THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBUEG, PA.
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DFi HAGUE MEETING
BEFORE WAR ENDS
World's Court League Consider
ing Calling of Conference.
MIGHT TRY PEACE MAKING
Plan To Organize An International
Council League Would Be
Clearing-House Of Peace
Movement.
New York. The world's Court
Xesjue announced here the inaugura
tion of a movement to organize an In
teractional council with a view to call
ing a third Hague conference perhaps
Wore the close of the war. In the
latter event the conference would be
prepared to act as a medium for peace
proposals. After the war it would
carre for formulating and codifying
new rules of International law.
To constructive statesmen and
leading thinkers" of all nations invita
tion will be mailed this week, it was
stated, inviting them to accept ap
pointments as members of the board
f governors of the proposed interna
tional council.
The league, In purposing to estab
lish Itself as a clearing house of pence
movements, plans to go before the
rorld "not as a sheriff assigned to en
force peace," It was explained, but as
permanent body w hich would be sus
tained by public opinion. If necessary,
however, the armed power of nations
Slight be called to its support, accord
lng to the league's plans, should pub
lic opinion not prove to have a con
vincing influence upon any of the
nations.
The league's announcement was
reade In connection with making pub
11s a new set of principles and pro
gram of action adopted at a recent
meeting It held in this city. Dr. John
"Wesley Hill resigned as the general
secretary on October 1, it was stated,
mad Dr. Samuel T. Dutton, member of
number of leading American peace
societies, was elected in his place.
Under the plans the International
Council of Conciliation would be asso
ciated with an international court of
Justice representing all nations. This
court, "subject to the limitations of
treaties," would be empowered to as
ume Jurisdiction over International
Cnestiou3 in dispute that are Justifi
able in character and that are not set
tled by negotiation.
The league Intends Its program to
"afford the common ground" upon
which all peace workers may meet
and co-operate.
PURE FOOD FINES $116,000.
Government Prosecuted 401 Caes Of
Violation.
Washington. Government pure
food inspectors during the fiscal year
of 1916 uncovered 978 violations of the
Pure Food and Drugs act. Of these,
criminal action was taken In 401 cases
and selxures of stores of impure foods
In 677. Total indictments under the
Pure Food, Meat Inspection, Animal
Onarantine and other act3 adminis
tered by the Department of Agricul
ture amounted to 2,623, with total
fines collected of more than $116,000.
COLLIER TO BE XMAS SHIP.
Will Carry 4,000 Tons Of Food and
Clothing To Syria.
New York. A Christmas ship, a
United States naval collier, will sail
from this port about December 1,
rarrying S,000 tons of food and 1,000
tons of clothing for war auflerers in
Armenia and Syria, It was announced
liere by the American National Red
Cross. The destination of the collier
will be Beirut, Syria.
BANK ROBBER RETURNS $5.
Money Taken At Point Of Gun Sent
Back After Three Days.
Scranton, Pa. Frnm a man signing
lilmaeif "Would-be Bank Robber," the
Pine Brook Bank received a letter with
95 inclosed. On Monday a young man
entered the bank, pointed a revolver
t George Browning, a teller, and de
manded $3. Browning handed out the
xnoney and the robber escaped.
GERMANS RAID CHANNEL.
Take Two Suspicious Vessels Into
Port; Third Still Out.
Berlin. A raid was made by Ger
man naval small craft on the shipping
route between the mouth of the
Thames and Holland on Wednesday
night, the Admiralty announced. Sev
eral steamers were stopped and
searched and two of them deemed sus
jdelous were brought into a German
port
"NICK" YOUNG DEAD.
Former President Of National Base
ball League Was 73 Years Old.
Washington. Nicholas K. Young,
age 73 years, for 18 years president of
the National Baseball League, died at
the home of his boh, Robert II. Young.
He had been ill several years. Young
was the original Secretary of the Na
tional Association of baseball players
from 1871 to 1S75.
SURRENDERS AFTER 25 YEARS.
North Carolinian Killed Playmate In
Boys' Quarrel.
Murphy, N. C Twenty-five years
ago, in an altercation with a playmate,
R. L. Philips, threw a etone, striking
the other boy on the head and killing
him. The young assailant, fearful of
consequences, fled, and fur a quarter
of a century his whereabouts had not
been known even to his own father.
Friday Philips appeared here and gave
lilmself up to the authorises after re
pealing his Identity. ,
GERMANS GIVE
UP FORI VM
All Ground They Took East of
the Meuse Lost.
PORTIONS OF FORT BLOWN UP
German Crown Prince's Army Unable
Longer To Hold Positions
He Captured Last
Spring.
Berlin. The German Crown Prince's
army has evacuated'Fort Vaux and has
now retired from nearly all the Im
portant positions taken along the
eastern bank of the Meuse River in
this year's campaign.
Fort Vaux was evacuated on the
night of November 1-2, In accordance
with pre-arranged plans, according to
the German military leaders, who indi
cate that they considered the sacrifice
Involved In its retention out of pro
portion to its value in the present Ger
man strategic scheme.
Did Not Justify Losses.
Forts Douamont and Vaux, it was
explained, formed such a material ele
ment in the defense of Verdun as long
as they remained with unimpaired
armament In French hands that they
had to be put out of action In order to
cripple the fortress, and once this was
acompllshed the ruins of the forts,
with the armaments rwnoved, pos
sessed no such Importance to the Ger
mans and rcrved chiefly as targets for
the French artillery.
Now that Fort Douaumont had pass
ed again Into French possession,
Fort Vaux no longer, In the opinion of
the Cerman leaders, Justified the heavy
aerlflce necessary to retain the
ground about the fort, which Is Ill
adapted to defense against attacks
from the souh and west. Fort Vaux
was therefore abandoned and the Ger
man lines retired to positions less ex
posed to the French artillery.
The German statement regarding
(he western front follows:
"Western Front: Army group of
Crown Frlnce Rupprecht. In the dis
trict northof the Somme nrtllcry ac
tivity was renewed locally. An ad
vance of English forces north of
Courcellctte was easily repulsed.
"French attacks In the sector of
Losboeufs and Rancourt brought small
advantages for the enemy northeast
of Merval and In the northwest edgo
of St. Pierre Vaast Wood. They were,
however, In general repulsed sangu
inarily. Our troops, in spite of tenaci
ous French resistance, made advances
In the northern part of Sallly.
"Army group of the German Crown
Prince: An artillery engagement on
the right bank of the River Meuse re
peatedly increased to great Intensity.
"The French up to the present have
dlrcted an especially heavy and de
structive fire against Fort Vaux, which
had been evacuated already In the
night time by our troops, following a
given order and without being dis
turbed by the enemy. Important parts
of the fort were blasted by us before
we left the positions."
Efforts of the Roumanians lo force
back the Austro-German troops which
have Invaded their country failed, the
War Office announces. Southeast of
Rothenthurn Tas the Invaders are
making further progress.
The announcement follows:
"On the Eastern Transylvania front
the situation Is unchanged. Rouman
ian attacks agaist the Allied (Teu
tonic) troop.i which had advanced be
yond Altschanz and Predeal Passes
failed, with losses to the enemy. We
captured eight officers and 200 men
southeast of Rothenthurn Pass. En
gagements which are favorable for us
continue.
SLAYS BEAR IN TOWN.
Game Shot On Cottage Lawn In
Exclusive Eaglesmere, Pa.
Willlamsport, Pa. C. I. Keebler, a
Willlamsport insurance agent, shot a
large, black bear on the lawn of a cot
tage at exclusive Eaglesmere while on
a business trip there. Keebler made
the trip by au'.o and carried a gun In
the hope of getting a shot at some
game.
Passing the cottige of Ralph T.
Smllh, of this city, near the Lakeside
Hotel, he saw two bears ambling
across the lawn. He stopped his ma
chine, grabbed his gun and fired. One
of the animals fll. while the other
escaped to the woods around the lake.
DROWNS CHILD AND HERSELF.
Mother Leads Two Little Ones To
River, Pushes Them In.
Gadsden, Ala. Mrs. Charles Carter,
of Wharton's Bend, led her 8-year-old
daughter and her 5-year-old son to the
banks of the Coosa river, threw the
children into the water and then
jumped lu herself. The boy saved
himself, but the girl and her mother
were drowned.
U 53 BACK IN PORT.
Eerlln Dispatches Report Safe Return
Horre Of Raidor.
Amsterdam. The German sub
nii'vine 1'::!. which ravaged shipping
off the American coast after paying a
w.t to Newport, has returned to a
Gfiiuan part, according to Berlin dis
patches. SAYS FISH HAVE SOULS.
But They're Fifth Class, Museum
Curator Declares.
Washington. Fi&h have souls, Just
like men and all the other animals,
Dr. Paul Bnrtr.ch, curator of the Na
tional Museum, declared In discussing
a question which arose at a meeting
of the Washington Aquarium Society.
Thel: sou's are fifth class, he added,
rank i!K below those of mammals,
bird:-, t-fptilej, frogs, toads and similar
ar.l:r..;l
ONLY SEVEN WEEKS TO CHRISTMAS
i riyJ l if If S 1 1 rW fifii 1 lJ
oQJ 1 J fr IHl
iv.opyrigiii.1
10 u. 5.
Undersea Merchantman Turns
Up at New London, Conn.
PRACTICALLYTHE SAME CREW
Cargo Of Dye stuffs and Chemicals.
Vessel Had Cleared For"Baltl.
more Or Any Atlantic
Port."
New London. Conn. Ten million
dollars' worth of dyestuffs and drugs
and, it was said, "possibly stocks,
bonds and precious stones," comprise
the cargo of the German submarine
merchantman Deutschland, according
to a statement by Capt. Paul Koenlg,
commander of the craft.
The Deutschland Ib in this port, after
having succeeded In making a second
voyage from a German port to the
American coast, despite the watchful
ness of British and French war ves
sels. Under Capt. Paul Koenig, who was
In command during her first trip to
Baltimore, the Deutschland left
Bremen on October 10.
The submarine entered the lower
haibor shortly after midnight, coming
in by the Race at the entrance to Long
Island Sound. For several weeks the
Eastern Forwarding Company, agents
for her owners, had a tug each night
off Montauk Point ready to meet the
Bremen, but the lug was withdrawn
some time ago. It was evident that
the Forwarding Company had some
warning of the DeutscLland's arrival,
however, for a tug was engaged, and
Capt. F. Hinsch of the Company, ac
companied by the health officer, steam
ed out to meet the submersible.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Willehnd, which had been at her dock
here for sevaral weeks awaiting the
arrival of a German submarine freight
er, let her searchlight play on the
water marking the path by which the
Deutschland traveled to her wharf.
Delayed By Collision.
Captain Koenlg said that he had ex
pected to leave Bremen on October 1,
but that his boat wp.s injured In a col
lision and forced to put back for re
pairs, which delayed her sailing for 10
days.
The captain and the crew of 25 men
were lu excellent health and high
spirits over tho Biiecess of their sec
ond venture. The Deutschland carried
clearance papers for "Baltimore or any
Atlantic port."
The boat was no sooner moored
than she was screened from sight by
a pontoon carrying a high fence. Her
crew went on board the Wlllehad,
where quarters were awaiting theai.
FINE PAPER DESTROYED.
Gees Up- In Smoke In $20,000 Blaze In
Philadelphia.
Philadelphia. Twenty thousand dol
lars' worth of fine paper went up In
smoke here when fire partially de
stroyed the McDowell Paper Mills at
Manayunk. The blaze was confined to
the storerooms and practically all
stock was destroyed. It wag neces
sary to sound a double alarm before
the blaze was conquered.
MEXICAN IS 122 YEARS OLD.
Probably Oldest Person Alive Toils
Daily As Laborer.
Maxatlan, Mexico This Western
coast town of Mexico claims ns a resi
dent the olden man In the world
Jose Juan Velasquez, an Indian, who,
according to ail records available, Is
122 years old. Velasquez has the
agility of a man of less than half his
years and works dally as a laborer.
WALKS TO DEATH IN SLEEP.
Michael Polk, 62, Falls From Third
Story Window Of Home.
Philadelphia.-Michael Polk, 62
years old, was killed when he walked
out of the' third-story window of his
home while asieet). Ha wan found on
tho sidewalk by pedestrians. He had
been in the habit of Bleep-walking.
$470,000,000 In Gold.
New York. The total amount of
gold received nt tho assay office for
the account of J. P. Morgan & Co.
from Canada was raised by f 5,000,
000. The total now tinds at $170,
000,000 received from all sources since
January 1.
Bread 15 Cents a Loaf.
Helena, Mont. Bread sold here
Thursday at 15 cents a loaf, or two for
25 cents. The price had been 10 cents,
or three for 25 cents.
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151 Rumanian Officers Are Also
Captured.
FIGHTING IN DENSE FOGS
Germans Check Russian Attempt
To Advance Southwest Of
Stanislau, On Eastern
Front
Berlin. Efforts of the Roumanians
to recapture positions along the
Transylvania frontier were without
success, the War Office announced.
Since October 10 tho Austrians and
Germans have captured more than 10,
000 Roumanians. The announcement
follows:
Army .group of Archduke Charles
Francis: Quiet prevails on tho Tran
sylvanlan eastern front In tho south
ern frontier mountains fighting goes
on in spite of heavy fog and snow
storms. North of Campulung, near
Boerzeny and north of Orsova the
Roumanians attempted In vain to take
back holghts captured from them.
"Since October 10 General von Fal
kehayn's army has captured 151 Rou
manian officers, 5,920 men and much
war material, Including 27 cannon, 47
machine guns and one Cag.
"Army group of Field Marshal von
Mackensen: Tho situation in Do
bmdja is unchanged."
Berlin claims the failure of Rou
manian efforts to recapture heights
north of Campulung where the Aus-tro-Gernian
advanco had pressed a con
siderable distance into Roumanian ter
ritory southwest of Kronstadt.
Russian troops attacked the German
lines near Krashln, In tho Shara dis
trict, but met with a tangulnary re
pulse, according to army headquarters
anouncement.
Important heights further south
were taken by German contingents,
who repulsed Russian counter-attacks
and captured 1 officers, 170 men and
9 machine guns. Russian attempts to
advance southwest of Stanislau were
futile.
DENIES CABRERA INTERVIEW.
Arredondo Tells Lansing That Obregon
and Aguilar Utterances Are False.
Washington. Mexican Ambassador
Arredondo formally denied to Secre
tary of State Lansing the authenticity j
of an Interview attributed to Mexlcnn j
Commissioner Cabrera, given out by j
the Mexican News Bureau. Secretary
Lansing accepted the explanation of
the Incident and said be considered It
closed.
Upon Instructions from Carranza,
Arredondo also told Lansing that the
Interviews with Carranza, General
Obregon and Foreign Secretary
Aguilar, appearing In the Outlook were
not given by the officials quoted. The
only interview which the Outlook rep
resentative obtained, Arredondo told
Lansing, was one with Ceneral Gon
zales, and that, he said, the Outlook
printed Incorrectly.
ADMITS $32,500 ROBBERY.
Leader Of Bandit Trio Held In $10,000
Ball For Trial.
Detroit. James Wnlton, leader of
the trio of bandits who robbed the pay
car of the Burroughs Adding Machine
Company of $32,500 here last August,
pleaded guilty to robbery while armed
when arraigned before Police Justice
Stein. He waB held lo the next term
of the Recorder's Court for sentence
under $10,000 bond.
OLYMPIA AGAIN IN SERVICE.
Dewey's Former Flagship Going To
Dominican Waters.
Charleston, S. C Tlje old cruiser
Olympla, Dewey's flagship at Manila
Bay, was commissioned for active serv
ice hero, with Capt. B. B. Blerer com
manding. She will becur.to flagship of
the cruiser squadron In Dominican
waters, supplanting the transport
Prairie.
GREEK SHIP SUNK; 30 DEAD.
U-Boat Attacks Angelic, Carrying
Volunteers.
Berlin, via wireless to Sayvllle, L. I.
Thirty men perished w hen a German
submarine sank tho Greek steamer
Angollc, bound for Saloniki, with 300
volunteers for tho Venlzelos army.
Villa Leader Captured.
Chihuahua City, Mexico. The gar!
son at Madera reports the rapture ot
the Villa leader Kienrlo Garcia and
several of hu nun.
TEUTONS
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0.
PRISONERS
T
U. S. Faces Renewal of Con
troversy With Germany.
AMERICANS ARE LOST
Washington, Awaiting Full Particulars,
Admits Supposed Act Of German
Submarine Has Caused Serl
ous Situation,
London. The American Embassy
received a report from Wesley Frost,
American Consul at Queenstown, that
the British steamship Marina bad been
torpedoed without warning.
Only 34 members of the crew of 104
have been picked up and landed al
Crookhavon, Ireland.
A telegram received at the American
consulate from Crookhaven says that
a number of Americans were drowned.
In reply to an inquiry from the
Amerlcnn Embassy the Admiralty sairt
that there were 49 Americans in the
crew of the Marina.
Tho Admiralty Informed the em
bassy that the Marina ts torpedoed,
but that it had not been ascertained
whether any warning was given.
No oflirlal information Is available
whether any Americans were drowned.
Tho Marina, which was outward
bound, was torpedoed twice nnd broke
In two. It is reported that men were
drowned while attempting to lower
boats.
Tho Admiralty says the Marina was
not undtr Government charter. Mr.
Frost is now procuring affidavits from
survivors.
A report on the linking on October
10 of the British steamship Rowan
more also was made to the American
Embassy by Mr. Frost, who slates that
the vessel was torpedoed. Seven
Amrlcans. including flvo Filipinos,
wero on board the Rowanmore. Sev
eral of them have given Mr. Frost affi
davits stating that a submarine shelled
lifeboats while they were being low
ered and after they were clear of the
ship without causing loss of life.
Serious, Says Lansing.
Washington. Preliminary reports of
the sinking by German submarines of
the British steamers Marlnn and Row
anmore, partly manned by Americans,
are too Incomplete to enable officials
at the Slate Department to form an
opinion as to whether there had been
a violation of neutral rights or of
pledges given the United States by
Germany. Secretary Lansing declined
to comment further than to admit
that tho reports appeared moro serious
than the u.-ual routine dispatches an
nouncing the destruction of belliger
ent nierchantment. and that full infor
mation would be awaited wi'h Interest.
On its f;;ce, the case of the Marina,
reported by Consul Frost at Queens
town, presents the gravest situation
that has arisen rince tho sinking of
the Channel liner Sussex, which
brought tho American and Gorman
Governments to the verge of a break.
Although he cautioned that his Infor
mation was purely "provisional," tho
Consul cabled that the Marina, a
"horse transport with a mixed crew of
British and Americans," was reported
sunk without warning by German sub
marine gunfire 100 miles west of Capo
Clear, and that 70 of tho crow of 104
were missing.
DIDS FOR 4 SCOUT CRUISERS.
Proposals For 27 Submarines Also Re
ceived By Navy Department.
Washington. Proposals for the con
structlon of four swift scout cruisers
and 27 coast type submarines were re
ceived at the Navy Department and
taken under consideration.
The ships form the second allotment
ot the 1917 building program, which
will be completed next month, when
bids on four battle cruisers are ex
amined. The scout cruisers are the first ves
sels of their type to be designed for
the navy.
28 MEXICANS SLAIN.
400 Passengers Cn Train Robbed.
Vlllistas Beat German.
El Taso, Texas. Twenty-eight Mexi
can de facto soldiers, forming tho
escort to a train on the Mexican Cen
tral Railway line, vcere reported sluln,
400 passengers were lined up aud rob
bed and a German subject beaten
scnneless by 200 Villista bandits at
La Gunn, when the railway line was
Cut by the Vlllistas.
The report was made In nn official
anouncement by Consul Soriano
Bravo.
Gerard Booked Passage.
New York. James W. Gerard, Ameri
can Ambassador to Germany, who ar
rived here October 10 on leave of
absence, has booked passage to re
turn to Berlin" on tho Scandinavian
American Line steamship Frederick
VIII., failing December 5 for Copen
hagen. One-Armed Hero Gets $2,003.
Bdlolt, Wis. Donald Scoops, a one
armed Beloit college student, received
notlco that he had been awarded a
Carnegie medal and $2,000 for saving
two girls from drowning In Hawasee
Luke, Indiana, in 1913.
Miners Given Increase.
Fairmont, W. Va. Ten thousand
bituminous eoal miners In this region
were officially notified that thelt
wages had been advanced 10 per cent,
the Increase to become operative at
once,
Drastic Food Price Probe.
Chicago. Drastic action will be
taken In tho Federal Investigation ol
tho souring prices of food products, it
was announced by CharliM 1 Clyns,
United S'ales' District Attorney.
1
DISPUTE
6
OPENED
What's Going On at
Harrisburg
Harrisburg
Tho State Workmen's Compensa
lion Board, In a decision by Commis
sioner John A. Scott, has upheld the
award of Referee T. J. Dunn, of Pitts
burgh, to the family of Robert Duffett,
an employe of Ell Abbott, Pittsburgh.
Dufet was injured January 25 and died
on February 22 of pneumonia, the
symptoms of which were first apparent
to his physician twenty days after be
received the injury. The case at
tracted considerable attention at Pitts
burgh. The decision says: "The
award of the referee is put on tbe
ground that the evidence showed a
real connection between the Injury and
Us direct effects aud tho pneumonia
without the intervention of any Inde
pendent cause or agent which in the
ordinary and usual course of things
could produce the disease and the re
sultant death. Thla board is of the
opinion that the conclusion reached by
ihe referee Is fully Justified bj the
testimony."
Treasury Balance Grows.
Pennsylvania's Treasury contained
$3,625,830.66 at the close of October
business ns compared with $2,777,
481.88 nt the end of September. Dur
ing October receipts wero $4,782,
736.27 and expenditures $3,931,337.49,
some school district appropriations be
ing Included In tho hitter.
The Invested funds i.mount to $615.
000. Including $232,000 In the school
fund nnd $283,000 on the fire insurance
fund.
The balances In the active) funds at
the end of October, exclusive of trans
fers, were: General fund, $2,552,138.48:
sinking fund, $651,110.02; school, $9,
582. 66; game protection and propaga
tion. $213,030.49; game bounty, $66,
484.72; fire insurance, $S7.192.94;
prison labor manufacturing, $46,291.35.
Farmers' Institute Lecturers.
Appointments of farmers' institute
lectures and managers were announced
nt the Department of Agriculture, the
section chairmen being: E. B. Dorsett,
J. T. Campbell, W. M. Paton, D. II.
Watts and Seldon W. Funk.
Dntes for the opening meetings are:
Dauphin County November 13-14,
Grutz; November 15-16, Halifax; No
vember 17-18, Llnglestovn.
Fayette County November 13-14,
Old Frame; November 13-16, New
Salem; November 17-18. Perryopolis.
Green County November 13-H,
Clarksvllle; November 13-16, Sprag
town.
Warren County November 11, Lots
vllle; November 1314, Chandlers Val
ley; November 15-15, Ashley.
Monroe County November 14
Broadsvllle; November, 13-16, Sclota;
November 17-19, North Waler Gap.
To Prevent Ravage Of Floods.
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State Commit!
sloner of Health, chairman of the con
ference on flood control and water
conservation, held at the CapHol, at
tho Invitation of Governor Brumbaugh,
was authorized to appoint a committee
to draft legislation In collaboration
with the State Waler Supply Commis
sion at the closing f ession of Ihe con
ference. This committee will prepare
bills embodying ideas advanced foi
regulation of waters cf the Common
wealth by the commission and report
to another resslon to be held here by
the conference just before the meeting
of tho general assembly.
State College Plans Fete.
Pennsylvania Day will be celebrated
at State Collego on November 17.
Elaborate plans have been perfected
for the most Interesting observance of
this occasion ever attempted at Tenn
Slate. A varied program, consisting
of the following features, has been pre
pared: An address by Governor Brum
baugh, a review of the student regi
ment of 1 500 uniformed men, concerts
by tho musical clubs orchestra and
band; exhibitions by the schools of
engineering and agriculture, the Senior
Class dance nnd a football game be
tween Lafayette College and Penn
State.
Four Executions For Early December
Governor Brumbaugh blgned death
warrants as follows:
Junius Alston, Chester county, to be
executed the week of December 11.
Joseph W. O'Brien. - Montgomery
county, to be executed the week of De
cember 11.
Domlnlck Dlglso, Schuylkill county,
o be executed the week of Decem
ber 4.
Stanis'of Woceshoskl, of Beaver, to
bo execuled the week of December 4.
State To Inspect Dairy-Farms.
Governor Brumbaugh discussed
plans for a scientific State Inspection
of tho 200,000 dairy farms hi Pennsyl
vania with Commissioner of Health
Dlxnn and State Veterinarian Mar
shall, who will co-onerate In drafting a
system. They will prepare a bill
which will be submitted to the Legis
lature. The Department of Health lias
been making Inspections lately, but hn.
not the funds to cover the whole State
300 Camp Sites Leased.
The State Department of Forestry
announced that three hundred leases
for camp sites, mostly for permanent
hunting c:imps, had. been granted on
State forestry reservation;, Hunting
don coanly leading, with forty-three,
followed by forty In Clinton, thirty-six
In Pike and twenty-eight in Clearfield.
CHARTERS GRANTED.
Harrlsburg's new hotel company,
which will erect a big hotel facing
Capitol Park by populir subscription,
was granted Its charter. Other com
panies chartered were:
Tho Temperance- Development
Agency Co., Insurance and temperance
lecture", Harrlsburg; capital, $5,000;
treasurer, Jesse ,T. Shrivf-r, Mechanics,
burg.
Wl'.kns-Rnrre ITnzleton Ice Co..
Wilier s-r,."t re: capital. $100,000; treas
on r, .'.!. V. McDowald.
KEYSTONE STATE
TOLD Ifl SHI
The Latest Happenings Gleaned
From All Over the State.
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD
Dairymen, of Mahanoy City, rslij
the price of milk from eight cents U
nine cents a quart.
The centennial of Stras burg, a pro
perous town in Southern Lancait(I
county, will be held tbe week begin
nlng November 27.
One hundred opd fifty pupils
rolled In the Chester public night
schools and an unusually large num
ber of beginners.
George W. Guub, sixty-four yetri
old, was shot and killed at Little Cor
ners while hunting when bis gun ic
eldentally exploded.
Governor Brumbaugh Informed i
committee ot veterans and Harrisburg
people that he favored erection of i
State memcrlal on the site of Camp
Curtln.
John Gorman, of Girardvllle, prom.
Inent politician and former football
star, aged thlrty-Beven, dropped dead
of heart failure while visiting frlendi
at Pottsvillc.
Itlverslde, a suburb of Harrisburg,
will come into that city adding more
than a square mile of territory to the
municipality. The district embrace
some of the handsomest residences In
the vicinity.
The pen with which Governor Brum
baugh approved the charter for Har
rlsburg's new mlllkn-dolhr hotel com
pany, will be presented to E. Z. TVall
ower, chairman ef the Chamber of
Commerce Hotel Committee.
Loan sharks received a blow whfn a
"poor man's bank" was formally
launched in Chester by the new CIipj
ter Savings and Loan Corporation,
composed of the most prominent cltl
sens of Chester, who aim to loan
money at nominal interest to reliable
worklngmen on the so-called Gamon
system.
Falling lu front ef the engine as sh(
attempted to crocs the tracks at the
station at Oakvllle, Mrs. Anna Oiler,
sixty-nine years old, was struck by as
eastbound Cumberland Valley freight
train nnd Instantly killed. Mrs. Jobs
Dewall, a sister and Mrs. S. C. Help
line tried to help her and had narro
escapes.
About forty-five members of the
Rotary Club of the Bethlehems Fere
the guests of Botarlan E. H. Shlpniac,
superintendent of the Lehigh & Ne
England Kallroad, a special train tat
lng the club to Ton Argyl, where the
new $300,000 railroad shops and yard.'
of the company were Inspected anJ
dinner served.
To the music of a number cf band!
end drum ccrps and marchers from all
portions of the coal regions, the third
annual niardi gras celebration oc
curred at Shamokln, 2,000 men, wom
en and children in fancy costumes par
tlclpatlug. Fifteen hundrtd dollars in
prizes wero distributed. Dr. A. G.
Bhlsslc was chief marshal.
Her mind still vivid with recollec
tions of the South before the war nd
of scenes of the Civil War, Mrs. Lydli
Harkness, at the Cumberland County
Home, entertains the other Inmates
with her stories. She has records In
her possession to show that her 106th
birthday occurred In September, and
still maintains possession of her facul
ties to t. remarkable degree. Mrs
darkness was a slave.
At South Bethlehem new Forest ot
Tall Cedars, -of Lebanon, was Insti
tuted by Easton Forest. At the cere
monial about 127 saollngs were planted
Into the higher degree. More than 500
prominent Masons from Pennsylvanls
and New Jersey came In a spectnl
train, Including Supreme Tall Cedar
Frank B. Burroughs, of Lancaster. A
fantastic parade preceded the cere
monlnl. Robert B. Pursel, "clerk of the Dan
ville Borough Council, r member of
one of the town's most prominent fan
Illes, Is in the Montour county Jail,
with a charge cf murder hanging over
him, and Mr. and Mrs. Jchn C. Kerns,
equally , prominent, are dead, mw
dered. Insane Jealousy of his wife,
from whom he parted recently. an
who went to live with the victims of
the shooting. Is said to have been the
motive of the double murder.
Anthracite coal operators, of Foil1
vllle, declare tho shcrtage of coal"
dally becoming more acute and "
situation Is more serious Inasmuch as
th autumn weather has befn verf
mild and the Incrensed winter i?mM
has not yet been felt. The reserve cot'
supply at tho storage yards of tW
Philadelphia & Beading Coal and lrw
Company, at Landlngville Is belnf
drawn upon day and night, and raj"
road crews are working in 'llft'
order to utilize all available roIUM
stock.
1..A v..nl..i1 In TlnmiHn COUntT
Court held that milk comes under n
general classification of focd m '
Att of July 22, 1913, which mak5 '
unlawful to remove products 1
farms quarantined by the Slate HT
Stock Sanitary Board without o fP
clal permit. '
Tbe committee In charge cf the
winter Corn Show to be held at Hnf"
burg under State auspices, has
nounced six classes for prizes and i
for Juveniles. Trizes for country
lnh nml Rlm-ln ears will be given-