Russians Bombard Koenigsberg and Section of German City Is in Flames HARRISBURG OSlSll TELEGRAPH LXXXIII— No. 216 lONDUCTORS WILL FIGHT ALL CHANGE IN FUUJREW ACT ). R. C. Wants Safety Laws That Will Protect Patrons and Employes '0 WORK WITH THE B. R. T. Vill Urge Closer Car Inspection and Daily Reports to Fix Accident Blame Greater safety for employes and atrons will be feature clauses in the iws which the Order of Railway Oon uctors will ask the legislature to ass next year. After four days' dc beratlons in Harrisburg the legis itive committee of the Order of Rail ay Conductors adjourned last even ig to meet at the call of the chalr isn. The conductors endorsed the em lo.ves' compensation act and the child ibor act. now in force. It was de ided to oppose anv effort to change ne full crew bill. The conductors ill also join with the Rrotherliood of railroad Trainmen in an effort to rocure the passage of a. bill govern lg operation of train. One bill to be resented will make compulsory the ispection of all cars by competent lechanics and dally reports of the re lit of these inspections. To Fix Blame Ry keeping in close touch with the andling of cars the conductors are of [Continued on Page 111 amateur Aviator Dashes Through High Tension Wires 1 Sfecial to Tl'r Trlrgrnfh pelinserove. Pa.. Sept. 11.-—Emory alieir, of Sunbury. an aviator, while inking experimental flights on the ational Guard encampment ferotinds ere this morning dashed through igh-tension electric wires and nar twly escaped being killed. Cutting ' the wires shhut down many fae >ries on account of the loss of power. THE WEATHER | For Hardibari; nnd rlclnltyi Sliowern tliln afternoon, to-night nml probably Sntiirdnyj nllshtly wurrnfr to-nlcht. For KnNtern Pfunaylvanlai Shower* fo-nlurht nnd probably Satiirnyi ftllslitly unrmer to-nljclitj mod. prnJe enntorly wlmla. Hlver The main river will fnil aloivly to niulit nnd probably Saturday. A Mtngc of about 1.4 feet In Indleat ed for IlnrrlMburu Saturday niorn- Inc. (rcnernl < omlltlona The renter of the disturbance thnt «an lorn ted over Noutbwefrt Kan «NM, Thuraday niornlnc, IION mov ed nortbcaitward to Kentucky. It linn en u«*ed nbnuer* In the lant twenty-four bourn In the Mlnsln »l|»pl, l.«wer Mlftwonrl nnd Lower Oblo Including: Tennea *ec, nnd over the i&renter pnrt of the I.nke ri'tslon. the Iteavleat rain reported. 2.12 Inehew. foiling nt Kan*na City. Mlaaourl. It IN noniewhnt warmer In the Ohio nnd Middle Wlaalaalppl valley* nnd over nearly nil the country went of the Rocky Mountain.* and 4 to IO tleffreea eooler In Florida nnd Knatern Statea. Temperirlurei S n. m„ 52, Sunt HlneM, r»t4l a. n».; aeta, 6:22 p. ni. Moon: Hlaea, 0.31 p. m. niier StnKes 1.5 feet above low w nter mark. cwterday'a \\ eat her llliclteM tempernture, 70. 1.0 went tempernture, 4r>. Mean temperature, 58. \ormnl temperature, <l7. VOTERS ! Every voter should bear these I days in mind, if he wants to vote I in November. TJAST DAV To pay taxes, October S. REGISTRATION DAYS September 15, October 3. ' Late News Bulletins BELGIANS PURSUING GERMANS London. Sept. 11. 2.10 P. M.— A dispatch to the Exchange Tele graph Company from Ghent says Ilia! Belgian troops art- pursuing i< flornian army corps which Is marching towards France. An engage ment has taken place on the right hank of the Scheldt In the triangle formed by Audenard. Courtral and Kcnals. The Germans are said to have completely evacuated the region of the Scheldt between Antwerp and Ghent. RED CROSS TO SAIL TO-MORROW Washington, Sept. ll.—Captain Rust. t. S. X., retired, command ing the liospltalshlp Red Cross, advised the Navy Department to-day thai the ship would sail from New York for Europe to-morrow. He >aid no difficulty had been experienced in recruiting an American crew. London, Sept. 11. !..*»."» I'. >f. —A Central News dispatch from Rome -ays that telegrams from Berlin state that the evacuation of Upper Alsace by the Germans continues. They are withdrawing to strasshnrg and 'Met/,, It Is admitted that the German army in France Is extremely fatigued whereas the enemy is continually receiving fresh troops. > Pay ton. Ohio, Sept. ll.—AVoolfolk Henderson, of Lexington. Ky„ "On the American handicap here, to-day with a score of 98 out of pos sible 100. Philadelphia, Sept. ll.—The British steamer Manltou sailed to-day for Quebec without cargo. It Is believed the steamer will l>e used to transport troops to Europe. Philadelphia. Sept, 11 Joseph Smallwood Vetterlln, millionaire cigar manufacturer, died at his home here to-day from a complication of diseases. He operated a factor*' In this city. He was 63 years old Kingston. Jamaica, Sept. 11. —The steamer Bethanla was captured by a British cruiser Monday morning when she was three days out of Charleston.. The prize had aboard 600 tons of «-oal and a six months' supply of provisions for the German cruisers Presden and Karleruke. Washington, P. C., Sept. 11.—President. Wilson to-day vetoed the bill to raise the limit, of individual deposits in postal savings banks to S 1,000 because it <-ontalned a provision repealing a. section of the new bank law which provides that federal funds must be deposited only with members of the federal reserve, system. Washington. P. C., Sept. 11.—The llrst general protest against the proposed Increase in the price of mileage tickets In eastern territory was made to-day to the Interstate Commerce/ Commission. UNIVERSITY BRANCH HERE PRACTICALLY ASSUREDALREADY Fifty Students Enroll at Big Mass Meeting; Another Half Hun dred Is Needed WKgvto hHKt ROBERT 3. STERRETT Assistant United States District Attor ney. Among the Speakers. , Before an audience which nearly filled the Technical high school last night the course offered by the Uni versity of Pennsylvania In its exten sion department was clearly explained by four of the university professors, [Continued on Pace ts.] KESOEB ISRAEL TO OPEN JEWISH SCHOOL j WITH»STUDENTS Rabbi Album, of Philadelphia, in Charge; David Goldberg Heads the Directing Board jßg9Kg|jN. T* DAVID GOLDBERG Who Will Preside Over the New Jewish School Board At a largely attended meeting o! members of Kesher Israel congrega tion at the synagogue. State and Fourth streets, last night, plans were [Continued on Pago 11] HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1914. "NOW, DIG UP WHAT MY TARIFF LAW COST YOU!" DR. LEWIS PERFORMS A SERVICE FOR DR. BRUMBA UGH T IFrom the Philadelphia Public ledger. Independent In Polities.] H sv?' I fj*4£ awal ot p»*n L-ewU, the Progressive candidate for Oov.r --»?:.«■ of Vance C. Mccormick, the Democratic nominee, Is a doltic on i ?/L.' J is not strange that the Washington party should be wh2?.ti "£ lb,e . to al £ the Democrats, fOr that has been its rule every diaitSii. the conn try. But Doctor and his party pretend his with i"? 4 , Primarily to help McCormlck, hut rather to injure Penrose. rMPhif ti i ratiocination even the learned and philosophic Dean reaches this conclusion is not clear. ev Kilii " not hurt Brumbaugh. for the Dean's man fJlZ l,c *n •upporters greatly outnumber the ex-Democrats, and every «m ?' t h «-n>—with very few exceptions—once released bv the Dean . Brumbaugh. And why not?. Doctor Bmmhaunh la aa good ri.flnn .Jm?. "". Doo *» r Leirla ever claimed to he, and la hi, peer In edu -11. J " nd 'nteßrltj-i moreover, he warmly raponaei all <■!£.£— d dortrtaea wh'eh the Dean no ably represented, and will execute them with equal fidelity. ™.,r T £ 2.3l t .? 0 D ed observer of Bull Moose affairs It would appear the wa> to strike Penrose would be to pull off Pinchot. There mav be a few thousand enthusiasts In the State who intend to vote for Mr. Pinchot dis regarding his residential delinquency, who would vote for Palmer, if'pin c not were off the (rack. perhapa after all, the Dean In not an anxloua to hurt Brumbaugh ? Jf. 5 to cheatnuta out of the Are for a enteric of din credited ex-Hepubllean-boßneß-now-poalnK-aa-tiod-and-morality-rernrinera! TEACHERS' INSTITUTE AT CENTRAL HIGH Doctors Becht and Chancellor Will Be Instructing Staff For First Day The first day of the nineteenth an nual Harrisburg teachers' Institute will be held in the Central High School to-morrow. Instructors will be Dr. J. George Becht, secretary of the State Board of Education, and Dr. AVilliam E. Chancellor, of New York. The officers and committee chairman are: F. E. Downes, presi dent; J. J. Brehm, vice-president; P. IJ. Hocker, recording secretary; C. B. Fager, Jr., executive: S. P. Stam baugh, resolutions: D. D. Hammel baugh, auditing; J. F. Ferguson, nomi nating; Virginia Hoaglanci, library; E. G. Rose, music; and G. S. Machen, : welfare of teachers. The program will be as follows: Morning Session—Music, Professor iE. G. Rose, director; devotional exer cises, the Rev. E. E. Snyder: "The Teacher as a Social Engineer," Dr. Chancellor; recess; music; "Teaching Pupils.to Think," Dr. Becht. Afternoon Session —Music, Professor Rose; "Life More Abundant," Dr. Chancellor; recess; music; "The Health of Teacher and Pupil," Dr. Becht; announcements. Want a Cannon? Take a Trip to Virginia, and You Can Get Buried One Somewhere in a inlllrace that flows by Cedar Creek, a town in Virginia, is a cannon. This valuable relic of the War of the Rebellion has been imbedded in the. mud in the bottom of the stream for n half century. No one knew it was there until last, week when the water WHS run off and the cannon was discovered. The water was run in again and the cannon is still there awaiting a claimant. F. T. Reid, of Cedar Creek, who was in Harris burg on Wednesday, says he will let anyone get to the cannon, for the folks in his town do not seem to care to dig the valuable relic out of the mud and water. Mr. Reld came to Harrisburg to meet some friends from the West. During his stay in flarrlsburg. Mr. Reid went to the Capitol and saw the cannon on exhibi tion there. Me thought perhaps the relit- in Cedar Creek would be a good thing to have around the Capitol of Pennsylvania. CAR HITS \I'TO The fender of an automobile owned by Frank It. Downey, of Camp Hill, was bent this afternoon when he drove too near the New Cumberland car at Second and Walnut streets. SEWS OF STATE TO GATHER HERE Important Conference Will Be Held at the State Capitol During Three Days Next Week Pennsylvania's laws governing su pervision of weights and measures, under which all but a few of the coun ties and cities of the State have named sealers and halted considerable "short selling," and the new State schedule of tolerance for goods liable to evapo rate, will be discussed by the sealers of the State at a convention here Sep tember 15, 16 and 17. It will be the third conference of the kind, but ow ing to operation of new laws will be the most important. A number of suggestions are expected to be offered. Henry Houck, Secretary of Internal Affairs, and Mayor John K. Royal, of Harrlsburg, will welcome the sealers and Harry A. Boyer, Dauphin county sealer, president of the association, will present a review of the year in his address. James Sweeney, chief of the Bureau of Standards and secre tary of the association, will also speak. The subjects assigned for discus sion include scales, by W. H. Dunn, city sealer of Altoona; municipal in spection, past and present, Joseph R. Gordon, Erie; necessity of uniform laws In marking package goods. B. Frank Rlnn, Allentown; the proper way to sell potatoes. John F. Mc- Groarty, county sealer, Luzerne; field work of an Inspector, W. L. Jansen, city sealer, Scranton, with an address by Louis A. Fischer, chief of the Di vision of Weights and Measures, Washington. Throughout the. convention there will be general discussions on the sub jects and at the final session new of ficers will be chosen. Mr. Boyer has been making the ar-j rangements and expects the largest attendance of any similar gathering. The sessions will be held at the Capi tol. and as the sealers have had marked success In enforcing the acts, the statements will be exceptionally interesting. Church Council to Join in Local Option Fight Harrlsburg's Civic Council of Churches will join hands with the No-License League of Dauphin County and the Anti-Saloon League in the campaign for local option. This ac tion was taken at a meeting of the Civic Council of Churches held In Zion Lutheran Church. Fourth and Black berry streets. At the same meeting James W. Barker and Wilmer.Crow • ere endorsed for the Lefislature. OR.M.O.BRUMBIUOO ACCEPTS MTITI TO SPEAK IT GRATZ Will Be in Harrisburg Wednesday Morning and Tour Upper End Towns Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, Repub lican candidate for Governor, has ac cepted the invitation of the Gratz Fair Association to deliver an address at that big gathering next Wednes day afternoon, September 16. He will arrive in Harrisburg early in the morn ing of that day and will be at the Commonwealth Hotel between 9 and 10 o'clock, when he will leave by au tomobile for a tour of the upper end of the county. His itinerary in full follows: Leave Harrisburg at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning, September 16; Fort Hunter, 10.20; Heekton Mills, 10.35; Dauphin, 10.50; Speeceville, 11.10; Halifax. 11.35, remaining for reception and lunch; Fishervllle, 1 o'clock; Dietrich, 1.10; Elizabethville, 1.25; Bern'sburg, 1.40; Gratz Fair, 2.15, where bv spe cial invitation of the Fair Association Dr. Brumbaugh will make an address and meet the voters; leave Gratz In time to arrive at Wllliamstown at 5 o'clock for speech and reception; Ly kens and Wiconisco speech and recep tion at 5.50, where stop will be made for supper; Loyalton, 6.45; Elizabeth ville meeting and reception, 7 o'clock; Rife, 7.30; Millersburg meeting and re ception, 8 o'clock. Lawyers to Endorse Judge Kunkel Without Regard to Party Lines All the lawyers of the Dauphin county bar who reside in Harrisburg will meet at 10 o'clock Tuesday morn ing in No. 1 courtroom. The session has been called for the purpose of endorsing the candidacy of President Judge George Kunkel, of the Dauphin County Courts, for ele vation to the Supreme bench. The endorsement will be made, it is un derstood, by the entire bodv of law yers regardless of party affiliations. Governor Tener Says "Fusion Can Not Affect Result" Governor John K. Tener said to day, when asked his opinion of the fusion arrangement on McCormick: "While It may unite elements opposed to the Reptibfcan candidates with those who exist only in the hope of obtaining office, it cannot affect the result. Brumbaugh and Penrose are assured of substantial majorities. "The Progressive party in Pennsyl vania has about petered out and it looks as though those who remain are not familiar with their own party platform and Roosevelt's speeches about the national Democratic Admin istration." AMUNDSEN POSTPONES TRIP Correspondence of the Associated Press Christiana, August 14. Roald Amundsen, the discoverer of the South Pole, who was to sail on his north pole expedition next summer, has postponed his expedition for a year and if the war should last very long he may give up his plans entirely. The members of the expedition are all en rolled In the army and cannot get leave of absence until peace Is restor ed. AtTO KILLS BLACK CAT One black cat met its death when hit by an automobile In Market street near Front this afternoon. The cat was hurled twenty feet. . » 16 PAGES » POSTSCRIPT. Successes Are Claimed by Allies and Germans; Koenigsberg Bombarded Conflicting Reports Received From Headquarters of Var ious Armies and Embassies in Washington; Greatest Battle in History Rages East of Paris; French Say Germans Have Been Thrown Back From 40 to 50 Miles London, Sept. 11, 1.03 P. M.—ln a dispatch from Copenhagen the correspon dent of the Reuter Telegram Company says that General Von Beneckendorff und Von Hindenburg has defeated the left flank of the Russian army in East Prussia with his eastern army, and has thereby opened the way for an attack on the enemy's rear. The Russians are said to have abandoned their resistance and to be in full retreat with the German eastern army pursuing them in a northerly direction toward Memel. Official German advices received in Washington declare that tne Germans held their own in two days' fighting east of Paris, cap turing fifty guns and several thousand prisoners, but retired the flank upon the advance of strong hostile columns. Earlier dispatches from Berlin represented the Germans as having lost fifty guns and several thousand prisoners. 1 he French embassy at Washington has received reports from Rordeaux of marked advances against the German right wing, these appear to he based on statements by the French ministry of war made public last night. To-day it is announced in Paris that the Germans have retired in some places forty or fifty miles. Important news comes from East Prussia where the Russians appear to have made little if any progress since the reverse at Allen, ftein. They are now reported'to be bombarding the strongly for tified capital of Koenigsberg. There are indications, however, that Germans are arriving in force and moving toward Koenigsberg. A dispatch from Petrogad says that Germans from the west concen trated on the banks of River Alle and are marching in an easterly direction while the Russian advance guard is retreating. The Alle river flows north. GENERAL RETIREMENT CONTINUES A general retirement of the Germans east of Paris continues according to a statement this afternoon by the War Information Bureau in London. It is said that Rritish troops yesterday cap tured 1.500 prisoners and several guns. A dispatch from Rotterdam says that an official German com munication denies that forces at Prezemsyl is surrounded by Russians or that the Russian forces are advancing on Cracow, as has been represented at Petrograd and London. Renewed activity by the German navy in the Baltic is indicated in reports from Berlin and elsewhere. Nish reports that Servian forces have occupied Semlin, a town of Austria-Hungary from which the Austrians began their original attack on Servia. Servian and Montenegrin troops have effected a juncture and begun a march on Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. Eight French physicians arriving in Rotterdam, after attend ing both French and German wounded declare they found no evi dence of the use of dumdum bullets by either side. Thq Turkish Minister of War, Enver Pasha, is reported from Athens to have been wounded in a revolver duel with the Crown Prince of Turkey. Earlier advices from Constantinople were that Enver Pasha was confined to his home suffering from blood pois oning. A dispatch from Basel, Switzerland, says that the French havo recaptured Muelhausen. Old Woman Led French to Barn Where Thirty Germans Were Sleeping Paris, Sept. 11, 6.50 a. m. —During the third day's fighting in the battle on the Marne a detachment of ' the French, which had chaseti the enemy out of a village, was hailed by an old woman, who led them to a barn where there was still thirty Germans, telling them to make no noise, as they were asleep. A man crept noiselessly into the barn and found the Germans sleeping so soundly that It took half an hour and a tremendous shaking to wake them. One explained that he had not slept for three days. They had been harassed by the French and English and the eve before they had entered the barn, where they all fell asleep from sheer exhaustion. Pontoons Swept Away by Fire From French London, Sept. 11, 3.45 A. M.—The Paris correspondent of the Express quotes a message received from the front stating that the allies at last have got into their stride. "The passage of Marne has cost the Germans dear." the message says. "They fought their way step by step, tired though they were, but at the Marne the 7th French army got in. The German pontoonss were no sooner erected than they were swept away by the French artillery fire. The Ger mans held on steadfastly, but lost heavily and finally succeeded In get ting across the river under a torrent of fire. The British army was not so heavily engaged during the day. There are approximately 1,600,000 men in the allies' fighting lines." Many Germans Are Cat Off From Main Army liondon, Sept. 11. 3 a. m.—A Paris dispatch to the Dally Chronicle says: "In the haste of the Germans latest retrograde movement many regiments of Germans have been cut off and re main In the wooded country within the triangle of Selis, Goettsberg and Dammartin. Tt is believed that they amount In all to about one army corps. They have been cut off from the main body by the allies' lines between Com pelgne and Meaux and their situation Is precarious." , Medical Officers Say Germans Leave Hospitals Before Wounds Heal By Associated Press Rotterdam, via London, Sept. 11, 4.15 a. m.—The eight French medical officers who were captured by the Germans In Namur, Put who later were released and are here on their way back to France my way of Eng land save some interesting sidelight* on the situation in the field from their standpoint as surgeons. "We were obliged to work with the Ger mans, one of them said. "Most of the wounded were anxious to return to the fight as soon as possible. We saw no evidence of men wounded bv dumdum bullets on either side. Wo found the medical services of both the Germans and the allies excellent, but we regret that the German wounded were often discharged from the hos pltals too early. In some cases their wounds had not sufficiently healed and after their discharge the wounds were open again and complications set in. "Many of the wounded on both sides were obliged to be In the field for days after they were Injured be cause it was difficult tt> find them ow ing to the bushes, trees and other obstacles." Paris Well Satisfied With Success of Allies By Associated Press Paris. Sept. 11, 6.45 a. m.—The tone of comment In the morning papers on the result of the four days' fight In the great battle of Champagne, is one of lively satisfaction, The successes, it is admitted, do not mean that the battle lias been won, but. the gain of forty miles on the German left increases the jeopardy on their line of communica tion and must cause, It Is considered, a demoralization of the enemy's tired forces. As yet there is no indication that the Germnn army on the Lorraine frontier will be able to get through to help the main force, as last accounts reported that Maubeuge was still holdding out, though several forts hart been placed "hors du combat." The fall of this place might have a great bearing on the result of the battle in opening a ready means of communi cation. (Other War News Pages 7, 14, lfl),
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