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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
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FROM SUEz CANAL
Turks Are Put In Utter Rout by
the British.
5000 ARE MADE PRISONERS
Heavy Guns Are Hauled Across the
Desert BY oxen-Relays OF Planks
To Keep Wheels From Sink.
Ing Into the Sand.

London.-The most recent attempt
Of the Turks to reach the Suez Canal
has proved an even greater failure than
the earlier reports indicated. Lleuten.
ant-Geseral Sir Archibald James Muir.
ray. commander OF the British troops
in Egypt, reports that besides taking
more than 5000 prisoners in the battle
with the Turks at Romani his forces
inflicted very heavy losses on them
and had continued the pursuit Of the
retreating troops for is miles, clearing
the Turks from the K9tia Basin
Military writers are unable to
fathom the reason why the Turks ven
tured upon their attack. The only con-
clusion reached is that the Turkish
military authorities we're misled as to
the British preparations for the de.
fense Of the canal and hoped TO make
an impression on the rebellious Arabs
who are extending their hold on i'm.
portant places in Arabia.
lurkS were brdNc,
The Turkish advance as far as
Romanl was made in the face Of the
greatest difficulties, their six.inch guns
being dragged across the desert by
oxen after relays Of planks had been
placed to prevent the wheels sinking
into the sand.
"The net results Of the battle Of
Romanl are the destruction Of more
than one,fourth Of the Turkish ef.
fectives and the pushing of the re.
mainder out into the blazing desert be.
yond the Katia oasis" said Major-Gen-
eral F. B. Maurice, director Of military
operations OF the imperial general
staff, in explaining the significance of
the latest operations In the Near East.
You will recall" he continued,
"that in the previous attack on the
canal we were busily engaged else
where. Consequently we we're acting
on the defensive In Egypt in positions
prepared for that purpose behind the
canal
"The Turks not only made frontal
attack on our entrenched positions,
but attempted to get around our left
flank. Our artillery, infantry and cav.
airy co-operated not only in repelling,
but in attacking the enemy"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
TWENTY-S|X DEAD
IN CAR COLLISION
Sixty.three Injured Near Johns.
town, Pa.
ENTIRE FAMILY WIPED OUT
Darrell Dishons, Wife and Two Chill
dren Vietims-Passenger on
Way To Reunion At
Park.

Johnstown, Pa-Twenty-six persons
were killed and 63 injured in a head
on collision between two crowded troll
ley cars on the line of the Southern
Cambria Traction Company between
Echo and Brookvale, seven miles from
here. Fourteen persons were Instantly
killed while eleven others died after
being removed from the wreckage
Several more are in a critical condi
ton and will probably die.
Cause Not Determined.
The cause of the accident has not
been determined. Coroner Fitzgerald
at once started an investigation. The
company In a statement said It was
absolutely without data on which to
base a report Of how the accident oc.
Cured.
AS soon as word Of the wreck was
received here, score Of physicians
and nurses we're rushed in automobiles
90 the scene, followed shortly after
ward by motor trucks hastily fitted up
as ambulances and several pieces OF
motor FIRE apparatus
Both Cars Demolished.
According to persons in the vicinity
at the time of the wreck, one car was
standing still near the car barn at
Echo when the other car, in charge Of
Motorman Angus Warner crashed
down a steep grade into It. Both cars
we're demolished by the impact.
Shortly before the accident Warmers
car was seen to rush past the station
at Broolyale, with Warner frantically
waving his arms. Believing the car,
which. according to employees Of the
company, was going at the rate Of 80
miles an hour, was not under control,
the current was shut of at the power
plant, but this action was taken too
late to avoid the crash.
A majority Of the victims we're
members Of the Dishong aud Ribblett
families on the way to a reunion at
Woodlawn Park.
Darrell Dishong and his entire family
were victims of the wreck. Dishong
and his two children, Aida, aged u,
and son Chester, aged 5, died shortly
after the accident Mrs Dishong was
brought seven miles to Johnstown and
expired after being placed in a hos
pital
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
WILSON RISES ArsA. NJ.
President Gets Work Done Before
Heat OF the Day.

Washington.-The alarm clock in
the White House now rings at 5 A. NJ.
and the man it rings for is the Presi-
dent. Since the arrival of the hot sea
son President Wilson has been arising
at 5. He can work better in the morn
ing than after the summer sun has got
in its worst work, he says. and tries
to have the most of his work done
shortly afte- midday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
FIGHT TO SHIP POWDER.
Suit To Restrain Jersey City Commits.
sion From interfering.

Trenton, N. Jersey City's EN-.
barge on shipment and storage Of high
explosives was attacked In the Federal
Court by the agency Of the Canadian
Car and Foundry Company. Ltd, in a
suit to restrain the Jersey City Com.
mission from interfering with the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad Company accepting munitions
at It's piers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
CABIN CREEK
SWEPT BARE
Great Loss Of Life and Property
in West Virginia.
MORE THAN SIXTY DEAD
Cabin Creek Returns To Its Narrow
Bed After a Day OF Destruction.
Hundreds OF Houses Washed
Away BY the Waters.

Charleston, w. Va.-Sixty-siY per.
sons are known to have lost their lives
in the food which swept three West
Virginia mountain streams, rendering
10000 persons homeless and causing a
property loss estimated at S5,000000.
The National Red Cross offered aid
TO the food sufferers, but the local and
State authorities replied that they be-
lieyed the situation could be success
fully handled without outside assist
ance. Two companies Of the Second
Regiment, West Virginia National
Guard, are already in the food district
with tents and provisions. The an
nouncement was made that all sup
plies intended for food sufferers would
be handled free Of charge by railroads
entering the devastated districts.
Reports indicated that the greatest
loss Of life was at Ferndale, where 16
persons are known to be dead. The
number Of dead at other villages and
mining settlements follow: Eskadale,
5; United, 8; Miami, S Dawes, 2; Dry
Branch, 9; Holly, II; Giles, 5; Oakley,
Z; Leewood, /; Acme, l, and Cherokee,
.. Many bodies are believed to have
been washed down the streams to-
wards the Ohio River and probably
never win be recovered.
Eight Villages Gone.
At least eight villages and mining
settlements in the district we're either
partially or totally destroyed, while
many others felt the effect OF the
storm. Those practically destroyed or
badly damaged were Acme, Ronda,
Drybranch, Miami, Sharon, Dawes,
Kayford and Eskadale. Between Acme
and Kayford 60 persons are reported
to have drowned.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
PLENTY OF WHEAT
EXPERTS DECLARE
Surplus This Year and Large
Carry-0ver From Last Crop.
PROSECUTORS READY TO ACT
To Punish 5oosters-Departmen OF
Justice and Trade Commission
Ready To Curb Price
Manipulation.

Washington.-There can be no seri'
GUS shortage in the wheat crop.-De-
partment Of Agriculture.
II there Is any unwarranted rise In
the price OF -four, Wen get busy.-Fed-
eral Trade Commission.
Experts OF Government departments
united in saying that there Is no need
to fear because OF the small wheat
crop expected this year. Even II there
were serious shortage-if not a
bushel Of wheat we're harvested-this
nation would live, as one official said,
"on the fat OF the land"
Prosecutors Ready To Act.
Two Government departments said
they are ready to meet any manipula'
tion OF wheat or fiour-the Department
OF Justice and the Federal Trade Com.
mission. Congress probably also would
be involved, as in the present gasoline
investigation.
"If we find evidence Of unfair meth
DDS and price.boostlng, either by com.
plant to US or by our own informa-
ton, we shall get busy" said Commits
sioner Davies, OF the Federal Trade
Commission. There are three ways
10 get at observation-disclosures this
commission, the Department OF Justice
or Congress. The commission and the
Department Of Justice would cooper
ate in any investigation undertaken.
Crop Expected To Exceed Needs.
The wheat crop this year is expected
10 be $4,000, 900 bushels On the basis
OF 5.S bushels per capita a year-the
average consumption-with 75.000,0OO
bushels required for seed, the require
ment would be about 62O,OOOO0O bush
els. This would leave 34,OOO00 bush
els for export.
Last year the crop was a record one
--1,O12OOO,OOO bushels. About 25O,'
100000 bushels were exported. The
year before S3S, 100000 bushels went
abroad, but the fye-year average is
only 125 900, 900 bushels. Experts pre-
dict that as Europe accustoms herself
10 the war the demand upon this coun.
try will be less pressing.
The 34,OOO,OOO export margin this
year has excited spectators, the de-
partnent men said, causing them to
forget that 100000 bushels Of last
years crop are left in the hands Of
farmers-who we're unable to dispose
Of it-and 100000 bushels more are
in elevators and warehouses.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
RUSSIAN GUNS
At STAN|SLAU
Austrian Counter.attacks Are
Of No Avail.
HOST OF PRISONERS TAKEN
All the Bridges Having Been De.
stroyed, the Russians Ford the
zlota Lipa River East
OF StanlsIau.

Petrograd. - Russian troops have
forded the Zlota Lipa River in
Galicia, east of Stanlslau, in the con
tinuatlon of their progress westward
along the Monasterzyska-Niznioff Rail-
way, says the official statement given,
out by the War Department.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
FACING sRrAR SHORTAGE.
American Pipe Makers Hunt Substitute
For French Material.

Washington.-American pipe max
ers, confronted with scarcity Of French
briar, are looking to the Forest Service
for substitute The Government
laboratories are experimenting with
various native woods and many species
Of chaparral of the West a large
quantity of mountain laurel roots have
been sold from the Southern Appa
lchian reserve for pipe making.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
AMERICAN CITED THIRD TIME.
Lowering Hill, With Ambulance In
France, Highly Praised.

Paris.--Lovering Hill, of New York,
who is in charge of one of the sec
tions OF the American field ambu-
lance, has been cited for the third
time In the French Army orders. The
citation, which is signed by General
Nivelle, is for difficult and dangerous
service during the period from June
% to July 2, in which he showed again
the finest qualities Of forgetfulness OF
self and entire devotion to his service
and TO his men,"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17

The coke made in the United States
an 1915 amounted to 1851 $50 short
tons, an increase, as compared with
1914, OF 7.025,2S6 tons. and within
100000 tons OF the record output OF
1913, according to the United States
Geological Survey. The quantity OF
by-product coke made in 1915 was the
greatest yet recorded.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
EX-SENATOR rAuRsroN DEAD.
Nebraska Man Rose From Plowboy
To High Office.

Omaha, Neb.-Former United States
Senator John NJ. Thurston, SO years
old, died here. He had been in the
hospital since July 16, when he was
Frustrated by heat Thurston was in
the Senate from 1895 to 1901. His
speech In 1898 after the Maine was
blown up made him famous as an
advocate Of war with Spain. He rose
from plowboy and driver Of delivery
wagon TO Che Senate.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
BRITAIN SEEKS COPPER.
Wants To Contract For output OF
Principal American Producers.

New York.-Negotiations by repre-
sentstlyes Of Great Britain and her
allies are now in progress for the
entire 1917 output Of the principal
American copper producers The price
for the metal is the only thing to be
settled. This new bargaining follows
the refusal OF an offer Of 21 cents
pound recently made
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17

Milton Schwartz, wealthy farmer.
sixty-five years old, suddenly crazed by
the heat, shot and killed himself on
his farm between Center Valley and
Spring Valley.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
LOSSES 2,sso,24t MEN.
Cost OF War To Germany Given In
57oth Official List.

Geneva.-German has lost 76,24S
officers and 2.SSS,933 men in killed,
wounded and missing, according to the
Ave hundred and seventeen Official
casualty list just issued.
The totals are;
Killed, 25,9Si; wounded,
1886; missing, 4,9O9.
Privates--Killed, 7S2.S90; wounded,
1917 ,69S; missing. 333,41O
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17

Walter E. Grim, aged elghty-hve. was
reelected president at the annual re
union Of the Grim family, at Allentown,
and Hon. Webster Grim, Of Doyles
town, was chosen vice president
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
FARM LOAN BANKS SOUGHT.
Forty Cities Want Them-Board Holds
It's First Meeting.

Washington.-The new Farm Loan
Board, charged with organization OF
the Federal Bank system providing
methods for making loans to farmers
on first mortgages Of land, held its first
meeting Monday. The most important
preliminary work will be division of
the country into IL districts with a
land bank in each district. FORTY
cities already have applied for banks.
The board is expected to travel across
the continent tc hear farmers views
where banks should be located.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
NO TROOPS WITHDRAWN.
General Pershing Still Has Force In
Namiquipa.


Washington.-Positiye evidence that
General Pershing has not yet with.
drawn all American forces from Mani.
quipa, Mexico, was afforded in the gen.
eral army orders issued Monday. The
orders contained the transfer Of Sergt.
Frank Baker. OF the quartermatser's
corps, from Columbus, N. NJ, to Mani.
qulpa, to relieve Sergt ]. p. Tillman.
AT the War Department officials re-
fused TO comment on the order other
than to say that It was evident that
General Pershing still has troops at
Namlquipa, which is 160 miles from
the American border.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
FIRST FROST OF SEASON.
Mercury In Canadian City Drops Tc
ThIrty.Two Degrees.

Chicago.-The first frost Of the sea.
son was reported from Edmonton, AL.
berta, where the mercury registered 80
degrees. From points all over the Mid
die West. which 10 days ago were
sweltering in temperatures between
30 and los degrees, rains and cooler
weather are reported.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
Rurled AlIye ln sawdust caye

Raleigh, w. Ya.-While playing cave
in large sawdust pile here Cecil
Holes. IL years old, was killed when
the cave collapsed He was smother
ed to death.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17

Three sanitary engineers have been
detailed to duty at Coatesville by Com
missioner of Health Dixon, who is as.
sisting local authorities in the typhoid
outbreak.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
FIRST BALES ARE COMING IN.
Marketing OF Cotton Crop Starts Boom
Times In South.

Memphis, Tenn - Reports from
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and
Tennessee show that cotton picking
has been started ln practically every
section Of the country and that the
first bale" has been received in a
large majority Of the towns and cot.
ton market centres Arrival Of the
FIRST BALE means that business is
about to boom and that good times are
coming in the rural Southland.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
MAY LOOSE u.eoATs.
German Council Considers ResuminS
Unrestricted rorpedolna OF Ships.

Berne. Switzerland The commit
tee OF the German Federal Council on
Foreign Affairs met in Berlin to cen
slider whether the general situation
and the present relations with neutral
powers Justified resumption OF un.
restricted submarine operations BY
Germany.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17

New Cumberland School Board de-
cided not to admit any children to pub.
lie schools next month unless success.
fully vaccinated.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
EXPLOSION KILLS THREE MEN.
Two Others Injured In Du Pont Plant
At carnsy's Point

Wilmington, Del -- An explosion
which blew out cylinder on a re.
hydrating press at the Du Pont Pow
der Company's plant at Carnev's Point
n. j., killed three worBIten and in
iured two others. The press, which
contained 40 pounds OF guncotton, was
blown to pieces and flying bits Of steel
were hurled In all directions.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
Wilson SIGNS Farm Bill.

Washington. resident Wilson
signed the Agricultural Appropriation
bill carrying approximately S270OO,OOO
and the Military Academy Appropria.
ton bill carrying Sl,225,OOO.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
FLOOD DAMAGE AT MILLIONS.
That In santee and Peedee River sys.
tens Alone s4,5oo,oOo.


Charleston. S. C.-Flood damage to
railroads, bridges, roads. crops and
other property throughout the Santee
snd Peedee river systems has been
conservatively estimated at S4,50O,OOO
by Richard H. Sullivan, section direct
or Of the Weather Bureau at Columbia
Mr.. Sullivan, who issued a lengthy
report Of the floods which early in July
extended through five States said the
total property damage in South Caro-
lima alone amounted to 100000
Movable property valued at $780,
900 was saved through Weather
Bureau warnings
The floods in South Carolina affected
$4,000 acres Of crops, the total dam
age to which probably never win be
known.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
200 KILLED OR HURT,
Result OF Allied Air Raid On Metz
Given Out.

The Hague.--Two hundred German
soldiers we're killed or injured in the
recent allied air raid on Metz, capital
Of Lorraine, according TO word re.
ceived here. The station and barracks
we're seriously damaged.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
FOUR TONS FROM THE AIR.
Report On Triest Raid Says OH Was
Destroyed.

Paris.-The great damage inflicted
by the recent Italian aerial raid near
Triest Is related In a semi-odicial note
issued at Rome as forwarded by the
Havas agency. 1t says 20 machines
dropped four tons Of explosives, blow
ing up great petroleum reservoir on
the Gulf Of Triest and destroying all
nearby buildings Three buildings OF
a torpedo factory, containing a large
amount Of valuable machinery, were
wrecked. The Austrians responded
with their raid on Venice, in which the
Church of Santa Maria Formosa was
reduced to ruins. No other damage
was done.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17

From injuries resulting in fall from
scaffold forty feet high, at Morea,
William Seitzinger, aged thirty-three
years, OF Frackville, died at the hos
pital.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
2 PA. REGIMENTS
CALLED BY U. S.
Ninth and Thirteenth To Enter Fed
eral servIce-Second Goes Into
Artlllery-cheeks For Ssrv.
ice At Mt. Gretna.
Harrisburg

Harrisburg
Adjutant.General Stewart announced
that he had received kilograms from
the War Department calling the Ninth
and Thirteenth Infantry Regiments Of
Pennsylvania guardsmen into Federal
service, the Ninth to become field artil-
Iery and the Thirteenth to go as in
fantry to replace the Second Infantry.
which is ordered transferred to field
artillery.
The order transferring the Second
provides that the commanding general
OF the troops on the border shall or.
ganize II as regiment of field artll.
lery as prescribed by the National De.
tense Act. The Second is a Philadel-
phla regiment, commanded by Colonel
Hamilton d. Turner, and is at the bor-
der with the First Brigade, command.
ed by General w. G. Price.
The ninth is added to the call OF the
President for Pennsylvania troops Is
sued June Is and Is to be assembled
at Mt. Gretna, this week, and muster
ed into the service as a regiment Of
field artillery according to the Nation
al Defense Act. The commanding gen.
eral of the Department Of the East is
directed to equip the regiment and
send II to join the division of Pennsyl-
vania troops at the border as soon as
practicable. Colonel Asher Miner.
Wilkes.Barre, is colonel OF the regl-
ment.
The Thirteenth Is also added to the
call and is to be assembled at Mt.
Gretna, this week, and mustered into
the service as a regiment of infantry
and sent to the border as soon as prac-
ticable. 1t will replace the Second In.
fantry.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17

Bombay, India, employs 2O6,35O il
the cotton industry.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
EXPLOSION KILLS 6 MINERS.
Gas Pocket In Woodward colliery
Near Wilkes.5arre Goes of.

Wilkes.Barre, Pa.--Six men are dead
as a result Of gas explosion in the
Woodward Colliery Of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Coal Com.
pany near here. Three were killed
instantly and the other three died
within a short time at the hospital
from burns. The cause of the explo.
sion has not yet been determined
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17

Michael Cassidy, Reading Railway
conductor, found in the South Bothle
hem yards of the company the bodies
of two young men supposed to have
been struck by a train. There was
nothing about the clothing Of the men
to Identify them.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17

For four hours, Mrs. Thomas J.
Ziegler Of Fountain Hill, clung to a
piece of pipe in a cistern at her home
and kept her head above water until
rescued by Frank Marsteler. The
woman, because of domestic troubles
It is said, attempted to commit suicide
Her experience in the water so un
nerved her that she is in a critical
condition.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17

New Zealand has an annual death
rate Of less than per cent.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17

The Dolph Coal Company, an inde-
pendent concern. disposed Of its mines
and operating equipment at Olyphanl
and Winton to the Delaware & Hud.
son Coal Company. The consideration
is said to be s26O,OOO. The company
is one OF the oldest in this region. hay.
ing operated the mines at olyphani
and Winton for thirty-five years.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17

Plunging thirty-hve feet from a pole
and striking concrete pavement at
High Spire. near Harrisburg. Charles
e. Boyer, aged fifty-slx. lineman for
the Postal Telegraph Company, sus-
tained a fractured skull. He is In {.
critical condition at the Harrisburg
Hospital.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-17
LABOR BILL PASSED.
The Senate Takes Final Action On the
Measure.

Washington.-The Senate passed
the bill to prevent interstate com.
merce in products Of child labor. The
vote was 50 to IL The measure, al.
ready passed by the House was
brought to a vote in the Senate upon
the insistence of President Wilson
after the Senate caucus, once had de-
cided to defer its consideration until
next December.