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AMERICAN COMMISSIONER
IN MEXICAN DISPUTE
N. Y. STRIKE SET
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: DR. JOHN R. MOTT.
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
The tide of battle in the Roumanian
province of Dobrudja has turned in
favor of the central powers, according
to Berlin. Field Marshal von Mack-
ensen has succeeded in breaking the
Roumanian and Russian resistance,
the German war office reports, exscut-
ing an encircling movement which
compelled the entente forces to retreat
in disorder.
In the fighting in the Carpathians
the Russians have taken the moun-
tain ‘peak of Smotrec, which already
had changed hands several times.
Elsewhere along this rugged front the
Bussians have been attacking heavily,
but, according to Berlin, were beat-
en off. :
The British are again striking hard
on the Somme front. Their latest
thrust netted them two lines of Ger-
man trenches on a line about a mile
long between Flers and Martinpuich.
It is at this point that the British
have pushed farthest toward Bapaume,
which is but little more than three
miles distant from Flers. The advance
straightens out the former bend in
the line from Martinpuich to Flers,
which now runs almost directly east
and west.
The French for their part of the
Somme fighting have had another
series of German attacks to cope with
Strong forces advanced in waves
against positions recently captured by
the French ' between Rancourt and
Priez farm. According to Paris the
Germans did not even reach the
French lines, being forced back to
their trenches with heavy losses by
the fire of the French guns.
On the Macedonian front, in the re-
gion north of Florina, the the entente
developing strength. The Servians are
reported to be continuing their ad-
vance along the Broda, reaching a
point near Urbani (Vrbeni), eight
miles northeast of Florina, on the rail-
road to Monastir. Immediately north
of Florina the Bulgarians are making
a stand, buf according to Paris failed
in an attack on French troops in this
region. Into the west the entente
forces are moving forward on, the
heights toward Poplli, ten miles from
Florina.
Artillery fire of increasing intensity
is reported from the British front in
the Dorian region. On the extreme
easterly end of the line British war-
ships near the mouth of the Struma
have been shelling Bulgarian positions
in the vicinity of Neohori.
° The French submarine Foucaus has
been sunk in the southern Adriatic by
bombs dropped fem Austro-Hungarian
naval aeroplanes, the Austrian ad-
miralty announced. The crew of
Wventy-nine was rescued and made
prisoner.
Further diserders fn Greek Mace-
donia are repoitéd. Greek civil
authorities have been removed by the
inhabitants. The pelice chief and
Major Karapanos, military governor,
with a company of the Thirty-first
regiment of the line, are said to have
joined the uprising.
ROBBER GETS 3-YEAR TERM
Pittsburgh Boy Convicted of Bold Day-
light Robbery.
Cenvicted on the testimony of his
brother, who turned state’s evidence,
John Romito, aged twenty-five, of Car-
megie, found guilty of assisting his
brother Nick, eighteen, in perpetrating
the daylight robbery at the Pittsburgh
Stopper company’s plant in Amberson
street, Aug. 19, was sentenced to not
jess than three years nor more than
five years in the state penitentiary
on one count; the same sentence on
another count; not less than one year
nor more than three years in the peni-
tentiary on a third, and one day in
the workhouse on a fourth count. The
sentences are to run concurrently.
Nick Romito was sent to the industrial
school at Huntingdon.
Steel Plant For Bettsville, O.
Pittsburgh parties, said to represent
a large steel plant, have purchased a
tract of land near Bettsville, O., pay-
FOR WEGNESDAY
M.-jor Mitchel Expected fo
Gall For Militia
Conference of Leaders Votes Unani-
mously For Strike to Aid Car Men.
Crowds Jeer Strikebreaking Crews.
The general sympathetic strike in
aid of the New York street car men
has been set for 8 o'clock Wednesday
morning.
This announcement was made by
Hugh Frayne, general organizer of the
American Federation of Labor, fol-
lowing the meeting of representatives
of eighty labor organizations at the
Hotel Continental.
Members of the state legislature
from New York city, at a meeting, ap-
pointed a committee to call upon Gov-
ernor Whitman, who now is in New
York, and urge him to convene the leg-
islature in extraordinary session for
the purpose of dealing with the strike.
Union leaders representing all or-
ganized labor in New York voted
to call the general strike to aid the
striking car men. It is estimated that
800,000 men will walk out. It will be
the greatest strike in the nation’s
history. Mayor Mitchel! is expected to
urge Governor Whitman to order out
the New York militia.
Practically every branch of organ-
ized labor is involved. :
After the labor leaders’ meeting
broke up it was learned that the strike
will ‘be put into effect by ordering all
undpn workers to remain off the sub-
way, elevated and surface lines that
are affected by the present strike of
car men. These employees will noti-
fy their employers that they cannot
come to work because they cannot
ride on cars that are manned by non-
union men.
The order to stay off street cars
manned by nonunion workers will go
into effect at 7 o'clock Wednesday
morning. Any union worker riding on
a street car will be subjected to heavy
fine or dismissal from the union.
Union leaders are confident the or-
der will mean a quick ending of the
traction strike. They believe that
public clamor will force the traction
companies to give in. ;
Police reserves were called out to
quell a near riot at Twenty-first street
and Broadway as the result of the ex-
plosion of several torpedoes on the
car tracks. Passengers on passing
cars piled from them in a panic. A
big crowd quickly gathered and began
to jeer the car crews. Fifty police
‘battled with the erowd several min-
utes. Three men were arrested on
charges of disorderly conduct. No one
was injured. ‘
Two Third ¢avenue surface cars
manned by strikebreakers met in a
rear-end collision at One Hundred and
Forty-sixth street, two passengers
being injured and a score shaken up.
Bombardments of elevated trains
were resumed, strike sympathizers
lurking on roof tops throwing bricks
and bottles which shattered car win-
dows. Several passengers were in-
Jjured and sixteen attacks reported by
the police.
LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN
Pittsburgh, Sept. 26.
Butter—Prints, 36% @37c; tubs, 351%
@36c. Eggs—Fresh, 34@35c.
Cattle—Prime, $9.25@9.40; good,
$8.25@8.75; tidy butchers, $7.75@8;
fair, $6.50@7.25; common, $5@6.50;
common to good fat bulls, $4.50@7.25;
common to good fat cows, $3@6.75;
heifers, $5@8; fresh cows and spring-
ers, $40@385.
Sheep and Lambs— Prime" wethers,
$8@8.25; good mixed, $7@7.80; fair
mixed, $6@7.25; culls and common,
$3.60@5; spring lambs, $6.50@11; veal
calves, $12.50@13; heavy and thin
calves, $7@9.
Hogg—Prime heavy, $11.25@11.30;
heavy mixed, $11.20@11.25; mediums
and héavy Yorkers, $11@11.20; light
Yorkers, $9.76@10; pigs, $9@9.50;
roughs, $9.60@10.22; stags, $8@8.25.
Cleveland, Sept. 26.
Hogs—Mediums and heavies, $11.15;
mixed, $11.10@11.16; Yorkers, $11.10;
pigs, $9.50@9.75; roughs, $9.50; stags,
$8.75.
Cattle—Choice fat steers, $8.25@
8.75; fair to good butcher steers, $6.50
@7.26; common and light steers, $5.50
@6.60; good to choice heifers, $6.50@
7.60; fair to good heifers, $5.50@6.50;
good to choice butcher bulls, $6.25@
6.75; bologna bulls, $5.25@86.25; good
to choice cows, $5.75@6.50; fair to
good cows, $6@6.78; common cows,
$3.50 @4.50.
Calves—Good to choice, $13@13.25;
fair to good, $10@12.50; heavy to com-
mon, $6@9.
Sheep and Lambs—Good to choice
springs, $10.75@11; fair to good, $8.50
@10.50; culls and common, $6@8;
good to choice wethers, $7@7.26; good
to choice ewes, $6.50@6.76; mixed
ewes and wethers, $6.75@7; culls,
$3.60 @4.60.
‘Chicago, Sept. 26.
Hogs — Bulk, $10.35@11.10; light,
$10.06@11.16; mixed, $10.06@11.15;
heavy, $10@10.20; roughs, $10@10.20;
pigs, $7@10.
Cattle—Native beef cattle, $6.50@
11.30; western steers, $6@9.25; stock-
ers and feeders, $4.60@7.65; cows and
heifers, $3.60@9.20; calves, $8.50@13.
Wheat—Dec., $1.55%. Corn—Dec.,
ing $125 an acre, It is said a steel
plant will be established there. |
800,000 MEN TO WALK OUT | found on the porch of the nome of
KEYSTONE PARAGRAPHS |
The Allegheny conference of the
United Brethren church, largest in the
denomination, in session in Johnstown,
decided to retain the rule barring from
its membership any minister more
than fifty years old. Ministers now in
the conference will not be dropped,
but no preacher more than fifty will
be admitted from outside.
A number of sticks of dynamite
Samuel Smith of Somerset. A lighted
candle was found close by and a fuse
attached, so that the flame from the
candle would set off the explosive.
Smith is a section boss for the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad.
Joseph Zavarella, editor of an Erie
Italian weekly, convicted of sec-
ond degree murder for killing his for-
mer friend, Anthony Ferratti, during
a quarrel, was senten.ed by Judge
Rossiter to serve not lers than eleven
years and six months nor more than
nineteen years in the Western peni-
tentiary.
Supervisors of North Huntingdon
township, Westmoreland county, have
decided to spend about $300,000 on
brick roads and a proposition to issue
the township's share of bonds will be
put before the voters this fall. The
plan calls for about twelve miles of
roads, with Irwin as the hub.
A petition is in circulation in Con-
nellsville seeking discharge from the
Tenth Pennsylvania hospital corps on
the border of Arthur Darr, Dewey Mil-
ler, William Martray and Walter
Rogers, seniors in Connellsvilie .high
school and star players on the high
school football eleven.
Herman Calvin, Edward Sincernay
and John Murphy were convicted of
passing counterfeit ccins in Brie.
Judge Orr later sentenced the trio,
Calvin to four months in the Craw-
ford county jail, Sincernay to four
months and Murphy to ten months in
the Erie county jail.
Samuel W. Bernard, thirty, of Wash-
ington, was injured so severely that he
died in a Monongahela hospital, and
Ellis Marsh, aged twenty-five, of
Washington, was badly crushed when
an automobile driven by Barnard went
over a bank at a curve near Mononga-
nela,
Driving his auto truck from behind
a freight train on the New York Cen-
tral railrond at Harbor Creek, near
by a fast Lake Shore train and was in.
jured so badly that he died on the
train en route to the hospital in Erie.
In an effort to escape the alleged
abuses-of her husband, Mrs. Johanna
Ostroski of Pittsburgh, mother of
eight children, attempted to jump into
the Allegheny river from the Six-
teenth street bridge. She was prevent
ed by Special Officer Albert Holmes.
According to the department of
agriculture the oats crops will not
be as large as expected and much
in sight. Warning that wheat should
be planted as late as possible to
avoid the Hessian fly is given.
George J. O’Brien, aged forty-five,
of Pitcairn, a conductor on the
Pennsylvania railroad, was killed in-
stantly when an extra freight train, of
which he was in charge, sideswiped
cars on a ‘“ladder” track in the west
-ud cf the Pitcairn yards.
Sad news for all sauerkraut lovers
wes handed out by the state agricul-
tral department. The cabbage crop
las fallen far short of expectation and
t will be almost too high in price for
ordinary wage earners to be able to
afford the popular dish.
The farm of Fred Abele of Banks:
ville yelded two quarts of raspberries
and one of strawberries and the family
observed the first rest day of fall by
cating them for dessert. This was the
seccnd crop taken from the bushes
and vines this year.
D»~pite the fact that Judge Mc
Laughry refused all retail and whole-
-2le liquor licenses in Mercer county
this year former dealers in Farrel
apd elsewhere are circulating petitions
and will ask for licenses next January.
Charles E., baby son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry C. Young of Liberty, near Con-
:nellsville, is dead from the effects of
a spider's bite, it is believed. Last
week a spider was found in his bed.
Infection of the chest developed.
Just as Lewis Fuerry died in his
home at Shamokin, Pa., of pneumonia,
a messenger boy delivered a telegram
for him stating that his brother,
Cliarles, had been killed in a powder
explosion in Haskill, N J.
dustry announced that every private
employment agency in the state would
be required to procure a license by
Oct. 1. There are over 250 such
agencies in Pennsylvania.
Four persons were injured, one,
Harry benneit, agad thiriy-one, seri-
ously, when an automobile driven by
Bennett turned over on the Pittsburgh
road one mile south of Saxonburg.
Descending upon the mining town of
Lemont, three miles morth of Union-
town, auto bandits got large amounts
of money and jewelry from a half-
dozen houses and escaped.
Thirty-three persons were injured,
eight sericusly, in a wreck on a trolley
ear on the Eastern Pennsylvania rail
road near Pottsville,
Erie, Harry Klein, thirty-two, was hit |
less than the average potato yield is |
The department of labor and in- |
Driving It Home
Let us drive home to you
the fact that no washwoman
can wash clothes in as sani-
tary a manner as that in
which the work is done at
our laundry.
We use much more water,
change the water many more
tms‘ 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.
Keyersdale Steam Laundry
OWN
AS
BALTIMORE & OHIO
. $12
NIAGARA FALLN
AND RETURN
SEPT. 8, 22 AND OCTOBER 6
TICKETS GOOD 15 DAYS
ATTRACTIVE
SIDE TRIPS
CONEULT TICKET £GINT FOR I ULL,
PARTICULARS
IT A A a
- Josoph L. Tress'er
Funeral Direeter and Embal er
Meyersdale, Penna.
Office :
229 Center tree
Both Phones.
Residence:
809 North Street
Economy Phone.
Where Motorists Lodge
The favorite route for motorists is the
Great National Highway, formerly
known as the National Pike. It.winds
from the east through Cumberland and
down into Pittsburgh by way of
Brownsville, entering the main part of
the city right at the
Monongahela
House
PITTSBURGH
where cool, airy rooms with open
river view afford the most comfortable
summer quarters.
European Plan
Single Room, without bath, $1.00 and $1.5)
per day. Single ‘oom with bath $2.00, $2.5)
and $3.00 per day. Each additional person
$1.00 per day in any room, with or without
bath.
Complete Cafe Service from 25c¢ Club
Breakfast to the most elaborate dinner.
J. B. Kelley, Manager
Smithfield St., Water St. and First Ave.
Pittsburgh
~~,
WITTENBERG
Held Over from Last Week
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Geiger were Sun-
day guests at Wilson Millers. of
Greenville.
Mrs Susan Smith left on Sunday for
Humbert to visit her daughter and
son-in-law Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Geiger
were visitors in Vm: over Sunday.
Mr. Logan Arnold is busy thresh-
ing for the farmers in this vicinity
the latter, part of last week and this
week,
Rev. J. T. Shaffer will preach his
farewell sermon next Sunday morn.
ing in the Lutheran church.
Mrs. Roland Ramhoff was a caller at
W. H. Knepp’s on Sunday.
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Children Cry
FOR FLETSHER'S
733%c. Oats—Deo., 487%¢.
CTASTORIA
30 KILLED IN
ZEPPELIN RAID
Two Air Dreadnoughts Shot
Down by British
29 AIR BATTLES ON SOMME
Paris Reports 48 Planes Shot Down,
TIDE OF BATTLE FAVORS
TEUTON COMMANDER
Mainly German; Berlin Reverses
Claim—Air Combats Continuous.
don and the southeast coast of Eng-
land killed thirty persons and injured
110 others, according to a British of-
ficial statement.
Of the casualties twenty-eight men,
women and children were killed and
ninety-nine men, women and children
were injured in the metropolitan area
of London.
Two of the Zeppelin airships, both
of a new pattern, were shot down in
Essex. The crew of one was killed.
The crew of the other, consisting of
twenty-two men, was captured.
Outside of the London district two
persons were killed and eleven injured
in an East Midland town, and it is
feared that two other bodies may be
buried in ruins.
The missiles dropped by the hostile
aircraft caused numerous fires and de-
molished or damaged a large number
of residences and stores in London.
The casualties in the metropolitan
area, according to an official compila-
tion, are as follows:
Killed, men, 17; women, 8; children,
8. Total, 28.
Injured, men, 45; women, 47; chil-
dren, 17. Total, 99.
Forty-eight aeroplanes were shot
down on the western front during
twenty-four hours, according to of-
floial reports from Paris and Berlin.
Aerial combats are fought almost
continuously during the daylight
hours. Airmen on the entire front
from the region of Havre to the Vos-
ges have been engaged.
Paris asserts that the French fly-
ers “indisputably had the upper hand,”
while Berlin says the combats gen-
erally “resulted favorably for us.”
The French official statement enum-
Twelve Zeppelins which raided Lon- ®
Photo by American Press Association.
GENERAL VON MACKENSEN.,
—
BUSINESS AT HIGH TIDE
Industries Handicapped by Labor
Shortage, Says Bradstreet.
Bradstreet’s weekly report of busi-
ness conditions says:
“Propelled by extraordinary expan-
sion in buying power and undismayed
by high prices, trade, in a collective
sense, has risen to very high levels, a
veritable ground-swell of new buying
having been experienced at leading
centers this week. Jobbers, wholesale
dealers, retailers and manufacturers
all share in the upward movement,
and interior merchants, even in zones
where the wheat and cotton crops are
short, are buying freely, lest there be
not enough goods to go around later
on. Some cities report record sales
by retail dealers.
“Manufacturers in leading indus-
tries are handicapped by lack of ef-
ficient labor, and though shipments
are heavy, order books remain clogged,
“In that excellent barometer of con-
ditions, the steel trade, higher prices
rule, dezliveries are falling farther be-
hind, domestic consumers fully rec-
ognize the futility of waiting for lower
erates twenty-four German machines
brought down, making no mention of
casualties suffered by the French air
corps. Berlin admits the loss of but
six machines and says, “we shot down
twenty-four machines, of which twenty
fell on the Somme front.”
Between Chaulnes and Havre six
Germans were brought down. One fell,
burning, near Chaulnes during an en-
gagement between four French and
six German machines. A second fell
at Licourt, a third at Parvillers, and a
fourth south of Marchelpot. A fifth
and sixth were brought down by the
same pilot in an engagement between
a French squadron and six Germans.
They fell in the region of Andechy,
one in the French lines. A Fokker
fell in flames north of Chalons. An-
other was apparently damaged.
In the Verdun region machine guns
winged a German at close quarters.
The machine descended at Poivre Hill.
A Fokker dived vertically into the
French lines east of St. Mihiel.
In Lorraine a French pilot pursued
a German for a distance of twelve
miles into the German lines, killed a
passenger and compelled the machine
to descend.
Another German machine descended
in the forest of Gamecy.
In the Vosges two German machines
dived nose-downward into the French
lines.
The Berlin report on the same fight-
ing says:
“On the entire western front there
was considerable aerial activity and
numerous aerial combats occurred,
both within our lines and beyond the
enemy’s lines, all of which resulted
favorably for us. We shot down
twenty-four machines, of which twenty
fell on the Somme front. Our losses
were six aeroplanes.
“First Lieutenant Boedecke and
Lieutenants Winkens and Hoehendorf
especially distinguished themselves.
“Bombs dropped on Mannheim
killed one person and caused consider-
able damage. There have been repeat-
ed attacks by flyers behind the Ger-
man lines. At Lille, among others, six:
civilians were killed and twelve houses |
damaged. One of the German airships
attacked the British military estab-
lishments near Boulogne.”
W. VA. MARSHAL KILLED
Bootleggers Blamed For Act; Posses
In Pursuit.
George Church, marshal of Barbours-
ville, W. Va,, was shot and instantly
killed by three unidentified men. A
deputy sheriff's posse, accompanied by
bloodhounds, is trailing the slayers.
Authorities believe the men were boot
leggers who fired on Church when hs
attempted to arrest them as the;
stepped from a freight train.
WAY FOUND TO ENFORCE LAW
Wheeling Judge Enjoins .Property
Owners From Permitting Liquor Sales,
After two years of ineffective trials
by jury, a way in which to enforce the
Yost prohibition law in Ohio county,
W. Va., has been found.
Circuit Judge H. C. Hervey has en-
joined permanently sixteen property
owners fron. permitting sale of liquor
on their premises and charged costs
of proceeilngs amounting to $978 te
defendants.
quotations, and the situation seems to
have arrived at the point where Eu-
rope stands ready to step in with well
nigh unlimited orders if assurances:
can be made that the steel will be
forthcoming as needed.
“Weekly bank clearings, $5,652,117,
000.”
GRAIN SHORTAGE SERIOUS
New York Official Asks Agricultural
Department For Solution.
Whether the shortage in wheat and
corn and the growing export trade in
food commodities will increase ma-
terially the already high cost of living,
is a question Joseph Hartigan, com-
missioner of weights and measures,
of New York, has asked the federal
department of agriculture to answer.
In a letter to Secretary Houston the:
commissioner cited the government.
estimates that the wheat crop is 400,-
000,000 bushels smaller than last year,
and that the corn crop is short by
345,000,000 bushels. He says that “if
the presenti ration of export, between
5,000,000 and 6,000,000 bushels per
week, is maintained, only 300,000,000
bushels of wheat will be left for do-
mestic use.” He claims that 620,000,-
000 bushels are necessary for home
consumption.
TO TRAIN BOYS IN TACTICS
Effort Will Be Made to Enlist Million
Ycung Americans.
An effort will be made to enroll
1,000,000 boys Xx the United States in
the military training movement by
next spring, it was announced in New
York. Y
A national committee is being
formed to have charge of the work.
Among those who have accepted mem-
bership on the cqmmittee are Major
General Leonard Wood, in command of
the department of the east, and Rear
Admiral N. R. Usher, commandant of
the New York navy yard.
The announcement came with the
close of the military training camp for
boys at Fort Hamilton, organized
early in the summer and attended by
more than 1,000 New York city boys
at an expense of only 20 cents a day
each.
RIVER MEN FORM UNION
Organization Grew Out of Successful
Strike Two Weeks Ago.
A movement that is expected to ex-
tend throughout the Ohio valley has
been launched at Point Pleasant in
the organization of steamboat employ-
ees, the only organization of its kind
in the United States.
The organization grew out of a
strike of rivermen two weeks ago, just
as Kanawha and Ohio shippers were
preparing to send a big fleet south.
The demands of the men for increased
wages was granted by the shippers
and the organization of the union fol-
lowed.
Put Belfry on Wrong End.
The carpenters erecting the new
Florence Methodist Episcopal church
in Pinch Run, near St. Clairsville,
0., placed the helfry on the rear, in-
stead of the front of the building,
Members ars peeved. The mistake
may be rectified before the dedicatisn
on Oct. 15.
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