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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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South African Signal Service.
According to a report received, there
has recently been inaugurated at the
Union government wireless station at
Slangkop a radio time signal service
for the convenience of mariners in
South African waters. The signals will
be sent out daily. The stations at
Cape Town and Durban are operated
during the 24 hours of each day and
send signals of 600 meters wave
length. A eleven o’clock (Union time
—nine o'clock Greenwich time) at
nighttime signals are emitted by the
Cape Town station, extending over an
interval of 30 seconds. The time sig-
nals are pt:.~eded by the usual warn-
ing signal—Scientific American.
Subject to Impress weant,
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Business conducted at the same place
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