THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURQ, PA. STATE HEWS BRIEFLY TOLD Latest Doings In Various Parts iadoro lo Fulton County arid E ho Alay Journoy cf the State. Thin Deoartment Our R Around the World With tho Comora on th of History Making Happonlnga. Troll PREPAREDFORQUICKREADiNG Two Dead, Two Hurt In Fall In Pitts- rritiqu rattifquip ciink in niRnANFl l FS SUBMARINES OF THE ATLANTIC FLEET ton Coal Mint Baaeball Pitcher Will I IVII hf 1 W W W I 1 ' Killed Aged Woman Hang Hereelf. for Mews Readers of wor Events J , ' ' ' ' ' - ' ' 1 --ir--..-,n- v.-.tigJe:: 2 A rolling stone caused collision between trains at the PennsyWanla depot, Altoona. While the dlnlnc oar was being cut off train No. 23, Cionduo tor 11. A. Pullen, of Altoona, after re leasing the coupling stepped en the atone and fell. Before be ootid get up and set the brakes she diner crashed Into the rear ot Um trasst violently (hat hundreds ot gawa and china dishes In the car vera krofcum. The Eastern FennaylTania lEaauisl Directors' Association a Its SMial meeting at South BetLteheia, efaeted Clark Hutchinson, ot Martina Creak, president; J A. Bergstresses, of Hal Urtown, vice-president; W. 1L Weier bnch, of South Bethlehem, nafoaair, and . W. Slough, ot SdmaoeanMla, treasurer. British battleship Goliath which was torpedoed and sunk In the Dardanelles, several hundred lives being lost r ATLANTIC FLEET BATTLESHIPS AT NEW YORK IK A p i. 1 ;T I .urn 1 1. 4 mat 0 Some of the battleships of the Atlantic fleet photographed as they entered New York harbor for the annual r-rlow by the YV-j ILLINOIS WOMAN MAYOR SCHOOLSHIP STARTS ON LONG CRUISE ' vKN8yy a m 1-4 m fVftli V ' ( ' II Ivr v lh n m--mwK As :. ,., ., ; jryff - New York state nautical school ship St Thomas as she started for tha Island of St Thomas on the first lap of her 15.000-mlle voyage. ELECTION SCENE IN TOKYO HJ"y"W" tlv 'W"v ua m f a rw; i.-rtm v. ki. .yfl''.. .n qs-tv v?3rc rA During tha recent elections In Japan the banners put up by the varloua candidates In Tokyo were so numerous that in the vicinity of the polling (laces they Interfered with street traffic. Mrs. A. D. Canfleld. mayor of War ren, III., Is the first wonan to oe elected to that position In any Illinois city. She Is a widow, seventy-four years old and conducts a millinery shop. She has promised to put an end to poo rooms, gambling and the liquor traffic In Warren. Are There Prlvata Armies? It is illegal to have an army ot your own, but tne law wiuks ai ynvmr armies In one or two cases. The duke of Atholl had for they have now gone to the great war a pri vate army ot 200 men, and has often Drovlded guards ot honor for King George from their ranks, in laci Queen Victoria once reviewed this pri vate army. The duke of Athoiis pn vate army Is for its slse the finest body of soldiers in the world, all over six feet In height, sturdy Scotsmen picked from the Attest ot the lit The duke of Fife also kept a pri vate army which numbered a hundred men, who were armed with huge pikes exactly as the soldiers were armed centuries ago. The Stuart Archers and the Farqu harson Clansmen are two other privat armies of which Scotland can boast The marquises of Donegal, too, have for hundreds of years kept a private army. Pearson s. 8evera Training. -What I admire about Blithers is his oulet self possession." "He acquired that In the last few years." "in what way?" "By sitting In the audience while his wife made speeches on woman suffrage " . Five of the submarines of the Atlantic J0.1 ""d'"jl liEsiTTf 7 , . ' . " riff .1 "Mr i -' - 'ill J "v a : . ' - i Joseph Martin and John Bonk were killed at Barnum mine, Erie eounty. In Upper Flttston, by a fall of rock. Alexander Zezkl was probably latally Injured and Thomas Logan was slight ly Injured. All reside in Duryea. Tha men were robbing pillars In the Check er vein and tha removal ot tha coal 'et down tha roof. l't ' i . rt! n ii ; "ii it 3 John C. Jacobs, aged forty-eight, of York, died from concussion of tha brain caused by striking his head against the edge of a bath tub during a spell of vertigo, while ha was taking a bath. Ha Became unconscious ana his wire collapsed and Is now In a seri ous condition. Jacobs was manager of the Royal Wall Paper Company. TTTTA, At the annual meeting of the Lin coln Republican Club, of Media, the following officers wore elected; Presi dent, Frank Mathuea; vice-president, Ulysses G. Peck; secretary, John Tar ries; treasurer, John Duffy; Board ot Directors, Alexander P. Addis, Milton Dotts and Morton Smedley. niyrtv- jf --sy 1 , ,-F'-. Judge Sadler, at Carlisle, sentenced Daniel Blair, Simon Cookerly and John Frohm, who pleaded guilty to selling liquor without a license, and Robert Green and Richard Sheaffer, convicted. to pay five hundred dollars' fine and be Imprisoned In Jail for one year. n Ktii font. f tha iiiirt flppt in the Dardanelles was the cutting of the cables between the forts on the European and Asiatic sides. This was accomplish ?d by the British light cruiser Amethyst, though she was BiihWtPil to a terrific fire and was struck by a nuniDor 01 annus. SALLY PARNESS, BUTCHER "-,,S Zt$ J..lWHtillW, When New York city recently opened Its great cosmopolitan market there was an Innovation that Wis pleasing to the woman shoppers espe cially. This as the placing of Sally Parness, a skilled butcher, In one of the big meat booths to see that the housewives got Just what they wantod Faith In tha Seed Catalogue. I never lose my faith In the annual seed catalogue in spite of divers and sundry disappointments. With new test 'every year I read of those won derful strawberries, one of which would fill a tumbler, and the ever-bear Ing raspberries that are In fruit from June to' December, and ot the mam moth squashes which only a Hercules can lift And 1 am very sure to try some ot them, and get any amount of fun out of my anticipations of similar results. No matter it the realization falls far short of the picture In the gorgeous catalogue; 1 lay the results to my poor er soil, or lack of skill In cultivation, and have Just as much confidence In the novelties which next spring's cata logue exploits as the "very largest richest, Juclest, most melting (always a favorite word) fruit in the world." 1 would not lose my faith In the seed and fruit catalogues for all the squashes and raspberries that grow. Francis E. Clark, In Countryside Maga tine. Misplaced Pity. Mrs. Anna Stelnauer, Bostgn's po licewoman, said, me otner aay: "My duties afford me shocking reve lations. I am astonished at the nunv ber of Boston women who smoke. Aud as for the men of Doston well!" The fair policewoman smiled grim ty and added: "Hpw roany. many a Boston wife brushes In the morning the billiard chalk from ber husband's coat-sleeves and thinks, with tears in her eyes, of the overtime the poor boy puts In I nearly every evening at his dreary J desk by the whitewashed wall!" VINCENT ASTOR GETS A HYDROPLANE The City Evangelization and Church Extension Union, of the Methodist Episcopal Church,, of Reading, pur chased two properties on Franklin street, near Front, for the establish' ment ot an Italian Methodist Episco pal Mission. I llll II II I I I. I II ""'""" ' 1 " 1 1 w X f "P-J - J ii While hunting crows William Schearer, aged seventeen, of Spring field Township, waa terribly injured when his shotgun exploded accidental ly, tearing out his right eye, cutting off his ear and otherwise wounding blm In the face and neck. The plant of the Standard Steel Car Company at Newcastle was damaged to the extent of $150,000 by fire which started at a furnace. The plant was engaged in filling a foreign order for six thousand alx-lnch projectile. Lewis Roeder, of Frackville, a base ball pitcher, was killed on the Read ing Railway while working as a car runner. He was braking a car, when the stick he was using broke, and ha fell under the wheels. Frederick J. Fredericks, of Read ing, and Mlsa Frances Viola Doub, daughter of Daniel C. Doub, of Funk- ton, Md., were married In Christ Epis copal Churoh, by Rev. Frederick Mae- Mlllcn. Vincent Astor (right) about to try out a new $14,000 hydroplane built for him at Marblehead. Mass. The flying boat has a speed of from 45 to 70 miles an hour, and Is equipped with a roomy cpbln for three persons. ARGENTINE MAGNATE AND FAMILY HERE Miss Marlon Sterner, one of tha public achool teacher of Pottsvllle, was married to D. H. Gerber, man ager of several stores In Mobile, Ala. Rev. A. O. Relter, pastor of Trinity, performed the ceremony. The people of AUentown who favor Sunday closing have appointed a com mittee to demand Sunday closing of Council, on pain ot enforcing tha Blue Laws. Under the auspices of Ota Liberty fire Company, a party of 129 Allen town people left on a special train oa a trip to the Panama expositions. Tha party will be gone a month. . Grief over tha death ot her husband. Marx Doermann, two weeks ago, la blamed for tha suicide by banging at Reading, of Mrs. Lena Doermann, av-enty-one years old. Thomas Llewellyn, sixty, of Scran- ton, who took poison several days ago, died at the State Hospital. Fear of his becoming blind resulted In tha suicide. Colgero Gerrlc, twenty-one, charged with the slaying of S. Pillato, waa found guilty of murder in the aecond degree at Scranton. David Strouse, aged forty-nine years, an Ironworker, committed suicide at his borne In Potts town. Samuel Hale Pearson ot Buenos Aires, one of the most Important finan cial men In tha world and the greatest capitalist of South America, with his wife (above at left) and two of his daughters. Mr. Pearson came to represent tha Argentine Republic at the financial congress In Washington. May Reconsider Local Option. Harrlsburg. Further consideration of local option In tha present Legisla ture is now considered probable, not withstanding the Bruinbaush-Wllllame local option bill waa defeated earlier In the session by an overwhelming majority. A resolution providing for the appointment of a commission t investigate tha advisability of passing such a bill baa bean prepared.
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