THE WEATHER| UNSETTLED TO NIGHT AND TO MORROW Oetailrd Report. Page I j VOL. 77—NO. 2. ESTABLISHED DKf. «, IS7H. BIG TUNNEL ATTEKIJA IS DYNAMITED Disaster Causes the Severing of Commu nication Between Ser via and Rumania TRANSPORTS OF RUSSIA HALTED Details of the Lodz Fighting Easily Prove That East Poland Conflict Has Been the Most Bloody Struggle of the Entire War Amsterdam, via London, Dec. 5. 9.5? A. M.—The great tunnel near Tyeh .etchair (Tekija) lias been blown up by dynamite, thus severing communi cation between Servia and Rumania, according to advices from Xish, Ser via. to the Rotterdam ''Courant.'' The passage of Russian transports along th» Danube, the dispatch states, has there tore become impossible. London, Dec. 5. 12.30 P. M.—While reports continue to come into London that the battle of lodz has ended in a Russian victory, any official confirma tion still is lacking and it is apparent to British observers that conditions in the nort.h of Poland are to-day virtually tiie same as they were one week ago, after the German army hail been saved from over. helming defeat by the bril liant o >er:>.' ion of General Mackenzen. Details of the Lodz fighting are be gi tilling to filter through, and they easily prove it to nave been the ntost j bloody struggle of the entire war. The j (ermana are described as fighting their J ** ». v thrruga the Russian lines over the "i:ia; ed-up i>odies of their comrades. Her Li> claims heavy captures of prisoners in this struggle, while from Kiev comes the announcement tha.t the fortress there is crowded with German pris oners. Incidentally Kiev reports that s nee the I eginning of the war 130,000 i soldiers and 2.500 officers have passed through Kiev a< prisoners of war. The' sides ha\e ceaso»l claiming a tremend ! ous victory in Northern Poland but j t ey do assert that the operations there' have been a strategic defeat for Ger- j many and a tacti al victory for Rus *:a. ROAR OF HEAVY CANNON IS HEARD IN UPPER ALSACE Berne. Switzerland. Via Paris, Dec. 5, 3.15 A. M.—The sound of heavy cannonading in I'pper Alsace has been heard as far as Basel and other lo calities near the Swiss frontier. The main struggle between the French and Germans, according to report reaching the Swiss frontier, is around Altkireh and Damerkirch. The inmates of a large mad house near Zennheim. more than 400 in num ber. were so frightened by the roaring of the guns that they became frantic ! end tried to break out of the asylum. The German authorities were obliged to convey a" of them to Mulhausen. A newspaper dispatch states that the Germans are mounting guns before the City Hall aud church in Colmar w-ith the object of forcing the French to bombard the town in the hope that the population will be thus turned 1 against the French. LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY The desperate character of the hand to hand fighting in assaults on trenches the use of hand grenades and bomb throwing machines, are described in a British official eye witness report is sued to-day, which also discloses that the allies are using tunnel boring ap paratus for subterranean approach to the German entrenchments. It is said that subterranean life is the rule along the firing line where defensive opera tions have been brought to a state of such efficiency that the Germans have practically ceased to break through the line of the enemy by assaults. Open lighting consequently has almost dis appeared and the contest has taken on the nature of siege operations. This report, however, covers the sit uation only np to November 20, since which time, as is shown by recent of ficial statements, there have been heavy . infantry engagements To-day's announcements from the French and German war offices con tain claims of progress on both sides. At one point north of the Lys, says the French statement, an advance of «"HK) yards—a noteworthy movement in view of the character of the operations —was made. The intense character of the fighting is indicated by the fact Coatlaaed on Fourtk Pace. « N «* Star- ItikjJettktti CHARGED WITH FIENDISH CRIME TTT^iiljl i n ill! iSSsil!!! LOUIS' 4NP HERBERT COTE As a result of the death by torture pf little Hartley Webb at Pregque I.le.Me last June. Lo„U and Herbert Cote, boys of tha, town, have been indicted for murder and will plead at the criminal tern, of the Su„reme~Court r, n' 1 ,;' s "- T "" "<'»•>• iH" „ t Ojt b ™ ,al "? has ever COme to n « ht 1,1 th " orln 'lnul annals of New England •rLue lT lat n?* brolh, ' rs n,et the boy on the banks of the esque Isle stream, rhey tortured the little chap and after tvlng a shoe st itip almut his neck, it .s allesed. forced him into the water. When he nt liisT, 'fen°u m ' biS Way l ° laUd ** WBS ' Uet "' ith blows ' Peath " last ended PLEAS TO CUT SENTENCES FAIL TO IMPRESS COURT! I Judge Johnson Tells Lawyers Who Ask for Leniency for Clients That If He Changes Penalties It Will Be to Make Them Heavier Judge Albert \V. Johnson, .of till' linioe judicial circuit, presiding' in court here this week, told attorneys and court attendants thin morning he wanted it understood that once he does ! show a disposition to lie lenient with i defendants he does not want to be prod ded for "further merev." The remark eeme when Bessie Drew- ! et, Daisy Brown and Christ Gembe, in mates, and Emina Stager and Walter i rook, operators of a disorderly house, were called for sentence. The Stager - woman was given nine months and ' Crook got a year in the Dauphin county jail. Fines of S2J and costs oulv were ■ imposed upon the inmates of the'house, i -lames G. Hatz, representing the de fendants, asked Judge Johnson to re duce the amount o£ the fines imposed on the inmates. "I will not do that, and if you keep ou arguing I will make it more," snapped Judge Johnson. •J. E. Rice., convicted of embezzling $750 from Francis Heck, got six mouths, a fine of' $25 and was ordered! to pay the costs Morris Muff, convicted on a charge of seduction, was given a similar sen- I tence. \v. Justin Carter, hU counsel, I then asked the Judge to consider re- ' ducing either the prison term or the amount of the fine, saying that Muff will be obliged to remain in jail three months additional because he cannot pay the fine. "If I change that sentence I am afraid I will have to give him more." began the Judge. "You can tell your client that he got off lucky. He ought to have been given no less than one year or more than three in the peni-; tentiary. Xiue months is not too much | for him." VESSELS ASHORE IN CALE British Cruiser Venus Badly Damaged in Violent Storm That Is Sweep ing Over England London, Dee. 5, 3.36 P. M. —The British cruiser Venus ran ashore in the storm to-day, striking with her full force. Her foremast and a portion of the bridge were '-arried away by an enormous sea. The warship was rim ing for a port ?n the south of England when the storm broke. London, Dec. 5, 2.40 P. M.—The Norwegian steamer Waterloo of 1,283 tons foundered off the Lizard at mid night. Three persons were saved. The remainder of the crew is missing. London, Dec. 5, 2.40 P. M.—The Booth Steamship Company's liner An tony, bound from Liverpool for Para, has been disabled by the storm now sweeping over England and is in dis tress fifty mites north of the Lizard.. Carranze Planning to Destroy Tunnels? Washington, Dev. s.—Sir Cecil iSprittg-dtWe, tfhe British ami'bassador, informed the Htate Department to-day oif a dih£ cheek with a blunt instrument. He was dazed for a minute ami on arising from the street did not notice that he had been robbed. After cleaning the Wood-from the wound in his face at home he found his watch chain hanging from his vest and then discovered the loss. He re ported it to the police. Boiling Mill Sale Postponed The sale of the old "Lochiel Row" of houses and the site of the old Har risborg rolling miH, which was sched uled to take place this afternoon at 'I o'clock, WHS again postponed because of the absence of bidders. The property will be put up agiain at auction on . Deccin/ber I#, RODE! 1 THE SHOPPERS SOON Many Banking Institu tions Will Pay Out Christmas Funds in Coming Week IN THIS CITY AND STEELTON Depositors Who Have Learned to Save in Small Amounts Are Rejoicing in Prospect of Having Cash for the Yuletide In addition to tho large sum of money which will be paid out by the Union Trust Company's Christmas Sav ing Fund many thousands of dollars will be put iu circulation in the holi day season by tho various other saving funds throughout this city and Steel ton. D. W. Sohn, president of the Com mercial Bank, announced that his in stitution will pay between $25,000 and $30,000 to its 1,500 club members. This money will not be paid by check, but in cash on the presentation by the depositors of their cards. This, he thinks, will be a help to the depositors as it will do away with all lost cheek trouble. The members ot' thie Security Trust | ! Company's Christmas Savings Club will! ! receive their checks in the hitter part |of next week. While this club is only | one year old the amount to be paid out is very large, and a substantial increase in membership is expected 1 next year. The officials of the bank I consider the showing of this new club I most gratifying and an official an ! nouncement of the distribution will be j made to the members in a few days. The Kast End Hank will make dis tribution for several clubs organized ' in various industrial establishments in j this city. This bank will start a ! Christmas Savings Club of its own on I Pet-ember 21, the particulars of which j will be announced later. W. H. Nell, cashier of the People's Bank, of Steelton, stated that at an ; early date it will distribute about C'oßtlaurit on Klrventb Page. BLUECOAFS TRIAL LATER Case of Patrolmen Scott, Accused of Murder, Will Not Come Up in Court Until Next Month Robert P. Scott, the negro patrol man who, it is charged, shot and killed . Nathaniel Banks, also colored, at the Banks home, 1119 Monroe street, on j | the nigfht of August 1, last, will not be placed on trial for the alleged irair- j der until the next term of criminal i court, beginning January 11, 1915. The accused was brought into the court room at 11 o'clock this morn ing, just before the windup erf this week's special term of criminal court, and his counsel, W. Justin Carter and Harry B. Saussanran, asked for a con- [ tinuance or. Stough at i.Markut Square Presbyterian church at 10 o'clock in the moruing. In the aft ernoon and in the evening at the taJber nacJe, seats will be reserved for tho preachers. Provisions will be made to give tihem dinners and suppers free of cost. Campaign May Extend Six Weeks At last night's meeting in tlhe taber nacle, I)r. Stough, after ridiculing a statement made on postcards purporting to be addressed to business men of the city tending to discourage n con tinuation of the Stous'h cam|>aigu be yond the six weeks, declared that he did | not know whether he would "even quit at the end of seven weeks." "1 serve notice on the gang in this town rig"ht now," he said, shaking his fists,; "that I am going to stay right here irrespective of anybody but you if it's till next Fourth of July, but I'll lick the devil in Harrisburg. "I don't want to interfere with the preacher. If they wajit to start up their churches after the 9ix weeks they can. I'll stay right here. I never wont out of a town vet under fl