Commerce Commission Granls in Par/Fjg/ci/j/ Rate Raise Asked by Railroads • HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIII— No. 2 f >6 POLICE SEARCHING FOR "BANDIT'S BRIDE" WHO HAS $13,000 HOHL STOLE FROM BANKS KOHL WAS BIGAMIST AS WELL AS ROBBED First Wife, Formerly Bertha Holtz raan, of Steelton, Deserted Months Ago. She Says MOTHER CLAIMS SON'S BODY Police Chief Denies Desperado Went to Bad Because He Was Hounded by Local Authorities Cincinnati. Ohio. I»ee. IS.—Search is helng made hy the police of every city in the United States for Ivy Ormsby, known throughout the country as "The Itandlt's Itriile." It was the Ormsby girl who helped l'rank llolil. tlie dead automobile ban dit of Harrishurg. rob the two banks in this city yesterday; and it is the Orms by utrl whom the police believe Ims ihe MS.OOO Hold got when he "pulled Ills last job." The Ormsby girl was married to Crank llolil. of Salem. Ohio, at Har rishurg. eighteen months ago after he bail left his first wife, formerly Bertha lloitzman. of Steelton. iu Cincinnati to shift for herself. Whether or not "Ihe bandit's bride" knew Hold had an other wife when the ceremony was performed, the police do not know. Policeman Kdward Knaiil. who was shot li> lloli while he was trying to arrest him yesterday, died at the hos pital to-day. Bigamist as Well as Bandit Proof that Flank G. Hohl. the dead utomoblle bandit, was a bigamist as •ell as a bank robber, sneak thief and urgl&r was furnished at police bead uarters last niprht by his first wife, .Mrs. Bertha llohl. Mrs. Uohl denied that she knew anything about the hank robbery herr yesterday until brought to her atten tion through the newspapers; denied that she knew Hohl was In Cincin nati, and declared that he had left het more than a. year ago because she would not take part in his crimes. She said that she was married in Harrisburg, March. 1911. to Hohl, a few days after he had been dismissed from the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia. Her maiden name was north a Holtzmai) and she was born in Harrisburg. "Mohl was first arrested for stealing Journal brasses from Harrisburg," she said, "and was sent to the reformatory st Huntingdon, Pa., when he was but 17 years old. He got out of the re formatory by forging the name of a Harrisburg man to the release papers, for which he was later arrested, and. In connection with several robberies, v as sentenced to the Eastern Peniten tiary for an indeterminate term of from one to five years. He served eighteen months and returned to Har risburgr, where we were married. T/el't First Wife Sit "After that we came to Columbus, < >hio, where lie secured work In a [Continued on I'agr 16.] "Common Sense" to Govern President When He Names New Trade Board fty Associated Press Washington. D. C.. Dec. 18.—Presi dent Wilson has let it be known that he had made "common sense" the chief qualification of the five men he is to nominate as members of the new trade commission within the next two weeks. Politics, it is said, will not govern the make-up of the board, al though at least one Republican prob ably will be named. Among the numerous men whose names are under consideration are Joseph Davles. commissioner of cor porations; A. C. Thurman, solicitor of the Commerce Department; E. N*. Hurley, president of the American Manufacturers' Association; John E. Itiehurdson, of Tennessee; Thomas E. Fetder. of Georgia: George Rebles, of New Hampshire; Samuel E. Rogers, ••f North Carolina: Professor Henry .). Waters, of Kansas; E. A. Krauthoff. of Missouri, and W. B. Westlnke, of I ndiana THE WEATHER For llarrixljiirK Hurt vicinity! In croiiMltiic cloudiness. prnlialily a now or rnln to-night or Satur day; vmrmeri Inn rir{ lemiU'ra lurt" 10-nlglit about 20 ilrifTfen, l'"r I'lif* Ir rn Pennsylvania: Fulr fitllimfH liy IncreNNlnc I'lociillni-M Saturday; rising tem perature: mmlpratr variable ivlnda becoming south. Illver \o inntcrlal changm nlll nrcur In river conditions • Jeiiernl t ondltlons L(aln IIHN fallen In Florida. Wot TfnnMiff. I.oulsiana. Oklahoma, Texaa, Arlaonn and California during the Inst twenty-four hniirn, aud anon In Mrnlrrn New York, .Northern >1 Iclilgau, In the I Piter MINNISNI-IPI and I.oner Missouri valleya and In the I'lntenu anil Itocky mountain rrurlona. A general rlae In temperature haa occurred over nearly all the coun try In the last twenty-four houra bring mn»l decided In the l.ake region and In Ihc Missouri. Mid dle nnH I ppcr Mississippi val leys and 111 the Northern Plateau region, n here pilot chntiges of 10 to J- degree* arc reported. Tempemttirei s a. m.. K. «Un: lllaea, 7:23 a. M.i aeta, 4:111 p. m. Moont First quarter, December 2-1, L(L:.MI a. ill. Hlver Stage: XS feet ahore low nater mark: froren. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature. S3, l owest temperature. 11. •lean temperature, IS, .Normal temperature, 32. , "The Bandit's Bride" TAKE A LOOK AND KEEP A LOOKING Sl,( >()(> REWARD Altoona, Pa., March 30, 1914. Following my circular of recent date asking for the arrest of Frank and Iva Wilson for the robbery of the Union Bank in this city on March 23, 1914, beg to say that the above is a reproduc tion of an excellent photograph of the woman, taken about one year ago. The man may be traveling under the names of F. E. Wilson, F G. Wilson, Frank G. Carroll, or D. A. Seiber. J. N. TILLARD, Chief of Police, Altoona, Pa. j Above is seen the "Bandit's Bride," i who is believed to have the $13,000 stolen by Frank Hohl when he "pulled his last job" at Cincinnati yesterday afternoon The girl is Ivy Ormsby, of PITTSBURGH ASKS TO TIKE 1 HAD | City Wants to Intervene in the Telephone Rate Controversy i ; The city of Pittsburgh to-day pe . titioned the Public Service Commission ' to be allowed to intervene in the oom > - plaint of the Pittsburgh Chamber of t I'ommerce against the rates and serv - ice of the Central District Telegraph - Company, the Bell Telephone Coin pan;- in the Pittsburgh district. The ; petition charges that the schedule of ? j rates is unreasonable, unfair and ex-j - cessive and the service discriminatory j f against Pittsburgh and adjoining ter- ! ; ritory. It is also charged that the i zones are unfairly made and that! proper bases for rates have not been made. r The commission continued hearing i, of objections to the proposed telephone i schedule to-day, the present rates in Pittsburgh coming in for criticism. !" The commission appointed William 11. Fisher, of Brownsville, Washington county, as an inspector. He served us a member of the State Economy and EfH/ iency Commission. The commission granted the Butler Passenger Railway light to cross the ; viaduct ovr railroad tracks in Butler, directed further hearings in the Wilkes-Barre Connecting Railroad and , the Great Bend grade crossing pro ceedings: dismissed complaint of the Clearfield Textile Company against the Clearfield Water Company; approved the Pennnsylvanla Railroad crossing in Glen Rock; gave Middletown right to cross the Pennsylvania railroad with wires and ordered a rehearing in the contract of the Phoenixville. Valley , Forge and Trafford Raivvay Company and Phoenixville and cetraln boroughs and on the contract between Mount Union and Raystown Water Company. NEW RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. CALI.S FOR 834,138,580 By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Dec. 18. Big icuts in army engineering board esti mates for existing waterway projects throughout the country—in some in -1 stances more than 50 per cent.—are j made in the annual river and harbor appropriation bill as reported to the House to-day. The committee on har ; bors and rivers lopped off nearly $20,. 000,000 from the army board's recom mendations and brought in a ineus- ] ure appropriating $34,138,580. No i provision was made for new propecta. j RBBBU.IOIV AT AN KMJ I Cape Town, via Dec. IS, 91 j! A. M. General Botha. Premier of t'| le | I'nion of South Africa, considers tliut the rebellion, anart from the rounding up of a few stray bands, is at an end ' Accordingl , h« lias gone on a short i vacation on his farm before under- I taking a campaign against German I Africa. HARRISBURG. PA., FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1914. Salem, Ohio. She was married to Hohl | following: his desertion of his first wife, formerly Bertha Holtzman, of Steel ton. in Cincinnati, eighteen months ago. The Ormsby girl was Holil's ac Three Near Death as Result of Skating Into Air Holes Two Boys Go Through Ice at Wildwood Lake; Heroic Rescue of Youth From Susquehanna in Dark of Night Skating accidents on Wildwood lake and the Susquehanna river last night nearly caused the death of three peo ple. Harry Fry. of Rockville, with anoth er lad. whose name could not be learned by the park authorities, were skating on the lake near a neck of land a quarter of mile below the light ed portion of the pond where the skat ers are urged to remain at night. They st ruck an air hole and went Into water i live feet deep. Luckily other skaters I were nearby and the boys were res cued. SITE OF TUIETIDE 1 SEALS II SCHOOLS; | Youngsters Share in Christmas Red Cross Crusade Is Ended I j After three days of vigorous acti vity the 10.000 odd youngsters of the ; . city's public schools to-day closed ■ their part of the Red Cross Christmas ;seal campaign of 1914. . j Until the returns from the various : I teachers are tiled, the exact number [Continued on Page 15.] Turnpike Company Gets $40,000 Verdict Against State in Turnpike Case »l Special to The Telegraph "I Chambersburg, Pa., Dec. 18.—Suit i '! of Chambersburg and Bedford Turn-! | pike Company vs. the State of Penn- Jsylvania, to recover for the turnpike j between here nnd the Fulton county! 'line, seized by the State Highway De-1 i partment, eighteen and three-tenths! j miles in length, resulted in a verdict j jthis morning for $40,033 for the com- ] -panv. While the viewers awarded d $23,580, the evidence at the trial:: ishowed a valuation of from SGO.OOO 1 ' to as high as $120,000, in the estima-j J ■ (ion of engineers and experts. It is! j likely that J. A. Strite. president of t | <he company, will appeal. J c complice in half a dozen jobs and the police feel sure she was the bandit's accomplice yesterday. The etching above is a reproduction of a circular 1 sent out by the Altoona police follow ing the Altoona bank robbery. William Ihling, of 107 Hanna street, skated too close to the dam last night after dark, fell and broke through the ice into five feet of water. He was rescued through the heroism of Edgar liupp. of South Front street, who heard the boy's cries for help. Rupp groped his way across the treacherous ke, evading many open places, until he reached the spot where Ihling was struggling. Skating on the river near the dam is said to be very dangerous at tho present time. 'STO« WORKERS TO GATHER 111 SQUIRE Gigantic Street Parade After Tab ernacle Service Big Feature of Tonight The final street demonstration of the Stougli campaign will be held to night at the close of the tabernacle meeting when all church people, mem bers of the Sunday schools, trailhitters and all others interested will march along the streets to Market Square where an open air song service and prayer meeting will be held. The tabernacle chorus will head the procession and will sing to the ac companlnVent of the brass pieces of the I orchestra. | The service in the tabernacle will be 'concluded as early as possible so as I not to make the Market Square meet jihg reach too near midnight. Jt Is i planned to make the affair one of the | most impressive of the 'seven weeks [and the only possible hindrance to | success will be bad weather or sloppy walking. James W. Barker, chairman [Continued on I'affe 15.] KIN'G Gl STAVE I.KAVG<I By Associated Press I.«ondon, Dec. 18. 4:45 A. M. King ! Gustave of Sweden, accompanied by the j Foreign Minister, started for Malmo I to-night, according to a Reuter tils- | patch from Stockholm. At Malmo lit is to meet the kings of Norway and ' Denmark for a conference regarding j the situation which has arisen because | of the European war. GERMAN CLAIM OE GREAT VICTORY 111 RUSSIA IS DENIED But Indications Point to Serious Reverse of Czar's Forces in East BERLIN REPORTS LOSS OF BRITISH SHIPS London Admits Two Were Struck by Raiders; Kaiser Recovering The (iennan squadron which at tacked tlie eastern coast of Hngland, causing the death of about 100 per sons is .said in Merlin to have sunk two Itiitish destroyers anil damaged badi, a third. Tlie British Admirably stati - that I'lo warships were struck by <>crinan shells and that live men were killed and 15 wounded, but makes no mention of the loss of any vessels. iii *rlin a " < ' Vienna assort that 1 i a decisive (lelcai lias been inflicted on I tno Husslans an<l that they are re- i treating along the whole line, their , resistance broken These statements I, are not home oilt. however, by tlie , ltuss!an military authorities who say I ( that one of the German columns ad- < \ aiieing on Warsaw has been routed' I and that elsewhere there iiave been i no significant changes. Emperor William la said to. have , Improved in health «ufllciently to |mt- | mlt of Ids return to the front next , week. I'he British South African forces ] arc soon to undertake a campaign ; against the neighboring possessions.', Premier Botha considers tluit the re- , hellion ill the Union of South Africa!, has been crushed definitely. BERLIN' CLAIMS VICTORY Again the Germans and the Aus- | trians seem to be on the crest of a wave of battle as the interminable!, struggle in the east continues; again | [Berlin is gay with flags and again Pet- ' | rograd declines to concede victory to ( | the Invaders. Berlin and Vienna con-I, I tend, however, that the Russians are j ( 'falling back along the entire front \ from the Baltic to the Carpathians j > ; with the invading center less than 30;, miles from Warsaw. [ To the south where n few weeks!, ago Russians were pouring over the' [Carpathians into Hungary, combined I Austro-German columns have now! i forced them hack through the passes, and it is asserted have advanced two thirds of the way across Gallcla and i are Hearing the fortress of Lemberg. : occupied by the Russians early in the Gallcian campaign. Russian Counter-claims The Russian official announcements admit none of this. They dismiss the 1 happenings in Galicia as engagements iof no importance and claim the opor-1 i atlons to the west of Warsaw are In | | (he same category. It is claimed,! | however, that the extreme Russian | i right near Mlawa has thrust the Ger-: , mans back and that Russian cavalry; has swung across the southern border of East Prussia. In the western arena there have been no events of great importance; at least none have been reported. Foot by foot the allies appear to he forc ing the Germans out of their trenches [in Flanders and maintaining the pres isure elsewhere on the front from the I sea to Switzerland. ' The British press to-day naturally ' makes a feature of the annexation of i Egypt and the Sudan, which takes ; from the Sultan of Turkey 14,000,000 'subjects and 1,300.000 square miles |of land. This action, moreover, robs ■ | the Turk of his last foothold in Africa, j Italy having taken Tripoli from him . ja few years ago. I All England is still buzzing with . I the attack by the Germans on the ( | east coast, interest having been stim i ulated afresh by the latest accounts . coming out of Hartlepool. Many of [■the naturalized Germans, arrested on . | the east coast after the German raid, I have been liberated. , Allies Advance in Belgium ,! The French War Office this aftcr jnoon gave out an official communica ition as follows: j "The day of December 17 was i marked, as we said yesterday, by an !advance on our part in Belgium, j where every counter attack under taken by the enemy failed. ,i "In the region of Arras a vigorous ' offensive made us masters of several ' > trenches. There are located at Auehy, iLa Bassee. St. Laurent ' !At this last mentioned place we occu | pied a front more than one kilometer long almost all the first line trenches . of the enemy. "In the region of Tracy-Le-Val, on | the Aisne, and in Campagne our i heavy artillery won distinct advant ages. 'ln the Argonne the Germans blew | up one of our trenches to the north iof Four De Paris and endeavored to f | move out from their position with . three battalions of troops. This in , jfantry attack, as well as the one they '■. undertook at St. Hubert, was repulsed. " |To the east of the Mause and in the '[Vosges there is nothing to report." ' I. W. W. Mob, Refusing 1 to Work For Food, Raid Seattle Lunch Room * By Associated Press Seattle. W'ash., Dec. 18.—Two hun ; dred unemployed men terrorized the ' patrons and proprietors of a dairy ' lunch at Second avenue and Cherry ! street last night by inarching into the ! place and forcibly taking all the food ' in sight. After this raid they pa ' raded the downtown streets and made an onslaugh on a market, seizing 1 everything edible within reach. Forty men arrested and placed in three large! cells at the city jail kicked the plaster, oIT the walls and broke all the win dows. The men said they had agreed not to go to the Hotel Liberty, the inunl j cipal home for men without jobs, be- I cause they would be required to cut |wood, mop the floors, cook and per- I form other service. ! The men arrested offered Industrial j Workers of the World literature to the | patrolmen. 18 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT COMMISSION GRANTS RAILROADS RIGHT TO RAISE FREIGHT RATES Five Per Cent. Advance Permitted on All But Few Specified Commodities; Big Orders For Equipment Are Ex pected to Follow; Business Boom Is Anticipated By Associated Press Washington, Dec. 18. l ncreases in freight rates, approxi mating five per cent, on all the railroads between the Atlantic seaboard and the Mississippi north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers, were granted to-day by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion in a divided opinion, except ing upon certain commodities which comprise a large bulk of the traffic. Ihe increases will further appiv to tlie railroads west or ItufTalo ami Pitts burgh which were granted partial ad vances in the decision of last August wliich denied them altogether to the roads cast or those points. It Is csti nuitcd the advanced rates will increase the annual income of the roads aliout 5.t0.000.000. The commission made its decision upon the showing of the railroads that in addition to the con ditions from which they have pre vious asked relief they now are con fronted with an emergency because of the war in Kurope. I War Is a Factor I W itli Commissioners Harlan anil Clements dissenting the majority of the commission declared: "Whatever the consequences of the war may prove to he, we must recognize the fact that it exists; the fact that it is a calamity without precedent and the fact that hy it, the commerce of the world has i been disarranged and thrown into, ! confusion. "The means of transportation are fundamental and Indispensable agen cies In our industrial life and for the common weal should lie kept abretst of public requirements." Summarizing the l»asis or its decis ion the majority report of the commis sion says: "The "facts disclosed and occurren ees originating' subsequent as present ed at the further hearing may be suiu mari/.i <1 under three heads—lirst. com pleted returns for the liscal year end- ~ -I .... ~11 - York, Pa., Dec. 18.—Twenty persons, members of fami.ic:. occupying a row of five brick houses in West King street ■ found this morning ovcme by :• --v gas u ■ seeped from a broken m.-,in into . ,-wer and thenct to the houses during the The pu'-notor re vived ix after all other means had failed, but two of the number an and Ella Tyens, sisters, are in so serious con dition that they may die. Ca ; :o, Egypt, Dec. 18, via London, 5:30 p. m.—A Brit ish protectorate was formally proclaimed throughout Egypt to-day. 'n all garrison towns a salute of 101 guns was fired and t nion jack was hoisted. New York, Dec. 18.—Traffic c, :: ; a! of the Eastern raihe .- this city declined to a he <ic- isi n until t: 'h .d studied its text. Tin .ic ii . ro. a c to be . iitted to file new tav.f:.-. v iiliout tic' ty was re garded .. . one of the most favorable factors. Intimations that applications for further increases might 1u considered in d. l c .-urse also, caused encoura- ement. A big increase busine. anticipated by unofficial sources. T <: i i, Dec. 18, 10 p. m.—Certain British warships have captu :d those members of the crew of the Ger nan cruiser Emden which escaped at Cocos Island when the cruiser was destroyed November 10 by the Australian cruiser Sydney. The Geiman sailors went to sea in a Coc )s Island schooner named Aysha. i York, England, Dec. 18, via London, 3:59 a. m.—lt is annour : that as precautionary measures alon. the coast, coast t uards and patrols have been ordered to fire on any person seca signaling with lights, fla ; or other devices. F: . Dec. 18, 5:40 a. m.— The *T svn : ; Ar.ency has given out a dispatch from it:; correspondent at Athens who quotes a message from the Island of Tenedo.. to the efleet that the recent bombardment by a British fleet in the Gulf of Saros, ! j imme.'.; ndy north of the Dardanelles, completely destroyed the Turkish barracks on shore and seriously damaged the' fort i Tic; ns. The Turks, panic stricken, fled to the interior. Tee Haute, Ind., Dec. 18. — Two persons were "Jkilled [ and a number injured, three of them seriously, in a "fiw whicl; >rly to-day destroyed a large rooming house. MARRIAGELICENSES r Gfor rt i, Ixocb nml l<u(tle O. ISiii'HnKton. WnNbiDKlon (onoNliip, l | ll«rr> 11. SliHlehaimer unil Mar> I. I.MNkfy. 1 Alfred K. Smith, Knterllnc, nn«l Florence I. Shoop, i ttrwonvllle. L " injr June 80, 1911, and returns for suc ceeding months; stHi>inl, the war iii Kuropc ami third, results of the ori ginal ortlor. "\\ lien tlie.se ease* were originally submitted, as also when the original report was i>i'e|>are<l, the revenues for •lllne, ttfll, and (lie projierty invest ment a<*etiunt for that llseal jear were not available, the war was unforeseen and the results of our order, on the other hands, were yet to eome. Col lectively they present a new situation." The carriers are permitted to make the applied for advances in rates ex cept the rali-lake-and-rail, iake-and rail and rail-lake traffic, rates on bitu minous conl and coke, rates on anthra cite coal and iron ore and rates that are held by unexpired orders of tho commission. -\tter further consideration the eotn | mission permits advances to be made I also on cement, starch, brick, tile, clay and plaster tin these commodities no advances were permitted by the de cision of August 1. Joint rates between official classi i fication territory and territory south | of the Potomac and Ohio and east of j the Mississippi may be increased not to exceed 5 per cent. Interstate rates to and from New I Rngland also may be increased not to j exceed 5 per cent. While present existing differentials anions various Atlantic ports arc pre served, the rates between any two ot i them also may be increased 5 per cent. The Decision | The decision says: "While we differ as to the relative importance to be attached to tile vari ous considerations presented, we agree in the conclusion that by virtue of con ditions obtaining at present it is neces sary that the carriers' revenues bo supplemented by increases throughout official classification territory. What ever the consequences of tho war may prove to be. we must recognize tho fact that, it exists, the fact that it is a calamity without precedent and tho fact that by it the commerce of the. world has been disarranged and thrown into confusion. The means of [Continued on I'ase 1(1. ]
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