ADRAGNETFOR WORLD NEWS Flotsam and Jetsam of Live In- terest Caught From the Wires and Boiled Down. LATE DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE important Happenings in the Forty- eight States of the Union—Ocgur- rences at the Capital—Latest Cable Condensations. PEACE BULLETINS In an effort to allay perturbation of the public, Parliament and press re- garding reports that he Is “wabbling” over concessions to Germany, Premier i Liyod George has taken the unusual | step of posting a flat denial in the lobby of the House of Commons, The report in Chicago that evidenes of a plot to terrorize Chicago and the Middle West with bombs had been un- covered. One bomb was intended for Judge Landis, the advices said, Alexander Totruch of New York city was sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment for swindling victims out of thousands of dollars by selling shares in the Municipal Building, the City Hall and the New York subway, Attention Is called In the monthly report of the Department of Labor to the European corn borer, a new pest in this country, which has been found In Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York. . A credit of $10,000,000 was advanced to Italy by the United States, M. L. Requa resigned as general di- rector of the oll division of the fuel administration, Charles M. Schwab addressed con- valescent soldiers at the Walter Reed General Hospital In Washington, Fifteen members of the house, 10 Republicans and 5 Democrats, were appointed by Speal r Gillett to con- duct five Investigations of war-time Representative Graham, Republican, of Illinois, was selected as general chairman, Alvin C. York of Pall Mall, Tenn, Andrew Bonar Law, spokesman for the British government, expressed in | the House of Commons his opinion that the United States Is within her rights in holding the Interned Ger- war hero, refuses offer of $1,000 a day for 30 days to take part in a vaude- ville performance with 35 girls. “I don't look good in tights,” hé sald. He will make a speaking tour, however, man ships, The Big Four heard Premier Pade- rewski regarding upper Silesia, which some of the allied delegates now advo- | cate being retained by Germany in- | stead of being gwarded to Poland, The | premier also presented his version of | continued fighting between the Poles | and Ukrainians after his assurance | that hostilities would cease, George W. Wickersham, speaking be. | fore the Academy of Political Science | of the city of New York, finds much to | commend in proposed scheme for in-| ternational labor standards, | The financial clause of the Austrian | peace terms as completed, it is under- Ftood, fixes no specific sum as repara- | tion payment, The question is left to | & commission which will examine the | resources of Austria and determine the | amount and method of payment, | Frank A. Vanderlip before Mer- chants’ Association says America must | help Europe resume her industrial ac- tivities, and at once, Like the German government, the Austrian government is said to be dis- fled with the peace terms of the gilied and associated powers, which | are declared by one of the responsi- | ble newspapers of Vienna to be un- acceptable, Unlike the German popu- | lace at large, however, the Austrian people apparently are apathetic. i E w WASHINGTON E | ] Asgistant Secretary of the Treasury | ERowe announced hefore the Pan- | American Commercial Conference that | President Wilson would the | second Pan-American financial confer- ence on January 12 next upon recom- mwendation of Secretary Glass » AMlany of the aliens now being caught i & a . : i convene the last Monday | municipal police of the bomb outrages Bight may be deported, A. S. Burleson, postmaster general, fssues order for the Immediate to as return their owners of the operation of the | telegraph and telephone systems of the country, but retains financial manage- | ment of the companies. The order con- | tinues the rates now in effect, Follow ing the order 8. J. Konenkamp, presi of the Commercial Telegraphers’ | Union, called a strike of Western | Union employees in 11 states, The long battle for the submission of the woman suffrage amendment was won when the senate by a vote of 06 to 25 passed the resolution which passed the house just two weeks ago. The resolution now goes to the state legislatures for ratification, The biggest row since the disclo- sures that in Washington are always capitalized ns “the leak,” impends ‘n Congress over the appearance of copies of the peace treaty in the hands of great financial firms of New York. The senate is in a fury of indignation. By unanimous vote the house of representatives passed a resolution | calling for a committee to Investigate | war expenditures. There will be ten | Republicans and five Democrats on | the committee, cent Search In New York city for bomb plotters reveals a revolution “school” working openly. Senator Borah says that unless the treaty Is made public by the state de partment he will read it in the senate, Columbia University (New York) graduates 1,925 young men and wom- en at its one hundred and sixty-fifth annual commencement, Wesley Mcl.. Hague, who came from ranks, stands No. 1 in the grad uating class at the Annapolis Naval Academy, » SPORTING = o Kid Gleason, like Jack Coombs of the Phillies, believes both major leagues from now till September engulfs the campaign, Of course I can figure the the winner in the American League, declared the irrepressible Kid, but it's going to be a bitter fight for us all the way. Dick Watts, 208 «JO, Harvest and Charlie Sweet, 2.10% are being prepared for a trip races by A. 8. Rodney at Goshen, N enn, to If Lew McCarty could get up speed on the AR He loses hits a year beat out hard infleld smashes, Jess Willard knocked out Monahan, Monahan is a big man, but sirmaply put him down Lot cause ring followers (0 ex- will make short work Dempsey the pair wether on afternoon of July 4 licates, that Willard Is than most folk any to twenty-five because he can't because Jess should as when come the however, condition Pitchers who ean hit? Why the full of ‘em, to wit :—Ruth, Keating, Johnson, Caldwell, Tyler, Barnes, Pfeffer, Shocker, Rue Home runs are getting to be a com- mon thing nowadays in the American league, Grand Parade, at 33 1. bred by Richard Croker, won the Victory Derby, In the presence of the King and Queen of England and a vast cos mopolitan throng, Miss Marantha Patten, a junior in the Watertown High school of Boston, is a coming champion, the critics claim. It is said she hits a wonder fully long ball from the tee and plays her irons like a veteran. A team of 48 of the leading soldier athletes of the country sailed from Hoboken to join the main contingent of the United States athletic combina. tion which will compete in the inter. allied games at Joinville, France, June 22 to July 6. The party, which was in charge of Colonel Joseph H. Thomp- son, embarked after ceremonies much in keeping with the departure of an Olympic games team, to FOREIGN GENERAL = The vain search of New York city laundries in an effort to identify the laundry mark uséd by the criminal who was annihilated while he was setting & bomb at the home of Attorney Gen- eral A. Mitchell Palmer In Washington, The $£31,600000 agricultural appro- priations bill was passed by the house with only one dissenting vote. Government plans for the appoint. ment of a commission to study street railway and other public utilities for the purpose of putting them on a prof- itabie basis have progressed to a point where nearly all the members of the commission have been named, Eight independent packing houses in $£165,000,000 merger, National women suffrage leaders start the fight for quick ratification of the suffrage amendment, Brooklyn Sunday School Union has 110,000 children in parade In honor of Union's ninetiech anniversary. A syndicate of New York and Bos ton business men purchased a number of prominent ofl and refining prop- erties In Texas, Oklahoma and Loulsi- ana, Hiinols senate passed the bond bill which will increase the bonding power of Chicago to $27,500,000, Imperial Bank of Germany gives its gold holdings as of May 23, 1,521,581 marks, British government ordered removal of import taxes on icales, cutlery, lnundry appliances and motors and similar articles, It Is understood that the financial clause of the Austrian treaty has been arranged, but that no sum has been fixed for Austria to pay. This matter, it Is #aid, is to be left to a commission which will determine the amount and the method of payment after an ex- amination Into the resources of Aus. trian, Montreal is: the latest bidder for the return match between Ted Lewis and Jack Britton, Sir Alfred Booth, Bart, chalrman of the Cunard Steamship Company, de- nied rumors current in New York that the Cunard interests were the princi. pal figures In the syndicate that pur chased the British assets of the Inter. national Mercantile Marine, American members of the Economie Counell in Paris hold that with the harvest of the new crops need for food control will cease and early end of food control is planned, A report from Lisbon says President Cato y Castro presented his resigna. tion. Congress voted to ask the Presh “ot to reconsider his action, PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFS Cleveland Beers, a New Jersey Cen- tral railroad brakeman, was caught be- tween two cars near White Haven, while making a coupling, and was madly Injured, John T. Burns, of Conception church, Connellsville, has gone to the Mercy hospital, Pittsburgh, where he may be compelled to under. gO an operation, An accidental death certificate has been issued by Coroner ¥, R. Rausch In the case of Miss Katies R, McFar- lund, who was found burned to death in the cellar of her home in Lehigh Gap, Reported last summer to have been killed In action in France, Stanley is allve, but suffering from wounds, hospital. er, In a ment for permission to build a bridge at Falls, Wyoming county, for which gf contract has been let. This Is due to the fact that the Susquehanna a navigable stream, under federal con- trol. Eleven-year-old Thomas O'Donnell f hero when he enacted the role of ed the life of amother boy, Alfred Lick. owite, drowning in I~ high river near River Front Park, Al lemtown, The Lickowitz boy went be. yond his depth for the third t nell bovs SHV- who was the and was going down when young O Done him Both were soon nie rescued but arrived and were exhausted, revived, I#h gh coming recep! county will hold its home for when ion and parade its soldiers on Wednesday, June 20, f general holiday will be declared thro Ing the demonstration there will monster picnic on the Allentown grounds, at which the county's soldiers will be the Some of the em Jerses uhik received ns hig A total Follow. he a falr FANN izhout the entire county guests loves of New road In Mauch the Central ra as 21500 back $72.00 was paid in igh and Sus New Jersey of West it he resigned liree week wo, Preside: I Fred Heed, for the time being pid! ceeded by a sped He ha is Ova to former home of ] : ¥ . will prac. tice law Iogs are tains ' monn. three iuse * iV» er, and the ing far A. summer the expense r The will go in 1 George Mack, of New (Castle, vietim in He two compan was seized ming in the Mah« Was hours While bathing In a lam of ber Water wompany. r J. C county young man, was drowned, was seized with erampe and went the bottom of before could be rescued by companions, The body has not been recovered, The enter in the dam is not, used for do- mestios purposes, The vanguard of the regiment of seventeen-year locusis or cicadas, has arrived in Waynesboro, and persons who have been in sections where there is timber, have seen them in hordes comtng out of the ground and shed ding their sheira. Trees and shrab- bery are now covered thickly by them, The period during which the cicadas will do damage to the trees by split. ting the branches to deposit eggs will not begin for ten days, say entomo- togists of the department of agricul. ture, The Northumberland county treas- ary showed the healthy balance of $208804 73. largest single balance ever carried in the history of this hig anthracite unit of the commonwealth, It ind tates, according to Deputy Treagurer William H. Deppen, that Northumbers Iand, outside of the more densely pop- ainted counties, is one of the richest in the state, The Mauch Cunhk school board has cramps while river. His body not recovered for twenty-four the'Wind. Windsor, Bedford He to he Lea Sitombaugh, a former the dam his of the town who were in the service Inst year from paying faxes, The Wallingford Water company has filed notice with the public serv. fee commission that it bas Increased rates one-third, effective July 1. The seminary clase of Moravian Beminary and College for Women at Bethlehem held its class day exer clses on the eampus, Ralph C. Spre was elected secre. tary of the Pottstown board of health, succeeding J. Howard Reigner, re signed. A section hand's truck on the Perk! wits struck by a pas and of the men aboard the handear, Wil. Hilbert, foreman of the gang, wag seriously iojured, three Resolutions calling upon congress passed at the closing sessions of the forty-eighth annual meeting of the Eastern Ohlo and Western Pennsyl- churchek held in New Castle, Word has reached Lewistown that Lieutenant George Phillips, son of Mr, and Mrs. George W, Phillips, of West Market street, who has been on secret work for the government at San An tonio, "ad been injured by a fall from his plane. Lieutenant Phillips was cited Jor bravery ln France, Jess Everly, of Harry Moyer, of fined £20 each and a plea of guilty of having in the Kishacoquillas creek. At Alumni day normal school of the located at Mansfield, June 25, a memorial tablet will be unveiled to the who made the supreme sacrifice Yeagertown, and teeduvilie, were COXI8 On entering ried] dip nels of the state fifth dis: riet, RIX members in the Five hundred alumni and students were in the Frank loxt the sight of an eye when a spall from a4 piece f Service, Collins, of lewistown, of steel he was into shape struck him on the sight. For the in the history of Fayette county estate hammering first time an over to the United States taken left by # ive of Galicia, was turned government This actior £202 was when no heirs Frank Biskup, Austria, re in the Uniontown hospital 10 the 005, A nat who cently died appeared Miss Amy Gilbert, of Chambersburg, Daniel : commissioner of daughter of Franklin awarded the Univer been at where she (8 Pennsylvania, taking post-graduate co Joseph irse, the M forious work. The og which it two mile 1 AR Span of Crokses the ‘hemung Tozer's Sayre, gone down ning bank and the sw een ghutment bridge, into the and w use the cerned one In the exodus contd Darby, of North Bend. was lost In Jar iw was f ahout Gans creek He derably from Os! onstant in 8 serious condition es Diehl, of Bald Top, i ng a walk neas i's Mest « BE MOUNIY COM missioners agreed HAE engineers Nave to allow expert over their properties of securing a pl £1 his go for the purpose yaioal valuation O ACY they will sit 2% a board and fix the valuations “a purposes for the next ee ¥ % & i . has been done, ording to the tomm of tax fi faxahle i0T three years sRianers, revision fter having served for more than shier of Lemasters bank, the Institution formed to take the place of the bank wrecked through the peculations of its cashier three years ago, Dorie IX Ashway, of Chambersburg, has resigned and will enter the astomobile business His resignation Is effective June 1, and he was suclieeded by J. lL. Garland, of Hancock, Md., former principal of the Lemasters high school, F. E. Colony, of Renovo, has sug. gested the relocation of a portion of state highway route No. 108, through this borough. The idea of citizens of the borough Js that Moron avenue should be used Instead of Erie avenue. railroad overhead A Year as og the National laid out, are deciared dangerous, The state highway department says it is After having served for five years ns probation officer of Franklin coun. ty, Miss Elsie Kiepfer, of Chambers. burg, has resigned the position. She has gone to her home In Harrisburg and will be married next month. Her successor will be appointed by W, Rush Gillan, president judge of the Franklin county couris, : A divorce has been granted to Arch Hastie, of Pittston, who recently re. turned from France with the 100th field artillery. Judge Henry, of Lebanon, presiding nt Harr'eburg, raled that the effects of the Hummelsiown Consolidated Water company be sold, The Western Salisbury congregation celebrated the 100th anniversary of the laying of the cornersione of thelr church, More than 200 eases, including three homicides, nre scheduled for the Juno orig of court, which opens at Union Sewing Buttons. order to Insure a good fastening. It is a good plan to place a pin between the button and the cloth, passing the thread over the pin; then when the thread is fastened remove the pin and the button is sufficiently loose. In ripping buttons off ete, string them at once on a bit strong thread and tie together. You want a set of will not have to pick them out from several hundred others, of time To Make Even Buttonholes. In making buttonholes in sheer, soft perfectly firm edge may be made by even a povice buttonholes if a fine cambric needie i= run through the cut from one end to the other, so directly over the opening: holing is done over the then the needle is pulled out and inserted the worked over If, nt the needle Is not in place Neat, Firm Buttonhole in Cloth. Measure and mark the exact length thread where stitch quite « in yery the that the needle is the buttom- needle, outside of work, and the the being made 7 +4 sia iittie the ends cut between the rows way with over-and-over stiches nt each { Pd 3 passing the thread along the Nome wWonen use Plnce this wrapping twine work over it. are Buttonholes made in this way very strong. To Remove Threads After Ripping. After a garment has been ripped it is nn tedious job to pick the threads from the seams. If you take a plece of coarse cloth—such as a of toweling—dampen it and rub it over the seams, the threads come out reads | fly. plece Thread Twisted and Knotted. When thread twists and knots as you sew, try stretching cotton before beginning to use it Take spool the usual needleful | each end firmly { Ughtly as possible two or three U the from the and tir nd, holding stretch the cotton aw SIN, Buttons of Metal, There is a big demand for small met- al buttons this season, manufscturers i gttons are sells or vestings for women and ich ery and the appea of many materials, are In large for There are g on and the fancy ing the buttonx, wh when made up take ev color need kives COs, and Jet suite used] for differ. Capes, KUits, Ines huttons used high-class itton is Glass buttons from thls and war came largely made in ent purposes, previo thie Austria, but country. fot us to ire now Barred Crepe. Have Apren Fronts, the new tricoiettle ! gowns have The days when any old thing in the way of a bathing suit would do, have become a part of the dim past. Bath. ing suits, swimming suits and beach suits progressed rapidly and gayly. through successive stages of develop ment (some of them more startiing than genteel) until they arrived at the present season, Now they all appear to have claims to atiractiveness, they are modest and some of them, with the addition of capes, are entitled to be called graceful and picturesque. New fabrics, various rubberized cloths that are attractive in themselves and not affected by water, sllow designers to give free play to their fancies in a field where traditions do no hamper ing-but quite the reverse. Good ma- terials are well handled In the new suits by specialists that have gained much by experience in designing. They have presented mn great variety In styles this season. Two very good examples of these new arrivals for beach wear and bath. ing are pictured above. They are not regulation swimming suits, but quite equal to meeting all the requirements of the average summer girl who goes to the sex for pastime or health, e girl at the left has on a sleeveless rds of taffeta ch bangs straight from the shoulders and is tied about the waist with a silk cord. Frills, with. a fancy or fringed edge, In three rows decorate the bottom of the skirt and are put on with the free edge uppers most, This is tacked down at short intervals, The round neck is finished with a frill. The simple cap worn with this dress is a polka-dot rubber cloth with plain. revers about the head and the shoes are high. There are silk hose and knickerbockers of taffeta, The suit at the right appears to be made of wool Jersey or a similar mate rin. It has a plain short bodice with short kimono sleeves and these are faced with a contrasting color, split over the arm and the points turned back. Narrow brald Is used for trim. ming in parailel rows about the hips. and in short lengths acrass the front of the waist, A rubber turban, siip- pers with bands about instep snd ankle and a striped parasol insure the comfort of this very up-to-date bather, It is no longer fashionable to acquire a deep coat of tan, no one objects to a little of it.
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