i I Mures fHE FULTCM COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBUEG, PA. M STATE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD Latest Doings in Various Parts of the State. Thlo Department Our Roadors In Fulton County and Elaowhen ftlay Journey Around tno AorlcJ Alth tl-io Camera on the "Trail of History INlalclns Happenings. PREPAREDFORQUICKREADING WHITE STAR LINER ARABIC SUNK BY GERMANS SURGEONS OPERATING ON AN ELEPHANT Several thousand gransers of Chester and Delaware Counties, with their fam ilies, attended the annual picnic ot Pomona Grange at Lcnnpe Tark, West Chester. Ell Logan, a farmer near London Grove, committed suicide by taking poison. He was about forty-five years old and leaves a widow and Ave children. of Wor Events for r. Steamer Arabic of tbe White Star line, torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine oft the South coast ot Ireland aa she was on her way from Liverpool to Doaton. Of tho 423 persona aboard about twenty arc missing, and two of these aru Americans. The map shows where the Arabic lies, in relation to the location ot tho similar sue wisful attacks on the Lusltanla and the Iberian. READY TO DEFEND THE ATLANTIC COAST ffmm rWfr Hi 'yJ sa iif mm 4 - " v !w This Is one of the many 12 Inch disappearing coast defense guns in the forts along the Atlantic coast. It Is at Fort Wright on Fisher's island, oft New London, Conn. At the right the coast defense division of the National GuarJ It men at practice with this gun. TEXAN RANGERS CHARGING MEXICAN BANDITS V 1 KM Texan rangers have been very active in the frequent fights with the Mexican bandits, who have been ranking r&Ma on this side ot the Rio Qrande. Three of them are here seen In attack on tho bandits north ot Drowns We. Tex. OLD JAIL AT PORT-AU-PRINCE w '.rr-..v-.' v."!!!?!?f??!?''''''l ""' 1 ..liw ' ' , , ; This Is the antiquated Jail at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from which a large .unber of political prisoners were taken, lined up and shot by order ot reldont Qulllaume Sam, who was assassinated Immediately afterward. OLDEST BUDDHIST PRIEST ' jV'W'1 "' " At the right In the photograph is Rt. Rev.. Sri Nazzlniananda, said to be the oldest living Buddhist priest With him is the maharajah ot Slkkhlm, In dia. They are among the Asiatics gathered In San Francisco lor a con vention ot Buddhist priests. r n" V . , , . V) 4 f v- -V I "" ,. 1 4 , ft II im il i i . T ..4. .V.. . . . . , MaiianuaaauaaaiaaanntjnnnaauuaKnaKcaa A remarkablo surgical operation was performed in Ims Angeles, Cal., by Dr. AInx Moxley, who lanced two growths on the Jaw of Tweedledum, the big elephant ot tho Bostock Jungle. It took tbe combined strength ot half a dozen men, to say nothing of the numerous chains, to kecpthe patient quiet. AMERICAN RANCHERS KILL MEXICAN BANDITS .1 A 1 h I 17 ii. ni. ' . . v . I In an encounter between American ranchers at Las Noclas, Tex., and Mexican bandits, who outnumbered the former four to one, tbe Americans took refuge in tho ranch housA shown above in tho photograph and held the bandits at bay, killing five jf them. Below, three of the cowboys ready to drag the dead Mexicans to tho place of burial. INDIANA MAN GETS A PLUM George E. Downey, comptroller of the treasury, who has been chosen to fill tho vacancy on tho bench ot tho United States court ot claims caused by the retirement of Justice Howry. He comes from Indiana, where tor ten years he was a circuit Judge. - A Money-Maker, "Is this tonlo guaranteed to get re sults?" "Yes, sir," replied the patent medi cine magnate, "and it's doing so right along. Our last month's dividend was a corker." NEW YORK POLICE BOATS ARMED fc i ft . l-rw',7 v'j fTZ' WiWiWt fflflittf iT'i"--! -1-'it iiiii n r il l hi r i r r n liMfci, i f i in order that tho Naw York harbor pullco may bo prepared for any eventuality, and especially to help the federal gov,rnra:nt in the enforce ment of neutrality, the boats of the force have beeu armod with machine guns and the crews trained in their use. A Painful Operation. "Did you hear that our trlond BUI bad been superseded ?' "Poor old Dllll Did they give him aa anesthetic V The Real Cause. "Did your husband suffer much with the humidity T" "No'm; tho doctor said It was dys pepsy." Curtis Adams was held under $500 ball by Alderman P. J. Martin, of PottBvlllo, charged with sending a scur rilous letter to Miss Mama Coyle, of Cressona. Qulncy A. Kuehner, once principal f the Tamaqua Public School, and MIm Kate E. Follweiler, a former teacher, were married in Zlon Lutheran Church by Hcv. George Gebert. William Berry, aged eighty-three, tired ot life and poor, It is said, hanged himself In a room at a Easton hotel. His wife died two years ago and be had no children living. Returning from the Panama Exposi tion, William A. De Calndry, of Wash ington, died suddenly at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Helen Hokenden, at Plymouth Meeting. At the Newhard family reunion, Al lentown, Major James D. Newhard was elected president, and the 700 present decided to erect a monument over the grave of their common ancestor. Charles Dwlght Slgsbee, a son of Admiral Charles D. Slgsbee, retired. United States Navy, was married at Lebanon to Miss Agnes Felconer Had dow, daughter of James Haddow, Wilbur Hughes, thirteen years old, of Shenandoah, while attempting to tross the Lehigh Valley tracks, was run down and killed. His mother wit nessed the accident, and is in a critical condition from the shock. Running into an auto with his mo torcycle, George D. Hennlnger, aged seventeen, son of Oscar L. Hennlnger. of Allentown. candidate for County Commissioner, Is in the hospital with a compound fracture of the right leg. Harrisburg's first "movie" operators' strike has ended and there will be no Interruption of amusements. A couple of operators went on strike, demand ing more pay and fewer hours. They were mollified. Walking on the Heading Railway tracks near Allentown in order to take a short cut to his home, William Botts, sixty-five years old, a peddler, was struck by a passenger train from Har rlsburg and killed Instantly. George W. Schultz, a former mem ber of the State Legislature, and Miss Beulah Klnoheloe, both of Shamokln. were married at the Klnoheloe summer home at Manassns, Va., the ceremony being performed by the Episcopal pas tor of that place. ' Francis Brenneck, aged twelve, a newsboy, of Altoona, was riding his bl cyclo out Ileale Avenue, when he was run down by an automobile driven by Miss Pearl Jones, daughter of Theo dore Jones. The boy was Injured In ternally and may die. The car struck a tree and was wrecked. State Forestry Commissioner Conklln and Bishop Ethelbert Talbort, of South Bethlehem, are protesting against the destroying ot the beautiful shade trees along Center street, In case a borongh ordinance providing for widening the sidewalks two feet on each side la enforced. The plant of the Nitrate Products Company, located at Mount Carbon, was sold to the Atlns Powder Company, or Wilmington, a subsidiary of the du Pont Powder Company. The Mount Carbon plant will be continued under tho name ot the Atlas Nitrate Products Company, and also will be enlarged and its output greatly Increased. The Emanus furnace of the Reading Iron Company was started up after an idleness of nearly a year. This stack produces about 200 tons of pig Iron dally. The market conditions show an improvement, and the de mand for Iron Is becoming greater every day. Ethel Isebucht, a doll in her arms, sat on the Reading Railway track at Conshohocken and was killed by a train. At the seventeenth annual reunion of the Lutz clan, at Kempton, the fol lowing officers were elected: Presi dent, Amandus Lutz; vice-president. Lewis M. Lutz; secretary, Alvln D. Lutz; assistant secretary, Anson Lutz, and treasurer, Wellington Lutz. Patrick Sullivan, aged forty-five, ar rested while kneeling in prayer at a street corner, in Chester, killed himself by slitting his throat with a penknife in his cell at City Hall. Where he pro cured the weapon Is a mystery to the police. The Atlas Powder Company, which operates a plant at Reynolds, notified Its two hundred employes that la. the future they will work eight heurs a day with the regular ten-hour pay. The annual Bushong family reunion of several counties was held at LI tits Springs Park, and it was the largest ever held by the clan, In the last five years Germany, France and Russia have spont $28, 000,000, 22,00,000 and $12,000,000 la the order named for aeronautics.
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