KEYSTONE STATE IN SHORT ORDER LatestNews Happenings Gather- ed From Here and There. min TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS Bunbury Fire Leaves Three Families Homeless-—Ends Life By Jumping In Path Of Freight Train. Worry Led To Suicide. Charles Smith, of Emaus, is dying in the Allentown Hospital from the effects of a self-inflicted bullet wound. There is also In Emaus Charles H. Smith, assistant fire chief, to whom a borough cheek for six dollars for extra services was mailed several dave ago. Not getting the check, Charles H Smith began to make inquiries found the letier containing the cheek had been handed by the plain Charles work and cashed. When an Smith. Being out of money, he had the office; moment to go upstairs. As found him unconscious on the floor After nn rounded up Edward Curry, 19; liam Noonan, 23; and Raymond witl store, and Joseph store in Baker, Richart, 19, Stern's them at who surprised at the point of a revolver. of a log cabin on the police, armed but were overpowered and dis gang confessed and was for the Grand Jury The held over the suffering and hard: which he thought his wife and children must have in their native Austria-Hungary, while he was powerless to help them, is sup Andres Kundrek Port posed to have driver forty-five years old, formerly of Kennedy, to suicide His body found floating in the Schuylkill below Reading. He had bees gince last November. Fire made three families and because of threatened to district 7.500. The ter of the men say the homeless, POOT waler wipe out the business of Sunbury. The damage was business district and fire stream of water not reach the top of a two-story house communicated to the homes of William Mohn, William Bingam and Ernest Auckes were destroyed, The flames Twenty-five head of cows, seven two goals on the R. W farm, Calin Township, were pigs and Schrack killed b3 Board with farm quarantine The strict fever. under Apinous placed wined out In Chester county. but finding causes among farmers thereabouts aLesy en Smith, nurse at the Private Hospital, Scranton, Maurice MeDonald, college hero and son of former Senator M. E McDonald, were married January 14 They had planned to keep the mar Grae vi in June, but the bride told a and the nurse let the secret slip. while at a soda fountain, H. W. Sweeney, said to be a mem. ber of a prominent McKeceport fam- ily, was held under a Shamokin justice, charged passing & $50.00 check through a local bank. The bore the name of E 8 wellknown resident of State who pronounced it a paper Erb, a College, forgery. Spurred by the efforts of the WW. CO T. U.. of Emmaus, to jail a number of business men, State Senator Schantz. of Lehigh county, has introduced a bill in the Legislature to repeal that part of the Blue Laws which prevents the sale or delivery of necessities of life on Sundays. The Allentown carpenters’ unions have demanded thirty-seven and one half cents an hour, fifty hours to con- stitute a week's work, and the contras tors to pay fare when they. are sent to work out of town. The rate last year was thirty-five cents an hour, A man about twenty-five years old, well-dressed In a dark blue sult, gray golf cap. threw himeelf In front of a Lehigh Valley freight train at Yates ville, a suburb. lle was instantly killed, . Calvin B. Reedy, employed at the Reading Hardware Plant, Reading, since it was established fifty-five years ago, wae stricken with apoplexy at his home there and died in a few minutes. Laura, wife of George Huston, of Walnutport, thirty-eight years old, died of apoplexy, with which she was stricken while calling at the home of friends, GERMAN REPLY T0 UNITED STATES Is a Firm Reiteration of the Retaliation Plan. SELF-DEFENSE MEASURE — Points Out With Great Emphasis Big Traffic In Arma Between This Coun. try and Allies—Papers Character ize Reply As Satisfactory. Berlin, via Amsterdam.—The text of the German reply to the United States’ protest against the submarine block- man claim that her action is a legiti- mate retaliation against English methods, In tone the answer is especially only afte: English violation of (he cepted principles of international law.” to be “In accord with the States that it is in a avoid misunder: ralty announced by the German Adn Reference is made to the which, it is stated, ac “Measure Of Seif-Defense.” “This action is in ro way a measure directed against the commerce of neu trails,” it SAYER, i measure of Germany by her vital interests against England's methods of warfare.” It is stated that Germany at “but represents sole iy a self-defense imposed on warfare and agreed at the outset of the war to ratify the principles of the don, Its Cermany has declaration of Lon pointed out that until today permitted the transpor from Denmark # ough she bas always : been in o tion to prevent it. Germany ilso subscribes to the nots of the United States to Enziand on December 29, protesting against Brit ish interference with The ship wil belmina’s cargo of foodstuffs is re ferred to as a flagrant breach of inter national law ¥ Germany is de American ping. holding up of the off from “silent or both as regards conditions and actual con: while Great Britain is fared to be ments, supplied with both.” As To Traffic In Arms. “The German Government,” explain “feels Itself obliged y point being carried on between American firms and many's enemies. Germany fully com prehends that the practice of right and sor matters absolutely at and in violation of neu the neutrals are the discretion of the neutral volve no faraiad ioral oil because Germany feels legitimate commerce rights are severe present achieved no, or only In gignificent results while they are mak- ing unlimited use of their carrying on contraband traffic with Obliged To Take Step. it is pointed out that neutrals have the right, which they should exercise, in arms, with Ger The note then con trade, capecially many's enemies cludes: “In view of this situation, meny, after zix months of patient waiting, sees herself obliged {o answer Great Britain's murderous method of naval warfare with sharp counter meseures. I Great Hritain in her fight against Cermany summons hun ger as an ally for the purpose of im posing upon a civilized people of 70, 006.000 the choice between destitution and starvation or submission to Great Britain's commercial will, then Ger many today is determined to take up the gauntiet and appeal to similar allies” or Satisfactory, Bay Papers. All the German newspapers charac terize the German reply ax eminently gatisfnctory to the nation. Great interest has been aroused by a statement written by Count von Reventlow, the naval expert and critie, ———— TO FIGHT PLAGUE IN HAY ANA, # Measures To Be Adopted Approved By Surgeon General Blue, Washington, D. C.--Surgeon General Blue, of the Public Health Service, ap proved measures for fighting a bubonic plague outbreak in Havana susgested by cable by Surgeon Glegorio Gulteras, who wae sent from Key West to in vestigate. There have been three hue man cases of the plague reported, all of them ending fatally, according to the dispatch from Surgeon Guiterns. tLopyrignt) in which he declares that, if anything Government has been too con I't ¢ shipments of wi apone to our referred to by the “have opinion In Germany with dee; f Govern filled | ! enen ment,” says Reventlow, i publle indiguation and bitterness against th { United States Statistics of shipments sh not justified in speakin { of friendly relation: Not Safe Without Convoys. United | United | ¢ amount ol i Germans are these He declares that unless { States ships are escorted by States warships submarine command | made responsible for | thelr safety i ers cannot be he Tageblatl characterizes re- | ply as "ealmly excellent ocument the nots Lat neithe ita leaders will give way In weakly complianre or fear, az pleinly is hoped in Washing MOST COSTLY OF ALL WARS. 0.000.000.0000 a Year the Cost To the Allies. he countries fighting ageingt Germany, Austria and Turkey have thrown strength field To maintain this twolhirds up to the present time only a third of their into the force and to into ($10 bring the will cost fea aetion 2 600. 000 000 fa600) 0030) Dri) This announcement was made in the House of Commons by David Lloyd of the exchequer, i George, chancellor who, with Winston Spencer Churchi first lord of the admiralty, gave the Hritish public perhaps a closer view machinery behind the ! struggle than any that has been af: forded since the outbreak of the war # Mr. Churchill declared amid chee: ing that Great Britain finally bad de cided to clamp on every ounce of sea pressure (o choke off German's food supply in retaliation for the German submarine policy, while Mr. Lloyd: Ceorge drew additions] cheering by a reference to loans to countries, which he sald, expecied to throw in their lot with the Allies. These countries the { Chanvellor did not name. It was the first time that a reference was made in Parliament of such expectations tof the great NOTED EX-OUTLAW DEAD, i a | Frank James, Among Last Of James Gang, Succumbs To Apoplexy. Excelsior Springs, Mo. — Frank | James, one of the last surviving mem. | i bers of the notorious James gang, died | on his farm near here. James, who | was 74 years old, had been in 11] health several monthe, and was stricken with | | apoplexy early today. One of the last | i members of a notorious robber band whose almost unparalieled career of | erime during the Civil War and the unsettled period thet followed kent the people of a dozen States in terror, Frank James had been living the life of a quiet farmer for more than 50 years DIES AFTER B59.DAY FAST Tailor Tried Starvation For Stomach | Trouble. Palo Alo, Cal--