THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK Nov. 8, 1914, Allies pained plateau of Vregny. Germans continued attacks be- tween North sea and Lys and made gains in Argonne. Belgians gained at Dixmude and Ypres. Russian cavalry province and destroyed near Pleschen. Russians entered Wirballen. Przemysl again attacked. Russians took Koprikoi menia. Two Dardanelles forts destroyed by bombardment. Turks sank Greek steamer. Germany mourned loss of Tsing: tau but praised bravery of garri- son. invaded Posen railroad in Ar German cruiser Geier interned at Honolulu. Beyers' rebels defeated in South Africa. Nov. 9, 1914. Ypres set afire by German bom bardment. Fighting on the Aisne. Russians occupied Goldapp, Ger mans still withdrawing. Germans won victory near Wyschtuniz lake, taking 4,000 pris oners. Serbians drove back Austrians near Shabats. Russians took Turkish fort near Erzerum and won at Koprikoi on River Araxes. ports. Russians bombarded Bosporus Nov. 10, 1914, Allies advanced between Ypres and Armentieres and between Reims and Berry-au-Bac. Russians drove German right wing back toward Mazurian lakes, and occupied Miechow. Serbians Austrians defeated near Losnitza. All allies issued formal tion of war on Turkey. declara- de- cruiser German cruiser Emden stroyed by Australian Sydney at Cocos island. Russian fleet sank four Turkish transports. Kari H. Lody shot Tower of London, as spy in Nov. 11, 1514, Germans took Dixmude, crossed Yser canal, captured allies’ first line west of Langemarck and drove them out of St. Eloi. Allies reoccupied Lombaertzyde and repulsed Germans near coast. Russians attacked Cracow de- fenses. Austrians pursued Serbians on Shabats-Losnitza line. British torpedo boat Niger sunk by German submarine near Dover. Japanese torpedo boat sunk by mine at Kiaochow. Conspiracy discovered in Con stantinople against Germans and Young Turks; leaders shot. Nov. 12, 1914, Both sides claimed successes in battie along the Yser. Russians captured Johannisburg, East Prussia Siege of Przemys! resumed. Austrians won a Pruth. Serbians routed Austrians who tried to cross Danube near Seman. dria. Turkish pled. Mass meeting in London to sup port Kitchener's appeal for tem. perance. victory at cruiser Goeben crip- © Nov. 13, 1914, Germans broke through British lines at Ypres. Allies advanced on coast to Bix schoote. Battle between Ypres. Austrians evacuated central Ga licia, Russians taking Tarnow, Jas lo and Krosno. Germans faced about and ad vanced on Poland. Bomb in Enver Bey's palace kills five German officers. Two more Rockefeller founda. tion relief ships sailed. aviators near His Opinion. “Mamma, did you say the baby came from heaven?’ “Yes, why?" “l don’t think he came, | think he was fired. How could the angels sing with him puttin’ up that holler all the time?" An Impossible Experiment. “Why don’t you let the other fellow do the worrying?” “1 try to,” replied Mr. Growcher, “But he comes around and worries mo.” 3 DIE IN FIRE 12 ARE MISSING Fifty Injured When Crowd is Trapped. GIRLS LEAP OUT WINDOWS Old Brick And Wooden Structure Burns So Rapidly That Most Of The Men And Girls Have No Chance To Escape. New York.—-Thirteen men and girls lost their lives in a fire that destroyed an old four-story brick factory building in the section of Brooklyn. A search of the raing ia expected to uncover the bodies of 12 other victims, eight them girls, who were reported as misy- Of the 40 and wooden Williamsburz oO injured in hospitals nd a vcore more were less seriously burned and bruised The building was occupied by anufacturing concern and firms manufacturing clothing totaled third had be di ed for employes normally 200 than i before the but more ed en fire sta half noliday Owners Arrested. After a preliminary |i uthoriti Mrs. Ed of the buil ted on criminal egligence witho bail Diamond in the building at but claimed M1 the time gnoranece as tu separate ations fix the re f { © Thes ars district at part ee ged Main Stairway Blocked a CANQGYS cwiftly shroo: from or chaft first streams of red tt water ent when the floor diss roof coliapsed. The soon after fell one by one The ter was the worst factors slant of the burne« lose o rk since the Triangle Waist Company wa on everal year ago wit Hives But One Fire-Escape. The fames spread for most of building by stairs The The sO rapidly the W nd the and was impossible only jammed fire CRCARP* became flames and forced them bodies recovered from the rins, taken from the were found charred out recognition hanging beyond death in the helpless spectators BOMB FOR CONSULATE. Third Attempt To Wreck That Of italy In New York Fails. New York.—The third attempt with- in a year to wreck the offices of the Italian ConsulGeneral, ¢. Fara Forni, with a bomb was made Saturday. The a nearby roof, struck the short distance away from the build. ing, exploded wit ha roar that was heard for blocks, ripped up the cobble. stones, rocked the neighborhood and filled the gtreel with a rain of broken but caused slight damage other wise and failed to injure anyone, The Consul-General and his staff were in their offices at the time with 150 Italian reservists who were presumably seek. ing to return home, pavement a glans, DANIELS’ PAPER BURNED OUT. Second Fire In Plant Of Raleigh News and Observer. Raleigh, N. The entire plant and building of the News and Ob server, owned by the Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniele, was destroyed by fire. The large printing establishment of EM. Uzzell & Co. is also a complete lose, Several small stores are either partially or completely destroyed. W. H. Bagley, business manager of the News and Observer, was painfully but not seriously injured by a falling piece of machinery while attempting to get books out of the building. OS A SA BOY KILLS BROTHER IN PLAY. Children Get Gun In Absence Of Their Parents. Wytheville, Va.—Dewey, 10-yearwold son of Marco Umberger, a farmer who lives west of Wytheville, shot and in stantly killed his brother Roscoe, 14 years old. The boys were playing with the gun. Mr. and Mrs. Umber ger were not at home at the time, rr A BEST YIRGINIA TOBACCO \ ri i OF QUALITY ed From Here and There. Following the purchase of the Sha Mullen Eagle, New that a foun recently by it J. H. & C. K was announced men and bovs, would be constructed in another portion of town, the forme: Mullen plant being dismantled to make way for a =ilk mill Harry Nuss, of Norristown, was elected constable of the Seventh Ward as a Republican and defeated as con & Democrat At the primaries one wrote his name on the ballot and it was returned to the County Com missioners, although he is not a resi dent of the First Ward a rabbit, Michael Casper, of Mahanoy City, accidentally discharged his and was killed instantly forty years old, and was out to try his new fowling piece the first time this season. John Crone, who was with him, had three fingers blown off by the discharge of the weapon poses and J1500 for improving a school house. Two loans of $10.000 for improving the water system and $6,000 for a new topographical survey were passed, Seth G. Baldwin, a prominent farm er, of Wattsburg, placed a shotgun to hig breast and pulled the trigger. He died instantly. He was sixty vears old, and despondent. Harry Brown, a motorman for the Reading Transit & Light Company, wag killed almost instantly when he was caught between (wo trolley cars in the eastern section of Reading. John M. Franey, fifty years old, was injured perhaps fatally while at work at the Carpenter Steel Works’ plant, Heading, his head being split open by a flying hammer. A tal automobile accident Pearl e only child of OCC ur red at JUurg when Gre years old Charles instantly noble, five Mr. and Mrs illed automobile owned by der, a Car th h i was the Grenoble by Nicholas Schne The Cornieline OBrien when struck hotelman, of Shamokin was driven by ‘eter Febig had adjusted a fuse to a load of powder in a breast at Luke Shamokin, when fuse ignited, causing the blast plode as the miner was bending over it He was blown mans Away and burned fatally the 10 ex feet fatalls hunter in the He is about age Samuel Church, was & gunner and Martin Weaver was perhaps shot by an unidentified thickets near Highmont twenty-five of Kinsey, of near Geyers shot in the groia by badly hurt Years Fire Destroyed the erecting and pattern shops of the Weimer Machine Works, Lebanon, causing a loss mated at 3100000. The concern was rushed with orders and one hundred men will thrown out employ ment as a result of the fire ent] be of Mt. Penn approved {wo loan bills, one for $20000 for sireet improve mente and the other for $12.000 | school improvements The i was the only district to vote favorably | frape. borough in upon woman's suf | Gardners at the country home of | Richard V. Mattison, Jr., Ambler, just | have completed planting 1.600 hya {bulbs and 1,000 “pheasant eves,” all | having been imported fromm Holland Gunners fired the heavily wooded fought the fire and succeeded in check: {ing it. {in the path. On the poultry farm of Willard Cole, Quakertown, a pen of ten single | comb white Leghorns have completed 2.015 eggs, an average of 201.5 eggs per bird. John J. Keller, of Sunbury, more than twenty years ggo lost a pocket book in one of his felde, ednes. day he found it while turning under some wheat stubbles. There was a silver dollar in it Stephen Magura, Mt. Carmel, was admitted to the Shamokin Hospital in a dying condition after being run over by a locomotive at the Richards Colliery PHILA. MAN HEADS PA. PRISON BOARD Commission Created By 1915 Legisia ture Organized After Confab With Governor, Harrisburg The Pennsylvania State Prison Labor Board, created by ihe last Legislature supervise the work of prisoners in State penal and reformatory institutions, was organ ized here after 8 conference with Governor Brumbaugh at the Executive Mansion. The board was to arganized by elect ing Jobkn E. Hanifen, Philadelphia, representing the inspectors of the | Eastern Penitentiary, as chairman; Colonel C. A. Rook, Pittsburgh, repre enting inspectors of Western Peni tentiary, vicechairman, and John D Dorris, Huntingdon, representing Board of Managers of the Huntingdon Reformatory, secreiary. In addition to the Governor, the organization meet ing was attended by Representative Warres C. Grabam, Philadelphia, who presented the bille establishing the | commission, and Joseph IL. Kun, | Deputy Attorney General, represent {ing the Attorney General Under the law, the board lan appropriation of $75,000 is given for | for establishment of the system. The office will be located in Philadelphia { The supplies are to be sold only to | State institutions and prisoners are to ibe paid from ten cents to fifty cents | per day. Three fourths of the proceeds of labor are to be retained for relief of dependents of prisoners, and, where there are no dependents, (0 be put to {the credit of the prisoners | eredit of prisoners is to be paid, one | third three months later and one-third | six months later. | At present only a smail portion of | the inmates can be employed, but it i= expected that the pew system will do | away with idleness and also benefil the prisoners. Contracts For State Road Building. | Contracte for three State aid road | building operations were let by High way Commissioner Cunningham. Pugh Hubbard, Philadelphia, were awarded the concrete construction work on Wynnewood Road, in Narberth, Mont. gomery county, at $5610.53; M. Ben. nett & Sons, Indiana, 5.808 feet of water-bound macadam road in Hick. ory Township, Lawrence county, at $14,916.65, and two brick block con- tracts aggregating 4,064 feet in Marion 1 $16,639.74. The low bidders received | the award in each case, Chor Two Electric Firms | Two elec i "Re ampany, f tered for caste ount; One 141 the Fan { Northern las tric with of £5.000, Clara County fices Lancaster, ¢ OrpoOraiors at capital hn H Ware, NM Ware and W. E Edwards, Lancaster The other was the Elizabeth ship Company to Elizabeth Township, Lancaster officers Pittsburgh and capital of $5,000 incorporators are 8 Gilmore. £. T. Noble and Hears Evans, Pittsburgh (Mher Tow: Electric operate i wits its charters issued were Leeland Surgical Company, Conshohocken John W SAUTE: appliances, $100,000; Norristown capita treasurer, Detir; Vetter and Castle, women's York: capital, $10.000 Charles H. Castle Wagner phia; capital Greenblatt cloth treasurer ing, Philade JOO. treasurer, Lots Baking Company $75 Williams Harrieburg liame, Orange, N. J Wayne Auto Transportation pany, Hawley: capital, $5000 urer, H. FF. Zerby and Wallower, Insurance treasurer, Ernest Wi Con reas Opinion In Child Law Attorney General Brown sent to the Department of Labor and Industry his formal opinion on the ruling that em ployment certificates now held bs minors shall be valid until the holders are sixteen vears old Mr. Brown says that the law shouid not be construed =o as to produce a re sult to the injury and disadvantage of those whom it war intended to benef’ “The true legislative intent.” says he “was not to bring about sudden chaos in the lives of these children and thei: parents, and it is unwise to apply the law =o ns to produce such an undes able condition.” In closing, he save the situation calls for “the application of a broad, administrative discretion.’ [and that minors holding the certifi eates referred to “are subject to all | other provisions of the Act of 1817. | such as the compulsory attendance &t continuation schools and the prohib ! tion of employment of more than fifty. one hours per week, including schoo! | attendance.” Rossiter Elected. Governor Brumbaugh announced the "appointment of Uriah P. Rossiter, of | Erie, an additonal Judge of Erie Leounty, to serve until the first Mon ' day in January. Mr. Rossiter was elected Judge on Tuesaday, to fill the vacancy caused by | the death of Judge Gibson. {
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