Democrats, in Caucus, Adopt Plan to W HARRISBURG 1&3B& TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 26 fUMC LEADERS IDOPI NEW PLAN TO PASS SHIP MEASURE Supporters Refuse to Show Their Hand at Present Time AMENDMENTS ARE DISCUSSED 'Every Effort Being Exercised to Win Back Revolting Demo crats in Senate By .Associated Press Washington. Feb. 3.—When the Senate met to-day to again consider the government ship purchase bill the Senators were on the qutvlve regarding the plans of the ad ministration's Senators by which they propose to break down the opposition to the measure. But tlie Democrats still were refusing to show their hand, j They had pledged themselves to se-1 crecy at a party caucus last night in | order that their program be not frus- | t rated. It was announced that the plans of the Democratic leaders would not be disclosed at least until the Senate was :ready to act on the motion which was jiendlng to send the shipping bill back to the commerce committee. In ad dition to parliamentary maneuvers .designed to win support of the bill to offset the Democratic revolt of last Monday, it is understood that the pro gram includes the amending of the bill to meet the suggestions from var ious quarters during the past few clays. Senator Fletcher, in charge of the measure, is feady when the pending motion to recommit th<> bin is brought up, to move as an amendment that the committee report back within 4S hours with amendments. These amendments would not commit the government to a permanent policy tn the proposed shipping enterprise and a time limit of either 18 months or two years would he fixed for the under taking. TTpon these amendments ad ministration Democrats hope to bring t hack into line the Democrats who re-1 jolted rather than the support of the I progressive Republicans. MUST SHUN BAI/OON 3 YEARg Man Convicted of I47 p. m. Illver Starve: f».« feet above low water mark. Yeaterday'a leather Highest 'temperature. :ill. i.oweat temperature, SB. Mean temperature. 30. Normal temperature, 28. I GERMAN RAWER SUNK WHEN AIRSHIP FOUND HER HIDING |H| \< /( E£*£Sfl BMBjfcfiffftw*nrir» .*-1 J > MHKK^ w _. I he dramatic story of the sinking of the German raider Koenigsberg, on the coast of east Africa, has juust. been told by Captain Willett of the British merchant ship Newbridge. The Koenigsberg, which was a light, cruiser of about the same class as the JOmden. Dresden and Karlsruhe, mounting only 4.1-inch guns. was in company with a smaller German ship when chased by the British squadron, which included, it is believed, several armored cruisers of the County class. The smaller ship was sunk, but the Koenigsberg succeeded in getting be hind the Mafia Islands and some distance up the river, where she was completely screened by the bend of the river, and where the British heavier draft ships could not follow her. They also, it appears, landed a detachment who mounted some lightguns on the bank as a defense against attack by a British boat expedition. The British, however, contented themselves with bottling up the Koenigsberg by sinking Captain' Wlllett's ship in the channel. They then waited for the arrival of a seaplane, which tlew up the river and indicated the position of the German cruiser by dropping smoke bombs. The Germans had hidden their ship close to the bank under cover of some palm groves and had covered her with foliage. The aviator, however was able to make her out and to direct the tire of the British ships so accurately by signals that the cruiser was completely destroyed. LIQIIOB MEN INVEST AT HI MSHIMEL Licenses Only Granted For One Year, Not Indefinitely, Court Declares Any person who invests Ills mean - in the liquor business does so at his own risk, as Oie license Is only granted for a year. The courts of Pennsylvania have all (■aid tills. Is there any reason why this oonrt should now reopen and re adjudlcate a matter which it had already adjudicated for a year? President Judge George ICunkel, of [Continued on Pa#e 10] COMMITTEE Of W PUBS TRADE TRIP Chamber of Commerce Annual Spring Trade Excursion Will Eclipse All Others Plans for the annual .Spring trade excursion of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce will be worked out at a meeting of the general and various subcommittees to-morrow night. The m ;eting will be held at 8 o'clock in the rooms of the Chamber of' Com merce in tho Kunkel building. The chairman of the committee is Charles W. Rurtnett. The committee to line up the membership and boost the trip includes: James A. Andrews, A. D. Bacon, A. H. Bailey, Harvery Bair, R. L. Beck ley, George W. Bogar Charles S. 8011, I J. A. Brandt. Henry C. Claster, Dr. C. j C. Conklln, J. E. Core, Dr. E. L. Den [Continued on Page 10] Dominion Authorities Build Up Case Against Dynamiter Van Horn By Associated Press Vanceboro, Me., Feb. 3.—The Do minion authorities were busy to-day building up a case to support their request for the extradition of Werner Van Horn who yesterday uttempted | the destruction of the international bridge over the St. Croix river. Before noon a large party of secret service officers arrived here from Montreal. Their business was to es tablish that Van Horn had deliberately caused damage to a railroad and so committed an offense which is ex traditable under the treaty between tho United States and Canada. At the same time the question whether Van Horn was a criminal or political offender was to be made the subject of exchanges between Ottawa and Washington. • Van Horn still claiming to be an officer of the German army, and ap pearing to feel secure in his position that he had properly committed an act of war and so could not be ex tradited. awaited events with com posure. His only regret so far as ex pressed, is that he succeeded in dam aging the bridge but slightly. VAN" HORN MADE MANY FRIENDS IN NEW YORK WHILE THERE By Associated Press New York. Feb. 3. Werner Van Horn, who attempted to blow up the international bridge over the St. Croix t river at Vanceboro, Me., early yester day morning had many acquaintances among his countrymen in this city, gained during his two months' stay here. Acordlng to friends here Van Horn was formerly a captain of pioneers in the Bavarian army. It was also said that he claimed to be the eldest son of Count Karl Van Horn, former min ister of Bavaria and a general In the Bavarian army. , HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING , FEBRUARY 3, 1915. E U ROPE A N ARMY RA OF SEVENTY POSS Russians, Austrians, Englishmen and Germans Renounce Allegiance to Their Crowns to Rally Around Colors of Uncle Sam Seventy-odd possible recruits for the lighting «rmies of Europe were Inst for all time in Federal Court to day. Just that many subjects of George, William. Nicholas, Franz Josef and Victor Emmanuel quit serving those crowns and (ln-s and officially threw In their lot with Uncle Sam. The change of citizenship occupiod most of the day before United Stntes Judge Oliver fi. Dickinson. Eastern district, who conducted a session of naturalization court In the absence of Judge C. B. Wltmer. The latter is confined to his home in Sunburv with a heavy cold. Most of the new citizens were Rus sians and Austrians. One of the for mer ,a gray, square-headed man in a FOUR PUCES ROBBED; BRIE BURGLAR NIBBED Roundsman McCann Sees Thief With Pack on His Back and Pinches Him | That It's a dangerous tiling for a | robber to fall under the eagle eye of j Roundsman McCann when lie's carry ing his loot In' a bag over his back, was proved this morning long befor.j I sun-up when McCann nabbed Joseph I Wilson, colored. Wilson had a bag of goods stolen from the store of Henry S. Wagenliein, 1123 South Ninth i street, valued at $25. j Wilson was enroute up Cameron I street, neai Mulberry, about 3.10, when McCann saw hint with a bag ; that looked suspiciously like a burg lar's pack. Wilson evidently thought he was followed as he ran into a small blind alley, where be was caught. At the police station Wilson con fessed to having robbed the Wagen heini store. The goods in the bag In cluded a dozen sweaters, two pair of corduroy trousers, box of handker chiefs, shirts, caps and underwear. En trance was gained by breaking a win ] dow In the rear of the store. Wilson said all the goods he took were in the bag. Wilson was held for court by Mayor John K. Royal this afternoon. Two other robberies were reported to the police department which have not yet been cleared up. Patrolman Coleman found a window glass broken at the cigar store of Daniel Wagner, j Sixth and Hamilton streets. Mr. Wag i ner was called and found S3O in cigars, tobacco and pipes had been stolen, along with $3 in cash. At William Hoffman's cigar store. Fourteenth and Market streets, awln dow was broken, the thieves got away with $35 worth ol' goods. They also .went next door to the shoe repair shop of Rudy and Weaver, where they stole lone piece of leather valued at *lO, and a dozen leather soles and heels. Miss Sarah Wilhelm Dies After a Long Illness Miss Sarah 11. C. Wilhelm, daugh ter of the late Artsmas Wilhelm and Elizabeth Schall Wilhelm, died at her home in Paxtang at 2.30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, February 2. Funeral services will be held from her home Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with the Rev. Rollln Alger Sawyer of St. Stephen s Protestant Episcopal Church officiating. Burial will be made at York. RAILROADS WANT HIGHER RATES I Springfield, Ills.. Feb. 3.—Fourteen railroad presidents to-day presented to Governor Dunne and members of the State Utilities Commission argu ments why the passenger rates in Illi nois should be raised from two to two and-a-half cents a mile. The hear ing was the opening of the campaign of the transportation companies to ob tain legislation permitting the increase of passeng-r revenue in middle west ern States. long belted astrakhan overcoat and peaked cap. might have .lust stepped Into the courtroom from a Vereschagin picture of a silent gray column trudg ing wearily through the Carpathians. And another —the only former subject of King George of England—stepped up to the registration table with the jauntlness of Mr. T. Atkins himself. The fact that on® eager application met a. witness just a day too fate pre vented his changing flngs to-day. He reliled his application, however, and will be examined again in ninety days. Uncle Sam requires the witnesses to have known naturalization applicants for Ave years. In the Instance In question the pair met on July 2. five years ago—and the applicant filed his papers July 1. MORTON TRUCKS MAY BE USED BY ALLIES Robert L. Morton Sails For Europe to Negotiate Deal For Big Order "KQBCRT L - • &.JZZ In the awarding ot large contracts to American automobile manufactur er for use in the army of the allies the Morton Motor Truck and Tractor Company, of this city, will be repre sented by Robert U Morton, well known in local automobile circles. ' Mr. Morton left for New York city last evening and will sail on the Adri atic to-morrow. r,arge contracts are pending and leading automobile man ufacturers of the country have their [Continued on Page 10] FROM CAB TO CONGRESS Fngin«>er. Elected in Oliio, Converted by Sunday J*lvc Years Ago Special to The Telegraph Taungstown, Ohio, Feb. 3.—From a cab of a locomotive to a seat in Con gress as the representative of a dis trict made famous by McKinley and Oarfleld is th eremarkable record of Congressman John C. Cooper, of the Nineteenth Ohio district. Cooper sev ers a long association with the Penn sylvania Railroad, as an engineer, to take his seat on March 4. Five years ago Cooper was little! known, even in Youngstown. In 1909 he was elected precinct committee man. He served two terms in the State legislature and became a leader of the Republican minority in the Statu House of Representatives. He wa.i elected to Congress by 7,500 plurality. Cooper is an ardent prohibitionist and an advocate of moral measures. In February, 1910, he became a "Billy" Sunday convert and has been a con sistent follower of the noted evange list since. lAPPROPHIATIONS FOR CENTRAL PA. HOSPITAL Bills in the House; Prohibition Amendment to Law and Order Committee _ ' SUFFRAGE PUSHED ALONG Passes Second Reading and Will ! Be Sent to Senate After Next Monday's Action Bills making appropriations to a number of hospitals In central Penn sylvania were introduced at the halC hour session of the House of Repre sentatives this morning. Among them were: Air. Walter, Franklin Chambers burg hospital. $21,000: Children's Aid Society of Franklin county, $2,000. Mr. Corbin, Mifflin Lewistown hospital. $24,500. Mr. Rininger. Blair —Mercy Hospi tal, Altoona, $35,000. The prohibition amendment resolu tion was referred to the committee on I law and order which will handle all 1 liquor bills. Suffrage Passes ; The resolution proposing the woman suffrage amendment to the constitu tion was passed for the second time by the Mouse and will come up on 'final passage on Monday night. The | House also passed on second reading ithe bill appropriating $500,000 to de fray expenses of combatting the foot and mouth disease. Twelve bills were passed on first reading. Bills were introduced as follows: Mr. Dunn, Philadelphia Empow [Continued on Page 4.] NINE MEN fill ME!) TO DEHTH IN KANE FIRE Six Others Were Seriously Injured When Sleepinghouse Was Destroyed * > By Associated Press Kane, Pa., Feb. 3.—Nine men were burned to death and six others were seriously Injured in a lire which early to-day destroyed the sleeping house of the Tionesta Chemical Company at Mayburg, Forest county. Tim men, mostly wanderers, of whom little was known here to the company, were em ployed in tho forests as woodmen and at night slept in the cheese cloth lined frame building erected for them. The [Continued on Page 10] TO APPLY SOON FOR HARDSCRABBLE BOARD Early Assessment of Benefits and Damages Will Allow Settlements to Be Made Conveniently Within two weeks City Solicitor D. S. Seitz will apply to the Dauphin County Court for the appointment of a board of viewers to assess benefits nnd damages incident to the taking: over by the city of the properties on the west side of Front street between Calder and llerr streets—the "Hard scrabble" district—in the formal opening of Front street to low water line. Council, in accordance with Mr. Seltz's suggestion yesterday afternoon, authorized tlie solicitor to take this step. By authorizing views to go to work now the question of bonefits and damages can be threshed otit without requiring the owners of the properties or the tenants affected to vacate. In cidentally. as soon as the amounts are determined upon, the damaged own ers can obtain judgment against the city for the sums in question and can readily turn this into cash or assign it to any bank. Thus It will be un necessary for the affected property owner to give up his home at once, nnd even though properly protected by bond, wait for a year or more, perhaps, until the question of appeal is settled in the courts . The money to cover the proposed damages is not available and in order to cover it the city will have to float a bond issue. However, the question of a new loan need not necessarily be pluced before the people at the polls, as the city is still within its borrow ing limit to the extent of half a mil lion or more. So Council could au thorize the floating of a considerable amount of bonds without asking the people's direct consent by vote. Another Streak of Rainy Weather Headed This Way Fair and slightly colder weather is the forecast for Harrisburg and vicin ity to-morrow. To-night it will be partly cloudy, with the mercury drop ping to 20 degrees above zero. The storm which caused the rain and sleet for the past three days is now passing out to sea off the North Carolina coast. ThO' fair weather will last about forty-eisrht hours, followed by another warm period and rain similar to the one just over. This wave is now centering over the Dako ta* and Is moving eastward rapidly. The river will go up to 10.4 feet to-morrow morning, according to in dications. and will then begin to fall slowly. The North and West Branches are already falling IMPORTATIONS DECREASE New York, Feb. 3.—lmportation of! precious stones for January was near ly $1,000,000 less than in the same month last year and more than $3,- 000,000 less than in January 1913, ac cording to the United States Appraiser of Merchandise. 12 PAGES GERMANS' NEW DRIVE IS SUCCESSFULLYWITHSTOOD BY RUSSIANS IN POLAND Neither Berlin Nor Petrograd War Offices Indicate That Marked Changes Have Resulted From Fighting; Russ Claim Successes in Fighting in Carpathians; British and Turks Battl Field Marshal Von Hindenburg's new drive at Warsaw apparently has accomplished little more thus far than the winning' of a comparatively few Russian advanced positions. er 'iP nor the Petrograil official reports indicate that marked changes have resulted from the light ing:, which dally becomes more in tense. The German commander has chosen to make his principal assault along the front between Sochassew, 30 miles due west of Warsaw, and Skler niwice, a few miles to the South, which is In the section in which the Germans vainly attempted to break through on their previous attempts to reach Warsaw. Both sides occupy strongly entrenched positions in this region, where iho warfare closely re sembles that In France. An official Russian report of to-day states that German attacks in this lo cality were repulsed in the course of violent battles, during which the Rus sians recaptured trenches previously taken by the Germans. Russian Successes Russian successes are claimed also in the lighting In the Carpathians, which has developed into one of the most important phases of the cam paign in the Kast. Russian troops are said to have made marked .progress in Dukla Pass, advancing over the crest of the mountain and to have repulsed an Austrian assault south of Uzsok Pass. Fighting continues between British and Turkish forces in Arabia, near the head of the Persian Gulf, where small forces or Turks have taken the offensive. An attack on Kurna, near the junction of the Kuphrates and Ti gris rivers, was stopped by the fire from the British gunboats. Russians Forocil Back According to the German version of the recent fighting in Poland, as given in the official report to-day from Ber lin, the Russians have been forced back near Bolimow. It is said that the Germans captured a village and. took four thousand prisoners. Russian at tacks elsewhere the German war office asserts, were repulsed. TCxc«pt for a renewal of Infantry fighting near Perthes, which apparent. 7 " '•'LAN TO ITA^DTRO^PS'IN'ENGL AN I f i London, Feb.. 3. —lt is rumored that Germany will try ■ to engage the British fleet in Southern waters while anothei J squadron goes northward at full speed with object of covei g ing the landing of troops in England. jf TURKS DEFEAT DETACHMENT OF.RUSSIANS | By wireless to Saville. A Turkish victory over the | yof the Caucasus is reported. Constantinople I says a Russian detachment started the attack and was tic- | feated with heavy losses in men and war materials. AWARD SUPPLY CONTRACT I I . Seven proposals were received by County Co I I ' ' >ks, bill heads, letter heads, printed forr 1 ■ tioncry. rhe bidders were the Telegraph, Star Indepen- 1 * it, J. A. Thompson & Co., the Central Bookjiore, and tl J J inting and Co., this city; Hartzell C I Bi ithers, Carlisle, and Harry Hocker, Penbrook News. % # were awarded the low bidders on each item, M ' RELIEF FOR SIBERIA DENIED 1 I Washington, Feb. 3. —Russia to-day informed thq g United States that the distribution of food, money and cloth-, g 1 ing to German and Austrian prisoners in Siberia would be J ' permitted only by the Russian military authorities, declin- # J ing to give foreign relief expeditions that privilege. An ■ 1 American expedition had started from Petrograd. # | WANTS EXPORT OF WAR SUPPLIES STOPPED # I hington, Feb. 3. —Senator Hitchcock's bill ■ i power the President to forbid exports of war supplie; w its g 1 urged before the Senate Foreign Relations 'Committee tc- 9 I day by Horace L. Brand and Michael Englisi#, of Chicago, J ' and Representative Bartholdt, of Missouri. 9 VAN HORN MAKES APPEAL J Vanceboro, Me., Feb. 3. —Werner Van Horn, who at- 9 tempted to blow up the bridge here yesterday, to- g 1 day appealed to the German ambassador at Washington, g 1 Count Von Bcrnstorff. He told the latter that he had not ) been on Canadian soil and asked for protection from extra g dition to Canada. 1 . 'T"—nnwsww-i' .. , g MARRIAGE LICENSES f t John Allen Hah lem an, Londonderry