THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO, PA.
FIGHTING U-BOAT
GALLSATNEWPDRT
Drops in to Mail Letter to the
German Ambassador.
SAILS AWAY IN 3 HOURS
Almost Before U. S. Navy Officials Had
Tim To Return Her Captain'
Call, She Had Gone. To
Three Mil Limit
Newport, R. I. Seventeen du from
AVIIht-Imnhaven, the Imperial German
submarine U-G3, dropped anchor in
Newport harbor Saturday. Almost be
fore the officer of the American fleet
of warships through which the
Granger had nosed her way had re
covered from their astonishment, the
undersea fighter had delivered a mes
age for the German Ambassador, and,
weighing anchor, turned Ilrenton's
Itecf lightship and disappeared be
neath the waves Just Inside the three
tiille limit.
As she came and went she flew the
tiliick and white colors of the German
Navy, a gun was mounted on the for
ward deck und another aft, w hile eight
torpedoes, plainly visible under (he for
ward deck, gave mule as;-urance thnt
the warship was ready for a light at
the drop of the hat.
Lieutenant-Captain Hans Hone, who
hung up a new world's record In bring
ing an armed submarine in battle array
across the Atlantic, said that be had
called at Newport simply to mall a
letter to Count von Pernstorff. He re
quired neither provisions nor fuel and
would be on bis way, he said, long be
fore the 24 hours during which a bel
ligerent ship may remain within a neu
tral harbor had expired.
The American had been outside for
meneuvers since morning and was re
turning when she came up with the
German. The D-2, drawing near the
stranger and making out her type, sent
a wireless message to the shore head
quarters of Admiral Knight, who re
layed word of the appearance of the
U-;")3 to the Navy Department at Wash.
Ington. The American submarine pre
reded the visitor Into the harbor.
The tint report had It that It was
the Bremen which was coming In. A
tiewspapor man who had watched for
weeks for the merchant submarine
i limbed to the tower of the United
States Engineers' o.'hce and. with the
aid of powerful glasses, made out two
gi;ns on the submarine
A few minutes later he was In a
motorboat making for the craft and
was rewarded by being taken aboard.
The V-KIt had made her way throunh
the fleet of 37 United States warships,
including destroyers and submarines,
to an anchorage 100 yards to the west
ward of the torp-du station. Captain
Hose stood on the quarterdeck as the
correspondent came aboard and, after
Inquiring about the Ilremen, said that
he had come in to mail H letter to
Count von Hernstnrff, and aked for
the m-w.-paper man's credentials.
"Pleas Post This Letter."
The latter exhibited an Associated
I'ress badge and was Intrusted with
The correspondence for the Ambassa
dor. "Please forward this let'er to Count
IJwn-torff ," said the captain, "and re
port my arrival. They w ill be glad to
hear It."
The correspondence, contained in a
s.ntle envelope, was mailed at the
local pnstofflce at 3 o'clock and should
have started for Washington about an
hour later. It should be at the Ger
mnn Kmbassy early tomorrow morn
lr.g. A Busy Three Hour.
The submarine was In American
waters a lltt'e more than three hours,
assuming that she rontinutd to sea
after submerging. Within that time
the German commander paid official
visits to Rear-Admiral Austin M.
Knight, commandant of the second
naval district, and Rear-Admiral
Gleaves, commander of the destroyer
force of the Allantic floi't, who was on
board the flagship, the scout cruiser
Birmingham. Ilo'h American otllcerf
returned the brief call promptly.
WIRELESS DIRECT TO JAPAN.
San Francisco "Talks" with Station
At Ochi Ishl.
San Francisco. Wireless waves
spanned the Taclflc Otean. The San
Franc!.co Marconi wireless station
was In direct communication with a
Japanese Government wireless plant
at Ochi Ishl, Japan, 6, MO miles away.
The "conversation" was a test pre
liminary to inauguration of a wireless
commercial service.
CARRANZA MAY DROP OUT.
Reported That He Will Not Be a Can
didate For Presidency.
EI PaM, Texas. Gen. Venustlano
Carranza may not be a candidate for
the I ie-ildcnry of Mexico nt the first
election to bo held by the de facto Gov.
ernmcntt. J. J. Jesqulera Carranza,
consul at Ios Aneeles, Cal., declared
upon his arrival from Mexico City en
route to Eos Angeles.
GERMANS FORMING "TRUSTS."
To Be Nation Of Industrial Combine
After War.
Amsterdam. Germany is to be a
nation of Indus! rial and financial coin
bines afler the war. Dispatches from
Pierlin stato that the cement mnknu
firms are tliu latent to be merged. The
German Government Is declared to be
fostering "Irunts" as the best means
to securing foreign trade after the war
Tbe cork oak of Spain Is said tc
grow best In poorest soil.
T
I
United States Warships to the
Rescue.
SIX STEAMSHIPS TORPEDOED
The Klngiton's Crew Missing Sub
mersible, Believed U 53, Thought
To Have U Boat As
sistant. Boston. The submarine arm of the
Imperial German Navy ravaged ship
ping off the Eastern coast of the
United States Sunday.
Four British, one Dutch and one Nor.
weglan steamers were sent to the bot
tom or left crippled derelicts off Nan
tucket Shoals.
The destroyer flotilla of tbe United
Sta'.es Atlantic fleet picked up the
passengers and crews of the destroyed
vessels and brought them Into New
port, R. I.
Kingston's Crew Missing.
So far as known, there was no loss
of life, though at a late hour the crew
of thrf British steamer Kingston had
not been accounted for. A submarine
hold up the American steamer Kanean,
bound from New York for Genoa with
steel for the Italian Government, but
later, on establishing hor Identity, the
American was allowed to proceed. The
Kansan came Into Boston harbor lata
tonight for her usual call here.
The hostile submarine Is believed to
be the U-G3, which paid a call at New
port Saturday and disappeared at sun
set. Some naval men, however, de
clare that at least two submarines are
operating close to the American shore,
though outside the three-mile limit.
The Victims.
The record of submarine warfare,
as brought to land by wireless dis
patches, follows:
The Ptrathdeme, British freighter,
torpedoed and sunk off Nantucket.
Crew taken aboard Nantucket Shoal
lightship and later removed to New
port by torpedo-boat destroyers. The
Strathdene left New York yesterday
for Bordeaux and was attacked at 6
A. M.
The West Point, British freighter,
torpedoed and sunk off Nantucket.
Crew abandoned the ship In small
boats after a warning shot from the
submarine's gun. Ofliccrs and men
were taken aboard a destroyer. The
vessel was attacked at 10.4."i A. M. She
was bound from London for Newport
News.
The Ptephano, British passenger
liner, plying regularly between New
York, Halifax and St. Johns. New
foundland. Torpedoed southeast of
Nantucket while bound for New York.
Repor'ed still afloat late tonight.
Passengers and crew, numbering about
HO, were picke d up by the destroyer
ami tian-ferred to the destroyer Jen
kins. The attack was made at 4 30
P. M.
The Kingston, British freighter, tor
pedoed ami sunk southeast of Nan
tucket. Crow missing and destroyer
searching for them. This vessel Is not
accounted for in maritime registers,
and may be the Klngstonlan. The at
tack occurred at 6 P. M.
Bloomersdljk, Dutch freighter, tor
pedoed and sunk south of Nantucket.
Crew taken aboard a destroyer. The
steamer was bound from New York
for Rotterdam, having sailed last
right.
The Christian Knudsen, Norwegian
tanker, torjiedoed and sunk near where
the Bloomersdljk went down. Crew
picked up by destroyers. The vessel
sailed from New York Saturday for
London.
50 SHIPS SUNK IN NINE DAYS.
U-Boat Got 27 Fishing Steamer and
3t Prisoners.
Berlin. Thirty five vessels of coun
tries at war with Germany, with a
total tonnage of H.fioo, were sunk by
German submarines In the North Sea
or the English Channel between Sep
tember 20 and September 29, the Over
seas News Agency announces. This is
In addition to 11 British fishing steam
ers and four Belgian lighters, whose
sinking already has been reported.
Twenty-seven of the 33 were fishing
steamers.
PERMITS CABINET TO QUIT.
King Conatantine Accepts Resignation,
London Hears.
London. King Conslantine has ac
cepted the resignation of the Greek
Cabinet, says a Reuter dispatch from
Athens. It is believed In Athens, the
dispatch adds, that Nicolas Dimitraco
pulos, former Minister of Justice, will
form a new Cabinet, which wlil In
clude three members of the Veulzelos
party.
FRANCIS JOSEPH SICK IN BED
Has Bronchitis and His Condition
Cause Anxiety.
London. A report reaching Vienna
from Geneva, as forwarded to London
by the Exchange Telegraph Company,
says that Emperor Francis Joseph Is
confined to bed with bronchitis and
that his condition Is causing anxiety,
. JAPANESE CABINET RESIGNS.
Premier Not Bold Enough In Foreign
Policy, Reason Given,
Tokyo. Tho Enlchi Nlchl Shlmbun
in an rxtra edition nnnoiincf-s that the
Cabinet of Premier Count Okuma has
decided to resign. The Premier Is aid
to have stated that he would recom
mend to the Emperor the appointment
of Viscount Takaki Kato as bis suc
cessor. Luxemburg ha an area of 1,000
inare miles.
S
NEW ENGLAND CDAS
EXPORTS
THREE BILLIONS
Trade Balance to Set a Record
This Year.
GREAT BRITAIN GETS THIRD
Report Of the Department Of Com
merce Show That Export To
Germany and Russia Have
Almost Ceased.
Washington. The enormous extent
of recent gains In tbe export trade of
the United States 1 disclosed In
statistics Just issued by the Depart
ment of Commerce. Total exports to
the various countries for the first eight
month of the calendar year were In
many cases millions of dollar greater
than those of the entire fiscal year of
1914 and very large Increases are
shown in percentages.
Exports to Greece for the eight
mouths leaped 2.200 per cent., com
pared to the fiscal year 1014 ; to Rus
sia 900 per cent.; to Norway 340 per
cent.; to France 24(1 per cent.; to Den
mark 140 per cent.; to Italy 129 per
cent.; to the United Kingdom 103 per
cent.; to Sweden 84 per cent.; to Cuba
42 per cent., and lo Japan 25 per cent.
This vast export trade shows an ap
parent trade balance for the eight
months $l,730,000.0u0 In favor of tho
United States and departmeut officials
predict that by the end of the year it
will exceed $2,500,000,000. The total
exports amounted to 13,435,969,212, an
Increase of f 1,205.082,010 over tbe
same eight months a year ago.
The largest gain was in exports to
the United Kingdom, which took near
ly one-third of all goods exported from
the United States In that period. They
amounted to 11. 207,751,939, showing an
Increase of fD54,OoO,000 over the same
eight months last year, and $713,000,
Oi'O more than the entire fiscal year of
1914. France, the second best custo
mer of the United States, took goods
vulued at $r,44, 475.0UO, an increase of
$211,000,000 over the previous eight
months and $3S4.000,00 more than
1914. Canada was third, taking $373,
736.569. an. Increase of $103.0M0.0OO
over the eight months of last year, but
only J29, iKn), rno more than 1914.
Russia in Europe and Asia took
$;li0,3fi2.626 worth, an Increase ol
$;i9,A00,(n0 over the previous eight
month period. Greece's imports from
the United States amounted to $23,
697,141, compared with $1,100,000 In
the whole lis cal year before the war.
Exports to Germany and Austria
have almost ceased. Decreases for
the eight months, when compared with
the same period last year, were shown
In exports to Denmark. The Nether
lands and Sweden, but the totals, ex
cept for The Netherlands, exceed
those of the fiscal year 1914.
U. S. WILL NOT ACT.
Teutons Complain Of American Air
men With the Allies.
Washington. The United States
will take no action as a result of the
various complaints from Teutonic
sources that American aviators are at
the front with the French Flying
Corps.
These protests have been coming
Into the State Department through
both diplomatic and consular officers
and will be the subject of full discus
sion when Ambassador Gerard, now
en route from Berlin, reaches Wash
ington. But officials declared today
that exhaustive consideration of all
complaints from the Central Powers
has convinced them that American
aviators have kept strictly within the
bounds of International law.
SAYS BREMEN WAS CAUGHT.
British Shipmaster Repeats Oft-Told
Story.
Newport News, Va. Another Brit
I. h shipmaster brought into port the
story that the German merchant sub
marine Bremen had been captured, He
Is Captain Reavley, of the steamer
Korth Point, and he says the Bremen
was caught In a net In tbe English
Channel while IiIb ship was In the
channel about seven weeks ago.
BANDITS K'LL AUTOIST.
Woman, Wounded, Drive Car Away
With $8,0C0 Payroll.
Hammonton, N. J. No trace has
been discovered of the band of foreign,
ers who shot and killed Henry Rider,
of Howell, Mich., and wounded Mrs.
El.-ie Smathers, James Rigby and A. J.
Rider, of Hammonton, In an attempt
to rob the party of JS.000, represent
ing the payroll for cranberry pickers
employed by A. J. Rider.
AGED PRIESTS DEAD IN FIRE.
Christian Brothers' College At St.
Louis Wrecked.
St. Louis. Nine men are known to
have perished as the re.-u't of a fire
that destroyed the central portion of
the ' main bulldirg of Christian
Brothers Col!"g here. Two of the
dead are aged members of the Chris
tian Brothers' Order, who were trap
ped on the fifth floor of the flumes.
STEAMER SUNK IN CHESAPEAKE.
British Vessel Run D?wn By City Of
.Norfolk.
Norfolk, Vn. The British steamer
TTnwkhenrt. nt ancl'.or In Hampton
Roads, off Rewalls, Point, was run
1ovn and stink by the Chesapeake
Steamship Company's Bay line steam
ir, City of Norfolk, outward bound
rout this port for Baltimore with a
imber of passengers. The City of
'-irfolk was badly darnnged about the
ow, but there was no los of life so
j.r as is known.
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WOULD RESENT
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No Preparations Made For the
Discussion of Peace.
USELESS AND INADVISABLE
Mediation Ha Been Neither Offered
By Thi Country Nor Sug
gested To It From
Abroad.
Washington. No new step to end
tbe European War has been taken by
the United States and, so far as offi
cials here can foresee, none Is likely
to be taken in the near future, accord
ing to an authoritative statement of
the government's position.
While no official professed to know
what is in President Wilson's mind, It
was declared that no preparations had
been made for discussion of peace
through the usual diplomatic channels
and that all the Information gathered
here seemed to Indicate that such a
move jvould be both useless and inad
visable. It was pointed out, however,
that in a matter of this nature the
President usually keeps his own coun
sel and might be influenced by indica
tions of which tbe officials here are In
Ignorance.
Regarding the many rumors that the
United States already had made media
tory advances to the belligerents dur
ing recent months, it was declared
authoritatively that mediation had
been neither offered by this govern
ment nor suggested to it from abroad.
The United States, It was explained,
stands exactly where It has stood ever
since President Wilson, at the out
break of tho war, made an open offer
to use the good olllces of the country
whenever requested. Since that an
nouncement, it was declared, there has
been no changes so far as the Ameri
can government Is concerned.
While declining to be quoted direct
ly on so delicate a matter, officials
here are understood to be thoroughly
convinced thnt any peace move at this
time would be resented as unneutral,
and might Impair the government's
standing as a mediator when the time
for action comes.
Iu spite of this belief, attention Is
culled to the formal decision of Switz
erland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark
not to offer mediation now, the in
formal decision of Spain and the Vati
can to the same effect, the warning
against such attempts sounded recent
ly by David Lloyd George, the British
war minister; the Swedish premier's
declaration that peace proposals by
neutrals would be futile, and other
utterances by public men In belliger
ent and neutral countries. Holland
and the United Stales alone nave
taken no definite stand against media
tion now, but there is no expectation
here that either will abandon its pres
ent silence.
TO INVESTIGATE 8-HOUR LAW.
Goethals, Clark and Ruble Chosen
Member Of Board.
Omaha, Neb. A formal announce
ment was made here that President
Wilson has selected Major-General
GoethalR, Commissioner Clarke, of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, and
George Rubles, of the Trade Commis
sion, as members of the board created
by Congress to Investigate the Rail
road Eight Hour law.
While the law does not go Into ef
fect until January 1, the President de
sires the members of the board to Give
a close study to the entire situation.
TIRPITZ REFUSES NOMINATION.
Admiral Says He Will Accept No Can
didacy During1 War.
Berlin. Admiral Von Tir.iltz, former
head of the German Admiralty was
offered the Conservative nomination
for a Reichstag sent vacancy to be
filled nt a bye election tn Saxony. He
declined, replying that he had derided,
In the Intere'ts of Germany' cause,
to aicept no candidacy during the war.
CARS COLLIDE ON BRIDGE,
Drop With Part Of Structure and 60
Passenger.
Cleveland. Two persons were killed
and more than 30 person are In hos
pitals with lnjurios as the toll of a
bridge tragedy hero when two street
cars collided on the West Third Btreet
bridge, causing it to collapse and pre
cipitate the car 30 feet to the Balti
more and Ohio tracks below, whore
they almost rolled Into the Cuyahuga
river. There were 40 persons on one
oar and 20 on tbe other.
EC
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SUCCESSION
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ARE INVOLVED
Solution of Mexico's Internal
Affairs Affects This Country.
MUST PROTECT OUTSIDERS
Settlement, Visitor Hear, Demand
Avoidance Of Occasion For
Diplomatic Embar
ratament. Atlantic City, N. J. Satisfactory
solution of Internal question having
an international bearlug must be an
Integral part of the general program
for the rehabilitation of Mexico, the
Mexican members of the Joint cominls
slon were informed by their American
colleagues.
During discussion of the banking
situation, taxation, and other subjects,
which the Mexicans Insisted were in
ternal matters, the American commls.
siouers took the stand that no satisfac
tory settlement of the border problem
could bo reached until there was evi
dence of the intention of the Mexican
Government to handle auch affairs so
that there would be no occasion for
constant diplomatic correspondence
with other governments.
The matters especially referred to
by the American Commissioners were
those affecting the Btatus and rights
of foreigner resident in Mexico and
of foreigners' who have invested capi
tal in Mexican enterprises.
It was learned that Luis Cabrera,
head of the Mexican Commission, Is
dealing with the committee represent
Ing a large group of mining concerns
In Mexico In his capacity as Minister
of Finance rather than as one of the
Commissioners. He expects to meet
the mining men's representatives in
New York for a conference.
The official statement issued by the
Commission follows: "The morning
session of the American and Mexican
Joint Commission was devoted to the
presentation to the Mexican Commis
sioners by their American colleagues
of the importance of giving considera
tion to certain questions which have a
distinct International bearing because
of their effect on the status and the
rights of foreigners resident in Mexico
and of foreigners who have Invested
their capital in Mexican enterprises.
The position taken by the American
Commission is that the satisfactory
solution of these questions is an
Integral and necessary part of a gen
eral program, the purpose of w hich la
to assure to Mexico the resumption of
her normal position among the nations
of the earth."
FRANCE LIFTS EMBARGO.
Make Change That Will Aid Ameri
can Manufacturer.
.Washington. Amendments to the
French export embargo that will
materially aid American manufactur
ers were announced in a cablegram
from American Consul-General Thack
ara at Paris. The changes lift the em
bargo on the export to allied and
American countries on fatty acids,
borax and boraclc acid, metallic chlor
ides, gelatines and glues, starches, lead
manufactures, sodium and paint. Tho
embargo was found to embarrass neu
tral and friendly commerce unneces
sarily. LINER FRANCONIA SUNK.
Cunarrfer, Used By British As a Trans,
port, Sent Down By U Boat
London Five ships the Cunard
Line steamer Franconia, the Russian
steamer Tourgai and three Norwe
gian steamers, Brink, Knut Carl and
Nesjar have been sunk, uccording to
reports he.re.
Tho Britinh Admiralty announces
the loss of the FYancnnin, which was
employed for transport duty. The
steamer was sunk In tho Mediter
ranenn by an enemy submarine. The
steamer had no troops aboard. Twelve
men of the crew of U02 are missing.
INVESTIGATES MAIL PAY.
Interctate Commerce Commission Ex
pected To Settle Controversy.
Washington. Tho Interstate Com
merce Commission began an Investiga
Hon of railway mall pay, which Is ex
poctnd to end the fight between tho
Postofllce Department and railroads of
tho United Stale3 over claims by the
railroads that they are carrying the
malls at a loss. The commission will
report to Congress whether railroad'
should be paid on a space basis or by
weight or both.
IS
STATE
CAPITAL
Harrlsburg
Compensation has been allowed to
the widow of an employe of tha Car
negle Steel Company, killed by light
ning while at work In one of the plants
of the company in the Pittsburgh dis
trict, in an opinion filed by Chairman
Mackey.
In the opinion It Is stated "When the
law of a particular State awards com
pensation only to the employe when
the Injury arises out of the employ
ment, then It has become Important in
case of death or injury by lightning
to determine as a fact whether or not
the workman at that particular time
only assumed the ordinary haxard of
the general community or whether the
nature of hi employment placed him
In a position where he was unusually
Imperiled."
There Is an admission that the man
was at work when struck and as death
by Hghtulng'constltutes an accident,
the widow Is awarded compensation,
Including an allowance for a minor
child and burial expenses.
The Compensation Board is declared
to have no authority to make an order
for payment by an employer of one
third of amount of compensation al
lowed for loss of an eye, because,
owing to an Injury an oculist estimates
that the normal vision of an eye of an
employee hat been diminished one
third, according to an opinion by
Chairman Mackey,
The decision was an appeal by the
Pittsburgh A Lake Erie Raitroad In
the compensation claim of Louis J.
Beck, one of Its car shop employes,
whose eye was Injured by dirt dropping
from the floor of a car under repair.
The man wa able to resume work In
twenty days, but It was admitted that
his vision had been Impaired one-third.
"We do not find In the Act any power
to graduate an award between provis
ions of the Act." say the opinion. "If,
In this particular case, the lowered
vision has not reduced the earning
power of the claimant, then there can
be no compensation based upon any
other consideration than actual loss.
.Concerning the suggested award the
chairman says, "The board has no
power to make such an order, nor even
suggest such a disposition of the case.
If, however, the defendant desires to
make such a contribution to the claim
ant there is nothing In the law to pre
vent It from doing bo."
Penna. Paper Supply Sure For a Year.
Pennsylvania Is one of the few
States in the Union which is In a favor
able position In regard to its paper
contracts, and It will not have to worry
for over a year lo come. Its contracts
were made a couple of years ago, and
paper which is now Belling In the mar
ket at $8, Is being bought by the State
for a little over half that sum. This
favorable condition, which has brought
about a condition, whereby paper peo
ple are trying not to sell to the Com
monwealth Instead of trying to have It
Increase Its orders, Is the result of a
contract placed two years ago by A
Nevln Pomeroy. the State Superintend
ent of Public Trintlng und Binding.
The officials have been endeavoring
to hold down the amount of printing
required by the State government, and
when some .chiefs, whose printing wa
not contemplated when the appropria
tion was made, started to make In
quiries, they found that Pennsylvania
was In a favorable condition as re
gards paper, "but In bad shape for a
printing fund. All that was allowed
for the State printing last year was
$400,000, and out of this had to come
all of the child labor, workmen' com
pensation and State Insurance fund
printing, none of which had been pro
vided for when the estimates were
made. Orders have been given that all
printing must be held down as much
as possible and there will be less this
year than for a long time.
Expert Begin Pine Rust Fight
Five of the field men of the! Bureau
of Zoology of the Pennsylvania De
partment of Agriculture .have started
making a systematic survey of the
State to ascertain in what districts the
white pine blister rust Is prevalent
and to take Immediate steps to arrest
Its spread.
Already there are six places In the
State where the blister rust has been
found on white pines and both the
Federal Government and Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture are making
every effort to stamp It out.
The five field men assigned to the
work have recently returned from the
Federal Laboratory at Providence,
R. I., where they studied the habits of
the blister rust and methods to be
used for Its extermination.
The men assigned to the work and
their districts are:
II. E. Backus Blair, Cambria, Cen
tre, Clearfield, Huntingdon, Somerset,
Bedford and Fulton counties.
Ira C. Cherlngton Lackawanna,
Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wayne, Tike,
Wvomlng and Columbia counties.
T. I Holdrldge Bradford, Lycom
ing, Sullivan, Tioga. Potter, McKean,
Elk. Cameron and Clinton counties.
E. F. Tierce Bucks, Montgomery,
Che ter, Delaware and Philadelphia
counties.
Francis Wlndle Dnuphln, Cumber
land, Franklin, Adams, York, Lancas
ter and Lebanon counties.
PENNSYLVANIA CHARTERS.
Governor Brumbaugh approved the
following charters for new corpora
tion: Lnverne Publishing Company, Thlla
delphla, capital $25,000; treasurer,
Frank T. Eastlack.
Splnelll & Co., Inc., hauling, etc.,
Philadelphia, capital $5,000; treasurer,
Gllda Splnnelll.
Franklin Publishing & Supply Co.,
Philadelphia, capital $5,000; treasurer,
John O. Magulre, Wayne.
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY
TOLD
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
While working In a cornfield on hli
(arm in Upper Merlon, James Uayen
fell dead of heart disease.
The electric lighting system Is botst
Introduced In Aiburtus and th cur
rent is being transmitted from Mac
angle. '
A movement for a city charter wu
launched by Shamokln Council when
It received a petition signed by 200
citizens praying for the privilege o(
voicing themselves on tbe question.
Citizen of BIrdsboro have urged
Town Council to make a movement to
wards the purchase of a plot of ground
for the purpose of establishing a pub
lic park.
Police of Harrlsburg raided market
and arrested shorlwelght men, several
being held for trial at court, on charge
growing out of measures which were
short.
The State Board of Pardons ha
been asked to commute the death sen
tence of Frederick Ward Motter, sen
tenced to electrocution by the Jeffer
son county courts.
While' playing with matches, a 1
year-old aon of Amos J. Stoltzfus, ol
Morgantown, fired a straw stack. H
promptly Informed his mother, who
gave the alarm and tbe nelghbon
saved tbe barn nearby.
A resident of Wyomlssing offered tbe
Berk County Conservation Assocli
tlon $1,000 per year for a period or
years, to use as a fund to acquire land
on ML Penn, so that the bare spots cai
be covered with trees and shrubbery
A new bar and billet mill Is to be
constructed at once at the Farrell
works of the Carnegie Steel Company
The United States Steel Corporation
has appropriated $1,250,000 for tk
purpose.
After Thomas Arzell placed timber
In a breast at the North Franklin Col
liery. Shamokln, and told several help
ers the place was pretty safe to work
In, a lump of coal slid down a chute.
instantly killing him.
Plans were announced for the con
struction of a thirty-five mllion gallon
reservoir to be added to Harrisburg'f
Water Supply System. It will take
care of the section of the city being
built on the highlands.
The first woman to take out
hunter's license In thnt county for
1916 was Mrs. E. O. Hatfield, of West
Falrview, who secured No. 290. Mn
Hatfield is an expert shot and accom
panies her husband on various excur
sions during the season.
The Maple Silk Manufacturing Co.
of Paterson, N. J., who lately pur
chased the Alburtls Silk Ribbon plnnl
for S21.T00, have completed the altera
tions and are almost ready to resumi
operations. The two shirt factorial
are also working full time.
To protect himself and companion
In case they are ever again marooned
In Mexico by hostile bandits, Harold
T. Mapes, a mining engineer, in Car
lisle on a short vacation, has establish
ed a wire'ess station at bis home anil
Is practicing receiving and sendlnl
message.
The campaign that the citizens d
the Bethlehem have started to ralw
the Bum of $200,0.00 so ihat the pro
posed new bridge across the Lenltf
River to cost more than $900,000 msi
be a reality, Is meeting with wonder
ful success. Indications are that it"
amount needed will be over sub
scribed.
In an ordinance passed by the Bor
ough Council of Penbrook, even bab!
coaches are to be regulated along with
automobiles, wagons, itreet cars ani
other vehicles. The maximum spf'11
of perambulator is to be three mill
an hour and they must be "driven" b;
adults. Fines are to be Imposed tot
infringement of the rules.
With an enrollment of more th"
300 new students of whom 284 "
Freshmen, Lehigh University, Sou-
Bethlehem, started its fifty-first ypr
Ti e total enrollment will foot up mof
thnn 850. Dr. H. S. Drinker, preside
cf the Institution, announced the r
polntment of sixteen new members o'
the faculty.
In his annual report to the Flrcmn!
Association of Pennsylvania JuiT'l
Eugene C. Bouniwell, of Phllndelpn11
president of the association, df
nounced the flat rates adopted by t'
Board of Insurance Underwriters, '
ing that It is unfair to tax a man
ha surrotrndod his property
every sareeuara against nre ine
as properties where the tiro menace I
constant,
Because they were on State bu'ln9"
and In the employ of the S!ate,,Charl'j
Flnlcy, deputy clerk of courts, refJ,
to allow mileage to several empW
of the StHte Hoalth Department
went to Montgomery county court '
witnesses.
Bakers from all towns In Westmof
land county at a meeting decided V
Increase the price of bread and caW'
Small loaves of bread will be sold J1
Ix cents. The price of cakes w
vancod from tea to twelve centi
4oen.