Threat of U. S. Cruiser Quells Al/acklw Turks on American Steamer Crew HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH No. 302 LXXXIII— CHOI SOCIETY TO BEGIN WORK JAN. 5 Dr. J. Fred Wolle to Direct Rendi tion of Handel's Famous "Samson" ENROLLMENT LISTS OPENED Many New Singers Sign Up For Festival—Secretary Bretz Receives Names Rehearsals of Handel's "Samson." the oratorio selected for the Spring music festival, will be started by the Harrisburg Choral Society Tuesday evening. January o. under the direc tion of Dr. J. I-'red Wolle, conductor of the famous Bach choir of Bethle hem. This will be tlie big choir's twentieth year. Dr. Wolle won widespread popular ity in this city among music lovers as well as the masterly work. The season <>f 1914 marked the Bethlehem lead er's first appearance in Harrisburg as director of the organization. Rehearsals will be held every Tues day evening from now on until the j date of the concert. The singers are ' requested to be on hand so that the work can be started promptly at 7:45 ; o'clock. The enrollment lists have been j opened and Harry M. Bretz, the secre tary, 222 Market street, is already bus\ 1 tilling the membership books. In ad- j dition to most of the old members! many new singers are enrolling. Dr. W illie's faster In consenting to assume the direc tion of the Choral Society for the Spring festival this year Dr. Woile wrote the following letter: Bethlehem. Pa.. Dec. 21, 1914. It is with the greatest pleasure that I look forward to resuming rehearsals with the Choral Society on Tuesday. January 3, because my relations with this splendid body of singers during the past season were most pleasant. Dur ing those few months the response of the chorus to their leader was so prompt and efficient, it is no wonder that the lirst year of our co-operation ended in a blaze of glory. And after the splendid achievement of last April, it would he strange indeed if we do not find ourselves in this, the twentieth season of the organization, moving on to even greater things than have been done in the past. Flowers For City's Singers The call has now gone out for the resumption of work. Xo singer of Harrisburg. worthy of the nnme,can well afford to refuse • this summons. 1 am glad to learn that former members are re-cn iolling, but we ought to have a large number of new mem bers from Harrisburg's list of vocalists. Each musical organization. including every church choir, should send its quota of new members. Al though I am a teacher, I do not hesitate to say to each individual singer that the Intimate acquaint ance with a choral masterpiece is worth dozens of private lessons, and many precious hours often wasted in practicing in solitary confinement. Such acquaintance gives the singer ideas in interpre tation. it enlarges the musical horizon, it induces stability, in time and accuracy In rythm. to say ' nothing of the knowledge of mu sical structure which is uncon sciously gained. As to "Samson" The work chosen by the board or directors to be studied this win ter and rendered at the next an nual festival in Handel's oratorio. "Samson. lam sure all are fa miliar with the power of the solos and choruses of Handel's "Mes siah." Immediately upon the completion of this oratorio ilandei wrote, "his "Samson" which is ranked as high as the "Messiah - ' by no less a judge than the com poser himself, l'or. when he was asked which of the two oratorios he considered the better, he re plied that he actually did not know to which he could give a preference. The work has been sung to crowded houses, is tune ful and dramatic, and thus ap peals to singer and hearer alike. lam looking anxiously forward to this year's work, and I hone wo can start off with a big. well-bal anced chorus on January 3. I will do my best to make this term the most successful in the So ciety's history, and I am sure the chorus will do likewise, With the season's greetings I . «m. Very truly yours. J. FRED WOLL.E. THE WEATHER For llarrisl.urg nn.l vicinity: Fair, continued inlil m nlichi with lon-, est temperature about « ilrirrn; Sunday fair an.l somewhat warmer. Far I'.astern Pennsylvanias Fair to night: Sunday fair with rising temperature: moderate variable wind*. niver The Susquehanna river and all Its tributaries will continue grneral 1y Icebound and nearly atatlon »rj. General Condition* A dlatorhanee has muted from Arizona eaatward over the Gulf states to (hr South Atlantic eoaat since laat report, causing general and moderately heavy rains In the Gulf States and snow and rain In Oklahoma. Arkansas Tennessee. North Carolina and t Irglnin In the laat fortv-rlaht hours. Klsewhere the weather has heen fair, evifp* along the l'a<-|«e roast from San Frauetaon northward, where rain Is falling and at a few stations In the West snd Northwest where light local snows have fallen. Temperature! K a. «n„ «. Son: Rises. T:24 a. M.i seta 4t45 p. m. Moon ? Full moon, January I, at 7:20 a. in. niier Stage l 2.4 feet above lon water murk. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature. 2». I owes! temperature. Is. Mean temperature. 22. .Normal temperature. 31. IPOLICE STAND GUARD i AT BANDIT'S FUNERAL • -.Detail of Bluecoats Keep Back Morbid Crowd at Services Held For Hohl i ALLOW NONE TO SEE BODY Only Mother and Members of Fam ily Allowed in Undertaker's Funeral Chapel I While police guarded the outside and kept back a morbid crowd, the | funeral of Frank G. Ilohl, the bandit, 1 was held this afternoon. The Rev. A. M. Stumets, pastor of Augsburg Lutheran Church, conducted jservices at the chapel of Charles H. Mauk. Sixth and Kelker streets, at 1.20 o'clock. Ilohl's mother and mem j bers of his immediate family were the I only ones present. Burial was made | in the Hohl family plot in the Harrls ! burg Cemetery. Hundreds of curious people gath ered in the vicinity of the Mauk chapel j ' long before 1 o'clock. Many made an i i effort to view the body, but were not | ; permitted to do so. The body of the dead bandit reached | ; Harrisburg Thursday afternoon at 4 I o'clock. Undertaker Charles H. Mauk I took charge of the body, i NEW MINISTER ARRIVES Washington. D. C., Dec. 26.—Senor • Enrique Jlminei. the new Dominican j Minister to the i'nited States, is here i to-day. One of his first official acts ' will be to call on the Secretary of j State and later to present his creden- I tiais to President Wllaon. | FILIPINO UPRISING i ON CHRISTMAS EVE Place Eight Under Arrest on Charges of Sedition at Manila FRUSTRATE GENERAL ATTACK Military Authorities Do Not Believe Island-wide Disturbance Imminent | By .Ittocialtd I'rest Manila. Dec. US.—Eight Filipinos : have been arrested on the charge of ; sedition as a result of an abortive ris jing in Manila and Its environs on jThursday night. Further arrests are ' probable. From army sources it is learned that a general warning was sent to all | officers on Thursday afternoon stating that fully ten thousand Filipinos in I Manila alone were ready for a con certed attack on Fort Santiago, the fuartel Espana. the Curatel Inl'an j teria and the medical depot. The j military units were immediately pre : pared and a street patrol yvas started ! at dusk. i Constabulary agents who are tnem . bers. of the secret societies disclosed j the plans for an uprising, thus enabl ing a force of constabulary and police to disperse gatherings at Bagtimbaya, Paco and Xavotas, near Malabon. At Caloocan a squad of American sailors seized chairs when a force of Filipinos (approached a dance hall In which they [were gathered and, using the chairs as I weapons, routed the islanders, of | whom quite a number were injured. Rising lacks Leadership The rising was evidently poorly or ganized and lacked leaders. It was composed for the most part of persons j implicitly trusting the word of Arte i mio Ricarte. a revolutionary, who con ducts a continual propaganda from i I long Kong to which place he was ban : ished by the American authorities some time ago. Ricarte, it is stated, ndvised that the anti-American at : tempt be made on Christmas eve when [the American officers would be ex pected to celebrate the holiday. Re ! ports from the provinces tell of minor I risings and occasional violence but .details from these actions are lack ing. The situation to-day, from all ap pearances. and according to official j statements is well under control of the ! military authorities. Not Serious Officials of the Insular Rureau of the War Department in the absence of official advices to-day from Manila, inclined to the view that the reported rising there was not serious. Earlier in the week Ooyernor General Harri son reported he could find no basis in Maniln for accounts of a threatened revolt. Brigadier General Frank Mc- Iptyre. chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, however. In view of renewed reports of troubles in the Philippine [capital, called for » full report of the i circumstances of the Christmas eve disturbances. Officials said early to-day there was at. all times more or less disaffection among a restless element in the Philip pines and that shrewd active leaders j did what they could to capitalize such discontent. They profess not to be- i lieve that anything like a rising of; serious proportions is Imminent in! Manila or elsewhere through the I Philippines. Uses Hatchet on Host Who Would't Let Him in on Party Cling .Mitchell was held this after-' noon for court by Mayor John K. > Royal, on a charge of felonious as sault and battery. Lewis Ellis. 413! Filbert street, told the police that Mlt-j chell tried to force his way Into a party ' at the Lewis home yesterday. When! Lewis objected Mitchell picked up al hatchet and struck hlin over the head, j indicting a deep cut. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1914. BELGIAN CHILDREN, TO WHOM AMERICAN AID IS GOING These are of the type of Belgian children to whom aid from the United States has been sent during the past month. The pair with their dog were driven from their home in the north of Belgium on the entry of the Germans, and. packing up the few belongings they could carry, started out on the road with their faithful dog. They had no new home in prospect, but were wholly dependent on the charity of those they found along the road. Hundreds of thousands of them moved into Holland, where they were cared for. Others went toward the north and were sent to England. There thousands of them are being cared for now. MtY FORCE MORRIS INTO CORNER SOON Contention That Democratic State Chairman Does Not Need to Be Elected in 1915 OPPONENTS ARE UNITINQ Reorganizes Reported Again as Being in Bad Odor About the White House Offices i lien dissatisfied with the manage ment of the recent Democratic cam paign in the State, disgruntled over the distribution of patronage and re sentful of the prospect of continua tion of the present leadership, will probably loin hands with men af filiated with the "Old Guard" faction and make an effort to force an elec tion of a Democratic State chairman in 1915. It is contended by the ser geants of the "Reorganization" fac tion that the term of State Chairman Roland S. Morris does not expire un til the meeting to be held after tlie election of a new State committee in 1916. The movement to force an election has been started and the present lead ers are lining up their forces to pre vent such action being taken and may go so far as to refuse to hold a meet ing. If this is done it is probable that there may bo adopted the drastic method of Vance C. McCormlck, the chief of the reorganizers in 1911, in securing enough members of the com mittee to write to Arthur G. Dewalt, then chairman, to call a meeting. The rules provide that a chairman who re fuses to call a meeting may be made to do so. I It is also possible that there may be j such changes to the laws relative to ! primaries and State committees in the coming: session of the Legislature as to (require a meeting of the State com mittee, in which event Morris would have to go to a clinch. That the "re organization" people realize their per ilous situation is plain. The head quarters were removed, from this city so that Morris could keep everything I under his eye and obstacles placed in the way of meetings that he could not attend. The attitude of the national ad ministration toward the present lead ers is said to be undergoing a change and if the Democrats in the Legisla ture should show a. disposition to flout the leaders in their legislative pro gram the effect would not bo lost on Washington, reported to be already disgusted at the failure of the "new freedom" leaders to make good in the Keystone State. PRESIDENT CONTINUES TO REST FROM OFFICE CARES By Associated Press Washington. D. C., Dec. 26.—Presi dent Wilson continued to-day to rest from the cares of office. He is trans acting only necessary business during the holidays. A big rush of business Is expected with the reassembling of Congress next Tuesday, and In the meantime the President hopes to get as much rest as possible in order to ! be prepared for it. President Wilson is devoting a good ; deal of his attention just now to his [7-year-old grandniece. Anne Cothran, iwho Is a White House guest. President Wilson will he 58 years lof age next Monday. He will cele ; brate the occasion. PROHIBITIONISTS TO MEET Washington. D. Dec. 26.—Prohi- ; bition enthusiasts from throughout the country will bold a (lve days' congress in Atlantic City beginning July 6 at | which the Sheppard-Ilobson joint reso-; lution. pending in Congress, for the; submission to the States of a constl-[ tutional amendment providing for na- ' tional prohibition will be celebrated. | This was announced here to-day by \ the Anti-Saloon League of America j by which the congress has been called nnd under whose auspices it will be held. 1 PERFECT CHRISTMAS MAKES CITY HAPPY ■ "And the Greatest of These" Made Hundreds of Poor Forget Their Cares HARRISBURG HAS SOME TREE Municipal Celebration and Carol Singing Gives Day a Merry, Merry Start ] If you crawled out of bed a wee bit j reluctantly this morning you really J shouldn't be so severely condemned; ! yesterday WAS a very big day, the ; passing of which would make most ' everybodj regretful. Christmas, 1914, is history now, of course, but it will occupy a little niche 1 of its own in the pages of Yuletide ob ; servances. The butcUer, the baker— ! in fact, Mr. Harrisburg generally to j gether with his wife and babies, are | willing to concede that such a satis factory Christmas Day was never be i fore celebrated. Officially the city observed the event jby lighting its municipal Christmas i tree on Christmas Eve. And it is some ' tree. Bigger, rounder, more attrac- I tlvely lighted somehow, it seemed to surpass anything quite like it that \ Harrisburg folks ever looked upon. The Harrisburg I„ight and Power I Company officials went to extra irou ! ble to make the city tree a joy for a 1 week so far as the gaily-colored llght j ing effects were concerned; and every i body who had a part in the brief ! but interesting program did their best I to make his or her share eommendu • tory. That's why the hundreds of peo j pie who gathered about the tree at Front and Market streets Thursday evening went home so thoroughly pleased. Mighty Nice of Some Folks The Christmas spirit prevailed as it never has before perhaps, throughout the length a'nd breadth of the city. As early as 1 o'clock yesterday morning it became manifest when scores of Christmas morning carol singers made the half-dreaming wee sma' hours de lightful with "Stille Naeht," "The Shepherds on the Hills" and so forth. Folks a-bed listened, smiled then drew l the covers a little closer and thought of how mighty nice it was for singing l people to get out early Christmas morning and sing that way. Church services were observed dur ing the morning and during the day there were the usual dances and little dinners. The chances are that the big event, next to the Christmas tree and the opening of the stockings, was the dinner at home. For Those "Ye Have AVjtli You Always" While the home circle was the pop ular gathering point of the day a's a rule, the luckless folk in hospital, charitable institution or sick bed were not forgotten. The poor and needy were never remembered so well nor so generally. At the almshouse there was a big tree with gifts, etc., present ed by Sirs. A. Carson Stamm. Some of the vaudeville actors of the Colonial entertained through the kindness of C. Floyd Hopkins, manager of the Wil- I mer and Vincent theaters. A feature] of the celebration were the vocal I selections bv Mrs. W. K. Bumbaugh. j Big "doings" featured the day at the Nursery Home, the Children's Indus trial Home, Home For the Friendless, the State insane hospital, and the local hospitals. Christmas tree, gift-laden, were the high lights In most instances. At the Governor's mansion. Governor and Mrs. John K. Tener distributed candy, etc.. to scores of small folk. The fire companies and fraternal organiza tions didn't forget the children of less fortunate brothers. So, by and large, Mr. and Mrs. Citi zen and the little Citizens were well pleased with the day. Pana Citizen be ing in n particularly amiable frame of mind. He remembered that to-morrow is Sunday - , 'OVER II MILLION TURNED IN BY M AFEE I i State Department One of the Com monwealth's Big Money Makers in Last Two Years BONUS WAS A BIG SOURCE , ■ --AT X - •• • , . Vast Scope of the Work of the De partment Illustrated by the Biennial Report I I The department of the Secretary of jthe Commonwealth turned $1,304.- I 110.57 into tile State Treasury in the two years ending November 30, 1914. against $1,290,646.64 in the previous two year*. Of this sum $1,078,663.23 | was received from the bonus charged by the State on capital of new cor porations and issues of stocks and bonds. The income from the fees was $223,447.34 against $246,654.62 in the previous two year period. During the last two years the de partment issued 3.150 charters under the act of 1874 against 3,067 in the previous period. There were twenty |six railroad, five insurance, and six na tural gas companies, 161 building and loan associations, sixteen banks and twenty-live co-operative associations chartered. Notices of increase of stock numbered 899 and for increase of debt 509. Forty-two reorganizations and 102 mergers were also authorized. There were issued 275 requisitions and 315 warrants on requisitions. Six proclamations were issued by the Gov ernor in 1914 and five in the previous year. Twenty-six death warrants were issued and thirty-seven respites sent out. while fourteen commutations of sentence were entered. In all 203 pardons were handled. 111 being in the 1914 period, while 1,136 orders for parole of convicts went out. 706 being for the eastern penitentiary. Fifty-three bottles were registered in the multitudinous business of the office and 329 trade marks put on the records. The secretary also registered 1,110 nurses. An interesting line of business was election papers, 3,023 bein filed in the tWo years. Of this number 3,023 were petitions for nomination, 180 nomina tion papers, 104 withdrawals and 246 expense accounts, seventy-two being 1 pre-emptions of-partv names. In all for the period 1910-1914 there were 59,417 papers recorded and $472,101.96 paid In fees against 41,464 papers and $428,466.64 in the previous four years. In the four "years, 1890- 1894 there were 31,652 papers and $179,496.25 in fees. Murder Investigation Is Resumed in New York By Associated Press New York. Dec. 26. —Carl Rettick, the Hoboken bartender, who was em ployed In the saloon where the police believe the plot to kill Barnet Halt the wealthy poultry dealer, was planned, and another witness whose namse is withheld, were to testify to day at the resumption of the grand jury investigation of the Baff murder. Governor-elect Charles S. Whitman, j who relinquishes his office of district I attorney next week, hopes to have the lease ready for presentation to the j jury on Monday next, when several i indictments are expected ,to be re- I turned. . CORONER PREVENTS SUICIDES By Associated Press i Chicago, 111., Dec. 26.—More than I [twenty men have been saved from sui- ! Icide by Coroner Peter M. Hoffman's! plan of placing on coroner's juries only j those who are in need, it was learned [to-day from a report on the scheme Since it Was put in effect September 1. In three months 7,320 men who were out of empibyment sat on juries and collected $7,320 in fees. The line of applicants at the coroner's office some days'contains 300, YANKEE CRUISER HALTSATTACKON AMERICAN CREW Threat of Tennessee's Commander to Turks in Tripoli; British Cruiser Engaged With Two German Cruisers Near Valparaiso; Rumania Is Now Free to Enter War; Italy Will Likely Have Difficulty in Preserving Neutrality > Bombardment by an American cruiser of the Turkish port or Trip oli, Syria, is said at Athens to have been threatened on account of an at tack lty Turks on the crew of an American merchantman on which British and French citizens desired to depart. The incomplete reports re ceived from Athens state that the threat of the warship's commander quelled the attack. The cruiser Ten nessee has been in the western Medi terranean for severalmonths and was last reported not far from Tripoli. Italy's occupation of the Albania port of Avlona was believed to open up possibilities of complications which i might make it difficult for the Home | government to maintain its neutrality, j The attitude of Rumania, also, was more than ever a matter of doubt, »on account of reports from Paris that the only obstacle which prevented her from joining with the triple entente had been removed. Bulgaria was rep resented as having given assurance that she would remain neutral, re lieving Rumania from the fear of anj j attack from that quarter should she I i enter the war. Cruisers Engaged Dispatches from Chile stated that I the last of what was once Germany's | Pacific squadron was fighting to es : cape the fate which overtook her four I companion cruisers when they met j the British. | The German cruiser Dresden, with | the converted cruiser Prinz Eitel j Pried rich were said to have been en j gaged by the British cruiser New j Castle, near Valparaiso. ; Although stating that further prog- | jress has been made to-day's coinmuni- j 'cation from the French War Office j lays chief emphasis on the repeated l attacks by the Germans, who appar ently have undertaken a series of vigorous onslaughts in response to the offensive movement of the allies. Some I of these German attacks extended over I considerable sections involving large! !HOGENBACKS KILLED IN BATTLE - j St. Lopis, Mo., Dec. 26. —Word that Lorcnz and Henry « Hagenback, the well-known menagerie owners of Germany C have been killed in battle was received to-day by George C Dieckn.an, president of the St. Louis Zoological Society. J SAILING VESSEL DID NOT KNOW OF WAR 1 | New York, Dec. 26. —A sailing vessel arrived in port ' i to-day whose crew did not know there was a war until I signaled outside the harbor by a British cruiser. She was I the Norwegian bark Padang. She left Padong, Sumatra, on I I August 12 with a cargo of coffee and the British cruiser was 1 j I tlie first vessel she spoke during her entire passage. ' C MAYOR OF TERRE HUTE ARRESTED I ■ Indianapolis, Dec. 26.—Charged in indictments with at- # % tempts to corrupt the election of November 3 last, in Terre # } Haute, Donn M. Roberts, mayor of Terre Haute, and an a ■ announced candidate for the Democratic nor: 'or f 1 16, was t6kexf in custody by United States r } Marsh si Mark Storen, at Terre Haute, to-day. i C TRACKWALKER STRUCK BY ENGINE; MAY DIE j Tony Lemmo, a trackwalker in the Harrisburg yards of I M the Pennsylvania Railroad Company was struck by a I . \ shifting engine late this afternoon and so seriously injured 1 X that little hope is entertained for his rcovery at the Harris- J burg hospital.' His skull and back are fractured. V 2 New York, Dec. 26.—District Attorney Charles S. C J Whitman took the oath of office as governor of New York % J before Presiding Justice Ingrahm of the Appeliate DiSTision V a of the Supreme Court. mf % New York, Dec. 26. —The First National Bank of Islip, \ W was closed to-day by the Federal authorities. Clayton Hoff, C W cashier of the institution disappeared last week and returned 1 , J on Thursday. 1 Atchison, Kans. Dec. 26.—Two persons were seriously ' , g injured and seven slightly hurt when a runaway engine, I \ starting from a roundhouse near here, ran two miles andcol- i 1 lided with Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 106, early C I to-day. Both engines were badly battered and the tender K I of the possenger train telescoped the baggage car. [ , MARRIAGE LICENSES ' 1 Michael Anu, city, and Julia MhlrlTrr, llrri.hr>. ' } I .lohu \. Unvlra, l.ykrna, aad Anna Jamra, \\ llllamatuna, | t harlra LaUrraaaa, Clmlra, N. V., and IStla Uodgra, AUdiaoa, *. 10 PAGES bodies of troops, but the assertion is I made that all were checked.' Percep tible progress in Alsac is claimed by the French. Russians Win Advantage Reviewing conditions in the east the French war office asserts that the Germans have been thrust back along the line before Warsaw and that in the fighting in the region of Cracow the Russians have won the advantage. Germans Take Portion of Fortified Position From British Forces Hy Associated Press Berlin. Dec. 26. —By wireless to Say ville.—Among the items given out to day by the official press bureau were the following: "According to the general headquar ters' report of December 25, general j quiet prevails. East of Fastobert tho [Germans have wrestled from the Brit ish another part of their fortitied posi tion. Near Chivy, northeast of Vailley, the. German troops dislodged a com pany which had secured a footing in front of the German position. Here 172 French'were taken prisoners. The enemy, in an attempt to retake the position, suffered heavy losses. French attacks near Souain. Perthes, north west of Verdune and west of Apre mont have been repulsed. "In the eastern war theater the situ ation is unchanged. "The Association of German Stage I Managers has agree not to discontinue [the presentation of operas written by authors of the enemy countries, pro-' vided they are of truly artistic value and' their presentation does not im ply payment of royalties to the enemy." "The imperial German Chancellor, I in a circular to the German diploma -1 [Continued on Page 5] • POSTSCRIPT
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