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State.
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red in the
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ive began.
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rtillery for
to have: in
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delivered
1gainst the
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itish.
icates that
as admin-
drove the
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ten out in
tch to the
pound and
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working-
1e British
Sopotamia,
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the Tigris
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west of
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ERT TRE Pe TRY
BRITISH TIGHTEN
BLOCKADE LIAES
Shipments by U. S. fo Helland
: Stopped ed by Edict
Hes T0 REFUSE CARGOES
rads with SS Gndinaviin Countries
Must Undergo Close Scrutiny—Theft
of American Trade Secrets Denied.
The British plan of rationing the
neutral countries of Norway, Sweden,
Denmark and Holland, under which no’
further licenses will be granted for |
the present. to British exporters, has
been extended to apply to the United
States by; the expedient of refusing to
allow Thé Netherlands’ Oversea trust
to accept. further American consign:
ments and by declining to grant let
ters of assurance for American ship-
ments destined for these countries.
In consequence American shipments
for Holland will be stopped absolute-
ly, while the regular transportation
companies trading between the United
states and Scandinavia will not take
cargoes thout assurances of their
innocent destination by fhe British au-
thorities.” Furthermere tramp steam-
ers are hardly likely to risk the in-
evitable lagding in’ the prite court of
any cargo they might accept.
Neutral diplomats in London be-
Heve two reasons induced the British
government to take this action. The
first is the simplicity of the plan
whish enables the government to con-
tral supplies at the source. The second
is the growing bill with which Great
Britain is being pressed by neutral
governments for demurrage and other
expenses incurred by taking suspected
ships’ into Kirkwall and other ports
for examination.
Denies Stealing Trade Secrets.
David Lloyd-George, British secre-
tary for war, gave out the following
statement:
“‘There appears to be a deliberate
campaign, set on foot in the United
States by German agents, to throw
deubt on the good faith of his
majesty’s government in regard to the
use of information obtained through
the censorship.
“Let me now say on behalf of the
military authorities what has already
been said on behalf of the foreign of-
fice—that when information is passed
on by the censorship to other depart-
ments it is for the sole purpose of
guiding the action of the government
in the conduct of the war.
“For instance, when we get informa-
~ tion that an American firm, to whom
te foreign office has given a permit
for the export of certain goods from
Rotterdam, on the ground that these
goods had been paid for before the
war, is using that permit fraudulently,
as frequently has been the case, we
pass the information on to the foreign
office in order that they may cancel
the permit.
“That, frankly stated, is what we
do. But we affirm, and challenge any-
one to deny it, that honest business
interests and trade secrets of an
American merchant or manufacturer
are as safe in the hands of the mili-
tary censors, and of every other gov-
ernment department, as they are in
the hands of the American postoffice.”
PENNSY SETS'N NEW RECORD
Supsr-Dresdnoucht’s Gunners Hit:
Small Target at 11. Miles.
3 : i
A new world’s record in maval gun-
nery has been made by the
dreadnought Pennsylvania, the navy
department announced.
super-
Credit for the feat is given to the|
big battleship’s twelve. 14-inch rifles,
mounted as a maim battery in four tur-
rets, which on a simultaneous dis-
charge in a recent trial registered five
hits on a small target eleven miles
away. At that distance a target is not
visible to the gunners. Records of
the highest scores ever made under
similar circumstances prove that none
equaling that of the Pennsylvania has
been found.
The Pennsylvania is the first vessel
to have its entire main battery mount-
ed three guns to a turret, and her per-
formance is declared by ordmance and
construction officers to be the final
answer to critics opposing the three-
gun turret system. The Pennsylvania
and Oklahoma are undergoing their
final tests and navy department repre
sentatives say are fulfilling the re-
quired specifications in a highly satis-
factory manner. .
BOYS TIE UP GLASS PLANTS
Morgantown Firms Hampered; Union
Official Tries For Settlement.
Operations at Senaca A, Economy
and Union Stopper glass factories, Mor-
gantown, have been seriously impeded
during the past few days as a result
of a strike among boys between four-
teen and seventeen years of age, em-
ployed at the plant. Their wages are
from $1.20 to $1.25 for a day of eight
hours and thirty-five minutes.
Edward Zimmer of Pittsburgh, na-
tlenal organizer of the Flint Glass
‘Workers, is assisting managers of the
cempanies to effect a settlement.
Salesman Has Close Call.
B. 8. ¥owler of Youngstown was
carried over 100 feet in an awtomobile
on the pilot of a Pennsylvania railroad
engine at Warren, O., and escaped
with a few bruises.
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BAVARIAN SOLDIER NOW
IN COMMAND CN SOMME
Photo By American Press Association.
CROWN PRINCE RUPPRECHT.
The crown prince has been given
supreme command of all troops of the
central powers facing the drive of
British and French at Combles, Thiep-
val and@ Peronne.
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FIVE KILLED IN BLAST
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Oakdale (Pa.) Chemical Plant Ex.
plosion Blamed on Nitric Acid.
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SALLOW SKIN
is one of the greatest foes of
Five persons were killed and almost
a score hurt when a boiler exploded in
the piant of the Aetna Chemical com |
pany at Oakdale, near Pittsburgh. i
The explosion was heard for miles
and attracted many persons from Me- |
Donald and Carnegie. It tore out one
of the walls and caused the roof to |
coliapse, burying the employees in the
debris.
It was officially announced that the
death toll would not exceed five, as |
all workmen are reported to have been
accounted for. The list of dead in-
cludes Bertram R. Dodge, night su-'
perintendent; John Paul of Nobles-
town, Samuel Paul, a brother; Frank
Zygnersky of Noblestown, and James
turner of Birmingham, Ala.
Of the workmen injured, Frank
Blunt of Harrisburg is the most seri-
ous. Blunt was taken from his home
in Oakdale to Mercy hospital, suffer-
ing from fractures of the ankles and
probable internal injuries. His con-
dition is serious.
Some men were hurt jumping from
second story windows and others
were caught by the steam and burned.
More than a dozen men who were | E
working on the third floor jumped
from the windows, but none suffered
serious injuries. They assisted phy-
sicigns in dressing the arms and leg:
of those burned and more seriousl:
hurt.
The explosion occurred in the boiler
room of the nitric acid building. Iti:
thought to have been caused by nitric
acid falling against a hot plate. In =a
few seconds clonds of steam aros
from the boiler and before any of th
men could reach the outside of the
building the boiler blew up.
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questions such as ‘‘How is vol I
ronounced ?’’
Secretary Danlels Says National Dc- |
fense Requires Canals.
A series of waterways, by whic.
submarines may travel from Bosto
to Key West without entering the A:
lantic ocean is vitally necessary to na
tional defense, Secretary of the Navy !
Daniels told the Atlantic deep water-
ways commission in. Philadelphia.
The convention is working for es-
tablishment of 131 miles of canals to
lik wW..o.+.iy5 from Maine to Florida.
In an adaress at the Philadelphia
navy yard Secretary Daniels said in
part:
“The importance of sheltered water
paths up and down our Atlantic coast,
through which underwater boats may
pass from point to point has been in-
creased by the conditions of modern
warfare. !
“Every inland channel adds that
much more to the protection of our
coast, to the safety of our ports, and,
it is not too much to say, to the
safety of our entire country from in-
vasion.
“Their importance from a military
point of view has not, perhaps, been
recognized as it should be until the
present war in Europe.” :
GERMANS PLAY WELSH HYMN |
Cornet’s Strains Head hy Foes, Who
Join /In Native Song.
Minister of War Lloya-George, who
is back in London from Frarce, re-
lates a curious incident from the front,
Up from the German lines opposite a
‘Welsh division a notice was one day
hoisted. “Look out for 10 o’clock to-
night, Taffy,” it read.
A bombardment surely, thought the
Welshmen, but lo! at that hour not
shells, but the strains of a cornet play-
ing the well known Welsh hymn
“Craig y Bar” came floating over to
the British lines, and the Welshmen
jeined in and sang the words they all
knew so well.
Youngstown Has Big Payroll.
A payroll record for Youngstown dis-
trict was announced with the report
that the August disbursement reached
$8,889,129. This distribution was a
gain of $16,138 over the July pay and
$1,286,697 over the month of August
in 1915. The September distribution
is expected to reach the $4,000,000
mark, as it will include the bonus dis-
{ tribution of the Youngstown Sheet and
| Tube company.
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A patent has been granted to John
H. Miller, of near town for a Na'l.ess
Horseshoe. The object of the Inven-
tion is to improve the construction of
the horseshoe and to provide a sim-
ple and practical horseshoe of inex-
pensive construction, adapted to and
readily applied to a horse’s hoof with-
out the use of nails and hammer, and
can be put on even by a boy. This is
ventor,
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8 can wash clothes in as sani-
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| the faci that no washwoman
tary a manner as that in
wich the work is done at-
We use much more water,
chz nge the water many more
:m8‘ uee purer and mores
costly soap, and keep all the
clothes in constant motion
during the entire process.
It's simply a matter of
having proper facilities.
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| GENERAL TREVINO WIUNBED
| the town of Chihuahua Ffiday night,
troops were able to take part in the
'| ers by the constitutionalist army were
Joseph L. Tressler
Funeral Direetor and Embalmer
Meyersdale, Penna.
Residence:
34% North Nireet
Economy Phone.
Office :
229 Center tree
Both Phones.
THE ALIEN
I don’t know where I was before I
came here,
I'm not sure where I’m going when I
leave;
But this much I’ve learned of life,
With this turmoil and its strife,
That it dosen’t pay to fold your hands
and grieve.
I'm not quite sure just why He sent
me hither,
And doubt sometimes that I am mak-
ing good;
But at any rate I'll try,
As the speeding days roll by,
To pass the spot where yesterday 1
stood.
I'am not quite sure that life is worth
the living,
He could have left me otu without
regret;
But this one small iting I know,
In a world of seeming woe,
That it’s better for to smile than
frown and fret.
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VILLISTAS ATTACK
CHIHUAHUA; LOSE
250 Killed, Many Wounded In
~ Night Attack
cette.
Residents Assist Army. of 1,000) Which
Invades: Citys Public Buildings Cap
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The Houstom Post reasons that it
was easier for its own beloved Democ-
racy to indorse the president's Mexican
policy than to define it.
- While he was about it Senator Jani:s
Hamilton l.ewis also might have cx-
plained that the Rome that was “tue
proud to fight” died a rather disastrcus
death.
“In all fairness,” asks the Boston
*shouldn’t the expense of
financing Carranza be borne by the
| Democratic campaign committee?”
tured by Insurgents, But ‘Retaken. |
General Obregon, Mexican minister
of war, announces that 1,000 fellow:
ers of Francisco Villa, who attacked
were routed early Saturday morning
with a lass of 250 men killed and many
captured. :
After the battle Gemeral Trevino’'s
regular independence day parade at
11 o'clock Saturday morning. During
the fighting General - Trevino was
slightly wounded in the shoulder.
Aided by some of the townspeople,
the Villa forces attacked at 11 o'clock
Friday night’ and teok the peniten-
tiary and the municipal gnd federal
palaces. General Trevino gathered
his troops, placed his artillery, re-
captured the public buildings and com-
pletely defeated the attackers in the
early morning ‘light.
General Obregon has sent a message
of congratulations to General Trevino.
Advices from EI Paso Saturday
night said Villa had attacked Chihua-
hua Saturday and penetrated part of
the city, but was driven out with
heavy losses. The men tdken prison-
Igmeliately put to death, the dispatch
a
?
Many residents of Chihuahua City ;
have been arrested and charged with |
complicity in Villa’s attack upon the!
city, while martial law was proclaimed |;
throughout the state. :
This action followed the discovery |
that during the attack numbers of resi-;
dents, among them amnested revolu-
tionists, had been sniping from their
windpws and that others had provided
information to the bandits.
Two columns of Mexican cavalry,
under General Rames and Colonel
Jose Marrero, are pursuing Villa azd
his band into the rugged Santa Clara
canyon district to the nortaeast, ac-
cording to reports to General Francis-
co Gonzales, commandant in Juarez.
The bandits are well mounted anc
apparently are leading the de faclio
forces over the jagged rocks, ruincu
to thé feet of horses, into the canyor.
Persons familiar wita the country
pointed out that should Villa reac’
one of his lairs in the d!strict the gov-
ernment troops may have the greatest
difficulty in finding him.
TINPLATE MEN GET RAISE
MaiKaespart Firm Will Have Payroll
‘df $4,000,000 a Year. ;
The McKeesport Tinrlate company
has announced an increase of wages
of 10 to 20 per cent, affecting 1,700
men. Friday the largest payroll of
the year, amounting to $104,000, was
distributed. This week sevén new
mills were put on, making a total of
forty-two mills in. operation. Later
twe more mills will be started. With
the plant in full operation the payroll
will be $4,000,000 a year.
LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN
Pittsburgh, Sept. 19.
Butter—Prints, 36 @36%c; tubs, 35
-@35%c. Eggs—Fresh, 33@34c.
. Cattle—Prime, $5.25@9.50;
$8.50@9; tidy butchers, $7.75@8; fair,
$6.50@7.25; common, $5.50@7; com-
mon to good fat bulls, $4.50@7.25;
common to good fat cows, $3.50@7;
heifers, $5@8; fresh cows and spr.ng-
ers, $40@85.
Sheep and Laiibs—Prime wethers,
$8@38.25; good mixed, 37.40@7.85; far
mixed, $6.50@7.25; culls and common,
$3.50@5; spring lambs, $7@11.50; veal
calves, $1250@13; heavy and tbin
calves, $7@9.
Hogs—Prime heavy, heavy mix«<d,
mediums and heavy Yorkers, $11.40@
11.50; light Yorkers, $10@10.50; pig,
$9.50@9.60; roughs, $9.60@10.25;
stags, $8@8.256; best weight grassers,
$11@11.25.
geod,
Cleveland, Sept. 19.
Hogs — Mediums, $11.30@11.35;
mixed, $11.20@11.26; Yorkers, $11@
11.20; pigs, $9.26; roughs, $9.50; stag:,
$8.75.
Cattle—Choice fat steers, $8.60@°9:
good to choice butcher steers, $7.50@
8.25; fair to good butcher steers, $6.75
@7.60; common to light steers, $5.7%
@6.50; good to choice heifers, $6.60@
7.50; good to choice butcher bulls,
$6.26@6.75; bologna bulls, $5.50@
6.25; good to choice cows, $6@6.50
fair to good cows, $5.60@6; common
cows, $4@5.25.
Sheep and Lambs—Good to choice
lambs, $10.75@11; fair to good, $8.50
@10.50; culls and common, $6@8;
good to choice wethers, $7@7.256; good
to choice ewes, $6.50@6.75; mixed,
$6.75@7.
Chicago, Sept. 18.
Hogs — Bulk, $10.50@11.40; light,
$10.35@11.50; mixed, $10.10@11.50;
heavy, $10.06@11.40; roughs, $10.06@
10.25; pigs, $7@10.10.
Cattle—Native beef cattle, $6@
11.30; western steers, $6@9.40; stock-
ers and feeders, $4.50@7.65; cows and
heifers, $3.50@9.35; calves, $8.50@13.
Sheep—Wethers, $6.76@8.30; lambs,
$6.7 75@10. 70,
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4. Corn—Dec.,
Oste—Don.. 473%c.
Democrats really haven't any objec-
tion to big appropriations for army and
navy and internal improvements. They
expect the Republicans to rustle the
revenue to foot the bills for the next
four years.
Hughes says he would like six
months to investigate the administra-
tion, but the administration figures he’s
doing very well as it 1s.
~ Yes, and the same policies that have
filled Judge Hughes and others with
“a deep sense of shame” have sent
many other Americans to their graves.
The president has changed his mind
about sending more troops to the bor-
der, thus running true to form.
When Tom Taggart talks economy to
them it is time the Democrats stopped
thelr extravagance,
The Hughes smile is beginning to at-
tract favorable attention.
President Entertains Five Progres
sives. — Headline. Others he simply
amuses,
Democratic papers chide Hughes be-
cause he says he is “100 per cent a
candidate.” The Wilson papers natur-
ally prefer a ifty-fifty candidate.
The president says he has no interest
{in any political party “except as an in-
strument of achievement.” If that's
it then how did he happen to select
such a poor instrument as the Demo-
cratic party?
Carranza isn't a candidate for presi-
dent of the United States, but he did
more for American preparedness in
three weeks than Woodrow Wilson did
in three years.
Another thing you never hear of
since the Democrats reduced the cost
of living is the “baker's dozen.”
Mr. Hughes is criticised for his fre.
I quent use of the word “now.” Evi
dently Lis immediateness is worrying
the watchful waiters, sho pak things
off until tomMOITOW.
Families living in the rural districts
where mail ‘service has been curtailed
will be interested: in knowing that
..3| Postmaster General Burleson has sent:
Secretary McAdoo. a’ check for $5,200,
000, representing surplus postal reve-
nues. i
Mr. Gardner should not quote what
Mr.. Wilson said while president "of
Princeton. His utterances are outlaw-
ed by himself in seven days.
That man Hughes is causing the
Democratic newspapers an endless
amount of worry. Apparently they
will never be satisfied until he turns
the management of his campaign over
to them. .
Mr. Hughes’ speeches are giving poor
satisfaction to the Democratic press,
which proves they are very good
speeches indeed.
Secretary Baker is developing an
agility in changing his mind that must
endear him to his discoverer.
Mr. Wilson’s administration must
confess itself incompetent in one re-
spect or the other. It either has ap-
pro; fated for an unneeded navy or it
has neglected a needed navy. It can
select its fault to suit itself. In one re-
spect or the other it must be wrong.
“I believe in efficiency in politics just
as much as in anything else,” says
Mr. Hughes. Efficiency is an excellent
watchword, and its use in the cam-
paign is merely a forerunner of its use
in the White House when he gets there.
First they said that Hughes was an
iceberg; now they are saying that he
is a mud slinger. He cannot possibly
be both and, as a matter of fact, is
neither. The Democrats must feel in
a mighty bad way when they cry out
“mud and treason.”
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WILSON ADMITS HE
PRECIPITATED WAR
When Mr. Wilson forgets him-
self he admits that we have
been at war. For example, on
May 11, 1914, in an address over
the dead marines at the navy
yard in Brooklyn he said that
the marines had been engaged
in “a war of service” A war
of service td) whom or to what?
Certainly not to the United
States, nor to Mexico, nor to
humanity at large. Was it to
Mr. Wilscn?—From the Speech
of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt,
Delivered at Lewiston, Me. in
Behalf of Charles E. Hughes.
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