CBOP REPORT WILL BE COMPREHENSIVE State's New Service Has Great Pos sibilities and Will Rival the Government Soon MORE WHEAT WAS PLANTED Interesting Comment Upon What > the State Is Doing With Its Staple Crops Now Plans to develop the State's crop re port service so that it will rival as far «.< Pennsylvania is concerned the re port service of the I'nited States gov ernment are being made and it is ex pected that the December statement ■will show much that have never been published before. The review of reports made to Xo vember shows the following: The farmers of the State seeded 3 3.100 more acres for wheat this Ka'.l than during the sowing season of 191 C, and the acreage devoted to the cereal would have been greater if weaklier conditions had been more favorable this Fall. The acreage devoted to wheat this J'all is estimated at 1.325.120 res against 1.312.000 acres last year. The I average condition is given as 9 4 per cent. The wheat was sown late this! l'ail because of the drought which I prevented the ground being put into good condition and because of the Hes tiian fly. The average date for sowing vheat in the northern tier was Sep tember 16 and in the southern coun ties October 2. The estimate of rye sown is 271.600 aires against 280.000 acres last year. In some district* where ground could not be prepared for wheat it was put In rye. The corn is given as 1.463,000 acres ond the crop is reported by Chief L. H. W'ible as "well matured and of splendid quality." The yield was up to the average, probably between 41 and 4 2 bushels of shelled corn to the acre. More complete data will be given next month. Dry weather caused the buckwheat report to be only S." per cent, of the overage crop and a poor yield of cloverseed. It is estimated that 265.000 acres •were planted in potatoes with a total ] of 28,408,000 bushels. The rot affected' 3>*ss than 6 per cent, of the crop and the average production per acre runs considerably above that of last year in most counties, the average per acre for the State SS last year. The State has 96 per cent, of the number of porkers to be fattened ;:s compared with a year ago. Occupation of Vera Cruz Cost Score of Lives and Ten Million Dollars Washington. Nov. 23.—American i troops which have held Vera Cruz #tnee last April were evacuating the <-it> and sailing for home to-day and while General Kunston's latest reports to the War Department gave no de- officials here expect sunset will the Mexican flag floating again over the ancient fortress af San Juan and the American troopers well on their way homeward across the gulf, i Dispatihes early to-day from Gen eral Funston said his furtherest out-' post had been withdrawn at 9 o'clock: i at 10 troops guarding the railroads at : the approaches to the city were with-' drawn and at 11 the eiubarkment was! on in earnest. General Funston re-' ported he expected to sail for Galves ton at noon. He reported constitu-1 tionalirt troops under General Aguilar ■were taking possession of the city. j Occupation of the Mexican port, in reprisal for Huerta's insult to the llag at Tanipico. has cost the I'nited States: more than a score of lives, some in i battle and some from disease and ac cording to some estimates, as much as' ten million dollars. But Mexico will be ] asked to pay no indemnity. Adminis tration officials want that fact to stand ! out as an added evidence of the disin- I terested .riendship of the United States' frr her southern neighbors. General Funstoi lias instructions to turn the city over to none of the 1 Mexican factions and thereby avoid what might be construed as a recocni- J tion of one of them. His orders simply 1 are to brine his troops away and leave ! the city to whichever faction takes : possession. Bridegroom Pays Dear For Deserting Bride When Siren Smiled Ear! Moore, said to be a Harris- i b'irgcr on his wedding trip, had a costly "night out" at Columbus. Ohio. The : Columbus Dispatch, of Friday, prints : the following: '"How he went astray the second night of his married life and listened to the lur'ngs of a siren he met in a ; r. lne room near High and Spring streets and how lie«wok>- up In th>- morning to ■ lind that his roll of $l6O, his railroad tickets to I»s Angeles and his new-found friends ail had left, was told i t'j the police Thursday afternoon by | Karl Moore, of Hari Meanwhile his bride, distressed over his absence all night from their hotel, j &twaited him at the Davidson house. "The woman with whom Moore pass- j ed the night was •luestfoned by the police Thursday and allowed to go free. ; Officers satisfied themselves that It was ' i man and woman with whom Moore i ind the woman were, that got Moore's money. Through the railroad efforts ■ire being made to head off the holders , kets. Meanwhile Moore ; tnd his bride are awaiting monev to i proceed." Inquiries failed to bring any infor mation as to Karl Moore's real Iden tity. The directory gives no such name. WANTS MONEV FOR IXJIRIKS Suit for S3OO damages against A. 11. F'renzel was filed to-day b\ Bernard hmidt. the baker, and the East End *uto f'ompany. for injuries growing >ut of a collision between motor cars iwned by the two plaintiffs and the de endant. The accident, according to plaintiff's statement, occurred No etnber 3. MALTAB MEET TOMORROW Star of America Commandery, Xo. 113. Cnlghts of Malta, will meet to-morrow light In Its council chamber. 2« North "hird street. Joseph S. Pief.-r will be n eharge of the ceremonies. At present here are 26." members in the com nanderv. which durinjr the past two ears has subscribed 1.35 towards the I iiiilding of the Malta Home at Gran- I 'tile. Pa. The next social will be given anuarv 16. HIT WITH A BRICK Freddie Ruriek. 12 years old. 418 South Tenth street, was hit on the lead by a brick while walking down touth I'ameron street. He received everol lacerations of the scalp. MONDAY EVENING. ITO EAT NO "GOODIES" : FOR BELGIANS' SAKE - Youngsters of Coxestown Metho dist Church to Give Money to the Great War's Victims ) Youngsters of the Coxestown Methodist Episcopal Sunday School yesterday vol unteered to go with out nuts, candles an'd •'j . oranges which they * [Ail usually receive from > - .niS the school so that the A iM»'' money which would thus be expended may lilinlHw' be sent to the widows Bbfi and orphans of Bel- Harries suggested to » ■ "T T IT'S the children that this ' be done and every hand in the Sunday t School went up in assent to the plan, i A collection will be taken by this church for the suffering Belgians within a short time and the Christmas "goodies" money will be added to the lump sum given by the grown-ups. I Bailey Memorial Scholarship. —At the session of the Market Square Pres- ; ; : byterian Sunday school yesterday, Mrs. ' ■ Herman P. Miller made an interesting! .announcement regarding the fund of $12,000 raised by the Synodical Home j Missionary Society of the Presbyter ' j ian Church in memory of the late ',Mrs. Charles L Hailey. of Harrisburg. ;Of this amount the churches of this) jcity and the Presbytery of Carlisle! ; raised J2.585.29. The interest of this | amount will cover the tuition and board of a girl in the Wastach Aca-1 demy at Mt Pleasant. I'tah. The en tire fund of $12,000 will provide six | mission scholarships. The Market j Square church Is now supporting a ] missionary in India, and another ir. | Persia, one in Idaho and now one in ! Utah. Daniels Wants Captain Hill to Explain Story Concerning Vera Cruz ,*sy A"xiated /' ess Washington, Xov. 23.—Major Gen eral George Barnett, commandant of the Marine Corps, under instructions * from Secretary Daniels to-day called , upon Captain Walker X. Hill, now in , I Boston, to explain whether published ' , reports were accurate which quoted him | as saying Mexicans would probably be j burning and looting Vera Cruz before , nightfall if the American forces left i there to-day. Captain Hill also was! requested to expain fully just what he did say, concerning the situation at j Vera Cruz where he commanded u' company of marines during American I j occupancy. Cornell Club to See Penn Meet Alma Mater Eleven Harrisburg members of the Central j | Pennsylvania Cornell Alumni Associa- j : tion will leave this city early Thanks- j 1 giving morning to attend the game be- j tween Cornell and Penn University at j Philadelphia. Many of the alumni from Altoona. j York. Lancaster and other Central Pennsylvania towns will go to see the [ game at Philadelphia. The association, i which was formed recently in this city, made plans for this trip and others. The Cornell alumni feel sure that their team will win Thursdov. ! Eight Die, Twenty Hurt j in Tenement House Fires in New York Yesterday SfecM to The Telegraph New York. Nov. 23. —At least eight | persons were killed and more than a ; score injured in two fires in tenement i buildings on the West and East Sides ; early yesterday. Flames trapped the j itenants In their rooms and many e.s icaped death by leaping from roofs ( or window sills. ' BOYERSFORD FACTORIES BUSY Special to The Telegraph Royersford. Pa.. Nov. 23.—There is jprobablv no time in the Schuylkill Val -1 ley where the industrial situation is [better than it is here and in Spring | {City, on the opposite side of the [Schuylkill river. Stove foundries.! ! glass works, underwear and other fa> - j ! tories where female labor is mostly! employed are all running and the out-j ; ook is good for months ahead. WAR HITS LOBSTER INDUSTRY J By 4undated Frets St. Johns. N. F.. Nov. 23. The ! canned lobster industry of New | ; I'oundland and Canada has been hard j Ihit by the European war. As Germany lis the largest consumer of this pro-] I duct the principal market has been j <-ut off. A case of forty-eight tins which brought $24 in New Foundland I • before the war now cannot be sold j | for more than eight or ten dollars. Deaths and Funerals .HCOB FAIIS DIES I Jacob Fahs. born in T.aneaster coun- ! ' ty. Pa., in 183 S. died Tuesday, Novem- ; ! ber IT. in Holton. Kan., from the effects j of injuries received in a fall from a load ' i of wood the previous Thursdav. His I son. William, and wife form Illinois: a . sister. Mrs. F. J. Keller, and husband. ' of Harrisburg. Pa., and a nephew. Ed Fahs. of Abileene. reacher Holoton [Sunday evening and were present at the time of Mr. Fahs' death and burial. ! Hhe was buried in Holton Cemetery. Mr. Fahs went to Holton about nine -1 teen years ago. He was in the garden ; ing business. THE TERRIBLE FURIES OF WAR Europe to-day is a collosal. blood ; soaked battlefield —a scene of univer sal carnage and waste. The dowers of Europe's manhood is being mowed down by awful engines of destruction. Whole regiments will be left decimated and bloody. Tens" of thousands of unmarked graves will shelter the corpses of husbands and lathers, sons and brothers, whose smiles and af fection and support will never be known again. In every hamlet and town homes will be shattered and left desolate, with widows and wondering orphans weeping by their bereaved firesides. These are the conseouences of such ja war as Is now sweeping Europe like a flame of delirium—a war unprece dented In tne ages of man. Is it by accident? Is it the whim of a tyrant? Has It a logical cause? Will men and nations lose or gain by it? "The Story of Europe and the Na tions at War" tells the whole story. Clip the coupon on another page, and obtain this big 32,50 book practically free. f3\ "^SSCKAUFMANS rUßflliilf «- • cPianiifacturersSurplm Stochs "« Tomorrow, Tuesday, a Sensa Coat Values Never Yet Equaled in This or Any Other Store Prices Within the Reach of Every Man. Woman and Miss;; Women's ]I M HpiV« _ C-l p I Women's, Misses' Juniors' and I" | BATH ROBES ITien nere s a CHILDREN'S COATS wl 't v* 1 ■ $3 Value For OF BALMACAANS, Wonderful Bargains d»0 AP ! OC Vl'W V /^t.Savi„ g „ f s,olOD„lUr. • COATS CM' 1 Mnilc of Kiilfrdnrm: Worh up to $8.50 I style* all this season's I L all new patterns: cut • JEpRSiA/y jl,\ BALIWALAAINa V'^SPJimM models: coats lined with | full: nil slws: assorted V /\ A ... .. .. UT / || Riuu-anteed satin. AJI K I Mf Hf $3.69 ; Girls' Dresses i&SajJr *' (Cj£v4 MEN'S AaLJSjnV Women's, Misses'& Juniors' SUITS 'i Value to $1 For BALMACAANS A MBit COATS Worth up i. $25 , 49c I'4%#° %P $4.69 $ 14.50 &a9r 1 fVlei s SillK * Broadcloths. Poplins, % Girls* Wash Dresses- Matt? fflf I ~ , Beautiful all-wool mixtures, boucles Series. etc. Newest ' ' £S*Hi - J/\ Ml, ivj y Women S For SI 00 r , " ter Ysilfi" very stylist c*at*. laciodiac Women s and Misses ( m Wj Or ... . WJL (V V wool iiihtiires, xlbellnes anil Ihe new flaring and hrltnl cf- jrv fk f-i —ft a-i i ' WAISTS ir.". 1 ,'.'...: 1 "-'- - 1 1 <1 9C Valno Pr>r D ' II 1 « r\ an . W omenV, sod Juilon' Women's, Misses' and Junior*' Worth Up to $8.50 | $1.25 Value For Roy s Mackinaws, Overcoats & Suits COATo COATS , _ At Remarkable Low Prices For To-morrow -ohn,, ,to $1 «. 5 0 WORTH cp TO fitfcl £0 ' /JfC BOYS' MACKINAW .tfJ&SLs-s: c..Ji 2 :°r„ sd*oeF ■ Cr V/ nniTP ■■■ ™» *T terlalss oewr«t colors In all of stylish models and mn- Wll , , UOATS Like ' $ 1 AJ6 *1 QQ GIRLS' COATS OL I mode's: .HI siz,.. at . . , . XKVKK neWt iu % V BOYS' $4 00 Ml® COATS COATS , J Caat Sweaters n\/rDnr\ ATQ Worth up to $3.00 Wortfc up t054.00 Women s and Misses' J sweaters Q VERCOA TS ti 59 £2 89 CKDTC I Value to $2.50 For Sizes £t> O >1 Pretty * ,o.t», or »we« *w i „«e nr , * f AA r-iffffii X ta JS3sr MT Worth ®p t0 HSO I tfi iTii KMmlmns 14 >r "" to " ?rar *' AP c SI.U«F Boys' Norfolk Suits |T wSftlS )Z«u3 ! Shlk"r S 3n kni, W ° m cv«t Made to Sell at $6 £ A QA j.P I \\V, also Shepherd checks; ' T LV material. Hent |t.v muterlals. All g] . \\\ newest styles including i colors. Sizes 2to 14 eolors. Sixes ato 14 Jv A ui the new yoke ami fav- I FOR. I a rri 1 Made of fast color Percales, in ■m wF ■kl itie upemng s the Xoyland Sat | ASSESSMENT BOOK BIOS OPEN DEC. 4 County Controller Gough Adver tises For 64 Triennial and 51 School Record Blanks me afternoon but the chances arc* that the contracts will not be let until the following Wednesday. Controller Goush lias asked for bids for sixty-four triennial assessment books for the county and fifty-one books for the compilation of the school assessments In the country schools. The samples of both styles of books required are on file at the county commissioners' offices. Criminal Court Itcgins November 30. —While only fifty cases are listed for trial during the continued term of Criminal Court that begins Monday, November 30. It is generally expected that the full week will he taken up with the hearings. The fact that the Edward G. Smith murder trial will be gin Monday, November 30—the first day—will mean the entire week for disposing of the remainder of the calendar it Is thought. EXPLOSION SH XTTKKS WINDOWS /?>' '-sosiatei It is Chicago. Nov. 23.—Hundreds of' windows in Gary were broken to-day by a nitro-glycerlne explosion in the works of the Aetna Powder Mill four miles distant. No one was killed or Injured, it was reported, as a leak in an oil tank save warning lhat an nx ploslon might bo expected and the workmen, numbering about 200, fled.; HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH AMERICAN AIDS HEALTH COiITIS 111 PEGU Dr. Converse, of U. S. Public Health Service, Finds 90 Per Cent, of People in Iquitos IU Special to The Telegraph Pittsburgh. Nov. 23.—Paul Olysav. formerly of McKeesport, was shot to death by an Austrian firing squad be cause he refused to give up all his cat tle and other stock to the Austrian government, according to a letter re ceived by a McKeesport friend. Ho [was accused of treason and killed in his own home without a trial. No attention was paid to naturalization! papers, which showed him to be a citizen of the United States. A son is fighting in the Austrian army. Olysav went to McKeesport when he was 17. obtained employment as a ma chinist. and became a leader among his countrymen. Several years ago. having become well-to-do. he settled on a farm near Ojzsomotor, Hungary. He was made a Biro, or Justice of the Peace. When soldiers took four of his five cows h made no complaint, but when soldiers returned and de manded the fifth cow, he protested that he needed it to kep his family alive. When he insisted that the sol diers examine his naturalization pa pers. the officer of the squad ordered Olysax shot. McKeesport friends of th evictim say they will take the mat ter up with Secretary Bryan. MRS. JONES DIKS Mrs. Isabella Jones, aged 42 years. ! died yesterday at her home. 808 Fors- j ter street. Funeral services will be held in the Wesley A. M. 10..Church, the I Rev. William Marshall offlcinting. j Burial will be made in the Lincoln Cemetery. CASTORIA Fw Infants and Childrm Bears tn« JhfiKindTouHbiiAlwiisßought 'CHARTERS ISSUED BY FATHER PEMN I Incorporation of Companies Com mencing to Show More Life, According to Records State charters have l»een issued as follows: Knife Company, KanV capital $50,000; P. P. Knapp Drug Store. Sewickle.v, capital $20,000; Great Eastern Rubber Company, Al lentown, capital $10,000; Foundation Building and Loan Association, Phila delphia, capital $1,000,000; Fairmount Building and Loan Association, Phila delphia. capital $1,000,000: Gibbons Wetherill Service Company, automo biles, Philadelphia, capital $10,000; Fort Pitt Realty Company, Jeanetto, capital $12,000; Clarion Features Com pany, films, Pittsburgh, capital $40,- 000; Latrobe Laundrv Company, I,u trobe. capital $10,000; The Hotel Ac cessories Company, Johnstown, capi tal $..,000: Standard Jobbin Company, woolens, Philadelphia, capital $5,000; Scott Coal Mining Company, Clear field. capital $5,000: The Octoraro Coal Company, Riddleburg, capital $10,000; Morse Cycle Car Company, Pittsburgh, capital SIO,OOO. WILSON TO VISIT DAUGHTER Washington. Nov. 23.—President Wilson definitely decided to-day to leave here at midnight to-morrow for Williamstown. Mass.. to visit his daugh ter. Mrs. F. B. Sayre. He will remain over Thanksgiving day, leaving for Washington Friday night. STOLE K EG AND ADMITS IT Morris Bland admitted having stolen j a keg of beer from the yard of a neigh- | boring flrehr«ise during the recent fire- | men's convention. President Judge I Kunkel suspended sentence. NOVEMBER 23,1914. Business Houses to Help Collect Hospital Gifts Many business men of the city have i offered to collect donations for the | Harrisburg Hospital. These will be made to-morrow and Wednesday and taken to the storehouse of tho hos pital. The donations from the city schools will be collected to-morrow. The following firms are on the list that have, offered their services in making the collections: Herman As tricli, 400 Market street: the D. Bacon Company, 431 South Eleventh; Bates & Co.. 110 Market: Bowman & Co., 318 Market; Boyer Joy Car: Burns & Co.. 30 South Second; L. W. ('ook, 31R Market; Davis it Hargest, Third and Muench; irvln E. Deppen, 2259 North Sixth; Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Fourth and Market; E. L. Fackler Es tate, Thirteenth and Derry; A. Reeder Ferriday, 101 North Cameron; Samuel Gardner, 1311 North Third; Gardner & Baptisti, Third and Chestnut; Gault's Grocery, 236 North; J. J. Gentslider, Creen and Broad: Globe Clothing House. 324 Market: Joseph Goldsmith, 309 Locust; Harrisburg Carpet Com pany, 32 North Second; George W. >1 lines, 10 North Market Square; Hull Bros., 1718 North Third: Kaufman's Cnderselling Store, South Market Square; J. A. Kirkland, 236 Peffer street; A. H. Kreidler & Bro., 100 North Second; Mart/. Bros., 21 South Third; Miller & Kades, 9 North Mar ket Square; Ober Hros., Court and Cranberry; Paxton Klour and Feed Company, Second and Paxton; Pelpher Line. South Tenth; B. Schmidt, Jf We take pleasure in inviting yon to inspect onr Wmllmce Nutting Christmas Display &) \S> Including Colonials, Outdoor Scenes and Calendars SALTZGIVER'S Picture Framing a Specialty 223 N. Second Street Eighteenth and Holly; J. H. Seboum, 827 Green; Stleff Piano Company, 21 North Second: George W. Swavely. 1021 Green: J. H. Tripner, 812 Broad; J. H. Troup, 5 South Market Square, and United Ice and Coal Company, Cowden and Forster streets. YOUR A MAS PLAYER PIANO It is in the home where the Price & Teeple Player-Pianos are most' ap preciated. It enables every member of the family to become a musician and play any selection according t<» his own moods or fancies. Cash of easy terms. Demonstrated every day. Come in and hear them. YOHN BROS., 8 N. Market Square, Harrisburg, Pa. CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE By Associated Press Chicago, 111., Nov. 23. Board oi Trade closing: Wheat—December, 1.15%; May, 1.21'/i Corn—December, 65%; May, 70%. Oats—December, 5974: May, Pork—January, 18.55; May, 18.97. Lard—January, 10.00; May, 10.17. Ribs—January. 9.92; May, 10.20. AMUSEMENTS SPKCIAI, 3-KKEI, FKATITRK PHOTOPLAY TO-DAY 1 "THE SENATOR'S BROTHER" Mils l.eab Ralrd In the lending role. This drama written by Gots- 1 veneur Morris. 5