Germans to Make "Last Effort" to Push Through wv* Chaniv HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIII— No. 284 CONTINUE REVIVAL 6 WEEKS.URGES STOUGH Evangelist Declares Real Work in Harrisburg Is Only Beginning SOUL-WINNING TIME IS RIPE Willing to Forego Spending Christ mas With His Family For the Cause The probability of the Stoush party staying longer than the contracted six weeks was Increased by remarks made last night by Dr. Stough. He said that although none of the party are anxious to remain longer than the al loted time and all are looking for ward to getting to their homes for the Christmas vacation, they are willing to forfeit the pleasures of the holi day season if it is a time for winning souls for the Lord. "I am willing to give up all my Christmas time at home with my ba bies." declared Stough, "yes, and all the time of the Altoona campaign if I can move this city up nearer heaven. 1 verily believe the spirit of the cam paign is just beginning In this city, and think you ought to start another six weeks campaign after the end of next week. I say it sincerely and I say it analytically—your city is just getting ripe for the work. "I am able to learn what is going on all over the city by my personal [Continued on Page 13] VICTIM'S WIFE KILLS ' LOUISVILLE GUil Former Saloon Keeper Fatally Shot by Gangster in Toledo THREE OTHERS IN HIDING "We Have Message For You," Said Quartet as They Opened Fire By Associated Press Toledo. Ohio, Dec. 4.—One Louis ville gunman is dead, three others are hiding in the underworld section of the city, a Toledo man is in a hoapital with perhaps fatal wounds and his wife Is held by the police as a coroner's witness as the result of the shooting which took place in the residence sec tion last night. The wounded man is Harry C. Plum mer. until about a year ago a saloon keeper at Louisville. Kv. His wife is said to have fired the shot which killed the unidentified man. The shooting occurred at Plummer's home when two men rang the door boll and said "We have a message for you from Louisville, Harry." Plum mer opened the door and the men opened fire. Plummer fell to the koor with two bullet wounds. His wife. In her room upstairs, heard the shooting and seized a revolver from beneath a pillow on her bed. Hurriedly descend ing: the stairs, she fired at one of the intruders. They made their exit Ihrough a kitchen window. The dead inan was found by the police in the rear yard. A dragnet was thrown out. The men were traced to the tenderloin, where they were swallowed up. Plummer says he knew the men in Louisville, but does not remember their names. The police discredit his story. The theory is that the shooting is the result of an infraction of under world rttles and that the four men came here to wreak vengeance. The dead man was about 2 5 years old. Portions of a Socialist newspaper had been folded aronud the inside of his hat band. The four men are said to have come here three days ago in search of Plummer. SBOO,OOO WORTH OF ART WORKS BVRX ABOARD SHIP By Associated Press New York, Dec. ♦.—Paintings and art objects of an estimated value of about SBOO,OOO were destroyed by fire in the hold of the freight steamer Mississippi, which arrived here on November 27, it became known yes terday when the shipment was ex amined by customs officials and rep resentatives of insurance companies. THE WEATHER For HarrUhurg and vlofnltyt Rain to-night nnd Saturday: not much • hnnsif In tomprratnrf. For F.aMern I'eunaylvanla: Rain to-nlKht nnd Saturday; froth to atrong eafit wlnda. River Xo material ohatigex In river con dition* lire Indicated to-night. The rainstorm n pprouchlng from the South will likely caunc a gen eral nnd probably a Niibntnntlal r»ir In the SuM<iuehanna river nnd all It* tributaries beginning: Saturday. A Mtage of about 2.0 feet IN Indicated for Harrlaburg Saturday morning. General CondNlon* The dl»turbanc>* from the Gulf of Mexico la now central over Northern Georgia moving north eafttrrard. It ha* canned modor. ately heavy ralna In the la*t trrenty-four hoar* from the Gulf northward Into the I-ower Ohio Valley. Tern per trittret 8 a. m., 40. Sun j Rl*e*. 7:11 a. m.; net*. 4:37 p. m. River Stages 2.3 feet above loir water mark. Waterday'a Weather fllghent temperature, fill. I.cmeaf temperature. 411. Mean temperature. M. JSomial temperature, .%0. SENEGALESE TROOPS IN THE TRENCHES I M - ■ ■ www*.*' num., „, ~ MJL- - , j a n-^ 'I - r .> T IIIII ' .. n Senegalese troops called to the front by France are here shown in advance trenches beyond Purv.vse durlnK the battle In Flanders. FATE OF DEWET IS | YETTO BE DECIDED Death Penalty For Treason Threat-1 ened; His Capture Ends Rebellion By Associated Press London, Dec. 4. 2.50 A. M.—The question as to what punishment should lie inflicted on General Christian De Wet. the rebel leader in South Africa, recently captured, is recognized in England as one of great importance. Martial law is in operation in the Union of South Africa and the death penalty for treason would he within the possibilities. The government proclamation calling upon rebels to lay down their arms offered amnesty ex cept to those who had taken a promi nent part in the rebellion. Cape Town messages say that the capture of De Wet relieves the gov ernment of great anxiety. The rising in the Orange Free State at one time threatened to be formidable because of General De Wet's military prestige, but his capture is believed to have ended it. The happenings at one town give an illustration of the lengths to which the rebellion might have gone. Five hun dred farmers were commandeered to defend the town, but a majority of i them went over to the rebels and I looted the place they had been called i upon to defend. But for the introduction of motors I into warfare, De Wet s old-time tax-tics might have enabled him to dodge his enemies and worry them indefinitely. The Johannesburg Motor Clirb organ ized a force under Captain Bullock which undertook the pursuit and Gen eral De Wet's horsemen were run to earth by the superior speed of the , motors. Germans Repulse French; William Back in Berlin Berlin. Dec. 4. by wireless to Lon don. 3 p. m.—The French troops in Flanders are repeatedly attacking the German line, says the official state ment given out to-day at the War Office, which adds that these assaults have been repulsed. ! "In the eastern theater of war the I enemy's attacks east of the plain of jthe Mazurlan lakes were repulsed I with heavy losses to the Russians," j says the statement. | "Our offensive in Poland is taking jits normal course. His Majesty, the I Emperor, arrived in Berlin last night jfor a short stay." GERMAN' CRUISER EMREX CAUGHT JUST IX TIME By Associated Press Melbourne, Australia, . Dec. 4, via London, LIB p. m. —. Information made public to-day indicated that when the famous German cruiser Emden was at last run down by the Australian cruiser Sydney she was pre paring to undertake the most daring and destructive of her many adven tures. George F. Pearce, the Com monwealth Minister of Defense, an nounced in the Senate to-day that when the Sydney intercepted the Em den the transports bearing the Aus tralian and Xew Zealand expedition ary force were within 100 miles of the German cruiser. AMERICAN'S IX OXFORD VOLUNTEER FOR RELIEF By Associated Press London. Dec. 4, 1.54 p. m.—The American students at Oxftjrtl who have volunteered for relief work In Belgium leave to-day for the_ conti nent to take up the work of assist ing the American Relief Commission In the distribution of food. Since the first squad of volunteers was cho sen the commission has received ap plications from any other Rhodes scholars. KARLSRUHE COMES XORTH ftv Associated Press Xew York. Dec. 4.—A report that jthe German cruiser Karlsruhe had left i South American waters and was cruts- I ing near the steamship lane In the I Xorth Atlantic on a hunt for ships ! flying flags of the nations allied 'against Germany was brought here by I officers of the steamer Zacapa, In to , day from Jamaica. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1014 Christmas Clubs Put Vast Sum of Money in Pockets of Harrisburg Shoppers 15,000 People Will Get Checks Ranging From Twelve to Seventy Dollars During Next Week Thousands and thousands of dollars will be turned loose in this city during the next week as a result of payments to holders of shares in the various Christmas savings clubs maintained by banking institutions of Harrisburg. Checks for amounts anywhere from sl2 to S7O will be mailed to thousands of people throughout Central Penn sylvania between December 10 and December 15, and as a result local merchants expect business to boom as it never has in the history of the city. Merchants are making special pro vision to take care of Vast Christmas COITUUi FOR ' 1913 ISjf SENTEDj Balance in Treasury at Beginning of the Present Year, $142,562.02 Dauphin county's audit for 1913' was! completed and filed with the Pro thonotary this afternoon. The report was carried up to the first Monday of January of the pres ent year. January 4, 1914, and shows that at that time the cash total bal -1 ance in County Treasurer Bailey's ! hands was $142,562.02. I The statement of the assets shows that the resources at the beginning of the year in addition to the balance, 'were as follows: i Sinking funds. $234,985.28; jail I building and fixtures, $350,000; alms i house. $165,000; outstanding State tax, $138.04; a total of $1,249,213.11. Aginst this were liabilities of $445,- ! 000 divided into the following bond i issues: 1901. $269,000; 1902, $51,000; I 1903, $125,000. The total resources ■ in excess of liabilities amounted to ! $804,213.11. I The various accounts show the fol lowing balances: Poor Board, $419.07; | school. $472.20; road. $574.29; re demption, $311.59, and dog tax fund. : $1,090.90. The prison account Just 1 balances, as an additional requisition ;of $920.70 was made to meet the necessary expenses. During the year $1,267.30 was dis j tributed to the various school districts, $937.93 was paid out for the special auditing of the Prothonotary's, Re i corder's and Register's books. The bank Interest on daily balances , netted by County Treasurer Bailey to taled $2,040.32 and the assessment upon which the county tax was based | was $297,435.10. I For maintenance of prisoners for the quarter covering from January 1 to April 1, 1913, the county got i $2,878.80 from the city; the total sum i received for the same purpose for i previous keep totaled $6,402.53. City i and county reached this figure after ! considerable discussion. The county received $2,088.49 from the State for 1 maintenance of lunatics. To Sell Democratic Tax Stamps at Post Office After Monday I Democratic revenue tax stamps will be on sale at the Harrisburg Post Office on and after Monday, December 7. It was announced to-day by Post master Frank C. Sites. In addition to the stamps being on sale at the Post Office a number of local banks have made requisition for the privilege to sell documentary stamps. The T'nited States government pays a commission of 1 cent on every dollar for selling these stamps. Docu mentary stamps are used by banks, real estate and insurance companies, railroad and express companies and manufacturers. trade which will come as a direct re sult of the receipt of the thousands of by the club members. Most of the store owners will accept the sav- I ings club checks just/ as they would ; the greenbacks that tTncle Sain sends ' out as security for the gold and silver j lying In his vaults. 13,600 In One Club The first Christmas saving club was started several years ago by the I'nion Trust Company with several thousand [Continued on Page ll] ROTARIANS ARRANGE FOR BELGIAN BENEFIT "Empty Seat at Orpheum, an Empty Stomach in Belgium" Is the Slogan ! "Every empty seat at the O.rpheum j means an empty stomach In Belgium." That is the slogan adopted by the Harrisburg Rotary Club for its Belgian benefit at the Orpheum Theater dur ing the week of December 14. The i club has taken over the entire theater for that date, putting the regular the ater force in charge, guaranteeing all expenses and binding Itself to turn [Continued on Page 9] .Turkey's Holy War on Servia and Her Allies Confirmed By Associated Press | Washington, D. C., Dec. 4.—Official iadvices of the proclamation by Turkey of a holy war against Servia and her allies were received at the State De partment to-day by Minister Vopicka, at Bucharest. Rumania. Ambassador Morgenthau at Con stantinople reported unrest among foreigners in Turkey and the expul sion of about 100 French nationals from the interior country. The refugees now are assembled at Beirut, Trebizond and Smyrna without means, but will be aided by the American | diplomatic and consular officers. Third Husband of Lillian Russell Dies in Home For Actors By Associated Press Philadelphia, Dec. 4.—Slgnor Peru gini, a widely-known sinner and ac- I tor, died to-day in the Forest Home, near Torresdale. a suburb, where he i'iad been a resident since January. He I was born John Chatterton. Perugini 'married TJUian Russell in 1894 and | was her third husband. Four months j after the ceremony they separated and the following year were divorced, j He was in failing health when he en ! tered the Forrest Home, established !by Edwin Forrest years ago as a place of residence of those members of his profession who in their declining years ] found themselves destitute or nearly so. Perugini was about 03. WHITMAN OFKKRS POST TO tJKO. «. WICKERSHAM By Associated Press New York. Ilec. 4. Govetnor-el"ct Charles S. Whitman. It was reported to day. hail offered the position of Dis trict Attorney, of New York county, which lie vacates next month to bo come Governor, to George W. Wicker- i sham, former Attorney General of the i I'nited States. Mr. W[ckersham Is now . engaged In private practice as a part •ner of Henry W- Taft. I k "V *** >•> PRINCE OF WALES GALLANT SOLDIER j Among the Keenest and Hardest Working Men in Array; on Firing Line By Associated Press T-ondon, Dec. 4. 4:25 A. M. "The Prince of Wales lins at last obtained the dearest wish of his heart and Is present with ttie army. He has won golden opinions," says the military ex pert of the Times in a description of the lif« at General French's headquar ters. "The personality of this slight and almost fragile-looking prince was hut little known to the army until he join* ed It and now that it is becoming known It is a revelation. He is among the keenest and hardest soldiers in the army. He walks six miles before breakfast every morning, drives his own car and spends every moment of the working day in acquainting him self with the situation of the troops and the services of the army. "Only last week he occupied a fitting cradle for a prince, a house rocking and shaking day and night under the constant detonations of bombardments and has visited the trenches, including those of the Indian army, it will be I difficult to keep him out of the firing line of his Grenadiers and a more zeal ous, Indefat'gable young officer docs ! not serve with the king's troops." j The writer says that while it is nec | essary for the commander of an army to work in the quiet headquarters be i hind the army, often General French cannot be prevented from dashing along the road under heavy fire to visit distant troops and going into the trenches to get a close view of the in fantry positions. Famous Old Hotel and Restaurant, Once Big Money Maker, Fails By Associated Press New York. Dec. 4. Smith and Mc- Neil's restaurant and hotel, a land mark for sixty years in Washington j and Greenwich streets, and known by • thousands of travelers when the only 'entrance to Xew York was by ferry, made an assignment yesterday and may be compelled to close its doors forever. The restaurant was started by Henry Smith and Thomas T!. McNeil In 1849 in a basement room, emerging above the surface of the street several years later in a part of the present quarters. Smith died in 1881. but McNeil con tinued dally at the place until three years ago, when lie retired, at the age (of S3, to his ranch at Ventura, Cal, He . was more than once a millionaire, and :to the r.nd he continued the same I homely methods of business that had marked the partnership. For vears ; under that organization the servants had been naid nightly and when the I share of the house had been set aside I the partners themselves divided what | remained. Fanciers From 10 States to Compete at Show I Another St;itc, making ten In all, will he' represented in (lie exhibition lof the Central Pennsylvania Poultry (Association, in Chestnut street hall I next week. j W. C. Smith, of Frankford, Mis souri, will send one cock and two I hens of the White Wyandotte breed. I Fifty odd White Wyandotte breed ers from nine other States will com i i pete. Emergency Aid Officers to Be Elected Monday The election of officers for the new- Red Cross Emergency Aid Committee, of Harrisburg, will take place next I Monday afternoon, at 4:30 o'clock, at I the home of Mrs. Marl in E. Olmsted, lOH North Front street. The temporary committee has sug gested "The Home and War Hellef Committee as a name for the organiza tion. The committee will be a nerma- I nent one. and If necessary will give | aid to the people of this city first. More I definite plans will be made next Mon- I day and committees will be appointed [to take charge of the different branches of work to be done in the next three I or four months. j CONGHKSSM\N MFHRITT HEAD I Watertown. N. Y.. Dec. 4. —Edwin i A. Merritt. .Tr., member of Congress I for the Thirty-first district of this i ! state, died to-day nt his home in Pots ! | dam. Mr. Merrltt was .">4 years old j and was serving his third term in Con gress. He was a Republican and WHS ! 'speaker of the state legislature when j nominated for representative in Con -1 «erse j 20 PAGES. * POSTSCRIPT ALLIES TAKE OFFENSIVE IF ENEMY FAILS Kaiser's Forces Again Hurl Themselves Toward Coast; New English Army Prepared to Advance to Attack if New Effort of Opposing Soldiers Is Repulsed; Hot Fighting in Poland With No Decision There Should tlie new (.rrnian assault meet wltli the same fate as liavc pre vious attempts to reach tlie coast of the channel, observers In liondori ex|x>»t that it will lie followed by a general advance on the part of the allies. There are signs of approaching activities In Alsace, where the French recently luivo been improving their positions. At the same time the (iermans are saitl to have been heavily reinforced in this section. (■encral .lolTre's recent declaration to the Alsatians that "we are back here to stay" may soon he put to test. Tlie almost <-omplete stoppage of news of the war to-day from official or other sources raised the question ' whether a censorship of unusual se- ; verity had lieen put in force. The cables brought practically no Infor- 1 ination notwithstanding the fact that ! surely in the cast and possibly in the west there are now In progress battles of the h'ghest Importance. On sev eral occasions earlier in the war there were similar Interruptions of news dis patches. which proved later to have lieen due to rigid censorship during the progress of vital events. For several days It has been inti mated unofficially that another great battle in Belgium and XothwetStern France was pending. The forces of the allies in that re gion have lieen strengthened mid the assumption of supreme command there by the Fnglisli general. Sir John French, was liclieved to indicate that the new Fnglisli army recently sent to the continent had lieen scattered along the Yser in Belgium and in Northern France, perhaps in prepa ration for a great attack. It has lieen assumed by some military critic that the allies oil this occasion would take the offensive, since the Germans, pre sumably. were weakened by the with drawal of troops for use iu the cam paign against Ilussia. Others have ! stated, however, that Germany had j determined to make a "last eil'ilrt" to | push through to the Fnglisli channel. Germany has resumed the offensive I in the Fast and is striking another I blow at Russia. Although authcntl | cated reports pictured the situation I only in vaguest outline, it was appar- LIEBLER AND COMPANY FAIL New Yoik, Dec. 4. —An involuntary petition in bank ruptcy was filed this afternoon against the Company, 1 theatrical producers, by Harry Askin, of Chicago, and two other creditors of this city. The petition estimates tre ( liabilities at approximately $350,000 and states that the value ! J of it., assets is unknown. RUSSIAN VICTORY REPORTED London, Dec. 4, 5.32 P. M.—ln a dispatch from Petro- ! grad the correspondent of the Central News says: "The jj battle of Lodz has ended in success for the Russian troops, to the Bourse Gazette, which ad Is that gtcat numbers of German prisoners, cannon and machine guits are bein 6 brought into Lodz." MAY SELECT CITY'S TREE Hariisburg's municipal Christmas tree may be selected to-;; . io\\. ihe big tree which \vill be the central H, ;re of tho-Municipal Christmas celebration will be chosen from ' I among a group of pines on the Bayard' tract in Clark's Valley. Washington, Dec. 4. — The House Rules Comni lee will meet December 12 to act on the Hobson resolution for \ n. .. . ; e p jhii-ition by constitution,;! amendment. ' ■A'il be necessary to have her; in.,;.," said Chai;:::,m Hemy, "as the committee probably will take action with the in;oi aion before it." Bergen, Norway, Dec. 4, via London, 2.20 P. M.—The 1 ,v,. . German Lloyd liner Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, w! ■. i has b<, n lying in this port for some time diifted ashou in • a sja>c to-day. She is now fast on a sand bank. "New York, Dec. 4.—Following are the 1 P. M. prices of st ci;s dealt in through the Clearing House Committee the Stock Exchange: American Beet Sugar, 28; Amenc; l can, 26*%; American Smelting, pfd., 97; American Tel. and Tel., 117; Atchison, 90; Bethlehem Steel, 42; Brooklyn Rapid Transit, Canadian Pacific, 156; Chesapeake & Ohio, 42; Erie First, pfd., 32; General Elect, Lehigh, 125; National Biscuit, 121; New York, New Haven & Hart ford, 51 2; New York Central, BV/ 3 ; Northern Pacific, Penna., Reading, 139; Sout&cm.Pacific, MARRIAGE LICENSES ~* t *lrw«r(l Mrl'mlilrn nnd Annlr Wrsrirli, rlljr. CnMln l.uthrr Knslr, l.ruinjßc, anil \ rraa IXrllit Mtlfr, Wart Falrvlm. ent that (lie Germans, vvlio onl.v a Tew days ago wort- lighting desperately to avert a calamatous defeat, are now renewing their efforts to SHW|) hack the enemy. A new tattle ha« devel oped southwest of 1/odz, where the Germans have formed another lino and are again attempting to pleree the Russian center. The forces ( >f Fm peror William thus are operating at a comparative advantage with the be ginning or their third assault. Their first invasion of Poland, which took them almost to Warsaw, was followed by a retreat to (ierman territory. The second movement was checked near Ix>d7„ but on this occasion tliej suc ceeded In holding their main positions, so that now the attempt at a forward i movement Is initiated by forces already ' fixed on Russian soil. Allies May Have Begun The first official word to indieatc that tin* predicted assault of the al lies on the German lines ill Belgium ; may have been liegun came to-day. | The German War Office statement I says that the French have made re ! peatc<l attacks ill Flanders, which | were repulsed. This brief reference does not, make it clear liovv extensive the movement : is. For several days It had lieen rc- I ported unofficially that the allies had 1 determined on an assault which would lead to one of the greatest struggles of the war with the object on their part of breaking the German line in the northwest, and. If |M>sslblc, forcing a general retreat. In Alsace, too, the French appar | ently have made a new attack. The German statement reports that an at j tempted advance northwest of Alt ' kirch. Upper Alsace, was licatcn back j with considerable losses for the I French. ' Paris and London are curiously re served concerning these reported dc velopnients. So far as was related in | dis|Mitehes from those cities, no events of great ini|>ortaiicc are under way. In the campaign against the Rus ! sians. Germany asserts that she has won a victory in Fast Prussia, in llicting heavy losses in checking a TContlnued on Page #]
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