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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
MADERO VERSUS REYES.
Former Mexican War Minister Ac-
cused OF Treachery

Ell Paso.-It is to be war to the
finish between Francisco !. Madero
and Gen. Bernardo Reyes, according
to friends of Madero. They declare he
gave Reyes chance to return to
Mexico and become a useful citizen,
and that Reyes has been a traitor.
Friends of Reyes declare that Madero
is only jealous of the popularity or
the former war minister. Madero
has thrown the challenge to the Cen
eral and accuses him of treachery
and OF planning to have him shot
in battle, to assure the success Of
Reyes in the presidential election.
Returning from his trip of pacifica-
tion in Morelos, where he went to
urge the Zapatists revolters to lay
down their arms, Madero says that
while he cannot produce the evidence
asked by President De La Barra Of
the treachery of Reyes, he has enough
proof to satisfy himself. In the
capital the people are saying that II
Madero is elected President Reyes
will have to leave the country again,
as was the case when he became too
popular for President DiaZ or head a
revolution against Madero for self
preservation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
ARSON TO HIDE
TERRIBLE CRIME
Farmer, Wife and Son Are
Slain and Burned.
A SON IS PLACED IN JAIL.
Mr.. and Mr.. Lee Killed With Ham
mer and Young Son Shot While
They Slept--Doors Bolted
and House Set Afire.

Boonville, Ind.-A triple murder
was committed in Boonville. Rich
ard Lee and his wife and their IT.
year-old son, Clarence, were killed
in their beds with hammer and the
house set on fire.
The house was discovered on fire
at 4.30 o'clock Thursday morning
and by the time firemen reached 1t,
was blazing from all sides. Trying
to enter, they found that all the
doors and windows were locked.
Breaking down the doors, the fire
men found the incinerated bodies of
Lee, his wife and his boy.
Examination of the bodies result
ed in the discovery that the skulls OF
the father and mother had been
crushed in with a hammer, while
they were lying in bed asleep. The
l17-year-old boy rad been shot.
Robbery, it is believed, was the
motive. 1t is known that the Lee
family, consisting of the father and
mother and two children, had sold a
small piece of property in Newburg
and divided up the money between
them.
The mother and father and young
er boy took their money and went
back to their home in Boonville. The
older son, William Lee, who is Il
years old, remained in Newburg and
then returned to Boonville after his
family had gone to bed.
William Lee was arrested by the
sheriff of Warrick county on the
charge of numbering the other mem
bers of the family. William Lee, il
is said, ran out of the home at the
time of the fire, fully dressed and
spread the alarm. He claimed al
the time of his arrest that he was
awakened by the blaze and barely
escaped with his life, not having had
time to rescue his parents and
brother.
Information also came out thai
Lee and his father had quarreled ire
quently over money matters. VIII
liam, the son who is now in the War
rick county Jail, was engaged to wee
Miss Myna Taylor, of Newburg
daughter of a wealthy farmer, anC
the nuptials were to have taker
place Thursday. Insurance policies
amounting to $4,000 were found OF
the lives of Richard Lee, the father
and his son, Clarence, both victims
of the tragedy.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
BANDITS MUST RETURN LOOT
Gen. Madero Issues Notices At
JojutIa--Guilty viii Be
Punished.

Cuautla, Morelos, Mexico.-That
Francis |. Maderos method Of restor-
ing peace is not lacking in energy was
indicated Wednesday when, as a re-
suit Of his visit TO Jojutla notices were
posted stating that looters would be
given just one day to return stolen
property; that failure to do so would
result in summary court martial and
probable death sentence.
In Jojutla Madero investigated the
work of the mobs whose members
are said to have been bandits rather
than Zapatistas. Most Of the larger
stores have been looted. Madero as
sured the citizens that the guilty ones
would be severely punished. General
Hernandez, a former revolutionary
officer, is in command of the local
garrison. After comforting with
Modero Hernandez announced that
drastic measures would be instituted.
One looter caught in the act was shot.
A number are imprisoned.
AT lxtla Madero conferred with
General Ambrosio Figueroa, who de-
parted in pursuit of the bandits.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
MINERS HAULED THROUGH FIRE
Seven Killed and Three MortalIy
Hurt in Disaster

Ely, Nev.-0f 10 men who were
working at the 1,400-foot level OF
the new five-compartmen shaft Of
the Giroux Consolidated Mines, when
il caught fire Wednesday night,
seven are dead and three lie at the
point of death after passing through
the flames to reach the surface.
The men on the 1,400-foot level
heard a noise which they thought
was caused by an explosion. They
looked up and saw the shaft in
flames. They at once boarded the
cage and started for the surface, but
encountered the flames at the 1900
foot level and stopped.
Five men left the cage and started
to walk through the 1,200-foot level
TO the old Alpha shaft, 700 feet away,
through which they hoped to climb
out of the mine.
The five remaining in the cage gave
the signal to hoist and were pulled
through the blazing shaft. One was
dead when the top was reached and
the four others were badly burned
Rescue of the men remaining in
the mine was then attempted
through the Alpha shaft. At the
400-foot level one was found dead ;
another body was recovered at the
60O-foot level; third may lay dead
at the bulkhead, but two men were
not found and are still in the burn
ing mine.
This is the same mine in which
three and half years ago two mer
were killed and four others entombed
for 46 days on the l,000-foot levej
of the Alpha shaft.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31

Gustav Frenssen's KLAUS Hinrich
Baas" reminds one of David Copper
field" in its long deliberative unwind
ing of a life history up to middle age,
and a little, too, in its general plan,
with its unhappy love marriage fol
lowed by a more satisfactory union,
says the London Times. But Frenssen
plows deep in the field Of moral and
social problems, and his plot is con.
vincing-we are not obliged to take
the facts on the honor Of the narrator.
The hero is a peasants soma piece
Of tough, proud, full-blooded North
German humanity. In one moment OF
bitter disillusionment he asks himself
what his too great teachers, School
and Church, had done for him except
mislead him. They had given him
fables, impossible idealisms. two gos-
pels, the gospel of the Savior and
the gospel of Schiller, but Of true,
genuine knowledge of life not a yes
tige." How he gets this knowledge
is the theme of the book; a fine and
moving story which flows on In a
broad stream of incident and charac.
ter that gives a singularly powerful
impression of the massiveness and
variety of life.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
JOKE ENDS IN TRAGEDY.
BOY Tied to Cow BY Plsymates 10
Dragged TO Death.

Utica, N. Y.-Falling from a COW
to which he had been tied by his
playmates, Lewis Burns, the 7-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Matthew
Burns, was dragged by the frighten-
ed animal around field until he was
dead, according to word Just receiv-
ed here from Pulaski Lewis, with
mis- two sisters, s and II years old,
went out to the pasture to take turns
riding a COW that long has been a
pet of the family. 1t was sport
the youngsters had enjoyed frequent
ly during the summer vacation. The
COW was gentle and had never tried
to throw or harm the children while
they were driving it around the field.
Laughing merrily, Lewis started off
on the ride. He had not gone far
when the rope began to slip. The
boy tried to cling to the cows back,
but his hands slipped over its hide
and he fell. This frightened the
COW. 1t dashed of on a wild circuit
of the pasture, dragging the boy
along the ground. His skull was
fractured, right arm and Jaw broken
and nearly all his clothing torn off.
He was dead when picked up.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31

Geneva and Rochester brought physi-
clans, nurses and medical supplies
Hundreds awaited treatment, and
the railroad station at Manchester,
a cider mill and an icehouse were
used to give temporary shelter and
treatment to The sufferers.
1t was necessary to chop through
the sides and bottom of the day
coach at the bottom and the work OF
removing the victims moved with
painful slowness.
Death had come swiftly to many
a large number OF the dead having
had their skulls crushed in when
they were thrown against the car
seats and projections.
The mortality was high among the
older passengers, most of whom were
veterans of the Civil War and Their
wives.
Twenty-Three In Morsue
The dead removed from the wreck
and brought to a morgue at Shorts
Vile, near here, numbered 23. Two
other persons died in Rochester from
their injuries. Several other persons
with probably mortal injuries are
lying in the hospitals at Rochester
Geneva and Clifton Springs.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
HARRY TRAW NOT INSANE.
So He Declares In Answer TO His
Wife's Petition.

Pittsburgh, pam answer was
filed here by Harry X. Thaw through
his attorney, former Governor Will
liam A. Stone, to the petition Of his
wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, in which
Judge l.. l.. Davis was asked to APP
point a lunacy commission to take
charge of the income of Thaw in this
State and provide for the support of
the wife. Thaw's income is said to
be 100000 year.
Thaw claims that the verdict of
the jury in New York State was not
finding that he was insane and that
the decree confining him in Matteawan
was a statutory only and not a pro-
ceeding as to the lunacy of Thaw.
He claims that the fact that he is still
confined in the Matteawan Hospital,
under the order OF court, does not
judicially or in any way establish his
present insanity. The answer alleges
that the petition asks the court to do
what 1t has no authority to do.
In the second part of the answer
Thaw states:
Your affiant is not at present in
sane. He is quite capable of attend
ing to his own affairs, and does at
tend to his own affairs. He transacts
his own business. If there was ever
any arrangement mentally the afIiant
has entirely recovered from 1t, and is
now in possession of all his mental
Z faculties.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
Socialist Victory 10 Rumor.

Washington.-At the headquarters
of the American Federation of La
Dor here It is rumored that the cleo
ton of William H. Johnson, Of Rock
Island, H., as president Of the In
ternational Association of Machinists,
and the defeat of James O'Connell,
who has held that position Is years,
is a victory for the Socialists in the
labor organization of the United
States who are fighting Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation OF Labor
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31

New York is protesting against a
new danger in the reckless driving OF
automobiles by boys and girls through
the streets, and legal means are to be
sought to prevent the lives OF citi-
Eens being put in danger by children.
The automobile. in some Say. seems
TO be associated with disregard OF the
rights of pedestrians to an extent
which has rendered II a menace of
civilization, as well as one of its lux
uries. But as far as children are con.
cerned. they should be legally re-
strained from being allowed in charge
of any vehicle. They are too fond OF
any kind of power and too irresponsi-
BILE in its use-an exceedingly danger
Gus combination.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
Emery Wheel Kills Cuban.

Easton, PA bursting emery
wheel killed Edward Blasecadado, a
young Cuban sent to the United
States to learn the machinist trade
and mechanical engineering in the
plant Of the Treadwell Engineer Com
pany near here. He was operating
the wheel when 1t burst. and a
fragment fractured his skull. Blase-
cadado came from a prominent and
wealthy family at Chapara, Cuba. He
was 81 years of age.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
DYING FROM BLOW.
SchooIboy Received Blow Last
Month in Aldermen

Edwardsville, Ill-Gilbert Jen-
kins, 15-year-old schoolboy, who
fought for the entertainment of a
dozen women and several hundred
men on the steamer Keystone State
last month is lying at his home here
of injuries received in the bout. His
life is despaired of by two physicians
who are attending him, Young Jen-
kins went on with Bobbie Brendle in
curtain-raiser. He was knocked
down in the second round with blow
on the left side of the abdomen. He
fell limp to the floor, and while con-
scious, was unable to regain his feet.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
Thunder Causes Death.

New York.-Mrs. Daniel Ferguson,
Of Atlantic Highlands, N. j., fell un-
conscious at a window in her room
when vivid flash of lightning and a
loud crash of thunder frightened her.
Dr. E. E. Failing responded to a hur-
ried summons and found that she was
dead. Mrs. Ferguson had always
dreaded lightning The first peal Of
thunder during any storm brought
terror to her.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31

Washington.-The protection Of
American interests in Haiti is now in
the hands of the lone gunboat Mari
eta at Port au Prince. Because OF
the improved conditions in the little
republic the Navy Department with
drew the three other warships, which
for several weeks had been guarding
foreign life and property. The scout
cruiser Salem sailed for Hampton
Roads, while the cruiser Des Moines
and the gunboat Peoria were ordered
% Guantanamo, Cuba.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
The Fulton County News
THE BusYBoDY.
McConnellsburg, Pa.

We shun them at every opportunity,
those busybodies who pose as our
friends when really they are quite the
contrary, and who seem to think they
are endowed by a special act of Provi-
dence with regulating the affairs OF
their neighbors as well as OF those
who would rather not be their neigh
bors. 1t is easy 10 comprehend how
such persons earn their characteriza-
ton and easier still for us to apply
such a description to all those who In
any way display what we may regard
as ar undue interest in our affairs,
says the Christian News and Courier.
II Is possible, however, that the cap
which we place so unhesltatingly
upon the heads of certain persons
would prove better fit for us If we
could persuade ourselves 10 try IL
on" Unquestionably the mere sug'
gestion to some of us that we could
ever overstep the limit of our friend
ly interest in others is distasteful,
and in many cases probably unwar-
ranted, yet II is true that one OF the
distinctive characteristics of the pres
ent age, with It's freedom OF living
and its consequent sacrifice Of many
OF those refining and restraining In
huences that were so vital a part OF
another and more distant day, is the
readiness with which we indulge our
curiosity. Not satisfied nowadays
with the bestowal OF confidence
which is sufficient, perhaps. to pique
our interest II is not unusual for some
persons to solicit further details and
in other ways to evince a too eager
concern in the affairs of others.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
100000 In Old POSTAGE.

Chicago.-Three hundred members
of the American Philatelic Society
opened their twenty-fifth annual con-
vention here. The private stamp col
lections of the members are said to
be valued at 100000. The larg-
est individual collection is that of
George H. Worthington, of Cleve-
land, O., valued at 100000. An ex-
hibit of cancelled stamps valued at
100000 is displayed at the Art In
stitute. F. N. Cornwall, of st. Louis,
was chosen president Of the society
at the annual election of officers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
PrIce OF Beef Scars.

New York.-The wholesale prices
of beef scared to new high level in
New York Tuesday. AS announced
at various local wholesale centers the
price of ribs and loins in the best
grade of beef is now 161s cents a
pound, as compared with IL cents
on January /. 1t is an advance or
IL cents since last week. Best
rounds of beef are advanced to IL "
cents as compared with 8 cents at
the first of the year, and proper
tional increase is made in second and
third grade beef.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
Mis-. CLEVELAND Enaeaed.

Tamsworth, N. HIT is under
stood that the marriage of Miss
Esther Cleveland, Oldest daughter Of
the late ex-President, whose engage
ment to Randolph d. West, of New
York, was announced Wednesday,
will take place in October. The fam
lily say nothing about the affair. Miss
Cleveland is devoted to athletics, be-
ing an enthusiastic tennis player and
motorist. Mr.. West is the son of a
Princeton professor and has been at
tentive to Miss Cleveland for some
time.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31

Another rich American girl is to
marry an English nobleman. The
next generation of the British peer
age will be as much American as Eng
lish, If these international marriages
keep on, and with such an infusion of
Americanism, even the famous British
conservatism and love Of tradition
may give way to startling extent.
But the nation seems not to care for
this American danger as long as II
can assimilate so much OF the Amer.
lean coin.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
Y. M. c. A. Membership.

New ork.-More than half mil
lion young men are now members OF
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion-536,03 to be exact, gain of
cordlng to the associations year book
OF North America, Just received OF
these 157,S50 are industrial workers
and more than half take physical
training In 64S gymnasiums, The
net property gain for the year was
s7,162,0o0, bringing the grand total
up to $67,539,000 Throughout the
continent the association employs
1851 officers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
To Launch La Toilette Boom

Duluth, Minn.-A number OF Mid
die States leaders of the progressive
Republicans have received invitations
to attend State progressive ban
quet in Minneapolis, September Z, at
which a State boom for Senator La
Toilette, of Wisconsin, for President
is to be launched. Among those in
yited are Senator Cummins, OF Iowa;
Governor McGovern, of Wisconsin;
former Senator Beveridge, of Indi-
ana, and Senator Clapp, of Mime
sofa.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
VIII Exc vance Land.

Washington.-The State of Idaho
and the United States government
have agreed to exchange about 400,-
OO0 acres Of land in that state, so that
each may have its lands in a more
compact body than at present Act
ing Secretary of Agriculture Hays
signed cooperative agreement with
the state.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31

Now It is discovered that the ia
nous pirate, Captain Kidd. who, ac-
cording to the old song, much wick
edness he did as he sailed" was
really no pirate at all, but an honest
and good-tempered old sailor. But
there are some cherished illusions to
which the mind will always cling, and
It will require more authority than is
given to induce the popular imagina-
ton to accept a romantic and pic
turesque pirate as an uninteresting
and commonplace good honest man.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
Trlmble Elected Commander

Rochester, N. Y.-Judge Harvey
Trimble, of Princeton, H., was
unanimously elected commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public at the meeting of the National
Encampment. Colonel John Nc
Elroy, of Washington, the only other
contestant for the place, withdrew
from the race.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
Wraps Himself In Flag.

Kingston, Jam.--More Haytien
exiles, some OF them unfriendly to
President Leconte, are arriving here.
One OF them, an adherent of former
President Simon, was obliged to
wrap himself in Spanish flag to
escape the violence or mob that
threatened him as he was about to
leave Haytl.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31

A Pennsylvania pastor, getting $50
n month salary, has been ordered to
pay his wife sS monthly alimony.
How true II is that ITO him that
hath shall be given. and from him
that hath not even that which he
hath shall be taken away"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
Kin. Countryman, Is Cauaht.

Mount Holly, ~ J,-Salvatore
Argona, who shot and instantly kill
ed Guiseppi Materi during a quarrel
on a farm near Centreton, was cap
tured at Moorestown. Before his
arrest Argona gave an armed posse
a long chase. The murderer was
brought to the county Jail.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31

From Honey Creek, Ia, comes the
story that bolt of lightning dug a
well and found water after farmer
had tried in vain for years. Evil
dently Honey Cre.k is trying to COM
pete with WinsteS. conn.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31
FAST TRAIN LEAPS
INTO THE RIVER
Twenty-Five Dead and Sixty
Are Injured.
G. A. R. MEN IN CRASH,
Train Of Fourteen Coaches and TIVE
Locomotives Jumps tho Track
Whns > pproschins Bridge on
the lehigh Valley Road.

Manchester, N. Y.-Speeding east
ward behind time, Lehigh Valley pas
senger train No. ran into broken
rail on trestle near here Friday and
two day coaches from the mid-sec'
tion of the train plunged downward
10 feet, striking the east embank'
ment like a pair of projectiles.
In the awful plunge and crash al
least 25 persons were killed and near
ly 60 injured. The injuries of sew
eral are 30 serious that 1t is fear they
will die.
The wreck was the worst in the
history of the Lehigh Valley in this
State and one of the most disastrous
ever recorded on the system.
Was c. A. r. Train.
Crowded with passengers, many
of whom we're war veterans and ex
cursionists from the Grand Army oi
the Republic encampment at Roch
ester, the train, made up of Ia cars
drawn by two big mogul engines
was 40 minutes late when II reached
Rochester Junction and from there
sped eastward to make up time be
fore reaching Geneva.
The engines and two day coaches
had just passed the centre OF a 40
foot trestle over Canandaigua Out
let, 150 yards east of the station al
Manchester, at 1896 o'clock, when
the Pullman car Austin, the third oi
q long train, left the rails
II dragged the dining car with II
and two day coaches and two Pull
mans, in this order, followed.
Ran on lies.
All bumped over the ties short
distance when the coupling between
day coach No. 237 and the rear enc
OF the diner broke.
The forward end OF the trair
dragged the derailed Pullman Austir
and the diner over safely, aftel
which both plunged down the soutl
embankment and rolled over.
The free end of an ill-fated lie
high Valley day coach, in which
most of the victims were riding
showed out over the gulf and, fol
lowed by a Grand Trunk day coach
stripped the rear guard off the soutl
side of the trestle and plunged t
the shallow river bed, more than Al
feet below.
The end of the first day coach tina
went over struck the east embank
ment of solid masonry and, with tn,
other 60-foot car behind it, boil
shot against the wall with terriff
| force.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-08-31

A dreadnaught is a formidable OBJ
ject, but 1t affords a shining mark for
a little aeroplane fitting hither and
yon among the clouds. In few
years, perhaps, somebody will build
an aeroplane destroyer.