that the results
are brought about by the absolute de-
Gilpin observer., 1908-09-10

mand of the American for more speed.
Faster, faster" cries the business
man and the same is true of people
in every walk of life.
We are willing to take a chance
on a dangerous machine because it
accomplishes work quicker and we
toss the thoughts Of probable fatali-
ties to one side. The proportion Of
workshop accidents attributed to per-
sons being caught in the machinery
is 80 per cent, and today men who
are toiling for the benefit Of the man
who derives his living from that sort
of work are perfecting measures which
they want enacted into laws.
Gen. Sherman said ghastly things
about war, but Gen. Sherman never
worked in a mine, in a power house
or for railroad. Even had he done
all those things he perhaps would
never have realized the comparison of
the two, for the harvest of death is
reaped in many spots at the same
time. 1t is not SO congested as the
Gilpin observer., 1908-09-10
They All Want 1t.
Harris" !"

1.-THE late Joel Chandler Harris"
said an Atlanta clergyman, used to
laugh at the way everybody seemed to
want a free advertisement of some
sort from the editor. 1t was the same,
he would say, with the physician
everybody wants free advice on the
health question from him.
81 once heard him tell about an edi.
tor who served ten days in Jail for
kicking the mayor. The warden
treated him very kindly, and at the
ten days end, escorting him to the
door and shaking him by the hand
said:
"Well, good-by and good luck, ed.
And say, would you mind giving tho
Jail puff?.'"
Gilpin observer., 1908-09-10
Just Wanted to Try Ii.

Farmer John left home one morning
and waited at the station for the lin
tied. He climbed aboard and shambleo
into the smoker.
Mister" he drawled when the con-
ductor halted before him, sis that thar
2-cent-a-mile rate good on this train?"
1T is replied the conductor brusque-
ly. Where is your ticket?"
The old man fumbled in the depths
of an ancient shotbag.
"Ain't got no ticket, mister" he
said slowly, but here be two cents.
never rode on one of these pesky fly.
ers and | just want to feel the sensa.
ton. Put me off after I've rode one
mile 4"
Gilpin observer., 1908-09-10
information Wanted.

A court, prisoner, a purloined
watch, country jury. The evidence
as to whether the prisoner had stolen
ne watch was very conflicting. AS the
jury retired to consider their verdict,
the judge remarked that he would
willingly give them any advice they
wished on any point in the case that
puzzled them.
Eleven jurors solemnly filed out, but
the twelfth hung back, perplexity writ
ten large on his countenance.
rs there any question you wish to
ask me before you retire?" asked the
judge kindly.
The mans face frightened.
Yes, yer Honor" he replied, Gag
erly, "Wot / wants to know is whether
e really did steal the watchi"
Gilpin observer., 1908-09-10

nearly as rapidly as in other destroy
Ing modes of industry. The Struc-
tural Workers union, which has its
headquarters in Chicago, reports that
in 1906 it had over 1900 members
and at the end of that year this mum.
Der was reduced to something like
1,150. Those men as they worked
high about the common habitation of
mankind little thought that their vo-
cation was far more hazardous than
that of the STRAIGHTFORWARD man in
blue uniform with U. S. A. stamped
on his cartridge belt.
But aside from this great carnage
Brains are being put to work every
day devising methods of succor for
the families of the men, women and
children whose lives are snuffed out
for the cause of industry. Perhaps
the greatest of present-day plans
which has been put into effect was
that statute, known as the employers
liability law, which the last congress
gave the people of the United States.
This should make living n more safe
occupation for the workingman. The
measure provides that where the toll.
er Is slain while under the directions
Of his employer, the concern. firm.
corporation or institution is held H.
able for his death and that his family
shall be provided for In coin of the
realm. A mans carelessness or ir.
responsible condition at the time Of
the accident, of course. debars his
widow and fatherless children from
the benefits which they might have
reaped had the case been other.
wise.
Gilpin observer., 1908-09-10
The Hurry Fad.

"Mr. Cleveland" said a Princeton
lecturer, had little sympathy with the
rush and hurry that the American busi-
ness man SO complacently affects-no
sympathy with train and boat dicta-
ton, with the lunch table telephone,
the letter phonograph, and the other
bluffs"
Don't rush so,' Mr.. Cleveland once
said to me. Lightning might do .
great deal more if it wasn't always In
such an awful hurry"