Russ War Chiefs ClaiitrTheir Advances
HARRISBURG iSSslte TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII— No. 274
OBREGDN'S FORCES
. EVUCUUTE CAPITAL
Consul Silliman Makes Report of
Occurrence to the State
Department
ENTRAINED FOR ORIZABA
Mexico City Said to Be in State
of Unrest as Result of the
Troop Movement
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Nov. 20.—Amer
ican Consul Siiiiinan in a dispatch filed
in Mexico City at 8 o'clock last night
reported that General Obregon's troops
were entraining for Orizaba and mov
ing the offices of the government with
them. The capital is In a state of
unrest.
i 'onsul Silliman did not indicate
whether the <>bregon troops were eva
cuating the city to leave it undefend
ed before the troops approaching from
the north or whether his forces were
1o be replaced witli other Carranza
troops moving down from yueretaro
under General Gonzales, one of Car
ranna's chief supporters.
Mr. Silliman added that railroad
i ommunication northward and also
between the capital and Vera Cruz was
interrupted.
Previous reports have left it to be
understood that a sufficient garrison
would remain in the capital to main
lain order and prevent entrance of
the Zapata forces until Villa's forces
were in the immediate vicinity and
ready to enter when the Carranza
troops would withdraw.
Villa Is Not Likely to
Encounter Much Fighting
By Associated Press
Washington. Nov. 20. Pressing
southward at the head of an army
eager for fight after months of recupe
ration. General Villa will encounter
little difficulty in reaching Mexico City,
according to the opinion of American
agents expressed in dispatches review
ed to-day by administration otlicials.
Other reports told of the continuation
o* Villa's triumphant march. Quere
la ro, where a clash has been forecast
having been abandoned by t lie Car
ranza forces. Whether they intend to
make a stand was not indicated.
1913 Audit Will Not
Cost More Than SI,OOO
Preparation of the Dauphin county
audit for l!>1". will cost from SSOO to
S6OO less than last year. In tliv opinion
of the auditors. The report lias been
practically completed, except for the
transcribing, and tliis will be finished
in time for presentation to the County
Commissioners next Wednesday.
The work on the preparation of the
audit ivas begun July 27. The mem
bers of the board - are compensated at
the rate of s:i per day and mileage
once a week. The whole bill last year
totaled $1,595.76. This year, it is be
lieved, it will not run above SI,OOO.
To Fight Efforts to Move
State St. Saloon Uptown
People of the Eleventh ward will
get together under the leadership of
the Kev. 13. 11. Ilart, pastor of the
Fifth Street Methodist Church, and
several other West End ministers to
tight the attempt to transfer a liquor
license owned by Patrick Sullivan,
front 727 State street to 1819 North
Third street.
Sir. Sullivan is the owner of an
Eighth ward liquor license and will
apply to the pauphin county court
December P for a transfer of the li
cense. His reason for this is that his
saloon is in the ward that was taken
over for the Capitol Park extension.
What action will be taken by the
West End people Is not positively
known b-.-.t they intend to tight any
, attempt to bring a saloon uptown. The
subject will probably be discussed at
the Stough tabernacle and signers of
a petition will be obtained there. Many
of the business men of the Eleventh
ward will be asked to help In the
fight.
GIVES WAGE STATISTICS
Addressing a mass meeting of Penn
sylvania Railroad employes in AVest
• 'liester last night. Ivy E. Dee. execu
tive assistant of the company, said
that the system had paid out $1,932,-
026,384 in wages during the past sev
enteen years. During last year, he
said, the ssytem paid $189,000,000 to
its employes. This was 35 per cent,
higher than in 1900, he added. Mr.
Eee also told how the railroad had
paid its dividends in London last Au
gust when foreign exchange had
ceased to exist.
I THE WEATHER
' For Harrisburg nnd vicinity: Fair
nnd dfcidely colder to-nlßlit with
lowest temperature about 1H de-
Saturday fair and colder.
For FJastern Pennsylvania: Kalr
and decidedly colder 'to-night}
Saturday fair. colder; strong
north went winds.
River
The main river will remain nearly
xtntlonary to-nlicht and Satur
dny. A atage of about -'.(I feet la
Indicated for Harrisburg Satur
( day mbornlng.
r General Conditions
The lake storm has disappeared and
the Southern disturbance lias
moved northward some distance
of the coast and Is now central
off the New Kngland coast. It
has caused rain and snow In the
Atlantic t oast States tfrom South
Carolina to Maine during the last
twenty-fonr hours.
Tempernturei S a. in,, 111.
Sunt Rises, O:SU a. in. | sets, 4:48
p. m.
.Moon: Full moon, December 2, 1:21
a. m. "*
River Mage: It feet above low
water mark.
lesterday'a Weather
Highest temperature, ,W.
I.owest temperature. M.
Mean temperature. 3a.
Normal temperature, 10.
STOUGH RECEIPTS J
THIRD OE EXPENSES
With Campaign Half Over Finan
cial Situation Is Being Care
fully Considered
TO HOLD "BUDGET-MEETING"
Executive President Confident AH
Debts Will Be Paid During
Tabernacle Meetings
With the Slough evangelistic cam
paign almost half over, the executive
committee Is beginning to figure on
the financial end of the campaign. j
It was announced yesterday that the
cost of the entire campaign will be
about $19,000 and the finance com
mittee made its report. The estimated
lotal attendance at ail the meetings
in the tabernacle is about 161.000 and
the total receipts from all the meet
ings, including last night, amount to
$5,684.53. or less than one-thinl of
the total estimate expense.
E. Z. Gross. executive committee
president, said this morning that a
"budget meeting" will be held soon
on which day it is expected that sev
eral thousands of dollars will be rais
ed for the expenses. "Reports are en
couraging financially," he said, "be
cause each week the totals increase
over those of the preceding week.
If l»ebts Are Not Met
Mr. Gross also said that in case thei
expenses of tlie campaign were not
met by the end of th- next three
weeks when the campaign closes that
he is sure the people of the co-op
erating churches will pay the balance
willingly.
He said further that the cost of the
tabernacle was more than had been
expected because it was necessary to
use steam heating, and that the build
ing had to be covered with fire proof
roofing and sides.
During the next two weeks tfie fi
nance end will be closely watched and
just before the end of the campaign
something: more definite will be an
nounced by the committee of finance
of which E. Z. Wallower is chair
man.
High School Night
One of the biggest nights since the
opening of the campaign three weeks
ago is expected to-night, when hun
dreds of students from the Technical
and Central .high schools will till re
served seats in the front of the taber
nacle.
Professor Spooner, director of the
chorus, will march at the head of the
boys and Miss Saxman will have
charge of the girls. The students will
march in a body over the city streets
to the meeting from the two high
school' buildings. School cheers, pen
nant waving and horn blowing will be
features of the parade and early meet
ing.
Dr. Stougli will aim his sermon dl
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MERCURY TO FALL TO
18 DEGREES TOiIGHT
Coldest Weather of Season Sweep
ing in From Northwest; Snow
in Parts of the State
Harrisburg and vicinity Is due for a
decided change in the weather before
midnight, according to bulletins issued
this morning by E. It. Dcmain,
weather forecaster.
Temperature as low as 24 degrees
has been recorded thus far this Fall,
but this record will be smashed to
night when the temperature Is expect
ed to fall to 18.
A real blizzard passed over the
north and western parts of the State
j last night, leaving Pittsburgh and
Scranton in a mantle of white, the in
struments recording several inches of
snow. The storm swept around llar
risburg.
The cold weather will continue sev
eral days over the eastern section of
the country. By to-morrow night even
colder weather may be expected. Har
risburg was two degrees warmer than
Jacksonville this morning when a 28-
degree temperature was registered.
COIJ) WAVE SWEEPS SOUTH
By Associated Press
Washington, Nov. 20.—The cold
wave, witli some snow which lias
swept rapidly down from the north
west and spread over the South At
lantic States from Virginia to Florida
to-day has forced temperatures to the
lowest recorded in November in forty
years. The cold extends northwest
from Florida, through the Ohio Val
ley and over the plains States. The
wave has moved southeasterly and will
be dissipated in a few days. A storm
originating off the Carolina coast Wed
nesday morning has extended to New
England and caused gales and rain
on the coast there and heavy snow in
the interior of New England and
Northern New York. Snow is predict
ed to continue in New England and
along the great lakes to-night. Cold
wave warnings have been issued for
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, the
Carollnas, Virginia and Central Flor
ida.
ALIEN' LAW TO REACH COUHT
By Associated Press
New York. Nov. 20.—A case against
the Dock Contracting Company which
comes before the Public Service Com
mission to-day was expected to be the
basis for taking the state alien labor
law to the courts to test its consti
tutionality.
$250,000 FIRE IN NEW JERSEY
By Associated Press
Keansburg. N. V.. Nov. 20.—Twenty
five small buildings, most of them
stores, were leveled by tiames which
swept through this town early to-day.
The duina&e is estimated at $2 50,00 0. i
HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1014
THREE BLUE-BLOODED KITTIES AND THEIR MISTRESS |
>
< MRS. D. B. AND IIKU Til HE IS. PKIZK WINNERS
Sunset Lassy, Sunset Honey and Sunset Honeysuckle.
New York, Nov. 20. With one hundred and twenty-five exhibits of vainablo .specimens of cathood, the
thirteenth annual show of the Atlantic <'at Club is under way at the Waldorf-Astoria. Six hundred prizes are
r iT <! ' ol ** ln w,nners ,n tlie various classes. Mrs. 1). N. Champion, one oi thu exhibitors, has beep offered
fabulous prices lor her throe thoroughbred felines. Sunset Lassy, Sunset Honey and Sunset Honeysuckle, but she
lias no idea of selling the three prize winners.
Samuel Fleming's Daughter Near
Battieiield of Kurds and Cossacks
When Last Heard From Mr. a nd Mrs. Labaree Were Work
ing at Urmia, Persia
I
Much concern is felt in Harrisburg
by friends of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert M.
I.al>aree, who arc in the missionary
field near Urmia, Persia, where thy
Kurds and Russians are furiously
fighting.
Mrs. Uaharee is the daughter of
Samuel W. Fleming, assistant post
master. She WHS formerly Miss Mary
Fleming. With her husband she was
working, near .Urmia when last heard
Ticket Complaints
Must Be Made as the
Lawmakers Provided
The Pennsylvania public Service I
j Commission will investigate the pro
| posed increase in passenger fares and |
| aboilition of trip tickets by the Penn- 1
j sylvania and other railroads if persons |
i who have written letters of protest j
will follow them up by formal com
plaints in the manner provided by the
public service company law, but It is
improbable that any action will bo
taken until after the rate changes go
Itno effect next month.
The commission to-day received the
letters of protest and complaint which
have been piling up for several days
and determined to suggest that the
writers send formal complaints, duly
sworn to, and be prepared to under
take a formal presentation of the mat
ter. Practically every letter was an
individual protest mid none has been
sworn to. It will also be suggested
that where several persons In a com
munity have protested they designate
sonieon eto present their case and that
the protests be undertaken sys
tematically.
STUDENTS START FOR GAME
By /issociated Press
Cambridge, Mass.. Nov. 20.—Unde
terred by prospects of muddy roads
and possibly snow in some of the
country districts hundreds of Harvard 1
students and graduates to-day sent -
their motor cars splashing over the 1
pavements soaked by last night's '
downpour on their start for New 1
Ifaven where to-morrow they will
watch the Crimson eleven in its final
struggle of the season in the Yale I
bowl.
DUBLIN, N. H.. HEADS I,IST >
Washington, D. C., Nov. 20.—Dub- 1
tin. N. H„ has taken the lead for per
capita contributions to the Ked Cross
European war relief. With a popula
tion of fiOO persons Dublin has sub- i
scribed SI,BOO. three dollars for each
Inhabitant. In addition, Dublin has I
niv«n SI,OOO to the Belgian relief com- 'I
milteo and much clothing and' sup- I
plies. it
from, October 1. They arc now lo
cated at Tabriz., sumo distance from
Urmia. In the lust letter received
from the Tabriz mission of the Pres
byterian Church, Mrs. Labarec U/Id of
impending trouble.
Mr. and Mrs. I.abaree had arranged
to attend the annual missionary meet
ing at I'rinia, but were warned l>y Hi ■ I
I'nited States and British counsels not I
to go.
: |
1 Hamburg-American Liner
| Reported to Have Been
Sunk in Persian Gulf
By Associated Press
London, Nov. 20, 5.22 a. m.—The!
Daily News states that news lias been
(received that the Hamburg-American;
| liner Ekbatana has been sunk in thoi
| Persian gulf. There are no details of |
| how this was accomplished.
|_ The Kkbatana, a vessel of about ;
5,000 tons, was last reported as having;
arrived at Hussorah, Asiatic Turkey, |
early in August.
SAYS M'.MBKRS DO NOT COI'XT J
By Associated Press
' Berlin, via The Hague and London, I
Nov. 20, 5.21 A. M.—"The Hussians i
have numbers on their side but num-j
: hers al'.ne are not the decisive factor,
in the present stage of the war less
than ever before we are not afraid of
Russian numerical superiority. At
Tannenburg the Russians outnumber
ed us three to one yet the result was
a notable German victory." These are
the views of General Von Hindenburg,
now facing the great Russian war ma
chine as expressed in conversation
with the Berlin correspondent of the
Neue Frele Presse of Vienna.
TO CHOOSE EBY MEMORIAL SITE|
S. P. C. A. Will Consider Location For
Fountain to Former Mayor's
Memory
At a meeting of the Society Protec
tion for Cruelty to Animals Monday,
November 23, at its headquarters in 1
the Telegraph building, final plans will 1
lie i.ade for the erection of the foun- 1
tain in honor of the late Maurice C. 1
Eby, former mayor. 1
At this evening the possible sites <
for the fountain will be considered. '
The memorial will be built under the 1
supervision of Miss Fannie M. Eby, j
sister of the late Mr. liby. ' i.
DEMOLISH RUSSIAN CONSULATE'
By Associated Press
London, Nov. 20, 9.4S A. M.—An!
Amsterdam dispatch to Reuter's Tele- i
grain Company says that during the 11
bombardment of the Turkish port of 1 /'
Treblzond on the Black Sea by the j l
Russian consulate was demolished and la
the consul was severely wounded. jn
BELIEF SHIP 10ID
101 BOUGHT VET
i More Money Is Needed and Needed
Quickly to Get Food to the
Starving Belgians
if the Thanksgiving ship is to
sail for BelgiUm with food for the
starving people next week con
tributions must be given quickly,
j This is the message which reached
j here to-day from the committee in
icharge of the collection of funds to
1111 the second ship with food for the
I people of ttiat country. The Telegraph
|bas already received over SI,BOO, but
more is urgently asked from the pco
jple of this community,
j Appeals are being sent to the city
| from committees for speedy cash con
tributions for the purchase of food and
if money is given promptly the hold of
[the ship can be filled in a few days.
Sliippciishiivg Active
| The Telegraph to-day received a
•circular giving the steps being taken
by the peope of Shippensburg and vl
jcinity to raise funds for the relief
| ship and the money or gifts are asked
iby Moi day n on. This circular goes
| at things !n the right way.
I It says in part:
| "Volunteers for canvassing town and
| rural districts wanted to report
j promptly to L. P. Teel, J. W. McPher
son and Sterrett Woodburn.
I "A canvass of the community will
|be made on or before Monday, Novem
ber 23. Have your response ready.
Canvassers will arrange to collect any
donations that cannot be delivered.
"Efforts will be made to establish
receiving stations at Newburg, Lees
burg, Oakvllle, Jacksonville, Mowcrs
ville, Roxbury, Orrstown, Green village
Burgess lleails Relief Work
and Upper Strasburg."
The work is in charge of Burgess J.
Beattie Harbour, Charles L. Rumtnel,
Curtis O. Bosserm&n, committee on
publicity; L. P. Teel, J. W. McPher
son, D. Sterrett Woodburn, committee
ion canvassing, and J. Bruce McCrcary,
J . D., treasurer.
Donations to 2 p. ni. to-day Include:
Previously acknowledged ...$1821.30
W. C. T. U., Hiirhspire, Carrie
D. Mathias, treasurer .... 5.00
M. S. C 2.00
Cash 1.00
Cash for condensed milk .... 1.00
Cash 2.00
Cash .. 1.00
Cash 1.00
t'ash 3.00
Cash 1.00
Charles Leeds 2.00
Bill 10.00
A. A 10.00
80 I'ER CENT ACT CARRIES ,
By Associated Press
Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. 20.—Arizona's'
Initiative measure providing that SO*
per cen*. of the employes shall be
American citizens in any business em
ploying more than live persons, carried J
at the recent election it was an-1
nounced to-day.
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VIGOROUS ATTACKS MADE
BY KAISER'S INFANTRY
REPULSED BY FRENCH
German Military Chiefs Concentrating Their Efforts Toward
Dealing Crushing Blow to Russia; General Von Hin
denburg Says Germany and Austria Will Win;
Storms Add to Sufferings of Soldiers at Front; North
Sea Flows Through Locks at Nieuport
The coming of winter having inter
rupted the lighting aolng the North
Sea coast, Germany is making an ef
fort to press the line of the nllies at
another point. The French war ottlce
announce to-day that in the region of
the Argmne forest where severe en
gagements have been in progress for
the last few days, three vigorous :•*-
tacks had been made by German In
fantry. These assaults, it is said, were
repulsed.
The importance of this battle, for
eign military critics explained, lies in
the fact that if the Germans should
succeed in pushing back the allies they
would bo able to join forces with their
troops which, further to the east, have
thrust a sharp wedge into the line.
Such a junction of forces would result
in the surrounding of the strong
fortress of Verdun, which the German
crown prince attacked in vain during
the earlier days of the war.
The reply of the allies to this chal
lenge was an attack on Germans in
the neighborhood of Verdun. An offi
cial German statement to-tlay said this
attack hasf been repulsed.
In Helgium the liminution of acti
vity has become still more pronoune
!ed. There was almost a total absence
lof infantry attacks in the northwest
and, even the artillery fire, which re
cently has been unusually severe, has
| Issened.
The Germans, on their left wing,
have reoecupied a section of the town
nf ('hauvoncourt. which they recent
ly blew up with mines after the
French had forced their way in.
I.ittlc News From Other Points
Either the censorship or the ab
sence of decisive events was respon
sible for the fact that from other fields
of battle, in Itussian Poland. Turkey,
Servia and Persia, there came only
fragmentary information to-day. The
German statement, said that the Rus
sians were continuing their retreat in
Poland but that in Kastern Prussia
they hat 1 , captured an unoccupied fort
Comparative calm In the west and
reawakened activity in the cast are
ORDERS RATES SUSPENDED
Trenton, N. J., Nov. 20.—The Board of Public Utility
Commit loners to-day ordered suspended the new rates to
be put into effect by the railroads. The suspension which
holds until March 15, applies to the new rates insofar as
they apply to New Jersey or intrastate business. The utility
board meets December 22 for a hearing as to the reasonable
ness of the increases.
J. H. EDWARDS RELEASED ON BAIL
Washington, Nov. 20. J. H. Edwards, of New York,
former assistant secretary of the treasury, indicted for non
support of wife and children and whose bail bond recently
was forfeited when he failed to appear in court here, gave a
satisfactory explanation when brought in to-day on a bench
warrant and was re-released on bail awaiting trial.
KILLED IN AUTO SMASH
Fort Dodge, la., Nov. 20.—Five persons were killed and
one i:. cd v.hvn an automobile in which they were riding
was struck to-day by a Minneapolis and St. Louis north
bound passenger train at Halligan, 12 miles from here.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 20.—The State Supreme Court to-day
jrefused to certify * writ of error to the United States Su
preme Court in the case of Leo M. Frank, under sentence of
death here for the murder of Mary Phagan. Counsel for
Frank announced that the immediately would be taken
to the United States Supreme Court. #
The Mt. Vernon hook and ladder fire truck was struck
by a street car near Third and Market streets this afternoon
at 1 o'clock while on the way to answer an alarm from box
13, Race and Paxton streets. The trolley was bound from
Market Square east ort Market street, and failed to stop at
the approach d? the fire truck. No one was hurt. The fire
was caused by an oilstove at the home of the Rev. Robert
Runyan, 116 Vine street, pastor of the Vine Street M. E.
Church. The damage did not exceed §SO.
Augusta, Cia., Nov. 20.—Fifteen valuable trotting horses
were burned to death early to-day when the F. L. Dodge
racing siuUies, near Here, were destroyed by lire. Among the
horses burned were Silk Hat, Lady Wanet and Holland Ben.
The loss is estimated at $150,000.
i
MARRIAGE LICENSES .
William 11, Au<lrr«ii, I'blindrlphla, nutl Mary Alive Dclbler, Herrji
bur*.
taken by London to indicate that tha
German military chiefs have decided
to concentrate their energies at the
present stage of the war toward deal
ing, if possible, a crushing blow to
Russia.
Such fragmentary reports as were
received to-da.v from the eastern zone
of lighting showed that the German
army was still pressing the Russians
back through Russian Poland, over
the same battlelields across which the
Russians a few weeks ago were ad
vancing victoriously. No clear ex
planation has been made of the re
versal In form of opposing armies,
although it has been reported on sev
eral occasions that the Germans were
sending thousands of their finest troops
from IT ranee and Belgium to the east.
The Russian w.ir chiefs state that
their advance in Kast Prussia and
Gallcia continues in spite of their ad
mitted retreat in the center. German
strategists believe that continued re
verses In Russian Poland would fore a
the Russians to draw back their north
ern and southern armies.
Confident of Suet-ess
German opinion admits of no doubt
as to the outcome of the war with.
Russia. General von Hlndenburg, Ger
many's popular hero of the lighting
in the east, is quoted as saying that
Germany and Austria will win, al
though outnumbered, because they
have stronger nerves and because their
soldiers do their own thinking, while
Russian discipline Is "a mere blind and
dull obedience."
Besides the possible withdrawal of
German troops for use against Russia
there is another reason for the lull in
the lighting in the west. Gold, wet
weather lias numbed and exhausted
the soldiers so that great physical
effort is almost out of the question.
The weather in Belgium is compared
with a black, windy December day on
the New England coast. The storm
continues and the waters of the Nortli
Sea flow through the locks at Nleuport,
which the allies opened to flood the
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