tHE FULT0JS COTOTY NEWS, McCONHELLSBURG, PA. STATE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD d N Latest Doings in Various Parts of the State. n Thlo Department Our Readers In Fulton bounty and, Elaowhon Do mora on the "Trail apponlns. May Journey Around the Aorld NAlth the of History lSlakJrtg PREPAREDFORQUICKREABING WHITE STAR LINER ARABIC SUNK BY GERMANS SURGEONS OPERATING ON AN ELEPHANT Several thousand grangers of Chester and Delaware Counties, with their fanv IIIhs, attended the annual picnic of Pomona Orange at Lenape Park, West Chester. Kll Logan, a farmer near London Grove, committed suicide by taking poison. He was about forty-five years old and leaves a widow and five children. tares of lor Events for V't r-. " " I Steamer Arabic of the White Star line, torpedoed ard sunk by a German submarine oil the South coast ot Ireland as she was on her way from Liverpool to Boston. Of tho 423 persons aboard about twenty aro missing, and two of these are Americans. The map shows where the Arabic lies, in relation to the location ot tho similar suc cessful attacks on the Lusltanla and the Iberian. READY TO DEFEND THE ATLANTIC COAST mw&nm ..,... - yQx J ..... . AMM-y" This Is one of the many 12-Inch disappearing coast defense guns In tho forts along the Atlantic coast. It Is at fort Wright on Fisher's island, off New London, Conn. At the right the coast defense division otthe National Guar J li men at practice with this gun. TEXAN RANGERS CHARGING MEXICAN BANDITS f A - 1 V. 'mma-... -,,-.-,,' : v.-i-.v.::-:w:..: -k ii&. U - 1 lltll -''''Vl,h'iV:i-r'-'1':'::-'- V-HH Texan rangers have been very active in the frequent fights with the Mexican bandits, who have been making faUs on this side ot the Rio Grando. Three of them are here seen in attack on tho bandits north of Drowns- "He. Tex. OLD JAIL AT PORT-AU-PRINCE fill i;, " ! Mi as-'Hir'iiwrrirr S'l-ryr Jfir --.t.,,.. . mf , r 'J This is the antiquated Jail at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from which a large .,umber of political prisoners were taken, lined up and shot by order ot reldunt Qulllaume Sam, who was assassinated Immediately afterward. OLDEST BUDDHIST PRIEST : 1 I ! At the right In the photograph Is Rt. Rev., Sri Nazzlnlananda, said to be the oldest living Ouddhlst priest. With him Is the maharajah of Slkkhlm, In dia. They are among the Asiatics gathered In San Francisco Tor a con vention ot Buddhist priests. A remarkablo surgical operation was performed in 1.08 Angeles. Cal., by Dr. Alnx Moxloy, who lanced two growths on the Jaw of Tweedledum, the big elephant ot the Bostock Jungle. It took the combined strength ot half dozen men, to say nothing of th6 numerous chains, to kecpthe patient quiet. AMERICAN RANCHERS KILL MEXICAN BANDITS I .. A . ,T ft nfTW' .'..-lib ft! .-. rXXrtmi .... jj If V-; OB .DiSSafl.EE Q ZLtCHSIi: ft.! In an encounter between American ranchers at Las Noclas, Tex., and Mexican bandits, who outnumbered the former four to one, the Americans took refuge In tho ranch house shown above In tho photograph and held the bandits at bay, killing five jf them. Below, three of the cowboys ready to Irag the dead Mexicans to the place of burial. INDIANA MAN GETS A PLUM if M - vm George E. Downey, comptroller of tho treasury, who has been chosen to Oil tho vacancy on tho bench of tho United States court', ot claims caused by the retlromtnt of Justice Howry. He comes from Indiana, where tor ten years be was a circuit Judge. A Money-Makar. "Is this tonlo guaranteed to get re sults?" "Yes, sir," replied the patent medi cine magnate, "and It's doing so light along. Our last month's dividend was a corker." NEW YORK POLICE BOATS ARMED " ' ' 7' ' 'Til" V I I i w Kb-ivn.' Ti'iiilfl,aiiiiit4,v . j . ir : . " . ... : V JL.. In order that tho New York harbor polled may be prepared for any eventuality, and especially to help the federal gov.mmnnt in the enforce ment of neutrality, the boats of the force have beeu armed with machine guns and the crews trained In their use. A Painful Operation. "Did you hear that our friend BUI had been superseded?" "Poor old Bill! Did they glvo htm as anesthetic?" The Real Cause. "Did your husband suffer much with the humidity?" "No m; tho doctor satd It was dys pepsy." Curtis Adams was held under $500 ball by Alderman P. J. Martin, of I'ottsvlllo, charged with sending a scur rilous letter to Miss Mama Coyle, of Cressona. Qulnor A. Kuehner, once principal 8f the Ta mau.il a Public School, and MlM Kate E. Follweiler, a former teacher, were married in Zion Lutheran Church by Rev. George Gebert. Vt'llllnm Berry, aged eighty-three, tired of life and poor, It Is said, hanged himself In a room at a Eaaton hotel. His wife died two years ago and b had no children living. Returning from the Panama Exposi tion. William A. Do Calndry, of Wash ington, died suddenly at the home of his Rister-ln-law, Mrs. Helen Hokenden, at Plymouth Meeting. At the N'ewhard family reunion, AI lentown, Major James D. Kewhard was elected president, and the 700 present decided to erect a monument over the grave of their common ancestor. Charles Dwlght Sigsbee, a son of Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee, 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 nensod 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. Harrlsburg'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 Reading 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 Manassas, 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 Beale 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, ot South Bethlehem, are protesting against the destroying of the beautiful shade trees along Center street, in case a borough ordinance providing for widening the sidewalks two feet on each side is enforced. The plant of the Nitrate Products Company, located at Mount Carbon, was sold to the Atlas Powder Company, of Wilmington, a subsidiary of the du Pont Powder Company. The Mount Carbon plant will be continued under tho name of the Atlas Nitrate ProducU 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 daily. The market conditions show an improvement, and the de mand for iron Is becoming greater every day. Ethel Isetracht, a doll In her arms, sat on the Reading Railway track at Conshohockcn and was killed by a train. At the seventeenth annual reunion of the Lutz clnn, 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 stret corner, In Chester, killed himself by Bllttlng 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. tut future they will work eight hours a day with tha regular ten-hour pay. The annual Bushong family reunion ot several counties was held at Lltlta Springs Park, and It was the largest ever held by the clan. In the last five years Germany, Prance and Russia have spent $28. 000,000, I22,00,000 and $12,000,000 la the order named tor aeronautics.
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