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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26


Havana.--Two almost simuuane-
Gus explosions of dynamite supposed
to consist Of 1900 pounds complete
ly demolished the Rural Guard bar
racks in city of Pinar del Rio. Fully
100 persons were killed and nearly
as many wounded.
Most of the dead were rural
guards, but the entire families of
several of the officers of the rural
guard. It Is reported, were killed
also, as well as several employees of
the public works department and res
idents of the city, on which fell a
deluge of masonry and debris from
the blown-up building.
1t is not known yet whether the
explosion was the result of an acci-
dent or was due to an act of con-
spirators, but the former hypothesis
is considered the more probable.
Two Terrific Explosions.
The barracks was a massive build.
ing of Spanish construction, and oc-
| cupied an eminence in the outskirts
| of the city to the north. During the
late Intervention ii was the head
quarters of Colonel Parker's regi-
ment, the Eleventh Calvary. Ad-
jaoent to the barracks was a long
row of officers quarters. Recently
the barracks was occupied by the
public works department and four
troops of rural cavalry. In conse-
quence of the alarm over race dis
turbances the government ordered
all deposits of dynamite in. the vicin-
ity in the possession of contractors
for road construction and other pub
lie works, to be removed to the bar
racks for safe keeping. The work of
removing the dynamite from the
barracks for shipment to the govern
ment magazines in Havana was be-
gun by employees of the public works
department, assisted by rural guards.
guards.
They were engaged in loading
cases of the dynamite, on wagons
when a terrific explosion occurred, in
stantly followed by another, strewing
the central court in which the work
was going on with dead and wound
ed. The whole massive barracks
building was destroyed, the adjacent
row of officers quarters was demol-
ished, and the whole northern sec
ton of the city was deluged with a
tOIItHI Ol lTdSLUeHJS VI ludSOuIy'
Probably Accident.
The explosion occurred at five
O'Clock, a few minutes before the
men would have quit work, and it
is generally believed that the first
resulted from the accident of fall
Of box of dynamite, which was be-
ing lifted on wagon. 1t is i'm
possible, however, to determine abso-
lutely the cause for the reason that
all the immediate vicinity was blown
to fragments. 1t is believed that the
majority of the wounded are resi-
dents OF the town, as practically all
within the barracks were instantly
killed or buried in the ruins.
According to reports received here
the mangled remains of victims were
found in the streets of the city a
mile from the scene of the explosion.
There Is great anxiety in Havana
owing to the fact that large num-
ber of the rural garrison at Pinar
del Rio recently were sent from this
city, where their families reside.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
WASHINGTON
BY TELEGRAPH

Before the Senate Committee hear
ing arguments on the bill for a de-
partment of health, Arthur e. Hol-
den, an official of the Federation OF
Labor, denounced the Bethlehem
Steel Company's mills as human
slaughter-houses.
DR.. j. S. Fulton, with other medi.
cal men, appeared befort the Senate
Committee in favor of the proposed
department of health.
The Senate Committee favorably
reported the House bill requiring
wireless apparatus on ocean-going
vessels.
Representative Longworth, in a
spt sch in the House defending the
Tariff Law, advocated tariff board.
Domicio Da Cana has been slated
to become Brazilian ambassador tc
the United States.
The Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations reported to the Senate a
bill extending TO the United States
consular districts of China the phar-
macy laws of this country, which
aims at the suppression of opium
triffic.
Herman Sielcken, New York cof-
fee importer, told the House Ship
Subsidy Investigating Committee
that the middleman's profit on coffee
in Is cents pound.
Speaker Serjio Osmena, of the
Philippine Assembly, cabled to Dele
gate Quezon declaring that the Fill
pinos' desire for independence re-
mains unalterable.
The naval appropriation bill was
recommitted TO the Committee on
Naval Affairs by the Senate for
amendment.
President Taft denied with en-
phasis the story that he spoke In
terms OF opprobrium of the insur-
gent senators.
John A. Kasson. former United
States minister TO Austria and Ger
| many, died in Washington.
The Navy Year Book shows that
| the United States ranks second TO
Great Britain in the total displace-
, ment of its warships.
Kerby. the stenographer. and AS
sistant Attorney General Lawler tes-
tilted before the Senate committee
investigating the Ballinger charger,
and some lively tilts occurred
The Bureau OF Labor has begun
study OF Industrial education In the
United States.
The War Department estimates
that It will cost half a million Ia
| raise the wreck OF the Maine In Ha-
vana harbor.
The citizens OF New Orleans are
| making a strong bid for the ex.
position to mark the opening ol
the Panama Canal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
AMERICAN FORCE LANDS.
100 U. S. Bluejackets Arc On Guard
At Bluefields.

Bluefields. Nicaragua. Especially y
The United States gunboats Dubuque
and Paducah landed 160 bluejackets
here to protect American interests
in Bluefields and to prevent fighting
within the town limits. The Ameri-
can force is prepared for any emer-
gency, having taken ashore several
field guns and rapid-frers.
This Is the first occasion that it
has been deemed advisable to send
bluejackets ashore from the Ameri-
can warships on Nicaraguan terri
tory. Landing parties were held in
readiness on the America ships when
-AoS uBnSBIBoIN eql 10 s9oIoI eql
ernment and the provisional govern
ment opposed each other several
months ago, but it was not necessary
to send the men ashore.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
COMMERCIAL
Weekly Review of Trade and
Market Reports.
Bradstreet's says:

Bradstreets says:
Trade is quiet as a whole, unfavor.
able weather, the indefinite crop out.
look and uncertainty as to prices OF
merchandise all tending to retard
distributive demand, both at whole.
sale and retail.
Trade reports from the West note
a quiet to fair trade at retail, while
jobbing business has been largely
confined to fill-in orders, and fall
trade is reported backward, though,
perhaps. equal to a year ago at this
date. Except in the lower Missls-
sippi Valley, Southern trade reports
are of fair to good trade for the sea-
son of the year. Retail trade in the
East is only fair, and wholesale
trade is disappointing.
Among the industries, one of the
best circumstanced lines Is building
which shows a next to largest month.
.ly expenditure for April, second, In
deed, only to May, 1909, and allied
lines all show good conditions. In
the iron and steel trade, furnace pro-
duction is still being decreased. and
Western reports from the finished
lines are of lower quotations being
offered In cotton goods, the raw
material has advanced sharply, while
distribution has retarded by the un-
certainty as to future values, Undue
ing buying only for immediate wants.
In other textile lines quiet rules, but
it is significant that manufacturers
this week have bought more freely
,of raw wool at concessions than for
"a long time past.
Collections reflect the influence Of
retarded spring trade in reports Of
only fair 70 slow payments. Land
speculations in the West has receiv-
ed check in the higher rates being
exacted for loans.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26

London Especially king Edward
VII. passed into history amid scenes
of homage such as no man has ever
before received from his fellows.
His remains now rest in st. Georges
chapel at Windsor Castle, where the
bones of Edward w., the sixth and
eighth Henrys, Charles l., the third
and fourth George and William w.
are entombed.
Death was never closed in a
panoply more sublime; dignity in
grief never received expression more
stately, more exalted. Rulers of men
never have assembled in such num-
bers to do honor to one of the great
est among them all, and yet nothing
in the stupendous spectacle has been
so imposing as the spectators them
selves.
Englishmen had failed to realize
that their king was almost an old
man. The first shock of his death
aroused a sentiment of keen resent
ment against fate. The fortnight's
interval since his death has served
to bring into truer realization that
sense of personal love and loyalty
which during later years, has been
unanimous among his people. 1t
was this abiding universal emotion
which gained expression today in
such a tribute as finds no parallel
in human records.
Empire In Mourning.
Throughout the British Empire
the day was observed as one of
mourning. Business was suspended
generally and memorial services
held. Similar services were held in
all European capitals The Emperor
and Empress of Russia attended the
English Chusch at st. Petersburg, as
did Premier Stolypin and the men,
bers of the Douma; and other Euro
pean monarchs and rulers who were
not present at the funeral paid SINH
lar tributes at their homes.
1t is estimated that nearly 5000
900 people saw the funeral process
sion or tried to see it. Thirty thou
sand troops and 5000 police kept
back the surging, struggling masses
of people. Every window and point
OF vantage along the route of the
procession were filed with spectators,
among whom were a number OF
American. Following a night of
thunderstorms the day was swelter-
ing hot and men as well as women
in the vast crowd suffered. Thous-
ands tainted or collapsed.
Many Broken Limbs.
At the mall in st. James Street
and at Hyde Park the throng almost
overwhelmed the procession. The
police and soldiers had 10 fight to
prevent the lines being swept away
| by the crush. There were many
broken limbs and other injuries re-
celved. Hundreds of persons faint
ed. especially among the women who
had been standing on the pavement
for hours before the procession left
Westminster Hail.
The st. Johns Ambulance Society
| which had men posted along the
route OF the procession in this city
treated 6,014 cases, of which a score
were so serious that the victims were
sent to the hospital. In most in.
stances the cases We're of heat pros
| trations.
In addition TO the ambulances o.
the st. Johns Society, the military
and other ambulances dealt with {
vast number of cases OF injured peo
pie. Many Of them had broken limbs
or ribs, but a majority suffered from
heart strokes or faintings. II is es
| timated that there were altogether
1000 persons who we're either in
jured or overcome in the crash. Sew
eral patients still remain In the hos
| Ditais
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
Excitement Here.

Pittsburg Especially Five thou
sand persons saw Oscar Leroy, of
Percy, Okla, fall 1000 feet or more
through the air at Ellwood, Pa,
near here. and escape with broken
leg.
Leroy, who is an aeronuat attach
ed to circus, had made a balloon
ascension and when he cut loose his
parachute, which was soaked with
the rain of the last As hours, it fail
ed to open until the aeronaut had
almost reached the ground.
An hour later, while the circus
performance was in progress the
grandstand section of seats col
lapsed carrying down women
and children. The tent also fell
over the struggling people, but
though many were thrown into hys-
terics none sustained serious injury.
The Fire Department and people of
the community, with canvas men and
other circus employees, rescued those
buried beneath the water soaked can
vas
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
Foreign

The Chilian government has decid-
ed to accept a loan for S13,000,000
: from the Rothchilds, in London, for
the reconstruction of that section in
Valparaiso which was wrecked by the
earthquake in 1906 and for railway
improvement.
A woman, formerly superior of the
( Order of st. Anne Nuns, Is under
arrest in Paris. Her obligations are
estimated at 100000. DR.. Petit,
an associate of the woman, commit
ted suicide.
Miss A. NJ Reynolds, an American
woman, presided at the session yes
terday OF the Worlds Young Wom-
ems Christian Association, in Ber-
lin.
Commander Gilmer, OF the United
States gunboat Paducah, has served
notice on General Irias, who is in
command OF the Venus, that he will
not permit a bombardment of the
city of Bluefields, Nicaragua, and he
has also notified General Estrada
and General Madrlz that he will not
permit any armed conflict within the
city.
A court-martial has been ordered
at Manila to try Col. Robert +. Ames
on charges OF conduct unbecoming
an officer and TO the prejudice Of
military discipline.
a joint meditation by the United
States, Brazil and Argentina will
probably settle the Ecuador-Peruvian
boundry dispute.
Alexander suchkoff, president of
the Duma, and Count Uvarroff were
sentenced TO confinement for duel
ling.
Forty-seven Russian workmen
were drowned as the result OF the
capsizing OF boat in the River Dnip-
er.
Fire destroyed an entire residence
block in Carlton Place, Ontario
causing a loss OF 100000.
The situation at Nanking is seri.
Gus. according TO a report by United
States Minister Calhoun.
King George gave a dinner in
Buckingham Palace TO the nine for
eign rulers and the several heirs 10
thrones who were In London for the
funeral.
Nine. Michele Pauline Viardot-
Garcia. once a famous French sing
er, died In Paris.
In Cuban government circles Il is
not believed that the dynamite ex,
plosion In the Rural Guards barracks
was planned by conspIratons. The
dead number about SO and the In.
5ured over 100.
Yis Chain Yong. the Korean who
stabbed Premier VI In an attempt
at assassination on December 22
last. wss sentenced TO death.
President Taftss floral tribute tc
King Edward was wreath OF nalm
leaves and orchids entw.Ee1 with 4
silk American nag.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
Wholesale Markets.
New York. - Wheat-Spot fir

New York. - Wheat-Spot firm;
No. 2 red, 115c. nominal C. l. T.;
No. Northern, 1.21B nominal T.
o. b.
Corn-Spot steady; No. Q, zoe,
elevator domestic basis; export No.
2, 6S nominal T. o. b.
Oats-Spot steady; mixed, 26Q 80
lbs, nominal; natural white, 26 6692
lbs, 46@481e; clipped white, $40
@42 lbs, 47@52k.
Butter - Steady; receipts, $3.50
packages; creamery. old, 23 q Csc.
Cheese - Firm; receipts, 3,09S
boxes; prices unchanged.
Eggs - Firmer; receipts, 2S,820
cases; fresh gathered in storage
package, selections, 21% a 22Rc.;
regular packed. extra firsts, 81 X q
22A; firsts. 20621.
Poultry-Alive easy; fowls, 1870;
turkeys, 10@14. Dressed quiet;
frozen chickens, 17@2Sc.; Western
fowls, Is @19; do, turkeys, 16@ 20.
Philadelphia.--Whe and
1c. lower; contract grade, May, Ill
Corn-Quiet but firm; May, 64@
64kc.
Oats-steady; No. 2 white natur-
al, 48h @49c.
Butter-Weak and 1c. lower; ex-
ira Western creamery. 29kc.; do,
nearby prints. 81.
Eggs - Steady; fair demanR
Pennsylvania and other nearby firsts,
Z. c., 22c. at mark; do. current re-
ceipts in returnable cases, 20R at
mark; Western firsts, (. c., 90 at
mark; do, current receipts, T. c.,
201h at mark.
Cheese-Firm, NC. higher; New
York full creams, choice new, 141h
614%; do, fair to good, new, 100
14A.
Poultry-Live, steady; fowls, ~
@1Shc.; old roosters, 1917 a IA;
broiling chickens. 32@36; ducks,
14@15; geese, 12@13.
Baltimore. - Wheat = No. 2 red
Western, 1O8Ac.; No. 2 red, 1854
No, red. 04A.
The closing was quiet; No. 2 red
spot, 10S1s bid; July, 1.031A nomi-
nal
Corn-spot and May. s4Ac. bid;
JULY, 67% bid.
Oats-White- 2, as to weight,
49@49hc.; No. 8. as to weight,
II " w = o " nv. 7 90 W WCiSH'
44k @451a. Mixed-No. 2, 47@
47kc.; No. 3, 46@46k.
Hay-We quote. per ton: Timo-
thy-No. 1, s2050; No. 2, s19.50M
20: No. 8, $17@1S. Glover Mixed
Choice, s19m1s.50; No. 1, $3.50
@19: No. 2. s16.50m17.50. Glover
No. l, s1s@19; No. 2, s16.50@
1880.
Butter - Steadv demand for de-
sirable stock. We quote, per lb.;
Creamery-Fency 2Slb 20 20; choice,
2762S; good, 25@26; imitation,
21 1m23 print, 29m30.
Cheese--We unote, jobbing prices,
per lb., is u ole.
Eggs = We quote. per dozen;
MARYLAND, Pennsylvania and nearby
frsts. 20c: Westarn ersts. 20; West
Virginia frsts, 20; Southern fiysts,
10. Guinea eggs, 10@11.
Live Poultry - Old hens firmerd
other lines unchanged. We quote
per lb.: Ghickens-Old hens. heavy,
17c.: small to medium, II: old roos-
ters. 10m11; winter. as to size. 25
m2s: spring. n lbs. and over
35m38: small. 80 N 3S. Ducks
Large. 13@14c.; small, 13; Muscovy
and mongrel, S014.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
Kills His Rescuer.

Lakeville, Mass. Especially Two
lives We're lost in Lake Assawampsett
when John j. Gallagher, a Boston
telegraph operator, went down, car
rying with him in a frenzied death
grasp Adam Bopp, Middleboro
shoemaker, who was trying to save
him. Bopp was 10 years old Gal
lagher, who was slightly crippled
was out alone in a rowboat, when
suddenly he shouted loudly for help
and iumned overheard
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26


Mills Of American Sheet And Tin
Plant At Canton, o., Killed Or In
jured When The Nest OF Boilers
Explode At Once--The Roar Was
Heard Three Miles Distant
Ruins Burst Into FIames-F1esb
Found On Roofs And In Trees.
Canton, Ohio Especially With a
roar that was heard three miles
away, a battery of seven boilers at
the plant of the American Sheet and
Tin Plate Company exploded, killing
at least 20 and injuring about 80.
Among the injured are q half dozen
who, it is said, will probably die be-
fore morning. Others, physicians
say, cannot recover from their in
turies.
Mere Egg Shell Left.
The cause of the explosion is at
present unknown. The fireman and
engineer who were in the boiler-room
are dead. No one else about the
plant who survived the accident can
give an explanation. One workman
says that he heard three distinct ex-
came so close. however. that it was
all over in a minute The force of
the concussion was terrific. The big
plant Is In such a state of ruin as
10 be practically total loss. A
mere eggshell of the building is left
Identification of the MEN was diff
ncult because many Of them were so
mutilated that even the most init
mate friends of the dead could not
recognize the features. Heads were
blown from several bodies. Arms
and legs were torn from the trunks.
Fragments of bodies were blown sew
eral squares from the scene. and bits
OF human flesh have been picked up
on porches and roofs of houses and
in trees.
There were 100 men at labor in the
plant at the time of the accident.
But dozen or so escaped some in
jury. These and others who rushed
10 the plant as soon as the disaster
was known worked heroically to res
cue tne injured from the ruins, which
soon took fire, but the fire depart
ment eXtinguished the flames.
Blown Through House.
Members of the bereaved families
rushed frantically to the plant and
Inence 10 hospitals and residences
near the ruined shows in an effort to
hnd a trace of their loved ones.
The body of one man, unknown.
was blown through house, over 700
feet from the plant. The body en-
tered the house from the east side
and continued in straight line
through bedroom and out the other
side of the house on Louis Avenue.
The torso of another man was found
In the garden of yard about 500 feet
west of the scene. Arms, legs and
parts OF bodies were strewn about
the neighborhood.
The bodies of seven men, mutilat-
ed beyond recognition, were found
in the north end of the mill.
For Gods sake hit me on the
/ head and kill me-" cried one work
man to man who found him. The
injured man had an arm torn off and
n great hole in his side.
The plant had five mills. All the
employees working at mills Nos. /,
2, 3 and were either killed or in
jured, while the men on mill No.
8, farthest from the boilers, escaped
serious injury.
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COLLEGE GIRL AS FLEECER.
Worked With Convict And Defrauded
Dressmakers.

Boston Especially. - Headquarters
inspectors are trailing a young wom-
an known as a Radcliffe graduate
and admitted to be such by her COM
panion, Frederick Roland, former
State prison convict, sentenced to 81
months in the House of Correction.
The woman Is the daughter of
wealthy parents, well dressed and
spends money literally. She, assist
ed by the convict. fleeced fashionable
dressmakers, milliners and other
tradesmen of more than $1,000
worth of goods.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
THE MAIN TENT OF
BIG CIRCUS BURNED
5000 in Stampede From the
Barnum & Bailey Show.
CIGAR SETS FIRE 70 THE CANVAS.
Women Faint And Are Trampled On
In Stampede From Fire Just AS
Show Was About To Open--Cry
That The Wild Beasts We're Loose
Added To Terror-Great Spread
OF Canvass Licked Up In A Jiffy
And Big Poles Fall-One Woman
Dying From Shock.

Schenectady, N. Y. Especially -
Bsrnum and Bailey's "Big Top" the
main tent of the circus, caught fire
here from a cigar stump and burned
like an overturned hot-air balloon.
Fifteen thousand people, who fill
ed the seats 10 overtlowing, filed out
like school children at drill. 1t was
an admirable display of discipline
and GOODNESS.
Manager Bailey, in commenting
on the conduct of the crowd, said :
81 consider the attitute of the
people something marvellous. In all
my experience of circus life l have
never seen anything like it. At least
10000 of the crowd were women
and children, and they all filed out
like veteran soldiers. Well, perhaps,
few of the women did faint, and
perhaps a few of the children whimp-
cred, but they were taken care OF by
the Others the crowd never lost Its
head. There was no danger for one
moment of stampede"
The management attributes the lire
to the obstinacy of a careless smok-
er. Employees who saw him carry a
| lighted cigar to his seat in the top
tier, close to the canvass walls
warned him that he must not smoke.
| Instead of throwing the cigar away
they believe he hid it behind his
back and in so doing brushed the
burning end against the canvass. In
any event the fire started in his
neighborhood and was soon out OF
control.
Spectators first smelt the smoke
and, quickly discovering the fire, be.
gan to beat at it with their coats
! The fire soon reached above their
| heads and the next effort to conquer
! it came from the circus employees
who began tearing out huge patches
of canvas. Their efforts met with
no better success, for the fire, eating
upward and 500 worked its way to
the topmost peak.
Energetic men and cool women In
the crowd, aided by employees, had
already assumed direction of the
audience, and orderly files were soon
moving steadily from the exits
When woman tainted or q
child shrieked in terror; shouts
of reinsurance rose and strong arms
were instantly ready for support.
Not soul was hurt not an ami
NAL was injured. The damage is es-
! timated at $4,000.
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olives Up s1OO,O ,OOO For Love.

Los Angeles. Cal. Especially Mrs.
Edward Swortfiguer. recently Miss
Marietta Swortfiguer, left with
her husband for ST. Helena, Cal,
with no property save the clothes she
wore, having decided back to her
brother the 100000 estate which
she inherited recently. Determined
TO prove that her cousin, Edward
swortfguer, was marrying her for
love. as a preliminary to the wed
ding ceremony. she transferred all
right IN the estate OF her mother
who died recently, TO her brother
he agreeing not TO oppose their mar
riags further.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-26
No Pictures In Pants

Wellesley, Mass. (special)-In ac-
cordance with new faculty edict
no photographs OF Wellesley College
students who take part in college
plays in mems costumes may be
made. So far as Is possible. the facul-
will attempt to have all existing
photographs OF girls playing mascu-
line characters cut of at the waist.
The action was taken because of the
recent publication OF the pictures OF
two Wellesley girls in full mems
regalia trousers and all.