Germans Continue to Fall Back Before Ham Attacks HARRISBURG SjSB&S TELEGRAPH LXXXV — No. 179 FEDERATION OF ALL UNIONS IS TO BE EFFECTED Four or Five National Organiz ers Expected Here; Little Change in Situation JITNEY PETITION READY 7,000 Sign Plea; Two Strikers Arrested on Stone-Throw ing Charge Organization of a Federated Trades Council, comprising representatives of all the labor unions in the city, is to be completed next week according to Charles F. Quinn, Beoreiary of the State Federation of Labor to-day. hTe date, according to Mr. Quinn, has not been fixed, but it is to be the latter part of the week, very likely. Four or five national organizers are expected here within the next week or so according to Mr. Quinn, and it is probable the formal organization of the proposed central body will depend to some extent upon their arrival. One new national organizer arrived last evening. He is James A. Ryan, representing the carpenters" union. He addressed a big meeting last night at the carpenters' union quarters. Some of the striking trolleymen also talked. Up until a late hour this afternoon Governor Brumbaugh had taken no steps to bring about an amicable ad justment of the trolleymen's strike, ac cording to officials of both the car men's organization as well as the Har rlsburg Railways Company. Little Cliange Little change was reported by either side of the controversy in to-day's sit uation. President Frank B. Musser said that the company is operating 42 cars, all of them being manned by the company's own men. About 20 [Continued on Page 0] Will Decide Today Whether Million Who Use N. Y. Cars Shall Be Inconvenienced By Associated Tress New Tork, Aug. 4. Whether the 1,500,000 persons who daily travel in the surface cars in the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens are to be in convenienced by a strike of 5,000 motormen and conductors of the New York Railways Company and the New York and Queens county railroad company will be known this afternoon or to-night. The time limit set by the leaders of the street railway men's union within which the officials of the two companies are required to answer to demands for recognition of the union and increased pay expires late this afternoon. There Is no indication of any inten tion on the part of the companies to grant the demands. Officials re peatedly had declared that they can not do so. Labor Leaders Canvassing Phila. Railway Employes By Associated Press Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 4. —Labor leaders are canvassing the street rail way employes of this city with the view of calling a strike if requests for an increase in the maximum wages of conductors and motormen from 31 cents an hour to 40 cents are not com plied with. Two early morning meetings were to-day held in carbarns and are said to have been attended by 500 men who favored a strike 1f -necessary. There are 4,700 men employed by the company operating the lines. Officials said there are two unions, most of the men belonging to one friendly to the company's interests, and they be littled the possibility of a strike. fTHE WEATHER FOP HnrrlNhurg; nnd vlclnltyt Gen erally fair to-tii£lit and Saturday, not much change la temperature. For Kantorn Pcnnwylvaiiia: MoMly fair an«l Saturday; not much change in temperature; Kcntlc southwest winds. River The Susquehanna river and nil its hranclieti will prohahly continue to fall ■lowly. A stage of about 3.H feet IK indicated for Hnrris burg Saturday morning. General Conditions Pressure is relatively high In the Atlantic Stole* nnd the extreme Northwest. It is low over the Central West and Southwest, with three centers of depression, one over Southern Arizona, another over .Northern Itali and a third over Manitoba. Showers have occurred In the Mis souri nnd t'poer Mississippi val ley*. alone the western border of the C-reat l akes nnd In the West ern Canadian provinces nnd there have l/eeu local showers in L'tah Colorado, Texas, Florida. Georgia' and in the Lower Susquehanna and Upper St. I.awrenec valleys and in Michigan. Temperature: S a. m„ «8. Sun: Rises, 5:07 a. in.; sets, 7:15 p. m. Moon: First quarter, 4:00 p. m River Stage, 3.S feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 7S. Lowest temperature, 50. Mean temperature, as, Normal temperature, 74. Getting used to strange newspupcrs is like breaking in a pair of new shoes—mighty uncomfortable. Order the Harrisburg Telegraph mailed to your vacation address it you would enjoy real comfort. Six cents a week will bring the Telegraph to you uo nutt ier where you arc. BY CARRIERS 6 CENTS A WEEK. SINGLE COPIES 2 CENTS. BROADER SCOPE FOR COMMISSION ASKED BY MEXICO Gen. Carranza's Reply to Last Note Accepts Suggestion For Joint Body NOT TRANSLATED YET Wants Original Subjects Dis cussed, Including Withdrawal and Protocal By Associated Press Washington, D. C.. Aug. 4.—Gen eral Carranza's seply to the last Ameri can note accepting its suggestion for a joint commission to adjust border difterences. but proposing a broader scopt for the commission's work, was deli\ered to the State Department to day by Eliseo Arredondo, the Mexican ambassador-designate. It announces the appointment of three Mexican commissioners with instructions to de vote their attention preferably to the resolution of the points mentioned in the previous note. Thus the de facto government ap parently rejects the proposal that the commission consider other questions than the military situation and limits its discussions to the subjects origi nally suggested by Carranza—with drawal of American troops from Mex ico, formulation of a protocol to cover future operations against bandits and investigation of interests which may have promoted border raids. Whether this will be satisfactory to the United States government has not been indi cated. The note was in Spanish and when he went to to-day's Cabinet meeting Acting Secretary Polk de clined to discuss it until an official translation could be made. Hope for Karly Settlement If it is accepted, the next step will be negotiations between Mr. Polk and Mr. Arredondo to fix the time and place for meetings of the commission ers. President Wilson already has under consideration a score of names suggested for the American member ship. Hope for an early solution of pend ing difficulties was confidently ex pressed by Mr. Arredondo after leav ing the department. He said he ex pected to reach an agreement with Mr. Polk by to-morrow as to the date and place of meeting and that there upon he would wire the Mexican com missioners with the expectation that they would be here In at least ten days. He said Asbury Park, N. J., or Old Point Comfort, Va., probably would be selected. Black Tom Explosion Caused by Plotters Is Belief of Johnson By Associated Press Jersey City. N. J., Aug. 4.—The ex plosion of munitions on Black Tom Island last Sunday morning which killed at least four persons and did approximately *20,000,000 damage was caused by "some persons with the ob ject of doing just what was accom plished," according to Theodore B. Johnson, one of the four men who were arraigned to-day charged with manslaughter in connection with the blast. The hearing was deferred until August 18. Sir. Johnson, president of Johnson Lighterage and Towing Company, said he would produce one of his employes who would swear that when he first saw the fire it was in a box car on Black Tom Island and did not origi nate in one of the Johnson company's barges, as charged. Up to noon to-day the police de railed by city authorities to watch in j coming trains for shipments of ex i plosives had found none. Rescued From Launch, Adrift Without Food 36 Hours Owen Sound, Ont„ Aug. 4. Seven I men, missing since Sunday night i when they left Detour, Chippewa | county, Mich., in the gasoline launch j Idler, for their homes on Drummond Island, were rescued in Lake Huron by the Canadian Pacific steamer Manl | toba Tuesday. They had drifted 36 hours in the yacht which had become disabled 10 miles out as the result of | a breakdown of the gasoline engine. 1 The Manitoba arrived here to-day and | reported the rescue. The men were without food for the I 3fi hours they were adrift, and being [without oars or sails they were help less in the gale that was blowing from the north. Seaching parties from Al- I pena and Sheboygan had given the | men up for lost. | HUGHES PREPARES FOR TRIP By Associated Press Bridgehampton, R. 1., Aug. 4. | Charles E. Hushes spent to-day pack | ing his trunks for his western trip. J One of the three trunks he will take with him will be filled with memo randa letterfe, documents and other data \vhich he will use in his speeches he expects to make. Accompanied by Mrs. Hughes, he will leave here to morrow for New York, where the start for the West will be made to-morrow night. FAIRBANKS TO TRAIL HUGHES By Associated Press New York, Aug. 4.—The Republican National campaign leaders announced to-day that Charles W. Fairbanks, of Indiana, vice-presidential nominee on the Republican ticket, will make a campaign tour of the country similar to that now planned for Charles E. Hughes. It was said at the headquar ters that Mr. Fairbanks will follow Mr. Hughes over virtually the same ground later In the campaign. SCHOONER TORPEDOED By Associated Press Havre, Aug. 4. Two British schooners were torpedoed in the Eng lish channel on Wednesday night. The crews were rescued and brought here SINK ITALIAN STEAMER By Associated Press London, Aug. 4. The Italian steamship citta D 1 Messina, of 2,454 tons has been sunk,according to an an nouncement made at Lloyds' to-day. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1916 SUFFRAGISTS WHOSE ARGUMENTS HELPED CHANGE HUGHES' OPINIONS - ' I *'* i* ■ •1 <> ' * * ■ * T < ** ***-' " 8 a v V&.' 9 admitted to the hospital. No diagnosis of the disease has > I yet been made'by the local health authorities, but it has ; I been learned that it is not paralysis. I J MARRIAGE LICENSES '' Vurney R. Chubb and Maude E. Hoke, Mllleraburs. . * FRENCH DRIVE GERMANS BACK IN FURIOUS FIGHTS Carry Fleury by Storm; Still Hold Northern Portion; Win at Other Points RUSSIANS TAKE TOWN Capture Village Nineteen Miles East of Kovel; Going Fast Desperate fighting Is in progress north of Verdun where the French three days ago took the offensive and have scored notable gains in the ef fort to drive back the Germans who had been hammering at the gates of the fortress for more than five months. After pushing to the outskirts of the village of Fleury, three miles north of Verdun, on Wednesday night, the French brilliantly attacked the place yesterday and carried it by storm. Last night the crown prince's troops launched furious counter attacks and succeeded in retaking the southern section of the village, being unable, however, to wrest the northern por tion of it from General Nivelle'B forces. British Winning Fleury, however, is not. the only point where the French have scored advances. In the attack on a three mile front east from the river Meuse they pushed north along the river to ward the Vacherauville wood and the Cote du Polvre and further east at tacked and gained possession of the Thiaumont redoubt. They found the Thiaumont position untenable how ever, because of the German bombard ment and were compelled to withdraw from it. Riiss Closer to Kovel Meanwhile fighting on the Somme front has dwindled to minor opera [ Continued 011 Page 0] Other War New on Page 3. ITALIAN U-BOATS I.OST By Associated Press Rome, Aug. 4. The loss of two Italian submarines Is officially an nounced. The statement says that the undersea craft "left with others on a mission to the enemy coast a long time ago. As they have failed to re turn to their base they are considered lost." CITY EDITION