THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO. Pa.
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Black sea flying the Turkish flag. Above, photographed on board the Yavauz, are the Turkish naval milliliter, DJe
nat Pasha, and Admiral Sachen, together with other Turkish offlcers and several German naval ofTlcors.
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Execution of a German spy, who was caught by the Belgians near Teruionde. lie was led out at dawn, blind
folded and shot.
MOBILIZATION OF TURKISH TROOPS
Scene In Constantinople showing Turkish recruits hurrying to the moblll
on ceilt"' to be ready to take part in the war.
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Aordin n p Blx year Bnd 80 far abo"t $1,500,000 has been spent on It.
k "ie -on', V,001'8 D- Barnott, the architect, as much more will be devoted
completion of the Interior.
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achieved the capture of Liege, for
which he was personally thanked by
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Situated on the high hill at the rlfiht of the photograph Is the most Important of the German forts at ThIiik Tno.
China. It is also a signal Btatlon. The cutlre hill is covered with intricate entrenchments and the emplacement
for big guns are cleverly concealed.
BLANKET AS ARMY OVERCOAT
TOBACCO PRECIOUS AT FRONT
English Soldiers In France Say That
the Weed Is Like Gold
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London. Messages from the front
snylng that tobacco Is like gold dust
to the soldier have so touched the
sympathy of smokers that mall to the
continent ie now filled with cigarettes,
pipes and plug cut. Societies are
formed for the collection of tobacco
In Its various forms and boxes for
such contributions are now prominent
on hotel desks and club tables and
other places frequentod by smokers.
While all classes are helping Tom
my Atkins to get his smoke temper
ance eocleties are frequently urging
him not to drink. These 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 bUhop has
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
liimeelf ia not Joining the expedition
ary force.
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OwltiE to a Bhortnge of overcoats for
the British troops on the continent,
the army authorities have adopted an
American idea, and are making over
coats out of blankets. A silt cut ln
the center and stitched around forms
the head opening, and a button and
loop at each center extremity form tho
cuffs. The belt may be worn outside.
Russia's Flags Described.
London. A llusslun olllcer, writing
to the Telegraph, describes the Rus
sian flags as follows:
"I should be glad If you could kindly
publish a paragraph which will settle
the dispute about regarding the cor
rect Rufcslun flag.
"The yellow Hag with the double
eagle is the Imperial standard. The
white flag with the blue St. Andrew's
cross is the Russian navul ensign.
This is used only by the navy, and is
not allowed to be flown by private
Individuals.
"The ordinary Russian flag, similar
to the English union jack, Is a tricolor
of white, biuo and red stripes plnced
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, RuBBla."
Vienna Makes Some Changes.
Vienna. English sporting terms for
merly in Rcnerul use in Austria are
now prohibited. Steeplechase has bo
come "Jagdrennon;" handicap, "aus
glclch8rennen," and spring mooting,
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City officials of Toronto, Canada, In
spected the Ilarrlsburg municipal sy
tern.
Measles are epldemlo at Riverside
no less than thirty cases having bee
reported by physicians.
Henry Arnt, aged seventy-seven, wta
burned to death in a fire which de
stroyed four frame bouses at Bteelton.
MlcbaM Castrava, aged twenty-one
years, was instantly killed by a fall
of rock ln the Lehigh Coal and Naviga
tion Company's No. S shaft.
Count Zeppelin, who is at Wllhelmshaven directing tho assembling of ft
great flout of the airships that he invented, Is hero seen In consultation with
Count lluessler, who Is the figure at tho left, lit low is ono of the giant Zep
pelin dirigibles with which, it is believed, the kaiser Intends to make a raid
on England.
FIGHTING IN THE BELGIAN FIELDS
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Belgian machine gun ln action, covering the advance of the infantry seen
ln the background. This photograph was taken during an engagement be
tween Termoudo and Labbeke. ,
Henry O. Theln, eixty four years
old, who shot hlmsolf in the head In
the cellar of his home at Mlhnont,
Monday, died Tuesday night.
Bids will be asked for an eddlUonal
mile and a half of street paving tv
Harrlnburg to complete this year's
operations.
Mrs. Ellen Griffith, seventy-seven
years old, died at ber home In Sun
bury within a few hours after he
son, Stephen Orlfllth, died.
John L. Bendetl, of Green Hill, Ches
ter county, has filed a complaint with
the Tublio Service Commission against
the withdrawal of the Pennsylvania
train leaving West Chester at 6.29
A. M. for Philadelphia.
The Bethlehem Steel Company has
bought land on the north side of the
Lehigh River Just below Bethlehem.
It is rumored that tho new Bottendorf
Car Works will be established on the
tract Just purchased.
Wblle at work at the plant of the
Reading Ilayonne Steel Casting Com
pany, William 11. Kellner, aged thirtjr
elght years, of Bethlehem, was killed
by an arm of a windlass with which a
building was being moved.
Albert Trescarls, six years old,
found a dynamite cap in the yard of
his home in Shenandoah. 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 ton days
ago on account of no ordont, 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 later there was a
quarrel between the two. Angry, Mrs.
Kiddle wont to her home and when her
ion returned, two hours later, he found
her dead with a bottlo that had con
tained poison in her hand.
A Reading firm received a contract
from the English Government for CO.
000 stretchers to bo used in carrying
wounded from the field. They are to
be furnished at tho rate of 1,000 a
week. As tho contract has nearly a
year to run, It is apparent that Great
Britain does not expect the war to end
soon.
Mrs. John Walsh and (laughter and
Elmer Herring, of Union Township,
have been seriously bitten by a cat
which physicians at Philadelphia de
clare had the rabies. For this reason
It 'Is feared tho persons bitten may be
affected, and they will be given the
Tastuer treatment nt tho county hos
pital at Schuylkill Haven.
Soon after John Hesser, superin
tendent of the Susquehanna Coal Com
pany's Hickory Ridge Colliery, drove
to Shomokin and tied his horso to a
post, a man leaped into Hesser'a car
riage and drove away. Threes hours
later police captured the man, who
gave his name as Charles Heinds, of
Sunbury.
Mrs. Harry Nixon, of Chester, re
ceived 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
ln Belgium. Less than a year ago
Nixon seut to Derby, England, for the
sweethenrt of his childhood, Leah
Grace. They were married in Phila
delphia. Wlille on his way from his home in
St Clair to Mt. Hope Arden Secley,
twenty years old, son of WUMnm
Seeley, was attacked by two highway
men, who pulled him Into bushes hi
side the road and stripped him of all
his clothing. The men even took the
eye glasses from his nose. After warn
ing him not to make an outcry, ths
two men decamped through the
bushes.
Returning home and finding thi
house locked at IlRngor, Evan R6t
erts, the fifteen-year-old son of How
ard Roberts, climbed upon a porch t
enter the second story, lost his bai
ance and fell, striking on his head and
dying ln a few hours.
INTERESTING NOTES FOR ALl
In their experiments with the pro
Auction of steel by elecfrlo methodi
the United States Steel Corporatloi
has expended more than 1800.000.