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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
PRISONERS FOUND GUILTY
DR.. PantchenkO and De LaSSy
Are Convicted.

st. Petersburg The sensational
trial of Count Patrick O'Brien De
Lassy, DR.. Pantchenko and Nine.
Muravieif, charged with the murder
of Count Vassilli Bouturlin, came to
an end Thursday night when a YER
dict of guilty was rendered by the
jury in the case of De Lassy and
Pantchenko, and not guilty in the
case of the woman. De Lassy was
sentenced to penal seryitude for life
and Pantchenko to 10 years impris-
onment. The jury noted extenuating
circumstances in Pantchenko's favor
which accounts for the lighter pun
ishment meted out to him. The trial
aroused enormous interest and
brought out startling testimony.
Prior to the beginning OF the pro-
ceedings Pantchenko made confess
sion in which he accused De Lassy of
hiring him to poison Count Vassilli,
who was heir to General Bouturlin's
millions. De Lassy's wife is the
daughter of General Bouturlin, and
the removal of Vassilli would natur-
ally mean that the generals great
estate would go to his daughter.
On the witness stand Pantchenko
denied the confession and made so
many erratic statements that he came
to be thought practically insane.
Much evidence was adduced, how
ever, to show that he and De Lassy
had very intimate dealings together.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
$4,000 DEAD OF PEST.
Even Inside the Wall of China
There Have Been 1000.

Peking. - The Viceroy of Man
churia estimates that the fatalities
in Manohuria from the bubonic
plague already have reached $4,000,
while the Foreign Office believes that
inside the great wall there have been
1000 more deaths. According to the
general belief, however, the number
of fatalities will be nearer double
those Of the official estimates.
The relief committee at Shanghai
believes that the minimum number
OF deaths from famine is 10000.
The success which the anti-plague
has met has been a surprise and a
cause of qualification to the foreign
legations and foreigners generally.
The Chinese Railway, though it is
losing heavily, continues IT'S curtail-
ment OF traffic.
Many OF the people in the famine
stricken district OF Anhui are en-
ployed by the government in build
ing levees. The financial drain
on the government is most severe,
and II is expected that it will be
forced to negotiate more extensive
loans than had been contemplated.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
The
Fulton County News
McCOnnellSburg, Pa.
HUNTING AND FOOTBALL.

Thirteen men were killed while on
hunting excursions in this state In the
brief open season. That is the nun.
Der of young men killed in football in
the whole country this year, or as
many Pennsylvanians as have died
from this cause In a century. These
figures are offered not to prove that
football is without a certain amount OF
risk, but to show that all human oc.
equations are accompanied by some
dangers, says the Philadelphia lnquir
er. The Jaw Of averages is remark.
able one. II indicates that about
certain number of persons die each
year from fortuitous causes and IT,
one class Is lacking the other supplies
the deficiency. Parents who are
afraid their boys will be injured or
killed playing football may be encour
aged by the fact that II Is proved TO
be one OF the most innocuous of sports.
The danger from death or severe In
Jury In any college sport Is not any.
thing like so great as that Of being run
down by an automobile or trolley car.
Human life is precious and must be
conserved. Science has done much for
those who err in certain directions,
but II has nothing to offer those who
suffer from pure accident All of
which means that what is needed by
young and old is simply a modicum of
common sense. II is not to be forgot.
ten that the mother who kept her boy
home from school because he dream.
ed he had died was an actual mourner
few hours later because he fell OF
the roof Let us all act sensibly, with
courage, faith and proper caution.
Those who take the most pains to es.
cape accidents are apt to be the worst
sufferers, but It is certain that boyish
sports are not dangerous compared
with the most ordinary avocatlons OF
adults.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
LIVE STATE
CAPITAL a:n,
Notes That Are of In,e,o.,
Pennsylvania.
Erief Mention Of Meta,
as The, Occur at Ea,,.'
burg, Official and otb,''
wise. We
Harrisburg Correspondent
NEW SCHOOL com

The House Commitleo or r.
tion, which has before fl H.
school code, is prepariBg IN w.
extra sessions. in order .o n,,..
with its work. A new course NJ y
cedure has been adopted which Nv
eliminate some Of the obfer,fo,..
features and thereby save W.
longed fight on the floor who, ", "
code comes before the rIopsa n.y..
new course is to interview am ot@'
members of the Legislature and r.'
what the objection Of each or, y
and receive suggestion as IA t.l
improvement might be made w.
the school code was iuDrodnrs3 :
the last Legislature, all of the obs'
tions were hurled at it when 4, m,l
its appearance in the House. viha,
result that there was so much M.
fusion no one fully comrobarA,
the scope of the code. The 1rs...,
plan Is to have every possible ob@
ton that may be raised against a,
present code aired before the en-,
mittee, so that when # finally r.
ported out, most of the objpc,Io,,r,
features will be eliminated nl
there will be more likelihood Of as,
success.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23

Canada has custom house troubles
also. II seems some Of the fair dam.
sells and matrons of the Dominion
have the habit of coming over to "the
States" getting new gowns and wear
ing them back across the border, with.
out going through the form of paying
duty, says the Troy Times. And 1t is
more than hinted that the ladies' not
infrequently indulge In smuggling in
other ways. So the Canadian collect.
ors have taken leaf from the book Of
Collector Loeb of New York and at
the more important lines Of travel to
and from the Dominion have estab.
lished extra vigilant guards, assisted
by women searchers. The result has
been some clever captures and con
siderable addition to the Canadian
revenue. From all of which It will be
seen that trying to cheat the govern.
ment is n practice confined to no one
cline or country
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
DEATH FOR TRIPLE CRIME.
Negro Who Wiped Out Sanders
Family Is Electrocuted.

Raleigh, N. C.-In the death cham
ber at the state prison here Nathan
Montague, the negro slayer, paid the
death penalty in the electric chair
The negro's life was forfeited for a
group of crimes committed in De-
cember last in Granville county. He
not only committed a triple murder,
but to this was added an assault on
one of the victims, a highly respect
ed young woman. His victims were
j. L. Sanders, Miss Matte Sanders,
daughter of the murdered man, and
his little granddaughter, Irene Over
ton.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
AriZnnn Must Wait.

Washington, d. C.-Statehood for
Arizona is impossible of accomplish
ment at this session of Congress for
two reasons-primarily because the
returns OF the election held on Feb
ruary cannot be canvassed and cer-
titled under the law in time to reach
Washington for action by Congress,
and, secondly, because this Congress
is opposed to the constitution as
drawn. Such is the view expressed
by Delegate Ralph Cameron, from
that territory.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
Maine May End Prohibition.

Augusta, Maine.-The Maine Sen
ate voted 23 to to re-submit to the
people the existing amendment to the
Constitution prohibiting the manu-
facture and sale of intoxicating
liquor. The vote was on strictly
party lines, except that Senator
Chandler, of Washington county, Re-
publican, voted with the Democrats,
who are in the majority. The re-
submission resolution will go before
the House tomorrow.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
A REMARKABLE CASE.
Doctor Inoculated Victims With
Cholera BaciIli.

The whole of Russia was startled
on February 2 last, when Dr. Pantch-
enko and Count O'Brien de Lassy
were arraigned in st. Petersburg for
murder, and the revelations at the
trial interested the entire world
The Doctor inoculated his victims
with cholera and diphtheria serum
and was accused of having started
the cholera epidemic in st. Peters
burg several years ago. On trial for
the murderVof a count, Dr. Pantch-
enko said he was hypnotized and
forced to commit the crime.
The poison doctor, who was said
to be a professional poisoner who
killed heirs, rivals in love and cred
itors for fees, some times as high as
S250,000, according to the police has
admitted causing some 40 or more
deaths. His method was to inoculate
his victim with cLolera bacilli after
he had been called to the bedside in
his professional capacity. Ordinarily
it was necessary that the intended
victim should be caught while indis-
posed and by some ruse adopted to
bring about Pantchenko's attendance
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
FAST MAIL HELD UP.
Robbers Dynamite Safe and Dis
appear.

Gainesville, Ga. - Southern Rail.
way train No. SO, the United States
Fast Mail, bound from New Orleans
to New York, was held up by five
masked men at White Sulphur
Springs, four miles from here, at
3.15 o'clock A. NJ. The express car
safe was dynamited and the contents
stolen. First reports said more than
100000 was taken, but Southern
Railway officials declare the amount
was $500. None of the passengers
were molested.
The robbers escaped in an auto
in Hall county, probably bound for
North Georgia, where pursuit would
be difflcult. A posse is on the trail
The robbers broke down the doors
of the railroad station at White Sui
phur, bound the night agent, and set
the signal for tn train to stop. As
the locomotive slowed up, one of the
men entered the cab and ordered the
engineer to proceed to Lulu, a small
station several miles away. After a
stop was made, members of the gang
entered the express car and while one
held the conductor and express mes.
senger at the point of gun, the
others blew open the door of the
safe. Agent Terrill, of the Southern
Express Company; Deputy United
States Marshal Landers, Detective
Haule, of the Southern Railway;
Deputy Sheriff Little are with the
posse with bloodhounds in pursuit
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
10000 MINERS DESTITUTE.
Output Small and Little Work in
Coal Fields of Indiana.

tbbt vi
Indianapolis - Reports from the
Indiana coal fields to the headQuar-
ters of the miners organization show
there is much distress among the
miners. Owing to the fact that work
has been so scarce during the winter
there are 10000 miners destitute,
and at no time has more than a third
OF them been employed, a fact due
to the unusually mild weather and
the consequent small demand for
coal
Arrangements are now making to
give relief to many of the miners
families and to arrange so that work
may be so distributed that every
miner will have at least a share of it.
The miners officers say that there
was never a time in the history of
the state when the winter output of
the mines was as small, considering
the number of men usually en-
ployed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
COAL GAS KILLS COUPLE.
Murder Mystery at Cumberland,
Maryland. Solved.

Cumberland, Md.-That Charles
f. Twigg and Grace Elosser, the
young couple found dead in the par
lor of the Elosser home on December
81 last, the eve of their wedding day,
came to their end from carbon mon
oxide (coal gas) poisoning, was the
conclusion of the Washington and
Baltimore chemists who tested the
blood of the two victims.
Heretofore the authorities have
maintained that the pair met their
death by cyanide of potassium. the
Coroner's jury returning a verdict to
that effect.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23

Wilkes-Barre, Pa. - Two masked
burglars broke into the town Jail at
Warrior Run, Pa, near here, and
bursting open the door of the cell
in which Stanley Jandus. the only
prisoner, was confined, robbed him
at the point of a revolver of 500.
The burglars then escaped, and Jan
dus. who was being held on a trivial
charge, finding himself free, went
out and notified the police. Like
nearly all such places in small towns,
the iall was not guarded
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
SIGNS EXPOSITION BILL.
President Taft Uses Gold Pen Made
For Purpose.

Washington, d. president Taft
signed the bill designating San Fran
cisco as the city in which will be
held in 1915 the exposition signaliz-
ing the completion of the Panama Ca
nal. With gold pen made of pre-
cious metal mined in the State of
California, and in the presence of
the two United States senators and
a number of the representatives from
that state, the President ATTACHED his
signature to the engrossed bill. Mr..
Taft presented the pen to one of
the members of the party, and it
will be placed on exhibition at the
exposition.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
Recluse Shot TO Death.

Panama City, Fla.-The body of
Richard Hancock, an aged recluse,
was found at his home near here
with three bullet wounds in the back.
Richard McNeill, a negro, was ar
rested, and confessed to having COM
mitted the murder. Hancock was re-
puted to have been wealthy and is
said to have kept large sums of
money in the house.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23

Charleston, w. Va. - The entire
family of ]. d. Hardin lost their lives
in fire which destroyed their home
in the town of Sutton, Braxton coun.
ty, early Sunday morning, Hardin
alone escaping.
Shortly after midnight Mrs. Hard
in awoke TO find her room filled with
smoke. She awoke her husband who,
upon going to the head of the stairs
found the entire first floor wrapped
In flames. Selling his two eldest chill.
dren he made a dash for the stair.
way, which collapsed, It being almost
consumed by the fire.
Wife Jumps FrOsn Window.
Hardin lost his hold on both chill.
dren, but rolled toward the door and
escaped. Mrs. Hardin, seeing the
stairway collapse, jumped from a sec
ond-story window and, owing to her
delicate condition, received injuries
which resulted in her death less than
an hour afterward.
Though stunned by his awful ex.
perience, Hardin gave the alarm and
tried to enter the building in an at.
tempt to save his children, but the
flames had made such progress that
all efforts to rescue them were in
vain. The bodies of the six children
were incinerated.
In his efforts to spread the alarm,
Hardin came upon his wife where
she had fallen and she was able to
recognize him before death came
Ada Green was an orphan and had
been given home with the Hardins
Due 10 a Gas Fire.
The house was heated and lighted
by natural gas and the fire is sup.
posed to have originated from a gas
fire. The fire spread to the home OF
State Senator Jake Fisher, but was
cxtinguished without much damage.
Hardin Is a member of the firm OF
Waggy Hardin Lumber Company, op.
Grating large lumber mills in Brax
ton county. He is a son OF Squire
c. F. Hardin, an attache of the State
Senate at the present session of the
legislature.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
MONKEY OvERTURNs HEATER.
Fire Results and Small Railroad
Circus is Destroyed.

Pottsville, PA monkey over
turning an oil heater in the winter
quarters Of a small railroad circus
at Orwigsburg, Pa, caused the de-
struction of all the circus parapher-
MALTA, including a cage of monkeys
trained apes, a pack of trained dogs
den of snakes and several horses
One horse was the only thing taken
out alive.
The owner was in Wilkes-Barre
arranging for new additions to his
show preparatory to getting into
shape to start South.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
Train Kills Three Men,

Donora, Pa.-Three miners were
killed at Blairs Station, near here,
when they were struck by passen-
ger train on the Mononganela divi-
sion of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The three started across the tracks to
the company store and did not see
the fast train approaching, owing to
sharp curve.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23

Washington, ID. ca new angle
of the high cost of living problem has
come to light. 1t is the increased
cost of grain for horse feed, and as
a substitute for oats the Bureau OF
Animal Industry has developed sort
Of equine breakfast food composed o.
cocoanut and peanut meals.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
CRIME Is A DISEASE.
Gov. Osborn, of Michigan, Believes
i'm Corporal Punishment.

Lansing, Mich.-In an interview
indorsing the use of corporal punish
ment to maintain discipline in ex-
treme cases at the state prison at
Marquette, Gov. Chase S. Osborn
said:
Crime is a disease, and with the
chronic criminal nothing will hold
him but fear of physical suffering,
and this fear is the greatest aid to
discipline. II our mothers could
paddle us when we were children,
don't think it is going to hurt a
hardened criminal to be touched up"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
DEMANDS OF RUSSIA.
Threatens to Sever Friendly Rela-
tiOns With China.

st. Petersburg strained re-
lations between Russia and China
have finally resulted in decisive ac-
ton by the Russian government. Ac-
cording to instructions, NJ. Koroto-
vitz, the Russian minister to China,
has presented to that government a
note bearing on the treaty of 1881,
which China has seemed disposed to
abrogate. The note contains six
points and Russia insists upon com
pliance on pain of complete cessation
of friendly relations.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
5000. 600 For Labor Wnr.

Washington, d. C.-Samuel Comp
ers, president of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, has sent to all la
Dor organizations throughout the
country circular asking aid in
raising a fund of half million dollars
to be used in fighting opponents of
organized labor at Los Angeles.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
Gives $4,000 for Library,

New York-Mrs. Russell Sage
has donated $4,000 for library pur-
poses for the members of the New
York Fire Department. Notice to
that effect was received by Rev. Ed
ward NJ, H. Knapp, chaplain of the
department, who is designated as
librarian.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
Uen,inp of Woter Complain

Attorney General Bell gave q , n,a
ing on an application of Laura oV|
nor Keller for quo WaIl'.
against the Johnstown Water W. a..
pany. The claim is made tha' W. W,
company is exceeding its ch'''
rights in supplying water.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
Daisy Drake.

Des Moines, IA cablegram an
nouncing the death of Daisy Drake,
accounted the most famous mission
ary ever sent out from Drake Univer-
sity, reached here from India. She
was resident of Hampton before en-
tering mission work, fourteen years
ago.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23

A feminine scientist wants moth.
ers' course established In colleges
Stn, the old-fashioped mother appar-
sntly understood her business very
well. and probably presentday sclen.
tilc infants are not so happy as her
cuddled and petted babies.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23

Two Chicago hotel walters who
came to this country penniless few
years ago have bought million-dollar
hotel for cash. This may give them
a chance to begin over again, penniless
once more.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
Miss Hunt Wins Big Verdict.

st. Augustine, Fla. - Miss Helen
Hunt, who was expelled from Stet.
son University three years ago, was
awarded $4,000 by a jury at De-
land in her suit against President
Lincoln Hulley, of the school, The
trial of the case lasted seven days.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
Gives 1,425 Bank Accounts.

Middlesboro, Ky.-Bank accounts
for every school child in Middlesboro
we're started Saturday by J. H. Bart.
lett, of this city, who deposited a
small sum to the credit of each OF
the children enrolled in the school
here, in the recently established pos.
tai savings bank.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23

Proportionately, It Is said, the num-
Der Of insane people In this country is
increasing faster than the population
is growing. taking asylum statistics for
f. Even at that. t..ere is scarcely a
fellow but will declare that the asy.
lums don't get them all. either.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
Publishers Favor Reciprocity

Milwaukee, Wis.-The Milwaukee
Publishers Association, comprising
all the daily newspapers of the city,
unanimously adopted resolutions ia
voring the ratification by Congress OF
the proposed reciprocity agreement
between the United States and Can
ada.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
Pnss Rcfcrercndnm Bill.

Sacramento, Cal.-Senator Gates
resolution for the submission to the
people of constitutional amend
ment providing for the initiative and
referendum, was passed by the AS
sembly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23

French aviators fell 600 feet in an
aeroplane and we're not hurt Fate
fayors the bold, but then fate is also
notoriously caprlcious, so experiments
need not go on, depending on fate's
fayors
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
PLAGUE VICTIMS
NEVER RECOVER
4 Half a Mile of Collins on the
Frozen Ground.
DOZEN DOCTORS DIE OF THE DISEASE.

Japanese Have Checked the Spread
OF the Pest in South Mullden, But
Its Ravagcs Continue in the Re-
mainder OF Manchuria - Reports
Received From the American Con-
sui General-The Homes of Ref
ugees Being Burned - Aid From
the Red Cross.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
Eight Sausage Suits,

Dairy and Food CommisSopo
Foust directed that eight sails "
brought for the sale of sausage 'V1 %
tanning flour and water and yer! "
tie meat. The actions were orde',i
brought in Berkes, Schuylkll' 'D'
Chester Counties.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23

A prisoner who stole l5 cents was
discharged by the Judge That is
great disappointment to the authors
OF weepy poetry. who naturally ex.
pected the offender to be sentenced to
Imprisonment for life.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
Salary Increase For Judges.

Washington, d. G.. - The House
voted to increase the salary of the
Chief Justice of the United States
from $13,50O to $4,000 a year and
the salaries of associate justices from
$12,500 to $4,000.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
Hanged Himself With shoestrings.

Dayton, O.-John Domokos, 2S, a
prisoner at the county Jail, held for
killing Mrs. Mary Illes on June "a
because she refused to elope with
him. committed suicide in the county
Jail by hanging himself with his shoe
strings. 1t was his third attempt
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23

The Harvard scientists have been noti.
fed that clergyman in England has
discovered new star This is one
of the happy results Of following the
excellent advice to look up and not
down"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-02-23
IeIaya Men Taken,

Washington, D. C.-Owing to a
rumor that the explosion at Mana
qua, Nicaragua, was the result of a
plot, the Government authorities
there have arrested several sympa-
thizers of former President Zelaya.