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PREDICTS ANARCHY (
IN THEPHILIPPINES
Recent Disturbances, Though Dan-
gerous, Are Said to Be
Insignificant
By Associated Press
Washington. Dec. 31. -Private dls- f
patches from Manila saying the recent r
disturbances In the Philippine Islands, s
though dangerous, were insignificant (
in accomplishments, wore laid to-day r
before, the Senate committee consider- J
ing the, Philippines independence bill '
by Dean C. Worcester, former sccre- J"
tary of the interior of the islands. The "
dispatch came yesterday from his per
sonal friend, P. G. McDonnell, a Ma- 11
nila editor, and for their accuracy Mr. *
AVorcester vouched to the committee. '
The dispatch road:
"General commanding Corregidor 8
denies the rumor regarding disarming j*
of scouts. Mob in botanical garden
scattered by the police before the time *
set for uprising. Arrested twenty? *•
bolo men. Movement wide. Quite ®
well organized, Kicarte connected with !]
them. ?
"Drastic measures required to pre
vent it from spreading. Tt is general
ly believed the disturbance is being i
influenced by widespread idea of gov- I
ernment weakness. Sedition not sup- 1
pressed because a wrong interpreta- I
tion of promises of administration in
circulation by politicians among ignor
ant masses. Foreigners apprehensive.
Great many have applied for firearms
permit. Impossible to do anything to
corroborate many facts. Witnesses
«ro forbidden to give information.
Government will not allow us to see I
documents seized by army. Uprising
insignificant in accomplishment, but
dangerous on account of potential agi
tation of lowest classes.
' ■ Ix-adei-s at l.argc
"Similar to 18!'t>. Have arrested
men in Manila. Many leaders have
not been apprehended. Communlea- l
tions secured indicating Americans a
were to be attacked. Property to be p
confiscated or destroyed. There is no \
evidence that property owning natives t
are involved. Absolutely no Ameri- v
cans connected with uprising. V
(Signed) "P. G. McDonnell." \
A phrase "have issued arms to civil
employes" contained in the original 1
dispatch was eliminated by Mr. Mc- a
Uonnell In a later message and Mr. a
AVorcester told the committee he be- t
lleved the statement cancelled was un- 1
true. i
Sir. Worcester gave it as his opin- a
ion that the disturbances were what
might be expected before indepeml- c
ence be granted. He declared the 1
Philippines politicians who "love to 5
fish ill troubled waters." were in fa- '
vor of immediate independence, mean- '
ing an Independence for them to hold J
office with the United States navy l.v- j
ing In the harbors to prevent interna- '
•, tional complications. 1
Liquor Traffic Is a 1
National Issue, Says
Prohibition Speaker!
Topeka, Kan., Dec. 31. —"If the
liquor traffic in a State and not a na
tional issue why does the govern
ment impose a heavy tax on it and
grant a license to people to engage in
the business?"
This was the question John P. St. I
John, the first prohibition governor of
Kansas, put to the National conven
tion of the Intercollegiate Prohibition
Association here to-day.
"If it is a purely State issue why
docs a government official carry the
keys to the distillery." continued the
former governor. "The contention
that the liquor question is purely a (
State issue has no foundation in his- .
tory, justice or common sense.
"A prohibitory amendment will be <
adopted by Congress not later than i
1917, and three-fourths of the Stales (
will have ratified it not later than
1920. In five years thereafter the 1
liquor politicians and the liquor press i
will be ready to swear that they were
always prohibition.
Must Pull Together
Says Pennsy Manager
in New Year Greeting
New Year greetings from S. C. Dong,
general manager of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, to the employes all over the
system were posted to-day. In con
cluding his greetings General Manager
Uong says:
"We regret that our own ranks are
depleted, but we are not earning
enough to fill them. It is a time to
stand together or to pull together—
for peace, for happiness ami for pros
perity. May the New A'ear bring good
cheer, good will and clearing skies for
us all."
CLOTHING STOLEN
Someone entered the yard of Joseph
F. Shorb. 1927 Park street, last even
ing and stole a suit of underwear and
several pair of socks. The police were
notified.
Sheppard Denies Supporting
Blanco For Head of Mexico
Sk
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SENATOR MOTH US SHEPPARD.
A, Senator Morris Sheppard of Tejas,
baa denied the report from Mexico
City that he was interested in the
scaeme to make Imclo Blanco Presi
dent. of Mexico, ami that he was sup
porting Frank Rabb, a U. S. Customs
Collector, who had constituted him
self Blanco's campagn manager.
Senator Sheppard admits that he sent
TOn —..
THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG f/Sflt- TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 31, 1914.
GENERAL nun IP !
JME IN Ml!
Vera Cru? Dispatch to Carranza
Agency Tells of Hi?
Arrest
Washington, D. C., Dec. 3t,—Gen
em) I.uclo Blanco, who remained In
military command of Mexico Cltv for
some tinie after the withdrawal of
Carranza forces and pending the ar
rival of the Villa and Zapata forces,
has been imprisoned by Villa, accord
ing to a dispatch to-day to the Car
ranza agency here from Vera Cru*.
The message, dated yesterday, says:
"Advices from Mexico City received
by the War Department from secret
service men say General Luclo Blanco
has been made prisoner by Villa and
that Blanco's staff officers have been
scattered among Villa regiments
against their will. The state of Vera
Cruz to-day became denuded of rebel
Villaistas and Zapatistas when General
Seuvlrran, operating under command
of Villa with 800 soldiers, surrendered
his force and himself to General Obrc
gon, in Jaltipan. and offered his sword
to the first chief."
ALL PLUMBERS HERE
MUST WEAR BADGES
Retailers Must Procure Licenses
to Do Business Dur
ing 1915
Alore than 175 plumbers of the city
have registered again for the new year
and several of them have already been
given new budges, which they must
wear beginning to-morrow. The
badges cost 2 5 cents and the money
will be returned at any time that the
plumber does not care to continue his
work.
The food inspectors report that a
large number of retail merchants have
already applied for their-1915 licenses
and that others have been notified
that these must be procured at once.
The licenses are good only from Jan
uary 1. 1913, to January 1, 1916, and
are not transferable.
All of the retail meat, milk, fish,
oysters, bakery and restaurant licenses
have been reduced in cost from s."> to
$4. A $2 reduction has been made in
the license for ice cream manufactur
ers. and wholesale milk and meat
licenses have been reduced from $25
to S2O. More than 700 licenses were
Issued last year to dealers who sold
produce in this city.
The officers of the health bureau are
busy making up the 1915 health re
port.
INQUIRE INTO VALUE
OF "HARDSCRABBLE"
City Council to Investigate Cost
Incident to Front St.
Opening
Within the next few weeks City
Council, it is understood, will begin
inquiry as to the more equable value
of the properties that will have to be
taken over by the city In the formal
opening of Front street between Calder
and Herr streets to the low water line
and the consequent elimination of
"Hardsc rabble."
Of the forty-two properties affected
prices have been obtained on thirty
three, and twenty-three owners have
given City Solicitor D. S. Seitz their
figures. These aggregated $154,500.
Council laid the matter over and asked
City Clerk Miller to prepare a state
ment showing the comparison of the
sums asked with the city assessments.
The latter totaled something more
than $54,000.
Council's next duty will be to deter
mine by hearing testimony of property
owners and realty experts or by tak
ing such other steps as the city offi
cials may see lit. upon a more equable i
figure. Then City Solicitor Seitz will j
be asked to request the court to ap
point viewers to assess the benefits and !
damages that may accrue from the
condemnation of the property. Neces
say bonds will lie filed. Much of the
damages that will be allowed for the
property owners whose ground will be
taken will be set off, it is believed, by
the benefits that may be assessed
against the properties on the east side
of the street. AVhat difference re
mains, however, will be paid, it Is be
lieved, by the city.
The board of viewers will not be
asked for several months, certainly
not at January quarter sessions, and
perhaps not until March.
i HOI SE-TO-llOrsK FIGHTING
IX PROGRESS IN ALSACE
By Associated Press
Paris. Dec. 21. 2.55 P. M. —The
French official announcement giver,
out in Paris this afternoon relates a
continuance of artillery exchanges
with the enemy and further advances,
measured by yards, of French soldiers
at various points on the line of battle.
Counter-attacks of the enemy were
driven back and in Alsace a certain
village is held half by German and
half by French troops. The fighting
here has been from house to house
and it continues to-day.
WANTS WAR AGAINST AVAR
By Associated Press
'.ondon, Dec. 31. 1.30 P. M.—Carl
I.iebnocht. the Socialist member of the
German relchstag who attracted con
siderable attention to himself early In
December by being the only member
of the relchstag who voted against a
new war credit, has sent a New Tear's
message to British Socialists in which
he calls upon the workers of the world
to unite In a war against the war.
AVII,Ii NOT MARCH ON SARAYEVO
Paris, Dec. 31, 4.45 A. M.—"The Ser
vians will not march on Sarayevo."
said Dr. M. R. Vesniteh, the Servian
minister to France, according to a
statement by him published here. They
will penetrate either to Smyrna, the
easternmost country of Slavonia. Hun
gary. by war of Sentlln. or Banat, a
region of Southern Hungary, by war
of Panosova.
STABBED HER lIlsHWn
Mrs. Viola Smith, charged with stab
bing hor husband. Herman Smith, was
i given a hearing before ('. E. Murray.
alderman of the Third ward, this aft
. ernoon. The stabbing occurrod on
■ November 10 at Capital and Verbekn
SHE ISN'T POISONED
IT ILL. SUV POLICE
Overdose of Nerve Medicine Made
Her 111, Investigating Doc
tors Learn
Believing she had been poisoned.
Mrs. W. Adln llupp. wife of a music
teacher, 1515 State street, has had
both Colonel Joseph It. Hutchison,
chief of police, and M. S. Stroup, dis
trict attorney, investigating for two
days.
It was found she had taken an over
overdose of nerve medicine.
Mrs. Rupp has been confined to bed
for three days, and her case caused
considerable excitement in the imme
diate neighborhood. Both Colonel
Hutchison and District Attorney
Stroup made personal inquiries, and
after consulting three local physicians
who were called in on the ca.se, de
cided there was no foundation for the
poison theory.
According to Colonel Hutchison and
District Attorney Stroup, domestic
troubles figure in the case.
CATHERINE FRICKIO
ATTEND VAUDEVILLE
Deaf, Dumb and Blind, She Will
Still Be Able to Enjoy New
Year Show
Catherine l'lick, Harrisburg's eele- c
brated deaf, dumb and blind girl, will s
attend the Orpheum's midnight carni- c
val to-night and welcome In the New
Year along with hundreds of others I
who find pleasure in watching the new «
year <n and a good vaudeville show at
the same time.
Miss Friek will not alone attend the
vaudeville show, but she will go behind
the scenes and visit with Kitty Gordon
and the other players on the week's
bill. l
Miss Catherine cannot see. hear nor (
talk, but by the wonderful seventh
sense of intuition that has made her a
second Helen Keller, she will be able
to understand the show and enjoy it as <■
much as anybody in the audience. Miss
Friek is home for her holiday vacation t
from the Mt. Airy Institute for Deaf. |
Dumb and Blind. I
POST OFFICES tVIIX CI.OSE j
Front 10 o'clock to-morrow morning 1
until midnight to-morrow night the -
Harrisburg Poost Office and substa- 1
tions will be closed. Carriers will *
make one delivery to-morrow morn- j
ing and regular collections after 5.40
in the evening.
mm GREY III 1
CONFERENCE ON NOTE ;
ii
British Foreign Secretary Presents
Ambassador With Views
of His Colleagues
By Associated Press
London. Dec. 31. 3.51 P. M.—Walter
Ilines Page, the American ambassador,
had an extended conversation this aft
ernoon with Sir Edward Grey, the
British secretary for foreign affairs,
on the subject of President Wilson's
note of protest against the detention
of American shipping by British war
ships.
As the note had been discussed by
the members of the British cabinet
yesterday, the foreign secretary was
able to present to the ambassador the
combined views of himself and his col
leagues.
CONSTABLE JOHNSON IIJ.
James H. Johnson, 27 Calder street,
a constable in the Sixth ward, fell
over at the Pennsylvania station'this |
morning, suffering from an attack of
vertigo. He was treated at the Har- I
risburg hospital.
Prison Taught Policeman
Lesson of Silence
IJY
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JOHN J. HAHTIGAN
John J. Hartigan. perjurer and for
. mer policeman, who hits just been
! paroled by the Slate Pardon Board
after having served a year and eight
• months of a sentence of three years
and six months, declares that his ex
perience behind the prison walls has
taught him the lesson of silence,
llartigan was caught In the Jiet
. swung by District Attorney Whitman
i in the police graft exposures that fol
lowed the murder of Gambler Her-
Iman Rosenthal. The former police
man refuses to say anything about his
prison life and Is equally silent on
■ • • ---ft I-
CM FOR
SPEAKER GET BUSY
Various Headquarters Will Be in
Full Swing by Tomorrow
Evening
Headquarters will hp openod In the
same hotel In this city to-morrow for
three of the candidate* for the Re
publican caucus nomination for speak
er, some of the rooms being almost
beside each other. The headquarters
to be opened to-morrow are those of
R. .1. Baldwin, Delaware: Henry 1.
Wilson, Jefferson, and R. P. Habgood,
JlcKean. The following: day head
quarters will be opened for Charles A.
Ambler, Montgomery, and on Saturday
night George W. Williams, Tioga, also
mentioned for speaker, will be here.
Few members pre here for the
opening of the Legislature on Tues
day but they will begin to arrive to
morrow. The caucus meetings will be
held Monday evening when It is un
derstood that the wishes of Governor
elect Brumbaugh in regard to legisla
tion keeping party platform pledges
and against fixing p. date for adjourn
ment will be communicated to the
| Republican members.
hast night at Pittsburgh when the
question of the probability of the Re
publican Senate and House caucuses
adopting a resolution Monday night
to fix the date for final adjournment
of the Legislature w.s mentioned to
the next governor, he said:
"That would be extremely unwise.
An early adjournment of the Legisla
ture is desirable, but the Assembly
should not adjourned until it has ful
filled its pledges to the people. I am
opposed to the caucus going on rec
ord for any fixed time for adjourn
ment, though I am unopposed to a
long session. Later we can determine
when it would be wise for deciding
upon a day when the lawmaking body
can be dissolved. It is the solemn
should not adjourn until it was ful
dose of nerve medicine.
London Paper Says U. S.
Should Be Met Half Way
By Associated Press
London, i)ec. 31, 3.15 A. M.—The
American note to Great Britain con
cerning the se n cli of American ves
sels by British warships is further dis
cussed by the London newspapers to
day.
The Standard in an editorial warns
the country that the American protest
is a serious one and should not be
treated light heartedly: that the senti
ment in the United Slates in favor of
the allies is less pronounced than it
was three months ago and that it is
yielding to feeling in favor of Germany
as the underdog in a light against
great odds. Therefore, the newspa
per says, if any solution Is possible the
United States should bo met half way.
A suggestion appears in the Morn
ing Post that a remedy for the griev
ance of undue delay in searching ves
sels would be to pass a short act in
parliament giving the neutral trader
(he right to come to a British court of I
justice and by a process involving aj
minimum of delay, to claim damages |
arising from the detention of his ves-1
sel or cargo.
Close Market Street
to Traffic During Parade
Colonel Joseph B. Hutchison to-day
gave np.tice that Market street would
be close.l to-morrow to all traffic from I
1 o'clock in the afternoon until after I
the Mummers' parade lias passed.
In order to keep the big crowd in a
good humor while waiting for the pa
rade. K. H. Royer, with one of Robert
L. Morton's Clialmer cars, will give a ]
demonstration of an automatic auto j
bumper, which will pick up pedestri
ans. and prevents accidents. Running 1
at the rate of fifteen miles an hour,
the automobile, driven by Mr. Royer, j
will run into Arthur Dunlop. It will !
pick him up without harm'ng a hair on 1
his head, it Is said. The exhibition is j
said to be a thriller, and a movie man
will take pictures of the life-saving ex
hibitions.
1 POLISH CAPITA I, MUST SOON
BE EVACUATED, IS BELIEF
By Associated Press
Berlin, via The Hague andd .London, i
i Dec. 31, 3.11 a. m.—Major Moraht, the
| military expert, discussing in the j
jjTageblatt the Eastern war situation,!
says:
j! "All military authorities are agreed
that the Polish capital must soon be I
' evacuated. Its value as a fortress, as
■is well known, is slight, but the
'strongly fortified positions in front of
the forts, it must be expected, will be
Iwell defended. Nevertheless it would
i require strong forces to hold theni.
AHTILLEKY DISPERSES TROOPS
By Associated Press
Petrograd, Dec. 30.—-(Delayed in
Transmission.) —The following coin-
I municatlon from the general staff of
| the army of the Caucasus was given
j out here to-night. "The battle at
|Sarlwamysh (in Transcaucasus, thirty
I miles southwest of Kars) against, large
[Turkish forces continues. Our artillery
i fire dispersed a strong column of
Turks who endeavored to have them
selves by flight after having lost half
of their contingent."
XO JAP TROOPS IX EUROPE
fly Associated Press
Toklo. Dec. 31, 3.<3 p. m.— In its
denial of reports that Japanese troops
i had been landed at Vladivostok or any
other place, en route to Europe, the
I foreign office included this statement:
' "Japan has not been appointed by
! Great. Britain or any other country to
! send an army to Europe."
FIGURES EXAGGERATED
By Associated Press
j Vienna, via Amsterdam to London,
I Dec. 31. 3.49 a. m.—lt is officially an
nounced that a dispatch from the front
declares the Russian estimates of the
number of captured Austrian officers
to be greatly exaggerated, while ad
mitting that the number of officers
and men taken by the Russians can
| not be exactly stated.
THIRTY-ONE CARGOES SEIZED
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Oec. 31.—Thirty
one ships, bearing 19,350 tons of
American copper, worth $5,500,000,
destined to neutral nations, have been
detained and their cargoes seized as
contraband since the European war
began. Senator Walsh, of Montana,
told the Senate to-day.
WINDOW CUT HIS ARTERIES
i Guy Gause, 137 Hanna street, let a
1 window fall on nil hand this morning
t in the lodge rooms above the Jerauld
s shoe store and severely cut. his right
- hand. Two arteries were cut ai d two
s stitches were inserted at the Harrls
!. burg hospital where he was taken.
n LATE MATINEE PERFORMANCE
In order that patrons may sec the
- Mummers' parade to-morrow after
s noon, the matinee performanc ate the
n Orpheum will not start until 3 o'clock.
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WARN GARBAGE PEOPLE TO
GET BUSY OR BE FINED
The Bureau of Health and Sanita
tion passed a resolution last night
warning the Pennsylvania Reduction
Company to be more prompt tin re
moving garbage and ashes or penal
ties will be inflicted of $5 for each of
fense reported. A largo number of
people in the city have been com
plaining to the Health Department
WILI. TEST NEW SHELL
i
Washington. Dec. 31 .—Preparations
are being made for a test In the near
future of the much discussed Isham
shell by a naval board, headed by Rear
Admiral Flske. A new kind of fuse,
for the shell has Just been constructed
and submitted to a preliminary test
and as soon as It has demonstrated Its
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I»i:.\TH HATIO DUCKEAStiD
By Associated Press
Pittsburgh, Deo. 31.—Pittsburgh's
mortality (luring the last twelve
months has been the lowest In th«
history of tho city with the exception,
of 'one year according to estimates
made public to-day by Dr. J. F. Ed
wards, director of public health. Th»
nor i thl* >»«r Is