Nearly Quarter Million Acres
Burned to November 26.
10,496 ACRES STATE LANDS
State Conscience Fund Enriched By
$299 1914—Postmistress’ Bed.
room Proof Against Robbers.
In
Plague Quarantine.
Horrisburg.—Almost
liom of acres of woodland in Pennsyl
vania were swept by forest fires be-
tween January 1 and November 26, ac-
cording to a compilation by the State
Department of Forestry. The esti
mated damage was $457,740.80 and it
Coit in round numbers something like
$16,000 to extinguish the fires. Addi
the acreage and the loss.
Of the acreage burned over, 10,498
were State land, the greatest damage
being in Pike county, where the great
ewned land.
Between January 1, aud July the
acrdage burned was 72,327, of which
4767 was on State land and the loss
was $121,949, while in the second half
of the year there were 168,159 acres
burned, of which 5,929
the cost to extinguish being $14.858.75
The damage in the second half was fas
greater.
The acreage and loss by counties is
as. follows:
County—Private.
Bedford
Blair
Berks
Bradford
Cambria
Carbon
Centre
Clarion
Clearfield
Clinton ch
Cumberland ..... 7.41 57,35¢
Dauphin 10,995
Ex &
Fayette . 1,314 ..... 20905
Franklin 2.563 18.315.00
Fulton . 4.88 3.110
Huntingdon 16,775.00
Indiana i A083 ..... 2995.00
Jefferson . A
Juniata ... BE veea 685.00
Iackawanna .... 301 384.50
Lebanon 516.00
Luzerne
Lycoming
McKean
Mifflin
. State. Loss.
10,710.00
21.473.
1,249.00
K.819
2,367.
19,024.0
00
670
(1)
Ut
300.00
5,831.00
108.00
3.995.00
Mouroe cava $.820.00
Northampton . a 570.00
Northumberiand. ¢ Bo... 6,000.00
Perry ve 2,425.00
3 37.000 00
102.00
700.00
2040.00
Potter
Schuylkill
SBayder
Botherset
Bullivan
Tioga
Unton
Wayne .n
Westmoreland
10. 808.040
15.00
150.00
76.00
1,538.00
12,694.00
3.453.00
State College Course.
200 their
and
i
to spena
More than farmers
wives who can't fihd time
four years in college are at State Col
loge to remain for twelve weeks as
students in the winter courses in agri-
culture. They known as short
course students, and will receive in-
struction in practical agriculture and
creamery work. Magy of the farmers
enrolled this year are returning fordhe
third time. Ove of the new features
ia the course in home economics, coi
ducted by Miss Pearl MacDonald. Sub-
Jects of special interest to the farmers’
wives will be discussed. Much inter-
«at has been shown in the course in
home nursing and emergencies. Miss
MacDonald will help her classes, some
containing students more than fifty
are
tration.
State Conscience Fund.
Prnnsylvania’s
conscience hart
CLAIMSTATE LAW
VIOLATES TREATY
i
i — —
ftaly Joins Great Britain in
Protest to United States.
ARIZONA |S THE OFFENDER
Ambassador Cellere, Of italy, Closely
Follows the British Ambassador
in Officially Notifying the
Government,
Washington, D. C Italy joined
Great Britain in her protest against
the Arizona State law which the
rations claim violates treaties In the
respect that it discriminates against
their subjects In the United States.
The protest of the Italian govern
ment was filed by Count Macchi Cel
flere, its ambassador. Soon thereafte:
Secretary Bryan went to the White
| House and had a long conference with
President Wilson. On the return of
Becretary Bryan to the State Depart
ment he found awaiting him Baron
Chinda, the Japanese Ambassador.
Secretary Bryan refused to discuss
either the conference the White
House his conference with the
| Japanese Ambasador. All of the State
Department officials are now maintain
Ing a similar oun this
ent issue. The Japanese Ambassador
on leaving the State Department would
gay only that of
Japan in America.” would not
| mdmit that any
that State's disc
i been made by Japan
at
Ot
slience import
there were "subjects
but
protest t
REAINKL
new
riminatory law had
May Cause Trouble.
biost of the officials bel
the present situation
Japan, her ally,
Italy has in it all of the els
& grave trouble if the protest
pressed to the point
early fron
What ations §
get from the Unite
declaration
government
of Arizona
The attit
to be simliar
tained in
fng case:
ane time that :
cirls regarded it a
that a statute
by the Fede:
sume responaibility
then or now
with the rights of the
that time, through Baron
minister to United
the ground
directly with a State of the Union
would hold the Federal
responsible in the lynching cases
It ia hinted very broadly that Eng
land, Japan and Italy are now taking
that same nd and that the United
States expected to m
Knswer the response will be
foreshadowed today
same as that involved
ove
reated
iy
Great Britain,
answer
the n
8 {0 how
3 reanons
is TespPuil
Departm
almost {mperati
should be passed where
{ ronment should
FOYE As
'
which it cot
State
Fava
the States
that
f Ne
Government
is ike final
What
be
ie is the
in
Siates in the
matter
tho protest of
MIXUP IN KEPLER'S MIDST.
General Electric Employe, Of Schenec.
tady Astounds Doctor.
Schenectady, N. Y
an employe the
Company, w
couple of fractured ribs
what he learned
hiz heart is the
of the left, that
an the left instead of his right,
and that all the rest of nis vital organs
gre mixed up as though someone had
stirred him
of General Electric
this is
That
instead
on
right side
his
aide
ascertain the
disorganization through
that he almost forzot to
his ribs. Such cases are very
endeavors to
Mr. Kepler's
the X
treat
rare
Kepler is 26 years old and always
has had good health despite his curl
ous internal arrangements,
of
extent
ays
ITALY 18 NOW READY.
| Qne Word More Would Probably Have
Meant War.
1914 than during the year before.
partment for the year show that
amount came In through the consel-
ence fund, which is the fund into
which undesignated and anonymous
items are consigned. Last year $531.10
was pald in through the conseclence
fund.
New Plague Quarantine,
Officials of the State Live Stock
Banitary Board stated that there might
be a reduction of the number of coun-
ties in quarantine for foot and mouth
disease in the next fortnight.
new quarantine affecting forty-one
Word was received that Virginia had
eade,
During the night the postoffice at
Morgantown, located in the office of
Dr. J. A. Zook, was broken ‘into by
thieves and two watches and several
small articles belonging to the doctor
were stolen, Mrs. Margaret J. Deich
ler, postmistresd, saved the cash and
stamps by keeping them locked In her
bed-room.
Rome —Many members of Parlia-
ment consider that the statement of
Premier Salandra in Parliament, in
which he advised that Italy maintain
neutrality, and made a reference to
what he termed the just aspirations of
Italy, together with.a demonstration
i by the members, means that Italy is
now ready. Deputy Labriola, a promi.
| pent member, summarized his opinion
of the sitting by saying that “one word
more from Salandra would have meant
a declaration of war”
WOMAN FIGHTS BANK ROBBERS.
I
| Knocked Down With fron Pipe, But
Saves Large Sum.
Cincinnati, Resistance by the wom-
an bookkeeper of the Winton Place
| Savings Bagk, a State institution,
probably saved the bank from being
robbed of a large sum of money here,
Gertrude Balz, the bookkeeper, was
alone in the office of the bank when
Th
(Copyright)
fINGa TRADE 10
UNITED STATES
How the European Waris Giving
Boost to Business.
| MANY LARGE ORDERS GIVEN
E. E. Pratt, Chief Of Foreign Tom
merce Bureau, Estimates Volume
Of Business Coming Here
Due To the War.
Washington
War
ratio
August, when
gained
the
maint until
mates that new
books of
a billion dollars
fic data upon which
estimates Mr. Pratt has the report
+], special cor !
to
machine
American firms will total half
An HC to base
rote
prepare a
South A
be made available
in trip
he visited virtually every large manu
facturing in the United
estimated
review
merican coun
to Ar
preparation
facturers for his
in
nlant
pian
States
and that the hine
1 A
manufacturing corapanies alone have
$10,000,000 to $15,000 in
from European countries
their books. One big plant,
enough ahead of it
full 24
next Years
preparing
facilities to
ging
AMONg
from Le]
now
he
work
operation
has
keep it ir
day for
the two
their meet th
WAr
the bellig
Crease
from the
The
erents
suppl
first coundry
geek the
was R
war
to
1ssin, Almost im
was declared
from Rus: IoUsen
ceived for lathes
kinds of a similar
or
ders were re
and machines of
That
nature de
war had excluded Russia from
usual of supply in Germany
England and France now have joined
tools and it is
BOUrce
meet the demands. Of course,
met; but the business is of the most
valuable type, since orders are as a
rule accompanied by cash.
In reaching his estimate on the est!
mated grand total Mr. Pratt took into
consideration the enormous increase
in European - bound food supplies
noted in September and Octobar. De.
tails of the November foreign com:
merce are not available as yet béyond
the estimate that a trade balance in
. favor of the United States of approxi
mately $70,000,000 will be shown. De.
partment officials are aware, however,
that the increase in food shipments
has continued and that manufactured
articles are beginning to move across
the Atlantic in considerable volume,
P. C/KNOX THAW ATTORNEY.
Files Brief Against Extradition To
New York.
Washington, D. C.—Philander C.
Knox, foriuer Secretary of State, ap
peared in the Supreme Court as an at-
'torney for Harry K. Thaw by filing a
| brief in behalf of the defendant, In op-
position to the State of New York's
p.oposal to extradite Thaw from New
Hampshire. Mr. Knox contends that
Thaw has been adjudged insane by
the New York courts and not re
ane of them knocked her down with
an iron pipe. Bhe rose and attacked
the men, who, becoming frightened,
grabbed some money lylng on a desk
| mad escaped.
White; and that It is a fundamental
principle of law that extradition pro
| ceedings may not be used for any
other purpose than to return a fugitive
eviminal to trial,
UNCLE SAM WIL
PROFIT BY WAR
|
(Half Billion Dollars in Trade
in a Year.
| MACHINE TOOL MAKERS BUSY
|
i
SAYS OUR NAVY
lo IN FINE SHAPE
Secretary of Navy Daniels Re-
plies to Criticisms.
QUESTION OF PREPAREDNESS
The Secretary Of the
Specific Replies To Questions
Raised By Senator Lodge and
Representative Gardner,
Washington, D. C.—The administra
tion has abandoned its policy of silence
with regard the assertions of our
national unpreparedness made by
Senator lodge and Representative
Gardner. Becretary of the Navy Dan
ele issued two statements, in
answer to the interview given by Sen
ator Lodge and the other in
tatements made by Representative
Gardner In speech in New York.
in these statements Daniels
makes specific answers to the ques
tions raised (
Mr. Gardner
In his statement
lodge, Mr. Daniels says
“Senator Lodge was quoted
ing, ‘1 know myself! that we are short
of cruisers, having only three’
Senator Lodge has been 8 member of
Naval Affairs of
for many
knows, as he says
want an
what 1
Navy Makes
to
one
y
repiy wo
sig
1i8
Secretary
Senator Lodge and
b y
answering Senator
AR HRY
grout
the Commities the
years and ir he
what we h
Senate
ave
does he
getlermines
For Horses—All the Warring
Nations Must Look To This
Country For Mounts.
* Warring 1
We forn
Ireland.” sald one
impossible to
{if
they
ited States
United
the 17
n I
goods
ale dry
@ 1
ana
firm
railre nre
ads
free to New York
amounting
nounced
trucks
| five-ton
? +
j try
Was an
nd one
each
1g the
cablegram
were ordered for coun
Buvers
ravirpa nn tin
repress ?
government received a
or
shovels
trenchdig
thousand
and
dering several
pleks other
{ ging tools
Omaha, Neb A shipment of 1,144
Rorses, intended for the French army,
here for Jersey City. An order
was given for 10,000 more, to be de
livered after December 21
THIEVES SHOOT DETECTIVE
Wound Chief Scherer, Of the C. & O.
Secret Service.
Richmond, Va. lather 1. Scherer,
chief of Chesapeake and Ohlo secret
service, was shot near Clifton Forge
Scherer, with several men, was trying
to round up a gang of thieves which
have been terrorizing the road for
months. Walking from Covington to
Clifton Forge, the detectives were
overtaken by a train. The thieves had
gotten wind of the men having started
to walk te Clifton Forge. Concealed
on the train they saw the officers
alongside the track and opened fire
Scherer was the only man struck. He
was rushed to the hospital at Clifton
Forge and placed under care of Sur
goon Wysor
- AIA 3
TOO MANY OFFICERS.
And Not Enough Men In Militia, Com.
mander Says.
Washington, D. C.—Too many of.
cers and not enough men--that’s what
is the matter with the United States
Naval Militia, Commander F. B. Bas
sett, Jr, head of this division of the
Navy, stated in uis annual report, just
made public. Bassett would weed ou
some of the officers or cut off thei:
titlea to Improve the militia.
» past week
Have Many Submarines
practicall
ordered
to
gent-day plans
the
those YEors
those
Intest
i {ip
of
Yard
f
{(N. H) Navy
ment {8 providing
Datieries
been particularly
submarines, and
best tha
interest
last year
nmendation, Congress
a larger numt
than
marines they
priated for
by provi
ps shall
«
i
VAD
whi
ret that
CUTIERREZ IN CAPITAL.
Also In Mexico City—Sends
Chiefs To Zapata
Washington, D C
t Gutierrez
Provis
Pregider and General
1 Mexico City and several of tb
{
fa have gone to
iavaca to discuss with Geveral Zapats
and his
forces in
This
ore the
capital and
reported in
the State
that conditions
quiet
very meagerly
barefooted, patrol
nity
official dis
Department
in Mex
Vici
WAS
to
which stated
ico City wery
clad,
the
“Zapatistias,
some being
ity.”
State Department summarizing
latest official message
the north is encamped in the suburbs
No further molestation of foreigners
has occurred and fair order is being
maintained. Thus far there has been
no friction.”
LAST PHILADELPHIA HANGING,
Sent To Death For Murder In
Moyamensing.
Philadelphia,
Abel
Famous old Moyam-
scores of murderers went
doom, was the scene Thursday of the
inst hanging that will take place in
Philadelphia, as, under a new law,
clectrocution wae substituted as the
death penalty. William: Abel, 28 years
old,
time fixed for the law to go into effect,
was the last to be hanged. He shot
and killed twelveyearold Thomas
Kane, who resisted an attack. Here
after all convicted murderers will be
gent to a new penitentinry at Belle
fonte, Pa., where electrocution wil!
take place.
YNCHED.
Mobs In Louisiana Aroused By Murder
Of Postmaster,
Shreveport, La. Kane McKnight, a
wire, was lynched at Sylvester, La.
the third negro to be hanged by the
nobs aroused by the murder of Post:
muster Charles M. Hicks, of Sylvester,
THE NEWS TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS
|
i
Latest Happenings Gleaned
From All Over the State.
o—
LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Fire Destroys Big Herd Of High Bred
Animals — Berks County Society
Wins Civil War Claims—Boy
Fractures Skull,
Judge J. Q
clsion handed down at Uniontown,
x :
YyAnswearingen, in
a de
de
i
ining
maintenance of bore
elared that the section of State m
BW requiring the
holes the
aK
be
of
stituted
i0T of Ininers
ainst explosions lawful and must
P. J. Walsh, inspector
Bituminous District
against a mine fore:
Rainey
bore
observed
the Ninth in
Lan
not
fend
1 the holes were of no prac
Company for
holes. The de
ions
Wormney
0D
preventing explo:
ham, Deputy A
aided in the prosect
s nn t death Mil
ler Hazleton whiskey agent, whose
body was found on
Ashland thr
when
‘
who |
erious
of John
thé mountains near
ago, was solved
of Girardville,
Hor
this
VOeRrs
George Bmith
» State
Fount lared
russian
Michael
entyv-two
mitted sul
1% himself in the Lead,
while hia danght 3
Helle of |
years, a retired cooper. con
cide by g hoot
! Mrs Charles
Klusch, and ber husband local
about to sit down to 4
drug
gist, were inner,
John N¢
mont, was
his head
ment A
vick, a young miner at Kulp
found near his home with
crushed by a blunt instru-
butcher shop close to
shortly before Novick was
found, and it {s thought they attacked
aim as they left
While driving his automobile along
Clair, Jefferson
struck
and killed Charles Pavela, who became
Witnesses of the accel
dent exonerate Crow from blame.
William A. Isenberg, aged seventy.
six, and his sister, Miss Saloma Isen.
berg, aged eighty, were suffocated by
coal gas at their home at Port Royal.
Three other members of the family
A herd of twenty-two cattle and
twenty hogs belonging to John 8,
fBwoyer, of Swoyer's Crossing, near
Reading, were killed by the State In.
apectors on account of the hoof and
mouth disease,
Herbert Herbine, sevenyearold son
of Edwin Herbine, is in a dying con
dition in St. Joseph's Hospital, Read
ing, from a fractured skull, suffered in
a fall from the secondstary porch of
his home.
Leaving a note that he was impelled
to kill himself from remnree over have
ing deserted his wife, Charles Law
rence, aged forty, was found dead from
poison in the Penn Hotel, Allentown.
William Melntyre, Jr, of Twedale,
Chester county, committed suicide by
throwing himself under the engine of
a train on the Lancaster, Oxford &
Gouthern Rallroad