»- - ■ - H . • ' ' - i . :■ ■•= ■ i/lany School Children Lose Christmas Savings in Collapse of Pittsburgh Bank HARRISBURG (dSB&l TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 299 ORDER TROOPERS ** TO RETURN ANY FURTHER FIRING FROM MEXICANS U. S. Soldiers Will Reply "Vigorously" to Volleys From Other Side of Border Which Resulted in Death of an American; Whole River Front Heavily Pa trolled Following Rioting 6,000 VILLA TROOPS APPROACHING JUAREZ Believed Arrangement to Sur-; render Town Have Fallen] Through and Place Will Not Be Turned Over to Carranza; Rioters Shot in Effort to Quell Disturbance Started by Unpaid Gueril las By . Issoeiated Press Washington. D. C., Dec. £2. —Amerl- j can troops at EI Paso, the War De partment announced to-day, had been | Riven orders to return vigorously any further "deliberate tiring' from the Moxlctt-n side of the border. General Pershing, in command a' HI Paso, has renorted that the flrlnf which resulted late yesterday In th« death of an American car inspecto • wan tile deliberate act ot a squad o' Mexicans who appeared half a mil*! rust of the international bridge. American troops, tho report addec, "were covering the whole river front.' Di.rlng the rioting in Juarez, ths report said, there had been little flritu, and none toward the American side. General Avila, who was in •if the troops in Juarez, ordered se\ - enil of the rioters shot, at- 'ordii.B to military reports from tl.e border. Troops Ncaring Juarez !,1 Paso Texas, Dec. St. The Kl Paao police dei artment early ti - A day received u report that 1,000 Vll'a troops had arrived In Juurez from tl e (Continued on Paso It.) Villa Tells Wife He Will Not Come to V. & By Associated Pre** San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 22.—Gen eral Francisco Villa's last words to his Wife, .Mrs. I.uz de Villa, over i tro weeit» ago, as he bade her good-by in I'hthuahua City, were: "I shnll never no to the Unit >d States. I would die sooner than go to the T'nltcd States, where th«-y hate ne. I shall spend '.he lenuiinder of :ny life In my home moun'ains with ny tnlthful friends, where my enemies cannot reach me." That Is what Mrs. Villa said list night when she passed through f-an Antcnlo, accompanied by Mrs. HI >o llto Vllln and ten others, en rout.- to New Orleans. From there the party may go to Havana, Cuba. Americans Released as Condition of Entrance By Associated Press Washington, \>. C„ Dec. 22.—The release of the thirty Americans de <allied at Chihuahua by General Villa, it became known to-day, was a • on dltion Imposed on Villa In gran Ing lilm permission to cross the Amer can boundary line. Advices that the Americans had been liberated stren ;th ened the State Department's b« lief that Villa Intends to avail himself of te opportunity to escape irotn Mexico. Nothing definite regarding Villa's hereabouts had been reported to the department to-day. Some uneasiness was mamfesti-d after receipt of ad- ices that additional Villa troops were r IOV- Ing tow ud Juarez, lu' govern? lent officials l It that Juarcr soon wouli be In CarrmizaV possession. ITHEWEATHE'CI l*or Ifnrrt«i!H«riK mid *lr!allj - s Part ly rl intly ur«<hfr aad rUiiip tt m irruturr 10-night and I burnt* %j-; lowrm temiirrrlnri 10-nl n hot it 30 ili-Rrffd. For l,n«t<*ni l>nn».t t* nntn : V*n« (I j rloii<l>- wrotlier mid riftlnic l« n«- P'THinrr to-nlKhl unit Thiirn<la>t mo<Kmtc Miutberly wind*. Hlver 'l'hr So*fUfhnmiM river and all Ita trthutarf.m will continue to fall kltwll and thr Irr remaining la the rtlrraaiH t>|l| derrranr u» ler lh»* Influence «f milder nrai hrr «h>rln«c thr artt few fifty*. % ntaicr o* about .'.fl frrt In ladl *at r«l f«»r lluri tiburic Thursday tuornlDK. 'irarrul t'oadfctionn The «tot m that nan *«» me dlal'mrr off tin MidHl< Atlantic « oiiNt Tiie»fln> mor ting, has m«»\rd ap •dly northward and IN BOW p *«L»- M ably central off thr North Atlaa- tie count. The *tort»» from tin \orth I't rlUr «»rran l\mi \%mn central over Sua katchman yenterd/iy la now cen tral north of North Dakota, ad vancing Mteadlly nouthcanti ard. % further rlae «f 2 to .t.' «lr& vera In temperature ha* occurred t.ince la*t retort o*er practically all the country. e*ccpt Id New •-■JJ laad a .id tto* 1 ppe- St. I.amenee Valley and la Montana, Waul lau «on, Oreuon, llr|.l«h Columbia anil %lberta. uhei • It la 2 . o 14 tlll'i'tua ejldrr. I'eiaperature: N a. in.. 24. S»I »J ItlfieN, 7T24 a. M.t aeta, 4142 l • Mix a: I.ant quc.rter v Decenbei 2H, 7 I.ML p. M. Illver Ntaae: H. 3 feet above low water mark. Teater4n y*a Weather Vllfcheat tempendure, S2. I.owent temperature. 22. Mean temperature, 27. Aorutxl temperature, 32. I). S. REITERATES 4NCONA DEMANDS IN SECOND NOTE I isisls on Austrian Disavowal, Reparation and Punishment of Submarine Commander RELATIONS ARE STRAINED Uso Declares Details Referred to in First Communica tion Not Essential Washington, D. C.. Dec. 23.—The | reply of the Untted States to Aus- j 'ria's note on the destruction of the Italian liner Ancona declares that the ' official admission of the Austrian ad j -niralty that the liner was toroedoed ■ nfter she had stopped and while pa - i sengers still were aboard alone is suf ficient for the American demand for disavowal, reparation and punishment of the submarine commander. Secretary I-anslng's second note, al ready probably in the hands of the Austrian foreign minister, and made I public here to-day, renews the de mands of the I'nlted States and says the details which Austria referred to I in her reply to the first American com | munlcation are In no way essential to jihe discussion. It emphasizes that ICOIIUntUUIC* of Rood relations between the two countries depend upon the action of the Austrian government. The full text of the note which is addressed to American Ambassador Penfield follows: "The Kovernment of the United States has received the note of your excellency relative to the sinking of the Ancona. which was delivered at Vienna on December 16, 1916, and transmitted to Washington, and has given the note immediate and careful consideration. "On November 15. 1915, Baron ZwMlßtk, the charge d'affaires of the imperial and royal Kovernment at Washington, transmitted to the De partment of State a report of the Austro-Hungarian admiralty with re gard to the sinking of the steamship Ancona, in which it was admitted that the vessel was torpedoed after her en (Continued on Page 12.) Pennsy Directors Pay 4 Per Cent. Dividend By .Associated Prrss Philadelphia, Dec. 22.—The direc tors of the Pennsylvania company which operates Pennsylvania railroad lines west of Pittsburgh, to-day de clared a semi-annual dividend of four per cent. This compares with 2 per cent, paid six months ago. making a lotal of six per cent, for the year. In 1914 the company paid a total of 4 per cent. The directors of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Rail way company, also a Pennsylvania railway subsidiary declared a dividend of four per cent, on the preferred and i a dividend of 2 per cent, on the com mon stock. In 1914 this company paid a total of 4 per cent, on the pre | ferred and three-fourths of one per cent, on common. University of Penna. Trustees Yield Power to Drop Professors Special to The Telegraph Philadelphia, Dec. 22. Repetition of the "Scott Nearing affair" at the University of Pennsylvania is held to be Impossible, as the result of an amendment to the University's statutes, passed by the board of trustees at their last meeting on December 6. and made public yesterday. The trustees voluntarily removed many of the points at issue raised by Dr. Xearing's adherents, following his dropping as assistant professor of economics in the Wharton School last Spring by providing that a professor or assistant professor shall be removed by the trustees only after consultation with the faculty. Man Found Frozen to Death by Small Boys Michael Burd, aged 45, sign painter, show and circus man. and traveler, was found dead this afternoon In a huckster wagon in Wood street, by small boys at play. It is believed that he died from ex posure. as his body was froien stiff, lturd was born and raised in this city and is widely known in the West End. He spent much of his time traveling with circuses and shows. Coroner Ecklnger is investigating the case. Tin- body has been turned over to C. 11. Mauk. undertaker. Sixth and Kel | ker streets. Burd has one brother. Thomas, living in the western part of the country. The authorities believe that Burd was intoxicated and crawled into the wagon last evening for shelter for the night. Dies From Injuries in Football Two Years Ago By Associated Press Pittsburgh, Pa.. Dec. 22. Harry •Shof. a medical student in the Uni versity of Pittsburgh, died In a hos pital here last night as the result of ! injuries suffered In the footltall game I between the University of Pittsburgh and Washington and Jefferson Col lege two years ago. He was carried I off the field and until the time of his I death was under the care of a physi cian. JXVKXTIOXS POUR IX By Associated Press j Washington. D. C.. Dec. 22.—Inven jtors have lieen flooding the War De partment with suggestions since the outbiea)-. of the European war. the j Board of Ordnance and Fortifications having reviewed an average of SOo proposals a month, according to its annual report inad'- public to-day. A new system has Iteen Inaugurated un der which department iieads will pass • •■I these suggestions in th- tirst in stance relle\lng the board of much useless labor id many of them have no value. HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1915 HARRISBURG'S CHRISTMAS GAVE IT, AND MAYOR \ •' " m v yp g Here Is Harrisburg's Municipal Christmas Tree which was cut on the mountains back of Fort Hunter, yesterday, by the committee In charge.. The one etching below shows Mayor Royal wielding the ax on the giant pine. The tree is tiftv years old and stands forty feet high. It will be possible to see It most any place from Front or Market street on Christmas eve when it will be lighted in connection with the municipal celebration. The other etch ing shows John W. Relly, who donated the tree to "ie city. When the Christ mas tree committee set out to get a tree Mr. Reily very graciously offered the giant of the forest seen above. TO DISTRIBUTE 200 BASKETS TO NEEDY FRIDAY Families Who Will Receive Aid Decided Upon by Asso ciated Aids The 200 families to receive Christ mas baskets through the generosity of Jacob Tauslg's Sons, jewelers, 420 ( Market street, have been chosen by j the Associated Aid Societies after in- j vestigations of the names sent in. The baskets will be distributed Frl-I day to the worthy people, so that they will have them in time for the Christ mas dinner. The coupon will no I longer appear in the Telegraph, since j the required number of names has j been received. Herman L. Tausig. of the firm of Jacob Tausig's Sons, which made the j offer of 200 baskets, this morning said that his firm greatly appreciates the 1 help of the people in the city who so. kindly sent in names of needy friends. | He thanked the Telegraph for aiding 1 In the offer and the Associated Aid So- j cleties for Investigating the cases as they were received. L'pon learning that the 200 families had been chosen, j Mr. Tausig, in behalf of the firm, j wished the many families a Merry 1 Christmas such as they have never j had before. HAVE YOU SPOTTED SHERLOCK, TOO? Man of Mystery Is Cross Be tween a Nutmeg and Alli gator Pear <By SHKRMXTK HOLMES, JR.) The following letter duly noted: "Ha. ha! I've got my eyes on you. so you had better double quick and get your ticket or fork up the S2a in cash." Oh, well, I'll take your word for It, whoever you are. , I am told a certain bunch in a < barber 9hop I have patronized bave 1 me spotted and they are laying for ! me. AH* right, fellows, come on in, i the water's Sine. I [Continued on l'agc (.] ADD MILLION MEN TO BRITISH ARMY AFTER BIG FIGHT House of Commons Debates All Night Long; Changes in High Commands By Associated Press London, Dec. 22, 11.39 a. m.—After an all night debate the House of Com mons early to-day granted an increase of 1,000.000 men in the British army, bringing up its strength on paper to 4,000,000. With the increase come changes in higher command, Lieuten- | ant General Robertson, chief of the j general staff having been recalled | from France to become chief of the j Imperial staff in London in place' of I.ieutenant General Murray who is! about to receive an important com- j mand. These changes are accepted' here as indicating closer co-operation among the allies in the conduct of military operations on the western front. The Teutonic powers are reported as taking full advantage of the moral effect as produced by the withdrawal of the British forces from tht. Galll-! poli peninsula with the attempting once more to swing Greece and Ru mania to their side in the Balkan op erations. (Continued on Page II.) HOUSE TRIP IS | NOT PEACE MOVE President Says European Mis-1 sion of Friend Is to Sec U. S. Envoys By Associated Press Hot SprinKS, Va., Dec. 22/—Presi-i dent Wilson said to-day that the: European trip of his friend. Col. E. j M. House was in ho way connected' with the peace movement, but was j entirely for the purposes outlined by Col. House in his statement issued last nltcht in New York. The Colonel i said his mission was to communicate to American ambassadors in person i for the President certain Information l (Continued on Page 11.), !j TWO SKATING 1 PARTIES HAVE NARROW ESCAPE I Eight Boys and Girls Go Into 1 Icy Waters of Brick yard Pond THRILLING RESCUES MADE; None the Worse For Experi- 1 ence; Big Crowd Too Heavy Two skating parties had narrow escapes from drowning at New Cum-I berland last evening when the ice on j . Fleurie's brickyard pond broke under ' the weight of a hundred skaters. The [ Misses Hazel Vogelsong, Helen Stet ler, Marie Becker and Gardner Vogel song were members of the one party and William Vogelsong, Misses Nellie| and Edith Taylor and Clarence Hempt [ members of the other. The eight boys and girls were chill ed in the icy waters but hasty rescues prevented any casualties as a result of the accident. Members of the latter party broke through the ice fifteen feet from the shore. The ice, some time before had started to crack when the crowd be came large, but no person thought It would break. The Misses Taylor, Hempt and William Vogelsong went in together, Miss Edith Taylor going under the surface. Vogelsong freed himself from the cakes of ice and im mediately went to the rescue of Miss Nellie Taylor. After some effort he succeeded in getting her ashore. Ilempt and Miss Edith Taylor were skating together and when the break ocurred they struck the water to gether. They lost hold of each other, however and when Hempt could not reach his partner, Victor Drayer, who was standing along shore, plunged to the rescue. Members of the other party, at the time of the accident, were on the other side of the pond and knew noth ing of the affair. J'lve minutes later they began to skate in the vicinity of the break, and not noticing it, skated straightway into the water. Miss Stetlor and Miss Vogelsong did not go In verj" far and like Miss Becker, suc ceeded in reaching shore with very little assistance. Gardner Vogelsong also reached dry land in safety and unassisted. To-day the entire eight are none the. worse for the unannounced wet ting they received last night. Of I course, after the accidents, dry clothes were in order. Foreign Trade Shows Unprecedented Total of Half Billion in November By Associated Press Washington. D. C., Dec. 22. —For- eign trade of the United States in November jumped to the unpreced ented total of half a billion dollars. A Department of Commerfce state ment issued to-day shows that im ports as well as exports broke rec ords for the month. A record of five billion dollars for the past 12 months* exports* and imports was set. November imports were $164,319,- 169. more by $11,000,000 than the previous November record, made in 1912. November exports of $331,144,- 527 were the greatest of any month in the country's history. The best! previous month was last October, when exports were $328,030,281. Twelve months' import to Novem ber 30 aggregated $1,730,243,229 against $1,858,645,027 for the pre ceding year. The year's exports were $3,437,292,533, one and a half billion dollars more than the preceding year, and nearly one billion more than two years ago. The great amount of gold pouring into the United States is shown in the statement that $61,000,000 in gold ar i rived in November. Only $7,000,000 I reached this country in November, 1914. ; The net inward gold movement for : the last 12 months was $390,983,419 | against a net outward movement the i year before of $174,705,790. Use Talking Machine to Teach Typewriting "Are you having much trouble In mantaining speed and uniform move \ ment in typewriting, Miss Stenog j rapher?" Why not try the system used at the Office Training School in the! Kaufman Building? Do your type writing to the tune of "It's a Long Way to Tipperary." "Impossible!"— Try it. It may seem queer to you, because it is entirely new In I-larrisburg, but it has proved a success at this school where more than 50 students liavei '•eported as having seen a great Im-1 provement in their speed, accuracy .and uniform movement, since thej method has been installed. | The graphophone is the Instru-' ment used in the new system. A rec- I ! ord is placed In motion on the ma- j I chine and the students by keeping j Itlme with the music in striking each i | letter become more accurate and effl-; ! cient in speed and striking the keys. It not only is a benefit to the students in this way but takes the continuous noise of the many machines in opera tion at the same time, off their minds ' apd enables them to do better work. ! The method was introduced into j the local school by Mrs. A. O. Frazee, : one of the teachers. She has taught in several normal schools in the west DR. DIXON BREAKS RECORDS Dr. Samuel O. Dixon, State Com missioner of Health, was re-elected last night for the twenty-first time as president of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, at. 1 as executive curator for the twenty fifth time. No man in the history of the institution has nearly approached j this lensrth of official service. MEALS SAYS HE SAW OLLIE REED IN THE MOVIES Dr. Meals and Prison Warden Caldwell Were Watching Hopewell, Va., Pictures WANTED FOR MURDERj Executive Annoyed at Negro's j Escape—Won't Swear in Detectives? Mayor-elect Meals last evening said he saw "Ollie" Reed in the "movies." - "Ollle" is a negro well known in police circles who has bcc;n wanted I these many months for t he. murder of I a fellow-negro. The maner in which l!eed made a j leisurely escape from the clutches of the city police the night Ot the alleged murder has ever been a source of | pained annoyance to the next Mayor. He has frequently said that Ollie came down town with his suitcase the night] rContimicd on I'ngo 2] 4 Freight Cars Topple Over Steep Bank Near Berryhill St. Bridge Three box cars and one coal car, all loaded, part of a freight train go ing east 611 the Philadelphia and Heading Railway tracks, left the rails this morning near the bridge at Cam eron and Ilerryhill streets two of the cars going over the steep embank- I ment near Cameron street. Railroad officials and yardmen are at a loss to know what caused the ac cident, as the tracks in this section are In good condition. The train was in motion at the time. The cars were damaged slightly. One of them con tained cord wood which was scat tered over the hill, but the coal and merchandise remained intact. Traffic on the line was only interrupted a short time. The cars were replaced and run on a siding. PLEDGES OF $200,000 FOlt SUFFERING JEWS New York, Dec. 22.—A contribution of $60,000 in cash and pledges.of near ly $200,000 for the relief of suffering Jews in Poland, Serbia, Palestine and Egypt were made last night at a mass meeting conducted by the American Jewish Relief Committee. I I > -s been appointed to succeed Sir Charles I Monr I offic I has be< {France, iln succession to Sir Douglas Haig. PROTEST PROPOSED STORAGE REDUCTION C C merchani day t roposal to reduce from thirty to fifteen days the The r ted freight condi tions at New York, i sID DEAD IN WAG< dead th •; v-r-» on in a w.»£r>n, in • - '.reet, by reveral i sma' 1 i FORD PACIFICIST DIES Christiania, Norway, Dec. 22, via London, 6.05 P. M.— Lloyd Bingham, r member of the Ford pence party, died to- I day of pneumonia. He was the husband of Amelia Bing i ham, the American actress. Berlin, Dec. 22.—8y Wireless to Sayville. Emperor ! William has postponed the trip he had planned making to the western front, the Overseas News Agency announces, a slight indisposition making it necessary for him to remain indoors for a few days. El Paso, Tex., Dec. 22.—Francisco Villa has agreed to come to the United States but will not pass through Juarez, according to General Manuel Banda. New York, Dec. 22.—Edmund Justice, a night watch man employed by the Atlas Steamship Company, a sub sidiary of the Hamburg-American Line, was arrested by Federal officers this afternoon charged with being a party to the conspiracy directed from this country against the entente allies by Paul Koenig and other alleged German i agents. , Hu/mtilAdt UCLNSLS CharlfN 101(1 rldß«> scot*, city, and Mary Jnnf Yeigley, Cora wall. Rdwuril C«err> ltl<»*Mer, Jr., and KVII B. ChrlNmorc, city. William Wayne I DeSllvey and Jennie .Mary Kerne, elty. John l<. Miller and i:ilvahe(h K. Mmr.c. Lebanon. Wllllmit Harvey Deemer, Elyiburn, and Floreace Mae Baatlaa, Huabury, 14 PAGES POSTSCRIPT— FINAL CHRISTMAS CHEER IS SHATTERED BY FAILURE OF BANK Pittsburgh Bank For Savings Closed by State Depart ment HAD TEN MILLIOXS 30,000 School Children Among Those Who Lose Heavily; 75,000 Depositors By Associated Press Pittsburgh, Dec. 22. Christmas cheer in Pittsburgh was rudely shocked j to-day when the Pittsburgh Bank fop Savings, one of the best known insti ll utions In the city, failed to open Cor I business. j Tacked to the front door at 9 o'clock was a notice which said that It had I been closed by the Pennsylvania Bank ing Department and G. H. (Jetty, bank examiner, had been appointed tem porary receiver. No statement was issued with tlie closing notice, but it was known in the financial district that the bank had been unable to weather the storms it rContinued on Page 'J] Two Begin Christmas Journey of Years; Three More on Friday The Christmas holidays of another, and perhaps another and even three more years may roll by before Robert H. Green, confessed forger, returns from the long journey he started upon this morning. Green, twice a peniten tiary convict, was sentenced a few days ago by the Dauphin county court to serve another two to three years in the State's prison at Philadelphia and he began the journey to-day, es corted by Sheriff H. C. Wells. in the sheriff's party was pretty lit tle Billian Strohm. She was sentenced at the December special session of juvenile court to be confined at Darl lington reform school for girls and sha too, began her journey this morning. Friday, the day before Christmas, Sheriff Wells will probably start west ward with the trio of small youngsters who are destined by the decree of I the Dauphin county court to spend thu Yuletide holidays in Huntingdon re- Iformatory. The trio includes "Abie" Cohen.
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