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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02

Following Chicago's school for po-
licemen comes New York's school for
ilremen. II will open, according to the
announcement of the city's fire com.
missioner. Immediately after the new
year. All present employees Of the
department, as well as all new hands,
will be required to attend, and only
graduates" OF this fire college" will
be eligible for places on the force.
Some fifteen subjects, embracing
everything appertalning to the work,
will be included in the curriculum,
says the Chicago Record-Herald. As
the automobile has become an i'm.
portant part of the up-to-date fire
equipment, the management of the
gasoline motor car will be taught. And
as casualties tend to increase in num-
Der and in seriousness, there will be
instruction in first aid to the injured.
A comprehensive course for the bene-
1T of the fire fighter seems as ad'
vantageous as one for that OF the pa
trolman. An exchange Of views and
experiences between New York and
Chicago might result in gains for both
cities and both services.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
BIG SLID: ON PANAMA CANAL
All Theories of the Engineers
Completely Upset.

Colon. - Without warning, upset
ting all theories and all estimates,
100000 cubic yards of rock and
earth slid into the Pioneer cut Just
opposite the town of Culebra. 1t is
one Of the worst slides the canal COM
mission engineers have had to con-
tend with, and It is worse than any
previous slide from the fact that the
others could be explained, even pre-
dicted. The latest avalanche of dirt
changes canal plans materially. 1t
makes It seem necessary that the en-
tire prism shall be enlarged sufIl-
ciently to prevent any occurrence of
the sort after the completion of the
canal. There seems to be no doubt
that all OF Gold Hill will have to be
removed, in itself a considerable un-
dertaklng. And $4,000 yards of the
slide itself represents waste. The re-
malnder II was intended to remove.
Most disconcerting of ALL theories
which heretofore have served to ex-
plain slides to the satisfaction of the
engineers brains are pricked like a
toy balloon. 1t always has been held
that slides were caused when heavy
rainfall made the earth soggy and the
slopng beds OF rock became slippery.
When the weight overcame adhesion,
and when the concusslon Of dynamite
blasts gave final impetus, it was be-
lieyed the slides took place.
But the Gold Hill slide Is without
precedent. There have been no
heavy rains in this section for six
weeks, and there has been no blast
ing in the vicinity for more than
year.
On the steep slope OF Gold Hill,
directly opposite the town of Culebra
In other words, on the east side OF
Culebra Cut-a section 100 feet long
and from 20 to 100 feet wide dropped
into the cut. On the 135-foot level
was ledge. The slide started above
this ledge, which was completely de-
stroyed along the entire length Of the
slide, vast amount OF material be-
ing forced clear down to and nearly
filling the Pioneer Drainage Cut.
A few weeks ago a large amount
OF earth and rock slid into the canal
at Las Cascadas. few miles north
OF Culebra town. A few miles south
is the great Cuchoaracha slide which
has been giving trouble. This makes
1t appear that the entire cut will have
to be widened sooner or later to a
large extent in order to avoid serious
difficulty when the canal shall have
been completed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02

School girls in Atlantic City are re-
belling against an edict Of the domes-
tic science authorities that they must
learn to make hash. They are afraid
proficiency in this art may lose them
the hearts Of admirers who know hash
only through the boarding houses they
have met. The girls openly aver they
hate to lose the homes they may make
happy by feeding the brutes" II the
said "brutes" learn beforehand that
prospective wives have been encour-
aged to put hash on the daily menu.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
MUST MAKE OLD
RATES PERMANENT
Interstate Commerce Commits,
sion Decision.
RAILROADS FORBIDDEN 70 RAISE RATES.
The Commission Decides That the
Companies Have Not Shown the
Necessity of the Advances - Cam
not lay Burden OF Poor Financier-
ing on the Public-Reyenue Have
Increased More Than Expenses
Credit of the Companies is Good.

Washington, d. C.-The Interstate
Commerce Commission decided
against the railroads in both the
Eastern" and the Western" cases.
The decision, eagerly awaited by
railroads and shippers alike, was
handed down Thursday afternoon.
Proposed advances in class freight
rates in official classification terri
tory, aggregating among all the rail-
ways in the territory approximately
$27O0O,0OO a year, were disapproved
by the commission.
In the case involving the increases
by the railroads in Western Trunk
line territory the commission also de-
clined to approve the proposed adj
yances in commodity rates.
The carriers in both cases are re-
quired to cancel on or before March
10 their advanced tariffs and restore
their former rates, which are the
rates now in effect. II this require
ment be not complied with, the COM
mission will issue a formal order
suspending the proposed advances
and putting into effect the existing
rates for at least two years.
In the case OF the Railroad Com
mission OF Texas against the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
and other carriers, known popularity
as the Southwestern rate case, the
Commission declined to disturb the
commodity rates or the flrst-class
rates complained Of The defendants
are ordered, however, to reduce the
second-class rates, which were In
creased from s1.21 to $1.29 to $125.
On the remaining classes the defend
ants are required to restore the rates
in effect before the increased rates
were published
In brief, this is the disposition
made by the Interstate Commerce
Commission OF the most important
cases ever brought to its attention
In a sense the decisions were In the
nature of surprise to railroad Off
cials and other experts who had fol-
lowed closely the proceedings, a ma
jority of whom believed the commits
sion would grant some increase to
the Western lines If not to the East
ern.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
Echo Of The Times Explosion

Hot Springs, Ark.-A man believed
by the police to be NJ A. Schmidt,
with number of aliases attached to
his name, suspected of being one of
the men who dynamlted the Times
Building in Los Angeles, was arrest
ed here. The prisoner said that his
name was Fred Kaun and that his
home was in Milwaukee. He answers
the description of Schmidt as sent
out by the Los Angeles police.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
JAPAN SAVES ITS FACE.
But President Taft Arouses Western
congressman.

Washington, D. C.-The text of
new treaty with Japan, designed to
replace that Of 1894 and drawn with
the special design Of eliminating the
restrictions upon immigration con-
talned in that treaty, was laid before
the Senate by President Taft.
The essential difference between
the proposed treaty and the existing
convention is said to be in the fact
that it omits all reference to such
restrictions and leaves to the national
honor of Japan the enforcement at
her own ports the limitations upon
immigration from Japan now express
ly placed upon immigration into the
United States.
The document is said to provide
that either country may renounce the
treaty at the end of six months If 1t
fails to operate as expected
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
OUT OF THE FARM.

The urban conception Of the farm
In winter Is one OF snug comfort and
drowsy ease, its external appearance
showing, as in the familiar pictorial
Ideal Of a snow-bound farmhouse, with
shoyeled path leading through a
gate to radiant window, through
which one peers in fancy and discerns
a happy family clustered round a
lamp says the Philadelphia Press. The
idea is that the farmer has little or
nothing 70 do in the daytime but sit
inside his homS and feed the stock;
the wife knits; the children go to
school II is a charming picture, not
always true to life. There is no time
IN the year when there is cessation
from toll on farm. Il is different in
winter; that Is all. The days are
shorter; the work rougher OF course
much depends upon the character of
the farm; considerable leisure Is pos
hlbAt WutlN lew Ndlllt hit htph hhA
general trucking done But always
there are the Chores" A remarkably
elastic expression that - doing
chores" II may mean much or little
Some dairy farmers, for instance,
whose serious business in life is milk
Ing cows, may potter around the farm
after the mornings milking and ta-
king the mornings milk to the cream
cry or railroad station, eat their noon
dinners, mend some fence, look over
the harness or haul out manure, pot
ter around some more, and then say:
Guess It's about time to do the
chores" meaning to milk two dozen
cows or so-the real hard work OF the
day.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02

Protection OF birds which do bene-
ficial service TO men is coming to be
more than a matter for state action.
Representative Weeks of Massachu'
sets, a state which realizes the mis-
chief involved in the destruction Of
the insect-eating birds, has intro
duced in congress a bill making 1t a
misdemeanor, punishable by 60 days
Imprisonment or 5000 fine. to kill or
harm coveys or single specimens of
birds on their migratory fight from
south to north. The list Of birds which
It is designed to guard includes geese,
ducks, pigeons, swans, snipe, doves,
robins. bluebirds and various kinds of
waterfowl. These are friends Of man
or valuable game-birds, and as the
whole country is interested in their
preservation It seems to be in order
for congress to take action.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
Train Drdns $50 Feet.

Valparaiso, Chill. - A railway
train made up of eight cars, in one
OF which were 80 miners and the
Others loaded with cement, broke
through the Rancagua bridge, near
the American Braden copper mines.
The bridge crossed a ravine 15O feet
deep, and the train was precipitated
to the bottom. The miners were all
Chillans. Eighteen of them were
killei and the remainder injured.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
WANT MORE POSTAL BANKS.
Urgent Demand Received Every Day
In Washington.

Washington, d. C.-Uncle Sam, as
a banker, is losing thousands of dol.
lars weekly because he has not
enough postal savings banks to go
around"
Every day." declared an official
of the Postofiice Department, "scores
of letters are received by Postmas.
ter-General Hitchcock from persons
In all parts of the country with sums
ranging from 800 to $1,000 which
they wish to intrust to the Govern.
ment for safekeeping. They are pre-.
vented from doing so because there
is no postal bank in their city OF
town and the law prohibits a resi-.
dent of one city from depositing in
postal bank located elsewhere"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
Novel Local Option Law,

Olympia, Wash.-The State. Sem
ate passed the county unit local op-
ton bill by a vote of "a to 16. The
bill exempts cities of the frst-class
and prevents the holding Of elections
for two years in units that have al
ready voted. 1t limits the amount Of
lluuor a man may carry into dry ter
ritory to one quart of whisky and one
case of beer and provides stringent
penalties for offenders.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
For Washington Memorial.

New York. - Mrs. II. +. Dimock,
president of the George Washing
ton Memorial Association, announced
that there had been subscribed more
than half of the S1,OOO,OOO neces-
sary for the erection of the proposed
George Washington Memorial Build
ing in Washington. Among the re-
cent gifts was $4,000 from James
]. Hill.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
FIVE KILLED IN NINE.
Night Shift Being on Duty Averts
Worse Disaster.

indianapolis, Ind. - An explosion
of dust, caused by solid firing, re-
suited in the fatal burning of five
miners in the Hamilton coal mine,
at Hymera, owned by the Rock Is
land Railroad Company.
The explosion was in the mine en-
try, and nothing but the fact that the
night shift was working kept the dis
aster from being more serious. The
mine was badly damaged.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
Died of Broken Heart.

New York. - A Hungarian baker
named Kavaro, first name unknown,
died suddenly at his home. His body
was sent to the morgue, and DR..
O'Hanlon found that the mans heart
had split in two. DR.. O'Hanlon says
that this proves that those who say
a person cannot die of broken heart
are wrong. He found loss Of tone
in the muscular tissues due to in
sufficient blood supply.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
Think Lost Girl Dead.

New York. - Dorothy Arnold is
now classed by the police simply as
a missing person. Second Deputy Po-
lice Commissioner Flynn, when asked
what he thought about the mystery
of the girls disappearance, replied
that, in view of all the circumstances,
it seems only reasonable to believe
that the girl is dead.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
CORONATION AVIATION.
Wright Brothers Expected to Repre-
sent the United States.

New York.-The Wright brothers
are booked to save the situation aris.
ing out of the fact that no Ameri.
cans have yet entered the aviation
meet in London during Coronation
week. Airmen say that the induce.
ments are not sufficient to warrant
the expenditure, but it is reported
the Wrights are building a new ma,
chine and will participate.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
PLAGUE AND FAMINE RAvAGE.
Conditions i'm China Are Growing
Steadily Worse.

New York.-Advices from China
to the American Red Cross made pub
lie at its Offices here are to the eff
feet that conditions in the famine
district are as bad as have been in
dicated by reports from various other
sources and are growing worse as
days go by.
That 100000 Chinese will die
for want of bread If assistance is not
rendered Immediately is the predc-
tion in a statement made by the or
ganization. This number comprises
nearly the entire population of the
northern part of the Provinces of
Kiangsu and Anhui. The statement
continues:
THE plague is creeping southwark
toward this famine district. 1t has
ravaged Manchuria, and thousands
of refugees, who have fed to Chefu.
in Chanting province, have carried
II there. Hundreds of deaths occur
daily. The frozen ground prevents
the burial Of the dead, and long rows
OF collins lie on the roadside.
American Consul-General Wilder,
at Shanghai, cabled to the Red Cross
that persons stricken with this plague
die in a few hours, and it is of so
fatal nature that no one ever re-
covers. The people at last have con.
sented to cremation and several thou
sand of these bodies have been
burned. The plague is now only
about $50 miles from the provinces,
and If 1t ever reaches there the result
viii be appalling"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
Engineer Killed In Wreck.

Bristol, Tenn.-Both engines of a
double-header coal train on the Vir-
ginia & Southwestern Railroad jump
ed the track and turned over down a
bank at Clinchport, Va. Engineer
Hicks, of Bristol, was crushed to
death and Engineer Charles Brown
and Fireman Joice were fatally in
jured
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
$50 TURKS LOST AT SEA.
Steamer Carrying Pilgrims is Said
TO Have Been Burned.

Constantinople.-The Turks
steamship Hurriet, carrying $50 Mos
lem pilgrims, has been burned at sea,
and all on board perished, according
TO report received here.
The report was sent to a Turkish
newspaper, and has not been officially
confirmed
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
Panama Canal Garrison.

Washington, d. C.-Six thousand
American troops will man the forti
fications which will guard the grea.
Panama Canal from foreign invasion
II the plans being perfected by the
War Department are adopted. The
troops which will comprise the gar.
risons of the forts will be four regi.
ments of infantry, one squadron OF
cavalry, three batteries, three field
artillery and IL companies of coast
artillery.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
SINGS IN PUBLIC AT S3.
Member of Henry Ward BeeCher's
Church Would Not Take Dare.

New York.-Responding to a dare
from DR.. ]. Wilbur Chapman, the
evangelist, Mrs. Mary Langley, who
Is S3 years old, arose in the noon
day meeting of the Chapman-Alexan.
der evangelistic campaign in the
Grand Opera House, in Brooklyn
Saturday, and in a clear, steady voice
sang a hymn, as she did in the days
of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth
Church.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
Pav.or-You-Die Scheme.

Washington, d. C. PAY your
doctors bills, or die" is the threat
which Washington physicians ar,
planning to hold over the heads Of
their delinquent patients. The medi.
cos will draw up a blacklist" II the
scheme succeeds, and those whose
names appear thereon will be refused
medical attention the next time they
are i'll.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02

London.-The first red Indian to
take trip in an aeroplane is Blind
Bull, a Sioux, who accompanied s. f.
Cody in flight at Aldershot on the
latter's biplane. The Indian is one
of Wild West company appearing at
a local theater, and he made the
fight in full war paint and feathers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
Must Have Passports.

An alien without a passport would
of course, be liable to deportation.
The California senator's, 1t is said
became satisfied early that the
change would not menace the labor
situation in their state. Several other
Western senator's became alarmed
however, at what seemed to them
unseemly haste in pressing the Sen
ate to act. They desired sentiment
to crystalline in their state and there
fore prevented action for three days
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02

A New Jerseyite boarder, not liking
his dinner, attacked his landlady,
choking her. Other boarders interest
ed in this summary protest will be
disappointed to learn that the ac-
counts said nothing about his choking
her into submission.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02

Since the recent tragedies, aviation
may now confne its experiments to
flying across the earth instead Of up
into the clouds There certainly
seems to be no useful or practical pur.
bose served by efforts in the latter
direction.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02

A man fell from the thirteenth floor
Of a building and escaped with but a
sl'sht shating UP. One shudders to
tlink what might have been his fate
had he fallen from the eleventh or the
fourteenth, or any other than the un.
lucky thirteenth.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
Cholera in Honolulu.

Honolulu.-The Board of Health
has taken the most stringent meas.
ures to prevent an epidemic of chol.
era as the result Of two cases devel
oping in the tenement quarter. One
of the victims, a woman, died, while
the the other, her father, is diving.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02

New York.-The highest price paid
in this country for a Rembrandt was
realized at the sale of the art treas
ures Of the late r. Hoe Arthur II.
Hale paid $4,000 for "Christ's Heal
ing the Sick" an etching.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
VIII Revise The HarifT.

Washington, d. C. - II an extra
session Of Congress is called follow
ing the adjournment of the present
session March 4, next the Democrats
OF the House will set about at once
to revise several schedules OF the
Payne-Aldrich tariff act.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02

A tenor singer in Detroit strained
for q high note and landed in a hos
pltal II he is anything like most Of
the tenors we know 1t serves him
riEht
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
Anti-Damn Ordinance.

New York. - Even such refined
swearing as damn" is to be elimi.
mated from the New York Theater
stage If Alderman James Mulhearr
has his way. Mr.. Mulhearn has
drafted a prohibitive ordinance.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
Ohio Defeats Liquor Bill.

Columbus, O.-The Dean bill, CIV
ing municipalities throughout Ohio
the right to vote on the saloon ques-
ton, was defeated in the House, the
bill getting sc votes, four less than
II needed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
DISAGREE WITH HOBSON.
Resident Americans I'm Japan Refutc
the Report.

Tokio.-A meeting of Americans
resident In Japan was held in Yoko-
hama recently in the interests of the
International peace movement. Among
the business done was the adoption
of a resolution designed to refute the
reports that public sentiment in this
country is hostile to the United States
as follows:
That, in our opinion, the people
of Japan have at all times entertained
the most friendly and cordial senti-
ments toward the government and
people of the United States, and that
there never has been and is not now
any feeling other than one of con-
fidence and gratitude. We believe,
upon evidence which cannot be
doubted, that there is not to be found
in the Japanese empire any wish or
thought other than to maintain the
most friendly and cordial relations
with the republic of the United
States, and that any representations
to the contrary, wherever emanating
and from whatever cause proceeding,
are baseless calumnies, which, If I'M
contradicted, can only result in vast
material losses to the people of both
governments and in creating an un-
happy prejudice between them"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02

New York.-A sentence of not less
than two years and two months nor
more than five years and two months
was imposed by Judge Rosalsky on
William r. Montgomery, former pres
ident of the Hamilton Bank.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02

A Kansas man hugged his wife so
hard that he broke two Of her ribs
Some men never seem to learn that
there's such thing as overriding a
good thing.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
SENATE RATIFIES
JAPANESE TREATY
Senate Acts After a TwO-hOur
Executive Session.
PASSPORT KEEPS OUT UNOESIRADLES.

The Action of the Government In
Promptly Confirming the New
Trade Agreement is Expected to
Show More Than Anything Else
Our Feeling of COrdiality for Jap
Rnese-The Effect VIII BE TO Per-
init That Country to Rcorganize
Its Fiscal System.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
300 Buildings Burned.

Manila.-Tondo, a suburb of Ma.
nila, was swept by fire Saturday,
more than 800 of the native dwell.
ings being destroyed, The Mary
Johnson Hospital was damaged.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
Dynamite Mill Explodes.

Pretoria, South Africa. Five men
we're killed and several buildings
shattered by the explosion of dy-
Mantle factory at Modderfontein.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-02
Lives To BE OS Yenrs.

Hagerstown, Md.-Paul Cline, aged
9S years, is dead at his home at
Wolfsville, east of Smithsburg, this
county, his death being due to ad-
vanced age, Mr. Cline was a farmer
nearly all his life.