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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII—
TO WELCOME 1915
111 CITY'S TREE
Light on Municipal Pine to Flash
Welcome to Glad New
Year
BIG PARADE ON FRIDAY
Procession to Have 4 Divisions;
Prizes Announced; Rules
Laid Down
Harrisburg's 1916 New Year's cele
bration will lie the biggest in the
history of the city. A midnight revel
and a big parade Friday afternoon —
both under direction of the Mum
mers' Association—will be the big
features.
The celebration will start New
Tear's Eve in Market street, between
Market Square and Front street.
Everybody is expected to bring along
a tin horn, cowbell, or some other
noise-making device.
I'lans call for a gathering around
the municipal Christmas tree at 11:45
o'clock Thursday night. Ten minutes
later with two taps on the courthouse
bell, all lights will go out on the tree.
At two minutes before midnight,
buglers will play taps. On the stroke
of midnight the buglers will sound
The reveille, and the courthouse bell
will ring in 1-9-1-5. Then the lights
on the tree will flash and the big
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New Policy at Sing Sing
Causes Inmates to Lead
Better Lives; Many Reform
Special to 'l*<• Telegraph
New York. Dec. 28. Beneficial re
sults of the new welfare system In
troduced In Sing Sing prison are already
being shown. Warden Thomas Mott
Osborne told members of the West
Side Young Men's Christian Association
yesterday. Given better accommoda
tions anil more liberty in the conduct
of prison affairs, the convicts, Mr. Os
borne said, have shown their apprecia
tion by better conduct and evidences
of a keen desire to lead better lives.
Common sense methods and the appli
cation of the fundamental doctrines of
Christianity, the speaker said, were
bringing about these results.
Warden Osborne told of an inmate, a
gambler, who had come to him volun
tarily and asked him to keep his money
for hint, saying that lie hail thrown his
dice into the river. Another had re
turned sixteen stamped envelopes wliirh
hail been stolen from the printing office.
Hut the most remarkable indication of
reform came from the shoe department,
the foreman of which told liim that not
a shoe liad been stolen since Decem
ber 7, whereas for two years prior to
that date, not a shipment of shoes had
escaped shortage at the hands of the
convicts.
Why. there has been such a wave
of righteousness that it is sweeping
me and others off our feet.' said the
speaker, who added that instead of
crowds locked up in cells awaiting
punishment there has not been one
< ase of punishment since December 1.
Miss Genevieve Clark's
Engagement Announced
Special to The Telegraph
Washington, D. C„ Dec. 28. "The
Speaker of the House of Uepresenta
. tives and Mrs. Champ Clark announce
* the engagement of their daughter. Miss
Genevieve Champ Clark, to James M.
Thomson, of New Orleans. The wed
ding to take place in the early summer
at Bowling Green. Missouri."
The above brief announcement, given
out yesterday afternoon, was for the
greater nart of Washington society the
first Intimation that Miss Clark, who
made her debut on New Year's Day.
1914. bad become engaged to a well
known newspaper publisher, who has
been a friend of her father's for a
number of years and Miss Clark's
suitor since his first meeting with her.
This meeting took place in Baltimore
at the national Democratic convention.
Mr. Thomson, who is some fifteen
years the senior of his fiance, is the
owner and publisher of the New Or
leans Item. He will take his bride to
that city to reside after a honeymoon
that will occupy all of next summer.
FINED FOR CHEKIUXG FILM
< nnadlnn, Arretted In ''Movie," Talk*
of Aniiral to ltrltaln
Special to The Telegraph
Pittsburgh. Dec. 28. Declaring Ids
intention of taking bis case to the
t?ritisli Consul with a request that it
be reported to the State Department.
Paul Steurnagle, oi Sewickley, a sub
urb, paid a $H fine 'n Central police
court yesterday morning.
He had been arrested Saturday night
at a motion Picture show «vlieo lie be
• inie enthusiastic, threw bis hat into
tiw air and cheered when a film show
ing Canadian recimcnt inoiiceverlng
/ on Salisbury Plain. England. was
thrown on the screen. He was warned
li\- an usher, but continued his applause.
He said he recognized several persons
In one of the regiments with whom he
had gone to school in Canada.
THE WEATHER
For llnrrlshur.. and vlrlnllj: Partly
cloudy to-nlctil mill Tuesday;
warmer tn-nlmlii nltb lowest
•temperature about -.*» decrees.
For EuNlern f'cuiiM.vlvnnini Partly
elond y ami Tueailays
minimhnl mariner to-night; mini
••rate vorlnlile wind*.
ltlver
All streams of tlie Susquehanna
river xjxtem will remain goneral
b Icebound nnd nearly station
ary.
t.eoeral ( "million*
l.lKht rains have fallen In the laat
1» rnly-fniir houm 111 the South
\tlaut|e. t.nlf and Southweatern
State* and in Oregon, and there
were anow flurries In Northern
New P.nielnnd, Weatern New York.
Minnesota. I tab anil Idaho and
In tlie Canadian protlneea of
Manitoba nnd Hritlah Columbia.
The temperature ban moderated
decidedly over nearly all the
eountry ainee Snturilay morning,
ewept In Florida nnd a few lo
calltleM of amall area In the Went,
where It Is niiinen hat colder,
Tcmperaturei N a. m., IS.
Sum Illsea. 7s2<l a. m.t aets. 4HA
a. m-
Moon: Full moon, .lapuary 20. 7121)
ii. m.
Hirer Staaei 2.4 feel above low
water mark.
teaterday'a Weather
Hitches' temperature, 17.
I.owest teropernture. 1.
Il'aii temperature. 11.
Normal temperature, 31.
No. 303
54 LIGHTS WILL BE
PLACED ALONG WALL
Ordinance Authorizing Purchase of
Electric Standards Early
in New Year
CONTRACT TO LOCAL COMPANY
Material For "Fill" Will Not Be
Bought From Pennsy
Freight Site
While provisions for the lighting of
the River Front will will noa be includ
ed in the 1915 budget, City Commis
sioner M. Harvey Taylor, superinten
dent of parka and public property, an
nounced to-day that it has been gen
erally agreed among the councilmen to
set aside sufficient funds from bal
ances and other sources of revenuo to
buy at least fifty-four standard electric
lights for the purpose. An ordinance
to this effect will be offered early In
the new year.
These lamps will be similar to the
style now in service in the River Front
Park and the Reservoir. The wall stand
ards, however, will be detachable so
that they can be set up in the Spring
and removed in the Fall. This is to
prevent possible damage from floods
jand ice. Tl y will be placed at 208 foot
intervals The contract for supply
ling the lights and the current will be
.awarded to the Harrisburg Light and
i Power Company, the firm which sup
plies all the city electric service. This
company, too, will be awarded the
contract for furnishing the new
standards for the Kivcr Front Park
I from iron alley to Paxton street, Reily
|to Maclay and on the Twelfth street
playgrounds.
Commissioner Taylor said to-day
I that the city will not buy the earth
that has been offered from the new
Pennsylvania freight station site be
cause there is not sufficient money
available. The King-Brown Construc
tion Company offered the city at least
! 20,000 yards of material at forty cents
j per yard to be dumped over the bank
i between "Hardscrabble" and Maclay
[streets. This. Mr. Taylor said, will
: cost SB,OOO. The only available fund
j suggested is the park loan. This SIOO,-
'OOO voted for the development of the
'park is. or will lie. needed for the
j completion of the parkway chain,
j purchase of playgrounds and other
specific purposes for which it was in
tended. Another scheme for treating
jthe bank has been agreed upon, how
over. by which the 4,000 yards of dirt
] purchased from the grading operations
lln Emerald street will be used. This
j ourth will cost 20 cents a load.
j
Pastor Says "Jesse James"
! Type of Literature Made
Bandit of Frank Hohl
■ That the wayward career of Frank
jHohl, the automobile bandit, was due
Jto reading bad literature of the "Jesse
•James" style, and bad companions was
the conclusion reached by the Rev.
|A. M. Stamets, pastor of the Augs-
I burg Lutheran Church, in his ser
j mon last evening.
I The -Rev. Mr. Stamets is the pastor
jof the church which the bandit at
tended in his youth and of which
lie was a Sunday School member. He
[conducted the funeral services on Sat
| urday.
; The service last evening was the
hirst of a series of meetings which will
|be held during this week. A visiting
; rastor will have charge each evening.
Friday evening the preparatory serv
| ice to the Holy Communion will be
| observed and the sacrament of the
I Holy Communion be administered on
| Sunday. There will be a special class
! of men admitted to membership.
iStough Chorus Will
Organize Permanently
at Meeting Tonight
I The Stough tabernacle chorus will
j meet at 7.30 o'clock to-night at the
I P.id;Te Avenue Methodist Church to
discuss a permanent organization.
Professor Charles F. Clippinger, who
organized the choir and was second
j in command to Professor Spooner dur
| ing tlie services, will conduct the nieet
j ing to-night.
i NO* TO USE STOUGH SAWDUST
| Builder-- of Mceliauicsbiirg Tabernacle
M ill Purchase Fresh Supply
Special to The Telegraph
i Meehanicsburg, Pa., Dec. 28. —State-
ments have been made several times
lately that the managers of the Miller
tabernacle here would purchase the
sawdust used at the big Stough taber
nacle at Harrisburg. This is denied
by those in charge here, who say that
for sanitary reasons they will secure a
| new supply here.
The first service in the tabernacle
will be held next Sunday evening.
Morning services on that day will be
held in the various churches of the
town.
OLiD POLICE DOCKET Fl'IX
With the arrests made to-night a
new docket book will go into service
at the local pollco department. The
present book was opened April 8, 1908.
Since that date, up to noon to-day. a
total of 12.078 arrests were recorded.
The new docket, which is similar In
design to the present book, includes
blank spaces for 1 4,440 arrests.
INTEREST IN SUFFRAGE
By Associated Press
I Washington, Dec. 28.—The fight in
| behalf of the adoption by Congress
of a constitutional amendment to ex
■tctid suffrage to women took on ad-
Idltioiml interest with the.arrival here
! to-day of many prominent women suf
, Iragists. They plan to be on hand
| during the debate in the House on the
J proposed amendment.
HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1914.
BRIGHT SPOTS ON
1915 BUSINESS SKY
Businessmen Differ as to When
Better Times Will Come, but
All Say They're Coming
TEXTILE MILLS RUNNING FULL
Steel Industry Is Expected to
Brighten as Result of Railway
Freight Increase
With bright spots on the Industrial
horizon increasing each week, local
manufacturers see better things for
1915.
Opinions differ as to what the New
' Year will bring:. Some manufactur
ers see good times ahead, while others
| believe that forecasts cannot bo made
! with any accuracy until after the first
! month of the new year has passed.
Henderson Gilbert, president of the
J Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce,
I who with the secretary, E. 1... McCol
jgin. has been making inquiries as to
I industrial conditions, says the new
iyenr has good things in store for local
I manufacturers.
j "I cannot at this time make any
< definite prediction,", said Mr. Gilbert.
| "Local manufacturers see some bright
| prospects ahead, but prefer to wait
I until after the New Year Is here be
i fore they talk definitely. Traveling
linen tell me that next year business
I will be nil right. Personally, I be
liieve that prosperity is approaching
■slowly but surely. One thing is cer
j tain, Tiarrisburg industries will hold
■ their own with the best of them."
Textile Outlook Good
I Officials of the Harrisburg Silk Mill
j are of the opinion that the coming
■ year will be n good one for the textile
j industries. Since last week additional
j orders were received at the Paterson,
j X. J., plant, where the main offices are
| located. Girls are wanted at the local
I plant to take care of the orders now
lon the books. All indications point to
| a prosperous new year.
i At the Lalance-Grosjean tin plant,
[nothing is known definitely in regard
'to 1915 orders. lleports from New
I York have been encouraging, but noth
jing definite has been received regard-
I ing future orders.
The Moorhead Knitting Company is
I a busy plant these days and orders on
I the books Indicate a very satisfactory
new year. While tlie prospects do not
I indicate that additional hands will be
! employed, officials said to-day that
! new year prospects art- very bright.
Sleel Conditions Improve
A bright year for the steel industry
| was forecasted last week in the Iron
age as a result of the 5 per cent,
freight increase. At the plant of the
I Pennsylvania Steel Company, small
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Pittsburgh District
Gets Big Order For
High Carbonized Steel
By Associated Press
■ Pittsburgh, Deo. 28.—Orders for
j 65,000 ions of high carbonized steel
I rounds appeared in the Pittsburgh
; district today, r.0,000 tons for France
and 15.000 tons for Russia. Re
i cently 20,000 tons of this grade of
steel used in making shrapnel shells,
j were shipped to Europe. It is un
derstood that OhareJs McKnitfht,
i president of the Cabon Steel Com
pany, is now in Europe in connection
with orders for similar material, al
though a number of other mills in
I the district are turning out the steel,
■ the purchasers insisting on prompt
I delivery. it Is estimated that fully
| $<1,000,000 worth of trenching tools,
I galvanized sheets, v. ire and projectile
| steel have been bought in Pittsburgh
I for the European belligerents In the
| last two months.
1 c
Scores of Women Doing
Sewing For Relief Body
An almost continuous stream of
! women able to do plain sewing kept
jthe Home Kelief Department, of the
| Home and War Relief Association
t busy today at headquarters, 7 South
Front street. All were given work.
Activities in all departments were
I resumed by the ladies in charge this
morning. Sufficient material to keep
a full force of a hundred women sew
ing for the week were received from
Blough Brothers.
Contributions continue to be re
ceived. One little miss of eight
turned over a dollar she had received
as a Christmas present. She wanted
to aid the sufferers, both at home
and in Europe. Assurance was given
her that the money would work both
ways.
All offices will observe these hours:
9 to 12; 2 to 5. They will close at
noon Saturday.
Retires From Navy Service
After Forty Years
\ Announcement has been made that
jJohn X. Speel, 121 Walnut street, pay
I director of the United States Navy,
will retire July 30. 1915, after forty
! years of active service. At present he
is doing special work in Washington.
11). C., but has been in service in nearly
I every part of the globe. Mr. anil
I Mrs. Speel may come back to this
j city to live.
I Mr. Speel was born in the Speel
ihome, North Market Square, the son
! of John L. Speel, for 40 years a hat
iter in this city. Mr. Speel received
an appointment in the navy when he
was 22 years old. Since then he has
visited many of the countries with
the United States battleships. It was
his ship that took the engineers to
Nicaragua to survey the proposed
canal site in that country. He mar
ried Miss Virginia White, a daughter
! of Judge Harry White, formerly well
■ known in Pennsylvania politics.
AVIATOR NOVELIST'S SON
By Associated r>ess
| London. Dec. 28, 3.50 a. m.—Flight
! Commander Francis E. T. W. Hewlett.
I who is supposed to have lost his life
Un the Cuxhaven air raid, was the sou
lof Maurice Hewlett, the novelist.
gSTTTrTr
TO DISMISS UK'S
FERRY TOLL FIGHT
Ten-year-old Application For Con
demnation Proceedings to
Be Discontinued
Preliminary steps taken in 1905 by
Dauphin county to condemn as a toll
bridge the section of Clark's Ferry
viaduct, extending between the ferry
and Benvenue, will be formally discon
tinued to-morrow, it is understood,!
when the county's application for a
hearing on the subject is called up on
the December argument court calen
dar.
if the movement that had its incep
tion nearly ten years ago had material
ized the structure would have been
taken over by the county and thrown
open as a free bridge.
The Pennsylvania Canal Company,
which secured from the State the privi
lege to build a uride for use in towing
the canal boats across the Susquehan
na at the Clark's Ferry dam, wanted
sti,soo for if. Application for the ap
pointment of a board of viewers was
made at the time", btif the'case never
got before the courts, as County Soli
citor William 11. Middleton held that
the canal company did not have au
thority to turn over the bridge. The
| corporation, he declared, obtained the
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Warmer Weather, but
Not Enough to Spoil
Skating, Is Coming
Moderating weather, but not enough
high temperature to spoil the skating,
is the promise of the forecaster for to
morrow. The prediction for Tuesday is
slightly cloudy and a minimum tem
perature of about twenty-five degrees,
which is considerably warmer than the
recent low level of the thermometer.
The temperature on Sunday morning,
one degree above zero, was the lowest
ever registered in December during the
twenty-seven years' history of the Har
rlsburg station.
The skating at Wildwood is irood,
and is being indulged in by large
crowds every day. The l iver is not con
sidered safe, although the ice is smooth
at many places.
Handle 350,000 Parcel
Post Packages in 1914
Parcel post business during the year
ending Thursday, December 31, will
show an increase of fifty per cent,
over that of last year. Since the par
cel post system was inaugurated, Jan
uary 1. 1913, business in Harrisburg
has increased almost 74 per cent.
Because of the fact that only at in
tervals during the year parcel post
packages are counted, and records
made of business handled, actual fig
ures for the year are not available at
this time. It is estimated that be
tween 350.000 and 400,000 parcel post
packages will be this year's record.
Outside of the annual Christmas
rush, the number of parcel post sacks
handled at the local Post Otticc daily
is from 150 to 200. During the first
year for parcel post mail, the largest
number of packages handled in one
day was TOO. During the present year
the best day showed a record of 1,100
packages. There were many days on
which 800 packages and over were
handled.
A conservative estimate shows a
daily average of 750 parcel post pack
ages handled each day in Harrlsburg.
WILL PRESENT NOMINATIONS
By Associated Press
"Washington, Dec. 28.—President
Wilson expects to send to the Senate
this week nominations of the five
members of the Federal Trade Com
mission. It was said at the White
House that while he has not finally
chosen the commission he has narrow
ed his list of ellgibles down from 300
to a few men.
LABOR MEN IN SESSION
By Associated Press
Philadelphia, Dec. 28.—Workmen's
compensation and "unemployment"
were topics for discussion at the an
nual meetings hero to-day of the
American Association For Labor Leg
islation and the National Conference
on Unemployment. Some sessions of
the tW'O conventions'will be held joint
ly and many prominent men were on
the programs for addresses.
I'RHMH I.OSE SOME THEXCHES
By Associated Press
Paris. Dec. 28. 2:45 P. M. An of
ficial statement ramo out of Paris this
afternoon reading as follows: "fn Bel
gium wo have continued to advnnee.
To the west of Lombaertzyde wo arc
actually at the foot of the sand dunes
on which the enemy has established
his line of resistance. At a point south
•of Yprfcs we have lost a section of
trenches near HollebecUe."
HB PEOPLE JOIN
ISIS SHIES CLUBS
Thrifty Folk of City Begin Storing
Up Cash; Five Banks
Have Funds
Almost 20,000 people of Harrlsburg j
and nearby towns have begun their i
1913 Christmas savings funds In five j
Harrlsburg banks conducting these |
clu lis.
Several years ago the Christmas sav- ,
ings idea was started and each year:
the number of persons making pay- |
ments has increased until the total i
has almost reached 20,000.
In the 1914 club the Union Trust!
Company paid out hundreds of thou- i
sand of dollars to more than 12,000 j
people. The 1915 club will be even i
larger, it is believed. Two new banks
to take up the Idea this year are thel
East End Hank. Thirteenth and How-j
ard streets, and the Citizens Bank, j
Thirteenth and Derry streets.
Last year two of the banks began I
,<•1x1 lis and each report a successful year i
with a much better one In view for!
1 91*. One of these, thd Ctflntnferclal,
Iliad more than 1.400 members for the j
[opening year and expects to have at
| least 2,000 members for 1915. The
[Security Trust Company, 36-38 North
1 Third street, announced that approxi
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President's Fifty-eighth
Birthday Is Celebrated
Quietly at White House
By Associated Press
Washington, Dec. 28. —President
Wilson was 58 years old to-day. There
was no special celebration marking
the occasion, the President spending
the day quietly surrounded by his
family. It was the first time Mr. Wil
son had celebrated his birthday at
the White Hons*. East year the event
was observed at Pass Christian, Miss.
President Wilson received numer
ous letters and telegrams of congratu
lation to-dav. Some of them were
i from personal friends in all parts of
j the country while other were from the
| rulers of the world's nations. All
brought a feeling of happiness to the
[ President as he read them,
i As a continuation of his plans to
get as much rest as possible during the
holidays, President Wilson contem
plates seeing few callers during the
week. His plans call for a conference
with Representative Underwood, of
Alabama, the majority leader in the
House on the administration's legisla
tive program and a reception to a
delegation of Sunday school pupils
from New Jersey.
One Killed, 8 Hurt By
Bombs in Indian Church
Special to The Telegraph
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 28. When
service was in progress yesterday af
ternoon at the Vedante Temple, of a
Hindu cult, at 29G3 Jackson street, and
Swaml Triguniatia preaching, a young
man walked up the aisle, hiding some
bulky article with his hat. Stopping
in front of the platform, he dropped his
hat and a bomb hidden underneath it.
Swaml Trlgunlatia's were crush
ed. The bomb thrower, whose Identity
has not been established, was blown
tlfteen feet away and killed. Eight
members of the congregation were bad
ly injured.
The interior of the temple was
wrecked.
POLICE TO GO TO SCHOOL
By Associated Press
New York, Dec. 28.—The Board of
Education, it. became known to-day,
has under consideration the petition
of 240 Now York policemen asking
that courses pertaining to their work
be offered In one of the evening high
schools. Course of study in charter
provisions, penal code, English, police
rules and regulations arc being map
ped out and classes are expected to be
organized within a few weeks.
TWO VESSELS COLLIDE
By Associated Press
ProvincetownJ Mass., Deo. 28.—The
five-masted schooner Dorothy Palmer,
and the United Fruit Company steamer
Limon were in collision near Peaked
Hill Bars off the end of Cape Cod early
to-day, but without serious damage to
either vessel or injury to those on j
board.
BISHOP l-'OU 25 YEAIIS
By Associated Press
Duluth. Minn., De •. 28.—Archbishop
John Ireland will be. among the Cath
olic clergy In Duluth this week to at
tend the anniversary services which
will celebrate a quarter of a century's
work by the Right Uev. James Me-
Uoldriek as bishop of the Duluth dio
cese. The celebration begins to-day.
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AIRMEN CAUSE HEAVY
LOSS TO GERMAN NAVAL
STATION AT CUXHAVEN
Aerial Raids Across English Channel Are Center of Inter
est in England Today; Details of Damage Done Are
Still Lacking; Counter Attacks of Germans Check
Onslaughts of Allies in West; End of Campaign in
Poland Is Believed to Be Near
The Russian forces which have been
attacking the Galician fortress of Cra
cow have been driven back fifty miles,
and Cracow is now free from imme
diate menace. It is asserted in Petro
grad that the Russians have improved
their strategic position by falling back.
The capture of Cracow, however, long
has been sought by Russia, being re
garded as an important step on the
way to an invasion across the Silesian
border.
Elsewhere in the east few changes
have occurred, the Germans having
relaxed for the present their assaults
on the Russian line west of Warsaw.
The French war otfice says to-day
that further progress has been made
by the allies, particularly in the Meuse
region. The admission is made, how
ever, that a trench south of Ypres
was lost to the Germans. The Berlin
communication states that Nieuport
has again been under bombardment
by British warships and that a few
civilians were killed or wounded. It
is asserted that' attacks by the allies
have been unsuccessful.
Transporting Refugees
The American cruiser Tennessee is
transporting 500 refugees of various
nationalities from Jaffa, Syria to
Egypt. Captain Decker of tho Tenn
essee reported to Washington that per
mission to remove the refugees had
been granted by the Turkish authori
ties.
The initiative In military operations
apparently has been left for the time
being to the airmen. Aerial raids
across the JOnglish Channel to the
lower Thames, over Freiburg, Xancy,
Met* and Sochaczew, Russian Pt ind,
and on the German naval base at Cux
haven inflicted considerable damage
in the aggregate. Details of the Cux
haven expedition arc still lacking, and
i although Berlin asserts that the Brit
lish aviators accomplished nothing, it
lis said in Hamburg that some damage
i was done. It is evident, however, that
| the heavy fog prevented the British
from carrying out fully their plans.
| Activity on land and sea apparently
•is diminishing. Even in Russian Po
«uup UP 'nai^^mf^aip^flr^^Kjay
SCRANTON BUYS "CHARLEY" MILLER J
A dispatch from Scranton late this afternoon, announces %
the sale of Catcher "Charley" Miller, of the Harrisburg Tri- C
State, to Scranton. Manager Bill Coughlin, of Scranton, C
closed the deal with Manager George Cockill on Saturday, j|
but the papers were not filed until to-day. No price is men- C
1 tioned. Catcher Miller was the leading catcher in the Tri- %
State last season. jj
Clarence Himes, aged 16 years, was this afternoon com
mitted to jail for court, by Mayor John K. Royal, to answer
a charge of larceny. Himes was wanted for a year on the
charge of robbing the butcher shop of Hull Brother:;, in
North Seventh street.
Charles Grayson .alias John Brown, was held under
S3OO bail for court after a hearing before Alderman Kramme
this morning. Grayson was charged with snatching a
pocketbook from Miss Katherine Stangle, on Christmas
morning just as she was about to enter the St. Lawrence ,
German Catholic Church, in Walnut street I
Winter Haven, Fla., Dec! 28.—Harry Alvey, his wife t
and three children were burned to death early to-day when £
fire destroyed their home near here. t
Washington, Dec. 28.—The Federal Reserve Board ap- •
prove ito day rediscount rates of per cent, on maturities C
up to thirty days and 5 per cent, on maturities between K
thirty and ninety days for the Phialdelphia Federal Reserve {
Bank. This is the first bank to establish a rate below five C
per cent. k
New York, Dec. 28.—Fred Hoyt, choir singer in a I
Bowery Mission, pleaded guilty to-day to the theft of SI4OO »
in jewelry from an apartment house, but besought the court's |
clemency on the plea that he stole only to benefit the poor. (
Low bidders on the erection of a light arch concreto
bridge over Spring Creek, in Cameron parkway, opened by |
Park Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor late this afternoon
were: Murphy & Son, Chambersburg, $1687; Ferro-Con
crete, c«y, $.1,015. The low bidder on the construction of the |
new Reservoir park golfhouse was J. H. McKelvey, house '
only $1919; house, porch and painting, $2,331.50.
' )
, MARRIAGE ' 1
I Mato C'uiiko mill Vein .Wulior, Strrlton. )
I Rrnjamln /.tiimirruian, York, and Uracc Glah, l.ancantrr. k
• POSTSCRIPT
land the lighting is becoming less se
vere, without a decision having been
reached. Vienna admits that the Aua
trians have been compelled to re
treat before the Galician Carpathians,
and in Berlin it is said that the at
tempt to cross the Bzura river in tho
advance on Warsaw has been aban
doned.
In the west the onslaught of the al
lies would seem to have been checked
by the counter attack of the Germans,
mans.
Captain and Commander
of German Cruiser Sunk
by Mine, Sent to Jail
By Associated Press
Copenhagen, via London, Dec. 28,
4.15 a. m.—According to the Hamburg
Echoe. a courtmarial has been held
at Wilhelmschafen to try the captain
and the commander of tho German
cruiser Yorck, which was sunk by a
mine in Jade Bay in November. Three
hundred members of the crew were
lost.
The oftlcers were charged with dis
obedience, negligence and manslaugh
ter and were found guilty, according to
the Eehoe. Captain Vieper was sen
tenced to two years' conllnement in a
fortress and Commander Cleve to one
year's imprisonment.
MUCH DAMAGE AT CUXHAVEN
By Associated Press
London, Dec. 28, 3.54 a. m.—The
Daily Mail's Copenhagen correspond
ent says he learnes from Hamburg
: that considerable damage was caused
[atCuxhaven by the British air raid.
IGERMANS RELY VPON HUNGARY*
By Associated Press
London, Dec. 2S, 4.10 a. in.—The
| Times says that it learns from a trust-
I worthy source that the recent mission
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