Germans Take French Frontier Towns While Russians Push on to Berlin
. HARRISBURG ftllllb TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII No. 203
Republican Campaign
Opens With Enthusiastic
Meeting in Pittsburgh
Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh Outlines His Platform in Ringing
Speech; Senator Penrose Talks on National Issues;
Committee Adopts Platform to Continue State in Path
of Progress.
Dr. Brumbaugh in Message
to the "Telegraph" Is
Confident of Victory
IX a telegram to the Telegraph
from Pittsburgh. I>r. Martin <■.
Brumbaugh. the Republican
nominee for Governor, says:
On my return to the State
of Pennsylvania I am delight
eel with the hearty reception
given me from every portion
of the State. I have met to
day men from practically
every county in the Common
wealth and victory seems as
sured. Xot only have I been
offered the enthusiastic loyalty
of regular Republicans, but
men of all parties have as
sured me of their votes and
earnest supixirt. From this on
I shall have the opportunity of
meeting my friends in many
parts of the State face to face,
when I shall make a clear and
unmistakable statement of the
principles upon which I stand.
(Signed)
M. G. BRUMBAUGH.
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Special to The Telegraph
Pittsburgh, Aug. 27.—Dr. Martin G.
Brumbaugh opened the Republican
campaign that is to continue Pennsyl
vania in the path of progress last
night in this city with a speech that
will ring throughout the Keystone
State. The Republican nominee, fresh
from the Maine woods, brought the
breezes of the Pine Tree State with
him and stirred the great meeting of
the Republican State Committee by
the vigor with which he launched his
campaign. The men gathered here
for the meeting of the committee
cheered him to the echo and pledged
him the support of the fighting organi
sation which will rout the self-select
ed nominees that arrogate to them
selves all of the governmental virtues,
but who are willing to go to any
length to advance their personal am
bitions.
No campaign in a generation has
opened more auspiciously, more earn
estly and more popularly than that
which was begun in the Pitt theater
last night. The committeemen were
THE WEATHER]
For Harrlshurjc nnd vicinity! Un
settled nentlipr to-niich-l nml Fri
days not much chnnge In tem
peroture.
For Eastern Pennsy Ivnnln: Gen
erally cloudy tn-nlsht nnd Fri
day! gentle to moderate easterly
vrlnds.
Hiver
The main river will continue to fall.
A stage of about 2.0 feet Is Indi
cated for Hnrrlahurg Friday
morning.
Genernl Conditions
Generally cloudy nnd unsettled
weather continues over the east
earn pnrt of the country.
It Is - to 12 degrees warmer in the
Missouri nnd I'pper Ml«nl« N ippl
valleys. In the Xorthwestern
( anndlnn provinces nnd from the
l.nke region eastward to the Vt
linitlc coast and 2 to HI degrees
cooler In the Southwest.
Temperature! H a. m.. US.
fun:, Klses. 5:27 a. M.i aets, Bi4tl
p. m.
Moon: First quarter, August 27,
II :."2 a. m.
River »taee: 2.3 feet ahove low
water mnrk.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest tempernture, 70.
l.owest tempernture, tl2.
Mean temperature, ««.
Xormal temperature, 70.
MARRIAGE i.ICEVSES
James Nagle Hutton and Mabel Anna
Powers, city.
John , Ogden and Irene Kelly.
Philadelphia
I
Late News Bulletins j
EXCITEMENT IN WHEAT UNABATED
I Chicago. Aug. 27.—The excitement in wheat was una tinted when the
markft opened to-day. May wheat, leading in activity, sold down to
I $1.16%, or 2•'Si cents under yesterday's sensational close, but the price
In the first 15 minutes of trading was hid up to 51.25. September
wheat Rained three cents and December four cents.
800 AMERICANS LEAVE BERLIN
Amsterdam. Aug. 27, via London. 8.45 P. >l.—The Tclegraff to
day says that a special train left Berlin yesterday carrying 800 Aincr
, leans t«> Rotterdam from which port they will return to the United
Htates.
FRENCH CONTINUE TO PROGRESS
Paris, Aug. 27. 3.30 P. M.—An oiliclal statement Issued this after
noon says: "The events of yesterday in the region of the north have
neither imperiled nor modified the arrangements made in view of the
future development or operations in the region between ".'osges and
Xancy. "Our troops continue to progress."
Boston, Aug. 27.—There proliahly will Im- no grand opcru here
this winter, according to a cablegram received from Khen D. Jordan,
managing director of the Boston Opera Company to-day. Most of the
singers are Kuropeans and ut least 11 male members of the company
are known to have enlisted In the armies of their native countries.
Washington, Aug. 27.—Official advices to the Cnlted Htates govern
ment confirmed to-day the dropping or eight bombs In the city of Ant
werp by a German Zeppelin, killing many women and children. Dip
lomatic representatives of several neutral governments lial narrow es
capes.
Bt. Petersburg. Aug. 27, via London. 5.25 P. M.—The following of- 1
flcial communication was made public here to-day: "Our offensive
both in Kast Prussia and Gullda developed increasing success on Au- I
gust 25. The Germans hastily retreated everywhere toward Kocnigs
burg and Allensteln."
Galveston, Texas, Aug. 27.—The British consulate I* informed that
three British warships have been sent at full s|>eed to afford protec- |
tlon to cotton and oil traffic in the Gulf of Mexico. It Is rumored
that the French cruiser Conde has sunk the German ship Alliancla
and the British cruiser Donegal has captured the North German
Lloyd .steamship Brandenburg.
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accompanied by many men active in
Republican affairs; they worked out
the party platform; they heard the
candidates and they rose and pledged
their untiring efforts. That the cam
paign will have general support is
shown by the interest shown in the
presence of the Republican chieftains
by people throughout this great in
dustrial community.
Brumbaugh Wins All
Dr. Brumbaugh, who came to the
city after the preliminary work for
the State committee had been mapped
out and the leaders were on hand,
went right to the front in popular in
terest. His rooms were thronged and
he had a series of receptions. Pitts
burgh gave him n great welcome and
he was showered with Invitations,
while men who have been mixed up
in independent movements for two
decades and who voted for Roosevelt
and Wilson in 1912 came around to
shake hands and say that they were
going to vote Republican this time.
All this led up to a great ovation
for the gubernatorial candidate when
he went before the State Committee.
With Senator Penrose the committee
men were familiar because he has
been visiting their counties and they
have had many conferences with him.
But the big doctor was a new candi
date, one of whose marked ability they
had heard and whose personality they
admired. So when the doctor was
introduced at the meeting to open
his campaign he was given a welcome
that was tumultous. He said he was
for local option, for good roads, for
woman suffrage and justice to labor.
They were his platform and he told
where he stood in these words:
"For these I now stand. For
them I shall steadily to the end.
No other course could appeal to
me as honest and Just. The army
of goodly men "ho voted for me
in May did so upon this platform.
I ask them and their fellow citi
zens to do so in November."
A Lively Session
The committee meeting began late
in the evening with every seat filled,
representative Republicans being pres
ent on the stage, in boxes and in the
seats. The adoption of the platform
was quickly affected and it accepted
the platforms of Dr. Brumbaugh and
the other candidates In these words:
"We earnestly endorse the nom
inees for United States Senator,
Governor of the Commonwealth,
Lieutenant Governor. Secretary of
Internal Affairs, Congressman-at
large and the other important of
fices to be filled at the November
election, and commend the decla
ration they made to the favorable
consideration of the voters of
Pennsylvania."
When that clause was read there
were hearty cheers and these were
redoubled when Chairman Crow pre
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Militant Suffragettes
Again Become Active
By Associated Press
London, Aug. 2".—Mrs. Flora Drum
mond, Mrs. Dacre Fox, Miss Richard
son and fourteen other militant suf
fragists were arrested this morning in
front of the home office, \yhither they
had gone in an effort to interview
Reginald McKenna, the home secre
tary, on the Investigation of the
forcible feeding of women.
AMERICAN HEADS STAFF
By Associated Press
Kansas City, Mo.. Aug. 2 7.—Dr. A.
L. Skoog, professor of neurology in the
University of Kansas, has been made
head of the La Petre Hospital, in
Paris, according to word received here
to-day.
GREAT DEPRECIATION SHOWN
By Associated Press
London. Aug. 27, 12.55 P. M.— The
Bankers Magazine in its issue of to
day declares that from July 20 to
July 30 the depreciation in 357 repre
sentative securities dealt in on the
London Stock Exchange amounted to
$940,000,000, the fall being greatest
in British and foreign funds.
HARRISBURG, PA.,
KAISER WILHELM DER GROSSE SUNK BY
BRITISH CRUISER OFF AFRICAN COAST;
PARIS PREPARING FOR POSSIBLE SIEGE
{ FRENCH ARMY CHIEFS AND GUNS ON WHICH THEY DEPEND TO BEAT GERMANS
At the right are Generals Joffre and Fau, both of whom fought, and lost an arm, in the Franco-Prussian War
of 1870. At the right are the remarkable guns on which the French generals are now basing their hopes of
turning back the present German advance into France. These guns are a new invention. They have never seen
use previous to the present war. No other nation in the world has guns of a similar character. They are
equipped with a pneumatic recoil and can fire 150 shells almost as quickly as an automatic revolver.
Juvenile Track Meet on Island
to Be Real "Society" Event
Girl Playground Instructors to Take Hosts of Be-Ribboned
Lasses to See the Sport
Plenty of Incentive to do one's very,
very best on track and on field will
be on hand in new starched frock and
hair ribbons to-morrow afternoon at
island- playgrounds when the annual
inter-playground athletic meet will be
held.
Only the boy athletes will partici
pate in the events of course but from
BE MM TRIES
TO KILL MOTHER AT
MIFFLIiIIRG HOME
Arthur Aurand, While Demented,
Fires Two Pistol Shots at
* Aged Parent
Miffllnburg. Pa., Aug. 27. —Mifflin-
burg people last evening were thrown
into great excitement by the report
that a murder had been committed In
the town. It was stated that Arthur
Aurand had killed his aged mother
and a crowd of nearly 800 went to the
home, when it was found that the
attempt had not been successful and
that Mrs. Aurand was not seriously
wounded.
! Aurand yesterday afternoon was at
Mazeppa, several miles east of Mifflin
! burg, when he was taken 111 and his
| mother went to that place and brought
I him to his home. For several years
; he lias been subject to spells of in
| sanity and about three years ago he
I was sent to the State hospital at Dan
ville for treatment. A year aso he
j was returned to his home as cured.
: On returning home yesterday he be-
I haved in a rational manner and after
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New Commerce Chamber
Secretary Here Tomorrow
Members of the Harrisburg Cham
ber of Commerce will meet their new
secretary. E. L,. McColgin, to-morrow.
Mr. McColgin. whs succeeds Robert
M. Wadsworth, is coming here earlier
than expected. Secretary Wadsworth
! retired Monday.
j Harrisburg's new secretary comes
strongly recommended. Mr. McCol
gin is a native of Missouri where he
acquired considerable business experi
ence. He was in the service of the
Standard Oil Company, general office
of the National Packing Company and
for several years with the Chicago,
Burlington and Qulncy Railroad.
Mr. McColgin has been in commer
cial organization work for five years.
Since he took up the work in Norfolk,
I Secretary McColgin has been instru
mental in landing several new indus
i tries and helped bring about legisla
tion which has brought much proml
| nence to that city in the commercial
| world.
STRICKEN IN STREET
, Mrs. Elizabeth Shoop, 1818 Wood
. street, had a heart attack in Market
j Square this morning. She was taken
i to the Harrisburg Hospital.
THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1914.
j -he stands they will he cheered and
applauded by the scores of small
sweethearts and sisters whom they
played with all summer. For the play
ground supervisor. J. K. Staples, has
planned an Innovation this year by in-,
viting the girl Instructors to bring
their entire force of girl charges to
the meet. So it's to be rather a so
ciety as well as an athletic event.
SIXTEEK FIRST TO
SE PHOTOGRAPHED Oil
CITY FRONT STEPS
Graduates of Soldiers' Orphan
School Set Pace For Original
Convention Picture
Sixteeners, Photographed on the
"Front Steps of Harrisburg," Au
gust 27. 1914.
That inscription will appear on the
records of the Sixteeners—graduates
at sixteen of the soldiers' orphans'
schools —along with the photograph of
the annual convention now being held
in this city.
And incidentally the fact itself will
go down in Harrisburg's history as t'.ie
first gathering of delegates to any con
vention to have "their picture taken''
on the long flight of steps that will be
so important a feature of Harrisburg's
river front.
Heretofore the convention folks al
ways went up to the Capitol to be
photographed; it remains for the Six
teeners to set the pace for originality.
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Patriotic Sons of City
and Steelton Go to York
Washington Camp, No. 8, Patriotic
Order Sons of America, accompanied
by Canjp 102, of Steelton, left this
morning on a special train over the
Pennsylvania Railroad at 8.30 for
York, where they will participate in
the parade which is being held In that
city in connection with the annual
State convention. Headed by the
West End Band, Camp 8 inarched
down Third street this morning and
were met by the Steelton delegation
at the Square. They then proceeded
down Market street to the Pennsylva
nia station. Camp 8 members wore
white linen suits. The famous Conti
nentals also formed part of the dele
gation.
Waynesboro Folk to
Come Here Saturday
Folks from Waynesboro will visit
Harrisburg Saturday, the day of the
annual excursion of the Waynesboro
shopmen and their families to this
city. Three special trains will be run.
Arrangements have been made by the
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce to
have open house for the visitors.
On Saturday, September 5. an ex
cursion will be run from Chambers
burg.
NORWEGIAN STEAMER
BLOWN UP BY MINE,
EIGHT MEN KILLED
Dead Men Were Literally Torn to
Pieces by Gigantic Explosion
in North Sea
By Associated Press
London, Aug. 27, 2.46 p. m.—The
Norwegian steamer Gottfried has been
blown up in the North Sea by a float
ing mine. Eight members of her crew
lost their lives.
The captain of the trawler and
three others were picked up from
floating wreckage and brought into
Shields by the fishing boat Norden.
Oflicers of the latter say they were
alarmed all through the night by dis
tant explosions, which followed each
other at intervals from 9 p. m. until
I a. m. At about 6 in the morning
the lookout on the Norden sighted and
picked up a man floating on a plank.
He declared that the Gottfried had
been blown up three hours earlier
and had gone down immediately with
eight members of the crew. The dead
men had been literally blown to
pieces.
Later the captain of the Gottfried
was found floating in a life belt and
two others of her crew were rescued
from floating wreckage.
The Norwegian steamer Gottfried
was built at Stockholm in 1899 and
had a gross tonnage of 425 and she
was HO feet long. She was owned in
Haugesund, Norway.
Osteopaths Establish
Clinics in Churches
Special lo Tlic Telegraph
Philadelphia, Aug. 27.—A new fea
ture was added to the work being
done at the Osteopathic Dispensary,
when a free clinic for the osteopathic
treatment of catarrhal deafness was
opened and eight adults received
treatment.
Free clinics for the osteopathic
treatment of diseases of children will
be established in various churches in
this city by members of the local pro
fession, trecording to an announcement
made yesterday by Dr. Ira W. Drew,
professor of pediatrics at the Phila
delphia College of Osteopathy.
Alderman Herbert Is . .
Police Court Magistrate
Alderman George D. Herbert, of
the Twelfth ward, presided over police
court this afternoon.
Minnie Whitney, charged with dis
orderly conduct, was fined $3. Thomas
Washington, colored, who borrowed
the automobile of Dr. Park Deckard,
709 North Third street, and went on a
joy ride last night, was ordered to pay
damages and a fine of s.l. The auto
mobile ran into a telegraph pole. Nor
man Walker, charged with soliciting
subscriptions for the Ladies' Home
Journal without authority, was held
for court to answer a charge of false
pretense.
Alderman Herbert also heard
Thomas McGonlgal, arrested last night
by Detective Ibacli and Jack Welsh,
on a charge of highway robbery. H.
H. Thomas identified McGonlgal as
one of two men who held him up last
night near Seventh and Kelker streets
and robbing him of $26 In money and
his watch.
REED'S MOTION DEFEATED
By Associated Press
Washington, Aug. 27. Senator
Reed's motion to include a Jail penalty
in the "holding company" provision
of the Clayton trust bill was defeated
29 to 22 to-day In the Senate.
12 PAGES.
GERMANS OCCUPY
THREE FRENCH CITIES;
RUSSIANS RUSHING IN
Lille, Well Fortified, Is Evacuated Without a
Shot; Belgians Report Successes; Russia
Pressing Forward Toward Possen and Berlin;
Diplomatic Relations Between Austria and
Japan Officially Severed; Doubt Exists as
to Whether AH Namur Forts Have Fallen.
London, Aug. 27, 4.12 p. m.—The Kaiser Wilhelm Der
Grosse has been sunk off the west Coast of Africa by the
British cruiser High Flyer.
The Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse was one of the palatial
steamers of the North German Lloyd Line. At the out-
I break of the war she was converted into an armed cruiser
i and since has been reportedactive in searching for Brit
ish merchantmen. She has a tonnage of 14,349 and was
built in 1897. She was 626 feet long with a beam of 66
feet.
It was on this vessel that the late Mayor Gaynor of New
York was shot as he was about to sail for Europe. Many
Harrisburgers have traveled to and from Europe abroad
her.
Paris, Aug. 27, 3.52 p. m.—Paris, it was officially an
nounced to-day, is preparing for a possible siege. The
matter was discussed by the Minister of War, Alexander
Millerand, with the'subordinates of his department and
steps were taken to determine the exact measures neces
sary to place the city in a state to withstand an attack and
invasion.
London, Aug. 27. 7.05 A. M.—lt is officially an
nounced says the St. Petersburg correspondent of ,
j. the Exchange Telegraph Company that the Russian
advance is proceeding in Prussia with irresistible
force. The Germans have retreated to Osterode, a
town of East Prussia, 100 miles west Gumbinnen.
Galveston, Texas, Aug. 27. —An official state
ment from the British consulate here to-day said
three British warships have been sent at full speed
to protect cotton and oil traffic in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Germans have occupied the French cities of Lille, Valen
ciennes and Roubaix, according to a dispatch from Ostend, Belgium,
which passed through the hands of the censor at London. All three
[cities are situated within a few miles of the Belgian frontier and
| Lillie is strongly fortified. Valenciennes is a military station of
j less importance, while Roubaix is known chiefly as a manufactur
| ing center.
Exact knowledge of the importance of this movement awaita
official confirmation. Earlier dispatches from Ostend quoted a Bel
gian officer as authority for the statement that the Allies had de
f Continued on Pnge 8] (Other War News Pages 3, 7, 8)
,CIROUE DE PARIS i
lIIKES Oil ASPECT I
OF HUMAN STABLE
2,500 Refugees Sleep on Floor of
Wide Foyers, Which Are
Covered With Straw
By Associated Press
" Parish Aug. 27. Tho Cirque De
Paris, where the crowd of Belgian
refugees has grown to 2,500, has taken
on the aspect of a human stable. The
floors of the wide foyers are covered
with straw, which has become wet,
and the homeless and poverty
stricken people may be seen lying
about. Nurses of the Red Cross,
priests, soldiers and doctors are con
stantly moving among the crowd,
ministering to their wants.
Inside the amphitheater were chil
dren of all ages, sizes and descriptions.
The scarcity of baggage was notice
able. The evening meal consisted of
a slice of bread, with a piece of beef
and afterwards black coffee was
served.
An old man, sitting In a corner on
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CHURCHILL IMS
! COMMONS OF SINKING
OF KAISER WILHELM
Survivors, He Says Were Landed
Before Vessel Went Down;
Britons Lose Six Men
By Associated Press
London, Aug. 27. —Winston Spencei
Churchill, First Lord of the Admir
alty, announced the linking of the
Kaiser Willielm Der tirosse In the
House of Commons to-day: He said:
"The Admiralty lias just received
Intelligence that the German armed
merchant cruiser Kaiser WlUielm Der
Grosse of I I,(MM) tons and armed with
ten four-inch guns, has been sunk hy
the 11. M. S. Hljjli Flyer off the west
coast of Africa.
"Tills Is the vessel which has been
Interfering' with traffic between this
country and the Cape ami Is one of the
very few German armed auxiliary
cruisers which succeeded in getting to
scu. The survivors were landed be
fore the vessel sank. The High Flyer
had one killed and five wounded."