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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18

Cherry, III. Especially. - Nearly
400 men and boys. it is believed, are
dead or perishing in the st. Paul
mine as result of the fire, though
experts who penetrated the smoke
filled air shaft to a depth OF 800
feet returned with n ray of hope
for the grief-stricken relatives of
the entombed miners.
That the fire is extinguished is the
report of mining experts sent by
Governor Deneen to investigate the
calamity and its cause. For more
than 80 hours the prisoners had
been cut off from fresh air before
the shaft was entered and undoubt-
edly have been subjected to smoke
and gases.
That life could exist under the
terrible conditions is doubted by
many; but because no trace of high
temperature was found in the depths
OF the mine friends of the miners
and even officers of the company re-
newed some of their failing hope.
A. j. Earling, president of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railroad Company, which owns the
mine, received an encouraging re-
port after heroic efforts had been
made TO open the mine for the re-
coyery of the entombed men.
From John Reid, son of one of the
missing miners, Mr.. Earling heard
that a conclusion OF the earth had
beer felt by farmers half a mile
south OF the main shaft. This re-
port was sent first to Henry Burke,
an officer of the mining company.
Burke rushed to President Earring
and exclaimed:
i've heard signals from the men.
John Reds boys says that he and
farmers whose land is over the south-
ern end of the miHe felt several con
cussions of the earth. There were
several shocks, and the men who
telt them are convinced that they
were shots fred by the imprisoned
miners to signal to the people above
that they still live"
Would the shots mean that or
that the miners had committed sui
eide to end their agony?" asked the
railroad president
The men report" replied Burke,
that the signals were distinct and
that they were meant for an assur
ance that at least some of them live"
"Oh, | hope So" said Mr.. Earling.
That Is at least encouraging"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
WASH!NGT
BY TELEGRAPH

/ President Devries, of the United
States Board of General Appraisers
reported that there was a large per-
centage of differentiation of goods
imported from the Orient through
the San Francisco Custom house.
Commanding officers of the Phil
ippine Islands favor radical changes
in the present system of allowing
double time to soldiers serving in
the islands.
In his annual report General
Marshall, chief of engineers of the
United States Army, recommends an
increase of officers for the engineer
corps.
The fourth of a series of Pan
American Congresses will be held at
| Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic,
between July 10 and 20 next.
The State Department has asked
Cuba to explain the newly negotia-
ted treaty between that country and
Spain.
Secretary of the Interior Balling-
er issued orders for the conserva-
tion of the water-power rights on
public lands.
Henry Litchfield West, member of
the board of district commissioners
of the District of Columbia, resigned
to become associated with Scott C..
Bone in the publication of the Wash
ington Herald
Brigadier General William B..
Rochester, United States Army, re-
| tired, grandson OF the founder Of
the City OF Rochester, N. Y, died
from apoplexy.
President Taft approved the Joint
Army and Navy boards recommends
tion for a naval station at Pearl Har-
Dor in the Philippines.
Judge Alfred Coke, a nephew of
the late Senator Conkling, is a can
didate for the Supreme Court vacan-
cy.
Completing his 13,000-mlie jour-
ney through the West and South
President Taft arrived at 8.35
o'clock from Richmond. Va. He was
greeted at the Union Station by the
members Of the Cabinet and large
crowd of people. He was driven
emmediately to the White House In
the Presidents automobile.
The CLAWS charges were brought
to the attention OF President Taft by
Secretary Ballinger.
William G. Dennis has been des-
ignated agent of the United States
to conduct the case of the Orlnoco
Steamship Company against Vene-
zuela before the international tri-
bunal at The Hague.
Secretary Meyer is working out
the details of the plan for the re-
organization OF the Navy.
President Taft will likely fill sew
eral important vacancies before the
sixty-first Congress convenes.
Secretary of the Interior Balling-
er will take up with President Taft
the latest publication OF the Clovis
charges.
The German government is subsl-
dizing automobiles. the owners
agreeing TO turn them over on de-
mand to the government for military
purposes.
President Taft will soon be called
upon to appoint three brigadier gen
erals and a chief OF engineers.
Counsel for Charles w. Morse
petitioned the Supreme Court OF the
United States 10 review the judg~
ment OF the Circuit Court OF Ap-
peals In New York. In Morse's case.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
IN THE WORLD or FINANCE

There was another boost in cotton.
Kingdom Gould was elected a d.
recto- Of the Manhattan Railway.
Wells-Fargo Express stock Jumped
80 points TO 514. new high record
for Il.
One report has 1t that United
States Steel will purchase the Pitts
burg Coal Company.
Adams Express with 81 extra
joins the ranks of the bigger divi-
dend class.
Mexican Northern Joins the long
list OF companies that have resumed
or increased dividends this year.
This country's lumber output in
1905 was worth $510,5OO, 900, a de-
crease OF $94,00o,000. compared with
1907.
A cable message from London said
the Bank OF England had purchased
$s,000,000 gold In Paris with the
aid OF the Bank OF France.
Americas corn. wheat. hay and
oats crops are all well above the
average for the past five years, ac-
cording to Uncle Sans last aguraa
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
CULEBRA CUT HALF DONE.
Steady Progress Being Made On The
Panama Canal.

Washington, D. C. (SpeciaD -
The cut at Culebra, the backbone of
the Isthmus of Panama, was half
completed on October 23, 39,O02,-
299 cubic yards having been excava-
ted. This gigantic cut will be nine
miles long, 800 feet wide at the bot
tom, which will be 40 feet above
sea level, the normal level of the
water being fixed at S5 feet above the
sea. Its completion is said to be as
sured within four years.
Only 2,S27,79S cubic yards were
excavated on the Panama Canal dur
ing October, as compared with
2,S36,3S5 cubic yards in September.
But the amount of concrete laid dur
ing the month of October-41, $50
cubic yards-was nearly twice the
amount laid the previous month.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
A Florida Limited Wrecked.

Knoxville, Tenn, (speciaD Three
trainmen were killed when the Gin
cinnati-Florida Limited train No. "a
on the Louisville and Nashville Rail
road, was wrecked in a head-on col
lision with a freight at Leinerts. The
passengers escaped with a shaking
up. The freight was standing on
the main line at Leinerts. The pas
senger train crashed into IL at n
speed OF so miles an hour. The
trainmen were buried under the
wreckage of the locomotives A
steel mailcar behind the passenger
locomotive protected the passenger
coaches from serious damage.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
EMPEROR WILL NOT FLY.
Promises His Wife Not To Go Up
In An Aeroplane.

Berlin (SpeciaD Emperor Will
liam confided to Count Zeppelin re-
Gently his fear that he would never
experience the sensation of flying
in the air. He said he had promised
the Empress that he would never
make an ascent either in a dirigible
balloon or an aeroplane. His Maj
esty added that the Empress regard
ed all air crafts as extremely peril
ous.
Count Zeppelin has had the hon
or of having as passengers in his
airships two kings, two queens and
many princes and princesses, and
these royal flights have been given
much publicity. Der Reichbots, a
daily paper which has the distinction
of being one of those read regular
ly by the Empress. publishes many
letters from correspondents who ex-
press regret that Crown Prince
Frederick William risked his life,
as the writers put it. by making an
ascent with Orville Wright.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
Woman Kills With Acid.

Clarksburg, w. Va. (SpeciaD -
Mrs. Charlotte Wilburn, wife of
Walter A. Wilburn, a miner at the
Ogara Coal and Coke Company's
mine, at PhoeniXville, is dead of
carbolic acid burns, and Mrs. Prud-
ence Pollock, wife OF Robert Pol
lock, pit boss at the mine, is pris-
oner in the county jail, accused of
throwing the deadly acid in her face
this morning at the Wilburn home.
1t is understood that the two wom-
en- quarreled, and several ounces of
the acid were thrown into Mrs. Will
burns face, and 1t is said that Mrs
Pollock threw It while furious with
anger. Mrs. Wilburn died within
is minutes after the acid was
thrown
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
The Duke And Miss Eikins.

Rome Especially ALL sorts OF
stories are afloat about the Duke OF
the Abruzzi and Miss Katharine Ell.
kins, of West Viginia. With equal
positiveness 1t is stated that they
will marry soon, that their engage
ment is broken, that they never were
engaged. The latest story comes
from Turin, the Dukes home. The
perfect of the Superga Cathedral
there is made responsible for the
statement that the Duke told him
that all recent rumors are fiction,
that he and Miss Elkins have been
parted definitely and finally and that
the wedding will never occur.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18

Singapore (SpeciaD - The mail
steamer La Seyne, of the Messageries
Maritimes Service, running between
Java and Singapore, and on her way
to this port, was In collision early
this morning with the steamer Onda,
OF the British-India Line, and sank
within two minutes. Seven Euro
pean passengers, including Baron and
Baroness Beniczky, the captain of La
Seyne, five European officers, and
SS others, comprising native passen-
gers and members of the crew, were
drowned. The rescue of 81 PERSONS,
practically from the Jaws of shoals
of sharks, formed a thrilling Incl
dent of the wreck.
The accident occurred about 4
O'Clock in the morning in a thick
haze. The vessels were steaming at
good speed and the Seyne was cut
almost in half. There was no time
for panic nor for any attempt on
the part of the officers of the found
ering steamer to get out the boats
The majority of thoSe on board were
caught in their berths and carried
down with the vessel.
The force OF the collision brought
the Onda to almost a dead stop and
her engines were at once slowed and
boats lowered. The rescue work
proved thrilling, for not only were
the rescuing parties impeded by the
dark, but shoals OF sharks were al
ready attacking those clinging to
pieces of wreckage in the water.
Sixty-one persons from the ill-fated
steamer were finally dragged into
the boats and brought by the Onda
to this port. Many of them had
been bitten by sharks and several
are severely injured.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
Twenty-Four Cars Wrecked.

Altoona, Pa. (speciaD.-A run
away freight train eastbound over
the Pennsylvania Railroad ran into
the rear OF another freight a short
distance west of the horseshoe curve
and twenty-four cars were wrecked.
blocking all tracks for several hours
The runaway freight was heavy and
the rails, was bad from mists. On the
steep slope the engineer lost control
The trainmen escaped injury nv
jumping. Passenger trains were run
over the New Portage Railroad.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
Burned In His Home.

Ithaca, N. Y. Especially John H.
Baker, aged 70 years, we'll known
farmer of Enfield, died from the ef-
fects OF inhaling flame and smoke
at a fire which destroyed his home.
Miss Martha Baker, his daughter,
who lived with him, is in a critical
condition as the result OF the shock
of the fire and her fathers death.
Mr.. Baker and his daughter were alb
sent when the fire started. They
came home about 10 o'clock at night
and as the old man opened the kitch-
en- door a sheet Of flames burst forth.
The old man was fatally burned.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18

Cairo, Ill. November 12.-Henry
Salzner, white, a photographer, who
killed his wife last July with an ak,
was taken from Jail at 11.40 p. NJ.
by the mob and hanged to a tele-
graph pole and his body riddled with
bullets. This lynching followed
closely on the lynching of Will
James, a negro, who earlier in the
evening had been hanged for the
murder OF Miss Annie Pelley.
Governor Deneen, who is In Chi
| cago, was appealed to by Sheriff
Davis, who telephoned from Cairo
that troops were necessary. The
, Governor ordered II companies OF
the State Guard to Cairo at once.
! The mob gave Salzner a chance to
| confess after the rope was around
his neck, but he was so frightened
that he could only humble that his
sisters had killed his wife.
The mob became furious at this
and II was hard word to keep them
of Salzner long enough to give him
chance to pray The mob finally
subsided and short religious serv-
Ice was held, after which he was
strung up, the rope being placed
over a telegraph pole at Twenty-first
and Washington Streets.
After Salzner was hanged, and
while the body was being riddled
with bullets, the rope broke and the
body fell to the ground, the mob go
ing away and leaving it.
Salzner was born and reared here
He had been married about two
years last July. when his wife was
found at her home with her skull
fractured. A bloody ak was found
under the bed Two babies were
playing in the mothers blood. Salz-
ner was found at the home of his
mother where he often slept at
night. Before Mrs. Salzner died she
recovered enough to accuse her hus-
band of attacking her.
Feeling against him had been bit
ter and, after the lynching of James,
when someone suggested Salzner,
the mob rushed for the county Jail,
got Sal7ner and lynched him.
Search for the negro Alexander
supposed accomplice of James in the
Pelley murder, continues.
The mob had wrecked it's venge-
ance on Salzner after a wild night
over the lvnching of James James
was strung to the public arch in the
heart of the citv. but the rope broke.
and at least 500 shots were poured
into his body. He made a partial
confession and implicated another
negro. Arthur AlexaifTvr, whom the
mob is now searchin for.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
Woman A Suicide.

New York Especially Mrs. Marie
L. Estey. 81 years old, who lived al
100 West seventy-seventh Street, was
found dead In bed. In her mouth
was the end OF rubber tube extend.
ing from nearby gas jet showing
that she had committed suicide. The
tube was held in her mouth by wires
carefully arranged. The body was
found by the dead woman's daughter
Miss Ida Estey. 33 years old, who
was notified OF the odor OF gas In
the house by one OF the maids.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18

Louisville, Ky. Especially .-Jn an
attempt at bank robbery Thomas
Jefferson Hall, a red-headed youth
Of seventeen, of Louisville. a dealer
In secondhand furniture, entered
Merchants National Bank at New
Albany, Ind, shortly before noon and
killed ]. Hungary Fawcett, cashier Of
the bank, seriously wounded John K.
Woodward, president of the bank.
and wounded James X. Tucker, a ne
gro chauffeur, probably fatally.
When Hall entered the bank he
carried a pistol in each hand. Aft
er commanding eveyone to throw up
his hands and get into the vault"
Hall began shooting.
There was a rush for safety by
the clerks and several persons who
were transacting business in the
bank.
President Woodward advanced to-
ward the robber and attempted to
talk to him. The robbers response
to Mr.. Woodward's question as to
what was wanted was two shots,
which struck the official in the arm
and stomach, inflicting dangerous
wounds.
Cashier Fawcett then rushed for
ward, but before he could reach the
fallen president was shot in the neck
and breast, dying a short time aft
erward.
Cashier Fawcett was shot through
the chest and neck and died almost
instantly. President Woodward was
shot through the liver and his in
testines were perforated.
Following the shooting the mur-
derer rushed from the bank and tried
to escape in an automobile which he
had taken from the curb in front of
the residence of ats owner, Mrs. Wal
ter Escott, in Louisville. He had
forced the negro chauffeur at the
point of a pistol to drive him to
the bank.
The robber, still without speaking
word, walked quickly out the
front door, dropping one Of his re-
volvers just outside the building.
Turning the corner to where the au-
tomobile stood he pumped into the
rear seat with the command to the
negro, Get out Of this as fast as
you can"
But the automobile stood Still, the
negro, thoroughly frightened at the
course of events, refusing to move.
The robber jumped to the ground,
drew a revolver and sent a bullet
into the negro's back. An instant
later the assassin was running at top
speed down the bank to the Ohio,
where he jumped into skiff.
He had pulled out some distance
into the stream before the astonish-
ed citizens of the town and the river
bank knew what had happened. One
old sailor on a dredge boat, seeing
the man rowing frantically for the
Kentucky shore, gave the alarm
through megaphone.
Owners of river craft then engag-
ed in race for the desperate. The
police, however, in a motor boat dis
tanced all followers and in short
time had their man at bay on an
island just south Of the big bridge
connecting New Albany with West
Louisville. They covered him with
revolvers and the arrest was made
without a uh
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
Wouldn't Button wife's Shoes.

New York Especially The reason
given in the Morrisania Court by
Edward 8. Orr for deserting his wife
four days after they were welded was
that she insisted upon him buttoning
her shoes every time she changed her
footgear. which was usually two or
three times a day. Magistrate Cor
nell held Orr In bond TO pay his wife
IS a week. Mrs. Orr told the magis-
trate that her husband insisted upon
her wearing rats" In her hair, which.
she declared, mo self-respecting
woman would do for anv husband. I"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
Bit Thermometer And Died

Roswell. n. NJ. Especially As a
result OF swallowing mercury in a
thermometer which she crushed be-
tween her teeth as her father was
taking her temperature, Cecil, the g.
year-old daughter OF Mr. and Mrs.
Earl p. Atwa. is dead. Within 15
minutes after swallowing the con-
tents Of the thermometer the child
was unconscious, and when the doc
tor arrived she was almost without
pulse. Although she was revived,
she only lived a short time.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
Understanding sunragettes.

London Especially. - Alice Paul
and Amelia Brown, the window
smashing suffragettes, were sentenc-
ed each to one monuth at hard la
bor Both are members OF the
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst organiza-
tion. During the banquet at Guild
Hall In honor OF the Kings birthday
stones were thrown through win
dow OF the banquet hall. the crash
OF glass startling the company and
interrupting the speech OF the Lord
Mayor. The affair proved TO be a
suffragette demonstration. and tho
two offenders were arrested.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
Fires Home; Cuts Wife.

Richmond, Ky. Especially After
setting fire to his own house in
Kingston, near here, Cassius Moody
cut his wife's throat and going to a
building in the yard committed sui
eide by drinking carbolic acid. Mrs.
Moody crawled to the road in front
of the house and died in the pres
ence of neighbors who were attract
ed to the place by the fire. Moody
is said to have been crazed by
drink,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
Peary 40 Beeome A Captain.

Washington, d. C. Especially -
Commander Peary. the Arctic ex-
plorer, viii be promoted TO the rank
OF captain October 20. 1910. accord
ing 10 Assistant Secretary Winthrop.
OF the Navy Department. On that
date Capt. U. $. O. White will be
retired on account of age. Peary Is
the only civil engineer in the Navy
with the rank OF commander and his
promotion to a captalncy viii come
an natural advancement.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
Higher Pay For Engineers.

New Haven, Conn. Especially -
Locomotive engineers of the New
York, New Haven G. Hartford Rail-
road Company have given the thirty
days notice required previous TO a
request for revision of the wage
schedule. 1t is thought that this is
part of the general movement of
the railroad operatives east of the
Mississippi, who ask for shorter
hours, increased pay and full day
pay for a fractional run.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-11-18
Wholesale Market, ;.

New York. - Wheat - Rec ,pis
10000 bush; exports, Is Jos
Spot irregular; No. red 125 X ask.
ed domestic elevator; No. red.
1.20& asked, to arrive +. O. h.
afloat; No. Northern Duluth, 117T
nominal +. o. b. afloat No. hard
winter, 1.15% nominal f. o. b.
afloat.
Corn-Spot steady; No. 2, 69Bc
elevator domestic, 20 delivered and
20 +. o. b. afloat; No. yellow, II,
all nominal.
Oats-Spot quiet; mixed, 2GGS2
lbs. nominal; natural white, 2663s
lbs, 44@ 46c.; clipped white, S4@
AZ lbs. 46@4Sk.
Cheese-Firmer State full creams.
specials, 16& @17hc.; do, Septem-
ber, fancy, 16 W; do, October, best,
16; do, common to good, 1910
10 y; skins, full to special, GO
14A.
Eggs-Firm. State, Pennsylvania
and nearby hennery, brown, gather
ed, 2S a 35c.; Western extra firsts, 80
a 80; firsts, 1929; seconds, 24@
20; refrigerator, special marks,
fancy, 25 @?S; do, firsts, 24G25
Poultry-Alive steady; Western
chickens, lac; fowls, IA; turkeys,
IL q Is. Dressed irregular; West
ern chickens, broilers, 1921;
fowls, 12@ IA; turkeys, 1920.
Philadelphia lower;
contract grade November, 112@
114c.
Corn-Firm, NC. higher; No. Q
yellow, for local trade, 691a a 10.
Oats-Dull, kc. lower; No.
white natural, as " a 46.
Butter-Steady; extra Western
creamery, 33kc.; do, nearby prints,
80.
Eggs-Firm, 1c. higher; Pennsyl-
vania and other nearby firsts, f. c..
32c. at mark; do, current receipts,
in returnable cases. 80 at mark;
Western firsts, {. c., 32 at mark; do,
current receipts, +. c., 26@2S at
mark.
Cheese-Firm; New York full
creams, choice, 16%c.; do, fair to
good, 15% @16A.
Live Poultry-Steady fowls, 12@
14kc.; old roosters, 10 a IL; spring
chickens, f2@14h; ducks, old, IL
@13; do, spring, 1904.
Baltimore-Wheat - The market
for Western opened easier; spot
1 14c.; November, Ito; December
1.10A; January, Ito.
Settling prices were: No. 2 red
Western, 117c.; contract, spot, 1.lii
No. 8 red, 1.10; steamer No. 2 RED
LOS u; steamer No. 2 red Western
1.10.
Corn - Western opened quiet.
Spot, old, CSC; new, 65 "; Noyem'
ber, new, 65; year, 629s @62%;
January, 62as @629s; February
62N.
s-White-No. 2, as to weight,
45@45Ac.; No. 3, as to weight, AZ
@441b; No. 4, as to weight, Al Y W
42k. Mixed-No. 2, 421s q 4Sc';
No. 3. 41@41h.
Eggs-We quote per Dozen loss
off: Maryland, Pennsylvania anu
rearby firsts, SOC. Western iirsIs'
80; West Virginia firsts, 3O SCUM,
ern firsts, 20. Guinea eggs l4V
15c.
Live Poultry-We quote, per Ip'.
Chickens-Old hens, heavy l1c'
small to medium, II " old roosleIs,
SGD9; young. choice, IA; rongh anu
poor, 1908. Ducls-Old, lzc',
white Pekings, old, 13; spri9g,
lbs. and over, 13; small IlWS
Western and Southern lig
12: MARYLAND and Virginia, llglS
Kent Island, 1870 IA.