Russian Forces Continue to Hold OutQgajnst Xierman HARRISBURG Sfilllii TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 178 IMS FOUND FOR EARLY COMPLETION OF IMPROVEMENTS Long Controversy Comes to End When Councilman Lynch In troduces Ordinance NO REASON FOR DELAY Taylor and Bowman Dig Up Bal ances; Gorgas Makes Statement The long controversy over the com pletion of the River Front improvement is at an end. The gap in the wall at Market street will be finished within a few weeks. This decision was reached at a meeting of city council this afternoon. The money necessary for the work was found through the efforts of Councilmen Taylor, Lynch and Bowman. When it had been clearty demon strated that there is in the various balances ample money with which to complete the work Mr. Gorgas said the only thing remainin-* was to get up an ordinance covering the various amounls and appropriating them to the River Front project. Mr. Lynch responded by producing an ordinance already draughted and when this was corrected to make it agree with the statement of the superintendent of finance it was read for the first time and will come up for final passage a week hence. Mr. Taylor at to-day's meeting brought out that there is on hand a balance in the outstanding interest fund of J20.855.38. at least $13,000 of which is available for use in com pleting the public improvements held up by the refusal of Councilman Gorgas to countersign warrants. In this fund are $15,000 worth of city bonds, purchased out of surplus funds, and these could be easily trans ferred to the surplus water depart ment fund by having Commissioner Bowman purchase them out of the money over and above the sum needed by the water department. Indeed Mr. Bowman is on record in his annual re port as urging Commissioner Gorgas to Invest the water surplus in perman ent securities that would yield the city more than the two per cent, paid for deposits. It is merely a matter of transferring the bonds from one de- JHartment to another. ~ Mr. Gorgas' annual report shows that after settling with the county for the keep of prisoners there remains In the fines and forfeitures fund a sur plus of $1,071.26 and in the dog license fund there is $443.48, while there remains in the milk and meat license fund $1,216.78. Superintendent Gorgas, according to his report has reserved $6,941.20 for State tax on city bonds, but according to a recent decision not more than half of this will be required. Some time ago Mr. Gorgas himself raised the point that the city need not pay- State tax on municipal bonds held by banks, trust companies, etc., and in this Auditor General Powell agreed, [Continued on Page 11.] Killed While Trying to Secure His Children Special to The Telegraph Rio de Janerlo. Aug. 3.—Baron Alle mand Werther. son-in-law of the late Baron De Rio-Branco, Brazil's famous foreign minister, was killed last night while trying to gain possession of his children, who have been living with his former wife who obtained a divorce from him. Next to e.iting one's cake and sharing it, too, is going on a vaca . tlon and knowing all about what is going on at home. For six cents a week the Harrisburg Tele graph ■will keep you in touch with all the doings. Call the Circulation Depart ment. The next issue will meet you no matter where you go. THE WEATHER For Harrtaburg and vlolnltyi l'n •ettled nnlhrr to-night and tYedneadar, probably ahower*| ■ lightly pooler to-night. For Eastern Pennsylvania: I'naet tled to-night and Wednendayt probably ahonrra; allghtly pooler to-night; fresh eaat to northeaat Wind ft. River The >orth and Went brant-hew and the main river will continue to rl«e. A atner of about 4.8 feet la Indicated for Harrlahurg Wednes day morning. i General Condition** me The disturbance that n» central ~ over Northern Florida, Monday yrorning. Han moved Inland anil apparently merged with the de pression that nan over the I.ower Missouri Ynlley and appears this morning aa a well defined fttnrm central near Chicago. The weather Is unsettled and rain has fallen generally over the eastern half of the country la the laat twenty f.mr hours. A further fall of 2 to 10 degreea la temperature baa occurred ovet nearly all the territory eaat of the nocky mountains, except In the I.ower Ohio Valley and Ten nessee and along; the South At lantic coast, where It la allghtly warmer. Temperaturei Ba. m.. 72i 2 p. m„ M. Sun: Itisea, 5.04 a. M.i aeta, 7tis p. m. Moons New moon, August 10, 5i52 a. TO. River Stnget 4J feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, Kfl. Lowest temperature, T2. Mean temperature, 80. JKormal temperature, 74. WARSAW, THE PRIZE IN THE GREATEST BATTLE THE WORLD HAS KNOWN This is a general view of Warsaw, looking from Prague across the Vistula river. It is the prire to be won in the greatest battle the world has ever known. The Germans and Austrians are pressing the Russians hard, and while the defense has been stubborn there is a feeling that this Russian city of nearly a million will fall into the hands of the kaiser. If It does, it will be the largest city thus far taken in the war. No other city in Europe that might be taken compares with It in size except the capitals. SITUATION IN POLAND REMAINS UNCHANGED Russians Appear to Be Holding Their Ground at Many Points , i Along Line of Battle BRITISH IMPROVE POSITION Crest of Ridge on Gallipoli Penin sula Captured, According to London Dispatch i The silence of several weeks on the situation of the allies in the Dar danelles was broken to-day by an offi cial announcement in London saying that the crest of the ridge on the peninsula has been gained by British trooiis, thus Improving the British position. The situation at Warsaw shows no material cluuigc. The German en circling movement continues. A Rus sian official report says desperate and sanguinary fighting is still going on on the banks of the Xarew, south of Ostrolenka and tliat there have been equally heavy engagements between the Vistula and the Bug. Russian troops before Ivangorod. southeast of Warsaw, have withdrawn to "more concentrated positions" while on both banks of the Vieprz they nave repulsed the enemy. On the other hand an Austrian offi cial statement says that Austrian regi ments have been successful at Ivango rod. capturing 2,000 men and nu merous supplies. The relative inactivity on the west ern front appears to have undergone a sudden change. A dispatch from Amsterdam reports heavy fighting on the British front near Yprcs. with a steady stream of wounded men being brought to the rear. The French official report relates the customary night activity with artillery, bomlw and hand grenades together with several infantry attacks by the Germans, all of which were checked. Strasburjc. on the Rhine forty miles from the FrencH frontier, again has [Continued on Pajre 7.] Burning of John Harris to Be Big Feature of Improvement Fete Members of the Harrlsburg Cham ber of Commerce, with C. Floyd Hop kins and representatives of the local tribes of Red Men. met last ntght and discussed plans for the big carnival September 23. 24. 25. One of the features will be a pageant of the burn ing of John Harris. On Friday evening. August 13, a mass meeting will be held in the <">rpheum Theater for the purpose of arranging details for this feature. Neighboring tribes of Red Men will be asked to ioin with Harrlsburg members in making the pageant a big success. In attendance last night were J B. Looker and George W. Rupp, of No. 57; C. E. Pass, of Tribe No. 61; No. 57; C .E. Pass, of Tribe No. 61; Charles Kilpatrick. of Tribe No. 91: Charles Stroh. Charles Peters and Ar thur Chenoweth. of Tribe No. 331; D. H. Elllnger, Charles Tunis and George Sellers, of Tribe No. 340, and R. H. Ralmer, of Tribe No. 382. D. H. El linger was appointed chairman and Charles Peters secretary. Bullard Company Gives Men Voluntary Increase By Associated Press Rridgeport. Conn.. Aug. S. The Billiard Machine and Tool Company announced to its 800 employes to-day that, effective at once, the plant would work on an eight-hour basis and that the employes would receive the same pay for the eight hours as at the old schedule of ten hours. The company's action 1b stated to be | voluntary. HERSHEY STUDIO MADE D., P & S. PANORAMA Many readers of the Telegraph who saw the big strip photogTaph of the Dives. Pomeroy and Stewart employes who picnicked at Hershey Park were interested in knowing the name of the photogj-apher. The panorama was furnished the. Telegraph through the courtesy of the Hershey Studio, Hershey, Pa. WANT CABINET RB7TAIXED By Associated Press Toklo. Aug. B.—The elder statesmen have recommended to Emperor Toshl hito that the cabinet headed by Count Okuma as premier be requested to re main In office unconditionally. $5 FOR ICE BSPND A contribution of J5 for the Ice fund was received from Mrs. John C. Kunkel, Jr., at the Telegraph office to-day. HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1915. MEXICANS IN BATTLE U. S. CAVALRYMEN By Associated Press BrownsviUe. Tex.. Aug. 3.—Twelve to fifteen Mexican bandits are reported killed In lighting to-day with United States cavalrymen and American posse men in the low, thick, thorny brush north of Brownsville. Private McGuire. of the 12th cavalry, was reported killed. Private Curtis possibly fatally wounded. Joe Taylor, a customs guard, shot In the shoulder, and Deputy Sheriff C. A. Monahan. of Brownsville, shot in the leg. SATAN SPIKES GUNS OF FORMER HARRISBURG PASTOR AT SUNBURY Rev. John H. Daugherty Accuses Electric Company of Being Lea gued With Imps of Darkness According to the latest advices from Sunbury, the Rev. John H. Daugherty, former pastor of Ridge Avenue Meth odist Church, has been beaten to a standstill in his first round with the devil, whom he announced recently he would put out of business during the summer by the use of electric fans in his church. The fans suddenly stopped running and the . lights went out on Sunday PA. STEEL SOON MAY BE MAKING SHRAPNEL Reported That Company Will Put in Special Machinery at Steehon That the Pennsylvania Steel Com pany is making preparations to install machinery suitable for the manufac ture of shrapnel shells at the Steel ton plant, is reported in well-inform ed circles to-day. With the exception of a few special is well equipped for the manufacture is well equipped fo rthe manufacture of such material. Some of the best steel manufactured in this country is turned out here, and it is known that the plant is now busy on a large order of projectile steel. High officials of the company at Steelton this mornlngr. nowever, de clared that they did not know any thing of the plan. If such an under taking were being considered, they ex plained. the news would come from Philadelphia. With the entire battery of eight open hearth furnaces in full blast and the new rolling mills at the west end of the plant in operation, indica tions point to a rapid increase in busi ness at Steelton. Within a short time the capacity of the big plant will he further increased by the blowing In of No. 4 and the new No. 5 blast fur naces. PUNS LAID TO END TROUBLE IN MEXICO Latin-American Ministers Asked to Confer With Secretary Lansing Thursday By Atsociated Pt^ss Washington. D. C.. Aug. 3.—When the three South American ambassadors and the three ranking Latin-American ministers meet with Secretary Lansing Thursday to hear President Wilson's plan to ask the co-operation of their countries for restoring; peace to Mexico a course of action will be outlined which all will be asked to approve. It contemplates the restoration of constitutional government without the [Continued on Page 2.] Express Train Runs Into Landslide; One Killed Parkers Landing, Pa., Aug. 3. —Run- ning at high speed, the Buffalo express on the Buffalo and Allegheny division of the Pennsylvania railroad ran into a landslide near here early to-day. Jesse Williams, engineer, of Pitts burgh, was killed and R. Gelfrtch, Are- - man, of Pittsburgh, was seriously scalded. Three day coaches and a sleeper left the track, but remained upright evening. The Northumberland County Gas and Electric Company is in league with his satanic majesty, the Rev. Mr. Daugherty believes. "When I came here," said the Rev. Mr. Daugherty. "I thought you had a real electric light service. I find that the plant which serves the people of Sunbury Is a fragile toy that falls down on the job whenever the w-ind blows or a peal of thunder jars the atmos phere." PEIYBROOK PAVING AT A STANDSTILL Legal Entanglement May Hold Up Improvements in Suburb As the result of several legal tangles brought before the Penbrook council at the regular meeting last night by I. K. Swartz. borough solicitor, plana for the paving of Main street from end to end with State aid are at a standstill. The borough solicitor unearthed an old law, which, he claims, forbids the levying of an assessment on abutting property owners after a road has once been Improved. He contends that the highway was improved seventeen years ago at the expense of the borough and therefore abutting property owners are not liable for the cost of the contem plated improvement. The last Legislature passed a law providing one-third the cost of the paving can be assessed against the property holders regardless of former improvements. A copy of this law was read by Borough Clerk Speece. but he had no sooner finished than the bor ough solicitor jumped up and said that the law had been pronounced uncon stitutional. A special meeting of council will be held as soon as additional In formation on these two laws is pro cured. Petitions are now being circulated among the abutting property owners and. while all have not been reached, from present indications it is believed that all but six will sign. STORM DOES DEWY DIUIGE NEAR YORK Church at Littlestown Struck by Lightning and Burned to Ground York, Pa., Aug. 3.—Flood and fire in the wake of a severe electrical storm over York and Adams counties and the adjacent section of Maryland caused heavy losses on buildings and crops last night. Glen Rock, 19 miles from here, was inundated by overflow of the south branch of the Codorus creek, the damage amounting to $15,- 000. St. John's Lutheran Church near Littlestown, was hit by lightning and burned to the ground entailing a loss of $6,000. Two barns and a tobacco shed stored with crops were burned by bolts, the aggregate loss on them being $9,000. KUXKEL FOR MAYOR? The name of Samuel Kunkel of the Mechanics Trust Company was men tioned in Democratic circles to-day as a probable candidate for Mayor. It was the gossip that a committee of prominent Democrats would wait upon Mr. Kunkel sometime this week and urge him to be a candidate. It is also reported that Mayor John K. Royal would announce his candidacy for Mayor in the event of Mr. Kunkel's refusing. NO VACATION FOR SUFFRAGE WORKERS Plugging Away Right Through Summer Getting Ready ; For November BAKING PIES FOR CAUSE Another Makes Cottage Cheese; Antis Bringing in Best Speakers The suffragists of this State have changed the meaning of the word "va cation" this summer. To them it means a time for extra hard work for the cause instead of pleasant times in the mountains. Those who are able are making speaking tours or helping at headquarters. One of the women is baking pies to sell for the cause. ] Another is making cottage cheese for the same purpose. During June one woman sold the peas and strawberries from her garden and turned the money into the campaign fund. All of the officers of Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association are work ing right through the summer. Mrs. Frank M. Roessing. the president of the association, says the time for vaca tions will be after election day. Neither Mrs. Roessing nor Miss Hannah J. Patterson, the State chairman of the Woman Suffrage party, has had a vacation during the three years they have been directing the campaign. Miss Lida Stokes Adams, Miss Ruth Yerlonden and Miss Helen Price have carried the campaign to the summer [Continued on Page 2.] Ice Hits Man on Head; Both His Legs Broken Special to The Telegraph Marvsville, Pa., Aug. 3.—As a result of being hit on the head with a niece oT ice weighing thirty pounds. Ben jamin Weaver, car inspector for the Pennsylvania Railroad at this place, is at his home with two fractured legs. Weaver was working on a car near FX tower this morning. The relief train was passing at the time. As Is thf custom every day. ice is delivered to the towers in the Enola and Marys ; ville yards by this train. A large niece ; was thrown off for FX tower and hit I Weaver on the head. In falling his feet caught under the rail and both his legs were broken near the knee in the fall. Weaver was also injured Inter nally and received several gashes on the head. Temperature Falls 17 Degrees in Few Hours Relief for sweltering Harrisburg came last evening, following the rain. The temperature dropped 17 degrees in seven hours. The highest tempera ture yesterday was 89 degrees. It fell to 72. This morning the atmosphere warm ed up to what it was at 8 o'clock yes terday. but took a tumble by noon. More rain and cool weather is sched uled for to-night, with a probability of further relief to-morrow. Up to noon to-day a trifle over a half an Inch of rain fell. Lynch Showing Value of Street Repair Plant I City Commissioner Lynch has al -1 ready demonstrated to the satisfaction of (very open-eyed citizen the value of t>he City Asphalt Repair Plant. He is going about the work quietly, but efficiently and there is general com mendation of the character of the re pairs thus far completed. Commissioner Lynch expects to have all the streets in fine shape within a few weeks and his long ex perience in highway work is enabling him now to place the large area of paved highways In Harrisburg In bet ter condition than for years. PUBLISH SECOND GRAY BOOK Paris. Aug. 2. The Belgian Gov ernment has published a second Gray Book containing various documents relating to the war. fHKRE ARB A FEW IMPORTANT DATES TO KEEP IN MIND August 24—Final day for filing j>rl mary petitions for State offices with Secretary of Commonwealth. August 2S. SI and September 11 City registration days. August 31—Final day to flla 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. Septembr-r 21—Final day to pay poll taxes for primary election. Sept»mber 2!— Fall primaries. October 2—Final day for out-of town voters to pay taxes In order to vote at Fall elections. November I—General elections. 12 PAGES LOCAL BOY SHOWS VALUE OF MILITARY TRAINING ON MARCH Kenneth M. Jones Shows Soldierly Ability on Patrol Duty 600 STRONG IN CAMP Put Through Regular Army Work and There's Many a Blistered Foot By Special C orrespondenee Camp at Black Brook, N. Y., Saturday, July 31. Private Kenneth M. Jones of Com pany D, of the Student Camp, located at Plattsburg, N. Y., which is now on the march to Silver Lake. N, Y., to day. received special mention by the captain in command of the student troops for having shown soldierly abil ity on patrol duty. The students, over 600 strong, were on the march [Continued on Page 11.] Dr. Zimmerman Gets Post With Indian Agency in Oklahoma Dr. Leroy Zimmerman, of 214 Peffer street, left to-day for White Eagle, Oklahoma, where he will resume his duties as physician and surgeon at the Ponca Indian Agency after a short vacation at his home. The Ponca Agency includes 100,000 square acres of land under the juris diction of the Department of Interior and is inhabited by over a thousand members of the Ponca and Kaw tribes. As resident physician and surgeon. Dr. Zimmerman has charge of the Ponca Hospital at the Ponca School. -Dr. Zimmerman is a former mem ber of The Telegraph staff. He served as resident physician at the Harris burg Hospital the past year. SIOO,OOO FIRE AT MAIiOKE By Associated Press Malone, N. Y„ Aug. 3.—Fire at Ho gansburg. X. Y., last night destroyed Murphy's Hotel, five stores, the village post office, a church and two resi dences. The Are was still burning late last night, owing to a lack of fire fighting apparatus. The loss Is esti mated at SIOO,OOO. JTI ON VERGE OF FAMINE £ < -»*».. J Washington, August. 3. Haiti, racked by revolution I 1 and mob rule, now is threatened by famine. Reports com- A !ing In to-day say many cities and are on the verge of I • starvation. It probably will be necessary to send food sup- jL plies and sanitary relief as one of the first steps in rehabilit- 1 . ating a government there. < LINDSEY FOUND GUILTY OF CONTEMPT < * > Denver, Colo., Aug. 3. Judge Ben B. Lindsey, of the Denver Juvenile Court was found guilty of cojitempt of court ' ' : suited from the juvenile court judge's refusal to reveal on t 1 the witness stand what he claimed was a confidential conver * ® sation with Neal Wright, 12, whose testimony in criminal I J 1 ! court had much to do with the acquittal of his mother, whe ! 4 • was charged with the murder of her husband. I > j Toronto, Ont., Aug. 3. Lake Ontario was whipped to- i | I day by a howling gale, the worst in twelve years. The steam- j » ; er Chippewa after being out two hours came back to Toronto T | I with a big hole in her side, battered in by heavy seas. £ , , VILLA STATEMENT IS DENIED i * El Paso, Aug. 3.—George E. Carothers, special agent of £ ! the State Department, who arrived here early to-day from 1 < * Chihuahua City, denied General Villa had declared "If the A I United States does net like my actions it can go to hell." ; I » CAPTAIN REPORTS SNOW STORM . Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Aug. 3.—Captain McLean, of 1 , < the steamer Lakeland arrived at the Soo this morning and reported running through a snow Storm on Lake Superior ' * ; last forty-eight hours in this vicinity. EASTLAND'S DEAD TOTAL 981 ; < 1 Chicago, Aug. 3. Nine hundred and eighty-one per- | | 1 sons lost their lives in the btcanier Eat>iland disaster, ac- I (I cording to final figures given out to-day by the , Electric Company which completed the checking of its em- ' j l ployes and friends who boarded the vessel. j. __i» MARRIAGE LICENSES Ira Hoffman. MillrmburK. and Ruth Snyder, Lykena. John Hear) Whittle aAd 7.elena Kathr>n I.eldls, Htglmplre. « 3 Henry Keener Ebr, Holiday abnrv, and Edith Ida Dun, LaadUburt. * * POSTSCRIPT JIM PLIIKES OVER n BUNK II DIVISION SI. Machine Takes Light Standard Along As It Hurtles Over Curb TWO PASSENGERS ABOARD But "Jitney Ethics" Prevents Driver From Disclosing Their Names Jay 3. Ruppert, 22 North Fifteenth street, a jitney owner and driver, with two passengers, a man and a woman, had a narrow escape last night when tlie bus hit a light standard at Front and Division streets and plunged down the embankment, a distance of fifteen feet. The light standard was broken off and fell into Front street with a crash. The passengers in the car, who were en route to Harrisburg from Rock ville, were badly frightened, but no one was hurt. The steering gear of the car was broken. Ruppert and his pas sengers came to the city by street car. Tl.e car was brought to the shop this ! afternoon. Ruppert says a bright light from another car going north blinded tolm and prevented his seeing the standard when he tried to turn out of the way of the other automobile. When asked who his passengers were he remarked: "We jitney drivers don't have to give the names of our passengers." Ruppert admits it was a lucky es cape and added: "Unless they fix that part of the .there will be more accidents of the same kind." One Man Killed When Big Shell Explodes Philadelphia. Aug. 3.—One man was killed and three others are seriously injured in an explosion to-day in the experimental bombproof department of the Unitod States arsenal in Frank ford, this city. The man killed was James Harklns. a civilian. The in jured are M. Frusco and Arthur Lum leet, soldiers assigned to the ordnance department, and George Brown, a ci vilian. The two soldiers are in a critical condition. Brown is not «eriously hurt. It Is understood that the experi ments were beinK made with a high power explosive shell at the time of the explosion.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers