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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19

Washington, d. c. (SpeciaD The
Navy Department received a message
from Rear Admiral Evans announc-
ing the battleship fleet had ar
rived off Magdalena Bay. Admiral
Evans states the the trip from Cal
lao was made in IL days and 20
hourN, two days ahead of the sched-
ule.
The Admiral reports that the feet
Is in better condition than when it
left Hampton Roads and that it is
ready for any service on one days
notice. Admiral Evans announces
that target practice will be begun as
soon as ranges can be established.
The news of the arrival of the feet
in such good condition at Magdalena
Bay was received with great salts
faction at the department.
The run from Callao was one of
the longest of the legs, being over
5000 miles. The department only
announced the itinerary as far as
Magdalena Bay, for it was intended
that the fleet should remain there
until the target practice had finished.
A few days ago, the itinerary for
the trip from Magdalena Bay to San
Francisco was announced. 1t con-
templated five stops-the first at San
Diego Coronado Beach, Santa Bar
bara, San Pedro, Santa Cruz and San
Francisco
1t is expected that the feet will
remain at Magdalena Bay engaged
in target practice for at least a
month, and that it will take the
ships three weeks longer to go up
the coast of California and make the
stops named, and it is not expected
that they will reach San Francisco
before the first week in May.
Secretary Metcalf, who Is going to
San Francisco to welcome the fleet,
will leave Washington about April
20 and reach the Coast a few days
before the fleet arrives at the Golden
Gate. The department is perfectly
satisfied with the cruise and declares
that as a practice cruise 1t has come
up to expectations and has afforded
opportunities for drills, evolutions
and other naval tactics, and for care
full and exacting seamanship in wa
ters of which many American naval
men are comparatively new.
The trip has been made without
accident to any of the vessels. The
naval officials declare that there is
genuine cause for congratulations
over the manner in which the fleet
has completed its voyage.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
y. IN GIRLS SCHOOL
Principal Kills Her chum and
."1aa Herself.

Boston Especially Suffering from
melancholia, due to overwork, Miss
Sarah Charnberlin Weed, of Pl la
delphia, shot and killed Miss Eliza
beth Bailey Hardee, of Savannah,
Ca, and then committed suicide at
the Laurens School, a fashionable
boarding school for girls. The Lau-
rens School was established last fall
by Miss Hardee and Miss Weed.
Both were graduates of Wellesley
College, and intimate friends. On
October 1, the day the school open
ed, Miss Weed broke down as a
result of overwork, and was I'M
mitted to a sanitarium in New on, +,
| to be treated for nervous pro- .ra-
tion.
For a while Miss Weed was con-
fined at DR.. Norton's sanitariuri at
Norwood, but she escaped from
there, and was transferred to Dr.
buttons home for convalescents at
West Newton. From there she es-
capped and came directly to Boston,
presenting herself at the school
building at 1O7 Audubon road be-
tween and 10 O'Clock p. NJ.
Miss Hardee greeted her, and feel
ing 1t impossible to return her part
ner to the sanitarium at so late an
hour of the night, made arrange
ments to keep her at the school
building Accordingly, the house
keeper put Miss Weed to bed in
room on the fourth floor.
The sick woman slept until about
3 A. NJ, when she was heard moving
about in her room by Miss Hardee,
who occupied a room on the front
of the third floor The latter sought
Miss Weed and brought her down
to the third-foor room and took her
into bed with her There the couple
remained until 6.15 o'clock A. NJ,
when the housekeeper called at the
room, awakened Miss Hardee and
Miss Weed, and told them that they
were to have an early breakfast SO
that Miss Weed might return to the
Newton institution on the 1875 train.
Then the housekeeper started down
stairs and she had not reached the
street floor before she heard the two
fatal shots. She rushed back to the
room, but both women were lying
practically lifeless. Miss Hardee was
barely breathing with a bullet wound
at the base of the brain, and Miss
Weed was already dead from a we'll
directed shot at the right temple.
The housekeeper fastened to sum-
mon DR.. Joslyn, but both women had
breathed their last when he arrived.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
PRIESTS SLAYER TO HANG.
No Evidence To Connect Ala With
The Anarchists.

Denver, Col. (SpeciaD Giuseppe
Ala, who shot and killed Father Leo
Heinrichs in st. Elizabeth's Church
in this city February 23, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree.
Hanging was the penalty fixed by the
jury. =.
In the argument just before the
jury took the case Mr.. Widdicombe
said that the only possible explana-
ton of the murder is that the man
is an anarchist or is insane. There
was absolutely no evidence that the
man is an anarchist, and the fact that
he practically was In starving con-
dition would indicate that he was
not a member of any society. Other
wise, he would have had enough to
eat at least.
District Attorney G. A. Stidger in
his closing argument asked:
when everything In the life of
the prisoner shows that. this man is
sane, is an American jury to find
him insane?" He said that II not an
alienist had testified to the prison
er's sanity the jury could find no evil
dence of insanity in Ala, unless 1t
adopted the theory of DR.. Tosti, that
every murderer Ia insane.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
IS ANXIOUS 70
Orchard chserfuEy Awaits Death
Sentences.
PARDON WOULD Be RESISTED.
Self-eonfessed Murderer of Many Men
and Chief Witness Against Haywood
and Pettibene Says He Is Ready to
Take His Observation-Disclosures he
Told Only the Truth.

Boise, Idaho (speciaD.-on the
morning of his forty-second birthday,
next Wednesday, in the District
Court of Canyon County, Harry
Orchard, confessed murderer of form
er Gov. Frank Steunenberg, who was
killed by the explosion of a bomb at
the gate of his residence, in Caldwell
on the evening of December 30, 1905,
will face Judge Fremont Wood pre-
pared to hear the death sentence
meted out to him.
Harry Orchard of his own volition
and against the urgent pleadings OF
his attorney and others, refused,
when arraigned on March 10, to let
his previous plea of mot guilty"
stand. He also refused to plead to
a lesser degree of murder than first
degree. He said:
Il am guilty and am ready to take
my punishment. l have told the
truth. l understand fully what
must be the consequences.
Some expressions are heard that
Orchard has been guaranteed i'm
munity of some sort. This is denied
by those in authority and by Orchard
Those who have been in close com
munication with Orchard-prison Of
ficers and spiritual advisers-all ex-
press the opinion that should an eff
fort be made to commute his SEN
tence or pardon him, Orchard will re-
fuse to accept the lenity.
1t is the general belief that Or
chard expects to die, and that he
wishes to suffer the extreme penalty
for his crimes. Orchard refuses to
make any statement for publication.
He spends much time with books. es-
pecially the Bible and religious
works.
Orchard was the chief witness
against Haywood and Pettibone, who
were prosecuted in connection with
outrages attributed to the Western
Federation of Miners.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
SHOT FROM AMBUSH.
Assassins Severely Wound The
Wrong Men.

Dixon, Ky. (Speci II. Fatal
wounding of Deputy Marshal Smith
Childers by Jacob Mcdowell, a negro,
at Providence, KY. was the indirect
cause of the shooting of two travel
ing men. p. B. Carter, of Chattanoo-
ga, and ]. B. Barry, commercial trav-
elers, were shot and severely wound
ed from ambush by negroes while
driving between Dixon and Provi-
dence with two other drummers. Inc
negroes who did the shooting evil
IDENTIFY thought that the statesmen
were pursuing Mcdowell.
Deputy Marshal Childers was shot
while attempting to arrest Mcdowell.
The negro was taken to Dixon by an
other officer. White men immediate
ly gathered to lynch Mcdowell.
Negroes of Providence, hearing
this, armed themselves and lay in
wait by the road over which the mob
was expected to pass. The travelling
men soon came along, and the am
bushed negroes fired on them and
escaped. Mcdowell was hurried from
Dixon to Henderson.
The mob, arriving at the Dixon jail
at o'clock A. NJ, and finding Nc
Dowell gone, set out with blood
hounds to find the negroes who had
fired on the travelling men. viii Nc
Dowell, cousin of the prisoner; Tom
Fuqua, Tom Miller and another
negro were arrested charged with
shooting the travelling men.
The mob has not found the four
negroes, and probably will not go to
Henderson after Mcdowell.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
CARRIERS WIN AT LAST.
Salaries Raised To $1,000, Despite
Committee Opposition.

Washington, d. C. Especially DE
termined and persistent assaults on
the Postoffice Appropriation Bill in
the House of Representatives result
ed in the modification of that meas
ure in many important particulars,
despite the protest of Chairman Over
street and his committee. The letter
carriers finally won their long fight
for $1,000 salaries when an amend
ment by Mr.. Goebel, of Ohio, grant
ing the same was adopted The
House also allowed an additional
$4,000 for clerks in third-class Of
fees where the salaries of the post
masters range from 1000 to $1,000,
and $4,000 additional for contract
stations.
The prohibitionists also had their
innings when, through an amendment
by Mr.. Houston (Tenn.), there was
incorporated in the bill a provision
prohibiting the transmission through
the mails of intoxicating liquors,
which later modified so as to include
cocaine and it's derivatives. Alto
gether the appropriations carried by
the bill were decreased to the extent
of $1,225,000.
An amendment by Mr.. Kustermann
(Wis.) prohibiting the use in post
offices of any cancelling machines ex-
cept those acquired by purchase
aroused a lively debate as to the
rights of patentees. There was a
great diversity of opinion on the sub
ject. The amendment finally was
ruled out on a point of order that it
changed existing law which express
ly appropriated for the rental of
such machines.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
SOME ODD STORIES y
AS TOLD BY WIRE
otter, Geese, And oarp AZ One Haul.

Otter, Geese, And Carp At One Haul.
New York Especially wesley Ja-
cobus, farmer, living on Hook
Mountain, near Toweco, N. j., shot,
into a flock OF wild geese, which rose
from a marshy inlet of the Passaic
River and brought down two. He
was surprised a moment later to see
another goose rise into the afr, thirty
feet, again and again, only to fall to
the ground.
Upon investigation he discovered
that the goose was caught on a set
line nearly FIVE hundred feet long,
with fifty hooks set at intervals. A
section of the line was on the land
and the goose had swallowed one of
the bats of this section.
Following up the line, Jacobus
found il drawn down into a hole
under a stump. Pulling the line,
he dragged out of the hole a snap
ing, snarling otter, which in some
way had been caught by one of its
feet on hook.
But this was not all, for on that
part of the line still in the water
upon the last hook. Jacobus found
an eighteen pound German carp.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
Foreign

The German torpedo boat 2 was
run into and sunk by an unknown
steamer at the mouth of the River
Elbe and the chief engineer was
drowned, but the remainder of the
crew were rescued.
The Socialist bill declaring every
man entitled to employment and com
pelling the English authorities to
provide it at union wages was reject
ed in the House of Commons.
A copy of the cipher of the Ameri-
can State Department was stolen
from the American legation at
Bucharest by a French employe.
China has expressed to Japan her
Willingness to restore the steamer
Tatsu Maru and apologize for haul
ing down the Japanese flag.
Gen. Giovanni Battisto Degiorgis,
who for some years was chief of the
international gendarmerie in Mace
donia, died in Rome.
The French Academy refused a be-
quest OF 100000 by Mile. Louise Le-
clerc, who died in New York, because
of the terms.
The Gear contemplates a number
of changes in the Russian diplomatic
service; some Of the olders diplomats
TO be retired.
Sigmund Friedberg, private bank
er OF Berlin, who disappeared last
months, left assets S2.750. liabilities
100000
Eighteen persons were killed by an
avanlanche in the Dukhtarminsk dis
trict, Russia.
Fire destroyed 200 native shacks
in the Samplouic district of Manila
on the evening of March II. The
damage is estimated at 100000 in
gold.
Government advices from Morocco
indicate that the star of Mulai Hafid,
the so-ealled Sultan OF the South, is
waning fast. b.!
Six peasants were killed and sew
eral Others wounded In an encounter
with police at Kochetovka, Russia.
The Bavarian government has or
dered the expulsion of a number OF
American Mormon missionaries.
In the Douma Foreign Minister
Iswolsky announced that very cordial
relations exist between Japan and
Russia.
The Porto Rican House OF Dele
gates passed a bill authorizing the
insnlar government to operate a lot
terry.
Italian troops are reported TO have
killed AGO SULLIVAN tribesmen in a
battle in Somaliland.
The mother Of Joseph Santos Ze-
iaya, the president OF Nicaragua, died
at Managna.
Mn. ADpa Gould, with her children,
sailed from Cherbourg for New York.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
Government Paper Burned.

Carlisle, Pa. (SpeciaD The large
stockhouse of the Mount Holly Pa
per Company's plant, at Mount Holly
Springs, this county, which has for
many years produced federal and
state bond paper, was burned to the
ground. 1t was fred by sparks from
a passing locomotive. Several car
loads OF fine government paper in the
stockhouse were TO have been sent
to Washington tomorrow The loss
is estimated at 100000.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
WASHINGTON

Senators Bacon and Tillman, dur
ing addresses in the Senate, intimat-
ed that President Roosevelt was die
tating what laws Congress shall pass.
Representative Willett attacked the
President on the floor of the House
as a "despot"
The Navy Department sent a con-
gratulatory telegram to Admiral
Evans on the termination of the
cruise in exact accordance with the
itinerary.
DR.. Hugh Dickey, who has been in
charge OF the trachoma hospital at
Halifax, N. S., has resigned by re-
quest coincident with an investiga-
ton of charges of conspiracy to de-
fraud immigrants from England.
The secretary of Speaker Cannon
states that John Sharp Williams is
responsible for placing Richard p.
Hobson on the Naval Committee.
Majority and minority reports on
the Brownsville affair were submitted
to the Senate and q letter from the
President permitting the re-enlist-
ment OF the discharged scldlers.
President Roosevelt Instructed
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner
of corporations, TO inquire into the
methods of making stock transactions
on the various boards of trade and
stock exchanges.
Commander Key continued his tes.
timony before the Senate committee
investigating charges of structural
defects in the big ships of the United
States Navy
Senator Clarke, of Arkansas. op.
posed both the Aldrich and the Bailey
Currency Bills.
The vessels to compose the new At,
lantic feet are rapidly approaching
completion
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
MIR. CoRTELYoU WINS.
Court Sustains His Right To Reject
Bids For Canal Bonds.

Washington, d. c. Especially -
The Supreme Court of the District
Of Columbia has dismissed the pro-
ceedings instituted some months ago
by George W. Austin, of New York,
to compel Secretary Cortelyou to is
sue to him s3.000,O00 worth of Pan
anna Canal bonds. The court held
that the Secretary had the right to
reject any or all bids or to consider
the financial conditions of the coun-
try, and that, if the courts were to
enjoin such proceedings, a syndicate
might get control of an entire bond
issue and cause financial ruin. Aus
tin appealed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
ZOO Prisoners Mutiny.

Pontiac, Ill. Especially "A desper-
ate rush of 700 mutinous convicts
for the wall which stands between
them and liberty, occurred at the
State Reformatory. The guards put
up stubborn hght and the ringlead-
ers, all Chicago criminals, were herd
ed into the top gallery. There, on
a narrow platform 40 feet from the
main floor, they fought until finally
quelled. Half dozen guards and as
many prisoners were injured
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
Seven Railroads Sued.

Scranton, Pa. Especially Omitted
States District Attorney Wilmer. Of
the middle district of Pennsylvania,
entered proceedings here against the
Central Railroad of New Jersey,
Pennsylvania Railroad, Buffalo and
susquehanna Railroad, Williamsport
and North Branch Railroad. Phila-
eelphia and Reading Railway, New
York Central Railroad and the
Eaglesmere Railroad for violations Of
the Safety Appliance law. In all 23
violations are specified.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
Federal Judge Clark Dead.

Knoxville. Tenn. Especially Judge
c. d. Clark, who was appointed to
the federal bench by President Cleve-
land in 1895 as Judge of the Eastern
and Middle districts of Tennessee, is
dead at Chattanooga, aged 61. He
had been in Asheville, N. c., for
sometime, for his health; and only
Saturday was removed to Chatta-
nooga. He was a native of Tennes-
see.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
British Death Duties.

London (By Cable) The injus-
tice of the British death duties was
illustrated. Canon Barker received
&155,0 900 on the death OF a sister,
who came into possession OF tl.ls
money as legatee of her husband,
who died four days before she did.
The government, therefore, takes a
double duty of e27,7O0, or IA per
cent. OF the estate
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
100 Per Cent. In ~ Years.

New York Especially THE direc-
tors of the Virglnia-Carolina Chem
ical Company declared the regular
quarterly dividend of 2 per cent,
payable April Is to stockholders Of
record on March 81. This is the
fiftieth consecutive quarterly dividend
the company has declared, which
means that in the last 12h years
the company has paid 100 per cent,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
BABY TOSSED DOWN SAFELY.
Thrown From Burning Third Story
OF A Tenement.

Summit, N. J. Especially John
MacNabb's tenement, on the third
floor of brick building on Summit
Avenue, was burned out. MacNabb
and his wife got out all right, but a
fireman found in bed in a room
where walls we're on fire something
which he hastily wrapped all the bed
clothes about and tossed out of the
window.
Policeman Smith, on the sidewalk,
saw the bundle coming his way and
caught 1t. The bundle began to howl
and Smith, peeling the blankets
away, found that inside was a baby.
1t was the youngest MacNabb, IA
months old. He wasn't harmed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
Inst OF Dreyfus Case.

Paris (By Cable) The last act OF
justice in the famous Dreyfus case
was performed when the Chamber
of Deputies passed a bill restoring
Joseph Reinach, the historian of the
case, to his rank in the territorial
army. The bill was passed, however
only after the Government had been
defeated. Reinach's name was sup
pressed from the measure, which was
made general to cover all officers
punished.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
Held In Paris As Sharks.

Paris (By Cable) The Paris
police have arrested three Americans
who gave their names as Schwob and
De Montgomerie, of Pittsburg, and
Howard, Of Colorado, and described
themselves as guide interpreters"
The men are charged with obtaining
large sums of money from American
visitors under false pretenses. The
prisoners declare the charges base
less.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
JAPAN OUR FRIEND.
Declaration OF Ambassador Taxa
hira Is Cheered.

New York Especially With declar-
ations that there are now between
the United States and Japan no ques-
tions of any magnitude likely to re-
main unsettled much longer, and that
any questions arising in the future
will be brought to satisfactory con-
cluslons by the spirit of friendship
existing between the two countries,
Baron Kogoro Takahira, Japanese
ambassador, called forth prolonged
cheers at the banquet at the Hotel
Astor rendered in his honor by the
Japan Society of New York.
The Japanese Ambassador was
speaking of the recent agitation re-
garding the Japanese immigration
question, and his words, spoken be-
fore the society, formed to promote
friendly relations between the two
countries, we're taken as a prophecy
of continued peace in the Pacific.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
Was In Famous Fight.

Atchison, Kan. (Specia) - Fred
erick w. Foster, machinist and gun
ner on the Confederate cruiser Ala
bama during the Civil War, and one
of 40 men who escaped when that
vessel was sunk by the United States
cruiser Kearsarge, died here. Fos-
ter kept his connection with the Ala
bama's career u secret until less than
year ago.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-19
Roosevelt May visit England.

London (By Cable) "A persistent
rumor that President and Mrs.
Roosevelt will visit England next
year is current in American circles
here.N 1t is said that he will stay six
months in London with his family
and will study the organization of
the navy and the management of the
dock yards