THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
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of History Malclng Happenings.
FRENCH SOLDIERS ENTRAINING AT TROYES
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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
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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
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CANADA SENDS HER BEST TO AID OLD COUNTRY
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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
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&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
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" anniKn . '"nous unians or the Oerman army that are reported to
"miea by Belgians In the fighting around Liege.
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ENTHUSIASM ON PARIS BOULEVARDS
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This la one of the powerful flares
which send a vertical ray that serves
to guide the French army aviators at
night.
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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
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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.
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Field Marshal Sir John French who
commands the English forces sent
across the channel to help the French
and Belgians against the Germans.
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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.
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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.
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