THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
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Security League for Universal
Military Service.
GARRISON PLAN FIRST STEP
Resolution Urge Universal Service,
Increase In Army and Navy
and Mobilization Of
Industrie.
Washington. The three-day session
if the National Security Congress, tho
most representative gathering of pre
paredness advocates which ban yet as
sembled in this country, was conclud
ed with u dinner here, which waa ad
dressed by Senator Lodge, of Massa
chusetts; former Attorney-General
Wli kershnm and former Assistant Attorney-General
Heck.
Two Important sessions of the con
gress were held Saturday. Judge
Henry Stockbridse, of Maryland, pre
sided at the morning session and
Franklin Q. Brown, of New York, pre
sided In the afternoon. Judge Stock
bridge delivered no address to the con
gress, but presented his views In a
general way In introducing the
speakers.
It was found necessary to further
enlighten the people upon the question
of preparedness and to then rely upon
Hie pressure of public opinion to secure
action by the House and Seuate.
Otherwise, It is feared, even the Ad
ministration's plans will be, to a large
degree, defeated. These plans do not
proceed as far as the security con
gress would like, but they are regarded
as being far better than anything the
national legislators now promise.
An indorsement of Secretary Garri
sons efforts toward enlargement of
the nation's military forces was voted
by the National Security League, with
the reservations that the regular
mobile army should be even greater
than that contemplated in the War De
partment plan, and that adequate na
tional defense would depend ultimate
ly upon "unlvcr.-al obligatory military
training and service."
A set of resolutions, drafted by a
committee of which Luke K. Wright,
former Secretary of War, was chair
man, were adopted almost unanimous
ly. In part they follow:
"lie it re.-olved. That the defense of
(he I'nited States depends upon an
adequate navy and a national army
founded upon a system of universal
obligatory military training and serv
ice. This system must be wholly
under the discipline and control of the
national authorities. We depreciate
all stops which tend to obstruct or
postpone the adoption of such a uni
versal system.
Coe Further Than War Office.
"That the National Security League
Indorses the efforts of Secretary Gar
rison to obtain an increase in the regu
lar army, the correction of our faulty
enlistment law, the establishment of
an adequate regular army reserve and
the accumulation of an adequate sup
ply of ammunition, artillery and ma
terial, but we believe that In addition
to the proposed quota of coa;i artil
lery and auxiliary troops the mobile
regular anrty within the United States
should comprise at least four complete
infantry divisions as recommended by
the War College ;erort of 191. I.
"That the National Security League
recommends the authorization by Con
gress of a council of national defense
for the purpose of securing more har
monious co-operation between the exec,
lithe and legislative branches of the
Government with respect to the na
tional defenses.
"That the National Security League
recommends the establishment of a
navy adequate to conserve the nation
al interests in conformity with the fol
lowing recommendations :
"That the personnel of the navy be
Increased in conformity with the re
quirements of the fleet as interpreted
In the General Board of the Navy; that
there shall be established for the navy
n general staff, similar to the general
staff of the army, as is customary in
all other navies of tne world, and that
the National Security League indorse.-:
the program of Jt.ly "ft, 191.", of the
General Board of the Navy, and urges
Its Immediate adoption by Congress.
"That a fundamental factor in the
problems of preparedness should be
sin h intensive mobilization of the pro
ductive, industrial and commercial
forces of the I'nited States as would
insure in time of war the contribution
of their fullest resources at a restrict
ed profit, to be regulated by the Gov
ernment." War NeY3 in Brief
The British forces in Mesopotamia
going to the relief of Ktit-el-Aniara are
being hampered by bad weather, but
nevertheless fierce lighting, with vary
ing succsa continues with the Turks.
Heavy lighting has been in progress
In France, a French advanced position
on the road between Arras and Lens
being attacked by strong German
forces. The infantry attack was pre
ceded by mine explosions and a violent
bombardment, and the Germans cap
tured a first lino trench on a front of
ieveral hundred yards.
Tv-o German air raids on the roast
of England, the capture of Monte
negro's two principal seaports by the
Austrian and the taking by the Ger
mans of trenches from i.he French near
Arras and in the Argonne forest are
announced in the latest official com
munications' of London, Vienna and
Berlin.
French counterattacks were imme
diately begun and a portion of the cap
tured trench was retaken. The Ger
mans, however, at the close of the day
occupied about 200 yards of the ad
vanced trench which formed a salient
In the French lines.
DECLARE DEATH
TO AMERICANS
Slogan Adopted by Convention
of Mexican Bandits.
REBEL CHIEFS ENTER PACT
The Agreement Wa Entered Into By
Representative Of Villa, Zapata,
Argumedo, Hijlnio Aguilar
and Cedillo Brothers.
Washington. Death to Americans
In Mexico and destruction of their
property, as well as war to a finish
agulnst Carranza, was determined
upon, at a formal convention of Mexi
can revolutionary leaders held In No
vember at a ranch near Cordoba.
Tresent and Joining In the agreement
are said to have been representatives
01 Villa, Zapata, Argumedo, Hlginio
Aguilar, the Cedillo brothers and many
lesser chieftains.
Meager reports of this gathering
came to the State Department long
ago, but they were not made public,
and few people in Washington knew
that there was a genet al conspiracy
against Americans, or even that the
various rebel factions In the field in
Mexico had effected any kind of an
agreement for concerted activities
against the de facto government.
The rerent massacre at Santa Ysa
bel, attributed to bandits led by Villa
ofllcers, is believed to have been
perpetrated in accordance with the
rebel convention order. Olficluls
think the long period elapsed after the
Cordoba meeting before the murders
because of the time required by the
various delegates to make reports to
their romnianders, and the fact that
news of the convention's decision had
to be carried to subordinate military
commanders by courier. Cordoba is
on the railroad between Vera Cruz and
Mexico City, and some 1,000 miles
from Panta Ysahel.
The Carranza authorities have been
fully advised concerning the move
ments of the rebels, and have been
depended upon by the Washington
government to take every possible
precaution to prevent the threats
r.gainst Americans from being carried
out. They are believed to have the
situation fairly well In hand now, al
though the chiefs whose delegates met
at Cordoba still are in the field, operat
ing more or le.-.s openly.
Advices to the Stale Department
from El Paso told of the reported cap
ture near Chihuahua of IS bandits al
leged to have taken part in the Santa
Ysahel murders. No confirmation of
the report that Villa himself had been
taken was received and olllclals of
both the department and the Mexi
can Embassy abandoned hope that this
was true.
WOULD MAKE DISTRICT "DRY."
Congressman From "Wet" District
Fathers Anti-Saloon Bill.
Washington Representative A. W.
Ilarkley, from the "wet" Paducah dis
trict of Kentucky, startled his col
leagues in Congress by proposing
legislation to make the District of Co
lumbia "dry."
He introduced a bill providing for
the abolition of saloons at the nation's
capital on and after November 1,
1916. The measure al.-o prohibits the
express companies from delivering in
toxicants into the District. Druggists
are permitted to sell alcohol for scien
tific, mechanical and medicinal pur
poses. The bill is similar to the
measure favored by the Anti-Saloon
Interests.
POTATO SUPPLY DEPLETED.
Growers Hold Smaller Stocks Than In
Two Previous Years.
Washington. Unusually small
stocks of potatoes remained in the
hands of growers in the important
producing States January 1, compared
with unusually large stocks a year ag:.
Figures made public by the Depart
ment of Agriculture sh'i'-s that Jan
uary 1 stocks in 19 Northern States
v. hich produced 6i per cent, of the
Cl op, were lo5.2 45.(1(1(1 bushels; 28 per
cent, less than last year and l.' per
cent, less than two years ago.
POCKETKNIFE FAMINE NEAR.
Skilled Labor and Material Scarce,
Say Manufacturer?.
New York. - A pocketkr.ife famine
threatens the country. The American
pocketknife manufacturers canvassed
the situation at a se-sion at the Hotel
lliltioore here. It w.-.s revealed that
skilled labor and ma'e-h.l are scarce.
The existing tariff 'a'.v v as roundly
condemned. One cause of the scarcity
of material was an order tilled by a
linn which supplies much of it for
liMi.Owi.iioO dozen table knives for the
British Army.
CONFEDERATE REUNION IN MAY.
United Veterans To Fraternize Atj
Birmingham, Ala.
New Oilcans - The twenty -sixth an
nual reunion of the I'nion Confederate
Veterans will be held in Birmingham,
Ala., on May IS. 17 and IS next. 0111
cial announcement of the dates was
made l.ere by William E. Mickle,
adjutant general of the veterans organ
ization. EASTMAN COMPANY TO DISSOLVE
Judge Hazel In Federal Court At
. Buffalo Sijns Decree.
Buffalo.-- Judge John It. Hazel, In
the United Slates District Court,
signed the formal decree ordering the
dissolution of the Eastman Kodak
Company, This company was recent
ly adjudged guilty of operating In re
straint of trade In the suit brought by
the Government under the anti-trust
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Premier Announces Rejection
of Peace Terms.
NICHOLAS WITH TROOPS
Is Determined To Fight To the Last,
Message To Consul-General At
London Declares Gov
ernment At Scutari.
Home.- righting between Austria
and Montenegro has been resumed.
Montenegro notified Italy oflicially of
this fac.
.Montenegro's decision was communi
cated to the Italian Foreign Office
from the Montenegrin Premier. The
note is to the effect that King Nicholas
mid the Monti negrin (iovernnienl have
rejecied all terms offered by Austria
and that Pghting already has been re
sumed alonii I he w hole front.
King Nicholas remains with his
army to organize the defenses of the
country.
Word Sent To London.,
London.- Sir John lloper Parking
ion, Consul-General in London for
Montenegro, received official confirma
tion of the reKirt that King Nicholas
of Montenegro nnd his sons would re
main at the head of their troops, de
tennined to fight to the last. Queen
Milena and two of her daughters, the
dispatch adds, have reached Italy on
their way to France.
A dispatch from San Giovanl di
Medua, Albania, says that the Monte
negrin Government has been installed
at Scutari.
KAISER REPORTED AT NISH.
Met King Ferdinand Of Bulgaria and
Exchanged Honors.
London. A dispatch received by
Reiner's Telegram Company says Km
peror William was In Nlsh, Serbia,
Wednesday. According to this infor
mation, which was forwarded from
Nish by way of Berlin, the German
Emperor met King Ferdinand of Bui
garia at Nish. "Tho monarrhs greeted
each other cordially," the dispatch
says, "and then reviewed from the
citadel a procession of Bulgarian,
Macedonian and German troops. "The
Kinperor presented to King Ferdinand
a Held marshal's baton and the King
appointed the Kmperor as honorary
commander of a Bulgarian Infantry
regiment.
RICHMOND ASKS DEEP CHANNEL.
Delegation Urges Congress To Appro
priate $500,000.
Washington. -- Richmond business
men and manufacturers appeared be
fore the House Committee on Rivers
and Harbors and asked for nn appro
priation of $.'(in,(itio to prosecute work
on the proposed 22-foot channel In the
James river from Richmond to the sea.
Congress authorized a 22 fool channel
JO years ago.
19,600 WORKERS GET RAISE.
Voluntary Increases In Wages Run
From 5 To 10 Per Cent.
New Bedford, Mass. Fifteen thou
sand operatives are affected by a wage
advance of 5 per cent., announced by
cotton yarn mills in this city. The
Jui.'sett, Sharp, Holmes, New England
and City Mill managements posted
notices of the raise. The Monomet
and Kilburn Mills recently announced
an advance.
DANIELS INCREASES PAY.
Master Mechanics In Navy Yards To
Get 5 Per Cent. More.
Washington. Increases in pay,
averaging a per cent., will be given
master mechanics in the navy yards
throughout I he I'nited Slates. Secre
'nry Daniels said he hud decided to
trant the increases and would make
them effective as soon lis possible,
probably within the next two weeks.
WILSON MESSAGE GENDER HELD.
Rejected As Fcrd Party Member, Says
J. C- Dolansky.
New Vol k. Joseph C. Dolansky,
who was arrested here as the result of
strangely worded telegrams he bad
i cut to President Wilson, was ordered
to be sent to the Ilollevuo Hospital for
the Insane for observation. Dolansky'
home la In Belleville, 111. lie came to
New York with the Intention of Joining
the Ford peace idilp, he said but was
J unable lo obtain past-age.
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WIRELESS TO BIND
THE UNITED STATES
Daniels Approves Contract For
Three Big Stations.
TO REACH ALL POSSESSIONS
Plants At San Diego, Cavlte and
Pearl Harbor To Be Most Pow
erful Ever Erected All
Within a Year.
Washington. One of the final steps
toward linking the United States tjnd
Its foreign possessions together by a
great chain of wireless stations was
taken when Secretary Daniels of the
Navy approved a contract with the
Federal Telegraph Company, of San
Francisco, for the equipment of the
big radio stations now under construc
tion at San Diego, Cal., Cnvite, P. I.,
and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Comple
tion of these stations within the next
year will pave the way for radio com
munication from Washington not only
lo the insular possessions, but to al
most any point In the world where
there may be a receiving plant.
Plans are being prepared by the
Navy Department to Increase the
power of the existing equipment at
Tiituila and Guam, so as to make them
a part of the main world chain. The
Intermediate stations at Boston, New
Orleans, Tolnt Loma, Chicago and
Gunntanamo already have been
strengthened and are able to relay
messages from ships at sea lo Wash
ington via the Arlington (Va.) towers.
Further advancement In radio de
velopment will be made this year at
Charleston, S. C; San Juan, Key West,
Puget Sound, Cordova and Mure Is
land. The plants at these places will
be strengthened nnd their radius of
communications greatly extended.
The. new stations at 'Pearl Harbor
and Cavlte will be the most powerful
In the world. They will be equipped
with apparatus for exchanging mes
sages over an urea of approximately
4,700 miles, tho greatest distance ever
attempted by radio plants doing a
regular business. Each will maintain
direct communication with San Diego,
the Cniuil Zone and the Arlington sta
tions, and bo able to sweep the Pacific
Ocean from the Philippine Islands and
to Alaska and the Canal Zone.
GOING BLIND, SHE KILLS SELF.
"God Will Not Be Angry," Wrote Mrs.
Ranous.
New York. Mrs. Dora Knowlton
Ranous, writer and translator, killed
herself with gas in a furnished room
at 246 West One Hundred nnd Third
street. She left a note to Dr. Rossiler
Johnson, who bad collaborated with
her, saying: "God will not be angry
with me. I have confessed everything
to him. He knows how much I can
bear, and must know I can bear no
more. My eyes are failing me, and
the blackest misery l.s ahead of me.
There is no one to take euro of me
if my eyes and general health go."
GERMANS EVACUATING LUTSK.
Kiev Says Prisoners Arriving There
Bring Information. '
Kiev, Russia. Lutsk, the important
fortress in Yolliynla, one of the tri
angle of fortifications there, is being
evacuated by the Germans, according
to Information obtained from prison
ers arriving here. Four thousand
prisoners have recently arrived here
from the southwestern front. .
COL. HOUSE STILL IN LONDON.
Times' Report Of His Departure
Erroneous.
London. The Times' report that
Col. K. M. House, President Wilson's
personal representative, bad gone to
the Continent, Is erroneous. Colonel
House is still in London, conferring
with Ambassador Page and meeting
prominent officials. He will go to
Paris w ithin a week.
PENNSY ORDERS 1,000 CARS.
1C5 Locomotives Also To Be Con.
structed At Altoona Shops.
Altoona. Pa. -Orders were received
by the Pennsylvania Railroad shops
here for tho construction of 105 loco
motives, 1,000 . steel box cars and 75
freight cars. These orders, with work
already on hand, will keep the shops
working at full capacity till November
and the car shops to the middle of
next suninu r.
BRITAIN GOING
LOGKADE
Discussion in Parliament Ex
pected Soon.
SMARTING UNDER CRITICISM
Protests Being Ignored Until Trada
Of All Kinds With Germany Is
Cut Off Not Sounding
U. S. Public.
London. The American Embassy
has not sent any notification to the
State Department that Geat Ilrltain
Intends to change the situation created
by the order-ln-councll into an actual
blockade. Some time ago the embassy
notified the State Department by let
ter that there was a great deal of dis
cussion In the British press and among
the unofficial public concerning the
possibility of a change In the blockade
policy of the government. British
official circles, however, declare that
no change will be made until the sub
ject Is freely debated in the House of
Commons. A debate of this character
Is expected soon.
It seems evident that the foreign
olllce is weary of the criticism that
Its policy has been subjected to, and
that It w ill bo quite willing to have the
subject freely ventilated In Parlia
ment, but It Is not regarded as likely
that It will grant the demands of the
extremists that the entire control of
the blockade of the Central Powers
be surrendered to the admlrallty.
The British answer to the latest
American note on shipping is virtually
ready to be dispatched to Washing
ton, and it Is expected it will be sent
as soon as the note has been submitted
to the French government for its' ap
proval. May Disregard U. S. Rights.
Washington. High adiniulstiation
oflicials said that Great Britain has
answered the. protests of this govern
ment against Interference with our
commerce by her announcement of
plans to extend her blockade. It was
stated on authority that Intimations
have reached the State Department
from private sources abroad that Great
Britain will disregard all the protests
of this government.
The British Foreign Office is de
clared to bo making its plans to
lighten the blockade of Germany with
out regard to the rights of the United
Stales. The protests already made
by this government and the reports
reaching London of the preparation in
Washington of a vigorous note on the
contraband question are being Ignored,
until Great Britain has completed all
of her plans for shutting oft trade of
all kinds with Germany. It was stated
that when all her blockade plans are
complete Great Britain will answer tho
United States, rejecting Its claims.
Olllclals predicted that Great
Britain's reply to the contraband note
and the previous American protests
ill provoke an exchange of acrimon
ious notes. It is understood that
Great Britain's position will be that
she Is judge of the ultimate destina
tion of cargoes and therefore she lias
a right to seize ships bound for
neutral ports and confiscate the
cargoes if she thinks they are intended
ultimately for the enemy.
Challenge By U. S. Expected.
State Department olllclals Intimate
that this government will take such a
position to be in denial of the principle
of freedom of the seas. In Its notes
to Germany over the submarine ques
tion, this government declared flatly
that it stood as a champion of all
neutral nations for freedom of tho
seas. This, it was pointed out, would
make it necessary for I ho United
States to .challenge Great Britain's
position sharply and finally.
NOT SUNK BY GERMANS.
Berlin Finds None Of Its Submarines
Attacked Persian.
Washington. Secretary Lansing
announced that the Berlin Foreign
Office had informed Ambassador Ger
ard that till Gorman submarines In the
Mediterranean have reported and that
none was concerned In the destruction
of the British liner Persia.
RUSSIANS ATTACKING AGAIN.
Vienna Reports New Offensive Vicar
Czernowitz.
Berlin. A new offensive movement
has been inaugurated by the Itussjans
to tho east of Czernowitz, near the
Bessarablan frontier. The official
Austrian statement says the Ilusslans
made four successive attacks at sev
eral places, but were repulsed.
WASHINGTON.
A committ?e of the American Bank
ers' Association has proposed a plan
to return the outstanding :i46,iK0,uiV
greenbacks.
A committee of the Association of
Military Schools asked the House
Committee to give them better train
ing facilities.
Major Generals Scott and Bliss, be
fore the. Senate Military Committee,
endorsed tho War Department's pre
paredness plan.
The further urgent deficiency bill,
carrying appropriations of approx
imately $12,500,000, passed the House
without roll call.
Interstate shipment of improper
motion-pTclure films would be made a
penal offense by a bill Introduced by
Representative Towner. ,
Comptroller Williamson suggested
to the House Rules Committee pitiless
publicity as a weapon against bnnkj
that charge usurious Interest,
SLOW ON 6
TENTH OF WOMEN
IN STATE MILLS
Report For 1914 Show 216,299 Out Of
2,500,000 Employed In In
dustrial Plants.
Hnrrlsbun;. Almost ten per cent, of
all women and girls over fourteen
years old In Pennsylvania were em
ployed in 20,571 industrial establish
ments, which submitted reports to the
Bureau of Statistics and Information
of the Department of Labor and In
dustry during 1911.
The reports show that 216,299 fe
males, of whom 14,187 were between
tho ages of fourteen anjj sixteen, were
on the pay rolls of Pennsylvania In
dustrial plants. This record does not
Include every Industrial plant within
the State, and completely excludes
mercantile establishments and profes
sional offices, where many thousands
of women are employed. The Federal
Census Reports for 1910 set forth that
there were at that time approximately
2,500,000 females in Pennsylvania over
fnui teen years of age.
67,166 Clothing Workers.
According lo the statistics compiled
for 1914, under direction of Labor
Commissioner John Price Jackson,
there are 67,106 women In this State
engaged in the manufacture of cloth
ing. More women are employed In
that Industry than In any other.
Textile establishments employ 56,
253 women; tobacco factories, 24,395;
food and kindred products establish
ments, 11,198; metal plants, 10,611;
laundries, 8.121; printing plants, 7.506;
leather nnd rubber goods mills, 6,647;
paper and paper products factories,
6,309; chemical works, 3,227; clay,
glass and stone industries, 2,877; wood
working plants, 1,957; industries allied
with building trades, 600; agriculture,
forestry Hnd fisheries, 383; liquors and
beverage production, 363; mines and
quarries, 66; engineering and labora
tory service, 22. In addition to this
classification, there are 8,538 women
engaged In miscellaneous Industrial
employments.
Many Make Men's Clothing.
Under the classification for cloth
ing manufacture, 27,930 women make
hosiery, 7,621 make men's furnishing
goods, 3,567, men's other forms of ap
parel, and 5,870 work on women's
clothing. Corset manufacture keeps
929 women employed.
In the various industrial pursuits,
1,209 women aid In tho making of pat
ent medicines, 145 help make brick and
tile, 256 manufacture glass bottles,
4,291 make candy, 1,162 pickle, pre
serves and canned fruit and vege
tables, 298 do engraving, 4,530 make
boots and rdioes, 821 build cigar boxes,
270 work on collln manufacture, 1,050
make umbrellas and parasols, 2,138 are
engaged In machinery manufacture,
3$9 make needles, pins, hooks and
eyes, 543 make watches and clocks,
22,883 women made cigars, while 1,090
rolled cheroots and stogies.
Liability Law For Public Officers.
The Workmen's Compensation Board
adopted a ruling requiring the State to
pay all compensation liabilities caused
by the injury or death of public officers
in any county who are on the payroll
of the State. County oUlcials who are
paid directly or Indirectly by counties
or by any officer thereof for services
to the county are to be paid by the
county. This ruling0 includes all
deputies, clerks, assessors, constables,
jurymen, witnesses for the State in
criminal cases and like classes of em
ployes. Another ruling adopted Is that the
owner of a threshing machine doing--work
on a farm not his own, for hire,
Is liable to his engineer and those
helpers whom he employes to run the
machine. This ruling Is also to apply
to the owner of an ensilage cutter or
any similar machine.
Tho Board exempted from the neces.
sity of taking out insurance twenty
seven employers of labor, Including a
number of school districts and bor
oughs, the association of township su
pervisors of York county and tlu
Philadelphia National League Basebuli
Club, which is regarded as wealthy
enough to carry Its own Insurance.
The first two cases under the com
pensation lnw to bo settled without
the assistance of a referee were re
ported by the Midvale Steel Company.
In the first case Ashby Pearly will re
ceive $6.38 a week during disability for
not more than five hundred weeks, and
in the second case Fred Purchap will
receive ten dollars a week for not more
than five hundred weeks. Both were
Injured about the legs.
Stillwell Head Of Third Brigade.
Colonel Frederick W. Stillwell,
Scranton, Thirteenth Infantry, Nation
al Guard of Pennsylvania, was ap
pointed Brigndior General In command
of the Third Brigade to' succeed
Brigadier General Clement, recently
appointed Major General of the Penn
sylvania Guard.
Heads Historical Societies.
State Senator William C. Sproul, of
Delaware county, was elected presi
dent of the Pennsylvania Federation
of Historical Societies, succeeding Ilex.
Dr. M. C. Leichter, of Allegheny coun
ty. The convention was devoted to
outlining plans for advancement of
historical matters, State bibliography
and the work of the State Historical
Commission, of which Senator Sproul
Is a member. ,
Vice-presidents, Charles Roberts,
Allentown, and Itev. Dr. Horace Edwin
Haydn, Wllkes-Barre.
Discuss Compensation.
Harriburg. Senator Sterling R,
Catlln, of Luzerne county, nnd Roger
Dever, chief counsel for tho United
Mine Workers, discussed the operation
of women's . compensation in the
anthracite field with Governor Brum
baugh at the Executive Mansion. They
assured him of their, interest, in any
move to perfect tho law and that the
minors were certain to back any bills
with that end In view. The manner
In which the operators have been
working under the law also came In for
discussion. The Governor discussed
KEYSTONE STATE
IN SHORT ORDER
LatestNewsHappenlngsGathcr
ed From Here and There.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Routed from their bsds fifty or more
guests were driven In scanty attire
from the Hotel Humes, Mercer, by Are
which destroyed the historic structure
and six ptber buildings with a loss esti
mated at $100,000. Tho hotel was
built more than 100 years ago, and en
tertained among many other dis
tinguished men. General Lafayette.
Jacob Cannon, five years old, of
Shenandoah, w-as attacked by a vicious
dog yesterday and his legs and abdo
men were badly torn before the ani
mal was driven off and shot by Iolice
man Gibson. Tho boy Is In a serlou
condition.
Dr. H. L. Orth, superintendent of
the Harrlsburg Hospital for the In
sane, and Dr. Frank B. Woodbury, of
the State Commission for the Insane,
testified before the Dauphin County
Court that the Harrlsburg asylum is
overcrowded.
Fifteen sticks of dynamite wero
necessary to break tho grip of ians
dale's oldest tree on Mother Earth,
when a willow tree planted 101 year
ago was ordered removed by Borough
Council. Six cartloads of wood were
removed.
Francis J. Boaz, contractor, has
brought suit against the State of Penn
sylvania for payment of $12,955.23.
which he says Is due him for work
done In the erection of the State
Tuberculosis Sanitorium at Hamburg.
For the second time within three
months, the Lansdale Foundry Com
pany, manufacturer of structural Iron
work, has found it necessary to en
large lis plant there by building nn ad
dition, 60 by 30 feet.
Statistics Just compiled by Commis
sioners' Clerk Cadwallader, show thai
the prisoners In the Bucks county jail
during the year 1915 cost the county
$10,267.19, or on an average of fifty
eight cents per day for each prisoner.
By decree of Judge Swarlz, Mont
gomery county will have another bor
ough, and Incidentally another elec
tion district, by renson of 11m- Incor
poration of the village of Bryn Athyr.,
In Moreland Township.
Steam passenger trains will be re
placed by cars operated by gasoline
power on the Meadvlllo and Llnesville
branch of the Bessemer & Lake Erie
Railroad, beginning February 1, ac
cording to announcement.
Frank Bohnnna, of Port Carbon,
aged eighteen years, employed about
the ashpits at St. Clair, was struck by
a locomotive, thrown Into the ashpit
of hot cinders nnd killed.
Hugh P. McMahon, a inolder, was
killed at the works of the Seabonrri
Sleel Casting Co., Chester, by getting
caught under a falling flask. He was
llternlly crushed flat.
Complains were filed by the At
lantic Refining Company with the Pub
lic Scrvlce'Commlssion against the ad
vance In coal rates of tho New York
Central lines on the Franklin Division.
The Pennsylvania Railroad placed
with Its Altoona shops orders for 105
locomotives, 75 passenger enrs and
1,000 all-steel box cars, to he delivered
during 1916.
Henry J. Huosmnn, seventy-one
yeHrs old, Reading's oldest florist, and
who years ago conducted n large estab
lishment In Philadelphia, died of heart
failure.
Grief over the death of her mother
Is" given by physicians as the cause of
the death of Mrs. Daniel Schultz,
thirty-five years old, of Reading.
Miss Mabel Warden, aged twenty
three, and her sister, Fiorelln Warden,
aged thirteen, were burned to death,
and their mother, Mrs. Myra Warden,
was seriously Injured when their home
at Punxsutawney was dostroyed by
fire. The property loss wa.4 $2,500
Trof. John Snoke, superintendent of
public schools of Lebanon county, in
addressing the annual convention of
the York County School Directors' As
sociation, advocated an extension of
the compulsory attendance period of
rural schools.
A man was In the ofllco of Superin
tendent of Finance and Accounts
Charles B. Moul at the City Hall, Clies.
ter, and shortly after he had taken his
departure, it was found that $88 had
been stolen. No clew has been secured
as to his Identity.
Using a pair of scissors to pry apart
what she imagined wns a bead of cop
per, Miss Millie Gilbert exploded a
jynamito cap nt her home in Globe
Mills," and her left blind was so shat
tered as to necessitate amputating four
fingers.
Carl Albert Brown, Allentown, four
years old, died In agony. While his
mother was making lea oh Wednesday
ho was greatly Interested in the steam
coming out of the spot. As her back
was turned, be climbed on -the stove
and rut the spout in his month.
Conestoga Center hereafter will
l:avo fire protection. The Conestoga
Center Fire Company was organized
with Franklin Warfel president
Elmer Honk was elected firo chief. A
chemical engine and upto-date ap
paratus will bo purchased.