THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO, PA.
n This Department Our Readers In Fulton County andElsowhoro May Journey
Around the NAorld NAith the Camera on the Trail
of History INlalcing Happenings.
BELGIANS FLEEING AND ADVANCING
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Below, t ho entire population of Tirlemont fleeing, for life from tbe rapidly advancing Germans, carrying their
out precious little possessions. Above, Belgian Infantry in column formation screened by artillery under the trees
4 tie distance, marching to repulse the Germans at Haelen.
CLEARING THE WAY FOR ANTWERP'S GUNS
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When the Belgians rotired to Antwerp many houses in the suburbs were burned In order to clear the laud In
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BRIDGE ACROSS THE MEUSE DESTROYED BY BELGIANS
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"fuse river. This photograph was made at great rU'.t, as an order had been issued to shoot photographers
:,rtt making pictures.
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REFUGEES IN CATTLE CAR
v"" lor ,6 Amerlcan Red Cross nurses ready to sail on the Bteainer Red
w Mav' 8 0n tlle battleflolds of Europe. In front ore Mary Francis
Heu ' nroneU and Anna L. Rontinger. At the r?ar. Mary E. Glad-
"ay (In charge). Lucy Minnegerode and Mary F. Farley.
American and EngllBh refugees flee
ing from France In a cattle car. They
were glad to obtain even that crude
transportation.
London. A Wlllesdnn shopkeeper
1b disposing of a stock of small silk
German flags by offering them as
"pipe cleaners; four a penny."
VISE DEVASTATED BY THE INVADING GERMANS
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HecauHe Vise, llelgium, offered a stout resistance to the German troops they luft it In the condition here shown
a mass of ruins.
FRENCH ARTILLERY IN DIFFICULTIES
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French artillery division that got Into trouble while maneuvering for an advantageous positiou.
SAILING OF THE RED CROSS DELAYED
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This is the steamer Red CrosB, formerly the Hamburg, whose sailing from New York with American Red t'rons
nurses and Burgeons was delayed by protests of the English and French consuls Decuuse no.no oi u.o :rw
Germans.
FOR LOYAL GERMAN WOMEN
This ring of the German Order of
the Iron Cross Is boing bestowed upon
many of the loyal women of Germany
who contribute to the kaiser's war
fund, William following the example
set by his grandfather In 1870.
Paris. In the fighting at Dleuze It
Is declared the Qormans signaled for
a masked battery to open fire on the
French by having a military bund
play Chopin's Funeral March.
AUSTRIAN SHARPSHOOTERS HOLD BACK SERBS
Austrian sharpshooters along the Danube river checking the advance of
the Servlau troops.
raOi STATE
IN
SHORT
ORDER
Latest NewsHappenlngsGather
ed From Here and There.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Train Kills Prominent Warren Woman.
Twenty Men Hurt In Crash Of
Cars At 6cranton War
Booits Business.
Joseph II. Dlvol, It baa been an
nounced at Danville, will receive the
appointment as deputy Internal reve
nuo collector for lb Ninth Stat Pis
trict.
Charles Hennlncr, forty-three years
old, a firebox at th Colbert Colliery,
Shamokln, was killed when be fell 169
feet down a man way. A widow and
tlx small children survive.
lloyd Grange, a Muncy musician,
suffered serious burns, when the acnty
lene gas in his automobile exploded.
Ills hair, eyebrows and eyeloshe are
burned off and hit face is blistered.
Chester City Council has awarded
the contracts for the now $75,000 bond
issue to E. J. Coleman, of Philadel
phia, at par with accrued Intercut. Tbe
money w ill be used to pave streets.
Falling from a telephone pole, JohnN
Gerber, a lineman, of York, struck a
wlro carrying 2.200 volts of electricity
and for several minutes was suspended
head downward. Tbe shock doubled
up his body but did not seriously in
jure bliu and fellow-workmen rescued
bliu.
While there are many industrial
plants in the country visibly affected
by the war in Europe, there is one con-
corn which already Is beginning to
profit by it The Urydon horseshoe
works Catasaqua posted notices that a
large part of the plant will run night
and day.
Franklin Glikeson, socretary of the
Bristol Chamber of Commerce, mailed
notice to members of that body to at
tend a meeting to consider whether It
would bo advisable to bold a "Fare
Refund Week" and farmers' fair under
the auspices of tl.o Chamber of Com
merce and Bristol's retail merchants.
Mrs. Allco Jefferson, sixty-three
years old, wife of J. P. Jefferson, of
Warren, was killed by a special train
on the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley &
Pittsburgh Railroad. Mrs. Jefferson
had been a guest at the borne of W.
W. Rankin and emerged Into tbe dark
ness and stepped on tbe track in front
of the englue.
The final chapter in the dissolution
of the Temple Iron Company, known
as the Hard Coal Trust, and ordered
dissolved by the United States Su
preme Court, occurred at Reading,
when stockholders at a meeting pass
ed a resolution to decrease the capita)
stock from J2.500.000 to $250,000.
The State Health Department has
gent receptacles to Coatesvllle to have
tests taken of the borough water and
springs at the request of the local
board since the outbreak of typhoid
fever, which local physicians and the
town authorities appear to be baffled
as to the source of pollution.
In a head-on collision between a Rlue
Lino express car and a southbound
Carbondnle car on the Scranton rail
way at North Mayfleld, twenty men
were injured, several of them seri
ously. The street car was loaded with
men, on their way to work. The col
lision occurred In a dense fog on a
straight track, through misunderstand
ing of signal lights.
Becoming despondent because of
hearing so much talk about the Eu
ropean war and fearing that as a re
sult of it he would lose his employ
ment in a textile mill, George F. Sell,
twenty-four years old, of Montello, shot
bis pretty, young wife In the head and
then turned the weapon on himself and
committed sulcldo with a bullet In the
temple. It Is believed the wife will
recover.
A meeting of tho Bucks County
Teachers' Association will be hold In
Boylestown. September 19.ln the high
school building. Addressed w 111 be de
livered by Dr. Ambrose L. Suhrle, the
new head of the department of peda
gogy, at the West Chester Stnte Nor
mal School; County Superintendent J.
H. Hoffman, and Miss Margaret Ma
guire, principal of tho George Wash
ington Public School, Philadelphia.
The mediators appointed by the
Welfare Leaguo and the Business
Men's Association, of Norrlstown, t
consider the closing of stores on Sun
days are: Zebulon T. Smith, Dr. B. F.
Place, Rev. John Allen Crawford,
Calvin Eroh, A. G. Grater. Willard S.
Campbell and Rev. Ralph Mayberry.
on behalf of the Welfare League, and
Hervey C. Gresh, Marcus Hydeman.
Daniel F. Yost. Harry B. Tyson, Harry
R. Stahlman, Chester M. Frey, Joseph
B. Ganser and Rev. Theodore Hey
sham, on behalf of tbe Business Men's
Association.
Daniel Foster, a motorman on the
Southern Pennsylvania Traction Com
pany's lines In Chester, was struck on
the bead by a bnseball and made un
conscious. He Is in Chester Hospital.
The Norrlstown Court appointed as
a Board of Viewers for roads and
bridges for three years: Joseph For
nance, Walter M. Shaw and ElwooO
Rhoads, of Norrlstown; Alvtn C. Alder
fer, of Harleysvllle; Thomas S. Glllen,
of Ambler, and William II. Diller. ot
Hatboro. ,