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TREATY SIGNED
WITH DENMARK
Purchase of Islands Believed
Near Consummation
DANISH RIGSDAG CONSIDERS
Document Expected to Be Submitted
to Senate for Ratification Before
End of Session—Price, $25,000,000.
Acting Secretary of State Polk
has announced that the treaty
by which the United States is to pur-
chase the Danish West Indies from
Denmark for $26,000,000 has been
signed at New York by Secretary
Lansing and Minister Constantin
Brun. .
The treaty provides for the trans-
fer to the United States of three
islands, St. Thomas, St. Croix and
St. John, which have been the sub-
ject of negotiations between the
United States and Denmark for many
years. iil
It is understood that the adminis.
tration will ask for ratification by the
senate before the end of the present
session, and, while there may be some
objection to the price, no really se-
ious opposition is” expected.
ecretary Lansing, who has been
diag bis: va at Watertown,
Y., weit to New York to meet Min-
r Brun.
Details Not Made Public.
Mp Polk announced that no detajls’
of the treaty would be made, public
present. It is understood that the
department desires to withhold
détails’ until er senite and the Dan-
ish parliament have had an oppor
tuatty to: consider itt
Secretary Lansing ahd the Danis
minister affixéd the sighiatines to the
Danish-American’ 1) , at a hotel
ican. treaty
Pp
Ha treaty wis signed in" dupliczte
ir. Lansing’s suite, The Ameri
etary | € from Water-
town, N. Yabif Mister Brun from
his summer home in Bar Harbor,
Me., arrangements for their meeting
having. been made séveral days ago.
pies of the treaty were brought
from Washington: by L. H. Wolsey,
of the state department, Who was the
only witness to the ceremony, which
wasi conducted ‘without formality.
Mr. Brun said that his: copy of the
treaty he woul dimmedistely forward
‘can
to bis governmen , for ratification by
the D _rigedag. tiv 8 etal
. The Danish parliament has taken up
rigsdag, the various par-
. . tiesi held" committee meetings
+ “The minister stated that the amount
to ‘be received. for the. islands was
“ $25,000/000; that. all thé Danish in-
terests would be comserved, and that
the United States ' would recognize
Denmark’s supremacy over the whole
of Greenland. re rikeda met soon
afterward and there® was 3 debate for
half an hour. No rea} objection’ to
the sale was made, and there was
Qply steht. stitclem, Bom 8 few, oon:
AVES LR In :
servative mem :
MARKET QUOTATIONS
ig v Pittsburgh, Aug. 8.
Butter—Prints, 32% @33c; tubs,
315@32¢. - i
Eggs—Fresh, 27%@28¢.
Cattle~—Prime, $9@9.35; good, $8.60@
8.75; tidy butchers, $1.76@8.25; fair,
$7@7.50; common, $6@7; common to
good fat bulls, § ow common to
good fat cows, $4.00@750; heifers,
$6@8; fresh cows and springers, $49
@80. :
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,
$8.10@8.25;- goal mixed; $750@8; fair
mixed, $6.50@7.26; eulls and com:
mon, $8.50@64. spring lambs, $7.60@
11.26, veal - calves, $12@1250; heavy
and thin calves, $7@8. :
Hogs—Prime heavy, $10.25; heavy
mixed, $10.30@10.40; mediums, heavy
Yorkers and light Yorkers, $10.40@
10.60; pigs, $10@10.25; roughs, $8.75
@9; stags, $7@7.25.
: - Cleveldnd, Aug. 8.
Cattle—Cholce fat steers, $8.25@
* 8498: goed to chofos Butcher stars,
*
$7.50 @8.26;;, good «to ' cholae butcher
bulls; $6@6:75; ‘bologna. bulls; $5@64
good to choice, cows, $5.76 @8.25;, fain
to good cows, $6@6.75; common cows,
$8.50 @4.60 z Ta &
Sheep and Lambs-—Good to choice
springs, $10@10.50; fair to good, $7.50
@9; good to choice wethers,, $7.50@
7.76; good to choice ewes, $7@7.50;
mixed ewes and wethers, $7.25@7.50 1
culls, $4@5.
Hogs—Mixed, $10.10; Yorkers, $10;
mediums, $10.10; pigs, $9.75; stags,
$7.50; roughs, $8.90. :
Chica 0
Hogs—Bulk, $9.35@9.95:
“Hight, $955
@10.10; mixed, $9.15@10. Heavy,
$9@10.12%; rough, $3@9.16 “pigs,
$7.90@9.50. :
Cattle—Native beef cattle, $6.75@
10.40; stockers and feeders, $6@7.85;
cows and heifers, $3.50@9.15; calves,
$8.76@12.25.
Sheep—W ethers, $6.76@8.35; lambs,
$7.60@10.50.
Wheat—Sept., $1.33. Corn—Sept.,
" Phote by American Press Association
‘FRANK HEDLEY.
THE WAR
Desperate fighti is im progress
north of Verdun, ere the French
have taken the offensive. and have
scored notable gains in the effort to
drive back the Germans, who had been
hammering at the gates of the fortress
more than. five monhs.
After pushing to the outskirts of
the village of Fleury, three miles
north of Verdun, Wednesday night,
the French brilliantly attacked the
plice’ later and’ carried’ it” by storm.
The crown prince's troops launched
furious counter attacks and succeeded
in re-taking the southern section of
the village. The French now hold the
greater part of the town.
Meanwhile, fighting on the Somme
front has dwindled to minor opera
tion# Liondbn‘ repérts the gain of
sore ground in such operations to the
west’ of /Pozferes. :
The ity, of Briissels has refused to
{ 3 “HE 4 e 2
i gi ot Savon RAFKS Kh pose: 3
the demonstration: which
the Belgtun capital on July 3%; the ne-
tional ‘fete day; says od
two trawlers were reported a@s sunk
by submarines: or:mines in: one day:
Seven vessels af this number: belonged
to meutral nations. The list of vic-
tims follows: SLR. Dr
Danish steamer Katholm, 1,021 tons,
reported sunk in Mediterraneah by
German subiiarine. Crew saved.
Four Swedish stBamers—Bror Os
car, Vermland, Hodikswell, destroyed
by fire of Germans, and the Perbrghe,
repprted sunk in the gulf of Bothnia. .
. The Norwegian steamer John. Wil:
son, crew saved, and the British
stéamers Britannic, of the Cocker line,
and the Heightington.
/ General Brusiloff is pressing his of-
fensiye against the Teutonic allies in
fhe ‘river Seréth was recently forced
by the Russians along a wide front at
Brody. Petrograd now reports furthep
advances for the Russians, with the
capture of strongly fortified positions
along the Sereth and the Graberka.
Repulses for the Russians in Arme-
nia and for British forces oa the Sinai
Peninsula are chronicled in the official
statement given out by the Turkish
war office. The announcement says
that in a five days’ battle in the Ag-
nott secor, Armenia, the Russians lost
more than 3,000 men killed.
American cousuls in Italy have been
the Italian mail er tletimbro by
a submarine in &- - Mediterranean,
Dispatches, from London said the sub-
marifie continded firing after the liner
had stopped and that many members
of ‘the ‘passengers ‘and crew were be-
Heved to Have lost their lives.
An, atfeript by Bulgarian soldiers
to, seize, an island in, the _Rumanian
waters, of the Danube. river; close. to
the “town of .Giurgeve; - has caused ‘a
sengation ‘there, :aecording to reports
received by Bucharest néwspapers.
Rumanian frodtier gudrds “discov:
ered the Bulgarians and raised an
alarm. After a lively. exchange of
fire the Bulgarians, fled.
On the Lower Isonzo the Italians
have gained possesion’ of nearly the
whole’ of “Hill ‘No. 85, and’ held it
against violent ¢ounter attacks. Pris:
oners :taken by the Italians. in one day
total 3,600. A large amount of. am-
munition and guns also was captured.
Oil Prices Again Reduced.
The Ohio Oil company made another
cost reduction in the, price of oil; mak-
ing .North and South Lima $1.48, In-
diana $1.33, Wooster $1.30, Illinois
and Princeton $1.52, and Plymouth
$1.38. Oil producers say there ought
to be a very material drop in the price
821%¢c. Oats—§ept., 44c,
of gasoline.
| thereof: —
‘Ity or rights; and subject to such re
|1ly to be occupied or used . for public
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
‘mlage st
Ten steamers, a brigantine and
| Jurisdiction and powers now vested
Northern Galicia, where the passage of:
/mumbered courts and shall be subject
directed tp report: en: the; sinking of
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO
I new Al WAY RE { THE CONSTITUTION, -SUBMITT. ated to supply deficiency in reyepue
NEW YORK Jal way HEAD TO THE CITIZENS OF "THE Com ana never exceed in. the ag@resaie
WHOSE MEN ARE Ss ¥ E -MONWEALTH FOR THEIR APs at any ome time, one million dol
rr PROVAL' OR REJECTION, BY THE. lars,” be amended so as to read as
: _- GENERAL ASSEMBLY. OF THE follows: :
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL-'
VANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY OR-,
DER OF THE SECRETARY OF
THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PUR-
SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF
THE CONSTITUTION.
Number One. 2
, A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to Article!
IX of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania,
. Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of ‘ Representa-
tives in General Assembly mef, That ®
the following amendment to the
Constitution of Pennsylvania be, and
the ‘same is hereby, proposed, in ac-
cordance with the XVIII article
Section 16. The State, or any mu-
nicipality thereof, acquiring or appro-
priating property or rights over or in
property for public use, may, in fur-
therance of its plans for the acqui-
sition and public use of such proper-
strictions as the Legislature may from
time to, time impose, appropriate, an.
excess of property over that actual
use, and may thereafter sell or lease
such excess, and impose on the prop-
erty so sold or leased any restrictions
appropriate to = preserve or enhance
the benefit to the public of the prop-
erty actually occupied or used.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 1. :
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania so as to, consolidate |
the courts of common pleas of Phil-|
adelphia county. ;
_Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representa
tives of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania in General Assembly met,
That the following amendment to the
Constitution of Pennsylvania be, and’
the same is hereby, proposed, in ac-
cordance with the eighteenth article’
thereof :- Se
That section six of article five be
amended so as to read as follows:
Section 6. In the county of Phila-
delphia all the jurisdiction ar
powers now. vested: in the = seve
Indges. in, sald. caprt may be by law
increased from time to time. This a:
mendment shall take effect on the |
first day of January succeeding its a-
doption. a
In’ the county of Allegheny all the
in the several numbered. courts of .
| common. pleas, shall be vested in|
one court of common pleas, com- |
posed of all the judges in commission |
in said courts. Such jurisdiction and
powers shall extend to all ceel- |
‘ings at law and in equity which shall
have been instituted in the several
to such change as may be made by
law and subject to change of. venue
as provided by law. The presi-
dent judge ‘of ithe said court
shall ‘be . selected as provided by
law. ‘The number of judges In
said cBi® may be by law increased
from tite to time. “This amendment
shall take effect on the first day of
January succeeding its adoption.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 2. ! sews
CYRUS E. WOODS.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three,
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article
nine, section four of the Consti-
tution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania; = authorizing the
State to issue bonds to the amount
of fifty millions of dollars for the’
improvement of the highways of
the Commonwealth,
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania in General Assembly met,
That the following amendment to the
Constitution of Pennsylvania be, and
he ‘same is hereby, proposed, in ac-
cordance with the eighteenth article
thereof: — .
That section four of article nine, |
which reads as follows: |
“Section 4. No debt shall be crea- |
ted by or on behalf of the State, ex-
cept to supply casual deficiencies of!
revenue, repel invasions, suppress in-
opened, held, and closed upon sald
‘election
(and is hereby enacted by the author-
d | Amendment, to Article Nine, Section
| borrowing: capacity of the said city |
idetermining such amount, so to be de
to.pay existing debt; and the debt cre.
Section 4. No debt shall be crea-
ted by or on beltglf of the State, ex-
cept to supply casual deficiencies of
revenue, pel invasion, suppress fp-
surrection, defend the, State in war,
or to pay existing debt; and the debt
created to supply deficiencies in rev-
enue shall never e- 1 in the aggre-
gate, at any one ti..., n- million dol-
lars: ‘Provided, however, That the
General Assembly, irrespective of
any debt, may authorize the State to
issue bonds to the amount of fifty
millions of dollars for the purpose of
improving and rebuilding the highways
of the Commonwealth.
Section 2. Said proposed amend-
ment shall be submitted to the qual-
ified electors of the State, at the gen-
eral election to be held on the Tues-
day next following the first Monday of
November in the year nineteeer hun-
dred and eighteen, for the purpose of
deciding upon the approval and rati-
ifieation or the rejection of said
amendment. Said election shall he
on day, at the places and within
the hours at and within which said
is directed to be open-
ed, held and closed, and in accord-
ance with the provisions of the laws
of Pennsylvania governing elections,
and amendments thereto. Such a-
mendment shall be printed upon the
ballots in the form and manner pre-
scribed by the election laws of Penn-
sylvania, and shall in all respects
conform to the requirement of such
laws.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No, 3. :
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth. A
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
eight, article nine of the Consti-
tution of Pennsylvania,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the Commonwealth of Penn.
lvania in General Assembly - met,
ity of the same, That the Constitu-
tion of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania, in accordance with the pro-
sions of the eighteenth article
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The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per=
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Allow no one to deceive you in this.
and ¢¢ Just-as-good >’ are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
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What is CASTORIA
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substance. Its age is its guarantee.
It dest. oys VWorm
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for the relief of Constipation,
all Teething : Troubles. and
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be increased in such amount that tke:
total -city debt of said city shall not’
exceed ten per centum (10) upon the’
assessed value of the taxable prop-
erty therein; nor shall any such mu-| -
nicipality” or “district incur any new |
| debt, or increase its indebtedness to
an: amount ekxceeding two (2) per
centum upon such assessed valuation
of ‘property, without the consent of’
tae electors thereof at a’ public elen’
tion in’ such manner as shall be pro-
vided by law. In ascertaining the’
' ER— which operates
ing ot $5.50.
Baer &
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socket and can ‘be bought during.
z Hotpoint Week (July 3-8) at a say- \
numbered. counts of .¢ommon pleas of |. That ‘section eight of article nine || SECURE ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET GIVING PULL D TAILS PKOM TICKET
a be vested. ini ¢ he. Constitution be amended by |. Lup. ss AGENTS, BAL ons LL te
o ; 10f comm ‘pleas oo } Boyt the said section and. in- Tovey — - . wi ap yin a ol wid + =
all, the Indges. in. commission in sald Morting in place thereof the follow. | =r - Se -
hall extend to all, proceedings at law] Section 8° The debt of any county oe L rn eC Wl ei Gk
and, in equity which shall have been city, borough, township, school ‘dis. 4 nn 2 TY wa CA ay ; SYD
instituted in the several, numbered trict or-ether municipality of tncorpo-|| | “J J | eC : 19 rr usa 4 I=
courts and shall be shiek 0, seh] rated distriet; except as provided here i le ; g ; / TE
change as may be made by la and in and. in section fifteen of this arti: ? / feta aise ; dion
subject to change of i 4 as provi-l cle shall’ never exceed seven (7) per against the germ - laden broom, dust - cloth |
ded’ by- law, The president judge of | centum upon the assessed value of the || |: ay Lr : > “i
Be a ool hel elie taxable property therein. but. tnel| | and feather duster—can best be waged with
provided by law. The number of | debt of the' city of Philadelphia may an i
from lamp.
Co.
of’ Philadelphia, at “any time, there’
shall be excluded from the calcula-
tion and deducted from such debt
80 much of the debt of said city as
shall: have been incurred, and the
proceeds thereof invested, in any
public improvements of any character
which shall be yielding to the said
city an annual current net revenue.
The amount of such deduction shall
be ascertained by capitalizing the an-
nual net revenue from such improve-
ment during the year immediately
preceding the time of such ascertain-
ments; and such capitalization shall
be estimated by ascertaining the!
‘| principal amount which would yield,
such annual, curment net revenue, at
the average rate of interest, and sink-
ing-fund charges payable upon the
indebtedness incurred by sald city
for such purposes, up to the time of
such ascertainment. The method of
ducted, may be prescribed by the Gen-
eral Assembly. In incurring indebted-
ness for any purpose the city of Phila-
.Gelphia may issue its obligations ma-
turing not later than fifty (50) years
from the date thereof, with provision
for a sinking-fund sufficient to retire
‘said obligations at maturity, the pay-
ment to such sirking-fund to be in
"equal or graded annual or other per-
iodical instalments. Where any in-
debtedness shal} be or shall have
been incurred by said city of Philadel
phia for the purpose of the construct- |
ion or improvement of public works of
any character from which income or |
revenue is to be derived by said city,
or for the reclamation of land to be |
Every Farmer with two or more COWS
needs a
L AVAL
THE BEST SEPARATOR MADE,
J. T. YODER,
| De
used in the construction of wharves or
docks owned or to be owned by said
city, such obligations may be in
‘amount sufficient to provide for, and
may include the amount of, the In-
terest and ‘sinking-fund charges ac-
cruing and which may accrue there-
on throughout the period of construc:-
ion, and until the expiration of one
year after the completion of the work |
for which said indebtedness shall
have been incurred; and said city
shall not be required to levy a tax to
pay said interest and sinking-fund
charges as required by section ten.
article nine of the Constitution of!
Pennsylvania, until the expiration of
said period of one year after the com-
pletion of said work.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No 4.
CYRUS BH. WOODS.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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JOHNSTOWN, PA.
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‘
ANDREW J. MOON, :
A well known resident of Conflu-
ence, died recently after an illness of
| several months, He was born on the
{farm on which he died. He was the
last of a lange family. The family de-
scended directly in the third genera-
tion from one of the pioneers of tha
Jersey settlers. The following chil-
dren survive: Mrs. Albert Smith,
| Mrs. John Hostetler, James Moon,
| Bruce Moon, Floyd Moon, Draketown;
| Mrs, Laura Peters, Markelton and
| Mrs. Annje Younkin, South Connells-
| ville. 32 grandchildren and four
| great grandchildren also are living.
|
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Children Cry
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