f HE FULTOfl COTTNTV NEWS. McCONNELLSBURO. PA. a nciwur for BIG m PLANS Houso and Senate Conferees Have Finally Agreed. BETTER NATIONAL DEFENSE Hundreds Of Thousands Of Spectator Cheer Throng Made Up Of All Classes and Including Many Notables. New York. Now York expressed its attitude on the question of national preparedness by holding the greatest civic parado In the history of the coun try. A bofct of men and women, esti mated at more than 150,000, represent ing all walks of lifo In the nation's metropolis, marched for 12 hours, 20 abreast behind bands playing patriotic airs, threugh Gag-bedecked streets lined with hundreds of thousands of cheering epectutors. All tho profes sions aud trades which make up the complex life of the city were repre sented. In one division were tho street Feepera iu their uniforms of white, while in another were the dieuilk-J Justices of tho Supremo Court of New York. There clso were the clergy nearly 200 mpresct'.t'.ng every denomi nation In the nation's greatest city. Lawyers, physicians, trained nurses, veterans of tho Spanish-American War ail we.ro In line. Put the most popular division was made up of tho city's 10.0CO Na'ioual Guardsmen in fantry, cauilry and artillery who brought up thn rear. "This," declared Major-General Leonard Wood, In command of t!u I'e-I-ortment of tho Fast, who reviewed tho pa ride, "h the preatt-.-t argumer.t Amenta has ever known In favor of preparedness again.-1 ileitter.'s thut are at p.-t-i'-nt unknown. Every pro fession is represented by Its best by nit n whoe dutios brin them la touch with the affairs cf state. Tl.e same, applies to the various tn.des. It shows an Interest In preparedness that amounta to a national nwahening. That Is what we need. It shows that the time ba.s come to do something In the mattor of national preparation." March Twelve Hours. The great civic army began march ing at 8.;0 A. U., and the last of them lad not passed the review Ing stand in Vadison ftquare until 9.20 o'clock P. M. The mammoth pageant began auspi ciously. Just aa Mayor John P. Mitchel and a party of municipal officials left the City Hall at the head of the first division, an aeroplane appeared above lower Broadway and hovered around the great skyscrapers. The paraders marched rapidly, more than 10.000 passlns a given point with in an hour. When the first division dis banded, after walking the full length of lower Fifth avenue to Fifty-seventh ftrcet, the Mayor, acrompanled by Major-Ger.eral Wood and Kear-Adinlral Nathaniel Usher, In command of the New York Nivy Yard le t their car rla;'p and took n.n hi the reviewing 'and. Except for Hn bear for lunch eon they remained until the parade was over. Governor Whitman, who viewed the demonstration from a flagdrapf-d bal cony of the L'nlon League Club, de clared It was the most remarkable ex ample of patriotism and civic pi lue ho ever had witnessed. "Speaking as a citizen," said the Governor, "I should say that every New Yorker who saw the parade should have been inspired with pride." With few exceptions the marchers rarrin! finall American flass. Mo.-t of theni also woro buttonhole em blems. The new armored motor bvtcry, the first thus far acquired by any National Guard in tho country, was grei-ted wl'h rh'-ers all along the line of March. There tvo"o seven regltrenu of in-fa-try, three of coa.-.t artillery, a part cf tho Fl.-st Cavalry, batteries of held artillery, tho signal corps, engineers and the motorcar battery. Edieon Headj Continc,snt. Tl omaj A. Edison, notwithstanding Ms 63 yean, tramped along with th stride of a man half his age, at the herd of a cc iitlnront of 22 members of the Naval Consulting Hoard of tho FaPed S'atos. He expressed great F'tlsfactlon with the demon-tratiun after It v.as all over. "Such a parado needs no expre; rten," de..-larnd the Inventor. "Tho fret that I n. arched In it expressed my sentiments exactly." CAPITAL '7ANTS SOUTH'S VETS. War-.Mm ton Will Inv ta Confederates To Meet There In 1017. ?.'ahlngton. Tho capital of tho re' n'ted ration wants the Confederate ..t-rans. the men who fought for the n'h a half century ago, to hold wh.-.t '! probably be th i'r last b'g reunion i Mn her boundary-). Col. Hilary A. F rhert, former Secretary of tie f vy, left for Dirmlngham, carrying t'j him an invitation from the Lis tr et Commissioners, tho Chamber of Commerce and the Hoard of Trade to tj"v Shut hern veterans to hold their F.-and encampment in 1917 In Wash ington. The veterans v.lll hold their reunion this year at Birmingham, Ala bama. SKIRTS TO STAY SHORT. National Manufacturers Say So, and They Male 'Em. Cincinnati. The short skirt will continue to be worn next fall, accord lng to the report of tho i tyle commit tee of the National Cloak, Salt and Skirt Manufacturers' Association, adopted at thn annual convention htre. In connection with the react skirt, the report nys: "Its smartness and youthful appearance' make It' popular, itjr universal." PERSHING FREE 10 RENEW CHASE Rumors of Anti-American Agita tion By Carranza Men. TROOPS READY TO DASH Infantry Guard Increased At Arizona Towns Following Report Of Now Raid On Border Mining Camp. El raso. Orders have ben isFUd from Washington to rush troops across the Bio Grande and tako all Moxionn bordor town and railway terminals If the punitive expedition Is attacked by Carranza forces. Artillery fire from the Mexican Ride of the border wl'.l be considered suflkient excuse to seize any given point. These are declared to be toe ten tative orders received by General Funston after the nport of the Scott Obregon conference, which ended In a disagreement had been dieted ot the War Permrtmt r.t. General Funston received A wireless nif-sae from General Pershing that Cai-rams authorities In Central and Southern Chihuahua am Issuing arms aril anuniinltinn to the native citizens. The rtort addei! that a brigade of cavalry had teen tie; loved f-o'.ith of Nnmluuit .1 n mi advance guard. All hiavv eTjli,i:to:it hai !) n brought i br--k to the ha.e and Is under protoc- ; ti. n of (! Infantry. Wilson Standi Pat Cn Policy. Washington Failure cf tin mili tary oi.t:i"r('Pi at Kl Pao to r.-s( h a (Vfirrif 3 ngreemcrt has hrougl-t r.. rbarcn hi the pclley tif.vanl Mexico of the Wa.-hltpun a-lwlri tra'ion. Pre; i der.t Wii-on at..! hi-i all-.i-t d..:'U.--ed General Scott's report .MijU'Wlc n: tile r,e."-:ions nt is.-ue h::d l'-.'a n To-red back by the eenferees l tl'e'r re:-pert-Ive ; overr.r.it r.ts fr dlp'-tmatlc dl rurslon. Later it v. as fl:ri:i!ly : tat.nl that the situation v.-.'i nucha need. Thera was no evidence arsons ad- n.lnlstratirm officials of greatly In creased concern over the everts at tho border and In Mexico. FRANCE NOT YET READY. Emea&sy Says Her Position Is the Same As Other Allies. Wah!ncton. France Is no more Fct aKninht peaco at this time than her allies are. It was said at the French Embassy, tut "For the present e will tun a deaf car to peace talk," It wa added. Commenting on tho dispatch from F.or.ie, telling of reports thst France alone of all the belligerents Is not In clined to make peace, rmhassy officials In.-ister France's position Is not dif ferent from the others. While Washington o.T.elals attached llimificance to the fact that the cen sors of both Italy and France passed the cable meape ro;o'-,.l:ig France's al'eged position, no such slgnifKTir.ee eas admitted bv the embtissy. Still Stand Together. "It Is Mill 'one for all and all for one,' " It was riolare 1. The German I'.n.bas: y make no secret of Germany's willingness to t:K peace. As for terms, flertnany, em bassy attache' say, Is standing pat on those mimed by Cl)nr.c''ior von P.eth niar.n Ilollweg In the, Itolrhstng. Of the "peace paragraph" in Germany's latest submarine ixito to America, one rn rassy official said: "That suggestion is a plain declara tion r.f the hope that the Fni'.ed S'ates r.'.av :,-k to trim about peace." URGES FEDERAL AID. Congressman Kent Wants States As sisted In Tuberculosis Work. Wiishirrron.--Federal aid to states which care for nou re-k!ent tuber miosis patient-t was propo.-ed by Con gressman fv-r.t before the Nation."! As. nidation for the St ml v am! Prevention cf Tuberculosis. A bill introduced by him iu the House nnd by Senator Norrls In the Henate. paying T.'i cents a day for each patient, whs explained. In California, his hone Stutp, and in many other Far Western localit'os the health i:f whole districts Is endangered by the Immigration of tuberculosis patients who carn.it now obtain proper treatment in their own s'at he tald. NO THOUGHT CF PEACE. Brtish Home Secretary Says Cermany Must First Be Bs.itsn. London. England's answer to the peace intlmutii ns contained In the Cerman note to the t'niifld Stat'M was given by Home Secretary Herbert Samuels. In a public Rildre.-B tho Home Secretary said: "There will he no thought of peace until Crmany is beat"n. Our victory must be decisive." WR3CK ON SEABOARD. Two Killed, Five Injured, When Fla mingo Special Is Derailed. Raleigh, N. C Tv.o persons were killed and five Injured when the Flamingo 6perl.il on the Seaboard Air Line was wrecked. The wretk, which was caused by a defective switch, oc curred tft miles north of Kaleigh. Tho train was derailed. PERMITS LUSITANI A MEETING. New York Mayor Take! View That Gerrran Crisis Is Over. New York. I'pc-n tho ground that a crisis has been averted In the relation between tho United .States snd Ger many, tl.o Fiindi'tn of Mayor .'litctel was piven to a Lusltania memorial rnertlng under the am pices of the American rights committer. Tlte meet ing, wltlch was to have been held last Sunday but which was postponed at the retjue' t of the Mayor, has now been let for May 19. THE INVISIBLE F 10 inn Results at Verdun Are About Sland-off. RUSSIANS GET THRUST Cctrrrri3 Take Slav Trench and Turks Are Being Driven Back By Troops Of the Czar The Bilkan Field. London Another t-hift In the line of nf.uk upon Vrnlun Is repor'ed. Ho!.!.:.',' In tVc.;k their forces west of the Me::se, where t:i"y rcctntly scored important fuicesfes, the Germans hne ri.-r.in tahen the offensive east of the rlc- launching un attack mar Vnux. The French, too, are atticMr:); In the Verdun region, according to lierlin. which announces an ar.-ault near Dead Man's Hill and another southeast of Hill 101. Eoth these attacks were broken up by Cemtan lire, It Is de clared. The eaftern front ultuation is frrow lng more Interesting with the advance of i p.-ing. All along the line the ItU3 sians are the obJcts of occasional fharp thrift by the Teutonic allies. At present they Fecm to be content with standing off these attacks and aru attempting no offensive. In one In stance they failed to hold their line, however, according to lierlin, which reports tho rapturo of 500 yards of a r.usfl.in position near Se!bur. Considerably Increased activity Is reported from the Balkans. There has been much firins by heavy artillery and some Infantry clashes have occur red on tho Macedonian frontier. Athens dispatches report brisk fli:ht in? north of Avlons, apparently Indi cating that the Austrlans are about to move ajalntt the Italians and tuch other forces as may be at sI.-tinB thciu In holding tho Albanian seaport. Math Importance Is attached In Vetroftrad to tho Itusslan opcratlons on the Mesopolamlan frontiers, both north and east Iu the latter feitor the r.us.-lans have advanced from In teriur Icrsia to the frontier and have occupied Kasr-I-Shlrin, about 110 miles northeast of Rapdnd, their oh Jec'ive. They report the Turks fleplrg bt-fore them and tho capture of several ;;uns during the pursuit. Russians Repulse Attacks. Tet.-ocrrad (via London). The fol- i low in;; official communication was i--sned: "North of tho fmnll town of Pnior 1 gin a body of Cerctans, after a heavy , gun and rifle f,re, began to muss be fore our wire entanglements, but n.et i with an artillery file which forced tlie-ti to retire. "Southeast of Finsk enemy artillery lias heavily bombarded the sector of ; our positions wo.-t of riottrhice. Near Crr.rtorj sk we brought down an fnemy j aeroplane and captured the aviator and observer." Pressing Austrlans Harder, IlerMn. Increased activity on both tho Italian and Galiclan fronts Is re potted by the Austrian War Office In a statement. The aLnoutiicme;:t fol lows: "In Fasten Galirla and Volhynla there was Increased adivity on the part of advanced detachments. There were no events of special Importance. "On the Italian front the enemy, after a lively benbardment of portions of the Coriziu bridgehead and the iHtherdo Plateau, made several attacks at San Martino. He w.:s repulsed every time." RASPUTIN DEAD, BEMLIM HEARS. Monk Reported To Have Influenced Czar Assassinated, Is Report. Pc-lin Gregory Pasputin, the Rus sian monk who Is reputed to have, exer cised great influence ovor Emperor Nicholas, has been assassinated, ac cording to rennrts from Pitrngaj-J re ceived In Ihirharejt, Bays the Ovc-.-eaH News Agency. TEXAS MILITIA IN CAMP, Only Two Companies Yet To Reach Fort Sam Houston. San Antonio, Texas. -.Mobilization of t':e Texas Nititmal Guard at Fort Sam Houston for scrvlci" In the United States Army virtually was completed i with tho tirrlval of all but two com panies. The complement of the Texas ruard ordered to report at Fort Sam i' lloust.jn Is 37 companins of Infantry, two troops of cavalry and two batteries of light artillery, In all about 5,000 men. in t it IDilllilU Oil All FRONTS ENEMY IN MEXICO GERMANY ADMITS i E n 1 1 Regrets Torpedoing and Prom ises Indemnity. FULL AND FRANK ADMISSION U-Ooat Commander Has Been Pun nished Washington Accepts As surancesIndemnities To Be Arranged Later, Washington. ficrmnny. In ft note received by tho Statu IVpartment by cahlo from Ambassador Clorard, admits that a Ccrrr.an submarine torpedoed tho channel steamer Sussex In viola tion of Assurances glvcu the I'nited States, expressci regret for the Inci dent, announces that the submarine commander has been "appropriately punished" and declares readiness to pay an adequate Indemnity to Ameri cans Injured on tho vessel. Case Now Considered Closed. It was Indicated at the State Depart ment that the German statement that the offending commander had been punished would be accepted and the Sussex case considered closed, except for arranging for the payment ot In demnities to the several citizens of the United States who were hurt There probably will be no attempt to nego tiate for these Indemnities or for flnnl settlement of the Lusltania and other cases pending, however, until sufficient time has elapsed to Indicate how the last American nolo was received In lierlin and whether the niw submarlno policy Is beins lived up to. Itesults of an investigation based on facts supplied by the American Gov ernment, tho Ce-nian communication says, have shown thut tho contention originally set up that the explosion on the Sussex was to be traced to a cacse other than a German submarine at tack cannot be maintained. While as terting that the submarine commander thought he was dealing with an enemy warship, Foreign Minister von Jagow admits that he formed his Judgment loo hurriedly and therefore did not act fully In accordance with the strict In struction which called upon him to exercise partlcu'ar care. Officials of the State Department noted particularly the passage of the note- which paid "In view of these cir cumstances the German Government frankly admits that the assurance given the American Government, In accordance with which passenger ves sels were not to bo attacked without v.-arnlng, has not been adhered to Iu the present ca. a." This was regarded as Indicating a purpose on Germany's part to decline to pay Indemnities for Americans killed or Injurr d In attacks on Khlps other than passenger liners prior to the date of tho last note, In which the German Government rem ised that freight as well as passenger vessels would not be uttaclted without warning or without provision for the safety of persons aboard. Any re sponse to the note Just received prob ably will make a distinct reservation of American rights on this point. GERARD'S SECRETARY COMING. Joseph C. Grew's Visit Connected With Death Of Father. London. The Srandnnavlan-Amorl-ran Line f teamer. Frederick VIII left Copenhagen for New York. The steam er was crowded with passongors. Among those msking the Journey to the L'nltod Slates is Joseph C. Grew, secretary of tho American Embassy In Porlln, who recently accompanied Am bassador Gerard to Ftnperor William's headquartesr at the front TO ATTACK SUEZ CANAL. Turkish Ambassador To Germany Says Preparations Are Being Made. Amsterdam. A dispatch from Per Un quotes Hakkl Pasha, Turkish Am bassador to Germany, as stating that the recent fighting In the Suez Canal region Is only a prcludo to other at tacks on a great scale which will be made by the Ottoman troops when necessary preparations have been made. HOBSON CLAIMS NOMINATION. Disputes Unofficial Figures Showing Victory For Bankhead. Plrmingham, Ala. Unofficial com plete returns from the Vmocretic primary gave Wllllatn P. Iinnkhead majority of 1H3 over fi rmer Represen tative Richmond P. Hohs.cn 'for thn nomination for Congre-s In tho Tenth Alabama district. Ilobsoii, however, claimed the nomination by a majority of 63, and announced ho would con test If the official count rhowed other-wise. Sussex mm SGOTT-OBREGDH CONFERENCE OFF Parley Breaks Up When Mexi cans Take Stubborn Stand. WITHDRAWAL INSISTED UPON Signed Statement Issued Declaring That Conferences Were Marked By Good Will, But Obregon Appeared Vexed. Brownsville, Texas. Curtis Baylcs, an American farmer, was nhot and killed a short distance from hla home, near Mercedes, Texas, by a band of tout or five Mexicans, who Aticcoodod In a leaping, presumably to the Mcxi can vide of the Rio Grande. El rnso. Light men of the provost guard fired over the heads of a Jeering llttlo crowd of Mexicans In Chlhuahlta, a district of the city Inhabited by few except Mexicans. The sitiad of patrol Ing soldiers was met by houir 30 mon and boys, who supplemented a chorus of derisive retnarlu with a volley of stones. Tho non conimlsalonod olllcer ordered the crowd to disperse and then Save the order3 to lire. The crowd dispersed. None was Injured. El Paso, Texas. After almost two weeks of di: cusslon the conferences of Generals Hurh L. Scott, Frederick Funston nnd General Alvaro Obrtgon, Mexican minister of war, over Atiier1 can troop dispositions In Mexico, cimo to an end Thursday without any agree ment being reached. Tho wholo nii.Her whs referred back to tho American and de facto govern ments to bo settled thro'n;!) diplomatic channels. The s!!t:rtlon is almost exactly whero It stood befuro the conferences began. The Mexican government still Insists on the withdrawal of General Pershing's colur'iis upon a certain date, and wants that date to como quickly. It h known that General Obrcon has been willing to make con cessions In order to reach an agree ment with the American conforees. He has been overruled, however, by tho First Chief, Ventihtlano Carranra, and his advisers. After practically conceding the demands of the Ameri can conferees, lio was compelled to re. verse his attitude Tho end of tho nesotlatlons came after two conferences bad been held. The first began at 10 o'clock In the morning and lasted until 4 P. M., when a rocess was taken until 4 o'clock to permit General Obregon to keep a lunch engagement. Sharp on the hour tho discussions were renewed. After two hours and a half they were brought to an end. General Obregon, accompanied by Juan N. Amador, Mexican sub-secretary of foreign af fairs, emerged from tho private car oc cupied by Generals Scott and Funston, walked rapidly down tho railway yards, climbed Into hit waiting auto mobile, and drove away. General Obregon was accompanied to his machine by General Funston. The Mexican conferee's manner waj. abrupt and vexed, but General Funston smiled cheerily as be bade him good- Official Announcement. General Funston re entered the car. Then Col. Hubert E. Lee Mlchle, aid to General Scott, came out and dis tributed copies of the following state ment to the waiting newspaper men: "Wo wish to announce that nfter sev eral conferences, marked throughout with conspicuous courtesy and good will, In which conferences mutual In pres"lons were exchanged and Infor mation was collected upon the military situation on the frontier, It was agreed upon by the conferees to sn' pend the conferences and reyort back to their respective governments In order that those may be able through their re spective foreign departments to con clude this matter. That the ending of these conferences does not mean In any way a rupture of the good rela tions of friendship betwen tho con foroes nor between the respective gov ernments. (Signed) "A. OBTtECON. II. I SCOTT, "FKEDnitlCIC FUNSTON." WILSON TO STAY ON J03. Declines Invitations Bicnuae Of Inter national Situation. Washington. President Wilson, be cause of thn International situation, has decided to remain constantly In Washington for the next few weeks. He has declined several ner invita tions and decided he would break ft tentative engagement to speak at Hampton, Va., this week at the doJira. t'ion of a memorial building at Hamp ton Institute. WOMEN WIN BY BOYCOTT. Pittsburgh Bakers Restore the Old Price For Bread. Pittsburgh.--Manufacturing baiters at a conference with a committee rep resenting tho women who declared a boycott and picketed bakeries In the Jewish quarter because the price of bread was advaiued agreed to accede to the demands of the housewives and put the price back t: the formi f figure. The boycott was at once declared 00. CHOKCD TO DEATH BY COLLAR. W. F. Balrd, Coal Man, Found Lifeless In Hctal. Marietta, Olilo.-W. F. Palrd, a Pit'shtirgh coal oporator and formerly president of the Interstate Yonnj Men's Christian Association, Including Wet Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and the Dbtrlct of Columbia, was found dead In a hotel room hero. Police beliove ho fell In a faintMg (pell and was choked to tloath by a tight collar J which he wore. He was about 50 years J of age. . 1 DIRECTORS MUST ANSWER TO STATE Stnta Banking Department Authorized To Bring Action In Case Of Negligence. Harrlsburg Whero directors of a corporation under supervision of the State Bank ing Department docllne to acknowl edge communications from tho Com missioner of Hanking or to appeal1 bo fore the commissioner or Attorney General In reference to mattors of management of such concerns which appour to roqulre correction, bucU ac tion Is to be considered as warranting the Institution of proceedings for their removal or for appointment of a receiver or both, according to an opin ion given to Commissioner of Hanking Smith by Deputy Attorney General Horace V. Davis. Tho opinion was rendered In In rtancoa cited by the commissioner, where people? connected with bulldlns and loan associations had docllned to comply with requests or to ackuowl edgo letters. Tho opinion points out the practices of the Attorney General's department to secure correction of abuses without resort to court proceed ings and noto3 complaints that whero directors have been negligent, Indi viduals who liavo assumed the control refuse to comply with req'io. ts of the commissioner. Tho c pinion says It Is fair to assume where nnswera are refused that such corporation:; are conducting their busl. ness In a manner "unsafe and unauthor ized and certainly Injurious nnd con trary to the Interest of tho public." Must Kill Dogs or Defend Suits. 'Commissioners of counties who hnve neglected or refused to order con stables lo destroy dos which hnve uet been assessed nnd rccl tend In bor oughs and township.;, will be juod by the StMe for failuro to comply with lite dog law of 1S33 nnd l!il.'. Arran;o ments were n.ade with the. Attorney General's department by tho State lie paitinent of Agriculture and the State Game Coniml. tion for action at law. The Attorney General's department has informed the fiamo Commission Mint the nrt.-i r.iake it mandatory upon commissioners ' to enforce tho law, complaint having been made that birds beneficial to farmers were being de stroyed by wild dogs, while It also was found that ono of tho chief reasons why the Department of Agriculture could not secure more co-operation In raising of sheep was tho number of wild dogs. Thousands of dollars have been paid to owners of sheep and other domestic animals destroyed or Injured by dogs In the last year. Constables who fall to kill dogs when ordorod to do so will be taxed two dollars for every dog which other persons are employed to kill, but when the officers kill do.s they w ill be paid one Millar per dog, To Push Suits For Insane. Steps wero taken at tho Attorney General's ollke to push tho suits brought for collection of cost of main tenance of Inrane persons whose estates or relative are abltj to pay for their treatment and care In the State's Insane hospitals, tho Supreme Court decision removing tho last bar rier. The Supreme Court reversed the DHawaie County Court, which had hold the Act of 3315 unconstitutional. Over 100 suits aro pending In various comitlea and hundreds mnro will b brought, as It Is estimated that bo twr en RCOO.flOO and 13,000,000 can bo collontcd. Attorney General Prown hns placed John H. Naylor In charge as special deputy attorney general. Change Year For Railway Reports. Arrangements were nude by Chair man Alney, of tho Public Sorvlco Com. mission, Freeman C. Gerborlch, chief of thi Rta'a IJu'.eiiu of Railways, and Deputy Auditor General C. L Wlllock whereby transportation and ether pub lic utility companies reporting to the Public Sorvlco Commission and the Stato Bureau of Railways will make reports for the calendar years Instead of a year ending June SO. Cancel Tobyhanna Camp. The camp of Instruction for artillery olllcors and enlisted men which was to have been held May 1 to June 8, at Tobyhanna, lias bren cancelled, It wns announced from tho Adjutant General's department, because the re call of the regular army batteries to the Mexican border niado Impractic able the lu.ttruction camp this year. Last School Payments. State Treasurer Voting sent out the last of the chocks for tho 1913 school appropriation, payments having been retarded Localise of tho heavy drain on the State Treasury. Approximately $30,000 was paid out to thirty two dis tricts. Tho total appropriation amounts to something like live und a half mil lions. Eleitrle Charters Approved. Apprr val has been ghen by the Fuh 11c Service Commission to the appll cr.tions for Incorporation of the Cent nomiuonsslng and Lawrence Hydro Electric Companies, two of the largest water corporations to come before It. The companies will opeate n I-w renca county and vicinity. Pardons Board Clorej List. The State Board of Pardons closed the list for the mectln:; which Is to b.i hold on May 24. Thero aro twonty nlne new cases and tilne applications for rehearing. $10 For Conscience Fund, Governor Brumbaugh's mall Thurs day contained a letter from Milton In cloning a nov Ion dollar bill with a request that It be placed Iu the con bcIoco fund. Tho money was rent to Str.ttj Treasurer Young for deposit. STATE NEWS BRIEFLY 10 The Latest Gleanings From All Over the State. TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS If Samuel S. and Charles M. Couffer, sons of Samuel Couffer, formerly pro prietor of the Couffor House, Slvelton, lead "tomperate, decent, law-abiding lives" they will ehare betweeu them the Income of their fathor'i eetate, amounting to $235 monthly far each. When either of them, In the option ot the Steelton Trust Company, ceaeo.-! to live thus, his patrimony will bo just thirty-nve dollars a month. Judge Wilmor in United HUtes Court at Sunbury sentenced William Phillpps, Harrlsburg, and Harry i'rtce, Seranton, found guilty of violating the Harrison Drug Act, to oue your and one day each In the Federal Prison at Atlanta, and William Purns aad Al bert Wise, Harrlsburg, to four and alx months, respectively, In the Dauphin county Jail for the same offense. ' The Grand Castle, Kr.fghfa of the Golden Eagle nnd Dadlc3' of tho Gold cn Kaglo, adjourned nt Reading after the Installation of officers. The now frtind chief of the Grand Cntle Is John F. Ilrounley, Philadelphia, and the grand templar of tho ladies' order la Mrs. Mary Dixler, Harrlsburg. Next year's convention of tho Grand Castle will bo held In Allentown. By a vota of 2:,r.7 to 14.T0J, miners of the Second District, United Min Workers of America, ratified the Phila delphia scale, which means that ap proximately 17.1,000 miners cf to Cen tfl Pennsylvania District will not ttrike. Many mines, Idle whllfl the vote was being taken and couateJ, w ill resume operations at onto. Judge Wltmer In Federal Ceurt sen teticed John P. Pe'gle, of Wlikes-narre. to nine mor.ths In Jail and JSW fine when ho pleadod guilty to robbing his ow n o1,i,ce. Pelgle broke the safe and door nt his store, and msde It appear ns If the place had been robbed. lie went to Canada, but later roUirBe( and surrendered. The coke trade Is making no recov ery from the blow It received during the Easter holidays, many worlmen Btill insisting on two days' real ont of every seven. The recent wage ad vance hag had no Influence on the la bor supply, which is so curtailed that production is kept down U 410,000 tons a week. Nearly one hundred womon attnnded tho county convention of the "Woman Suffrage pnrfy at Norrlstowa. The speakers Included Mrs. Anna Orme, of Wayne; Mrs. George Tlersol, Philadel phia; Mrs. George Bean and Mrs. Edgar Gardner, of Cynwyd; Mrs. M. E. Snyder, Ardmoro. and Ethol Bpriloy, Lnnsdowne. Frajrments of rock hurled over on thousand feet from an overcharge of dynamite in a quarry near Centerrille. killed Benjamin Kite, five year old, and severely Injured Pobert Bekon rodo, fourteen years old. Workmen wore hurled to tho ground and injured by the explot lon which came through a doublo charge placed by mistake). Merchant coke operators are meet ing the recent 6 and 10 per cent waga increase of tho H. C. Frlcke Coke Corn pany. It is the second advanca this year, nnd ccal and coke authorities sny It constitutes tho highest wage for Ilko labor paid In tho world. Fifty women who re ready to in their "bit" In the event of war organ ized tho State College Chapter of the Pennsylvania Women's Division fcr National Preparedness. Mrs. Anna W. T.a Domus, of Chester, State or gnntzer, was In charge of tho meeting. Following the tlo-np of several col lieries recently, owing to omployes objecting to a new time schedule, the Susquehanna Conl Company's Hickory Swamp employes went on strike along with many workmen at the P. R. C. & D. Company's Pear Valley Celllery. Hnrrlsburg's Council raised the mini mum wage for common labor employ ed by tho municipality from 1(2 3 to 174 cents an hour. City Improvement work has been greatly hampered ' be cause of the scarcity of labor. C. D. Markel, of East Salem, Junl t:i county, dealer In geueral merchan dise, has written to Mayor Eira S Meals, of Harrlsburg, for a license t- sell pet skunks on the Ftrcet. He will have them In a glass cage, he explains. Arrests of four merchants In PhlU de'phla wero ordered by the State Dairy and Food authorities for tho sale of cherries used In sundaes which were nt In accord with State food regula tions. The Harrlsburg School Board voted an Increase In .tho tax rnto from $Vs to 10 mills. The board la short by $30,000 for the year and there is deficit of 100,0000. The plr.nt of the Tocono Hoslory Company, in Fast Stroudsburg, was dottroyed by fire of mysterious origin. The loss Is $40,000. Tho company was rushed with orders. Henry Bohnlg, of South Po'hlohen. was arro: ted on a chargo of be-Iog the poison pen writer who has bona aar.f y Ing tonicity women for scyeral wok Pohnig Is about thirty two. Potro Frederick,, while nt wni at the Pothlehom Steel Works foil R0 fee' tad escaped with minor Injuries.
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