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I:!5 tide by aide In the Charlestown navy yard.
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mrmss tho drsert to niout tlifi Ruaslnn troops on tho Caucasus border.
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-Ul wurning that the harbor was mined and closed to alien vesBois.
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kJJ men, well known In society, attending woundod soldleri at
Nrd aa thev arrlva from the battlefields.
TERROR OF NAVIGATORS
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This blR steel bull Is one of tho
deadly mines that are feared by all
navigators. It was washed ashore at
Slzewell, Sulfolk, and its explosives
were removed by a torpedo Instructor.
Many of these mines have been
beached along the coast of ICngland.
WARNS KING OF ENGLAND
Aitrologist Tells George to Beware
of Evil Days In March of
Next Year.
rioston. That King George of Eng
lnnd must beware of evil days next
March Is the prediction of Cutharlne
H. Thompson, astrologlst Miss
Thompson bases her prediction on the
fact that Jupiter enters Tlsces, a
watery, unstable sign, next March, and
afflicts the kind's radical sun, and sick
ness and trouble should Increase
rather than diminish. While Jupiter
was passing through Aquarius this
year, Bhe lays, troublo for the king was
allayed. Something extraordinary will
happen, Bhe predicts, Buch as the slego
of London, the fall of Westminster ab
bey, St. Paul's cathedral or Bucking
ham palace.
A Thorough Soaking.
"Some of those soldiers fighting
along the Alsne must lead a dog's
life." '
"I, should think that lying In a
trench half full of water day after
day would be more like a frog's
life."
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To accommodate the wounded soldiers who aro brought back from the battlo lines, the schools of Germany
have been converted Into hospitals; and In order to provide for tho children, whoso studies otherwlso would be
Interrupted, railway curs are being used as classrooms, as shown In tho photograph.
RED CROSS WORKERS IN NIEUPORT'S RUINS
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Shells from tho German guns were still falling Into Nieuport when this photograph was taken, showing Ited
Cross Aorkers searching the ruins for any who might need their help.
GREAT BRIDGE DESTROYED BY AUSTRIANS I had shoes for his baby
During the recent lighting In Gallcia. when the Itussluns were driving
the Austrluns before them, the Austrlans destroyed this magnificent bridge
to retard the progress of the enemy.
HEROIC SACRIFICE AT SEA
Sailors Drive Their Boat on Mine to
Save a Warship Six of
Seven Perish.
London. The correspondents of
Finnish newspapers report the herolo
Bacrldce of the crew of a Russian
picket-boat In order to save a Russian
cruiser which was unwittingly ap
proaching a mine In the Gulf of Fin
land. Realizing that It was too late to
signal the danger, the boat deliberate
ly rushed at the nilno at full speed. A
terrific explosion followed, and six out
of the crew of seven perished.
The survivor, who was severely
wounded, has been awarded the deco
ration of St George.
Four Sots of Clothing.
Paris. AGorman spy, captured near
Paris and shot, had four sets of cloth
ing the British uniform, the French
soldier's garb, his own and a woman's
dress over all
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Two little shoes found In tho pock
ets of a mortally wounded Belgian sol
dier touched tho heartstrings o.' the
nurses In the French hospitul to which
he was taken. With them was a let
ter to his wife, from whom he had
been separated since the destruction
of their home In Tertnonde, saying ho
was sending a pair of shoes for their
three-year-old baby, bought with
money he had earned as a scout In
King Albert's army, Tho shoes were
hung above his deathbed.
London Vagrants.
The nightly number of vagrants tak
en care of by the city of London aver
aged more than a thousand during the
year ended March, 1913, the nightly
number of casuals dropped to an av
erage of between 600 and COO, and dur
ing the next year the average was
about 300. Since that date on only
two night have there been more than
300, nnd on June 19 the number fell
to 175. This Improved condition Is
due largely -to a systematic effort on
the part of the municipality and char
itable organizations to rellove this
condition.
Founder's Day at Susquehanna Uni
versity was observed by the decoration
of a sixty foot flag pole. Dr. F. P.,
Manhart, dean of the school of
theology, was orator of the day. Tb
Hug was hoisted by Dr. David H. Floyd
and Joseph I.umbard, local veterans
who fmi Klit in the liattlo of Lookout
Mountain, of which conflict Tuesday
was tho fifty-first anniversary.
Three thousand quarts of nitro
glycerine exploded In a magazine bo
longing to the Cupler Torpedo Com
pany, Titusville, killing Ralph Tubbs,
BKcd thirty-nine, an employe of the)
company. The building, the team
driven by Tubbs and the man himself
were blown to bits. Nothing was
found of Tubbs or tho wagon be had
driven to tho magazine.
A statement made by SchuylkHl
county banks shows that the Christ
inas clubs of Schuylkill county hav
Raved six hundred thousand dollars
for Christmas. This is an average of
three dollars for every man, woman
and child In the county. The Schuyl
kill Trust Company alone has 1150.
000 on deposit by these clubs, which
will be distributed this week.
Droz Snyder, the fourteen-year-old
son of Senator Charles A. Snydor, of
Pottsvllle, was serluosly burned when
he lit a match to loo& Into a gasoline
tank on an auto. The tank exploded.
Although Snyder Is painfully burned
about the face, physicians say he will
not lose his sight
Mrs. Anthony Tremko, twenty fire
years old, of Taylor, stood over the
kitchen stove at her home In Scran
,ton and poured kerosene on some
wood to which she bad touched a
match. Her body, burned to a crisp,
was found by her husband.
For "bentlng" bis way from Totts
,town to Norrlstown on a train, Wil
liam Smith, a Civil War veteran, who
irlaltns that ho Is eighty-two years old.
was sent to Jail by Magistrate Clark,
mith says ho was trying to get to
jtho Soldiers' Home at Hampton Road
, Firo of unknown orlnln, descovered
In tho basement of tho department
itoro of County Commissioner J.
Denny OWell, McKeesport, destroyed
Hint building arid damaged buildings
on eaeli side, entailing a loss esti
mated at $177,000.
Caught with a basket containing two
dead geeso August Olt, thirty-one
years old, of Reading, told tho pollco
that he had stolen to keep his family
from starving. Officers sent to his
house found that the family have sub
sisted on a loaf of bread for several
days.
More than a carload of food and
clothing nnd almost $300 In cash were
sent to Philadelphia from Shamokln,
to bo added to donations from other
centers for the relief of the Belgian
war sufferers, '
Virgil Hunt, of Stroudsburg, and
Howard Demund, of Delaware Water
flap, patients at the Rlttersvllle State
Hospital, escaped by using sheets,
from which they made a rope to get
to the ground.
Fire destroyed the barn on tho farm
of William Oyler, near Camp Hill,
burning seventeen cows and all the
props and wagons. This Is the third
barn owned by Mr. Oyler to be burned
within a week.
Miss Nellie M. Cronln, of St Davids,
and Joseph M. McGee, postmaster of
South Bethlehem, were married In
the Church of the Holy Infancy. Rev.
It. J. McGettlnan, the rector, per
formed the ceremony.
Just after expressing a desire for a
sandwich, which a son hastened to
prepare, George J. Hyde, of Fullerton,
a Civil War veteran, fell dead. Ho
was elghty-slx years old.
James MeArdlo, one of tho many ap
plicants for the postolllce at Nesque
honlng, which carries with It a salary
of $1,700 per annum, has been noti
fied of his appointment
Walking on tho Lehigh New Eng
land track with bead lowered against
the wind John Berock, aped thirty-five
years, did not hear the whistle of an
approaching engine and wa9 killed.
There are two cases of children with
enlargement of the tonguo, a rare dis
ease, at the Allentown Hospital. In
leach case the child was born with a
tongue double normal size.
Rev. William Strohelmer, pastor of
the Schoenock Moravian Church Eas
ton, fell from a ladder on the chu- h
property and fractured an arm In t
places.
Daughters of a West Scranton
clergyman and a prominent physician,
along with several other young women
prominent In social circles, have vol
unteered to undergo operations where
by cuticle will be taken from their
bodies and grafted on ten-year-old
Anna Mlholk, burned by the explosion
of a lamp at Taylor eight weeks ago.
The names of the young women are
being withheld from the public for the
A companion of the little girl
allowed some of her skin to be grafted
to the body of the sufferer, but more
is needed.