THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURQ, PA. STATE HEWS BRIEFLY TOLO Latest Doings In Various Parts of the State. In This Dopa rt: m o n t Our Roadors In Fulton Cou n-fcy and, Elsowhoro May journoy Around tho World Aith tho Camora on tho Trail of History Making Happonlngs. PREPAREDFORQUICKREADING STEAMSHIP DACIA, YEST-CASE VESSEL LATEST ADDITION TO AMERICAN NAVY On Dead, Two Injured In Powder Explosion Traced Eloping Wifs; Is Murdorod Steal Work Increase Fore. rar , A., m 7 7rr- vis. ll 1 If J Tho BteaniBlilp Dacla, formerly of the Ilanibiirg Amprlca line, was purchased by K. N. Ilrcilung, but Cireut Britain refuses to conulder the transfer of registry an act In good faith and the vessel becomes the subject of a test cate. WOUNDED IN NEW JERSEY STRIKE RIOT 1 t vL . wssl .pi r? -?rm 4 V Some of the striking employees of the American Agricultural Chemical company who were wounded lu a pitched battle with deputy sheriffs at Roosevelt N. J. One of the men was killed and several were fatally shot. TOWN HIT BY BOMBS FROM THE ZEPPELINS 'I . 1 View of the waterfront and pier of Yarmouth, one of the English towns which suffered from the recent raid of German Zeppelins. THE. TRUCE AT THE WELL Hi 4 r 14 iY-J.W' uiUki wQ. tV1 w rt v avi A(V. v,;? Mi x. '.r& r.m 2xK ms a- i ,w t-vi i.a mi S A rrannh ..Ul .. . . . . ; " -" "iMuier ana a uerman mianiryman niung ineir DucKets at a JMI between the battle lines In northern France. , GENERAL FOCH New and hitherto unpublished pho tograph of General Foch, commander of the Ninth army corps of France, .v .- --: :Tr ,( . ... : The fighting fleet of the United States was increased by one vessel a few days ago when tho torpodobnat de stroyer Cushlug was launched at Qulncy, Mass., and was christened by Miss Marie L. C'uhhlng, daughter of tho Civil war hero after whom It Is named. The Cushlng Is an oil-burning boat of the latest type, 30& fuel long, with a speed of 29 knots, carrying four rapid lire guns and four twin torpedo tubes. CARRANZA'S COMMISSION OF TEACHERS Jf '. .T V r i 1 t v. 4 ! 1 V.wk JAf 4 1 General Carrnnza has sent to Boston to study the public schools for one year these five Mexican school touchers Left to right, they are: Kleosa Espenosa. Eulalia Gurman. Mary Mnrtlnez. Mary Arias lteniol and Ollva Eppenosa ON GUARD IN POLAND (lrmtunw.iriiwwiii):woitulwwiijMaiywa'l German soldier on guard luty In tho snow in Poland, wrapped In heavy furs and with ear protectors. UNCLE SAM'S FIGHTING TOPS .TV Reasonable Assumption, "I always have my doubts of the man who defends honesty by declar ing that he hasn't a crooked bone In his body." "You think he may be exaggerat ing?" "Yes. I'm afraid that ho may not know any more about his own short conitigj thau he does about physiol ogy " Matt Straber, aged thlrtx-flvo, a miner, was burned to death, Clyde Shaner, aged thirty, will die, and Nel son Swanson escaped with serious burns, when a quantity of gunpowder exploded and set fire to five barrels el oil In the supply house of the Miller Cosl Company at Tortage. An electric light globe was broken and, falling Into an open keg of powder, touched It off. The body of Mlchsel Dletall, thirty years old, was found undor a bridge at Simpson and the police are searching for the man who Is alleged to have eloped with the wife of Dletall several years ago. The police say Dletall traced the couple to Simpson and that his murder was the result of efforts to win back his wife. The will of the late Charles Maers, prominent tobacconist, of Reading, who left 15 to each of hl.i three daugh ters, out of au estate of 170,000, giving preference to grandclVJldren, was set aside by a Jury. Letters of administra tion will now be Issued and the estate will be distributed under the Interstate laws, the widows receiving her share as under the will, and the daughters each getting an equal share of the remainder. Further evidence of returning pros perity In the Pittsburgh district was given wben It was announced that eight open bearth furnaces had been put Into operation at the Edgar Thom son Works of the Carnegie Steel Com pany at Draddork, giving employment to over 1,000 men. Stepping in front of the fast west bound newspaper train at Conemaugh. William S. Tate, aged forty-eight, of Altoona, a Pennsylvania freight con ductor, was instantly killed. In a fit of despondency due to 111 health, John Shlpe, thirty years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Shlpe, burned himself to death In the garret of their home at Sunbury. Leaving her husband's side, Mrs. Arthur M. Seyler, thirty years old. IlockvUle, became suddenly demented on a train near Sunbury, alighted and was killed by a train at Snydcrtowu. Immediately after bng relenJ from the county 'jail, through the ef forts of his wife. .TiMiies McCleary, a?sd forty, a ( :nptj operator, of Wash iiiK'on, hurried to his home, shot and killed ber and then killed bUnself. Charles Campton, son of John J. Campton, prominent, business man, was fatally Injured when he was run down by an automobile driven by Arthur Shlpman, also of Shamokln. Campton, who was playing with more boys on a sidewalk, ran against the ear, which crushed his skull. It is probablo that more men will be put to work shortly at the Pennsyl vania Steel Works, Harrlsburg, as tests of the new mills have been pro gressing satisfactorily. The company has been Increasing the number of active open hearth furnaces. Among the appointments to bo mado by Governor Brumbaugh In a short time will be mombers of the State Board of Education to succeed hlmfelf, and Dr. G. M. Phillips, now principal of the West Chester Stato Normal School. Students at the Pensjivania State College extinguished a Ore that threat ened to destroy the main building of the school of engineering. Flames broke out In the students' locker room, presumably from a lighted pipe In a student's coat. The fire was con fined to the locker room and the dam age Is estimated at f 000. The Pennsylvania Railroad's Sun bury and Northumberland repair shops were placed on thirteen hours a day and nine hours' time Saturdays, after having been on but eight hours daily and half time. Six hundred employes are benefited. Norvllle Elliott, of Crum Lynne, a patient In the Chester Hospital, In formed the police that be was attacked In a bathhouse along the river front, and thrown overboard. The water re vived him and he swam to shore, reached the home of a friend and was subsequently removed to the hospital. Judge Bechtel, at Pottsvllle. handed down a rule on William WUhelm, president of the State Progressive League, requiring him to show cause why he should not be disbarred. H is alleged that Wilhelm threatened an exposure which would be worse than the judicial campaign of 1907, when Judf;e Bechtel was elected. This remarkable photograph of the battleship New York, taken as it was passing under Manhattan bridge, shows a close Aiew of the fighting tops ou the lattice masts that are peculiar to the battleships of the American navy. Though machine guns can be mounted in the tops, their main value Is for observation and gun control. Twenty-seven Reading congrega tions have announced their intention to participate In the Stough evangel istic campaign, which Is to open there April 25. A site has already been secured from the Philadelphia & Read ing Railway Company for the erection of the tabernacle. Court revoked the license of the ho tel of Emanuel Leltzel, of Washing ton township, the only hotel In the dls- I trlct which sold beer to girls and boy a under age. ' , 1 ' . . . ' ' " ' ' . '. -
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