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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
AMERICANS FIRED
UPON BY MEX|CANS
Cowboys On Arizona Border
in a Battle.
U. S. CAVALRY TAKES HAND
Further Relnforcements Arrive At
Days close-VilIa Forces Occupy
e. Valie-Mexieans Start
Fight.

Tucson, Ariz.-According TO advices
from Arivacas, Ariz., about 40 miles
south of Tucson, there has been fight.
ing between Mexican troopers and
American cowboys.
When the cowboys attempted TO
drive their cattle from the boundary
line the Mexicans opened fire, and re.
port said the Americans retreated and
were reinforced by a part Of Troop e,
Utah Cavalry, who returned the fire.
All Americans have assembled at q
house on the Arivaca Land and Cattle
Company's ranch, It was reported.
Eighteen American troopers, with sew.
eral thousand rounds of ammunition,
were dispatched to aid the troops al
ready engaged.
The scene Of the fighting is three
miles from Ruby, Ariz.
The fighting was started by the
Mexicans. according to the American
version Of the affair, and was precip-
itated by the rounding up Of cattle on
the American side, near the line, by
six American cowboys. The cowboys,
%retreating, kept up a running fire as
they returned northward and the Utah
cavalrymen went to their aid.
Reports said no further trouble was
anticipated and that ample troops
were at hand to protect the border.
The Mexican cavalrymen, numbering
20, attacked in open formation and to.
ward the end Of the skirmish had been
pretty well scattered.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
Al YEARS IN
LONELY CELL
Now Jesse Pomeroy will Be
Treated Like Other Prisoners.
MURDERED CHILDREN AT IS
Sentenced To Hang, But Gained Com.
mutation to Life Imprisonment.
Learned To Read In Seven
Languages.

Boston.-Jesse Pomeroy, who hal
been for Al years in solitary conine
ment in the State prison at Charles
Town, was granted equal privileges
with other prisoners by the State
Executive Council.
Convicted Of murder at the age Of Il
years, Pomeroy two years later was
locked up in a cell lighted from a win
dow in the ceiling so that he might moi
gaze on his fellGw-men. He was exc
cised apart from other prisoners and
barred, as far as possible, from human
companionship. Two years ago the
sentence was enforced less vigorously
to accord with modern ideas of prison
reform. Pomeroy was allowed more
opportunities for exercise in the prison
yard and vas permitted to attend
church services twice on Sundays, sit.
ting apart from the other men.
Now, at the age Of 81 years, Pome,
roy will move into a cell where he can
see passers.by, will be allowed to exer.
else with other prisoners, sit with
them at the church services and at the
prison entertainments and will be
given such light work In the prison
shops as his somewhat enfeebled
health will permit. Governor Mccall
announced that he approved the COM
mutation.
Pomeroy was convicted OF the brutal
murder of two children following a
series Of degenerate acts which had
~terrorized the South Boston and Dor.
chester districts of this city. He was
sentenced to be hanged, but because Of
his youth the sentence was commuted
to life Imprisonment.
On September Z, 1876, he vas placed
in his solitary cell at the Charles
Street Jail. But he did not drop out
Of the public eye. Reports of sensa'
tional attempts to escape, carried
through with patient ingenuity rarely
found outside of fiction, became public
at frequent intervals. His mother,
until her death two years ago, never
relaxed her effort to secure his pardon
and was allowed to visit him regularly.
When Pomeroy began his sentence
he was poorly educated. Now he can
read In seven languages and is study.
ing Arabic. His last known attempt
to escape was four years ago. Since
then he has been diligently studying
law as 1t bears on his case.
Beyond his attempt to break through
steel and brick to freedom he has been,
on the whole, his keepers say, a quiet
and model prisoner.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
Americans Fear For Property.

Neutrality-suspicious. relations of
the Mexican de facto government with
the United States may be materially
affected by the in which the
suggestions of Secretary Lansing re-
garding the proposed radical changes
in the constitution are received by
General Carranza and the members of
the constituent congress now In ses-
sion at Queretaro.
The protest delivered to the Foreign
Office in Mexico City against incor-
poration in the new constitution Of
provisions limiting property holdings
Of foreigners, and providing for other
restrictions of the rights of foreigners,
was made after the receipt at the
State Department of numerous COM
plants from Americans with property
in Mexico. Enactment of such con-
stitutional provisions may prove
cause for diplomatic entanglements
not only with the United States Gov
eminent but with other governments
whose nationals have invested in Mex
leo.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
NAVAL BATTLE
IN NORTH SEA
British FlotiIla Scatters Enemy's
Destroyers.
BIG new OFFENSIVE PENDING
The French Replaced BY British
Troops On the somme Front,
and Both eeIliaerent Forces
Are Jockeying.

LOndon.--ln an engagement be-
tween British light naval forces and
German t~orpedo.boat ~destroyers, in
the North Sea, a German destroyer
was sunk and the other torpedo craft
scattered, it was officially announced.
The sinking OF a British torpedo.
boat destroyer in another engagement
with German t~orpedo-boat ~destroyers
in the vicinity Of Schouwen Bank, with
the loss Of 3 officers and A of the
crew, also was announced.
The official report says:
while our light forces were patrol,
Ing the North Sea not far from The
Dutch coast, they met a division Of
enemy torpedo-boat destroyers. A
short engagement took place, during
which one of the enemy torpedo.boat
destroyers was sunk and the rest scat.
tered, having suffered considerable
punishment. Darkness prevented the
full results OF the action being OBJ.
served.
During the night there was also a
short, sharp engagement between
enemy torpedo.boat destroyers and our
own destroyers in the vicinity OF
Schouwen Bank. During this engage
ment one Of our torpedo-boat destroy.
ers was struck by a torpedo, the ex.
plosion killing 8 officers and A OF
the crew. She subsequently was sunk
by our own ships. Relatives of the
victims have been informed. Our
ships suffered no other casualties"
Reports from Ymulden received by
Reuters Company via Amsterdam say
that German torpedo boats attempted
to leave Zeebrugge to avoid the ice.
They were attacked by a large British
squadron. The action opened at short
range, and early in the fight the bridge
of the German destroyed V-69 was
swept away by a direct hit, the com
mander and two other officers being
killed.
The V.69 fred one torpedo and was
then hit by another British shell,
which knocked the funnel fat on the
deck. Still another shell put a hole
in the forepart Of the vessel. Her
guns appear not to have been dam.
aged.
The crew OF the V-69 numbered
about sixty. 1t would appear from
the statements Of the men that seven
other German vessels were sunk. The
V-69 belonged to the home fleet.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
STATES
CAUTIONS MEXICO
Objects to Proposed Provisions
of New Constitution.
AIMED TO HIT FOREIGNERS
Communication From Secretary Ian.
sing To Chief Carranza Points
Out Injustice OF Property
Restrictions.

Mexico City. - Secretary of State
Lansing has sent to General Carranza,
through Charles b. Parker, American
Charge d'Affaires here, a communica'
ton in regard to certain provisions
which 1t has been proposed to in.
clude in the new Mexican Constitu.
ton. The communication calls atten.
ton to the article vesting the Execu.
tive with power to appropriate prop.
erty without judicial recourse, and
also to the article providing that civil
commercial companies cannot own
properties of a greater area than is
necessary to accomplish the purpose
for which they are formed, and plac-
ing the power to determine what area
Is necessary in the hands Of the
Executive.
The communication says that II the
latter provisions we're made retro
active, it might be confscatory, as no
provision is made for compensation.
Attention is called to the article
providing that there be no exemption
from taxation. If this were given a
retroactive effect, says Secretary Ian
sings communication, 1t would impair
contracts Of many foreign corpora
tions now operating under agreements
providing periods of exemption by the
Federal or State governments.
Regarding article 33, dealing with
the expulsion of obnoxious foreigners,
objection is made because the pro-
posed article permits the Executive
to expel anyone, without recourse to
appeal, whose presence Is deemed in
advisable by him. The letter states
that his is not in accord with the
usual practice of nations that cause
be clearly shown.
Mr.. Parker also has sent to Gen.
eral C~arranza a statement from Sec
rotary Lansing protesting against the
proposed article in the new constitu-
ton which s~tipulates that special con-
cessions must be obtained by exploit
ers of oil lands, and allows companies
now owning such lands one year In
which to secure new concessions, in
order to protect the rights they al
ready have acquired. The statement
says this article apparently means
virtual naturalization Of Mexican oil
lands, and that 1t might prove con-
iscatory Of foreign-owned property.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
STATE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

P. H. Settler was appointed Alder.
man of the Fourth Ward Of the city Of
Lebanon to fill a vacancy.
Fred Knock, thirty-nine years old, a
contract miner, Of Ashland, fell down
a breast at Bast c%olliery and was
killed.
The South Bethlehem School Board
has raised the salary Of Superintend.
ent A. II. Buck from $500 to $1,000
a year.
For blocking railroad crossings In
South Bethlehem, by letting the safety
gates hang down when no trains were
passing, Peter Bango, a gatekeeper,
was fined SIS and costs.
]. D. Harris, teacher in the high
school, has been appointed scoutmas.
ter of the Lansdale troop Of Boy
| Scouts, and has inaugurated a mem.
bership campaign.
In South Bethlehem in 1916, accord
ing to the registrar of births, S. B.
Keener, there were 1889 births and
1872 deaths. There we're 708 boys born
and 631 girls.
The announcement from Washing
ton, that John ]. Coughlin had been
appointed postmaster at Shenandoah
ended a bitter political fight that has
been waged by Democrats for this of.
Ice for four years.
The Public Service Commission re-
| ceived a resolution adopted by the
| State Board of Agriculture protesting
against the proposed amendment to
| abroad tariffs which would permit
| railroads to furnish coal cars only TO
operators having tipples.
The Farmers Union, Of %Geigertown,
at its seventeenth annual meeting
elected E. M. Zerr, president; James
MCGOWAN and William II. Hohl, vice.
presidents; ]. Garfield Eagleman, sec.
rotary; William Geiger, assistant Sec
rotary; d. owen Brooke, correspond.
ing secretary, and II. G. McGogan,
financial secretary and treasurer.
The city of Dubois, with a popula-
ton Of 12,0C0, will become dry tenn
~porarily on March 8 as a result Of the
decision of Judge Bell to hold over
until May l all applications for liquor
licenses from that city.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
State Cannot Exceed Contract Price.

Deputy Attorney General Keller has
given an opinion to officials Of the
Huntingdon R~eformatory that they
cannot allow a higher price to be paid
for coal than specified In a contract.
John Langdon, a Huntingdon coal
operator, had a contract to deliver coal
at $3.50 and asked, because of the in.
creased cost Of operation, including
necessity Of giving bonuses to the
miners to retain them, whether the
price could not be advanced to $2.55.
Mr.. Keller says that payment of the
extra amount would be a gratuity of
State moneys. He also gave an opin-
Ion to State Treasurer Young that no
specific appropriation need be made to
pay the expenses of the commission.
ers to take the soldier vote at the
border.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
CAPITAL CHAT
More State Buildings For Parkway.

More State Buildings For Parkway.
At a conference between the State
Board Of Public Grounds and Build
lngs and Arnold w. Drummer and War.
rem II. Manning, landscape experts
employed to plan the Capitol Park
extension development. tentative plans
for a comprehensive treatment of zone
were outlined. Additional State build
ings will be constructed within the
parkway and b%ouleyards through the
park for the use of automobiles and
horses will be included In the plans.
Some fountain arrangement and a pool
Of water in the midst Of a wide ex-
panse Of green likely will be one of the
things to be included in the treatment
scheme as suggested by Governor
B%rumbaugh. Streets around the park
will be widened in cooperation with
the city government.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01

State was introduced in the House by
Representative Rim. OF Lehigh county.
The Act provides that when applica.
ton for removals OF grade crossings
Is made by the railroads, all the cost
shall be betrayed by the railroads. II
application on a removal Is made by a
city, borough. town, or township, the
c~ommunity's share shall be not moro
than 12h per cent, providing the
highway was In existence prior to the
railroad. or was changed for the rail
roads benefit.
As much as twenty-five per cent. OF
the costs Is to be assessed In case
the highway was built across an exist.
ing railroad.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
IPardons Decisions.

The State Board OF Pardons an.
nounced the following decisions in de.
ferred cases:
Recommended - George Ormsby,
breaking and entering, Luzerne.
Rehearings Granted-Bruno Pizzi.
manti, second degree murder, Dauph.
In; A. A. Aggerback, fraud, Allegheny;
Albert Moore, Philadelphia.
Rehearings Refused-Addison Els
worth, pandering, Philadelphia; Chas.
Swartz, Joseph Bobes. assault and bat.
terry, Philadelphia.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
BRlTAIN's WOMEN WORKING.
Half Million Now In Munitions Plants
and More Called For.

London.-Half a million women are
engaged in the production of mum.
lions in Great Britain and their num-
her is increasing daily, said DR..
Christopher Addison, Minister of NUM-
tions. in an address at the Mansion
House. Some $4,000 additional wom-
en- are being employed monthly at the
war factories, but ever this number
10 NJ suHiciapt
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
JAPAN CAUTIOUS ON PEACE.
Troubles OF Her Own Dull Interest In
Wilson's Plan.

Tokyo. - Absorbed in their own
political crisis, Japanese officials and
the japanese press treated President
Wilson's proposals in his Senate
speech with great caution. There
we're no editorial comments made here
and very little space was devoted to
cabled dispatches telling how Japan's
allies and her enemies received the
American plan.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
WOULD LICENSE JOURNALISTS.
Connecticut Bill Calls For Examination
and Experience.

Hartford, Gonna bill was intro.
duced in the Legislature providing for
the examination md licensing OF jour
nalists by a commission Of five to be
appointed by the Governor. Under
the proposed measure a licensed news
writer on daily and weekly papers in
the State would have to have at least
six months experience. A license
would cost $40 and would be subject
to suspension.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
TO STORE BILLION IN GOLD.
Vaults OF Philadelphia Mint viii Be
Enlarged.

Philadelphia.-The vaults at the 10.
cal mint are being enlarged for the
storing Of more than a billion dollars
in gold bullion. Upwards of $500, 000,.
900 in gold bricks is already in the
vaults and preparations are being
made to relieve the New York sub
treasury of about 5000, OOO, 900. None
of the bullion will be converted into
coins, according to Adam Joyce, SUI
perintendent of the mint, as there al
ready is a surplus Of gold coins in cir
culation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
State College To Ask For $780, 900.

Trustees of State College decided to
ask a legislative appropriation of ST..
100000 for maintenance of the college
for two years; $4,000 for extension
work; S1,121.000 for buildings, equip
ment and land, and $S5O,0OO for a new
armory to take advantage of the Fed.
eral Government under the National
Defense Act.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
GIRL SETS MAIZE RECORD.
Her Acre Yields a Net Revenue OF
S122.o2.

Fort Worth, Texas,-A little girl
has brought a worlds record to Hall
county, Texas. She is Mary More.
head, 10 years old. An acre of land
planted in milo maize cultivated by
her produced more net revenue for
milo maize than ever before known.
Miss Morehead's acre yielded $500
pounds Of dry heads. The cost Of pro-
duction was s12.3S, or s2.5S per ton,
leaving a net e of $122.02.
White milo was the variety used and
made a much larger yield than yellow
milo planted on adjacent plots.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
WOULD HONOR COLONEL CODY,
Name OF Highway May Be Changed
To Buffalo Bill Trail.

Lincoln, Neb.-A movement is under
way 70 cnange the name Of the auto
mobile road known as the "Old" High
way, running from Omaha to Denver,
to the Buffalo Bill Trail" President
Roper of the Omaha, Lincoln and Den.
yer Highway Society announced that
he will call a meeting of the society
to take action on the matter. 1t is
proposed to extend the trail up to the
monument on Lookout Mountain.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
so KILLED, 200 HURT BY QUAKE
More Than 1000 Houses Destroyed On
Island OF Ball.

London.-Fifty natives were killed
and 200 others were injured in an
earthquake on the island Of Bali, in
the Malay archipelago, according to
q dispatch from Amsterdam to the
Central News. More than 1000 houses
and factories and the native temples
were destroyed. The Governors
palace was seriously damaged.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
MAKES HAWAII "eoNE DRY"
Bill With Drastic Provisions Favor
ably Reported In House.

Washington.-The Hawaiian Prohi-
bition bill, designed, like an Alaskan
measur already agreed upon, to make
the territory bone dry" was favor
ably reported to the House by the
Territories Committee. Both meas
ures go before the House with drastic
provision against manufacture, sale,
transportation, gift, possession or
other use Of Intoxicating liquors, with
certain exceptions as to alcoholic
liquor designed solely for medicinal or
scientific use.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
H ALLIES LOSSES.
Britain Has Lost s25 900 Soldiers and
France 3,574,ooo.

Berlin (via Sayville wireless).-The
Society for the Investigation of Social
Consequences Of the War, which met
in Copenhagen last August, has just
completed figures showing the losses
of England, France and Russia for the
first two years of the war. They were
given out by the Overseas News
Agency as follows: England, 1926, 900;
France, 3,574,0O0; Russia, S,597, 900,
The statistics include killed, wounded
and missing.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
WAGES OF MILLION BOOSTED.
Steel and Textile Industries Led In
Increases

Washington.-Wage raises ranging
from 5 to 10 per cent, were given to
1,11S,000 workers in the United States
during November and December, Sec.
rotary Wilson, of the Labor Depart.
ment, estimated in a compilation Of
figures covering 3S States and showing
that SIG establishments increase the
size Of the pay envelope. The Secre'
tary called attention to the fact that
a large proportion of the increases
were voluntary, 244 Of them coming
without solicitation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
Respite For SLAYER.

Governor Brumbaugh issued a res.
pite staying the execution of John
Nelson, of Wyoming, from the week Of
January 20 to the week of March IL
to permit Of an appeal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
Baldwin Urges No Duplication.

Speaker Baldwin called upon men,
bers of the House Of Representatives
to avoid duplicating legislation on the
statute books and to use care in draft
ing bills and great care in considering
them In committees. "The chair feels
that II is no. the great volume of bills
that passes through the House that
indicates that the House has been
working and doing its duty" he de-
clared. Care should be given to the
bills because II the bills are considered
carefully In committee 1t relieves con
ditions ON the floor Of the House."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
chaI Port Names Deputies.

State Fire Marshal G. Chal Port an.
%nounced the appointment of NJ. Luther
Mason. Of Reading, as a deputy fire
marshal, and James G. Hazlett, of Car.
negie. to be a special deputy in charge
OF construction. Mason is a printer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
PICK OUT THE WORST BOY.
Novel Assignment To Flfty-one Chi.
cage Policemen.

Chicago.-Fifty-one policemen as
signed to the Chicago Juvenile Court
received their instructions from Judge
Victor p. Arnold to "pick out the worst
boy in each neighborhood and hold him
responsible for the rest Of the kids"
"The worst boy Is usually the leader"
Judge Arnold said. 1.-THE other boys
admire his courage and will follow
him so we must get him to turn his
courage to unfolding the law"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
FIRE DAMAGES U. OF VA.
Blaze In Old Chemical Laboratory
Does $25,0 900 Damage.

University Of Virglnia.-Fire that
started about midnight in the old
chemical laboratory of the University
of Virginia today did $4,000 damage
before it was e|xtinguished.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
SAYS TWILL SAVE BOYS.

Bishop FaIIoWs Thinks Military Train
Ing viii Lessen Criminals.
Washington.-If more boys are put
into military camps, fewer will go to
reform institutions, Bishop Samuel
Fallows, of Chicago, a former member
Of the board Of governors of the Hi
nois Reform Institution, told the Sen.
ate Military Committee. Bishop Fal.
lows, who favors compulsory military
training in high schools, declared uni
versal military training would not de-
yelop O spirit of militarism.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
WILSON CALLS ON MeADoo.
Routine Business Discussed During
1QMinute Talk.

Washington. - President Wilson
broke another precedent when he
walked to the Treasury Department
from the White House to see Secre.
tary McAdoo in his private Office. 1t
was said that routine questions were
discussed during the 10 minutes call.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
WILSON WILL BE REELECTED.
House and Senate To Count Electoral
Votes February IA.

Washington.-President Wilson will
be officially reelected Wednesday,
February IA. On that day the House
and Senate will hold a joint session in
the House and count the electoral
votes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01

There have been women sailors
among the Firms and Norwegians for
many years.