THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Jan, 17, 1918,
Allles took German trenches in
Belgium and closed in on Lille.
Russians took Kirlibaba pass in
Bukowina and pushed along sight
bank of Vistula.
Germans were pushed back on
Plotsk,
Turkish co ps was cut to pieces
in the Caucasus.
Antiwar demonstration a Vi
enna; Czech editor executed for
treason.
Jan 18, “96.
Fierce fighting took piace at La
Boisselle,
Germans occupied Kisice and
Russians fell back to Radom.
Plotsk evacuated by the Germans.
Paris darkened at night by po
fice order.
Jan, 19, 1915
French advanced in attempt to
cut off St. Mihiel.
German airships dropped bombs
on Ya‘ mouth, King's Lynn, and
other English towns, killing four
persons.
French in forest of Le Pretre
within ten miles of Metz.
Austrian army flanked by Rus
sians in Bukowina.
Jan, 20, 1815,
British troops captured Freyling
huysen,
Russians drove back Austrians in
Hungary and marched on Jacobenl
Dutch naval patrol! boat sunk by
mine, five men drowned,
Governor of Cracow ordered
partial evacuation of the city,
Jan. 21, 1915,
Germans repulsed in the Ar
dernes woods by French and Bef
gians,
F=ench retook trenches at Noire
Dame de lLorette.
Germans retook the forest of Le
Pretre
Russians renewed their offensive
against Mlawa.
Austrians routed Russians from
ntrenchments along the Donajec.
German cruiser Karisruhe report
ed off Porto Rico.
Allied airmen dropped bombs on
Essan,
Jan, 22, 1915,
in Hartmanns
Fierce fighting
weilerkopf region,
New Russian army neared Prus
an border.
Russian invasion of Hungary was
nalted,
German zubmarine sank Britinh
Steamer Durward,
Maj Gen. Sain Hughes began en
fisting third Canadian contingent
Russia ordered expulsion of Aus
and German subjects.
Jan. 23, 1915.
German troops were massed
Hungary.
Ru sans made further advanca
n the north.
German airmen dropped bombs
on Dunkirk.
Mme. Grouitch came to America
seeking seeds for Serbians,
Germans renewed their activity
near Ypres and bombarded left
wing of allies.
Severe battle in the Argonee re
gion
German supply ship was sunk by
Australian cruiser,
italian viceconsul at Liege dis
missed by Germans for aiding Bel
gians
trian
in
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES
in Sweden a mile is 11.690 yards.
Scotland has the longest bridge In
the world-—the Lay, two miles and 70
yards in length.
it is said that 2a humming bird when
stripped of its feathers is no larger
than a bumble bee
A duster made of cheesecloth,
soaked in turpentine and them dried,
will accumulate dust instead of scat
tering it
The Cape Cod canal is now re
stricted to boats of less than 18 feet
draft but it will soon be deepened to a
36-foot waterway
A Russian inventor claims to have
perfected a motor that can safel: util
ize electricity drawn wom storm
clouds
A partitioned gravy dish bas bern
invented that permits fat gravy to be
poured from one side and lean from
the other
The governments of both Denmark
and Sweden are investigating a recent
discovery of coal on the island of
Bornholm, a Danish possession close
to the Swedish coast.
So that bicyclists will not have to
wear trouser guards a North Carolina
has invented a large disk to be at
tached to the outside of the forward
sprocket of a wheel,
The needless infantile death rate
owing to neglect and Ignorance costs
this country $3,000.000 a day
One of the famous ecoiillons of
Flanders. a magnificent chime of hell,
bas been transierred to the English
village of Cattistock, where great in
terest is taken in the frequent con
ce ts for which use is made of them.
The fossil 0. an elephant that is be
ing excavate” from a gravel bed near
Chatham England is declared to have
supported the carcass of an "elephan
antiquus 2 the early pleistocens
period.” a puny ttle rum of a beast
but a trifle larger than a mammorh,
U. 3. SUBMARINE
Explosion Occurs on the E-2 in
Dry Dock.
A——————————
NEW YORK NAVY YARD
AT
Ten Others Hurt; Five Dangerously.
Marylanders Among Those
injured-—investigation
is Started.
New York Four men
and ten others injured, five of them
dangerously, in an explosion which oc-
curred on the submarine E-2 while the
craft was undergoing repairs in dry-
dock at the New York Navy Yard. One
of the men killed was an enlisted elec
trician and the other three civilian
workers,
At least three of the ten now in hos-
pitals are not expected to lve.
Although the detonation was ter
the elf from
shows none of the effects of the
sion, the acond fatal
kind in the history of the Units
Navy. The apparatus was badly
tered, but so tigl wa 1¢ Vesa
11 tt
were killed
wifi
fie,
submarine its the outside
explo
of its
d State;
acelds
ere
was n RNS 0 WCa pe
which i it
Gas Drives Back Rescuers
The injured men and one t
ved
on
wild not be re
nber of m
Had New Batteries.
The E-2 was the only vessel
h the Edi
on nicks
i she made he
first trig
4 i
ad equip
y
¥
ant
ther on
orted that the
3
lew
arin
we abou
ubn
had beer
ber 30
ware gasoline
torpedo
no
ny of the
BRITISH LOSSES HEAVY,
Total Cf Officers Killed, Wounded and
Missing 1s 22.081.
Londor
the
Officers
nonth of Decer
British army in that
ofucers killed, 638
miscine. a total of 52
Deducting from the wounded and
m totals a number since includ
ed in killed, the total losses from the
beginning of the war to the end of De
cember, 19215, are 6.847 killed, 13.489
wounded and 1,745 missing, a total of
22,081.
During
pra’ received wounds
cluded in the casualty
month.
Losses have been heaviest in the In.
dian contingent during the month, 35
having been killed, 76 wounded and 3
missing: the royal field artillery had
12 killed, 43 wounded: engineers, 12
killed and 37 wounded: Yorkshires, 8
killed, 25 wounded; Lancashires, 11
pitta 24 wounded: Australians, 13
killed, 24 wounded; Canadian, 10 killed
wounded. Losses in many other
regiments ran into double figures,
casualty lists for
how that the
month lost 27%
at
wounded and
1boer
15
December four brigade gen
and are in
lists for the
29
FORD PARTY SAILS.
Peace Delegates Leave 30 Members At
The Mague.
The Hague, via London. -- The
American members of the Ford peace
mission, except those associaed with
the permanent peace board, sailed
from Rotterdam aboard the steamer
Rotterdam for New York. A great
crowd assembled on the wharves and
cheered as the steamer departed.
INTERVENTION IN
The Massacre of
Arouses Congress.
SITUATION VERY SERIOUS
|
i
ture and Punishment Of Bandits
Who Slew Americans-—De.
tails Of Outrage.
Washington. Congress was swept
by a wave of impassioned indignation
over the killing of American citizens
by Mexican bandits near Chihuahua,
Demands for action
minorily members, and
ministration lea coun
even Senat
Senate
calle
Ad
pats
while the
seied
ence, or Stone, chal
Relations
admitted that if (
iled to pre
the Foreig:
tee,
fair trial fa
" "
Mexico
ArTanz
{ect foreigners
intervention
Secretary I
proval of Pre
to Consul Sill:
woentlation to
1 uncing
i near Ut
iy
dit and «
ult
nerpet of ths
pers ators «
Wilson Unsh
wa
"TAKE HIM" SAID WIFE TO U. 8
Turned
Down
But Marine Sergeant “Good
MM
ting Man"
¥
\
in the
diers.
PAIVIOE
BUYS 11.000 ACRES ZINC LAND
Philadeiphian Will Erect Model Town
On Tennessee Property.
Kn i T
ell,
11,000 acres
cock cou
£2.000. 000
ill be
way at
and
imately
long
Ral
ville
Mountain
ended to
Ferry, Va. A plant of 10,000 tons daily
capacity and the building of a modern
town, at a total outlay of $10,000,000,
is contemplated
Lone
later ex
NEAR.BEER SALOONS CLOSE.
Anticipate Atlanta “Dry”
fective May 1.
Atlanta Approximately half the
164 near-beer saloons in Atlanta e
had their doors closed Tue:
close within the next few dava, accord
ing to announcement made at the office
of the City Clerk Now
laws becoming effective
abolish near-beer saloons
clubs,
Law Ef.
thar
ner
prohibition
May 1 may
and locker
EXJACKIE KILLS THREE WOMEN,
Commits Suicide.
San Francisco.--~Floyd Pevser, a
gailor, murdered Mra. Marjorie Hill,
with whom he was infatuated,
After shooting her dead he also killed
her mother, Mrs, G. W. Evans, and
her sieter, Mre. Irene White, and then
shot and killed himself.
STEEL ORDERS PILE ue.
7.006.220 Tons on Books Of U. 8. Con
poration On December 31 Last.
New York.--The United States Stee)
Corporation reporied unfilled orders on
its books on December 31 of 7.808 290
tonsa, aa compared with 7.189.487 on
November 20 and 3,836,643 on Decem:
ber 31, 1914.
Prince Albert
such friendly
is
tobacco
He counts it lost
the national joy
Watch your step!
IVs easy to change the shape
and color of unsalable brands
to imitate the Prince Albert
tidy red tin, but it is imposible
to imitate the flavor of Prince
Albert tobacco! The
patented process
protects that!
smoke
that if men all over the
the world,
ires?
We tell you this
t and inviting all the
,
Buy Prince Albert evevywhere
tobacco is sold ~ in toppy ved
bags, Bc; tidy red tins, 10e;
handsome pound and hall -pouend
tin humiders—and~in that clossy
crystal - gloss pourd bumidor
with sponge-moistener top thot
keeps the tobacco in such greet
triem !
R. J. REYNOLDS
TOBACCO COMPANY
Winston-Salem, N.C.
KEYSTONE STATE
N SHORT ORDER
i
ed From Here and There.
r. and Rosas
mour Co., Altoona
cled in Blair coun
d storafe eggs
consumed
The
y
The
bitte
case
rly fought.
ant to the Dairy
for the reason
State's
od
enart ent,
: it recognizes the ztand
ard of an to determine the age of
an egg. BSecrviary of Agriculture Pat
Reading Coal &
ointed Edwin C.
rintendent in the
He now ig inside
iny's Henry Clay
the Shamo-
He will be succeed
Clay workings by
‘hamokin
foreman of
Shaft and is ember of
School Board
at the
od
Michael Reiland
Henry
Wilton sent these nomi
manters to the Senate:
Fadden, McKeesport; P.
Bellefonte; William K.
Fddystone: William H. Cooper,
Oakmont; Perey E. Faust, Weatherly;
William F. Elgin, Glenolden; Howard
Kemrer, Paradise,
Births In Johnstown decreased hy
200 in 1915 over 1914, due to the de
parture of foreign residents for sery.
joe in the European war, according to
State Registrar of Statistics D. T. Ed
wards.
Pre
ide; it
{ poat
Frank W. Mc
H. Gherrity,
Jacob IL Hartranft and Bugene Fein.
over, Allentown, members of a Phila:
de'phin & Reading Engine crew, were
hurt seriously by an explosion on &
locomotive in Rutherford Yards,
ene Finch and Con Hanley, both
ere kille
Bug
Lattimer, w
the Lattimer mines
of
damp in of Tort
Incorporated,
tha fire coke oot
food t
nent
one
ing
of the
was O11
wenty. TI
bul sliR
That
eso
Jot
the
Wemenst
Alderman
in
olected h
Chester, Phil
and Delaware
formerly the Fourdounty
tire
RBrumbaueh and Secretary
Pation were invited to
farmers’
arch 1.
ans, head
extended Uw
first ter of a
will
hours Mayor Me
meed that he al
be found at his office in City
between 9 and 12 in the
time in a
fF
For the
century,
GUAT
‘homter's Chie secntive
* office
re
have
Dowell wavs
oonld
Hall o'clock
morning.
State Sinking Fund has
$150.000 of bonds of va ions
boroughs the new State Fire In
surance Fund. They all have been in
vestigated and are declared to be gill-
edged
The
chased
par.
for
James Sweeney, Chief of the State !
fBurcau of Standards, has received
word that Clearfield, Bedford and Mon-
roe counties and DuBois and Corry
cities have appointed Sealers of
Weights and Measures,
Dauphin County Commissioners
wera given a shock when State factory
inspectors condemned the elevator In
ase in the Harrisburg Court House. It
is about a quarter of a century old.
yovernor Brumbaugh
(George Q.
ville, and Horace Orwig, Miffiinburg,
as a trustee of the State Hospital for
the Insane, at Danville,
od from eggs brought to America on
the last westward voyage of the Lusi
tania, were the feature of the fourth
annual poultry show at Jehnstown.
Helen Roche, sixteen years old,
daughter of Mrs. A. Roche, of Ches.
ter, has been missing from her home
two days. The girl took all the money
in the house, according to the police,
and packed her clothing.
Decause of the large amount of or
ders on hand, all of the larger shops
in Waynesboro have night forces of
men. The town’s (actories are busier
than for many years,
. INDUSTRIAL BOARD
FAVORS INSPECTORS
Casualty Men With Certificates May
On Boilers
Pass and
0 ou
inves
cond
whe
Prices Of Foodstuffs
nto food
the people of
markabl
were bring
nna count 46
elphia Allegheny,
Hing for the average of
its a dozen in Green and 32 cents
in Indiana county
Delaware and Montgomery
| go i an average of 40 cents a pound for
| butter and in Fulton 26 cents was the
{ average price, with Franklin, Bedford
| and Greene getting 27. Lambs sold
{ for $7 in Montgomery and for $6.50 in
| Dauphin, but brought only $3.85 in
+ Washington, Lancaster, the garden
county the State, had to pay an
average of 32 cents a pound for holk
day turkeys, dressed. Dauphin, North
{ ampton and Schuylkill paid 31 and
| Berks, Montgomery and Westmore
{ land, 30 cents, Adams getting only 22
cents. Schuylkill paid the most for
| live turkeys.
Potatoes, which sell around $4 cents
in Lancaster and Somerset, and 67 in
Berks, were #4 in Allegheny and
Beaver, and $1.10 in Cameron. Hay
ranged from $20 a ton in Luserne to
$12 in Tioga and $13.50 in Butler
and
low
Philade
armenrs
of
Plans For West Chester Armory.
The State Armory Board suthorized
plans for the new armory at West
Chester and directed improvements to
be made to ithe York and Lebanon
!armories. The committee in charge
'of work at the Artillery Armory in
Pittsburgh was directed to secure son
firmation of the deed and plans wii
be made later,
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Action Against Loan Society.
The Attorney General's Department
Bas brought an action in equity to re
gtrain the State Capilal Savings and
Loan Association, of Harrisburg, from
issuing full paid stock.