n i • c r\ • M > Relief Organizations m Italy Ending Crude Buildings fo House Homeless HARKISBURG dsß&s TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 12 HE ONERS HI ISSUED: MIS now N FOR IKH Final Plans For Ceremony of Next Tuesday Announced by the Committee MAKE-UP OF THREE DIVISIONS Military, Civic and Firemen's Di»- plays; Great Crowds Are Expected Final plans for the ceremonies at tending the inauguration of Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh as governor and Prank B. McC'lain as lieutenant-governor, were made by the Joint legislative committee this morning, Senator E. E. Beidleman, the chairman, sending the word of approval from his sick room. Governor Brumbaugh and Grand Mar shal Morrell sent word over the tele phone from Philadelphia that they were in accord with the arrangements. The new Governor and his family will arrive here late on Monday after noon when the Governor and Mrs. Tener will turn the home of the gov ernors over to the new executive. Mrs. Tener will leave for Philadelphia after greeting Dr. Brumbaugh and Governor Tener will be fhe guest of Mr. and Sirs. Spencer C*. Gilbert at their resi dence. 107 North Front street. Mr. and Mrs. McClain will arrive from Lancaster Monday evening. Lieuten ant-Governor John M. Reynolds will preside for the last time on Monday I night when the Legislature meets. ' The Ceremonies Both houses of the Legislature will convene on Monday evening for rou tine business and will hold short, ses sions on Tuesday morning prior to the Inauguration. Mr. McClain will be in augurated in the Senate chamber in accord with custom. By noon the legislators and guests will ha\e as sembled on the inaugural stand at the State street entrance to the State • 'apitol and when the bells ring the hour the retiring and Incoming gover- j nors with the legislative committee i »nd the Governor's staff and State offi cinls will take their places on the' stand. Elder William J. Swigart, of Hunt ingdon, Governor Brumbaugh's teach- make the invocation and Chief Hie atli. Governor Brumbaugh will then make his address and when it is ended Governor Tenor will congratu late him and leave for Chicago. When the good wishes are extend ed the new Governor will take his place at the head of the procession which will form in Front and Second streets. The Governor's Troop, which will escort him from the mansion to t he Capitol, will escort him to the pro cession and remain with him, in ac cordance with custom. When the pa rade has come downtown the Gover nor will go to the reviewing stand with the troops as a guard of honor. By 4 he will return to the mansion and take up his duties. The route of the parade will be as follows: Form at Front and Market, march in Market to Fourth, in Fourth to Walnut, in Walnut to Third, in Third to Hamilton, in Hamilton to Second and down Second to State to pass the re viewing stand, dismissing in Mar- It"! Square. The procession will be led by the four troops of State police. Then will COIIK the Mt. Union Band froin the Governor's home county, followed hv Grand Marshall Edward DeV Morreil and bis staff. Dr. Henry M. Stlne, of this city, \yho has had considerable ex perience in handling big parades, will he chief of staff. General Morreil will have these special aids: AI. TO. Stroup. Moses Cooper. George Sullivan, William I, I.aubenstein, Charles Fry, Isiah Ueese, Jr., C. S. Gnut. C. H. Sauers, George Van Kirk, W. S. Selbert, Percy Moore. William H. Bickley. Harry Long, R. Jones Tteiff, Br. John F. Culp, John W. Tlcily, Dr. William Hughes. Jacob Eekingor, William MeCreath, William S. Bergner, George Drake, E. C. [Continued on Page 7] EI,EI'HA NT TO I'AItADE According to a dispatch from Earn bertville, X, J., a big elephant to typify the G. (I. P. has been secured by the Bucks County Marching Club which is to parade in the inaugural. THE WEATHER For llnrrtuhurg nml vicinity) Itnln tnte 10-nlKlit. warmers lunpirl tcmprrnturc nhoiil JIM deKrecs; Siiodny rnln unit nnrmrr. For Kastern |Vnn>< IMln In : In. rr,.- tnu cloudiness to-nluht; warmer In north nnd portions! Sun day rnto or mow, prolialil.v rnln, nml warmeri mnilrrntp to fresh imrlbncat to southeast HIIHIH. Illver Tbr Susquehanna river nnd all Ita liranehea will foil to-nlKht. The rain anil blither temperature tn • llrnted for the nest thirty-six hour* Mill probably start a jr«*n - «-ral rl»( Sunilir or Sundny nlitht . In tlir .lunla'ln. North anil \\ rst ■ hranches and Itir smaller trlbu tnrles. A stwte of about (1.7 feet I* Indicated for llarrlsburit Sun day morning. General Conditions The ■torn In the Southwest ha* moved northeastward with tn rr«ailn( enersy and Is now cen tral over Missouri. It has caused rnln and snow over nearly all the country between the Rorkr mountains and the Mississippi river In the last twenty-four hours. The temperature haa fal len slightly in the Middle Atlan tic and T.'ew Knsrland States. }\ PB t of the Mississippi a general fall of 2 to 20 degrees haa been reported. ■ Temperaturei 8 a. m., 4S. Sum Rises. 7i2fl a. m.) sets, flil)4 p. m. Moon i First quarter, January 23, 1 i2R a, m. "Iter fttaget 7.4 feet above loir wirter mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 80. f.oweat temperature, i»4. Mean temperature, 42. Normal temperature, 20. RETIRING GOVERNOR SHOWS DR. BRUMBAUGH HIS NEW HOME, THE EXECUTIVE MANSION IB t- ?' f, ■ : jgjfla AiH fill ,Jbhv IERK (, N'K HIO MAN SrCCEKDS ANOTHER < jovernor-elert Martin G. Brumbaugh yesterday afternoon was enter tained at luncheon by Governor and Mrs. John K. Tener. Governor Tener snowed I)r. Brumbaugh over the Executive Mansion, pointing out the ii i r S i lntfrest in the hifr Front street house and showing him the de lightful views of the Susquehanna and the Hnrrishurg Water Front obtain able. Governor Tener offered the Governor-elect and the inaugural party the use of the Executive Mansion on Monday night, so that they may get a good night s rest before the strenuous day which is ahead of theni'ncxt I uesday. Dr. Mrumbaugh accepted the offer, expressing his thanks for the Tenors kindness. ID BID HOME FOR ORDER GF SISTERS 1 Plans For Erection of New Build ing at Jednota Being Ten tatively Considered Plans for the erection of a pcrma- j nent home for the Sisters In charge i of the recently dedicated orphanage! of the Slovac Union of America, ;it ; Jednota, near Middlctown. will lie dis-1 cussed by the executive board of tiicj union now in session at, Scrnnton. I It is likely that a decision will lie ' reached to build the new home ana i deed it over to the new order of the ] Sisters of St. Methodius, for which in | application for a charter was filed in J the Dauphin County Court Thursday, j This order was organized by Bishop | lloban. of the Scranton diocese for the | express purpose of taking charge of the new orphanage. Later it will be transferred to Bishop Shanahan's i jurisdiction of the Ha rrisburg diocese.! The new home will likely be built . on a part of the 300 acres at Jednota , now owned by the Slovac Union. The! treasurers report read yesterday' showed that the union has $550,000 available cash in bank and resources I i amounting to $100,000,000. Paris Correspondent Says 35,000 Persons Were Killed by Quake By Associated Ft ess Paris. Jan. 16. 4.25 A. M.—The cor- : respondent of the ICxeelslor In Home i wires that he learns officially that | ; 3 5,000 persons were killed and 45,000 j injured in the earthquake. Newspaper specials from Home ! agree that the great mortality is at tributable to the method of dry con- | struct ion employed in the affected re gion, the stones being piled upon each ' other without mortar. The onl\ build ings which escaped total destruction ! were the modern houses built of rein- ! forced concrete. The serious landslide which has oc- ' citrred at Monte Oorvino-Rovella, which sent masses of earth from the ' mountainside into the Fuolno canal damming that stream, threatens to add a flood to the other calamities in the region. Gangs of men are work ing strenuously to remove the oli struction. MUNICIPAL BAM) El, LCI'S | The annual election of officers by' the Municipal Band last night in the' temporary quarters in the United States Hotel building, was as follows: i President. Charles Snyder; vlee-prest-. dent, W. It. Swords; secretarv, David M. Clark: treasurer, Mr, Meckiey; con ductor and manager, Frank Blumen stein; trustees, Messrs. Williamson Brown and Cohen. SAYS STATEMENT IS TRIE By Associated Press London. Jan. 16, 1.05 P. M.—The official announcement given out In Berlin yesterday relating to the cap ture of 5,200 French troops at Sols sons and saying further that from 4.-000 to 5.000 French dead were found after the battle concludes with the un- i usual assertion, "This Is the truth." HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1915. SUCCESS OF EIU YARDS OUE TO MEN Speakers Tell Employes That Their Work Is Big Factor Making For Success i Success attended the tenth anniver ! sary celebration of tin- opening of the | Knola yards at the Enola Y. M. C. A. I last night. The orator of the evening was S. J. I M. McCarrell, associate judge of Dau j phin county, who referred to. the loy ! ally of Pennsylvania Railroad em : plo.ves and to the success of the largest | classification yards on the Pennsyl i vania railroad system as a result of ! llils loyalty. In referring to the rapid | growth of freight business which ibrought about the new yards Judge | McCarrell congratulated the Pennsyl- I vania Railroad officials and employes. William B. BcCaleb, superintendent ! of the Philadelphia division, who has jurisdiction over the Knola yards, I called attention to the success of the { yards as having been brought about I through harmonious working of the working forces, lie thanked the men I employed in the yards and stated that [Continued on Pajjc »1 MICK COURTHOUSE: | BOOST THE PRISON Grand Jury Criticises Poor Venti i lation of Courtrooms; Flowers For Caldwell i Dauphin county's grand jury to-day criticised the ventilating systems of ■ the courtrooms and highly commend ed the efficient manner in which Wil • liam W. Caldwell conducts the Dau- I phin county prison, j President Judge Kunkel in accept -1 ing these observations in the Januarv j quarter sessions report, endorsed both. These recommendations the court pointed out were particularly worthy of consideration. In referring to the ventilating sys tem* in the courthouse the grand jury said: "It is a most unfortunate con dition that, our excellent court, Its at i laches, attorneys and public are com ' polled to perform their work in the : courthouse, the conditions -which, with 1 respect to its ventilation, is not con ducive to their general health. We ; believe 'his matter should bo called I to the attention of the proper authori ties for i heir intimate consideration." In ret Judge Kunkel said that the [Continued on Pngc 7] 5,000 DEAD AT PESCINA B.v Associated Press Pome, .tan. 16, 10:20 a. m.—The Messagera declares that there are now 5,000 dead at Pescina and 3,000 at Celano. and that at Ccnchio only 150 people were saved out of a popu lation of 2,600. At Marsi the dead number 1,000. Most all the survivors here are Injured and they are suffer j Ing grievously from want of food and | lack of care. FAMINE AlilO COLD ARE RAISING DEATH ROLL Food Cannot Be Transported Over Obstructed Roads in Quake Zone THREE STABLES IN AVEZZANO American Military Attache Says All Other Buildings Have Been Destroyed By Associated Press Rome, Jan. 16.—Famine and intense cold are adding to the sufferings of the earthquake victims and slowly in creasing the already huge death roll. Food there is in plenty, but its trans portation to many of the towns affect ed is all but Impossible because of ob structed roads. Rescue work is now going ahead feverishly, for each hour of delay means death by starvation or exhaus tion for buried victims. From town after town in the stricken section come reports of excav&tron of ruins that was too late to save lives. Attention gradually is turning from Avezzano, the center of the disturb ance an<# cite greatest sufferer, to other and smaller towns, where an almost equally large percentage of the popu lation was destroyed. In only one case BO ear—th*; of Sora—do late reports show that tfie effects of the quake were less disastrous than had been feared. Only 360 of Sora s 17,000 persons appear to have been killed. Willie trainloads of injured continue to arrive in Rome, additional details of the horror come in, all tending to confirm earlier estimates of the tre mendous loss of life. Reports Indicate that, next to Avezzano. the towns to suffer the most are Pescino, with 4,500 victims: f»aterno, with 1,000 dead, and Samelino, with (00 of its population of 1,600 wiped out. All are environs of A veznano. Flood Is Ken red The horror of a possible flood added to famine and suffering from cold exists in the neighborhood of the Fucino canal, which has been ob structed and dammed up by a land slide at Mon tec o rvi no- K o vel la. Sol diers and civilians are working des perately to clear the canal. Rescue and relief work is being pushed with feverish haste in the earthquake stricken -district of Ttaly. Thousands of soldiers are on the ground and at work digging out and burying the victims and caring for (he survivors. [Continued oil Page 8] LICENSE TRANSFER IS OPPOSED BY 51 Entire Second Ward of Middle town Is Up in Arms Against Opening of Saloon Five hundred residents of tlic Sec ond ward of Middlctown have signed petitions remonstrating against tha transfer of the license of the Ann Street Hotel, Middlctown, from John A. Haas to Harry White. i The petition asking that the trans- I fer bo made will be presented to the \ Dauphin county court Tuesday morn ling at 10 o'clock, at which time the j remonstrance will be tiled. The re ! monstrators will be represented by the 1 attorney for the Dauphin County No iJcen.se Leagues who will ask that the , transfer be denied on the grounds that j the hotel does not accommodate the traveling public and is not a neces sity. .Minister Tending At the head of the lovement against the transfer Is the Rev. W. R. Rid dington. pastor of the Ann Street Methodist Church, located about ,i block away from the saloon. News of [Continued on Page !)] RANKS OF E. *. R. FAST DIMDM Sixteen Veterans Answer Last Roll Call During 1914; Memorial Services Friday Sixteen members of Post 58, Grand Army of the Republic, answered the final call of taps during 1914. Serv ices in commemoration of the service .of these men for their country will he held next Friday evening in the Post room. 26 North Third street, at 8 | o'clock. The present members of the Post numbers 256. Two members have died since the roll for the past year i was made up. I The memorial services will be in i charge of Frank H. Hoy, chairman of the committee. The address and ser [Continued on Page 7] Bold Thieves Steal Goods From 2 Farmers' Wagons Two farmers, John A. Conrad and Jacob Stouffer, enroute to Verbeke market, early this morning, were re lieved of their produce. On the Asy lum road thieves opened the end gates of the wagons and lifted out the bas kets containing the marketing. The robberies occurred near the Nlssley schoolhouse. The thieves first i tackled the Conrad wagon. They took I three baskets containing sausages, i butter, eggs, five dressed fowls, anil two pair of children shoes. A can of milk was also stolen. From the Stouffer wagon two bask ets were taken. One contained cab bage and the other spinach. ; MURDER TRIAL OF PATROLMAN IS ON Call 46 Talesmen Before Jury It Selected; State Opens Its Case I SHOT MAN AFTER QUARREL Will Try to Prove Scott Shot to Satisfy a Personal Grudge Ex-Patrolman Tlobert F. Scott to ; day began his fight to save himself ' from paying the law's penalty on the I electric chair for the shooting last ! August of Nathaniel Banks. ! All morning was taken up with the selection of the jury and with the re | sumption of court this afternoon, the closing day of January quarter ses ! sions, Assistant District Attorney Frank B. Wickersham opened the State's case before Additional I.aw Judge McCarrell. After forty-six talesmen had been I examined the following twelve were chosen to decide Scott's fate: Harry M. Wert, liveryman. .Millers burg. foreman; Franklin 11. Duey, car penter, Third ward, city; John De- Gray, draughtsman. Elevnth ward, I city; David W. Gingrich, retired, Sec i ond ward. Middletown; John O. Cas sel, farmer, East Hanover: Oeorge W. Ivinter, statlonmaster, Dauphin: John I-appiey, merchant, Eleventh ward, city; George ('. .Macallan, clerk. Tenth I ward, city: William 11. Maxwell, frog ' builder. First ward, city: John Pyne, i real estate dealer, Fourth ward, city; 1 Harry h. Reiehert. farmer. Susque- I hanna, and Thomas Spancake, la j borer, Susquehanna township. I The State challeneged four taesmen | peremptorily and seven for cause. 1 Previously formed opinions and con j sclentious scruples against capital I punishment were the usual causes. shot Hunks After Quarrel j Scott is charged with having shot 1 Ranks after a quarrel in the former's ! Sibletown home. The men had had words in the street, it is said, and i when Banks started to run Scott threw his club after him. Banks | picked up the club and took it into i the house and when Scott came In I with his flashlight and began a search i for it, Banks it is alleged, laughed, land tauntingly admitted that he had j hidden it. Bitter words followed and Banks, the police say, accused Scott of sitting in the park with a woman J not Mrs. Scott. More words followed fContinued on Page X] HISTORIANS TO HOLD TENTH SESSION HERE Pennsylvania Federation of His torical Societies Includes More Than Party Organizations The tenth annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies will be lield here Monday aft ernoon, January 21. The session will open at 1 o'clock in tlie rooms of the Dauphin County Historical Society, 9 South Front street. Practically every one of the forty j historical societies in the State will , lie represented by one or more dele j gates. The president of the federation lis Benjamin M. .Vend, of Harrisburg. | This federation is the most important [Continued on Page »] $200,000 Fire Destroys Breaker; Chief Clerk Is Killed by Falling Log By Associated Press Hazleton, Pa., Jan. 16.—The G. B. | MarKle Company, whose breaker at I Highland was burned to the ground I during the night, causing a loss of ; $200,000 and resulting in the death of ] Howard Howells, chief clerk, who was struck and Instantly killed by a piece j of falling timber, began preparations | to-day to rebuild at once. The breaker j was the largest of the firm and 600 j men and boys are temporarily thrown I out of employment. The mines, how | ever, will not remain idle, as the coaj | therefrom will be sent to nearby breakers to be. prepared for market. The loss is partially covered by in sura lice. Officials of the company could give no cause for the blaze early to-day. It originated in the tipple and spread rapidly. It. was necessary to dyna mite the planes leading to the mines to prevent the fire from spreading to I the underground workings. ; Many Bushels of Coffee Burn in Morning Blaze I Fire in a big coffee roaster at j the. plant, of the F.nterprlse Coffee I Company, 107 Cherry street at 9 I o'clock this morning was quickly ex- i tinguished by the Washington com-I I pany. Bushels of coffee were burned and ] the roaster damaged. The loss will ! total $75. Smoke issuing from a house at 1314 1 North Seventh street last night frelghtened the occupant, Kli Fer mand, so badly that he sent in an alarm without making an investiga tion. When the firemen arrived no traces of fire were found. DEPARTMENT WATCHING PRICES By Associated Press Washington, I). C.. Jan. 16.—De partment of Justice officials to-day were watching closely latest develop- I ments In the situation arising out of the recent big Jump in the price of wheat and flour with a view to pos sible discovery of evidence of illegal combinations behind the Increases in these food products. If any evidence Is foitnd of such combinations prompt prosecutions will follow, according to Attorney General Gregory. 14 PAGES GERMANS PUN ANOTHER OFFENSIVE MOVEMENT IN EAST; FRENCH FALL BACK Fighting During Past Few Days Has Been Violent, but of a Local Character; Several Russian Batteries Silenced; British Forces Have Again Invaded Ger man Territory in Africa Seldom since the beginning of the campaign in the east has the mili tary situation been so uncertain as at the present. Several independent movements, each with the possibility of virtual consequences, are in prog ress simultaneously. The latest phase of the situation—the advance of a new Russian army against West Prussia in connection with the movement of the forces (hat have invaded East. Prussia —is believed in London to threaten the German forces in Central Poland. The Russian general staff is con vinced that the Germans west and southwest of Warsaw have determined on a general offensive movement. Fur ther south German troops have rein forced the for a drive at the Russians designed to relieve Buko- Wina and northern Hungary from danger of farther invasion. Fighting during the last few days, while violent at times, lias been of a local character. The Austrian war of fice reports that in a violent artillery combat along the Dunajre river, in Galicia. several Russian batteries were silenced. French Fall Hack On the western battlefields, the al lies and the Germans are concentrat ing their efforts in the Aisne region, sons, the French have fallen back to new positions and are struggling to stay the German advance. The Turkish military authorities are prepared to have decided to attempt an invasion of Egypt. Such an expe dition will he a most hazardous oue. on account of the sandy waates which the invading army will have to cross. British forces have again invaded German territory in Africa. They cap tured Swakepniund. German South west Africa. Germans Victorious The fury of the battle along the Aisne lias spent itself and the Germans for the present at least are making no effort to extend the gains they won | over the French. Further German ! successes are reportd in to-day's ofh lilal statement from the Berlin war i WHEAT DROPS AND RECOVERS ■ >■ -W:i£. iblic auction on the Courthouse steps this after nrci t ty shares of Union ust Company stock were eph Claster at sl4'..V share, and twenty shares to Dr. W. C. Peters for $146 a share. ! ;20 P. M.—The cor ys the Germans have | c • t tov ' •a; f -ir north as -idc and Mi