THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK ——— Oct. 11, 1614, Heavy fighting near Soissons. German attacks in Craonne re- gion repulsed. Allies won in the center. Montenegrins defeated Austri- ans near Kalenovitch. Russians swept through Buko- wina. Austrians rushed help to Prze mysl. French fleet sank two Austrian torpedo boats. German aviators killed three Paris with bombs. Japanese aviators bombs in Tsingtau. Russian cruiser Pallada torpe- doed and sunk in Baltic, in dropped Oct. 12, 1914, Germans occupied Ghent. Belgian government moved Havre, France. Battles at Lasigny and Lens. to Cavalry fighting near Lille. siege of from Ga- Russians abandoned Przemys! and retreated licia. Six Paris. more bombs dropped on Oct. 13, 1914, Germans moved on Ostend and Bruges. Lille, Hazebrouck and Ypres oc- cupied by Germans. Fierce fighting at Dixmude, Gen- eral von Kluck trying to turn al lie' left wing. Germans made dash for War saw, Montenegrins defeated Austri- ans near Sarajevo. Detachment of Boers under Col onel Maritz rebelled and martial law was proclaimed throughout South Africa. French routed German aviators near Paris. Oct. 14, 1914, Belgian army left Ostend and joined allies in the field. Allies reocupied Ypres and French gained near the border. German battalion trapped in ca nal in Lorraine. Germans occupied Bruges. Germans recaptured Lyck but advance on Warsaw was repulsed by Russians. back. Serbians beaten back in Bosnia. Russians in Galicia driven Cossacks brought down a Zeppe- lin near Warsaw. Oct. 15, 1914, Germans tock Ostend and Blan kenberghe on the North sea, and Thielt, Daume and Esschen. Allies retook Estaire. French recaptured Altkirch and Muelhausen, German the French. Colonel Brits’ force in South Af rica captured 80 rebel Boers: General Botha took the field, British cruiser Yarmouth sunk German liner Markomannia. convoy taken by Oct. 16, 1914, Germans occupied Zeebrugge. First battle of Ypr s began. Re-enforced allied north wing swung in on Lille and retook Ar mentieres. Attempt of Germans to Dunkirk checked. Germans at St. Mihiel forced back toward Alsatian border. German-Austrian forces assumed the offensive between the Vistula and Galicia. Serbs and Montenegrins defcat. ed Austrians at Glasinatz, British cruiser Hawke sunk by German submarine. British and Japanese warships bombarded Tsingtau fort. reach Life of Big Guns, Guns with a bore of 12 inches or more can only fire 90 full charges. They are then considered to be worn out, and have to be sent to the foun. dry to have a new core inserted. The Sign. “1 wonder if the chestnut crop will be good this year?” “You can generally tell that by the fish stories.” Modern Life. “Formerly a girl took pride in ac , cumulating linen for her chest.” “Well?” “Now she collects a lot of grapho- phone records.”—Cincinnati Times Star, More Laws. “Why can’t | come to see you to morrow night?” “Don't blame me,” sald the beau tiful girl, “Our cook has the use of the parlor under the new domestic relations law.” ML BELGRADE HELD BY GERMANS Have Commenced Advance to Mountains. ONLY REAR GUARD FIGHTS Buigars Seem Wary As To Taking Risks—Apparently Not Yet Across Border—Greece and Rou. mania Inactive. London, — The Austro-Germans are now in full possession of Belgrade and the heights surrounding the city, and have begun an advance eastward to- ward the mountains which Ser- bians last year so stubbornly defended the against the Austrians According to a Berlin dispatch Bel bombardment which preceded the en- trance of the Teutons who spared the some were destroyed. city as far as possible, although private buildings Only Rear Guard Fights Now. For some time the to fight only to Serbians 10 come it Is expected, will have rear guards, whose duty it ia i i the their progress, for occasions—fall back the best opportunity In fact, front for Allies’ should which time the forces land ed at Saloniki have with the Serbian far any incu The Bulgarians, as as 18 } # vet made territory, and that they will hold until Au back 1 go with the tro Ikan au Bul ith the novement northward the Anglo ‘rench expedition, for to do so shells ports on ff, y, probably fol tely bring the of into their i Are Lil 8ea Russian troo; f f and « ther at Dedeaghatch Greece and Roumania Wait. Greece and Roumania remain spectators, although the toward the Allies Repre es of the Entente have furnish Greek entatiy Government with agreement be which, a free on concerning the Bul asserted, give deal not only should the Central aria and Germany it the Bulgar: with Serbia but with Greece as well Power win The fighting on the little me fronts ww no change Arie about after two fighting, in which, aecord- Britis} ituation. The Germans, heavy ing to the and French accounts, suffered a severe have for moment at to recaplure terri won from by the British of la Nauge They however, to have retaken from the French some of Souchez at Tha in Champagne reverse, the the I tor them south do east and Progress Against Dvinsk Slow. Field Marshal Hindenburg is operations although he of the Rus. not appear to ity than he was yon Dvinsk, amd, claime to have taken more two weeks of the ago and in flows and then the the tide the South Pripet river of battle Russians, attack and counter during the summer would change hands ia a question of de village. The the roads doubtless is for this Galicia First Aungiroermans, and where now it some isolated of NEW WIRELESS STATION. Wilson and President Of Guatemala Exchange Greetings. Washington. To commemorate the opening of high power radio station erected by the government of Guate- mala, at Guatemala City, messages of felicitation have been exchanged be tween President Wilson and the Presi dent of Guatemala via the Arlington and Key West naval siations. “The opening of the station is an important step in the increased efficiency of com- munication between the countries of this continent,” says the Navy Depart. ment announcement. TROOPS ON MOUNT OF OLIVES. Holy Land Converted By Turks Inte Military Training Ground. Paris. ~The Turks have transformed the Holy Land into a hugh military training camp, according to refugees who have arrived at Alexandria. All the convents in Jerusalem are now barracks, and thousands of recruits dally are drilled on the Mount of Olives and Samaria Plain by German officers, L THE CIGARETTE OF QUALITY BEST VIRGINIA TOBACCO WITHOUT ——————————— A — VALUABLE COUPON IN EACH PACKAGE BRIEFLY TOLD The Latest Gleanings From All Over the State. TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS in Kennett Square 10 Incinerated Fire-——Raise Men's Wages Per Cent.—Farmer Routs Highwayman, Falling from a baymow, Thomas Aten, a Zenith farmer, aged sixty-nine, died as the result of internal injuries In excellent health, Mrs Samuel Sipe, Cumberiand county's oldest resi dent, a friend of Molly 1034 birthday personal of the Doylestown arranging to get the business men in making course fit their busi Principal Ross, schools, operation of the commercial needs is co nea Having run away ard, seventeen-months-old son of D, P 8. Boyer, Midvale, walked across a railroad track and his right leg was cut off by a train. Lewis Martini and Joseph Nortini, after firing a shot in a breast at the Alaska collier, were blown many feet fatally injured. home of her son, J. J. Kelly, Pitts. burgh. Mrs. Kelly had resided in Pittaburgh seventy-five years, I. C. M. Ellenberger, superintendent who B AE Hutte chief ("vionel Joseph son, of police, head of the of the Pennsylvania recently resigned Harrisburg, will police department become Rtee] ported Company. re Railroad train : charge A. Wert, Mt. Carmel, the car hav the Wert from the machine yvivana Pennss 3 hed into an automobile ir r of 3 John leaping wrecked stalled on City ing Crossing near "ON escaped by which wa foundations Atlas Creek, digging the building of Martin's of eight ekeletons Workmen for a new Company, the Indians, One than the Ce ment skeletons of the seven feot earthed more long Finch threw a paper wrapped Mra N accidentally Guiley of Allentown, which on the hauled w orth in her diamonds rubbish pile, were and the The gems, dollars pshimen several hundred were re covered Miss Mary E. Morgan wa by a jury in the Blair County Court, at Altoona, of the charge of larceny preferred by John A. Fox, manager of an Altoona furniture company, by which she had been employed as book keeper for six years acquitted butcher, by Rn Jac obus of a gun Innerst, a at the point Jacob held up i ket in York, handed his small change, but A. Downs, a farmer, who followed him, slashed the road agent ‘across the face with his buggy whip, and the latter beat a hasty retreat into {a cornfield. over The stone tenement house on How ard Griffith's farm, Kennett Square, was destroyed by fire. It was occu pied by Arthur Atwell and his family of eleven, all of whom escaped in their night clothes, except the youngest child, Irving, aged three, which was burned to death. The eldest daughter, | Margaret, fifteen, was injured from Lancaster and York Lead In Sessions This Winter—Two In Phila. delphia. Harrisburg 11 wii farmers this winter, ac cording to the schedule which has been worked out by A. 1. Martin, director of | ins this being the maximum posseible under the indeed, almost the lz Pennsvivania have 378 institutes titutes, number tion allowed est since the institutes were organized in 1885 During the winter a number of observations will be made and it is possible that there will be some radical changes shortly, the funds are voted by the Legislature Lancaster and York counties, having the greatest number of farms, have the twelve being listed for eight are Berks Indiana, Montgomery, Craw. Bradford and Tioga will have six days each will have four days will have two each introduced provided most institutes, each. Those with { heater, ford, nine and Three counties seventeen count jes and Allegheny in the list six, although these counties are not associated with agri culture, Cambria, one of the big in- terior counties, has such a small num- ber of farms that it will have but two institutes, The movable institute schools, whick offer « more extended course in cer tain specialties than the institution, ! will be held in Columbia, Montour and { Cambria, beginning in January. ! It is probable that considerable at. ‘tention will be given to the institute { and all other educational work of the { Department of Agriculture by the new i Commission on Agriculture. { Sa | QConstrues Fifty Per Cent. Clause. have with usually 1WwWo, i General Brown decides that, though schoo! facilities are entirely too small, the pupile are quartered in a shack. Governor Brumbaugh granted a res. pite staying the execution of H. E. [to a hospital. Without showing the slightest emo- ition, Mrs. Catharine Stringfellow signed a plea of guilty of murder in | the second degree, thereby insuring | sneha the total number of votes cast for that office, yet not having received more than one-half of the total “num- ber of ballots cast within the political district,” the county of Erie, he is not entitled to be certified as the sole the week of October 11 to the week of November 8. J. B. Millard and Company, owner of limestone quarries in the vicinity of Annville, has announced a voluntary raise of 10 per cent. in wages, effective at once. Forty men will be added to the pay roll. {the same time, however, she made sure of her escape from the electric chair. Mrs. Stringfellow was charged with the murder of James A. Bowen in Chester on May 19, as the latter was leaving the home of Mrs. Charles Rostron, a widow, whom Mrs. String. fellow is alleged to have considered a rival for the affections of Bowen. general election in November. Judge Rossiter received a majority of the votes cast for Judge in Erie county ~only, but less than one-half the total number of ballots cast, and the Attor iney General decides that in this in. | stance the fifty per cent. clause must ibe construed as meaning more than | one-half the ballots. ! Meat Hygiene Law. { The fi: prosecution | meat hygiens } {against Jol Snyder the new ordered Altoona under been an | butcher, by th a L i tary vestock Sand Board. Snyder conducts a stand {in the Altoona market house and charged with exhibiting meat exposed to flies teriacarryving in- butchers purchasers to Veterinarian C. J. that it is a dangerous ary practice not (o screen is and other bac The 10 permit { handle meat, law also forbids Pros peg five | sects State i Marshall st and unnecess meat ates October 22 Arbor Day. Nathan C. Schaeffer, State Superin. {tendent of Public Instruction, in a i proclamation, designates Friday, Octo- | ber as the annual fall Arbor Day in Pennsylvania, and says “The Leg- islature has added the study of birds to the duties of Arbor Day. In these days hears much about national preparation for defense. Few have y Any adequate conception of the relent. less war which insects are waging against the farmer and the fruit grower Birds are our best allies ig | fighting these destructive enemies ae de, ane P. R. R. Awards Track Prizes Fifty-four hundred dollars as prizes for maintaining sections of track in { the best condition during the past year | were awarded by the Pennsylvanis | Railroad to supervisors and assistant | supervisors. The first or “Klondyke* prize, amounting to $800 for the super | visor and $400 for the assistant, award. | ed for maintaining the bes! section of {track in the past vear, was presented to C. Z. Moore, supervisor, and I. R 'R. Fleming, assistant supervisor, who have charge of the track between Dillervilie, Pa., and Harrisburg Suffragists Not To Accept Defeat Miss Hannah J. Patterson, State | chairman of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage party, in a forecast of what is to follow the vote on suffrage at the | polle in November, gave it as her opin [fon that if the amendment is carrieds, the future of suffrage will lie with the ° political views of the women them selves, while if the amendment is de feated the suffrage organization will be continued for the purpose of en deavoring to defeat every candidate who has opposed “the cause” at this time, Te — Y. MC. A In Small Towns. The State Committee of the Y. M C. A. recommended increase of the committee from thirty-three to forty five and provided for means to encour age association work in the smaller towns. Special work for boys was recommended,
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