Russians Claim Big Victory Over Germans mm , , M . _ _ , HARRISBURG ftfislflb TELEGRAPH LXXXIII — No. 288 EMPEROR SUFFERING FROM MM Physicians Say He Also Has Nerv ous Attack Due to Over- Exertion MAY NOT RETURN TO FRONT Dispatches Telling of liiness Are Sent From Berlin to Amsterdam By Associated Press London. ]ln'. 9, 3.05 P. M.—Em peror \\ illlaiu is suffering from pneu monin. wliich is combined with nerv ous depression due to overexertion, ac cording to telegrams from Berlin for warded by tJie Amsicniani correspond ent of the Excliango Telegraph Oom pany. Tlie niesuaee adds that the <ier man eni|>eror's doetors hnve advised him not to return to the front. National Rivers and Harbors Congress Opens Session in Washington By Associated Press Washington, Dec. 9. —The National Rivers and Harbors Congress began its annual convention here to-day with a large attendance of delegates from throughout the country. Many prom inent speakers are on the program for addresses during the three days' ses si on?. The convention was opened with an address by Secretary Bryan. A feature was the annual address of Senator Kansdell, of Louisiana, president of the Rivers and Harbors Congress, in which he vigorously denounced the recent at tacks on the river and harbor bill passed at the last session of Con gress and the filibuster which result ed in the practical defeat of the meas ure. Storm Blows Big Profits Into Shoe Men's Pockets The storm that gripped the eastern States was not one of those ill winds that blow nobody good for keen-eyed shoe merchants make a mint on the sale of rubbers. Out of five mer chants conducting stores in Market street nearly 3.000 pairs of rubber shoes and arctics were sold since Mon day morning. Mi rchants selling umbrellas also ex perienced a boom during the last two days. Three Market street merchants report a sale of 350 "shower sticks." ITALY MAY BE GIVEN" TRENT New German Ambassador Said to Be Authorized to Offer tiift By Associated Press Rome, Dec. 8. 7.55 p. m.—"Prince Yon Beulow, the new German Am bassador to Italy," says the Idea Nazionale, "comes to Rome authorized to negotiate the cession of the prov ince of Trent to Italy in exchange for the maintenance of neutrality by Italy. It is asserted that Austria, on Ger many's invitation, will proclaim the independence to Trent because a ma jority of the population is Italian, and after this is done that Italy will occupy Trent. "Austria will make a protest for the sake of appearances, but Germany will recognize the annexation of the province of Trent to Italy. Some per sons even assert that Trieste will be proclaimed a free town under an Aus trian protectorate." RETIREMENT WAS STRATEGIC By Associated Press T.ondon. Dec. 9, 3.55 A. M. —The sit uation around Lodz proves rather mys tifying to the Petrograd correspon dents of the London newspapers. They are disinclined to believe the retire ment is a definite Russian reverse and believe that the movement away from Lodz will be eventually shown to have been by sound strategetic mo tives. OBJECT TO PLACING OF MINES By Associated Press Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 9. via London, noon.—The Swedish press is very indignant over the planting of floating mines along the coast of Fin land. which has resulted so far In the • loss of three large Swedish steamers and the drowning of upwards of forty men. THE WEATHER For llnrr|*hnrg and vicinity: Snow or rain fhln afternoon and to night nn«l probably Thuradar; not much rhnnirf in temperature. For Kaatcrn Pennnyl van ia : Snou or rain to-night or Thuraday; mod erate eaat wind*. Hlver Tlie dnNquehanna river anil all Ita tributaries will remain nearly Mat ionnry to-nijebt find Thuradajr. \ ntngc of about S.II fee-: Ik Indi cated for Hnrrlaburg Thuraday morning. General Condition* The atorm Iliat *>na central oft the Middle Atlantic coaat, Tueaday morning, haa panned olf north ea at ward. \ aecondnry deprea mloii of alight energy |« central off the Soirth Carolina roaat. The The bish preaattre area from the Far now cover* the greater part of the weatern half of the country, with Ita center over Montana. The atorm oIT tlie \orfh l'aclflc coaat haa not ehanged materially ainre laat re port. Temperature: * a. m.. 33. «nn: Mine*. 7:15 a. m.j acta, 4:3* p. m. Moon: RJaea. 11:27 p. m. Itlver Stage* 3.8 feet above low water mark. Y eaterdny'a Weal her fllgheat temperature, 37. Mwe*t temperature, 33. Mean tempera-*nre. 33. .\ormal temperature, 34. friierhul mm it STOUGH TABERNACLE All Societies Which Are Not in the "Booze-hoisting" Class to Be Guests of Honor 68 MORE GO DOWN TRAIL Evangelist Again Raps the Clubs Which Sell Liquor For "Re spectable Drunks" Al! the fraternal secret orders of the city that are not booze-hoisting organ izations will be guests of honor to night at the tabernacle. Reservations of scats have been made according to the numbers asked by the different bodies. Most of the lodges will inarch from their halls in companies and others who come indi vidually will be directed by the door keepers to their respective scats. The Harrisburg Foundry and Ma chine Works men and the Elliott- Fisher Typewriter Company employes will also have sections reserved for them. A big night is expected, with probably more men in attendance than on any previous night. To-morrow will be "patriotic night." All the G. A. R. posts, veteran societies and other national organizations will find places reserved for them. Friday will be another big night, when the local high schools and those from neighboring towns will put enthusiasm into the services and probably outdo the special high school night of sev eral weeks ago. S tough Very Likely to Stay The full program of special nights for this week and the reguests made by several other bodies ana classes of [Continued on Page S] BODY OP GENERAL BEYERS DISAPPEARED VNDKK WATER Pretoria, via London, Dec. 9. 3.4."> a. m.—The circumstances which led the government to announce vhat Gen eral Christian Beyers, the rebel leader, had been killed, were made public here to-day. It appears that during a sharp engagement on the bank of the Vaal, Beyers with some others endeavored to cross the river. They were fired on and Beyers was seen to fall from his horse. His body drifted flown the stream and then disappeared under water. A search is being made for the body. General Beyers was the only Important leader still at large. NOBEL COMMITTEE WILL NOT SIT London, Dec. 9, 5.29 a. m.—lt is officially announced that the parlia mentary Xobel committee has re solved not to sit this year for the dis tribution of the peace prize, says a Reuter's Telegram Company dispatch from Christiana, Norway. 13 MINERS KILLED BY DYNAMITE EXPLOSION 14 Men Were Being l owered in Cage When Accident Occurred By Associated Press Scranton. Pa., Dec. 9. Thirteen mine workers were killed in the Dia mond shaft of the Delaware, Lacka wanna and Western Company here to day when a box of dynamite being lowered into the mine with fourteen men exploded, wrecking the. descend ing carriage and dropping the victims to the bottom of the shaft. The one man who escaped alive !s Martin Be linski, a driver boss. The accident occurred when the men were going to work and at a time when the entrance to the mine was crowded with men waiting to be low ered to the various levels. There is always a scramble among the men to get on the carriage and for this rea son the number of men who were on the cage and their identity was not known for several hours after the acci dent. The carriage hands descended to about 100 feet from the bottom of the shaft when from some unknown cause the dynamite exploded. The cage was lipped to pieces and all the men wert. dropped into the water and mine re fuse at the bottom of the shaft. The escape of the driver boss is considered almost miraculous by the mine officials. Bodies Badly Mangled It was an hour before the first of the victims' bodies was recovered. Nearly all the victims were badly mangled and some were torn to pieces, showing that they were instantly killed by the explosion. The news of the accident spread rapidly. The part of the city in which the mine is located is less than half a mile from the business center. Thou sands gathered at the head of the shaft. Tlie field about the place filled with women and children imploring news concerning the victims. Among the victims was Thomas Th< mas. of AVest Scranton, a veteran miner, who was so decrepit that he v.as helped into the carriage by one of the men who descended with him. PAY BIG DIVIDENDS $:5,200 Distributed to 382 Members; officers Elected l>y B. and C. Dep't. The Beneficiary Association of the Bridge and < "onstruction Department of the Pennsylvania Steel Company paid its annual dividends to each of the members yesterday. About $3,200 .vas paid, the average amount to each one being $9. The total receipts of tlie year amounted to M,587.93 and total ex penditures including paying of divi dends were $4,476.49. Tlie following officers were elected for the next • ear: President. Thomas Karle; vlce-presi lent. .1. A. Underwood: recording sec -et.iry. George W. Neff; financial sec retary. William F. Nye; treasurer, 11. .1. Nisslcy. HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1914. THE CHRISTMAS CLUB CHECKS ARE GOING OUT THIS WEEK f COME RIGHT ALONG WITH AND WE'LL SHOW YOU HOW ITO SHOP EARLY, PROFITABLY FORCES AT ICOH 'GRID CROSS FOR BEING STRENGTHENED MYRON T. DERRICK Firing Across American Border Causes Wilson to Take Action 3y Associated Press Washington, D. C.. Dec. 9.—No ag gressive Action on the part of the United States is contemplated In the sending of additional troops to Naco, Arizona. An official statement was issued to-day at the White House. After a conference with President Wilson. Secretary Tumulty made the following statement: "It has been thought wise to strengthen the forces at Xaeo because of the reckless carelessness of the contending factions there In tailing to control the direction of their Are. Of course no aggressive action is con templated." Alumni Endorse Brooke; Claim Attack Is Unjust Sfecial to The Telegraph New York, Dec. 9.—George Brooke will remain as head coach of tne Uni versity of Pennsylvania varsity football team until his contract with the Quaker institution expires next fall, if the popular opinion of Red and Blue graduates will keep him there. Two hundred and fifty Pennsylvania alumni gathered at the Hotel Mar tinique last night for the annual smoker of the University of Pennsyl vania Club of New York, and not one of those present supported the action taken by the Penn football players in voting to oust Brooke as head coach. Brcoke was invited to attend as one of the principal speakers, but a pre vious engagement kept him away. Vivian Nickalls, coach of tlie Penn crew, and George Orton, trainer of the Red ami Blue athletes, were among the speakers. Bowers Mingle, secretary of the Pennsylvania club, denounced in no uncertain terms the players' action against their instructor. CHICAGO UNION MEN OBJECT TO "SCABS" MAKING COFFINS Special to The Telegraph Chicago, 111., Dec. 9.—The principal topics of debate at this week's meet ing of the Chicago Federation of Labor were funerals. It ended by the members of the Federation adopting a resolution which required all to pro vide for burial in union-made coffins. "It's a shame," said a delegate, "that union men are not far-sighted enough to guard against burial in non union coffins. We work ourselves to death for the unions and some of us get killed !n defending our cause, and to what purpose? Why. to bo burled in a nonunion coffin." A delegate from the "hobos' union" announced the union intended to give a ball, and that, he had 100 tickets to sell. The Federation voted unanimously to buy the tickets. i Former American Ambassador to France Honored by Presi dent Poincare New York. Dec. 3.—The Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor is on its way across the sea from the President of France to Myron T. Herrick, in recognition of Mr. Herriek's services to the French people while American ambassador to France. Mr. Herrick was decorated yesterday with a red ribbon, emblematic of the cross, by the captain of the steamship Rocham bcau. acting on wireless orders from the French ambassador at Washing ton, who said he was acting under in structions of President Foincare. The decoration was pinned upon Mr. Herriek's coat as soon as the steamer reached the three mile sea limit of American sovereignty. The grand cross of the Legion of Honor is the highest honor which the French govern m»nt can bestow. There are, including Mr. Herrick, only for'y [Continued on Page 9] SENATOR sws GEN. ( VUKWZA I>EM AXDF,I) POUT'S KV ACT'ATIOX Special to The Telegraph Washington. Dec. 9. —The charge of Senator William Alden Smith, of Michigan, that the United States had withdrawn from Vera Cruz on the de mand of General Carranza, may be investigated by Congress, according to Senator Borah, of Idaho. He said: "]f the American Senate is to spend two days debating the charge of an ir responsible Mexican, that $75,000 has beer, paid to two United States Sen ators to use their influence for the evacuation of Vera Cruz, it might cer tainly afford to investigate a report exploited openly by an eminent Sen ator of the I'nited States that Vera Cruz was evacuated by our govern ment under Carranza compulsion.'.' MINISTERS VISIT PRISONERS Berne, via Paris. Dec. ?>, 3.40 a. m. —Alter protracted negotiations, in which John W. Garrett, representa tive of the United States with the French government at Bordeaux, took part, France and Germany have consented to Switzerland sending a Swiss Protestant clergyman to visit the prisoners in the detention camps in France and a Catholic clergyman to the camps in Germany. CHOLERA IV GERMANY Rotterdam, Dec. 9. via London, 10.:,0 a. in. The Berlin board of health, according to information reachinf Rotterdam, reported thirty six cases of cholera in Germany dur ing the month of November. In Aus tria, especially in Galicla, the cholera is spreading rapidly. Eight hundred and forty-four cases were reported during the (ltst week "f November, in which period there were 331 deaths. I JACKSON PRAISES CITY'S RAILWAYS Declares Harrisburg's Trolley Sys tem One of the Best in the State j Addressing the delegates to the j Pennsylvania Street Railway Associa- I tion convention to-day on "Co-op , eration nnd Confidence," Dr. John I Price Jackson, State Commissioner of i Labor and Industry, referred to the I Harrisburg Railways Company as "one i of the best systems in the State." j Dr. Jackson's address was the clos i ing feature of the morning program. ! Dr. Jackson said, in part: "Four elements are important fac [Continued on Page »] Hopkins Books Splendid Show For Belgian Fund Week at the Orpheum 1 "Booked splendid show for you I to-day." This is the message received to-day by the Belgian fund committee of the | Harrisburg Rotary Club from C. Floyd I Hopkins, manager of the Wilmer, Vin !cent and Appell theaters in this city. ! The Rotary Club will get all the I profits of the Orpheum next week for the relief work in Belgium through the . kindness of Mr. Hopkins who is a Ro ! tary member. Mr. Hopkins went per- I sonally to New York Alonday to make j sure that the "Rotary Week Show" 1 would be as bang up as his manager ial genius could make it. I RGE MI'NICIIMI, HOSPITAL Pointed On< That City Would Siiv# Money Through Institution ooiiie reasons why- the citv and county need a municipal hospital were dis cussed to-day by Mrs. Lyman D. Gil bert and Miss Mary Miller, represent ing the Visiting Nurse Association and by several of the Directors of th* Poor. Incidentally it was stated from th<- Poor Directors' office that the board will assist tlie city authorities in every way possible to boost the movement to provide the hospital. The municipal hospital would save th<* county and city hundred* of clollhff annually, it was pointed out, by making it unnecessary to Issue relief to the families of tnen who bad been qiiaran tilled for some eontagious diseases, and who could not pay tb< bills that acru. <1 during the quarantine period. To date this year $1,300 has been paid out for that purpose by the Poor Direr tors. ANOTHER STORM COMISG Snow with a slight drop in tempera ture is forecasted for Harrisburg and vicinity, to-night and to-morrow. Ac eording to bulletins Issued this morn ing by E. R. Remain, weather observ er, a new storm, steadily Increasing in ! intensity. Is moving slowly southeast! accompanied by zero temperatures.! Winnipeg, Canada, records 15 degrees' below zero, while in Helena, Morit. and, 1 Sheridan, Wyoming, zero temperatures were recorded. 16 PAGES DEFEAT INFLICTED ON GERMANS IN RUSSIA; ALLIES GAIN IN WEST Ooensive Movement of British and French More General Than at Any Other Time; Germans' Right Wing Re ported Turned in Galicia; Losses to Kaiser's Forces Said to Be Enormous Important ad\aiices of the allied I I troops in tlieir new effort to throw , 1 back the ticrmnn Invader* in France I j are reported to-day by tile French war i ollice. In the east, according to aj 1 statement of the Hussion military an- j ' thorities, a serious defeat luis been in dicted on the licrmaus in the Gullclan | ' campaign. The French statement of to-day is 1 one of the most optimistic of any ' which has lieen issued since tlie Uer- Rians settled down ill trenches across France and tlie long siege began. It | indicates that tin- offensive movement ol the allies is even more general than iiad been disclosed previously. Al though the announcement gives I'ew ' details, references to the capture ol' entrenched |>osi(ioiis and tlie blowing up of a French trench by Germans tends to show that the engagements now in progress is being contested furiously. The statement refers to the I' advantages of the allies from Arras southward along the Alsne, on tlie heights of tlie Mouse. In the Argonne anil in the Vivsges. Roughly speaking, this takes In all of tlie line from the [ Belgian liordcr across France and into 1 Alsace. CONCENTRATE FINEST FORCES i Concerning tlie battle in Flanders, where the (•ermans have undertaken an attack which may ipcan a new at- 1 tempt to break through to the French coast, there is little further news. The (Germans are reported to have concen ; trated in this region their lincst forces i ; from (lie armies in the west. ll is reported imoAlcallly from Ber lin that Emperor William, whose ill- ! ncss was announced yesterday, is suf- I ferine from pneumonia ami nervous i depression. The emperor is quoted 111 I Berlin as having told his troops re- | cent I y that victory would come to t;er- j many because "our nerves arc stronger j than those of our enemy." SERIOUS DEFEAT INFLICTED Tlie Russian war ollice states that i a serious defeat lias been inflicted oil the (iermans iu one of the three war areas in the east. It Is announced that j In the region of Cracow, tiallcia, the I f "" " - 1 11 r J - _ SITUATION AT NACO BECOMES SERIOUS Th?t the situ tion across the border from Naco Ari zon,\ is fast becoming serious, is evidenced b ya dispatch recc vcd from Washin ,ton this afti noon which intimates that the American troops and artillery are befng placed in readlrn to fire on the Mexicans f such action becomes nect!- :Tiry. The dispatch says that Secretary Garrison has instructed the commanders at Naco not to fire across the bordei unless orders from Washington are tiven to do so FORMER CONSUL SENTENCED TO DEATH London, Dec. 9, .52 P. M,—Nicholas Ahlers, former Gei: onsul in Sunderl; nd borough was to-day convicted l'y •' Durham As i -es of high treason and sentenced to death. POINCARE RETURNS TO PARIS . V •. Dec 9, 3 50 P. M —President Poincare and Pre mier Viviani arrived in Paris' to-day from Bordeaux. Foi .i. n Ministet Dtlcass:*: and-members of-the diplomatic cor; were to fol >w them later in the day. According to a dispatch from Philadelphia late to-day, Miss Anna Conway, a public school teacher, who was shot and killed by a petty orficer of the Battleship Illinois, in Philadelphia, early to-day, was a sister of Conway, who played baseball with the Harrisburg Tri-State team early in the 1914 season. Washington, Dec. 9. —Rear Admiral Fletcher, command er of the Atlantic fleet,»impressively told the House Naval Com:r.ittee to-day that the United States navy is unpre j . pared to cope with the most powerful navy in the world. J He' mentioned no country. "You can safely say," he said, I "that we are not prepared for worst emergency that j might arise to protect ourselves from the greatest force j available. j Philadelphia, Dec. 9.—Stocks closed steady: Cambria i Steel, 40: General Asphalt, 33: General Asphalt, pfd., 66; Lake Superior, 12; Lehigh Navn., 75%: L. V., 65; P. R. R., 52}^; Pha Electric, 23: Pha Company, pfd., 53; Pha Rapid Transit, 11; Reading, Storage Battery, Union Traction, United Gas, 82^. MARRIAGE LICENSES + ' < hnrlc«*Kphi-aim linker, \\ a* nrnboro, und Anna Hcbecrn Hall, (ham- ' bfrnburf, Irviu V. Martin and Harriet M. Ilrlnfirr, city. — i * POSTSCRIPT . (icrmiins were put to rout, tlu-ir right wing being turned and that they aro still liclng pursued. tierman losses are described as enormous. It lias lieen suggested in Ijondon that tlio Russians would content themselves with remaining on the defensive in Poland following recent tierman suc cesses there and that, sending rein forcements into (inlicla. they would at tempt to Invade (■ermany from tlio south, across the Kllesian border. FAI.L OP NOT ADMITTED Although Russia lias not yet ad mitted the fall of l>od/., the official announeenicnt contains the suggestion that the lighting in that viciidty lias lieen less in her favor than is said to he the case In tialicia. It is stated that in the hattlc near llotrokow, n Polish city. twenty-live miles southeast of l'<odz. they "were only partially suc cessful." To the north engagements are In progress to the <Mist of the bor der of Fast Prussia. A previous olli ctal statement from Berlin spoke of the presence of Hiissiiius on tierman territory about thirty miles west of the : frontier. According to current reports in Home, Germany does not look to Italy ! as a possibly ally and is bending all i her efforts to keep that nation out of the war. It Is said that Prince von Ihiclow, the former tierman councillor, ; now serving as ambassador to Itome. has lieen authorized to arrange tlio cession by Austria to Italy of the prov ince of Trent. This province, formerly I Italian territory and populated largely by Italians, lias lx*cn iu IHISSCSSIOII of Austria for a century. Mtacks by the allies and couiitcr j attacks by the Germans in the west apparently have not thus far made essential changes in the positions of t the opposing armies. The tiermans 1 have resumed the offensive in ItelKhim | with force. In the Argonne also hard I fighting is in progress. RAIX DAMKIES PKOPKUTV I Fort de Franco, Martinique, Dec. 0. j—-A torrential rainstorm visited Fori IDe Franco last, night. The city was in undated and there was much damagu Ito property. No lives vfere lost.
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