10 ■ NOMINATING PETITIONS IRE FILED Socialist Running For Director of Poor; Upper End Is in Evidence Among the nomt- JLI ) ( 11 J I p.atlng petitions filed with the County I Commissioners to - Vr'' Pitfr' S1 day wore; Thomas B. Elder, Socialist candidate for dl- SffVNMNVV* 1 rector of the poor; h fl'3rfSPßi»l s y dne >" F - Macey, wnllnlllnfli Republican, judge of vHPV* I * 1 * election. Third pre- HhwbJ elect. Second ward, city; Charles Wolf. Republican, ward assessor. Second ward, city; R. VT. Young, Republican. Inspector of election. Third precinct. Second ward, city; William H. Brownewell, Sr., Re pubUqpji. inspector of election. Fourth precinct. Fifth ward, city; A. F. Min nich. Democrat. counciL West ward, Lykens: William H. Judy, Democrat, inspector of election. Second precinct. First Ward. Mjddletown; Daniel D. Biever. Democrat, judge of election. North precinct. Susquehanna town ship: Benjamin A. Capellos Democrat. Justice of the peace. Steeiton; Thomas V. Gardner. Democrat and Washing ton. justice of the peace. Steeiton. Half ?. dcien Democrats of Halifax township were among those to file petitions. They Included these: Wil liam H. Sweigard. school director; George Matter and H. R. Brubaker, i auditors; Peter Sheet*. road cornmis- i sioner; J. F. Kitchen, judge of elec- I tion. and Adam Shoop. constable. Clerk at Picnic. —D. Frank Lebo, chief clerk to the Dauphin County' Commissioners, attended a Sunday | school picnic held at Williamstown i to-day. Tunis is Improved. Charles S. ! Tunis. 440 Xorth street, one of the Inspectors in the City Highway De partment, who has been ill for several 1 days, threatened with pneumonia, was j much improved to-day and now is be- \ lieved by the attending physician to be out of danger. City Sealer Returns.—Harry D. Reel, city sealer of weights and measures, and Harry A. Boyer. county inspector of weichts and measures, returned to Harrisburg to-day after attending the snnual sealers' convention which was held in Philadelphia this week. Woman and Daughter Named in Big Will Case MRS. EDITH BLAIR MRS. ELIZABETH S. HITCHCOCK The strange case of the Campbell millions has brought to light a woman who may become famous for her con nection with will contests. Mrs. Edith Blair is one of the most important figures in the suit of relatives to break the will of James Campbell, the St. Louis traction man, who left $16,000.- 000 in trust for his wife and daughter when he died last year. Mrs. Blair. It is charged by Clarke M. Rosen crantz. counsel for Mrs. Campbell and ! her daughter, was interested in the contest of the will of Thomas H. Blythe, of San Francisco, and John Stetson, theater manager of Boston, both very wealthy men. Mrs. Blair has said that she re ceived word from her daughter, who was Mrs. Elizabeth Snoddy Hitch cock, and whose whereabouts she does not now know, that she had given a baby to Mrs. Campbell about March 17, 1893, in New York. That is the date of the birth of Mrs. Camp bell's daughter, Mrs. Lois Campbell Burkham. Therefore, according to Mrs. Blair, Mrs. Campbell didn't have a daugh ter, but obtained one, and palmed her oft' on her husband for many years. Those relatives who were left out of the will of the traction man have used the charge to bring suit to break It. They assert, on the story of Mrs. Blair that the girl the trac tion man all his life thought was his daughter in reality was not. But the lawyers for Mrs. Campbell are now busily tracing Mrs. Blair's history. THE REV. DR. HA WES WILT. COME HERE NEXT MONTH The Rev. Dr. Hawes, of Bellefonte, who recently accepted a call extended bv Market Square Presbyterian church will probably take up h:s duties here the middle of next month, or. Hawes will he formally admitted to the Car lisle Presbytery at the next meeting, September 29. THURSDAY EVENING. ! REINFORCEMENTS FOR TROOPS 1 CiILIPOII Advices Say Additional British Soldiers Have Reached Peninsula Further additions to tho British forces In tho Dardanelles have boon made, London announced that more troops hava been landed at Suvla bay on the Galllpoll peninsula. Norway has protestod to Berlin against tho seizure by a German sub marine of mails from the steamer Haakon VII, bound from Bergen, Nor way, to England, and has demanded the return of the moils to Norway. Tho German victory at Kovno was not complete, according to the Russian claim. Petrograd asserts that the Grand Duke Nicholas' forces still hold all tho fortifications on the right bank of the Nleman. DEATH LIST IN TEXAS MAY REACH 400 [Continued From First Page.] i weeks bofore direct rail connection ! can be resumed. | The storm which had been predicted ! for several days broke over the city !at 5 o'clock Monday afternoon. The I wind. It was estimated had attained a I velocity of about 60 miles an nour. 1 This was the wind from the north ana | it continued to blow the water :n rrorn the bay. flooding the streets and cel lars. Businessmen and their clerks continued to work until nearly 9 i o'clock removing goods to places of safety. At that hour, however, the water was from four to six reet deep in Market street, and all who could sought refuge in the higher floors. The wind, still blowing from the north continued to increase in velocity until about two o'clock. At that hour, it Is estimated, it had reacned a velo city of from 90 to 124 miles en hour, j Meanwhile It had veerea rrom the north around to the east and then 1 came directly out of the south. It was this south wind, sending In the waves from the gulf to brea-: against the sea wall which did the carnage to the western part of the city una to tne boulevard. At no time however, say those who spent the night In the Hote! Galvez, did the sea run clear across tho wall. The breakers thundered against It, sending the spray hign In the air, and the waves broke over the wail \rtth terrific force. Loss at Galveston Not as Large as in 1900 By Associated Press Dallas. Texas. Aug. 19. —With infor mation from Galveston and other points on the Texas southeast gulf coast slowly sifting through it seemed | certain early to-day that the terrific tropical storm of this week had cost a comparatively small lot and that the destruction of the property in the city of Galveston at least, was small as compared to the storm of 1900. The total number of lives lost so far as de finitely reported was about 200. The damage in Galveston this week, based upon meager reports, was placed at 33,000,000 with the loss of fourteen lives. In 1900 eight thousand persons met death and the property loss reach ed $15,000,000. Reports were that the Galveston sea wall was largely responsible for sav ing the city from a worse fate than it suffered 15 years ago. Earlier re ports had placed the damage in Gal veston as high as $15,000,000, but this apparently was disproved by later ad vices brought out by newspapermen and other persons. Galveston Mayor Orders City's Saloons Closed By Associated Press Houston, Texas, Aug. 19.—Dr. Ver non Powell, official representative of the Galveston Commercial Association, who arrived here last night from Gal veston by boat and automobile, said the greatest property damage is on the beach. "Practically all the houses east of Twentieth street and near the Boule vard were destroyed," he said. "A strip about one-half to two blocks wide to Fortieth street is damaged. All these houses are small and of flimsy construction." "The wharves were damaged but slightly. Piecs 10 and 21 suffered the most." When the storm approached five thousand persons sought refuge in the depot according to Dr. Powell. Five hundred people were housed in the Scottish Rite Cathedral. All saloons in Galveston were closed Tuesday morning by order of Mayor Fisher. 100 NAROO.VED OX ISLAND By Associated Press New Orleans. Aug 19.—N0 reports have bpen received here early to-day from Marsh island, 150 miles south west of New Orleans, where more than one hundred persons are be lieved to be marooned or lost. They were not warned of the approach of the hurricane which, accompanied by a tidal wave, struck that part of the coast. Monday night. Boats of the Louisiana State Conservation Commis sion have been ordered to go to the rescue. NO ADDITIONAL DETAILS Beaumont, Texas, Aug. 19.—News from the storm stricken district adja cent to Beaumont early to-day was meager but no more fatalities were re ported. So far as known here nearly a score of persons are dead, with a number reported missing. HELD FOR COFRT John Rollman, charged with assault and battery by George Corpenny, 120 Sayford street, was held under S2OO bail for court after a hearing before Mayor Royal this afternoon. Rollman was arrested last Saturday by the city police. BARON K.VTO ON THE BOYCOTT At the dinner of a nonpolltlcal club, the Kojunsha, Baron Kato. the for eign minister, In response to a toast, spoke on Chinese affairs, saying that some of the recent reports were untrue and others exaggerated. He exclaimed against the criticism that Japanese diplomacy was to blame for what was simply Chinese misbehavior. As for the boycott. Baron Kato said that he had examined the figures of Japan's exports to China and found that trade was unaffected from January to May During June there had been a decline, but was this due to boycott? In June, 1914, there had similarly been a de cline when there was no talk of boy cott. Baron Kato concluded by stat ing that the foreign office was taking suitable measures to prevent agitations and denied emphatically the rumor that he had Instructed Japanese con sult to send telegrams saying that the agitations were abating. WHITE STAR STEAMER ARABIC SUNK [Continued From First Pace ] ment giving a total number of 43). Thcrr were 138 second cabin pan eanftera, 48 In the steerage and :<3 members of the crew. Arabic Had Close Call on Last Voyage Across The Arabic's tonnage Is 15,301 gross and lO.OdS not. Sho Is 600 feet long, 66 feet beam and 47 foet in depth. Sho was built in Belfast in 1805 by Harland and Wolflte. On her last eastward trip the Arabic arrived in Liverpool on August 6 from j New York. FoJlowins tho receipt of a cable ! gram announcing her safe arrival the 1 Bureau of Combustibles of New Tork City allowed the fact to become Known : that two sticks of dynamite had beon discovered on board the liner on July 37, the night before she sailed from New York. Once before since the beginning of the- war the Arabic had a close call. A cable message from London on -\iarc:i 37, said the steamer had b»cn pursued by a German submarine In the Irish Sea, on the voyage which ended ou that day. According to this account, a periscope was sighted as the steamer wont in from St. George's channel, and it soon became obvious thu» a nostllo submarine was In pursuit, -rne Arauic put on full steam and outdistanced the submersible. I On the occasion of the apparent at tempt to dynamite the Arabic last i month, the explosive which was dls • covered by a private detective, was ! concealed under a settee in the wo men's parlor in the cabin accommo ■ | dations nmldship. No fuse, c.eionaior ; or wiring was attached to the dyna i j mtte, which apparently tad been ; placed there some time uerore. A thorough search of the liner was made j 1 , by detectives before she sailed on her ! | last eastward trip on July zs out no explosives were found, j On her recent trips the Arabic has ' carried far fewer passengers than on normal voyages in times or peace. Thero were 105 passengers !n the i cabin of whom Ave were Americans, and 80 In the steerage on tne last voy -1 j age to Liverpool. The Arabic has been ur.llzed to i | carry great quantities of war inunl- j tions purchased In the United States! for Great Britain. Fastnet off which the Arafilc Js re ported to have gone down, lies close . to the lane of steamship traffic be tween England and America. It is j about forty miles west of Ola Head of j Kinsale, near which the Lusitanta was I sunk. German submarines nave aeen active in these watfers since tne declaration by the German government, in February of a naval war zone around the British Isles. Loss of Life May Create Troublesome Situation By Associated Press I Washington. D. C., Aug. 19.—Gov- ! ! ernment officials pointed out here this I j afternoon that If any Americans were j lost it would create the most serious | situation yet reached between this i Government and Germany. -The con- i eluding sentence In this Government's j note to the German foreign office on July 21 said "Friendship itself prompts it (the United States) to say to the Imperial German Government that n repetition by commanders of German naval ves i sels of acts in contravention of those rights must be regarded uy tne Gov ernment of the United States, wnen they affect American citizens, as deliberately unfriendly." 171 on Board Reported to Be Unaccounded For By Associated Press London, Aug. 19.—An unconfirmed rumor reaching here this evening said that the Arabic went down in eleven minutes and that 171 passen ' gers and members of the crew are un accounted for. Press Association Says Many Have Been Lost By Associated Press London, Aug. 19.—The press asso ciation states tt is feared a large num ber of passengers have been lost. The message to the press association i says: "Eleven boats got away and it is feared a large number of passengers were lost. Fifteen Boatloads on / Way to Queenstown By Associated Press London, Aug. 19.—A message to the I White Star Line said: "The Arabic was sunk this morning. Fifteen or sixteen boatloads are mak ing for Queenstown." The company has received no other direct word, but from this message and a number of boats making for , Queenstown they dedue that the greater part of the persons on board w -re rescued. tl LIFEBOATS LAUNCHED By Associated Press London. Aug. 19-, 6:20 p. m. The Central News says the crew or the Arabic succeeded in launching 11 life boats, which picked up many pas sengers. It has not yet neen ascer tained, this agency says, how many were drowned. The Exchange Tele graph Company says that a rescuing steamer has four hundred persons on board. Weather conditions were favor s able. ROTARIANS AT HERSIIKY The Harrisburg Rotary Club will 1 have a family outing at Hershey to morrow afternoon. After r>. program of sports, including a baseball team between the senior and junior Ro f tarians. supper will be served at the J Hershey cafe. 51 ANOTHER STEAMSHIP SUNK LONDON, AUG. I ft. 6:15 P. M. THE BRITISH STEAMER MAG NOLIA REPORTS BV WIRELESS THAT THE STEAMSHfIP DUNSLEY , ALSO WAS TORPEDOED. HUT AT THE TIME THE MESSAGE WAS . SENT WAS STILL AFLOAT AND t WAS PICKING UP SURVIVORS I PORCH LAMP PLACED INSIDE OF BUILDING r A porch lamp of a new type. Just s placed on the market, is made to be 5 installed inside the building so that it is not only protected from the weather but serves to illuminate the hall or front room as well as the porch. The lamp is mounted Inside the wall adja cent to the porch. Part of the light is diffused through the room, while - a part of the horizontal rays are trans ? mitted through a 1%-lnch tube to a s globe mounted on the outside of the r wall, where, with the aid of a reflec - tor, it is uniformly distributed over e the porch.—From the August Popular II Mechanics Magazine. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH BELGIAN SEARCHLIGHT ' :> v - ——•-•—■■ ■"**■ ' When the darkness of night steals over the German trenches and thero isn t a sound to mark their location this Belgian searchlight mounted on an automobile runs along a hillside at a safe distance and spies out the enemy to soldiers of the allies. It has been used very sucessfully in night attacks during the latter part of the war. READING OFFICIALS WANT TO SEE CITY [Continued From First l'age.] will be met near Paxtang ray a num ber of local officers in autos. The j party will then be escorted :nto trie city and afterwards around to tlie places of interest. Dinner will be served at the Colum bus Hotel, after which the erowa will! go to the island for the frame oetweeri | the teams representing the two police J forces. After the game the cops will be brought back for luncheon ana will ! then leave for home. The local police are working over- j time making preparations for their i friends in return for the courtesy shown them recently when they went j to Reading. A little surprise has been J planned for the visitors whtcn will be | sprung shortly after they reacn nere. Ladies, Call for World Famous Embroidery Outfit at the office of the Harrisburg Telegraph We Give You More than 450 Latest Embroi dery Designs, any one of which you would consider worth a dime. Sm §*[ All all stitches, so simply illustrated that wf Jfm j I Outfit any school girl can readily become jff gjg ,/iVERSTttV !5.% 11 an expert, hardwood embroidery II IK |js! 11 m hoops, needles, bodkin and stiletto. V t/M 1 EMBROIDERY r !// lOf ALL FOR \ff lISIJ J PERFECT EQUIPMENT FOR ' C 7d ß 6Bc " OME » IDERX / / Home 7 cents for postage with mail orders The 68 cents is intended to cover ===: ========= =:=::^^ the cost of expenses, clerical work TEACH EVERY YOUNG GIRL THAT every woman may be a skillful embroiderer —that is jw our ambition- If we cotfid, we would run this offer continu p . ally—but the conditions make it impossible. We have bought Summer 1 astime. t^e ou tfits obtainable at this low figure . Sixty-eight cents . is all it costs yoe—our only profit is your good will. (7 cents extra by mail to cover postage.) YOU will be glad to own this embroidery outfit. You'll be fascinated with the Lesson Booklet and will master its instruc- Every room in your house calls for embroidery. Every mem ber of your family : —every friend delights in liand-embroidered <^garments tenderly adorned by some one dear to them. If you ai e not with the needle—or if you are and would know ' better— clip the Coupon while the offer lasts. A coupon ap- P TRANSFERS SEVERAL TIMES WaiMßiKg. ONLY All old fashioned Methods of transferring embroidery RISK r— SAFE patterns by use of water, benzine and injurious fluids are . crude and out-of-date and often spoil expensive materials. PLAN This method is safe, dry, quick, clean. OTHER CLIP COUPON TO-DAY FRUIT-GATHEKIXG DEVICE RE SEMBLES UMBRELLA To simplify the work of gathering fruit which does not necessarily re quire hand picking, a canvas device has been Invented which in ap pearance is similar to a large umbrella. The device is described in the August Popular Mechanics Magazine. It is so arranged that it may be placed about the trunk of a tree, forming a funnel into which apples or oranges are caught as a tree is shaken. In the center of the device is a cloth arranged in such manner as to break the fall of the fruit as it rolls into the chutes and is discharged in baskets or boxes placed on the ground. The canvas is supported by radial arms which may be folded over on one side to permit the device, which is mounted on a cart, to be wheeled between the var ious rows of trees in an orchard. AUGUST 19, 1915. TRAVEIETTE By NIKSAH AQUIA, VA. v J There are Borne towns so tiny that only a few maps show where they aro, and so apart from the world that few persons even know of their ex istence; yet richer in stories of the past than any great city of the land. For in these forgotten towns, where the present Is nothing, the past is cherished and kept olive with foving care. Such a town in Aquia, Va., within 50 miles of the national capitol in fact; but 50 years away in spirit. A bit of a frame station and a post office that looks like an overgrown cracker box are all that mark the location of Aquia. These may be said to consti tute its downtown section. Before it lies the Potomac, a mile wide, placid ly asleep. Behind it are hills covered with forests centuries old, touched always with faint purple mist. And between the hills and the river aro rolling acres of fields, more than half of them lying fallow, which belong to some of the oldest, and once the finest estates In the South. There are houses still standing that were built soon af ter the revolution—substantial houses of wood and stone, with great stone fireplaces and massive chimneys built against the fickle Virginia winters, and widespreading sycamore trees filnging a generous mantle of shade over their porches and doorsteps during the sum mer. These houses are invariably perched on the hilltops, commanding a splendid view of the Potomac and the wooded bottoms and waving grain fields between. Time was when prosperous plant ers sat upon these wide verandas and looked across well tilled acres, and saw laden rafts carrying the crops of j their farms and the stone from their .quarries up the river to Washington I and down to Baltimore. In those days it. was a populous region, and life was leisurely and fair. There were routes and balls in the great houses, and gen tlemen rode to the hounds across the autumn hills, and the river boats car ried the wives and daughters of the planters to Washington for the social season. j But the war came, and all was | changed. From such men as these | came the proudest defenders of the i South. They went forth and died al most to a man. After the war, Aquia was peopled by old men, and women and children, and scantily populated at that, for the young people quickly went away. And none have ever come I back, nor have strangers moved in. 1 Some of the farms are still managed jby women. They are old women ! now, but they were wives and sweet | hearts when the war was fought. Of | the war and the brave days before it, I they still talk. It is hardly too much i to say that in those old days they still I live. To the visitor, as he listens, the I past seems to come back out of the ] shadows and lay a cold hand upon | him. and hold him for the moment as its own. Some men of money from the North have come to this beautiful region and bought of the rich lands lying fallow, and built houses there; but most of them have gone away again. Perhaps the hazy hills, and the river dreaming in the sun were too lonely for them. At any rate, they have left Aquia alone to her dreams of the glorious past. GOV. HARRIS PLANS THOROUGH INQUIRY [Continued From First Page.] abiding, and heartily disapprove th« action of the mob." As only $2,500 is available in the State treasury for rewards. Governor Harris said he would probably offer the maximum of SSOO for the arrest and conviction of five members of the mob. The Legislature each year ap propriates $3,000 to be used for re wards. Five hundred dollars of the fund have been used this year. Frank's Body Given to Brooklyn Undertaker By Associated Press New York, Aug. 19.—The body of Leo M. Frank arrived here early to day on board a Pennsylvania railroad train. More than a score of detectives and police were on hand to guard against any demonstration but few persons were gathered at the station. Mrs. Frank, who accompanied the body of her husband on the trip from Atlanta, was greeted by her sister-in law, Mrs. Otto Stern, and others of Frank's relatives. Frank's body was taken to an un dertaking establishment, a few blocks from the home of his father. Rudolph Frank. Mrs. Frank was escorted to an automobile and went with Mrs. Stern to the Brooklyn home. Several motorcycle patrolmen ac companied the automobile carrying Frank's body from the station to Brooklyn. Mrs. Leo Frank was met at the Brooklyn house by her mother-in-law. Only a few persons witnessed the greeting between these women, and it was more than an hour later when the presence of moving picture ma chines in front of the house caused a crowd to gather. Otto Stern, brother-in-law of Frank, said the funeral would be private and declined to say whether it would be held late to-day or to-morrow. A close friend of the family said later that the funeral would not take place until to-morrow. Mrs. Frank Thanks Public Mrs. Rudolph Frank, mother of Leo M. Frank, gave out a statement to-day in which she thanked the public for the kindness and sympathy extended to the Frank family, not only since Frank was lynched at Marietta, but since the conclusion of his trial for the murder of Mary Phagan. Mrs. Frank said she and her hus band had received a large number of messages of sympathy from Southern ers durtng the past two days. Sho said the family now asked to be left alone, and hoped to make the funeral entirely private. For this reason she declined to announce when it would take place. The funeral services will be conduct ed by Rabbi David Marx, who accom panied Frank's body from Atlanta. In terment will be in the family plot at Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn. CONCRETE AMPHITHEATER FOR DENTAI. CLINICS Concrete has been used In the con struction of a clinic room in a new dental Infirmary for children which hns I just been completed at Boston. This material was employed In preference to others because of its value from the point of santtatton. A picture of the room appears in the August Popular Mechanics Magazine. The benches, as well as the flooring, of the ampitheater are thus much more readily kept clean than if-they were made of wood, as has most often been the case in older institutions.
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