Russians and Teutonic Allies Engaged in
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HARRISBURG igiHßg. TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— No. 168
NEW AMERICAN DOTE
ON WAY TO GERMANY
Flashed Oyer Cables to London
During Night; May Reach
Berlin Tonight
EXTRA SESSION MENTIONED
Another Disaster Would Likely
Mean Reassembling of
Congress
By Associated Press
Washington. D. C., July 2 2.—The
new American note to Germany is on
its way to Berlin. It cleared from
Washington over the telegraph wires
during the night and to-day was being
flashed over the cables to London and
thence to Copenhagen, where it goes
over land wires again to the Herman
foreign office. It should reach its desti
nation to-night or early to-morrow.
Secretary Lansing announced that
the text of the note would be given
out here Friday afternoon for publica
tion in morning papers of Saturday.
Concerning future conduct of Ger
man submarines, the note does not
necessarily call for an answer, as It an
nounces the intention of the United
States to regard any further violation
of international law resulting in the
loss of American lives as unfriendly.
On the other hand, the American
demands for disavowal of any inten
tion to sink the Lusitanla and the re
quest for reparation are renewed in
the new note, and very likely those,
with other points, such as the willing
ness of the United States to act as an
Intermediary between the belligerents
to adjust rules of maritime warfare,
probably will be the basis for further
discussion by Germany.
No immediate Answer
An answer is not expected for at
least two or three weeks on those
phases. It is generally agreed among
officials here, however, that any loss of
American lives in the meantime would
in itself raise the question of action
irrespective of any formal reply from
Germany.
The American note is in the nature
of a fimil statement on the principles
involved in which the United States
takes the unalterable position that the
accepted rules of international law
must govern the rights of neutrals ir
respective of retaliatory measures of
the belligerents against one another.
What action would be taken by the
United States In the event of further
violation of American rights is not
iMlcially commented on otherwise here
re-day, but a general understanding
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BOTHA REACHES CAPE TOWN
By Associated Press
Cape Town, Union of South Africa,
July 22.—Premier Botha arrived here
to-day from the campaign which end
ed on July 9 with the surrender of
German Southwest Africa. The Pre
mier received an ovation wherever he
appeared. Business was suspended.
The city was decorated and the people
thronged the streets.
CONTEST WILL)
At a hearing held to-day before
Register of Wills Roy C. Danner the
question of whether E. M. Haldeman,
a former member of the Dauphin
county bar. was sound mentally when
ho made his will was argued. Mrs.
Mary Armstrong, a sister of the dead
lawyer, contested the will on this
ground. In his will Haldeman be
queathed his farm and some other
property to T. H. Moltz.
RECORDER TIES KNOT
Related wedding bells sounded for
the second time, figuratively, for Daniel
Wagner and Mary A. Keiffer, both of
this city, this morning when the pair
got a license at the marriage bureau
and were married immediately in the
recorder's office by Squire Martin Zoll,
a former clerk to the recorder. Mr.
Wagner is 44; his bride is 62. Both
had been married before, but their first
spcuses are dead.
HERE ARE A FEW IMPORTANT
DATES TO KEEP IN MINI)
August 24—Final day for filing pri
mary petitions for State offices
with Secretary of Commonwealth.
August 26, 31 and September 11
City registration days.
August 31—Final day to file pri
mary petitions for county and city
offices with County Commission
ers.
September I—Final day to be as
sessed for November election.
September 2—Return day for regis
tration lists to County Commis
sioners.
September 21—Final day to pay poll
taxes for primary election.
September 21—Fall primaries.
October 2—Final day for out-of
town voters to pay taxes in order
to vote at Fall elections.
November 2—General elections.
THE WEATHER
For Harrlsbnrc and vicinity! Fair
to-nlgrht and Friday) not much
change In temperature.
For Eastern Pennsylvania! Fair
rrenther and moderate tempera
ture to-night and Friday; mod
erate northeast and north winds.
River
. 2'he main river and Its tributaries
A "111 continue to fall IIOWIT. V
f »tage of about 4.2 feet la Indicat
ed for Harrlaburn Friday morn
ing.
General Conditions
Pressure has risen In eastern dis
tricts and Is above normal over
nearly all the country east of the
Rocky mountains, except In the
South Atlantic States, where It
Is slightly below. A new high
pressure area has appeared on
the North Pacific eoast. Light to
moderately heavy showers have
fallen Keuerally In the Atlantic
States from Northern Maine to
Southern Florida.
Temperature! 8 a. m., 841 2 p. m., TS.
Sun: Rises. 4:54 a. m.; seta, 7i28
p. m.
Mooni Sets. 10il7 p. m.
River Stage 1 4.0S feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, 74.
Lowest temperature. 62.
Mean temperature. «W.
Normal temperature, 75. J
CURIOUS MIX-UP IN
ASSESSORS' RETURNS
New Voters in Districts Without
Tax Receipts May Lose Chance
to Vote at Primaries
TODAY IS TIME LIMIT
Many Assessors Thought Rule Ap
plied Only to Brother-Offi
cers in County Districts
If you are one of the unlucky voters
who has moved into a different ward
since the last election day and you
failed to get yourself assessed prior to
yesterday, and you have no receipt for
poll tax paid within two years—you
lose your vote at the September
primaries. Of course this doesn't apply
to the general election.
That, at least, was the rather start
ling information that went abroad
from the county commissioners' offices
to-day when the board sat to receive
the returns of the assessors.
Many of the assessors in the city, it
is believed, thought that the an
nouncement of the commissioners
relative to filing returns applied only
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FIRE IN U. S. COLLIER
By Associated Press
Portsmouth, N. H., July 22.—Fire in
the forward bunker of the United
States auxiliary collier Vulcan de
stroyed about 1,000 tons of coal vpg.
terday. No material damage was done
to the vessel. The navy yard fire de
partment fought the blaze for two
hours before it was subdued.
PROHIBITION WINS, 2 TO 1
By Associated Press
Edmonton, Alberta. July 22.—8y a
majority of almost 2 to 1 the province
of Alberta, in a vote under the new
direct legislation act, yesterday de
clared in favor of the proposed liquor
act prohibiting the sale of liquor
throughout the province. All the
cities except Lethbridge .went dry.
BURNING STEAMER N EARS PORT
By Associated Press
London, July 22, 11.10 A. M.—A dis
patch to Lloyds from Durban, Natal,
says the Peninsula and Oriental Line
steamer Benalla, previously reported
afire at sea. will arrive at Durban at
2 a. m. Friday. The crew has been
unable to reach the fire, which is In
No. 2 compartment. The Benalla, witrt
800 emigrants aboard, is being es
corted by the steamer OtaW.
EXPRESS COIfIES
TO INCREASE RATES
Interstate Commerce Commission
Finds Present Revenues Are
Inadequate
By Associated Press
Washington, July 22.—The Inter
state Commerce Commission dedded
to-day that the revenues of the prin
cipal express companies of the United
States are inadequate and modified
its former order to provide additional
income.
The ex'press companies are expected
to increase their gross revenues about
386 per cent. The commission's re
ports shows that the operating
revenues of the four big companies
have decreased to adeflcit of $1,132,811
in the year 1914-1915 and in the same
period operating income decreased
$2,449,863.
"While the financial condition of
certain of the petitioners is more fav
orable than that of others," says the
report, "it clearly appears that as a
whole they are operating at a loss."
The commission declihed to change
the basis of rates in zone No. 1, the
territory east of the Mississippi and
north of the Ohio rivers.
2,600 Pound of Copper
Wire Stolen by Robbers
Robbers last night stole 2,600
pounds of Insulated copper wire from
the Haxrisburg Light and Power Com
pany. They broke open the supply
house' at State and Cameron streets
and hauled the wire away in a two
horse wagon. The wagon tracks were
traced a short distance and then lost.
The wire Is valued at SSOO. With
the exception of 600 pounds of scraps,
and coils, the wire was new. The rob
bers used a pick to break the lock on
the door. .
DIES FROM INJURIES
111 AUTO ACCIDENT
Hurts Received Six Weeks Ago
Prove Fatal to G. A. Barclay,
State Sign Inspector
George A. Barclay, • aged 46, 6051
Stanton avenue, Pittsburgh, Inspector
of sign erection In the State Highway
Department, died last night at 10.45
o'clock in the Harrisburg Hospital
from injuries received six weeks ago
in an automobile accident.
Mr. Barclay, with several other em
ployes of the Highway Department,
was coming to this city In an automo
bile truck from Sunbury, May 7. Near
Mount Springs Hotel, twenty-eight
inlles north of here, they stopped the
large truck at the edge of a retaining
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HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY' EVENING, JULY 22, 1915
SCENES IN WARSAW FROM WHICH RUSSIANS ARE LIKELY TO BE DRIVEN
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GERMAN troops, according to dis
patches from Poland, are about
to take Warsaw, one of the
greatest cities of Europe, which the
Russians have been defending des
perately for months. It was reported
several days'ago the German armies
had gone as near as seventeen miles,
and it was said the Russians were
preparing to evacuate. These pictures
show street scenes and large buildings
in the city and prove it to be a com
munity as well advanced as many
other large European cities.
PELLAGRA NOT CONTAGIOUS
By Associated Press
Savannah, Ga., July 22. Experi
ments conducted at the Georgia and
Mississippi state sanatoriums have con
firmed the theory of United States
Public Health Service officials that
pellagra is caused by eating too much
starchy foods. Dr. Joseph Goldberger,
in charge of pellagra research work
for the Public Health Service, an
nounced here last night. He added
that It had been determined that the
disease was not contagious.
900 OVENS PUT IN OPERATION
By Associated Press
Connellsville, Pa., July 22. Nine
hundred ovens were this week added
to the producing capacity of the Con
nellsvile coke region, bringing pro
ducing possibilities to 400,000 tons a
week if all were in blast. That point,
however, was not reached, reported
production having been 371,000 tons,
with shipments 5.000 tons over the
piecedltig week. Furnaee ovens in op
eration are 76.5 per cent, of the total
and merchant ovens 62.6.
TIME TO PREPARE
FDR Will IS IW"
So Says Hudson Maxim in Stirring
Address Before Chamber
of Commerce
"The time to prepare for war is
now. not when the enemy is upon us,"
said Hudson Maxim, the famous in
ventor of war material, to-day. Mr.
Maxim was the speaker at the noon
day luncheon of the Harrisburg Cham
ber of Commerce.
His subject was "Things We Lack to
Make. This Nation Safe Against Inva
sion and Able to Maintain Its National
Honor Abroad by Force of Arms if
Necessary." Mr. Maxim in an impres
sive manner referred to the tremen
dous loss this country would Incur by
reason of a conflict brought on because
our present inadequate army and navy
encouraged other nations to provoke
us and said the amount would pay for
a dozen armies and navies.
In the opening of his address the
famous inventor said: "A most intelli
gent spirit is awakening in this coun
try, and the people are becoming
stropger and stronger in the belief
that there is danger in delay."
"We should .do something to prepare
against that day," said the famous in
ventor. "There are two ways of meet
ing the enemy. One is taught us' by
Carnegie and Bryan, who would meet
the invader and preach peace to him.
"I cannot understand why men are
so blind as to think for a moment that
we do not need preparation. What
other nations have failed to do in time
of peace should be an example for us.
If we are to arm against war, now Is
the time. If we are to insure against
war, now is the time to take out our
policy."
"After war is begun is no time to
start preparation. England and France
did that. France before the present
war was ur*ed to prepare 800,000 men
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CHORUS WILE GIVE
ODD AT OUTING
Varied Program Will Be Sung by
Evangelistic Members; Park
Orchestra to Assist s
Fully one thousand members of the
Harrisburg Evangelistic Chorus are
expected to attend the first annual
outing Which will be held at Paxtang
Park, to-morrow afternoon and in the
evening participate in the presenta
tion of a varied concert program as
sisted by the Park orchestra.
The feature of the day will be the
concert in the evening between 7 and
8 o'clock in the auditorium. The pro
gram follows:
"Praise Ye Jehovah," Gounod, chor
us; "From Afar," from Verdi, chorus;
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IEBIILHPEDBBOIT
IS PLAHED FDR NAVY
Attack on Fleet in Landlocked
Harbor Possible With
New Device
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., July 22. An
aerial torpedoboat for attack on ships
in protected harbors Is projected in
patents just issued, it was learned to
day, to Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske,
now attached to the Navy War Col
lege, but formerly aid for operations
to Secretary Daniels.
The plan contemplates equipping a
monster aeroplane, similar to a num
ber now under construction In this
country for the British Government,
with a Whitehead torpedo of regula
tion navy type.
Swooping down at a distance of flvo
sea miles from the object of attack,
the aircraft would drop its deadly
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State Police Get Alleged
Penbrook Chicken Thieves
Charged with stealing about 150
chickens from William Logan, of
Chambers Hill and other farmers in
that vicinity, John Albright, of Pen
brook, was arrested this morning by
the State policemen, recently stationed
on the farm of H. H. Walter.
The officers have been on the job
for about ten days, and were placed
there to help stop the numerous
thefts that have been committed dur
ing the last several months in and
about the town. This morning searcn
warrants were issued for both John
and his brother, George Albright.
The State officers planned to have
the man brought before Squire Mc-
Garvey, of Penbrook, for a hearing
late this afternoon.
liRHMER HIS
11 SUGGESTION
%
Wants Democrats, Republicans
and Progressives to Unite
on School Directors
Fred L. Morganthaler, chairman of
the Democratic City Committee, to
day made the novel suggestion to the
chairman of the Republican and
Washington party committees that the
three committees unite in supporting
at the coming election three "non
partisan" candidates for the school
board. The idea is put forward In a
letter sent to the other two chairmen
to-day and in It Mr. Morgenthaler ex
presses the belief that if this method
of filling vacancies on the school board
Is used the erection of a new High
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PLAYGROUND INJURIES
Era TO Sill 00*
Fell Ten Feet From Bar, Friday;
Dies Today; Father in
Austria
Suffering from internal injuries re
ceived in a fall at Sunshine Park last
Friday, George Odlakan, aged 10, died
last night at his home 1204 North
Cameron street.
The lad was playing in the park at
Cameron and Herr streets, with Les
ter and John Foster, and Harry Shil
ling, when the accident occurred.,
Odlakan, according to these boys, was
swinging on the iron bars in the park,
when he lost his grip and fell to the
ground, a distance of about ten feet.
Thinking the boy was seriously in
jured he was sent to the hospital, but
physicians sent him home. Odlakan
did not become seriously ill until last
evening and died a few hours later.
Coroner Eckinger after an investiga
tion this morning decided that death
was caused by internal injuries. The
lad is survived by his father, George
Odlakan, who is in Austria at present,
and has not been heard from, it is
said, for some time. The boy's moth
er and one brother, Steven, also sur
vive.
MINISTRY DEMAND QUAIJITIES
San Francisco, Cal., July 22.—"The
Christian ministry demands qualities
and services beyond commercial
value," the Rev. W. S. Holt. D. D., of
Philadelphia, told delegates to the
Church Pension Congress here to-day.
"There is more money in standing on
the front end of a street car than there
is in standing in the pulpit," he said.
ROTARIANS WILD ELECT
Oakland, Cal., July 22.—Election of
officers was the business before the
delegates to the sixth annual conven
tion of the International Association of
Rotary Clubs, who held to-day's ses
sion here instead of in San Francisco
ROOSEVELT (HICKS
PRESENT POLICIES
Points to Belgium as Lesson For
U. S.; Fights Professional
Pacifists
San Francisco, Cal., July 22.—Theo
dore Roosevelt delivered two addresses
yesterday at the Panama-Pacific Ex
position, one vigorous in tone, on mili
tary preparations, and the other, a
brief, personal talk to "the men on the
line," soldiers. saiitfrs and marines, at
the Enlisted Men's Club.
He held both willingness and ability
to be soldiers to be desirable attribute's
of good citizens. He told the enlisted
men "a man afraid to fight is not fit to
vote," and "a mother who is not will
ing to raise her boy to be a soldier is
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IGHS CHECKED IS
! CLAIM OE RUSSIANS
Czar's Forces and Teutons En
gaged in Desperate Struggle
Near Warsaw
FORTRESS PROVES* EFFECTIVE;
Austrians Say Height Taken by
Italians Has Been
Recaptured
Desperate fighting continues be
tween the Teutonic armies pressing
upon Warsaw and the Russian forces
defending it with the issue still in the
balance.
Advances along all the fronts are
claimed in the latest German and Aus
trian official statements, but Pctrogrud
while not denying the closer drawing
In of the Austro-German lines in some,
sectors, asserts that these lines arc be
ing held stationary or hurled back
' ward at vital points.
| On the Important front south of
Lublin, a serious breach in which
would mean the cutting of the I.ublin-
Chchn Railroad line and a division of
the Russian armies to the north and
the south, the Rus>ian resistance seems
to be strongest. The Petrograd state
ment claims tlie Teutonic offensive has
been arrested there.
Counter attacks have driven the
Germans along the line of the river
Narcw to the north of Warsaw, the
Russians declare. They assert also
that their lines on the left bank of the
Vistula to the southeast of the city are
holding.
The fortress of Nowo Georgievsk
seems to he giving effective help hi
keeping the Teutons in check to the
northwest, for the time at least.
In the Baltic .provinces the German
advance is progressing with their out
posts barely twenty miles from Riga,
their immediate objective.
Along the Austro-Italian front Rome
claims flic gain of n part of the heights
commanding fiorizia and the Ison/.o
bridges from the right bank of the
river. The latest report from Vienna
declnrcs all attacks on Gorl/.la have
heen checked ami that a height that
the ItaUans had <*apturcd was re
taken.
BUY 120,000 TONS OF MEAT
Paris, July 21.—The purchase for
the French army of 120,000 tons of
refrigerated meat annually until the
end of the war, or until December 31,
1916, has been agreed upon by Min
ister of Agriculture David and Eugene
Mauclere, head of the army adminis
tration.
Washington, July 22.— Charles A. Douglas, general f
ranza's American counsel, cabled the Carranza agency here V
■ to-day that before General Gonzales evacuated Mexico City I
I 1 he had distributed to the poor, one million pesos—enough J|
I • to aid 0 families and had brought into tlie capital sixty ■ j
I carloads o foodstuffs and established. 140 distributing ; L
i » depots.
< , PALMER FOR LANSING'S JOB?
July 22.— Former Representative A. Mit- ' *
.' chell Palmer conferred with President Wilson to-day and a
repor' revived that he was to be appointed counselor; %
•, of the State Department. At the White House it was stated |
afterward that the President had not yet made a selection. «
! BELGIAN CONSUL LEAVES WARSAW I
• ® Washington, July 22.—The American Consul at War- jg
1 saw cabled the State Department to-day tha,t the Belgian |
j I consul had left Warsaw and that the American consulate Jj
, had taken dharge of the affairs of both Belgium and X
j | and Serbia there.
j , Island Park. Leo Callahan, star Harrisburg out- f
fielder, attempted to slide home in the second inning of the
game with Providence to-day and fractured his left leg. t
® Harrisburg. 0: Providence, 0; second inning. >
Philadelphia, July 22. The directors of the Cambria ' |
S> Steel Company to-day decided to resume payments of cash £'
dividend Except for the cash disbursement of a year ago, I'. 1 '.
the last three quarterly dividends have been in scrip bearing
5 per c interest and maturing in two yews. The latter 1 *
, course was decided upon because of disturbed conditions
growing out of the European war. I |
Berlin, July 22, via London, 5.39 P. M. The War
' Office announced to-day that the Austro-German forces | ►
which are driving at Warsaw from the south had .compel I:
• the I \ is to retreat into the fortress of Ivangorod, about | |
fifty-six miles southeast of the Polish capital. The fortress :
i is now clo -,-ly invested. 1 *
New York, July 22.—With 165 passengers on board, in
t. eluding eight Americans and 10,000 tons of general cargo 1 *
the Orduna r the Cunard Line sailed to-day for Liverpc
• MARRIAGE LICENSES
Fredrrk'k Hodman and Hone Olphln, Fhlladrlphla. | >
ltalpli S. Fonley and Flora May S hoi h ley. city. >
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!TWO Mi DEAD 11
SIX BADLY INJURED
DAY'S STRIKE TOLL
IT TWO OIL PUTS
Guards and Strikers Exchange
Shots During Disturbances at
Bayonne Plant
STATE TROOPS PREPARED
Heavy Rain Helps Lo Quiet Rioters
After Many Hours of
Trouble
New York, July 22.—Two dead and
six seriously injured, one probably
mortally, was the harvest reaped by
rioters at the Standard Oil and Tide
water plants in Hayonue to-day as the
result of two attacks 011 the inside de
puties guarding the property. Two
tires also occurred, one in the Stand
ard plant where a watchman's house
was virtually destroyed, the other In
the yard of the Tidewater Company
where staves and lumber were stored.
This last lire was started by means of
| burning oily waste thrown over the
1 ualls by rioters. It was speedily
; cheeked with trifling loss.
1 Those killed in the lighting were
1 Stanley Murefko, 20 • years old, and
! Nicolay Iwaskiu, 1», l«>th of whom
I were shot through the heart by Win
chester rille bullets apparently lired by
tiie guards. The men were killed
during an attack 011 the barrel works
of the Tidewater plant which hegnu
at 11.40 a. m. and lasted for half an
hour. A sudden heavy down-pour of
ruin had much to do with stopping
Uils tight.
A feature of this attc.k was the de
fiance by the strikers to keep Sheriff
Eugene Kinkead, who has labored pa
tiently with the men to keep order and
to bring an end to the strike. He
rushed up to the rioters when the nie-
Ico was at its height and commanded
the men to desist. He was greeted
ipyith jeers and left the scene.
Asks For Troops
Later It was announced that he had
asked for troops and companies from
Newark and Redbank were expected
soon to be on the scene as all prep
arations had been made for such a
call. Sheriff Kinkead's call was made
direct to the governor by telephone
and later he dispatched a written or
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