International Situation Tightened by Sinking of Persia Without Warning HARRXSBURG TELEGRAPH T.XXXIV — No. 308 *H. F. OVES ELECTEDI TREASURER BY NEW CITY COMMISSION Former Assessor Chosen For Place After Mayor Meals and Four Councilmen Are Sworn In TO MEET TOMORROW FOR APPOINTMENTS Gorgas Names Royal to Suc ceed Copelin, but His Name Is Not Seconded Harry P. Oves, a former city as sessor and chairman of the city Re- . publican committee, was unanimously ; elected treasurer of Harrisburg for the ensuing two years at the reorgan ization of CRy Council for 1916 to-dtiv*. Ex-Mayor John K. Royal was nomi nated for the place by Commissioner W. L. Gorgas, superintendent of finance and accounts, but the nomi- | nation was not seconded. Mr. Gorpis i thereupon voted for Mr. Oves. T!:ls j gave all five votes to Mr. Ovcs. Aside from the election of Mr. Oves , and administering the oath of office to | DeWitt A. Fry as the new city con- | troller. Council transacted no business after Dr. Ezra S., Meals, the new] Mayor, and his fellow-councilmen, E. j VJ. Gross, William H. Lynch, Harr> F. | Bowman and William L. Gorgas, had j been sworn in. Council will meet at 1 o'clock o- ; morrow, when some of the appoint- , ments in the various departments fflll be approved. Following his trip through jhe i building Mayor Meals held a confer- j once with a number of his prospective j appointees including Thomas J. fieil. i who Is to be chief of police; William ' L. Windsor, Sr.. captain of detecthes, ! and Hyde M. Speece, said to be slated I as one of the new detectives. Nominations Coming Among the names to be approved to-morrow ••ill be that of City Solici tor I). S. Seitz, re-appoint ed: City FCngineer M. H. Cowden, re-appoint ed: Assistant City Clerk Ross It. Sea man. re-appointed: William D. Rlock, license tax officer, re-appointed. i Thomas J. Zeil will be nominated as i chief of police, Joseph C. Thompson, as captain of police, re-appointod; ex- AUlerman William 1.. Windsor, cap tain of detectives: J. Edward Wetzel, lieutenant of police; Frank Elsen borger, J. Frank Page and Amos Orabenstadt. as sergeants, and John Grissinger, as janitor at police head quarters. These are Mayor Meals' se lections and it is believed that a ma jority of council will endorse'them. \ Mr. Oves' Election The election of Mr. Oves as city j ■ treasurer to-day marked the closing] of the so-called breach in "diplomatic relations" between Mayor Meais and' Commissioners Harry I". Howman and I William H. Lynch. Retiring City Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor and Mr. Oves had been candidates and Mr. Taylor's friends worked for him . up to the last minute. Mr. Bowman nominated Oves for the city treasurership and Dr. Meals . [Continued on Page B.] Suspected of Killing Man and Dragging His Body Away With Horse By Associated press ! i 1 York. Pa., Jan. 2.—Search was be ing made to-day for Solomon Sutler, an 18-year-old negro farm hand, who ! is suspected of the murder of William j Brown. .10 years old. a farmer, living L three miles from Lltt.lestown, Adams : county. A youth answering Sutler's j description has been arrested In B ilti- j more. BroTv-n's body, with the skull . crushed, was found yesterday In the j woods 500 yards from the house. From inllcations it appears that lie ! was struck over the head with an axe Saturday evening as he sat on a stool milking a cow. The slayer then tied a rope about the body and. hitching a horse to tt, dragged it to the spot where it was left uncovered. Robbery was apparently the motive, as the farmer had S3O in his pocketbook, which Is missing. Sutler disappeared at the same time as Brown. i THE WEATHER For UnrrlMburß unit vicinityt I nir ami rolalfr to-night with lonmt temperature about ail <legr. ( , ; Tiicmlny fair. Kor t;n«n<m I'mnxylt iiiilh i l-'ulr i »n«l slightly cntilcr to-night: [ Tueaiflny fair; moderate north «r*t Hindu. Klver Tin* main rlvrr villi rlao hIIkMIv I to-night and decidedly TueMity and Tuesday night. The linier tMirtloiiH <if the and Vest branches vrll] rise deeldedl> to night anil begin to fall TueNiliiy, The .liinlata nud upper portion" 0 f | tlie \orth and M eat brnnchea will j fall. S stage of about O feel | t j Indicated for HarrinburK Turn- | day morning. (■enernl t'ondltlona I'he atorm that «a« central over the eTtreme Southwest, Friday morn ing, baa moved northeaatvvarit i,, the 3forth Atlantic eoaat. It Mil* nttended by rain and mow gen erally over the territory romlii K under IN Inflnence with a ffen«ral rlw In temperature. Mllil temperaturea prevail In *«>iii|, and Kb«l dlatrleta. It la rold |„ the I'pper Mlaalaalppl and I nper Missouri valley*. Temperaturei S a. m., IM, *uni Rlaea, TilN a. m. | aeta. I:*,a p. m. Moon i New moon to-morrow, 11143 p. m. River Ntnm 41.1 feet above l«w_ water mark. YeateMny'a Weather , Itlgheat temperature, 51. I.oweat tempernttire. SB. Mean temperature, 43. Normal temperature, 30. HARRY F. OVES j HARD FIGHTING CONTINUES ALONG RUSSIAN FRONT Advance Extended to Beyond' Stripa River; Will Effect ■ Balkan Campaign I | PLAN SAJ.ONIKI ATTACK I Teutons Anxious to Press For-; ! ward; Bulgarians Not Satis fied With Terms By Associated Press London, Jan. 3. The latest dis patches from the southern extremity J of the Russian front indicate that! (heavy fighting is continuing, with the) Russian army of General Ivanoff! gaining ground. One correspondent: reports these operations began with an offensive movement on the part of] the Austrians designed to straighten j their line and that after repulsing' this attack the Russians assumed the I 1 intiatlve. Ik is evident the Russian' j advance has now extended a consider- i 1 able distance beyonn the Stripa river. ; In other disDatches It. is asserted, that two great offensive actions! j clashed the Russians having ail-; \anccd as a throat against the Teuton in their Balkan operations.! while the Austrians and Germans felt i the necessity of improving their posi tions against the attack expected from ; General lvjinoff early in the Spring, i Whatever may be the facts, there is : no doubt ihe result of these opera-1 tions will have an important effect < on the Balkan campaign, especially! ! in their influence on the future plans ■of Rumania. Bulgars Hold Back It is reported with increasing fre quency thiit the centfal powers are planning nil attack on Saloniki, hut' they are s iid to be experiencing diffi culties will Bulgaria which, accord-- i inpr to the e reports, does not wish to 1 1 participati in such a campaign 1111-! less it pro inises something more than I j expulsion of the allies from Saloniki. ,111 Athens anxious thought is being j I given to ihe seizure of the consuls j I representing Germany and her allies! <at Saloniki. It is expected that so far' jas Greed is concerned the incident; ■will be closed with the release of the j ] consuls under safe conduct. While re-: j questing some such action by the j . entente powers, Greece also has pro -1 test.-il to Germany against the aero-j ; plan, attack on Saloniki. Germany I I and her fillies denounce the arrest of: i the onsitls as a violation of inter national law while Bulgaria already has • taliated by arresting the French vice <ontiul at Sofia. I ris mentions heavy cannonading in everal districts along the Franco Belgian front. A withdrawal of the : French troops along a two hundred 1 meter front in the Hartmans-Weller : kopt ne<tor after a violent bombard- | ment br the Germans is admitted.! The two German munitions depots in i ; Helgiitir) were blown up by French ; ! gun.', | | ( I ■ Austrians, Not Russians, Started Galician Drive By Associated Cress London. Jan. 3. lt was the Aus- I trians And not the Russians who be- 1 I gan tht big Offensive in Volhynla and; : Gallcia according to the Mail's Petro-j grail correspondent, but the attempts ' ■ failed i and the Russians gained , ground. General Pllan/.er's efforts to ! ■ take Tarnopol and break through In I i'lie direction of Koons were fru?-j II rated. I Field' Marshal Von Mackensen Is at j Czernowitch for the purpose of '■ threatening Rumania and for an ac- j , tive defensive against the Russian, advance in Gallcia. Slit JOHN SIMON RESIGNS FOR CONSCIENCE SAKE I By Associated Press London, Jan. 3. Tho Chronicle' announces definitely that Sir John A. Simon, secretary of state for home! affairs, retires front t lie cabinet "thusl breaking his brilliant ministerial career for conscience sake." M \HTI\L IAW IN GREECE By Associated Press l.oudon, Jan. 3. An Athens news- I paper states that martial law will ha I declared 011 January 1R and that the ''liamber of Deputies has been sum- 1 monad to meet on the 17th to ratify I lite proclamation thereof, according II" a dispatch received here, J HARRISBURG, PA„ MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1916. NEW REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS SWORN INTO mm CHARLES C. CUMBLER, County Commissioner. DONA DENIES HE IS FROM SUNBURY But Townsfolk Believe Man They Knew Is Husband of "Countess Ida" pec till to the Telegraph Atlantic City, N. J., Jan. 3.—Francis Albert Gilbert Dona, -who courted "Countess" Ida Marie von Claussen while she "was an inmate of the Hos pital for the Insane at Middletown, N. Y., and married her in Rrooklyn last Tuesday, four days after her re lease on parole, flatly denied here last night that he ever worked as a hotel clerk in Sunbury, Pa. "They have confounded me," he de clared stoutly, "with the man Dona gan, who was an attendant at the Middletown institution until he was dismissed. Let them find Donagan. A I detective has informed us he is in Buffalo." Dona positively refused, however, to throw any light'whatever upon his identity. "I have the best of reasons for adopting this course at this time," he i said. "When I am ready the world ! will be told all there is to tell about I myself." In spite of the fact that the ' financial question is still a burning i issue for the newlyweds, the "Coun ! tess" to-day was in the highest spirits. RELIEVES HE IS DONAGAN Special to the Telegraph ' Sunbury, T'a., Jan. 3.—Despite his ■ denials, it Is believed here that the ! husband of "Countess" von Claussen : is Frank 10. Donagan. formerly of this ; place. Donagan was here on a two I weeks' visit, and he wrote on the | register oCf the Central Hotel, "Frank j 10. Donagan, Commercial Hotel, Mid i dletown, N. Y." Later he changed I his address to "General Delivery." i Donagan is a son of Frank Dona gan, of Kramer avenue, a machinist | employed by the Pennsylvania Rail -1 road. While here Donagan told Francis ! <lemberling, of the Markley liquor store, and Houston Taggart, c.lerk, and j Stephen Yerkes, bartender, at the Cen tral Hotel, of his coming wedding. The three sent him congratulatory let j ters. This Donagan was employed as night clerk at the Central in 1912 at a salary of S3O a month. He was un employed for two years and then, went to Renovo. Later he claimed to represent an Altoona shoemaklng I concern. Kills Aged Father to Protect Mother's Life Special to the Telegraph Pittsburgh, Jan. 3.—William T. Duff, aged 40. Is in the county jail and his father, Thomas Duff, aged 74, is dead as a result of what is said to have been a son's defense of his mother from a drink-crazed husband's attack in their home. Deputy Coroner Harry Ewing, who investigated the tragedy, lodged ! a charge of murder against the son, hut it Is expected the latter will be re leased when the inquest is held. Cannot Understand Why Allies Stay at Saloniki By Associated Press London, Jan. 3. The Athens cor respondent of the Dally Chronicle states in a dispatch that the King of Greece told him he could not. under stand what the entente allies were supposed to be gaining In remaining at Saloniki. The correspondent quotes King Constantine as follows: "I could understand their presence so long as there was a possibility of aiding Serbia, but now that the ob ject of the mission has failed, why remain? No useful military purpose is now to be served. It is fairly obvious that if tho Anglo-French withdraw and sought a fresh and more profitable field of operations the armies of the Central powers would withdraw also and the situation would hold itself." Ireland Will Not Be Excepted From Compulsion By Associated Press London, Jan. 3. According to an aniionitf-ement made by the Press As sociation. Ireland is not to be ex cepted from the new compulsory re cruiting bill. The statement that the new com-, puisory recruiting bill will also bo applied to Ireland, so far rests on the authority of the Press Association, which, however. Is often the medium I of official Intimations. ' W. W. CALDWELL, Sheriff. MANY CHANGES AT COURTHOUSE C. C. Cumbler President of County Commissioners; New Force at Work The walls of the old Dauphin county courthouse echoed with greetings and farewells to-day when incoming and outgoing county and city officials said "hello" and "good-by." With the exception of a few offices, practically every county department reorganized for the ensuing year this morning with Republicans in over whelming majority. The County Reorganization In tho County Commissioners' office Charles C. Cumbler, Dr. Harry M. Stine and ex-Sheriff Harry C. Wells took their scats as county commission ers, succeeding President Isaac S. Hoff [Continued on Pago ».] Three Meetings Each Week, Commissioners Decide Late Today Dauphin county's new board of commissioners will meet Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week instead of Wednesday and Friday as heretofore. This is another one of the changes for efficiency and to pro vide better service for the public that is inaugurated by the new board, an nounced at a meeting late this after noon. Continuous elevator service will be insured In the future by the action of the commissioners this afternoon in appointing two watchmen and gen eral utility men. E. F. Hummel, for merly night watchman, this city, and John S. Ebersole, Lower Swatara township, were appointed to these jobs. One man will go on duty at 3.30 o'clock in the afternoon and work until 11.30; at 11.30 o'clock the other will go on duty to remain until 7.30 the next morning. In addition to act ing as watchmen and general utility men, these men will serve as eleva tormen, too, if necessary. The commissioners reappointed Charles K. Peters, this city, as janitor and custodian. Franklin P. Brown as front elevatorman, George W. Young as rear elevatorman, and David F. Young as law librarian. The com missioners expect to retain Robert Waters as assistant janitor, and James Robinson as messenger and assistant janitor. These have not been delinite ly decided upon as yet, however. The new poor board to-day de cided on their first request for budget expenses. This will total $65,000. The board was still in session at a late hour. Japs Sending Squadron of Warships to Suez to Protect Their Interests By Associated Press Tokitt, .Inn. :i. Announcement is made by tlic JIJI Shimpo that a sqad ron of Japanese warships will sail for tlie Suez ennui. presumably to protect Japanese shipping. It is said the ar mored cruisers Kasuga. Tokiwa ami Chltose hpve been assigned for tliis service. The reported decision of the Japa nese government to send a squadron to the Suez canal follows the sinking of two Japanese steamships in the Mediterranean. The passenger liner Yasaka Marti was torpedoed off Port Said on December 21. The freighter Kenkoku Maru was sunk by a sub marine on December 29. Those on board both vessels were rescued. The Japanese Mail Steamship Company, which controls the bulk of Japanese I shipping, has abandoned the Suez route. Boy Sends Dollar to Harrisburg Hospital Anxious to help some other poor youngster and to show his appre ciation for kind treatment received while an inmate of the Harrlsburg Hospital, Earl Krlser, aged 12 years, residing near Middletown, to-day sent a dollar to that institution. The money was brought to Harris burg by a relative, who said Earl had been saving for seven months. Early last May Kriser., while playing with several boys near Ills home, fell and fractured his right leg and his leg was amputated. The hoy's mother has a hard time naming a livelihood. The son helps her in every way passible. .He managed to save up a dollar. jSgußm WHHi DR. H. M. STINK. County Comhiissioner. Col. Van Horn, Founder of Kansas City Journal, Dies From Old Age By Associated Press Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 2.—C01. Rob ert Thompson Van Horn, founder of the 'Kansas City Journal and pioneer journalist and statesman of the Middle Wesft, died at his home here to-day. He vas 91 years old. Death was due to tie infirmities of age. Completing Arrangements 13r Funeral Services of Associate Justice Lamar By Associated Press V ishington, Jan. 3.—Arrangements wei being completed to-day for the fun al of Joseph Bucker Lamar, as soci to justice of the .Supreme court, whi died at his home here last night of j adual heart failure. 1-Ie was 58 yea old and had be lived until noon to-i y would have completed a service of re years on the Supreme Court bent. | .A! hough Justice Lamar had been ill pveral months, the news of his deah tunic as a great shock to his ns socites on the bench. Following cus tointhe court after meeting to-day «aio adjourn in respect to the inem orylf the late Te burial will be at Augusta, Ga., fornany years the home of the late jus(-e. The funeral party which pro ibly will include his associates on ne Supreme Court bench will start for Augusta Tuesday afternoon. Itwas believed here to-day that be caifc of the important cases now awjting consideration before a full coil. President Wilson will make an apiintment at once to fill the vacancy catpd by Justice Lamar's death. Last Falwhen Justice Lamar's health be caij- impaired and when a movement wa started to retire him on full pay, Seifitary of Interior Lane and Solici toi Jeneral John W. Davis were men tion! in discussions as his possible sui \ssor. Roublicans Again in All Philadelphia Offices By Associated Press Jiiladolphia, Jan. 3.—Four of reiin administration in Philadelphia cat- to an end to-day with the retire m<fl as mayor of Rudolph Blanken bul and the inauguration of Thomas R.biith, thus giving the regular Re putcans again of all municipal offices. Mijßiankenburg, the only mayor the re(-mers have succeeded in putting inti office in many years, will take a lon vacation in Florida. le new head of the department of pule safety, in charge of firemen and po|e, is William 11. Wilson, a lawyer. Gdge E. Datesman, an engineer, ' bets the department of public works, | anj Dr. Wilmer Krusen has been j nahd director of the department of' he|h and charities. Tt> Robberies and Attempt at Another Reported 1o robberies, and one attempted roti'r.v. occurreu last night. Some onavith a skeleton key entered the barr shop and restaurant of James Anhson, 1316 North Fourth street. Arties stolen here included, two paij of clippers, a. pair of scissors, a raa and some toilet articles. On the secjd lloor two table clothes and a doa silver knives and forks were stoji. 'V warehouse of Samuel Kabsman, llqr dealer, 1 1207 North Seventh j strj, was broken open and small baijl of cordial wine was stolen. The baiil was rolled to Fox alley, where it Is partially emptied of its con ten! Entrance was gained through a sta}. b attempted robbery was at the I rcsMice of Samuel W. Fleming. 104 I Soij street. Entrance was gained I thr|gh a rear window which had bed left partially opened. Nothing wajaken. Alrney Has Ptomaine; Ate Oysters at Phila. j <|y"ton H. Backenstoe, attornev at N'orth Third street, is ill at. his hoi suffering from ptomaine poison inn lused by eating oysters while on a 1> to Philadelphia, December 23. Mr ackenstoc has been ill ever since he timed home and has been uncon sci< for several days. His condition wa nchatiged to-day, it was said. I TV ARK DEAD TN PHILA. APARTMENT ITRE 1 By Associated Press 1 adelphia, Jan. 3. Mrs. Emma; i On 27 years old, died to-day from. ' in! >s received in the apartment I hot fire here last night, making two, I dec; as a result of the blaze. The! oth victim was Mrs. E. Ostrum, I wh as burned to death. Other per son ijured In tlie fire will recover. WILSON RETURNS TO TAKE CHARGE OF GRAVE CRISIS ONLY 100 SAVED ; WHEN BIG SHIP | IS TORPEDOED Cdengyle, Largest British Mer chantman, Is Sunk in Medi terranean Sea London, Jan. S.—Tlie British steam ship Glcngyle lias been sunk. There are about 100 survivors. The Olengyle had on board about 120 persons, passengers and crew. All, with the exception of three Europeans and seven Chinese, were landed. So ! far as is known no Americans were on ; board. ! The Olengyle, which was homeward j bound from Shanghai, was sunk in the j Mediterranean on Sunday. This was | her second voyage. ! The Glengyle sailed from Shanghai ! for London on November 25. She was i last reported at Singapore on Decem jber 6. Her route would take her j through the Suez canal and the Medi terranean and it may be assumed she was sunk in the Mediterranean, as j were the Persia, Ville de la Ciotat, [Continued on Page 7.] ! AFFIRMED THAT ILLXKSS OF EMPEROR IS SERIOUS By Associated Press | Paris, Jan. 3.—Press dispatches from Switzerland and Italy continue to | affirm that the illness of Emperor Wil liam is serious. I It is stated that the Emperor is suf fering from a deep-seated affection of which the cutaneous eruption is but an incidental symptom and that the malady is complicated by the reap pearance of his old throat trouble which has extended to the moutli. It is even asserted that it will be neces sary to provide him with an artiliclal palate made of silver. ( c c # morrow morn at 7 o'clock. < I :1 <NS OUT '.USI, TXTION j c I C dons C '-• ti 1 hesapeake and Olno Rail>.vay, seventy-five j C mi]es west 1 by a fire which started shortly after midnight in a cleaning 1 € P re eet. Dynamite j # was used in n efFor to check the flames. I # 30 TRANSPORTS OF TROOPS IN THE ORFANO I # 3'—A dispatch from Athens reports the | # rival Hof Orfano of thirty large transports full ( f :gan to disembark.. The report is uncon- ! J firmed. 9 ANOTHER BRITISHER SUNK J ' London, , . 3, ...19 P. The British teamsljip St. v Oswald has been sunk. It wa;> in the service of the Govern ■ ment. I 1 DEAD, 10 HURT, 18 MISSING IN EXPLOSION , I New York, Jan. 3.—One man was killed, ten were seri- V oU6ly injured and eighteen others are missing following an 9 explosion and fire to-day on the steamship at a Brook ( I lyn dryc ' CHILDREN BURNED IN FIRE J Scranton, Pa., Jan. 3.—Two children, one three years fj ' old, the other an infant, were burned to death to-day in a. fire which destroyed the, home of John Roberts, at Nay Aug, J a village near rre. C 1 ROOSEVELT ON REPUBLICAN BALLOT Inch, Jan. 3. A sufficient number of sift- I f name of 1 heodcre Roosevelt as Repuh ■ . lican candidate on the Michigan presidential primary ballot J were filed with the Secretary of State. MARRIAGE LICENSES J POSTSCRIPT— FINAL 12 PAGES Destruction of Persia and Glengyle With Loss of American Lives Further Complicates International Situation « LEARNED THAT SHIP CARRIED 4 IN. GUN This May Become a Factor; Austrian Ambassador Is Confident Final Explana tion Will Be Satisfactory tory By Associated I'rest Washington, D. Jan. 3. The new international crisis brought on by the Teutonic submarine campaign in the Mediterranean moved forward swiftly to-day and wan marked by several outstanding developments. President Wilson has cut short his honeymoon at Hot Springs, Va.. and will leave there to-night, arriving in the capital early to-morrow to take personal charge of the pituation. Baron Zwiedinek, charge ol' (he Austrian embassy, assured Secretary Lansing that should it be found ail Austrian submarine sunk the Persia with loss of American life, his govern ment would promptly give reparation and satisfaction. lie asked that judgment be suspended until all the facts were known. The State Deportment instructed Ambassador Penfieid at Vienna to make inquiries for information look ing to determine the nationality of the submarine and in any event de velop the facts in the case. Consuls and consular agents in the vicinity of Alexandria were instructed to gather affidavits from the Persiti survivors and any others which might throw light on the situation. [Continued on Page ».]
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