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ONE MAN KILLED
ANOTHER HURT ON
GRADECROSSING
Fast Passenger Train Buns
Down Big Truck at
Middletown
LAMP THBOWN 1,000 FEET
Watchman Injured When
Flying Truck Splintered
His Box
One man is dead and another is in
a critical condition as a result of a
collision between a fast express
train, Xo. 55, westbound, and a heavy
auto truck at the Ordnance Depot
crossing at Middletown at 3.30
o'clock this morning. The tr|un was
traveli'ig at the rate of seventy or
seventy-five miles per hour, it was
said.
The dead man is R. E. Welbourn,
£3 years old, driver of the truck.
Frank Still, of Higlispire, the watch
man at the crossing, who is believed
to have been sleeping at the time of
the accident, is in a serious con
dition at the Harrisburg Hospital
with a probable fracture of the
skull, probable Internal injuries and
badly broken bones, with severe
bruises and cuts. Welbourn. the
truck driver, came to Middletown for
employment came from 143 Cherokee
avenue, Atlanta, Ga. He resided in
Harrisburg at 1505 Allison street.
Train No. 55, one of the fastest
express trains on the Philadelphia
division of the Pennsylvania rail
road. was being hauled by two high
power locomotives, engines 1245 and
3370. The former engine was in
iharge of Engineer H. S. Holtry and
Fireman H. Stoner, 341 Harris street,
while the latter was in charge of G.
W. Welch, 310 Cumberland street,
engineer, and G. C. Miller, fireman.
E. S. Quinland was the conductor of
the crew. The entire crew was from
Harrisburg.
Watchman Asleep?
Still, the watchman who is believ
ed to have been asleep at his post at
the time of the accident, was injured
when the train struck the truck, the
i ear end of which in swinging around
liit the watchman's box and knocked
it down over a steep embankment.
The truck, one of five-ton capacity,
was heavily loaded with cinder used
tor filling in purposes at the depot.
Not noticing the approach of the fast
train and not being flagged by the
watchman, Welbourn drove on with
the truck across the crossing, but
had just started across the first track,
the westbound passenger trabk, when
the fast express struck the truck.
The truck, badly wrecked, together
with Welbourn and what cinder was
not thrown out, was carried a dis
tance of two thousand feet before the
last moving express was brought to a
stop. Welbourn, who was instantly
killed, was removed from the front
of the first engine by Fireman Stiner
of the first engine. His body was bad
ly bruised and crushed. r
Thrown Thousand Feet
Evidence of the speed with which
the train was traveling is given by
the fact that the rear lamp of the
truck after being catapulted through
Hie air for a distance of a thousand
feet, was imbedded six inches deep
in one of the railroad ties.
The front of the first engine, Xo.
1 243, was badly smashed In the col
lision with the heavy truck. The
truck, which is a complete wreck,
is the property of Thomas Gray, the
contractor at the depot.
Still Declared Sick
G. W. Terry, an officer on duty at
the ordnance depot at night saidjhat
lie had gone to Still's watclibox at
-.30 o'clock and found the man com
plaining of not being well. At 3.25
o'clock, Terry asain visited the
sleeping man, but Still appeared to
be unwilling to get up, it is said.
After awakening him and warning
hint of the danger, Terry proceeded
on his rounds. He had gone scarcely
tive minutes when the accident oc
curred.
C. S. Silger and A. A. Slavin, two
government employes, who were
abed in a structure near the scene of
the accident, were awakened by the
crash and rushed out to be of what
assistance they could. They picked
up the injured watchman and
brought him to the Harrisburg Hos
pital in Silger's automobile.
THE WEATHER
For HarrliilHirK and vicinity! Fnlr,
continued cool to-night, nlth
lowest temperature about 55
ik*r| Sunday fulr and slight
ly warmer.
For HaKtern T*ennsj I vnnln! Fnlr
to-night and Sunday; slightly
warmer Sunday: light. vnrlnl>lr
ulnd, mostly northerly.
ltlvrr
The upper portion of the main
river will begin to fall late thin
A. afternoon or to-night mid the
lower portion Sunday. A Hinge
of about 5.0 feet Ik Indicated for
Harrlsburg Sunday morning.
General Condition*
The St. Uwrfaoe Valley dlnturb
nnce ban passed off northeaxt
wurd and u high pressure area
from Western Canada haa over
spread the north half or the
country east of the Mississippi
river, attended by somewhat
lower temperature and a mark
ed decrease la humidity. I.lght,
scattered nkoweri have fallen In
the Middle Atlantic States and
Southern Xew England and
California.
Temperature: 8 a. m.. 58,
Sun: Hlses, 535 a. m.| sets, 8.25
p. m.
Moon: First Quarter, Jnne in.
Itlver stage: 5.0 feet above low
water mark.
Yeaterday'a Weather
Highest temperature, 75.
l.owest temperature. 57.
Mean temperature, 110.
Aormul temperature, 70.
HUN DIVISIONS ARE
REFORMING FOR NEW
ASSA ULT ON ALLIES
General Situation in France
Not Seriously Affected by
the Great Blows Enemy Has
Struck This Spring Despite
the Massed Number of Men
Crown Prince Has Thrown
Before the Allied Guns
EXPECT HEAVIEST BLOW
IN THE PICABDY FIELD
Berlin Claims to Have Secured
Great Amount of Booty and
Ground as Besult of Becent
Offensives; Italian Troops
Break Up Every Effort of
Austrian Army to Sever
Lines; Pass Safely Held
Allied strategy and tenacity in
combat again have checked blows'
by massed bodies of German troops
and the German crown prince has
given up his second offensive within
a month without either of them hav
ing affected seriously the general sit
uation on the western front. Except
for artillery duels a lull has come to
the lighting sectors but a new enemy
assault is expected soon.
In the offensive which began last
Sunday the Germans used large
masses of troops on a short front.
For three days they gained ground
and were rapidly forcing their way
southward along the Aisne. French
resistance stiffened and then the
French took the offensive. The Ger
man effort to strike south of the
Aisne and reach the Oise south of
Compiegne also failed after a slight
gain.
Huns' LJnes Reforming __
Friday there was no infantry
fighting of moment anywhere along
the front from Ypres to Rheims
which is now the vital section of the
western line. The Germans made no
further attempts and are probably
reforming the divisions shattered by
the French resistance of the past
week.
South of the Somme and between
the Aisne and the Marne the artil
lery tire has been above normal but
there are no indications that the Ger
mans are prepared to renew their
offensive on either sector. Military
observers believing that the Noyon-
Montdidier effort was a feint to oc
cupy the allies, expect that the heav
iest blow yet will.come soon on the
Picardy field with the enemy again
attempting to separate the French
and the British and reach the coast.
Yankee Bombers Busy
Berlin reports the number of guns
captured since May 27 by the crown
prince as 1,050. In the latest offen
sive the Germans gained 180 square
miles of territory and captured 15,-
000 prisoners and 150 guns, the poor
est showing in any of the four major
movements since March 21.
While the American infantry has
been inactive on all sectors, Ameri
can aviators on the Toul front have
been bombing towns behinds the
German lines. The first American
bombing raid was against Dommary-
Baroncourt, northeast of Verdun on
Wednesday. This was followed Fri
day by another incursion on which
seventy-nine bombs were dropped on
Conflans, a railway junction midway
between M'.tz and Verdun. On both
occasions the Americans returned
safely, despite efforts of enemy air
planes and anti-aircraft guns.
Italy Checks Advance
Italian troops have checked suc
cessfully strong enemy attempts to
force a passage through the import
ant Tonale pass, northwest of Trent.
Two attacks by Austrian infantry
were broken up by the Italian de
fense and 130 prisoners captured.
Tonale pass is just north of La
Busazza, where the Italians recently
gained a commanding height and the
Vermtglio valley passes through it.
The remainder of the Italian front is
quiet.
Work Trains Collide;
Two Killed, 15 Hurt,
in Cut Near Moosic
By Associated Press
Scranton, Pa., June 15. —Two men
were killed and fifteen others injured
when two work trains on the Lack
awanna and Wyoming Valley (Laurel
line) came together in a rock cut
near Moosic, a few miles south of
this city last evening. Six of the in
jured ware able to go to their homes
but the other nine are confined to
hospitals.
Mistaken signals are believed to
have been responsible for the col
lision, the force of which was suffi
cient to teat" up the roadbed for a
hundred yards completely tieing up
traffic. Arthur Burkhouse, motor
man on one of the trains, and an
unknown section hand were the
killed.
WALK MORE
SMOKE LESS
CUT DOWN IN
EXPENSES
£*rWar Stamps start at
25c
SINGI.E COPY
a CENTS
U-Boat Danger Not Serious
By Associated Press I
LONDON. June 15.—German submarine activity off the Atlantic
Toast of the I'nitcd States should not be taken very seriously, us the
Germans probably will not attempt a blockade of the American
shores. This Is the opinion of Vice Admiral Sir Kosslyn Wcmyss,
llrst sea lord of the British Admiralty. The admiral believes that
there is only one submarine operating off the American const ami
that the purpose or its trip across the Atlantic was to frighten the
Americans.
German ruthlessnew at sea, the first sea lord declared, must be
met by ccnMalized warfare in the North Sea and in the Mediter
ranean.
YANKEE BIRDMEN
DROP BOMBS ON
GERMAN BASES
Americans Act Like Veterans
in Thrilling Adven
ture in Air
By Associated Press
With the American Army in
Franco, Friday, June 14.—The first
raid by an American bombing squad
ron behind the German lines was ac
complished with successful and satis
factory results, the Americans per
forming like veterans. Some of the
observers already had been on simi
lar flying missions with French or
British pilots and they knew exactly
how to gauge accurately the fall of
the bombs.
As they made their start for Ger
many the bombing planes received
quite an ovation. A number of
French and British aviators and offi
cers and a large number of American
fliers cheered them from the flying
fleld as they came racing down the
grass, tilted upward and then turned
north toward the enemy's lines.
Get Hot Reception
The German antiaircraft batteries
game them a hot reception as they
crossed the front but this shelling
was extremely tame compared with
to what they underwent as they ap
proached Dommary-Baroneourt. Two
of the American planes, leading the
squadron became the particular tar
gets of the antiaircraft guns. They
twisteS and dived under a heavy
shrapnel tire until they arrived over
their objective, a railway junction
and the surrounding buildings three
miles below.
The commanding officer of the
unit was in the leading plane as ob
server and it sped over the objective
first, the commander releasing his
bombs. At the same time he signal
ed to the other machines w f hich fol
lowed in a nearly straight line.
Drive on Runs
Bursting bombs laid a perfect cir
cle of smoke about the railway
junction. The smoke obscured the
buildings as the bombers turned
southward toward the American
lines.
German attacking planes met the
Americans two miles from Dommary
and attempted to pick off those
planes which were trailing but the
lively fire of the other machines
forced the enemy to give up the at
tempt just as the line was reach
ed. Arriving at the starting point,
the aviators were showered with
congratulations on the results of the
first raid by their envious comrades.
Acid Thrower in N. Y.
Street Inflicts Burns
on Dozen Young Women
.New York, June 15.—Twelve young
women were victims of strange at
tacks last last night and early to-day
when they were burned by an acid
thrown from a bottle or squirted
from a gun by an unidentified per-*
son. All of the attacks occurred
within a short period of time on
Seventh avenue, between Forty-Sixth
and Forty-seventh street.
The women, none of whom was
seriously burned were unable to tell
the police where the s.cid came from
and said that the first they knew of
the attacks was when they felt pain,
after the acid had eaten through
their clothes. Police officials be
lieve that the acid was thrown by a
crank.
New Hummelstown Bridge
Approved by Grand Jury
With the approval to-day by the
Grand Jury of the report of viewers
recommending a new bridge over
Swatara creek on the main highway
from Harrisburg to Reading, and lo
cated just east of Hummelstown, it
is likely the County Commissioners
will advertise at once for bids for
the new structure which will replace
an old wooden covered one.
The new bridge will cost about
$40,000, it is estimated, and will
probably be of reinforced concrete.
The Grand Jury at Ahe March ses
sions of court approved the view
report first, and upon the approval
of the present Grand Jury the Coun
ty Commissioners are now legally
authorized to ask for bids,
shrdl tapu ntapu taun tapunhrha
WBATHGR KAIH NEXT VVKKK
By Associated Press
Umhlniilon, June 15. Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Monday, issued by tHe weather bureau
to day, are: North and Middle At
lantic Stat.es: Generally fair, show
ers in New England probably about
Wednesday. Moderate temperatures.
HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1918.
MANY MARRIED
MEN TO BE PUT
IN FIRST CLASS
Crowder Buling Means Many
Will Go to Army in
Next Call
Thousands of young married men
throughout the state wilf lose their
deferred classifications under the
new draft ruling announced yester
day by Provost Marshal General
Crowder. according to local draft
board officials to-day.
In effect every man who married
siijce the passage of the draft act.
May 18. 191", will be held in either
class one or two Whether or not a
man married in pursuance of a long
standing engagement or to escape
ary service makes no difference.
A survey of conditions in Harris
burg and Dauphin and Cumberland
counties to-day indicated that a large
number of young men married since
the selective service act was passed
will be taken out of class two and
placed in class one The number of
lately married men In the local dis
tricts who were given class four ex
emptions are said .not to be many
Under the latest Crowder ruling
recently murried men who have no
children, born or unborn, must be
placed in class one. This is said to
mean reclassification for a large
number of Harrisburg youths who
were in class two on the ground that
their wives were dependent upon
them. The only dependency that a
recently married man now can claim
is that of a child.
The various local boards, it was
said to-day, used different methors of
arriving at what class in which to
place these men. Proof of an en
gagement before the war generally
was taken to mean that the regis
trant was not trying to escape the
draft in his marriage.
Young wives will not suffer, said
one draft board official to-day. They
will get an allowance of at least S3O
a month under the soldiers' Insur
ance act.
WAR GUIDES TO
DIRECT RETAIL
TRADE IN CITY
Mercantile Committee Named
by Authority of Federal
Director E. L. Fell
The Mercantile Committee, which
will outline regulations for the con
duct of retail merchandise establish
ments during the war, was an
nounced by J. William Bowman,
chairman, and Warren R. Jackson,
secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce, this morning.
The conlmittee was appointed at
the suggestion of E. Lawrence Fell,
Federal director of mercantile econ
omy for Pennsylvania, who addressed
the meeting of merchants at Fahner
stock Hall Monday evening. J. Wil
liam' Bowman was made chairman,
with power to appoint a committee
to aid him in formulating regula
; tions to be observed by all the mer
chants of the city.
Committee Meets Monday
A meeting of the committee has
been called for Monday afternoon
at 4 o'clock In the council room of
the Chamber of Commerce. At the
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Court Fines a Naval
Director SI,OOO For
Hoarding Foodstuffs
By Associated Press
Wuslilnxtoa, June 15.—Dr. Francis
S. Nash, a medical director in the
Navy, was fined SI,OOO to-day in the
District of Columbia Supreme Court
after entering a plea of nolle con
tendere to a charge of Unlawfully
hoarding foodstuffs. An identical
charge against his wife, Caroline S.
Nash, was dismissed.
The court was told that most of
the food hoard, valued at approx
imately *2.P00, found in the Nash
home, had been purchased before
the declaration of war with Germany
and that much of it had been intend
ed for charitable Institutions.
The government Instituted pro
ceedings to libel a portion of Dr.
Nash's food stocks. Officials said
that part of It illegally stored would
be confiscated."
PERSHING SCRAPS
ARMY'S WHISKERS
By Associated Press
Washington, June 15 —A beard
less American Army will fight de
mocracy's battles in France.
On the theory that a fellow
fights better when his face Is de
void of a three days' growth of
beard. General Pershing has sup
plied every soldier in the Ameri
can Expeditionary Forces-with a j
razor. The implied injunction is
a once over every day.
GOOD SPEAKERS
WILL ADDRESS
TONIGHTS RALLY
Patriotic Mass Meeting to Be
One of Most Important
Since War Began
Of course, you are going to the
hall of the House of Representa
tives to-night for the most Import
ant patriotic rally since the begin
ning of the war. Under the auspices
of the Pennsylvania branch of the
American League to Win the War—
the League to Enforce Peace—im
portant action will be taken with re
spect to the attitude of the people]
of this community as representative]
of the Commonwealth.
Arrangements for the rally have,
been made by Dr. J. T. Rothrock,'
the secretary of the league, and in
addition to some eloquent speech
making there will be music and com
munity singing.
Dr. Rothrock will present Bishop
James Henry Darlington as chair
man of the meeting and the Rev. I
Dr. George E. Hawes will make the]
invocation. One of the most elo
quent soldiers from the western front
has been ordered here and will be
among the speakers. Others who
have consented to make addresses
are Professor SnMth Burnham, of
West Chester and W. D. B. Ainey,
i chairman of the Public Service Com
mission. Both ai-c fluent speakers
and are always heard with pleasure.
Those who have men In the ser
vice are especially urged to be pres-
I ent to-nif;ht. There will be no tickets
: of admission nor will tfiere be any
1 appeal for funds. It Is purely a pa
triotic rally with a view to develop
ing the work of the organization
which is formulating already the
constructive peace plan which must
be adopted when the Hun shall have
been crushed. The meeting has been
called for 8 o'clock in the hall of the
House of Representatives on Capitol
Hill and there promises to be a
great gathering.
Reading Inspector Quits
After Long Service Record
T. E. Hassenbruch, fuel and loco
motive inspector on the Reading
system, has resigned. Mr. Hassen
bruch has been with the company for
a number of years. He will be suc
ceeded by H. W. Catlicart, now as
sistant fuel and locomotive inspec
tor.
PLAYGROUNDSTO
OPEN ON MONDAY
FOR THE SUMMER
Instructors Arc Named to
Carry on Work; More
Positions Arc Open
All clly playgrounds for which in
structors have been appointed will
open Monday morning, Supervisor J.
K. Staples said to-day. The bath
houses at Island Park Will open on
Tuesday and the new one being con
structed at Front and Seneca streets
will be completed in ten days.
The following instructors were ap
pointed to-day for the various play
grounds and special activities: Roas.
Wilbur Meek, Leah Klavans; Penn,
Naomi Matz; Harris, Mildred Shrad
ley; Twelfth street. Sarah Beck. Ma
tilda Davis; Sycamore, Margaret
Dougherty, Rees M. Lloyd; Calder,
Georgia Potter; Reservoir, Elizabeth
Workman; Reily, Miriam Stevens;
Hamilton, Margaret Wingeard; Ma
clay. Renjamin Hefkin, Harriett
Lane; Emerald, J. Gordon Hoffman,
E'izabeth McCormick, Evelyn Joyce
substituting first three days; Pax
tang. Mildred Shrupp;swlmmlng in
structors, Mary A. Black; also Henry
Kohlman and Edward Emanuel on
Island; cooking, Miss Anna M. Ben
der; camp, Beulah Starry; sewing.
Miss Maude F. Murphy. The camp
at MeCormlek's Island will open
probably July 5.
Seven more male instructors are
needed. Mr. Staples announced. All
who served last year and applied
again were reappointed. A meeting
of the force will be held on Mon
day morning at 9 o'clock In the City
Council chamber in the courthouse.
Special activity work will be organ
ized next week as soon as the
grounds are opened. Applicants for
the cooking school classes are re
quested to fill in the following blank
and bring It to the school on Mon
day or Tuesday.
Name i... .*
Address
Are Trs. in Class
Playground
THREATEN STRIKE!
It is rumored that carpenters em
ployed on government operations at
Middletown will strike If their cus
tomary bonus is not continued to
day. K(Torts are being made by the
men in charge of tho work to com
promise with the workers, it is said 1
800,000 TROOPS
ARE IN FRANCE;
SHIPS HOLD KEY
Number of U. S. Fighters Go-I
ing Overseas Is Limited
Only by Capacity
VITAL TO SEND QUICKLY!
Importance of Holding Allied j
Line From Rheims to
i
Sea Paramount
By Associated rrcss
Washington. June 15.—More thun I
800,000 American troops have been
sent to France and the government
expects to have a million there by
July 1.
This disclosure was made to-day
by General lfeyton C March, Chief of
Staff, at his first weekly conference
with newspaper correspondents, and
at an earlier conference of War De-,
partment officials with members of
the Senate Military Committee
General March summarized the
battle situation as it stands to-day
with four distinct phases of the great
German offensive halted, but with its
I iinal battles still to come. To meet
j the emergency, he ad'ded, only lack
| of shipping facilities is limiting the
i rush of American troops to the
lighting front. Their prompt engage
ment, he said, is a paramount neces
sity.
Points Out Fighting
The newspaper conference was
held in the rooms of the war coun
cil. On the walls -were great maps
showing the battle fronts and as
General March talked he pointed to
the rows of colored pins that marked
'each phase of the fighting, lie said
' that all four of the German drives
ithus far have had a common ob.fec-
I ttve and he has been only develop
j ing phases of the German purpose
to drive their way to the channel
j ports, primarily, and. secondarily, to
i capture Paris. The fighting of the
| last week, in the Oise-Aisne salient,
he demonstrated, was designed to
straighten out the German battle
front rather than a blow at a direct
objective like Paris. Further oper
ations of this nature, it was indi
cated, are anticipated before the
'drive toward the channel can be re
] sumed.
Rusli of Men Imperative
| Up to the present time the bulge
I the Germans have'made in the allied
I line has added sixty-six miles of front
to the allied lines from Rheims to
the sea, and large number of addi
tional allied forces have been ab
sorbed into the work of holding the
lines. This makes it urgent, said
General March, that American forces
be rushed forward without delay.
General March would make no
prediction as to when American aid
! might give the allies superiority of
| numbers again. The time and size
|of movements of enemy divisions
from the east to the west, he said,
would not be estimated, nor could
a day be fixed when the allies would
have the "mastering superiority" of
numbers which will eventually be
theirs.
The Italian front situation was
not discussed, and General March in
| that the Russian problem
j was still political rather than mili
i tary and. therefore, not within his
I Held of review.
American Ace Brings Down
Five Boche. Aviators in
One Day of Fighting
By Associated Press
Pari*, June 15.—Sergeant David E.
Putnam, of Brookline, Mass., is re
ported to have downed Ave Germans
on June 10. . Three of Putnam's
aerial victories are now official and
the other two are under investiga
tion. This record, if the five victories
are officially credited, makes Put
nam's total thirteen, supplanting:
Lieutenant Frank Baylies, of New
Bedford, Mass.. as the American ace
of aces.
The feat accredited Sergeant Put
nam is the most notable performed
by any American aviator and has
probably been eclipsed only once
during the course of the war. The
only rither aviator getting a larger
bag of enemy airplanes In a single
day is Lieutenant rtene Fonck, a
French ace. who brought down six
German machines.
Sergeant Putnam is a descendant
of Israel Putnam.
YANKEES CiKT ANOTHER
With the American Army In
France, Friday, June 14. —American
aviators on the Toul front probably
drove down another enemy machine
behind the German lines yesterday.
In addition to the two machines
brought down which have now been
confirmed officially as victories. Ex
cept for the usual artillery fire, the
American sectors have been quiet to
day.
American Batteries Hurl
Thousands of Gas Shells
Into Hun Lines on Marne
By Associated Press
With the American Army In
Prance, June 15.—American batteries
last night hurled thousands of gas
shells into the German lines along
the Marne front, northwest of Chat
eau Thierry. The bombardment was
In retaliation for a heavy gas attack
by the Germans.
Washington, June 15.—1n addition
to last night's communication Gen
eral Pershing officially reported to
day the downing of two enemy ma
chines yesterday by American avia
tors. Aside from heavy shelling 'by
both sides, northwest of Chateau
Thierry, the dispatch said, there was
nothing else to report.
'ONI.Y i:\UM\G ASSOCIATED PHKSS
NEWSPAPUIt IN HAItHISDLKG
AN INCH OF SNOW
AT ELLENTON, PA. !
By Associated Press
WILLIAMBPORT, June 15.
With over an inch of Snow re
ported at Ellentoii, near here, last
night, new cold we.n.licr records
for June were established in this
and other nearby sections,
I'lio official thermometer here
registered a minimum of 13 dc
ftrecs early this morning while in
the mountainous sections it hud
dropped nearly to the freezing
point.. While some damage to
garden produce is reported in ex
posed sections, the loss will not
be heavy.
BUHL ESTATE GOES
TO WAR VICTIMS
AND SHARON CITY
Two Millions For Belgian Be
lief and Bcmainder For
His Home Town
Shnron, Pa., Juno 15.—Men are
building different monuments now
adays. Service is the motive. Two
million dollars for the relief of war
sufferers in Belgium and northern
France is set aside in the will of
1' rank H. Buhl. retired steel manu
facturer. who died last Friday. The
will has just been filed for probate
at Mercer.
The major part of the Buhl estate,
Which is valued ut from $10,000,000
to $15,000,000, is directed to be turned
over to the trustees of the Buhl
Club, of Sharon, to be expended for
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Markham Names Ewing as
Head of Reading Railway
Philadelphia. June 13. —C. 11.
Markham, federal railroad director
for the Allegheny region, announced
to-day the appointment of Charles
11. Ewing as federal manager of the
| Heading Railway and the Central
Railroad of New Jersey, with offices
|in Philadelphia. Mr. Ewing was
j vice-president of the Heading. Pres
: ident Dice of that company elected
I to remain as manager of the cor
-1 poration's affdirs on account of ill
| health.
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HOME EDITION
DOUBLE MURDER
CASE IS PUT IN
HANDSOFJURY
1 illie Dale Pleads Guilty to
j Charge of Conducting Dis
orderly House
OTHEB JUBY DISAGBEES
! One Holds Out For Conviction
of Eichelberger Woman
on Similar Charge
11 Juries in the case of Benjamin.
j alias "Preacher" Johnson, charged
'! with murder, and in the suit against
J Emma Eichelberger, charged with
selling liquor without a license and
| conducting a disorderly house, were
■ j out at an early hour this afternoon.
| Ihe jury in the latter case coming
i into court for a few minutes to an
nounce they could not agree on a
! verdict. Judge McCarrell sent thein
out again, after intimating that the
5 evidence for conviction was so strong
- that an acquittal would seem to be u
} miscarriage of justice.
Judge C. V. Henry, specially pre
siding, charged the Johnson jury this •
i morning, reviewing carefully the evl
f I dence given and the attempt to prov<
- self-defense. Johnson is charged
u with the murder of Tucker and Odell
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1 j Postmaster Sites Named
,!' War Stamps Chairman
Postmaster Frank C. Sites was to
day appointed as chairman of th
War Savings Committee for Dauphir '
county, to succeed William M. Don
aldson, who was compelled to re
f 1 llnquish the work because of busl-
I ness. Mr. Donaldson organized th
[ j campaign for the stamps In thi
r . county and devoted much time to
j 1 getting the various districts lined up
s' Mr. Sites took hold this artemoon
eland had a conference with William
I i Jennings, John F. Dapp and otliei
a j men active in such work.
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