Germans Are Moving Thousands of Soldiers to Reinforce Their ■Lines in East
HARRISBURG f lSlllfe TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII — No. 255
-BIG REPUBLICAN
RALLY IT CHESTNUT
STREET AUDITORIUM
TOMORROW EVENING
Governor John K. Tener Will Pre
side and Noted Speakers Will
Discuss Issues of the Campaign
STRONG EFFORTS TO
GET DR. BRUMBAUGH
Adjutant General Thomas J. Stew
art to Speak; Clubs Will Parade
Preceding Meeting
Republicans of Harrisburg and vi
cinity will unite in a great rally at
Chestnut street auditorium to-mor
row evening.
Governor John K. Tener will pre
side and every effort is being made to
have Dr. Brumbaugh brought here
from Lancaster, where he is scheduled
for a talk in the early evening, a spe
cial train being placed at his dis
posal if he can make connections.
Senator Penrose will l>e the first
speaker. He is coming here after a
vigorous campaign that will continue
right up to election day.
Congressman Aaron S. Kreider, who
has developed into one of the very
best campaign speakers in Pennsyl
vania, is also on the program and
there will be speeches by others, in
cluding Adjutant General Thomas J.
Stewart, who is regarded as one of
the brightest and wittiest orators in
the United States.
Clubs Turn Out
The Harrisburg Republican Club
will meet at its headquarters, 26 North
Second street, at 7 o'clock to-morrow
evening, and accompanied by a band
and citizens' corps, will march to the
West End clubhouse, where they will
meet the West End Republican Club
and the Colored Republican Club.
After a short walk-around the pa
raders will enter Chestnut street hall,
where seats will be reserved for them.
The West End Club will meet this
evening to make arrangements for the
turnout.
The county committee, which has
charge of the rally, received word to
day that several special cars will bring
Republicans from Steelton, Enhaut,
and Hlghsplre to attend the rally.
This will be the final meeting of the
campaign in Harrisburg and every in
dication pointß to a big turnout.
MERCURY FALLS TO S3
Cold? It certainly is. Thirty-three
degrees around these parts early this
morning. All over the eastern part
of the United States and as far south
as Texas, according to the weather
bureau, freezing temperature is being
reported. Through Pennsylvania It is
felt the most. In New York State the
first snow fell yesterday. You blame
it on the weather man and he blames
it on the high atmospheric pressure.
He said this morning that the cold
spell will not last a week and that in
the far West it has started to grow
warm again.
I THE WEATHER
For nnrrlMbnru anil vlolnltyt Fnlr
tn-nlttht. with lowfut temperature
about 30 deicreeftt Wednesday fair,
continued oool» moderate norlh
wewt ivlnda.
For Kantern Pennsylvania* Fair to
nlKbt with freezing; temperature;
Wednesday fair, continued eool;
moderate northuent wind*.
River
The main river will continue to fall
Nlnuly to-nlKbt and Wednenday.
A NtaKe of about I.H feet IN Indi
cated for Ilarrlnbura; AVednenday
morning;*
Note—The alow rlae In the river at
llarrlnhiirK during: the lnnt few
day* waa canned by the irrndunl
CIOMIUK of the low dam under con
atruction a ahort dlntance below
the river KBUKC.
General Conditions
The strong? hlgrh prenaure area from
the Weat haw overnprend the
icreater part of the eautern half
of the country and now covera
nearly all the territory ca*t of
•the Rocky Mountains, except the
Atlantic coaMt region. Itnln has
fallen In North Carolina and
Florida, being; heavy on the
Florldn weat coast, and llfcht pre
cipitation In the form of ruin and
snow haa occurred In the lake
refflon and Upper Ohio Valley
and thence eantward to the At
lantic coaat. A ffeneral fall of 4
to 20 decree* In temperature ha*
occurred over nearly all the coun
try eaat of the Rocky Mountalna.
Temperatures 8 a. m., 32.
Sunt Rises, <lt2o a. m.| sets, stlo
p. m.
Moons Fall moon, November 2,
«i: 19 p. m.
River 1.8 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather y
Hlffheat temperature, 01.
I.oweat temperature, 48.
Mean temperature, 83.
Normal temperature, RO.
the Line Hard"
"Don't flinch, don't fool, buck
the line bard, don't be a molly
coddle."
This old-time appeal of a fa
tmous American is good advice
to business men In these times.
Business Is no gams for weak
lings.
This Is the time to go after
business and go after it hard.
This Is the time to produce, to
■ell—TO ADVERTISE.
Across the line is a goal—the
goal of good times, of prosperity,
of the best business America has
known in a generation.
Let us paraphrase that quo
tation and make it real.
Go after bualnea*. don't falter,
advertise—don't be a mollvcod
• die.
DU.G.BRUMBWH
REPUDIATES Mil
OF PERSONAL LIBERTY
PARTY NAMING HIM
Did Not Know He Had Been Nomi
nated Until Oct. 22; Is Trying
to Get Name Off; Makes a
Pledge
By Associated Press
Philadelphia, Oct, 27.—1)r. Martin
G. Brumbaugh, Republican candidate
for (iovernor, to-day issued a state
ment, repudiating the action of the
Personal liberty party in making him
its candidate for governor.
The statement says:
'•I learned for the first time on
October 22, that I was on the
Personal liberty ticket as a nomi
nee for Governor. Xo one ever
suggested to me the intention to
name me 011 tills party's ballot, in
fact 1 did not know there was
such a ballot or such a party. Had
I been consulted or Informed I
should certainly have declined to
the nomination because I sought
only the Republcan nomination.
I do not know what this party
stands for, have never seen its
principles, and know no one in its
organization, but liad learned In
directly that It Is presumably fa
vorable to the liquor interests.
"Immediately after learning
that my name appeared upon this
party's ballot I consulted my at
torneys and directed them to have
my name removed. They, they
have Informed me. is impossible
under present election laws.
"I therefore, hereby and In the
strongest language at my com
mand repudiate utterly Its en
dorsement of me, and pledge my
self, if elected governor to de
mand the Immediate enactment
of such legislation as will make It
absolutely impossible hereafter in
Pennsylvania for any man's name
to be placed upon a ballot without
Ills written consent."
EARTHQUAKES CONTINUE
By Associated Press
Turin, via Rome, Oct. 26. 11.50 P.
M.—Another slight earthquake shock
occurred at G. 20 this afternoon. At
Avigliana, fourteen miles west of Tu
rin, the shocks continued during the
whole day. The population is panic
stricken and Is camping in the open
air, notwithstanding the fact it is in
tensely cold.
PINCHOT HITTING
AT PALMER NOW;
BREAK COMPLETE
Pittsburgh Story Tells How the
Rival Senatorial Candi
dates Fell Out
The compact which has long been
rumored between A. Mitchell Palmer
and Gifford Plnchot to abstain from
thumping each other and to concen
trate their fire on Boles Penrose has
been broken forty ways, says the Phil
adelphia Press to-day in a very cir
cumstantial story from Pittsburgh
The Press story appears to have
been borne out by the manner in
which Roosevelt yesterday attacked
Palmer and by the criticisms Palmer
and Plnchot have been levelling at
each other. The Press says that an
agreement had been reached in Pitts
burgh and declares:
"It now develops that the plan pro
ceeded smoothly until the time for the
second conference which was the day
before the time limit for withdrawal,
October 19. Then William Flinn ap
peared as the Plnchot champion. He
argued strenuously that Palmer should
withdraw for two reasons:
"First, that W. Draper Lewis, the
Washington party candidate for Gov
ernor, had withdrawn in favor of
Vance C. McCormick. Second, that
Roosevelt carried Pennsylvania in the
last Presidential election, and, that
in the event of Palmer's withdrawal,
Roosevelt would come into Pennsylva
nia and make a continuous State-wide
fight for Plnchot until election day.
"In reply to this Palmer pointed to
the meager registration total of the
Progressives and asserted that if Pln
chot were the only candidate the
election of Penrose would be assured.
He maintained that the surest way to
defeat Penrose was to have both him
self and Plnchot remain in the field.
"The conference broke up in a row,
Flinn and his associates declaring that
Palmer was selfish and that they
would show no consideration to him
hereafter.
"This explains the sudden outbreak
of attacks by the Progressives upon
Palmer. It also explains Palmer's
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Democrats Can't Give
State Local Option
"The Democrats pledge local option
in their platform. They pledge some
thing which they know they cannot
deliver." declares Senator W. E. Crow,
Republican State chairman. "From 60
to 65 per cent, of the Democratic nomi
nees for the Legislature were nomi
nated as opponents of local option,
and will so vote. I pledge that every
Republican on the legislative ticket In
Pennsylvania, If elected, will be left
absolutely free and untrammeled to
vote on the liquor question as his
constituents demand."
KXPECT NEWS OF RESIGNATION
Washington, D. C., Oct. 27.—Officials
here to-day expected to hear that the
Mexican national convention at Agues
Calientes had accepted the resignation
of General Carranza as first chief.
HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1914.
FOOLING HIMSELF
300 Men Caught in Mine
by an Explosion of Gas;
Scores Reported Dead
By Associated Press
Ro.valton, 111., Oct. 27.—Three hun
dred men were caught in the Mitchell
mine, near here, by a gas explosion
soon after' the <lav shift entered the
workings tliLs morning. One hundred
men escaped, thirty or forty bodies
had lieen found by rescuers at 11
o'clock and one hundred were known
to lie imprisoned in a lower level
which was burning.
The mine Is a mile from tills town
and the explosion was distinctly heard
MORE THAN 400 NEW
MEMBERS PROCURED
FOR THEJ. W. C. JL
If Present Rate Is Continued, the
Workers Will Get 1,000,
Goal of the Campaign
More than four hundred new mem
bers have been obtained for the
Young Women's Christian Association
by the "Rainbow workers" during the
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Council Holds Nine
Minute Session; Will
Meet Again Wednesday
City Council was In session just nine
minutes this, afternoon and then ad
journed to meet in regular session at
1 o'clock Wednesday of next week in
stead of Tuesday.
At next week's meeting the bids for
the construction of the proposed new
formal entrance and roadway to Reser
voir Park, which City Commissioner
M. Harvey Taylor, superintendent of
parks, will open Monday, will be sub
mitted for approval. The bids which
(Mty Commissioner W. H. Lynch, su
perintendent of streets and public im
provements, received Saturday for
street paving will be submitted at the
same time.
At to-day's session ordinances trans
ferring SI,BOO from the Dock street
bridge fund to the fund for the repair
ing of the State street bridge and S3OO
from the same fund for the construc
tion of a culvert over Spring creek at
Cameron street were offered by Mr.
Lynch. Mr. Lynch also reported that
the city had received $3,877.19 from
the Harrlsburg Railways Company for
paving on the Dock street bridge.
I A letter was received from the
1 mayor of Toronto thanking Harris
-1 burg and its officials for the splendid
I time It accorded the Canadians upon
, their recent visit here.
here. Every one In town, except the
telephone operator, hurried to the
mine mid aid was summoned from
l)n<|iioin and Murpliyshoro. A rescue
car also was sent from Henton.
The work of rescue began quickly
and within less than two hours sev
eral bodies had been taken from tlie
worfiiH^s.
No hope is held out for the 100 men
on the lower level. The flames make
it Impossible for rescuers to reach
tlicin and it Is thought here that ul!
are dead.
12,000 mm
PEOPLE HERE CENSUS
REIURNSWILL SHOW
List Including Nearby Towns Will
Run Nearly 15,000 Names.
It Is Approximated
When the census figures of this city
are tabulated to-night it Is estimated
that the names of between ten and
twelve thousand nonchuch-golng
people will be listed for turning over
to the personal workers' committee
of the Stough party. About 15,000
names of nonchurch members, It Is
estimated, will be on the complete list
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To Redistrict City
For Fire Apparatus
Harrisburg's new motor fire appa
ratus went into service to-day. For
the present it will protect only the dis
tricts covered by the wagons which it
has displace*!. The Friendship com
pany has one tractor and the Good
Will the other. Each will carry 1,000
feet of hose, besides other appliances
used in fighting fires.
Within the next week or two Fire
Chief John C. Kindler will redistrict
the city so that the new motor appa
ratus will have answer more calls.
"CAP." SWARTZ 7.1
Captain Henry A. Swartz, 110 Cum
berland street, quietly celebrated his
73rd birthday a few days ago. He is
well known to every school boy as the
one man he must get by If he plays
truant. Though growing older, the
truant officer Is right on the job and
If you doubt it Just auk the boys.
CONGRESS COULD
HAVE AVOIDED TAX,
DECLARES KREIDER
Useless and Extravagant Expendi
tures Caused Assessment,
Not the War
Congressman Aaron S. Kreider de
livered unother of his rousing speeches
at Union Deposit last evening where
the biggest Republican campaign
meeting in years was held.
Mr. Kreider again declared that the
country would not now be laboring
under the burden of a special Demo
cratic tax if it had not been for the
extravagance of the Democratic Con
gress and he again predicted that as
long as the Democratic party is In
power it will be necessary to assess
this burdensome tax against the con
sumer.
"The revenue laws in force would
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| To Appoint Committee
For Big Improvement
Celebration Next Year
Further plans for observing the pro
posed celebration next year of the com
pletion of Harrisburg's Itiver Front im
provements will likely be discussed at
a meeting next week of the board of di
rectors of the Chamber of Commerce.
The committee which will have charge
of the affair will likely be named, and
perhaps the official date for the ob
servance will be fixed. The time for
the directors' meeting has not been
definitely fixed.
The exeiHitlve committee of the Cham
ber met yesterday and talked over the
body's affairs informally. Sono com
mittees were suggested to arrange for
various lines of the Commerce Cham
j ber's work, but these will not be an
,• nounced until the names are submit
ted to the directors next week.
Data relative to the big river cele
bration Is now being collected and
among other things the possible date
for completion of all the work is being
looked for. It is just possible that July
4 cannot be picked for the big time If
the improvement work Is not entirely
completed by the date.
Italian Citizen League
Vote to Man Who Will
Be For the Workingman
At a meeting of the members, the
Italian Citizens Club of Steelton, pledg
ed themselves to vote for the candi
date who will benefit the working men,
Irrespective of any party. The club
includes: Carmino Magaro, Silvestre
Vetere, Agostina Ruffolo, R. Franco,
Santo Marvlto, P. Lanzino, P. Lavia,
G. Acri, N. Gaudio, S. DeFranco, P.
Magnelli, P. Paese, L. Belllmontl, F.
Morelli, L. Jusl, A. Magaro, A. In
trierl, F. Mfctallo. P. Salerno, F. FeVr
railo, S. Harbuscio, F. Micleli, F. Mar
sico, G. Bruno, E. DeFranco, M. Via
piano, S. Salerno, D. Danza, R. Ma
garo, A. Romano, P. Carricato, A. De-
Franco, Agostino Santanno, P. Flo
rito, M. Fiorto, M. Acrl. P. Perrl, R.
Deluca, F. Conte, F. Acrl, S. Santannu,
V Vancia, F. Francesco, DeMarco
Pasqu&le, A. Michele, P. Lulgi
12 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT
German Line Reported
to Have Been Broken;
Allies Take Offensive
After Long Period of Comparative Inaction, French and
British Resume Operations at Many Points and Claim
Advantages at Several Places; Invaders Driven Back
to German Soil Near Eastern End of Battle Line; Re
sults, However, Are Not Decisive
The unyielding German line, which, for six weeks has been
stretched across France, is said on the authority of the French war
office to have been broken at last. Near the eastern end of the line
in the region beyond Nancy, to-day's French official statement re
ports the invaders have been driven back onto German soil. At other
points over the long line the offensive has been resumed by the allied
forces, after a long period of comparative inaction.
The French claim to have won the advantage in an engagement
at the point where the line sweeps eastward from the north, less than
sixty miles from Paris. Retween Soissons and Berry-au-Bac, to the
east of the bend in the line, heavy fighting has been resumed. Ap
parently the engagement was limited to an artillery duel, the en
trenched positions of the opposing forces forbidding the use of in
fantry.
To the northward, along the Franco, Belgian border the fight
ing continued with undiminished ferocity. Along the Yser, where
the struggle has been most intense, the allies have not drawn back,
says the French official statement while toward the south further
progress has been made between Ypres and Roulers.
As reports filter in from the scene of fighting along the North
Sea, supplementing the unemotional official statements, it became
evidence to-day that the recent battles along the shore of the North
Sea have been the most terrible of the war. From Emperor William,
himself, it is said, came the order that the German advance down the
coast must be continued at any cost, and that Calias must be taken.
The desperate assaults which followed, particularly along the Yser
canal, have few precedents in modern military history.
5,000 GERMANS CROSS CANAL
British newspaper correspondents estimate that some 5,000 Ger
mans succeeded in forcing their way across the canal. They did it at
a frightful cost. Into a hail storm of shrapnel and shot the Germans
charged night after night, only to be cut down by the thousands until
the canal was clogged at points with their bodies. Those who suc
ceeded in forcing their way across came to death grips with their
waiting adversaries, and with rifle shot and bayonet the struggle
went on. Of the Germans who crossed the Yser, according to British
reports few escaped alive.
All reports agree that the fighting in the east continues without
decisive results. The French official statement says that on the river
San and south of Przemysl the Russian offensive is becoming "more
accentuated." The latest official Austrian communications state the
main Russian army is being engaged and that minor successes have
been won by the Germans and Austrians. From Petrograd no
report had come up to early afternoon.
Further fighting in Bosnia is reported from Vienna, where the
claim is made that the Servians have been driven back to Vishnegrad
and that eastern Bosnia is cleared of the enemy.
Although it is impossible to make even a rough estimate of the
sacrifices in men entailed by the war all indications point to an enor
mous total of dead and wounded men. Berlins sends a report that
the French have 400,000 men wounded and incapicitated through ill
ness. Rome relates that what are styled official reports place the
German average of casualties at 10,000 daily.
The condition of General Von Moltke, chief of the German gen
eral staff who was compelled by illness to relinquish his duties is said
in Berlin to be such as to cause no alarm.
German Casualties Said
to Average 10,000 Daily
By Associated Press
Rome, Oct. 26, 1.35 P. M.—Accord
ing to official reports received here
the German casualties daily average
10,000 men in killed and wounded.
All of these slightly or not gravely
wounded an average of from 70 to 80
per cent, return to the ranks after a
relatively short time.
J
1 FOUR KILLED BY COLLAPSE « (
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 27.—Four persons are known
to have been killed and several others are missing as the
collapse to-day of a building at Sampson, Alabama, 125 miles ' |
south of this city. !
EARTHQUAKE IN FLORENCE
Florence, Italy, Oct 27, via Rome 12.21 P. M. A
6evere earthquake was felt in this city to-day.
The inhabitants were thrown into a condition of panic
but the shock did littla damage.
WARSHIP IN FLAMES
Berlin, Oct. 27, (By Wireless) —Reports received here
from Rotterdam set fori'i th-:t the British.warship struck by
German artillery fire off the coast of Belgium broke into
flames. i'i information •. !v n >-Jt in Berlin to-day.
RESCUERS FIND TWEN FY-FIVE BODIES
Royal ton, Oct. "7.— This afternoon rescuers said they
could see at least twenty-five bodies on the upper level of <
; the ill-fated mine. Rescuers sought to check the flames in
the lower level by dropping blankets soaked with water.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Charlea A. Kllnger and Allrr Market, Washington <townnhlp.
< hnrlrn Bdnard Nparvrr and Katharine Cllialwth Maateraon, Hty,
Jamra Karneat Decker and Alice Mabel Kline, city.
Germans Taken From
American Tugboat
By Associated Prtss
St. John, N. 8.. Oct. 27.—The Amer
ican tug Security, owned by the Stand
ard Oil Company, was boarded yes
terday afternoon by a detail of eight
men from the Sixty-second regiment
and four of the crew were removed.
One a naturalized citizen was released.
The other three, all Germans, wera
detained.