fHE FULTOi COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
THE GEii LOSS
IV PUT AT 18
'British Figure Out Greater
Losses for Germans.
DOES NOT NAME SHIPS
Berlin Declares All Hat Been Told.
Scarcely a Line Officer On
I . Sunken Brltiah Vetselt
Wat Saved.
uondon. The British Admiralty
Jssued a ttatement saying there was
the ttrongest grounds for tho belief
that the British nary In tho buttlo with
the Germans off Jutland la.it week had
accounted for a total of IS Gorman
Wn-of-waj-, and that there was nothing
to adj to or subtract from the original
announcement of tho British losses.
The ttalcmeut gave tho Gorman
losses u two battleships, two dread
taught battle cruisers, four light cruis
ers, nine torpedo-bout Uuslroyorg ant!
lubniarltw.
Lest Pessimism Felt
The pMssiml.nn which prevailed as a
tesult of tho Admiralty's original Hate,
inont of lono.i, which now is consider
ed to have been neodlossly candid and
conservative In under -estimating the
extent of the Gorman losses as com
pared with those of Great Britain, has
been greatly U3a,,ned by tho latest
ttatement
A dispatch from Coponhasen says
rumors are current In Hamburg that
two additional German warships than
those announced in t!:o German com
municationthe baitleiip Westfalen
and the battlo cruller Lutzow were
eunk In the battlo. A wirees dispatch
received here from Berlin said the Ger.
man Admiralty admitted tho loss of the
"U'estfalcn.
The admiralty statement declares
th.it tho German losses in the fight
were not only relatively, but absolute
ly preator than those of the Brtth-h.
Maintaining Its practice of caution, the
admiralty still refrains from giving the
namea of the lost German ships.
Scarcely An Officer Saved.
The offleUU lift of the casualties
amor? officers shows that hardily a
Ingle oClcor of the line escaped from
the British cruisers mink In the battle.
An additional casualty list of petty otli
ers shows that 4.1 of them were saved
from the Quoen Mary, Invincible, For
tune, Ardent and Slisrk. None was
saved from the Indefatigable, Defense,
Black Prince, Tlpperary, Turbulent,
Nomad or Nntor.
The Hat gives the names of 63 men
killed atourd the Warrior and of 27
r. en wour.ded. On the oilier ships en
raged la tho fight, 113 men were killed
and 83 wounded.
WILSON WITH CONFEDERATES.
Attendt Memorial Exercises At Arllng
ton Cemetery.
Washington.-President Wilson at
tended memorial exercises held in the
Confederate section of Arlington Na
tional Cemetery Sunday, but did not
apeak. His appearance was unex
pected, as he previously had anrounre
d he would be unable to attend. He
was enthusiastically received by a
large crowd.
Senator Vard.iman, the orator of the
occasion, defended the right of the
Southern States to secede and declared
the answer to the question, "Is it well
that tho Confederacy failed?" rested
with the way the general government
used Its power.
Secretary Daniels occupied a seat at
the speakers' platform.
6HE'LL FIODLE FOR FATHER.
Missouri Banker's Daughter Hopes To
Land Him In Office.
SL Bonis. When William C. Ask:n.
4 banker of Salem. Mo., announced his
candidacy for the Hi-publican nomina
tion for Secretary of St a' p. his daugh
ter, Miss Boinico Wolco't A kin, the
youngest member of the San Carlos
Opera Company, vv.-vs n ,PW York. The
ews of her father's candidacy, how
ever, has brought her back to .Missouri
with the announcement that she will
aceompnny him on his campaign with
er violin.
BRITONS LEAD IMMIGRATION.
.Total For March Exceeds Even Aggre
Bate For Italy.
Washington. A bullet In Issued by
the Bureau of Immigration shows that
Groat Britain has supplanted Italy as
Jeader In furnishing Immigrants to the
United States. Statistics for nine
months ended March of the present
year place the Cow of Immigrants from
the British Isles at 29.ril(5, as against
Ji,756 for Italy. Greece Is third witb
29.219.
KILLED LEAVING CHURCH.
Ore Boy Strikes Another On Head
With Brick.
. ti)rl6tol, Va,-Tenn. Arthur Love, 1?
jeara old, was struck on the head with
It brick by Henderson McNutt, 10 years
,eld, and died without regaining con
sciousness. The asiult followed a
dispute as the boys were leaving a
grayer aenrlce. McNutt was arrested
12,400,000,000 MORE FOR WAR.
(German Government Plane For Cam-
piyM iicri winter.
Zurich, Switzerland. Before the
German Reichstag adjourns the Im
perial Government w ill submit for ap
proval additional war appropriations
totaling $2,400,000,000 to make possible
the prosecution of the war throughout
the coming winter, according- to ad
sice reaching here. From the sam
aouroe It la learned that no new wat
Jean Is expected to be floated untU
lUtUfilD
NIL BATTLE
III NORTH SEA
German Fleet Gives Battle to
British Fighters.
MEN AND OFFICERS PERISH
Battleships, Cruisers. Destroy
ers Sent Down.
GREATEST OF NAVAL LOSSES
A Belief In London That the British
Fleet Wat Led Into a Mine Field.
Zeppellnt Reported To Have Played
Part In the Day and Night Battle
On North Sea Powerful Minet
Used.
The Ion? -expected clash between the
erman and British battlo fleets lips
occurred In the North Sea, and tho
British Navy has suffered probably the
greatest disaster In Its history In tho
greatest battle ever fought between
modern sea fighters.
At the bottom of the North Sea, off
the west coast of "Northern Denmark,
lie at least three British battlo cruis
ers, three cruisers and eight torpedo
boats, and the German battleship
Bommern nnd two small German cruls
ers and a number of German torpedo
craft. Several thousand or more Brit
ish officers and men perished.
Great Britain admits the loss of bat
tlo cruisers and cruisers with a ton
nage of 114,820 represented by the
battle cruisers Queen Mary, Inde
fatigable and Invincible, and the cruis
ers Defence, Black Prip.-e and Warrior.
Cermany's losses, In addition to the
rommern, were the Wiesbaden and
Frauenlob, both the latter small cruis
ers, and several torpedo boats.
The Germans claim, in addition to
the admitted losses of Groat Britain,
that the British battleship Warspito,
of the largest type In the British Navy,
wm sunk, that the battleship Marl
borough was bit by a toipodo and that
two cruisers of the Achilles type (tho
Warrior Is of this class) and one sub
marine were sent to the bottom.
The British Admiralty adds to the
conceded losses by Germany two
dreadnaughts of the Kaier class ves
sels of 21,700 tons destroyed, the
blowing up of one battle cruiser, the
damaging of two other vessels of this
class and the ramming and sinking of
German submarine.
Two or more Zeppelins aided the
Germans, It Is reported, largely by
dropping bonibi upon tho British war
ships. This greatest of sea battles was
fought Wednesday afternoon and
night, but the British government sup
pressed tho npws until Berlin had sent
the nnnounroment by wireless to the
United States yesterday.
According to a Copenhagen dispatch,
tha captain of a Spanish steamer, who
saw the engagement, reported the Ger
man Beet consisted of five large dread
naughts, eight cruisers and 20 torpedo
boats and destroyers.
Dead and wounded officers and men
picked up by traders and other boats
a.-e being landed at Dutch porta.
Germans Started It
London. In a terrific naval bntlle
off the Coast of Jutland on May SI the
Germans sank 14 British warships, 3
battle cruisers (tho Invincible, Queen
Mary and Indefatigable), 3 light cruis
ers and 8 do.-troyers.
Tho German Admiralty claims the
additional ln.--s of the dreadnanglit
Warsplte, but at a lata hour the British
Admiralty does net Itulmio tho ve-sel
In i's list of lo'ei. The British re- I
n.ir' iiuntlrm. Mm tit-'.t rrn:..nr V:ir. I
r!or. not rt claimed by tho Germans.
The German Iossm are. tV battle
cruiser Doerfrt'.nger, tho pre-d read
naught Pommern, the small cruisers
Frauenlob and Wiesbaden and seeral
destroyers.
Zeppelins took part. In the conflict
which rated dmlng the afternoon of
Wednesday and until daybreak on
Thursday.
There are no accurate reports of
loss of llfo. but there Is no doubt that
several thousand officers and men per
ished. Tie British ships lost were
manned by approximately 7,000 men,
more than 2,0o0 men wer aboard the
German vesls put down.
The British ships lo t co.-t approx
imately 70,0)o,f)O0 to build, the Ger
man chips $:o,f;00,000.
NAIL IN HI3 HEAD 50 YEARS.
Headaches Cease When Iron Works
Out Through Mouth.
Dawson, Ba. A fourpenny nail, Hfler
being nearly 50 years In the head of
Fred Selbert, Jr., came out through
the roof of bis mouth Friday. Mr.
Seibert has suffered since he was 17
years of age with constant headaches
and. despite medical skill, nothing
could be done for him. His headache
ceased when the bit of iron emerged
through the roof of his mouth. When
17 years old a piece of lumber fell on
Selbcrt'9 head and caused an ugly
wound. Later the wound healed and
the bead pains became frequent.
EMPLOYES TO SHARE PROFITS.
Chandler Motorcar Company To Pay
5 Per Cent Of Wages.
Cleveland. Notices were posted at
the plant of the Chandler Motorcar
Company that the employes would be
given a share In the profits earned by
the company during the past year. The
notices indicate that a sum equal to 5
per cent on ail wages paid, Including
overtime, commercing July 1, 1913, and
ending June 20, 1316, will be paid with
the July 20 payrolL
THE WORLD IS HIS
' 'oiiyrtuht.)
BUSINESS IN U. S.
ATHIGH TIDE
Factories Have Orders Enough
to Run a Year at Maximum.
ATTITUDE MORE CAUTIOUS
Agricultural Conditlont Fair, With
Nearly All Other Elements In
the Situation Favorable In
creased Waget For Labor,
Washington. Business activity In
the V tilled States, according to reports
submitted to the Federal Bcterve
Board by officials of tho 12 reserve
banks, has now reached Its high tide
with factories having rnough orders
booked to tax their maximum capacity
for a year.
The Federal Iteserve Board, In mak
ing public the commercial surveys of
the reserve bank officials, summarized
them as follows:
"General business nnd banking con-,
dltlnns reported by Federal reserve
agents In the 12 Federal reserve district-'
as of May 23 or thereabouts In
dicate, In general, that business ac
tivity In the United States has perhaps
reached the maximum of the present
movement. Orders covering factory
outputs to the end of tho year at maxi
mum capacity, a more cautious attitude
a.s to tho future, considerable unrest on
the part of labor, even where most
highly compensated, and a slightly less
favorable outlook In respect to some
of the growing crops are the chief con
tributing reasons.
"On the other hand, more favorable
crop conditions are reported In some
districts, even though the spring has
been generally very late. Mines and
oil wells are exceedingly active. Lum
ber nnd building fhow great activity,
although the latter la In somo sections
Bomewhat affected by labor conditions.
"Thero Is hardly any perceptible
hardening of money rates, and the tup-
ply of loanable funds continues more
than ample. Railroad earnings, where
not Injuriously affected by congestion
at seaports, are generally excellent,
and the only bad signs In this industry
are l:i tho Impending labor difficulties.
Bo. toftice and other similar receipts
nppnar to be a maximum every where."
The Bichmond reserve bank district,
composed of Maryland, Virginia, North
and South Carolina and West Virginia,
reports normal conditions, with In
creases in many lines. The summary
of conditions of tho district Is, In rart,
as fu'lows:
"Asrii ulturr.l conditions are report
ed fair. Crops are somewhat back
ward, owing to late spring and dry
weather. Wheat and oats are not as
gof.d as last year, but more corn nnd
oats are reported planted than ever be
fore. Fanners are getting out of
their old habits of sending' money
away for hay, flour and ether staple
articles, raising more home Fupplles,
usinT the money saved to buy more
land and Improve 1L Cotton acreage
has been probably Increased by about
10 per cent. Tobacco manufacturers
report Hn increase In business for the
part four months over 3915. Increased
wape have satisfied labor. Lumber
dealers report only fair conditions, and
the import and export trade is handl
rtnped by the lack of freight room and
high rates."
SAILS, EXPECTING DEATH.
Lincoln, Confessed Spy, Is On Hit Way
Back To England.
New York Ignatius T. T. Lincoln,
formerly a member of the British Bar
liament and confessed international
spy, was taken back to Kngland by
Scotland Yard detectives aboard the
Anchor Line steamship Cameronia at
the request of the British Government,
which wants him to answer to a charge
of forgery. Lincoln once escaped from
jail here, but was recaptured. Lincoln
said he expected to be given a couple
of weeks' sentence for forgery and
then "etop a couple of bullets."
BRAN DEIS CONFIRMED BY SENATE
Vote Ends One Of the Bitterest Con
tests Ever Waged.
Washington The nomination of
Louis D. Brandcls, of Boston, to the
Supreme Court to BUcreed the lato
Joseph Rucker Lamar, was confirmed
by the Senate by a vote of 47 to 22.
The vote, taken without debate, ended
one of the bitterest contests ever
waged agalnBt a Presidential nominee.
Mr. Brandols will be the first Jew to
occupy a scat on the Supreme Bench.
IN PROCLAIMING FLAG DAY
PRESIDENT ASKS REAL
"UNION"
I'rcBldont Wilson Issued a proclama
tion calling upon the people of the
United States to celebrate Flag Day,
Juno U, w ith patriotic exercises. The
proclamation follows:
My Fellow-Countrymen Many cir
cumstances have recently conspired to
turn our thoughts to a critical exam
ination of the condition of our national
life, of the Influences which have
seemed to threaten to divide us In In
terest and sympathy, of forces within
and forces without that seemed likely
to draw us away from the happy tra
ditions of united purpose and action,
of which we have been so proud.
I therefore suggest and request that
throughout tho nation, and if possible
In every community, the fourteenth
day of June be observed as Flag Day,
with epeclal patriotic exercises, at
which means shall be taken to give
significant exprestlon to our thought
ful love of America, our comprehension
of the great misslpn of liberty and Jus
tice to which we have devoted our
seives as a people, our pride In the his-
tory, and our enthusiasm for the
political program of the nation, our
determination to inake It greater and
purer with each generation, and our
resolution to demonstrate to all the
world Its vital union In ont!ment and
purpose, accepting only those as true
compatriota who feel as we do tn the
compulsion of this supreme allegiance.
Let us on that day rededlcate our
selves to the cause of tho nation, "one
and Inseparable," from which every
thought that Is not worthy of our
fathers' first vows of liberty and right
shall be excluded, and in which we
shall stand with united hoarts for an
America which no man can corrupt, no
Influence can draw away from Its
Ideals, no force divide against Itself
a nation signally distinguished Rmong
all tho nations of mankind for IU clear,
Individual conception, alike, and Its
duties and privileges, Its obligations
and representatives.
T. R. ATTACKED IN KANSAS CITY.
Knife, Thrown At Auto, Mlstet Colonel
and Hitt Secretary.
Kansas City, Mo. A knife, with
open blade, thrown from a crowd
through which Col. Thoodore Roose
velt was riding In a Memorial Day par.
ado hore, missed the Colonel, at whom
It was supposedly thrown, but hit his
secretary, John W. McGrath, who was
in the automobile with the former
I'resident. McGrath was not Injured.
The man who threw the knife
escaped in the crowd. After striking
McGrath's arm the knife fell to the
ground, where It was picked up by
Ernest Shell, a member of the Ameri
can Legion escorting Colonel Boose
ve't. Shell handed It, be says, to a
policeman.
"Trivial," Sayt Colonel.
McGrath said thero was no force be
hind tho knife, and he believed Borne
one had tossed It toward the car as a
Joke. Colonel Roosevelt was told of
the Incident nnd afterward his secre
tary Issued this statement:
"Colonel Rooseve't regards the mat
ter as an entirely trivial Incident and
feols that no weight should be attached
to It"
APPOINTS HOPEWELL MAYOR.
Covernor Stuart Namet Benjamin
Harrison and Selectt Council.
Richmond, Va. Acting under a
statute enacted by the General As
sembly In March, Governor Stuart ap
pointed Benjamin Harrison, a contrac
tor and business man, Mayor of the
newly created city of Hopewell. Mayor
Ifurrlson, with members of the City
Council, also appointed, will assume
the rein of government July 1.
10 DESTROYERS THROUGH BELT.
German Torpedo Boat, Badly Dam.
aged, Off Danish Coast
Copenhagen. The National Tldende
says that 10 German torpodo boat de
stroyers passed through the Little Bolt
from the north going very slowly. The
newspaper adds that a torpodo boat,
badly damaged. Is lying off Lyngvlg
Fyr, near Rlngkjoblng Fjord, western
Denmark, Just north of the Horn.
NEUTRAL SHIPS TORPEDOED.
Only One American Vettel, the Lee
lanaw, On List
Washington. Official figures pub
lished by the British Embassy thow
that up to the end of April neutral
nations bad lost 121 ships sunk by sub
marines. Although tho State Depart
ment baa had a vast amount of diplo
matic correspondence on this subject,
the list contains the name of only one
American ship, the Leolanaw, tank
July 23 last year.
CARRANZA
SENDS
A
Asks Immediate Withdrawal of
Americans.
THREATENS RESORT TO ARMS
Crossing the Border It Declared To
Be Practically Intervention and
a Violation Of Mexican
Sovereignty. ;
Mexico City. Calming that tha
words and protests of the United
States have been entirely In contradic
tion of their acta and that In spite of
protests not to Intervene In tho af
fairs of Mexico, soldiers of the United
States are in Mexico without the con
sent of the Mexican government and
In violation of Mexico's sovereignly,
the Mexican government now asks for
tbo Immediate withdrawal of those
troops. The request is made in a 12,'
Ouo-word note made public at the
Foreign Offico.
Tho note recites that the American
troops crossed tho border after tho
Columbus Incident without the per
mission of the Moxican government.
The act was not considered one of in
vasion then solely because the United
States said they had misinterpreted
tlte attitude of the Mexican govern
ment When the second expedition
crossed tho line after the Glenn
Springs Incident, the note maintains,
the plea that this wns dono with tho
consent of tho Mexican consul at Del
Rio, Tex., Is untenable, and. that act
can only bo considered as one of In
vasion.
"The Mexican government, there
fore, Invites tho United States to bring
to an pnd this unsupportablo situa
tion," the note concludes, "and to sup
port Its protestations nnd declarations
of friendship by an lmmr-diate with
drawal of American troops.''
Maintaining that tho protests of
friendship by the United States nnd
the expressed desire for non-intervention
has been contradicted by the actJ
of the Washington government, the
note says the time has arrived when
Washington must declare Itself clearly
and unequivocally as to its future In
tentions toward Mexico.
After reciting the facia which led to
the first crossing of the frontier by tho
American troops after the Villa raid
at Columbus, the note Insists that In
contradiction of tho word of Generula
Scott and Funston, another expedition
crossed tho boundary line thus violat
ing all the precepts of International
law and committing an act of Invasion.
"The American government," says
the note, "has admitted that the work
of the expedition which entered after
the Columbus raid Is now over. But
In spito of this fact, American troops
still remain on Mexican soil. To con
tend that polltlcnl disorder in this
country justifies this act of the Ameri
can military forces Is In conflict with
the repeated professions of tho Wash
ington government relative to non-interference."
DUTCH RESCUE SURVIVORS.
Two Trawlert In With 23 Men, One Of
Them Wounded.
The Hague. A Dutch trawlor has
arrived at the Hook of Holland with
one dead and neven live Germans who
were saved from the naval battle. An
other trawler has taken Into Ymuiden
throe Gorman officers and 12 sailors,
nnd one British sailor, who wat
wounded.
STEALS TO. RCJOIN BAND.
Convict Wants To Return To Prlson'a
Musicians.
Harrisburg, Fa. Joshua Stewart,
who was sent to the Eastern Benlten.
tiary for a theft in Middletown, told a
deputy sheriff that ho had stolen to get
back to the Eastern Benltentlary,
where ho could play In the Institution's
band, He had boen released only a
short time ago.
AUSTRIAN WAR LOANS IN FAVOR.
Subtcrlptiont Have Reached Total Of
' 6,000,000,000 Crowna.
Berlin. The total subscriptions to
the new Austrian and Hungarian war
loans reached a total of 6,000,000,000
crowns, according to a Vienna dispatch
to the Overseas News Agency. "AH
the newspapers," says the news
agency, "express satisfaction at the
notable result of the loans."
AWNING FALLS, KILLING FOUR.
Eighteen Others Injured During a
Parade At Dall.it.
Dallas, Texas. Four persons were
killed and 18 Injured when the wooden
awning over the sidewalk of a build
ing on Main street collnpscd. The kill
ed and Injured were part of a throny
watching a proparedness parade.
CRUDE RUBBER HAS BIQ DROP.
Decline In Demand and Increased Pro
duction Causes Given.
New York.-High-grade crude rub
ber was quoted at 64 cents a pound In
the local market Wednesday, the low
est price since the latter part of last
year, when It sold as high as $1.02.
HILL, RAILROAD BUILDER DEAD.
Famout Railroad Builder and Flnan.
cler Diet In St Paul.
8t Paul. James J. Hill, pioneer
railroad builder and financier, died at
his Summit avenuo hem e. According
to a statement given out by Mr. Hill's
phytvlclans death was caused by an In
fection due to bowel trouble. Follow
Ing an operation performed Saturday
afternoon he sank rapidly and his ex
treme ago, 78 yoara, militated agalaji
recovery.
SHARP
NOTE
BUMPER WHEAT
CROP IN STATE
Poaelble Yield Of 26,000,000 BuaheU
Predicted Farm Labor
Scarcity.
Harrisburg
The Keystone State will have a
bumper crop of wheat this year if
favorable conditions are maintained
and the yield may go to 26,000,000
bushels, according to a bulletin Jus
Issued by the State Department of
Agriculture.
The wheat, rye and hay crops prom
ise to bo exceptionally good this year.
the wheat best of all. Last year the
wheat crop was 24,&28,000 bushels, but
it Is thought that It will be oxceedod
by over 1,000,000 bushels.
Rye Crop Above Average.
The bullotln says:
The rye crop la flvo per cent, above
the condition of May of last year and
Indications point to a crop of 4,905,600
bushels as compared with 4,672,000
bushels a year ago.
Present Indications point to an aver
ape crop of l. t tons of hay to an acre.
and with the same number ef acres de
voted to hay as a year ago, the est!
mated production for the present sea
son will bo 4,221,0110 tons compared
with 3,CS3,000 tons a year ago.
Th present estimates of the depart-
monl based on tho ten-year average
ef 11.5 bushels to an acre show that
the wheat production should be 16.6
bushels to an acre but in 1915 the pro
duction was 19 bushels wbilo the pres
ent condition Is five per cent, above
that of last year and Indicate proa
ports of an average of almost 20 bush
els to an acre for 1916.
The ten-year average for rye Is 16.9
bushels to an acre, while the 1915 pro
duction showed an average of 17.2
bushels. With tho conditions of rye
five per cent, above that of last year
at this time the indications are that
the production will be about 18 buidi
eU to an acre.
Hay Outlook Good.
The ten-yeHr uverago for hay Is 1.33
tons to an aero and last year the pro
duction foil below the average, or 1.18
tons to an aero. This year the condl
tioiis are slightly over 100 per cent, for
ta average crop while last year they
were but 92 per cent.
The only drawback appears to be a
very great scarcity of farm labor. In
some counties half the farmers have
no help,
Woman Separated Gets No Damages,
The State Workmen's Compensation
Board, In an opinion, rules that a wom
an separated from her husband cannot
claim (Compensation for his death or
Injury. The decision was rendered In
the case of Holen Bryant Boone, of Mil-
ford, Del., against the Pennsylvania
Railroad, tiie husband having been kill
ed. The referee found that the hus
band had been supporting the wife and
child from November, 1913, until May,
1911. Ho was killed January, 1916.
Tho referee mado an award to the
widow and child.
The hoard finds that the widow vol
untarily withdrew from her husband
some time before his death and re
versed tho referee in his award to the
widow, raying: '
She asserted and maintained an In
dependent status quite Incompatible
with that dependency contemplated by
our act She renouncod her depend
ency previous to her husband's. death.
We hold that under our act the widow's
dependency l one of fact and not of
law.
The award to the minor child wat
modified.
Treasury Statement Showt Big Balance
Dutall of tho State Treasury state
ment at the end of May showt that
480,218 of the $1,731,076.88 received
during May was for the geueral fund,
the balance In that fund at the end of
tho month being $2,n:!l,C83.24, against
$2,020,128.77 at tho end of April. Tho
balances In tho various funds at the
end of May showed $051,110.02 in the
sinkln; fttud, $9,131.41 unluvosted In
the school fund, $279,537.43 In the
game fund, $02,116.80 tn thn bounty
fund, nnd $119,520.60 In tho State fire
Insurance fund, making a total at the'
end of the month of $3,153,019.68,
which is little loss than tho total at
the end of April.
Mlllertville Normal Bought By State.
Arrangements have been completed
whereby the State Board of Education
will tako title to the proporty of the
Mlllersvlllo State Normal School, at
Millersvllle, Lancaster county, making
the eighth of the thirteen normal
schools to be taken over. The State
will pay $1,725 In cash for outstanding
stock and assume a debt of $-1 -1,00.
Tho State already had an equity in the
property through appropriation. Nego
tiations have been started for the
acquisition of the Kutztown and Ship
pensburg schools.
Scranton Registrars.
Governor Brumbaugh selected Mich
ael A. Rafter and Anthony P. O'Don
noil to be the Democratic registration
commissioners in Scranton, and they
will be named when the terms of P. A.
Ryan nnd P.' J. Jennings expire on
une 15. Those relections were made
from about twenty men who had been
boosted as candidates.
Berks Coroner Named.
Governor Brumbaugh appointed
James II Norton, or Reading, coroner
of Berks county to fill a vacancy
caused by death.
Trlnkle Retlret At Countel.
William N. Trinkle, counsel of the
Public Service Commission since the
enactment of the Public Service law,
retlrod, having rent hlg resignation to
the Attorney Goncral several months
ago.
Ordert Bulldlngt Demolished.
The State Fire Marshal's Depart
ment ordered the demolition of twelve
buildings In Columbia borough, coa-
lidured fire traps. '
STATE HEWS
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The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
The first compilation of the laws of
Pennsylvania relating to townships has
Just been completed by the State Leg
islative Reforenco Bureau aad Acts
dating from 1725 to 1915 have been
gathered Into the form of a code which
will be submitted to the next C-ouorul
Assembly. Director James N. Moore,
of the bureau, says that the Ai have
boon published in tho exact language
as they appear In the pamphlet Law
and that the arrangement of tie ma.
terlal was made with the view ef set
ting out under appropriate heodlugs.
the laws particularly applicable to
each class of townships.
An organisation was formed an Che,
ter to be known as the Kdgeinont Ave
nue Improvement Association, which
will have at lis disposal over $1,000,000
for tho modernizing of Edge-meat ave
nue. The street will be widoaed to
about sixty feet, newly paved and curb
ed and modern buildings will be erect
ed. The syndicate, which Is composed
of local capitalists, has already pur
chased almost all the land aad bullil
lngt between the points namod, and
the work of general Improvement will
be pushed ahead rapidly.
The Delaware County Commission
rrs have discovered a dlffurotwo ot
$600,000 in tho books of tha Oounty
Assessor and the City A.ssossor la tie
First Ward of Chester, the ditTcrenct
being in favor of the city. Real osta't
which was long since cut up into build
ing lots and upon which houuea have
been standing for years is alill as
sessed as farm land, while many other
properties have not been accused und
no county taxes paid upon theu for
years.
William Kallawic. twenty-alx yosr
old, athlete and well known in musical
circles, while returning from a nhurct
picnic on Locust Mountain Road, wa
run down and fatully injured by an
automobile. He died at the State Hob
pital. The driver of the car refuaed to
stop and instead pulled a gun and
threatened to shoot any one who aV
tttmpted to stop him. The local and
State police are on the case.
With delegates from almost all the
many societies of Kings Daughters in
Northampton county prosent, a oounty
union was formed at Bcthlohotn. The
Bethlehems alone have about a bun
dred aocletles, of which the Moravian
Church has half. Mrs. A. D. Thaoler
was elected president, Mrs. Joseph
Roberts, secretary, and Mia lva.
Kraus'e, treasurer.
To avoid running down James Ale.
Miss Catherine Stnnhor, eighteen
years old, of Bloomsburg, turned bur
car directly Into tho display windows
of a department store, breaking three
of the plate glass windows. She stuck
to the car and brought It to a stand
still. Miss Wilhelmlna White, Bloomt
bur'g, was the other occupant Nolluer
was Injured.
At a price approximated at $350,000.
the contract was awarded at Chester
for the erection of the new eight Ktory
bank structure to be known an the
"John P. Crozer Building." and the
first floor of which is to be occupied as
the new home of the Delaware County
Trust, Safe Deposit and Title Insur
ance Company.
Steps are being taken by State au
thoritlos to reduce materially the num
bcr of publications issued by tho Com
inonwealth, and tho advertisement for
the next contract will call for printing
nnd binding of approximately 2S6,60(
books of various sizes, instead of 431,
255, a saving of 134.655, which It If
etslmated cost about $50,000 a year.
.lopeph W. O'Brien, of Philadelphia.
was sentenced to death by Judgo Ryan,
of Bucks county, for the murder of Htr
tie Isadore Goldman, on the golf links
ot the Whltemnrsh Country Club, on
September 26, 1912.
Following tho death of a boy, whore
pushmobllo was hit by an automobile
at Harrisburg, Police Chief J. Thomat
Cell issued orders that all pushmobllet
must stay off the streets.
A spark from a passing locomotive
dropping among rosin at the Bothle
hem Steel Company consumed 235 ton
before it was put out and entailed a
loss of $7,000.
At a ppoclal session of City Council
of Allentown, Samuel A. Knauss band
ed in his resignation ns city treasurer,
and Miles K. Person wns elected as his
successor. Mr. Knauss, became serious
ly 111 after tho doath of hit wife. Per
son was a candidate when Knauss wat
chosen.
George Murdock, a minor, of 8hamo
kin, was walking on tho Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks in order to roach home
by the ehortost route, when a fast
freight train hurled him over an em
bankment and killed him.
At Osceola Mills, tho power plant at
the Weston" colliery, of the Moshannon
Coal Company, was destroyed by dyna
mite entailing a loss of twelve thou
sand dollars. No one was injured. The
building with its equipment was en
tirely dostroyed.
The State Foreitry Department an
nounced that examinations for en
trance to the Slate Forest Academy at
Mount Alto will be held In this 'city,
June 19 and 20. Applicants will be
examined physically nt tho offices ot
the dapartmen' June 19.