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-‘Ancona’s Dead MILLIONS LOST IN BETHLEHEM FIRE 78 376 NEW GERMAN LOSSES BOOKS, MAGAZINES, Etc. Candyland for the Best.
May Reach 300 List ‘Includes = Casualties Suffered] 77° HUNDRED ash Fiery SroRies~—-And
American Consul Reports
side Harbor to Seize Vessel.
The first list available of the pas-
sengers on the Italian steamship An-
cona, sunk by an Austrian submarine
in the Mediterranean sea, off the Rfri-
can coast, near Bizerta, contains the
names of twenty-seven Americans, ac-
cording to a despatch to the London
Exchange Telegraph company from
Rome.
One American woman is among the
survivors, it is stated. It is believed
nearly 300 persons went down with
the vessel.
Only meagre particulars of the dis-
aster have yet reached the public,
owing to the strictness of Italian con-
sorship, but a despatch from Bizerta
to Lloyds says that 300 persons were
drowned. Most of the lost, the mes-
sage says, were women and children
emigrants. One hundred and thirty
survivors have thus far reached Bi-
gerta.
Two of the Ancona’s boats with
fifty-four members of the crew, land-
ed near Cape Bon, Tunis. Some of
the women were injured.
In addition to fifty-one members of
the crew and four passengers of the
Ancona, picked up at sea, have been
landed at Malta.
There is a discrepancy as to the
number of persons saved. Earlier ad-
vices had given 270 as the number.
The total number of persons on
board the Ancona is said to have
«been 642. If 270 survivors are, in
fact, at Bizerta, the total accounted
for reaches 369, leaving 273 missing.
From the few details received, it
fs believed that the Ancona sustain.
ed a vigorous shell fire from the sub-
marine that attacked her and that
geveral persons were killed and in-
jured in this way before the vessel
went down. A despatch from the
Stefani News agency of Rome, says
that 100 shells were fired into the
Ancona before she was torpedoed.
Berlin has evidently received par:
ticulars of the battle, for a despatch
from that city says: “Information
from a reliable source is that the
steamship Ancona was sunk by an
Austro-Hungarian submarine,” the
Overseas News agency reports. “She
attempted to escape, and thus compel-
led the submarine to use her guns.”
The assertion is made by survivors
f the Ancona, according to reports,
ich reached Rome, that the subma-
rine which sank the steamship was
German, although flying the Austrian
colors. This has not been confirmed
officially.
A despatch from Naples says that
the first-class passengers on board the
Ancona include Mrs. Prof. Cecile L.
Greil, of New York, and the third-
class, Alessandro Potative, of New
York, and wife and four children, and
Mrs. Francesco Mascole Lamura, all
American citizens.
Prince Cassano Zunica was
aboard the Ancona.
$40,000 FIRE AT BALDWINS
Patterns for Russian Engines Destroy:
ed at Eddystone Plant.
Various reports are current con-
cerning the fire at the Eddystone
plant, near Chester, Pa. of the Bald:
win locomotive works, in which prop:
erty and patterns worth $40,000 was
destroyed.
Reports that the patterns destroy-
ed were those of iron parts in con-
nection with engines recently built
for the Russian government are cur-
rent, while other reports assign the
destroyed patterns to a number of
special type locomotives of immense
design which were recently erected.
Fire was discovered in the No. 1
loft and the fire department at the
works was called out, but it was
quickly seen that it would be unable
to cope with the situation and Ches-
ter was appealed to for assistance.
The Handly Hose company was or:
dered out and immediately went into
service, and within two hours the
flames were under control.
The property destroyed is the larg:
er part of No. 1 pattern loft and a
large portion of one end of No. 2
loft.
No statement could be secured from
any of the officials of the company
and employes at the plant are like:
wise reticent.
Nothing was developed to lead to 8
suspicion that the fire was of incen:
diary origin.
also
Doctor Dies on Train
Stricken with heart disease after
leaving Philadelphia on a Pennsyl
vania railroad train, Dr. Ira C. Curtis,
of Fulton, N. Y., died before the train
reached Wilmington. Dr. Curtis had
started with his wife for Florida tg
spend the winter.
Zeppelin Flies to Sofia
The arrival at Sofia of a German
Zeppelin after an eight-hour voyage
from Temesvar, Hungary, a distance
of 240 miles, is reported in a despatch
given out by the Overseas News
agency.
NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE
German Invaders Give Ground Before
Terrific Onslaught.
The Russian offensive on the Cour:
land battle front continues to force
back the German armies under Field
Marshal von Hindenburg.
The official statement issued in Pet
rograd by the Russian war office tells
of much progress made in that re
gion, as well as in the sector to the
south and west of Dvinsk, where the
Germans have lost some positions.
Incident
and Says Warship is Waiting Out-
‘4 of the Bethlehem Steel company
Blaze in Machine Shop Originated In
Oil Conduit and Spread Rapidly—
Men Escape on Ropes.
Fire destroyed machine shop No.
plant at South Bethlehem. Only
the skeleton of the big building is:
standing. Machinery and war ma-
terial in the building were valued at
$3,000,000 to $4,000,000.
The company issued a statement
saying the blaze was due to a cross-
ed circuit wire which ignited oil in
the boring mill, on the first floor. No
statement of damage has been issued
by the company. The destroyed
building was recently rebuilt.
The fire spread rapidly and the
building was soon wrapped in flames.
The fire department of the steel
works was called out, as were the de-
partments of four neighboring
borough, but their efforts were main-
ly expended with a view to saving
adjoining buildings.
In machine shop No. 4 were manu-
factured guns of various calibre. In
the building when the fire started
were 800 guns, about 150 of them!
ready to ship. Some of these cannon |
were for England and her allies, |
others for this government.
The value of these guns alone is
said to have heen several million dol-
lars. There were about 1000 machines
of different kinds in the building—
lathes, shapers, drills and boring ma-
chines. These machines were valued
from $400 up to several thousand dol-
lars each. “
The building was about 250 feet
wide and 700 feet long, and four
stories high. On these four floors
were employed 2050 men on both day
and night shifts. About 800 men were
working when the fire broke out, and
so rapidly did it spread that some
employes had to make their escape
by means of ropes from the differ-
ent windows.
From workmen it has heen learned
that the fire started among oil near
the entrance to the plant. This oil
flows in conduits and is used to gath-
er up flying chips which escape in
the operation of gun boring. There
was only a brief flare of fire at first,
which workmen foolishly attempted
to put out by throwing on water.
There followed a mighty flash and
flames leaped as high as the building,
enveloping completely the whole of
the structure.
General alarms were sounded, not
only in the steel works, but through-
out the neighboring boroughs of
South Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Foun-
tain Hill and Northampton Heights.
In a short time East Third street was
crowded with fire engines, which
pumped millions of gallons of water
through two score lines of hose.
The fire, starting on the south por-
tion, soon ate its way through the
building to the north side. Floor
after floor, each loaded down with
valuable machinery, collapsed and
fell to the first floor, where it. lay in
a jumbled mass.
Many of the 2000 employes lost all
their tools, several having as much
as $100 worth. All the men will be
given employment elsewhere in the
plant.
PENROSE FPR 48 WARSHIPS
Senator Favors World’s Largest Navy
for United States.
Forty-eight dreadnoughts, one bear:
ing the name of each state, reorgani-
zation of the army and pay for the
National Guards were ideas advocatel
by Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
before the seventeenth annual conven-
tion of the National Guard Associa:
tion of the United States in San Fran:
cisco.
“We want a navy, perhaps second
to that of England,” he said, “but I
myself favor having the greatest navy
in the world. We ought to begin by
having a dreadnought for each of the
forty-eight states of the Union.
“It is the duty of congress to pro-|’
vide for the creation of a reserve
force and an increase of the regular
army and commissioned officers.”
Senator Penrose said he would op-
pose any proposal which did not re-
cognize the National Guard.
Phone Wire Electrocutes
Lena Baroni, sixteen years old
of Somerset, Pa., was electrocut-
ed while climbing over a rail feace
when her foot became entangled in a
broken telephone wire which had
come in contact with a high-tension
circuit.
Her sister, Annie, nineteen years
old, was knocked to the ground, but
was not injured seriously.
Wilson Gives Taft a Job
President Wilson appceinted former
President William H. Taft to be chair-
man of the central committee of the
American Red Cross. The president
conferred this courtesy on his prede-
cessor because of the latter’s interest |
in the Red Cross. Mr. Taft succeeds
Major-General George W. Davis, who
resigned.
Shoots Father by Mistake
Edward Wiley, a young scn of
Charles Wiley, near Portland, Pa.
found a revolver and playfully point-
it at the head of his father pulled the
trigger. The weapon was loaded and
the bullet struck the parent just
above the right eye, inflicting a dan-
gerous wotud.
Accidentally Shoots Mother
Mrs. Mary Gilbert was brought from
home in Horse valley to the Chambers-
burg, Pa., hospital, suffering from a
bullet wound inflicted by her fifteen-
year-old son, Tom. The woman was
i in Hippodrome theatre,
accidentally shot in the right hip.
From October 10 to November 2.
German losses from October 10 to
November 2, ir dead, wounded and
missing, were 78,376, according to
figures published by the Rotterdam
Courant, which presumes these casu:
alties relate to the Champagne.
“The total Prussian losses to date,”
the paper says, “have been 2,099,454,
not including 230 Bavarian, 293 Wur.
temburg, 280 Saxon and fifty navy
lists and the lists of officers and non:
commissioned officers who have been
lost while fighting with the Turks.”
T. .R TO TALK IN READING
Telis Committee He Will Speak at
Mass Meeting Sunday.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will
make his third visit to Reading, Pa.
next Sunday, when he will deliver an
address on “Prepareidness for War,”
at a public mass meeting to be held
under the
auspices of the Associated Organiza-
tions of Reading, which are agitating
for greater preparedness.
A committee returned from an in.
terview with the former president in
New York, and he gave positive as-
surance that he will come to Read:
ing.
Wife, Caught, Kills Self
Caught by her husband with joseph
Schmicker, prominent in Shamokin
society circles, Mrs. Josiah Simpson,
twenty-six years old, shot herself and
died in a few minutes. A coroner's
jury called the case suicide.
No arrest was made. According to
the husband’s account, he took the
motor car of Mrs. Sarah W. Kulp to
Philadelphia, expecting to be gone
over night, but changed his mind and
returned shortly after midnight. He
saw a light in the house, and looking
through a keyhole saw his wife with
Schmicker.
He burst open the doer and while
he was struggling with Schmicker
Mrs. Simpson grabbed Schmicker's
revolver and shot herself through the
heart.
Schmicker is a son of
Schmicker, a hotel man.
Anthony
* AARONSBURG.
Mrs. L. J. Bartlett is visiting her moth-
er in Lewisburg, and before returning
home will visit in State College a few
ays.
Mr. and Mrs. Williams and Mr. and
Mrs. Bowersox, of Bellefonte, autoed to
our burg Sunday and were guests of
their uncle, E. A. Bower.
Mr. and Mrs. George McKay and
daughter Florence, of Philadelphia, have
been pleasant guests of Mrs. McKay's
mother, Mrs. W. H. Phillips.
Allison Musser and two sisters, Laura
and Maude, of Scotland, S. D., are pay- |
ing their uncle, C. E. Musser and family,
a visit. This is their first visit east since
they were children.
The Misses Beaver and brother Rufus,
together with some friends from Milroy,
spent a short time on Saturday with the
Misses Beaver’s uncle, ’Squire A. S.
Stover, and also called on other relatives
while here.
Mrs. Samuel R. Gettig and daughter,
Mrs. George Z. Kern, of Madisonburg,
Sundayed at H. A. Ockers, having come
to see Mrs. Helsel, of Holsopple. While
in town they called at the home of
Thomas Hull, on 2nd street.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Crouse have gone
to Pittsburgh where they will visit with
Mr. Crouse’s brother Fred. They will
probably go on to Akron, Ohio, where
they will visit their aunt, Mrs. Sarah
ye, and other friends before returning
ome.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto and son Morgan
have moved their household goods to our
burg and will soon be settled in the house
once occupied by Mrs. Otto’s uncle,
James P. Coburn. Some time since the
house was sold to Mrs. Hess, and from
her the Otto family bought it.
New Advertisements.
EN WANTED.—We can give Steady Em-
ployment, all winter, to from 50 to 100
"men, at Sommon labor and various lines
of skilled work.
EE CAR;AND FOUNDRY Co.,
60-44-3t Milton, Pa.
Opera House.
every story a good one. They are entertaining,
but that is not all you can say, about them. You
know there ig hardly a periodical published that
is not full of time-wasting stories, but not a sin-
gle story in The Youth’s Companion is atime
waster. Take the stories of C. A. Stephens. It
wonld be hard to pick out one from which you
cannot learn something useful and yet enter:
taining.
Some of The Companion stories refresh your
knowledge of geography; some tell you the mys-
teries of chemistry, some reveal the secrets of
forestry and of general farming. Theycover a
wide, wide range. They are chosen with an eye
to the possible likings of every member of a
Companion family—stories of vigorous action
and stirring adventure for boys, stories of col-
lege life and domestic vicissitudes for girls,
stories that range all the way from sheer drollery
to deep seriousness for men and women. There
are no stories quite like those in The Companion.
If you are not familiar with The Companion as
it is to-day, let us send you sample copies and the
Forecast for 1916.
New subscribers who send $2.00 for 1916 will
receive free acopy of The Companion Home Cal-
endar for 1916, in addition to all the remaining
1915 issues from the time the subscription is re-
ceived.—The Youth’s Companion, Boston, Mass.
a sm—
New Advertisements.
ITTLE PIGS FOR SALE.—We have 29
well bred, thrifty little pigs for sale to
cash customers. 13 are 10 weeks old, 16
of them are 6 weeks old. Telephone or write
THADDEUS CROSS,
R.F. D., Bellefonte, Pa.
Meek Farm near Ax Mann.
ong —To the Stockholders of Whiterock
uarries
You are raby notified that a meeting of
the stockholders of Whiterock quarries will be
held at the general office of this company, in
Bellefonte, Pa., on the First day of December,
A.D. 1915, at ten o'clock a. m., to take action on
approval or disapproval of a "proposed increase
ot the indebtedness of this Company from noth-
ing to $175,000.00, at which meeting all stock-
holders are requested to be present in person or
by proxy.
L. A. SCHAEFFER,
60.39-9t Secretary.
uBLC SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ES-
ATE.—By virtue of a decree issued out
iA the Orphans’ Court of Centre county,
the undersigned, Administrator of etc., of Laura
E. Williams, deceased, will offer at public sale at
the Court House, Bellefonte, Pa.,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4th, 1915,
at 11 o'clock a. m., the following described real
estate, late the property of the said Laura E.
Williams, deceased:
The one thereof, bounded on the East by Rey-
nolds Avenue; on the South by Lot No. 10 owned
by Catharine Flack; on the West by the land of
the late Willow-Bank property, now William H.
Blair estate; and on the North by Lot No. 12,
being lot of ‘Marguerite E. Williams: a on
Reynolds Avenue 40 feet more or less, and ex-
tending back to the land of the Willow-Bank
property, now William H. Blair estate, 120 feet
more or less, and being Lot No. 11, in Reynolds
Addition to the Borough of Bellefonte, thereon
erected a
TWO AND ONE-HALF STORY FRAME
DWELLING HOUSE
in good repair and condition; four rooms on the
first floor, five rooms on the second floor, two fin-
ished rooms on the third floor, and one bath, fruit
cellar, hot air furnace; also a stable and out-
buildings erected on this property.
And the other thereof, situate as aforesaid, be-
ginning at the North. -West corner of Lot No. 28,
in Reynolds Addition, on Reynolds Avenue;
thence along said lot No. 28, in an easterly direc-
tion 100 feet more or less to Logan’s Branch;
thence northerly along the course of Logan’s
Branch 40 feet to lot No. 26 in said Reynolds Ad-
dition; thence westerly along said lot No. 26, to
Reynolds Avenue, thence along said Avenue
southerly 40 feet to the place of Deginnina; and
being known ang designated as Lot No. 27, in the
plan of Reynolds Addition to the Borough of
Bellefonte. Thereon erected a
TWO-STORY FRAME DWELLING HOUSE
containing seven rooms and bath together with
necessary outbuildings, all of which are in good
repair and condition.
TERMS OF SALE.—Ten (10) per cent. of the pur-
chase price to be paid in cash on the day of the
sale when property is knocked down to the bid-
der and declared sold; balance of the one-half of
the purchase price to be paid upon confirmation
of sale and delivery of deed, and the balance of
one-half of the purchase price to be paid one year
from said confirmation, the same to be secured
by Sci. Fa. bond and mortgage on the premises
with interest at six per cent. per annum. The
purchaser however shall have the right to make
payment of the entire purchase price upon con-
firmation of sale and delivery of deed, less the
lent per cent. required to be paid as herein speci-
W. HARRISON WALKER, Administrator,
60-44-3t Bellefonte, Pa.
Insurance.
Employers,
This Interests You
The Workmans’ Compensation
Law goes into effect Jan. 1, 1916.
It makes Insurance Compulsory.
We specialize in placing such in-
surance. We Inspect Plants and
recommend Accident Prevention
Safe Guards which Reduce In-
surance rates.
It will be to your interest to con-
sult us before placing your In-
surance.
~ JOHN F. GRAY. & SON,
Bellefonte. 43-18-1y State College
JEWELRY.
—) ONE NIGHT (—
Tuesday, Nov. 16
It’s A Long Way To
Tipperary
A Complete Scenic Production.
Everybody Knows the Song
Everybody Wants to See the Play
NOT A MOTION PICTURE
But a Melo} Drama With the Big-
gest Kick}Delivered This Season
The Best Military Play
Since Shenandoah
Scenes Painted From Actual Pho-
tographs Taken at the Front.
Note the Prices—25, 35 and 50 cts.
Seat sale at Parrish’s Drug Store.
Q
[ake Your
Watchword
the Hamilton—be-
cause Hamilton
means accuracy,
precision, faithful
performance of
duty day in and
day cut-—as well
as beau'-
3 2
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F. P. BLAIR & SON.
Jewelers and Opticians,
BELLEFONTE, 59-4-tf PENNA
FRESH HOME-MADE
Butterscotch
AND A LOT OF OTHER
NEW KINDS OF CANDY.
GREGORY BROTHERS.
CANDYLAND STORES.
BELLEFONTE AnD STATE COLLEGE, PA.
Both Phones
60-1-1y.
mma
Groceries. Groceries.
NEW GOODS
We are now receiving daily consignments of new Prunes,
Apricots, Peaches, Raisins, Currants, Cranberries, Sweet
Potatoes and Celery, with many other items to follow in
season.
We expect new Almonds and Walnuts before Hallowe'en.
We are not offering any old stock at cut prices—don’t
have any to offer, but we are busy looking for all the New
Good Things we can find.
We do Not Mark Our Prices Down
by the date of the calendar and then up again after eight
days. Our prices are based on actual value and change only
with regular changes in market values.
The inducement we offer you to trade with us is that you
can come here with confidence of getting .
FINE GOODS AT FAIR PRICES,
every day in the year.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
Bush House Block, - - 5721 - - - Bellefonte, Pa.
Compare this issue of the “Watchman” with other county
papers, and note the difference.
The Centre County Banking Company.
“STOP, LOOK, LISTEN!”
A Lawyer received $10,000 for suggesting these
words to a railroad. The sign, “Stop, Look, Lis-
ten!” saved the road many thousands of dollars
in damages. It’sa good sign. It’s worth $10,000.
Wise people are often warned by a similar sign on
the road of extravagance. They stop in time.
How about yourself? Think this over seriously.
A bank account is the Best Kind of Security at
any time. If you haven’t a bank account now,
start one at once. Any account, however small
you are able to begin with, will be welcomed and
carefully conserved at
THEICENTRE COUNTY BANK,
BELLEFONTE PA.
Em
Come to the‘ Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
The First National Bank.
Save Your Money
AND PUT IT IN BANK.
Everyone should have close
‘relations with a well man-
aged institution. You will
make no mistake in making
us your bankers.
The First National Bank
59-1-1y
BELLEFONTE, PA,