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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
TO EXPERIMENT
With WIRELESS
The Navy viii Make Elaborate
Tests.
Efforts Will BE Made To Transmit
Messages Over A Distance OF 5000
Miles On The Atlantic Seaboard
-Brant Rock, Mass, Will BE The
Base OF Operations During The
Trials---To BE Secret.

Washington, D. G. Especially -
The Navy is soon to conduct expert
ment in long-distance wireless tele-
graphy. Impressed with the import
ance of a system which will in cases
of necessity transmit messages from
some place on the Atlantic seaboard
for distance of 5000 miles, the
matter was taken up in earnest al
most a year ago. The desirability
of such long-distance communication
the officials say is obvious, for in
times of war it would prove invalua-
BILE to the government. BY its
means the Navy Department will be
able to control and direct readily
from shore the movements of the
fleet. This, together with the propo-
sition to install wireless apparatus
on ships so that they may be able
to communicate with each other at
a distance of 1000 miles, will put
the government in the position where
directions given to one vessel quickly
may be transmitted to another.
The experiments in communica
ting 5000 miles are to take place
at Brant Rock, Mass, beginning
probably late in December. Instru-
ments constructed for this purpose
have been installed in a tower over
400 feet high. Two scout cruisers,
the Salem and Birmingham, are to
be utilized as receiving stations. Re-
pairs to these vessels now under way
will be completed December 4, soon
after which they will leave the Uni
ted States for radius of 5000
miles from Brant Rock, the present
program contemplating cruise
from the Scottish coast downward to
the West African coast and also in
the American tropics. Meanwhile
messages will be sent to each of
these vessels, both of which will be
equipped with 10-kilowat power re-
ceiving apparatus, capable, it is as
serted, of recording the long-distance
communications. At the same time
the vessels will exchange messages
for the purpose of testing the ap
paratus for communicating 1000
miles at sea.
Strict requirements were laid
down by the Navy Department in
the specifications inviting proposals
for constructing the proposed high
powered station, as well as for the
apparatus aboard ships. The mes
sages from shore must not be in
terrupted by atmospheric disturb
ances or intentional or unintention-
al interference by neighboring sta
tions. The messages also must be
transmitted with entire secrecy. The
apparatus aboard the ships must be
capable of transmitting and receiving
messages at all times, in all seasons
and in all latitudes for 1000 miles
and to receive messages from the
high-powered station for 5000 miles
at all times.
Upon the result of these expert
ments will rest the question of the
erection by the Navy of a wireless
tower at Washington, D. c., as coil
templated originally, that in Massa-
chusetts belonging to private COM
pany.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE

The Bank OF England raised it's
rate of discount from 4 to per cent
Commodity prices this month are
at the high point of the year, and are
higher than at any time since the
end of 1907.
Baltimore and Ohio in September
returned a gain of $1.099,424 IN
gross earnings and gaia of $470,-
326 IN net profits.
London got rid or about 10000
shares of U. S. Steel, but brokers
said many OF the selling orders were
sent from America.
r. Dewitt Cuyler, of Philadelphia,
and Edwin Hanley were elected di-
rectors OF the Mercantile Trust Com
pany of New York.
The Ontario Power Company in
creased in the third quarter of 1909
its output OF electric power over II
per cent. as compared with the cor
responding quarter of 1908,
Bethlehem Steel, according to in
side people. Is earning IA per cent. on
its Sl4,90S,000 of preferred stock or
say Z per cent on the preferred, and
an equal amount on the common.
America owes Europe a great deal
less money than has been represents
ed, declared Jacob II. Schiff, the emf
nent banker. who just returned from
abroad
Judge r. s, Lovett was elected
president of Union Pacific, to sue
ceed Hartman. and A. l.. Mohler, j..
C. Stubs, julius Kruttschnitt and
William Mahl were appointed vice
presidents.
President George II. Earle makes a
very favorable statement of the con
dition OF the Real Estate Trust Com
pany, the assets of which are now
placed at $9,551,276.
President Il. b. Thomas. after at
tending the Lehigh Valley Railroad
directors meeting said that the bus
mess of that company was fully as
good as in the record year 1907.
"The Bank OF England's big bank
rate may succeed in getting away
from France a part of It's absolutely
large hoardings OF gold and II SO, the
rest OF the world ought to be pleas
ed" said well-known Philadelphia
banker.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
WASHINGT
BY TELEGRAPH

The Department of Labor author
ized the release of De Lara under
$4,000 bond.
The application of the officials
planning a development exposition,
to be held in Boston in November,
to haXe exhibits entered free of duty,
has been granted.
The entire consignment of picked
skins of animals killed in Africa by
Roosevelt has been received at the
Smithsonian Institution.
The Supreme Council, Southern
Jurisdiction, Scottish Rite Masons,
elected a number of active members.
The revenue cutter Windon has
gone from assistance of a steamer off
Napeague, l.. |.
American capital Is being invested
heavily abroad in the construction of
railroads.
The Navy will soon conduct expert
ments in long distance wireless
telegraphy.
The revenue cutter Windham has
gone from Galveston to Corpus
Christi, Tex,
The United Textile Association of
America reelected John Golden oresi-
dent
After selecting Cincinnati, Ohio,
as the place for its next convention,
and electing officers, the convention
OF the Carriage Builders National
Association adjourned.
Attorney General Dickinson order
ed a nolle pros to be entered in the
case of DR.. e. b. Perrin, accused of
being implicated in the California
land fraud cases.
The conduct of national bank ex-
aminers in connection with the bad
condition of two banks in Michigan
and Wisconsin is being investigated
An official of the Agricultural De-
partment declared that the rigid in
sDection OF meat in this country Is
responsible for the high prices.
John l.. Griffith. United States
consul general at London, reports a
large increase in the number OF un-
employed in Great Britain.
A bulletin of the Census Bureau
shows a decrease in the percentage
of deaths from tuberculosis.
The reports OF the internal reve-
nue. collections for the month of
September shows an increase over
the collections of the same month
last year of s2,955,674.
Capt. Cameron MGR. Wlnslow,
commanding the New Hampshire,
has been transferred to duty as SUI
peryisor of the harbor OF New York.
A dozen scientists OF worldwide
standing will pass on the merits OF
the Peary-Cook controversy.
A new explosive of great power
has been tested on the Panama
Canal.
Commander Pearys record reach
ed the National Geographical Soci-
ETY.
Commander Philip Andrews, who
has been on duty at the Naval War
College. at Newport. has been ORDER
ed to Washington to act as naval aid
to Secretary Meyer.
Juan j. Estrada. the leader OF
the present revolution In Nicaragua,
appealed to the Secretary OF State
for the recognition OF his provisional
government.
Senior Mejia. the minister from
Salvador. is seriously III.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
WILL F0RT|FY The
PANAMA CANAL
frmy and Navy Board Will Consider
the Project
PROBABLY lWELvE.INCH GUNS.
The Defense Of The Inter-Ocean
Canal Will BE Divided Between
The Fleet And The Land Forces
Congress Will Probably BE Asked
To Make The Necessary Appropri-
alton At The Coming Session
Officials Are To Visit The Canal.

Washington, d. G. Especially The
important work of constructing forti-
fications for the entrances to the
Panama Canal will be given careful
consideration by a joint army and
navy board during the coming winter.
Ihis board, the personnel of which
mas been partly completed, will visit
the lsthmus and go over the entire
ground in thorough and systematic
manner, making the investigation of
conditions there most complete, so
that Congress may be prepared to act
lntelligently as soon as it is decided
that the work for fortifying shall be-
gin. Colonel Goethals, the chair
man, and the chief engineer of the
canal commission, has promised that
the canal shall be ready to be open
ed by January l, 1915, and the
President and his cabinet feel that
the work of placing that waterway
In an impregnable position should
be finished or at least well under
way by the time the canal is ready
for practical uses. The board will
consist of Brigadier General William
L. Marshall, chief of engineers;
Brigadier General William Crozier,
chief of ordnance Brigadier General
Arthur Murray, chief of Coast Ar
tillery; Brigadier General w. w.
Wothers1oon, assistant chief of staff !:
two naval officers yet to be selected
and possibly others.
The general question of the forti-
hcations for the canal has been dis
cussed by the Army and Navy for
years. 1t is possible that if the re-
port of the board is made in time
Congress may at this session appro-
pirate money for the work The new
board will have available considera-
Bile data on which to inaugurate
work, for in 1906 the national coast
defense board, of which President
Taft was then at the head. made a
thorough examination into the whole
subject of Notifications, and recon-
mended an expenditure of $4,827,-
6S2. Since that time conditions have
changed, and it may be found de-
sirable by the board to make other
recommendation involving differ
ences found necessary as a result of
development in national defense.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
Foreign

The seismic disturbances in Italy
the last two days were predicted by
Frank Perret, the American scientist,
formerly assistant director of the
Royal Observatory, on Mount We
suvius.
The Danish cabinet, of which
Count Holstein-Ledrebord was pre-
mier, resigned following a vote in
the Chamber of Deputies expressing
want of confidence in the govern
ment.
David Lloyd George, chancellor Of
the British exchequer, presented in
Parliament the revised budget show
ing a falling off from the original
estimates of $10,500, 900.
The contention between Count de
Castellane and his former wife over
the placing of their children in a
certain school has gotten into the
Paris courts.
Priyy Councillor Albert Weissner,
principal private secretary to the
late Emperor William throughout the
latter's reign, died in Berlin.
A semi-ofIicial newspaper of st.
Petersburg contains an article say
ing that relations between Japan and
the United States are strained.
Reported in St. Petersburg that
the powers have addressed a joint
note to Russia with regard TO Mau-
churian affairs.
An engagement is imminent be-
tween the revolutionary and the
government forces near Rama City,
Nicaragua.
The completion of contracts be-
tween the German potash mines and
the American fertilizer companies
has led the German government 10
prepare bills for submission to the
Reichstag to create government con-
troll of the potash industry.
DR.. Nordeviskijold, the Antarctic
explorer is impressed. he says, with
Explorer Rasminder's report of in
formation the latter received TO the
effect that DR.. Cook reached the
North Pole.
The postal officials of Germany.
Austria-Hungary and Switzerland
met In Berlin to arrange a system of
postal check interchange between
these two countries.
Seven masked robbers held up the
cashier of the Banque Rationale at
st. Anime, Quebec, blew open the
safe and got away with $4,000.
Colonel Roosevelt and party re-
turned to Nairobi from Naiwasha.
British East Africa, and in December
will proceed to Uganda
Henri Farman has been accorded
the grand prize OF $4,000 for the
longest flight at the aviation meeting
at Blackpool, Eng.
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, in
spector general OF the British forces,
has left Peking for the Manchurian
battlehelds.
II IA believed at Managua that
President Cabrera. of Guatemala, Is
responsible for the revolution In
Nicaragua.
twenty-five persons were drown
ed In the bursting of a dam at Lake
Derkos, near Constantinople.
bomb explosion IN Munich did
considerable damage to buildings.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
The news.
Domestic

T. p. OConnor, member of Parlia-
ment for Liverpool, arrived in New
York to raise funds for the Irish Par
liamentary party
John +. Campbell, a guard in a
prison in Newcastle County, Del, was
shot and killed during a fight with a
prisoner.
The Bell telephone interests are
reported to have absorbed the indie
pendent companies in Ohio and In
diana.
Convicts in Dennemora prison, AL
bany, n. Y, plotted to escape by
blowing out a wall with dynamite.
Judge oscar Lesser, of the Appeal
Tax Court, of Baltimore, told the
legislative commission of Massachu-
sets that the state laws of that state
needed many changes to make them.
equitable.
The use of tobacco by ministers
will be barred if the wishes of the
Woman's Board of Home Missions
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, are carried out.
Evangelistic work occupied the
time of the officers and delegates to
the thirty-sixth annual convention of
Union at Omaha.
Unable to speak coherently be-
cause of exhaustion, George Scheib-
stein, of Chicago, was picked up 40
miles off Holland, Mich, by the
steamer Puritan.
James Campbell, Of st. Louis, was
elected a director and member of
the executive committee of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas Railway
Company.
President James McCrea, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, left Duluth,
Mimi, in a special train for the
Mesaba Iron Range.
The task of double tracking the
main line of the Santa Fe system
from Los Angeles to Chicago will be
started soon.
Announcement was made that the
telephone is to supplant the tele-
graph in train dispatching over the
entire Santa Fe system.
Fire in the manufacturing section
of Dayton broke away from control
and caused damage estimated at
over 100000.
Mrs. Frank Harper was arrested at
Athens, o., on a charge of numbering
her husband, a railroad telegraph
lineman.
The entire town of Shipton, Kan
sas, was sold at auction to Frederick
Warnow. a farmer, for S2,660.
Bank robbers. believed to number
three robbed the Reedsville State
Bank of Wisconsin of $6,5OO.
Judge Lovett was elected president
of the Union Pacific at New York
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
OIl.Soakcd Boy Aflrc.

Fargo. N. ID. Especially Kenneth
Mckenzie. the son OF Simon McKen-
zie. OF Aneta. North Dakota, lies in
St Johns Hospital In this city in
o critical condition as a result OF
a fiendIsh attack perpetrated. II is
said, by two alleged Illicit liquor
dealers, In a spirit OF revenge upon
his father. Young Mckenzie, while
on his way home alone. was waylaid
by two men who took his lantern
from him. poured the oil II contain
cd over his clothing and then set his
garments afire. When help came the
boy had been horribly burned.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
FALL Of The
MiURA CABINET
Result OF Attacks on Spanish
Government.
A NEW MINISTRY IS FORMED.
Moret OF Prendergast The New Pre-
mier--Uproar In Chamber OF Dep
uties Over The Announcement OF
The Maura Cabinets Resignation.
The Fall OF Maura Not Expected
AT The Vatican-Reserved About
The Change.

Madrid Especially The Spanish
cabinet, which was formed January
25, 1907, under the premiership of
Antonio Maura, resigned as a result
of the bitter attacks made against
the government by the former pre-
mier, Moret y Prendergast, repre-
senting a powerful opposition.
At conference with King Alfonso
Premier Maura told the King that
in the face of Senior Moret's state
ment, that the opposition would re-
fuse to discuss even the most urgent
measures, he had no option but TO
resign. He asked, however, the
members of the majority to support
the new ministry.
Upon the receipt of the resignation
of the Premier and his ministers,
Moret Prendergast undertook to
form new ministry, himself assum-
ing the post of premier and minister
of the interior. The new ministers.
who took the oath of office, are as
follows:
Premier and Minister of the In
terior-Moret y Prendergast.
Minister of Foreign Affairs-Perez
Caballero.
Minister of Finance-Senor Alva-
RADIO.
Minister of War-Lieutenant Cen
eral de Luque.
Minister OF Marine-Rear Admiral
Concas.
Minister of Public Works-senor
Gasset
Minister OF Public Instruction
Senor Barroso.
Minister of Justice-Martine del
Campo.
When the president of the Cham
Der of Deputies made the announce
ment of the cabinets resignation, it
was received with such an ear-split-
ting uproar that he was forced to
adjourn the sitting
Preceding the formation of the
Maura cabinet there has been no less
than five Liberal ministries in 18
months. The religious issues had
been the rock on which these minis
tries had been wrecked and the ac-
cession to power Of Senior Maura,
who had before held the premier
ship, was regarded as a sweeping vic
tory FOR the Clericals, and one like
ly to arouse a revolutionary spirit
This proved to be the case, the
opposition finally uniting against the
governments conduct and futherance
of the war In Morocco. The stern
measures taken to put down the re-
cent antiwar demonstrations in Spain
tended to inflame the opposition, and
the execution of Ferrer followed by
popular demonstrations of disapprov-
al brought matters to a crisis.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
NEW AUTO FOR TAFT.
Special Machine Purchased For
Handling The Presidential
Baggage.

Washington. d. c. (SpeciaD. -
President Taft has added another to
his collection of autos. The Govern
ment has purchased an express ma
chine for the purpose of conveying
baggage to the station when any
member of the Presidents family or
guests at the White House may be
arriving or leaving.
The wagon is the fourth purchase
Of its kind to he made since Mr..
Taft became President, thereby illus
trating the chief executives faith in
the hardness of autos.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
Her Hair Pulled Out.

Centreville, Nd. (SpeciaD Miss
Bertha Durney, who operates a type
setting machine of the Centrevillc
Observer, was seriously injured by
getting caught in the betting which
runs tie machine. She was stand
Ing on chair when her hair came
In contact with the betting, and was
hurled to the ceiling All the hair
on the right side of the head was
torn out, she received several scalp
wounds and was bruised about the
head and body.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
40 PASSENGERS SAW HoLD.Ur.
Watched Suburban Chicago High
wayman Rob Conductor.

Chicago Especially In view of
scores of passengers of the Chicago
to-New Orleans Central train two
highwaymen held up and robbed
Conductor Dawson when the limited
train stopped at Harvey, a Chicago
suburb. for water. Passengers, fear
ing that the robbers would march
through the train and attack the
mail car, hurried into their seats
and remained there until a posse of
citizens and deputy sheriffs arrived
at the station in answer to an emer-
gency call. The thieves obtained a
watch, a ring and about $40.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
Savings OF Soldiers.

Washington. d. c. Especially. -
The benefit of the army deposit sys-
tenn to enlisted men, the report of
General Charles II. Whipple. pay
master general of the army, says, is
universally recognized Deposits
during the fiscal year 1909 amount
ed to sl.s61.19s from 60.3s5 men.
The system encourages spirit OF
thrift and saving which. in the ooin-
ion OF General Whipple. unquestion-
ably elevates the standard OF en-
listed men.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
BUCHANAN's DEATH MYSTERY
Autopsy Shows Diplomat Was Vic
time OF Heart Failure.


London (SpeciaD An autopsy on
the body of William /. Buchanan, the
American diplomat, whose body was
found in Park Lane. was held, fol-
lowing which 1t was officially an
nounced that Mr.. Buchanan had died
of heart failure.
The official papers and personal
papers found in the hotel rooms oc-
cupied by Mr. Buchanan have been
turned over to the American Embas-
sy
Investigation thus far has failed
to throw any light on the move
men.s of the diplomat during the
few hours preceding his death.
Friends who had seen him during
the day, say he appeared to be in the
best of health and spirits. He left
his hotel just before the dinner hour
on Saturday, but where or with
whom he dined or how he spent the
evening has not been learned There
were no evidences of assault or rob-
berry,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
Corporation Tax Attacked.

Denver Especially The feature of
tho opening session hero of the CON
vention of the American Association
of Public Accountants was the adj
dress OF Allen Ripley Foote, of Col
umbus, Ohio. president OF the In
ternational Tax Association. He de-
clared that the corporation tax which
recently became a law was "a crime
against American business men"
that It worked hardship on every
corporation stockholder.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28

Paris (SpeciaD Count de Lam
bert, the French aeroplanist, Just be-
fore dark accomplished one of the
most remarkable and daring feats
yet credited to heavier-than-air ma
chine. Starting in a Wright biplane
from the aerodrome at Juvisy he
flew to Paris, a distance cf about lS
miles. After maneuvcring over the
city at an average height of four hun
dred feet, he ascended in gradually
diminishing circles and passed sew.
eral hundred feet above the Eihel
Tower. He the returned to Juyisy'
Thousands who watched from the
streets of Paris could scarcely credit
their senses when they saw the aero
plane, o tiny object, gliding swiftly
far above the tower, and the sensa'
tlon created here by this perform
ance was more profound than wnen
Santos Dumont circled the structure
in his dirigiblo balloon in 1900
Count de Lambert was given
tremendous ovation on his return 70
Juvisy. Orville Wright, who was
there with his sister, rushed forward
and wrung the hands OF the aviator
as he alighted, pale but radiant. tie
was led to the pavilion, where MS
health was drunk, the crowd mean
time cheering Justify and crying
Long Live Count dc LamDer,
Long live Russia" Dc Lambert De
ing of Russian extraction.
The Count held up his hand ahe
shouted: Cry long. live the United
States, for it is to her that owe
this success"
The aviator said that thronshou'
his trip he had entire control of tne
machine. The only Inconvenience ~
suffered was from the throbolns "
the engines and from difficulty ~
seeing towards the end In the gau"'
erlng gloom.
Tho official time of the fight was
40 minutes 80 seconds. The ais,
tance was roughly estimated AZ gV
kilometers (31 miles) and the heisH'
varied from 200 TO 1900 feet
Count de Lambert and Mt 1nu
Miss Wright left the field tosolnea
In an automobile. Dragons weIe
obliged to clear q wey through tne
crowd, among which thoTe welo
many enthusiasts who showed a us
sire to carry the aviator in triumph
OH their shoulders.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
Accuser The Guilty One.

st. Louis tspeciaD Mrs. Nam
nette l.. Lillard, who accused Mrs.
Maude Ridley of giving her poison
cd candy, confessed to the police that
she bought the candy and put the
poison in II. She did so. she says,
TO turn Mrs. Ridley against her hus-
band, r. w. Lillard, a newspaper
reporter. Mrs. LIZARDS confession
followed her Identification by a clerk
who sold her the candy. AS she
admitted the poisoning plot was her
own Mrs. Lillard tainted.