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HARRISBURG ifSSllll TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII— Xo. 271
[ SOME OF THE EXHIBITS WHICH HELP TO MAKE THE "SAFETY FIRST" EXHIBIT THE GREATEST EVER HELD HERE)
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De nilca >** in Tne> aie used bj cement manufacturers in fuller mills to grind coal, reak and cement. They weigh 300 pounds apiece.
1.825 TRAIL HITTERS
«CHESSIOII
Of This Number 674 Are Adults;
361 Men; Others Were
Children
Trailhitters in the Stough campaign
vho have signed confessional pledge
cards up to the present time total
1.825.
This number includes 862 children
who came forward at the mass meet
ing Saturday. November V, several
hundred at the small meetings held for
children at various places by Miss
Eggleston and 074 persons who signed
the cards at the tabernacle, 861 being
men. These cards are kept on record
by the Stough party and referred for
permanent filing with the co-operatinj,
churches of the city.
All the auxiliary activities of the
assistant members of the party are in
full swing and meetings are being held
every day in many sections of the city
and neighborhood for all classes of
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CYCLIST FRACTURES SKI LL
Vaudeville Actor's Wife Faints When
Slie Sees Husband Fall
Alfrer Beltord, 28 years old. of Ber
lin, Germany, trick cyclist at the Or
pheum this week, is in the Harris
burg hospital suffering from a frac
tured skull as the result of a fall dur
ing his part of the act. Doctors at
the hospital say that he will recover.
The accident occurred about 10:30
o'clock, just after the beginning of
the act. His wife, who is one of the
company, said this morning that the
accident was' caused by her husband's
loot catching between the frame and
the handle bars of the bicycle. She
fainted when he fell, and one of the
women in the audience fainted. The
curtain was dropped almost imme
diately. Mr. Belford was taken to the
hospital. His condition is reported
good.
ROAD SUPERVISORS TO MEET
The Dauphin County Supervisors'
Association will meet Thursday at 3.30
o clock in the Courthouse.
The opening address will be given
by E. D. Messner, president of the
association. The election of officers
will follow.
Other speakers will be John C. Niss
ley, Frank B. Bosch, J. W. Hunter
lirst deputy of the State Highwav De
partment; M. S. Brlnser, J. B. Rowe,
8. H. Grove and District Attoraev
il. W. Stroup.
CMPEWM CM
BE KEYSTONE STOSIE
Speakers Show How It Will
Bring About Industrial Beti
terment and Welfare
"The co-operation of the people of
Pennsylvania, evidenced in many ways,
is what is helping us to carry out the
purposes of the State Department of
Labor and Industry, and we hope, yes,
we even demand, that !t be continued
for the public welfare," said Dr. John
Price Jackson, State Commissioner of
Labor and Industry, in opening the
second annual industrial welfare and
efficiency conference at the State Capi
tol to-day. Over fiOO persons repre
senting officials in public service, rep
resentatives of employers and em
ployes, organizations and welfare
workers had registered for the open
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CRUISER TRYING TO ESCAPE
London. Nov. 17. 8.59 a. m.—Dis
patches stating that the German aux
iliary cruiser Berlin has appeared at
Trondjhem. a seaport of Norway,
probably indicate, according to the
underwriters, that she is endeavoring
to escape from the North Sea to act
as a commerce raider.
THE WEATHER
For Ifarrl*hurg anil vicinity: Fnlr,
continued cold to-nlglit and Wed
nenday; lo we*'t temperature to
night about 25 degree*.
For Kantern I'ennnylvanla: For,
continued cold to-night and Wed
ncMday; fresh went to northwent
nlnda.
River
The main river 111 continue to ride
■lowly to-night and Uednemdny.
A ntncp of flbotf,' 2.5 feet In Indi
cated for Harrlwburg Wednenday
morning.
General Condition*
The ntrong high pre Mure area
from the Went now cover* tlie
Noirthcentral portion of the Unit
ed State* with It* center over
Wewtern Tenne**ee. The low
perature accompanying It ha*
overspread all the country ea*t of
the MIM*I*MIPPI river, the mo«t de
cided falla In temperature occur
ring In the Atlantic Coa*t State*.
Temperature: 8 a. ni., 32.
Sun: Bl*ea ( 6:52 a. m.j *e>i*, 4:48
p. m.
Moon: Xew moon, to-day, 11:02
a. m.
River Stage: 2.2 feet above low
water mark.
Yeatcrdjiy** Weather
Illghent temperature, 50.
Louest temperature, 86. j
Mean temperature, 43.
Normal temperature, 42.
HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1914.
Mercury May Fall te 20 Tonight;
But It's 14 Below at Winnepeg
Susquehanna River Rises More Than a Foot as Result of
Sunday's Downpour; Cold Throughout Northwest
But of course you were and you
will. F'or the weatherman, Edward R.
Demain. says the mercury will prob
ably fall to twenty or thereabouts to
night.
The cold wav< that swept in from
the great Northwest reached Harris
burg' last night on schedule time. In
less than an hour the temperature fell
Stork Makes Woman on
Way to Harrisburg Go
to the Altoona Hospital
Special to The Telegraph
Altoona, Pa., Nov. 17.—When train!
No. 4 arrived at the local depot, at,
12.15 Sunday morning, Mrs. Charles'
| Moyer, aged 28, a passenger enroute!
[from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg, was
[taken off here and removed to the!
■ Atloona hospital where she gave birth i
to a baby girl a few moments after be
ing admitted to the institution.
Mrs. Mover refused to give her
address, stating that her husband had!
deserted her three months ago and
that she was on her way to the home j
of an uncle in Harrisburg.
The police here know nothing of tlio
relatives of Mrs. Moyer.
Steals Overcoat to Get
Into Jail Because It's
Too Cold on the Outside
Stanley Jackson, after serving a
sentence of several months In Jail for
I stealing a ring, was liberated yester
day morning. Last evening Jackson
was welcomed back in jail by fellow i
prisoners, with:
"Back again so soon, Jackson?"
"Yes, too cold on the outside." was
the reply.
Last evening Jackson went to the
home of William Lockett, 610 Willow
street, and stole an overcoat. He I
pawned the coat. Jackson was ar
rested by Detective John Murnane. • |
ROTARY CLl'll TO MEET I
Howard C. Fry, secretary of the
Harrisburg Rotary Club, announces a
meeting of members at the Metropoli
tan Hotel to-night at 6. Supper will
be served and an important business
meeting will follow.
| ten degrees. The lowest point reached
last night was twenty-six.
Hut while Harrisburg shivers. North
Dakota and Minnesota freezes. In
Wllliston, X. D., the mercury fell to
eight below last night. In Winnipeg,
! Canada, it. is fourteen below.
The Susquehanna has risen more
jthan a foot a£ a result of Sunday's
i downpour.
1,000,000 Soldiers and
$1,125,000,000 Offered
by House of Commons
Special to The Telegrafh
I-ondOn. ?Jov. 17. The . greatest
single der-and ever made upon the ina
j terial resources of Great Hrltaln was
voiced by Premier Asqiiith yesterday
afternoon, when in the House of Com
mons he moved an additional credit for
war purposes of £225,000,000 '(51,125,-
000). This added to the millions voted
! in August is equivalent to an increase
lof more than SO per cent, in the na
tional debt.
The House voted unanimously for the
I additional war credit asked by the Pre
' mier. The measure introduced by the
; Governme nt last week for an additional
army of 1,000,000 men also was adopted
j unanimously.
Millions For Operation*
j The Premier told the House that the
| largest portion of the lirst $500,000,000
already had been expended in the con-
I duct of military operations, loans to
: the Allies and disbursements for food
j supplies for the country.
40,000 Dead Buried in
Grave Six Feet Wide .
and Four Miles Long
By Associated Press
■ Amsterdam, via London, Nov. 17. 8
a. di. —The Nleuwe Rottcrdamsche
Courant quote* a letter from a Gali
: Han priest stating that 40,000 Aus
, ttinns have been burled in one day in
| a grnve six and a half foet wide anil
a Little more than four miles long. The
bodies, the latter says, were laid next
to each other In three layers. These
1 men were killed. It Is stated, during a
I battle lasting only a few hours.
LEBANON MAJVI'FACTURER IJIKS
Lebanon, Pa., Nov. 17. Chris- j
i tlan ' N. Keldel. 70 years old, who-'
■ operated the Standard Boiler Works In
this city for thirty years, died very 1
suddenly at his home, nere. Heart dis- i
ease was assigned as the cause of his
death. He was a graduate of Ursinus
College and the Poughkeepslc Business
College. He was a prominent member
of St. John's Reformed Church and was
Held in high esteem In the city.
BELGIAN Fill IIOW
TOTALS MOVE Ell
Harrisburg Should Not Be Far
Down in List of Contribu
tions From "Up-State"
Contributions to the Belgian Relief
Fund continue to pour into the office
of the Harrisburg Telegraph. Prom
all parts of the city and vicinity money
is being sent and the fund now totals
more than $1,700.
Employes In the many places of
business in the city are getting' to
gether and giving money for the starv
ing thousands in Europe. EVen tiny
children are answering the cry for
help.
.Thousands of dollars are coming In
at the headquarters at Philadelphia
from all parts- of Pennsylvania and
Harrisburg will not be very far down
j in the list for the'funds received from
jthe cities "up "Sfhte."" '' *
j Contributions received to date are
i as follows:
j Previously reported $1606.60
J. T.Harris 800
J. JI. ©track* . . 2.00
W. E. Hawley . " T'oo
S. D. Erb 12.50
Mr». Catherine Kapp . 1.00
w ash • • v;,y 10.00
Movers children 50
£ S ,C. rgo
Employes composing room
State Prlntery 11 10
Alice Spickler g'oo
Employes of Bell Telephone
Company 1 .... .• 30.50
Office .employes of Harrisburg
Gas Comp'ariy « 80 00
Payl and Josephine White ... 2^oo
Charles E. Murray 6^oo
TURKS ARK CONTINUING TO
CLAIM SUCCESSES IN EAST
By Associated Press
f London, Nov, 17, 9.50 a. m.—A Sofia
I dispatch ,to Reuter's Telegrah Com
, pany gives an official statement issued
lat Constantinople on November 5. It
I says: •
"Turkish troops attacked the Rus
jsian position at Lylan, situated in the!
1 proximity of the Russian frontier, a '
j short distance from the sea, and the'
Russians suffered severe losses. The I
P.ussians attempted the landing of, I
troops, which, however, were dis- :
persed. Another Turkish detachment
occupied Duskeuy, surrounded thcil
Russians at Hanmedrezi, capturing aji
quantity of ammunition and pro
vlaiooa."
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LULL BELIEVED TO BE
PRELUDE TO BIG BATTLE
IN WESTERN THEATER
Russian Invasion of Turkish Territory From Caucasus Has
Been Halted; Austrian Advances Are Being Carried
on With Further Success; Soldiers Are Suffering
Dreadful Hardships in Water-soaked Trenches
Along Battle Front
Storms nml floods, the enormous loss
of life and tin- strain of Incessant'
llehtinK apparently have taxed to the
limit of human endurance the opposing
fori-es facing each other in the death
struggle in Belgium nml Northern i
I'rniuf. Another lull has come hi the
great battle, which presumably Is but i
the prelude to one more desperate ef- i
fort. To-day's reports from the front
indicate that assaults by infantry and
cawtlry have lieen abandoned for the
moment, except for minor cngagc
ments, and that only the artillery is
continuing o|>cratious with \igur un
diminished.
Meanwhile the lighting continues on
many other (iclds. The Russian in
vasion of Turkish territory from Cau
casus has lieen halted. The gr«-at cain
■aign of the Russians against the Alls
tro-tiei'inaii armies proceeds with
varying fortunes in diflercnt localities,
with chief interest now centering in
the tierinan offensive movement
against the Kussian center.
In Servia the Austrian advance is
lieing curried on according to Vienna
reports, with further success.
Accounts of the lighting In Belgium,
official and otherwise, dwell upon the
frightful hardships which the men in
the water soaked trenches are called
upon to endure, and the great loss of
life. Regarding this latter phase, offi
cial reports have little to say, and
although private accounts of the ex
tent of the slaughter must be ac
cepted with reserve it is evident that
both the Germans and their foes have
suffered greatly.
One such report comes from a Brit
ish correspondent who estimates the
German casualties in the last four
days at 1 (10.000.
Bury 10,000 Austrian*
If similar reports from the east are
to be credited the slaughter in that
territory Is no less terrible. A letter
written by a Gulician priest describes
a grave more than four miles long.
In it, says the letter, 4 0,000 Austrians,
the dead from one day's lighting were
twirled.
j CARRANZA'S PLAN APPROVED
Washington, Nov. 17.—Secretary Bryan announced to- [
day the lcceir.t of a mess, . r A merican Consul ST i
| man at Mexico City saying the newspapers there had pub- j
lished the text of a telegram from General Gutierrez, approv
| ing the conditions set by General Carranza for his own re
tirement.
ANOTHER HUNTING VICTIM
Sunbury, Pa., Nov. 17. Motley Ruggles, nineteen
yeai old died here to-day as a result of a gunshot wound 1
1 accidently inflicted last Saturday by his brother, Robert
Ruj es, while they were hunting. In the effort to save the
life of the injured youth transfusion of blood was resorted
to.
Lor: i n, Nov. 17, 3.15 P. M.—Premier Asquith stated
ment had decided to declare the whole of the North Sea to i
be in th • military area. All subjects of the enemy found on
neutral vessels, the prime'wmlniater also said,.would be liable
ieten ion as prisoners of war. v
FIRE AT STEELTON '. |
Fire this afternoon destroyed the upper story of the j
! three-story dwelling of S. Rokovic, 769 South Third street,
Steclton. An overheated flue was the cause. s The damage ' 1
i '
will be several hundred dollars. • I
ELECT NATIONAL W. C. T. U. HEAD
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 17.—Miss Anna A. Gordon, of Evans- '
ton. 111., to-day, was elected president of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union at its general convention here.
MILLION LOST IN WHEAT FIRE
Galveston, Tex., Nov. 17. —The Southern Pacific ele
taming moie t!:,u ■ ■ < ,f -vhe.i.t,
fire to-day. The flames spread to the lower part of the '
elevator making the total destruction of the building and I
its contents almost certain. The probable loss was esti
mated at $1,000,000.
MOTORCYCLISTS HURT
Morris Smiley, aged 25, grocer at Sixth and Calder
streets, this afternoon was injured when he fell from his'
machine while going at high speed. He will recover. • J
MARRIAGE LICENSES ,
l'htllp M. Messner, Dauphin county, and EVR M. COX, Klmlra, N. Y.
John 11. Seller, Halifax, nud Kite B. Henderson, llarrliburg. 4
Abaer Dtifveller Bents, Carlisle, and Ufflc Woiumeldorf itiOl, Tffntflffi I
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* POSTSCRIPT
The most that is being accomplish
ed in tlio west by this sort of warfare,
as the latest British communications
indicate, is that the allies have been
able to hold their lines in the main
with here and there small retirements
before the German assaults. The Brit
ish losses, it is acknowledged, are very
heavy. An official narrative of the
fighting given out in London to-day
pays an unreserved tribute to the
bravery of the Germans.
The French official communicatioa
of to-day after emphasizing the violent
character of the cannonading now in
progress, mentions a few localities in
Belgium and along the Aisne where
German infanry attacks were made.
These attacks, it is said, were repuls
ed.
The fighting along the eastern boun
ar.v of Germany is of a different char
acter. There Is nothing there to cor
respond with the endless lines of
trenches which stretch across France.
Movements of troops are more mobile,
and the main battle line is shifting
constantly. In France an advance of
a few yards is worthy of mention. In
Galicia, Russian Poland and East
Prussia, they measure movements by
scores of miles.
Little news of an official character
was received from the Russian fields
of battle. Private advices from Pet
rograd, however, dispute the German
claims to success in Russian Poland,
asserting that the German offensive
movement lias failed. The Russian
squadron is said to have left Helsing
fors, Finland, with the supposed in
tention of engaging the German Bal
tic fleet.
Russia admits the truth of recent
Turkish statements that the invaders
from the north had been driven back.
The Russian advance guard, it is an
nounced officially, has been forced to
halt its march on Erzerum, the Turk
ish town near the eastern end of the
Black Sea.
British claims to victory in fight
ing with Turks at Fao, a town in the
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