Evening public ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, September 22, 1914, Sports Final, Page 4, Image 4

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EVENING- EBDaER-?HiaADBri'aiAH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, lOU,
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MEW "PORK BARREL"
BILL PASSES SENATE;
, CARRIES $20,000,000
Measure Goes Through
Without a Dissenting Vote,
But Opposition to Cut is
Threatened in House.
COLD STEEL CHARGE
BROKE UP GERMANS'
DETERMINED DASH
"WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.-Senator Sim
mons today reported the substitute rivers
6nd harbors hill to the Senate Imme
diately after thni body met and passed
the Semite without n dissenting vote.
The bill. In addition to providing
J20,OCO,000 to be expended on projects now
under way nnd alrcadv authorized pro
vldes that ntlotmcnt for the Mississippi
from tho head of pastes to tho mouth of
tho Ohio siiall be expended under direc
tion of the Secretary of War, In accord
ance with the plan of the Mississippi
River Commission a approved by the
chief of onxineeis. The hill as It passed
the House carried an appropriation of
about f53,OiUiiiO.
It also Is provided that the Secretary
of "War shall report to Congress nt the
boglnnlns of tho next session showing the
nmount allotted to each Improvement
under this appropriation.
An amendment off ted by Senator
Sterling, of Pouth Dakota providing that
$75,000 be expended for the Improvement
of the Missouri Itlver at Jefferson, S. D.,
was voted di-wn
Opposition In the House to the drastic
reduction of the rivers and harborh "pork
barret" appropriation bill from $S3,.O0O
to $20,000.0i0. oidered bv the Senate, 27 to
22, late last night, loomed up today for-
mldably.
a ,ihf in tim Houo against accepting
the Senate cut to J3mn.Wi was deemed
certain. Tho House may make n deter
mined stand to irstore many appropria
tions. REVENUE BILL REPORTED
House Committee Makes Slight
Changes in Measure.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 22 -The emer
gency war tax bill was irdred reported
today by the Hnu" Ways and Means
Committee by strict pmtv vote. All Re
publicans present voted against the 'olll
and will file a minority report.
The revenue measure will be called up
In the House Thursday, and the Rules
Committee will tomorrow report a spe
cial rule limiting debate and giving the
bill the right of way. so that It may be
passed this week.
One slight amendment was made In the
bill today. In the section providing for n
tax of 2 cents a gallon on gasoline and
naphtha, tho same tax was levied on
"motor spirits."
FIVE YEARS OF GRIEF FOR
SON'S DEATH ENDS IN SUICIDE
Despondent Hntmaker Hangs Him
self in Cellar of His Home.
Five years' despondency over the loss
by death of a favorite son today ended
In Fred Peters. 65 years old. 1620 North
Front street, committing suicide by hang
ing. Th body was found In the cellar by
Minnie Teters, his wife, when the went
downstairs upon missing him following
her return from a ncitrby store with
things for breakfast.
Mr. Peters was a hatmakor. At the
death of his i-on he was afflicted with
nervous prostration. His condition grad
ually grew worse, and thr-e months ago
he was obliged to give up his work. The
nbsence of something to occupy his mind
only made him the more nervous, Mrs.
Peters said toda. She ts prostrated.
Neighbors who went to Mrs. Peters' aid
called in Policeman Donovan, who
had the body takn to St. Mary's Hos
pital. Two (htldieti survive with the wife.
They are Loms-a. a daughtei. ami Wil
liam, another son. living In Bryn Mawr.
He Is a surveyor.
Wounded Briton Tells How
Invaders Were Stabbed in
Back City Troops En
dure Noise Better.
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LONDON, Sept. 22.
This grim story of n llrltlsh bayonet
charge In which the Oct mans were routed
was related by a wounded soldier Just
back fiom northern France:
"They can stnnd nre, can those Ger
mans. Wv were picking thorn orf like
winking, and still they came on.
"Then, when they got within shouting
distance, we received tho word to charge.
Our officer was a sprinter, but we were
out of the trench nnd heeling after him,
nil of us shouting.
"The Germans seemed struck. They
Just sfood and gaped as we enme chas
ing down, their mouths wide open, ns
If they v.eie wondering what the bla7.ru
wo wero up to.
"When e were within 20 or SO yards
of them there was an alteration. They
knew then what we wanted, and they
just threw down their t tiles, turned about
and set the pace. Some of thein, as they
went, chucked off their packs, nnd a fov
even tried to pull off their tunics.
"Hut we had 'em! 1 never know t
could run bcfoic, nor the other ihnps,
and we pinked the 'blighters' In the back
bv the score.
"When we got winded we cntne back
the same way, and it was so; they were
lying on their faces, bayoneted In the
back."
A lance corporal of the Connaught
Hangers said:
"The disconcerting thing In battles now
adays Is that you muy be lighting for
hours on end and neer as much as
' an enemy to granule with.
"The way the Germans sacrifice their
men for the sake of making an Impression
Is appalling. One position on our left
from which we would have fallen back
In any case, because It was dominated by
a battery which we couldn't locate, was
ndvanccd against by tht German Infantry
under a heavy tire. They camo on in one
long never-ending stream, while our rifle
and gun fire tore hideous caps through
their ranks.
"The Red Cio""? men say that in fmnt
of that position alone 1 d,id nnd
wounded worn picked up after the fight
was over. Our loss was not moie than
20 of all ranks.
"What we are all wondering Is how
long the Germans can keep up this sort
of thing. 1 havo seen our cavalry thrown
into confusion merely because the horses
shied at the !nps of dead bodies they
had to tread over when attempts wero
made to clear our front of the advancing
iiermans.
Sergeant
in a letter
"Wo'ro wonderful'y cheerful, and
happy as bare-legged urchins scamper
ing over the fields. Not that there's
much play for us. It's all work, fight
ing nnd fighting and -working again,
though you mustn't think I'm grum
bling, for I'm not.
"I am writing to you with the enemy's
shells bursting nnd screaming overhead.
Though their artillery has been making
a fiendish row all along our front.
"It's the quantity not th quality of
the Gcrmnn shells that are having ef
fect on us, and It's not so much the
actual damage to life ns the nerve
racking noise that counts for so much.
Townsmen who are used to the noise
of the streets can stand It a lot bettit
than the countrymen, and I think you
will find that by far the fittest men are
those of regiments recruited In the big
cities.
"A London lad neir me says It's no
worse than the roar of motor omnibuses
in the city on a busy day"
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BRITISH VICTIMS OF GERMAN SUBMARINES IN NORTH SEA
These three cruisers, the sister ships Aboukir, Hague and Cressy, are of an older type and were constructed from 1901 to 1904. Each is valued at
$4,000,000. The length is 440 feet ant? the displacement 12,000 tons apiece. Their speed ran from 20.8 to 21.8 knots. The armament was as follows: Two
9.2 inches, twelve 12-pounders, three 3-poundcrs and eight small guns. The ordinary complement of each was 700 men and they were fully manned at the
time of their destruction. The Cressy was commanded by Captain Robert W. Johnson, the Aboukir by Captain J. Drummond and the Hogue by Captain
Wilmot S. Nicholson.
SCAPEGOAT HUNT
LEADS WAR CHIEFS
TO IGNOBLE DEATH
Austrian, Cashiered for Ex
posing Troops Needlessly,
Commits Suicide; Another
Is Executed for Aiding
Russians.
A
ROME, sept j,
The Alistrlans ore endeavoring to flml
scapegoats for their recent debacles u
Is reported in Vienna that the Au.tri
Field Marshal Vodlnowskl, who w.. ?
lav origin and was accused of cow
munlcatlng secret Intelligence to n.
Russians In Oallcla, was tried by court
martial nnd Bummarlly shot,
At tho front. Field Marshal porecn
who commanded an Austrian cavalrJ
division which was cut up by the nii
slans, shot himself after being caBhlered"
for needlemlv n-r,l 1.1- . "9
, -,,,,,,, lll3 troops,
RUSSIAN REFUGEES
BRUTALLY TREATED
BY FOES, IS REPORT
As Czar's Troops Advance
in East Prussia Conduct of
Officials Becomes Intoler
ant, Englishman Alleges.
DEEDS OF DARING, ROMANCE
AND COMEDY FROM WAR ZONE
Major MacDermott writes
HOTEL THIEF SENTENCED
THIEVES FLEE FROM SAFE
IFrightened Away After They Pry
Away Combination Knob.
Burrlars who broke into the otflcr of
the Philadelphia Tanners Supply Com
pany, at 1916 and 1315 Market strft.
parly this mornlnp, got but $5 for their
trouble, apparentlj blnR frlchtened awav
nfter they had pried the combination knob
from tho safe. A bas of harness packed
by the thieves was abandoned
W I" Shade, treasurer of tht company,
discovered the work of the burclurs this
rnornlnc. He found four desks broken
open, and from one of them the 55
had been taken. The safe from whi h
the knob was broken Is near the window
and standi in a bright licht.
Boston Man Is Sent to Jnil After
Pleading Guilty.
After pleadlnp RUilty to a hill of In
dictment chnrslns him nith attempting
n, sirui iroin me room or i'etr Markey.
a Srrnntnn policeman. In the Ke stone
Hotel, I.awience Sullivan, of RoMon,
Mass, todnv was sentenced to not less
than one vear nor more than eighteen
months In the Hastern Penitentiary bv
Judee Searle In Quarter Sessions i.'ourt
Sullivan, after alo admitting thefts
from suests at the Darlington Apart
ments and the Hanover Hotel, paid that
thee w.re his first offenses. He. later
told Assistant District Attorney ItoRers
that he had been In this city only Mx
weeks, and In that time he had been
arrested twice, tho first time for steal
lnr handbajs from railroad stations
MEDICO-CHI ENROLMENT 750
Most Successful Year Began With
Opening Exercises Last Evening.
The opemntf ejceroifts if the Medico
rhlrurglcal I'olleee, n!d last evening in
tho clinical amphitheatre located n
Cherry street, above Sewnleenth, allowed
that the enrollment name f"r th cirrt-nt
jfar ts 7,V, nhlch is larger than that
of any previous yt-ar ymir additions to
the facultv were uncounted Ir Ve:nnn
A. Bijdam, pinftksor of ph.-sHi and
jnathemiitlcs: Dr. Herbert Howard fush
Inc. professor of pra tical anatomy: Pro.
f-ssor Charles K Vaiiderklent. professor
of analytical chemistry, and Dr. Andrew
V,'. Downs, professor of experimental
psychology.
Addresses ere given last night by Pro
fessor Joseph Mc-Farland. I. Norman
Broonell, Julius W. Steumer, George
Meeker and Seneca Egbert
Aged Man Guilty of Assaults
..?iaJ"'1', dl Donato, 70 years of age. of
113. Passyunk avenuo. after n. jurv barl
eon1rted him of feloniously attacking
Mary and Anna Cnrrnre, was f-eriteniwl
to not less than five years nor moi
than teven in the Hasfrn Penltemiuri
by Judge Rearle in Quaiter Sessions
Court todav Dl Donato was teaching
the little girls Italian, and. according to
Mary, the older of the two, about two
works ugo ho stnt her sister Anna after
cindv Willis Anna as gone he ah
wtluted Mar.i, who Js ii years of age
On another orrasion he assaulted tina
who is about S years old.
COPENHAnn.V, Sept. 22.
A young Kiigllshman who hns Just ar
llved here from liast Prussia, tells of the
terrible scenes that followed tho "Russian
axnlancho" that was so vlgoiously precipi
tated on the part of the Ocrmnti Empire.
He was the Inst Englishman to pass
through Konlgsbcrg before Its lncstment
by the Czar's troop, nnd he nnd some
rich Itusslnn lcfugces who havo also
reached Copenhagen, speak of the dreadful
scenes on tho German side of tho frontier
of every town they passed being choked
with wounded brought In from the battle
field, of fenrful suffering among tho Rus
sian peasantry, and of the harsh treat
ment thown to forclgnets by German vll
luijers, who spat upon and stoned their
enemies In the streets.
"The railway line," he said, "was thick
with transport trains filled with wounded.
They were huddled together, and some .'f
them were hanging out of .the windows
gasping for fresh air. At most of the big
stations In East Trussla nuises nnd doc
tors were Waiting on tho platfoim to nr
rnnge the bandages of the wounded Ger
mans. W'e passed thiougti towns of ter
rified inhabitants, and the wounded were
everywhere. The less severely hurt wero
conveyed back us near ns posslblo to tho
central patt of the rnuntry, m as to make
room for the urgent "cases that could not
be removed.
"In some towns Englishmen, french
men and Ilutaians wero very haishly
treated, especially by subordinate offi
cials. Disgusting remaiks weie hurled
at them by tho Germans. Sometimes
they were openly assaulted, and this 111
tecllng becume Inteusllled as the Husslan
army ndvunced. As a result tho Rus
sian refugees Med In terror and the Eng
lish there were alw treated with con
tinual Ignominy and Insult.
'At Stettin. however, the feeling
tounid foreigners was exceedingly good.
Theie mo. It Is said, about S0O0 Russian
refugees there and these nre without any
mean" wbnti ver.
I should like It stated." this English
man adds. ' that the official in chargo
of these Ru-islau peasants and harvesters
Is one of the most kind-hearted men I
liae ever met. A Kusstun girl, obviously
of very good family, was brought to
Stettin and reported that she had been
subjected to very cruel treatment on the
railway She was absolutely penniless,
and this German official took her Into his
home and gave her food and shelter."
The "highest" man (so German papers
sa) to enlist In the German army was
the mountain guide, Glntz, stationed at
the .ugspltzc In southern Bavaria, 9725
feet above tho sen, who, when the sum
mons to Join his regiment enme to him,
telephoned: "Is schon rccht, I Klmtn
Kiel!" (It's all right, I'll, bo down Boonl,
end In live hours hurried down Into the
vnlley fiom the highest summit In the
German empire.
I low a black cat saw tho British fleet
Fink several German German warships
orf Heligoland Is told In a letter fiom
Alfred Bishop, who was In the fight.
The cat Is tho mascot of one or tne
Ililtish cruise! s nnd was on dock through
out tln engagement. Sho Is Immensely
populnr now and In danger of becoming
spoiled.
"Our dear Utile, black, lucky kitten
snt under our foremost gun during the
whole of tho battle and wasn't fright
ened at .oil, only when we first started
firing. But afterward she sat and Heketf
herself. Wo nil kissed her afterwards,"
wiltes Blehop.
M. Mlthouid, president of the Munici
pal Council of Paris, relates the follow
ing cxtrnotdlnary Incident:
He has Just returned from a visit to
the scene of fighting along the River
Mame, which he struck at llontccau,
near Sezanne. Ho found tho remarlcablo
sight of the body of a dead bullock ur
rounded by 18 dend Germans. A local
Inhabitant who witnessed the affair told
M. Mlthourd that when tho enemy ap
proached the peasants opened the stalls
wide to euablo their cattle to escape.
The bull, frightened at tho first gun
shots, ran snorting through the village
to a neighboring hillock, where n num
ber of German soldiers wero taking their
position.
The discharge of their guns added to
the animal's fury nnd ho charged with
his horns leveled Into tho midst of tho
Germans, goring them to right nnd left.
He actually killed 18 of them before ho
himself was killed by rllle shots.
A private of the British Black Watch,
following the chargo nt the battle of
Mons, opened the tin of Jam he had been
carrying on his back and found a Ger
man bullet In It. "This must have got
In when I ducked to a volley," ho ex
plained. "There was no tlmo to dig
trenches."
A star on the championship regimental
Rugby team In the army, who fought at
Mons, wrote to n friend: "1 want a few
more Sundays like Brock's benefit out
side Mons. It was better than any Rugby
gamo I ever played In."
"The disconcerting thing In the present
fighting with modern weapons la that you
may be In nctlon for hours without see
ing the enemy," said a BrltlBh corporal.
"One day we lay for ten hours In the
trenches with shells dropping about ub
ilko rain. We could see puffs of smoke
nlong the horizon and hear the constant
roar of the guns, but that was all. Only
when you got a bullet In the arm or leg
did you realize that, you were really In
a battle. Though wo were under flro
constantly. It was threo whole days be
fore we actually set eyes on a German.
After that thero was plenty of hand-to-hand
fighting,"
NEUTRALITY PALLS
OH ITALY; WAR MAY
COME IN FEW DAYS
Even Socialists Are Clamor
ing for Move Toward Re
gaining Provinces Aus
tria Guards Against In
vasion.
COAL COMPANY ASKS HECEIVEU
Irish Brothers, Wholesale Dealers,
Seek to Protect Assets,
Application was madt thu morning in
the Couit of Common Pleas Jsjn for
the appointment of u twelver for the
Arm of Irish Brothers in the West End
Trust Building, prominent wholesale
coal dealers.
The flrm conducts an extensive whole
rale coal business, but for some time
bas been uuuble to collect proiy tho
outstanding accounts When disgruntled
creditor threutened suit, members of the
ljnn. In order to protect the Hs.ets of the
businets, applied for the receivership A
receiver will be appointed by the court
come time toda.
TUBKISH OFFICIAL ARRESTED
LONDON Sept a -The Reuter News
Agency stutes that t-alib Bey Oourju,
managing director ot the ottoman tele
graph 'mpanv has heen arrested at the
itnust of Germany becaur
Bdt'lic authentic was- neas.
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COLLEGE HEAD HONORED
SOCTH ORANGE, X. J, Sept. I' -The
Van Rev. Mons. James P. Mooney,
V D, president of Soton Hall College
was tendered a surprise dinner nt noon
egterday In honor of the 25th anni
versary nt bis ordination to the priest,
hood The faculty and several hundred
students of the institution presented thn
pilest with en fib following the dinner.
Auto Truck Hits Child
A heavv automobile truck, owned bv
tho Rel.ablt Ice Cream Company, 1136
Rltner street, struck and kerlouMy In
jured Rebecca Kater, 6 years old, W
Mifflin street, this afternoon. The child
was taken to the Sfnunt Sinai Hospital,
where it was found that her right U-k
had been broken and that she had sus
tained internal Injuries.
DIPLOMACY MAY FORCE PAY
FOR AUTOS SEIZED ABROAD
Former Owners of Machines Must
First Formally File Claims,
WASHINGTON. Sept. 22.
In reply to numerous piotests which
hae reached the State Department con
crnlng tho seizure of American-owned
automobiles abroad, Cone Johnson, to
brltor of the State Department, today
said tint the 1'nited Ptatts could tnk' no
0tlon iti these cases until the owners of
the automobiles had mad formal de
ii.nuds for rtcompente upon the Goern
ments which -elzed the machines.
In th event that tluse Governments
refus,, payment for comniaudteriiiK the.
autumobiles, the I'nlted States will tako
up thi matter through diplomatic channels.
PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS
ORDERED BY GERMANS
French in Occupied Towns Will Not
Be Molested.
BORDEAUX. Sept. 22.
reclamations have been posted In nil
towns In France that are occupied by tho
Germans, stating that private property
will bo protected nnd that peaceful citi
zens will not be molested, but that any
civilians acting In a way detrimental to
tho Germans will bo shot.
One of the proclamations given out by
the War Office today was:
"All authorities and the municipality
are Informed that every peaceful In
habitant can follow his regular occupa
tion In full security, private 'property will
he absolutely respected nnd provisions
ini id for.
"If the population dale under any form
whatever to take part In hostilities the
hoverest punishment will he Inllkttd on
tho refractory.
"The people must give up their nrtns.
Kvery armed Individual will he put to
death. Whoever cuts telegraph wires,
destroys railroad bridges or road, or com
mits any act In detriment to the Ger
mans will be shot.
"Towns or villages whose Inhabitants
have taken part In any combat or wHtt
fire upon us from ambush will be burned
down and the guilty shot nt once. The
civil authorities will be held responsible.
"VON MOLrKK."
MARCONI COMPANY GETS
DAY OF GRACE TO REPLY
Must Accede to Censorship or Slas
conset Station Will Be Closed.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.-The Marconi
Company will have until toniorrow to
accede to the demands of the Government
In connection with tholr radio station at
Slnsconset, Mass. If tho Marconi officials
do not notify tho Navy Department by
that time that they will recognize the
Government censorship the station will
be closed.
This was the ultimatum Issued by Sec
retary of the Navy Daniels on his re
turn to Washington today. Secretary
Daniels was Informed that no reply had
been received to his letter of Saturday,
In which tho wireless company was in
formed that tho Slasconset station would
havo to operate under Governmental regu-
IIOME, Sept. 23.
The voices of thousands of men who
have been thrown out of work ns a
result of the war arc being added to thoso
who favor intervention on the side of
Franco nnd Hnglnnd.
The Immense death list of tho Austrian
regiments, recruited In tho so-called
Italian provinces of Austria, In the fight
ing In Gnllcln; the belief that the pro
German authorities of Turkey nro fo
menting the Insurrection In Dalmatia, and
a popular desire to bring tho "provinces"
back under the Italian flag, all contrib
ute to the clamor, which Is steadily grow
ing, for Italy to abandon Its neutral policy.
Even the. Socialists have joined the
ranks of the antl-neutrnllty faction. Tho
warlike spirit exists over the whole coun
try, nnd even tho newspapers are ex
pressing their Indignation at the tardy
spirt of the Government in delaying tho
settling of the old scores against Austria.
During yesterday's annlversnry celebra'
tlon of the occupation of Rome thousands
of persons gathered In front of the British
Kmbassy. Cheering for tho British was
Interspersed with shouts of "Long llvo
England, Italy's friend!"
When a Union Jack was raised near the
Embassy the applause and cheering .were
renewed, the more enthusiastic Italians
tossing their hats Into the nlr.
These demonstrations were preceded by
a procession of fully 100,00ft persons
through the principal sticcts. Every refer
ence to the British nnd the Allies met
with outbursts by the paraders.
PARIS, Sopt. 22.
The Figaro publishes a dispatch from
Rome declaring that Italian Intervention
Is almost Bure within tho next few days.
The article says that Italy Is threatened
with disaster by tho unemployment con.
I Bequent upon tho war, and the dlscon-
Tho belief Is growing In orriclal clrcl,,
hero that tho Austrian reverse, '
Oallcla to a large extent wcro brought
about by exact knowledge held by th.
mi. 7 l Austr-'a Jnob.
illxatlon and campaign planB, which had
been secured through an elaborate y,.
tern of espionage.
The military nuthorltiog, It Is clamsJ
two years ago discovered that Colonel
Alfred Ilodl, chief of tho General Start
of the Eighth Austrian Army Corps
had betrayed Information of vital m.'
portnnce to Russia, nnd although It nj'
thought probable the Austrian General
Staff later made changes In their planj
tho military experts are of the belief
that the modifications would not havi
affected greatly the general basis of
the campaign ns worked out
The stationmaster of Lemberg, brother
of the famous Colonel Rcdl, who com.
mltted sulcldo In tho spring of tail
year when accused of espionage alas
hns been shot ns a spy. '
GERMANS QUARREL
AND PETTY STRIFES
SPLIT ARMY CORPS
Prussian and Bavarian
Troops Fly at Each Other's
Throats on Charges of
Favoritism.
PROSTRATED BY LACK OF DltUO
OBJECTIONS RAISED TO TRUCE
Colorado Coal Operators Will Call on
President Wilson,
WASHINGTON, Sept. 82.-J. F. "Wcl
born, president of tlm Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company, will arrive here
Into this afternoon, a day In udvance
of other Colorado coal operators, who
will tomorrow lay before President "WIN
son their partial ncceptunco of and par
tial objections to the proposed three
year truce to end the labor war.
The White House understands that
the operators prlmlpally object to the
Government truce plan In proposing
that all miners who have been on
Strike but huvp not been convicted, of
law-breaking shall be re-employed. The
operators Insist that they will not dis
miss strike-breakers who have been
lo)sl to make places for returning
strikers.
Man Lands in Hospital Through De
sire for Morphine.
Desire for morphine has brought Jo
seph Upperman, of 320 Vest Columbia
avenue, to the Chestnut Hill Hospital
three times the last few mouths, accoid
lug to physicians of the Institution.
The man wns brought there today by
the Germuntown police, apparently suf
feting fiom heajt failure. He was picked
up on Germnntown avenue near the hos
pital. Ho gasped for bieath and ap
pealed to be very. weak. The physicians
f.illcd to discover anything wrong with
him After resting a while, It is said,
Upjxrman asked for morphine, but his
u-quest was refused. Then the patient
jumpd from the bed and left the hos.
pltal.
tend to pursue before the Government
takes forcible action.
When shown an Interview with John
W. Grlgfjs, president of the Slarconl Wlie
less Company, In which Griggs stated
that ho Intended to fight tho Navy De
partment order, Secretary Daniels merely
smiled and said;
"I don't think he will fight very long."
AIR BOMBS DESTROY FORTS
Japanese Report Destruction of Two
Tsing-Tao Redoubts,
PEKIN. Sept. 21,
A fleet of Japanese aeroplanes bom
barded the German forts at Tslng-Tso.
Two of the forts are reported to liav
been destroyed.
METAL ROOFS FOR ZEPPELINS
Policeman's Assailant Sentenced
Judge Searle. In Quarter Sections Court
today, tentvmfd Frederick W. Lower, Ki
Wrt Norns street, to ope year in the
county prison for committing assault and
buiwiy on Policeman James Magte. of
th Fourth and York streets station On
August 26, J.ower, who was intoxicated,
ws, ordered from the corner of Third
and Norrls streets. Instead of moving,
be grabbed the blueeoat'S club and
severely heat him
Germans Building New Craft to Fight
FIRE AT CARPET MTLIi With Fleet,
nre was discovered at T o'clock this COP?:N'IIAGKN. Sent. M.-From dlf.
morning in the picker room In the rear ferent sources the news Is confirmed that
of the second floor of the Robert Doran the Germans are constructing several
-ar)ei company. Montgomery avenue Zeppelins with aluminum roofs which are
and Howard street, where thousands of destined to operate in conjunction with
dollars of valuable yarns were stored the fleet
Th members of Enijtri. Company No i They arc equipped with an armored
w inue b, qmcK run and quick, y sub- , pparatus whtih Is suspended under the
LIEGE FORTS RESTORED
Germans Said to Be Operating- Cap
tured Belgian Defenses,
AMSTERDAM. Sept. 22.
Reports from Liege say that the Ger
mans have brought the I.iega fortresses
again to a state of efficient defense and
are operating searchlights there nightly.
INQUIRY INTO ARMY STRIFE
AMSTERDAM, Sept 22 -A dispatch
from Brussels bays that General Von Der
uouz is couuucuni, a personal inquiry
Into the fighting recently between soldiers
of the Bavarian and I'rusian forces In
the German army.
NO MALICE IN TUCKERT0N
WIRELESS BREAK-DOWN
Naval Board Finds Damage to Sta
tion Accidental,
WASHINGTON. Sept. 22,-The Injury to
the wireless station at Tuckerton, N. J.,
was purely accidental and could not have
been caused by any deliberate attempt
to put the station out of commission
Reports to this effect today were made
to Secretary of tho Navy Daniels by the
naval hoard of Inquiry. The board stated
that a flaw Jn the four-ton rotnry had
caused the accident and the plant can
not be repaired for several weeks.
latlons or close. Ho then decided to tent of tlle laboring classes Is adding to
allow the company another day of grace tle difficulties of the Government In
In which to Indicate tho course they In- I mint,.ininn- it t.it .,iw,iit..
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The attention of all Italy, it savs Is I , - "" " ,or "' service but
istcned upon Vnlona. In Albania! and I " P'y, ,r '"n1ne,v'- Then thej were
pon Trent and Trieste. rushed off to tho front without a chance
ANTWERP, Sept. 22.
Quarrels between the Bavarian and
Prussian tioops of tho German army
stationed In Brussels are reported to
havo reached such a point today that
serious trouble Is feaicd by the ofUcer.
It la rumored that many quarrels during
tho last week reached a point where
blows and shots were exchanged and that
several German soldiers were killed by
their brothers In arms.
The 111 feeling between tho two bodies
of troops has been caused by the fact
that the Prussians have defiled the por
traits of the Queen of Belgium, who, be
fore her marriage, was a Bavarian Prin
cess. AVhen the Bavarians called on the
Prussians to stop the Prussians Ignored
them.
Another factor that Is said to have In
flamed the Bavarians towaid the Prus
sians Is the fact that they claim the
Prussians are tho favored soldiers of tho
Kuiser.
It Is said that when the Bavarians were
called out for war duty, they were not
START NEW SEWER PLANS
Director Cooke Directs Work on Big
9350,000 Project.
Director Cooke, of the Department of
Public Works, has directed the Survey
Bureau to prepare plans for the con
struction of three additional main
sewers and TS branch sewers to cost ap
proximately 1350,000.
Chief Webster, of the Survey Bureau,
says that $10,000,000 could be spent for
sewers without Including the disposal
plants In the city's comprehensive plan.
The three main sewers to be built are
Haverford avenue outlet across the
property of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
from 31st street to the Schuylkill Wyer;
31th street, from Spruco, 600 feet south
and toutheast through the grounds of
the University of Pennsylvania to the
Schulklll Itlver. an4 Venango street,
fiom Carbon street to the Deluwaie
River.
dUfd the flames before thv ha,l maria
much headway. us, BOt estimated,
but, not heavji
car from which bombs or torpedoes can
BELATED FRENCH VOLUNTEER
BAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 22.-The
French berk I.aFontains. 1T2 days out
from Emden, Prussia, for this port, in
command of Captain Pierre Itathouis, ar
tlved hero today and learned for the first
timet ot me European war He and his
be discharged or telephone comruunlca i crew at once offered their servloas ta tha
Jlicftheld, Jjrreao
LILLIAN RUSSELL IN HOSPITAL
P1TTSBUUGH, Sept. 22.-IJIIian Rus
sell, the famous actress and wife of
Alexander P. Moore, publisher of the
Pittsburgh leader, was operated on for
appendicitis In thu West Penn Hospital
at 9 o'clock this morning. Tlia operation
wan performed by Drs. I W. Swope and
C. B. Schlldecker.
Immediately following the operation It
was stated by the hospital authorities
that Miss Russell was doing as well as
could be expected.
ACID THROWER HELD IN BAIL
Norman Pratt, 6305 Lena street, Ger
mantown, who threw carbolic acbl yes
terday Into the faca of his sweetheart,
Thera Fiumartln. at her noma at
C413 Baynton street, was field today
under I1C00 ball by Magistrate Pennock, in
Ocrmantown, tor a further btarlni in
court.
GERMANS IN LORRAINE
BLOCK FRENCH ADVANCE
Strong Fortifications Erected Where
Invasion Was Planned.
LONDON, Sept. 22.
All reports reoeived from tho battle.
fields of Franco Indicate that the blood
iest conflict of the war may be In progress
today. Tho War Office refuses all com
ment except to say that the British and
allied lines are holding, and that tho sit
uation Is unchanged.
Unahle to shell the Allies fiom their
positions on tho left centro, the Germans
havo resorted to the bayonet. Tho
French nnd British troops have met them,
steel to steel, and It Is certain that enor
mous losses have been sustained.
tno ierman attacks have been re
pulsed, it Is declaied, and though the
casualties of tho Allies may be stagger
Ins, the losses of the troops of the
Kaiser endeavoring to pierce the allied
lines must have been even heavier.
The advance of the French lines to Las
Blgny has revived tho belief hero that
tho determined movement to envelop thq
army of General von Kluk may jet bo
successful. In spite of a counter-attack,
which reports indicate the Germans In
stituted, the French lines were extended
eight miles west of Noyon .evident!" as
a part of a movement toward Roye,
bringing the Allies nearer a position for
a successful movement upon the German
rear.
The original line of the French offen
sive Into Lorraine Is now blocked by
tho Germans. This is Indicated by tho
Information which has reached the
French War Ofllco that fortifications
are being erected aiound Delme and
south of Chateau Sallus. This was the
line of the French advance in the Ini
tial movements, and the German forces
are reported as being strongly en-
iitutiiL'u mere.
to put their domestic affairs In order
The Bavarians contend, It Is said, that
the Prussians had warning that they
would have to go Into battle, and there
fore, were able to adjust their home af
fairs before leaving.
It has been reported from time to time
that the Prussian generals were sending
the Bavarians Into the thickest of the
fighting, where thousands wero killed
and wounded, nnd that they have been
saving tho Prussians,
GERMANS WILL HOLD
BELGIAN TOWNS TO END
Berlin Denies Evacuation of Any Oc
cupied Territory,
Berlin (by way of Amsterdam).
Sept. 22.
German troops wilt remain Jn BN
eium until the end of the war. This
was officially announced today In denial
of reports that preparations were being
made to evacuate Brussels and Liege
It was stated that all of Belgium ex
cept Antwerp was under German admin.
Istratlon and would remain so, and that
ma population waa quiet.
A Husslan major accused of shooting
German sanitation efflcera to death has
been executed A prisoner supposed to
be General Martos, tho Russian charged
with extreme cruelty, denle he U Martoa
and bu coiut-jnarUii-hAs-bMaottnaaei,
RECEIVERS ARE NAMED FOR
IRISH BROS., COAL DEALERS
Executors Take Steps to Protect As
sets of Creditors.
Alta F. Johns, Samuel L. Clarke and
Thomas D. Flnletter were todav ap
pointed leceivera for the firm of Ir.jh
Brothers, wholesale coal dealers, bj Com
mon I'lens Colin No. 2. The .ippluatioil
for the receivership was made by Maltha
W. Irish, Ned Irish and Charles E
Breckons, executors under tho will of J
Burd Irish. The application waa mide
In order that the assets and business may
be protected against demands by secured
creditors, who, since the death of one of
tho paitneis, J. Burd Irish last April,
havo been making Insistent demands that
their loans to the firm be reduced or that
additional security be given
Owing to the present abnormal de
piesslon in business, tho stilnyeno of
the money market and the imposslbIlt.
ut this time, to realize an aduiuate price
for tho sale of any of its property, the
firm, although solvent, has bc unable
to comply, and as some creditors have
threatened to bring suits, obtain Judg
ments and Issue executions thereunder,
It was decided to bo best for the inter
ests of tho lirm and Its creditors that
the court be asked to appoint receivers
to protect the business and the asseti.
The assets are given by the applicant
for the receivership as U.lOftOOO and the
Indebtedness as 1750.000, of which 515,w
Is secured by the pledge of upward ol
J&OO.OOO of the assets or tne nrm.
The businew of tho firm. It Is al!
Is a puylng one. and its assets, j
properly conserved, nro ample, it w
said, to pay existing claims- Ti n"
come from stocks and bonds and omer
assets, including those held as e,"a,"i
for loans and excluding the earnings
the lirm from tho sale of coal, for u
year ending April I, W4, exceeded tne
kum of 5.000. and is sufficient to P
the Interest on ail obligations.
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Year for Robbing Naval Official
Robert Leo, a Negro, 618 South Thir
teenth street, was sentenced to one y
In the county prison by Judg Scarie,
Quarter Sessions Court today. ",".
had been convicted of robbing Jrnc
Young, chief master-at-arm on
L' 8. S. Michigan. According W T
testimony, Young was Intoxicate
was asleep on a step when Le BW; .i
ed him and took several wUe v
deftelry. from fain -
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