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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
JURY DECLARES
THAW IS SANE
Stanford Whites Slayer Wins
Victory After Long Trial.
JUBILANT OVER THE VICTORY
Jury Was Out Forty-Elght Minutes
and Took Two Ballots-Precau-
tlons Taken To Prevent
Demonstration In Court.

New York.--Harry Kendall Thaw
was declared sane by jury which for
nearly three weeks listened to testi-
mony given in the Supreme Court
here before Justice Peter Hendrlck.
Forty-eight minutes we're consumed
and two ballots were taken in reach
ing verdict.
1t was at the end of day OF ad-
dresses by counsel and the charge OF
the Justice that the jury retired. While
the IL men were celebrating the
crowd in the courtroom and about the
courthouse was augmented by scores
OF people, who believed that verdict
quickly would be found Shortly be-
fore 4 o'clock a bailiff came from the
juryroom and informed Justice Hen
drick that a verdict had been reached.
The doors Immediately we're locked
and Justice Hendrick, ascending the
bench, warned the spectators that any
demonstration would be met with Sc
we're punishment Then the jury came
In. In reply to question by the
clerk Of the court as to whether YER
dict had been reached the foreman
handed over a sheet of legal paper,
which was passed to the Justice on
the bench. Justice Hendrick read II
and handed II back to the clerk.
Gentlemen of the jury" said the
clerk, the question you have been
asked is this: Is Harry X. Thaw now
sane? Your answer is yes"
Despite the warning, several per-
sons stood up in front of their seats.
The courtroom hummed like dynamo.
Justice Hendrick and dozen court at
tendants raped for order.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
LEO FRANK HAS CHANCE.
Physicians Succeed In Stopping Flow
OF Blood From Wound.


Miuedgeville, Ga.-Leo NJ Frank is
In the Georgia State Prison hospital
with what attendants said was fight
ing chance for recovery. Physicians
had succeeded in stopping the flow of
blood from Jagged wound in his
throat made with a butcher knife in
the hands ri Williams Green. a fellow
convict also serving a life term for
murder The blow was struck as
Frank slept in his bunk in a dormi-
tory.
An investigation of the attack prob
ably will be conducted by the Georgia
Prison Commission, the same body
that refused to recommend that
Franks death sentence for the murder
Of Mary Phagan be commuted 10 life
Imprisonment Reports from Atlanta
were that Governor Harris intimated
he would start such an investigation
TO ascertain if Green acted entirely Of
HIS own volition.
Green said, when taken from soil
tary confinement long enough to be
questioned, that he planned the at
tack alone and that no one knew what
he intended to do.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
U. S. SERVES NOTICE.
viii Not Allow British Orders Super.
sede international Law.

viii Not Allow British Orders supeI>
sede international Law.
Washington Formal notice that
the United States holds that the rights
of Americans who have cases before
British prize courts rest upon interna-
tional law and not upon various Brit
ish orders in council or municipal
law, is given in a brief statement
cabled to Ambassador Page and pre-
sented by him to the London Foreign
Office.
Secretary Lansing explained that
this communication was not to be
confused with the general note now in
preparation relating to contraband
and interference with American COM
merce on the high seas. He said II
was more in the nature of legal
caveat generally conserving the rights
of citizens Of the United States, whose
cases are about to be tried in English
prize courts.
Inasmuch as the prize courts have
not yet ruled on any American cases
and are believed to be about to do so
the statement from the United States
signifies in effect that IL there is a
denial OF justice, diplomatic protests
will be entered based on the general
principles of international law exist
ing before the outbreak of the war
The United States has in its formal
notes given Great Britain. as well as
Germany, general notice to this effect
and the statement now sent draws par
ticular attention to the prize court
cases pending.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
VON BERNSTORFF
SEES LANSING
United States Asked 10 Aci
as Mediator.
THE OUTLOOK HOPEFUL
Substance OF Talk Is Sent To Wilson.
5ernstorff Wires Report OF
Conference To His
Government.

Washington. A confidential and
friendly conference between Count
Won Benstorff. the German Ambassa-
dor, and Secretary Of State Lansing
has done more, officials say, to bring
about friendly understanding be-
tween Germany and the United States
than any Of the previous steps in the
diplomatic negotiations between the
two countries.
The German Ambassador made his
call at the State Department by the
authority of the Imperial German
Government.
No Comment From Lansing.
Secretary of State Lansing, although
convinced Of the importance Of the
representations of the German Ambas-
sador, would make no comment on
them.
II was ascertained, however, that
this Government has been apprised
that Germany desires the United
States to open up Immediately with
Great Britain the allimportant ques-
tion Of the freedom Of the seas, in
which President Wilson firmly be-
lieyes, The German Government has
advised the United States that it, too
stands for the principle and that the
final discussion of the Lusitania case
and disposition Of that controversy
should be inseparably connected with
the greater question of the rights Of
all nations to the freedom Of the seas
Bearing On Lustanla.
It has been indicated to this Govern
ment that on the settlement Of what
is the freedom of the seas might de-
pend how far Germany would 20 to
make a complete. definite, unequivocal
admission that her act Of destroying
the Lusitania was indefensible.
From the best available sources II is
learned that Germany proposed that
the United States endeavor to get
Great Britain to discuss the German
submarine policy in connection with
Great Britain's blockade of neutral
ports and the German foodstuffs ques-
ton
In other words, Germany has asked
the United States to act as mediator.
In doing this Count Won Bernstorff
merely amplihed to the State Depart
ment the suggestions OF the last Ger
man note to the United States.
Britain Must Be Party.
Germany, it is stated, is making the
point that agreements between the
United States and Germany could not
make international law and that in or
der to get results Of value in the pres
ent war England must be a party to
the protocol, whether in written shape
or oral agreement, between the For
eign Offices Of Germany and the
United States.
1t is hinted that Germany would not
be averse to modifying her views
about the Lusitania and making the
disavowal and granting the reparation
suggested in President Wilson's first
and second notes relating to the de-
struction of that vessel.
The substance Of the negotiations
between Secretary Lansing and Count
Won Bernstorff have been sent to
President Wilson, and the German
Ambassador has sent full report by
wireless to Berlin
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
CALLS OFFICIALS ROBBERS.
Alabama Legislative Committee Scores
Two Departments.

Montgomery, Ala. - Characterizing
the convict lease system of Alabama
as "a cancer that should be out of
Alabama's body polite" the Merritt
Legislative Investigating Committee,
in its report to the Legislature, recon-
mended that all convict leases be abro-
gated January /, 1918, and that the
convicts after that date be worked on
the public highways and State farms.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
TO INSURE AGAINST AIRCRAFT.
British Government viii Also Include
Bombardment.

London.-The Government has COM
pleted plan for state insurance
against damage by aircraft and bonn
bardment in which it will work in con-
nection with FIRE insurance Offices. The
rates to be charged in all districts win
be identical and for private dwellings
are fixed at 2 shillings per cent
against aircraft and shillings against
aircraft and bombardment.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
WARSAW OBJECT
OF THREE ARMIES
TeutOns Strike at Polish City
From North and South.
GIGANTIC OPERATIONS
oniester Crossed BY Austrian Force.
Austro.G Germans Work In Con-
cert To Squeeze Musko-
vltes Out OF City.

London. - The Austro German
armies, which now appear TO be work
ing in perfect concert as the result OF
the German organization, are giving
the Russians little rest or time to re-
organize themselves after their retreat
from Galicia.
simultaneously with the German ef-
fort to reach Warsaw, or the Russian
lines serving that fortress from the
north the Austrians have attacked
along the Dniester and have succeed
ed in crossing that river at several
points. General Won Mackensen's
army, which doubtless had been wait
ing for Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
to move in the north, has also come
to life again and the fighting has been
resumed in Southern Poland In fact,
there is fighting CT more or less
severity all along the Russian front,
except in Central Poland, where the
Russians are in such strong positions
that, in the opinion Of military men,
It would be impossible to break
through.
Campaign On Gigantic Scale.
The Germans claim TO have made
further progress with their northern
operations, but with the Russians re-
firing 1t is not likely that the main
forces have clashed as yet. The COM
bned operations are the most gigantic
yet undertaken, the aim being, accord
ing to military experts, 10 squeeze the
Russians out Of Warsaw and the great
slice Of country which they hold to
the north, south and east OF that city
and at the same time to attempt an
invasion of Bessarabla.
Reinforcemens have been sent to
the German troops in the Russian
provinces Of Courland and Kovno,
with the result that vigorous military
operations have been resumed in that
section. The Russians are offering a
stubborn resistance and are holding
strategic positions, according to an
official statement issued at the head
quarters Of the General staff in Petro
grad and telegraphed TO the Central
News and Exchange Telegraph Com
pany here.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
DECIDES FOR DEATH PENALTY.
New York Constitution Makers Com
mittee Unanimous.

Albany, N. Y. - BY virtually
unanimous vote the bill of rights COM
mittee of the State Constitutional Con-
vention decided against proposals to
abolish the death penalty by constitu-
tlonal amendment. The committee
was equally divided on proposal to
permit juries, in first degree murder
cases. to recommend life imprison-
ment without commutation or pardon
except in the case of established inno-
cence.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
CECIL CHAPMAN DEAD.
Wealthy Tonopah Pioneer Started Life
Poor Man.

Los Angeles - Cecil Chapman,
wealthy Tonopah pioneer and partner
OF George Wingheld, the Goldheld mil
llonalre when their combined capital
amounted to s192, died at his home
here. An illness which became seri-
Gus while he was in London at the
outbreak Of the European war caused
his death He was 60 years old and
heavily interested in Montana mining
properties.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
KILLED MoTHERA YEARS.
indianapolis Girls Crime Brings SEN
tence For Her Only.

Indianapolis.--Inez Burk, the 16-
year.old girl who killed her mother.
Mrs Archie McClain, in this city two
weeks ago by striking her on the head
with an axe and then slashing her with
a pairing knife, entered plea OF
guilty of manslaughter before Judge
Yestal In the Circuit Court. She was
sentenced to the Indiana Girls School
at Clermont, to rsmajn until she is 20
years old
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
PARIS "DRY" FOR SOLDIERS.
Sale OF Liquor To Military Men There
Prohibited.

Paris.--General Gallieni, the Mill
tary Governor of Paris, issued an or
der forbidding the purchase by or sale
to soldiers or officers Of whatever
grade in the intrenched camp of Paris
of any alcoholic liquors whatsoever.
Offenders will be cited to appear be-
fore the police courts and military tri-
bunals. Liquor dealers violating this
order will be punished by temporary
suspension of their licenses on the
first offense and the revocation of
their license on the second offense.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
GREY RESUMES DUTIES.
British Foreign secretary's Eyes
Benefited BY Rest.

London.-"Sir Edward Grey whose
eyesight has been benefited sufficient
ly from his short rest, has resumed
his duties as Secretary for Foreign
Affairs" says a statement given out
by the British Official Press Bureau.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
s5,ooo,ooO,OOO FROM FARMS.
Agricultural Department Gives inter.
national Trade Figures.

Washington.-Th farmers part in
international commerce approximates
5000 100000 annually. Statistics
Just Issued by the Department Of Agri-
culture give the following estimates Of
the value Of principal farm products
carried in international trade; that is,
the total exports from all countries or
Imports into all countries:
Cotton, $1,127OO0,OOO; wheat and
-four. S744. 900, 900; raw wool, S480,000,-
600; hides and skins, $392,OOO,O0O;
coffee, 1886, 100000; sugar 1882 ,000,-
900: rice. s27S,OOO,OOO; barley and
malt, S22O.OOO,OOO, corn and meal,
s21O 900, 900; manufactured tobacco,
1892. 100000; butter, S173.OOO,OOO; tea,
s14S.0OO.OOO; rye and -four, $125,O0O,-
900, and oats, O2OOO,OOO
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
AN EXCESS CROP OF COFFEE.
Brazil Has Provided a New Valoriza
ton Scheme.

New York.-Confrmation OF re-
ports that the Brazilian government
was about to provide new valoriza-
ton scheme to take care of its excess
crop of coffee was received in cable
gram which stated that the Brazilian
Congress had passed bill appropriat-
ing 100000 contos (about S75,000,000)
for the purpose. The cablegram fol-
lows: "The bill has passed Brazilian
Congress providing for issue 100000
contos, of which 10000 will be loaned
in Sac Paulo to purchase up to 4OO,-
600 bags of coffee from the present
crop"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
STEEL TRUST MAKES sENzoL
Refined New Product viii Be On Mar
ket In 80 Days.

Sharon. Pa.-Crude benzol is now
being manufactured by the United
States Steel Corporation at its plant
at Farrell, near here, and within 30
days, It was said, the benzol will be
refined and other by-products will be
placed on the market This Is the
first OF the corporations plants to
make benzol.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
GEN. Won suELow PROMOTED.
New German Divisional Commander
Married Philadelphia Girl.

Berlin, via London.-Maj Gen. Hans
Won Buelow has been made com
mander OF a division in the German
army. He was colonel Of the Augusta
Guard regiment at the outbreak Of the
war, and now is the youngest division.
al commander in the army. General
Won Buelow's wife was formerly Mrs.
Nina Bryce Turnbull, Of Philadelphia.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
NEGROES TO DIE FOR ASSAULT
Blacks Who Attacked Widow and
Daughter To Be Eleetroeuted.

Fredericksburg, Va.-John Lewis
Rollins and George Matthews, negroes,
were convicted in the Circuit Court of
Caroline County of criminal assault
on Mrs. Birnley Coleman and daugh.
ter. on July II, and sentenced by Judge
r. II. L. Chichester to die in the cleo
tric chair August 20. The men con
fessed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
TWO MORE NEGROES LYNcHED.
Suspected OF Participation In Killing
OF Three Whites.

Cochran, Ga.-Two negroes, sus-
pected Of having aided Peter Jackson,
lynched for the murder of three white
men near here Tuesday night, were
lynched near Hawkinsville by a posse
Of citizens. One of the trio was Jack.
sons brother
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
COLOR LINE FOR TEACHERS.
oeorola Senate Unanimously Passes
Segregation Bill.

Atlanta, Ga.-The Georgia Senate
passed unanimously bill to prohibit
white persons from teaching In negro
schools and negroes from teaching in
white schools. 1t would apply to
private as well as public institutions.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22

Miss Racel E. Yorgey, WyomIs
sing High School girl was rescued
from drowning in the public swimming
pool at that place by Neil H. Fields.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22

Wireless messages have been sent
and received at rate Of more than
one hundred words minute by APP
paratus invented in England.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
NO ATTEMPT TO LYNCH FRANK
Three Companies OF Militia Allowed
To Return Home.

Atlanta, Ga.-Reports that mob
would attempt to take Leo NJ. Frank
serving a life sentence for Mary
Phagan's murder from the State
prison farm, at Milledgeyille, and
lynch him. have not been confirmed
by developments. Three companies Of
State militia, held in readiness at
Macon throughout the night to pro
ceed to Milledgeville to protect Frank,
II necessary, were allowed to return
to their homes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22

Her arm broken in two places by a
fall on the Fairgrounds, Catharine Nc.
Guire, aged ten, Of Reading, hunted a
doctor and had the fracture reduced
before reporting to her parents.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22

Lancaster's contributions to the Bel
CLANS amounted to $500, according 10
statement made by the Belgian Re.
lief Committee.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
Twenty Get Licenses.

Only one Of the four candidates who
took the recent State Medical Bureau
examinations for licenses to practice
drugless therapy passed the test
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22

Announcement is made OF the wed.
ding Of Walter w. Tyson, formerly Of
Reading, no wof Chattanooga. Tenn,
to Miss Frances Cohn. daughter Of
David Cohn, of Chattanooga.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
WILL DECLARE HOLT SUICIDE.
Coroner To Name Jump From Prison
Tier As Means.

Ter As means.
Mineola, N. Y.-After hearing the
testimony of several witnesses, Cor
oner Walter Z. Jones announced that
he would render verdict of suicide
by jumping from a prison tier in the
case OF Erich Muenter alias Frank
Holt, who shot ]. p. Morgan, exploded
bomb in the Capitol at Washington
and intimated in letter to his wife
that he had placed bomb on one or
more ocean steamships.
A belief that Muenter might have
shot himself, based upon statement
of jeremiah oRyan, his keeper, was
responsible for the extended inquiry
conducted by the coroner.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22

An Erie Railroad train killed Albert
Chaple, aged thirty-two. Of Cory, a
he was walking home from Cambridge
Springs.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22

Mrs. George Wunder, aged sixty, 0,
Reading, fell down stairs and tore Oh
an ear.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
Red Flag for Absentee.

Each patrolman will be supplied
with tools and equipment necessary
for his work and each one will have
a small, red flag, which he will be re-
qulred to place in conspicuous posi-
tion on the road when, for any reason,
he is required to leave the roadside
during working hours. Hence, either
the presence Of the patrolman at work
or Of his flag, indicating temporary
absence will be noticeable during the
working hours.
Great care is being exercised in the
selection Of these patrolmen, and State
Highway Commissioner Cunningham
is determined to have none but sober,
honest and industrious men in these
responsible positions. II 1t is found
that the patrolmen are neglecting their
work instant dismissal will follow.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
PATROL SYSTEM FOR
STATE ROADS SOON
Daily Report and Constant inspection
Rule Under New Malnte-
nance Plan.

Harrisburg.-State Highway Com
missioner Cunningham announced
that on August the patrol system Of
maintenance would be established on
State highway routes. Caretakers
will be employed and each man will
be assigned to design led section Of
highway, for the maintenance and re-
pair OF which he will be held respon.
sible. One hundred and ninety men
will be placed on this patrol work at
the start and the territory covered will
extend through forty.six counties.
These men will be paid at the rate Of
from fifteen to twenty cents an hour.
depending upon the scale of wages for
labor in their districts. This will
mean an annual expenditure Of $780,
900 year, which will figure down to
maintenance cost Of s65 a mile a
year for the State highway. When It
is considered that maintenance
charges heretofore have averaged
one.half million dollars a year. the
economy of the new system will be ap.
preciated.
These patrolmen will be directly
under the county superintendents.
They will be required to make out a
daily report Of the number Of hours
they work and these reports will be
collected by the county superintend-
ents, who will make out payrolls for
the patrolmen. AS the county super
intendents have been supplied with
light roadsters, It will be possible for
them TO keep in close touch with these
patrolmen on the State highways and
TO ascertain whether or not the work
is being done properly
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Latest Doings In Various Pari,
Of the State.
PREPAREDFO FORQUICKREADINs

Catasauqua Town Council hs,
awarded contract TO pave stretch
of the borough streets with asphalt.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22

The Reading Irop Company is ~
ginning to feel the wave Of prosperlva'
and the various plants in Reading an,
at Danville, Pa, employing sever, 4,
thousand men, with one exception W.. W..
be started on full time this week. ~. ~.
Scott Foundry and Forge Is pe,ns ,s
rushed to capacity on the construcuVI, !,
OF three sugar mills for Cuba. ONE y 7"
these mills will weigh about 7OO 'u1. ~.
and is the largest ever built al ~
works
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22

Joseph Pratt was instantly killed
and Jacob Shaffer and Charles Shafer,
were seriously injured when the auto
mobile in which they were riding at
Salisbury was demolished by a Penn.
sylvania freight train at crossing.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22

Because Of the great inroads made
upon the stock of horses in Lancaster
county for war purposes, there is a
scarcity of these animals. The farm
ers, however, have found a remedy
in the automobile. A large numbef
OF machines have been recently sod
there.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
Potato bugs are threatening
Lancaster county crop.

John Costello, Of Ashland, wno :, :
shown by records to be ninely"uu, .,
years old died at his home there. IA
was born in County Mayo, Ireland ~. -,
came to this country in 1S46. ~ "a -
two sons who are physicians, ono d
siding in Pottsville and anotne, +, +
North Carolina. Two sons, Patri0n
and John A., reside in Philadelpp'''
Stirred by the recent Stougn I'm IN,
gelistic campaign, many polv', Il
throughout Lancaster county az
ranging evangelistic campaigns