fHE FULTOn COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURO, PA.
STATE HEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Girl Incinerated In Reading Hotel
Fire Killed On Way To Work To
Raze Iron Works and Erect
Silk Mill.
Two now dilation for Industrial
workers have been organized by the
department of engineering extension
of Pennsylvania Slate College. Em
ployes of the Philadelphia & Heading
Hallway, at Reading, will upend the
winter studying technical subjects
which will asslHt them to give better
service to the railroad, and which at
the same time, will Increase their
earning capacities. Another class
was formed among the employes of
the IUdgway Dynamo and Engine
Company, at Ridgwuy. These new
classes were organized by N. C. Mil
ler, who last year had charge of tho
extension work In the eastern part of
the State. C. F. Kopp, of Amite,
Louisiana, has been added to the staff
of the engineering extension workers,
succeeding A. II. Spahr.
Forester R. 0. Conklln received
word from the State Health Depart
ment that all camping permits on the
water shed supplying Chambers-burg
should be cancelled at once and no
more granted for the present. Tlie
order was issued In view of the fact
that the typhoid epidemic at Sliippens
burg has been traced directly to a
tamp. Twelve crmps will be af
fected by this order, among which are
the Locked Antlers, Still House Run.
Fayettevllle, Social Island, 'o!f, Clay
Springs and Still House Camps.
Skin grafting probably has raved
tho life of Charles Warner, young son
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warner, of
Mechanicshurg, who was Injured seri
ously when an improvised firecracker
on July 6 set lire to Lis clothing. A
total of 191 pieces of skin have been
planted on the boy's back, half of
which are growing.
School Auditors of Coaldale, Tama
qua and West M.ihanoy Townships
were before court on an inquiry as to
alleged exee.-sive charge- made for
auditing the accounts of these dis
tricts. It was brought wct in court
that there are nearly one thousand
phantom citizens on the Coaldale tax
li-ts.
Gcorce W. Cowan, seventy-two
years old, a Civil War veteran, wis
found dead in his room in a house at
Clifton Iloijhts, where the old soldier
had lived an Isolated Hie. Heath was
due to asphyxiation. Cowan evidently
h.r.d been preparing to cook a meal
on the gas stove, from which the fcas
flowed.
The iron works of John Mullen &
Sons, Shamokin, were sold to J. H.
and C. K. Eagle, New York, who will
dismantle the structure and erect a
silk mill to contain one thousand
looms. The Iron works were founded
by Mr. Mullen forty-five years ago and
occupied two city blocks.
Warren Is threatened with an epi
demic of diphtheria, fourteen cases
having been reported to the health
authorities. Infantile paralysis also
has Invuded Warren county, the dis
ease proving fatal to Ilurdetta, three-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Morrison, of Fngundus.
A fire In the St. Cloud Hole!, in the
heart of the butdness district of Read
ing, created (.reat alarm but caused
little damage. Esther Firestone, tour
years old, daughter of one of the do
mestics, was burned to death.
Colonel James A. O. Campbell, re
ceiver, rejected a bid of $21.0nO for the
plant of the S. and L. Rubber Com
pany, Chester. The personal property
was then sold in small lots, It bring
ing 3,000.
While on his way to work at the
Luppert furniture factory, Williams
port, Harry W. Hill was struck by a
train on the Pennsylvania Railroad
and killed.
After miners In the Gimlet Colliery,
Bhamokin, had ignited a fuse altached
to six slicks of dynamite, John Bed
narskle appeared on the scene as the
dynamite exploded. He was blown
many feet distant and Injured fatally.
Rumors of a wholesale shake-up In
the l lanagement of the Reading Tran
sit and Light Company, operating
traction lines and lighting properties,
resulted In announcement of the resig
nation of Norman McD. Crawford, as
president and general manager of the
company.
The State Workmen's Compensation
Board completed Its organization by
the election of Lee Solomon, a Phila
delphla newspaperman, a.s secretary, 8
position carrying the duties of eiecu
live officer and a salary of 14,000.
The Woman's Missionary Society of
the Delaware Baptist Association, In
semi-annual session at the First Bap
tist Church, Chester, elected Mrs
Frank G. Lewis, president One hun
dred delegates from all parts of Dela
ware county attended.
Emma Stewart, of Harrisburg, died
in a hospital there from injuries re
celved In an automobile accident In
which a car driven by Frank, D. Sher
man left the road during a heavy foj
and went into Spring Creek along th
city parkway.
CHILDREN MAY
REMAIN AT WORK
The Governor Believes Employers
Also Will Keep Faith and Aid
In State Plan.
Harrisburg. Governor lirumbnngn
issued the following statement regard
Ing the d"fIslon of Attorney General
Brown ou employment certificates held
by minors:
"The fear expressed in some quar
ters that children now legally employ
ed in our Pennsylvania industries, but
who do not possess all the standards
of fitness fixed by the law that be
comes operative January 1, 1916, will
be required to return to school to com
plete the sixth grade, happily has been
dispelled by the wise decision of the
Attorney General.
"Tho Slate has a contract with
Ihese children which It never Intend
ed to nullify. We shall keep falih
with these children and we believe
tho employers also will keep faith and
retain them in the Industries of the
Commonwealth. We shall not compel
them to return to school, and the em
ployers, if wise, will not return them
to the streets. They, of course, will
work only fifty-one hours per week
ifter Januaary 1, 1916, and attend the
continuation school for eight hours
per week. To this humane and im
portant decision no one in ll.terest
justly can object.
'These children are the wards of
the Commonwealth, and It will not
allow willingly any harm or distress
to come to them."
To Appeal Broomall Ruling.
Tho Attorney General's Department
announced that the State immediately
would enter an appeal to the Supreme
Court from the decision of Ju-'R'
Broomall, of the Delaware County
Courts, that the Commonwealth can
not collect for maintenance of insane
persons who have estates sutlicient to
maintain them. The Montgomery and
Northampton County Courts have
ruled that the State can collect.
Attorney-General Drown issued the
following statement regarding the
case :
"The decision of Judge Broomall in
Delaware county In which he denied
the petition of the Commonwealth for
an order on the guardian of Walter
Clarence Arnold, nn inmate of the
Norristown State Hospital for the In
sane, for the amount due for main
tenance from January IS, 191", to De
cember 1, 1911, does not touch on the
recent Act of June 1, 191.", and Is con
trary to the decisions of Judge Stew
art, of Northampton county. In the
case of Lillian M. Repsher (24 dist.,
rep. 15) and Judge Swartz, of Mont
gomery county, In tho case of Annie E.
Thomas (24 dist., rep. SI) both of
which affirm the Commonwealth's
right to recover. Judge Broomall's
decision will be appealed to the Su
preme Court nt once."
Stock From Illinois.
The Pennsylvania Live Stcck Sani
tary' Board issued tho following
amendment to the State quarantine
regulations against foot and mouth
disease, to be effective on and after
Tuesday :
"No cattle, sheep, other ruminants,
or swine, which originate in any part
of the State of Illinois, under Federal
quarantine, will be permitted to be un
loaded In Pennsylvania for any pur
pose. Cattle, sheep, other ruminants,
or swine, which originated in the State
of Illinois, under Federal 'restricted'
quarantine, handled in accordance
with Federal regulations will be per
mltted to be shipped through, but not
unloaded In Pennsylvania. No cattle,
sheep, other ruminants, or swine,
which originate In the State of Illi
nois, under Federal 'closed,' 'exposed,'
or 'modified' quarantine, will be per
mitted to enter or pass through Penn
sylvania for any purpose."
State Urges Vigilance.
Following a conference between
Governor Brumb.Migh and Commis
sioner of Labor and Industry Jackson
on the panic attending tho Pittsburgh
box factory fire, the commissioner Is
sued special Instructions to all State
Inspectors and department employes
to call attention of owners of build
ings and employers to any fire hazards
and solicit the aid of the residents of
communities in the work of securing
improvements. Olllcials of the depart
ment t-ald that tho fire and panic Act
of 1909 removed from the Jurisdiction
of the department the regulation of
fire escapes and fire exits In first and
second class cities. Commissioner
Jackson said he felt that the Pitts
burgh disaster would result In re
newed vigilance In municipalities.
Present Swords To State.
Two swords carried in the Civil
War by General Alexander von Schlm
melfennlg, wiio commanded the Seventy-fourth
Pennsylvania Volunteers
were presented to the State by his
dausliter, Miss Bertha M. von Schlm
melfennlg, of Brighton, Mass.
Organize Account Board.
The State Board of accounts, whose
appropriation was vetoed last spring,
was organized, the Auditor General's
Department arranging to meet the ex
penses'. L. F. Hess, Luzerne, was
selected as secretary.
Eclectic Medical Meet Ends.
M. V. Hazen, Tltutville, was elected
president of the Eclectic Medical As
socistion of Pennsylvania, at the clos
ing session of the forty-second annual
convention. Johnstown was selected
for next year's convention.
Society Charters.
An opinion was given to the Insur
ance Department by Attorney General
Brown In which he simplifies methods
of obtaining Incorporation papers for
mutual liability associations which
nay be organized by employers. In
stead of each subscribed acknowledg
Ing the papers, one person may be
designated as attorney-in-fact.
Irvln Brandt, thirty-five years old
employed at the Baker Quarries, wn
killed when a cur weighing three tout
fell upon him, caur.lng Instant death.
UNITED UPON THE
BALKAN
HEIGHTS
Historical Meeting of the East
and West.
SERBS STILL FIGHTING
Historical Event In Serbia Celebrated
By Teuton and Bulgarian Allies
With Parade In Fortress Taken
From Their Enemy.
Berlin. The Austro-Hungarlan, Bul
garian and German comrades have met
on the Balkan heights. In the twilight
of October 26, In the rugged Dobra
voda mountains, where the patrol of
the allied powers were looking out for
each other, there suddenly appeared
two Bulgarian olllcers and 25 men.
According to the Cologne Gazette,
all were splendid soldiers and well
equipped, A majority of them wero
veterans who had fought in tho Balkan
War against Serbia. They were led
by Lieutenant Gateyev. They were
given an enthusiastic reception by the
soldiers of the Central Powers.
The military commanders Bnd the
Duke of Mecklenburg hastened to the
place, northeast of Brza Palanka, near
the town of Mllutlnovitch, where the
historical meeting of the East and
West took place. Later there was a
brilliant parade in the conquered
Serbian fortress of Kladovo.
Resounding cheering and tho na
tional anthems were heard from the
opposite bank of the Danube, where
the Roumanian population listened to
the celebration of the Inauguration of
the new passage from Germany
through Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria
Into Turkey, which touches only ter
ritory of tho allied powers.
The Frankfurter Zeitung, in com
menting on the Balkan situation, de
clares that the campaign against Ser
bia may now be considered won in its
essentials.
"Serbian troops are still fighting in
tho northeastern corner," says the
newspaper, "but their country must
soon yield to our pressure. The day
when the German and Bulgarian
armies united will be an important
date in the world's history."
19 YEARS IN FEAR OF ARREST.
Man Gives Himself Up To' Find He Is
Not Wanted.
Chicago. For 19 years Joseph Cun
ningham wandered in various cities
oppressed with the fear that Federal
otlicers were pursuing him for the
theft of $50 taken in 1S36 from the
Alexandria (Ind.) Postodico, where his
brother Will was postmaster and he a
clerk. Tired of the haunting fear of
detectives, Joseph Wednesday sur
rendered to the Hammond (Ind.) po
lice and discovered that no olllcer had
ever searched for him.
Postmaster Will Cunningham had
made good the shortage and has wel
comed the lost brother to the old town.
NOT ALL PROSPERITY WAR-MADE.
Much Of It Due To Domestic Revival,
Says Big Canner.
Chicago. George E. Stocking, presi
dent of the Western Canners' Asso
ciation, which Is In session here, ex
pressed the opinion that considerable
of the prosperity u! the country at
present credited to war orders should
be charged to a domestic revival.
"Take our Industry as an Instance,"
he said. "We are canners of fruit
and vegetables. Little of the product
goes abroad, yet we did $100,000,000
worth of business last year, and that's
a lot ir.ore than we did the year be
fore." CAPTURED BY WARSHIP.
Six German Officers Who Escaped
From Norfolk Caught At Sea.
New York. The six officers of the
Interned German raider Kronprinz
Wilhelm who escaped from Norfolk,
Va., October 10, on the yacht Eclip.'o,
were captured at sea by a British war
ship, according to information in a
letter received here. The letter was
sent to William Wolff, a New York
manufacturer, by his mother-in-law,
who was a passenger on the steamer
Bermudian, which left New York for
Hamilton last Wednesday.
RUSSIA BUYS CLOTH IN U. S.
Gives Contract For 5,000,000 Yards
For Uniforms.
Boston. Contracts have been signed
by William M. Wood, president of the
American Woolen Company, for the
delivery of 5,000,000 yards of uniform
cloth to the Russian Government, it
was anounced here. The order Is said
to be the largest ever phu-.ed at one
time in the history of the bvid-i.
TYPHOON KILLS 170.
Eight Hundred Injured In Southern
Luzon, In the Philippines.
Manila. The typhoon In Southern
Luzon killed at least 170 persons and
Injured 800. Damage to property and
to tho hemp and rice crops Is esti
mated at 11,000,000. A heavy land
slide Involved a portion of the volcano
of Mayon.
WIFE OF GENERAL GREGG DEAD.
Descendant Of First Speaker Of
American Congress.
Reading, Pa. Mrs. Ellen Frances
Gretrg, wife of Gen. D. McM. Gregg, the
latter one of the few surviving great
comma; tiers of the Civil War, died
here. Mrs. Gregg was 77 years old.
She was a descendant of Frederick A.
Muhlenberg, speaker of the first
United States Congress, and great
granddaughter of Joseph 'Wester, at
one time Governor of Pennsylvania.
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20 CHILDREN DIE
li SCHOOL FIRE
Exit From Burning Building
Blocked By Cripple.
MOST OF THE VICTIMS GIRLS
Crippled Child Believed To Have
"Fallen and Tripped Other Chil
dren Pressing On Be
hind Her.
Peabody, Mass. Twenty children,
most of them girls, ranging In age
from seven to 17 years, lost their lives
in a fire which destroyed St. John's
Parochial School. Another girl has
injuries which are regarded as prob
ably fatal, while others were less
severely hurt.
The 00 children had entered their
classrooms for the morning session,
when the lire was discovered and al
though a majority of them were
guided to safety by Sisters of tho
Order of Notre Dame, who were their
teachers, panic seized a large number
as they neared the front door, and in
their rush to escape they lost their
looting and their bodies blocked the
exit. It was in the front vestibule
that nearly all the bodies were found.
Mother Superior Burned.
All of the sisters escaped, but
Mother Superior Marie Carmelita was
seriously burned. At the convent
house it was said that her Injuries
probably would not prove fatal, al
though she is prostrated by the dis
aster and the suffering of her charges.
How the fire started may never be
known. An early theory that a boiler
explosion caused it having been dis
missed, the state police officials are
of the opinion that a storeroom In the
basement, where a gas meter was lo
cated, was Its source, but Investiga
tion of the theory was difficult as the
place where the storeroom had been
was entirely burned.
Alarm Follows Prayer.
The first word of the fire Is be
lieved to have come from a tardy
pupil who smelled smoke and reported
It to the Mother Superior. The chil
dren had Just finished morning prayer
when the gong sounded for fire drill.
Mother Marie hurried to tell the sis
ters of the actual danger, and the
movements of the fire drill were quick
ly started. A few days ago, In a prac
tice drill, the building was emptied
within two minutes. It would have
been cleared in almost the same time
today, In the opinion of Rev. Nicholas
J. Murphy, pastor of St. John's Romar.
Catholic Church, but for the falling of
a child believed to be a cripple, in the
front vestibule. Over her body child
after child, fearful of the flames, and
pressed on by the crowd behind,
stumbled and fell. The opening was
choked and further escape was In this
way stopped.
RUSSIA SEEKING LOAN.
Wants $50,000,000 To $100,000,000, To
Be Spent For Supplies.
New York. Agents of the Russian
Government, It was reliably reported
here, are seeking to establish a credit
loan in this country somewhat similar
to the recent $500,000,000 Anglo
French credit loan, although no bond
Issue Is contemplated, of from $30,
000,000 to $100,000,000 and more, if
it can be obtained. Details of the
proposed loan were lacking, but In one
quarter it was reported that the Rus
sian Government was willing to pay
as high as 9 per cent interest for a
loan of this size.
EDISON GOES ON EXHIBITION.
Lets School Chlldden "Sec Him" and
Spends 14 Hours In Bed.
Los Angeles. Thomas A. Edison
answered an Invitation to let school
children "see him." At a high school
Mr. Edison smilingly placed himself
on exhibition in the auditorium, but
refused to make a speech. Mr. Edi
son also broke a record by spending
14 hours in bed and appearing at
breakfast at 8.30 A. M.
MEXICAN KILLS AMERICAN.
Cattleman Taken From Train By Villa
Troops and Executed.
El Paso, Texas. Charles Boone, of
Rodey, N. M., an American cattle man,
wus taken from a Mexican Northwest
ern train by Villa troops at Guzman,
Chihuahua, and Colonel Hernandez,
commander of the troops, executed him,
James Welch, of El P-iso, Boone's
partner, was on the train and was a
witness to the shooting. He arrived
here tonight.
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DEFENSE
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President to Discuss It With
Chairman Kitchin.
WILL NEED NEW REVENUES
Issue Of Panrma Canal Bonds, In
crease In War Tax, In Wool
and Income Rates
Proposed.
Washington. Legislative problems
of financing the Administration's "na
tional defense" program, It is under
stood, will be the object of a confer
ence which President Wilson arranged
for November 16 with Representative
Kitchin, of North Carolina, the new
chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee, which originates
the revenue measures in Congress.
The "national defense" program
calls for total appropriations of ap
proximately $500,000,000 for the army
and the navy, an increase of upward
of $200,000,000 over the normal sums
made available for the two fighting
arms of the country. Means must be
found to raise this money and it is
said that the President desires to have
a full discussion with Representative
Kitchin over revenue plans. The be
lief is also expressed that the Presi
dent will incidentally discuss with
Representative Kitchin his reported
opposition to any plans calling for
large increases in tho army and navy
Not Agreed On Revenue Plan.
So far as can be learned the Ad
ministration leaders have not agreed
upon any set plans for raising the ad
ditional revenue needed for Increasing
the army and navy. As matters now
stand an Impression seems to prevail
that the plan will embrace the follow
Ing: Panama Canal bonds to the
amount of $100,000,000, already author
ized by Congress, will be issued; the
so-called war tax will be continued and
increased about $25,000,000 or $50,000,-
000; the tariff on sugar will be main
talned, yielding about $15,000,000; an
attempt will be made to raise the tariff
on wool and to stiffen the Income tax
rate.
There Is also conrlderable discus
sion of imposing an inheritance tax
Representative Cordjll Hull, of Tenn
essee, father of the income tax act, is
working out such a plan on the House
side, while Senator George W. Norris
of Nebraska, is behind legislation of
this kind on the Senate side of the
Capitol. It is declared that a 5 per
cent, inheritance tax would yield from
$50,000,000 to $100,000,000 a year. It
Is stated that there would be no diffi
culty about collecting this tax, as all
wills must be probated In the courts
and the obstacles encountered In
reaching Incomes for taxation would
not be experienced. Experts here
estimate that something like $3,000,
000,000 changes hands through death
every year and that at least half of
this amount would be in sums which
would fall within the scope of the pro
posed law.
All the indications are that the conn
try is squarely behind the President
in his plans to strengthen the army
and navy so that this nation can be
prepared to resist an Invasion by a
foreign foe. This sentiment, which
reaches the White House through
many different channels, is taken to
mean that the nation Is prepared for
extraordinary methods of raising reve
nue In order to provide money for na
tional defense.
TYPHOID FEVER "ACCIDENT."
Wisconsin Court Admits Claim For
Compensation.
Madison, Wis. The Supreme Court
of Wisconsin, in an opinion given in
the case of the New Dells Lumber
Company vs. Venner, held that ty
phoid fever contracted through drink
ing water furnished by the employer
and resulting in the den'h of the em
ploye is an accident and within the
meaning of the Workmen's Compen
sation act.
BANKER CONVICTED OF FRAUD.
Disappeared Owing 12,000 Depositors
$378,000.
Scranton, Tn. Adolf Blau, whose
private bank closed last June owing
12,000 depositors $378,000, with no
money in the bank to pay thorn, wus
found guilty on a charge of embez
zlement. There are 17 other indict
ments against him. Blau fled the night
before his bank closed and was ar
rested at Chattanooga, Tennessee.
PROBLEM
WAY 10 TURKEY
CLEAR 10 TEUTONS
To Send Aid to Constantinople's
- Defenders.
GERMANS GAIN AT DV1NSK
nvadlng Armies United In Serbia.
Entente Allies Arranging To
Send Big Force Against
Them.
London. Tho German Army which
crossed the Danube at Orsova has
Joined hands with the Bulgarians, who
Invaded Serbia near Prahovo, and the
Central Powers now have an open road
through Northeastern Serbia and Bul
garia to the .iKgean Sea and Constanti
nople. They are thus In n position to send
guns and munitions by river and rail
way to their Bulgarian and Turkish
allies, who will be greatly strength
ened thereby.
Fighting Continues In South.
The invasion of the northern por
tions of Serbia by the Austro-Germans
continues apace, while Bulgaria is put
ting forth a strong effort to secure con
tral of additional sections of the Bel-grade-Salonlki
Railway.
So far as the north is concerned,
Serbia, it is feared by her allies, is
doomed, but in the south, reinforced
by the British and French, who are
now fighting by her side, Serbia is
using all her strength to throw the
Bulgarians back. After the French
victory at Krlvolak the Serbians, ac
cording to the Athens report, were
able to reoccupy Veles, an Important
railway and road Junction Just south
of Uskup, where a big battle Is still in
progress.
Reinforcements Coming.
It is argued here that if the Bul
garians can be held in the south until
Anglo-French reinforcements which
are now on the way arrive Bulgaria
may yet be robbed of Macedonia, on
which she has set her heart. But the
Allies will also have to make an at
tempt to block the German road to
Turkey and their big attack may be
directed elsewhere.
The internal situation of Bulgaria,
which is reported serious, may have
some effect on the campaign. A mili
tary conspiracy against King Ferdi
nand, Athens dispatches say, has been
unearthed and the lenders have been
shot. Many of the inhabitants of Bul
garia are said to be still loyal to Rus
sia and showing disinclination to join
the colors.
PORTER CHARLTON GUILTY.
American Given Six Years and Five
Months For Murder.
Como, Italy. Porter Charlton, who
was found guilty of killing Mary Scott
Charlton, his wife, will be set at lib
erty on November 21 next. Imme
diately after the verdict President
Sciacca sentenced Charlton to a term
of six years and eight months. As the
young American had been In jail five
years and seven months, he will have
to serve only another month because
of an allowance of one year granted
to all prisoners by royal decree at the
beginning of the war.
BANK ROBBERS USE GUNS.-
Shoot Bookkeeper, Force Cashier To
Open Safe.
Marble Falls, Texas. Two unmask
ed men held up and robbed the First
National . Bank here of $2,000 after
fatally wounding Robert H. Helnets,
bookkeeper. The robbers escaped to
ward the Colorado river, pursued by
half a dozen posses of citizens. Hei
netz, was shot through the abdomen
when he attempted to reach a pistol
under his desk. . The robbers then
forced Walter Page, assistant cashier,
to open tho safe.
AMERICAN CONSULATE MOVES.
Follows Serbian Government From
Nish To Tehatchak,
Washington. The American con
sulate at Nish, Serbia, has been
moved to Tchtchak, according to a
dispatch received from American
Minister Vopllcka, at Bucharest, Rou
manln. The American consulate
moved with the Serbian Government
and all other foreign consuls and mis
sions. $5,000,000 MORE BRITISH GOLD.
First Of Numerous Shipments For
Morgan & Co. In.
New Y'ork. Five million dollars In
gold sovereigns from Canada were re
ceived by the Assay Office here, the
lirst of numerous anticipated ship
ments of about this size. The money
was for the account of i. P. Morgan
& Co., and is only about one-fifth the
slz of recent gold shipments made
hero from Canada for their account.
KILLS MAN SHE WED 7 TIME3.
After Repeated Divorces, Indiana
Woman Uses Pistol.
Sullivan, Ind. Holding her baby to
her breast, Samantha Bennett shot
and killed 'her former husband, Wil
liam Bennett, aged 30, when, she said,
Bennett attempted to force open the
door of her home. The Bennetts were
married and divorced seven times.
LAYS AIR RAIDS TO BELGIAN9.
Notify Enemy Of Buildings Housing
Troops, Says Governor.
Amsterdam, via London. General
von'Blsslng. the German governor-gen
oral of Belgium, has issued a proclama
tion, according to a Brussels dispatch
to the Telegraaf, accusing the In
habitants of that city of notifying tho
enemy forces of tho location of build
Ings In which German troops no
housed, thus causing many air raids.
(Conducted by - he National Womnn',
iimsuan Temperance union.)
PROHIBITION VICTORIES.
(Excerpts from the address of Ml.
Anna A. Gordon, president Natlonn
Woman's Christian Temperance union
before the forty-second annual conven
tlon of that organization, held In Se
attle, Wash., October 9-11, 1915.)
Looking backward over the pan
twenty months and forward to the
year 1916 one might epitomize the
tcmporanco movement In retrospect i
a movement of victorious yesterday.
and confident tomorrows." Then,
months chronicle an unprecedented
numbor of prohibition victories. Th
temperance transformation of Russia
the antlllquor measures in effect Ir,
German, French and English military
circles; the complete abolition of i
cohol in tho United Status navy an'
in the Panama Canal zone; the cat
lawlng of the liquor traffic in Virginia
Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Ari
zona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Alabama
and South Carolina; the majority vot
for state-wide prohibition In botl
branches of Utah's legislature; th.
triumph of the enemies of the saloo:
in a largo number of counties sn:
cities; the upholding by the United'
States Supreme court of the constltt
tlonnllty of the prohibition provision
of the Indian treaties making one
fifth of Minnesota dry; the victorious
prohibition elections In forty-five or
Minnesota's counties; the battle roya
for prohibition in the District of Cc
lurabia; the total abstinence rules en
forced by many Industrial and rallroa!
corporations; the decrease at the rat
of $1,250,000 a month of the Internal!
revenue collections on distilled spirit
despite' the fact that wines are paying
high tax as a result of tho emer
gency war tax enacted by the last cor
gress; the enactment In prohibltlcif
states of stricter enforcement lawn
the discussion of total abstinence anS
prohibition by press and popular mail
ozlnes, and the marked decrease
tholr liquor advertising; the growl
of antlalcohol sentiment in the m'
leal world these, with the imlorsi
ment of national constitutional pro
hibition by hundreds of Influential c:
ganlzatlons and tho outspoken deck
rations of men promlneut In the oft
rial and political life of the Unltp
States and other nations In favor ul
prohibition and total abstinence, hat
given a marvelous impetus to th-i
movement for the banishment of Joh:
Barleycorn from the business, the v
rial, and the political lite of tho civ
llzed world. Tho majority vote on th
Slienimrd-Hobson bill in the Unite
States house of representatives of
December 22, 1914, even though It fp
short of a decisive victory, was a;
triumph for nntlon-wMe prohibition, j
Because the alcohol disease Is tin
(Vvpo.Bt-Boated, most chronic organij
disease known to the body politic an J
body social, the permanent cure nn!-
bo not only organic state legislation
but organic national legislation. Tht
object of a national prohibition amend
ment is to destroy the agency tna
debauches the youth of the land. Th
W. C. T. U. agrees with Congressman
Richmond Pearson Hobson when h4
asserts: "The liquor trust Is N
enough to know that It cannot pfl
petuate its sway by depending on d
handling grown people, so It uses
organic method of teaching the your
to drink. Wo apply exactly the sair,
method to destroy the traffic. We d
not try to make old drinkers stc
drinking, but we do aim to put a stoi
to the systematic, organized debauch)
Ing of our youth through thousam
and tens of thousands of agenclf
throughout the land."
It is not difficult for the student of
temperance history to account for tl
doeD conviction and the earnest wort
of many men and women who toda
are foremost In the great strugi
aeainst the drink monopoly. The Ik1
who two score years ago was faugh
by a W. C. T. U. mother at the ti
light hours to offer his childlike pra
er for the temperance -cause, as
hand rested tenderly upon his lltt'1
tianil la tndnv a temnnrance warrM
hotline- aeainst home's most relent
los foe. Boys and girls who twent
five ar.d thirty years ago were tnup
by whlte-ribboners to Bhout, "TremWj
King Alcohol, we shall grow up: "
whose heads, hearts, hands ana i"
received temperance training In pul
lie school, Sunday school, and Lo) j
Temperance Legion, are grown
and are rapidly dethroning King AUt
hoi.
ThA hlntnrv nf nnr reform prOV't
that it la wnll.nlph ImnnRSlhle to Ukf
prohibition from a state conatltutiej
when once placed there by the vpij
of a commonwealth. Constitution
nrnhltiltlnn la tint rinnendcnt UP
party politics. Unlike a staMtol
law it is not at the mercy of eaco r
coming legislature. The liquor traPJ
constantly defies the laws of the pr
hlbltlon states. Nothing short of "J
tlon-wlde prohibition will give to ml
stutes the power to effectively enfor
their prohibition laws.
STARTLING DISCOVERY.
fn a mnnllfnptlirlnff town SU C1
ployer,. one Saturday, paid to lj
workmen $700 in crisp new bllH '"j
had been secretly marked, on "
rinu tjr.n nf liB Identical bills W
deposited in the bank by the salorf
keepers. When the fact was ut
trnnit-n tha wnrbman were 80 StStl
by it that they helped to make i Hj
place a no-llcense town.
Templar.
iwrocAccn nconeiTA.
to Hi
wnrlrl nnnthnr nrnnf that prohibit'1!
nfnnmtAfl I fin flti an -lnl nrosnerlty 01
state. When the state ond natlo"
bajiks were asked in June to m
statcmont of their condition, the ' '
. iriv bu'i
or me Kansas dbiiks were j
lxg with money. Their books shol
combined dcnoslts of $226.G6.6J;'(
...... ,. n nvt !
an increase or i4t,i;&i.3o-" .
deposits reported on June 30. 1"