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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-18
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Major William X. Logan, supervisor of
industries of the Indian Service, and
superintendent of the Fort Belknapp In.
dian Reservation, in Montana, has been
appointed supervisor in charge of the
construction of roads and trails in the
Glacier National Park, in Montana.
The United States Civil Service Com.
mission has decided to localize appoint
ments outside of Washington by giving
them over to district secretaries.
Complaint has been filed with the In
terstate Commerce Commission that
charges by the Pullman Company for
upper berths are excessive.
General Wood, chief OF staff of the
Army, has directed a battalion of the
Fourteenth Infantry to 90 to Missoula,
Mont. to help in fighting forest fires on
the Flathead Indian Reservation.
BituminOus coal miners of the middle
West live under better conditions than
do the men engaged in the same industry
in Pennsylvania, according to the Ma
tional Immigration Commission.
The Navy Department is to investigate
the sinking of the naval collier Marcellus,
which was in collision with the Nor.
wegian fruit steamer Rosario di Giorgio
of Cape Hatteras.
Mrs. Judith Ellen Horton Foster. the
noted temperance lecturer and writer,
died in Garfield Hospital after an opera
tion.
The population of New Haven, Conn,
according to the Census Bureau, is
l33.605.
Four hundred and thirteen transporta.
tion companies are made defendants in ID
L l.f- I..k.- A..
Commission, beginning August 10.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is CON
sidering the admission of Indians to
white schools.
Six thousand and rs acres Of land from
the National Forest, in Wyoming have
been restored TO the public domain.
There was decrease in the exporta-
tion Of every commodity except corn,
which showed improvement.
Repoft comes from India that the at
tempt TO grow cotton on large scale
has resulted in failure.
The crop growth throughout the United
States during July was unfavorable, the
deterioration being about AZ per cent.
Brgadier General Bliss has gone to
San Francisco TO take command Of the
Department Of California, succeeding
Major General Barry. who becomes super.
intendent Of the Military Academy at
West Point.
compromise agreement was reached
In the District Supreme Court by which
a material portion Of the estate Of the
late Thomas e. Waggaman will be- dis.
bursed
Excavation work on the Panama Canal
fell of during July.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-18
BELG|UM'S GREAT
EXPOSITION BURNED
Hundred Thousand People Are
Panic Stricken.
FRANTIC EFFORTS TO ESCAPE FLAMES.
The Loss May Be 100000, ,0oo-Crowd
of 100000 on Grounds When the
Flames Sweep Them = Two Dead.
Thirty Injured.

Brussels Especially The white city of
che Worlds Fair" as the Belgians call
the 1910 exposition, is now a mass OF
flames and smouldering ruins. A spark
falling into inflammable material in the
telegraph building burst up in flames,
which, driven by high wind, swept
rapidly in all directions Soon the Bel
gian, English and French sections were
destroyed. The firemen and detachments
of soldiers. called quickly to the scene,
found themselves baflled by the veritable
gale, which carried the burning embers
to all parts of the grounds.
The loss in the exposition fire is esti-
mated at 5O0,000,000 francs (Sl00,O00,-
000).
To the left of the main building arose
the picturesque roofs and spires of
"Bruexelles' Kermesz," a Belgian Coney
Island, with water chutes, toboggan
slides and scores of side shows. This
place was alive with Sunday crowds, and
before they could be gotten out with any
semblance Of order the Kermesz was
ablaze. The crowds became panic.strick-
en-. and men. women and children fought
madly to escape. The exits became choked
with the struggling masses, and men
used their fists to clear the pathway.
Many were tramped under foot and badly
injured.
Soon the enormous facade tumbled in
ruins. Considering the rapidity Of the
conflagration. the small loss of life is
mervelous. So far as is known up to a
late hour tonight only two are dead. The
injured, as officially announced number
30, but probably many hundreds received
minor hurts.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-18
MAYOR GAYNOR STILL IMPROVING
Condition Favorable, but Blood
poisoning Still Possible.

New York tSpecial) Another day hu
passed and Mayor VIM. j. Gaynor. ,bo|
in the neck by James J. Gallagher. shcu
no symptoms of blood poisoning. He co,
tinues to rest well at intervals. TO ,an
nourishment when desired and, if MI
bulletins his surgeons issue disguise uo,G
ing, his condition is favorable towsd
ultimate recovery.
The bugbear of septicaemia is not va
passed, however, nor Is the possibiIhl
that an artery or blood vessel has he'd,
scraped by the bullet. With these po,5
bilities ever present he is still in nd
danger zone and will be for more thu
a week.
The same feeling of anxiety is felt \,
lesser degree, but there is no going bt
hind the official bulletins.
There were reports that the MayoTi
temperature had increased slightly durn
the afternoon, but no bulletin to this III
feet was issued. On the contrary, bid
physicians maintain their hopeful att
tude. Reports that his pulse was weaka
also found no official confirmation,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-18
PERSONAL.

Charles K Hamilton sought an in
junction to restrain Glenn II. Curtiss
from interfering with his flying or
making contracts to fly.
The will of John G. Carlisle, for
mer secretary of the treasury, was
filed at Washington for probate. To
his grandchildren, John G. Carlisle,
Jr., Jane Carlisle. Allen and Laura
Carlisle Pitkin. is left his property, to
be divided equally. The estate is val
ued at approximately $4,000.
William w. Rockhill, United States
ambassador to Russia, and Mrs. Rock
hill returned to St. Petersburg after
visit to the United States on leave of
absence.
William hartman of Brooklyn was
chosen president of the American as
sociation of park superintendents at
the closing business session of the or
ganization in Harrisburg, Pa.
Jacob H. Schiff, returning to New
York from a trip to Alaska, says the
policy of conservation Is retarding de-
velopment of the natural resources of
the territory.
Miss Olive Elizabeth Carmichael.
daughter of James r. Carmichael.
lawyer, who died fifteen years ago,
and Baron Won Urban of Austria, who
has been studying conditions in Amer
lea. were married at the New York
City Hall by Alderman Mccain.
Sir Augustus A. Perceval, eighth
Earl of Egmont, once a waiter In New
York, died in England.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-18
WEEKS RECORD OF THE NEWS
A PANORAMIC VIEW OF TIE INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES OF SEVEN DAYS.
Events That Make Worlds History
Gathered From All Over the
Globe and ChrOniCled in
BFieleSt Form.
WASHINGTON.

New Japanese tariff adds 5 per
cent. to many articles imported from
this country.
Germany is reported to be seeking
a special trade agreement with the
United States.
It was announced that Chairman
Knapp of the interstate commerce
commission and the chief of the
Canadian railway board will meet to
outline plans for the control of traffic
across the border.
The President signed a proclama-
tion eliminating 6,075 acres of land
from the Hayden National Forest in
Wyoming, in pursuance of the admin
istration's general plan of restoring
to the public domain all areas not
valuable for forest purposes.
The interstate commerce commits
sion issued orders requiring AIS COM
mon carriers to show cause for the
proposed advances in freight rates,
hearings to be held in New York.
President Montt of Chile sent a
wireless telegram to the state depart
ment conveying his thanks to the
four representatives whom this gov
ernment attached to his suite during
Provisions for several aeroplanes
for the army may be made in the esti-
mates to be presented to the next ses-
sion of congress. The estimates are
now being prepared and an effort will
be made to keep them down to last
years figure.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-18
The
Fulton County News
STEEL TRUST AS CAT BUYER.
cCOnnelIsburg, Pa.

A rat got tangled up in one of the
dynamos which supply power for the
great blast furnace mill of the United
State Steel corporation at Gary, Ind,
says Louisville Courier-Journal. It re-
quired several hours to separate the
rats remains from the dynamo and in
the meantime the corporation was los
ing money at the rate of a thousand
dollars a minute. Now the steel trust
IS advertising for cats. Advertisements
have been inserted In the Gary news
papers offering so cents apiece, with
no limitations as to age, sex, size,
pedigree or character. Fifty cents a
head is good price for cats and the
officials of the steel trust are likely to
have to contend with an embarrass-
ment Of offerings when the news per
colates to all the cities and small
towns of Indiana there will be a rush
OF feline shipments to Gary and the
steel trust will find itself with a sur
plus of cats scarcely less troublesome
than the overplus of rats with which II
has been contending heretofore. Hun.
Greds Of Indiana families will willingly
part with all their feline possessions
at compensation of 90 cents per cat.
Some thousands of small boys will ex.
plore the alleys and woodsheds until
the last backyard fence is denuded.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-18
MANY NEW GOVERNORS.
Largest Number Ever Chosen at One
Time-Four Elections Before Fall.

Washington, d. c. Especially At the
coming fall elections more States will
lect governors than ever before in the
history of the Union. For the first time
Oregon is to join the list of Common.
wealths electing their executives in No
vember. Heretofore the Oregon State
,lection has been held in June.
A total of SO governors are to be elect
I'd this fall. Thirty-two will be voted
Tor at the general elections in November.
Three States-Vermont, Maine and
Arkansas will vote for governor next
month, and Georgia will elect its eXecu.
live in October.
The gubernatorial contests in some of
The States are of more than ordinarily
interesting character. The elections in
others will be of purely perfunctory
character, the election of the Republican
,r the Democratic candidate as the case
may be, being a foregone conclusion. So
tialists and Prohibitionsts will have can
iidates for governor in a majority of the
States, and in some of them they are
expected to poll considerable vote.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-18
FLYING MACHINE
TURNED TURTLE
Aviator BrOokins Plunges Into
Crowd of Spectators.
Daring Bird-man, Who Holds the
Altitude Record, in Avoiding a
Throng of Spectators, Meets
Tricky Wind and Machine Turns
over Backward at Asbury Park.

Asbury Park, N. j. Especially A seri
GUS mishap to Walter Brookins, in which
the daring Wright aviator was painfully
but not dangerously hurt, marred the
opening day of the aviation meet here
Brookins was dashed, stunned to the
earth when the machine suddenly turned
turtle after he had been forced to swerve
the airship suddenly to avoid crashing
into crowd of spectators. Seven other
persons among whom the machine
tumbled were more or less seriously in.
jured.
Brookins is the aviator who on July
2 climbed to the record height of 6.275
feet at Atlantic City and then coasted
safely to the earth with his power shut
off,
Brookins was pinned under the wreck.
age, and was only half conscious when
friends reached him This started a re-
port that he had been fatally injured
An examination showed that his nose was
broken and that he had been badly
bruised and shaken up.
The mishap was witnessed by the large
crowd gathered for the meet and was
directly due to the thronging of specta.
tors out into the field. Broolsins in de-
scending had no room to operate the
machine and was driven to make sud
den turn to avoid crashing among the
watchers. The tricky wind caught the
machine and sent it spinning over back.
ward
In the face of high wind the aviator
had made a successful short fight, circling
the field and then descended in splendid
sweep. As he neared the earth he first
saw the crowd in the field near the point
where he had intended to descend. To
avoid them he swerved the machine
sharply and found himself headed
straight for the grandstand. Instantly
he allowed the machine TO drop when it
turned turtle.
When Brookins was found beneath the
tangle of the torn plane fabric and splin.
tered framework and wires he lay on the
sod of the aviation field with his face in
a pool of blood and his right hand still
grasping a steering lever. He was
thought to be dead as he was dragged out
Of the wreck by Chief of Police Sexton
and Private Henry Kruschkna, of the
Third Infantry, New Jersey National
guard. While being carried into the hos.
pital tent few feet away, however. the
aviator began to groan, and, as Dr. Tay-
lor, of the Asbury Park Free Dispensary,
leaned over him in the hospital tent,
Brookins asked weakly, "How did it hap
penY"
Had the aeroplane fallen 10 feet
further back in its fight it would have un.
doubtedly crashed upon the grandstand
crowd and crushed many men, women
and children, who few moments before
were cheering the aviator. One could al
most reach out and touch the wreckage
from the front row of the grandstand
seats.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-18
POLICEMEN MUITNY.
Refuse to Guard Against Strikers in
Columbus, Ohio.

Columbus, Ohio tSpecial) .-Fifty-threc
members of the Police Department within
"a hours have rebelled against Mayor
Marshall's orders to ride on street cars.
The mutineers were increased by 90.
All of the 20 were men employed as spec
ials for strike duty. Unlike the regular
officers who mutinied the 20 specials
were not suspended, but upon their re
fusal to board cars they were told that
by that act they had removed themselves
from the service.
The Mayor made no call for the return
of State troops. Officers of the Fourth
Regiment, four companies of which are
stationed in Columbus, say they have been
told to hold themselves ready for service,
but at the adiutant generals office it is
denied that preparations have been made
for calling out troops.
Mayor Marshall called for 1000 vol
unteers for police duty. He took the
brunt of all criticism made against the
manner in which the situation has been
handled. but said that if his critics were
sincere they would offer to perform police
duty.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-18
JAPANESE FLOODS
THOUSANDS HOMELESS
A Portion of the Japanese Capt.
tai Now Submerged.
1856 PEOPLE DEAD AND 500 MORE MISSING
Thousands of Homeless and Hundry
People Sheltered in the Temples and
Schoolhouses--Not Enough Boats
to Convey the Sufferers to Places of
Shelter "A Hotel Patronized by
Foreigners Destroyed - All the
Guests. However, Are Safe.

Toxic Especially The great floods in
this city and vicinity caused by the high
water in the River Sumida have caused,
so far as reported, 3s5 deaths and 500
others are missing.
At O'Clock A. NJ. it was announced
that the flood was subsding.
The HOMO and Fukadawa wards of
Toxic are submerged.
Tens of thousands of persons are home
less and starving One of the three more
important embankments guarding Toxic
gave way and had the second and third
dikes broken half the capital would have
been submerged. The threatened embank-
ments were guarded by troops.
Thousands of homeless persons are be-
ing sheltered in the temples and school
houses, at which relief stations the most
deplorable sights are witnessed, The vic
Tins of the floods are wholly dependent
upon public relief. Thousands more have
been unable to find shelter, owing to the
insufiiciency of boats to convey them to
places of safety, and they are exposed to
the rain and hunger.
Every available boat is being employed
in the work of rescue and to convey food
where it is most needed.
The question of feeding the stricken
people is causing apprehension. The
vegetable and fish supplies are failing,
and the stock of biscuits already is near
ly exhausted. There is no fear, however,
for the supply of rice.
The mountain flood in the neighbor-
hood of Karuizawa destroyed the Mikasa
Hotel. Many foreigners were stopping
there, but fortunately no fatality has bee
reported so far.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-18
COLLAR STAY CAUSES FIRE.
Celluloid Explodes in Laundry, Re.
sulting in a Loss of 100000.

Portland Ore Especially The little
device utilized by women to hold up their
Iace collars--a piece of celluloid about
two inches long and quarter of an
inch wide. worth five cents the half
dozen-cost the United States Laundry
Company fire loss Of 100000, and i'm
perilled 200 laundry workers.
The collar stay had been left in a
woman's waist which. with hundreds OF
similar garments, had been placed in
the dryroom in the basement. The waist
was hung close to the superheated pipes
that lined the room. Suddenly the cellu-
loid exploded and the room was instantly
in flames.
Two hundred panic-stricken girls re-
fused TO descend the smoke-flled stair
way. Firemen, finally by sheer strength
drove them down the stairways to the
street Five minutes after the last one
d been rescued, the entire building was
flames.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-18
king ALFONSO
WILL NOT YEN
His Repaired Statement ia fl.
French Premier.
He IS FIRM TOWARD THE vAIru
Declares They Organized Junts, !,
Which Village Priests Are All
Leaders - His Complaint to ~.
Vatican Ignored-Will Reduce ,.'
Number of Religious Orders. II

Paris Especially Les Nouvele, e..
that it is authorized to deny the .,,,'
ment of the Madrid Epoca that Promi,
BRAND strongly advised King Alton.
against rupture with Rome and blam,,
the severance of diplomatic relation, y
tween France and the Holy See To Il,
clumsiness of the Vatican.
The paper says further that Kinp n
fonso, during the interview with Prem.
BRAND talked frankly about the .itn,
tion and told the French Statesman ],
energetic terms that he did not pron,s
to obey the injunction of the Vatican !,
tolerate the threats of Plus Y, or TO i.
low the Vatican to mix in Spanish poI
tics. r'T
Les Nouvelles adds:
M. Brands experience enabled hi,
to offer sage advice to the poung monar1
warning his majesty to proceed al,
lomatically, and avoid brusqueness oi
wounding."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-18
GENERAL NEWS.

Juneau cables say incomplete re-
turns from Alaska's election indicate
that Delegate James Wickersham, In
dependent Republican, has been re-
elected to congress over Ed Orr, Re
publican, by large majority.
Bankers in all sections of the coun-
try condemn the attempts to discredit
banking conditions in the West, and
declare preparations are ample to
meet any possible emergency
Lifeless for almost a week, the
body of Joseph II. Huston, thirty
four, a well-known lawyer, was found
in the bathroom of his home in Phila-
Nlphia. There we're indications that
he had carefully planned and carried
out q suicide because he feared he
had become a tuberculosis victim.
Ethel Leneve spent her last cent
in Quebec for wig to hide her shorn
locks on her return TO London with
DR.. Crippen in custody of Scotland
Yard Inspector Dew.
The Illinois Central announced its
purpose to push the prosecution of
erstwhile officials involved in the
Memphis car repair swindle.
The Carriage Manufacturers as
sociation of the United States, in ses-
sion at Louisville, KY, resolved to
advance the price of vehicles for the
season of 1911, explaining that the
increase was necessary because of the
greater cost of labor and materials.
Members of the committee who
had charge of the annual splash"
,F % h,
torpedo station last winter, which
caused an investigation because
dancing girl was one of the chief
features of the entertainment, are to
be reprimanded by order of the navy
department.
John r. Thayer, the Democrat who
was elected to congress from the
Third Massachusetts district on sew
eral occasions, announced in Wor-
cester that he would not consent to
contest the district this year against
Charles G. Washburn, the Republican
incumbent
George II. Poell, for three terms
clerk of Hall county. was arrested at
Omaha, Neb., on charge OF default
ing In office. Poell denies that any
shortage exists. Poell in 1905 re-
ceived Carnegie medal for saving
the life of child when he was
fireman on the st. Joseph & Grand
Island railroad.
President Taft had conference at
Beverly with Representative Weeks,
who has Just returned from a western
tour.
Knights Templar at Chicago elect
ed W. b. Melish of Cincinnati grand
master, and chose Denver as the
place for the next conelave.
Contracts have been signed for the
formation OF a SIS 1000, 900 combina-
tion in the retail drug business, In
yolying the corporations OF William
b. RiRer & Son company and Hege-
man & Co.. In New York. The con-
summatio.. is the result OF negotia-
t.ons which have been on for the last
three months.
The Sugar Trust. in defiance OF
striking employees, marched 1900
non-unson inen into Its BROOKLYN
plant.
The American Order OF Owls while
In session in Rochester, N. y. voted
10 change It's name to the Fraternal
order oi oriels.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-18
KILLS FAMILY AND SELF.
life Taken BY Each of Four Revolver
Shots.

Chicago Especially w. J. Meyers
Ieeper of shooting gallery, used hi:
Ikill with revolver with tragic purpose
lhooting three members of his household
through the head and then taking his own
sfe
just four shots were fred, and -four
ives were snuffed out by Meyers un
rring aim.
Policeman Dennis 0'Neill was passing
Ihe Meyers home when he heard the four
llrots in rapid succession. Breaking into
the apartment he found the dead where
they had fallen. A revolver with four
chambers empty lay beside the body Of
Meyers. Death in each case apparently
tad been instantaneous.
Meyers and his wife separated recently
,fter she had him placed under bonds tc
keep the peace. There are no living eye
witnesses to the tragedy.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-08-18

speaker at meeting of a medical
society in New Jersey declared that
some of the greatest surgeons living
had left sponges, forceps and other in.
struments in the abdominal cavities
OF persons operated upon, and that the
practise was ''inexcusable." This
makes cheerful reading for the lay
public, especially that portion of 1t that
has hospital experience in prospect;
but the statement of the existence of
this practise is also puzzling from the
TACT that 1t must be a more or less ex.
pensive practise to the surgeons them.
selves to be so careless about losing
good instruments.