THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURG, PA. pictures imms rtmonx our Readers In Fulton Countv and'ElnowhnrA J - Around the World With the Camora on tho Trail of History Malclng Happenings. FRENCH SOLDIERS ENTRAINING AT TROYES t . .J A' if This photograph, taken on the frontier at Troyes after the breaking o ut of the war, shows French troops en- ninlng. Their artillery was mounted on flat cars and the men rode la box cars. IRON DUKE, FLAGSHIP OF ADMIRAL CALLAGHAN &:?,f .A t WW Tlie now Ilrltlsh battleship Iron Duke, fluRship of Admlrnl Sir Oeorge Callaghan, who commands the homo li in the North sea. Inset at the left Is Admiral Cailaehan. and ut the rieht the loadine of a scout mi t battleship. NGLISH TROOPS ON THEIR WAY TO BELGIUM i M ill iili f ( - 1p h life lii'tef JLP Iff I JfS ' i ' 'VVAVAVAVAVAVPAVAVAVAVAyAVAVAVAVAV, F BRITISH BATTLESHIP DRAKE 4 CANADA SENDS HER BEST TO AID OLD COUNTRY ; yax: y MMMmmm WW The response to the call for Canadian volunteors for service with the English army was such that the 25,000 men required could be picked from any three of the Dominion's nine military divisions. The Illustration shows (below) members of the Halifax Itifles, the first mustered in, and (abovo) four of their ofllcers, left to right, Captain Logan, Lieutenant Dennis, Captain Clarke and Lieutenant Jones. SPIRITED FRENCH INFANTRY IN ACTION HIE NEWS TOLD PARAGRAPHS Latest Happenings Gleaned From All Over the State. LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS.) Steelton's Garden Plot Commutes An nouncet 1,122 Gardens Under Cultivation Other Live News Items. William rurci'll, twenty-six. died at Ms liujue la Contralia, from eatluf peanutk Steelton's Garden riot Commute announces 1,122 gardens under cultl' vatlon. ' The State Department of Health) has granted a permit to Thompson town to Improve its water works. Four patients with needles In their hands were treated at the Harrlsburfl JIOHpltal within au hour. CaURht between cars at Bast Col Jiery, Frank Nerl, aged thirty-nine, buhJ talned a fractured skull and is dyln at tho hospital. While walking on tho railroad at Bridgeport, John I'reston, forty-eight) years old, was struck by a train and. killed. A wife and eight children sur vive. John Knopka, aged eleven years, was probably fatally Injured when be was kicked by a horse at Shamokln. The boy had lils skull and Jaw bone fractured. GUIDE FOR AVIATORS i A it s mum '"KUSa Knl.ll . ki tn ti '""-' en route to victoria station, London, whence they i lU Ule Cfmuf .ml A , , . . . &nd i across 10 uoigium. mey are passing Westminster jt we clock of the houses of parliament Is seen in the back- REPORTED CUT TO 'PIECES BEFORE LIEGE A fair J a BUSY IN ST. PETERSBURG " anniKn . '"nous unians or the Oerman army that are reported to "miea by Belgians In the fighting around Liege. v .. A3 fa. Pi- ) i ENTHUSIASM ON PARIS BOULEVARDS r'r u V . -vav 1 1121 it I 5SII . i , This la one of the powerful flares which send a vertical ray that serves to guide the French army aviators at night. SIR JOHN FRENCH I B: V 1 11! : ' v i M Hi f m ir -?r " inr ihr 3 -11 A Frenchman and a Sen-Ian carrying the flags of tholr respective coun tries along one of the boulevards of Paris after the declaration of war be tween France and Germany. AMERICAN WOMEN CAUGHT IN BELGRADE r a X t1 rfMys George S. Marye, American ambas sador to ItuBsIa, baa his bands full taking care of stranded American tour ists and of the Interests of nations whose dlplomatlo representatives have left 6L I'etersburg. Til ' Field Marshal Sir John French who commands the English forces sent across the channel to help the French and Belgians against the Germans. I'-. Lewis BroMoskl was Instantly. kllW ed and Frank Letova was seriously hurt by a fnll of coal at Suffolk Col llery. The dead man was twonty-four years old. Tail Elacr, fifteen years old, of York, probnbly saved his life when struck by an automobile, by seizing the axle of the machine and holding until the machine was stopped. Kdwsrd Fllrklngor, member of a prominent business firm, was found dead in a bnthtub In a lltrrlsburg hotel. lie had been ill for some time and death was pronounced due to heart trouble Howard C. Fry wns appointed jus tice of the peace for I 'ax tang Bor ough, lie was elected recently, but It was found that an election of a' Justice could not take place at a special election. William II. Coughenlur sued William and Lloyd Mountain, proprietors of Mountains' Pharmacy at Confluence' for 5,000 damage charged with falling to label poison purchased by plaintiff who took a doso In mistake for salts. ' Miss Klla Cannon, of Marjd, twenty-eight years old, while out walking with Thomas Clause, of Tuscarora, to whom she was to be married, swooned and fell to the ground. She died In a short time of heart failure. Mrs. Nellie Stem, twenty-six, wife of John Stem, was killed by a train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad In Phlllpsburg. Sho was crossing the tracks and had ample opportunity to. seo tho approaching train. Richard R. Kramer, of Wilmington, Del., a block cutter employed at the plant of the York Card and Paper Company, committed sulcldo by shoot' lug himself through the head. The deed was committed opposite Green mount Cemetery under a large cherry tree. Kramer was on his vacation. The engagement of Miss Laura Louise i:ikin. youngest daughter of Justico and. Mrs. John V. Klkln, of Indiana, to Mi John Grnfllus Stewart, of lxrk Haven, was announced today at a luncheon given at Breezedule, the Elklu home. H ., ; it- ' I 1 iff y 3L( V7 k r V (A v American women waiting anxiously at the railway station In Belgrade for the last train that left that city. Before they got away Austrian shell! fell at the very spot where they bad' been Bitting. John Fltcavage lost bis life by rush ing Into a pocket of gns at Kaglo Hill colliery, when he wbs wnrned not to do so, was the verdict of the coroner's Jury at Cumbola. Fltcavage was found smothered in a gangway and tho evidence showed he was forbidden to go there. The ninth graduating exercises of the Pennsylvania State Forest Acad emy wero held at tho academy, Mont Alto. The members of the graduating claRs are: Leonard O. Barnes, Walter J. Bartschnt, Joseph It. Fawley, Thos. C. Harheson. Walter II. Harnlng, Wal ter Iach, Howard W. Slgglns, Robt. W. Ptnddon, Hairy C. Van Horn, Chas. K. Woof. A. S. Brown, coal operator and mer chant of Osceola Mills, was killed and his daughters, Dorothy and Carrie, and two of their friends. Miss Brokawl and Miss Keedy, of Williamsport, were Injured when their automobile struck a New York Central passenger train at Bigler. Dorothy Brown was driving the machine and lost control when It neared the crossing. Miss Brown may be injured Internally and her sister was painfully bruised. Miss Brokawl was Injured Internally and may dle Miss Keedy was cut and brulsod. Charges that the Borough of Bangor and Naiareth are hampering the service of the Slate Belt Electrlo Railway In Northampton county by preventing waits to make connections were mado to the Tubllc Service Com mission by tho company. The com mission Is asked for relief on the ground that the public- suffers. Ira L. Hikes, a young business maa of Dtllsburg, and Miss Elisabeth Elsmlnger, were married by Rev. J. Harold Wolf, pastor of tho Monaghaq Presbyterian Church. l;
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