Thousand Men Canvassing City For Belgian and Home Relief Fund HARRISBURG TELEGR. A.P H LXXXIV— No. 19 NEW 16-INCH GUN MAY HELP GERMANS 10 REACH ENGLAND Remarkable Weapon Promises to Command English Coast to Point 6 Miles Inland PROJECTILE WEIGHS A TON Gun Reported to Carry Three Miles Farther Than Best British Defender Berlin, via London, Jan. 25, 11.30 A .M. —Remarkable figures regarding a new German naval gun are given by « German artillery expert, writing in the Artllleristischs Monats Wefte. In discussing an assertion by the Ijondon Times that the German navy possesses a gun which carries three miles farther than the best British weapon, the writer admits that the Krupps are manufacturing a gun whose projectile weighs 020 kilograms (about a ton) and which develops muzzle velocity of 940 meters (about 3,700 fret I a second. The expert reckons from these figures that the gun has 58 per cent, more muzzle force than the British navy's best weapon and has a range of about 42 kilometers (about 18 miles), while the channel at Dover is only 33 kilometers (about 22 miles) wide. He says the figures given. If correct, will permit the Germans eventually to command the English coast from Calais for a distance of it kilometers (about fi miles) inland with the new gun. Reserve Army of U. S. May Dine With Gardner By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Jan. 25. —With fine irony, but in perfect seriousness. Representative August P. Gardner, of Massachusetts, said to-day that he contemplated Inviting the entire re serve army of the United States to dine with him in Washington. On the face of it, the suggestion looks like a piece of extravagance on Mr. Gard ner's part, but it loses that appear ance when it Is known that under the law providing for the formation of a grained reserve of former army men, government has succeeded in en "tering only sixteen names on its re serve army list. Mr. Gardner seeks to give his sug gested invitation a practical applica tion. It is not merely to call attention i 1o the inadequate sbe of the reserve J army, but also to demonstrate how ] •tuickly the said army can be mobil- i Ized in Washington to participate in the Massachusetts Congressman's hos pitality. Two of the reside in California and one of them In Porto Rico. Stough Executive Committee to Give S4OO to Poor A balance of about SIOO after all debts of the Stough campaign execu tive committee are settled will be dis tributed for charitable purposes by a special committee of E. Gross. E. 7.. Wallower and K. A. Heffclfinger, chair men of the various campaign com mittees. who were appointed at the Inst executive meeting. The final statement will probably be issued at the next meeting of the executive committee. Commerce Chamber to Hold Meeting Thursday Night The Hnrrisburg Chamber of Com- I merce will hold a meeting of its niem- ! bership at the Board of Trade rooms, i in Market street, at S o'clock Thursday night. Two speakers will address the meeting. A. T>. MacMilland, who will install the new credit rating bureau of the chamber of Commerce, will be present. Frank J. Raymond, industrial man ager of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, will speak on better co operation between employers and em ployes. a s \r> storv axi> Tin: censor Special to The Telegraph Paris. .lan. 2,>.—The newspaper !,<• Bonnet Rouge appeared last lilgllt with two columns liendcd in large display type "A Sad Story." I'nfortimutcly the censor got busv nod. in consequence, only two columns of wliite space appeared below the headline. THE WEATHER For HarrlsbarK unit vlclnllyi Knlr *itd mldrr to-nlcht, with Innrat trmprrniurr h limit 30 drgrrrm Tnrnilay fair and rolilrr. For Hnitcrii lVniiK.rlviinln i l.oenl Known find I'otilrr tn-nlgrhl; TncN dsy pnrtly eloudy mill eoldcri mmlomtf whirling wind* becom ing northwest. | Hirer The Snsqurhnnon river nnd nil Its hrnnches will fall nlowly or ro . mnin nenaiy Ntntlonnry for sev- V c "il days. A stage of nhout «.3 feet la Indicated for Harrlshurg Tuesday morning;. General t'ondltlona 4 disturbance that was central over the month of the Mlsslsalppl river Saturday morning;, has moved northeastward with aome In crease In energy, and la cen tral otT the New Jeraey coast. It canned rain In the laat tweirty fonr hour* In the Kant Unlf and Knoth Atlantic States, rain, sleet and snow In the Middle Atlantic and New Kncland States. Tempera-turci 8 a. Nt„ 2S. S«in: Illaea, 7:2t p. M.i aets, Kil4 p. m. Mount Full moon, January, 30, 11:41 n. in. lllver Stage: tt.A feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Hlghent temperature, S!H. I.owest temperature, S3. Mean temperature, Sit. Normal temperature, 28. WOULDN'T YOU LOSE A LEG FOR HER ? '| v / ■ 9h HB B S m |IF V ihbhh a I ® IB H Sa S. , &nfi Tills is Just a Tommy Atkins in France having his first walk since he was wounded, aided by a French nurse. The Tommy had his leg shot off and he was sent to a hospital. Now he is healed, and he seems Just as i happy as lie was when he had two legs. Had he not lost a leg he would ; never have seen the pretty French nurse. There is no informtaion as to whether the situation developed fur ther, and since the British censor would not pass the names of the pair any one can build his own romance. cn win ram GIVES TO en Knows "What It Is to Suffer, Both From Wounds and Cold" One result of the campaign to raise funds for the home and war relief committee's work, one which was not anticipated, became apparent last week and is yet visible to-day. It is the unsolicited contributions that are coming in to the various departments at headquarters, 7 South Front street. Until noon, the Red Cross division had received more than S4O for gen eral purposes, while the foreign divi sion was enriched by *5 more. 'I he contribution to the foreign di vision came from a veteran of the Civil War. Mrs. Mercer B. Tate, of the general supplies division, received it. "I'm a Union soldier." remarked the veteran, who declined to have his name recorded. "1 want to send this for the Belgian* and I trust that ethers will follow mj example. We know what it is to suffer, both from wounds and from cold, without neces sary medical supplies, and I feel cer tain the veterans who are able will give." The canvassers throughout the city are reporting success beyond their ex pectations. 5,000 Russians Captured in Assault on Przemysl London. Pan. 25, 10.35 A. M.—An Amsterdam dispatch to the Central News sa„\ s: "According lo Vienna reports, the Russian assaults on Przemysl have, practically ceased. There are 5,000 Russian prisoners in the fortress." Thieves Make Raid on Uptown Cigar Store The cigar store of Joseph Emanuel, P23 North Third street, was broken into early Sunday morning. The rob bers got away with cigars, cigarets, tobacco and pipes, valued at between sr.O and $75. In their haste to get away, they scattered considerable booty over the floor. Entrance was gained by forc ing the front doors after the lock had been partially broken. WEAVER ADDRESSES MEETING E. F. Weaver, secretary of the executive committee of the Harrisburg Stough campaign, was In Lancaster yesterday to address a mass meeting of enthusiasts preparing for the cam paign to open soon. More than 2,500 attended the meeting and Mr. Weaker says great preparat ions aro being made by church folks of Lancaster to "put the Devil on the run." PRAYERS FOR BRUMBAUGH Episcopal Rectors Make Appeal for Success of Administration Special to The Telegraph Philadelphia. Jan. 25.—Acting upon the request, of Bishop Rhinelander, rectors of Protestant Episcopal churches throughout- the Diocese of Pennsylvania offered special prayers yesterday for the success of Gov ernor Brumbaugh's administration. HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1915. FAMILY ALTARS TO BE ERECTED IN HUNDRED HIGH SPIRE HOMES Evangelist's Wife Declares Men Are Christians Everywhere, but at Their Own Hearthstones One hundred families in Highspire yesterday pledged themselves to erect altars in their homes from which the Bible will be read and a short prayer service conducted daily. This action followed a sermon on "The Home" by Mrs. C. E. Hillis, wife of Evangelist C. E. Hillis. who is con ducting a. three weeks' campaign in the Highspire T'nlted Brethren Church. Mrs. Hillis declared that "Christianity begins at home" and asserted that "many men are Christians everywhere but home, where they are nothing but grouches." She said every home should have a cosy iMurcn corner. SUNDAY NOT QUITE SO HANDSOME AS STOUGH "Billy" Looks More Like a Workingman; No Frock Coat I A visit to the "Billy" Sunday taber j nacle in Philadelphia was made Sat jurday night by. a Harrisburg resident, jwho attended practically all the meet ings during the seven weeks' campaign of Dr. Henry W. Stough in this city. He observed Sunday with the added interest of comparing: him with Dr. j Stough, and feels that Harrisburgers may bfe interested in a comparison of jthe two evangelists, their methods and j results. . " 'BMly' Sunday," he said, "was tired on Saturday night, not tired of Christ's work but physically played out, he looked tired, his voice was husky and every line of his face showed weari ness. The effort to throw his voice to the corners of the 20,000 capacity tabernacle seemed to strain every nerve in his body. He preached a short, clear, sermon with many strik ing points, but with very few sensa tional 'stunts' or slangy expressions, lie closed the sermon before 9 o'clock, said a short prayer, and then invited the trailliitters. Within fifteen inin [Continued on Page S] NAVIGABLE CHAWEL FOUND TO BE MOUTH OF KUSKOKWIM Washington, D. C„ .Tan. 25.—An nouncement was made to-day by Sec retary Relfleld of the discovery of a practical navigable channel from the Bering Sea into the mouth of the Kuskokwim river, thus opening the secon dgreatest river in Alaska to commerce. The discovery was made by Captain Lukens, of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Tn a statement announcing the dis covery, Secretary Redfleld points out. that new steamship lines are to be established to transport the commerce from the thousands of squrre miles of virgin country in the Kuskokwlm valley, rich in mining, Ashing and agricultural resources. Ml MID GIRL-WIFE HELD FOH MURDER Young Couple Nabbed Here For Strangling 80-year-old Wil liamsport Woman SAYS HE WANTED MONEY i Wife Accused of Being Accessory After the Fact; Husband Confesses After giving the police of several cities a merry chase, Paul Van Horn, aims Harry i. Diimore, aged 25, want ed In Willianisport for the murder of Mary Jane Kulmer, aged 80, was ar rested at the llarrisburg l'ost office shortly after noon to-day by John Murnane, a local detective. Van Horn confessed. Van Horn foolishly walked into a trap when he called for a letter from relatives at Milton. A half hour after Van Horn's arrest. Mrs. Van Horn, alias Anna Strqup, was arrested at 13T South Third street by Detective White. .Mrs. Van Horn is charged with being an accessory after the fact. George Tepler, county detective from Willianisport with Detectives Murnane and White guarded tlie Post Office since Saturday night. Van Horn pawned a diamond pin for sls; a gold watch for one dollar, and a ring tor two dollars. The booty was worth about S2OO and was part of that stolen at the time of the mur der Saturday morning. Early last Wednesday evening, Van Horn left the home of his father-in law and went to the home of aged Mrs. Fulmer, a few doors away. Van Horn entered the house, bound and gagged Mrs. Fulmer. She made a tight and in the struggle Mrs. Fulmer swallowed her false teeth and strangled to death. At the police station shortly after the arrest. Van Horn said he had learned of Mrs. Fulmer's death throush the newspapers on Friday. He told County Detective Tepler that, he intelided to give himself up. Van Horn said he was out of work and had been drinking. He wanted money and de cided to rob the Fulmer home, know ing that there was valuable jewelry in the house. Mrs. Van Horn said she joined her husband soon after the robbery but did not know Mrs. Fulmer was dead until Friday. Van Horn told his wife that the ten dollars he showed her had been loaned to him by a relative. ! Later he said it was part of the booty | taken from the Fulmer home. The trip east was planned and after re ceiving a letter in Harrlsburg the couple Intended to go south. The Rev. Mr. Hillis delivered a ser mon on "Boox.e: The Modern Devil" before 500 men in the afternoon. The evangelist declared lie much preferred to be associated with a skunk rather than the church member who signed rum petitions and voted the "booze" ticket at the polls. The Highspire campaign has result »ul in 139 conversions. Yesterday's col lections, which went to Evangelist Hil lis. amounted to $415. All the expenses of the campaign were paid last Tues day and no further collections will be taken until Wednesday, when one will be taken for Highspire's needy. DEAL WOHK OF SESSION WILL BEGIN TONIGHT Legislature to Begin Grinding Out Bills; Brumbaugh Appoint ments Expected The Senate and House of Repre stnttives will meet at o'clock to night. Moth brandies of the legislature will meet to-night at 9 o'clock to be- Igin the real work of the session. Pre sentation of bills will be in order and a big grist is expected to be intro duced into each house. The commit tees have all organized and the em ployes of both branches are on the job and ready for the session. It is expected that the Senate will receive some appointments from the Governor and within a few days the committee on executive appointments will be ready for work. Chairman W. E. Crow is expected here to-night from Uniontown. Attorney General Brown has been drafting some bills for the Governor, but It is not considered likely that any of them will be ready this week. A couple of workmen's compensation and other much-talked of acts will be [Continued on Pago 4] Tong War in California Fatal to Three Chinese By Associated Press San Francisco, Jan. 25. —Three Chi nesee were shot and killed and a number wounded In a Tong war which broke oi\« several California cities last night. Quong Quock Wah, presi dent of the Sen Suey Yinga and one of his fellow Tongmen were killed in the tlghting here and another met a like fate at Stockton. Clashes in Oakland and a smnll set tlement, several miles from Stockton caused the wounding of two other Chi nese. More than a score of arrests had been made at the various points of conflict and the police of all Pacific coast cities are keeping close watch on the Chinese inhabitants In efforts to prevent a spread of histilities. PICTURES OF DEARIE BABY' COURE EXHIBIT "Madeline" Letters Offered as Evidence by Mrs. Earl Beebee in Desertion Court EARS AND EYES STRAINED Wife Found Undeveloped Films When She Cleared Off Her Husband's Desk When Mrs. Earl Beebee decided one day last November to clean up her husband's desk and to set things to rights she forgot to mention that highly important fact to Mr. Beebee — which lack of notice precluded his whiskying his kodak, a roll of unde veloped films and a bundle of letters and postcards out of the way. And when Mrs. Beebee had a look at the letters and postcards and a very hasty glance at one or two kodak prints she confronted Mr. Beebee with the evidence. Whereupon Mr. Beebee struck her—and she struck back. The next day Mrs. Beebee packed up and came home to her father in this city. Beebee told her. she said, that he "couldn't help it if girls wrote to him." In brief, that was the story told to Additional Law Judge McCarrell in January session of desertion and non support co>:rt this morning. A rather crowded courtroom strained its ears and eyes and was otherwise quite on edge, as it were, while Sen ator E. E. Beidleman, counsel for Mrs. Beebee, read portions of the notes and postcard messages addressed to Beebee and when he showed the pictures for identification. Most of the letters and notes were signed by one "Madeline," who further set forth in closing her missive that she was "his dearie baby always." [ "And." concluded the senator, "there's | a whole lot more of that baby stuff, I your Honor." i The pictures that had been devel ] oped from the films, Mrs. Beebee said, I she found in her husband's camera. One. postmarked from Blairstown, N. .T.. showed a portion of a lake and Madeline. The message simply said: "Wish you were here with your camera, you'd get some fine views. The Lake's fine. Madeline." "Let's see the pictures." promptly demanded counsel for Mr. Beebee. SOI/I) I.IQVOK. ILLEGALLY Christ Himiiright. Rl4 Cumberland street, was held tinder S3OO bail for court, after a hearing before Alder iiiian Kramme. Saturday night, charg ed with selling liquor to minors. He was committed to jail. GEIM SHIP SUNK IN RUNNING BATTLE | Kaiser's Warships Were Attempt ing Another Attack on English Coast Cities London, Jan. 25. 12.36 P. M.—The news of the first battle between dread naughts. yesterday's naval engagement in the North Sea. has aroused much more enthusiasm among the British public than either the fight off Helgo land or off the Falkland Islands, al though both of these engagements, perhaps, loomed larger in actual re sults. To the English the combat of yes [ Continued on Page 4] XIEBEROBEREB.DEROPOLOUB It's a Man's Xnme and He's Going to Travel With It Special to The Telegraph San Francisco, Jan. 25.—Tf Christo pher Xieberoberebderopolous, a San •Mateo bootblack, keeps the solemn pledge which he took when'he start ed on his first vacation in three years, it will be necessary for him to "travel some," and also to spend a consider able portion of his vacation in exer cising his penmanship. Christopher, who usually deletes the first, few inches of his real name and goes under the title of Opolous, has sworn that he will spend every cent of his three years' savings in traveling from city to city until he has inscribed his full name on as many hotel reg isters as there are letters in his name This means that, he must become a guest of thirty-three hotels in as many different cities, rt also means that In the act of registering alone he must form more than a thousand letters. Fortunately. Christopher's savings amount to $1,200. SOXG COVERS .TAIL ESCAPE "Down by the Old Mill Stream" Smothered Saw's Rasp . Special to The Telegraph Ladysmith, Wis., Jan. 25.—While fellow-prisoners sang "Down by the Old Mill Stream" in honor of the ac cession or a now Rusk county sheriff jW. King, recently arrested at Superior I and held here on a robbery charge, I sawed his way to freedom. The rasp of the saw harmonized with the singing as an obligato and the escape was not discovered until long after King had gone. ITe was charg ed with burglarizing a general store and the postofflce at Tony. SERVICES FOR CRI'ISER VKTTMS By Associated Press On Board U. S. S. San Diego. Guamas. Mex., Jan. 25, by wireless fo San Diego, t'al.—Funeral services with full naval honors where held yester day aboard the U. S. S. San Diego for the five victims of the explosion on Thursday, when boiler tubes of the cruiser blew out just after the com pletion of a steaming trial. The bod ies were transferred to t,he I'. S. S. Saturn, which sailed from San Fran-1 cisco. SENATOR PENItOSE IMPROVES J By Associated Press Philadelphia, Jan. 2 s.—United States j Senator Penrose, who is suffering from bronchitis, was reported improved to day. 10 PAGES. BRITISH BATTLE CRUISER ALSO SUNK IN BIG FIGHT DECLARES GERMAN OFFICE Austrians Administer Definite Check to Russian Army Which Invades Bukowina; Assaults on Przemysl Have Practically Ceased The German official report of yester- | day's naval engagement on the .North Sea says that "according to inforina-J tlon available" a British battle cruiser I was sunk. This is at direct variance | with the official English version of' the fight which states that none of the British vessels were lost. The Ger man report confirms the sinking of the German armored cruiser Bluecher and states that the other German ves sels returned .to port. According to Vienna reports, the Austrians have administered a delinite check to the Russian army which in vaded Bukowina. An official statement from the Austrian capital to-day says that quiet prevails after the latest suc cessful battles in Bukowina, and makes no mention of the hurried Rus sian retreat and heavy losses reported previously. The statement shows that the Russians again succeeded in pene trating passes of the Carpathians. ( The garrison at Przemysl. Galicla, whose resistance month after month to the Russian besiegers had been one of the dramatic features of the war In the east, is said at Vienna to have been carried on with such success that assaults on the city have virtually ceased. New Attack Reported A new attack on the Russian armies has been initiated by Austria, in con junction with the German forces in the east, In accordance with the plans believed in Petrograd .to have been adopted by the Teutonic allies. Aus trian forces have struck at their op ponents all along their 300 mile front. Heavy fighting is in progress but so far as is known in Petrograd no Im portant results have been achieved as yet. The object of the attack appar ently is to relieve Hungary from fur ther danger of invasion by clearing the Russians from Galicla. Bukowina and Northern Hungary. Vienna re ports state that the Russians already have been checked in Bukowina. Desperate fighting at Close quarters is in progress in central Poland, where many men have died from cold. The most determined efforts of the oppos ing forces have not resulted in break ing the deadlock. On the western battlefields several encounters continue in Alsace and the i LIQUOR PROHIBITEI N ICELAND Copenhagen, Jan. 25, via London, 2.30 P. M.—The par i 1 ament of Iceland has passed a ling the sat j of alcoholic liquors. S 400 WAR AUTOMOT3" LES LOST P. M. Tht raid last week on the the di. n ji o: shop, a cord iii, t . of «' '.id. :thals, governor of the cana? one, eportcd to Pr. V 1 on to-day that hard work on the Gold I Cucaracha, gave no | ' pro gh wa way f <h. The presidential F party maj betaken , ' WHEAT PRICES GOING UP , Chicago, Jan. 25.—Prices for wheat scored higher to-day than ever. May delivery touched $1 'V ~ a rise of 1% as I ' compared with Saturday. 1 W The Treasury must refund more tl 00,000 inheritence tax collected under the ' Spanish war revenue act on estates of persons who died be- I estates were not deter- 1 mined, under State law, until af< >eal. The Supreme Court so decided to-day for the estate of Adelaide F. Dalzell, 1 ■ of Pittsburgh, in a test case. Washington, Jan. 25—The Supreme Court to-day de- C clined to grant a review of the convictions of Charles 11. ■ McMahon, John R. Markley, Will I. Armstrong, Jr., K Isiah B. Miller and Albert G. Stewart, in the Federal District t C Court lelphia for conspiracy to use the mails to de- ( C fraud in promotion of a $5,000 K exican land develop- 1 K 'ment project. Stewart was formerly attorney general cf \ £ the United States for Porto Rico. (E Amsterdam, via Paris, Jan. 25, 4.30 P. M.—A telegram i I received here from Berlin sets forth that in the province of. 1 C Brandenburg, in which Beilin theie have been 1 C called upon for i the fifty-yeaf-old uri- 1 m trained men of the landsturm of 1886, 1887 and 1888 classes. - C MARRIAGE LICENSES K ftror tcr Nullmi nnil Fanny Cjnk. SteeHoa. , ■ 'l'lionmn C. TrnlToner and Ilia >lai<r llrmlcrnliot, W llllamxport. .lonciih Wllbrrt Shearer, I'lnc Hill, and I'lffle Irene Gamker, rtty, | * POSTSCRIPT [Argonne. Neither the Freneh nor th<» [ German official statement of to-day claims marked successes although tha Kerlin communication states that, in the fighting in the heights' north of Sennheim. Alsace, the forces were re pulsed with heavy losses. The Ger man statement reports the loss of a trench near Berry an Bac which was won recently from the allies. Ottoman Aerial Fleet Lost When Russians Sink Turkish Vessel By Associated Press London. Jan. 25, 4.35 A. M.—A P«- trograd dispatch to the Times asserts that the Russians have sunk, near Sinope, Asia Minor, the Georgios, on board of which were sixteen aero planes, comprising the entire Turkish aerial fleet. GERMANS FADE BACK IN EAST Petrograd Dispatcher Say Kaiser's Forces are Suffering Heavy 1 josses Petrograd, Jan. 24.—The following official communication from the gen eral staff of the Russian army was issued to-night: "On the right bank of the lower Vistula the day of January 23 passed with important skirmishes taking place on the front from the village of Bod zano to the Vistula. "On the left bank of the Vistula a comparative lull prevaied, except in the region of Borjimow and Goumine, where the Germans attempted at one time by an open offensive to approach our position. They were stopped by our fire and compelled to fall back with losses. REPORT MINOR ENGAGEMENTS Paris, Jan. 25,2.50 p. m.—The report on the progress of the fighting given out by the French war office this aft ernoon refers to encounters of minor importance only. No decisive engage ment have occurred anywhere on tho line. There have been the customary artillery changes, coupled with tho taking of a few prisoners, and tho driving back of a counter attack.
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