THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO, PA. SOUNDS ANEW THE DOOM OF TINNY President Proclaims a Reign of Law as Object in World War DEFENDS HELPLESS RUSSIA New And Unqualified Consecration Of America To Struggle For Clearing Military Autocracy From The Earth la Independence Day Answer To Hun A Notable Independence Day Aeiemblage Of Officials And Foreign-born Loyal Citizens At The Tomb Of Washington A Belgian's Speech. Washington. From the shadow of Washington's tomb President Wilson on the Fourth of July offered Amer ica's Declaration of Independence to the people of the world, with a pledge that the United States and Us Allies will not sheathe the sword in the war gainst the Central Powers until there Is settled, "once for all" for the world, what was settled for America in 1776. President Wilson's speech at Mount Vernon was as follows: Gentlemen of the Diplomatic Corps - and my Fellow Citizens: I am happy to draw apart with you to this quiet place of old counsel In order to speak a little of the meaning of this day of our nation's Independence. The place seems very till and remote. It Is as serene and untouched by the hurry of the world as It was In those great days long go, when General Washington was here and held leisurely conference with the men who were to be asso ciated with him In the creation of a nation. From these gentle slopes they looked out upon the world and saw It as whole, saw it with the light of the future upon It, saw it with modern yes that turned away from past which men of liberated spirits could do longer endure. It is for that rea son that we cannot feel, even here, In the Immediate presence of this acred tomb, that this Is a pla:e of death. It was a place of achievement. A great promise that was meant for 11 mankind was here given plan and reality. The associations by which we are surrounded are the In spiring associations of that noble death which is only glorious con summation. From this green hillside we also ought to be able to see with comprehending eyes the world that ilea about us and should conceive anew the purposes that must set men free. Spoke For A People. It is significant significant of their own character and purpose and of the Influence they were setting afoot that Washington and his associates, like tbe barons at Runnymede, Bpoke nd acted, not for a class, but for a people. It has been left for us to see to it that It shall be understood that they spoke and acted not for a single people only, but for all mankind. They were thinking, not of themselves and of the material Interests which cen tered in the little groups of landhold ers and merchants and men of affairs with whom they were accustomed to act, In Virginia and the colonies to the north and south of her, but of a peo ple which wished to be done with classes and special interests and the authority of men whom they had not themselves chosen to rule over them. They entertained no private purpose desired no peculiar privilege. Thej were consciously planning that men of every class should be free ant' America a place to which men out of every nation might resort who wished to share with them the rightr and privileges of free men. And we take our cue from them do we not? We Intend what they Intended. We here In America believe our partici pation In thlB present war to be only the fruitage of what they planted. Our ruse differs from theirs only In this, that It is our inestimable privilege to concert wloh men out of every nation what shall make not only the liberties of America secure but the liberties of every other people as well. We are happy in the thought that we are per mitted to do what they would have done had they been In our place. It Must Be Settled Now. There must now be settled once for all what was settled for America in the great age upon wliose inspira tion we draw today. This Is nurely a fitting pla?e from which calmly to look out upon our tank, that we may fortify our spirits for Its accomplish ment And this li the appropriate place from which to avow, alike to the friends who look on and to tho friends with whom we have the hap FIREWORKS KILL TWO. Two Others Also Believed Dead In Warehouse Blast. San Francisco. Two boys were kill ed Instantly, two more ere believed to have met a similar fate and one. was injured, probably fatally, when they accidentally exploded some fireworks In warehouse while attempting to steal fire-crackers. According to the police, the Injured boy admitted he had drop ped a lighted match near the explos ives. THE WORLD WAR. The British took l.iiOO prisoners In their attack on Hamel. Mohammed V Sultan of Turkey, ' died lnvConstantlnople. British troops delivered an attack In the region of Amiens, capturing the village of Hamel, northeast of Vlllers Bretonneux, and advancing their line In this region to a depth of more than r. mile. Australian troops attacked the Ger piness to be associated In action, the faith and purpose with which we act. This, then, Is our conception of the great struggle In which we are en gaged. The plot Is written plain upon every scene and ever act of the supreme tragedy. On the one band stand the peoplos of tbe world, not only the people actually engaged, but many others also Who suffer under mastery but cannot act;' peoples of many races and In every part of the world the people of stricken Russia (till, among the rest, though they are for the moment unorganized and help less. Opposed to them, masters of many armies, stand an Isolated, friend less group of governments who spread no common purpose but only selfish ambitions of their own, by which none can profit but themselves, and whose peoples are fuel In their hands; gov ernments which fear their people and yet are for the time their sovereign lords, making every choice for them and disposing of their lives and for. tunes as they will, as well as of the lives and fortunes of every people who fall under their power governments clothed with the strange trappings and the primitive authority of an ago that Is altogether alien and hostile to our own. The Past and the Pres ent are in deadly grapple and the peo plos of the world are being done to death between them. But One Issue Possible. There can be but one Issue. The settlement must be final. There can be no compromise. No halfway deci sion would be tolerable. No halfway decision is conceivable. These are the ends for which the associated and peoples of the world are fighting and which must bo conceded thera before there can be peace: t I. The destruction of every arbi trary power anywhere that can sep arately, secretly, and of Its single choice disturb the peace of the world or, If It cannot be presently destroyed, at the least It reduction to virtual Impotence. II. The eettlement of every ques tion, whether of territory, of sov ereignty, of economic arrangement or of political relationship, upon the basis of the free acceptance of that settle ment by the people Immediately con cerned, and not upon the basis of the material interest or advantage of any other nation or people which may de sire a different settlement for the sake of Its own exterior Influence or mas tery. III. The consent of all nations to be governed In their conduct toward each other by the same principles of honor and of respect for the common law of civilized society that govern the Individual citizens of all modern states In their relations with one an other; to the end that all promisee and covenants may be sacredly 'ob served, no private plots or conspira cies hatched, no selfish Injuries wrought with Impunity, and a mutual trust established upon the handsome foundation of a mutual respect for right IV. ' The establishment of an or ganization of peace which shall make It certain that the combined power cf free nations will check every Invasion it right and serve to make peace and Justice the more secure by affording 1 definite tribunal of opinion to which all muet submit and by which every international readjustment that can not be amicably agreed upon by the peoples directly concerned shall be sanctioned. FOR REIGN OF LAW. These great objects can be put Into single sentence. What we seek Is the reign of law, based upon the con' sent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. These great ends cannot be achieved by debating and seeking to reconcile ind accommodate what statesmen nay wish, with their projects for bal mceg of power and of national op lortunlty. They can be realized only v the determination of what the 'hlnklng peoples of the world desire, vith their longing hope for justice ind for social freedom and opportun ity. I can fancy that the air of this place carries the accent of such principles with a peculiar kindness. Here were started forces which the great nation against which they were primarily dl rected at first regarded as a revolt agalnts Its rightful authority, but which it has long since seen to have been a step In the liberation of Its own people as well as of the people of the United States; and I stand here now to speak peak proudly and with confident hope of the spread of this revolt, this liberation, to the great stage of the world itself! The blinded rulers of Prussia have aroused forces they knew little of force which, once aroused, can never be crushed to earth again; for they have at their heart an inspiration and a purpose which are deathless and of the very stuff of triumph! There are now 5,063 prisoners ol war In England working In agricul ture and 1,100 more are to be em ployed. GETS CUP FOR BEATING U-BOAT. Permission Given Lieutenant Boesch To Accept Gift From Azores. Washington. Official permission has been given Lleut.-Com. J. II. lioesch, until recently In charge of the naval collier Orion, to accept the loving cup presented to him by tho citizens ol Ponta Dolgada, Azores, In recognition of his attacking and driving off the German submarine which was bom' barding that city some months aco. man lines northeast of Vlllers Ilreton netix, on the Somme front, and beside taking Hamel village battled their way forward beyond Hamel and the Valr woods, between Hamel and Vlllers Bretonneux. French .troops attacked-the German lines on a front of a mile and a quar ter In the neighborhood or Autreches northwest of Solssons, and pushed Intc the enemy territory for a distance ol nearly half a mile. NEW II BLOW 15 Teutonic Delay Means Prepara tion for Attack AMERICANS ARE HURRYING Local Boards Ordered To Speed Up Physical Examination Of The New Class One Men And Have Them Ready For Call In August Washington. The present delay of the Germans In pressing attacks In Fiance means only that they are pre paring new and heavy blows, General March, chief of staff, said In his week ly conference wlt!i the newspaper nien. "It is perfectly evident." he. said. "that this delay Is preparatory to a heavy assault in force by the German high command. The present condi tion of ofralrs does not mean an thing but that. They are reorganl lng their troops, filling up losses and preparing to try It again. "With reference to the American progrum, ve have embarked a mil lion men, ubd now we are going after the second million." Another Indication of the pressure under which tht American program Is being rushed to meet the German menace came from the Provost Mar shal General's office, when orders were Issued to local boards to speed up physical examination of the new Class One men and have them ready for call In August. Statements of the draft program made public In Congress Indicated the purpose of calling out at least 300,000 men during August, although subse quent calls during the year were not expected to exceed one-half of that figure monthly. The orders Just sent out, however, coupled with the state ment by the chief of staff. Indicate that hopes are entertained at the War Department that the present rate of moving troops to Europe can be sub stantially maintained for several months. General March said: "The situation along the various western fronts has developed a situ ation where nibbling by the Allied forces Is going on all the time and with complete success, so far as the Allied attacks are concerned. The most Interesting of these minor raids fmm the American standpoint was the successful attack on Vaux, which occurred on July 1. This town was taken ty a very nicely planned Amer iran attack, in which the 9th and 23d Regiments of Infantry furnished the Infantry contingent and the 12th, 15th and 17th Regiments of Field Artillery supported the attack. These troops form a part or our second division, which Is under the command of Major General Omar Bundy. The successes attained have been consolidated and subsequent attacks of the Germans have not been sufficient to cause our withdrawal from any terrain which has been occupied. "On the Italian front the situation has now come down to complete oc- cunatlon by Italy of the southern bank of the Plave, with the exception of one small sector. The size of that sector, which Is the only part of the south bank of the Piavo still hold by the Austrlans, Is three and a half by one and a half miles. It Is on the delta near Grlsolera. Along that entire region, which has been held by the Austrlans for a long time, the Italians have made successful advances over practically a nine-mile front, driving the Austrians back of the river, with the exception of the little area I have Indicated to you." In answer to question General March said: "There Is nothing to give out on the subject of Russia." "So far as our Information goes, the Germans did not use large bodies of cavalry In the recent drive." "The matter of the use of gas in our Bervlce has recently been con solidated, as has been announced to the press, by organizing what we call the chemical warfare service under Major General Sibert Gen eral Pershing has been directed to make his organization conform to the oreanlzatlon adoDted he'e sn'l the Chemical Warfare Service Is the title now given to that section In France also. In that connection the tribuf which has been paid to the fine work o' our chemists under the Bureau of Mines is thoroughly deserved. They have really done unusually good work, but the work now coming under one directing head will show the fine re-su'-ts pc'e'-ed from unity of command everywhere." PRESIDENT SAVES SOLDIER. Commutes Death Sentence To 20 Years In Prison. Washington. Commutation by the President of the death sentence im- r rl by a military court-ma' tlal on I'r.vate Oscar Valentine, of Troop B. Ninth Cavalry, to 20 years imprison ment at hard labor, was announre I b the War DepnrLn-ent. Valentine wai t-'ed and convicted at St'P'in? Bato. t'Mlipn'nes, of hav'rg murdered Pri vate Ilcnjrtmln J. Wllyon, also of the Ninth Cavalry. CIHCUS TRAIN IN COLLISION. One Man Killed A' ?tsult Of Accident In Ohio. pYouns.Mown, Ohio. One man kllle, was the toll of a railroad r.ccidcnl when Ba-nur.i & TVi'.Iey circus train No. 2 crashe I Into fie rear end of th :w Yo k . ( ent-;'l's New York Ch -o Irrlted at 0!:"-', fotr mile est nf l'f-c, 'fie in ! !"e I vr ' o:" Koonev. 2 l a Jio.-tler. I"' ;w(rn wo ei'-.- ' vv tivow ABOUT I SUNK BY U-BOAT Former Liner Sent Down on Homeward Voyage THE THIRD TRANSPORT SUNK Six Of Crew Are Missing No Army Personnel Or Passengers Aboard Coving ton. Washington. The American army transport Covington, homeward bound after landing several thousand soldiers In France, was torpedoed and sunk In the war zone. Six members of the crew are mlsHlng, but all tho other men, with the ship's officers, have been landed at a French port. No a:my personnel or passengers were aboard. The Navy Department's announce ment of the torpedoing of the Coving ton said none of the officers and men landed was "seriously Injured." Ap ' parently some of them were hurt, but the number probably was not given In Vlce-Adinlral Sims' dispatch. The Covington was struck, while proceeding with a fleet of other trans ports, convoyed by de.it royers. The submarine was not sighted. "The torpedo struck Just forward of the engine room bulkheads," said the Navy Department's announcement, "and the engine room and fire room were rapidly flooded. With Its motive power gone, the vessel was helpless, and. facing the possibility of the tor pedoing of ancther ship In the convoy, the Covington was temporarily aban doned. This was done In excellent order and the officers and crew were taken on board a destroyer. The submarine was not seen. "At daybreak, the captain, several officers and a number of members of the crew returned to supervise salvag ing operations. Another vessel and two tugs took the Covington In tow In the effort to get her to port, but she was too badly damaged to keep afloat and sank. There was no explanation by the department as to whether the six men we'-e missing after the transfer of the crew from the troop ship to tho de stroyer or after the transport actually went down. It was feared, !howev:r, that they cither were killed by the force of the explosion or were caught by the Inrush of water Into the engine and fire rooms. The Covington was formerly the Hamburg-American liner Cincinnati, which was laid up at Boston and was taken over when the United States entered te war. She was 608 feet Ion?, of 6 339 gross tonnage and had a Kneed of lf' knots an hour. The Covington is the Becond of the great Cernmn liners seized at the out break of the war to be sent down by Ge-many's sea wolves and Is the third American troop ship to be destroyed. All wee homeward bound. The for mer Hamburg-American liner Presi dent Lincoln was sunk last May 31 and the Antilles, formerly a Morgan liner, was sent down last October 17. Olficers here believe 1 that the sub marine was on tho surface recharging Its batteries when the convoy came along and that it submerged Imme diately after discharging the torpedo wiinnu attempting luriner attack on the fleet. The theory that tho sub marine niade off In hni-te would seem to be ho-ne out by the. fact that the transport's crew was transferred to one of the destroyers without apparent IncMent. Some surprise was occa sioned by the fact that the submarine did nnt return after the fleet had p-o"ceded and -umlertuke'to finish the sinking of the Covington. The Covington was tho flrrit Ameri can transport to be sunk while In con vov. President Lincoln and the An tilles having been destroyed when re turning home without tho protection of war craft. AMERICANS REACH ITALY. First Contingent Has Established It self In Camp. Rome. The first contingent of Amer ican troops to arrive In. Italy has within forty-eight hours established itself In eimp. The men are sleeping under their own tents and feeding from their own kitchen, which was provided by the American Kcd Cress before the men 'Started. Tho rapidity of the mobilization to their new quarters has crealid a mont favorable Impn-sslon. The Americas ore in fine spirits and excellent health, but the Ped Crofs will within a week establish a complete honpitul near the camp. ASKS ABOUT COASTAL CANALS, Senate Fecks . Data On Connecting Chesapeake With Buzzard's Bay. Washington. The Senate adopted n resolution by Senator Salisbury, of De':".vare, directing tho Secretary . of f'oi-'iiierc? to Pirn' h the Somite with Information rernrdlnf tho altvlabll ity of, connecting 'Chesapeake Bay. Delaware River, New York Bay and 1-'(.-tc'h!scU and Buzzard's Bays by a r.erlea of canals. IV ISS RANKIN SEEKS TOGA. Siyizrcsswo nan Acplres To Senate From Montana. Washington. Miss Jer.netto Rankin, f.etir'ientatlve from Montana, an i , u : i c f rt that who will be a candidate ' the Republican nomination to th :.vite to uucceej Senator Walsh, who I' offer for' re-election In T.'ovembei lie nil 'i-' tin" iT,:nrlrg will be he! l!-;i;-t 2" an. ..ibis R vi'.dn S'tld thst t p ent there Is no other Ropubllcsir nmil '"to 1RHSP0R MILLION IN NOW SO MICE Greatest Oversees Movementof Troops in History MILLIONS MORE ARE GOING Not A Single American Transport Carrying Troops To Battlefields In France Sunk By A U-boat. Washington. American troops sent overseas numbered 1,019,115 on July 1. This wus made known by President Wilton, who gave to the public a let ter from Secretary Baker disclosing a record achievement which the Pres ident said "must cause universal sat isfaction." The first units non-combatant-left American shores oh May 8, 1917. General Pershing followed twelve days later and nt tho end of tho month, 1,718 men had started for the battle fields of France. June saw this num ber Increased by 12,201 and thereafter khaki-clad "crusaders" from the west ern lopublic flowed overseas In n steady stream until upwards of 300. 0C0 had departed when the great Germnn thrust began lust March. President Wilson's determination to meet Germany's supreme effort .with the utmost of America's avail able man power to assist the desper ately resisting French and British armies Is sharply reflected In the movement of troops during the last three months. The March sailings of 83,811 were Increased In April to 117, 212. May saw another 244,345 men embark and last month 276,372 were sent away, making a total for the three months of 637,929. This, Secre tary Baker said later, put the troop movement six months ahead of the original program. Substantially thirty divisions are now in France .ready to meet what ever move the German Staff has In preparation. Some of these divisions already have been formed Into the First Field Army under Major Gen eral Liggett, others are holding trench sectors at important points along the battle line and still others have been broken up and brigaded with the French and British troops. And so, when the German thrust comes, the Americans will be called upon to play no small part In meeting It. Secretary Baker wrote the Presi dent that the -supplies and equipment In France for the million men who have gone Is shown by latest reports to Lc adequate and added that "the output of our war Industries in this country Is showing marked Improve ment In practically all lines of neces sary equipment and supply." MANY KILLED IN EXPLOSION. Over 100 Bellsved Dead Or Injured At TNT Plant Near Syracuse. Syracuse, N. Y.--Many persons were killed or injured in two terrible explo sions at the huge plant of tbe Scmet Sol way Company, located nt Split Rock, a suburb. Tho force of the explosion rocked this city. Plute-glass windows in tne business section were broken and res idences swayed perceptibly, causing their . occupants to rush into the streets. TIip police believe the l'st of dean and injured will amount above 100 when final details are available In complete r turns showed l'i persons had been killed. Unequipped with fire apparatus, vol- un!er firemen were unable to make headway again ;t tin; spreading I!, mire. Columns of flames cho' 300 feet in height. The he it was so intense that it cracked ginss hundreds of yards away and a thick noxious smoke com b!r. d to hiimii i ) tiie fiie-figiiteiii nnd rescues. CAN'T TRUST THE HUNS. Plan To Send U. S. Hospital Ship Without Convoy Held Up Washington. Plans for the sailing of the American hospital ship Com fort, which it was proposed to rend tlu.iU'h tht submarine zon-i without convoy, have been delayed by tho ruthless destruction of t.i-? C.-nadlr.n hospital ship I.lundovo'.'.v Castle. It Is not yet decided whether the orig inal plans will be dinned. 258 Persons Believed Lost. Ioiuion. A tiwrough search of the waters in the vicinity of the spot where the Canadian hospital ship Llandovery Castle was sunk by a Ger man submarine has resulted in :;o further survivors being found. An olllclai statement Issued by the A( mlralty says It may be. assumed tlui only 21 out of the 258 persons on board were saved. Andrew Eonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking In the House of Commons, said that one would hiv thought that nothing now as regards German brutality could have hap pened, but the sinking of the Canadian hospital ship Llandovery Castle war an unspeakable outrage. Nothlnr could be pained, he added by talklnr ibotit tills lust example or frigiiifu nesB. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. War Doard Willing To Relieve Thr Industry. Washington. In a statement re Iterating its disapproval or new built n? construction, not contributing d! eCtly or Indirectly toward the prose cution of the war, the War Industrie Board expressed willingness to rcllevi the building Industry under tho ai1 verse condition of the war as far a: possible and to coni.Idor the merit o individual projects. S Big German Counter-Attack is Crushed MANY PRISONERS CAPTURED Desperate German Effort To Regain Important Position Won By The Americans Ends In Dismal Failure., American Forces on the Murne. A counter-attack made by the Germans against the new positions won the night before by the American forces to the west of Chateau-Thierry was completely broken up. The Americans did not give up a foot of ground which they had captured. RcporU from the advanced front, brought buck through a heavy enemy barrage, confirmed the earlier state ments that the Americans have reached their every objective and are holding every point An entire German regiment has been virtually annihilated in the fighting west of Hill 204, according to ofllclal Information. The total number of Germans cap tured by the Americans Is now esti mated to number about 500, Including seven olflcera. Muny groups of prison ers have been sent to the rear. Oth ers have been' located In hospitals where they were taken after being wounded. The German counler-attack which was fiercely conducted, was launched against the American positions at 3 o'clock in the morning. It resulted In the Americans further Increasing their number of prisoners. . Virtually the remainder of the enemy attack ing force was annihilated. In a brilliant operation after hard fighting, American troops on this front captured the village of Vaux, together with a large slice of the Paris highway west of Chateau-Thierry and two patches of wooded land. The Americans took 275 German prisoners, Including five officers and captured a quantity of machine guns and other equipment. In the Vaux region the Americans took the Germans completely by sur prise. Most of the prisoners were taken out of cellars and dugouts. How many Germans were killed, ol course, Is unknown, but from the num ber of dead In plain view at variolic places the total must have been con siderable. HUNDRED SHIPS ARE LAUNCHED. Ceremonies Held In Yards In The East And West. Washington. America's merchant r.set, grown to 10,040,659 gross tons by the construction of 1,622 new ships of 1,430,793 tons in the fiscal year ended June 30, was augmented by the unprece dented launching of about 100 ships. The feat of the loyal army of work men which made the launchlngs po slide received due recognition from the highest officials directing the war ac tivities of the nation. "We are all comrades in a great cause," declared President Wilson In a message read as part of the launch ing ceremonies In 76 yards. From General Pershing come the thanks of the American fighting men In Europe for the support of which the launch lngs are substantial evidence. "With such backing we cannot fall to win," asserted the commander cf the United States Army In France. Chairman Hurley, chief of the men directing the shipbuilding program, did not stint his praise of the men actually building the ships In expressing the appreciation of the Shipping Board for tbe work accomplished. PRAY AS WE GO. Move To Pause For Supplication . Blocked In Senate. Washington. Consideration of a resolution by Senator Myers, of Mon tana, requesting the President to call upon the nation to pause one minute each day to pray Nr success of the war was blocked In the Senate by Senator Thomas, of Colorado. "Let us pray as we work and work whether we pray or not," said the Colorado Senator in refusing unanimous con sent to take up the resolution. Senator McCumber, of North Da kota, Joined In the opposition with the suggestion, "I think we ought to get along a little more rapidly In our war work nnd pray as we go." Senator Myers, of Montana, author of the resolution, and Senator Phelan, of California, spoke briefly In Us favor. FOR $9,500,CC0,CC0 IN BONDS. Senate Finance Committee Approves Bill Passed Cy House. Washington. The new bond bill, which Just passed the Hou.se, provld ng $8,000,000,000 for domestic pur poses and $1,500,000 for loans to the Allies, was approved by the Senate amendment ordered reported favor ably. GAS OFFENSIVE PLANS. The Chemical Warfare Service Now Has Charge. Washington. All phases of gas of enslve preparations are placed under .he new chemical warfare uervlce of the Army, commanded by Major Gen eral Slbert, by an order unnounced at he War Department. Thin Includes xperlniental work heretofore carried n by the Medical and Ordnance De lartments of the Army and the Bu reau of Mines. UN SMASHED BY AMERICANS if-PENNSYLVANIA I STATE ITEMS Harleysvllle. When chickens be longing to Howard Clemmer, of Har leysvllle, were stolen, the thief drop, ped a notebook with his mime In it, Allentown. So rapidly huve the new street markets In Allen (wn Kulncd popularity that the city authorities have decided to conduct 'them three times ft week Instead of twice. Sunbury. TV record of W. H. Similiter, n Pennsylvania railroad con ductor, of railroading for more than thirty years without an accident, wan broken when he was struck by B freight enr nt the Northumberland yards. He suffered severe contusions of the buck nnd arms, but will re cover. Sunbury. The housing problem In becoming n serious matter In Sunhury. Every available home Is filled nnd om concern, the North Branch Fre Insur ance compuny, Is advertising for hous es for Its employes. Kveti rooms that were formerly used by professional men are now being adopted as Hats. Summit Hill. Jacob Chrlsholm win arrested by Constable McLean on Die charge of having a gun In his "Ssi-. hIoii. Chrlsholm la an unnaturalized Austrian, nnd was fined $25 by 'Squire Ilrowiiinlllor. Refusing to pay the line, nit hough being able to do so fi nancially, he was committed to the county jail at Muuch Chunk. Heaver Meadows. The Lehigh Vol ley Railroad rompnny has ndvaneeil the wages of l(s trackmen l'J4 cents nn hour, making their dully wngfs now $.125, the highest ever puld for similar work. Altoonn. Passengers nnd crew of the collier Cyclops, which sailed from Norfolk January 1 and disappeared, hove been officially declared dead, the navy department Informed Mrs. Imlse Furrcr, Altoonn, whose son, Churlcs, was a sailor on bonrd. Contesvllle. Edward Hughes, ngi'il thirty-four yenrs, was electrocuted in Downlngtown. He wus on a jMile milk ing some repairs when he came In con tact with n live wire. His body hmiR on the cross arms of the pole until removed. Pottsvllle. Mrs. Celln Shlpe Kim mel, wife of Clayton Klmmel, of Or wlgsburg, dropped dead Just after com pleting preparations for breakfast. She was but thirty-two years of age and was apparently In good henWh. Ilethlehem. James Snlvngglo, who was arrested ns a highwayman at Northampton Heights recently admit ted that lie was a deserter from the United State army nt Fort Slorum. Ilethlehem. The locnl war chest renched the totnl of $0."i0,541..r0 with 12,041 subscribers, or a avernge of $r Enston. Albert Newhnrd, aged s'x ty, a former professional pedestrian who once held the world's record for distance covered In seventy-two hours, died. from the effects of gns (but leak ed from a pipe In his home three weeks ago. IMhlchem. Cnught while trying to destroy machinery In a shop at the Rcthlehem Steel Works, Michael Hu xar, an alien enemy, was arrested by Chief Roach nnd turned over to United Slates commissioner Turner at Eastnn. He will probably be Interned during the rest of the war. Wllkes-Rnrre. Announcement of the denth of Trlvnte Smith, of the marine corps renched his mother, n widow, nf I.orksvllle, within one day after she hnd gotten letters from him telling of his Joy nt having been assigned to the front line. Sunbury. While holding an ad vance celebration of the Fourth nf July, Harry Wll'iims, ten yenrs old, of Sunbury, lighted n dnulln cap and lost two lingers. Scninton. Mnyor Connell declared hlms.'lf In fnvor of a single tnxcol looting system In Scran ton. Freelnnd. Although he came from Hungary, Martin Suslnskl, of Free land, enlisted to get back nt the kaiser. York. Charles Wire, n trusty at the York county Joll, with one more month to serve for burglary, escaped. Lnncnster. James Shnnd was re elected president of the Lnncaster T. M. C. A. for the twenty-second con secutive time. Lebanon. Council enjoined agnlnt extending the city water system t the Heights section, formally abandon ed the undertaking. Shcnrtown. Rlsbop Hoban will of ficiate at the laying of the corner stone of the new Polish Catholic or phanage here. Shenundonh. Rn'ds by the Shennn- donh police resulted In fifteen men be ing picked up on slacker charges. Reading The Rcnd'ng Trnns't and Light company will Increase trolley fnrcs on suburban lines to eight cents August 1. i Rending. Mrs. Enimn It. Hecker, of Rending, left $1000 for the care of dumb nnlmals. Shnmnkln. Miss Evn M. Rullard, of Waukesha, Wis., will teach commer cial branches In the schools here. Allentown. Male playground 'n struetors here who were asked to work on the city's fnrm vnHR 'he llflh'S of the quarantine for measles have declined. Harrlsburg. Ranking Commission er Lnfenii Issued n call for statements of state banks nnd trust companies ns of June 29. i , Tiirbotvllle. As the result of n f" from n ladder. J. Luther Smith. lrM1, dent of the Tiirbotvllle school board, died nt bis home. Sernnton. Dr. P. A. Webb, ' Scrnnton, was wounded when n Ger man nlr raider bombed n Canadian hospital In France recently. Hnrrlsburg Harold M. McC'ure, the new public servlco comm'ssloncr, will nssumo his seat when the coin mlss'on meets next week. Itellefonte. Centre county was 'he first county In the stnte to ofllc'ully report having gone over tho top In the war snvlngs stomps drive. Hnzleton. In III health tor snnie time, Joseph Pernndo, nged fifty of Hnzleton. banged himself to a tr'-e on the outskirts of the city.
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