THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBUEO, PA.
PEACE OFFER IS
REJECTED
BY CZAR
Interesting Story From the
Russian Capital.
CZAR SAYS NOTHING DOING
Germany It Now Straining Every
Nerve To Eliminate Russia From
the Number Of Her An.
" tagoniiU.
Fetrograd. The Bourse Gazette
learns that last week Emperor Wil
liam, through the King of Denmark,
offered the Russians terms of peace.
The reply of the Czar to the Danish
monarch's letter was the categorical
declaration that at the present time
there could be no question of peace
negotiations.
Having failed to carry out her
original program of crushing France iu
the first few months of the war, Gir
many, according to talk here, has now
altered her general plan and is strain
ing every nerve to eliminate Russia
from the number of her antagonists
In order to be able to concentrate all
her energies against the Allies In the
west, when they at last are In a posi
tion to cause her serious Inconveni
ence. Germany had hoped by the momen
tum of her assault on both flanks of
the l'olish salient to cut off and utter
ly destroy the Russian armies occupy
ing It and thus reduce Russia to Im
potence. No doubt her calculations were
largely based on the idea that the Rus
sians would cling desperately to the
Warsaw and Vistula fortresses and
thus allow themselves to be caught in
a trap.
Last week it must have become
clear to the Germans that their plot
was frustrated. Thanks to the timely
decision of the Russian chief in com
mand. Warsaw was evacuated prompt
ly and with thoroughness. The Ger
mans will find that the Polish capital
Is an embarrassing luxury.
It Is quite natural that, under such
circumstances, thp Kaiser should dan
gle temptations before the eyes of
Russia. No doubt the terms he of
fered seemed to himself generous and
magnanimous. However, the emphatic
rejection of his offer is a clinching
proof of the steadfastness and con
stancy of Russia.
Further confirmation of the Iron de
termination of this empire to fight to
a finish is found in a remarkable arti
cle contributed to the Boerse Gazette
by General Mikhnevitch, head of the
general staff, who places It beyond all
doubt that Russia deliberately adopted
the policy of 1812 of retreating every
where, at ease and In good order, leav
ing behind a desert stripped of every
thing that could be of advantage to
the foe. He says:
"If they want, the Germans can
come on further and further until such
times as Russia shall have supplied
her needs. They will have to fight
for every step of gain, br.t the Czar's
armies will not allow themselves to be
pinned down to a dei-isive battle until
their equipment is complete.
"Meanwhile the Germans will l"ave
the railway's further and further be
hind them and will be compelled to
carry every ounce of food they need
across a d-vastit-d tract where the
roads, at tli best times, are few and
worse than anywhere else in Kurope.
"The only question about which
there can be any doubt Is whether the
Russians have the hardness of temper
to make the necessary sacrifices.
"All doubts on this score are now
set at rest. Time is on Russia's side."
ITALIAN SUBMARINE SUNK.
Austrian Undersea Boat Reported To
Have Destroyed Nereide.
Paris. The Italian submarine
Nereide is reported to have hwn sunk
in an encounter with an Austrian sub
marine off the Island of relagosa, in
the Adriatic Sea, according to a spe
cial dispatch from Rome. The Ne
reide, which was bnllt in 1913, was
134 feet long, with a beam of 14 feet
and displacement of 313 tons gross.
Her peace time complement was 17
men.
NO MORE COAL FOR ALLIES.
Britain Restricts Exports To Her Own
Possessions.
London. After August 30 British
coal cannot be shipped anywhere ex
cept to British possessions and to pro
tectorates, according to an order In
council Issued. The export of coal
heretofore has been restricted to the
British possessions and to countries
which are allies of Great Britain. The
new ruling eliminates all the Allies.
SECRET STATION FOR U-BOATS.
Believed To Be Located On the Span,
ish Coast.
Madrid. The suspicion that Ger
man submarines are supplied from a
secret station on the Spanish coast Is
strengthened by the presence at night
of a mysterious vessel near San Juan
tenleves. A German submarine wag
seen weeks ago near Conchadeardo. It
was provisioned at night with 50 tons
of benzine by the steamer Marcel,
from Bllboa.
WOUNDED TO BE EXCHANGED.
Russia and Germany Will Begin
Transfer Thursday.
London. Arrangements have been
compleetd for beginning on Thursday
the exchange of incapacitated Rus
sian and German prisoners of war. A
dispatch from Copenhagen to the Ex
change Telegraph Company says that
a. steamer has been chartered for this
purpose to sail across the Baltic be
tween Trelleborg and Sassnlu, carry
ing 300 men on each trip.
ARE READY TO
AC! ON HEHCO
Pan-American Congress Agree
As to Procedure.
GEN. SCOTT SENT TO BORDER
Chief Of Staff Of Army Will Impress
Upon Villa Need Of Making Con
cessions Acting Under Sec
retary Lansing.
Washington. The Tan-American
Conference considering means to re
store peace to Mexico adjourned after
having developed no divergence of
opinion as to its general purposet, but
leaving undecided the exact course to
be persued. It will reassemble lr. Nt-w
York probably this week.
Meanwhile the Latin-American diplo
mats will communicate with their gov
ernments, and Secretary Lansing will
confer with President Wilson.
It was reported that the general
form of the final appeal to the faction
al leaders had been agreed upon by
the conferees and adjournment taken
while Mr. Lansing laid It before the
President. The Secretary was said to
be at work on a draft of the appeal
In consultation with Secretary Lane,
who has kept in close touch with the
Mexican situation. The appeal will be
auUressed to the Mexican people.
Copies will be presented to the vari
ous Mexican leaders, to the Governors
of the Mexican States without regard
to the faction they represent, and also
be circulated throughout Mexico b"
American and Latin-American consular
officers, bearing the ratification of all
South and Central American Govern
ments. Two days of conferences and hear
ing reports have brought all the par
ticipants In acc6rd with President Wil
son's general plan, which is promised
on the fact that the great majority of
the people of Mexico desire peace,
which to be lasting must go beyond
consideration of those who have fur
thered their plans through force of
arms. The conferees were Impressed
that while the armed forces are In
position to keep the country In a state
of turmoil, they are, nevertheless, only
a small proportion of the people of
Mexico.
While all the participants are In
sympathy with the President's plan to
lndure the military factions to enter
another peace conference and have
signified their willingness to co-operate
with it to the fullest extent, the
South Americans are not sanguine of
success unless some way can be found
for elimination of the military lead
ers and recognition of all classes In
Mexico.
It Is realized that there are ques
tions of vast moment, when considered
!n the light of Mexico's international
obligations and the responsibilities
of the nations which are preparing to
sponsor her rehabilitation, that cannot
be determined in any brief confer
ences, but must be the subject of
deliberation.
Foremost Is the extent to which the
claims of the military chiefs shall be
considered and what concessions be
tween them can be arranged. One de
velopment which emphasized that fea
ture was the dispatch tonight of Major
General Scott. Chief of Staff of the
Army, to the Mexican bolder to con
fer with General Villa.
The War Department refused to
rommc.'.l on General Scott's mission,
ar.d It was said there that any state
mi nt would be made by the State De
rat'n.ent. After a conference between
General Scott and Secretary Lansing
and Acting Secretary Breckenrldce of
the War Department, It was said tho
General was going to readjust the
American forces in the light of recent
developments which have threatened
attacks on border towns.
BILBO BY 5.C00 IN MISSISSIPPI.
Nominated For Governor Over Four
Other Aspirants.
Jackson, Miss. Virtually complete
returns from Tuesday's Democratic
primary Indicate that Theodore G.
Bilbo was nominated for Governor by
a majority over the four other aspi
rants which probably will exceed
G.tmO. M. W. Rellly led In returns
from cities, but the late returns from
country districts place Bilbo ahead.
STOLE $6,000 IN GEMS, IS CHARGE.
Man From Columbus Also Accused Of
$300 Forgery.
Danville, 111. Arthur Jones, of Col
umbus, Ohio, was returned to that city
to face charges of stealing $6,000
worth of diamonds and of forging
Checks for $300. He was arrested
here on a description furnished by Uie
Columbus police.
LONDON PAPERS ECONOMIZE.
Leading Dailies Reduce the Number
Of Pages.
London. Decreased advertising
revenue and a shortage In the supply
of chemicals necessary for the manu
facture of white paper have resulted
In an agreement by the proprietors of
London's newspapers to reduce the
number of pages. The Post Thurs
day contained 10 pages, while The
Times. Telegraph and Standard con
tained 12.
GEN. B. F. TRACY DEAD.
Harrison's Secretary Of the Navy Suc
cumbs To Paralysis.
New York. General Benjamin F.
Tracy, who was President Harrison's
Secretary of the Navy, died of paraly
sis here In his eighty-fifth year, after
a period of unconsciousness lasting
nine days. General Tracy's death oc
curred shortly after S.30 P. M. and fol
lowed a fight for life that had amazed
the physician at bis bedslre.
MR. KILL JOY
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But President Wilson Is Opposed
to Militarism.
WANTS A DEFINITE PROGRAM
The President's Idea Is To Propose a
. Program That Will Have the
United Support Of Con
grets and Be Adopted.
Cornish, N. H. With the object of
developing a broad and convincing pro
gram of national defense which will
meet with the approval of Congress
President Wilson is planning to co
operate with the chairmen of the Mili
tary and Naval Affairs Committees of
the Senate and House, as well as with
Secretaries Garrison and Daniels, of
the War and Navy Departments, be
fore he finally decides on. the recom
mendations he will make in his next
message to Congress.
The President told friends here that
while he had made no definite .plans
for consulting with the chairmen of
the committees Interested in the ques
tion of national defense he would arrange-
to see them before Congress
convenes In order to unite on a single
program of action.
When the President sees the chair
man of the four committees he ex
pects to have before him the reports
row being prepared by Mr. Garrison
and Mr. Daniels. The heads of the
War and Navy Departments are ex
pected to take part In the conference,
or series of conferences. In order to
explain persoially their recommenda
tions. Invites Committee Chairmen.
The President already has written
to Chairman Padgett of the House
Affairs Committee inviting this digni
tary to meet him on Mr. Wilson's re
turn to Washington. While he did not
say whether he had written similar
letters to the chairmen of the other
committees, it was reported that he
had done so.
The President believes the time has
come for the Tnited States to decide
on a definite program of national de
'ense, and he is anxious that as little
friction as possible develop over the
question when It is presented to the
two houses of Congress. He will not
decide in his own mind on the kind
of program required until he has
thoroughly examined the reports of
Mr. Garrison and Mr. Daniels and baa
received the views of Congressional
leaders.
The plan of the President Is to con
sider carefully a program of national
defense after free consultation with
others and then to throw the entire
weight of the administration behind
the policy agreed on.
As already Indicated, the part of his
next message devoted to national de
fense is expected to be the most im
portant of the entire document. Much
thought has already been given by the
President to the subject since his ar
rival here, but he will convey no Indi
cation of his Ideas until he obtains
more information. He Is opposed to
a policy of "militarism," but thinks the
Cnlted States should be adequately
defended.
THE COUNTRY AT LARGE
The Holland-America Line steamer
Rydam arrived at New York with 108
Belgian refugees, who will go to rela
tives in the United States.
The bodies of 26 victims of the flood
In Erie, Pa., have been recovered. The
total damage in the city is estimated
at between six and seven millions and
to the crops in the county at $2,000,
000. J. H. Ttiergens, who wrote letters
threatening President Wilson and for
mer President Roosevelt, was arrested
in San Antonio, Texas.
Stability tests for big lake steamers
as result of Eastland disaster began
in Chicago with the whaleback excur
sion steamer Christopher Columbus,
which defied all efforts to tip her over.
Harry S. Houtz, arrested In Salt
Lake City, confessed that he wrecked
the Scenic Limited on the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad.
The committee to bring Latin Amer
ica and the United States Into closer
business relations met In New York
and made tentative plans for visits to
South and Central America.
Ignatius F. F. IJncoln, a former
member of the British Parliament and
a self-confessed German spy, was ar
rested In New York on the charge of
forgery.
BROAD
PLAN
IL
GERMANY
NSISTS
ON ITS POSITION
Claims Sinking of the Frye
Was Justified.
WILLING TO PAY FOR SHIP
The Note Suggests Two Wsys Of De
termining the Indemnity T
Be Paid To the Ship,
owners.
Washington. Secretary Lansing
made public Germany's reply to the
recent American note dealing with the
case of the sinking of the American
sailing ship William P. Frye, of which
Captain Kubne, of Baltimore, was
master, when It was sunk by the Ger
man auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eltel
Frledrich. In the reply Just received
the German government Insists upon
its Interpretation of the treaty and
challenges again the contention of the
United States government that the
destruction of the Frye constituted a
violation of article 13 of the Treaty
of 1799, between the country and
Prussia. Germany take the position
that the commander of the Prlnz Eltel
Frledrich bad a right to sink the ves
sel and admits the liability under the
Treaty of 1799 to pay indemnity for
the loss of the vessel.
The German government explains
that the German prize court, at Ham
burg, found by Its Judgment on July
10 that the Frye carried contraband,
that the vessel could not be taken
Into court and its sinking was Justi
fied, but the prize court recognized
the validity of the Treaty of 1799, mak
ing the German government liable for
the payment of Indemnity for the loss
of the vessel.
The-prize court was unable to fix
the Indemnity because the interested
parties did not submit the necessary
data and In order to fix the Indemnity
the German government suggests that
each government namo an expert,
these experts to fix the amount of the
Indemnity, which will be promptly
paid. But If the United States gov
ernment does not agree to the pro
posed method of settlement the Ger
man government asserts its willing
ness to submit the different opinions
to the Hague Tribunal for settlement.
The unofficial view here Is that
reparation by a commission of exports
probably will be satisfactory to tho
United States with the express pro
vision, however, that it Is not a waiver
of treaty rights for which the Ameri
can government contends, but applies
only to the matter of damages.
It Is practically certain that If the
United States allows the dispute to go
to The Hague for interpretation of the
treaty provision or continues the
academic discussion of principles
through the channel of diplomacy, It
will Insist that, meanwhile, Germany
refrain from violation of what the
United States contends are Its rights.
WOULD BOLSTER GOLD RESERVE.
Breat Britain Asks Public To Use
Paper Money.
London. To strengthen the gold re
serve for exchange purposes the treas.
ury has Instructed the postofflce and
all public departments to use when
ever possible notes instead of gold In
making cash payments. The public is
requested to cooperate by paying In
gold to the postofflce and banks, ask
ing for payment of checks In notes
and using the notes for the payment
of wages and for cash dlbursements
generally.
AMERICAN KILLED IN FRANCE.
Richard Tanfleld Vachell Lieutenant
In British Army.
San Francisco. Richard Tanfleld
Vachell, of the Fifth Fusiliers of the
British Army, a native of California,
was killed last Sunday in Northern
France, according to a cablegram re
ceived here. Vachell, who was 25
years old, was the son of Horace
Annesley Vachell, the novelist and
playwright.
$2,006,399,539 IN GOLD 8TORED.
Payments For Goods Exported To Eu
rope Swell Supply.
Washington. The United States has
accumulated the largest stock of gold
ever held by any nation on earth.
Treasury Department officials declared
the amount of gold, cash and bullion
In this country totaled $2,006,399,539.
This amount Is twice the size of the
gold supply of any other nation and Is
aald to be the largest ever held by a
country In history.
WARSAW
E
BY IHE GERMANS
Bavarian Troops First to Enter
the City.
CZAR'S ARMY HARD PRESSED
German Forces May Now Swing To
the Western Field Prob
able Attack On
Serbia.
London. The Germans are In pos
session of Warsaw, capital of Poland,
and the third largest cily In the Rus
sian empire. Bavarian troops entered
the city, having taken successively
the Blonlt lines and the outer and
Inner fortresses of the city Itself, the
Russians only fighting rear guard
actions to allow their main army to
make good its escape.
While to the Bavarian!, commanded
by Prince Leopold, has fallen tho
honor of taking over Warsaw In the
name of the German Emperor and his
consort, who are expected to make R
state entry within a few days, the real
conquerors are the troops fighting
under Field Marshal von Hindcnburg,
along the Narew River to the north
east; to the Austro-Germans, who
crossed the Vistula to the south of the
city, and to the armies of the Austrian
Arohduke Joseph Ferdinand and the
German Field Marshal von Macken
sen, which are advancing northward
between the Vistula and Bug Rivers.
Fighting Desperately.
The Russians are fighting desperate
ly and stubbornly to check the prog
ress of these four armies and have had
several successes. Inflicting heavy
losses on their pursuers, but they are
being steadily pressed back, which
made the longer occupation of the
Warsaw Polish salient a hazardous un
dertaking. Even now, although the steadiness
of the Russian troops and their fierce
counter-attack have gained much val
uable time for them. It Is problematical
whether the-whole Russian Army will
succeed In reaching the new positions
chosen for It or whether, if it should
get there, It will not find those posi
tions turned by the Austrlans, who
have crossed the Bug southeast of
Chelm, and the Germans under Gen
erals Von Scholz and von Gallwltz,
who have crossed the Narew.
Three Traps Set.
Indeed, the Austro-Germans have set
three traps to catch and destroy the
Russian Army. None of them was
sprung, but one was so near to clos
ing that Grand Duke Nicholas was
forced to evacuate Warsaw and now Is
fighting with all his might to prevent
the others from cutting off his retreat.
Thus far he seemingly has been suc
cessful, for although the Gtrmans
claim the capture of a large number
of prisoners, the aggregate la small
when compared with the immense
forces engaged. In addition, the Rus
sian guns apparently are well on their
way to the rear.
From refugees who left Warsaw
some days ago and have arrived at
Moscow it has been learned that War
saw even at that early date had been
denuded of virtually everything that
might be useful to the Teutons. Fac
tories had been stripped of their ma
chinery and all war stores moved Into
the interior of Russia and the govern
ment of the city left to the Tolish
population.
The Russians also are preparing to
evacuate Riga, tho port on tho gulf
of that name In the north. The ar
rival of the Germans 10 miles south
of that city already has been the cause
of the civilian population departing.
Since early In May when they
started their great counter offensive
In Western Gallcla against the Rus
sians, who were debouching through
the Carpathians on to the plains of
Hungary, the troops of the Germanic
powers had cleared the Russians out
of Gallcla, with the exception of a
narrow strip of territory In the south
west, have recaptured Trzemysl and
Lemberg, taken Lublin, Chelm and
Warsaw and are In military occupation
of virtually the whole of Poland.
What their next move will be Is a
matter of conjecture. Some military
observers believe they will continue
to attack the Russians In the hope of
finally crushing them a task which,
it Is considered, is rendered difficult
by the fact that the Russians In their
retreat lay the country waste, making
It necessary for the Invaders to bring
up every ounce of food required for
their army.
The occupation of Warsaw also will
have the effect of releasing large Ger
man forces, long concentrated on the
reduction of the city, and permit them
to turn westward for renewed opera
tions against the Anglo-French Allies.
AMERICAN STEAMERS SEIZED.
Two Oil Ships Taken By Otrmans
Into Swlnemuende.
Malmo, Sweden, via London. "Che
American steamers Llama and Win,
bound from America to Stockholm,
laden with petroleum, have been
seized by the Germans and taken Into
Swlnemuende. The Uama was seized
on August 4 near Llllegrundet and
the Wico on the following day near
Oere Sund.
KILLS YOUNG SON AND HERSELF.
Woman Had Been Under Treatment
For Melancholia.
Merlden, Conn. Mrs. Nellie Breese
Allen, wife of James F. Allen, treas
urer of the Merlden Gravure Company,
fatally shot her youngest son, Gor
don, aged 8 years, as he slept, and
then killed herself. Mrs. Allen bad
been under treatment for melancholia
and Medical Examiner a T. Bradstreet
expressed the opinion that she had be
come suddenly deranged.
MOTHERS' PENSIONS
FUNDS GIVEN OUT
Auditor General Powell Apportion!
$234,000 By Counties Draw
Warrants 8oon.
Harrlsburg. Apportionment of
$234,000 has been made for the sixty
seven counties of the State by Audi
tor General A. W. Powell, for the
mothers' pensions, and drawing of
warrants will be started In a short
time. The Legislature appropriated
1100,000, to which is added $144,
746.34, left from the appropriation of
1913.
The sum of $10,746.34 has been re
served for the salary of the State
Supervisor of Pensions, and the clerk,
who yet nave not been appointed by
the Governor, and for their expenses,
Including adjustment of accounts of
local boards.
The Act of 1915 provided that appor
tionment should be made on a basts of
population, and Philadelphia and Alle
gheny each, will receive $35,100.
Luzerne, Lackawanna, Westmoreland
and Schuylkill are in the next class
and will receive $8,775. while counties
having between 100,000 and 200,000
will get $4,680; from 50,000 to 100.000
population, $1,950; 25,000 to 60,000,
$1,023.75, and those having less than
25.000 population, $5S5.
The apportionment by counties Is
announced as follows:
Adams $ 1.023.75
Allegheny 35.100.00
Armstrong 1,950.00
Beaver ... 1,900.00
Bedford 1.023.75
Berks 4.680.00
Blair 4,680.00
Bradford 1.950.00
Bucks 1.950.00
Butler 1,950.00
Cambria 4.6SO.OO
Cameron 585.00
Carbon 1.950.00
Centre 1.023.75
Chester 4.680.00
Clarion 1,023.75
Clearfield 1.950.00
Clinton 1.023.75
Columbia 1.023.75
Crawford 1.950.00
Cumberland 1.950.00
Dauphin 4.680.00
Delaware 4.680.00
Elk 1.023.75
Erie 4,680.00
Fayette 4,680.00
Forest 585.00
Franklin 1,950.00
Fulton 585.00
Greene 1.023.75
Huntingdon 1,023.75
Indiana 1,950.00
Jefferson 1,950.00
Jjiniata 685.00
Lackawanna 8,775.00
Lancaster 4.680.00
Lawrence 1.950.00
Lebanon 1,950.00
Lehigh 4.680.00
Luzerne 8,775.00
Lycoming 1,950.00
McKean 1,623.75
Mercer 1,950.00
Mifflin 1,023.75
Monroe C85.00
Montgomery 4,680.00
Montour ..' 685.00
Northampton 4,680.00
Northumberland 4.680.00
pprry 585.00
Philadelphia 35.100.00
rike ba.o
Potter 1.023.75
Schuylkill S.775.00
Snyder -E85.00
Somerset 1.35S.0U.
Sullivan 685.00
Susquehanna 1,023.75
Tioga 1.023.75
Union &&
Venango 1.950.00
Warren 1.023.75
Washington 4.6M).Uu
Wayne 1,023.75
Westmoreland 8.775.00
Wyoming 685.00
York 4,btsu.uu
Lay Out Six State Game Preserves
Six new State game preserves are
being laid out by attaches of the State
Game Commission, through funds sup
plied by the hunters' license law. Four
of the preserves are on State forestry
reservations, and two are on leased
land. All are in the central or eastern
part of the State, but negotiations are
under way for establishment of half
a dozen more game preserves in west
ern counties where lands have been
offered for lease by the State at low
rates for game purposes.
The new preserves are on State
lands In Huntingdon, Lycoming, Sul
livan and Cameron counties, and on
leased lands In Bradford and Carbon
counties. All are surrounded by wires
and notices will be posted, warning
everyone that they are closed at all
Beasons.
Steps will be taken before many
weeks to stock these preserves with
deer and other game, it is planned to
buy hundreds of deer and to turn them
loose In the preserves.
Young Studies Plan Of Deposit Bonds.
These are the busiest kind of days
for the State officials In charge of the
making of the bonds to cover State
deposits and State Treasurer R. K.
Young, Is making searches of records
so that he will have information on
which to base estimates.
By the new system under way, every
deposit of State money", whether the
account of a hospital or the contingent
fund of a department of the State
Government, Is to be protected by a
bond.
Buller Acts To Stop Pollution.
Energetic steps were taken by
Nathan R. Buller, State Commission
er of Fisheries, to halt stream pollut
ing by manufacturing plants which
have disregarded notices to stop
dumping wastes and drainage into
fishing streams In Monroe and Clear
field counties. Reports that fish in the
Monroe region, which Is noted for its
fishing streams, were being killed by
manufacturing wastes were Investi
gated and the owners of the plants de
clined to Install Alters. -
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Latest Doings in Various Parts
cf the State.
PREPAREDF0RQUICKREADIN6
Six small boys, George Martz, Clar
ence Williams, Fay Ressler, Michael
Nunserl, William Fyers and Henry
Koble, aged from 8 to 15 years, plead,
ed guilty to being responsible for a
series of robberies of business houiti
In Sunbury tbat would have done
credit to experienced yeggmen, accord
ing to Merle Shannon, police chief.
They admitted the theft of watchei,
guns and sporting goods.
While sweeping out the Standard
Powder Company's sub-station at Hor.
roll, C. A. Sones, aged twenty-five, an
assistant electrician, accidentally
touched one of the leads off the trans
former and received a shock of 6.000
volts of electricity. He ran forty fen
from the building and dropped over
dead. Physicians said his heart u
paralyzed.
Although he earned good wages, her
husband bought her only three pain
of shoes in twelve years, was the testi
mony of Bessie E. Robinson, wife of
William P. Robinson, of Danville arid
Bloomsburg, In her application for a
divorce on the grounds of cruelty,
which was granted in Northumberland
County Court at Sunbury, according to
the report of a master.
The York Chamber of Commerce li
in receipt of several denials from the
Lincoln Highway Association of the
published report that the route of tbi
highway between Philadelphia and
Gettysburg has been diverted so at to
cut out Coatesvllle, Lancaster, Co
lumbia, Wrlghtsvllle and York. There
has been no change in the route, It it
stated.
Mrs. Daniel Hurley, of Easton, wu
sitting in her room when the door
opened and her Bister, Mrs. Margaret
Doyle, of Chicago, walked In. It wa
fifty-one years ago when the nlsters
last met, and Mrs. Hurley had lost all
trance of her sister. Mrs. Doyle and
her son, John Doyle, are on their way
to New York, where they will reside.
Confessing the theft of goods from
the store of J. J. Newberry & Co. dur
ing the night, Robert Boyle, a Ilazle
ton oy, admitted that he had com
mitted numerous other petty bur
glaries during the past six weeks. He
was committed for action by trie Juve
nlle Court.
Rev. Dr. Joseph Stump, son of
Michael Stump, of Marietta, has been
rtioBen professor of dogmatics in the
Chicago Lutheran . Theological Semi
nary, vice Rev. Dr. F. Weldner, de
ceased. He will assume duties next
month.
Thirty-eight boys have formed corn
clubs, according to County School Su
perintendent Shambaugh, of Delaware
county. There also are numerous po
tato contest clubs. The county has
171 schoolhouses and 315 teachers.
C. P. Fenstermacher, State game
protector, informed Mohnton hunten
that they should not allow dogs at
large whRe rabbits and other game
are young and hunting Is not in sia
son. A school building Is being erected at
Gap for a consolidated school, which
will unite six schools of Salisbury
Township. It will cost about $25,000.
Bee culturists, of Boyertown, claim
that the rainy weather during the lt
weeks will result in the reduction of
the value of the honey crop at least
$10,000. Last year's honey crop in
Berks county was valued at $100,000.
Following a smash-up between the
team he was driving and another team,
Raymond Bishop, aged about tlilrty
five years, died at the Sellersvllle Hos
pital. His skull was fractured. H
Uvea at Line Lexington.
Henry L. Snyder, a graduate of
Muhlenberg College this year, has dm"
elected principal of the schools
Upper Milford Township, succeeding
Mervln J. Wertman, promoted to
slstant county superintendent.
The Bethlehem Steel Company be
gan operations at its 12-Inch bar rnlll
at the new seven million merchant mill
plant. This Is the second bar mill '9
be placed in operation, the 10-inch mill
having been started early In Ju''
Many additional hands will be employ
ed when the plant gets in full ope
tion.
Council of East Bangor has gone o
record against the use of liquor In anr
building in town owned by the bor
ough. One of the fire companies oc
cupies a municipal building and there
has been much complaint on the prt
of citizens over the use of liquor there
in order that he might meet the re
quirements of the School Board, that
all male teachers be married, Samuw
K. Faust, of Morrlsvllle, prlnclp1
elect, announced thut he would be o"
of the principals in a wedding befort
school reopens.
While seeking to push a shepherd
dog Into the Lackawanna Riv'.
tbat he might have the fun of wat
lng him swim to shore, aix-year14
William McAndrew, of Carbonda
was drowned. Earl Allen and the Nfj
Andrew boy were on an unguardi
foot bridge and as they tried to Vs
the dog, owned by the Aliens, into t
water, the animal resisted and rfoiea
McAndrew into the stream.
W. O. Gilbert, of Allentown, b"
been elected organist of the First
formed Church. South Bethlehem-