British Submarine Torpedoes and Sinks German Desfroyer Near Denmark HAKRJSBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 242 ONE DEAD, FOUR SHOT IN BITTER DEMOCRATIC ROW Reporter Killed When Charles ton Committee Meets to Canvass Returns | MILITIA IS CALLED OUT! I Governor Charged With Inter-, fering Willi Primary Favor- j ing Faction By Associated Press Charleston, 8. C., Oct. 15. Sidney: J. Cohen, a newspaper reporter, was. killed and four men shot in a melee that occurred here to-day just outside the room where the Democratic City Excutive committee, was to meet to, canvass the returns of the muncipal i primary last Tuesday. Joseph Black, of the Democratic ex ecutive committee Is reported to have I been shot in the abdomen. It is re-; ported he is dead but hospital authori ties refuse to confirm this. A man named Wingate is said to have been seriously, if not fatally j •wounded. It is said the shooting occurred at | the moment set for calling the meet- 1 lng of the executive committee to or-1 der, and that the box containing the; ballots cast in Tuesday's primary, which were to be canvassed by the committee was thrown into the street. Hitter Fight The Democratic municipal primary| developed into such a bitter factional tight between the adherents of Mayor| John P. Grace and Tristam T. Hyde, running at the head of the tickets, that serious trouble was feared. Represen tations made to Governor Manning by the sheriff and members of the Demo cratic executive committee resulted in the Governor ordering four compan ies of militia and three divisions of naval militia held at their armories as a precautionary measure. The State adjutant general was hur- i [Continued on Cage I.] Leave of Absence For Germans Revoked by U. S. Navy Department By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Oct. 15. All' leave of absence for the men of the! German auxiliary cruisers Kronprinz' Wilhelm and Prinz Eitel Friedrich, 1 interned at the Norfolk navy yard, has been revoked by the Navy De-1 partment. until the disappearance of six warrant officers of the Kronprinz Wilhelm has been satisfactorily ex pained. The department took this ac tion when it was reported by Rear Admiral Beatty, commandant of the Norfolk yard, that the men, who had bought the yacht Eclipse, had been granted leave for a sail hut had not returned at the expiration of the leave. Secretary of Treasury Gets Estimates of Big Appropriations Needed By Associated Press Washington. Oct. 15.—Estimates of government expenditure for the next fiscal year totaling about $1,240,000.0011 and the largest ever submitted in time of peace were to be presented to-day to the secretary of the treasury. This was 'he day specified under the law for submitting the estimates, al though there is no penalty attached for failure to do so. Most«of the mem bers of the cabinet worked until a late hour last night in order to be ready with the estaimats for their depart ments. The extraordinarily large sum of money which Congress will he asked to appropriate for running the govern ment is due to the prospective big in crease In the administration s program of national defense and to the unusual conditions resulting from the Euro pean war. The estimated increase for national defense alone aggregates about $l5O - while burdens entailed on ac count of the war will require an in crease of about $1,300,000 for the State Department. Estimates for the other departments, except State, war and navy and possibly commerce are about the same as last year. Secre tary Redfield. it was believed, would ask for funds for extending American trade abroad. I THE WEATHER! For Harrlfthnrg nnri vicinity: Tart ly cloudy to-nlsrht nnd Saturday: to-night. For Kantern IVnnnyl van la : In anil cooler to-nlsrlit, probably local rain*. Saturilav l.artly cloudy* Kcntlr, variable wiimlb becoming north,teat. River The Susquehnnnn river nnd It* principal tributaries will fnli ■lowly or remain nearly Matlon k Br T except the upper portion of the \orth Itrnnch, which will probably rUe «lt K htly. A ntaicp of about 3.0 feet U indicated for HnrrlaburK Saturday morning, General Condition!* The prruurc haw Incrraxrd over the greater part of the country since laxt report, particularly lit the l.ake Itcelon, the Mlanourl Hn< | I pper Mlmhlnhlppl Valleya anil wewt of the Rocky Mountain*, where the Increaae haa been de cided. Showers have fallen In the Ohio \ alley, Tennexaee and Alabama, In the Middle Atlantic Stntes and along the enatern boarder of the fireat I.akca. Temperature: 8 a. m., H4. f»uni Rtaes, flitH a. M.i mrtm, Si 2« p. m. Moon i Flrat quarter, to-day, Bils a. m. Hlver Stagei 3.7 feet above low water mark. Yeaterday'a Weather Fllfthcx) temperature, 73. l.oweat temperature. !M». Mean tempernture, HO. Aormal temperature, WEST FAIRVIEW FIREMEN READY FOR DEDICATION ; : j Celebration Next Week Will Mark Completion of Fire house | BOROUGH KM) YEARS OLD I ; Parades, Dedicatory Exercises, Band Concerts and Bazar, Part of Program West Fairview, Pa., Oct. 15.—Just | otic hundred years ago Abraham , j Neidig, Sr., purchased a big farm from a man nttned Wornielsdorf and a short time after laid the plot out in ' 1 building lots. | Thus was West Fairview started, iond for three days next week, Thurs day, Friday and Saturday, citizens of! | th* old town will observe the birth of ' i the place the.v call their home. But the observance of the town's birth is not all that is being arranged ij for. The dedication of a modern con crete building, the new home of the l Good Will Fire Company, No. 1, will | be the feature of the affair, and proh lably, had it not been for the activity i of the borough's firemen, the birth of ■ j West Fairview would have passed un- . I noticed. Organise Fire Company | Quite a few yef-.rs ago a number of '.citizens of the town got together and | • j organized .a fire company. The best, i home obtainable in which to house the j ] apparatus was an old shed. That has: been in service now for a long time, j | A few months ago members of tho . 1 organization believed they had enough | ; money in their treasury to build a j modern home, and so plans were out. A plot of ground was i purchased adjoining the borough 1 ■ schoolhouse and work on the new! building was started. With the excep- ; j tion of a little work on the interior the i i structure Is now completed nnd on ! | Friday afternoon. October 22, it will! jbe dedicated. While plans for dedi cating the new building were being | made it occurred to the firemen that the town was 100 years old, so a dual j celebration was proposed. I'roaram for Celebration The affair will have its beginning I ■ next Thursday evening, when a big ; ■ ' j bazar and supper will be held in the i pew building. The bazar will continue | ! for three day 3. Thursday evening. I 1 j also, the Pennsylvania Railroad Y. M. i [Continued on Page 9] Steelton Grocer Badly Injured When Dragged and Crushed by Horse i i , i Dragged several hundred feet by his!, ] horse, Charles Heller. 323 North." ( | Front street, a Steelton grocer, re- j ceived a concussion of the brain, prob-! , | able fracture of the skull and severe; : injuries of the body which may prove I j fatal. | Mr. Heller left home early this! j morning to come to this city for a ■ ; supply of green groceries for hisi i store. His horse, while standing in! [ front of the wholesale house of J. F.' I Feeser, 140 South Third street, be- ' came frightened when a train passed. ! Mr. Heller saw the horse start and I >i grabbed the harness but jvas dragged' ; to Third and Chestnut streets, where iltbe horse fell, almost crushing him. ijMrn going to work rushed to his aid! , j and then hurried the injured man to! 'the Harrisburg hospital where physl-1 . clans say his condition is serious. ' Opening of Hunting Season Proves Fatal to South Fork Man > By Associated Press Lewlstown, Pa.. Oct. 15.—Mistaken! -; for a wild turkey by one of his com-j i J panions, Thomas Kenterer, a hunter, 1 j residing at South Fork, Pa., was in ■jstantly killed near here to-day when aj heavy charge of shot struck him full j 1, in the face at close range. Clarence i - j Grier, of McVeytown, a 20-year-old ' -(youth, did the shooting. An inquest ; - j was conducted by Justice of the Peace ! » W. F. Roche, of McVeytown, and the; »| jury rendered a verdict of accidental! r | shooting after Grier-promised to never ! i| again handle a gun. Kemerer was 27 j . years old and had a family. 1! Philip Hertzler, of Port Said, was ! »: the victim of a similar accident, a load | ! of shot striking him in the abdomen ! . ; leaving the man in a precarious con- I dition. President F.nrolled in Winsted Baldhead's Club Special to The Telegraph I Winsted. Conn., Oct. 15. President 1 j Wilson was congratulated upon his be-I ! trot ha I and was enrolled hh an honorary member at the fourth annual dinner of , the ~L al ; , . h ?, a ' io ' i CUlb of America, held in Odd fellows' Hall here last night. I < '• 'i'"*—W— H>| |i | i | J* | ij j HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1915 PURE FOOD PRODUCTS BOOSTED IN M BUr WStam&ttEKKEi C. K. DEEN Secretary and Treasurer, Witinan-Schwarz. Twenty of Largest Manufac turers of Noted Products Will Help Make Big Event Success Details for the second annual Manu facturers' ure Food Show, to be held in Chestnut Street Auditorium all next week under the direction of Witman- Schwarz Company the Evans-Burtnett Company are rapidly nearing perfec tion. The final arrangements will be completed to-morrow, so that when the show opens Monday, the exhibits will lie attractivoly nestled in gaily orated booths. More than twenty of the largest manufacturers of pure food products ir. the world have closed contracts for space at the show. Literature descrip tive of the various products and tons of samples will be given away. Frank A. Smith, who is acting as manager, has spared no efforts to make the show attractive. The booths .ire being decked out in great style and the manufacturers are vieing with each other in the arrangements of their displays. Going last year's show one better, [Continued on Page 2.] 440 RED-HEADED HUNTSMEN CHASE OLD MR. GOBBLER Just Eleven Per Cent, of Coun ty's Nimrods Are "Sorrel Tops" | _ 4,005 LICENSES ISSUED j Tallest Gunner (5 Feet, 5 I Inches; Shortest, 3 Feet, 6 Inches i I Eleven per cent of Dauphin county's huntsmen are red-headed. If, all your life you haven't had to answer more or less gracefully to "redtly," "bricktop," "sorrel," "carrot top," "cinnamon." or "rusty," this glar i ing trutn al>out the followers of the chase probably wont appeal particu larly; you may even think this is a I brief for the red-heads. But it isn't, j It's one of the facts that the records of j the county treasury disclosed. ' To-day the turkey season opened j and up until this evening the rush ! for hunter's license was something to | make the county treasurer and at least j one of his assistants perspire almost —almost mind you—to profanity. ! Up until the closing hour 4005 ! licenses had been issued for 1915 and , out of that number more than 440 are j listed generally as red haired. True, [Continued on race »] 100,000 KILLED IN DARDANELLES As Result It Is Suggested British Abandon Costly Expedition British casualties in the Dardanelles | operations have reached almost the ! 100,000 mark. An official statement | in London to-day gave the figures as j 9«.899 up to October 9, of which num- I ber 18,957 were killed, 1,185 of the ! killed being officers. Abandonment of the costly Gallipoll expedition was suggested in the House of Lords last night by Lord Milner, who advanced the idea of the transfer of the troops on the peninsula to an other field. The government would [Continued on Page 9] MANIFESTO MAY BE ISSUED Paris, Oct. 15.—Russian interven tion in the Balkans probably will be preceded by a manifesto issued by Emperor Nicholas as "chief protector" of all Slavs to the Bulgarians de nouncing what will be characterized as "the treason" of King Ferdinand in maUing confmou cause with the I :stro-Germans. Russia's enemies. Tbis manifesto, l' is expected, will be followed Immediately by definite ac tion. i vffll j .... , ... ... S. R. COOVER ieneral Manager. Witman-Schwarz. SB I C. W. RURTNETT Of Evans-Burtnett. PAUL KUNKEL HITS AT COURT, SAYS STROIIP Vigorous Reply of District At torney to Democratic Op ponent's Allegations TUNIS FOR THE TICKET Urges Members of County League to Vote For All Republicans Two interesting incidents marked the opening meeting of the Dauphin County Republican League at party | headquarters in the Wyeth building | lasi night. First .the vigorous reply | of Michael E. Stroup, candidate for | re-election as district attorney, to im putations of his opponent, Paul A. Kunkel, and second, the address of William S. Tunis in support of James E. Lentz, who defeated him for the recorder nomination, and urging all Republicans to vote for the whole ticket nominated in September. It was a meeting so large In attend- i ance that the hall could not hold all ! who tried to crowd into it. District Attorney Stroup referred J to the cards and advertising matter . circulated by Mr. Kunkel bearing the I assertion that he, Kunkel, was elected I district attorney four years ago over J [Continued on Pago 2.] APPROVESNEW] NAVAL PROGRAM Wilson Agrees to $500,000,000 Construction Plan; Means Many Ships Washington. D. C., Oct. 15.—Presi dent Wilson to-day approved Secre tary Daniels' recommendation for a five-year construction program for the I navy, to cost $500,000,000. The exact amount to be appropriated foi each of the five years has not been decided; but the first year's program calls for two dreadnaughts and two battle cruisers. Washington, D. C., Oct. 15.—The [Continued on Page 9] ATTACKING IX GREAT FORCE By Associated Press Paris, Oct. 15.—The Germans are attacking In great force near Passa rowitza. which commands the Morava valley, according to a Nlsh dispatch to the Mntin. The Serbs are resisting stoutly and It Is asserted that the in vaders have not advanced more than four miles south of the river at any point on the Danube front. The Bul garians have been held In the Timok valley, where a new action is In prog- i rew along the front. 1 J. G. SCHWARZ. SR. President. Witman-Schwar*. ' ' "SSf.: -v:. F. A. SMITH Manager of Show. GERMANS AIDED IN DEVELOPMENT OF THIS NATION I "Were Indispensable to Amer ica" B. M. Nead Tells Big Audience at Beading | MANY CAME TO PENNA. ; Defends Pa. Germans Against Hyphenated Citizen Whose Loyalty Is Doubted Special to The Telegraph Reading:. Pa., Oct. 15.—At the I twenty-fifth annual meeting of the | Pennsylvania-German Society to-day, I B. M. Nead, of Harrisburg, a former I president, made an interesting ad dress, his subject being "The Penn sylvania German in Civil Life." The annual banquet takes place to-night. Discussing the purpose and objects of the society, Mr. Nead said: "Shortly after the inception of this I organization it grew to be the belief I of some of its members, including the j writer, that the title of this society i is not a well chosen one, and in fact lis somewhat a misnomer. This is not J a popular belief, but the conclusion remains nevertheless. "The pioneer settlers of America of I German descent or affiliation formed J a large unit, and were indispensable [Continued on Page 12.] SUBMARINE SINKS GERMAN WARSHIP British Undersea Boats Con tinue Their Activity Near North Sea By Associated Press Copenhagen, Oct. 15, 1.43 P. M.— A British submarine to: pedoed and I sank a German destroyer this morning at the southern entrance to the sound, a narrow strait betweel Denmark and Sweden which connects the Baltic with the North Sea. A great explosion fol lowed the striking of the torpedo and the destroyer foundered Immediately. A message from Falsterbo, Sweden, [Continued on Page 0] NAVIGATION ON DANUBE HAS BEEN VIRTUALLY CLOSED By Associated Press Milan, Oct. 14, via London, Oct. 15. —"Navigation,of the Danube has been virtually closed by the Bulgarians," says a Bucharest dispatch to the Cor riere Delia Sera. "At Lom Palanka the Bulgarians seized seven barges and three tugs sent up the Danube by Russia with wheat for Serbia. Bui- | gnrla has laid mines all along its bank of the Danube, thus closing the river I tn effect .as the Rumanian side is I innavigable." J 22 PAGES POSTSCRIPT— FINAL "NONPARTISAN" BUT GAVE MONEY TO DEMOCRATS Royal. Copelin and Gorgas,' Each Contributed S2OO to Chairman Jones WHERE 1)11) CASH GO ? Report to Court Does Not! Comply With Corrupt Practices Act Before a largely attended meeting of the Dauphin county Republican League last night. Senator E. K. j Beidleman not only charged John K. [ Royal, Owen M. Copelin and W. L. Gorgas, supposedly nonpartisan can didates for city council, with con tributing to the Democratic campaign fund for their re-nomination, but con nected their names with a report tiled as to their campaign expenses which ! he snid is in distinct violation of the j corrupt practices act. Senator Beidleman quoted the court I records to prove what he said. His! speech was a reply to the criticism of j Democratic bosses and newspapers j censuring the Republican council manic candidates for contributing SIOO I each to the candidates campaign com mittee. The court records show that How ard W. Jones, chairman of the Demo- j cratic City Committee, filed a report j of primary expenses for the Citizens' Campaign Committee, under which j disguise the Democratic Committee j f^ontinned on Paso 2.] GERMAN'S PLANNED ATTACK By Associated Press Oct. ir>.—"The present plan of attark on Serbia," says a Xish dis patch to the Daily Telegraph, "was prepared by tho German staff and differs essentially from the Austrian plan of last year, which provided for the taking of Serbia from the west." NO MOVE IX) BREAK STRIKE By Associated Press Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Oct. 15. The] second day of the strike of the Wilkes- Barre Street Railway employes began with no change In the situation. Both sides are firm. The company will make no move to break the strike until ! next Monday. ~ COLONEL DECHERT DIES T Philadelphia, Oct. 15.—Colonel Henry T. Dechert, u former commander of the Second Regiment, National Guard | of Pennsylvania, and a widely-known attorney of this city, . died suddenly of heart disease at his home here last night f He was 56 years old. I GERMANS TAKE TOWN Berlin, Oct. 15, via London, 4.20 P. M. —Capture of the 1 | Serbian town of Porarevac, about twelve miles southeast of 1 i Semendria was reported to-day by the War Office. Else k where on this front the Serbians have been driven back fur 1 ( [ ther, with the loss of three guns. i J MANUFACTURERS TO AID GOVERNMENT | Atlantic City, N. J., Oct. 15.—1n closing their annu. | sessions here to-day the American Hardware Manufacturers' 1 I , Association requested President Wilson to name a commit -1 I | ; tee of maufacturers to find where, in what time and in whs | quantities materials and munitoin3 as may be needed by tew | federal government for an adequate defensive force can be j obtained. i i i TWENTY-FIVE MORE ELECTION ARRESTS I Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 15. Twenty-five arrests were made to-day on charges of violating the election laws in con -1 nection with the primary here on September 21. The de- | I fendants ere charged with permitting unregistered persons I to vote. With those to-day there have been a total of thirty-four arrests on this charge. Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 15.—Four bishops were elected i ' to-day for four-year terms at the twenty-sixth general con ference of the Evangelical Association to. have jurisdiction 4 over all churches of the conference. They were S. C. Brey- 1 " 1 fogel, of Reading, Pa., and S. P. Spring, of Naperville, Ills., ( both re-elected; and G. Heinmiller, of Cleveland, 0., and L. ' i i H. Zager, of Naperville, Tils. ' • New York, Oct. 15.—Max Lynar Loudon, also known | as Count Loudon, who was arrested two days ago by Fed- ( eral agents, was indicted to-day by the county grand jury on & charge of bigamy. The indictment was returned after i both of Loudon's alleged wives had appeared before the S grand jury. f MARRIAGE LICENSES | Frank Krelder, Hrrahr;, ami Iddlth C. Brlrker, (Imitate. ■ William H. WrXfalr an