' THK FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO, Pa. Word Events KEYSTONE STATE T In This Dopartmont Our Readers In Fulton County and; Elsowhoro May Journey Latest NewsHappenlngs Gather ed From Hera and There. Around the World With the Camera on the Trail of History INIatclng? Happonines. TURKS MAN FORMER GERMAN CRUISER GOEBEN TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS BELGIAN AMMUNITION TRAIN DRAWN BY DOGS 2 Highwaymen Strip Man Of His ClothM Beside Road Woman Suicide After Quarrel Horso and Carriage Stolen. r for Mews Readers ORDER r MT. i T 558 J.VN ft V --' v ." ;: in;;:, ,," 'nv-r-q Former German cruiser Gooben, which the Turks purchased and renamed the Yavauz. photographed on the Black sea Hying the Turkish flag. Above, photographed on board the Yavuuz, are the Turkish naval minister, DJe mal Pasha, and Admiral Sachcn, together with other Turkish officers and several German naval officers. BELGIAN FIRING SQUAD SHOOTING GERMAN SPY J ) H7 (MiisMBBBBBallBttBB Execution of a German spy, who was caught by the Ilelglnns near Teriuonde. He was led out at dawn, blind loldcd and shot. MOBILIZATION OF TURKISH TROOPS tefe-ipi '- fell 'Ioq0 cf.6 t'D Con8,ant,nolle Bhowlng Turkish recruits hurrying to the moblll- NEW CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL IN ST. LOUIS GENERAL VON EMMICH m in' I X5: v ' jjtf' ,-tai"virtn c.-Jj -iihi aiiiii'0. r ,T -),il,' """TT"lnliiiii hi - ' m :ULA...:4 iwUki.-.flt iu? J o,!,1 'thWthSl?0ll catnedral ,n st- Louis, jusi opened, couipurus luvomuiy on 'rtlslve I cnurcn eaiucos In the woria ana raims umuug iuu iu feet hi r"""lca- " ' feet long, Z1Z feet wiae, ana me hibju Conructif 1,19 Beatng capacity Is 3,500. The cathedral bas been S to (jo,,!! Blx eari nd so far about 1,600.000 has been Bpent on It. ''""lileiinn . D' nnro". the architect, as much more will be devoted v'ell0 of the interior. This photograph of General von Em nilch was made during field opera tions In Belgium after bis forces had achieved the capture of Uego, for which he was personally thnnked by the kaiser. TOBACCO PRECIOUS AT FRONT English Soldiers In France Say That the Weed Is Like Gold Dust London. Messages from the front saying that tobacco Is like gold dust to the soldier have so touched the sympathy of smokers that mall to the continent le now fljlod with cigarettes, pipes and plug cut. Societies are formed for the collection of tobacco in its various forms aud boxes for such contributions are now prominent on hotel desks and club tables and other places frequented by smokers. While all classes are helping Tom my Atkins to get his smoke temper ance societies are frequently urging him not to drink. Theso societies want the men to volunteer to do what was made compulsory in the Russian army by the czar's antlvodka decree. One well-known Anglican bishop bas asked the men to pledge themselves to refrain from drinking even beer or light wines, although they may know the water to be polluted. The bishop liirtiBelf Is not Joining the expedition ary force. mm,, fmmJ - mm MOST IMPORTANT OF THE TSING TA0 FORTS k-r fPS; rs.' . .iu Situated on the high hill at tho right of the photograph is the most Important of the German forts ut Tsing Tno, Chlnu. It Is also a Blgnnl station. The entire hill Is covered with Intricate entrenchments and the emplacement for big guns are cleverly conceulud. BLANKET AS ARMY OVERCOAT If IS 1 Owlnc to a shortage of overcoats for the lirltluh troops on the continent, the army authorities hnve adopted an American Idea, and are making ovcr couts out of blankets. A slit cut in the center and stitched around forms the heud opening, and a button and loop ut each center extremity form the culTs. The bult may be worn outside. WILL HIS AIRSHIPS RAID ENGLAND? It -: 114 2s Iff n Russia's Flags Described. London. A Uusslun officer, writing to the Telegraph, describes the Uus slun flags as follows: "I should be glad if you could kindly publlBh a paragraph which will settle the dUpute about regardiug the cor rect Rutislan flag. "The yellow Hug with the double engle Is the Imperial standard. The white flag with the blue St. Andrew's cross Is the ItusHlan naval ensign. This is used only by the navy, and is not allowed to be flown by private Individuals. "The ordinury Russian flag, similar to the English union jack, Is a tricolor of white, blue and red stripes placed longitudinally. This is the flag which should bo used by people in this coun try who wish to show their admira tion for their ally, Russia." Vienna Makes Some Changes. Vionna. English sporting terms for merly in generul use In Austria are now prohibited. Steeplechase has be come "Jagdreimou;" handicap, "bus glelchBrennen," and spring mooting, "fruhlingsrennen." 1 Ih . ' : i I Vi i t , Ant-. I I ' "'iiilllmi ii iii inn' 1 K Count Zeppelin, who is ut WilhelniBhaven directing tho assembling of a great fleet of the airships that ho invented, Is here seen In consultation with Count Ilaessler, who is the figure at the left. 1U low is one of the giant Zep pelin dirigibles with which, It is believed, the kulser Intends to make a raid on Eugland. FIGHTING IN THE BELGIAN FIELDS Helglun machine gun In action, covering the advance of the Infantry seen In the background. This photograph was taken during an engagement be tween Termoudo and Labbeke. t City officials of Toronto, Canada, ln spected the Harrlsburg municipal y tern. Measles are epidemic at Riverside no less than thirty cases baring beet reported by physicians. Henry Arnt, aged aTonty aern, wat burned to death in a fire which da stroyed four frame houses at Steelton. Michael Csntrava, aged twenty-one years, was instantly killed by a fall of rock in the Lehigh Coal and Naviga tion Company's No. S shaft. Henry O. Thein, sixty-four yeara old, who shot himself in the head la the cellar of his home at Milinont) Monday, died Tuesday night. Bids will be asked for an eddltlonal mile and a half of street, paving for Harrlsburg to complete this year's operations. Mrs. Ellen Griffith, seventy-seven years old, died at her home in Sun bury within a few hours after hei son, Stephen Griffith, died. John L. Bendell, of Green Hill. Ches ter county, has filed a complaint wltb the Tubllc Service Commission against tho withdrawal of tho Pennsylvania train leaving West Chester at 6.29 A. M. for Philadelphia. The Bethlehem Steel Compnny has bought land on the north side of the Lehigh River Just below Bethlehem. It Is rumored that the new Bettendorf Car Works will be established oa the tract Just purchased. While at work at the plant of the Reading Uayonne Steel Casting Com pany, William 11. Kellner, aged thirty- eight years, of Bethlehem, was killed by an arm of a windlass with wblcb a building was being moved. Albert rrescarls, six years old. found a dynamite cap in the yard of his home in Shenandosh. He struck It with a stone, exploding it, which shattered bis right hand, necessitating amputation at the wrist. The tube mill of the Reading Iron Company, which closed down ten days ago on nccount of no orders, resumed operations. It Is stated that orders for pipe are coming In more freely. When running full handed the plant employs 1900 men. Thomas Price, a boarder at the home of Mrs. Mary Kiddle, Scranton, Is al leged to have attempted to end his life, and a short time Inter there was & quarrel between tho two. Angry, Mrs. Kiddle went to her home and when her on returned, two hours later, he found her dead wltb a bottle that bad con tained poison lu ber hand. A Reading firm received a contract from the English Government for 0, 000 stretchers to bo used In carrying wounded from the field. They are to bo furnished at tho rale of 1,000 a week. As tho contract has neorly a year to run, it is apparent that Great Britain does not expect the war to end soon. Mrs,. John Walsh and daughter and Elmer- Herring, of Union Township, have been seriously bitten by a cnt which physicians at Philadelphia de clnre had tho rabies. For this reason it Is feared tho persons bitten may be affected, and they will bo given tho Pastuer treatment at tho county hos pital at Schuylkill Haven. Soon after John Hesser, superin tendent of the StiHfiuehanna Coal Com pany's Hickory Ridge Colliery, drove to Shamokln and tied his horse to a post, a man leaped Into Hesser's car riage and drove away. Threo hours later police captured the man, who Rave his name as Charles Helnds, of Sunbury, Mrs. Harry Nixon, of Chester, ra reived a letter from her husband from Quebec, Canada, Informing her that ho was about to sail for Europe to Join his regiment which Is at the front In Belgium. Less than a year ago Nixon seut to Derby, England, for the sweetheart of his childhood, Leah Orace. They were married in rhlla delphla. Wliile on his way from his home in St. Clnir to Mt. Hope Arden Seeley, twenty years old, son of William Seeley, was allocked by two highway men, who pulled hltn Into bushes biv side tho road and stripped him of alt his clothing. The men even took th eye glasses from his nose. After warn, ing him not to make an outcry, thi two men decamped through th bushes. Returning home and finding tht house locked at Bangor, Evan Rob erts, the fifteen-year-old son of How ard Roberts, climbed upon a porch ti enter the second story, lost his bal ance and fell, striking on his head and dying in a few hours. INTERESTING NOTES FOR ALL In their experiments with the pro Auction of steel by electrlo methodi the United States Steel Corporatloi has expended more than 1800.000.
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