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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
SLAUGHTERED BY
THE THOUSANDS
Missionaries Tell Of Horrors of
Chinese MassaCres.
MANCHU WOMEN TORTURED
First Accurate Accounts OF condl.
tlons In Tung.kwan and Shen.Si.
Brleands Feat SwedIsh Mis-
slonary and Slash His Wife.

Peking. Missionaries arriving in
Peking from Tung-Chow-Fu, so miles
northeast of Sian-Fu, give accounts of
the recent revolution in the Province
Of Shen-Si where the anti-forelgn ele'
ment declared its intention to exter-
inmate foreigners, Christians and
Manchus, but only partly succeeded,
The rebel general at Sian-Fu, they
say, issued a proclamation to the peo-
pie not to harm merchants, foreigners
or non-combatant Chinese, but only to
destroy Manchus. The Manchus there
upon prepared for defense within their
own walled section of the city They
withstood one attack by mob made
up OF students and soldiers, but In an
attack the next day nearly all the
Manchus we're slain. According to
the missionaries the Chinese inform
cd them that horrible barbarities ac-
companied the slaughter and that
Manchu women were speared or car
ried off by Chinese officers or soldiers.
Mission School Burned.
After the massacre the revolution
lists neglected property to place the
city and bandits plundered shops and
demanded money of the inhabitants.
| They also burned the School OF
| Scandinavian China Allianca Mission
and killed Madame Beckman and an
other teacher A missionary was
wounded, but succeeded in rescuing a
number OF the school children.
Another party arriving in Peking
from Southern Shen-Si believe the
Sian-Fu missionaries viii be unable
to get away owing to the condition OF
the roads. This party was attacked
while on the way here by 20 highway
men, who badly beat Dr. Blom, a
Swedish missionary, who was in adj
vance of the refugees, and twice
slashed his wife on the head with
sabres.
They declare that IA soldiers who
were escorting the party did not once
lift their rifles against the outlaws.
This party also gives an account of
massacre at Tung-Kwan. Brigands
posing as revolutionists captured and
looted the town, killing 1000 of its in
habitants.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
The Fulton County News
woMAN's ABILITY.
McConnellsburg, Pa

The late Premier Stolypln's recog
milton OF the capacity Of women for
public business took very practical
form. which is pleasing to the women
of Russia In general as well as tc
the strong-minded Dowager Empress
n is displeaslng to men who are can
didates for Official honor. as 1t makes
women In certain cases their success
ful rivals. II Is true that by an
amendment ordered after the original
promulgation of the order only one In
FIVE OF the civil service staff can be a
woman; nor can a woman rise higher
than the seventh Of the twelve ranks
In the service. says the Milwaukee
Evening Wisconsin. SO men will con
tinue to monopolize the coveted title
High Excellency." and the chance
that a woman will be n cabinet minis
ter is very remote One noteworthy
feature is that women receive the
same pay as men in positions OF equal
rating. Women officials are to receive
full pensions. even II they marry be.
fore leaving the service, and their
children will get the same pensions as
II they had fathers in the service
When both parents serve they will
get almost double pensions. In ali
cases. the women are to have the
same salaries. lodging and travelling
expenses as the men. This latter
feature of the stolypin system is the
one that is likely to make the deepest
impression on the women school
teachers OF the United States.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
SO Killed BY Explosion.

Liverpool. Thirty-three workers
are known to have been killed and up
ward of 100 injured by boiler ex-
plosion which occurred at the oil
cake mills of ]. Bibby & Sons. The
force of the explosion was so terrific
that the roof of the mill was blown
off. while the walls split and
crumbled. An outburst of flames fol
lowed. Nearly 400 workers were in
the building at the time. The bodies
of those in or near the boiler room
we're horribly mangled.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
Iarnsst Concrete Bridge,

Spokane, Wash.-Spokane is cele.
brating in honor of the completion of
the great bridge spanning the Spokane
River in this city. The bridge is the
largest concrete arch structure in the
world, the central arch having a
length of 2S1 feet. The total length
of the bridge is 791 feet. 1t was de
signed by j. c. Ralston and erected at
a cost of half a million dollars.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
Iohn E. DRYDEN Dead.

Newark, n, Former Senator
John Fairfield Dryden died at his
home here. He was the founder of
the Prudential Insurance Company of
America and at the head of it prac-
tically all his life; a former member
Of the United States Senate, a director
In many large corporations and a
multi.millionaire His death was at.
tributed to pneumonia.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
The Navy Wins.

Philadelphia.-Eleven embryo ."
m,rals and an equal number oil gen gen
erals.to.be clashed Saturday at'e,nUvl ao,,ol
on Franklin Field in their allhuoi .,
o or,diron contest, and when the mud o, .,
tbe battle had been cleared ava, ava
Navy had beaten the Army py .S a a,V 10.
Of 2 to O. 1t was the same story ~ ~
dav as last year, for it was o'Pn IN
Dolly" Dalton, of the Navy VINO ',rs ~
the second period lifted the sup snp' sor
pigskin directly across the so"'
three points.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
Train Plunoes Into River.

Saumur, France-Sixty passengers,
it is estimated, lost their lives through
the plunging of train into the river
Thouet, owing to the collapse of a
railroad bridge on the State railway
at Montreuil.Bellay in the department
of the Maine-et-Loire. The train,
which had started from Anglers, was
travelling to Poitiers. 1t carried about
100 passengers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
Trains On Southern Collide.

Scotland Ga.-Two men were kill
ed, another was fatally injured and
several passengers were hurt when
Southern Railway passenger train
No. IA, bound from Macon to Jack
sonville, collided with an extra north
bound train. Engineer Hugh Brant-
ley, of Macon, Ga, in charge of the
extra train, and an unidentified ex-
press messenger are dead, while an
other unknown express messenger is
fatally injured.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
'bEATT|E LEFT
A CONFESSION
EIectrocu.ed in the Richmond
Peni,entiary.
FOR MURDER OF HIS WIFE
Was Attended By Spiritual Advisers
Last Chapter OF the Revolving
Midnight Crime on the Mid
lothian Turnpike.
The Confession Given.

!, Henry Clay Beattie, Jr, de
sirous of standing right before
God and man, do on this, the 23d
day of November, 1911, confess
my guilt of the crime charged
against me.
Much that was published con
cerning the details was not true,
but the awful fact, without the
narrowing circumstances, re-
mains.
For this action am truly sorry
and, believing that ! am at peace
with God, and am soon to pass
into His presence, this statement
is made.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
JAIL FOR "TAa PARTY" MEN.

Four Get Extreme Penalty OF One
Year-Two Others Guilty.
Lincoln Centre, Kan.-Two of the
three men charged with completely in
the tarring of Miss Mary Chamber
lain, a school teacher, John Schmidt
and Sherril Clark, were found guilty
OF assault and battery by jury in
Judge Growers court, while A. n.
Simms, the third defendant, was ac-
quilted.
The jury was out for nearly 80
hours. Sentence was deferred to per
nit attorneys to argue a motion for a
new trial.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
RUSSIA SENDS
OUT A WARNING
Insists Upon Neutrality of the
Dardanelles.
so INFORMS OTHER POWERS
Any Attempt Upon the Part or Italy
to Blockade the Straits Is
Likely To Lead to Foreign
Complications.

Paris.-Russia has informed France
and the other powers that she insists
upon the neutrality of the Dardanelles,
as privided in the treaty Of London
In 1871. This notification follows the
report that Italy in furthering the war
against Turkey, intended to blockade
the Darndanelles.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30

Jamaica has a new banana disease
With modern methods Of tracing the
origin and communication of disease
IL should be easy to handle IT, If the
banana tree we're a slow grover, the
outlook for this Jamaica industry
would be worse.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30

The treaty of London in 1871 reiter.
ated the treaty of Paris OF 1856 and
the treaty OF London of lS41, in which
It was agreed that the Turkish straits
should be closed to warships of all
powers.
In the treaty of 1S41, to which Great
Britain, Russia, Austria, France, Prus
sia and Turkey were parties, It was
stipulated:
"The Sultan, on the one part de-
clares that he is firmly resolved to
maintain for the future the principle
invariably established as the ancient
rule of his empire, and by virtue Of
which it has at all times been pro.
hibited for the ships OF war Of foreign
powers to enter the straits OF the
Dardanelles and of the Bosphorous,
and that so long as the Porte is at
peace the Sultan will admit no foreign
ships of war into said straits.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
CARNEGIE 70; sIeELow a.
Laird or skibo and Eminent jour
naIist Observe Birthday

New York. - John BigeIow ,uo
eminent publisher, and Andrew car
uegie celebrated their COLLECTIVE a'',n, orn
day Saturday, Mr.. Carnegie say S,,,,, ~,
that with but 76 years resting hsn,g ,,',
ON his head he felt decidedly you'a,"dl and
in the presence OF Mr. Bigelo" ANU
his "a. ..i., Of his
Mr.. Carnegie held a reception '' .njd n'
home in Fifth avenue, where ne it,o 1~,
that he was much pleased to De INV. INV,
though his birthdays were co"'"s
rather too rapidly to suit him. us
Mr.. Blgelow received a lew O,y q,
t,nguished friends in the course Q, Q,
the day and read many mesS"s'' "
congratulation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
FIRE WRECKS VILLAGE.
Twenty Families HomeIess-Firemen
Show Bravery.

Fallsburgh, n. Y.-The village of
South Fallsburgh, Sullivan county,
was partly destroyed by fire, leaving
20 families homeless and destroying
IS stores and other buildings.
Dynamite was used to check the fire,
and the bravery of the Fallsburgh fire
men, assisted by other residents of
Fallsburgh, and the Monticello, Luzon
and Liberty fire departments, saved
many women and children.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
Wilson Students Favorlte'

Columbus. ohio.-Among 'he o
dents Of Ohio Woodrow Wilson "s "
presidential possibility is strong ca,,
noll of II Ohio colleges by the ~, ~,
: ,aas press Association Wilson led Oy
wide margin. The next best cho'''
. arnoared to be Senator La Folle''e'
who polled 44S votes against w,lSOn .s
7a1 Taft was third with 41O, follower
by Harmon with 245, Roosevelt non, M
Champ Clark So, Bryan "a and DeON
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30

When she learned that her husband
had fallen heir to $l.OOO,OOO woman
who had gone to Reno for the purpose
OF securing divorce decided to with
draw her application. Now If she can
convince the gentleman that she loves
him for himself alone all will be well
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30

Constantinople.- Should Italy at.
tempt to force the Dardanelles, the
Porte has arranged to sink a number
of Turkish ships with the purpose Of
obstructing the fairway. Turkish
military officials declare that an ltal
ian fleet would suffer such losses in
forcing the straits that even the
numerically weak Turkish squadron
would be able further to reduce the
enemy's effectiveness, so that If ii
reached Constantinople 1t would be at
the mercy of the Turkish forts. The
Ottoman ministers of war and marine
are now in the Dardanelles seeing that
the forts are being placed in readt
ness
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
Facts About Case.

July IS, 1911-Mrs. Henry Clay
Beattie, Jr., murdered.
July q, 1911-Henry Clay Beat
tie, Jr., arrested.
August q, 1911-Trial begun at
Chesterfield Courthouse.
September s, 1911-Nerdict OF
guilty; Beattie sentenced to death
November "a, 1911-Death sen
tence executed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
Forts Fall At Marking.

San Francisco-The revolutionary
troops captured one of the forts on
Chun Shan Hill, near Marking, after
several hours desperate fighting, ac-
cording to a cable received from
Shanghai by the Chinese Free Press.
DR.. WI Ting-fang and others are
working on a proclamation, which will
be issued shortly, asking all nations
to recognize the republic, according to
a Shanghai dispatch received by the
Chinese daily paper.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30

A historian declares that the early
Christian fathers protested against the
wearing of false hair" But as usual,
under such circumstances, they fail
ed to say anything about padded
shoulders.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
MlsslonarIes Robbed BY Bandits.

London.-A dispatch to the Daily
Mail from Peking says that 10 mis-
sionaries with women and children,
headed by the Swedish missionary,
DR.. Blom, have arrived from Ho-Nan-
Flu. They were attacked and robbed
by bandits near Ho.Nan-Fu, and both
DR.. Blom, and his wife received knife
outs.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30

Columbia, S. ca westbound At
lantic Coast Line train was held up
Friday night by lone robber, who
rifled the mail bags. The robbery oc-
Cured within two miles of this city.
The robber escaped.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
chamnlon Money Carrier.

New York.-James Heenan, who Is
50 years with the American Exchange
National Bank. has carried more
money through Wall street than any
living man, was given gold watch on
his elghty.frst birthday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30

A Gotham minister says that happi
ness is the best cosmetic. This is a
valuable hint to husbands who dislike
their wives to wear artificial complex
ions.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
SIXTY Drowned At Sea.

Vienna.-The Austrian steamer Ro-
mania was wrecked near Rovingno 1t
is reported that 60 persons were
drowned A sirocco has swept the
coast of the Adriatic for three days
and caused much damage to shipping.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
Widow OF Senator Push Dead.

Washington-Mr James l.. Pugh,
widow of Senator Pugh, of Alabama,
died at Chevy Chase, Nd, after a brief
illness, aged 81 years. lnterment will
be made at Eufaula, Ala
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
Pension Law Expensive.

Chicago.-Illinois new Pension law,
by which mothers are paid by the
State the money heretofore spent in
caring for their children, may cost
Cook county s5,OOO,OoO year, says
County Agent Meyer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
nnn Swallows hatpln.

Montclair, N. J.-Nip, a bull pup,
16 inches long, became so hungry he
swallowed 12-inch hatpin. A doctor
removed the pin, stopping mad dog
scare.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
1000 Claimed $40 Bill.

New York.-A $40 bill lost on
Broadway on October II and found by
a man from Berlin and turned over to
the police has been returned to its
rightful owner after more than 1000
claimed Il.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
Ronues, Gallery Suit.

New York--Because he was arrest.
ed falsely and measured and pictured
for the rogues' gallery, Paul Hawkins
sued Police Captain Kuhne and was
awarded $l,7SS damages
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30

They tell us that this is busy
world. but one gains different i'm
preston by watching crowd around
a Dcoreboard
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
llNnREss "IAcKu PARTY.

Butler, Pa-How the loser at
"Jacks" removed garment at the end
of each game is being revealed in the
S. A. Wright divorce suit. Steam heat
prevented players from taking cold.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
PERSIA GIVES IN.
Takes Ensland's Advice and Apollo
gizes To Russia.

YTZt5 Q HUoSId'
London.-The Persian government
officially notified the British govern
ment that, acting under the latest ad'
vices. it would comply with the de
mands of the Russian ultimatum.
Orders have been given for the
withdrawal of the gendarmes who
were sent by W. Morgan Shuster, the
Persian treasurer general, at the in
stance of the National Council to seize
the property of Shua-esSultaneh, a
brother of the ex-Shah of Persia.
Tire Persian government Will
apologize to Russia.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
"Perverted Education"

Boston.-"Harvard Stadium is a
monument to perverted education,
said Moorfeld Storey at dinner
party. President Lowell, of Harvard,
was present.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30

Only in essentials does the spiral
glide performed by an aviator differ
from that of the bibulous clubman re-
turning home late.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
Making Gold Easy.

Chicago.-It's easy to make gold out
of silver or any of the other baser
metals, declared Rudolph M. Hunter,
of Philadelphia. He said he had a
secret process. He's still working.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30

How strange It Is that some para.
grapher has not taken Il upon himself
TO call alimony the grass widows
mite.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
Miss Peach Elopes.

Cleveland,-William Costello, chauf-
feur, who eloped with Miss Helen
Peach, now sues the brides parents
for $4,000, alleging they persuaded
her to desert him.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30

Experts tell us tsat the high cost Of
living makes people eat less and live
longer. Let's all stop eating and live
forever.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
WANTS 100000 STAMPS.
Chicago Merchant Makes Big Demand
On Postoffice.

Washington.-A record stamp requi-
sition was received at the PostofTice
Department here from the postmaster
at Chicago. A merchant of Chicago
wanted to buy 100000 three-cent
stamps and the postmaster had to
send in a hurry call to the depart,
ment.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30
rortu.Elus Iapanese Perish.

Toxic. - The japanese destroyer
Harusame foundered off Shima prov.
lnce in a storm and 45 of the crew Of
so perished.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30

Mr.. Edison's remark that aviation
needs scientific revision should give
the aviators pause.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30

"Under strong and good licensing
authority almost any statute is work
able" according to the report
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30

Boston now has the biteless mos
quito to increase its great and growing
fame.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-30

Some of the diamond "cleavers"
of Amsterdam receive as much as
S120 a week.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-10-31
ANCIENT PURE FOOD LAW.

Pure food laws are not quite so
modern an invention as we may be-
iieve. DR.. Reisner has made discov-
e4ics in Palestine that seem to indi-
cate some sort Of supervision of the
cod supplies delivered to the palace
-nal-y hree thousand years ago. La
have been found that were once
alaNed to "a jar of pure olive oil.
We may wonder what tests We're en-
ployed and what would happen to the
wan whose oil was found to be not
pure. Probably something unpleas-
ant for there was no Supreme Court
in those days We knew what hap
DsHed in the Middle Ages to the en-
lerpriaing tradesman who adulterated
his goods. In l44i. Nuremberg mer-
chant was burned alive for mating
foreign material with his saffron and
the saffron itself was used for fuel
Probably that artistic touch impressed
the matter upon his memory. Some
Augsburg bakers who used false
weights and bad flour were ducked in
muddy pool, and. through a faulty
knowledge of the human respiratory
system, or sheer carelessness, they
came to the surface dead In 1882, a
wine merchant was ordered to drink
SIX quarts of his own aduterated
wine, and, as he died soon after, it is
evident that the adulteration must
have been serious 1t is true that he
had to finish the draught in a given
number of minutes, and a small num-
Der at that. but in those days they had
a pleasant way Of weighing the scales
and loading the dice upon the side of
Justice. Civilization has changed all
that: Nowadays we SILVER with ap-
prehension lest a rogue shall be pun
ished.-Argonaut.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-10-31
{. & ST.. SUSTAINED
BY GOVERNMENT
Right OF Road To Wharfage Charges
At Gulfport Pier Is
Upheld.

Gulfport, Miss, Oct. 21.-The Uni
ted States war department his issued
ruling sustaining the right of the
Gulf G. Ship Island road to collect
Wharfage charges at its pier at Gulf
port, thus settling a controversy that
has been in progress for several
months, and which will have an i'm
portant bearing on the future of that
deep water harbor,
The matter was put before the war
department by United States Senator
John Sharp Williams, who has re-
ceiYe a letter from Acting Secretary
of War Robert Shaw Oliver sustaining
the companys right to collect wharf
age charges, but holding that, while
the rates submitted are practically
those charged at the Mobile harbor, in
view of the lack of adequate facilities
for berthing and loading vessels. and
for handling freight on the pier, the
schedule should be reduced about
twenty-five per cent. Secretary Oil
yer bases this opinion on the recon-
mendation of Maj. Flagler, of the
United States corps of engineers, who
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-10-31
NO WEDDING BELLS
FOR THIS PARSON

Boston. Mass, Oct. 31.-No we'd
ding bells will ring tonight at the
First Baptist church of Newton Cen
tire, where the Rev. Clarence Virgil
Thompson Richeson, pastor of the
Emmanuel Baptist church of Cam
bridge, was to have taken as his bride
Miss Violet Edmands, the heiress
daughter of Moses Grant Edmands of
Brooklyn. The marriage ceremony
has been indefinitely postponed, whine
the bridegroom that was to be is
awaiting trial on the charge of having
brought about the death of pretty
nineteen year old Avis Linnell.
Miss Linnell, it is alleged. had been
engaged to the handsome young
clergyman for some time prior to her
tragic death by cyanide of Potassium
poisoning. The inquest developed
that she was in a delicate condition.
and the theory of the prosecution is
that she took the poison in the belief