THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
21 If! CREW LOST
WITH
STEAMER
I. B. Colgate, Coal-Laden, Goes
Down in Lake Erie
CAPTAIN IS SOLE SURVIVOR
After Drifting For Two Nights and
Day Captain Walter Grashaw Is
Reacued Two Other Men With
Him Are Waahad Off.
Cleveland, Ohio. Storm-swept Lake
Krlo Sunday save up another frag
ment of the story of 1U "Black Fri
day" another vessel pounded to
pieces In the stinging gale and grind
ing waves, carrying 21 uien to their
deaths. The last vessel la the Duluth
owned whaleback James D. Colgate.
Its lone Burvlvor, adrift for 3t V4
hours on a raft, brought the story
a.-hore. Half dead from two nights
and a day spent tortured and torn by
the peas, he was carried off a rescue
hip at Conneaut. Ohio, Sunday after
noon. He Is Capt. Walter Grashaw,
ma.-ter of the Colgate, which went
down Friday night off Long Point
Canada, opposite Erie.
Every one of the crew of 21 per
ished, 19 of them rucked down to
death the Instant the big rteel boat
foundered In the storm and two carried
cff by waves from the raft.
The Colgate went down on the night
of what came to be known In marine
circles as "Black Friday." Six men
were loet when the steamer Filer
rank In I-ake Erie on Friday, only
Captain Mattison being saved. Earlier
that nli-'ht the steamer Marshal F.
Butters foundered, but Its crew of 13
men were saved.
Lt.s than an hour after the Filer
aank, the Colgate, by far the largest
of the il.ree victim vessels, went down
Tillies away. The 21 of her crew who
died raided "Rlack Friday's" sea casu
alty list on I-ake Erie to 27. There
was ro wireless to give warning and
the lake held Its secret until Sunday
morning when Captain Grashaw was
rescued by a ferry steamer.
Grashaw became unconscious from
the reaction of his Ion fk-ht for life
and remained so during the six hours'
trip of the rescue ship to Conneaut.
He Is In a hospital there, his wife at
Lis bedside, In a critical condition.
GIVES NO RIGHT OF APPEAL.
Carranza't Decree Of October 9 Laid
Before Commission.
Atlantic City, N. J. General Car
ranza's decree of October 9, rus-pending
constitutional guarantees through
out Mexico, as translated and laid be
fore the American representatives on
the Mexican Joint Commissinn pro
Tides that for nearly all offenses not
covered by the civil code, summary
pun'shmcr.t may be lnfllc'ed by the
military authorities. Interference with
railway tratlic. robbery, incendiarism
and assault In its various forms are
characterized as crimes punishable by
death without the formality of trial
when the evidence Is apparent. In no
case has the accused the right of tp
peal. AUSTRIAN PREMIER SHOT.
Count Ctuergkh Assassinated By Lud
wig Adler, Editor.
Berlin. Coount Karl Stuergkh, the
Austrian Premier, was shot and killed
while at dinner by the editor of a
Vienna newspaper named Adler, says
the Overseas News Arency.
Vienna. The AuMrlan Premier,
Count Stuerrkh, who was aaslna'ed
while at dinner by I.udwlg Ad'er. a
publisher, who phot three time.
Count Stuergkh v.-as dinlrg nt a hotel
when the pub'lsher attacked hin.
Three shots were firvl. all of which
tick e.Tect, the 1'remlcr dying in
stantly. KAISER WANTS COD'S HELP.
Cays He Hopes Almighty Will Be With
the Germans In Fighting.
London. A Central News dispatch
from Amsterdam fays:
"Emperor William, In a speech to
the troops on the western front, after
commemorating the dead, said :
" 'But we who are living will fight
further until nobody will ever dare
asaln to nn the honor and liberty of
the German people.'"
The Emperor, adds the dispatch,
raid he hoped God would be with the
Germans In the fighting.
AMERICAN TROOPS ARRESTED?
Four Of Them Reported In Cuctody
Near Juarez, Mexico.
El Paso. A report was received by
army officers heie that four American
roldiers were under arrest on the
Mexican ' side of the border near
Juarez. Cen. Francisco Gonzales, com
manding the Mexican troops In tha
north, has been asked to make an in
votlgatlon of the report. It Is be
4 JeevVd the men crossed the Internation
al boundary at some point below
Juarez and are being held by the Car
ranza river guards.
For Cremation; Agaln:t Hanging.
St. Paul, Minn. Resolutions Indors
Ing rrematlon and urging abolition of
capital punishment were adopted b
the National Spiritualists' Assoclatlot
at the closing region of Its annua'
convention here. Chicago was chosen
as the 1517 mreMn;- pluri.
In the early days of the Amerlcar
colonies, greasod paper was used li
the wlndjws in the absence of glas
and candles were in ute up to 175
when lumps of wbale ell were firs,
Used.
UNITED STATES .
TROOPS IN BATTLE
Cavalry Patrol In Clash Near
Big Bend.
FIGHT LASTS NEARLY HOUR
Report Is Made To Ceneral Funaton
Telling Of the Engagement No
Losses Reported By the
American Forces.
San Antonio, Tcxaa. American
troops and Mexicans clashed near San
Jose, in the Big Bend county, accord
ing to a report received by General
Funston from Col. Joseph CaMon, com
mander of tha district. The fight
lasted for 45 minutes. No losses were
suffered by tha Americans, and Infor
mation Is lacking regarding loss
among the Mexican.
Colonel Gaston's report raid that
a band of about 30 Mexicans opened
fire on a detachment composed of 23
men of the Sixth Cavalry and Texas
National Guard cavalry squadron en
gaged In patrol duty between Presidio
and Ruidosa. Lieutenant Cudlngton,
of the Texas squadron, commanding
the troops, ordered hi men to return
the Are.
A vigorous exchange of shots con
tinued for a period of 45 minutes, the
Americans and Mexicans firing In
sklrmHi formation from covered posi
tions on either sldo of the Rio Grande.
Information from Colonel Onston did
not Indicate that the United States
troops crossed In pursuit of the Mexi
cans. Afer the fight Lieutenant Cud
lrigton returned to Ruidosa with his
command.
Colonel Ga-ton rported that Major
A. V. P. Anderson, of the Sixth Cav
alry, has gore to San Jose to Investi
gate the incident. Colonel Baejos,
commander of the Carranza garrison
at O.'lnasa, has gone to the scene of
the fight for the sarf.o purpose, accord
ing to Colonel Gaston.
Washington. General Funston, re
porting on the cxrhanee of shots. '
across the border at San Jose, said j
that late reports rearhing him Inrii- j
cated the American troops were fired
upon "by drunken Mexicans." j
The dispatch made no mention of ,
firing by the American troopers and
said there were no casualties on either
side. Officials here were Inclined to
attach little significance to the Inci
dent, be'levlng that an Irresponsible
band bad blundered upon the detach
ment of Americans and withdrawn
after firing a few desultory shots.
There was nothing in General Funs
ton's dispatch, It was raid, to indicate
a prolonged engagement.
CRANK WHO CHASED WILSON.
Declares He Just Wanted To Talk To
the President.
Pittsburgh. Pa. Richard Cullen,
rged 22. a machinist, who was taken j
Into curtody after attempting to Jump :
on the running board of an automobile !
In which President Wilson wa.s rldine.
here, w-as examined by physicians and
ordered sent to the City Home at May
view for further observation regarding
his sanity. Cullen denied that he In
tended harming the President, saying
he was not satisfied with the adminis
tration's foreign policies and Just
wanted to talk to him.
On the ride the President lost his
hat, and the automobile was stopped
while a secret renlce man recovered
It. Cullen. with a bag of tools,
Jumped on the running board of the
automobile, but was knocked off by a
fecre' fervlce man. The man chaed
the President's co-'veyrme for a block
before he was arrested by local de
tectives. TAX DODGERS MAD" TO PAY.
Internal Revenue Bureau Recovera
$22,500,576 Due U. S.
Washlni-ton. How tl.e Internal
Revenue Bureau has more than paid
all of it' expenses durlne the Ia-t three
years by collecting back taxes that had
been fraudulently evaded was de'alled
In a s'a'.oment issued at the Treasury
Iepr:ment. The fraudulent returns
uncovered segregated more than JT.O,
f00 000. much of which had been due
for years. A total of $22,500 576 was
reove:1. The statement points out
that this amount Is greater by $2.7C0.
000 than t'ie ent're cost of collecting
the country's $1.308 000 000 of Internal
revenue during the three years. About
half of the total recovered came from
corporations which had evaded the cor
poration excise tax, the amount from
that sniro being $11. S26.000. Other
Items col'ec'ed Inc.'tided $.".(00,000 In
evaded Income taxes, $1)50.010 in
evaded oleumarparlne revenues and
$94.000 In com promises of minor
evasions.
CAPITAL FACES MILK FAMINE.
Maryland and Virginia Farmers Cut
Off Washlngtsn'a Supply.
Washington. With Maryland and
Virginia farmers getting rid of their
ml'ch cows, Washington Is confronted
with an actual milk shortage.
The producers and city retailers in
milk are at loguerheada over the price
of milk, the producers claiming they
cannot get a living price for milk. The
city retailers refuse to allow an In
crease in price.
$1,000,003 13 MISSION GOAL.
Methodist Woman'Soclety At Colum
bus Fix Fund Sought.
Columbus, Ohlrt. Thursday was
"million dollar day" at the national
convention of the Methodist Woman's
Home Ml'rlonary Society meeting
here. Conference pecre'aries were re
porting their pledge for missionary
work and th goal for this vesr Is $!.
I'lOO.CftO. Tledges are approxlmR'ely
10 per cent, higher than la-t je.ir, and
Indication are the goal will be
reached, It Is stated.
IT'S LIABLE TO HAPPEN IN QUILTING TIME
fei i - fete-. Si I! 1 1 ill lli
" ' I r i k I
GERMANS BELIEVE GREEKS PATHETIC
THE BREMEN LOST PLEAJOAIRICA
Diplomats Do Not Think She Deg Uncle Sam's Protection
Was Captured. Against the Entente.
MAY HAVE SUNK IN DIVING DIG CROWD AT LEGATION
If the Submarine Had Been Captured
the British Would Have Prob
ably Made Public Import
ant Documents.
Washington. Lot- of the German
submarine merchantman Bremen Is
conceded by ranking Teutonic diplo
mats In position to be familiar with
the movements of the vessel. The
Bremen Is now one month overdue.
It was admitted that German offi
cials, net only In this country, but In
Berlin, were without information as to
the fate of the Bremen. All they know
Is that she ret out for America from
Dremcrhaven and that she should have
arrived at an American port soon after
the middle of last month. It Is re
garded as doubtful that accurate In
formation concerning the fate of the
vessel will be available until after the
close of the war, If then.
The dls-a-ppeurance of the Bremen-
will not cause abandonment of the
project to rend merchant submarines
regularly from Germany to the United
States, It was said. There appeared
to be reason to expect that another
subsea freighter, either the Deutsch
land or tome other, would reach an
American port forue time within the
next month.
German officials in Washington do
not believe the Bremen could have
fallen into the hands of the British
unleis she had rome accident to her
mnchlnery. They pointed out that, un
like naval submarines, merchant rub
marines avoid all localities frequented
by shipping, and, therefore, art not
open to the same risks.
When the Bremen was a week over
due no anxiety regarding her was felt.
The Peutschland was Just a week
overdue when rhe came through the
Virginia Capes, and the weather con
ditions then were much, better than
those whl-h have prevailed during the
lat men' i and a half. When the ves
sel was two wee!;s overdue anxiety
was apparent In various Teutonic quar
ters, and word of her arrival was
anxiously awaited,
Sire then hope that the submarine
might be fafe has dwindled each day
nr.d today she was spoken of as hav
ing been lot.
Reports that the Bremen had ar
rived Fafi'v In New London, Conn.,
were pubM'hed In newspapers In Ger
many more than two weeks ago. It
was at New London that e dock had
rcen ocP'c'a!lv arranged for the recep
tion of the craft.
The Bremen was commanded by
''"ap'aln Schwarzkopf and carried a
crew of Approximately twenty-five
men.
One ofTcial raid It was likely that
the Bremen had met the fata of a
number of naval submarines which
had sailed from port never to be heard
from again. These vesre's have dis
appeared completely and none of the
members of their crews has been re
ported as b"lng In the detention camps
of the Fntrnte Allies. It Is presumed
that they had some accident which
rati'-ed them to rink or had a mishap
vhl'e divine, which prevented them
from eomlne to the surface.
Another argumert advanced In sup
port of the belief that the Bremen
had met with an accident rather than
capture was that rhe had aboard a
number of Important documents for
the German F.mbasy here, which
probably would have ben made pub'lc
had they fallen Into the hands of the
British.
LIEUTENANT THAW ALIVE.
American Avhtor Reported 1 Dead
Turna Up At Parla.
Taris. At the Paris home of Lieut.
William Thaw, of the Franco-Amu I
can Aviator Corps, It was said that
tho Lieutenant was aWve and well. He
irrived from the f-ont to attend the
funeral of SergL Norman Prince, of
the Franco-American Corps.
NO IRICH CONSCni?TION NOW.
Earl Derby Will Anpe.il For Voluntary
Recrult'nrj Fir't.
Tendon. An Indication that the
Government does not Intend to hav
rfrmr Itrr-ed'R'e'y to cr n"crlpt!o
In Ireland was rl-en In Ihe Home o
Lord by Pari Pe 'by, I'ndnr-Secretar
for War. In reply to a questlm, h
said that pe-uVng a dec!--l(,n on the
whole qitert'on he vvo"'d mnke an ap
eal for volun'ary recrul'ing In l-e'nnd
to which he hoped there would ba i
worthy response.
U. 8. Minister Wa At a Clubhouse
Across the Way Watching A
They Tried To Get Into
the Legation.
Athens. After the demonstration
here against the Entente Allies, dur-'
ing which a procession of several thou
sand person marched to the Ameri
can legation and protested against
the landing of French marines, a dele
gation of alx persons called at the
American legation and presented reso
lutions asking the sympathy and pro
tection of the United States against
the encroachments of the Entente
powers. The spokesman said In Eng
lish In presenting the resolution:
"Henry Clay's speech in regard to
Greece's struggle for liberty, as well
as one by Daniel Webster, said the
struggle would have been made mean
ingless If the liberties of Greece had
been subsequently lost."
The American minister, Garrett
Droppers, promised to forward the
petition to Washington.
There were about 5,000 persons In
the crowd which marched to the
American legation, carrying huge
American and Greek flags. Recent
reports published in Greek newspapers
that an American fleet of 30 warships
was on the way to Greece Inspired
the crowd to Insist on peeing Mr.
Droppers, although the legation re
mained dark, the door was closed and
no one answered the bell. For several
hours the fruitless at'ompt to gain a
hearing at the legation was continued,
with repeated cheers for the United
States.
Unknown to the crowd the Ameri
can minister and the legation secre
tary were watching the demonstra
tion from windows of the American
Club, directly opposite.
When It was seen at last that no
response could be had at the time from
the legation, a committee. Including an
English-speaking Greek, named Kilttls,
formerly from Mississippi, was formed
to wait upon Mr. Droppers and beg
him to put the case of Greece before
the American people.
After the demonstration before the
American legation tha crowd, con
stantly Increasing In numbers, march
ed to the hotel and renewed the
demonstration, waving the American
fl.ig and calling on the representative
of the news agency to Inform the
world through the press as to what
was going on In Greece.
The Royalist newspaper Newhernera
der'ared that the Impartial American
press was the only bar before which
Greece could obtain Justice and sym
pathy. Mr. Droppers raid that he would
forward to Washington the petition
for protection of Greece from the pres
sure of the Entente. He exprensed
the opinion that the demonstration
and appeal to America were due to the
-enorta of the coming of an American
fleet.
AND STILL COAL GOES UP.
Prices In West Virginia Highest In
Years.
Charleston, W. Va. The price of
coal for domestic purposes will be
higher In West Virginia this winter
than for years, according to dealers.
Nut coal now sails for nine and one
half cents a bushel, while slack or fuel
coal formerly selling nt three and one.
half cents now costs five and one-half.
TWO SHIPS ADDED TO WAR TOLL.
British and Norwegian Steamers Re
ported Sunk.
London. The British ateamshlp
Welsh Trlnce, 4.9.14 ton gross, and
owned In Newcastle, has been sunk.
Lloyd's announces that the Norwegian
'teamer Kong Alf Is reported to have
been f unk on Saturday. The steamer,
'f 301 gro&s tons, was owned In
Chrhtlanla.
AUTHOR DIES PLAYING GOLF.
Norman Dvnrrn Held Chair At Wash
ington and Jefferson.
Fr'donta, N. Y. Norman Duncan,
the author, died suddenly while play
ing ro'd here. He had teen llvlnj at
the home of hla brother, E. H. Dun
enn. In this vl'lage. Norman Duncan
was born la 1S71 and had been a pro
'esor at Wnsh'ngtnn and Jefferson
College and also at the University of
Kanas. His best-known works were
books about Labrador and the work of
Dr. Grcnfell.
iri'
OFFEI
li
Purpose to Relieve Defense of
Lemburg.
LARGE FORCES BEING USED
Berlin and Vienna Claim To Have
Driven the Ruaclana Across ,
the Valley Of the
Neagre.
London. With the defeated Rou
manian armies struggling desperately
along their own frontier line In the
Transylvanlan Alps to stem the Inrush
of Germans and Aubtro-Hungarians
Into their country, the Central Pow
ers have launched a new offensive far
to the northeast designed to lighten
the pressure of the Russian armies
along their Eastern front.
The first blow of the offensive baa
been f truck south of Dorna Watra, In
the Eastern Carpathians not far from
the triangular point where Roumanla,
Bukomlna and Transylvania Join.
Official announcements from Petro-
grad state that the Austro-Germans
are employing "great forces" In tho
movement which alms, apparently, at
outflanking tho Russians and thereby
lightening the Immense pressure they
are bringing to bear against the vari
ous Cerman and Austro-Ilungarlan
army groups defending Leuiberg.
The first honors of the battle are
with the Teutons. An official state
ment isrued In Berlin, and supported
by a similar declaration from Vienna
announces that the Russians have
been driven back ucross the Valley of
tha Neagre River.
MARINES STAND HARD TEST.
Ascend Eight-Mile Mountain Path In
Haiti In Two Hours.
San Domingo Clfy. Lieutenant
King-ton, of the United States marines
in Haiti, to determine the staying pow
ers of his 118 men, ranging In age
from 19 to 02 and carrying the regula
tion field equipment, gave a test of as-
conding a steep mountain path, ap
proximately eight miles, within two
hours.
Eighty-four men accomplished the
feat, and of those 20 per cent, were
veterans of 44 years and over.
GERMANS DEPORT BELGIANS.
Arrest $00 Who Refuse To Make Muni
tions; Kill 12.
London. The Amsterdam corre
spondent of the Exchange Telegraph
Company wires the following: "Three
hundred workmen In a Ghent factory
who refused to work In German muni
tion factories In Be'glum have been ar
retted and rent to Germany. Twelve
who resisted were shot. The Germans
everywhere are forcing the Belgians
o work for thorn, particularly on the
railroads, their own personnel having
given out."
15 LOST IN MINE DISASTER.
Six Known To Be Entombed and Nine
Missing Near Fairmont.
Fairmont, W. Va. Six men are
known to have been entombed and
nine others are missing as a result of
an explosion of coal dust In mine No.
7 of the Jamison Coal and Coke Com
pany at Barracksvllle, near here. The
Interior of the mine, as well as the
tipple and other buildings, were
wrecked by the b'ast.
CAVALRY AFTER VILLA.
Twelve Machine Guns Are AIgo Sept
With Carranza Troops.
Chihuahua, Mexico. General Car'cs
Ozuna left here w ith a column of 2,000
cavalry, twelve machine guns and a
sanitary corps, all well supplied to
take the fie'd arainst Villa. Villa Is
reported to be In San Andres while his
banda are visiting the neighboring
ranches to obtain loot end Impress the
ranchers In the Villa commands.
CHILDREN PUT TO WORK.
France Using Them To Supply Labor
Shortage On Farma.
Washington. French school chil
dren while on their vacations are be
ing put to work on farms to make up
the labor shortage due to the war, ac
cording to official reports to Washing
ton. An arrangement for the employ,
ment of practically all the achool
children of the nation has been
perfected.
BRITAIN TO FLOAT NEW LOAN.
Want To Borrow $150,000,000 More
In United States.
New York. A new $150,000,000
British loan will be floated in this coun
try within the next few weeks. The
plan is now understood to await only
official approval by the British Gov
ernment. AUTO BANDITS HOLD UP BANK.
Four Intimidate Cashier and Get
$3,000 To $3,000.
Centralis, Okla. Four bandits
entered this city In an automobile,
held up the cashier of the First Na
tional Bank and escaped with between
$5,000 and $8,000.
VENIZELOJ RECOGNIZED.
Entente Allies Regard Him A Ruler
Of Greece.
London. The Entente Allies have
formally recognised Ihe provisional
government of Greece In tha Island of
Crete, set up by former Premier Venl
lelos. The Entente consuls nt Canea,
the capital of Crete, have been In
structed to act In nnion In tbi matter.
An official statement Issued here says
It Is only In Crete that the question of
metal recognition baa yet arisen.
CARPATHIANS
TREES TO LINE
STATE HIGHWAYS
Forestry Department Complete Ar
rangement For Planting
Saplings.
HarrUburg
Representative of the State High
way and Forestry Department have
completed arrangement for planting
of thousands of tree along the State
highways In Pennsylvania and the first
will likely be set out next autumn.
Fruit, nut and shade trees will ba
planted aa has been done in other
States.
The Department of Forestry will
grow the trees In its nurseries and
they will be transplanted into areas set
aside for the purpose. As the Depart
ment has only shade trees and those
which bear small fruit for bird avail
able for transplanting at present, these
varieties will be the first to be aet
out
Tha species already transplanted for
ue along the roads are white, pitch
and Scotch pines, sugar maple, Doug-
la fir, Norway spruce, black cherry,
white elm, white asb, honey locust and
European larch. About 23,000 tree
have been transplanted In plot on
State forestry reservations In Pike,
Tioga, Clearfield, Franklin and Hunt
ington counties, which number It I
estimated, will care for 100 miles of
highway If planted fifty feet apart. The
growing of fruit and nut trees will ba
taken up Immediately.
According to what has been learned
from the Highway Department of Mis
souri, fruit and nut trees along It
State highways are now bearing and
but little fruit Is stolen.
Officer's Widow Loses Appeal.
The State Compensation Board In an
opinion Just made publio has upheld
Referee Jacob Snyder, of Altoona, in
refusing to award compensation to the
widow and child of Charlea R. Shlpe,
constable of the Borough of Juniata,
shot and killed while endeavoring to
serve a warrant. The referee held
that the constable was not an employ
within the meaning of the Act and tha
board holds that the Legislature In en
acting the law had In mind the term
"workman" In the popular sense of the
word and the fact that an elective offi
cer Is paid by fees which aro a charge
against the county doe not constitute
him an employe.
"It Is Impossible that the term 'em
ploye' could, as used In our law, In
clude the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania, a county, municipality or other
government agency, when In the ad
ministration of the law, It calls upon
an officer elected by the people and
invested by law with power to perform
those duties," say the opinion. "We
can find nothing in the law to Justify
an award of compensation under the
facta In this case."
Compensation Limited In Scope.
The State Workmen'a Compensation
Board has no authority to read into
the Compensation Act "what may be
urged as equitable provisions," declare
Commissioner John A. Scott in an
opinion rendered In refusing to gradu
ate compensation In the case of
Domlnlck Spadea, Johnstown against
John Goll & Co., Johnstown. Spadea
caught the thumb of bis, left hand in
a cogwheel and tha thumb bad to be
amputated. It Is held that, although
the Injury Is permanent, it Is not of
such character as to form complete dis
ability.
"Disability In this ease," says Mr.
Scott, "If total, must be compensated
as such while disability lasts." He re
marks that In many Jurisdictions the
list of disabilities of a partial charac
ter resulting from permanent Injuries
Is much more extended than In the
Pennsylvania Act and that "decisions
from other States are not helpful In
this respect' as they are founded on
radically different enactments."
Capitol Appointments.
Colonel Hamilton D. Turner, com
mander of the Second Infantry, wus
appointed a colonel of field artillery
and assigned to command the Second
Artillery, into which the Second In
fantry has -been converted. Captain
Jacob Golssel and First' Lieutenant
Joseph Moorhead, Second Infantry,
have been appointed to those grade
In the Second Artillory.
General J. Lewln Good, Philadelphia,
was reappointed a member of the
State Board of Undertakers' Ex-
amlnors and Clyde L. Patterson ap
pointed Justice of the Peace for Wilson
borough.
Flood Conference Called By Governor.
Governor Brumbaugh has called a
conference of State, county and city
officials and of men Interested In pre
vention of floods, to bo held In the
State Capitol on October 31 for general
discussion of way and means to con
trol the flood waters of Pennsylvania.
The conference will be the first, of the
kind held in the State.
Pardon Plea Faila.
Only five pardons were recommend
ed by the State Board of Pardons at
the conclusion of the October bearing,
the board declining to ask that
clemency be extended to Henry Ward
Mottern, aged seventeen, Jefferson
county, condemned to be electrocuted
for murder, although Judges had Joined
In the petition.
State College Win Judging Honor.
Highest honors In the butter Judging
contest at the National Dairy Show
have been won by students .at the
Pennsylvania State College. Tha
three-man team which represented
Fenn State returned from Springfield,
Mass., bringing more than $300 In prize
money.
State Find Work For 1,730.
Employment was found for 1,730 per
sous through the five offices of the
State Bureau of Employment during
tli month of September, according to
a report Just Issued.
Commissioner John Price Jackson
says that this Is the largest number of
unemployed persons placed In posi
tion in a month by the bureau since It
onaned Its branches In Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Harrinburg, Altoona and
Johnstown. In June 1,619 person
were helped to place ana in August
1,508.
5IATE IIEW3
BRIEFLY
II
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Flaying the role of peacemaker may
nrnv fntnl tn Mlua T.tlllan Muruhnll n.
New York City. She was found with
a fractured ikull near SL Luke's Hos
pital, South Bethlehem. From what
can be learned, the woman was out
walking with a man when another man
oame along and began a light In try.
Ing to settle the dispute, the woman
wa hurt
Mrs. Helen Gardner Lewis, age
alxty-four year, wife of Colonel S. &
Lewis, who wa on Governor Hastlng'i
staff, committed suicide at her horns
In Franklin by shooting herself
through the head. Despondency Is as.
Igned as the cause. She bad bien
broken mentally for several months,
but her condition bad not alarmed her
relative.
The entire flock of wild turkey
which Dr. Kalbfus planted on the
Hickory Run preserve was shot 'by
gunner. In an effort to save them
the game warden on Sunday rounded
them up in a corral, but the birds
broke through during the night, only
to meat their fate tb very first day
ot the open season.
Going Into bis chicken pen Frank
Cunard, of Frackvllle, found twenty
five valuable fowls dead. Upon ex
amination he found that the chickens
had been fed on mine dynamite caps,
which, comlr.g under the glizard grind
lng process, exploded, causing death.
An enemy la charged with distributing
the caps.
Miss Annie Heckman, about forty
years old, librarian of the public li
brary at Wernersvllle, was killed by
an express train on the Reading Rail
road west of that borough. In at
tempting to cross the tracks, the worn-
an awaited the passing of a local train
and stepped In the way of an express.
To Increase sentiment for a com-'
munlty high school for the suburbs of
HarrlBburg on the west shore of th
Susquehanna River, mass meetings are
being planned to reach the voters In
Lemoyne, Camp Hill, East Tennsboro
Township, Wonnleyaburg and West
Fairfield.
Alvln Slpple confessed to County
Detective Mallery that a shot from hi
gun as he fired at a bird killed Charles
Polk, the Frceland hunter who at first
was thought to have been wounded
fatally by the discharge of his own
weapon while he was crawling over a
fence.
The Dlant of the Glen Rock lee and
Cold Storage Company and an adjoin
ing three-story frame structure, occu
pied by the Industrial Sewing Com
pony, which employs 100 women, were
destroyed by fire, entailing a loes of
$25,000.
The Attorney General ha allowed
the use of the name of the State In
quo warranto proceedings against cer
tain Councllmen of Tamaqua, who are
alleged to be Interested In borough
contracts. The suit will be brought In
Schuylkill county
Amos Stoltzfus. a farmer of Inter
course, returning home from the
Coatesville Market was Instantly killed
on the Lincoln Highway near Coates
vllle. Ills machine turned completely
over and he was caught beneath th
car.
The West Shore Firemen's Union, at
a meeting, outlined plnns to secure a
reduction In water rates for the' West
Shore towns opposite Harrisburg. to
pet uniform woter pressure, and to
make an investigation Into alleged Im
pure water.
A score of neighbors gathering at
the farm of John Wiser, of Tulpe
hocien who Is 111, and cut five acres of
his corn by moonlight. They Informed
him that they wou'd be back later on
to husk It and place it tn his corn
cribs. (
The eighty-seventh annual grand en
campment of Odd Fellow adjourned
at Chamhersburg, after a p'easant ses
sion. Oil City was chosen for next
year's session, all other competing
places withdrawing.
On account of the scarcity of labor
for the quarries and Iron mills of Lan
caster county, many firms are Import
ing Mexicans, already twenty-five hav
arrived.
Mlddletown Council authorized
engineers to submit plans and esti
mates for building a driveway under
the tracks of the Pennsylvania Rail
road at Catherine street
Students of th central, technical
and grammar schools of Harrisburg
are planning to bold a big street
parade to boost for the proposed fl,
250,000 high achool loan.
Th Lhl'gh Valley Railroad Com
pany paid th Stat" J199.J89.10 as
State tax on loans.
Thirty feet of real estate In Pott
vllle containing nothing but a vacant
lot, was sold to Miller & Miller for al
most $45,000.
It will cost'Australla about $25,000,
000 to open the Murray River to navi
gation and to construct an Irrlrratlon
system that will develop 1,500,000
acres of land.
The names of 'reet. lettered clear
ly on the globe of the electric street
light, are a help In city street after
dark.