• ' ' * ;'-f \ Germans Carry Out Threat to ' C ly HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 25 CLOTURE RULE MAY END LONG FIGHT ON SHIP PURCHASE BILL Democrats Place Cots in Presi dent's Room and Prepare For Continued Session SPEECHES AGAIN IN ORDER Both Sides Arrange Relays of Speakers For All of Tonight and Tomorrow fly Associated Press Washington, Feb. I.—When the Senate met to-day to resume consider ation of the government ship purchase hill the truce in the historic legisla tive contest over the measure was de clared off and Democratic and Repub lican senators alike, refreshed after a; 'recess of thirty four hours, were | ready to continue the fight. The truce j betran al midnight Saturday. The Democratic leaders have thrown ! down the gauntlet to the Republican ! minority party by announcing that the shipping bill would be continu ously kept before the Senate from to day on. The Republicans promptly accepted the challenge and declare they are ready to meet any plan of campaign the Democratic leaders may launch. The tight will be pressed home to the Republicans more vigorously this! week- than heretofore and that the op-| position will be forced to talk con-1 tinuously until the shipping bill I reaches a vote. They declare that I three or four days of continuous ses- j sion will force a roll call. Ready For l.ons Siege Preparations for continuing the I siege were apparent to-day at the j outset. Both sides arranged for re-1 lays of speakers throughout the day | and night and to-morrow. The Sen ate assembled at 10 o'clock, but KO ] many senators were late it was more; than half an hour before a quorum! was present. "Wo propose to keep the Senate In continuous session," declared Ma jarity Leader Kern. Senator Stone, from the Democratic side, announced that he proposed to give the Repub licans some 'enlightenment' to-mor row if ho could find an opportunity to 'wedge in' on the Republican speeches." Prospects of a cloture rule if ihe relentless opposition of Republicans should continue were discussed in Democratic circles. When Senator Smith, of Michigan, resumed his speech. Senator Walsh challenged his statement that there were i>oo,oo unemployed men in New York city. [Continued on Page 7.1 Mrs. Edwin Carman to Be Tried Second Time By .Associated Pres.* Freeport, X. Y.. Feb. I.—After a conference last night with William Bailey, whose wife was shot and killed in the office of Dr. Edwwin Carman in this village on June 30, district Attor ney Lewis J. Smith, of Nassau courty, announced that Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman is to be placed on trial again, accused of the murder. The first trial last October resulted In a disagreement and since Mrs. Carman has been at liberty on a mond of $25,000. District Attorney Smith in his an nouncement stated that he would try to have the second trial started at. the regular term of court in Mineola in May or early in June. Three Instantly Killed When Train Hits Sleigh By Associated Press Beaver Falls, Pa.. Feb. I.—Lorettle Gentile, a crossing watchman, early to-day attempted to stop a sleigh in which Lintel Barstill and Guizeppi Farioll were trying tn pass in front of a fast Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad train at New Gallllle near here. The sleigh was struck by the train and the three men instantly killed. Brumbaugh's Stand Makes Convention Unnecessary The convention of the Anti-Saloon League scheduled for to-day in Chest nut Street Auditorium has been called off because Governor Brumbaugh has already announced himself favorably disposed toward local option. Leaders decided It was better not to attempt to force the Issue. THE WEATHERI For TTarrlaburK and vlvlnlty: Rain to-night and probably Tncsdnvi Marnier to-nlKht, with lowest temperature about -10 degrees. For Kastern l'cnnsyl> nuln: Rain to-nlgh't unit probably Tucaday; warmer In south portion to-night; fresh shifting winds. niver The Susquehanna river and all Ita tributaries will rlae m-nlght and Tueadny. A stage of nbout .1.6 feet la Indicated for Harrlabn .'g 'J'nesdny morning. General Conditions The irlonn from the I'aclflc ocean has moved slowly eastward dur ing the last fort.v-eight houra and la now central over the l.ower Missouri Valley. It has caused snow, sleet and rain over nearly nil the country cast of the flock'r mountains In the laMt •twenty four hours. Tfmperaturei s a. m.. 30. Sunt Rises, 7»IR a. m.s acta, 5:3 a p. m. Moon I Rises. 7il.t p. nt. River Stugct 4.S feet above low water mark. Testerday's Weather TUgheat temperature, 2K. I.oweat temperature, SO. Mean 'temperature. 24. .Normal temperature, 9% 1 LOVE HIM!'--BUT SHE SEEKS DIVORCE Husband Spent Pretty Wife's $2,000 and Deserted Her While IU WORE TWO SHIRTS A DAY Insisted That Spouse Press His Trousers Every Morn ing, Too Not only did Oliver <5. Middlekoff, gambler, nonchallantly spend his pretty little wife's entire savings of more than $2,000, but he flatly de clined to work, insisted that she sup port herself, buy his clothes—and provide and launder at least two shirts and a pair of silk stockings each day and press his trousers every morning. And after a while he decided that she wasn't nearly as pretty as she once was, informed her that he could have plenty of prettier women. Then one day, when she returned from a six weeks' stay at a hospital she dis covered an empty house. That was on October 3, 1911, and she has never seen him since. But she has followed up clew after clew as to his possible whereabouts and has traveled as fur South as Newport News and Norfolk in a vain search for her missing hus band. Would Still Ijaunder His Shirts All this Mrs. Marie Middlekoff quietly told Additional Law Judge S. J. M. McC&rrell this morning in ask ing legal separation as a last resort, in January divorce court. And in con cluding her story she told—why. The requirement as to daily press ed trousers Judge McCarrell passed as a matter of course, hut the two shirts and a pair of silk stockings per day elicited comment from the bench. "Two shirts?" the court observed. "And silk stockings? And did he ex pect you to launder them?' "Yes. sir—and I did, too," replied Mrs. Middlekoff. The Reason "And you hunted for him and still want him to come back? And would you again be willing to launder two shirts and the silk stockings each day ?" "Yes, sir," nodded Mrs. Middlekoff. "You were married in October of [Continued on Page 7.] PREFERRED LAND OF MORMONS TO LIFE WITH COWS That Is Why Fishing Creek Valley Didn't Appeal to Wife of Travel ing Salesman, Divorce Court Learns Dell Crowder, who had traveled the country over as a salesman and was very, very weary of it all and keenly anxious to spend his remaining days with the cows and chickens, bought a nice little well-stocked farm in Fish ing Creek Valley and moved his wife, Goldie Shannon Crowder, and their household to his country place. With joyous visions of a restful life of It in his mind's eye Dell made his final trip on the road and back to the farm. To his consternation, he found that wife, stepchildren, mother-in-law and niece, PREACHERS URGED TO SUPPORT BRUMBAUGH Thirty-one Anti-Saloon League Workers Occupy Pulpits of City Churches The duty of preachers in sustaining Governor Brumbaugh in his local op tion legislation, and general advice in the liquor fight was given before the Methodist Ministerial Association at the Young Men's Christian Association by Dr. Charles F. Swift, of Washing ton county, Held secretary and legisla tive representatives of the Anti-Saloon League. Dr. Swift thinks there is a good chance for the passage of local option legislation and he counseled the min isters to continue their activities in its behalf. .He was one of the thirty one speakers provided yesterday in various city churches by the Anti-sa loon League in the "Down-with- Booze" field day services. He was a member of the State legislature at the last session and is now in the city in the interest of the league in its ef fort to have antiliquor legislation passed. Members of the various unions of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Dauphin county will con t'nue the antlboozc light this week by the distrtbution of 5,000 pamphlets, containing a printed list of the appli cants for liquor licenses, their reoom menders and the owner of properties where saloons are located. Distribution will be made arnong churches in all parts of the county. Statistics alone are included, no edi torial opinions being: given. The committee of arrangements on the pre-lenten conference of the Lutheran ministers of this city re ported at the regular meeting of the ministerlum this afernoon at the Young Men's Christian Association. The conference will be held February 15. and the pastors will hold an all-day session preparatory to Lent. DRESSES 1)01,1, IN PILI'IT Baltimore, Md., Feb. 1. —Had "Billy" Sunday yesterday visited Fuller Me morial Haptist Church he would have learned a new "stunt" in illustrating I sermons. The Rev. Dr. Weston Bruner. a revivalist in the Baptist campaign here, produced from some hidden recess a rosy-cheeked, blonde baby doll. Whereupon he proceeded in no mild terms, manipulating the toy as he did so, to illustrate and con demn the Irregularities of modern feminine apparel. HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1915. f Latest Bride Picked Out For Juttice Mcßeynolds [ I I 4vw, J? ¥ 441T1 ) \ . \ I If Associate Justice Mcßeynolds, of the United States Supreme Court, has had another bride picked out for him by the Washington matchmakers. Since he is a bachelor, and one of the most eligible in the country, being the youngest member of the highest tri bunal In the world, capital society has been busy marrying him for the two years he has been in Washington. This time the bride-to-be Is Miss Lucy Bur leson. daughter of the Postmaster Gen eral. The gleam of what appeared to be an engagement ring was seen on the all of which helped comprise his fam ily, had departed, he knew not whither; the farm was deserted. In brief, this was the story Crowder told President Judge Kunkel to-day in Jan uary divorce court in asking for legal untying of the marital knot. "Did you know where she went?" Crowder's counsel asked. "The neighbors told me that she was tired of the farm and I and had decided to leave. She did tell 'em, too, I believe, where she meant to go." "And that was?" "Utahi" STEELTON MAN TAKEN PRISONER BY RUSS Declares Prison Life Is Vastly Preferable to Mud and Blood of Trenches How the Russian government treats its prisoners-of-war is related by Marke Ferencic, formerly a member of one of the Steelton foreign colonies but now a prisoner of war in a Rus sian barrack, in a letter to his sister in-law, Mrs. Barbara Ferencie, Main street, Steelton. Ferencic requests his sister-in-law to inform his parents in Croatia.that, I although a prisoner of war, he Is safe, well and not suffering any hardships. He declares that he is treated ".vith [Continued on Page 7.] Taylor Selects Lloyd as Royal Firehouse Architect After conferring with a committee from the Royal Fire Company con sisting of Edward Lewis, John G. Hauek, George B. Sprout, Lewis Lickel and Millard M. Tawney and Fire Chief John C. Kindler and Assistant Ed. Halbert, City Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor decided to award the contract for preparing the plans and specifica tions for the new Thirteenth ward lire house to C. Howard Lloyd. Bids will be asked for within a few weeks. Drops Dead While Making Difficult Billiard Shot R. Ft. Vantlne, aged 47 years, of Philadelphia, traveling representative ! for the Barber Asphalt Paving Com- I pany, dropped dead at 2 o'clock this afternoon, while playing billiards at the Lester Holtzman parlors, 323 Mar i ket street. Heath was due. to heart failure. Mr. Yantine had been subject I to heart attacks. I Mr. Vantlne came to llarrisburg Saturday on business and expected to remain for several days. He has been making llarrisburg his headquarters on his Central Pennsylvania trips for the past four years. Mr. Vantlne is survived by a widow and one son. The body was placed in charge of an un dertaker anil will be taken to Phila delphia to-night. Mr. Vantlne was an intimate friend of Charles K. Covert, of the Central Construction and Sup ply Company. finger of Miss Burleson as she came out of a theater the other evening with her arm through that of Mrs. Mar shall. the wife of the Vice-President. Members of the party asked Miss Bur leson if her engagement was out at last, whereupon the young woman blushed and covered her confusion by laughing and thrust her hand into her muff. And now the report, often cir culated and denied, that the Postmas ter General's daughter, who is only 21 years old, and Justice Mcßeynolds are engaged is accepted in Washington so ciety. STORM BRINGS JOY TO 8,510 YOUNGSTERS City's Schools Closed Because of Sloppy Condition of Streets More than 8,500 pupils of the public schools arc excused from the after noon session to-day because of the condition of the city streets, due to the snow, sleet and ran which has fallen for thirty-six hours. The student* «jf the Central and Technical high schools are the only ones who attended school the whole day. ♦ More than one-half an inch of rain fell between 8 and 12 o'clock -this morning, the total for the past twenty four hours being about IV4 inches. About two Inches of snow fell yester day before the rainfall began. No Shadow Will Ho Skie! To-morrow is ground hog day and the weather man predicts rain for the entire day. S». »ne unpopular visitor of February will not see his shadow and Spring weather soon will be here, according to the old-time weather prophets. The storm which is causing rain, sleet or snow in this section of the country Is now centerng east of St. Tjouis and moving slowly eastward. Temperatures range from 30 to more than 40 degrees. Warmer weather, with lowest temperature about 40 de grees, is the forecast for the city. The Susquehanna and all its branches will rise slowly to-night and a stage of 5.6 feet to-morrow morning Is predicted for Harrisburg. E. K. Demain, local forecaster, said this morning that some of the people of the city were TOO liasty in cleaning off their sidewalks and the result is that many of them are covered with ice, making walking dangerous. How ever, only one accident case was brought to the Harrisburg Hospital. Daniel Sornberger, 114 Sylvan Ter race. slipped and fell on Chestnut street last night, dislocating his left shoulder. Traffle was delayed all over the city. Many of the cars were not on schedule during the day. Steamship Torpedoed Without Warning to Crew By Associated Press Paris. Feb. 1, 5 A. M. —The sinking of the British steamer Tokomaru In the English Channel off Havre by a German submarine, said to have been done without previous warning to en able the crew to escape, has provoked lan outburst of indignation in the French press. All refer to the inter view- credited to Admiral von Tirpitz, the commander-in-chief of the German naval forces, in which a war on mer chant ships by submarines was out lined. SUBMARINE NOT SEEN AFTER STEAMER WAS TORPEDOED By Associated Press Eondon. Feb. 1. .",.40 A. M.—A mem ber of the cretf of the British steamer Tokomaru, which was sunk in the English Channel, supposedly by a sub marine. has arrived In Eondon and thus describes the disaster: "The officers and crew had just fin ished lircukfast when the exnloslon occurred. The ship was virtually sta tionary, seeking a pilot The vessel tilted over immediately and soon had a heavy list. The captain ordered the boats cut' and in fifteen minutes everyone was away, but saved virtually nothing. The general opinion of the crew was that she* had ben torpedode, but no sign of a submarine was seen." , PARK EXTENSION SHE 111 TONIGHT To Be Presented on Third Anni versary of First Purchase of Property For Extension TWO OTHER BILLS READY Beidleman to Introduce One For Uniform Sales; Another For County Bridges The bill to appropriate J300.000 for | the completion of the purchase of the j properties in the Capitol Park extension | district, which will be Introduced Into : the Senate to-night by Senator Edward E. Beldleman, of this city, has been prepared after a thorough study of the situation and consultation of the commissioners with Governor Brum baugh. The original appropriation of $2,000,000, which was extended over a period of several years, will run out early next year and It is calculated that | the 15 per cent, additional will finish t the whole purchase and givo the State j property which next year will be worth j considerably over two and a half mil lion dollars. An interesting coincidence in the plans for presentation of the bill is that to-day three years ago the com mission took tltlo to the first property bought under the act. Senator Beidleman will also present two o'.aer bills of considerable impor tance to-night. One is the uniform sales bill drafted by the commission on unform laws throughout tue States and the other amends the act of 1913 relative to county bridges. The latter will require plans and profiles to be I furnished by county engineers and county commissioners for inspection of the public for three weeks before opening bids: advertise for bids, the advertisement to contain a general de scription of the'work to be done and shall 11 x a time and place for opening bids; if a bridge is to be constructed or rebuilt the commissioners are to ac cept any competitive designs and speci fications to be exposed for public in spection and to accept bids thereon. One of the provisions is that "Any con tract shall be unlawful which is based on any plan or specification calling for or making use of any patented process ,or patented designs unless such de signs and specifications are accom panied by an offer in writing by the person owning or controlling the pat ented design or patented process or by hi«= "legal representative setting forth the terms upon which such patented design or process may be obtained or used by any successful bidder in con structing the bridge under such con tract." Despondent Man Kills Wife and Daughters and Turns Gun on Himself Special to The Telegraph New York, Feb. 1. —Armed with a magazine rifle, equipped with an auto matic silencer, Herman Auerhach, a wealthy real estate operator, who had I become despondent because of finan ! clal reverses, yesterday shot and killed his wife and two daughters with dum dum bullets as tliey slept, and then, returning to his own bed, killed him self. His son tester, a schoolboy, was the only member of the family left alive. Central Iron and Steel Working Day and Night All departments at the Central Iron and Steel Company plant will work night and day this week. Each de partment will have its full quota of men at work. Next week the entire plant may again close down. The busy week which started to-day is the result of an order for bridge work from Memphis, Tenn., which had been held up some time. General Superintendent Robert H. Irons, of the Central Iron and Steel Company, said to-day: "There Is nothing in sight that looks favorable for continued activity. One week we work and the next week the plant is idle. Orders are uncertain. The prospect appears to be brighter throughout the country, but there is no assurance of a. busy future." Germans Torpedo and Sink British Steamers Special to Tlte Telegraph Eondon, Feb. I.—The toll taken by the German submarine U-21 in its raid Saturday afternoon in the Irish Sea In the vicinity of Liverpool stands at three steamships—the Den Cruachen and Einda Blanche and the Kilcoan, a small vessel. The crew of the Kilcoan was landed to-day on the Isle of Man by a coastwise steamship. In addition, a. German submarine has torpedoed two British steamers in the English Channel near Havre—the Tokomaru and the Icaria. Throat Trouble Causes Kaiser's Return fo City Special to The Telegraph Eondon. Feb. 1. —The German em peror's return to Berlin from the front was due to the state of his health, ac cording to a report from the German capital received by the Exchange Tele graph Company by way of Amsterdam. The emperor, the dispatch adds, will consult his medical adviser concerning his throat, which has given him much trouble. Those who have heard the emperor speak lately say that his voice is scarcely audible. Former Senate Chaplain Decries Revival Campaign j Special to The Telegraph Philadelphia. Feb. 1. —That religious revival campaigns tend to degrade Christianity, because they make their appeal to the baser emotions of men rather than to their intellect, was as serted yesterday hy the Rev. Ulysses G. Pierce, of Washington, D. C., for merly chaplain of the United Stales Senate. 12 PAGES GERMANS OPEN CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY ENGLAND'S COMMERCE;TABRIZFALLS Kaiser's Submarines Actively Engaged in Sinking British Steamers; Ten Vessels Sunk Thus Far; Greece Pre paring to Help Servia in Case of Invasion by Austro- German Forces; Fighting Resumed on the Warsaw Front Heavy fighting has been resumed along the Warsaw front in Poland, after a long period of comparative in activity. An official communication from Petrograd describes battles along the Vistula, near Borjimow where, it Is said, the Germans were dislodged with bayonets from trenches they had captured, two companies of their sol diers being almost annihilated. The Germans later undertook an attack upon the Russian advance trenches and succeeded in gaining one posi tion. _ The Russian occupation of Tabriz, Northern Persia, unofficially reported last week, is announced to-day by the Russlan War Office, which says that the Turkish army In that vicinity was put to flight, A dispatch from Athens states that Greece is engaged actively in military preparations and that she will assist Servia in case of invasion by Austro- German forces. Destroy Commerce The view that Germany has en tered definitely upon a policy of de stroying England's maritime com merce by the use of submarines is corroborated by German newspapers which speak of the sinking of British merchantmen during the past few days as a new course of action which it Is hoped will produce striking re sults. Five vessels have been tor pedoed, three in the Trish sea and two in the English Channel. The German papers lay stress upon the long range of tho submarines, whose ability to operate as far as 1,000 miles from their base distinctly increases the menace to shipping. RUSSIANS PLEASED WITH GAINS MADE DURING « MONTHS OF WAR By Associated Press Petrograd. via London, Feb. 1, 5:45 a. m.—A Russian general, who is an aid de camp to Emperor Nicholas and is necessarily nameless, gave an Associated Press correspondent to-day the Russian viewpoint of tho military situation. The aid de camp had just returned from inspecting tho Russian rine, supposedly the ,- U2l" was ly this J r NOMINATIONS IN iENATE SOON Washington, Feb. I.—Nominations lot ade Commltsion, which President Wilson is e « | ! send in to the Seaate this week stood to-day on t; j £ .0U59 1 Record, New 4 Farry, Washington State, and William J. Aarr I & Georgia. M | MAY DELIVERY AT $1.54. M Chicago, Feb. I.—Smashing of hiph'record war pri & 1 continued to-day in the wheat market here. On top of i I advance last week ranging from 7% to quotations today 1 jumped as much as at the very outset, May delivery sell- C ing at $1.54 a bushel as against $1.51 % when the market C 1 closed Saturday. J NAME HERSHEY POSTMASTER 1 Washington, Feb. I.—George J. Eppley has been i pointed postmaster at Hershey, Pa. MARINES AT PORT AU PRINCE 1 ashington, Feb. I.—The cruiser Montana with 6 # gathered from the Atlantic fleet at Guantanamo. ■ has taken station off Port au Prince, Haiti, for the prote # ' tion of American interests there. # 1 WHEAT CLOSES AT $1.56} 4 J icago, Feb. I.—Profit taking led to something of a set back in wheat prices near the close to-day. It was a nervous m 1 finish, with May at $1.56% the market as a whole 25,, to J 4K above Saturday night. 2 Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. !.—A warm rain which began yes # 1 terday has melted the snow on the Allegheny and Monon- £ gahela watersheds and small streams throughout Western M 9' Pennsylvania and Northwest Virginia are pouring volumes W Cof water into those rivers. Two men were drowned in a C C flooded creek at Latrobe ,Pa., and Mrs. Michael Fisher was M * drowned at West Wheeling, W. Va. { I MARRIAGE LICENSES I * POSTSCRIPT forces at all the fronts except in the Caucasus. Ho said: "To-day, exactly a lialf year sinco the beginning of tho war, our second lino of troops is greater and our en tire armies are much stronger. Tho men are more hardened and physi cally and morally more ready. "The enemy's territory has been oc cupied in East Prussia and Galicla to, a greater extent than our most opti mistic expectations while the Germans are occupying practically the samo lines as at the outset of the war." EMPEROR SAYS 1110 IS WEI/IJ SATISFIED WITH LANDWEHR By Associated Press Berlin, via Amsterdam and London, Feb. 1, 9:38 a. in. —Emperor William in a speech to a landwehr battalion made before It left general field head quarters said: "I congratulate you comrades. Tour wish to go to the front has been ful filled. I thank you for the good work you did here. I am very much satis fled with you." Afterward the Emperor learned the battalion Was leaving for a place near the Crown Prince's army. Ho again addressed the men, saying: "Give my salutations to my son." EXPLOSION OX STEAMER By Associated Press Havre, via Paris. Jan. 31. midnight. —The steamer Icarla from Brazil with a cargo of coffee, sugar and hides, was twenty miles northwest of Capo Ee i heve to-day when a violent explosion occurred on her starboard side below the water line. Two tugs towed her Into Havre. BISHOP'S CONDITION UNCHANGED The condition of Bishop Rudolph jDuhs, aged 77, of the United Evan- Igelteal Church, who is seriously ill at his home, 226 Harris street, is un changed to-day.
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