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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20

Atlantic City. - "A Saloonless
Nation" by the Fourth of July, 1920,
the SO0th year from the landing OF
the Pilgrims at Plymouth, is to be
the slogan of the Christian Endeav-
orers of the world, and of all sects
and all organizations interested in
the United States, according to re-
markable resolution unanimously
adopted by the Christian Endeavor
Convention on the Million Dollar
Pier
This resolution, sweeping and
stringent as ii is, however, is only
one of a number of unanimously
adopted resolutions, which express
the whole spirit and trend of Chris
tian Endeavor.
The comprehensive liquor resolu-
ton declares that Christian Endeavor
is an uncompromising foe of saloon
endeavor and insists upon the aboli-
tion of the liquor trafIic, In every
one of its phases, local, State, Ma
tional and international
As a grand climax to the nine
years countrywide liquor campaign,
1t is proposed to work for the
amendment of the Constitution of
the United States, to the end, that
results OF the campaign may be made
irrevocable. Liquor is branded as
Americas Greatest Curse" and an
appeal is issued for a united, but
bloodless, because legal, and moral
revolution, for new declaration OF
independence.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20

Basing calcuj stions on the estimate
that the number OF American tourists
In Europe in season is 100000 and
that the average individual expendi-
ture by these tourists is $3.50. some
one has easily figured that about s225..
100000 OF American money is spent
abroad in the course OF a season; and
this does not include the cost OF steam
ship tickets. Bankers who handle the
letters OF credit for wealthy Ameri.
can tourists are quoted to the effect
that $4,000 is a fair average for the
value of these letters. says the Man
chester Union. Among tourists OF the
wealthy class, says the report, II is
common to place from $4,000 to SIS,
900 in the hands Of the bankers. and
as rule. fully two-thirds OF the
amount is drawn. Possibly the major
premise of this main proposition has
been overdrawn; possibly the minor
premise; possibly both-and possibly
neither In any event, It must be ad
mitted that s225, 100000 is tremen.
dous sum OF American money TO be
taken to Europe and left there in a
single season.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
WILEY CONFIDENT
FACING CHARGES
Wickersham Recommends Pure
Food Mans Resingation.
TAFT GIVES DEFENSE CHANCE
VIII Not o ct Un'il He Has Heard
tho Other S de--Like Bal
linser-Pinchot Con-
troversy

Washington. - DR.. Harvey w.
Wiley, the famous chief of the
Bureau of Chemistry, who has been
battling against tremendous odds for
the fearless and impartial enforce
ment of the Pure Food law, is again
under fire.
His resignation has been recon-
mended to the President on the basis
of report formulated by inveterate
enemies within the Department of
Agriculture, who charge him with
evasion of the law and irregularity.
Attorney-General Wickersham has
indorsed the recommendation for the
resignation of DR.. Wiley, the dis
missal of DR.. Rusby, and the reduc-
tion of DR.. Lyman F. Kebler, chief
of the Division of Drugs.
In advising President Taft to oust
DR.. Wiley, Mr.. Wickersham holds
that "condign punishment" should be
meted out to DR.. Wiley for the salary
arrangement under which DR.. Rusby
was employed.
II is charged against DR.. Wiley
that he permitted an arrangement to
be made with DR.. II. H. Rusby, a
recognized pharmacognosist Of Co
lumbia University, New York, for
compensation in excess of that al
lowed by law. II is asserted that
the arrangement was to put DR..
Rusby on the payroll of the depart
ment at 81, 900 year as an employe
OF the Bureau of Chemistry, an
agreement being made with him that
he should be called upon to perform
only such service as this salary would
compensate for at the rate of $40 a
day for laboratory Investigations and
$50 day for attendance In court.
Attorney General Wickersham
held that the law permitted the pay
ment of only 50 day, this sum later
being increased to $11 a day
The record in the case was before
| President Taft for action, but he
recognized the incompleteness of the
case and the papers are now all be-
fore DR.. Wiley, who is preparing his
defense against the charges which
were filed against him by an assist
ant who was running the Bureau
of Chemistry during the famous
chemists absence.
These charges and insinuations OF
irregularity and evasion of the law
we're never submitted to DR.. Wiley.
He was merely called before the
Committee on Personnel in the De-
partment of Agriculture, asked about
the fixing of the salary of Dr. Rusby
without any intimation that "a case
was being made against him, and on
this record furnished Attorney-Gen-
eral Wickersham with the excuse to
recommend the official decapitation
of DR.. Wiley.
Worse than the inquisition OF
anything in the third degree" is how
the friends of DR.. Wiley, familiar
with every stage of the fight against
him, within and outside the depart.
ment, characterize this attempt tc
get his scalp"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
The Fulton County News
MUSHROOMS AS FOOD.
McConnellsburg, Pa.

Professor F. e. Clements, the state
botanist OF Minnesota. has attracted
attention by his estimate In q recent
bulletin that the annual waste OF
mushrooms In the United States
equals In value the entire agricultural
product OF the country, says the Man
chester Union II is easy for an en-
thuslast in any line OF thought or en-
deavor to lose the sense OF just pro-
portion, and II may perhaps be taken
for granted that Professor Clements
has permitted himself to be carried
away by the contemplation Of the
waste OF natural food product which
Is more or less abundant everywhere
and which has an unquestloned food
value. Beginning with early summer
and continuing until late fall, the pro
ductlon of mushrooms in woods, pas
tures and waste places is something
enormous, and a large proportion ol
them are not only edible, but nour
lshing. In so far as they are not
made use of-and a small proportion
Of them is ever gathered-they OF
course, represent a loss Of possible
food supply, but some account must
be taken Of the cost of collecting and
distributing them to consumers, as
we'll as of the danger from some spe
cies Which are harmful and OF at
least to which may be classed as
deadly These are easily distinguish.
ed. to be sure. by any one who has
made study Of the mushroom tribe.
but until Americans. as rule, are
much more familiar with the subject
than at present, a great proportion OF
the edible varieties will continue to &c
20 waste.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20

An appeal for American-made rub
ber tires is made by the United States
consuls in Germany. who say that a
rich market is being overlooked by the
people at home. These advance agents
of trade point out that In some OF the
cities on the high road Of tourist
travel there are for sale but two
makes of automobile tires. and those
of French and German brands. The
use Of the bicycle as a means Of trans
portation is reported on the increase.
and. as II TO add to the field for ex-
pioitation. many of the smaller cities
are just beginning to awake to the
advantage of rubber tires as a part Of
the fitting Of general vehicles.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
NEW YORK FOR INCOME TAX
RetifIca lon, However, 10 Out Of
Question This Year.

Albany, N. Y.-New York state
went on record in favor of federal
income tax, when the Assembly, by
a vote of 81 to AZ, passed the resolu-
tion ratifying the proposed amend
ment to the federal Constitution au-
thorizing such a tax. The measure
passed the Senate on April 10.
New York swings into the list Of
states that have ratified the propos-
ed federal income tax and brings Tie
total up to 81. Tabulation shows
the necessary 35, or three-fourths'
vote of the states, is out of the ques-
tion this year. Fifteen states have
either defeated the amendment in
one or both Houses, have adjourned
without taking action, or having in
dorsed the measure in one branch,
have gone into adjournment with the
other branch unrecorded.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
Four Bow. Los, on Lake Huron

Black River, Mich.-During the
high wind Tuesday four little boys
we're carried out into Lake Huron in
an old boat and were lost. Three
OF them we're sons of Joseph Mar
quis-Alfred, George and Jean, aged
respectively, 8, Z and 5 years-the
other being William, the 7-year-old
son Of John Lalonde. The children
had been forbidden by their parents
TO go near the water, but slipped
away, found the old boat at the
mouth of the river and started for
an island.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
TWENTY-ONE DEAD
IN NINE FLASH
Little Damage by Explosion;
Deadly After-Damp Kills.
ALL IN MINE ARE KILLED.
Eleven Victims In One Heading
Found With. Dinner Pails--AlI
Foreigners Except
Three.

Dubois, Pa.--Twenty-one miners
were killed in an explosion in the
shaft of the Cascade Coal and Coke
Company's mine at Sykesville, nine
miles from here Saturday night.
The explosion occurred at $50, but
1t was after midnight before the ex-
tent of the disaster was known. All
OF the dead but three were foreign
ers.
The explosion was slight, as evil
denced by the small damage done in
the mine, but the deadly after damp
is responsible for most of the deaths.
Three sets of brothers and father
and son are numbered among the
dead. George and John Heck and
Nick Payelick and his 15-year-old son
were found by the rescuers locked in
each Others arms as though they
embraced each other in their dying
moment.
None of the bodies was mutilated
and only several showed any burns.
Eleven of the men in one heading had
apparently made ready to escape, for
they carried their dinner pals and
were headed for the opening.
The first intimation of the explo.
sion at the surface was when the
safety door on the fan blew open and
the machinery began to run. 1t ia
Burmised there was trouble below,
but It was almost midnight when
rescuers could enter the mine. II
took some time to get to the scene
OF the accident, mile and a half
from the opening, because the rescu-
ers were obliged to carry oxygen
with them.
All but four of the bodies were
brought to the foot of the shaft early
Sunday, but we're kept there until
all we're recovered.
Four bodies were buried beneath q
cave-in in heading.
The State police from Punxsu-
tawney we're called to police the vi
cinity OF the shaft, and when the
bodies we're brought out there was
/ little distress or excitement.
Neither mine officials nor mine In
Bpectors are able to assign a cause
for the explosion, as there are nc
survivors from which to gain an ex'
PLANTATION, but II is the general belief
that some of the men drilled into Q
pocket of gas.
The shaft is known as nongase'
Gus one, and Fire Boss John Brown
reports he was through the heading
where the explosion occurred but an
hour before and found no trace oi
| gas.
Six men working in another head
Ing of the mine at the time of the ac
cident knew nothing OF the explosion
until the compressed air stopped
their drills, and one man was knock
/ ed from his rock drill. They realized
something had happened, but die
not know the nature OF 1t until the!
met party of rescuers coming fol
them.
When the rescue car of the Bureau
OF Mines arrived here the services
we're not needed, as all the men were
dead and the air in the mine haC
been cleared.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
BRYAN NAMES AvAlLABLES
Without Expressing a Preference or
Anyone

Lincoln, Neb.-William j. Bryan
has made up his list of availables for
the Democratic Presidential and
Vice-Presidential nominees. Without
expressing a preference for anyone.
Folk, of Missouri Wilson, Of New
Jersey, and Speaker Champ Clark
are indicated probabilities with an ex-
tended list of possibilities.
The list is remarkable in that the
name of Governor Harmon, Of Ohio,
nowhere appears Mr.. Bryan says
that no one questions the availability
of Folk, Wilson or Clark, but that
aside from these there are many
availables.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
Stick. Pin Into Dynamite Cap

Lynchburg, Va.-A young son of
Mrs. Virginia Brooks, who lives in
South Lynchburg, finding dynamite
cartridge, ran to his mother, asking
what It was. Mrs. Brooks did not
know, but proceeded to investigate
with a hatpin. The cap exploded,
blowing the woman's first finger en-
tirely off and tearing away portions
of her thumb, second and third
hngers She also sustained an in
fury TO her right eye and right
shoulder.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
Report All R,llroad d Acc d ents

Washington-Th appalling toll
OF human life exacted by American
railroads is reflected in the fact that
the Interstate Commerce Commission
receives daily from responsible Off
GERS of interstate carriers an average
of 80 telegraphic reports of accidents
involving the loss of one life or more
The reports are made in response to
an order of the commission, which
became effective jury I. Generally
the railroads are complying with 1t
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
THE HORSE STILL POPULAR
Improvement Of Pure Blood Animals
Not Hurt by / utos.

Washington.-The popularity OF
the automobile has by no means put
a stop to improvement OF the Ameri.
can horse. Animals of pure blood
constantly are being brought from
foreign countries for breeding pur-
poses. Certificates Of pure breeding,
required by custom officials for the
free entry of animals imported into
the United States for breeding pur.
poses, were issued by the Department
OF Agriculture for 710 horses during
the first quarter of this year. The
list shows the following breeds: 337
Percheron, 252 Belgian draft, 65
Shire, 21 Shetland pony, 10 Clydes.
dale, 13 Welsh pony, six hackney and
one thoroughbred.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
WIn Colonlza Drunkarda.

New York.-From now on card
index will be kept of the records of
all male persons arrested in New
York for intoxication, an investiga-
tiorl made of what persons are de-
pendent for support upon the offend
ers, and a hospital and industrial
colony will be established for the
care and treatment of such cases as
are deemed "habitual drunkards. p"
This work was ordered by the Board
Of Inebriety which was authorized by
an act of legislature in 1910.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
DRY NATION JULY 4, 1920
ChrlstI9n Endeevorers Enl st Entire
Menb rship In Fight
Against Saloon.
EN Champ NIX

The Christian Endeavorers
are doing a good work, as an
institution halfway between the
Sunday School and the Church.
It is an organized body which is
the best way OF getting results.
This is the first time have ever
attended one OF their national
conventions and it impressed me
as a most enthusiastic rally.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
OiITrust Split Beqlns.

Columbus, Ohio-Apparently the
reorganization of the Standard Oil
Company, ordered dissolved by the
Supreme Court, has begun. Secre-
tary of State Gray has received no.
ice, as required under the Willis
law, of the increase from 1S,000,-
600 to $5O,0OO,OO0 of the Texas
company, a subsidiary of the cDr-
poration, with Offices at Beaumont.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
CASTRO THE MYSTERIOUS
Venezuelan Potter Seems 10 Have
AoaIn Dis ppsared

Washington.-The Castro mystery
has deepened. Apparently the earth
has opened and again swallowed up
the worlds most undesirable citi-
zen"
American Minister Garrett cabled
from Caracas that he could get no
confirmation of Castros supposed re-
turn to his native land and that the
Venezuelan government itself had
been unable TO find anyone who had
seen Castro or had heard of his be-
ing near Columbia or Venezuela
within the past year.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
JUDGE and Constable Killed.

Burnside, Ky,-Constable w. A..
Heath and Justice A. J. Beatty we're
shot to death in the courthouse here.
James Ellis, former deputy sheriff,
s under arrest, charged with the
double crime. Officers are pursuing
A. Helton, who, II is alleged partici-
pated in the affray. No one else
was present when the shooting took
place.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
Fire Wines Out Maine Town.

Bddeford, Maine.-Fire practical
ly wiped out the village of South
WATERFORD. The hotel, railroad sta
ton, all of the stores in the village
and more than two-score dwellings
are in ruins. Estimates of the loss
in South WATERFORD placed the fig
ures at upward of 100000, while
the timber loss already sustained is
many thousands more. Thirty fam
lilies, nearly one-half Of the popula-
ton of the village, were driven from
their homes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
OpposI,lon to Gomez SpreadIne

Observation-Disclosures received
by the State Department from Hav-
ana say that the opposition to Presi-
dent Gomez's administration is grow
ing, and there is much discomfort
with the alleged graft revelations.
Gossip Is still busy with the attempt
of certain friends of President Gomez
in the Cuban Congress to approve a
bill subsidizing road which was to
have been built to sugar estate
recently bought by him.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
Can Deal With T usts.

Washington. = Attorney Genera,
Wickersham has decided that 1t is
not unlawful for the United States
to deal with the corporations re-
Gently declared by the Supreme Cour
of the United States to be Illegal
combinations. The question cam
up in connection with contract
awarded to the Standard OIL Com
pany for years supply of oil and
gasoline for the military Department
Of the East
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
Foil $50 Fee,

Tarrytown, N. Y.-Joseph Kin.
ward, an employe of the Maxwell
Brlscoe Motor Company had a
miraculous escape from death. He
was on a swing painting the water
tower when the rope gave way. He
dropped $50 feet and struck guard
wire which broke his fall and made
him turn a complete somersault and
land on his feet He smiled and
said: 81 didn't expect to come down
this way, but I'm all right"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
Iatto Open in Bay State.

Boston, Mass. - President Taft
will deliver his first political speech
in Massachusetts, when he becomes
the guest of the Essex County Club
at its outing to be held on August
26 at the home of Congressman A.
p. Gardner at Hamilton. Governor
Bass, of New Hampshire, will be an-
other guest of the day.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
5000 STRAY DOGS KILLED
Work Of Gentlemen Dog Catchers OF
Boston.

Boston.-Three thousand stray
dogs have been killed during the past
IL months by Boston's official dog
catchers. The official dog-catchers
are Huntingdon Smith, Julian Cod
man and DR.. Frank ]. Sullivan, all
wealthy citizens. They are officers
of the Animal Rescue League and
volunteered their services. The dogs
have been picked up by the league
employees.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
Germany Protests

Havana Germany, through her
minister here, has officially protest
ed to the Cuban State Department
against "the growing insecurity Of
the government and its failure to
protect foreign lives and property"
The German note cites the case Of
Karl Meyer, wealthy German
planter, who was recently held up,
robbed and left for dead on his place
in Santa Clara Province by the
bandit Soils Alvarez.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20

A Connecticut woman has been
cared by a surgical operation of her
mania for playing the plano. De-
mands for similar operations will prob.
ably now come pouring in from all
parts OF the United States.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20

A Chicago teamster has been SEN
fenced to one year in the penitentiary
for stabbing horse to death because
the animal would not stand quietly
beside a hitching post. No doubt he
deserved what he got. but II he had
merely killed man he might be out
on small bail.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
noosl.r ros, Gives 500. coo

Indianapolis, Ind. - James Whit
comb Riley, the Hoosier Poet, 1t was
announced recently gave real estate
valued at 100000 to the Board Of
Commissioners as site for public
library and administration building
for the public schools of this city.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
Ry o, Flows Tcmkins.

The convention has been a
blessing to all who attended.
First, BY bringing them near
er together as Christians.
Second, BY making them more
eager to work.
Third, By impressing them
with the reality and power Of
Christianity. The results will
be carried to many cities and
homes and churches. A growth
will result in all good things.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20

Since the means of Identification by
finger and thumb marks, New Jersey
burglars are wearing gloves. 1t is a
r.ty more commendable ambitions are
not equally quick to take up-to-date
advantage of all the resources Of the
age.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20

An ungallant New Jersey farmer
dressed up his scarecrows In hobble
skirts and basket hats, and declares
that the crows are too panic-stricken
by the fashionable frights to come
near his fields. Many men will think
more OF the intelligence OF birds after
this display OF the crows antipathy to
hobble skirts.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20

Fifteen Philadelphia bakers have
been arrested for dyeing their pies.
Yet anyone who has tried to eat a
Philadelphia pie will realize the neces-
sity for Disgusting them.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20

Blue paint, we are told, will drive
away flies. II red paint would do the
same good many Of our citizens
would be willing to give up their sleep
and make the town immune.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
In Praxant Sulcldas.

Cedar Point, O.-To prevent sug-
gestion to others the State Pharma-
ceutical Association has requested
the press, in printing accounts Of
suicides, not to mention the means
employed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
A French Aviator Killed

Algiers, Algeria,-Edouard Pail
lole, a French aviator, who was CIV
ing an exhibition during a review of
the French troops, fell with his aero
plane and was killed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
Les. $1,000. 600 speouIa.ino.

Chicago.-By speculating on tips
Jacob Henry Leshner has lost ST.
100000 in the last four years. He
has also lost his wife and must pay
her alimony.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20

The man who cut of his nose to
spite his face is outclassed by the
Brooklynite who killed himself to
cure a toothache.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
XII ed PLAYING lndIs MS.

New York-Playing Indian caused
the death OF Arthur Zwart, aged
seven years. His brother Alfred,
aged nine, was the cowboy, chasing
the Indian with fathers revolver.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-20
Hid Men n in Stable

New York,-Hiding for nearly a
month in a hay loft, her only food
being horse fodder, Vera Trevor, a
heat-crazed Austrian girl, was dis
covered by the police nearly dead
from starvation.