THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG. PA. STATE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD N In Thlo D Latest Doings in Vario Parts of the State. partmont Our Readers In Fulton Around -the Aorld Alth the unty and Eli i mora on "fchu owho Trail VI y Journoy o-f History INIalclng Happonlnci PREPARED FORQUICKREACING ANOTHER AMERICAN VESSEL SUNK BY GERMANS WATER SCARCE IN MEXICO CITY Bethlchtm Steel At Full Cipaolty. Strlks 6oon Adjuittd At Reding ton Plant Science Necessary For Farming. of wor Events for Readers I If j American steamship Leelanaw which was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Scotland because it had a cargo of flax for Belfast The crew was saved. VINCENT ASTOR'S NEW HYDRO-AEROPLANE rVs- v ' .4W n-n tfi'j The open hearth department of tho Bethlehem Steel Company is running 100 per cent, according to a statement by Austin D. MIxBell, vice-president This ninariH that the sixteen furnaces are workins and producing 60,000 tona of Ingots a month. Eight of the eleven opn hearth furnaces of the Lehigh plant are working and the blast fur nace department's capacity shortly will be IncreaHiid by the blowlng-ln of one of the $2,500,000 furnaces. Two other furnaces of this type are about ready to be blown In. Addressing several thousand per sona at Benton, State Zoologist Sur face declared the farmer must make his money by increasing the size of his crops and decreasing the cost of production, through scientific farm management, not by raising the cost to the consumer. Farmers whose only ambition is to charge big prices for what they grow are traitors to the public good, he declared. Not only did the food supply fall in Mexico City, but for days at a time the water supply was cut off and at all wells water was sold at a high price. The photograph shows one of those wells, the owner of which was ejoctea by force in order that the poor people might get water. GERMANS ENJOY A STOP IN POLAND i Alexander iniDtmky, twenty-right years old, was killed by a fall of coal at Turkey Run Colliery, Shenandoah, while John Klerney, thirty-one years old. was injured seriously In a similar manner at Maple Hill Colliery. Du- bltsky was to have been married Wed nesday and was working his last week in the mines, intending to go Into busi ness. w! ZT m8d?1for ,V,ncent A0T been smashed in its trial flight, he ordered various MOges, and the result Is the mach Ino hero hn ik. n,a it. mu- ..... ... . ' . '.h.. in ,l. . . .t . . . " " " li"- " are noi on lue pontoon, Dut llier, In the center of the plane, and the wings are In the form of a broken V. : Ft yrw, -'v- - -I - . ... 31 b Ut ..si. Thei-e was a short-lived strike among the 400 girls employed at the Redlngton fuse plant of the Bethle hem Steel Company. The girls were getting eight cents a hundred for fill ing shells, and demanded ten cents a hundred. The trouble was adjusted In short order and the girls returned to work. Postmaster Martin Kllngler, of A!- lentown, reports that the amount of business transacted for the year end ing June SO. was $211,515.22, a gain of $18,170.22 over the year before, and, after pay'nK salaries and miscellane ous expenses of $109,273.35, he re mitted to the Postmaster at Philadel phia $102,241.87. Scene in Russian Poland when a German Infantry company baltod In the course of a hot and hard march long enough to permit the tired soldiers to refresh themselves with a swim In a stream. Judge J. Q. Van Swearingen award ed a writ of peremptory mandamus on the Fayette County Commissioners to compel them to accent the non-partisan petition of J. E. Hanly, candidate for Mayor of I'nlontown, thus declar ing constitutional the non-partisan fea ture of the Clark Act governing third class cities. FIRST BATTLESHIP THROUGH CANAL wish heroand father LIBERTY BELL AT SAN FRANCISCO famous tower a war ruin j, i Minimum i'iiiij, A (1 1 1 1 NmU im N i ?VC' tl fad i I TM. i. .u ... . t.A.. l . . . " " 1 1 L JiLr. v ri-ii';f Mmmimia . yuuiutiiya auuw. uia oauiesnip Missouri in tne west chamber of n Ir-' WwtiTTT? i L IW " Jr.l w Pedro Miguel locks as the teat battleahlna to nsss through the Pnm- lue return home on short leave of I "&2Mjr AVAJ--ll' ilrJ rem .gffl Ell Hoover, of Conoy Township, driver of an automobile, In company with Mrs. F. Blecker, Mrs. Clayton Peters, Mrs. Edward Boyd and three- year-old daughter and Mrs. K. Zerby, of Elizabethtown, all were Injured seriously while descending a hill near Jednota, when the car toppled over an embankment. On the charge that while under the influence of liquor he operated hi car. State Highway Commissioner Cunning ham revoked the automobile license ot Grover Zcller, Warren, Pa. The Chester Jitney Association Toted to carry all firemen free of charge In rase of fire, providing that the distance was not unreasonable. In creased traffic as the result of six-for-a-quarter tickets were reported. KINDNESS ON THE BATTLEFIELD iris iLM :i v - - -.--Y r irtiTii n -ftnrwiirr -of iiniWri.ir i-v- if -ur n N . uui always ui Bupvuaeu oj iuuhi puupie. even me ouicers oi ins 61 fln .. U . . ikl. . U . A.U . I j, , ., n. . i. "'S f uluor "" n iu uiu innn mere ugnting. ruy creeps lonn iuo uuiueui ui uemiB. i uo paoiograpa snows uormnu omcer & wounded Russian soldier. The soldier had crawled for shelter . '"rge hole dur bv an exnloded shell. Here ha U nntlnntlv awaltlns M 'n,i of the day's battle. A German officer passing noted the plight of "oiaa no itoppea to minister to his wants. The return home on short leave ol the popular Irish Guardsman hero, Sergt. Michael O'Leary, V. C, who practically captured an enemy's posi tion by himself," killing eight Ger mans single-handed and taking two others prisoners, at Cuinchy, did not pass unobserved. The king sent for him to Buckingham palace and pinned the oross on his breast, with the queen and princess warmly congratulating the sergeant; Cork gave O'Leary an ovation as he drove through the city with the lord mayor. We see him here at his cottage home at Inchlgeelah. near Macroora, County Cork, with his father, to whom Sergeant O'Leary Is showing his cross. May Give Bruin Bread Card. The authorities of Elberfeld, Ger many, are confronted with the most puzzling problem that they have- had to solve since the bread card became an Institution In Germany and all because of a show bear that Is so fus sy, about his food that be will eat nothing but bread. The owner of the animal recently was haled before the lower court and fined and sentenced to prison because he had shared big weekly portion of bread with the bear. With two months' Incarceration staring him in the face he appealed, alleging that the bear waa his only means of support. A kind hearted Judge changed the sentence to a fine of 100 marks, and advised the owner to apply to the president of the government In which Elberfeld lies to issue bruin a bread card Just like any regular human being. "Native daughter" of California kissing the Liberty Bell after it had com pleted Its triumphant journey to the Panama-Pacific exposition. It has been installed in the Pennsylvania building to remain until December L BARRICADES IN ALSATIAN VILLAGE James E. Cummlngs, of Shenan doah, has been elected principal of the Clifton Heights public school, to succeed William H. Swank, who has been appointed assistant superinten dent of county schools. P9SSS NMi MMllillllllllllfll lllir Wtfffi 'D Ore These stone barricades were erected by the Germans In the Alsatian Tillage of Requtevllle, after It had been taken from the French. The ancient and historical tower of Rawa on the River Rawka, In Russian Poland, as It appeared after the bom bardment by artillery and Infantry that resulted In the capture of the city by the Germans, Ef'.ward B. Gerry, of York, has been, arootnted cashier at the ninth Internal dlktrict revenue office, located in Iin caster. Gerry will begin his duties this week. The twelve-year-old son of Edward Pembrldge was drowned In the Susque hanna river at Inmcn's Ferry. He was bathing, when he got in deep water. Building a Molasses Ship. Another large shipbuilding contract obtained by the Gore River Shlpbulld lug corporation has been announced. It Is a tank steamer for the Cuban Distilling company and is a sister ship of the steamer now in course of con struction at the yards, which will be called the Cubadist The newer ship contracted for is to be 389 feet long. 54 feet 6 Inches beam, 32 feet 6 Inches depth and 9.000 tons displacement It will be capable of carrying J.500.00H gallons of molasses About a year will be required to construct this ves sel. The contract Is the second received within two weeks, the former being for a 10,000-ton cargo capacity freight steamer for Edgar E. Luckenbach of New York.- The yard now has about 5,000 employees. BoBton Transcript. This Fish Is Educated. Tt.ani.nre Sharn. a fisherman of San dusky, Ohio, claims, to be the owner of the only educated carp in exis tonm. Sham says the cam. which weighs nearly 40 pounds and when out ot the water resembles to a ,ai-Vtl Wren a fat hoa. will come to him when he whistles; that it will eat out of bis band and that when be is mi. in a boat will follow him around. swimming close astern near the sur face. Richard Warg, who left 30 year ago for Philadelphia, is visiting T.e htghton for the first time, although residing but 90 miles away during that period. The Lancaster County Tobacco Growers' Association will tour the en tire county on August 17 to obtain ideas on the cultivation of a better grade of tobacco. A Sllltnhle niemnrial will he erected In October to mark the spot where th first courta In Lancaster county were held. While going to Inform her daughter of the death of a relative, Mrs. Lydla Prenelser, aged seventy-five, of Man helm, fell and dislocated her shoulder. At. a mass meeting of Wormely burg citizens, It was decided to bond' the borough for $3,000 to cover the cost ot erection of a new town hall. Jacob Greenawalt. a Civil War vet ron, of Letnoyne, was found dead In bed, death resulting from a stroke. He was 74 years old. I. W. Long, aged seventy-seven, a Civil War veteran, died at Watson town of heart trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Long recently celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
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