THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Sept. 20, 1914,
Allies captured Souain.
Belgians retook Lanaeken.
Germans brought big siege guns
up to Antwerp.
Russians took Jaroslav and be-
gan bombardment of fortress of
Przemysl.
General Hindenburg began move-
ment against Grodno, Russian Po-
land,
Germans defeated by Russians
near Sandomierz.
Serbs defeated Austrians near
Novi-Bazar.
German cruiser Koenigsberg dis-
abled British cruiser Pegasus in
Zanzibar harbor.
Six British ships taken by Ger-
man cruiser Emden.
Austrian torpedo boat sunk at
Pola.
German merchant cruiser Cap
Trafalgar sunk by the Carmania.
Sept. 21, 1914,
Germans bombarded
forts.
Antwerp
Allies took Massiges and Mesnil
between Reims and Argonne.
Serbs defeated Austrians
Kroupani, but evacuated Semiin.
at
Russians took Dubiecko and sur
rounded General Dankl's army.
German cruiser Emden sank Brit.
ish steamer Clan Matheson.
Japanese aviators wrecked two
forts at Tsingtau.
German official statement of de-
struction of Louvain issued.
French foreign office protested
to neutrals on bombardment of
Reims cathedral.
Russia issued its Orange Book.
Sept. 22, 1914.
Germans captured Craonne,
German right turned between
Peronne and St. Quentin.
Austrians defeated on the Drina.
Australians seized German wire
less station on island of Nauru,
Germans repulsed in attack on
fort in Voi district, Africa.
German submarines sank British
cruisers Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue
in North sea.
Sept. 23, 1914,
Germans bombarded Verdun,
Allies advanced
Lassigny.
Russians took Wislok,
Cossacks raided Czenstochowa.
Russian cruiser Boyar sank Ger.
man cruiser and two torpedo boats.
left wing near
British aviators dropped bombs
on Zeppelin plant at Dusseldorf.
Sept. 24,
French took Peronne.
1914,
Varennes captured by Germans.
Russians again occupied Soldau.
Russian advanced guard arrived
before Cracow.
Germans defeated at Subin.
British troops landed near Lae
shan, China,
Germans at Schuckmannsberg,
Africa, surrender,
Two Austrian torpedo boats and
ond destroyer sunk by mines in
Adriatic,
German cruiser
barded Madras.
Anglo-French fleet bombarded
Cattaro.
Canada’s contingent
men sailed,
German aviators dropped bombs
on Ostend.
Emden bom.
of 32,000
nn
Sept. 25, 1914,
Allies attacked Germans at St
Quentin, but were repulsed,
Germans advanced southeast of
Verdun.
Snow halted campaign in Alsace,
Russians occupied Czyschky and
Felstyn.
Population of Cracow fled.
Serbs and Austrians fought bat.
tle near Zvorkni.
Australian force tock German
New Guinea,
Kronprinz Wilhelm sank British
steamer Indian Prince.
Belgian and German aviators in
duel over Brussels,
Germans again shelled Reims
cathedral,
Formal complaint of German
atrocities filed in Washington.
There are over 2.500 women
mercial “drummers” in
States,
com
the United
The Library.
From that waste welter of endless
space and time, the dome of a library
shuts us in to the warm little world of
literature, charged with human
thought and feeling. . . . The good,
the true and the beautiful are some
thing real and ascertainable Paul
Shorey.
Daily Thought.
Nothing but the harmony of friend
ship soothes our sorrows; without its
sympathy there is no happiness on
earth. Mozart.
18 FUSES FOUND
ON THE SANT" ANNA
U. S. Consul Reports Many Ex-
plosions Occurred on Ship.
CARRIED NO MUNITIONS
Fabre Liner
Ocean—Vessel
Was On Fire
Had 1,700
Reservists Aboard, But
ried No Munitions.
in Mid.
italian
Car.
Washington,
in hold No. 2
Anna were
that veasel,
New York
High expolsives founa
of the Fabre liner
the of the fire
which was bound fr
to Mars with 1,
mostly Italian reservists
Walter H. Schulz,
Azores Islands, cabl
on the matter to the
He that
Anna arrived at Pon
Thursday
cause
ro
ellles 76 3
Consul at St
ed a re
State De
BAYS the Sant’
to Garda
of
del
evening Officers the
reported to him that
ember 12, at
in hold No
assorted
of the
with
baggage
ship's
were
officers $181
found and tha
explosions
Passengers Transferred At
Mr
Sea.
Schulz reports that 60
, Most ly women, ch
men, were tras
vessel Ancons
The Consuls dispatch
Anna as 1,100 miles
the
1 on Septem
when fire w
fighting
AMme 1
Cane i
Crew wis
Ancona
extinguishing
from the dispatch
Explosives Smuggled Aboard.
Navy Department
that
Officials of the
the opi
were
nion
guise of
uld easily
identi
they
aboard as legitin
It is understood tha
Schul
of
agents and those
z will be
Jas tice
of th
case at New York
Carried No Munitions.
The Sant’ Anna
on
and
Septem
Marseill i
class, 44 second«
ngers J
cans were |RMOons
With few exceptions
w wer
ered from
United States Qhe
stuffs cargo, but
No munitions
BRYAN MAY GO ABROAD.
Takes Under Consideration Proposal
That He Act As Peace Envoy.
Washington. William J. Bryan an
nounced that he had taken under ad-
visement a suggestion from editors of
foreign-language newspapers publish
ed In the United States that he make
a trip to Europe as a private peace
envoy to the warring powers
In & statement to a
the editors, who, headed by Dr. Wil
liam Fargo, had urged him to under
take the task, Mr. Bryan indicated
that he might at least visit
European countries in the hope of
finding there information to aid Amer.
fca in “the maintaining of neutrality
that
war.”
provokes rather
spokesman of any special group,
as “a representative of the peace sen-
cludes the vast majority
ple.”
F.BOATS OUT OF SERVICE.
Orders Submarines On the
Shelf For Examination,
Daniels
Washington. —8ecretary Daniels or
dered all submarines of the F-4 type
out of commission until a thorough
examination of them can be
of the board of inquiry investigating
the sinking of the F-4 at Honolulu on
March 25, which ascribes the disaster
to a battery explosion.
and F-2 will probably be sbrought
under convoy to the Mare Island Navy
Yard for examination,
BUBONIC PLAGUE IN u. 8.
—
Experts On Hand To Prevent Spread
At New Orleans.
Washington. Confirmation of re.
ports that a case of true bubonic
plague had been discovered at New
Orlrans was announced by the Public
Health Service officials here do not
once to the service experts to take
every preeaution to prevent its spread.
Halth Service officiale here do not
fear an epidemiz will result at New
Orleans,
tILopyright
LINER HESPERIA
GLOSED INGID
Mine Sank Ship.
The Outlook For
Of
2 Friendly Settle.
With Ger.
many Now Deemed Most
ment Difference
Favorable.
Fragments Not Preserved.
has
Heape
nts of
been officers
HAW frag
No one
rian
a torpedo”
subn
as is known the fragments
Had the
fragmenta it
ascertain
on deck
however, Saw a arine,
were not preserved officers
the
poss ible
part of a torpedo
presery ed would
have been to
whether they
a mine
In the case of the Nebraskan, frag
ments metal preserved and
were submitted to an expert commis.
of the Navy Department here.
of that board has never
been made public, but it is known that
the board decided the fragments were
The question did
important as Germany
admitted that the Ne
braskan had been torpedoed. It is
likely. therefore, that the theory of
the Hesperian having struck a mine
will be accepted unless some positive
not now in
were
or
of
were
sion
not become
subsequently
nee to the contrary,
i= obtained
evide
sight,
Differences Disappearing.
The friendly settlement by
United States and Germany of
of the Hesperian and
the
the
the
that
Officials do not discount the state.
attributed to Count
the German Ambassador,
New York, to the effect
This expectation is sup-
the statement of officials
two weeks
ported by
tion of an ultimatum between the
United States and Germany in the dis.
pute over the Arabic.
tided over a break in the case of the
Lasitania, and it is expected that in
Germany's next note on the Arabie
she will clear the way for a settle
ment of that issue.
CE
PROF. THAYER A SUICIDE.
Body Of the Dean Of Marvard Law
School Found In River.
Boston.—The body of Prof. Ezra
Ripley Thayer, dean of the Harvard
Law School, was found floating in the
Charles River. He had been missing
two days. Medical Examiner Me
Grath said it was a case of suicide,
Dean Thayer, who was born at Mil
ton, N. H.,, In 1866, had been under
the care of a physician for some time,
AMERIGAN CONSULS
MAY LEAVE MEXIGD
State Department Notifies Them
fo Be Ready.
AMERICAN CITIZENS WARHED
Secretary Lansing lssues
ary
Precaution
instructions—Villa's Repre
sentative
Announces His
Surprise.
sent.”
Consuls May Leave.
AR BOOD As
withdrawn th
in the opinion
for the consuls
ere will be
of h officials
to remain, but it
igh here,
Was
leave, discretion being
consuls
The
vested in the
hemselves,
notifications have extended
consuls in Torreon, Chihuahua, Her
mosillo, Guayamas, Nogales and Ju
arez, all of which are in the territory
controlled by Villa. It is expected
that before another week or two most
of the Americans will have withdrawn,
as latest telegrams to the department
tonight indicated a general exodus
At the Villa Washington agency new:
of the department's action was
ceived with unconcealed surprise and
| resentment Enrique CC. Llorente,
Villa's representative, announced that
re
the State Department
prise and inquiring
of the United States
expressing sur
75,867 BRITISH KILLED.
Total Army Losses In War To August
21, 381,983.
London. Official announcement was
made in the House of Commons that
{the total of British war casualties up
ito August 21 was 381,983 officers and
‘men killed, wounded or missing.
| Detailed figures of the casualties
are announced as follows:
i Killed and died of wounds Officers,
4,966; other ranks, 70,992
Wounded -- Officers, 9.973;
ranks, 241,086,
Missing Officers, 1,501; other ranks,
53.466.
These figures refer to the army
other
POTATO IS 30 YEARS OLD.
Grocery Dealer Carries It In Pocket
As Rheumatism Cure.
Alton, 1l.--A potato, hard and dry
as wood, and shrunken to the ize of
a walnut, is the treasured pocket plece
of Patrick Downes, a grocer, of Belle
street, Alton, who carried it for 30
years and believes it has kept rheu.
matism away. He was a sufferer from
rheumatism when, at a friend's advice,
he began to carry the potato, which
was then a good-sized one.
RS MONEY y fant
©
whore gro
05 i reckl ve and sppro ve your ies
KE. without a eent depois
you wisi,
Eva Doe cpl «
We furnis Whi the highest grade bieyels
bicycle. DO NOT
irersgusrantes behd Ap
cle or & pair of tires frown angor
unheard
UY a bicy
above factory out,
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SECOND
it prow at prices ran
ho. BRAKES, =
' g= The regular vetail price of these
fhres io BIG 00 poy pod, but Lo Enlro
Buca swe weill sell you a » mole » fur BBY {cash
With order 84 ps pu
Malte, Yachs or Glsss will not let the alr out,
A hundred thousas year.
very
ridin
Yew How n ; cash discount of
you sot d FULL CASH WITH ‘ORDER %
sending i% al i if “ INKS '
snlisfariory 4
S pair { those 13 7ew. 3
Shams oa ire ¥
IF YOU NEED TIRES
write for o
Ji >
2 NOT WAIT 50
when yor ive our hesutife
jog ue ans 8 ie 19 OUT Spe
Wendl the high
Ve are satisfied with
ORE sell OUT Bley cles U
the day resvived
DEALERS, y«
ou trade by on
free
#, repairs
80
pods
A SAMPLE PAIR
Motice the thick rubber tread
“A' and puncture strips‘ ‘8’
and “D7 slso rim strip "MH"
to prevent rim cutting. This
tire will outiast any other
make -SOFT, ELASTIC and
EASY RIDING.
cycle or poly
w Lhe new and wonder!
JIATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
FOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Youth Swings On Rope Into Creek and
~Child's
Saves Family
Killed Under
Drowns Warning Cough
in Fire—Man
Train
their
brothe
the bani bu
he was
The
» and Gordor
swim
body recovered
t steps towards the
hting
an ordinan
revocation o
Reading wer
there when was
council authorizing
ire of the Metropolitan Elec
Light Company's franchise
street conduits aggregating $1.
000,000 he franchise was granted in
1911, and but sixty per cent. of the
city
the forfeitu
to
tie franchise would mean a
to the com-
to light Reading perpetuaily
Mrs. Milton aM. Buss and Mrs James
other in
in coming down
Mijton Buss made
a misstep and In the fall fractured a
Precisely at the same time
mrs. Watters fell down the cellar steps
The coughing of a child saved Mrs.
McCoy and her four children
the secondstory aflame, with
barely time to get the family out.
Thomas Patrick, thirty-eight
old. while attempting to jump a fast
freight near the Lehigh Valley depot,
fell under the wheels and was killed,
Scores of passengers witnessed the ac
cident. Women fainted and children
screamed,
Gertrude Brennan, of Bridgeport,
died of typhoid fever, just seventeen
hours after her brother, Thomas Bren.
nan, married Miss Mary Kelley, who,
because of the girl's lliness postponed
their wedding trip.
One of the most startiing grafts in
revolutionary grafting has been accom.
plished by Prof. Henry G. Walters, of
Langhorne, is a combination of roses,
privet, biackberry, cedar and Iliac
grafted to a young peach tree, which
are showing a healthy growth,
Walking In her bare feet through a
field near her home Theresa Eckered,
eleven, of Nanticoke, was bitten by a
snake and physicians who are attend.
ing the child report that her condition
is eritical, The girl's left leg is
swollen to twice its natural size,
FOR COMPENSATION
New State Board Will Consider Work.
men's System Soon—Name
Referees Early
ANIAE®!
examine
funds
for applica
schedul of
drawn up
and Colun
the workings of
The
lovers
I8
the
forms
and
now being
States
for vy
Or emjy
miume are
Leads
Details of the manner in which the
State is protecting the cattle feeds
d within Pennsylvania from frauds,
i= shown by the report just made
Secretary of Agriculture N. B. Critch
field by James W. Kellogg, chief
chemist of the Department. Pennsyl
| vania is leading the States in this
work and the frauds which were so
extensive a few years ago are being
{ gradually driven out. It iz estimated
that 600,000 tons of feeding stuffs are
being sold in the To
check up on this immense quantity the
agents of the Department, who are
under George G. Hutchison, collected
1,300 samples in 327 cities and bor.
oughs in sixtyvone counties during
11914. In addition 236 special samples
were analyzed for citizens under the
i fee system. All of analyses were for
{a carefully prepared method of deter
mining values. Peanut hulls, weed
{seeds and excessive amounts of oat
{hulls were found, while some guar
| antees were discovered be worth
less. Arrests were made in these
cases. However, the report states,
The number of deficiencies was less
ithan ever before noted, which shows
! more care in guaranteeing and label
ing.” There ig room for improvement
in some of the socalled molasses
feeds, some of the seeds not having
been carefully cleaned. The poultry
feeds were also discovered not to
{have been as clean as desirable, al.
i though they showed an improvement,
Of the 12300 samples 1.220 samples
were found with guaranteed analyses,
a larger proportion guaranteed than
before. The number of deficiencies
ran small and in some cases the guar
antees were exceeded.
————
Farmer Congress Delegates.
Announcement was made at the
Executive Department, that Governor
Brumbaugh had selected a delegate
from each of the counties of the State
to attend the Farmers’ National Con.
gress at Omaha, the last week of this
month. The delegates will make re
porte on advancement of agriculture
in this State and made observations
on the statements of what other
in Feed Protection.
a0}
10
State every vear
LE
States are doing.