Germans Rush Reinforcements East in Another Eifort to Reach Warsaw HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIV — No. 6 A PAGE RECEIVES REPLY TO AMERICAN PROTEST Ambassador Immediately Makes Plans For Its Shipment to Washington ANOTHER ANSWER IS COMING Time For Delivery of More Defi-; nite Supplementary Reply Is Uncertain By Associated Press I.ondon, Jan. S, 2.08 P. M.—Ambas- j sad or Page to-day received from the | British government the preliminary reply to the American note protesting against the British interference with i American shipping. He forwarded It j immediately to Washington. The time of delivery of the more ! definite supplementary reply which the j British government is to make is un- I certain. It probably will be within J two weeks. Further negotiations between the ! two governments concerning specific cases of detention of American ves sels will precede the preparation of the final British answer. BUrriSH XOTK IS .WVAITF.n BY WASHINGTON OFFICIAI.S! By Associated Press Washington, Jan. S.—Secretary j Bryan and other officials to-day await- • eil receipt of the British government's ! preliminary reply to the recent Amer- I lean note on the subject of interfer- 1 ences with shipping. At noon it had not been received by ! officials expect that with prompt j transmission it would be unccded and | before them by night. It is believed that in the prelimi- j nary note Great Britain has recog- ! nized the reasonableness of the Amer- i ican protest and has promised to re- j duce the annoyance to the smallest i degree. Flying Waste Paper Litters Front St. Yards; Raunick Acts Promptly Complaints were made to Dr. J. M. | J. Kuunlck. city health officer, to-day ! <>f the failure of the Pennsylvania i Reduction Company to dump only' clean ashes on the ltiver Front above i "f lardserabble." Since yesterday ashes were being w led .is a sort of bottom "fIU" fur » ertain sections of the water front and the garbage company is required to station men at these points, whose duty it is to prevent any scattering i' >f waste paper and to spread the j' ;<shes properly. High winds, how- I < \ r, have scatered the unsightly and ! unsanitav scraps until the lawns all j along the street arc littered with the j refuse. Dr. Raunick said he would attend to the matter promptly. "Tliis is the first complaint we've) had about this matter," said he. "We'll l see that it is rectified at once. I'll \ call there immediately and caution j the men." VICTIMS OF NEW YEAR'S AITO CRASH LIC WE HOSPITAL Miss Lillian M. Swails. 1410 Green! street, and T. Elder Cleckner, 11121 Green street, who were injured in an j automobile accident at Front and j Walnut streets. New Year's night, i were discharged from the Harrisburg | Hospital this ufternoon. Samuel I Weber, 160 Sylvan Terrace, who was! injured in the same accident, left the hospital several days ago. The Coroner will probably hold the i inquest within a few days. MIMMKRS WINDING FP BFSIN ESS UNTIL NOVEMBER Final reports will be presented at j' the meeting of the Harrisburg Mum- j me.rs' Association Tuesday night at I ! the Mayor's office. A shortage of SSO was reported at the last meeting. This! 1 amount, it is believed, will be covered bv outstanding dues and contribu . tions. EDWARD DAPP APPOINTED Edward* Dapp, jury commissioner, Vis beer, appointed to a clerkship in the Department of .Mines at a salary of $1,400 a year. Mr. Dapp is a well known railroadman and polled a large vote when he ran for jury commis sioner. lie succeeds John P. Galla gher, of Luzerne county, who has been transferred to the State Insurance Department. IXmi EIT FOR APPEARANCE Arrests last night included William Adams and Harry Porter, charged with fighting in Third street near Market. Adams gave his residence as near Hazleton. Porter said he is from Harrisburg. Patrolmen McCann and Fluch made the arrests. The men put up a forfeit for their appearance. ! THE WEATHER I- or ll»rriahur ß nnd ilrlnltyt Fair to-tillfllt nnil Miturilnj | allfchtlr .•older to-nliitrl. with lourm tem perature uhout 2.S ilrnrm. ••'or Lanirrn Pfnuylvanla: Fair to nlurht, ptf<mpn hnt colder In north and neat portion*) Saturday fnlri srcntle tt» roodrrate WUT WIDII«. Blrfr 4 'lhe lee moved out at tkYllllaniaport almut midnight. The v.e»t cban , net of the river at llnrrlaburg opened about 11 o'clock laat niithc and the Ice on thr rant ehannel broke up about .'I a. m. to-day. The main rhrr «ill rlae tblx aft ernoon. and to-nlcbt and begin to fall Saturday. A Mtatre of about feet la Indicated for llarrla bnrg Saturday morning. General Conditions The atorra la pnaalnK off the \orth Mlnntl<- coaat and fair weather now prevails over nearlr all the «wintry, except In 'the fiulf Statea, where It la unsettled with some rain. Temperatures S a. m.. N, "I'm Hlaea, 7:M a. ai.; acta, 4iS5 p. m. Moon: Xew moon, January. IS. til: n. m. Hlter Mane: 0.2 feet above lon. rtntrr mark. Yeaterday'a Weather lliiclimt tempera to re. r. I. I.oweat temperature. 3d. Menu temperature, IS. •Normal temperature, Hi* RIVER FRONT "FILL" PURCHASED IT LIST Commissioner Taylor Buys 15,000 Yards by Clever Busi ness Stroke COST ONLY 26 2-3 CENTS Contracts With Freight Station Contractors; Complete Job in Twenty Days M ithin a week or ten days the long hoped filling out of the ltiver Front between Calder and ,Maclay streets with material excavated from the Pennsy freight station site in South Second street will be started. The contract, providing for 15,000 yards or more of earth "fill," was signed to-day by City Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor, superintendent of parks, and the King-Brown Contract ing Company, of Philadelphia. The firm is handling the excavation for the freight warehouses south of Mulberry street. The city will pay $4,000 for the "fill" at the rate of 26 2-3 cents per cubic yard. The improvement is to be com pleted in twenty days Commissioner Taylor's business stroke in obtaining the great bulk of material at such an extraordinarily low figure elicited widespread ap proval In city circles and it is gen erally expected that the contract will be formally approved by City Council at its meeting Tuesday. Stuokers Wanter fit) Cents When negotiations had been pend | ins with the Stueker Brothers Con j struction Company last Fall the ques i tion of prK e precluded the closing of i the deal. Sixty cents per yard was I asked by the local contracting firm for | placing the material over the bank. It I also ottered an alternative scheme whereby it would allow the city 15 cents a yard to haul the dirt away and Ito charge nothing for the material. It j with material excavtaed from the ! partment that to <lO this work itself [Continued on Page 9] PRI:SII>F.NTS I:\VMPM; IS FOLLOWED HY (iOVKKMIIt Special to The Telegraph Dover. Del., Jan. B.—Governor C. n. 1 Miller, setting a precedent In the State jand following the example of Presi jdent Wilson, appeared before the Sen jators and Itepresentatives, assembled in joint session, and read his biennial I message yesterday morning. The message was delivered seventy jtwo hours late. It should have been ; read Tuesday, but the wrangle in the j Senate delayed it. ISM FIRE LOSS MA* TOTAL HALF MILLION Expected to Exceed That of 1913 by About $50,000; Sev eral Big Blazes Fire losses in Harrisburg for the year ending December 31, 1914, may exceed a half million dollars. I Fire Chief John C. Kindler is now jat work on his annual report which i will go to council on Tuesday al'ter jnoon. In the opinion of Kire Chief ■ Kindler the total losses will exceed j those of 1913 about $50,000. Xo definite figures were given re garding the total losses as some of ;the monthly reporfs are incomplete jon the amount of insurance. The re | port will show numerous small blazes, I many chimney fires, and a record ! number of talse alarms. Included i among the costly fires were: The rag I warehouse fire. Christian and Hancock I streets, a SIO,OOO blaze; Watts paper | warehouse. South Third street. $lO.- i 000; two fires at Masonic Temple, i Third and State streets, $10,000; State | printery fire, $45,000. ABBOTT WITHDRAWS 1 LIST OF QUESTIONS * Philadelphia Attorney Is Sharply Called to Account by Former Governor Pennypacker Edwin M. Abbott, counsel for Phil adelphia Commuters and Business As sociations in the Philadelphia com mutation case and a former legisla tor. to-day withdrew his series of ' ijuestions handed to the Public service Commission in connection with its ! course in the rendering of the recent decision. This action took place af ter ex-Governor Samuel W. Penny packer had sharply critized his course and told him to comport himself in a manner more comnortablc with the [Continued on Page 13] I FRENCH ORDER :SO TONS OF COCOA IN PITTSBURGH By Associated Press Pittsburgh. Pa., Jan S.—The French I government has placed an order with a local firm for thirty tons of cocoa for the use of its soldiers, according to an announcement made here Inst night. Representatives of the con cern declare the order is the largest ever given by any of the warring na tions fora single shipment of choco late. BIG ORDER FOR STEEL RAILS Uekawannn Boad Buying 20.000 Tons From Three Companies Special to The Telegraph New York, Jan. B.—The Delaware, j I,ackawanna and Western Railroad ; i<< said to have divided orders for , 2'».000 tons of steel rails between the Pennsylvania. I<aekawanna and Beth llehein Steel Companies. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1915. JANE ADDAMS TO SEE PRESIDENT \ ilk Jk - - H £&». - *'• jflk HM i IrSl Mil .TANK ADDAMS Noted social worker and founder of t ehllull 'louse in Chicago, who Is scheduled to call op the President on Monday in an effort to induce him to veto the immigration bill because of the literary test clause. Here's a Tale of a Widow and Thirty Pieces of Silver Coroner Unearths False Friend's Scheme to Betray Dead Adam Cico's Wife to Chair's Shadow All this is the story of how the | bosom friend of dead Adam Cico tried to betray his weeping widow into the clutches of the law for thirty pieces of American silver. The Cicos lived with a lot of their fellow-countrymen at 1103 South ■ Ninth street. Mrs. Cico is pretty and is well liked by a host of friends among both sexes, so when Adam, a few days ago, became suddenly and i seriously ill and she needed some funds, she had little difficulty in ob taining a loan of S3O. This, by the I way, from her husband's best friend. ; January 5 Adam became curiously < worse and on the following day he I died. The next day the friend asked j that his loan be returned. Mrs. Cico : said she hadn't the money; the friend |. CIVIC COUNCIL 10 ! FIGHT EW LICENSES Churchmen Preparing to Oppose I AH New Applications For Sale of Booze At a meeting of the Civic ''ouncil of Churches to lie held next week plans will be formulated for opposing all new applications for liquor licenses. It is also said that preparations will be made for tiling remonstrances against a number of present holders of licenses. One of the new applicants will be Harry F. Ecklngcr, former proprietor of Motel Russ, now The Plaza. '.Mr. Eckinger Is planning to open Paxtonia nln, at Paxtonia, as a summer hotel. He will cater especially to dance and dinner parties. Mr. Eckinger yesterday afternoon closed negotiations for the purchase of the contents of the Paxtonia hotel and the barn adjoining. The present lessee is James Wix. No license was granted last year. The property is owned by M. P. Johnson. HERE'S THE WORST SPELLER Honey .Merchant in Portland. Expo nent of Complicated Singling Special to The Tclrgraph Portland. Ore., Jan. 8. —One of the dealers in honey at the Portland pub lic market is entitled to the cham pionship booby prize of the world in spelling. llere are reproductions of placards which the merchant has tacked up before his products: "The Bees *ukk thlss off hunny with thair bills rito outt off swete cloovr hlosaumins inn Bastern OrKon." "Puure Tlunny. Stikk a teeth plkk rite inn an hilp youreseif. kno exxtra charges if you bio a jarr." ' inscisted- Then in some way vague trumors hinting that Adam Cico had ! been poisoned by his wife began to circulate through the little colony. Th pretty, sorrowing widow was terrified. The reports grew and mag nified and finally out from the shadow of the electric chair the long arm of the law reached through the District Attorney's oflice and Coroner Jacob Eckinger started an investigation. The inquiry was completed yesterday when Coroner Kckinger satisfied himself that the rumors had their origin in the bosom of Cico's one-time friend and a physician's examination showed conclusively that Cico died of an at tack of nephritis. And that is the story of Adam Cico's false friend an uhis thirty pieces of American silver. HUME GUNS IIEW LEISE OKI LIFE Structure Will Probably Stand For Two Months Longer; Men tioned For Auto Show The demolition of the Stough taber nacle may lie deferred six or eight weeks if there is any demand for the building as a meeting or exhibition j place, according to J. K. Dare, a coal dealer of Eighteenth and Chestnut 'streets, who bought the building sev jera! days aco from the Bogar Duin : ber Company, to whom the building j had reverted with the close of the | evangelistic meetings. Mr. Dare said there has been some talk of holding the annual Auto Show ; next month in the tabernacle, and I also the meeting to be held soon bw i the Anti-Saloon league, which was originally planned for Chestnut Street ; Hall. If neither of these projects arc | carried out and the building is not sold to the committee of the Heading evangelistic campaign, the tabernacle i will be sold to the highest bidder or (torn down and used for second-hand I lumber or fire wood by Mr. Dare. i TRENCH TROOPS OX SKIIN I ORCK CKRMAXS To RETREAT By Associated Press St. Die, Department of Vosges, I France, -lan. 6. via Paris. Jan 8, 11.0 l in. m.—A brilliant exploit by French Alpine troops, who charged on sklls ! down the snow-covered mountain slopes at lldnhomme, a post on the I Alsatian frontier, forcer the Germans to retire on Orbey, HVP miles down' the valley of the river Mouse towarJ j • 'oimar. I MERCURY'S FILL ITS DINGER FROM FLOOD, Ice Moving Off Susquehanna and Tributaries Without Causing Much Damage ! CREST DUE HERE TOMORROW jStage of 13 Feet Indicated; the Branches Are Already Fall ing. Forecaster Learns j A drop of twenty degrees in tem perature last night in the mountains "f the Susquehanna watershed Is all | that prevented serious damage from the llooil. The river is now carrying jthe ice off nicely at a stage of nine {and two-tenths feet. Last night the lowest temperature iws about .10 degrees, preventing fur- I ther melting of ice and snow. The ice on all the branches and • small streams with few exceptions is moving and will go out without gorg ing according to reports. At this point I the ice broke'on the west side of the I river at 11 o'clock and on the east side : at 3 o'clock this morning. Shortly I after the river jumped three feet. E. jH. Demain, local forecaster, predicts | that by noon to-morrow the flood will be a't its crest, reaching more than (twelve feet. The river is already fall |ing. Tne only gorge reported is at 'Warrior's Kldge on the Juniata, caus ling damage to the State highway. •The gorge is about 1,000 feet long and j more than twelve feet in height. For Harrisburg and vicinity, fair land mild weather with a slight fall ; in the temperature is the forecast for to-night. The warm wave which is traveling northeast is now well up in the New England district and at Boston the temperature climbed to | 62 degrees. Grandson Reaches Bedside Just Too Late; Mrs. Blair Dies From Her Burns i Mrs. Ida C. Blair. 60 years, Cl 3 'Schuylkill street, who was seriously | burned in a lire at the home, of her |son, A. C. Blair, early yesterday, died |at 10.30 o'clock this morning at the i Harrisburg hospital. She was severely I burned all over her body. Her 10-year-old grandson Roy, who was saved by the heroic work of his mother, arrived at the hospital this morning just a few minutes after his grandmother died. 1915 REITY OUTLOOK BRIGHT. SIT IGEKTS Herman P. Miller Intimates That New Firms May Locate; Steel ton Looking Up, Too The real estate outlook In Harris burg for 1915 is generally optimistic, according to leading realty men. Al though there are a few gloomy thoughts expiesscd, the general opin ion is that the year will run a head of 'l4. Xo immediate boom is expected during the early months of the year, but a marked improvement in* the sales activities and a better market for homes is looked for with the com ing of Spring, in connection with the general increase in all lines of busi ness expected. Real estate, the agents say, feels a general depression Just as any other commodlity, and is quick [Continued on Pant* 10] PUT BUSK in liimis , Guest of Democratic Club in Cele i • bration of Jackson Day; Talks to 4,000 Indianapolis, Tnd., Jan. 8. Four | busy hours await President Wilson i when ho arrives here tills afternoon to | address a public meeting arranged by ! the Indiana Democratic Club in celo | bration of Jackson Day. lie will speak | in n hall which will seat more than 14.000 persons. The President, on his arrival, will to be met by the members of the | Democratic club in sixty automobiles. While no arrangements have been I made for a parade, the sixty automo | biles will escort the President to the i home of United States Senator John IW. Kern, where a luncheon will be I tendered him. From the luncheon the President will be taken immediately to Tomlin son Hall to begin his speech. Dick Miller, president of the Indiana Demo cratic Club, will call the meeting to I order and turn over the gavel to Gov ernor Samuel M. Ualston. who will in troduce the President. The members of the Indiana legis lature, which convened here yesterdav. Including the forty-seven Ilepubllcans and two Progressives, arranged to at tend the meeting in a body. After the speech a reception will he held for the President at the Indiana | Democratic Club rooms. TREE COMMITTEE HAS RALAXCK Members of the municipal tree U-ommittee will meet Wednesday night to wind up business. The finance committee will make Its report, it. i* understood a small surplus will be I :on hand for next year's celebration. 1 16 PAGES • POSTSCRIPT TURKISH GOVERNMENT SEAT MAY BE REMOVED FROM CONSTANTINOPLE Internal Disorders, as Well as Attacks From Without May Make Change of Capital Necessary; Anglo-French Fleet Hammering at Dardanelles; Germans Rush Re enforcements East in Effort to Reach Warsaw Constantinople, regarded by the al lies as one of the greatest prizes of the war, should they win and Turkey be forced to give it up, may be aban doned soon as the seat of the Turkish government. Dispatches from Sofia, Bulgaria, give in circumstantial de tail an account of unsettled condi tions at Constantinople where It is said that internal disorders, as well as at tacks from without apparently are feared. It is asserted that preparations have been made to remove from the city archives of State and the treasury, should the necessity arise, and that at Adrianople arrangements are under way to receive the government offi cials. An Anglo-French fleet is hammer ing at the Dardanelles which, if pass ed, would give easy access to Constan tinople. Russian forces, which are said to have defeated the Turks, are seeking to penetrate Asiatic Turkey in the direction of Constantinople . The Russian sweep across Buko wina, Austria's Northeastern province, and through Galieia to the Carpa thians, against which the Austrians have been driven back, is admitted In an official statement to-day from Vienna. The Austrian military authori ties say that the retreat of their troops was made necessary by the numerical superiority of the Russian forces, j Fighting has been resumed on the Servian front. An Austrian force which occupied an island near Bel grade was attacked by Servians, ac cording to an official statement from Nish. The hostilities were on a com | paratively small scale and there is no indication that Austria* contemplates [another attack in force on Servia at [this time. Capture of another town in Alsace I to the south of Sennheim, is reported Iby the French War office in itsstate | ment of to-day. The German com munication neither affirms nor denies the report, saying merely that fight ing is still in progress for possession of the town. It is stated, however, that repeated French attacks in Al sace broke down under the German artillery tire. Sharp Fighting Reported In a few other localities between the North Sea and Switzerland sharp iYo. Pa., J:n. B. —An autopsy performed following the i y i -old Ethel Wright, of Red Lion, near back tooth lodged in her right lung. 1 i's» upper teeth were extracted by a red ; ne of them .slipped down her wind pipe. Jan. 8 - -The tire department of Grcen • • ' i! -d at the sta'idn at that town and 'n honor of P - lent Wilson a ;'he through there to day. He is an honorary member , of t'le Guh'port, Miss., fire department. * a:..' Tex , Jan. B. —An attack on Villa troops in Saltillo was begun by about 15.000 Constitutionalist troops | C a! out 3 a. m., to-day. Early reports from the battle said | C that hundreds already had been killed or wounded. Torcnto, Jan. B. —A provincial constable, a corporal / € d two privates were arrested at Fort Erie to-day, charged , ! V it h manslaughter in connection with the death of Walter d the wounding of Charles Borsch, American j Fort Erie, on December 26, last. FORMER PRESIDENT MUST LEAVE igo, Chile, Jan. B.— The government to-day orc:r- | cd Guillermo Billinghurst, former president of Peru, and Dr. j Augusto Durcnd to leave Chilean territory within eight' | C days. I I GERMANS CAPTURE 1,500 PRISONERS , Berlin, Jen. 8, by wireless to London, 3.08 P. M.—ln | Russian Poland, where unfavorable wheather is interfer- I ing with military operations, the Germans report the capture I of 1,500 prisoners. ' i IRON WORKERS WANT TO BE PAROLED j Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. B.—The rapidity with which < they constructed the west cell house at Federal Prison here ( was one of the arguments put forward to-day by seventeen ( structural iron wo.kers, convicted in the "dynamite con- | spiracy" casts in Indianapolis, who appeared before the ( Fedeial Paiolc Board, convened here. , Chicago, Jan. B.—Wheat phot up to-day. The close I I was unsettled with May at $1.407,6, a.gain of iy z cents com- , ! pared with last night. i i MARRIAGE LICENSES J Mlncy Kalinin and ,l«*nnlr \\ lr, Wllllam»tonn. John W. Smitli nttri .Ifnttlc V. fit). v l<enln K. C.raj nnd A Ida F. Vrev f \X llllamnport. & fighting is in progress, in which side has scored its minor victories, but over most of the line there 14 little activity. The armies In the east are similarly, inactive. The German "communica tion mentions an engagement east oC the Rawka river, whero it is said tha advance Is still in progress, but tho spectacular clashes of great masses of troops during the early part of tha war have no parallels now along tha Warsaw front. Great Britain's preliminary repljf io the American note concerning Brit ish interference with American ship ping was delivered to-day to Ambas sador Page, who forwarded it to Washington. RELIGIOUS MEN AND WOMEN RECEIVED RY POPE BENEDICT By Associated Press Rome, Jan. B.—Pope Benedict yes» terday received over 600 religious men and women, Franciscans, Benedictines. Dominicans, Passionists, Christian brothers and members of other or ders, who have been expelled from Syria and Palestine. They recounted to His Holiness the details of their experiences but told him there had been no loss of life. The Turks, while they respected the lives of the holy men, occupied all the convents, monasteries and schools held by the religious orders and transformed them into barracks. FIGHTING IN ALSACE GROWS Villages. Houses and Trenches llavo Been Taken and Retaken By Associated Press Geneva, via Paris, Jan. 7, 11.55 P.M. —The fighting in lower Alsace is dally growing in intensity around Stein bach, Gernay and Thann. Villages, houses and trenches are taken and re taken nt the point of the bayonet and tho casualties on both sides have been extremely heavy. It Is stated that about 250,000 in all are engaged and that both sides are using heavy guns. The Germans [Continued on Page 13]
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