THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURG, PA. BIG CUNARDER FLIES U. S. FLAG "Old Glory" as Protection To Hir Passengers. HAD SEEN SUBMARINES Area Not So Large As At First Re portedBerlin Sends Memorandum Giving Reasons In Retaliation For British Acts and Not Aimed At Neutral Vessels, It Declare. TEXT OF BLOCKADE ORDER. The proclamation issued by the German Government to neutral nations, as translated by the State Department in Washington, reads: The . waters around Great Britain, Including the whole of the English Channel, are declared hereby to be Included within the xona of war and that after the 18th Instant all enemy merchant ve3els encountered In these waters will be destroyed, even If it may not be possible always to save their crews and passengers. Within this war zone neutral vessels are exoosed to danger, since In view of t'-o misuse of the neutral fligs ordered by the Gov ernmeit of Creat Britain on the 81st ultimo and of the hazards of naval warfare, neutral vessels can. not always be prevented from suf fering from the attacks intended for enemy shlpi. The cute of navigation around the north of the Shetland Island In the eastern Dart of the North Sea and In a strip 30 miles wide long the Dutch cosst are now open to the danger zone. London. The British steamer Lusl lanla. of the Cunard Line, which sailed from New York January 30 and ar rived at Liverpool Saturday after noon, flew the American flag from the time she passed Queenstown until she entered the Mersey. The LnMtanla received a wireless message from the Baltic, of the White Star Line, that two submarines had been Fig'-ted from that veel. The captain of the Lusitanl in renly to a question of one of the passengers, declared that he had a rieht to fly the fas of a neutral country for the pro tection of neutral passengers and mails which Ms shin was carrying. According to a statement by Will Irwin, an American writer, the I.usl lanln carried the regulation large American fln at her stern, with a mall Arrerican flag and mall pennant at tre forer-esk. Fnrn-er United States Senator La fnyett Yenne, another passenger. He he rMd not personally fee the flag flyinc. raM It was accepted as a fact by all on board. N Law Against It Washington. Officials Indicated that an Inquiry Into the Lusitanla Inci dent might be made. The rules on in ternational law are clear In that each nation has the right to determine for Itself the conditions under which Its flag may be bestowed on a vessel. Some, authorities hold that the "as eurnption of the flag of a foreign State without its aut' orizatlon is considered as a violation of international law, as a device both fraudulent and injurious to the honor of both the state whose flag Is wrongfully used and that in regard to which the use of the false flag Is made have the right to demand the punishment of the guilty persons." In the war with Chile in 1S79, Peru Inquired of the United States under what conditions the United States flag might be u?ei. A memorandum from the Secretary of estate Evarts said that "tvere Is no prohibition of the use of the American flag by a foreign vessel beyond the Jurisdiction of the United States, or any penalty provided there for." No Formal Pretett Yet Washington. Until full explanations are forthcoming from Germany as to the meaning of the Kaiser's ocean war cone proclamation, Administration offi cials have decided to withhold- any formal protests. An official copy of the decree was re ceived at the State Department from United States Ambassador Gerard. .The Ambassador reported that the Ger man Foreign Office bad furnished him with a lenrthy memorandum explana tory of the proclamation. This Gov ernment will not attempt an Interpre tation nntll this memorandum Is re ceived. Propose Joint Action. That the German proclamation Is cause for concern not alone for the MILLINERY TO COST MORE. Handwork Responsible Latest Novelty Like Man's Opera Hat. Chicago. Hats for women are to be more expensive this year, If styles displayed at the convention of the Na tional. Asociatlon of Milliners tere are followed. Handwork will be re sponsible for the lLcrease In price. It was said. Handmade grapes and flow ers will be tie chief dworatlons of the late summer creations. Sailor hats are to be popular, but the newest 15,395 SUNDAY CONVERTS. Committee Says 1,040,000 People Have Heard Him In Philadelphia. Philadelphia. According to an an nouncement made by Ellly Sunday's campaign, committee, approximately 1.040.010 persons have attended his sermons at the tabernacle to date. Of this number there vrre 15,'o9r con verts. It was also announced that, the total contributions amounted to $13, 151.19. Sunday has preached 65 ser mons and la f-hedultd to preach C2 i United States was Indicated when Chevfiller van Rappard, the Dutch Minister, called on Acting Secretary Lans'.ng and proposed concert of action by all neutral nations, under the lea derbhtp of the United States. NEW STRUGGLE IN EAST PRUSSIA New Army Appear To the Southeast Of Polish Capital. Petrograd. A new menace to the Russian forces around Warsaw has de veloped in the discovery of what ap pears to be a separate Austro-German army about 90 miles south of Lemberg, on the Wyzkow-Nadworna line. The purpose of this new army ap pears to be an effort to pierce the Rus sian line east of Lemberg and menace the forces about Warsaw In the rear. Send Reinforcements. The appearance of this force adds to the seriousness of the situation In the Carpathians. The new army Is to the east of the region where the most recent fighting on this front has oc curred, and w here the Austro-Gertnans are in tremendous force on a line which forms the arc of a circle in the vicinity of Mezo Laborcz, 50 miles southwest of Przemysl. The Russians are awake to the new danger, and recently rushed several corps toward this front. On practically all the Carpathian front the Russians have succeeded In checking their antagonists, but the Aus tro-Germans still are undefeated. The Germans, with their usual mobility, suddenly apirHr at various points and then as suddenly disappear. According to a Russian staff oflicer, the Germans are lined "like cement, to hold together detached corps ot Austro Hungarians." The stubborn character of the bat tles developing In the extreme north of East Prussia is attracting the atten tlon of the Russian General Staff, which sees there indications that the ! Germans have withdrawn troops from the Bzura region and massed them in t'-e vicinity of lnstrburg, between Gumbinnen and Tilsit. SOLD HIS APPLES TO LONDON. Virginian Sent 1,300 Barrels and For Some Got $9.07 a Barrel. Luray. Va. John J. Miller, former member of the Virginia Legislature from Rappahannock county, has Just received his returns from 1.300 barrels of monocram pippin apples shipped to Liverpool, England. They show that i Mr. Miller received $9.07 a barrel for the apples. Other cargoes netted him $8 50. $r..(5 and $4 50 a barrel. Freight, handling and commission of $1.25 a barrel was charged against the apples. AN $8,000,000 CONTRACT. Gsvernment Saves $2,000,000 On Cos Of Envelopes. Washington. Postmaster Burleson awarded an eight million-dollar con tract to the Middle West Supply Com pany, of Columbus, Ohio, which will furnish nine billion stamped envelopes to the government during the next four years. The Mercantile Corporation, with a plant at Dayton, Ohio, the pres ent contractor, was the unsuccesful bidder at nearly $2,000,000 more than the Columbus company's bid. WOMEN AS BRIBETAKERS. Three Accused Of Selling Their Vote For a Dollar. Plkesvllle, Ky. H was learned here that three women have been indicted on charges of selling votes In the last school election, and they will be tried with the 1.100 men who are accused of having committed fraud at the primary election last August It was alleged in the indictments that the women sold their votes for a dollar each. ORDERS 25 LOCOMOTIVES. Illinois Central's Purchase Mean Work For More Than 3,000 Men. Chicago. Contracts for the pur chase of 25 of the largest type loco motives from a Lima, Ohio, corpora tion were signed by the Illinois Cen tral Railroad. The first of the engines will be delivered about March 15. The total value of the order is more than $1,000,000, and will make work for from 3,000 to 4,000 men. CHILD DESERTER3 TO PRISON. Haeffner and Wife Sentenced In New York. New York. Just to make the past time of abandoning children as un popular as possible in New York, Judge Rosalsky sentenced George Haeffner and his wife Jeanette, to terms of from two and a half to five years each. The father will serve his time In Sing Sing and the mother will be sent to Auburn. novelty, which It Is expected will be worn much, Is a high hat, fashioned like a man's opera bat POSTAL BILL CLIPPED. Senate Committee Reduces Appropria tion By $2,000,000. Washington. Appropriations In the Postal Hill an passed by the House were cut $2,000,000 by the Senate com mittee because of the decrea.se In pos tal revenues since the outbreak of the war. more before bis revival campaign here la ended. EXPECTS NO DEFICIT. President Thinks June Income Tax Will Supply Needs. Washington, D. C President Wil son held that June Income tax receipts wouid wipe out the present Treasury deficit and obviate the need for addi tional financial legislation at this ses THE NAVAL BILL I trapper trapped passed ii ---mmam Votes for Two Dreadnoughts Over Strenuous Protest PERSONAL PLAN WIKS OUT Leader Underwood Led Curtailment Advocates, Using the Prospect Of Big Deficit As Argument Washington, D. C. Over a strenu ous protest from Majority Leader Un derwood the House in passing tho Naval Appropriation bill retained pro vision for the construction of two dreaduaughts. Representative Underwood declared the nation was facing a probable Treasury deficit next year of $35,000, 000, and economy advocates led by him succeeded In striking out appropria tions aggregating more than $6,000,000 for five tubmarines, a transport and a hospital ship. The bill as it goes to the Senate car ries $144,018,902, and 'authorizes the following construction program: Two battleships of the largest and most powerful design, $7,800,000 each, exclusive of armor and armament. Six torpedo-boat destroyers, $925. 000 each. One sea going submarine torpedo boat. $1,400,000. Eleven submarines. $550,000 each. One oil fuel ship, $1,140,000. The proposed hospital ships would have cost $2,500,000 and the transport $1,100,000. Pacific Coast To Get Share. An amendment was adopted au thorizing the construction of three of the Rlx destroyers on the Pacific coast. Five of the submarines are to be built 1'iere. The bill provides that any of the vessels authorized may be con structed In government yards, but Chairman rndgett, of the Naval Com mittee, explained that the New York plant, the only one to which a battle ship might be given, already was work ing to its capacity. All new legislation. Including pro visions for the creation of a naval re serve, for an aide for operations In the Navy Department to head a war board, and for creation of the rank of admiral and vice-admiral, were stricken from the bill fever.'il days ago. An effort will be made to have them 'restored l.n the Senate. 3,000,000 BRITISH. English Army Estimates Give This Total, Exclusive Of India. London. The army estimates, to which Parliament will devote the first part of tills week's session, give the number of effective men in the army, exclusive of those serving In India, at S.000,000. There Is this year a novel change In the form of the estimates, as no totals of estimated expenditures are given. The vote under each of the 15 headings Is set at the nominal figure of 1.000. This gives the House of Commons opportunity for the discussion of each heading, while the government may spend whatever Is necessary under these various headings to prosecute the war. THREE KILLED WITH HAMMER. Two Women and Girl Found With Heads Crushed. Buffalo, N. Y. The bodies of Mrs. Lizzie Drake, 65 years old; Mrs. Irene Spencer, 35 years old. and her daugh ter, Gertrude Spencer, 12 years, were found In their beds at their home at Salnmanra. Their heads had been crushed In with a sledge hammer. Apparently the victims had been slain as they slept Physicians who examined the bodies said that the murder had been committed three or four days ago. The police have sent out an alarm for a former boarder at the Drake house. Mrs. Drake was Mrs. Spencer's mother. NEAR FAMINE IN AUSTRIA. A Two-Pound Loaf Of Bread Now Costs Sixteen Cents. Venice (via London). An official decree Issued In Trieste raises the price of a two-pound loaf of bread from 14 cents to IS cents. The grain markets In Austria are said to be In a desperate condition. The war bread that Is being sold la composed largely of substitutes for flour. The people In Vienna are said to be complaining of the constantly increasing price of meat. Hog3 are reported to be almost unobtainable. CHARMED AWAY TEN WIVES. Head Of "New Religion" Accused Of Abduction By Husbands. Kinston, N. C The "Rev." Thomas R. Miller, head of a new negro re ligion, was arraigned In the Municipal Court here accused of abducting the wives of 10 other men. The case was continued to permit the summoning of witnesses. Before the trial Miller, w earing a robe of many colors, headet 1 procession of the women who hav accepted his doctrines. THREAD PLANT ON FULL TIME 2,500 Workers At Wllllmantic, Conn. Get Good News. Wllllmantic, Conn. Commencing o Monday more than 2 500 employes : the factory of the American ' Company here will work on f',v for six (lays a week, accord'-i I annnu ire:ient. The factory vf! ' - running four (lays a vce'.i for seve months. The rich Turk rarrly eats with wives AM ANIMAL. (CopyrlKlit.) ENCIRCLING SEA Z Enemy Ships Found in it After Feb. 18 to Be Sunk. WARNING GIVEN NEUTRALS Approach To French Coast From Sea Is Now Dangerous Concern For Crews and Passengers Not To Halt the Work of Destruction. Berlin, by wireless telegraphy to Sayville. The German Admiralty is sued the following communication: "The waters around Great Britain and Ireland, including the whole Eng lish Channel, are declared a war zone from and after February 18, 1915. "Every enemy ship found In this war zone will be destroyed, even if It is Impossible to avert dangers which threaten the crew and passengers. Neutrals Warned. "Also neutral ships in the war zone are in danger, as, In consequence, of the misuse of neutral flags ordered by the British Government on January 31 and in view of the hazards of naval warfare, it cannot always be avoided that attacks meant for enemy ships en danger neutral ships. "Shipping northward, around the Shetland Islands, in the eastern basin of the North Sea, and in a strip of at least 30 nautical miles In breadth along the Dutch coast is endangered in the same way." Alleged British Order. There has been published in Ger many recently what purports to be a secret order issued by the British Ad miralty to British merchantf8h!ps, in structing them to make use of neutral flags, and German papers, including the Kreuz Zeitung, the Vossische Zel tung and the Tageblatt, all are re ferring to this alleged order. A char acteristic comment Is found in the Kreus Zeitung, which says: "What Is this command but an ad mission by the English that 'we are unable longer to protect our flag?' Furthermore, it is a gross violation of International law and one of Its con sequences inevitably will be that neutral flags can no longer protect neutral Bbipplng for the reason that it will be Impossible for German naval officers to tell whether it is borne rightfully or not Consequently Ger man submarines will have to direct their torpedoes also at neutral ships If neutral powers do not see to it that this misuse of their flags, ordered by the British Admiralty, does not take place." RAILROAD ORDERS HEAVY. Big Equipment Contracts Are Being Awarded I. C. Buy Cars. New York. The railroad equipment buying campaign is in full swing. The Illinois Central has ordered 1,000 refrigerator cars from the Ameri can Car and Foundry Company. In a week the Moss Tie Company's plant at Mount Vernon, 111., Will be operating with a full force. A recent contract with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul for 350,000 chemically treated ties will keep tho works at capacity for six months. The Erie's rail requisitions have been increased to 28,000 tons and the "Soo" is in the market for 15,000 tons of rails. If satisfactorily low bids are forthcoming, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy will spend $1,000,000 for equipment, including' engines and cars. RUSSIAN GIRL IN 19 B'ATTLES. Wounded and Decorated With the Cross Of St George. Moscow. Among the wounded who nave arrive in Moscow from the front Is Olga Krasilnlkoff, a girl of 19 years. After taking part in 19 battles In Poland she was wounded in the foot. The girl enlisted under a man's name and this deception has Just been "dis covered. The Cross of St. George, fourth degree, has been awarded to her. AMBULANCES FOR RED CROSS. Harvard and Yale Students Donate 17 Automobiles. Washington, D. C The 17 automo bile ambulances donated by Harvard and Yale students have been turned over to the American-Red Cross and will bo shipped to Europo In the near future for service on the batlufield The ambulances are khaki covered and bear a huge red cross on a field ot I white. They are fully equipped fov Bed Cross work. 1 WAR ONE L Action Necessary By Extent of Territory Under His Control. PICKS MEN FOR CABINET Carranza Army Of 8,000 Is Defeated In Jalisco In Three-Day Battle, Several Hundred Being Killed. . El Paso, Texas. General Villa prac tically proclaimed himself President of Mexico. Ho has assumed supreme political power and organized a civil government with himself as the head. His excuse was that Interruption of coinmuuication has made It impossible to work in conjunction with his forces in the south. Villa Gives Excuse. He declared the zone lie controlled was so extensive that an organized government was necessary- The Cabinet named by Villa follows: Minister of Foreign Relations and Justice Lie Miguel Diaz Lombardo. Gobernaclon and Communications Dr. Luis do la Garza Cardcuaa. Treasury and Fomento Francisco Escudero. These three men are among the ablest leaders of the republic. They have been acting as advisers to Villa for months. Villa will maintain his capital at Aguas Calientes temporarily. Carranza Army Defeated. VllllBta agents here were advised of the defeat of a Carranzlsta column of 8,000 men in the State of Jalisco by troops under the command of General Augustln Estranda. Several hundred were killed and wounded In the battle which lasted three days. Official messages dealing with tho defeat of General Benavides south of San Luis Totosi states that 200 prison ers, three trains, several cannon and other munitions were captured. TURKS- PUT TO FLIGHT. British Troops Foil Attempt To Cross Suez Canal At Toussoum. Cairo, via London. The following official communication was Issued here: "During Tuesday night the enemy at tempted to cross the Suez Canal near Toussoum (35 miles north of Suez). They were permitted to bring bridging material to the bank of the canai un molested, but directly they started bridging operations our troops attacked and tho enemy fled in disorder, leav ing all the material in our hands. Sev eral of the enemy were drowned. "The enemy also attacked on the El Kantara front (40 miles south of Port Said) at daylight today. They were easily repulsed, losing 16 killed or wounded and 40 prisoners. Our casual tins were three men wounded." British forces had a skirmish with Turks yesterday in the neighborhood of Ismailia, on Lake Tlmsah, on the Suez Canal. The Turks finally retreat ed. The British had six men wounded. MAKES THREE STATES OF TEXAS. Joint Resolution Introduced In the Senate. Austin, Texas. A Joint resolution for an amendment to the Slate Con stitution dividing Texas into three States was Introduced by Senator W. L Hall, of Wharton county. The States would be North Texas, capital, Palestine; West Texas, capital, Abi lene, and .South Texas, capital, Austin. POSTAGE TO GERMANY UP. Burleson Increases Rates On Mails During War. Washington, D. C Postmaster Gen eral Burleson suspended the two-cent postage rates on mails from the United States to Germany and announced that until direct transportation service was restored letters from this country to German destinations would be charged at a rate of five cents for the first ounce and three for each addlUoual ounce. THREE CARS GO DOWN BANK. Brakeman Killed In Third Fatal Acci dent In Two Years. Metuchen, N. J. Tho caboose and two cars of the Millstone freight on the Pennsylvania plunged 30 feet over an embankment at Essex street death curve. Brakeman James A. McCabe, 37 years old, of Jersey City, was found dead under tho wreckage, and two other trainmen were severely injured, lue and snow on the rails caused the wreck, the third at death curve in two year E ES PRESIDENCY HOUSE STANDS OP. FOR IET0 Falls to Pass Literacy Test Over President Wilson. BILL FIVE VOTES SHORT Vote Taken On Anniversary Of Failure To Pass Test Over Head Of President Taft Whole Day Of Debate. Washington, D. C President Wil son's veto of the Burnett Immigration BUI sent to the House some days ago will stand. The House, by a vote of 261 to 136, refused to pass the bill over the veto by the constitutional two-thirds vote. A change of five voles would have given the friends of the bill a victory over the President. It was the third time the House had undertaken to pass an Immigration bill containing the literacy test over a President's veto. Two years ago an attempt to get tho necessary two-thirds to override the veto of President Taft failed. Of the 425 members of the House, 399 were present. The entire day was given over to debate under the Uve mlnute rule. The whole number of members vot ing was 397. When the bill passed a year ago the whole number voting was 378. The number voting on tho con ference report January 7 was 321. How They Voted. The 261 votes for passing the bill over the veto were cast as follows: Democrats, 166; Republicans, 78; Pro gressives and Progressive Republicans, 16; Independent, 1. Against the bill the vote was: Democrat, 101; "Insurgent" Demo crat, 1; Republicans, 32; Progressives and Progressive Republicans, 2. Members who were in the House when the bill passed last February and who hnnged their votes were: Voting for the bill and against over riding the veto: Bailey, Bartlett, of Georgia; Brakes, Brumbaugh, Maguire, of . Nebraska; Park, Whaley, Reed, Smith, of Maryland; Taylor, of Ala bama. Voting against the bill and for over riding the veto: Representatives Coop er, Johnson, of Utah; Kinkaid, of Nebraska, and Scott. BANDIT SNEEZED; CAPTURED. Posse Locates Gothard, Jallbreaker, By the Noise. Huntington, W. Va. Almost suf focated beneath a quantity of hay in the loft of a tobacco barn on Nine Mile creek, Grove Gothard, alleged bandit, who recently sawed his way out of the county Jail, sneezed. A posse had been hunting for him. When Gothard's wire was seen carrying food into the barn the posse surrounded it. The men trampling over the hay created such a dust that Gothard sneezed and be was promptly dragged forth. He is charged with entering the farmhouse of Mrs. E. C. Oswald. In the Greenbot torn district, and forcing the occupants to reveal the hiding place of their money. WEEK'S EXPORTS $63,668,139. Imports Also Reached High Mark At January's Close. Washington, D. C All weekly rec ords In the value of American exports since Uie European war began were smashed during the fourth week In January, according to the weekly foreign trade bulletin issued by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com merce. The value of shipments abroad through the 13 leading customs dis tricts aggregated $63,668,139 for the week ended January 30, which is a gain of $10,000,000 over the previous week and a $2,000,000 gain over the next highest weeki January 9. EYES ON BRITISH TRANSPORTS. German Navy Promisee Action Against Them. Berlin, via London. An official re port Issued by the German Navy De partment calls attention to the ex tensive transportation , of British troops to France and adds: "We shall use every me '.hod of war at our disposal against them." 1,279 GERMAN JURISTS KILLED. Six Professors and 275 Judges Have Fallen In War. Berne, Switzerland. According to ofllclal statements given out in Berlin, 1,279 German Jurists have been killed in tho present war. This total is made up of 6 professors, 275 Judges, 240 law yers, 33 1 assessors and 424 barristers. BOY OF NINE KILLS MOTHER. Shotgun Being Taken By Lad To Father Suddenly Goes Off. Colfax, Wash. Mrs. O. R. Meye, 35 years old, was killed accidentally by her 9-year-old son at their ranch home near Hay, in Western Whitman county. Meye was hauling straw and had sent his son to the house for his shotgun. The lad while leaving the house dis charged the gun, the shot striking his mother in the breast and shoulder. She lived less than an hour. "DRY" BILL IN INDIANA. Statewide Prohibition Plank Before Legislature. Indianapolis, Ind. Statewide prohi bition was placed before the Indiana legislature by a bill introduced in tho House. The bill would prohibit the manufacture, sale or giving away of spirituous, malt, vinous or intoxicating liquors, but provides for their use for sacramental, scientific? mechanical and medical purpose. The manufacture of home-made wines and cider is legal ized by the bill 1 NEWS TOLD III PARAGRAPHS Latest Happenings Gleaned From All Over the State. LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS. Ten Die In Fire as Heater Explodes, Five Others Injured Car Cuts Off One Arm, Breaks Another. Two Die In Suicide Pact Ten men were burned to death and Ave others were seriously injured in a Are which destroyed the sleeping bouse of the Tionosta Chemical Com pany at Mayburg, Forest County. The men. mostly wanderers of whom little was known to the company, were em ployed In the forests as woodmen and at night slept in the cheesecloth lined frame building erected for them. The house was heated by gas, and, it Is believed, increased pressure In the mains caused an explosion which fired the building. Lorettle Gentile, a crosrtng watch man, attempted to stop a Klelgh in which Lintel Bnrstill and Guiseppl Garloll were trying to pasa In front of a fast Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad train at New Galli lie. The sleigh was struck hy the train and (he three men Instautly killed. The Ilomestend Steel Wmks of the Carnegie Steel Company resumed op erations almost In full, affording em ployment to approximately 8,000 men. It was announred that the company has an order for 32,000 tone of iron, which will give employment to the workers live days a week for five weeks. Wlllinm C. Gcssner, captain of Com pany D, Fourth Infantry, N. G. P., of Allentown, was arrested on a warrant issued on complaint of a surety com pany, charging him with the embez zlement of about $900 of State funds. It Is understood that he baa been dis missed from State service. Describing themselves In a note as being two "shipwrecked beings, stranded on the rocks of love," Daniel Martin, who went to Scranton from Schenectady, and a woman who ha not yet been identified, committed suicide by gas in a boarding house In Scrr.nton. Mrs. Jacob Gerard, an aeed woman, partly helpless from illness, was burned to death as she eat In front of her stove in the kitchen of her house In York. Neighbors saw smoke Issuing from the house and broke in to find the woman seated in a chair, burned to a crisp. Harry A. Boyer, of Rr-a.Nng. fore man car Inspector at the Reading Railway Company's shops, was retired and placed on the pension roll, having reached the age of seventy years. Upon leaving, his fellow employes pre sented him with a leather rocker and a gold-headed cane. William Blackman, Commissioner of Conciliation, of the United Stales De partment of Labor, and J. A. Steese, acting mediator for the State of Penn sylvania, left Reading, having failed in their efforts to mediate the differ ences between the Reading Hardware CompSfiy and their former employes. After a three-hour battle, Andrew Stnufler, of Hereford Township, sub dued an American eagle, which sud denly pouueed upon him whiles he was cutting timber in the woods near his home. He brought his prize home alive, hut it died from wounds re ceived In the battle. Slipping on the snow while running to hoard a Lehigh Valley Transit car at Gwynedd Square, A. P. Smith, of North Wales, was hit by an automobile and knocked under the trolley ear. His right arm was cut off rear the shoulder and his left arm broken. His team struck by a Philadelphia Reading passenger train at the Vine Street crossing, Tamasqtia, Peter Bnrth, aeed forty, a butcher, was an stantly killed. The wagon was de molished and the horse en badly hurt that it had to be put to death. Dairy and Food Commissioner .Tames Foust has broken all records for the receipts from oleo licenses. Thus far ho has turned in $171,150. with about :t0,000 more to be paid into the State Treasury as soon as it can be worked up. SrrnTUon has It eye on the position of water commissioner. Three aspir ants for t'e place have already been named. They are: Ex-Senator Mc Ntchols, ex-Attorney-General B. B. ITardenhergh and David Prltchard, Mayor of Jerroyn. nor of St. George." The chorus of two hundred were assisted by Mrs. Hotz, sonrano; Mr. Hoth. bass; Mrs. Joyce, contralto, and Mr. Gurney, tenor. Under the direction of Rlph Kin der, the Norrlstown Choral Society rendored "Golden Legend" and "Ban- Three-year-old John Derr, son of William Derr, of the South Side, was suffering from a cold and his father took him to a doctor. The latter dis covered that the lad was a.'freak. his .heart being found on tho right Bide and his liver on the left Dr. Victor H. Wleand, who was elected president of the Great Allen town Fair last year, was re-elected at the sixty-fourth annual meeting of the stockholders. The annual mort show ed that under his administration the profits were upwards of $10,000.
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