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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
CABLE IN SHADOW
Of OUR FLAG.
Line From Yokohama to Guam
Discovered.
TAFT MAY ORDER WIRE SlEzED
End Of Strange Cable Found Wrapped
Around Regular Cable--Discover-
ers Astounded Upon Learning
They Gould Talk With
Japanse War Office.

Washingtno, d. c. Students OF
the Acknowledgements situation say
that it was an interesting coincidence
that President Taft should have sent
for Baron Uchida, the japanese Am
bassador, for peace talk" almost
simultaneously with the announce
ment made at San Francisco of the
discovery that Japan had control of
a cable from Guam to Yokohama.
This report, which was said to
have been made by John Buckley,
deck engineer on the army transport
Crook, was generally ridiculed in Of
fetal circles as too silly and prepos-
ferrous for serious consideration.
However, 1t develops that what Buck
ley disclosed was absolutely true and
that the facts were supposed to have
been known in Washington only by
President Taft and Secretary of War
Dickinson.
II is stated on the authority of a
high Government official that the re-
port OF this discovery was made to
Secretary Dickinson personally by the
captain of the cable ship which made
the discovery while the Secretary was
in the Philippines. The cable, how
ever had been laid to the island OF
Guam and not to the Philippine Is
lands, as reported from San Fran
cisco.
Last fall 1t was found that the Pa
cific cable was defective, and the
cable ship was sent out to investi-
gate. At Guam a loose end of a
strange cable was found wrapped
around the regular cable The Off
cials- of the repair party were per-
picked by the discovery and were
astounded when they began efforts
at communication that they could talk
directly into the Japanese War Of
fice.
II was thought that the discoverer
was known by Japan. so close watch
WOO phA ONNi AliN aN publhf NFiNh
has since been maintained, the idea
being to seize the cable in case of
necessity. So far as can be learned,
this has not yet been done
Interesting developments may now
he expected between the United
States and Japan, since the discovery
has become known. II is not con.
ceived how Japan will be able to en-
plain the existence of cable from
Yokohama direct to the shadow of
the American flag on the island of
Guam.
The discovery of this cable indi.
Gates clearly to the army authorities
that Japan has no intention OF vast
ing any time or powder with the
Philippine Islands in case OF war with
the United States.
II can be said that II was on this
principle that the joint Army and
Navy Board two years ago decided to
create the main Pacific naval and
military base at Pearl Harbor, near
Honolulu.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
FOUR AMERICANS ARE SHOT
Execution Ordered BY Mexican Drum
head Court -Marfail---State
Department TO Probe.

San Antonio, Tex.-John Hamilton
Dignowitty, we'll known here as
Ham" Dignowitty, and three other
Americans have been shot to death
under order of Mexican court-mar-
tial for participation in the insurrec-
tion, according to a dispatch received
by members of the Digno witty fam
lily.
The news was brought by Fred
Dignowitty, a cousin of the executed
man, but he had no particulars aside
from the allegation that the execu-
tion was the order OF "drum-head"
court-martial.
Ham" Dignowitty was 80 years
old and was engaged in the cattle and
mining business in the State of
Chihuahua.
Fl. NJ. Burns, mining man with
interests in Northern Mexico, de-
clared that the closing of the mines
had thrown many Americans out of
work and that more than 150 having
no other way of living were now with
the insurrectos.
In addition, Burns said. there were
probably so American adventurers
with the insurrectos, but the major
ity were mining men out of work.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30

New York.-One hundred and for.
ty-eight persons. nine-tenths Of them
girls and young women, employed as
shirtwaist makers, perished in a dis.
astrous fire which swept the upper
floors OF the l0-story loft building at
23 and 20 Washington Place, and in
an incredibly short time transformed
a quiet by.way of commerce into a
blackened canyon of death
1t was the replica OF the Newark
horror enlarged seyenfold, and this
city has had nothing comparable with
It since the burning Of the Slocum
strewed the gates of the sound with
more than a thousand dead.
One hundred and forty-one bodies
had been removed from the ruins at
midnight and seven of the fatally in
jured had died in hospitals. This, 1t
is believed, completes the list OF dead,
most of whom are unidentified. Grief
crazed relatives besieged the morgue
as the bodies were laid out.
Its cause Is to be found some
where in the hlimsy fabrics on which
some 500 persons were at work,
either from bit of defective insula-
tion, a tip of gas flame or perhaps
the spark from forbidden cigar
cite. Such a catastrophe. according
to the view OF Edward F. Croker.
chief of the fire department, was due
solely 20 the ineffective laws which
do not make mandatory the placing
of fire-escapes on the fronts OF the
structures used as factories.
The building where the fire started
Is on the northwest corner of Wash
ington Place and Green street, and
the block in which II is situated Is
inclosed on the north by Waverly
Place and on the west by Washing
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
WHEN THE FIRE WAS At ITS HEIGHT

The the fire ensory brickandstone struc-
ture at Washington Place and Greene street.
The single freescape inside the building reached only to
the seventh floor.
Fifteen hundred persons employed by Manufacturing con
Germs occupied the lower floors.
The three upper Hoorsthe eighth, ninth and tenth-wee
occupied the Triangle Waist Company makers OF Womehs
waists and coats who employ $50
When department reached the every window
on the upper crowded with faces Of those cut
off from escape
Flames and smoke rolling out the windows of the
eighth floor
ladders Of the fire department could not reach
the upper windows
Scores leaped out the windows with clothing
ahame or already burned on.
The impact the lesavng nets TO shreds
Falling girls collided in the descended in groups
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30

voluntarily hurled off the window
ledges by the crazed and sitting mol
at their backs clamoring for air.
In twos and three the women anG
girls dropped from the window sills
hurled through the air and fell TO
the pavements, where they lay a shat
tered mass of riven flesh and protrud,
ing bones The sound of the fearful
impacts, which came like a hail OF
death, caused men 10 hide their faces
and women spectators TO sink to theiL
knees on the flags and moan over the
tragedy to which they had given un.
willing witness.
The responses to the first alarm OF
fire had been prompt and efficient,
and soon the street was gorged with
engines, trucks and towers which fol.
lowed each other with precision to
the fourth alarm,
The ladders OF the fire Department
would reach only to the seventh floor.
but before the firemen could get even
that far scores had gone to their
death on the tagging of the street.
1t was the carnage of battle which
filed those short blocks in Washing.
ton Place and Green street. The
women employees hurled themselves
by twos and threes to their doom,
some descending with hair and cloth.
ing ahaze. Here was the valley OF
the shadow OF death, where had been
mart OF humdrum trade. There
was no time to perform the offices OF
the dead, for uncovered they lay with
their faces to the sky.
How the fire started will, perhaps,
never be Known. A corner on the
eighth floor was its point OF origin
and the three upper floors only were
swept.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
CIVIC CONSCIOUSNESS.

A New York lecturer In recent ad'
dress undertook to demonstrate that
some Of the practices OF immigrants
In this country, which are trouble
some to the authorities, have their or.
igin In the best intentions aud may
be easily corrected when the require
ments OF the American environments
are made clear to the new arrivals.
To illustrate his point he told an in
teresting story A certain immigrant
mother Of numerous offspring wRs
several times hailed to court and fined
for hurling her ashes into the city
street on which she lived, says the
Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. With
philosophic submission to arbitrary
governmental tyranny she paid her
hnes and went her way. Finally,
q charitable person explained TO he
In her own tongue why she should not
throw her ashes into the street. II
tnen appeared that In the Httle ToIIsn
village whence she came she and her
neighbors had been requested by
local authority to throw their ashes
into the road by way Of impromptu
street building Then he related
contrasting anecdote as follows: y
once heard one OF the founders of the
City Club say that when he came Of
age he asked his excellent father to
give him some idea Of what might be
his duties as a full-Aedged citizen OF
this great city. His father replied:
my son. as a gentleman and the son
OF gentleman. all you need know of
municipal procedure is that in order
TO have your ashes properly cared for
you must bribe the ashman."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
Wireless Goes Underground.

Berlin. - Two German scientists,
Drs. Leimbach and Loewy, have sue
cessfully applied wireless telegraphy
for underground communication
Messages have been sent between the
Potash mines in the North Harz
Mountains, a distance of nearly a
mile and a half, at level of 1900
feet below the surface. The mes
sages we're so clearly delivered that
the scientists conclude much greater
distances are feasible. The discov-
cry is regarded as highly important
in case Of mine disasters.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30

ton Square east. 1t abuts upon the
large structure occupied by the
American Book Company and certain
schools of the New York University.
The building is occupied by manu-
facturers of clothing and fur gar
ments of various kinds, the upper
three of the 10 stories being given TO
the Triangle Waist Company, which
has on its payroll 500 persons. con-
sisting of cutters and filters and vari-
GUS operatives, the majority being
young women and girls of tender age
who operate the machines upon shirt
waists intended for feminine year
this summer. The eighth floor was
devoted principally to cutting, and
there were also many factory se'-lng
machines. Most of the women We're
on the ninth floor, back of wooden
partition. with many doors communi-
eating to a narrow corridor, on the
other side of which were Offices.
There were banks of machines on the
tenth floor also, as well as shipping
and packing rooms and Offices of the
firm OF Messrs. Harris & Blanck.
The partners of the firm, Isaac
Harris and Max Blanck, escaped un-
scathed from the Office on the tenth
floor, carrying with them over an ad-
joining roof Blanck's two young
daughters and governess.
The doors in the wooden partition
on the ninth floor had just been lock-
ed and only one means of egress re-
mained from the larger room to the
carridor according to the story of
some Of the employees The fire
alarm came over the telephone at 40
minutes after 4 O'Clock, possibly
three or four minutes after mass of
shirtwaists on line on the eighth
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30

Mexico City.-The Diaz Cablnes
signed in a body at a special mettg
of that board Friday
The reason given for the acton,
an official announcement Is The \
lief that it will contribute to ttfr|
establishment of peace and iacIlIn,
the reforms which are I'm cOn,en,l
ton.
Enrique c. Creel, minister Of q
eign relations, presented the raj
nations in behalf of all Of The d,
listers. General Diaz thanked he a
tiring members for their efIiCIen, 4
patriotic cooperation In the past 4
announced that he would DOsiN
his acceptance or rejection r
later.
The designations included that
Ramon Corral as minister Of ths
partment of GobernaCiOn, 0n
spending to the Departmen, Of
Interior in the United States. butt
as vice-president.
Not one of the men who io'1
President Diaz's Cabinet Is less 4
65 years of age, and a numbG
them are much older With ilt
ception of Enrique C. Creel ni
ter OF foreign affairs, all have =
members of the Presidents otl
family for a great many years
fact alone has been one Of The 81
ances of the revolutiOnists, who >
insisted that the chief eIets
should surround himself with n
sentatives of the younger gensn
men more closely In touch
the affairs Of the people.
Following are those whose u
nations were received:
Enrique c. Creel minister "
eign affairs.
Ramon Corral, minister Of lnIs
Jose Yves Limantour minss
finance.
Olegario Molina, minister I"
mento.
Justo Sierra. minister Of e |
tion.
Manuel Gonzales Cosio ni
OF war and marine.
Leandro Fernando, MINIS"
public works and communlCaN-
Justine Fernando, mini"
justice.
without exception all ihd
have contributed valuable -
to their country and to U'
dent. but the popular feeling y IS
them has been growing steadp
long before the beginning "
revolution.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30

The biggest submarine yet built Is
the Seal which was launched at New
port News, Va. the other day. She
is classed as cruiser" and is lSl
feet long. The Seal. 1t is expected,
will be capable Of making long trips
under water and Is SO well equipped
that she will not be conveyed by a
fighting craft on the surface, as is
now usually the case. The submarine
"cruiser" will be unique addition to
the American navy. When the pro
posed aeroplanes are constructed for
the same branch of national defense
II would seem that our navy would
lack nothing for service on. under or
over the water
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30

Who says the United States is not
enlightening the world? The manu-
facture of what is called American
style furniture has become an impor'
tant industry in Spain, where the peo
pie have a great liking for the prod
uct This country was the pioneer in
turning out attractive furniture at
moderate prices. as II has been the
leader in many other innovations that
have contributed TO domestic comfort
and enjoyment, and the others are
catching on. II is reaching the point
where that sincere fiattery which
takes the form of imitation in becom
ing more and more pronounced. Amer.
ican ideas are being adopted every
where.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30

Telephone ''rubbering' will be dis
couraged In New Hampshire should a
bill pending In the Legislature become
a law. This measure provides a pen.
atty Of $40 for each offense when
person breaks In on telephone con
versation. 1t is aimed especially at
the listeners" on party wires, whose
curiosity leads them into attempting
to hear talk not intended for their
ears. The practice is not confined to
New Hampshire, but It will be inter
esting TO observe the degree of sue.
cess attained in the Granite State In
dealing with the offense.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
IMMUNITY BATH WO RN OUT
Federal Judge Decides Packers Must
Stand Trial.

Chicago. - United States Judge
Carpenter, in a decision on demur-
rers to the indictments charging 10
Chicago packers with conspiracy In
connection with the formation of the
alleged Beef Trust, ruled that the
Immunity bath" administered to the
packers in 1906 is not in force, and
the packers will have to stand trial
on the present criminal indictments.
The demurrers were based upon
the contention Of the plea that they
furnished the evidence upon which
the present case was founded. and
that the immunity granted TO them
then is still in force.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
Stabbed in Nose by Hatpin.

Providence, r. 1.-The crusade on
long hatpins gained strong support
er in Representative John b. Leclerc,
who. after being wounded by one of
the socalled dangerous weapons, an
nounced that he would introduce a
bill in the legislature limiting the
length Of this feminine accessory.
While riding TO the State House
representative Leclerc was stabbed
in the nose by long hatpin, pro-
trndirg from the new spring head
rear OF opan passenger.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30

La Barra went to the White House
and informed President Taft. The
President expressed pleasure at the
Ambassadors appointment and con-
graduated him warmly.
Senior De La Barra also called upon
Secretary of State Knox and inform
ed him of the appointment
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
Reciprocity is Paramount.

Washington, d, Cit was good
news for Canadian reciprocity that
came out Friday after the Cabinet
meeting. President Taft, after Civ.
Ing heed TO all the arguments, pro
and con. has decided that the Ca
madam trade agreement is para
mount so far as the Administration
Is concerned, at the extra session
His present insution is to conSne
Sls ressgre % Congress on Arr'l :
,ho after cor which he has callcf
oyi-a session.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
HOW HE STARTED THE CANAL
Roosevelt Says he Took the Canal
and Let Congress Debate,

Berkeley, Cal - Speaking at the
annual Charter Day exercises in the
Greek Theater at the University of
California, Theodore Roosevelt made
a plea for higher education and told
how he started the Panama Canal.
81 am interested in the Panama
Canal" he said, because | started
II. If had followed traditional,
conservative methods, | would have
submitted dignifed state paper of
probably 200 pages to Congress and
the debate on IL would have been 60
ing on yet; but took the Canal
Zone and let Congress debate; and
while the debate goes on, the Canal
does also"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
Flies With 10 PASSENGERS.

Mouzon, France. Roger Sommer,
the French biplanist, Friday broke
Louis Breguet's "aercbus" record,
which he made at Douai Thursday
in taking up IL passengers. Som
mer carried 13 persons, weighing in
the aggregate l,430i. pounds. lie
flew, however, only two-thirds of
mile, whereas Breguet. who used a
monoplane, went two miles. The
weight OF Breguets passengers was
1916 pounds.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
PENSIONS FOR TEACHERS
Connecticut Educators Urge Adopt
ing OF System.

Hartford, Conn, - Leading educa-
tors OF Connecticut spoke before the
committee on education of the gem
eral assembly in support of the meas.
ure to grant pensions to the public
school teachers of the state.
II the measure is enacted into law
all the teachers in the public schools
and normal colleges of the state will
be eligible to retire on a pension
after 80 years employment, the
amount of the pension to be in pro-
portion TO the salary received at the
time of retirement.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
SIEZED EGGS FATAL TO PIGS
Were Intended BY Concern For
Human Food.

Trenton, n. 1.-The suit of the
government against the II. J. Keith
Company, of Boston, was opened
here Wednesday. The action follows
the seizure of eggs in refrigerating
plant in Jersey and their condemna.
ton by the government as decom-
posed and unfit for food
Judge Cross heard DR.. Rosenberger
testify that he injected solutions in
to pigs and rabbits, and in all cases
the animals lost weight immediate
ly, refused food and, in many cases,
died within "a hours, Mice thus
treated, he said, died at once.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
Disagree With Mexican pvS
dent Regarding InsurreCtOs
LlMANT0UR ALONE TO RENAy
designations Do Not Include That.
Ramon Corral as Vice-Preslosn
--Rebels Demand the Re.
tirement OF Diaz.
Crisis in Mexico.

The Diaz Cabinet resigned IA
a body.
The reason given for the A.
tion is the belief that It will Col,
tribute to the re-establlshme,,
of peace and facilitate the 4
forms which are in contemps.
tion.
Not one of the Ministers b
less than 65 years OF age, and
their age is said to serve asu
excuse for their retirement
Jose Yves Limantour, Minis
ter of Finance, is said to be tts
only Cabinet member who vIl
remain.
Popular feeling against d,
Cabinet has been growing stead.
lily since long before the begin.
ming of the revolution.
One of the demands Of Ii,
insurrectos Is that Presdet,
Diaz shall agree to declare 1vl
his election of 1910 and submit
to a new election under ths
terms for a free ballot allowed
by the Constitution Of 1851.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
Washlnaton TO Investigate.

Washington. d. C.-Reports that
four Americans had been shot under
order OF Mexican court-martial will
be given immediate investigation by
the State Department. which has es-
tablished a quick line Of communi-
cation to the American Embassy at
Mexico City.
So far the press has been quicker
on the trigger than the official ad-
vices which the State Department re-
ceives.
The death of o'Driscoll, an Ameri-
can reported shot by insurgents, has
been confirmed officially II is not
given out what action the Depart
ment will take in this or other cases.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
Nine Killed in Mine.

Canonsburg, Pa.-Nine men were
killed by a fall of slate in the Hazel
mine of the Pittsburg and Buffalo
Coal Company, at East Canonsburg.
Eight of the dead miners are for.
eigners. One American, David Don
ley, was killed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
U. S. lakes IS Nor Win Arms.

El Paso, Texas, Heading for the
border, Is alleged Mexican insurrec-
tos were arrested by United States
Secret Service officers at Sanderson,
Texas They carried 10000 rounds
OF ammunition, Sc new rifles and had
12 horses. They were taken to San
Antonio
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
Over 40 Killed in stfI"

Lexington, Ky na. md
80 men were killed '", ra 10
them buried beside lne nes,,J
from a prominent citizen ,ll,, y ID
set, the centre Of the he's s'Ijrs Iors,aI
on the Cincinnati Ne" ,So,r.si
Texas Pacific railroad ID. os,t ,.tnia1
and Chattanooga 1t .',aiis, g", n
very few of the ho''l.,s s ~
known to the press ana .a... a|
the men killed are hes,s rsy u
buried on the right o. are M
railroad rail- wherever they '''
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
- Killed in s-Hour Battle.

Aqua Prieta, MeXico.-A nine hour
battle at La Colorado. south of Her
mosillo, resulted in the deaths OF SO
rebels and eight Federals, according
to an Official report received here.
The rebels had possession of the town,
but after hard fighting were driven
out
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30

A New Yorker has bought for $500
a prize shorthorn COW In Canada and
has brought the animal home In a spe-
clal car and in charge of two veterin.
airy surgeons 1t is evident that there
Is money somewhere In the milk and
butter business when properly con
Quoted
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
DIES AT AGE OF 10
kiissouri's Oldest Man Lea'''
AGED 100.

Sedalia. Mo.-Daniel BaT"''
TO have been Missouris S O'''.,
died here from pneumonl'
horn at Bonneville, Mo- u 4,
For many years he had been h, \
feet health, working as
much of the time ,.,,a
In an interview a Ie" W., T'' ,,S
attributed his remarkaOI' sl
condition to simple liy,nt' p, ,g I
not a total abstainer Ou'
perate in all things ,,,ra|
His wife, whom ne "
1927, is 100 years Old
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30

When the Geological Survey COM
pletes its present survey of the
United States the atlas that 1t will
issue will contain more than 5000
maps.