fc emir mtMfr vi; -y n r,.p.-fi wvr??iK it'Mcr" ii'vwwtow jrw"t;-4."iWi'V','i-'ri'4l t"w THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURG. PA. IHE NEWS TOLD r New: i ' " "I" i i If! This Department Our Readers in Fulton Oc Around the NAorld Alth tho Ci Latest Happenings Gleaned From All Over the State. unty and Elsewho i mora on the "Frail IVIay Journey of History bVlatclne: Happenlnea. LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS. BLANKETED BELGIANS TRYING TO KEEP WA RM AL FRESCO LUNCHEON IN THE ARGONNE Fire Destroys Big Herd Of Hlgh-Brtf Animals Berks County Society Wins Civil War Claims Boy Fractures Skull. ictures Headers PARAGRAPHS l tit- It ; rim d.1 ID.I n 4 aril mi i II 14 vrrl e 'l of 1 n on dog Mr 6U bat'' r from lfle!' ll J 1 .1 ioldlers of Belgium are poorly equipped for winter fighting, but blunkets ure bring distributed among tliom ;;jy as possiuie. WIRELESS TORPEDO BOAT NATALIA MM - I P Hi I ill ' 1iyyyhi4ip.''vwiiiiiiiri f ?'.in a torpedo boat Natalia, Invented by John llaya Hammond, Jr, of Gloucpnter, Mass. It In steered by wire- tun carry 4,000 pounds of explosives, which reHpond automatically to radio waves. At night the boat la 4 by the use of an arc light of one million candlepower. Young Hammond has given to American navy ex- mccessful demonstration of his Invention. BRITISH GUN ON YPRES BATTLEFIELD HW1' AX' J . .vv. ... .. ............. -..,vrts - .'..w.r.w- c'tlic Ilrltish guna in Its pit on tliw Ypres battloileld, Hcrocned behind an ummunltlon wagon. FUNERAL OF EARL ROBERTS m h Hit. ''J !?'d drizzle England Dald her laBt tribute to Lord Roberts, the J6' of her army, as the cortege passed through the streets from ?" Nation to St. Paul's cathedral, where the remains of the lute H inu j al. a i. rri. ..iminoranli nlinu'R tbn Hnldier's (i IUIU 111 II1U IU1IIU. jihuwb'mi". - ' lun carriage which his son tried to save at Coleuso nt the me. k "r Recover Honey. t( k u Wben ex-County ... "iiuu tun iw Jrea 100 pounds of honey . tllOllirl.f hi. trnnhloa h O Mid U V Bt such Wai not the case. The other day his wife discov ered numerous bees In the house and asked her spouse to investigate, which resulted In bis finding all but a few pounds of the honey gone. The bees bad carried It away. NEW BRITISH ARMORED CAR aoooQoooQOod Ono of tho new armored light cars that the Ltrltlsh ore using to good ef fect on the continent. It carries eight men and a Maxim gun in a revolving top and has a speed of forty miles an hour. When in action the driver sits on the lloor and guides the car with the aid of a reflex mirror. Dishwater Routs Bear, Dawson, Y. T. While washing dishes In a camp on the government road, near Leota Flluff, on the Klon dike river, 30 miles below Dawson, a few days ago, George Ameraux looked over his shoulder. Grinning at him was a huge black bear. Ameraux threw a pan full of dish water at his visitor While llruln was trying to rub the soap from his eyes. Ameraux rushed to hU tent, .returned with his rifle, and killed the bear. v. i French olllcera of an ambulnnce division enjoying a wsyside luncheon near the Argonne buttlelleld with a Ger man Red Crosa man who has fallen Into their hands. GERMAN DEAD ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF ARRAS ' V;-'' V : MJlMM CIGARETTES FOR GERMANS VlV i Before going Into ihe trenches the German soldiers are supplied with heavy socks and mittens and plenty of tobacco. A Red Cross nurse U here seen handing out the highly prized tobacco In tho form o' cigarettes. NEW SUBMARINE AND ITS CAPTAIN s fj ymn' """""''f!--4 Vk HELPS FIND THE WOUNDED -V. V-v v.. '..WW -JWy 51 i'iV.IWC hBasaHwaaaiaaaaii.ci: One of the powerful searchlights used by the French army to enable Its ambulance division to remove the wounded from the buttlelleld at night. Mineral Products of Arizona. The value of the mlnerol products of Arizona, according to the United States geological survey, Increased from $07,497,838 In 1912 to $71,429,705 In 1913. This Is the new United States submarine K C, with Its crew, and, Inset, Capt. J. O. Fit; her, Its commander. Baby Floats Through Pipe. Riverside, Col. Mary Sobdo, two years old. dropped her rag doll Into an Irrigation stnndplpo. She reached for It, lost her balance, fell in and Hooted along in an 18-tnch main. Ef forts to fish her out at two Rtandpipeps farther down failed, but at the third, an eighth of a mllo away, James King, n rancher, caught her. She was uniu-Jured. Here's Duck-Legged Chick. Eaton, O. George White has pro duced by selective breeding the short est legged chicken lu existence after ten years of effort, during which 'he crossed and recrossed breeds. The result is a big whlto fowl that contin ually seems to be sitting, the Impres sion being due solely to the shortness of Its legs. When It walks It waddles like a duck. A Muffler for Machinery. New York. A monster silencer, made soniewliat on the same principle as the silencer for guns, has been de signed by Harvard professors for tht noisy machinery of a New York pow' er plant, lu order to meet tho protest! of people living In tho neighborhood and Its success will give an opportu nity for doing away with many of the noise nuisances of industry. This Hog Has Eight Feet. Owanka. 8. D. Pickled pig's feet will no longer be a luxury under any high cost of living regime If Mike Pan peel, a stock raiser near here, Is able to continue raising hogs with eight feet, like one he recently marketed at the local yards. The animal bad an extra foot attached to each ankle and all were well developed and of ordi nary six. Judge J. Q. VanswearlnRen. In a de rision handed down at Unlontown, de clared that the section of State nilulng law requiring the maintenance of bore holes for the protection of miner against explosions, is lawful and must be observed. P. J. Walsh, Inspector of the Ninth Illtumlnous District, In stituted, suit against a mine foreman of the W. J. Ralney Company for not maintaining bore holes. The defend ant claimed the holes were of no prac tical value In preventing explosion. J. K. II. Cunningham, Deputy Attorney general, olded lit the prosecution. The mysterious death of John Mil ler, a llazleton whiskey agent, whose, body was found on the mountains near Ashland three years bro, was solved when George Smith, of Glrardvllle, who Is dying In the State Hospital at Fountain Springs, declared that Mil ler, while a gnet at (ilrardvlllo. was murdered by William Ahrens, proprm tor of the hotel at which he stayed. Ahrens has since died. Smith In his dying statement declared that Miller's body was carried to the hillside to divert suspicion after tho murder. Officials of the Agricultural and Horticultural Association of Itork county were notified that the United States Court of Claims has awarded the society the sum of $632.10 for the use of and damage to the fair ground and buildings by the United State military forces during the Civil War. The U. S. Army occupied the ground' from 18G1 to 1863. Seventy five head of stock, valued at nearly four thousand dollars, were killed on the farm of Senator J. Donald Cameron, at Donegal, the slaughtering having been done by three Inspectors. One of the latter came near losing his life when a bullet Intended for a steer struck a bone and glancing off grazed the Inspector's head. Trying to stop a morlng belt at the Flory flour mill, Nazareth, as a test of his strength, almost proved fatal to ran! Yotter. The young man, boast ing of his strength to companions, grabbed hold of a belt attached to a line shaft and the next minute was flying through the air. He managed to land dear of a post, but In the fall broke an arm. Declaring that while he was at work his wife placed their baby In care of a neighbor, packed her clothing and went away, Daniel Muckel, of Mohn ton, started divorce proceedings In court at Reading, against Cora Muckel, of Wyomisslng, a suburb of Reading. The alleged desertion took place De cember 1, 1909. Despondent because his communica tion with relative in the Prussian war zone had been cut off, Michael Heller, of Tottsvllle, aged seventy-two years, a retired cooper, committed sui cide by shooting himself In the head, while his daughter, Mr. Charles Klusch, and her husband, a local drug gist, were, about to sit down to dinner. John Novlck, a young miner at Kulp mont. was found near his home with his head crushed by a blunt Instru ment. A butcher shop close to Novick's house had been entered by burglars shortly before Novlck was found, and It Is thought they attacked him as they left. While driving his automobile along the highway near St. Clair, Jefferson Crow, a prominent contractor, struck and killed Charles Pavela, who became bewildered and stepped In the way of the machine. Witnesses of the acci dent exonerate Crow from blame. William A. Isenberg, aged seventy six, and his sister, Miss Saloma Isen berg, aged eighty, were suffocated by coal gas at their home at Port Royal. Three other members of the family had narrow escapes. A herd of twenty-two cattle and twenty hogs belonging to John 8. Swoyer, of Swoyer's Crossing, near Reading, were killed by tho State In spectors on account of the hoof and mouth disease. Herbert Ilerblne, seven-year-old son of Edwin Ilerblne, Is In-.a dying con dition In St. Joseph's Hospital, Read ing, from a fractured skull, suffered In a fall from the second-story porch of his home. Leaving a note that he was Impelled to kill himself from remorse over hav ing deserted his wife, Chnrles Law rence, aged forty, was found dead from poison la the Penn Hotel, Allcntown. William Miintyre, Jr., of Twedale, Chester county, committed suicide by throwing himself under the engine of a train on the Iancaster, Oxford & Southern Railroad. The big herd of fancy and high-bred cattle of Edwin H. Blnns, of near Port Kennedy, in Upper Merlon Township, was destroyed by Are, Forty-two cows, eight horses and two ponies were destroyed. The fire was dis covered by a farm-band, who sum moned help by telephone. A burglar who entered the home of Stacy O. Glauser, a lumber merchant, or Chester, narrowly escaped capture when Mrs. Glauser, being awakened, came upon him. He escaped with $15 In cash and three gold watches.
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