THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBUEG. PA. rid Events THREE BROTHERS SAVED FIFTEEN In This Dopa i-tmont Arou Our Readers In F"cil-fcon County and Elsewhere IVIoy jo nd the World Aith the Comoro on the Trail of History INlaline Mappbnlngs. urnoy Williamsons, in Brooklyn, Tel) of Horror. DESPERATE FIGHT FOR LIFE AT THE FOOT OF JAPAN'S DEADLY VOLCANO SHIP THAT CARRIED SHRINERS TO MANILA Face. Of One Cut By Nails Of Woman He Was Trying To Recue Thrown Overboard By Lurch Of til-Fated Ship. Pictures of for News f ... - - ; fi lih. 7 j.' I . y ' " ( A 'L . ' ; 'AU ' " Tlils peaceful grcne Is a vli;w of Kugofthlma hurbcr, Japan, a few days before the volcano whose Bloi'H are seen 1u the background erupted and aiiread death and destruction over the little Island. DECK SCENE ON WRECKED YANDERBILT YACHT Ml r ; r ', : : ll trt, R I 1 .oc v. i'-v Tr'.Ti-fiir, r mmi. . X.- View of the deck of Frederick V. Vanderbllt's yacht Warrior, which was photograph of the captain who, with the crew, refused to leave the vessel. Mrs. Vanderbllt, the duke and duchess of Manchester and Lord Falconer, steamers Almtrante and Krutera. MARINES READY TO Inspection of marines on board the Ihe harbor of Vera Crur, Mexico. Good Business Reason. "Dut why," asked .the observer of ien of the Itinerant musician, "why 'io you play an accordion? Nobody Hke8 the accordion any more." "Ah, slgnor, I have da reason. De eep, who no Ilka da accord pay me 4a big mon to stoppa ma noise." Judge Dangerous Ground. "The Idea that a sick roan always falls In love with his pretty nurse Is rrnnt nonsense." ' Shhh! old man. That's how I met my wife." 4 " v v' cJm f ir; 1 . l :! 'Til 3 ; vv v. .41:' 4 . LAND IN MEXICO : i I'nlted Stales buttlesliip Michigan In How He Did It. "How do you always keep the of fice clock right?" the foreman was asked. "I set It In the morning by the time tho boss arrives and set It again at noon and night by the thin the help quits." On the Go. "My husband Isn't home two nights a month." "You Bhould get the minister to see him." "He Is the minister. Alwqys being called away to see people." -I 1 1 i 1 4 ; i I St. I : n ''XJ 1 " ' : Tl t . f ,':-. w1 wrecked ou the Colombian coast, and The passengers, Including Mr. and were rescued with difficulty by the SHE IS "SOME CHICKEN" When Judge Den Lindsey of the Denver Juvenile court took his young bride homo the other day, the couple were welooined by a great throng of newsboys and street arabs. "What do you think of her?" the Judge asked the cheering lads. "She's some chicken," was the enthusiastic reply, and the Judge, looking at the pretty, blushing girl, said "I guess you're right." The forest service maintains nine experiment stations for studies In rcforusta'lon and similar subjects. ! I Ami Three hundred candidates were admitted to the order of the Mystic Shrine at Nile Temple, Manila, I'. I., the other day, and among those who took part In the ceremonial were 230 nobles from all parts of the United States. These men, with members of their families, are making the greatest pilgrimage In the history of the order. They Bulled from Seattle December 30 on the Great Northern steamship Minnesota, and on their way home they will stop nt several Oriental ports. AMERICAN CONSULATE .THAT NEEDED PROTECTION Z-... Ik ...... ... . f'mf'i!'''-'' ' (Ksy 1 V i 4 ' -s (j ' ' " 1 1 ij I iwmvr,.,,l),i.f.v,-rtMmiwt-iiittfiiii.). ,i; The American consulate at Acapulco, Mexico, has been converted the vicinity, who turned over to Consul C. S. Edwards about $250,000. ' rauders, the consul cabled to the state department for protection and SIMEON D. FESS Simeon D. Fess, who is serving his first term in congress as the represen tative of Ohio's Sixth district, Btarted out In life as a farmer boy. After graduating from college he was re tained by his alma mater, Ohio North ern university, as its professor of American blBtory. After this he held several college positions and finally became president of Antloch college. Later he was the editor of a magazine. BB rti)i.tfim3aaaBsaas'--'i Into As Rear MRS. ROBERT GOELET W I Bociety folk were interested though not surprised when Mrs. Robert Goe let of New York began suit for divorce from her millionaire husband. Our Illustration shows Mrs. Ooelat with one of her children, and, inset, Mr. Goelet. 44 f ' U 'iiilyJrtowvTirwww. . rv -4.4 w a safe depositary for the Americans In the region Is Infested by bunds of ma Admiral Cowlos sent a warship there. .SUES FOR DIVORCE New York. The story of their des. perate fight for life after the collision between the steamships Monroe and Nantucket was told by the three Wil llaniHon brothers, of Brooklyn, who were among the few survivors to ar rive here from Norfolk. The brothers are Honry, aged 21; George K., 23, and John, 25. They are all seafaring men. George had his face covered with lacerations. "I got the scratches from a woman who fought me while I was trying to pull her into our boat," he said. "She had been driven crazy by the shock and exposure in the cold water." "After the crash," said John, "w all three jumped out of our bunks and pulled on our trouHers. That was all the clothes we could get. We rushed out on deck and there we lot Henry. Without thinking, I got into the boat near us, but the officer told us that it was for women, and I got out right away. "George and myself then sat on the rail near nnothef bout, waiting for our time. While we sat there a big col ored man came up and sat next to us. He sold to nie: 'You're a white man and I'm a nigger. I guess It's all up with us. If we don't get out of hero I hope we will meet in heaven.' Ho then began to pray. That was the last we saw of him. "Just then the ship reeled right over and we were both thrown into the sea. The boat was hanging free In its davits, with the falls loose. When he came up the boat was floating, so George and I unhooked the tackle and got into it. "We then rowed around and man aged to pick up about 15 people. One of them was our young brother, Henry. We were mighty glad to Bee him again, I can tell you. "As soon as Henry got In he helped to pull the other people on board, while we rowed." Henry said that he had been pepar ftted from his other brothers on the boat deck. He then walked around End a woman came up to him. ShP had a baby in her arms. "For pity's Rake, save my bnby," she cried, as she handed the child to him. "I held the baby tight," said Henry. "It was crying. I patted it on the back and tried to Btop it, but I guess I'm not much good In handling kids. "When the Bhlp went over I was thrown off the deck Into the sea. I was bo surprised that I lost my grip on the baby and it fell ahead of me. I struck out for a long time trying to find It. but I couldn't. You don't know how bad I feel about it. Gee, I would gladly go back there again If I could only have saved It." FORTUNE FOR HORSES. Austrian Says One Animal Is Worth Ten Men Leaves $60,000. Vienna. "One horse is worth 10 men," according to the Till of a de ceased land owner named BIzony, who bequeathed his entire fortune of $60, 000 to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, on condition that it builds an asylum for decrepit horses. Dlzony's next of kin will con test tho will Friday. Only King Lud wig III of Bavaria officially disap proved of aristocratic women of his court devoting their attention and for tunes to homes for sick cats, dogs and horses. LIGHTNING AS AN EXPLOSIVE, 6ndi Off Nitroglycerin As Sistersvllle, W. Va.; Lost $10,000. Sistersvllle, W. Va. The plant of the Young Torpedo Company was wrecked and damage' estimated at $10, 000 was done to property within a radius of 10 miles when lightning ex ploded BOO quarts of notroglycerln in one of the torpedo company's maga zines. C. C. Curtis, standing a quar ter of a mile away, was 'ered un conscious and .scores of windows were broken. $9,200 PAID FOR ART VASE. Chinese Curio Only 7'2 Inches' High Brings Small Fortune. New York. At an art auction here $9,200 was paid for a Chinese vase of the seventeenth century only 7',4 inches high. NATIONAL CAPITOL PAINTINGS. Want Civil War and Canal Reprfr ented On Frieze. Washington. The frieze In the rotunda of the Cnpltol representing scenes in the history of North Amer ica from 1492 to 1818 would bo finished with Bconcs of the Civil War and the Panama Canal, Recording to a bill Introduced by Representative Smith, of Idaho. No work has been done on the frieze for more than 25 years. LESSON FROM THAW CASE. New York Bar Association Would Amend Criminal Insane Law, New York. Possible efforts to pre vent future repetitions of the legal tangle resulting from Harry K. Thaw's escape from Matteawan were seen in the report submitted to the New York State Bar Association at its closluK session here by the committee on th commitment and discharge of criminal insane. The feature of the report was the recommendation for the repeal ot the statute providing that insane pe sons cannot commit crime.
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