ARR
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Nov. 15, 1914,
Allles drove the Germans across
the Yser.
Germans gained in the Argonne
region, and prepared defensive
lines from the North sea to the
Rhine.
Germans withdrew from Kalisz
and Weljun and were repulsed near
Cxenstochowo.
Russians reached Angerburg.
Turks occupied Kotur, Persia.
British troops landed in Basra
province.
Indian
Arabia.
troops occupled Turba,
Nov. 16, 1914,
Fighting in West checked by
snow and floods.
Russians checked in East Prussia
and driven back near Soldau and in
Russian Poland.
Cracow besieged.
Russians defeated by Turks near
Koprukeui.
British took Turkish camp at
Fao,
Nov. 17, 1914,
Allies gained ground on Yser be-
tween Armentieres and Arras.
Germans resumed bombardment
of Reims.
Great battle in Poland between
Vistula and Warthe rivers.
Germans fell back on line be-
tween Gumbinnen and Angerburg.
Austrians reached the Kolubara
river and captured 8,000 Serbians.
Turks checked Russians near
Fao and occupied Duzkuey.
German squadron bombarded Li-
bau.
Russian Black sea fleet attacked
Trebizond.
All aliens expelled from Frank.
fort.
Nov. 18, 1914,
took forest Bix-
French near
schoote.
Germans mined and blew up part
of Chauvoncourt.
Germans won near Cirey and in
the Argonne.
Russian advance
the Vistula and
back.
Battle fought at Soldau.
Russians advanced in East
sia.
Serbians and Montenegrins
fight near Trebinje forts.
Cardinal Mercier ‘appealed
America to help Belgians,
between
driven
guard
Warthe
Prus-
won
to
Nov. 19, 1814,
French retook Tracy-le-Val
were repulsed in the Argonne.
British bombarded Dixmude.
Russians were driven back be-
hind the Bzura river, but advanced
in East Prussia and Galicia.
Russians defeated Kurds in Per
sian Armenia.
French cruiser Waldeck-Rous-
seau sank Austrian submarine.
Names of Germans struck from
rolls of Legion of Honor.
but
Nov. 20, 1914,
French abandoned Chauvoncourt
British gained at Bixschoote.
French wrecked German earth
works and supply train near Reims.
Russians checked Von Hinden-
burg on Vistula-Warthe line and
won success near Lodz.
Russians took four towns in Ga-
licia and in East Prussia reached
the Mazurian lakes.
British house of commons voted
additional army of 1,000,000 men.
Nov. 21, 1914,
French captured heights at
Ornes and advanced in the Ar
gonne.
Russians took Przemys! trenches.
Turkish cruiser Goeben badly
damaged in Black sea.
French artillery stopped German
attacks in Woevre district,
Heavy fighting in Poland and at
Cracow.
Serbians fell back before Austri-
ans.
Allied aeroplanes bombarded
Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshafen.
Draft Riots.
The only notorious “draft riots” of
the Civil war took place July 13, 14,
15 and 16, 1863, ih New York city. It
is estimated that more than a thousand
men were killed, and property worth
$1,600,000 was destroyed in the four
days. The draft was resumed, how
ever, on August 19, and was completed
in ten days without resistance. There
were slight disturbances in Boston on
the night of July 15, in Portsmouth,
N. H, and in Holmes county, Ohio. In
Philadelphia and Chicago prominent
Unionists asked the president to post
pone the draft, and it was avoided in
Hlinois until the next year.
Baseball 4,000 Years Old.
It is now believed that Egypt is
the birthplace of the original ball
game. How it was played history does
not record Recent excavations made
near Cairo have brought to light a
number of small balls, some of leather
and others of wood, dating back to at
least 2000 B. C. These are the oldest
balls of this sort known,
Path to Woman's Love.
Of all the paths leading to a wom.
an's love, pity's the straightest.—
Beaumont and Fletcher,
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ANCONA CHARGES
DENIED BY AUSTAI
Declares Submarine Did Not
Fire Upon Lifeboats.
Washington Still Withholds Details.
Uneasiness Over Steamer's De-
struction Continues In
Official Circles.
Berlin.—The Austro-Hungarian Ad-
miralty officially announced that the
Italian steamship Ancona attempted to
escape at full speed after a warning
shot had been fired across her bow,
and that the vessel only stopped after
being shelled several times by an
Austrian submarine.
Given 45 Minutes To Leave.
The submarine commander, it is fur
ther allowed the Ancona’s
crew 45 minutes
asserted,
and to
fired on the lifeboats Is
issued by the Austro
after declaring
The statement
Admiralty,
that the foreign press had
“The submarine fired one shot
full speed, In ac
the
3
with the order issued by
Italian authorities, which
to flee or to sink
submarine
inued firing,
The
and cont
ursued
I
vessel stopped only
several times
Says Crew Took Boats.
UDINArine
“The
i on the
wndacious
Ope
FLYER TUMBLES INTO OCEAN
Hydroaerd
plane Turns Turtle.
Mass of the
which being ex
here prior to delivery
One new
Marblehead,
hyvdroaeroplanes are
50 feet the
Neck. The
the Burgess plant in
Webster,
turtle
in
charge
and
falling free from
ELKS' NATIONAL HOME.
Next July.
-It
committee
Lynchburg is the
pose of the
present
of
pur
the Elks
construction of the new national home
near Bedford, to have the dedicatory
exercises of the home just prior to the
meeting of the Grand Lodge in Balti
more the second week in next July,
go as to have the delegates from the
West and South stop over at Bedford
to participate in the ceremonies,
WAR IN AFRICA NOT OVER.
Union Decides To Send 25,000 Me:
Against Germans.
Pretoria, Union of South Africa.
Gen. Jan Christian Smuts, Minister of
Defense, has been given supreme com-
mand of the military expedition against
German East Africa. The Union of
South Africa has decided to send
against the German colony as many as
256,000 men, if a force of that size
should be deemed necessary.
ON PAN-AMERICAN COMMISSION.
President and Vice-President
Peruvian Section Elected.
Lima, Peru-—Eulogio Larrabure y
Unanue, former Vice-President of
Peru, and Ramon Ribeyro have been
elected president and vice-president,
respectively, of the newly installed
Peruvian section of the Pan-American
Commission. The members are now
studying the conventions which were
approved by the Pan-American Con
gress in Buenos Ayres in 1810.
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KEYSTONE STATE
IN SHORT ORDER
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LatestNews Happenings Gather |
ed From Here and There. |
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The stringent State law against per
mitting shipment of game for sale in
is responsible fors the very
the in the cities
of rabbits are
but this year,
sale markets
hundreds
purchase,
in
for
who shoot them
Minorca hen, “Queen
W. 8. Geremeyer, of Car
linle, claims to have beaten the
world's egg-laying record recently
established by Lady Englantine, at
Delaware College. “Queen Elizabeth” |
ie said to have eclipred the Englantine
record by laying 343 eggs in 243 con:
secutive days, the former record be- |
ing 314 eggs in 365 days
With his
Religious holidays, carefully ob
served in the Connellsville coke region
by hundreds of workers, cut down pro
duction last week, in spite of the fact
that four hundred ovens which have
been idle for a long time, were placed
in operation. The 31,000 active ovens
have a weekly capacity of approx
imately 450,000 tons.
Plans for extension of work among
young women in cities were outlined
at a conference at Harrisburg of rep
resentatives of the Y. W. C. A in,
most of the cities of the State. It}
was arranged to have a celebration!
with Maryland and Delaware of the'
fiftieth anniversary of the organization |
of the association next year,
At the meeting of the Berks County |
Conservation Association, a movement
was started to acquire the mountains |
surrounding Reading and plans were
made for the planting of 700,000 young |
trees In Reading and vicinity.
Frank lL. Rime he
stHr county bey
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14%
land
who raised
of
Brumbaugh
and
if he
bushels of corn on one Acre
his 10 Governor
how he did it the GON
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ne the most
Pennsylvania
The Pottsville
to ask State authorities for one year's
of “con
as required by the
new child labor law. To accommodate
the pupils in this industrial district, it
be Necessary erect
building, all of Pottsville
are overcrowded
Board decided
School
for the establishment
would to
as the
schools
State investigation the cause
for the large number of typhoid fever
cases in South Philadelphia, conducted
under the guidance of Dr. Samuel G
Commissioner of Health, re
the eating of fruits and
purchased from the curd
markets without cooking was the cause
of many of the cases
into
Orders have been received in Sharon
Superintendent W. C. Fleicher to
get the local plant of the American
Steel Foundries Company ready for
The plant, which has been idle for
thirteen months, employes about 600
men.
Some of the turnpike companies of
the State are showing a disposition to
fight back in the complaints made
against them before the Public Serv
fee Commission. Several have asked
that the commission send inspectors
to see if the charges are sound
There has been effected an organiza
tion at Nesquehoning, called “The
is “to promote citizenship
among the Slave and to prepare all
who desire to become citizens”
Three men are under arrest and sev-
eral strangers are being watched close.
ly as a result of the finding of a trunk
full of dynamite at the home of Eugene
English, of Peckville.
Highway Commissioner, Harry In
gram, Lansdowne, has been suspended
for irregularities in office.
B. Frank Roeller, of Royersford, has
Lititz, one of the most thriving bor- |
oughs in Lancaster county, will be di |
vided into wards. Recently, the vil
lage of Warwick and other land adja- |
cent, was annexed.
Industry.
Joseph R. Rohlman, of Columbia,
was appointed deputy factory Inspec:
tor by Commissioner Jackson.
GOVERNOR URGES
1
‘Designates Thursday, Novem-
ber 25, as Thanksgiving Day.
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i
[UNSOUND ECONOMIC BASIS
| Brumbaugh in Proclamation Decries
| Prosperity Due To the Great
War — Exhoration To
Worship.
Governor
firet
Harrisburg
his
Brumbaugh
issued Thanksgiving Day
of Pennsvivania to observe a day of
thanks for “a year of health, plenty
and social advance” and declaring that
at the same time people should take
steps 10 reach “a sound economic con
dition.” The proclamation says
“Jet us observe reverently our day
of thanksgiving, not alone because i!
is & custom #0 to do, but because it is
a privilege annually to make public
{ acknowledgment of gratitude to God
{for His manifold mercies and bless
ings. We are a worthy people only
as we are an humble and a devout peo
ple. Not to see the guiding wisdom
of God in the affairs of men is to be
ignorant of the vital controlling force
in the uplift of the race.
“We have had vouchsafed to us a
year of health, plenty and social ad
vance. Our Commonwealth has been
signally free from calamities. Our
crops have been abundant. Our in
dustries at the beginning of the year
were languishing. They now are in
creasingly prosperous. The deplor
able war in Europe may be the occa
sion of this prosperity. It is regret
table that the misfortunes of our
neighbors should be a cause of our
prosperity. The sooner we reach a
sound economic condition based upon
a normal competitive market, the bet.
ter it will be for us. The present
situation is one that well may cause us
to take heed. The law of love is the
only abiding law of progress.
“In the spirit of solemn gratitude
that we have been kept from the hor
rors of war and that we have been
blessed of God with material and spir
ftual good, let us gather in our several
places of worship to take our reckon
ing, to give thanks for bounteous bless.
ings, and to applicate our Heavenly
Father for Sominuing guidance and
help.
State Insurance Fund Rates.
Official announcement of the gen
ia
workmen's
fund was
Robert K
insurance
“Tal
bility
compensation
State's rates for
the
plan of the
insurance ir
NEUTANCE
Tres
Aan Of
made by State
Young
Fund
ment
The board
from the approved rates of the
rate manual of
{and the minimum premium
$5.00."
In
AB urer
chairm the
Board, in the following state
will make a reductior
insur
enium
at
AncCe ten per
ie fixed
connection with thie
ment, the following explanatory
ment was issued by Albert L
assistant manager of the State
ance fund
“This approved rate reduction of ten
per cent. on all rates concerns all em
plovers of labor in the State. The law
,ereating the fund requires that the
| premium rates shall be fixed at the
| lowest amount consistent with the
maintenance of a solvent fund and
ithe creating of an adequate surplus
‘and reserve. The fund pays no com
{missions to agents and does not have
{to earn profits for stockholders, while
{for the first three and one-half years
the entire expenses of the management
are paid by the State. The elimina
‘tion of these expenses iz sufficient to
(allow the board to write insurance af
{this reduced original rate The bal
‘ance remaining also gives every pros.
| pect of returning a very substantial
‘rebate in dividends to subscribers at
{the end of the year, so as to bring the
cost of insurance in the State down to
‘a much lower basis. Employers may
{obtain their compensation insurance
{in the State at a rate lower than that
{charged by the stock and mutual com-
{panies and secure a complete release
jof their personal liability and full pro
tection of their property against com-
pensation liens. If the subscriber to {
the fund makes the report of an ac
cident within seven days, his lability
ceases and is transferred automatical
{ly to the fund, so that no valid lien
can be filed against the property of an
employer insuring in It. Every other
form of insurance leaves the employer
personally liable.
announce
state
Allen,
insur
May Name Justice November 28.
Governor Brumbaugh announced
that he would not hurriedly name a
Justice of the Supreme Court. He
added thet he might name one Thanks.
| giving Day or December 1.