— PAY gia — S— NEWS IN GENERAL Last Monday more than twenty- seven hundred suits, entered against J. V. Thompson withint the last month became returnable The suits range in claims from 1200 to $300,-000. President Wilson and Mrs. Norman Galt will be married on Saturday, December 18, at Mrs. Galt’s home in Washington, D. C. according to a for- mal announcement made Saturday at the White House. It is also announ- ced that the only guests will be Mrs. Galt’s mother, her brothers and sis- ters, the president’s brother and sis- ter, his daughters and the immediate anember of the household. No invita- tions will be issued. Retiring to her room Saturday night, Mrs. Viola Russell, 22 years old, wife of Thomas Russell of Cumber- land swallowed 15 grains of bichlo- ride and is in a serious condition at the Western Maryland Hospital. She is the second wife of Mr. Russell to attempt to end her life in the same manner during the past year. On March 28, the first Mrs. Russell ,swall- owed 45 grains of bichloride and died at the Western Maryland Hospital nearly a week later. Because he dreamed that Henry Ford’s peace ship was sunk by a Ger- man submarine, Basil Peel, a. well- known Pittsburger urged him not to go “ I dreamed I saw the ship in mid- ocean and a German submarine ap- proaching,” said Mr. Peel. “There was a terrific explosion and the ship be- gan sinking. I saw a wireless opera- tor call for help. An English battle- ship appeared. The people on the singing boat cried for help but the commander of the battleship refused and the whole party was lost.” Very significant abatement of de: mands of Germany is shown in peace terms published this week upon the authority of German representa- tives, when compared with the extrav- agant and boastful claims advanced heretofore. The difference is so great that the conclusion is unavoidable that Germany, despite military suc- cesses, is approaching the breaking point and is, for the first time, desir- ous of ending the war. Mrs. Steven Benik of James City near Kane Pa, early Thursday shot and killed her daughter, Anna, aged 6, when she thought she heard a bur- glar at a window. Turning quickly the mother, while holding her child in her arms fired. The child fell to the floor with a bullet through its heart. The bullet also passed thru the palm of the woman’s hand with which she clasped the child. A new campaign is under way to raise within 90 days an additional million dollars for Jewish war relief Details will shortly be given out for publicity. Thus far $1,940,000 has been collected. At a meeting of the joint distribution committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee, the Central Relief Committee and the People’s Relief Committee, a total of $229,243 was appropriated for the relief of Jews in the various war zones. President Wilson shook hands Wed- nesday with more than 1,000 girls, boys, men and women, who have taken prizes in Ohio in various contests, in- cluding xcorn growing, stock raising and domestic science. The group in- cluded Dewey Haynes, the champion boy corn grower of Ohio, whq raised 155 bushels of corn from one acre this year. Miss Leola Jones, the champion girl corn grower of the State, was als: present. Secretary ¥'r..ston greeted the Chjo agricultur- alists earlier in the day. Thursday they went to Philadelphia and on Friday to New York. Half of the population of England is engaged in producing war munit- ions to aid the 3,000,000 men in fight ing in a war which is costing Great Britain $1,000,000 an hour, the Hoa. Hon. E. H. Brand, financial agent of David Lloyd George, minister of muni- tions, told business men at a Incheon in Ottawa, Canada, a few days ago. “The war,” continued Mr. Brand, “will be a long one, and no one can tell how much more England, Canada and other parts of the empire may have to do before it is successfully ended, but of all the things to be done to win, financial operations are the most important. The next forward movement of the Russian armies will be in numbers of millions, not army corps, according to the statement of a high army official. The armies are in better shape than for many months said this official, and quite capable of moving forward at any point. But the new broad plain of campaign contemplates much more than the taking of towns and territory by drives at this point and that. The Russian staff is well satisfied with the net result of the strategy during the past summer and it is asserted, is willing to bide its time for the incept- ion of the new campaign. contented army, well fed, clothed and housed and weeklyy steam cleaned is the First Russian army, as seen by The Asso- ciated Press correspondent during a 10-days’ visit to the positions along the eastern front. The army is in snug permanent winter quarters but is the j | 1 2 After the gruelling hard % service you have put your § > car through during the past & S season, don’t you think it J % would be a wise thing to xX . . $ have us overhaul it and place % it again in tip-top shape? 2 The finest cars will wear— 2 worn parts must be replaced, 2 bearings adjusted, carbon ® % removed, valves ground, etc. ; if it is to be quiet, powerful 3 and safe. 2 We offer a repair service § : here that is equal to the best : factory product—a trial will 3 prove it. % Genuinely expert work at % ordinary rates in 4 thorough- : ly equipped shop. x ¥ 5 : Meyersdale Auto 00. FIREMEN’S CARNIVAL STARTS ON DECEMBER 18. The Firemen’s Carnival which is to be held from Dec. 18 to Dec. 26 will be in the vacant store room formerly occupied by the Habel & Phillips grocery. There will a great variety of Christmas gifts to be had such as vases, glasswawre, laundry bags, cush- ions, Teddy bears with 800-800 eyes, ornaments etc. Also bed spreads, blankets. Give the boys a share of your Christmas patronage. rr ~ LICENSED TO WED. Thos. R. Clark and Margaret W. Geisey, both of Ligonier. : Lewis S. Warren, of Greensburg, and Julia N. Wejmer, of Somerset township. Samuel J. Snow, Madone Lands and Mary M. Hoffman, of Husband. Maurice W. McMullen, of Iowa and Malissa N. Bowman, of Stoyestown. LOOK AT THE LABEL ON YOUR PAPER. PAY UP IF YOU OWE. ready at an hour’s notice to march, One of the most desperate hold-ups ever attempted in New York was staged last week when George De- Brazzia tried to wrest a bag contain- ing $4,000 in currency from two mes- sengers of the Bank of the Metropolis at the 14th street subway station. De- Brazzia came up on the two messen- gers from behind. One of them Allan Gardner, 18 years old, of Amityville L. I. he shot down in cold blood. The other, Walter F. Orleman, 39, of West Brighton, Staten Island, grappled witn him on the subway stairs, tore the re- volver from him and followed until the police arrested the man. When William Hoffman met Miss at Chicago it was a case of love at first sight’ with him, Miss King was young, pretty, vivacious and intelli- gent —the exact sort of a girl Hoff- man decided would make him a treas- ure wife. He proposed and she accep- ted and the couple were married two months after they first met Not until the night of the marriage after the wedding guests had departed accord- ing to a suit for divorce filed by Heft- man, did he discover that his bride was insane. She went to an asylum. Miss King, according to the charges, was a former inmate of the Kankekee asylum for the insane. Yet Hoffman was not aware of this fact when he met her and during the two months covering their courtship she is said to have deceived him. There is no clue to the cause of the explosion at the Dupont black poOw- der plant, near Wilmington, Del, last week which caused the death of 31 men. There was a gruesome scene in an undertaker’s establishment. relatives of the victims sorted arms legs and shreds of flesh eagerly seek- ing some marks of identification. This was futile. Eleven of the victims were identified by shreds ‘of clothing which clung to an arm, leg or trunk. These fragments of flesh were buried as though the bodies were intact. The remains of the others which filled an ordinary barrel were buried in a sin- gle casket. One of the many rumors i circulated was that workmen in the DuPont plants recently discovered | particles of steel filing or bits of nails in the powder under the process of | manufacture. These particles of met- als, 1t was said, in passing through | one of the processes used to mold the "loooe powder into block might have caused the spark which set off the blast. Agnes King a couple of months ago | | LIBRARIES BUY FEW. BOOKS | Educators Alarmed Over the Effect of Rigid Economy That Is Being Practiced in England. It is expected that the war economy of the English local authorities will take the form, among other things, of B cutting down of expenditure on pub- lic libraries. The recent local gov- ernment board circular suggested the libraries as one 'of the departments on which there might be a saving. The Library association at its re- cent meeting had a discussion which showed that many peeple are afraid that economy will have the effect of seriously injuring the educational value of the libraries, and this at a time when the importance of litera- ture, both as an escape from an over: mastering obsession and as helping people te ‘take wider and sounder views on the problems of the war, is greater than ever.” The Lambeth libraries committee has just decided not to buy any novels during the war, and it is probable that this example will be widely followed. The argument is, of course, that fiction in war times Is a luxury. What are called “useful books” will continue to be bought at Lambeth. It is likely, says the Manchester Guardian, that many library commit tees will adopt the sensible ‘course of cutting down expenditures on ephem- eral’ fiction while still buying the works of the first rate novelists. It is | Impossible that there will be any re trenchment on books on the war, which are being eagerly read at the | moment. Many committees may cease ! buying the more expensive books of | general literature. OCCUPATION ONE OF PERIL Men Engaged in Removing Awnings Risk Their Lives in Every Task They Undertake. Steeplejacks have long enjoyed a reputation for daring, but it is a ques- tion whether they come in the same class of riskers as the awning remov- ers, says the New York Times. These removers do not need or use the rope and block and fall accessories of the steeple men. Yet they climb to places and do their work in what seems to be an impossible manner. Starting at the street level two or three awning removers will strip the entire front of a flat house and never g0 indoors. They are as agile as acro- | bats. They reach up to a window sill | and then raise themselves to the win- | dow ledge. Finishing the window | while standing at this ledge they seize | the top stone of the window, pull themselves up to it and from there | reach again to the window ledge | above so as to strip ‘another window. Through the belt they wear runs a line and with this they lower the awn- ings as they take them down. =i" How they can do their work with so little to hang on to is more re- | | markable than the tasks performed by the structural iron workers. The iron worker if he slips has something at hand in the way of a beam around which he has a chance to lock his arms. The awning remover when he slips falls outward from the ledge and has nothing to clutch. Recently three awning removers stripped a seven- story flat of 75 windows in the Bronx in the remarkable time of three hours, all from the outside. Artlilery in the Alps. All sorts of out-of-the-way and often unexpected difficulties are met by the [talian troops in the fight against the Austrians. Several fights, for instance, 7,000 and 10,000 feet above sea level. At these great heights the ordinary gun sights are useless. The higher the altitude the rarer the air becomes and farther a gun will shoot. Most of the gun sights are made for and test- ed at practically sea level, so the Ital- lan gunners in the Alps would have found that their guns were not shoot- ing accurately if special sights had not been used. A shell at 5,000 feet up, for in- stance, which at the ordinary level wonld travel 2,600 yards, would go 2, 360 yards, while at 7,600 feet altitude It would be going 2,600 yards, or 100 yards further than it ought to go. All the Italian mountain guns, there- fore, have to have specially corrected sights. We have, of course, used sim- ilar mountain guns in India and other places, but there has never been a campaign waged at such a height as the one between the Italians and Aus- trians.—Pearson’s. mi se South African Signal Service. 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