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The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1916-03-10
HUNTING FOR
BOsTICK's sIlAYRRs

The sherlns Of Fisher and Jones
counties were In Snyder Wednesday
ON a hunt for the slayers Of J. F
Bostlck who was killed last Friday
near 3otan Il is said the two men
we're on horses and lett after killing
BostIck, going westward
BostIck's daughter says Albert Ras
berry did the shooting and the other
man was rcsr by With $40 She
saws she oaair.. the spoi ,omo
time hoping somebody would come
along then sho placed her fathers
hat over his face and drove two miles
to a house and told Of the killing
The two sherins went west from here
ON their man hunt
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f1r Mayor. one Alderman Ito sue
coed r b Cox retiring alderman
'Ciy Marshal and Secretary -Troasur
/ er.
Tho election ia Ward No. viii
/ bs held n the Avaut building and y
10 Bronson bias been appointed as pre-
| siding officer of the election IN gcid
| Ward The qualified voters in said
ward Nu. @ wifi vote f0r Mayor, one
All .T........ .... ..........H GfHnU GRAY.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
WAR BULLETINS

Every edition of every United
States newspaper will be examined
by officers of the Canadian militia,
containing stories detrimental to the
welfare of Canada"
The German steamship Asuncion,
interned at Para, Brazil, was fired
on by two Brazilian warships as she
attempted to leave the harbor. She
returned to her anchorage.
Italy has prohibited the importation
of any articles from Germany or Aus
tria.
Reports reaching London say Bull
garia is seeking separate peace.
Washington hears Allies will sub
nit ounte proposals to meet Austro-
German order to sink armed mer-
chantmen.
A movement is under way to send
another party of Red Cross doctors
and nurses to serve in Russian and
Siberian prison camps.
Eighty Zeppelins are now in service
for Germany.
Denmark is planning an extensive
expectation of rabbits to Germany.
All the mails on the Dutch steam
ship Hollandia have been seized by
Great Britain.
German losses during the war are
estimated At 2,700, 900 according to the
London Times.
Doctors are so scarce in Vienna that
professional consultations over the
phone have become frequent.
The German Empress received in
audience the widow and daughter of
the former Cuban Minister, DR.. De
Quesada.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
SPORTING

Dominick Torrich, a New Orleans
boxing promoter, announced that
he had offered Freddie Welsh $1,000
guarantee and $500 training expenses
to meet the winner of the Dundee-Man-
dot match to be held in New Orleans
on March 4 for the lightweight cham
pi~onship.
Final plans for the coming national
bowling championship to be held in
the Grand Central Palace, New York,
March Is to April l, were completed
at a meeting of the National Associa-
ton.
George G~oulding was not quite him.
self in the mile race at the N. Y.
A. c. games. The Canadian star look
ed just a tri1e drawn before his race.
National League baseball for 1915
will extend from Wednesday, April
u, to Thursday, Oct. 5. according
to the schedule made public.
Despite his earlier assertions that
the date for the Jess Willard-Frank
Moran fight would not be changed,
TEX Richard has announced that
the men will meet at Madison Square
Garden on March 8, instead of March
II.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18

London.-After figuring in some of
the most thrilling naval exploits of the
war. the British cruiser Al ethusa, an
oil-burning vessel of 29-knet speed
displacing $500 tons, struck a mine
off the English east coast and sank
in a few minutes. Ten of her crew
were lost.
Capt. Tyrhwytt and his crew were
among the most popular heroes OF the
modern English navy. The Arethusa
took part in every naval engagement
England has fought in the North Sea
since the present wal began.
1t was the Arethusa that torpedoed
and sank the German cruiser Blu cher
in the North Sea naval battle on Jan.
IA, 1915.
AS a submarine scout she had been
almost continuously at sea since the
German U-boat menace began, return
ing to her base at Harwick for sup
plies and rest from time to time.
Three hundred and seventy-four
lives were lost when the French cruis-
err Admiral Charner was sunk off the
Syrian coast. Dispatches confirming
the loss of the cruiser stated thai only
one man out of 375 aboard was saved.
The whole western fighting front is
the scene of heavy engagements. At
some points the big guns have been
roaring necessarily for days, the in
fantry have been engaged in hand-to-
hand struggles, grenade fighting and
mining ope atoms have played a prom
inent part in the battles, while air
men have fought one another above
the lines and have been canonaded
from below by the anti-aircraft guns.
The Germans followed up their re-
cent success in Champagne by the
capture Of an additional half mile of
French trenches around Tahure, in
that district, and their artillery bonn
bardments in the neighborhood of
Masiges and Navarin have been an
swered in kind by the French.
To the north of Scissors, around
Terny and along the River Aisne, the
Germans started an infantry attack,
but the French put it down with their
guns and rifles. To the south of the
Somme the Germans endeavored to
surround outpost trenches, but desist-
ed under heavy fire of the Trench, the
Berlin report says.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
WASHINGTON

Mr.. McAdoo announces that in no
circumstances will he be a delegate to
the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker Clark expresses hope of a
satisfactory compromise in the House
on President Wilson's defense policy.
There is no bar to prompt navy
building if Congress will forget pork"
is the opinion of Rear Admiral Taylor,
chief of Bureau of Construction and
Repair.
The Post Office Department has adj
vertised for bids for providing aerial
mail service on a route acros Buzz
yards Bay and Nantucket, Mass, and
on seven routes in Alaska.
President Wilson "a invited to
speak on preparedness in Lincoln,
Neb., by Senator Hitchcock, and a Ne
braska delegation.
The Senate foreign relations com
mittee voted unanimously to econ
mend the ratification Of the treaty
establishing a protectorate over Hayti.
Secretary Daniels appeared before
the Senate Lands Committee in OPP
poSllAOH 10 any ID" " peAHlt VII Ie-
serve lands in California.
A statue of Henry Mower Rice first
United States Senator from Mime
sofa, was unveiled in the Capitol Hall
Of Fame.
An Italian was arrested in the Sen
ate building on a charge of being a
suspicious character.
A report issued by the Department
of Commerce gives the average ex-
port price of cotton per pound in
December at 12.1 cents, against 7.8
cents in December, 1914.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
PITH OF THE
WAR NEWS

The Russians are still on the offensive
against the Turks in the Caucasus
region, but ConstantinopIe reports
their attacks have been halted by
counter-attacks.
The British Premier stated that the
situation of the British forces in
Mesopotamia, which has been a
source of concern to the Enqlish,
had improved materially, and that
General Townshend, whose army is
surrounded by the Turks at kut-el-
Amara, was holding his own.
Severe fighting is in progress between
Austrian and Italian troops on the
heights nea Durazzo and Tirana.
The Austrian Government added its
declaration of intention to sink arm
ed merchantmen without warnino
to the cabIed statement received
from Germany by Secretary Ian
sing.
A Reuter- dispatch from Atfens SAYS
it is reported there thai Turkish
forces in formidable numbers are
being sent to Mesopotannia.
The Russians in the Caucasus have oc.
cupied one of the Erzerum forts,
and hive taken large numbers Of
Turkish prisoners. Several Turkish
batteries on the Trebizono coast of
the Black Sea have been silenced.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
FOREIGN

Prince Joachim. youngest son of the
Kaiser, will be married in Potsdam on
March IL to Princess Marie of Anhalt.
The American ~gunboat Machias has
been ordered to Tuxpam from Tam
pico to protect American interests
there.
A light earthquake shock occurred
at Fort de France, Martinique.
Severe earthquake shocks were re-
ported from four provinces in Argen-
tina.
Capt. Won Papen, recalled German
military attache to the United States
has been decorated with the Order Of
the Red Eagle, fourth class.
The Bank of England bought 1906
900 pounds in bar gold.
DR.. Anton Van Gin was appointed
Minister of Finance for Holland.
England will establish a Ministry of
Aviation to prevent further air raids.
The Araraquara Railway in Brazil
has been sold to the Northern Rail
road for S2.184, 900.
One person was killed and six in
iured by the explosion of an anarch-
lists bomb in Lisbon, Portugal.
Kaiser William has composed the
words for a new German national an
them. and has asked Richard Strauss
tc compose the music.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
GENERAL

Investigation of alleged recruiting
by British agents in the United
States will be started by Chicago
agents of the Department of Justice.
The bell in Kings Chapel, Boston,
cast by Paul Revere, and long under
repair, was rung for the first time
in 10 years on Lincoln's birthday.
A resolution authorizing the sub
mission of a woman suffrage amend
ment to the state constitution was
adopted by the Oklahoma House.
A general strike of laborers en-
ployed on the Government railroad
in Alaska has been called. The men
demand increased wages.
Col. Alberto Garcia, former Mexican
bandit. is held by the authorities at
Douglas, Ariz., for extradition to Mex
leo.
Joseph Fry, aged 105, the oldest
knight of Pythias in the United
States, died at his home at Roanoke,
Va.
Two Italian track walkers were
killed by a New York Central express
train near Erie, Pa.
Gasoline. tank wagon basis, was ad-
vanced one cent per gallon to 81 cents
at Louisville.
The Rev. George W. Mundelein. D.
D.. was installed as Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Chicago.
The Mississippi River at Vicksburg
MICS. reached a stage of 526 feet
the highest figure ever recorded.
Payable March /. the New York
Chicago & st. Louis Railroad declared
a dividend of 5 per cen on its irst
preferred stock.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
RUSSIANS MAKE GAINS

London.-New gains by the heavily
reinforced Russian army in its big
offensive movement in eastern Galicia,
just north of the Bukowina boundary,
were an important feature of the final
news.
The Cars troops are reported to be
we'll supplied with ammunition and to
have guns equal if not superior in
range and effectiveness to those of
the Teutons.
Control of Uscieczko gives to the
Russians a new and important line of
communication, and it's capture is re-
garded as an important step in the
direction of the Russian objective.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18

Jean Crones. suspected of complex
ity in the poisoning of Archbishop
Mundelein, in Chicago, was identified
as a German, formerly a resident Of
Cologne. He was . German spy III
Antwerp prior to The fall of that city
to the Germans.
An aero coast patrol with station
at every 100 miles of coast line def
nitely assured by the Aero Club Of
America.
Nebraska politics seethe as Cover
norship and S~enatorship rivals fight
for nominations.
AS a result of the receipt of a large
number of death threats received by
United States District Attorney Pres
ton, at San Francisco, for his activity
in neutrality cases, a bodyguard has
been appointed for him.
Gen. Funston notified the War De-
partment of the capture OF Anc1eto
Pisaro, noted Mexican bandit, for
whose capture the Governor of Texas
offered $1,000 reward.
Stricken with heart disease in st.
Louis, John Boone of Baltimore, sent
for the police and confessed that he
had committed a $4,000 jewel rob-
berry in Kansas City.
Floyd Smith, chief pilot for the
Martin Aeroplane Co., established a
new record when he assembled 5000
feet in a huge military hydroaeroplane
carrying two passengers a San
Diego, Cal.
Pleading for mercy, 30 farmers vol
unfairly appeared before the Grand
Jury at Morganfield, KY, and con-
fessed being implicated in might
rider" raids.
President Wilson visited and in
spected Fortress Monroe.
Mrs. John B. McKown. one of the
four persons shot in Albany on JAM.
%, by Harold L. Severy, the silent
gunman," died.
The Elk Tanneries Co. operating 20
tanneries about Kane, Pa, granted a
Is per cent wage increase to its 5000
employees.
Eugene l.. Ellison, president of the
insurance Company of North America,
dropped dead on his way to his office
in Philadelphia.
Employees of the Schuylkill Iron
Works and the Allan Wood Co., Of
Corshohoken, Pa, received 10 per cent
wage increases.
E. K. Wright, the engineer, was
killed when a southbound Seaboard
Air Line Florida train was derailed
neal Sanford. N. c.
A voluntary increase in wages of
5 per cent has been granted the LOGO
mill workers of the American Iron
& Steel Manufacturing Co.
A small quantity of powder explod-
Powder plant at Washington, Del. No
one was injured.
Mrs. E. B. Thompson of Seymour,
Ind, widow of a Lusitania victim, will
present her dead husbands automo-
bile to Gen. Joffre of France.
With her cargo of cotton afire, the
Swedish steamship Texas, New Or
leans for Christiania, is steaming to-
wards Kirkwall, Scotland.
Output of the Old Dominion Cop
per Co. during January was 1921, 900
pounds.
Gasoline, tank wagon basis, was ad-
vanced l cen per gallon to II cents
at Los Angeles.
Gasoline prices were advanced 1
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
TO SINK ARMED LINERS.
Teutons Classify Merchantmen With
Guns as Warshits and Will Give
No Warning.

MISUNDERSTANDING and Austria
have informally advised the United
States government that, beginning
March 1, they will launch a vigorous
submarine campaign against enemy
merchant shipping, and that they pro-
pose to attack armed ships of this
character without warning.
Apprehensive of the consequences
of the German and Austrian decision,
the United States has forwarded the
information to its embassies at the
capitals of the Entente Powers to be
used by them, it is believed, in an eff
fort to get favorable consideration for
the identical proposals recently put
forth by the American government
looking to an agreement for the gen
eral disarmament of merchant vessels.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
GERMAN PROVINCES MERGED.

Provinces Unite to Promote Moral
Union of the TeUtons.
Berlin.-Amalgamation of the Ger
man principalities of Schwarzburg-
Rudolstadt and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
hausen was decided on at a joint con-
venti0n of the Parliaments of these
principalities at Erfurt.
The amalgamation was arranged,
the Overseas News Agency says in
dispatch. ION account of the moral
4nion of all the Germans"
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
READ BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.
Bill Making Its Use Mandatory Goes
Through Lower Rouse.

tOGAN 6QNNSf hOAoS
By a vote of 3S to 10 the House
passed A~ssemblyman Iobst's bill maxi
ing mandatory the reading of the
Bible in the New Jerseys public
schools. Discussion of the measure
took the usual course upon such bills
which have appeared from time to
time in the Legislature, opponents of
the proposal taking the ground that
under Americas form of government
religious instruction should have no
part in the educational system, the
Government being founded upon the
principle of religious liberty.
Assemblyman Iobst led the debate
with an earnest appeal for the pas
sage of his bill on the ground that
of God. He said the bill provided
no drastic penalties and provided sim
ply for the reading of not less than
five verses of the Bible at the open
ing of the school day. There was
nothing sectarian about it and he
could not see why anybody should
object to it. Assemblyman Moore, of
luQoOH dShCu WHICH VI all VI tHQ
versions of the Bible should be read,
and the author of the bill replied that
it was optional with the teacher.
Assemblyman Simpson, of Hudson,
made a strong argument in opposition
to the measure. declaring it to be an
invasion of religious rights and a
blow at religious federation. AS
semblyman Hammand, of Mercer, said
opponents of the bill were losing
sight of the cultural value of the
Bible, and he quoted Scott and Dick
en- and Lincoln as famous votaries
Of the Scriptures from a cultural
rather thar a religious standpoint.
At this point in the debate the
House was startled by a voice from
the gallery, and for the first time
in many years a spectator attempted
to speak upon a pending measure.
Speaker Pilgrim was so taken aback
that he was at a loss for a moment
as to a course of action, but quickly
regaining his composure, he ordered
a doorkeeper to lead the stranger
gently forth. 1t looked as though the
discussion might last all night, but
Leader Hates cut it short by moving
the previous question. The vote
caused considerable surprise.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
Long Appointment List.

Governor Fielder SEN to the Senate
a long but not highly important list of
appointments. They were:
Commission for Ameliorating the
Condition of the Blind-Wells P.
Eagleton, Newark, to succeed William
Fellowes Morgan, resigned.
Board of Managers of Home for Dis
abled Soldiers-Henry Alters, Hudson:
Richard Wayne Parker, Essex; Edwin
w. Hine, Essex, all reappointed; John
Crimes Hudson, to succeed Peter F..
Rogers, deceased and Joseph P. Bren-
singer, Hudson, reappointed. 2
Commissioners of Pilotage-John J..
Scully. Middlesex, reappointed; John
d. Toppin, Essex, to succeed John r.
Dewar; William A. MEher, Hudson;
BENJAMIN Van Note, Ocean; John
Predmore, Ocean. all reappointed.
Palisades Interstate Park Commits
sion-Richard v. Lindabury, Somer-
set; George w. Perkins. New York, re-
appointed.
State Board of Medical Examiners
S. D. Webb, Essex; William P. Wat
son, Hudson; Charles A. Groves,
Essex, all reappointed, and James J.
Mcclure. Mercer, to succeed Horace
G. Norton. deceased.
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
of Middlesex-Peter F. DAILY, reap
pointed.
State Board of Education-D.
Stewart Craven. Salem. re%appointed.
Public Library Commission-Moses
Taylor Pyne, Mercer county, reap
pointed.
State Board of Taxes and Assess
ments-George T. Bouton, Hudson. re-
appointed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
Wards of State Crowded.

The n dark spot in the otherwise
bright situation confronting Commits
sioner of Charities and Corrections
Richard Stockton is the State Hospi-
tai for the Insane, at Morris Plains.
The Commissioner reported to Gov
ernor Fielder, and again drew atten-
ton to the fact that more than 1000
persons in excess of the institutions
normal capacity are now housed there,
and the Commissioner begged the Gov
ernor to see that speedy action be
taken, to safeguard the unfortunate
wards who are huddled in the insti-
tuition in an extremely hazardous
manner.
Commissioner Stockton's report
showed that the State in the past
year had under it's care in the chart
table and correctional institutions a
total of 1897 wards. They were
classified as follows: Insane, 9.137;
feebleminded and epileptics, 1873;
criminal and delinquent, Alto;
soldiers and sailors homes, 1880;
blind, Ga; patients in tuberculosis
sanitariums, 2,237.
h report showed that, because OF
the war. deportatioi.s to foreign u
tries had been at a. standsti1l. and that
there were 80 persons waiting to bh
returned to their native lands. Some
of these have been held for more than
a year.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
COSTS FRANCE s15,7ae,ooo DAY
War Bill Appropriates 1917, 1000, 900

War BIT N~pproprIates 1871 q
Francs for Next Quarter.
Paris.-A governmental appropria-
ton of 1917, o00. 900 francs for the
second quarter of 1916 is provided in
a bill introduced.
According to the figures furnished
Government expects to spend daily
for war purposes during April, May
and June a Gum of money which in
normal times would be equivalent to
$15,7 600.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
Select New State Farm.

Select New State Farm.
After IS ballots the Board of Man
ayers of the State Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station in New Bruswcik,
voted in favor of the purchase of the
MacFarland farm, at Monroeville,
Salem county, for the South Jersey
branch experiment station. For IL
ballots the vote stood 10 for Glass
boro, 10 for M%onroevi,le and 4 for
Finley. On the eighteenth ballot some
of the Glassboro men wen over to
M~onreeville and settled the heated
controversy between Salem, Glouces-
ter and Cumberland counties.
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THE WEEKS BIG
NEWS EVENTS
Happenings That Caused A Stir
Briefly ChroniCIed.
SITUATION AT WASHINGTON

Executive Acts at the Capital-Vlc-
tories and Defeats of the Great
War-Doines In the Forty
Eight States Recorded.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
Veterans Hit Trail.

Veterans Hit Trail.
1t was an inspiring sight witnessed
by the $4,000 persons in the Sunday
tabernacle. To the strains of martial
music. answering the plea of the siren
uous evangelist, wearing the uniforms
they have honored and the hats they
wore in the campaigns between '61 and
IS, and surrenderingf for the first
time in their lives a score of members
of Bayard Post. G.. A. R., hit the saw
dust trail. They surrendered amid
the cheers of the multitude and the
tears of the preacher, whose own faith
er went to war, never to return.
Evening star., 1916-03-12

ficer who championed his cause sud
denly placed his hand sharply the
end of the dogs spine. Immediately
the beasts hind legs collapsed and he
dropped to the floor. Then the offlcer
who knew all about dogs explained.
He had noticed that the dogs hind
legs were really paralyzed. The dog
was able to walk about the house and
his ailraent was not noticeable. but he
was utterly incapable of going more
than a quarter of mile at time
AS the German trenches were some
three miles distant it was impossible.
the officer argued. for the dog to make
tn. Quincy. The other officers agreed
and the dogs life was spared.
One of the most famous pets in the
navy is the pig of n. NJ. s. Glasgow. He
is genuine prisoner of war. After the
Glasgow sunk the German cruiser
Dresden boats from the British ship
cruised about looking for German SAIL
ors. They found the pig. swimming
around. He had been in the water for
two hours. He was taken aboard the
Glasgow and has thrived ever since.
On board the battleship Prince
George. which saw much service In the
Dardaneles, one of the mascots is a
hen. 1t is claimed that this hen has
been under fire more than thirty times.
and never seems to mind il at ALL She
laws eggs with considerable regularity
and has one chick. The sailors say of
her: "She lays eggs with the shells
outside. while we lay guns with the
shells inside"
Lord Charles Beresford. one of Brit
aims famous sailormen. who was re-
Gently raised to the peerage. is respon-
sible for bulldog mascots several
dreadnaughts They are of the famous
Rodney Stone breed. Admiral Jellico
has the bulldog Jumbo OH his flagship.
Sailors. however, love monkeys and
parrots about much bulldogs and
these pets abound in the navy. On H.
NJ S. Superb an opossum has the place
of honor among tho ships pets. Anoth
ship of the fleet has puff adder, and
several have snakes.
In the old days il used to he quite
usual to axe aboard ships of the navy
cows, pigs and sheep and crates of
chickens. They furnished food on long
voyages. Lord Charles Beresford tells
that i'll his early days in the navy it
used to be customary on board "A GER
tain ship to milk the COW in the mid
die watch for the benefit of the officer
on watch In order that the admiral
should not be deprived of his allow
ance the COW used TO be filled up with
water and then made to leap back
ward and forward across the hatch
ways. Another tale that Admiral
Beresford tells is that when food for
the sheep ran short the animals were
equipped with green spectacles and
were then fed with shavings.
Copyright 1916 by Curtis Brown)